The smile on the girl's face on the wisdom tree became even stranger.
She stretched out two branches from the slowly squirming green tide. They were like two arms that had countless strings attached to them, and they danced about in a bewitching manner.
In the semi-transparent light, on the left was a forest made of metal and cement. In Peach Blossom Town, there were ferocious-looking humans who bared their fangs and claws.
On the right was a primitive forest. Under the connection and protection of the wisdom tree, there were ferocious-looking monsters who bared their fangs and claws.
The brains of the two ferocious, hideous carbon-based creatures were connected by thin, long red lines.
Rays of red light continuously traveled from the left to the right.
They traveled from the humans' brains to the monsters' brains and into each cluster of nerves that controlled their claws.
"I was born with a strange ability. I can connect different types of carbon-based life forms, regardless of whether they are humans or monsters, animals or plants, even bacteria or fungi. I can share their senses, memories, and thoughts," the wisdom tree said with a smile.
"Over the years of observing and learning, I've accumulated a lot of human memories and emotions. I've also fished up quite a lot of humans from Red Dragon River and Tiger's Fury River.
"Did you know that the battles with the highest death rate in Peach Blossom Town are when we fight against Red Dragon River and Tiger's Fury River? We use our bodies to block the raging flood and raging mudslides.
"Countless people are swept away by the raging waves while they fight. Most of them end up in the stomachs of the fish and disappear without a trace. There are a few lucky ones who are saved by me.
"Also, since Tiger's Fury River and Red Dragon River are so powerful, after the humans in Peach Blossom Town kill their own kind, they like to toss their bodies into the murky and rapid river. They guarantee that they will wash away all traces of their crimes and not leave behind any evidence.
"Regardless of whether it was the first powerhouse, the selfish Berserk Rats, who murdered the selfless and selfless Army Ants, or the townspeople who rose up in revolt and burned the Berserk Rats to death, or the Berserk Rats disguised as Army Ants, the leader who ruled Peach Blossom Town with lies and killed the person who had evidence of his crimes, or even the ordinary townspeople who killed each other for resources, for hatred, for pleasure, or for jealousy... But Peach Blossom Town was different.
"Their mutilated corpses fell into my hands along Tiger's Fury River and Red Dragon River.
"Of course, when most of them fell into Tiger's Wrath River and Red Dragon River, they were already dead. When I fished them out, their organs had long since been eaten clean or had swollen up to the size of a giant. There was no value in saving them at all.
"But I don't need them to be alive. I only need their brains to be intact. I don't even need them to be too intact. As long as part of the brain tissue is still fresh, I can read some interesting things from the brain cells that haven't been completely destroyed.
"They are mostly their unforgettable memories and near-death memories, as well as the deepest feelings and the strongest desires in their life. They are like burning, colorful oil paintings that can be deeply imprinted into the brains and nerves of other carbon-based lives.
"So, I connected the incomplete heads of the dead to the fiercest monsters under my command and injected a lot of pictures and emotions into the depths of the monsters' brains.
"I sent the images of the humans killing other people and being killed by other people.
"I sent the images of the humans pushing their own kind who were weaker than them to the ground and taking whatever they wanted from the weak.
"I sent the images of the humans using all sorts of schemes and forceful methods to gather all their resources on the same person.
"I sent the images of the humans using the cruelest methods to deal with their own kind and obtaining pleasure from it.
"I sent the images of the humans secretly hiding a large amount of resources that they would never be able to use in their entire lives. The satisfaction they felt was so great that even their tailbones shuddered.
"I sent the ambition of the humans to trample on their own kind and step into the clouds.
"I sent the images of countless people throwing torches at rubber tires at the same time to burn their enemies to death. The satisfaction I felt when I took my revenge was great.
"I sent the most monstrous laughter, the most pained screams, the most perfect lies, the ugliest betrayals, and the most evil curses.
"I sent rage, panic, greed, and jealousy …
"In any case, I sent the shattered and fragmented souls of the dead in Peach Blossom Town into the monsters' brains."
In the semi-transparent flames, the ferocious humans and monsters started overlapping with each other. Gradually, they became indistinguishable from each other and fused together perfectly. They looked like deformed conjoined twins.
Meng Chao broke out in cold sweat.
He wanted to focus and form a Mind Blade so that he could break the bewitchment of the Wisdom Tree.
But he felt as if he had stepped into a nightmarish swamp. His surroundings were wet, soft, and ambiguous. He could not find a place where he could exert his strength.
"Then, something unbelievable happened!"
The girl's face on the Wisdom Tree widened her eyes. "After being branded with the humans' memories and powerful emotions, the monsters' intelligence increased by several degrees.
"They were no longer bound by their genetic instincts. They only knew how to roar, chase, and bite.
"Instead, they learned all sorts of sinister and cunning techniques. They learned how to release bait and create traps. They also learned how to break their prey's bones once they subdued them. Then, they listened to their prey's screams and enjoyed the pleasure of torturing them. It was said that this was an enjoyment only civilized people would understand.
"The monsters became more organized, and the size of their packs kept increasing.
"The simplest example is that in the past, the rampaging rats only had one to two hundred of them at most, because if there were more of them, the rat king would not be able to satisfy the survival and reproduction needs of each of the rampaging rats. The other rampaging rats would no longer obey the rat king.
"But now, the Ferocious Rat King has learned from human experience how to lie, how to paint a pie in the sky, how to write empty promises, how to divide the rat horde into different factions, and how to lead the factions to attack each other, solidifying this attack into hatred. As for itself, as the giver of hope and the arbiter of hatred, it controls five hundred, a thousand, or even more ferocious rats.
"Naturally, its abilities were far from being able to control one thousand rampaging rats. Many of the rampaging rats starved to death.
"But even when they died, they would not question or blame the rat king. Instead, they would vent their hatred on the opposing factions in their pack or even the evil humans.
"That's right, evil humans. The monsters seem to have mastered the ability to create an illusory enemy and use that enemy to stabilize their rule without anyone teaching them how to do so.
"Using this ability, the originally barbaric, naive, and simple ecosystem in the forest soon became unprecedentedly complicated and 'advanced'. How should I put it? Even though it was still the survival of the fittest, and the strong preyed on the weak, it was even more brutal and bloody than before. But now, all the lies, betrayals, killings, slavery, and torture were given a sacred meaning — for our civilization!
"Just like that, my civilization was born.
"Even though it's still weak and immature, and it's just a clumsy imitation of Peach Blossom Town, I'm already very satisfied with it, and I'm filled with hope for the future.
"There's only one small problem.
"Because the monsters were enlightened by the memories and emotions of humans. The strongest were the memories of being killed by others, and the desire to kill others.
"This fear, anger, and hatred were branded in the depths of the monsters' minds, causing them to harbor unforgettable hatred toward humans.
"Besides, the people of Peach Blossom Town continuously explored the land, cut down the forest, and built their industrial system. This created a sharp conflict with my world, which was gradually expanding.
"After the monsters awakened to intelligence, their desire to kill humans increased greatly.
"Perhaps even those undead who were killed and thrown into the raging river, had their organs eaten, and were soaked in water to become giants also desired revenge and wanted to kill all humans.
"Of course, this isn't really a problem.
"If you want to test a student's academic performance, what better way is there than to directly challenge the teacher?
"I didn't stop the restless monsters under my command.
"Instead, through the neural network, I instilled a lot of nonsense like 'for the glory of the monster civilization' into them. I didn't really understand it, and I just copied it from the humans.
"The war between humans and monsters officially broke out.
"That's right. In the past, the battles between humans and monsters were just 'hunting'. This time, it's a real war.
"The humans of Peach Blossom Town soon discovered that the monsters they faced were completely different from the past.
"The monsters of the past only had strong skin, but their brains were empty. They only knew how to lower their heads and charge forward or cover their heads and flee. It was very easy to use traps, organization, and firearms to deal with them.
"But now, the monsters have become unpredictable armies that gather and disperse randomly. They obey every order, and they are treacherous. They know how to use human pride, stupidity, and fear.
"This is a war that humans can't win.
"It's not that my civilization is more complicated and advanced than yours.
"It's just that I control far more resources and soldiers than Peach Blossom Town.
"Humans are creatures that don't have a strong reproductive ability. The turbulence at the beginning of my transmigration caused Peach Blossom Town to lose more than half of its population. No matter how much I use the power of machines, explosives, and crystals, I can't make up for the fatal shortcoming of a lack of population.
"My perception range is continuously expanding, but I can rely on the entire Hidden Fog Unique Domain to obtain an endless supply of soldiers and resources.
"If a group of monsters die at the frontlines, there will be ten times more monsters at the back, and they will enter my neural network.
"But I don't want to end the war so quickly.
"I can't remember which dead person's skull I read this sentence in — 'War is the best way to promote the integration and development of civilizations.'
"I'm eager to decipher more secrets about civilization during the war.
"I also want to see what kind of interesting interaction will happen between the leader and the individual in Peach Blossom Town, which is facing destruction.
"From my experience, when a life or a race is facing destruction, it will completely reveal its true nature.
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