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Chapter 41 Visit
Li Wei looked at the pistol, picked it up, and tucked it into his belt.
"Before I was transferred back from Weiqianglongguo, I worked as a smuggler on the border for three years. Back then, there were not only smugglers on the border, but also deserters, bandits, wild animals... I could tell them apart."
He walked to the door, then turned back.
"Governor, is Wakandar's case the only one?"
"I don't know, that's why I need you to go."
Li Wei set off that afternoon.
Take a steam train to the border of the Great Dragon Kingdom, then change horses and travel through the small countries in the southern part of Blue Star, one by one.
His first stop was Mavila, ranked ninety-fifth.
Four days later, Levi sent his first telegram from Mavila:
Mavira chose the giant dragonfly.
They didn't attempt to kill them because the giant dragonflies were in the sky and out of their reach.
A third of the country's livestock were killed by giant dragonflies, but no one died. No upright apes were found.
The second stop was Zamba, ranked ninety-second.
Zamba chose Anomalocaris.
Since Zamba is a landlocked country, the Anomalocaris was released into lakes within its borders.
The lake is too small for the Anomalocaris to grow large enough to pose a threat at present.
The third stop was Zebawe, where they ranked 89th.
Zebave chose the Waterdramon.
Li Wei wrote "Chosen Water Dragon Beast" three times in the telegram.
On Advent Day, this small landlocked country did not see the footage of the upright ape due to communication delays and was randomly assigned the Water Dragon Beast instead.
Now the underground of the whole country has been dug through by the Water Dragon Beast, the farmland has been turned over, and the crops are growing better than in previous years.
Zebawe's governor told Levi, "We're lucky."
The fourth stop was Botswana, ranked 86th.
I chose the Thales.
Due to the country's arid climate, the Tyrrell fish can barely survive.
This would normally be good news, but the problem is that upright apes have already been discovered in the country.
When Livy arrived, the hominids of this country were making bricks out of mud.
There was no poisoning, no traps, and no arson.
Because they were not attacked.
The governor of Botswana was a seventy-year-old chief who, on Advent Day, told his people, "They don't provoke us, and we won't provoke them. Let's see how things go."
As they watched, the upright ape started kneading bricks.
The old chief squatted next to the upright apes for a day, then said to Levi, "They're building houses, and they're building them better than we are."
Li Wei added a note at the end of the telegram:
Wakandar was the only nation to begin its massacre shortly after Advent; other nations either couldn't reach them or didn't intervene. The radicalization of upright apes might require a triggering condition—being attacked. Upright apes that weren't attacked evolved at a completely different speed and in a completely different direction. Wakandar's tragedy wasn't inevitable; it was forced upon them by the bullets from Kagamo.
When Lu Cheng received the telegram, he was standing in front of the stone wall 53 meters underground in the Executive Government building.
He read the telegram three times, then said to Carrie:
"Tell Louis that the border of the Boulante Kingdom is temporarily safe. The evolution of the thirty-six upright apes in Wakandan is a stress response, not a normal state. Their goal is to retaliate against Kagamo, and once they have retaliated, they will not actively spread. But if the Boulante Kingdom attacks them now, the radicalization response will be triggered again. Do not fight, observe, isolate, and wait!"
"What are you waiting for?"
"Once they blend into the crowd, they will expose themselves. Homo erectus's camouflage is not perfect yet; they will learn to camouflage, but learning takes time. Until they master perfect camouflage, humans will still have a chance to recognize them."
He stood up and looked at the symbols left by upright apes on the stone wall 100,000 years ago.
Spiral, circular, square.
The pre-civilized upright apes used these symbols to record their civilization.
Ten thousand years later, the newly arrived upright apes, using the same symbols, learned poisoning, traps, arson, and camouflage after being slaughtered. For die-hard fans of "Exotic Creatures Destroy Our Home? Start by Killing the Upright Apes!", the latest chapter has been released!
The sky brightened.
[Day 37 of the Extraordinary Creatures' Arrival - Special Announcement]
[A case of radicalization of upright apes has been detected.]
[Location: Wakanda. Triggering Event: Massacre. Number of Animals Killed: Approximately 70,000. Result of Radicalization: All 47 surviving individuals entered the third stage—camouflage.]
[System Prompt: The intelligent brains of Homo erectus possess a stress-accelerated mechanism; the greater the attack intensity, the faster the evolutionary speed. In the Wakanda case, forty-seven individuals completed the transition from stage two to stage three within one month. Normal evolution time: ninety to one hundred and twenty days. Stress-accelerated evolution time: thirty-one days.]
[System Warning: Any large-scale attack on Homo erectus will trigger radicalization. The more intense the attack, the faster the evolution. Countries should weigh the consequences carefully.]
The light screen paused for a moment.
[System Update: Of the 47 individuals in Wakanda who should be radicalized, 36 have been confirmed to have completed the third stage of disguise. These 36 individuals have now dispersed into various small countries in southern Earth and are untraceable.]
The light curtain went out.
Lu Cheng looked at the line of text—Untraceable.
The Sky Curtain System itself banished alien creatures, yet it was unable to accurately track them.
And the radicalizing genes they carry will be passed on to their offspring.
The offspring born to those forty-seven upright apes during the period of radicalization were born with genes that accelerated evolution.
Wakanda's bullets did not wipe out the upright apes; instead, they created a new subspecies of upright apes.
A subspecies forced out by human slaughter, born with the ability to disguise, born with the understanding of war, and born with the view that humans are the enemy.
……
Meanwhile, in Taro Tanuki Country, Kyoto.
Massa stood outside the courtyard.
The upright ape in the courtyard has formed a new character again today.
Next to the words "replace people", a new row of white pebbles has been added.
Four words.
"Bullets are useless."
Massa called Professor Yamamoto over: "When was it placed there?"
"This morning, after the Sky Dome system reported the Wakanda incident, it sat there and started setting up, and it did so all morning."
Massa stared at those four words and remained silent for a long time.
"It's telling us that it knows about Wakanda. Across the entire planet Earth, without telegraphs, airships, or any means of communication that humans can understand, it still knows."
Professor Yamamoto's voice was very low:
"Prime Minister, there has always been some kind of communication between the upright apes that we cannot detect. The Sky Veil System just finished reporting, and it immediately displayed these four words. This means that it received the information earlier than the Sky Veil System, or at least synchronously."
Massa turned and left the courtyard.
"Send a telegram to Lu Cheng, telling him that the upright ape in Kyoto has reacted to the Wakanda incident. The upright ape's global information network is faster than our telegrams."
……
August, 5914 of the Blue Star Calendar, the forty-first day since the arrival of alien creatures.
Lu Cheng set up the venue for the second underground treaty conference at a location 53 meters underground of the Executive Government—in front of the stone wall left by the upright ape 100,000 years ago.
The representatives of the seven kingdoms squatted once again on the mound dug by the water dragon beast, with spiral, circular, and square carvings on the stone wall in front of them.
The light from the kerosene lamp flickered, casting long shadows on everyone.
David was the first to speak, pointing to the stone wall: "Is this what the pre-civilizational Homo erectus left behind?"
"Yes." Lu Cheng sat on the mound.
"The upright apes came 100,000 years ago, and the previous civilization was destroyed. They have returned 100,000 years later, this time with nine other species. The system says that last time there were only upright apes, but this time there are nine helpers."