"Hi Takuno, it's me, Kane, I'm about to arrive. Appearing rashly may frighten people, so you can say hello for me first. ”

Kane telepathically greets Takuno.

Takuno was immediately overjoyed and said loudly: "Master Craftsman, that outsider is about to arrive!"

Then seeing that everyone was staring at him with serious faces, he realized that he was a little carried away, and after apologizing to the people, he said as calmly as possible: "Master, the outsider has informed me telepathically, and he will arrive soon, let me speak to everyone on his behalf, so as not to be frightened." ”

Secretly Kane noticed that Takuno called a master craftsman was a sturdy man with half-white hair, between 40 and 60 years old, not easy to recognize, calm and majestic, and the scar on his left cheek not only did not detract from his charm, but added a bit of heroism.

The master craftsman nodded and said to everyone: "Everyone, I hope everyone is polite, if you don't know how to deal with it, just keep silent and don't make too many body movements. Don't behave presumptuously. The gap between our strength and the other side is too great, and as the weaker side, we can only hope that the other side will be more merciful for the sake of our fellow human beings. ”

An older person asked: "If you are too weak, is it easy to make the other party gain an inch?"

"The other party is strong and goodwilled, and we respond with deference rather than fangs. In order to survive, bow to the strong, and there is no shame. ”

Kane nodded secretly. Realizing that this master craftsman, not only mastered the technique, but also has a wise mind and not low emotional intelligence, he should be the leader of the village.

With this suggestion from the master craftsman, Kane felt that he could make the scene.

In order to avoid being abrupt, he took some care to make a light gate that gradually generated.

First there was light, then it was elongated and widened, like a glowing crack, and the crack opened further, and a door with a flow of light appeared.

The light rippled, and Kane walked out of it, came in front of everyone, spread his hands, and greeted in the local language: "Hello everyone, my name is Kane, and I come from a world outside of this huge city. ”

Despite a certain amount of foreshadowing, the natives still showed a very obvious social panic disorder, especially when they felt that the disparity between the strength of the two sides was too great, and they were silent and even cramped and uneasy.

And the master craftsman deserved to be the best performer, and he bowed respectfully to Kane. "My name is Lu Tong, I am the leader of this village, and I welcome you on behalf of all the villagers of Tin Skin. Also, thank you for helping the young warriors in the village. And please don't mind our shabby hospitality. ”

Kane wasn't too polite, just replied, "That's tiring." ”

Subsequently, the master craftsman Lu Tong was the guide, and drank some tea in the big house, during which Lu Tong gave a general introduction to the situation of the village.

In fact, there is no need to explain it, and the details can reveal a lot of things. The ancestors of these people are not Han people, but He people, but they are seriously infected by Chinese culture, although they still speak Japanese, but many customs have changed, but they have not changed completely.

For example, the name has the characteristics of simplicity and conciseness of the Han people in ancient times. For example, the road is open, and I hope that the road will be smooth wherever I go, and the field is open, and I hope that the vision is wide and far, and so on.

As for what the surname is, in the context of continuous internal integration and basically no foreign population joining, the surname has disappeared with the disappearance of the 'household'. The way of life of the people here, like a commune, or a big family, has become a basic necessity for survival.

According to Lutong, the village had more than 400 people at its peak, and now it is less than 150. The main causes of population attrition are disease and food insecurity.

Recently, there has been a famine, because the nearby pipes that can collect 'thick juice' have dried up, and they have to go to distant areas to collect, which increases the probability of being discovered by the surveillance tower and chased by the deportees.

Lu Tong was not worried about Kane's plot against the village, he said, "The last wanderer appeared when I was a child. The only people who can survive alone in this megacity are powerful warriors, and I remember my grandfather recruiting him at the time, but he just rested in the village for a while and left. He is a prosthetic human on a mission to find a human with the qualifications to rule the city......"

Lu Tong babbled a lot, which roughly means that in a village like theirs, the position of the leader is a chore, very difficult to do, and there is no food or drink for food and drink, such a settlement, for people who can survive alone in the super city, there is really nothing to plan for.

In addition, the last wanderer appeared nearly forty years ago, and it was a large-scale prosthetic modification. This implies that humans capable of becoming wanderers are extremely rare, and the slow death of loneliness is the most serious problem facing a settlement like theirs.

Not to mention anything else, it is very difficult just to reproduce, there are only about 100 people in total, it can be said that everyone is related to the past, and the harm of close relatives marriage does not need to be repeated.

If there is a good side, then the closure makes the people here simple, and the morality line is about one. In fact, it is only relatively speaking, there are still characteristics such as the darkness of human nature and numbness, such as the treatment of deformed children, and the importance of armor and martial arts above human life.

As Kane had predicted, the reason why the Supreme Leader is called Master Craftsman is because Master Craftsman represents the most knowledgeable and skilled craftsmen.

The special background has created a special deformed technology system, and in the Lutong generation, the rest of the armor is okay, and the helmet part can't be done anyway. Because the auxiliary system and related software with microcomputer as the core require high professional knowledge of personnel.

In fact, there are many basic and key disciplines such as materials science, which have not been passed down by the people here. The so-called master craftsman only plays the role of a senior mechanic.

Based on Kane's understanding and analysis, the relevant equipment they inherited and used was a portable pioneer product used by people in the original megacity.

For example, when you arrive on a planet, a small exploration convoy sets off from the mother ship to explore and find a suitable place to build a base, and the various equipment carried with the vehicle will be used to establish a semi-permanent base.

This model was later replaced by a fully automated builder system. People only need to give some instructions remotely, and the specific details are completed by the AI leading the highly automated machinery team.

Kane estimated that it was the human race against the Control Bureau and the deprivation of the ability to use fully automated equipment that forced the obsolete semi-automatic technology to survive.

And it is this semi-automatic system, to the present, only the fur is left, some equipment can only be repaired but not built, after all, there is a day of scrapping, and can not find the same kind of replacement equipment, it immediately becomes a vacancy, once even the substitute for its production can not be found, a category of creation will basically disappear.

Kane secretly calculated that if there was no intervention in him, this village, at most a hundred years, would have to die, provided that the food crisis was solved, and there would no longer be frequent deaths like in the past 1 year.

I have to say that even with Kane's strong will, there is no way to be optimistic in the face of this ubiquitous suffocation-level despair.

If you are careless in one move, you will lose all the games, and you will die out at the end of the road. The humans here are a good interpretation of such a story. It's embarrassing.

With Kane's ability, it is natural that this place can be built into a self-sufficient paradise. But in his opinion, it is equivalent to throwing a mouse into a rice bowl, that is, eating and waiting for death to finish this life, which is meaningless.

Of course, the existence of life itself is meaningless. It's people who forcibly give some words that make it seem lofty.

But Kane still feels that the civilization established by countless intelligent beings still has a certain significance, it is a kind of mode of evolution of all things in the universe, a kind of display, whether it is the overall grandeur or the colorful details, it is not inferior to the magnificent scenes in the universe such as nova explosions and planet formations.

Therefore, even if it is charity, Kane prefers to integrate the human beings here and give them 'fishing', rather than superficial mercy, and build an exquisite ecological nest for these hundred or so people.

Of course, the promised gifts still have to be given.

Not all, but only one-twentieth of the output of a batch of automatic factories, even so, it is enough for the people here to eat for a year or two, after all, it is ultra-compressed, swelled into a state of bread, and every adult only needs to eat a palm-sized piece for each meal, which is enough to replenish the required nutrients and feel full.

The people of the village were naturally very happy to receive the gift of food, and even the most solemn festivals were not so happy. But perhaps because they have survived in an atmosphere of despair for too long, the expression of emotions such as being happy seems faint, completely devoid of the enthusiasm and heartlessness of the ordinary indigenous people. It's the kind of little joy that exudes sweetness, but in the face of Kane, most people still seem very reserved.

Kane doesn't care about this, the main purpose of his coming here is to listen to stories, the most literate master in the village, and it is OK if he can communicate normally.

However, it turned out that his previous idea of counting on getting clues through legends was obviously taken for granted.

Legends are not reliable, especially those that have been passed down by word of mouth, and have not been sorted out and scripted, often rely on eloquence to tell the ins and outs clearly and interestingly.

And even being able to tell a story doesn't mean you can keep the really valuable focus.

Kane summed it up and found that in general, all the legends basically only left two major parts that were the most prominent, one was sensationalism, twenty braggarts, and the others were in the service of these two.

It can be said that people listen to stories, love to listen to this, and also have the deepest memories of this type, so this part is the most circulating.

And the more professional the content, the more difficult it is to remember, and the more difficult it is to pass it down accurately.

Therefore, to look for clues from the legends passed down by word of mouth is simply to ask for the blind.

Kane reviewed his previous thinking, and felt that it was likely to be poisoned by film and television dramas, and only the summary of film and television dramas can treat coincidences as the norm.

Well, with such a lesson, Kane basically stopped thinking about getting clues to the problem from the natives. Rather than looking for this kind of shortcut between what is and what is not, it is better to be honest and explode bees and achieve the goal of 'full map light' of the megacity first.

This project is indeed a bit large, but under the effect of the geometric proliferation of the hive, it is not an impossible task.

As soon as he thought of it, Kane gave the order to the previously arranged hive, from mass production of soldier bees, to full self-division, and expansion of the production line.

The soldier bees that have been produced so far continue to focus on pathway exploration and focusing on the battle between alien insects and the Control Bureau.

The direction of this big battle has not escaped Kane's expectations, and the alien insects have now completed the first phase of the beach-grabbing landing target, transforming an area of more than 10,000 cubic kilometers into a fortress-like nest area.

These alien insects also have the ability to eat iron, but they do not have a high utilization rate of the most abundant silicon and metal materials in the megacity.

Specifically, their most resource-consuming combat units, and even facilities, are all organic, and the use of silicon and metals is limited to infrastructure and the generation of carapaces rich in metal elements.

As a result, with the high casualties and the increasingly expanding war situation, the alien insects had to rely on collecting corpses to obtain food, and after melting, they raised new war insects and put them into the grand battlefield.

The Command apparently took note of the insects' pick-up of corpses, and in line with the naïve principle of 'whatever the enemy wants, we will try to thwart it so that it cannot achieve its goal', the Command pretended to be plasma flame launchers to the newly produced destroyers, rather than dropping the power grid.

In addition, the control bureau has also changed the combat mode of individual soldiers, those destroyers, from the original beast form, to human form, one hand plasma flamethrower, the other hand plasma beam energy sword, far spray, close to slash, all like assassins are agile, and play the leap of faith at every turn.

I have to say that once the war is on a scale, it is really very spectacular and gorgeous. Thousands of expulsors were built on huge bridges, or on kilometre-high side walls, and then played a leap of collective faith, like a torrent of war insects below, and then there was a spouting of flames and lightsabers, a grand and magnificent mess. And this is just a corner of the battlefield, and there are at least nearly 100 similar situations at the same time, occurring in different regions, or about to happen.

Not only on the ground, but also in the air is a meat grinder, flying insects against flying machines, there is no longer any dog fight, because there are too many air combat units, any individual basically does not live for 10 seconds.

The so-called trump card is meaningless in this kind of battle, because almost every individual, who is being opposed by dozens of enemies at the same time, can always encounter a situation where the opponent is comfortable with an attack, no matter how coquettish the move is.

This repeated act of turning oneself into fat and sending it to other people's mouths ensures that no matter how high the luck value is, it will be quickly consumed and then killed.

The fate of all individual flying units is the same, thinking that there are too many sides involved in the war.

In such a big war, even if the heroic units on both sides are tens of thousands, they have all become one of the cannon fodder, even if it is a collective performance, there is no way to make the whole war as a background board to set off its own awesomeness, but like a wave churning in the sea as ordinary and fleeting.

This is the main reason why Kane did not rush to intervene before. Of course, he can kill all sides, but in terms of durability, he really can't. Whether compared with foreign insects or with the control bureau, they are very empty, and no matter how sharp the knife is, it has to be curled.

Interestingly, it is estimated based on the latest situation. Kane summed up two points:

First, the speed of his development could not keep up with the expansion of the war. In other words, when he really intervenes, he can't hold the situation, and he can't be the fisherman who benefits from the competition between the snipe and the clam clams.

Second, in the later stages of this war, it will be the Unified Control Bureau that will win.

Because now, although the insect swarm is still dominant in the situation, and even has the meaning of pressing the control bureau a little, the stamina of the control bureau is too much, but the alien insects are already in full swing and have reached their peak.

Next, as the corpses of the bugs are continuously destroyed by the Unified Control Bureau, their replenishment will gradually shrink.

Then the initiative will be lost, and when it is pressed and beaten by the control bureau, that is, the beginning of the avalanche.

So he is a third party with no sense of existence in this war, and he doesn't need to intervene, and he can't change anything if he intervenes. This inevitably made him feel a little lost.

The big man who needs Ms. Death's personal lobbying to come to such a not-so-big planetary world, but he can only be reduced to stealing chickens and dogs.

Thinking about the superheroes in the Marvel universe who are often infested with single universe and multi-body universe, I suddenly feel that the gap is so big and I am tired.

Therefore, it is most important to rest on your laurels and be satisfied with the status quo, and this time I came out to take a look, which made C Kane realize his shortcomings, and the motivation to move forward was suddenly there.

He gave orders to the yellow swarm, which had been semi-dormant on Titan, to grow and play the role of the 'Eater of Planets' among the five creator gods. Convert the stellar energy in the universe into efficient and controllable reserves, which is the cosmic version of the vast accumulation of grain.

In addition, both green worms and bloodworms can also be mobilized.

After all, through the communication with the Lady of Death, he already had a rough idea of the current situation.

As long as he is in the 20K universe, basically no one will take the initiative to come here to fight him, so what is the need for his swarm? Of course, it is a big development, completely managing the 20K universe into his pan-divine kingdom, and then talking about other things.

When the situation changes, the way of thinking has to change with it, and acting as a third party who can't intervene and doesn't make much sense to intervene here has become the trigger for the change of thinking.

Come to think of it, that's actually pretty good. If you really want to eat and wait for death in the 20K universe, in a few hundred years, maybe you will lose your good habit of moving forward under the banner of 'the enemy will appear at any time, and I will not change to change'.

Thinking about it this way, C Kane's mentality has become balanced again. rushed to this and realized that even if he didn't succeed in this operation, he didn't feel a loss.