Ever since he discovered that the Turan people were divided into the professional warriors and military nobles who belonged to the clan and the rat people who were chased out of the clan, Meng Chao had been thinking about the difference between warriors and rat people.
He had been thinking about the difference between warriors and rat people.
In his previous life, he might have come into contact with some Turan people, but at that time, he was just a chess piece who had no control over himself. All he wanted was to obtain power, find his sister, and … survive.
In his muddle-headed life, his biggest impression of the Turanians was that they were a bunch of idiots with more brawn than brains. When they were fighting together, they were quite suitable as meat shields. But most of the time, they were not good at accomplishing anything, but they were more than capable of ruining everything.
In this life, he had a higher level of intelligence and power, so he could observe and analyze the Turan civilization with more ease. Soon, Meng Chao discovered more clues.
In the beginning, he thought that rat people and warriors were differentiated by their bloodline.
But soon, he discovered that after thousands of years and more than one hundred generations of mixed-blood, 99% of the rat people now had very thin rat people's bloodline.
For example, Ye did not look like a rat person at all. He was just a boy with slightly thicker hair.
Besides, the clans did not reject mixed-blood either.
Through the "Blood Bestowal Ritual", even the lowliest rat people had the right to join the clan and pass down their bloodline and characteristics.
This kind of custom caused many warriors to look like the Rat Folk, all of them had strange appearances.
They were boar-people, but they had huge bull horns on their heads.
They were elephant people, but aside from their thick and long trunks, they had sharp claws that were similar to tigers and leopards.
If Ice Storm wanted to, she could join the Blood Hoof Clan at any moment.
Once she married a tauren, the offspring she gave birth to would naturally have the characteristics of cats, but they would still be considered taurens!
Meng Chao also learned from Ye that the elders of the clan did not care much about their offspring. In fact, they were very cruel to them.
Based on the rules of the Turan nobles, it was not a problem for warriors and rat people to have dozens or even hundreds of illegitimate children when they mixed together.
However, these illegitimate children did not have the status of a clan the moment they were born.
They could only enjoy the treatment of a normal rat person, or at most, a house rat.
Unless they could go through the clan's coming-of-age ceremony.
Otherwise, even if their fathers were the leaders of the settlements, the priests of the temples, or even the chiefs of the clans, they would still have to live a shameful life with the identity of the rat people.
As for their leader, priest, and chief father, they would never even look at them.
It sounded like a division purely based on strength, the difference between warriors and ratfolk.
However, what determines the difference in power between warriors and rat people?
Meng Chao did not believe in nonsense like Glorious Bloodlines and Lowly Bloodlines.
At first, he thought that it was because the clan warriors and military nobles had enough food and training resources since they were young.
The chances of the poor children in Dragon City becoming superhumans were far lower than the rich children.
Could it be that the children of poor families were born stupid, lazy, and even had genetic defects?
As the saying went, "the poor study and the rich practice martial arts". It was the same in the Tulan civilization.
But just now, when Leaf and the others were chased around by the rat soldiers of the Iron Skin Family, Meng Chao had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly realized the greatest difference between warriors and rat people!
The so-called high-grade beastmen were products of genetic modification.
There was no doubt about this.
It was impossible for natural evolution to give rise to humanoid carbon-based intelligent lifeforms that had the characteristics of lions, tigers, cheetahs, elephants, and wild boars on their bodies. It was such a strange species.
However, genetic modification was not an easy task.
The fusion of different species was not as easy as it seemed.
Even if they forcefully fused them, they would not be able to bring out great fighting strength. They would just be deformed and ugly trash.
If they wanted to fuse the fierceness of lions and the sharpness of falcons to create a brand new species known as griffins, just how many failures would they have to go through?
In order to apply the features of griffins to human beings and create "griffin people" who had wings on their backs, could soar freely, fight fiercely on land, and had the wisdom and logical thinking of ordinary people, the odds of failure would probably be a hundred times higher.
Meng Chao did not know just who created the ancestors of the Tulan people.
But based on the military buildings of the Tulan civilization and the fact that a single species like the Mandala Tree could support an entire civilization, the ancestors of the Tulan people, who were also known as the "ancestral spirits", were the crystallization of outstanding biochemical technology.
In the beginning, the lion-men, tiger-men, leopardmen, taurens, boar-men, and elephant-men were all ultimate killing machines that had been refined and perfected. They had human organs and beast organs perfectly fused with each other.
However, after millions of years, the once brilliant and glorious Tulan civilization gradually fell into decline. It even regressed to the era of clans.
When the original Ultimate Killing Machines were passed down for dozens or even more than one hundred generations, the uncertainty hidden in the depths of their genes finally erupted.
Even the most perfect and accurate gene blueprint would gradually become blurry after it was copied and transcribed dozens or even more than one hundred times. In fact, it would even change beyond recognition.
Besides, due to famine, war, marriage, and all sorts of other reasons, a lot of mixed-bloods were born in different tribes and clans.
Every single mixed-blood was a genetic fusion experiment that could not be controlled.
Based on Meng Chao's observations in Hidden Fog Desolate Region, 99% of the results of uncontrolled genetic fusion in this sort of wild environment would not be good.
The mixed-blood of leopardmen and elephant-men might not be born with the agility of a cheetah and the brute strength of an elephant.
There was also a possibility that they would give birth to trash who would be covered in fat and would not be able to run. Their strength would also be far inferior to pure-blooded elephant-men.
Such trash would have the thin bones of leopardmen and the heavy flesh of elephant-men. If they stood up, there was a high possibility that they would be crushed by their own weight.
The Tulan people must have realized this problem while their civilization was gradually slipping.
Their method to deal with this problem was very simple and crude.
Since there was a 99% chance that they would give birth to deformed and ugly monsters, they would just give birth to one hundred of them in one go.
In any case, they did have Mandala Fruits.
No matter how many they gave birth to, they could make do and survive.
At the very least, that was the case for the masters of the clans.
Hence, the masters of the clans would usually choose spouses from the same clan and give birth to a few pure-blooded descendants to ensure the stability of their genes.
Then, they would let themselves go and look for all sorts of strange rat people or members of other clans to have fun with. They would then give birth to even more strange descendants.
If they were lucky and the descendants inherited the advantages of their parents and did not have any problems with their genes being incompatible with each other, such descendants would be absorbed into the clan through the coming of age ceremony.
The trash who failed in gene fusion would be chased out of the clan and reduced to rat people.
That was the truth!
Warriors and nobles were the lucky ones whose genes were successfully modified!
The rat people were the trash who failed in gene modification!
Meng Chao felt that this guess was much more reliable than the rumor that they were reduced to cowards because they fled from the battlefield and sullied the mighty name of the Tulan warriors.
It was precisely because there was not much of a difference between warriors and rat people in terms of their gene source.
The rat people's gene pool was incredibly unstable. When they fused with each other, there was a small chance that they could avoid all the defects in their genes and give birth to powerful descendants.
It was just like the product of a marriage between close relatives. There was a high chance that they would be handicapped in terms of intelligence and appearance.
But there was also a high chance that they would be geniuses with outstanding intelligence.
Meng Chao felt that Leaf was one such genius.
He was the lucky one who finally succeeded after failing ninety-nine times in gene modification.
He perfectly avoided all the genetic defects, incompatibilities, and instability.
He was even closer to how the Tulan people were created.
As for the rat soldiers of the Iron Skin Family …
No matter how domineering he was, how domineering he was.
They were also rat people.
They also had fatal genetic defects!
'They're too strong.'
Meng Chao quickly organized his thoughts and confirmed his thoughts once more. "These rat servant soldiers are imitating their masters. Each of them has at least 250 kilograms of flesh on their bodies, and they look like wild boars that are standing on their hind legs.
"Besides, the Iron Skin Family is known for having steel skin. If my guess is correct, the amount of metal in their bodies is much higher than that of the other families. Most of the metal is gathered on their skin, and it's the same as wearing an indestructible armor.
"At the same time their defense increases by leaps and bounds, the burden on their bodies, especially the joints of their limbs, also increases.
"If they went through the coming of age ceremony or the Blood Bestowment Ceremony, the real Iron Skin Family members would have no problem. Their genes … their race's talent, and the large amount of Golden Fruits and totem beast flesh they ate allowed their joints to be sturdy enough for them to carry hundreds of kilograms or even more than one thousand kilograms.
"But these rat soldiers … who were born with defects … Heh, they don't have such strong joints and sturdy tendons, so why would they learn from their masters and mindlessly pile muscles on their bodies?
"They're just asking for death!
"The more muscles they have, the faster they die!
"Leaf, Spider, did you notice just now? These rat soldiers might be aggressive and look like they can break an iron wall once they speed up, but they can only charge in a straight line. It's hard for them to change directions and speed in a small area. In fact, after they miss you, they have to run dozens of arm's length forward before they can slow down and stop.
"Also, after the farce was over, the people on our side were all breathing evenly without any change in their faces, but the guys who seemed to be in an advantageous position were all panting and sweating profusely. Many of their legs were even shivering, right?
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