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Chapter 34: Either Hold On or Collapse

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"Taro Tanuki Kingdom owes him a favor. It's not that he helped us, it's that he chose the right answer for us, while we ourselves... didn't choose the right one."

He turned to look at Professor Yamamoto.

"Notify the Ministry of Engineering that the design of the underground network must be entirely in accordance with the standards of the Winners Kingdom. The depth, width, ventilation, and drainage must be exactly the same. In addition, order another one hundred Water Dragon Beasts from the Winners Kingdom."

"One hundred?"

"One hundred, because the underground network in Kyoto needs to be dug to a depth of fifty meters."

……

Ivan Bear Kingdom, in the Far Eastern wilderness, 400 kilometers north of the mining area.

Fula sat in a steam-powered snowmobile with a thin layer of ice on the windows.

Before him stretched an endless frozen wasteland, teeming with upright apes.

Not a few hundred, not a few thousand, but hundreds of thousands.

The hominid migration caravan, which set off southward from the Far Eastern wilderness, stayed in Kutsk for ten days, dismantled all the equipment in the steam engine plant, and then turned north.

New upright apes kept joining along the way, growing bigger and bigger like a snowball.

They walked along the railway line; when the rails were bitten off by the Grimony, they walked on the sleepers; when the sleepers were dismantled, they walked on the roadbed.

The direction never deviates—north, north, north.

For the past month, these hominids have done what all countries that have chosen hominids would do—establish tribes, make tools, create symbols, and learn metallurgy.

But the geography of the Ivan Bear Kingdom gave Vla a unique advantage: the Far East was too vast.

Ten million upright apes scattered across millions of square kilometers of wasteland would be too low in density to form large-scale coordination.

Vla lowered his binoculars: "How far are they from the Ural mines?"

The intelligence chief unfolded a map: "At the current pace, we'll arrive in about fifteen days."

"Has the evacuation from the mining area been completed?"

"All personnel have been evacuated, but there wasn't enough time to dismantle the equipment; only some core components were taken. The rest..." The intelligence chief hesitated for a moment, "...enough to keep them busy for a long time."

Fra lit his pipe and took a puff.

The smoke condensed into white mist in the cold carriage.

"It took them ten days to dismantle the Kutsk steam engine plant. How long would it take to dismantle the Ural mining area?"

No one answered.

Because the answer depends on the learning speed of the upright ape.

No one has ever guessed the learning speed of upright apes.

"Comrade Chairman," the intelligence chief said in a low voice.

"Another thing is that we found traces of Homo erectus digging in the permafrost north of the mining area. Not like the water dragons, but they dug with tools. The depth was very shallow, less than half a meter, but they dug it out."

"What did they dig up?"

"Iron ore, iron ore from the permafrost."

Fraser's pipe stopped in mid-air.

"They're not going to the Ural mines to dismantle equipment," he said slowly. "They're going to start their own mines."

The carriage was so quiet that you could hear the wind outside the window.

Hundreds of thousands of upright apes squatted on the frozen wasteland, clutching metal tools brought from Kutsk, their eyes fixed on the north.

Buried beneath the permafrost in the north lies one of the largest iron ore deposits on Earth.

It took humans hundreds of years to find it, while it took hominids less than a month.

Another headache for Fla is the Glitterbeast.

The neighboring country's Grimoire, after crossing the mountains and undergoing the second stage of evolution of its cutting teeth, severed all of Ivan Bear Country's Far East railway trunk lines.

It's not destruction, it's severance.

Each section of rail is the same length—three meters per section, with an error of no more than ten centimeters.

They were measured before they were cut.

The car stopped, and Fra stood beside a section of the cut railway track.

He then took the pipe out of his mouth and tapped the ash on the car window.

"Send a telegram to Lu Cheng of the Winner Monkey Kingdom and tell him that the Ivan Bear Kingdom needs the Water Dragon Beast."

The intelligence chief paused for a moment, then said, "Comrade Chairman, we didn't sign the underground tunnel treaty, and you previously said..."

"We were wrong before, we took some detours. Let's send a telegram. Does that mean we can't buy without a contract? That kid Lu Cheng said he wouldn't sell to non-contracting countries?"

The intelligence chief flipped through the text of the underground treaty:

"The treaty does not restrict non-signatory countries from introducing the Lyosaurus, but it does impose three conditions—uniform standards, data sharing, and simultaneous release—that non-signatory countries must also comply with."

"Then let's buy it!" Fla lit his pipe. "Send a telegram to the Kingdom of Winner Monkeys, and the Kingdom of Ivan Bears will grant all three of their requests to import the Water Dragon Beast."

……

Delhi, India.

Rajiv did not participate in the Burrow Treaty.

It's not that I don't want to participate, it's that I can't spare the time.

Besides... no one invited them.

At this moment, Rajiv stood on the bank of the Ganges River, facing the black water.

It's not a description, it's truly black.

The upright apes lived in the river for nearly a month, and their black blood continuously dissolved into the water, turning the Ganges into a dark ribbon.

The concentration of black blood in the Ganges River has risen to 0.5%, rendering the drinking water sources for all 37 villages and towns downstream unusable.

People who drank polluted water had their blood vessels change color from blue to dark blue, and then from dark blue to black.

Now, the steps on both sides of the riverbank are filled with infected people.

It looks exactly like the posture of the upright ape crouching in the Royal Park.

Rajiv stood on the banks of the Ganges, with a villager whose blood was infected with blackness squatting in front of him.

So Rajiv also squatted down and looked at the infected person.

This is a middle-aged woman with cinnabar on her forehead, wearing a sari and silver bells on her ankles.

She squatted on the steps, her eyes fixed on the black river water, her lips moving slightly as if she were saying something.

Rajiv leaned closer to listen and heard clearly.

She was repeating a syllable.

It is not a local language, not a common language, not any human language.

It is the syllable that represents "water" in the symbol system of the upright ape.

Rajiv stood up and took a step back.

"How many people are experiencing language switching?" he asked.

The health minister stood behind him, his voice trembling:

"Preliminary statistics show that about three percent of the 100,000 infected individuals have experienced language replacement. First, they repeated simple syllables of upright apes, and then... then they began to forget human language."

"forget?"

"Yesterday, there was an infected person who was previously a Sanskrit professor at Delhi University. He started writing on paper using the symbol system of the hominids. After he finished writing, his family asked him what he had written, and he looked at the symbols on the paper but couldn't say anything. Then he looked at his family and said in the local language, 'Who am I?' That was the last human language he spoke, and since this morning, he has only been speaking hominid syllables."

Rajiv clenched his fists.

"Is this behavioral assimilation or...?"

"It's not assimilation," the health minister shook his head.

"We dissected the remains of three infected individuals. The protein toxins in the black blood deposit in the language center of the brain. First, they stimulate the infected individuals, causing them to imitate the language of upright apes. Then they destroy and erase the memory of human language. Finally, they replace it, leaving only the language system of upright apes in the infected individuals' brains."

Rajiv turned around and looked at the densely packed upright apes on the opposite bank of the Ganges.

They bathe, give birth, and excrete in the river, continuously dissolving their black blood into the Ganges.

They are not polluting a river, they are using a river as a weapon.

"The Water Dragon Beast cannot purify the Ganges," Rajiv said.

The Minister of Health hesitated for a moment:

"Prime Minister, Governor Lu from the Winners' Kingdom has sent another telegram. He says that although the Water Dragon Beast cannot purify the Ganges, it can dig underground waterways. Snowmelt from the southern foothills of the mountains will be diverted, bypassing the Ganges Plain, and flowing directly to Delhi. The project is massive, so—"