Xiaoqiang's mutated body after eating a ghost brought not only "the appearance of ghosts earlier", but also more explanations or unexplainable speculations.
No survivors have been found for several years. Is it possible that some individuals among the ghosts will not disappear at the end of winter, but will provide cover for those ghosts that disappear?
This speculation cannot be proven or falsified, because even if there are witnesses, they may die early, and the cover of the ghost can be covered up until the sixth year.
There are three more doubtful points, which may be more important.
First, ghost corpses can guide Xiaoqiang to mutate, which shows that they can actively intervene in the real world in ways other than mysterious shocks. Is the demon hunter really created by scientific researchers?
Second, if humans and ghosts are together, what kind of offspring will they give birth to?
Third, Xiaoqiang has a certain social nature, but the scorpion ant colony has obvious true social characteristics. For example, how do different forms of division of labor in the same group form? Is the "king" or "queen" of the insect swarm a bug or a ghost?
There may be some overlap between the first and second doubts.
This possibility is that the demon hunters actually have human genes, and are even directly the common descendants of humans and creatures from another world. They are not the product of genetic technology between animals and other worlds. Under this premise, the intelligence of demon hunting is high enough to restrain instinct and be able to choose tactics on the fly, which is easy to understand and has sufficient basis.
There are more logical explanations. For example, if the parent's IQ can reach 140, the probability that the offspring's IQ will be higher than the regional average is a little higher than a random combination of parents, not much, but it is already a credible value that can eliminate invalid statistics.
As for using animal genes that cannot pass the mirror test to achieve experimental results that in turn increase IQ, even if the probability is not zero, it is not something that can be achieved by chance. It will definitely require large amounts of capital investment over many years.
For example, pet dogs and working dogs around the world have been bred for hundreds of years, and the gap between the breeds that have truly improved their IQ and the breeds before breeding is very small.
Unfortunately, to prove the conjecture, the only place where evidence may exist is in the research institutes near the first three nodes of the different world. Since there was airlift capability before the disaster, the concept of "nearby" is very vague and there is no way to find it.
As for why Elena and Anna didn't discover the relevant situation, they can also give an explanation. If a person or ghost gives birth to a demon hunter, will he tell others? Who can know if he is released or killed at night?
The logic is very smooth, but without evidence it is just a guess, unless Wang Qi is willing to invest time to see what the female ghost or female survivor will give birth to after combining with a human.
He was more interested in whether the source of true sociality in scorpion ants was ghosts. To prove it was very simple, just rush into the gym and know the result.
In addition to ghosts, there is another possible source of eusocial characteristics: the reptile group has established a correlation with Xiaoqiang due to ghosts, and cockroaches and eusocial termites actually belong to the order Blattida, and their genetic relationship is not far away, so towards There seems to be no problem with true social evolution.
However, rushing into the gymnasium is obviously not something that can be done now. We are not able to deal with the siege and wheel battles of the mantis monsters in the open area now. Let's wait until the southward migration operation begins to see the situation at that time.
Staring at the mutant Xiaoqiang who was too scared to approach due to the light of the fire, Wang Qi decided to stop the experiment and stood up to kill them all.
Make sure no mutant eggs are left to cause trouble to the survivors, throw the two adults and the uneaten ghosts into the fire, and guard the fire to add fuel until they carbonize.
Back at the base, Elena and Shana are in the kitchen.
Wang Qi told what he found.
"The scorpion ant is Xiao Qiang... Brick became a ghost after eating it."
Elena's eyes widened as she thought of something, and her mouth gradually opened: "So, there was actually a ghost in the first year?"
Wang Qi nodded: "Maybe sooner."
"how so……"
Elena has seen many things in her life, but this news was still enough to shock her, and even gave her a sense of sadness: If there were ghosts at that time, people had been kept hidden for at least five years, during which time no one knew how many people had been possessed by ghosts. Harmful.
Of course, the survivors themselves are not good people. They cause many more deaths than ghosts.
Wang Qi interrupted her mood: "I think we will encounter more mutants similar to scorpion ants on the way south, so preparations must be adjusted."
Having seen the world after all, Elena quickly put aside her useless emotions and calmed down: "Tell me your plan."
Wang Qi glanced at Shana. Her eyes were clean and she had no negative emotions. She seemed to dare to fight no matter what the enemy was. Although she was a little stunned, she was pretty good.
"We need an RV that can protect non-combatants."
He had wanted to build an RV a while ago, but that was just to gain some popularity. Now it had to be functional and turn into a real mobile camp.
"RV?" Getting an RV in the world before us? I dare not think about it.
"Yes, I plan to capture a few bandits to pull the cart... Of course I will also give them blessings. If they perform well enough, I can consider turning into security personnel next year."
Elena's thoughts turned from the difficulties of moving south to the bandits: "There are more than a few bandits. What are you going to do with the rest?"
"Kill the chief culprit and reform through labor the accomplices, who are the tow truck workers, and the others will reorganize into a deserter team."
"Why not kill them all?" Elena asked a strange question.
Wang Qi asked back: "If we kill them all, won't new bandits be born?"
Elena's face seemed to be shining. She stood up and covered her belly with her hands to salute Wang Qi: "Praise the divinity. I believe that under your leadership, we will live a better life."
Wang Qi didn't respond. He didn't have much confidence and didn't know what she thought.
After he learned about the bandits from Valia, he considered how to deal with them. They might be called bandits by the survivors. They did a lot of outrageous things, but in fact, killing them or not would not change the fundamental environment of the wasteland. .
It is pure law of the jungle, lacking any top-down mechanism of violence, and the evolution of a group that makes a living by exploiting others is inevitable.
Assuming that the bandits' group strength level is five and they are all killed, wouldn't a group with strength level four take their place? If everyone is killed again, the teams at strength level 3 will sooner or later decide against each other and return to the status quo.
However, the weaker ones probably have no chance to participate in the game. When the group is weakened to a certain extent, the demon hunters wandering nearby can directly wash away the remaining survivors, and even hunting nearby will trap people to death.
Unless Wang Qi spends his whole life hanging out with hundreds of deserted people in the northern suburbs, he becomes a saint and just stares at these people and kills them.
But can killing solve the problem?
Regardless of how many times the population of the wasteland can withstand "enforcement", how many bandits have been killed in the past dynasties? If you can't kill them all in one crop, new ones will appear in other places.
In the final analysis, it is productivity and distribution that cause trouble. If the basic living environment does not change, bandits will never be eliminated... No, even if there are more supplies, bandits with more "pursuance" will be born. After all, the threshold for robbery is much lower than that of governance. .
Looking back on my previous life, aren't so-called land merchants considered bandits? The essence is the same, they all control the lifetime wealth of the bottom, the only difference is that they don't directly kill people. As for the so-called commodity trading attributes, wouldn’t the bandits demolish all the “lambs”’ houses? Maybe we have to help with repairs in order to preserve long-term profits.
In short, under the current living environment, bandits are bound to appear, and even for their own benefit, they will more or less perform certain public service duties, such as driving away and hunting those who have been wandering nearby for a long time and affect the deserters' collection of food. magic.
With this understanding, Wang Qi still insists on using the head of the culprit. The only reason is to give his successor a warning. I hope that the new generation of bandits can soften their methods and put themselves more into the role of rulers.
If the scattered areas can be reorganized into a village, it will hopefully take a few years to slightly increase productivity before the phenomenon of cannibalism can be put an end to.
It may not be useful, and there are many difficulties in reorganizing the village, but as long as Wang Qi does not want to be tied here for the rest of his life, there is only so much he can do.
Going to the south to explore answers to certain questions may be of greater significance to the humans in this world. If there is no hope there, it would not be too late to come back to treat them.
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