Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1149 Companion Races of Humankind

The mess Cain left behind was so huge that it is not easy to make up for it now.

But since little Cain is willing to take responsibility, at least things are getting better.

——Although strictly speaking, it was not her responsibility.

In a sense, the current "Little Cain" is Lucia who has gained some of the Blood Sky Master's memories. Others don't understand, but Aiwass understands it too well... Isn't this state exactly the same as Aiwass on the day he summoned the Shadow Fiend?

Similarly, one's own memories and emotions remain intact, but one obtains part of the incomplete memories of the "sacred one"; similarly, one recognizes that incomplete memory as a part of oneself, as one's "previous life", and is willing to bear the consequences and responsibilities for it.

Therefore, Aiwass repeatedly asked Lucia "how much memory do you have left". This was actually to confirm Lucia's personal wishes and determination.

No one could understand Lucia better than Aiwas at this moment - being a pawn of Huan Tiansi and cleaning up the mess for Xue Tiansi were both inherently bad jobs. Once the crown of the Mist Demon King was put on, it would be difficult to take it off.

That's why Aiwas decided to help her.

After Aiwas returned to his residence and told Sherlock and Isabel about this matter, they all fell into deep thought.

“…That’s a solution.”

Sherlock thought for a moment, touched his chin, frowned slightly and said, "But I feel this is not the best way."

"The Fog Demon and the Moon Child are different."

Aiwass shook his head slightly: "The biggest difference is that fog monsters can live with fog monsters, but moon children can't. Moon children can't suck the blood of their own kind, so they need to feed on ordinary people. As a phantom demon on the path of love, their appetite, lust, killing desire and satisfaction are intertwined and mixed, forming a strong desire. This leads to the fact that if the moon children gather together, the scale of blood slaves will also increase accordingly.

"But the mist demons are not pure phantoms of the path of love. Just like the shadow demons are phantoms of the path of transcendence that master the power of love, the mist demons also master the power of devotion. They can help each other resolve the impulses of the path, just like the elves of the Theocracy. So the mist demons do not need to live together with other races."

"——That's exactly the problem, fox."

Sherlock pointed out one of the blind spots sharply: "This also means that the expansion of the fog demon race is not constrained by natural conditions."

"Restraints..."

"That's right. Just like in nature, if there are more rabbits, the grass will become less, and the number of wolves will increase - because the food for the wolves has increased. And as the grass decreases, the number of wolves increases, and the number of rabbits will decrease again. The same is true for the Moon Child."

Mr. Detective sighed, "Although it's not nice to say this... but the Moon Children are wolves that prey on rabbits. If there are more wolves, there will be fewer rabbits. The Moon Children are rampant and can't find blood slaves, causing chaos. Therefore, due to external interference or internal variables such as Hawkeye, the number of Moon Children will decrease.

"It is precisely because of this situation that although the Moon Children can assimilate new individuals through the method of blood resurrection, and can also give birth to pure-blooded or mixed-blooded Moon Children through normal reproduction...but the birth of each Moon Child actually means an increase in predators. They will all compete for their own food.

"From this perspective, the Moon Children will control the number of their tribe to a certain extent, so as to avoid too many of their own kind competing with them for food. The culture within the Moon Children recognizes this phenomenon as a kind of 'arrogance of identity', which means that people with insufficient noble status cannot join their tribe.

"——However, the fog demon does not have such restrictions."

Sherlock said slowly.

What he meant was simple.

The new fog monsters will not affect the quality of life of the old fog monsters - unlike the moon children, there will be negative feedback due to food issues. The fog monsters don't even need to eat, they can survive by drinking water. This means that they will not squeeze each other's living environment because of work rewards.

Then for this race that will not die as long as they take good care of themselves, wouldn't they continue to increase and not decrease?
"When the fog monsters expand to a certain limit, the Fog City will become the Fog City, the Fog City will become the Fog Island, and the Fog Island will become the Fog Country. Because they can live happily without needing anything, it means that there will be no obvious contradictions and conflicts among them. And they are not like the elves who have the dusk characteristic of "keeping everything unchanged"... So sooner or later, the fog monsters will spread out.

"But people in other places have to live at a cost. Their population is also expanding, and living space is shrinking. When the fog monsters come out to compete with them for living space, it will trigger new conflicts - even wars. It's not internal vs. internal, but internal vs. external." Sherlock looked at Aiwass and asked word by word: "That would be a life-and-death racial war. Humans can transform into fog monsters, but fog monsters cannot transform into humans... What are you going to do then?"

This is a very sharp question.

But Aiwass does not think that this is an unsolvable problem.

"That's not a problem, Sherlock."

Ai Hua said calmly: "The situation you are talking about will only happen hundreds or even thousands of years later.

“Let’s not talk about the fact that the Fog Demons are still being watched by the Fog Heavenly Officials. If something really goes wrong, the Fog Heavenly Officials can be pulled down to completely resolve the issue… just like the Blood Heavenly Officials, who can fundamentally eliminate the specificity of this race.

"And what you're worrying about is too limited to the current era. Let me ask you, what do you think of the fog monsters that don't need to eat and only need clean water to survive indefinitely?"

"fear."

Sherlock answered without hesitation: "It means that their way of existence is nobler than that of humans. It means that the path of love is nobler than other paths. It means that short-lived species like humans should be completely eliminated and the living space should be given to this new kind of humans."

“But the way I look at it is – opportunity.”

Aiwas shook his head and said to the two: "It does not need resources itself, but can produce resources infinitely. This is a perpetual motion machine.

"The fog monsters have the power of dedication, which means that part of their power comes from the source of 'civilization'. The fusion of civilization and creation, what can you think of?"

"...Yan Tiansi?"

Isabel asked uncertainly, "He seems to be this combination."

When Sherlock heard what Aiwass said, he did not respond immediately.

He seemed to be thinking about something, and seemed to understand what Aiwass was thinking.

"what do you mean……"

Sherlock frowned slightly and asked in disbelief, "You want to let fog monsters work in factories? Because they don't need to eat, don't need sleep, don't want compensation, won't die, and are willing to work for others... But fog is a huge harm to machines."

"It's not just factories, Sherlock. There are many jobs in this world that can actually be done by machines regardless of the cost. The difference between fog monsters and them is that they also have the ability to create."

Aiwass said seriously: "You said that fog monsters are a new kind of human that can replace humans... I think this is half right. They cannot replace humans because fog monsters do not have the adaptability of the nine great ways. They only have love and dedication. This can only be regarded as a new race - and the fog god specifically set that fog monsters cannot reproduce, which is actually a kind of control over the number.

"For humans who want a lot, I think the fog monsters are more like 'helpers' than replacing humans. The resources required by both sides are completely different, and they can coexist. It's not possible at the moment, simply because we haven't developed a low-cost, stable, and universal way for fog monsters to survive for a long time without affecting other humans. But technology is improving - as long as there is a demand, it is easy to solve it. Not to mention, the demand itself is not difficult to solve."

"...Star Crystal Man?"

Isabel on the side immediately thought of the servant race of Atlantis.

At that moment...

Exactly at this moment.

(End of this chapter)