In the history museum, Yun Ming and Bai Fei were chatting with the paper man tour guide. It was said to be chatting, but in fact only Yun Ming was talking to the commentator. Bai Fei was playing adventure mode for the first time, so Yun Ming was given the task of chatting with NPCs.
The paper guide was very talkative: "Where are you two travelers from?"
"It's from the Earth." Yun Ming replied.
"It's really far away. The two guests from Earth must not know much about the history of our Origami Planet. I will introduce it to you in detail below."
"Appreciate further details."
"The Origami Planet we live on is a planet made of paper, and we paper humans are the only intelligent race on the planet."
"The Papermen are a new young race that have probably lived on Origami Planet for about three thousand years."
"Only three thousand years?" Yun Ming thought for a while: "Then your evolution is really too fast."
From getting off the car to entering the history museum, Yun Ming has been observing his surroundings. He concluded that this origami planet was a "paper" version of the earth he once lived in. However, humans originated in Africa between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, and it took the paper hominins three thousand years to reach the level of the current earth. This speed is incredible.
"We paper humans and humans on earth are not in the same evolutionary direction." The commentator made a smile on her paper face (actually, she opened her paper mouth wider): "The industrial revolution required for the progress of human society, we Just use your hands and imagination.”
"Oh..." Yun Ming said thoughtfully: "Do you rely on origami?"
"This gentleman is right." The commentator nodded: "This place itself is a desolate planet. We, the paperman family, used our own hands to create this vibrant world."
"As for our origins, it is now generally accepted that three thousand years ago, a creature from a higher latitude used paper readily available on the planet as raw materials to create our family of paper people. We are not a race that evolved over a long period of time. The paper people have had the wisdom of modern people since their birth. We paper people call the high-ranking being who created the paper people God, or the Creator."
"This sounds like an alien version of Nuwa creating humans. Can this statement be accepted?" Bai Fei expressed her confusion to Yun Ming in a whisper.
Yun Ming also responded at a volume that could not be heard by the commentator: "Maybe this is the world view of this virtual universe, with gods and goddesses."
The paper man commentator also told the development history of the paper man family. This process is similar to ancient Chinese history, from slave society to feudal society and finally into modern times. Yun Ming guessed that the reason why the paper people only took three thousand years to travel through five thousand years of China was due to the physiological characteristics of the paper people.
Through the commentator's explanation, Yun Ming obtained some information about the paper people: First of all, the paper people do not need to eat, drink or sleep, so there is no conflict between people and the productivity of the land. Secondly, the life span of paper people is relatively short. Although they do not suffer from birth, old age, illness or death, wind, rain, sun and sun will cause harm to the paper people's bodies.
But "creating a human" is very easy, just use local materials and fold paper. Therefore, although the paper man clan has a high mortality rate, its population has been increasing.
The paper man commentator also focused on several paper man emperors who appeared in the past three thousand years who were ambitious, talented, clever, and skillful. After listening to it, Yun Ming felt that these origami geniuses were to the paper people what Watt, Faraday, and Einstein were to humans.
These three are the representatives of mankind's three industrial revolutions. The first time: Watt - the inventor of the improved steam engine, which laid the direction of the industrial age; the second time: Faraday - the discoverer of the electromagnetic induction phenomenon, which laid the direction of the electrical age; the third time: Einstein - the theory of relativity and The proposer of the mass-energy theorem established the direction of the microscopic world and the atomic energy era.
The magical racial attributes of the paper people mean that they don't need to do any scientific research, they can just use their brains to fold paper into new patterns. For example, "Zhi Aotian" is the current patriarch of the Paperman Clan and the current king of the Paperman Kingdom. The reason why he was elected as the patriarch and king is that he folded a spaceship.
By the way, the great origami masters in the history of the paper people also had dual roles. In chronological order, the things they folded are: paper swords, paper guns, paper cannons and paper tanks.
The social ideology of the Papermen is very interesting. As mentioned above, paper people do not eat, drink or sleep, so they do not produce. The only pressure for survival is to build a house to shelter from the wind and rain. In this kind of life without desires, it is not surprising that the paper humans developed into a utopian country.
The king of the Paper Man Country also serves as the clan leader and is elected by the people. Because the paper man cannot give birth and does not need to inherit the throne, every king will hold a nationwide election for a new king when he has a premonition that his time is running out. The only requirement for a candidate for the king is that his origami skills must be high. Let's take Zhi Aotian as an example. People's evaluation of him is that his origami talent is comparable to or even better than that of the origami giants in history.
When Bai Fei heard this, she covered her mouth and laughed secretly. The worldview of this virtual universe was both funny and serious, making her laugh.
"It's strange." Yun Ming listened for a long time and didn't hear anything about the war, but the mission of the game was indeed [End the Origami World War and restore peace]. Yun Ming decided to take the initiative to speak:
"Excuse me, have you paper humans always been peaceful?"
The paper commentator nodded: "Yes, we have never had a war in three thousand years, whether it was internal or external."
"Aren't there even small-scale conflicts?" Yun Ming refused to give up.
"Well... if you put it that way, it does exist." The commentator remembered: "In the east of the Paper Man Country, there lives a kind of monster that looks like an ape and likes to rob and plunder."
"They come from aliens and are alien species, so they are not made of paper. Because they are covered in black mud and stand like humans, we call them clay figures."
"When the paper men were born, there were no such figures on the Origami Planet. More than two thousand years ago, the clay men slowly appeared in the territory of the paper man tribe, destroying houses and attacking tribesmen."
"The relationship between the paper people and the clay people has been estranged since then, and they have been fighting for more than two thousand years, and they continue to this day. At the border of the paper country, the government often organizes hunting teams to eliminate the clay people."
Yun Ming was puzzled: "Hunting team? Isn't it an army?"
"What's the point of using an army to kill clay figures?" The paper man's mouth widened even further: "They are just a bunch of annoying animals."
"Oh, that's it." Yun Ming suddenly became interested in the clay figurine and asked for more details, but the paper figurine commentator couldn't answer any questions.
"Thank you, let's walk around for a while." Seeing that he really couldn't find anything, Yun Ming thanked the guide and took Bai Fei to wander around the exhibition hall.
"Yun, judging from the information we have received so far, does the mission of the game require us to help the paper man clan and eliminate the clay men?" Bai Fei asked.
"That should be the case. The Paper Man Country has been at peace for thousands of years, and the only foreign enemy is the clay man."
"Then how can we help? Go to the border frontline and fight in person?"
Yun Ming couldn't laugh or cry: "How is it possible, we are just two ordinary people now, how can we fight with the clay men? This mission should test the players' resourcefulness. We have come up with a method so that the paper men can annihilate the clay men in one fell swoop."
"Oh, that's it." Bai Fei suddenly realized: "But let's not talk about how we came up with how to annihilate the clay men. Even if we really thought about it, there is no way to tell the king of the Paper Man Kingdom to implement it."
"The system of "Conflict for Hegemony" will not have such loopholes," Yun Ming came to the corner of the exhibition hall, where a paper billboard was erected.
"The third National Youth Origami Contest...the winner...the king personally awards the award?" Bai Fei read out the advertisement on the sign.
In order to pursue realism, the game producers even wrote the advertisements in incomprehensible paper human characters, but the system has a built-in translation function, so players can understand it. The same goes for communicating with alien NPCs in the game.
"I noticed it just now when the commentator led us to explain, but I didn't think much about it before." Yun Ming pointed to Zhi Aotian's mugshot on the advertisement: "This guy should be the king, right?"
Bai Fei commented: "Although I have accepted the world's curious world view, it is still hard to believe that the king looks like this."
The ad showed David's face.
David, about 1107 BC - about 1037 BC, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel, the prototype of the marble sculpture "David" created by Michelangelo. Zhi Aotian’s face is exactly the same as the face of the sculpture “David” that we know well.
"This Youth Origami Contest is obviously prepared by the system for players. You see, it says that foreigners and tourists can also participate; there is no need to register yet, just go to a place called Sage Square when the competition date comes."
"What's the date of the match?"
"Hmm...Windmill Moon and Green Grass Day...are different from the Earth's calendar, go and ask."
A few minutes later, Yun Ming and Bai Fei trotted out of the history museum.
"I knew that according to the system's evildoers, the windmill, the moon, the green grass, the sun, and the eight achievements are today!"
"Okay, okay," Bai Fei held up the hem of her gorgeous dress: "Now I know, I will never wear this set of skins again next time I play adventure mode!"
The two asked the staff in the hall and learned that the game was today and would start in half an hour. Fortunately, the staff told the two that there was a direct bus to Sage Square at the bus stop in front of the museum.
Yun Ming and Bai Fei were lucky. As soon as they arrived at the station, the bus came. As I said above, Paperman is a utopian country, so there is no currency and public transportation is free. Yun Ming and Bai Fei just got in the car.
"Well, the time should be just enough to catch up with the last few minutes of the competition." Yun Ming counted the number of stops between the History Museum and Sage Square.
Bai Fei wiped her clothes. She wanted to mention the ancient costume, but it was too long and affected the event: "What if we didn't catch the car, missed the game, or simply didn't see the advertisement? What would happen?"
"Then the system will re-arrange the opportunities for us to contact the king. Maybe he will suddenly have a whim and pay a private visit or something, and we will happen to meet him."
"However, it is best to follow the plot in adventure mode. If you are found to have deliberately violated the mission content, you will be warned."
"That's it. Let's go to the origami competition now. How do you do origami? Let me declare in advance that I can fold an airplane. I can't rely on you." Bai Fei revealed her family background.
"I'm not good at origami either." Yun Ming also said frankly: "But we don't necessarily have to get a ranking. The king will come to the scene to present the awards in person, and we just need to find opportunities to get close as foreign players."
"It seems like this is the only way."
In fact, Yun Ming had something to say:
"If that thing is broken, winning the championship should be a sure thing, right?"
