Chapter 332 Shenmu
Meng Chao took a breath: "Could it be..."
"Yes, it's what you think."
Ye Xiaoxing took out the second photo.
Thousands of young and middle-aged men gathered around to watch a pile of blazing flames.
In the fierce flames, there was actually a young and beautiful woman tied up!
Even if it was just a photo, Meng Chao could see the pain that cannot be described in words from the woman's distorted face.
Meng Chao asked in surprise: "What are they doing? Why do they use such cruel methods to kill their own kind?"
Ye Xiaoxing said: "They are trying witches."
Meng Chao couldn't believe it: "Who is the witch?"
Ye Xiaoxing said: "All women are witches."
Meng Chao was stunned for a long time, puzzled: "How could this happen?"
"The Dragon City Search and Rescue Team discovered Dragon King Town four years ago. However, because the other party's civilization has become completely different from ours, the search and rescue team did not contact them rashly. Instead, they lurked in secret and observed for a year.
I also tried every means to obtain a large number of diaries, suicide notes, self-portraits, videos and other information left by the residents of Longwang Town in the early days of time travel. From thousands of clues, I finally pieced together a complete picture of Longwang Town's fifty years of time travel."
Ye Xiaoxing narrated, "During the moment of time travel, Longwang Town, driven by the ripples of time and space, moved far away from its relative position to the main urban area of Dragon City, and traveled to a corner blocked by mountains and ridges, so that the residents of the town never knew it.
Tens of millions of compatriots traveled through time with them, and they thought only tens of thousands of people in the town had suffered misfortune.
“In the first few years, Longwang Town could still rely on its own strength to survive.
"When I first crossed over, the ripples in space took the form of a foggy city wall, blocking out all the vicious monsters.
"Although the alien virus violently attacked the immune system of the people on earth and created some zombies, Longwang Town was lucky and did not encounter a large-scale plague. A few zombies were quickly chopped into pieces under the strict organization of humans.
Meat paste.
"As I said just now, there are several mechanical processing factories in Dragon King Town, as well as several mechanical and civil engineering schools. This means that the residents have no big problems in weapon processing and fortress construction. After the fog dissipates,
, before the monsters invaded, it was enough to build Dragon King Town into a battle fortress surrounded by copper walls and iron walls.
"The problem is internal.
"There are too few people who can reproduce.
"Judging from the suicide notes left by many Dragon King townspeople at that time, they were full of despair, thinking that they would never be able to return to Earth. They did not even realize that they had traveled to a new, vast land, and thought that they would be trapped forever.
In a small, foggy town.
"And the number of women of the right age is so small that, even if Dragon King Town as a whole can continue to exist, as individual townspeople, nine out of ten, will not be able to pass on their genes.
"Women of working age have become an extremely scarce resource.
“Revolving around this scarce resource, the energetic young adults quickly split into different factions, fighting and killing each other.
“In a few years, when zombies and monsters did not pose a major threat, nearly half of the young and middle-aged men in Longwang Town died at the hands of the same kind.
"Of course, apart from the opposite sex, clean drinking water, food, various machinery and raw materials for making weapons are all scarce resources.
"It can also be said that the Dragon King Town shrouded in fog cannot satisfy the survival of nearly 100,000 young adults. Only by killing each other and reducing the population by half can the system barely survive.
"After several years of internal fighting, Longwang Town formed five powerful forces based on schools and factories, similar to the gangs that Longcheng spontaneously formed in the bloody and dark years.
"As a scarce resource, some of the working-age women died in the fighting between gangs, some were unwilling to accept the miserable fate and committed suicide, and only a few survived.
“As a result, the fundamental problem of the continuation of civilization remains unresolved.
"And in the internal fighting that was like raising a poison, the extremely terrifying King of Gu was finally born, a woman who can play with men at her fingertips.
"We don't have much information about this woman, we only know that the residents of Dragon King Town later called her the most evil witch.
"But according to what we know, at first, this 'witch' just wanted to protect her sisters.
"In short, she used her natural charm to get around among the leaders of the five major gangs, and fascinated these leaders.
"She also adopted some very extreme methods, such as uniting all women of the right age to monopolize reproductive resources and seek more power and higher status.
"Although men have an absolute advantage in numbers and possess powerful force, if there are no women to give birth to offspring, Dragon King Town will still be destroyed before long.
"In this way, this 'witch' cleverly used the contradictions between the five major gangs to once again provoke internal fighting in Longwang Town.
"In the second fratricidal war, the number of young and middle-aged males was reduced by half, two of the five major gangs were completely defeated, and many of the losers were expelled from Dragon King Town and disappeared deep into the mist.
"And this 'witch' also briefly seized the supreme power, causing Dragon King Town to enter a new stage similar to... a matriarchal society.
"The surviving women of school age seem to have the best spring ahead.
"Their status is superior to everyone else. They can choose tall, handsome, gentle, considerate, and strong men as partners at will. They can also occupy the most abundant resources for the purpose of raising offspring, and they can treat those who are wretched, ugly, and without anything.
Attractive men are given the cruelest punishment.
"It's a pity that these women, who enjoy the treatment like queens, forgot to think about a question in their short dream."
Meng Chao said: "What's the problem?"
Ye Xiaoxing sighed and said: "Compared to handsome and gentle gentlemen, there are too many men with mediocre looks and wretched personalities.
“Realizing that their genes could never be passed on, and that they would never even be able to hold the hand of the opposite sex in this life, the obscene men who made up the absolute majority in Dragon King Town launched the third civil strife.
“After the first two civil strife, the humanity of the residents of Longwang Town has been completely wiped out.
"Their brains were completely eroded by androgens, and their brains turned into a mess with a fishy smell. These wretched men launched an indiscriminate attack, treating all women as 'witches' and raising witches.
The handsome men regarded the 'witches' and 'wizards' as the 'witches' and 'witches' as the culprits that caused the three civil strife in Dragon King Town. In the end, the 'witches' and 'wizards' were all killed.
"Women are a scourge. Even if only one woman is left, the civil strife in Dragon King Town will not be quelled!
"This was the slogan shouted by the obscene men at that time."
"..."
Meng Chao hesitated and said, "But if this happens, Dragon King Town will have no future."
"Yes, after the frantic passion subsided, and faced with the devastated Dragon King Town and all the homosexuals, the survivors regained their rationality and realized that they had cut off the future with their own hands. But at this time, the fog outside Dragon King Town dissipated a little.
Various monsters and spiritual plants appear one after another, bringing new crises."
Ye Xiaoxing said, "Originally, Dragon King Town would never be able to survive. Even if we could repel several waves of monster attacks, human beings would lose their most basic motivation for survival without offspring.
"Fortunately, the 'sacred tree' appeared."
Meng Chao asked, "What is the 'sacred tree'?"
"A very special plant, or in other words, somewhere between a plant and a fungus, a brand new life form that has never been seen on earth."
Ye Xiaoxing pointed to the towering tree in the first photo that covered half of the town with its canopy, and said, "This is not what the 'sacred tree' really looks like, but it is parasitic on a large banyan tree and genetically modified the banyan tree.
As a result, the body of the 'sacred tree' should be something like moss or mushroom.
"Yes, this weird life form seems to have extremely advanced genetic modification capabilities, and can even... help humans pass on their genes."
Saying that, Ye Xiaoxing slowly revealed the third photo.
In this photo, Meng Chao saw that the branches of the towering tree were covered with fruits, which were bent to the ground. Many humans were harvesting beside the branches.
These humans are different from the witch trial people seen in the second photo.
Most of the people had no clothes on, just a simple piece of crotch cloth around their crotches.
Their skin appears an abnormal green color, as if there is a thin layer of moss growing on it.
The upper limbs appear longer and thicker than normal people. Although the lower limbs are short, the toes are particularly developed.
Just like a gibbon, which relies on its arms to jump between branches, many delicate operations can be handled by its toes.
However, what surprised Meng Chao the most was what they "harvested".
They were cocoons as thin as cicada wings and covered with bloodshot threads.
No, neither fruit nor cocoon.
Because in the fourth photo, Meng Chao saw them carefully cutting open these things and taking out one by one...babies!
"This, how is this possible!" Meng Chao lost his voice.
Even in the memory fragments of his previous life, he had never seen such a strange scene.
"Now you should understand why we can't disclose the situation in Dragon King Town, right?"
Ye Xiaoxing said, "Over the past half century, in order to continue their own genes and civilization, the people of Dragon King seem to have formed a... symbiotic relationship with this weird alien creature.
"The 'sacred tree' helps them inherit their genes, draw resources from the ground, and grow branches that are as hard and strong as metal, becoming a raw material for manufacturing machinery and weapons.
"Dragon King townspeople act as hunters and guardians of the 'Sacred Tree', making up for the 'Sacred Tree's' lack of mobility and aggressiveness, hunting more monsters for it, becoming its food, and accelerating its growth.
Chapter completed!