Chapter 677 Resonance of group consciousness! The plasticity of life!
Locke finally chose not to intervene. For a possessor of high magic pressure and high psychic abilities like him, it couldn't be easier to prevent the two natives in front of him who had almost degraded from civilization to cavemen to find themselves.
He followed the two of them and watched as they entered a place full of natural caves, where the remaining dune people lived.
According to the information Locke had read before, the population of Dune Civilization at its peak was approximately 16 billion. After all, the original area of the entire Dune Plane was more than three times its current size.
It was just that it was too close to the Sun Plane before, causing many areas on the edge of the plane to be swallowed up by the Sun Plane.
In fact, this situation is very similar to what Locke saw before in the Age of Stars. It was just a reduced scene of the wizarding world at that time. The wizarding world at that time also seemed to be severely damaged due to certain things that happened in the [Era of Empire].
It is just the heritage and foundation of the wizarding world, and cannot be compared with the Dune plane.
So, the Wizarding World still has a chance to start over, and the health bar of the Dune Plane is directly captured and emptied by the gravity of the Sun Plane. Over the years, solar storms have evaporated at least two-thirds of its area.
The current Dune Plane is essentially just the core area of the original Dune Plane. The demiplanes, small-scale plane worlds, and edge areas of the plane that were originally attached to the Dune Plane's crystal wall system have all been sucked into the Sun Plane.
The current Sand Dune plane is a main material world of the original plane, and it is also the main material world of the core area.
Logically speaking, buried under this endless desert are the ruins of the Sand Dune people’s civilization that lasted for tens of thousands of years!
I saw that the two Dunemen who were first met by Locke, the one who had eaten cold fish and was infected with the residual poison of heavy element particles in his body, had collapsed on the rocky ground, his whole body swollen.
Had Locke not secretly used moonlight and used some holy spring nectar potion on him, this mortal would have died long ago, and even his body would have turned into a pool of blood.
At this time, some kind of mutation occurred in his body again, and some kind of steel bone grew out of his chest. This steel bone pierced his chest, and its shape was distorted.
Every time he took a breath, he screamed.
Locke looked at this scene and suddenly frowned. "The contamination of the heavy particles of the elemental element will only cause the blood essence to completely collapse. The mutation in his body seems to have been present in him from the beginning of his birth." There must have been some kind of abnormal change."
Locke looked at this scene and knew that the mortal would die in ten minutes, and during this time, the doctors among these primitive Dune people would not be able to treat him in time.
Wrong.
Locke shook his head. "Where will there be doctors? The civilization of the Dune People has collapsed. The Dune People here are just the descendants of a once highly developed telepathic civilization."
"Even the blood essence has changed."
Locke thought: "If I don't help them directly, this mortal will die, and the entire tribe will perish because of the sewage."
"Although ecological transformation must abide by the principle of minimal intervention. But sometimes, things are so direct. If they don't intervene directly and stop it immediately, this ecology will be destroyed in an instant. Locke is standing directly in front of them, but all the Dune people seem not to see him. This is because the magic pressure gap between the two sides is too big.
So big that it seems to exist in two dimensions.
The powerful magical pressure turned into an insurmountable barrier, making it impossible for the hearts of those Dunemen to see Locke.
This is just a third-class apprentice-level psychic magic that Locke, as a near-second-level wizard, casually used his entry-level psychic knowledge and combined with his distributed psychic abilities.
But for these Dune people, it is already a method that is like a god or a devil.
Locke thought: "Should I save them? Even if I save one, what's the use? These Dunemen will all die due to the destruction of the environment. Do I have to save more than two hundred Dunemen here?"
"According to this principle, should I save the Dunemen in the entire world." Locke's eyes became emotionless. "When I see something similar to me die miserably, I feel sad. It's not because I have a weak temperament, but because I see things of their own kind, and I feel sorry for myself."
"This is just my personal respect for life."
h "Otherwise I would not study life magic, but necromancy."
h "But I am just a wizard, not a creator or a god. Therefore, There is really no need for me to take action. "
Locke now wanted to apply the unused potion of holy spring nectar directly to the sky above the tribe to purify the pollution for them collectively, and then turn around and leave, which could be regarded as fulfilling the goodwill in his heart.
However, at this moment, Locke noticed that these dune people were actually wasting some hard-won food and pure water on a strange-looking rock.
At the same time, these Dunemen moved the distressed Duneman to the stone.
Then, these dune people used some soil on the ground to paint and paint on their faces, wasting these remaining resources, and seemed to just want to do some ritual things.
Hong the dune people, they selected ten relatively strong young men, and then gathered around the rock and began to dance strangely and shout strange syllables.
Happily, Locke had already sentenced these Dune people to death in his heart. He wanted to sprinkle the magic potion and turn around to leave, but after seeing this scene, a flash of interest flashed in his eyes. "Interesting. In this desperate situation, these Dune people are still wasting their few remaining resources and performing sacrificial rituals on an ordinary rock."
"In the ancient wizarding world, as far as I know so far, one of the oldest magics is sacrificial magic."
"At least for the Age of Stars, this is indeed the case."
"There seems to be some instinctive resonance between the act of sacrifice and intelligent life. Is this a waste of resources for psychological comfort, or is there another reason?"
When Locke saw this scene, he immediately gave up the idea of leaving, and was prepared to stay and continue to observe. At the same time, he took out a true seeing crystal from his astral ring and immediately recorded the scene at any time.
I saw those Dunemen surrounding the sick Duneman, roaring and singing joyfully, and some gave him a special plant drink and asked him to drink it.
一名中年沙丘人用心灵感应说道：「伟大的石灵，引导我们寻找到家园之地，庇护我们生存至今，引领我们进化。请伟大的石灵，让这位勇士获得跨越痛苦的进化！」
「请伟Great Stone Spirit, guide us to evolve! "
"Please Great Stone Spirit, give us the ability to survive!"
Eleven minutes later, the Dune man on the stone was so angry that he was almost dead.
Even if it is the next moment, it is not surprising to die immediately.
The ceremony for the Dune people to place their psychological hopes is still being held.
From the old man’s sacrificial words, Locke learned that this tribe was looking for rocks with a higher probability of appearing next to water sources, and used this method to find water sources, thus creating a specific rock worship.
At the same time, I don’t know when someone began to fabricate a lie, that is, this group of sand dune people had the protection of some kind of god.
· Of course the Dune people do not understand what gods are, and they naturally do not know the difference between the true gods of the heavens and the false gods of the major colonial worlds, but they do believe that they have a powerful god to protect them through their own needs.
The key point is that they not only believe that they are protected by gods, they also believe that this god has been guiding their evolution.
During the past hundreds of years, whenever they encountered a crisis of genocide, they would collectively pray to the stone spirit, and then magical things would happen.
Although the sacrifices at that time seemed to be of no use at all, the crisis of genocide would always disappear inexplicably, and some kind of plants that their tribe needed would grow around the stones.
It is as if...the stone spirit really exists.
At the same time, the Dune people's bloodline essence has indeed undergone specific changes. This phenomenon of worshiping stone spirits, causing their own bloodline essence to undergo specific changes, in their own sacrificial language, seems to be the reason that allows their civilization to continue to this day.
From the mouths of the old Dune people, Locke also knew that the number of this Dune people tribe has been declining over the years.
On the one hand, the environment continues to deteriorate, and on the other hand, this evolution seems to be entering some kind of dead end. Recently, the probability of death of newborn babies is getting higher and higher.
And wizard Zalan Bailey's plan to transform the Dune plane was the final blow to the only remaining civilization of the Dune people.
Loke frowned. "Stone spirit?"
He walked directly to the rock in front of many Dune people, touched his palm on it, and carefully felt whether there was magic pressure, a special magic tide, or a special spiritual fluctuation.
But... nothing.
This is just an ordinary rock.
Locke looked at the bloated Dune Man lying on the rock. The special heavy particle pollution of the elemental element, although only a little bit, was rapidly destroying the man's blood essence. In the end, he would turn into a pool of pus and blood and lose his life.
Originally, Locke wanted to prevent this bad luck from happening to him. Anyway, for him, it was just a matter of convenience.
This scene makes you feel uncomfortable, so your mood is the most important, and you must naturally prevent this scene from appearing in front of you.
But at this moment, he frowned. "I estimated that he only had ten minutes to live, but it's almost thirteen minutes now. This guy has never died?"
"Looks like he's going to die soon."
Lock looked puzzled and turned to look at the group of Sand Dune people who were performing sacrifices. "No. This does not have any magic fluctuations, nor any special spiritual fluctuations. There should be no supernatural power."
"Is it really useful?!"
Locke turned around with a confused look on his face. He looked at the Dune Man lying on the rock, and saw that his life was like a residual lamp, which was gradually dimming.
"Did I make a mistake in my calculation? No, I estimated the value based on his remaining spirituality. I calculated based on the distance. As a potion master close to the second level, I would be remiss if I still failed to calculate the life and death of a mortal."
"Even if the Dune people have special resistance to the heavy particles of the elemental element, it is impossible for them to persist for thirteen minutes without dying. Moreover, the Dune people are a low magic talent race. Except for the spiritual school magic talent, which is good, the other magic talents are a mess, and there is a serious problem of partial and low magic resistance."
Locke thought: "Taking all the data into account, so Therefore, I can think that this ritual is effective. In other words, during this ritual, something that this person took has an effect. "
"If I had intervened directly before, it would have prevented this ritual from happening. If I was in a bad mood, it would be normal to just ignore these two people."
"Then I wouldn't be able to see this scene."
"If I hadn't estimated this man's life, I wouldn't have realized that this realization could extend his life by about four minutes. I would only have thought that this was a useless ceremony, and that the native died in ignorance and ignorance. But I just followed, forget it, and realized that his life had been extended in some way."
Locke's eyes showed strong interest. "An unknown phenomenon, to me, is a hard-won treasure."
"Behind the unknown phenomenon, there must be some undiscovered principle and mechanism of action, or at least I have not read about it, and it is still a niche and cutting-edge research."
"No matter which one it is, I've made a lot of money."
Locke realized that the Dune Man in front of him was about to die, and he frowned immediately. If he died, he would have to stop observing.
Next time, you may have to wait for a while to see her again, and you will have to be tested every day.
Even, if necessary, he needs to call his two students, Williams and Gregor, to come over and monitor them every day, and even create an artificial occasion to force these natives to hold the ceremony again.
Furthermore, I am not sure whether this phenomenon occurs by chance or not. It occurs with probability.
Hence, the best way is to prevent the death of the native in front of him.
Locke guided the moonlight and introduced more of the holy spring nectar potion into the body of this native. At the same time, he directly opened a bottle of Bear Spirit Green Gall Potion and injected the potion into his body through the moonlight to increase his magic resistance.
The Holy Spring Nectar potion increases his basic energy, and the Xiongling Cudan potion increases his magic resistance.
The combination of this two-pronged approach, coupled with the unknown power generated by the ritual, caused the dune man's complexion to improve and his body to return to normal.
Of course, this is just a tendency.
Because Locke did not directly rescue him, and because the soul of a mortal does not have a magic pressure structure and is more fragile than a piece of tofu, Locke could not drug him too hard, so he was still half-dead.
If he were an ordinary first-level magician, he might not be able to save him.
After all, taking the potion itself will increase a certain kind of magical pollution.
Mortal souls are so fragile. If he drinks a potion with a slightly stronger potion, he will die immediately.
"According to my plan, the medicine shouldn't be that effective." Locke looked at this mortal. "The two potions I gave him were all products that I diluted tens of thousands of times with moonlight, so I dared to use them on him. Otherwise, he would be poisoned by my potion first."
At this time, the sand dune man on the rock had recovered a certain ability to speak, and he said happily: "Shi Ling Appearance... it guided me to evolve! "
"Look at my chest! You didn't see me, my deformed bones began to become normal. I evolved, I evolved..."
The people in the Dune were so surprised that they danced louder and sang louder.
"Evolved, he evolved! The Stone Spirit has been guiding us to evolve!"
"The Stone Spirit has given us everything that allows us to evolve!"
Locke suddenly thought of something. "The Dune people have always had a stone worship that was born out of the purpose of searching for water, and there has also been some kind of evolutionary worship that is bound to the stone."
"They think evolution can help them solve their current dilemma. Could it be that they think, The Dune Man lying on this rock is undergoing some kind of evolution? "
"Because of belief, they are really accelerated in evolution?"
Locke looked at the deformed bones in the chest of the Dune Man on the rock. "This kind of steel frame was probably produced to cope with extreme drought and to retain water."
"I have read the information about the Dune People, and the evolutionary speed of the Dune People is indeed very abnormal."
"Life science must dare to put forward hypotheses, so that it can break through the boundaries of my cognition." Locke thought: "Although it is outrageous to think like this, I can indeed put forward a hypothesis-the Dune People believe that the stone spirit helps them evolve, and obtains the energy and ability of evolution from the stone spirit. Therefore, their evolutionary speed accelerated accordingly. "
"The rituals of the Dune people accelerated their own evolution."
"Some kind of group consciousness resonance may accelerate a certain evolutionary direction of organisms."
Locke looked at the Dune man on the rock and realized that the other person was about to die, and suddenly frowned. "In this case, I will not allow you to die."
He took out the last bottle of lucky potion he had prepared from the astral ring, and then used moonlight to drive it into the body of this mortal.
Lucky potions are rare. After taking them, you don't need to withstand huge magical pressure and have little load on the soul.
Even ordinary people only need to dilute it ten times to drink it safely.
Using this mechanism, you can use the lucky potion to be diluted less frequently to maintain its potion potency to the greatest extent to protect the life of this mortal.
The luck that Locke had gathered while refining the lucky potion was now all favoring this mortal, and guiding him in the direction that was best for him.
This can indirectly lead him to immortality.
The most important thing is that this will not destroy the function of the ritual itself. Locke is only strengthening this function rather than completely distorting it.
This will not affect your own observation.
At this time, a full moon appeared over the stone.
The people in the Dune were stunned for a moment, and then they seemed to think that this was the appearance of the stone spirit, and called the moon the Moon God.
Locke felt some kind of cognitive power coming together.
"This feeling...the realm of the kingdom? I understand. It is impossible for normal organisms to gather group consciousness. It is like a tree without roots and a tree without water."
“But the Dune people are a naturally telepathic race, possessing a high talent for psychic school magic. Each of them, even children, can do telepathy for a short period of time.”
Different from the huge distributed psychic network built by Locke based on mature spell models, the telepathy of these Dune people is like two people facing each other with a walkie-talkie.
As long as the distance is a little farther and the environment is a little more complicated, assimilation will not be possible.
But only this level of telepathy is enough...
Their knowledge of wanting to live rests on the worship of God, thus gaining an idea that they can definitely defeat the real environment, and this idea disappears and appears in an instant.
But because of the existence of the telepathic field of the people in the Dunes, it has existed for a long time and turned into a resonance of some kind of group consciousness for thousands of years.
This special group consciousness reflects the collective ideal of the entire Dune people civilization, and this ideal is guiding this group of Dune people to accelerate their evolution and respond to this crisis.
After Locke realized this, he immediately thought: "The researchers in Group 2, as well as the researchers from other wizarding colleges, probably did not realize this."
"There are many reasons. Because the Dune People did survive temporarily because of some special underground structures in the Dune Plane, such as underground glaciers."
"This so-called hypothesis of accelerated evolution of collective collective consciousness resonance, even if it really exists, is just the icing on the cake, not the reason for their real survival. Therefore, it should be really difficult for other researchers to detect it if they don't observe carefully." Now I have realized why the Dune People can survive. "
"It is really difficult to think about it further."
Locke was able to calculate the normal survival time of this native due to the sewage pollution caused by wizard Zalan Bailey by chance, and realized that this native lived three minutes longer."
He was thinking about what allowed this native to live for three more minutes, so he thought of this all the way.
Thinking about it carefully, Locke would even have to thank the wizard Zaran Bailey, because if it weren't for his heavy element particle sewage pollution, he wouldn't have to calculate the death time of an indigenous person.
If this is the case, even if I saw this ceremony, it would be difficult for me to realize the abnormality of the death time of an aboriginal in this life-and-death crisis.
h "The Dune people are extremely talented, and in order to survive, they may have unconsciously created something that develops in the direction of the kingdom. Of course, it must be a different thing."
h "After all, they are both cars, and bicycles and cars are completely two different things. But they are indeed in a similar direction."
“If that’s the case, then I should really thank Zaran Bailey.” Locke had a strange expression. "Let me just say, he is not my enemy."
hh "However, if this is the case, my Moon Magic Mirror should be able to reflect this resonance of group consciousness and then amplify this effect. If it can amplify, evolution can be further accelerated, and then I can see this change more clearly and prove my hypothesis." "I have not read similar documents, and of course I may have too little knowledge. But at least this is very cutting-edge and rare research."
"If I can incorporate it into my great magic..."
"I'll give it a try, success or failure depends on this!"
(End of this chapter)