Based on the current situation, Anuza's sister should be the biggest breakthrough in the secrets of this planet. This girl knew much more than we had initially expected. She might even know the ultimate goal of some of the Melovans. Of course, the last part was just my guess, but it was an indisputable fact that Anulili was of great value. So, I had been thinking about one problem the whole morning: how to win Anulili's trust and make her treat us as one of her own.
Regarding this, Miss Lin's comment was: if you dare to use seduction magic, just wait to be steamed and braised iron shavings.
How did that girl think of all these things …
We still had to eat breakfast in Anuza's big house. To be honest, the food in this world was really a challenge for me. Probably for us, except for Sandora, everyone else thought that it was a challenge. So, I quickly ate something to fill my stomach, and then used the reason that I was in asceticism as an excuse to drink the soup again. You don't say, although there was a nerve agent in the soup, the taste was not bad. In Sandora's words, it tasted like cocoa. Well, it was a little bitter. Visca did not like it.
Maybe the taste of the 'chocolate soup' had attracted the attention of a little bean. While we were eating, I suddenly felt something moving in my chest pocket. Then, Jingle poked her head out. "Huh? It's morning already? Jingle, it's time to eat! Ah Jun, Ah Jun! Hurry up and give Jingle something to eat! "
Anuza and Anulili were dumbfounded. They stared at the palm-sized creature that had crawled out of my pocket. Then, the little one jumped onto the table and ran to the nearest plate. She took out a spoon the size of an ear spoon and scooped the soup into her mouth. Jingle was completely unaware of her surroundings. She happily ate her breakfast. After drinking half of the soup, the little one ran back and spread out a piece of candy wrapper on the rough wooden table as a tablecloth. Then, she hummed a tune that no one could understand and placed a few pieces of biscuits, two raisins, and half a peanut on the table. This way, the staple coarse grains and after-meal fruits would be available. The little one used a small leaf to scoop half a 'bowl' of soup and sat in front of the candy wrapper happily. "Ah Jun said that everything should be simple when we are out. This breakfast is very, very good! Jingle is about to eat! "
"I … This … You guys … What is this?!" Anuzha grabbed the spoon, his eyes wide open, completely unable to react. Dingdang, this little thing, had always acted according to her wishes. Adding on the fact that she had just woken up, she was still rather muddle-headed, causing the honest Anuzha to be scared stiff.
Sandora rubbed her forehead tiredly and sighed. "Sigh … You didn't see anything. Keep smiling."
Anuza was stunned. He immediately ignored the strange creature on the table and lowered his head to eat. Anulili was about to say something when Sandora glanced at her. "You didn't see anything either. It was all your hallucination."
After that, everything was' normal 'for the siblings. Jingle finally woke up from her muddled state. She raised her head and looked around. She was still holding a half-eaten peanut in her hand. "Huh? There's an outsider here? Ah Jun, is Jingle in trouble? "
"… Continue eating." Sandora waved her hand weakly. "Next time, say something before you jump out. It's quite scary."
"Oh." Jingle nodded in confusion. Then, she saw a little one about her size crawling up on Shallow Shallow's shoulder. The latter was wearing half an eggshell as a hat. It was the little crow that Shallow Shallow had borrowed from Little Crow. So, Jingle was immediately happy. "Little bird! You're here too! Come and eat. Jingle has some raisins here. I can share one with you! "
"Rawr!" Mini Medivh chirped happily and slid down Shallow Shallow's arm to the table. She first scooped a 'bowl' of soup with her eggshell and then ran to Jingle's sugar paper tablecloth. The two little ones began toasting each other. There were only two raisins. Anuza and Anurili were stunned again. This time, Shadora pressed both of her hands on her forehead. Her voice was weak as if she had not slept for twenty days. "What you saw was an illusion. Don't mind it …" Shadora's voice sounded like she had not slept for twenty days.
"Oh." Anuza and Anulili's expressions returned to normal. Anuza scratched her head. "Why do I feel weird waking up this morning … I feel like I've forgotten something important."
Of course, there were two palm-sized creatures playing a finger-guessing game in front of you with two raisins and two bowls of nerve agent. How could it not be weird?
"Speaking of which, how many people are there in this village?" I couldn't stand the strange atmosphere any longer, so I randomly picked a topic to attract Anuza and Anulili's attention away from the strange atmosphere. Anuza was the Chief of this village, so I thought I had picked a good topic to talk about. But unexpectedly, Anuza looked confused. Then, he smiled embarrassedly. "What do you mean how many people? Anyway, there are a lot of people … I remember there were a lot of people when I was young, and there are still a lot of people now. "
"Err …" I didn't expect the village chief to give such an answer. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Don't tell me that you don't even know the number of people in your village as the village chief. I think there are at least a few hundred people in this village. It's quite lively in the morning. "
"A few hundred?" Anuza was surprised. He started to draw on the table. "You mean the number of people? Is that a lot or a few? "
To be honest, I was completely dumbfounded. It was as if he was talking in his sleep. His words were completely out of place. I didn't expect that my random topic would turn into such a strange conversation. "Of course it's the number of people. This … you don't know …"
"Anuza," Sandora suddenly interrupted me. "Let's say you have two hundred villagers. Because of the newborns and the foreigners, their numbers have doubled. How many villagers do you have right now?"
Anuza looked confused. He didn't understand what Sandora was talking about.
"Anuza," Miss Lin seemed to have realized something. Her eyes were solemn. "What's two plus four?"
Anuza smiled blankly. He looked at us awkwardly. "Err … You're talking about the customs of your hometown, right? We don't do that here. The world is so big. Every place has a different way of talking. My grandpa didn't lie … "
"Sandora, what's going on?" I asked through the mental connection. "Mathematics has been erased.
The Mellowans erased the mathematics ability of the natives. It could be a genetic modification, or it could be the shielding effect caused by the psychotropic agent and long-term brainwashing. Anuza can't think about anything related to mathematics. He can't even do simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division … Perhaps he can only count from one to ten, and that's because he has ten fingers … Sigh, I know how the Mellowans locked onto the progress of civilization on this planet. Now, the level of civilization of the humans on this planet is locked within the number ten. Without mathematics, they can't create any precision machinery, nor can they observe and record any periodic natural phenomena. They can't even create a calendar. Naturally, they don't have any means of steadily passing down knowledge. As long as they lock onto mathematics, the Mellowans can easily lock onto the limits of civilization on this planet. A race that can only recognize the number ten will never be able to measure the land beneath their feet … "
"Damn … That's ruthless!" Although I don't have as much knowledge as Sandora, I can still understand such simple logic. Before this, everyone had always been curious about how the Mellowans locked onto the progress of civilization on this planet. At first, we thought that it was a relatively violent method, such as banning all new inventions and directly executing (in Anulili's words, "taking away" and bringing them to the Holy Kingdom) the natives who occasionally broke free from control and developed progressive thoughts. But we didn't expect them to use such a thorough and efficient method. Indeed, locking onto mathematics was the best way to lock onto the technological progress of a civilization — unless the civilization had other racial talents to bypass the "mathematics", the cornerstone of civilization. And the natives of this planet obviously didn't have such talents.
Violence and direct interference could indeed lock onto the progress of civilization on the planet to a certain extent, but such methods would eventually have loopholes. There would always be people who broke free from control and people who were naturally immune to the potion. Even if they were natives who were controlled, they still had a certain degree of free thinking. The unconscious actions of these people could trigger the progress of civilization. Even if these unconscious progress was insignificant, the Mellowans had to personally "trim" it to precisely lock onto the civilization of this planet in a state of ignorance. Therefore, they adopted an efficient method like locking onto mathematics, which was … to cut off the line of descendants.
"I will let the agents on the other two planets check if the natives there are in the same situation, but the answer should not be surprising." Sandora quietly finished the twelfth bowl of "chocolate soup" and said in the mental link, "Now there are already two agents trying to trace the whereabouts of the natives who were taken away, but the people who were taken away seemed to have been sent to the Mellowan home planet. Even with the abilities of the Empire agents, it is a little difficult to sneak into that place without anyone noticing … The Mellowans have set up a lot of old Empire security equipment on their home planet, and the security level will not be much lower than that of the City of Shadows. Perhaps in the end, we still have to solve this problem ourselves … "
"Ahem." Just as Sandora and I were secretly discussing these matters through the mental link, a girl suddenly coughed on the table. I looked up and saw that Anulili was looking in our direction. I had been talking to Anuza and had neglected her.
"Err, what's the matter?" I looked at the girl who might know a lot of secrets and thought to myself, Did my conversation with Anuza arouse her interest?
"No, it's just that I suddenly want to know what happened during your journey. I'm very curious about these things … Can you come to my room after dinner? All of you? "
"Hey, I'm interested too, I'm interested too," Anuza immediately chimed in. "I've stayed in this village for many years, and I really don't know what the outside world is like. You guys can tell me about it later …"
"Anuza, you still have work to do," Anulili looked at her brother sternly. "You are the chief of this village. Don't forget what Grandpa told you before he left."
Anuza was obedient under his sister's discipline. When he heard that, he immediately lowered his head and replied, "Oh," and focused on eating. Looking at this scene, I revealed a knowing smile. It seems that I behaved the same way in front of my sister … Is this the power of a domineering older sister?
Beside me, Lin Xue gave me a look, and I understood what she meant. Anulili had asked us to talk to her in private, so she definitely wasn't really interested in the so-called trip. She had something to say.
It seemed that we had inadvertently broken through this girl's guard. Perhaps … it was when I asked Anuza to count just now.
After eating, Anuza was sent to work by his sister. Perhaps there were only a few people like Anuza who needed others to urge them to work. Anuza, who wasn't affected by the nerve agent, couldn't live according to a precise schedule like a normal villager. It wasn't easy for his sister to hide the truth for so long under such circumstances. Of course, more importantly, Anuza was very obedient to his sister. If he was a naughty child, he would have been beaten to death by the Merovans before he was seven years old.
We snuck up to the second floor like a secret agent, and the group of us squeezed into Anulili's room.
"Can you count?" Anulili asked directly. She wasn't polite to us and rarely spoke politely. Perhaps it was because we were all 'people with secrets', so there was no need for politeness.
"More proficient than you think," I nodded. "It seems that this is a rare talent."
Anulili leaned against the window and looked at the busy and confused village outside. "I really don't know where you guys came from. How can you have such a lack of common sense? Can't you see that it's so obvious … Alright, maybe I'm overthinking, but it seems that my luck is not bad. Talented people like you actually appeared in front of me on your own … You guys are the second time immune. "
We were stunned. We heard another term that we had never heard of before: the second time immune. What was that?
"The second immunity is a mutation that is even rarer than the brainwashing effect of the nerve poison. There's only a 0.1% chance of it happening, and most of them won't be able to escape the eyes of those 'gods' alive …" Anurili suddenly stood up and rummaged through a rattan box that looked like a junk box in the corner of the room while saying, "Because the genetic factor is unstable, the problem of mutation going out of control is always there. Therefore, on the basis of the genetic factor, they used the nerve poison to make it more stable by using the entire race to control it more. The nerve poison has two effects. The first one is to promote the brainwashing effect and eliminate the doubt that ordinary people have towards the 'Gods'. The second one is that it takes effect once in the infant stage. It inhibits the development of the human brain at the early stage, making it impossible for humans to recognize numbers, machines, and discontinuous logic with more than three steps. Most people who were immune to the nerve poison could only be immune to the first effect and not the second one. Because the nerve poison's destructive effect on the brain started in the infant stage, the brain tissue of the newborn would be affected within two to four days after the first time they took the poison. Even those who were born with the immunity were very fragile when they were born. Their immunity hadn't shown yet, so their mathematical thinking ability would be destroyed before they developed the resistance. In fact, people who were immune to the nerve poison would only show their resistance to the drug after the age of six. Before the age of six, they were also under the brainwashing control. This was why almost everyone couldn't count. On this planet, no one could escape the erosion of the nerve poison before the age of six. People who were immune to the second time were people who were born with the immune ability. They were countless times more valuable than the average immune. Now that so many of them appeared at once, could it be that your entire family … "
"Are you a person who was immune to the second time?" Sandora suddenly looked at Anulili. "I remember that you couldn't even resist the most basic brainwashing effect of the nerve poison. You could only rely on reducing the dosage to get out of the control, but you can't possibly be unable to count, right?"
When she said this, Sandora probably used a little mental interference so that Anulili wouldn't feel that the question was too abrupt. After all, in the eyes of Anulili, we should be 'ordinary people' who were even more ignorant than her. Anulili hesitated for a while and nodded lightly. "I am a person who was immune to the second time after the reverse transformation. For some reason, I had to be affected by the nerve poison again. But before the transformation, my mathematical ability had matured, so I won't be destroyed again. "
I was shocked. I felt that the girl in front of me had a mountain of secrets. She was originally an immune like Anuza! But she accepted the so-called reverse transformation so that she could be under the control of the nerve poison again … This reverse transformation couldn't have been done by herself in this small village during the early Iron Age. No matter how I looked at it, it was a process that required a sterile room, a white coat, and a bunch of glass bottles. In other words …
"What I'm going to say next may subvert your understanding … No, it will subvert everything you know." Anulili found what she was looking for and held it in front of her chest. "Maybe it will take a few or even a dozen generations to complete this mission. You and I won't live to see that day come, but … do you really want to live? End this life of wandering in exile and truly live with a purpose, just so that one day, our children and grandchildren can breathe freely again, forever free from the control of nerve agents and brainwashing. Before you give your answer, I can only say this much. But if you agree, I will tell you everything. "
"Sounds serious." I scratched my chin. "Aren't you afraid that we won't agree? You have said enough for now. "
Anulili replied calmly, "It's okay. According to the rules, I will take care of everything after this. Believe me, although it looks like this, I am confident that I can take on hundreds of people. "
"To be honest, you are not a qualified liar." Liliana stuck her tongue out. "How can you make things sound so serious at the beginning and not give us a carrot? Even if you want to paint a picture of you, you have to paint a big picture first so that you can pull people in. For example, you can say, 'We will be free because we have victory in our hands'. That's not a lie. After all, the people who are tricked will either be free in the end or die. They won't have a chance to refute you. In this line of work, you have to know the art of language … "
Everyone was speechless.
This girl really dared to say it out loud!
"Ahem, don't mind what she said." I tossed Liliana aside and looked at the gadget in Anulili's hand. It was a grayish-blue metal cylinder the size of a can. Its surface shimmered. It looked old, but it seemed to be working well. It was also emitting a well-hidden spatial signal. If this gadget was on Earth, it would be enough for all the scientists in the world to study for half a lifetime. But now, it was in the hands of a country bumpkin wearing sackcloth and leather boots. I smiled. I was satisfied with the progress. "I can represent everyone's opinion. We will join the team. Actually, I am very smart. After you said so much, I can roughly guess what you want. You … should be you, right? "
Anulili exhaled imperceptibly. Then, she raised the gadget in her hand. "Next, I will bring you to a place."
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