"Every Enino born in the Pasu clan will be on the chopping block before the age of nineteen. Before that, their only responsibility is to raise themselves."
Korak's words silenced everyone present, especially the girl who lamented the kindness of the Enino people before. She covered her mouth and rushed out of the tactical workstation. There was a sound of retching outside.
Only Cain leaned forward with his hands on the edge of the table, staring at the holographic image with interest.
In the picture, a woman with a face full of joy quickly dismembered the "Pasu" man on the stone slab, then picked up a handful of toothed stone flakes and sawed the skull with a groan.
"But this guy looks to be at least thirty years old," Cain pointed at the face that was about to be sawed in half.
"The oxygen-rich environment accelerates the aging of the Enino people," Korak shook his head. "They can mature at the age of twelve. Members of the Pasu clan will continue to give birth between the ages of twelve and nineteen, providing a good foundation for the entire The tribe provides animal protein.”
"If they treat mammals well, why would they eat the same kind?" Andrea turned her face sideways, unable to bear to look at the bloody scene.
"The pronunciation of 'Pasu' is similar to 'blasphemer' in the beliefs of the Enino people. Once a member of another clan offends the nobility or violates the occupational restrictions of the clan to which he belongs, he will be publicly tried by the council with religious ceremonies and He is executed after declaring that he has become a 'Pasu', and in daily life, Enino people will also call each other a 'Pasu' when they quarrel."
Winter, winter, winter!
After finishing processing the head, Enino "The Butcher" began to use stones to smash the bones with the meat removed into pieces.
Li Liang stared at the group of children in the video fighting for flesh and bone scraps, and asked casually: "Have you ever had any contact with the council?"
"Yes, one of the first four mixed reconnaissance companies entered the territory of the Enino people. As a result..."
The scene switched to somewhere on the edge of the jungle. A row of sharpened wooden sticks were stuck on the beach. On each stick was a "corpse" of an android. Some of the androids' central nervous cores were not damaged and their muscle tissue was still there. Twitching, eyes blinking.
Although these mass-produced low-level bionic soldiers do not have pain settings, they have human faces after all. Seeing them being treated like this, the faces of everyone present were ugly.
"At that time, all the elf messengers had not evacuated. I ordered the reconnaissance company not to fight back after being attacked," Korak said calmly.
Li Liang nodded silently.
Not long after the advance army set off, the scandal of the annihilation of civilization when the Terranza Alliance took over the spiritual core mine was exposed. That period was a "sensitive period". For this reason, he specifically asked the four advance armies to exercise restraint and avoid falling into "trouble." , Colak strictly carried out this order.
"continue."
"Yes, the first negotiation failed. In order to clarify the reason why the council was against us, on May 7, after all the goblins had evacuated, our department sent a ground special force team and secretly arrested four Enino people. The Ministry of Science Language experts communicated with them simply through pictures and gestures, referring to the Enino language features they mastered at the time."
The image on the desktop showed three special symbols and the "totems" each of the eight clans believed in.
"In the religious beliefs of the El Niño civilization, the world where the El Niño people were born has three gods, the Great Mother Goddess, the Light God and 'Pasu'. Among them, Pasu is the daughter of the Great Mother Goddess and the Light God. After creating the world with the God of Light, he used the souls of seven sacred animals to shape seven kinds of wise and long-lived Enino people, that is, seven clans.
Later, Pasu secretly created the Pasu clan in his own image, which offended the Great Mother Goddess. So the Great Mother Goddess imprisoned Pasu and called her a blasphemer. She also vented her anger on the other seven clans and deprived them of their souls. Tell them that only by constantly killing and devouring the Passu people can they atone for their sins.
In the eyes of the Enino people, androids who look like humans but have mechanical structures inside have no souls and are also Pasu, so they must be executed. "
After listening to this religious myth, Li Liang wondered: "How is 'soul' translated?"
Korak was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the subordinates beside him.
"Father God," the language expert said with fear: "That's it. The communication method we use is to start with basic concepts to unify our cognition, such as yes, no, inside, outside, left, right, people, things, etc. , through the combination of these basic concepts to decipher the Enino language, when referring to 'Sadaipanasu', the Enino people expressed 'person, interior, object, air, light,' by selecting pictures and adding gestures. Floating', so we speculated that the meaning of 'Sadaipanasu' should be similar to the soul."
"soul……"
Li Liang felt that this word was a bit strange in that story, but it was not easy to communicate to this extent in a short period of time.
"Kolak," Cain raised his brows, "Where are the four Eninos? Bring them here and take a look."
"Yes," Korak waved to another subordinate.
While waiting, the expedition fleet commander Li Sen asked about the geographical environment on the other side of the Spiritual Gate and the current military deployment of the advance army on the planet Enino. Korak gave a detailed report.
When he heard that the advance army had deployed biological and chemical weapons near the islands where the Enino people lived, and could target all the Enino people within three hours, Li Liang's inner evaluation of Colac was even higher.
Maintaining the stability of the spiritual core mine sometimes requires such an iron-fisted commander. However, the goblins have withdrawn cleanly on the surface, and they may have left some "magic eyes" quietly, so there is no need to exterminate the Enino people for the time being.
Half an hour later.
A blindfolded and respirator-wearing Enino man was escorted into the tactical workstation.
This is a typical member of the 'Shaloum' clan, nearly two meters tall, muscular, with unusually broad hands and feet. The clan totem is painted on his bare upper body with some kind of red mud.
The oxygen content of the air inside the human spacecraft is too low for the Enino. He can only wear a respirator. Every time he exhales, he always makes a hissing sound. Judging from the frequency of the sound, his breathing is extremely slow. , it takes about five minutes to exhale.
"Why is there only one?" Cain glanced outside the door.
Korak leaned forward and said: "Sorry, General, this man has the best understanding ability among the four Eninos, so we kept him and dissected the other three."
"..."
Li Liang was silent for a moment and asked softly: "What did you find?"
A biological expert from the advance army came forward to answer: "Currently it is found that the structure of some of their organs is more reasonable than that of humans, such as their eyes, their retinas are behind the photoreceptor cells, and they have excellent night vision, and their lungs, their lungs are small. , but there are two air sacs responsible for storing air, and oxygen flows through the lungs during exhalation and inhalation..."
To sum up the introduction, the ten-year-old Enino is very suitable for the battlefield.
After hearing this, Li Liang said: "Take off his blindfold."
The moment he saw the light again, the tall Enino man shrank his head, looked around in confusion, then lowered his head and stared straight ahead.
Li Liang frowned and found that the savage was looking at him, and his eyes were very strange. He was neither angry nor afraid, but...a little surprised?
Sudden.
The Enino man turned to look at the language expert in the crowd and uttered a word.
Even though his voice sounded a little slurred through the respirator, everyone present immediately recognized that what he was talking about was...'Sadaipanasu'.
soul?
This is interesting.
Li Liang smiled and lowered his head to straighten his cuffs.
"Let's go and visit the Enino people's hometown."
