Mystery makes me strong

In the face of natural disasters, should we protect the core cities or these small border cities?

Any rational person would choose Baoda City.

As long as you go back and forth a few times, even with the strength of modern organizations, you will find that small city-states are just a drag.

So they will give up, or choose to only charge protection fees and not provide protection services. They will only promise not to hit you.

They don't care if others hit you.

When Wen Rensheng saw this, he understood that this was equivalent to the future generations.

In later generations, everyone began to use financial means to obtain benefits.

Seldom go directly to occupy territory.

Directly occupying territory will also have to bear the welfare of those people, regardless of the fact that it will easily cause rumors and pressure.

Might as well just use financial scraping.

Most people can’t understand it, and those who do understand won’t say much.

There is no problem.

Ni Heng quickly understood this.

Then he began to wonder again.

Asked the captured general: "Then why don't the gods take care of these small towns?"

"Since the great city is protected by the Son of God, and there will be many sons of God, but the great city is limited, there will always be sons who cannot get a share of the great city, right?"

He was right.

In fact, he learned that there are only more than a dozen big cities.

Some city-states have only one, and some have two.

"It's simple. Small city-states are poor." The general also wanted to live a little longer, "because building a temple is very expensive."

“It will take decades to build.”

“And even after building it, they couldn’t even maintain the temple.”

"Only through temples can the Son of God communicate with God, organize sacrifices, and obtain divine power."

Hearing this, you are a modern person after all.

I read many novels.

He keenly guessed that the temple was the key!

Sacrifice should be related to faith. The five key elements of the Son of God, the temple, faith, gods, and divine power form a closed loop.

The son of God is the anchor of the god’s bloodline in this world. The temple is the place where the god is in this world. He organizes the people and generates faith. After the god extracts the divine power, he shares it with the son of god!

To put it bluntly, it is still a business.

When he realized this, Wen Rensheng also laughed.

This is the benefit of modern people.

There is a lot of information and a big imagination. They could guess the truths that the ancients could not imagine or dare not think about with just one or two clues.

Of course you know that this is just a guess and needs evidence to prove it.

Otherwise, it is just your own fantasy and cannot be used directly.

Applying speculations and fantasies directly to reality is courting death.

"Then when you attack other big city-states, aren't you afraid of offending the gods?" You Heng then asked the fundamental question.

The captured general showed fear on his face, and then whispered: "Of course I am afraid."

"But we are attacking a city that is hostile to God."

"And there is an agreement between the gods that they will not punish us directly, but those who dare to blaspheme the gods will definitely be marked with death."

"He will always die by some coincidence."

"For example, there was a hungry peasant king who was the son of a certain god in the Golden Age. He was disgusted by a god because he often liked to eat the hearts of farmers, so he declared that he would be stuck to death by fish bones while eating fish."

"But his father doted on him and forbade him to eat fish."

The story told by the general immediately attracted your attention.

Wen Rensheng also found it interesting.

"However, one day, his father went to war with the Lord God. Without his father's attention, someone deliberately made a plate of delicious grilled fish."

"He couldn't help but eat it, and as expected, the fish bone got stuck in his throat. Then the tiny fish bone pierced the throat of the son of God who had killed hundreds of elites in a row, causing him to suffocate to death."

Ni Heng knew that the fishbone should have pierced the major blood vessels and then pierced the trachea.

Blood flows into the trachea and into the lungs, where it can cause suffocation in a short time.

In modern times, the first aid time is only 5 minutes.

Not to mention this era.

"Isn't there any magical healing power?" Ni Heng asked again.

"Yes, but the high priest in charge of the sacrifice also went out to pray to the gods that day and he won."

"They also went to find sacrifices from other city-states, but before they arrived, they announced that he had returned to his father's arms."

"That's it." Ni Heng understood.

The gods relied on prophecies to easily kill the Son of God.

There is no battle between gods and gods in the human world.

Nor does divine punishment come directly.

The so-called "divine punishment" is probably a natural disaster predicted by the gods.

Let natural disasters destroy cities.

this is very simple.

Earthquakes, floods and even fires can easily destroy current city-states.

This is also the reason why those people did not dare to take action against him after he showed great power before.

It seems that if you want to kill the Son of God, you can only rely on God’s prophecy.

If someone kills someone, his father or mother is qualified to take revenge.

A natural disaster was predicted to destroy that city-state.

Of course prophecies can also be countered.

Just like the previous one, if his father kept watching him and not letting him eat fish, he might die of old age.

The same is true for natural disasters.

As long as there is a stronger divine protection, it can be avoided.

All in all, this is the city-state era with the background of Greek mythology.

Mortals don't have a stage to perform on, they just provide food, cattle, sheep and faith.

The real stage is prepared for the Son of God, who is the director, screenwriter, and photographer behind the scenes.

He asked the general again: "What is the benefit of conquering the big city?"

The general suddenly showed a look of yearning.

"The first thing is to break down their temple. You can get huge divine favor."

"You will even be chosen by the gods and then be favored by the gods..."

Hearing this, you felt a chill.

He doesn't think that all gods are goddesses.

"Then he can become a divine warrior and have a status similar to that of a son of God."

"You can plunder the divine power they accumulated in the temple."

"These divine powers can transform ordinary people into as powerful as a son of God like you, but there is a time limit."

You Heng nodded, strength is the best way to get ahead in this era.

No wonder he said this was the biggest benefit.

"A small town cannot maintain its temple and accumulate divine power."

"The temple must reach a certain scale before it can gather divine power."

After hearing this, Mi Heng suddenly realized that if you want to change the whole world, you must make the world feel pain!

Let the people in the big city-states also understand that having gods does not mean they can do whatever they want!

He will become a god!

A true, just God with the strongest power!

Moreover, he wanted to make everyone useful.

It doesn’t take that much trouble to accumulate divine power.

Don't let big city-states monopolize the way to obtain divine power.

He wanted to make it easy for everyone to gather divine power.

"I want to become a god!"

"I want you people from the big city, and all the sons of God, to understand the suffering of the common people!"

Hearing this, Wen Rensheng felt a bit like a black line.

Good guy.

Sure enough, people who are willing to take on the mission of saving the world are somewhat middle-of-the-road.

But it is this second grade that has the possibility to change the world.

Just like the Great Xia of the past, what changed it was not those sleek, sophisticated people who were well versed in ancient and modern times, but a group of seemingly innocent and passionate teenagers who were full of ideals.

"Let the world feel the pain!"

You suddenly broke the captured general's neck...

"I..." Although the general couldn't speak after his neck was broken, he still had more than ten seconds to go around.

If you cut off the head, you can still live for a dozen or so years.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have told you so much."

Afterwards, you were searching everywhere in this world.

Look around.

He discovered that the world is not big. At best, it is the size of an continent.

Of course, for human beings, it is actually not small.

1000 million square kilometers of land, plus 4000 million square kilometers of ocean.

If no major changes occur, humans should be able to reproduce for millions of years.

After all, primitive humans lived for more than two million years.

As long as there are no drastic changes, there is no reason why people in feudal city-states cannot outlive primitive people.

Ten years later.

Mi Heng traveled all over the north, south, east and west, and with the help of a few plug-ins and his modern knowledge, he gradually mastered the mysteries of the gods.

All gods believe in mixed nature.

They are formed by three factors.

One is the temple, the second is the believers, and the third is the mountains or rivers.

In other words, only a big mountain or a big river can have a god.

This may be a limitation of the world.

"The world of mountain gods and river gods?" Wen Rensheng nodded.

This guy Ni Heng has good exploration ability.

Indeed, you discovered that people worshiped mountains and rivers because they were the basis for early human survival.

Where there are mountains, there is food, and where there are rivers, there is development and growth.

In the beginning, people did not live in the plains.

It was after coming down from the tree that we entered the plain.

In the natural environment, plain areas are often forest areas, and forests can also be regarded as another kind of mountain... uneven trees are called tree mountains.

Primitive people lived in trees early on.

You Heng have already grasped this.

These gods are, in the final analysis, the evolution of totem gods.

They rely on extraordinary strength and divine power to evolve faster than humans.

Of course, they fall faster than humans.

Now they have everything they need, all they have left is how to please themselves.

Basically, except for a few main gods who are interested in exploring the world, the other gods just want to eat, drink, have fun and seek various stimulations every day.

Playing chess with city-states and making up stories from mortals to heroes are what they like to do most.

It is similar to how modern people play simulation games, RPG games, and online games.

And this is a real simulation, so you can imagine how attractive it will be.

Among modern young people, at least half of ten people have played games.

This is undeniable.

The proportion of gods is even higher.

Besides, God has a way to fast forward.

That is, if you sleep by yourself, you will grow up.

Time is of no value to these gods.

Unless something big changes in the world's ley lines and rivers, they're not doomed.

Under normal circumstances, people in feudal city-states did not have the ability to transform large rivers.

Suddenly, Mi Heng also understood why he stayed in the city-state era.

Why do natural disasters frequently attack city-states without the Son of God?

If there is true unification, it is impossible to move mountains, but it is possible to change a big river and make it disappear.

For example, the Yellow River has changed its course many times, hasn't it?

If the Yellow River is a god, then the lower part of the god has changed back and forth several times.

The locations of many big cities can be seen.

Some are where mountains and rivers meet.

Some are at the bends of the river.

Natural disasters are the means used by gods to restrict human unity.

As long as they are not unified, how can a single city change the river?

One is that there is not enough manpower, and the other is that the river passes through your territory and other people's territory.

At best, minor changes were made and ditches and canals were dug.

There are many kinds of disasters.

A gathering place without God's protection will always suffer from these disasters.

As for how the small city-state came to be?

Small city-states came from people exiled from big cities.

Although they are multiplying, the population of big cities will be increasing.

There will come a time when there will not be enough food.

And because of the existence of God and His Son, it is impossible for the common people to successfully resist and divide the land.

At this time, some people will be kicked out because of insufficient resources, insufficient positions, and unable to earn living expenses.

Bankrupt vagrants, beggars, and the old, weak, sick, and disabled who are left unattended will all be kicked out.

They have nowhere to go but to run into the wild.

Then a gathering point is formed.

Natural disasters also have an upside.

That is an uninhabited resource area that is easy to form...

This is the redistribution of natural resources under natural disasters.

These people make use of the abundant resources in the wild and survive.

They are like weeds.

Some small city-states are more lucky.

Not destroyed by the gods.

The natural disaster did not come.

One hundred years is enough time for a small city-state to prosper.

In fact, a dynasty can reach prosperity in two generations within 30 to 50 years.

And the frequency of natural disasters is not that high.

Once in ten years, once in twenty years.

But once it comes, it will be a disaster.

These lucky towns are trying to gain the protection of the Son of God.

But a temple must be built before the Son of God can move in.

Otherwise, it would be better to hang out with the favored brothers and sisters and get some leftovers.

After all, it is also the bloodline of God, and it still has value.

The prerequisite is to be groveling.

Just like in a big family, a favored child will get good food to eat and let his sisters and brothers surround him.

But they are destined to only deal with some ordinary bandits.

It can't deal with natural disasters, it can't deal with the invasion of big cities.

Every natural disaster and every battle in a big city is a time of fear for a small city.

Therefore, many small towns choose to seek refuge in big cities.

Not asking for any protection, just asking not to kill.

That means paying protection fees.

The more you see him, the angrier he becomes.

He suppressed these rages.

For those people, it must be said that this is a very tragic world.

If you are lucky, you can live a stable life for most of your life, which is 30 years.

Unlucky, he died just after birth.

After Wen Rensheng saw this, he wanted to know what would you do?

Soon, You Heng was motivated by enough anger and he decided to study those gods.

He secretly disguised himself as a businessman from a small town and came to a big city.

As long as you have enough money and a guarantee from someone with status in the big city, you can live in the big city.

There are also some large cities that can obtain more food through trade and river transportation, so they can support a larger population.

In fact, for feudal city-states, if they can support themselves, they hope that the city's population will increase.

This means that more people will go out to fight, more divine power will be obtained from sacrifices, and the price of hard labor will be cheaper.

This big city is close to the sea and is the mouth of a large river.

There is sea transportation and river transportation.

If this is not developed, it can only mean that there are too many disasters.

In fact, there have been no disasters here for hundreds of years.

Even typhoons have to fly around.