Chapter 1363: "Petri dishes" and "Incubators"

But Turan is different.
They have "Haka".
This allows Turan's baby to master a wealth of knowledge and skilled skills just after it is born.
The descendants of doctors are naturally doctors, the descendants of fighters are naturally fighters, the descendants of fishermen are naturally able to fish, and the descendants of hunters are naturally the kings of the jungle.
Just as the offspring of fish are born to swim, the offspring of eagles and falcons can fly freely without a teacher. Not long after the antelopes are born, they can use their talents to run like flying.
The existence of "Haka" undoubtedly greatly enhanced the early Turan people's first-mover advantage in the chaotic moment when civilization was just born, in the race of natural selection and survival of the fittest.
Make them stand out among countless birds and beasts and mammals, and become the "spirit of all things" on the mother planet.
But owning "Haka" also has to pay a high price.
Regardless of the earth or the home planet of the Turan people, there is no free lunch.
Possessing "Haka" means a longer gestation cycle than Earthlings or modern Homo sapiens.
In the process of gestation of new life, the mother also needs to add more nutrition and energy.
After all, the knowledge and skills passed down from generation to generation by adults are equivalent to a surging wave of information, not something that the immature brain that has just developed from an embryo can withstand instantly.
A longer pregnancy cycle means a higher risk factor.
Once the fetus cannot bear the "Haka", the possibility of miscarriage and distortion is much higher than that of modern Homo sapiens.
Secondly, "Haka" certainly can inherit the knowledge and skills of parents and even grandparents.
But it is also easy to fix children and grandchildren on the path of their parents and ancestors.
Since the offspring of a hunter, he has mastered skillful hunting skills at birth.
It would be difficult for him to transform into a fisherman, a doctor, or a wise man.
After all, the human brain has its limits.
Even if the ancient Turans were like Neanderthals, they had 20% or even 30% more brain capacity than modern Homo sapiens.
But after being occupied by "Haka" too much space and consuming too much energy, the remaining space and energy may not be able to run the rich wisdom and clear thinking of people on earth.
Third, it is the most terrible.
"Haka" seems to naturally conflict with the concept of "group collaboration".
As a result, the scale of the ancient Turan peoples is far less than that of the newly born people on Earth.
The social division of labor and cooperation system is also far less complicated than the people on earth.
Think about it carefully, it's easy to understand.
Since the ancient Turan people can pass on a large amount of knowledge and skills through the "Haka", they have the first-mover advantage in the survival competition, in a sense, they are smarter and stronger than modern Homo sapiens.
There is no need for them to form an "imaginary community" with strangers who are not related by blood, and treat each other as compatriots who share the same hatred, life and death.
The so-called birth of civilization has never been a miracle.
It's a helpless act of last resort in order to survive.
Meng Chao guessed that because of these defects, the Neanderthals who possessed the "Haka" on the earth slowly lost the battle for survival. In the end, they gave up the throne of the spirit of all things to no one. "Haka" is a modern Homo sapiens who seems weaker and stupid, but has to be more united, madly breed descendants and expand their ethnic groups.
But the environment of Turan's home planet is different from that of Earth.
Because of the constant tearing of the three satellites, the tidal force on Turan's mother planet should be stronger and more variable than that on Earth.
The geological changes and extreme climates of Turan’s home planet, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, heavy rains and floods that lasted for thousands of years, should be more intense and frequent than those on Earth.
Such a harsh environment makes it impossible for modern Homo sapiens without "Haka" to survive.
Even if they barely gathered an ethnic group larger than the Neanderthals, they established primitive tribes and even primitive nations.
Such tribes and countries can easily fall apart and disappear in a volcanic eruption, flooding, or continuous earthquake.
Therefore, on Turan's home planet, modern Homo sapiens who did not adapt to the local environment gradually withdrew from the stage of history.
The ancient Turan people, similar to the Neanderthals on earth, became the overlord who called the wind and the rain, and became the spirit of all things.
Of course, with the continuous development of civilization, the footsteps of the ancient Turan people gradually spread across the entire planet and conquered all the local creatures. The meaning of the sea of ​​shining stars.
At this time, they also understood the concepts of unity, cooperation, expansion of ethnic groups, and construction of complex social systems.
This created a splendid Turan civilization.
But when the Turan civilization accelerated its development until it rushed out of the parent star, it was the first time that the footsteps of "humans" were imprinted on their satellites.
"Haka" is still one of the important pillars for the existence and continuation of Turan civilization.
Because the earth people-modern Homo sapiens, there is no similar concept.
It took a long time for Meng Chao to digest and absorb the information passed by the other party.
Understand the humming of thousands of sounds hidden deep in the human face spider's brain, inside the metal plate in the vast starry sky.
It is the knowledge, wisdom, skills, and memory of thousands of ancient Turan people.
It is the soul fragment of the ancient Turan people, similar to the heroic spirits of Dragon City.
It is the library and museum of the Turan civilization.
It's... the totem of Turan civilization.
"It's incredible."
Meng Chao murmured, "I thought that the so-called'totem' is the tattoos on the body of the higher orcs, or the patterns engraved on the surface of the weapons and armors-those colorful, clusters of flowers, mysterious and complex, capable of spitting out psychic energy and activating all kinds of Something of extraordinary power."
"That's not a real totem, or more precisely, it's not the whole totem."
A voice said melancholy, "The real totem stores all the history, wisdom, technology and secrets of the Turan civilization. It is definitely not only used to condense fireballs, frost, lightning and venom, but to make matter stronger. And sharp tricks.
"It's a pity that those Turans who have degenerated into'higher orcs' and are still complacent have already lost 99% of their totems. They can only tattoo some fragmented and mottled pieces on their bodies-as everyone knows, they are so primitive and clumsy. The method can only touch the fur of the totem."
"It's strange, you don't even know'Haka'."
Another voice said, "Your civilization does not have the concept of'Haka'. This is impossible. Are you a'Hashra'?"
The other party threw another syllable that Meng Chao was difficult to understand.
But think about it carefully. According to Turan’s word formation, "Hashra" is a compound word, and the preceding "Ha" is "Haka", which means totem.
The "Shila" in the back means "blank, nothing", but it has a derogatory meaning.
In Turan slang, it refers to a guy who lacks courage and force, goes out hunting and fighting, but gets nothing.
In combination, it probably means "the weak without a totem" or something.
Meng Chao speculated that there were initially two humans, "Neanderthals" and "Modern Homo sapiens" on Turan's home planet.
After the Neanderthals won the survival contest, they regarded the "totem" as the reason why they became the spirit of all things, and the key to distinguish between "human" and "non-human."
As a result, the modern Homo sapiens who had been extinct early on Turan's home planet became "Hashra", that is, "the weak who died out because they did not have a totem."
Meng Chao could feel that because of his own "Hashra", the other side was shocked by the shaking of the Three Views.
Comparing heart to heart, if Meng Chao discovers that a group of orangutans can create their own civilization, he will definitely be shocked.
The voice in the metal plate rang out again.
A voice said: "Unbelievable, ‘people without totem’ can also create their own civilization!"
Another voice was puzzled: "Without the power of a totem, when your civilization was just born, how could it be possible to withstand the invasion of various natural disasters and beasts?"
Another voice sighed: "You have chosen the most difficult and long path, and we should pay you the highest respect,'people without a totem', you are the one of the survival that is full of thorns and flames. On the road, the bravest and toughest traveler."
There were several more voices, excited at the same time: "Many civilizations that have traveled across this planet have more or less'Haka', whether they are dwarves, elves, undead, giants, or holy people, or even The ogres and the abyss demons have their own talent skills.
"Now, a civilization that has never had a'Haka', but has survived tenaciously to this day, has also come here.
"Perhaps, as you said, your civilization can bring us some new possibilities and help us find the truth and a way out!"
"etc-"
The more wrong Meng Chaoyue heard it, "You don't know the'truth and the way out', and you don't know where this planet is, so how do you get out of here?"
"If we knew it, we wouldn't have been trapped here for a whole 10,000 years. The entire civilization was deteriorating and was about to be eroded away."
The voice said, "Since your civilization has the same level of development as the Turan civilization when it was still on the home planet, and you know that there are'orcs, dwarves, elves, undead and holy light people', etc. on this planet, A carbon-based humanoid intelligent life with a similar structure but with subtle differences.
"You should have guessed that we all come from different planets, but we have the same, oldest genetic source.
"As for how did we come here, what is this place?
"We have been thinking about this problem for 10,000 years, but we still can’t come to a conclusion. We can only guess that this planet is an ancient port, an artisan that overlaps in space, and an arena where different civilizations fight each other. A place similar to a'Petri Dish' and an'Incubator'."