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Chapter 159 Iwi Tribe

Du Mu sat on a high mountain, overlooking the entire Skull Island.

In this lush natural scenery covered by countless tall and dense forests, Du Mu could easily discover countless large animals and insects that had not been named by humans.

But they are not the most special existence on this island.

Compared with the outside world, or even the different worlds connected to the martial arts gym, the most significant difference of the entire Skull Island is some hidden characteristics.

An extremely chaotic and strong magnetic field.

Du Mu doesn't even need to use the Ark Reactor, he can use Magneto's abilities without any obstacles in this world.

However, considering that there is still a normal human society outside Skull Island, Du Mu guessed that regardless of the intensity of the magnetic field, at least in terms of the chaos of the magnetic field, it should only be a phenomenon of Skull Island itself.

Otherwise, it would not have been discovered by humans for the first time until the Vietnam War.

Du Mu also guessed that in addition to the magnetic field, there should be some other free energy, but it was too weak and Du Mu did not have the corresponding senses, so it was difficult to confirm.

Du Mu lowered his head and looked at King Kong who was still in a coma at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, the opponent had recovered to a size of more than 30 meters, breathing slowly, and his chest seemed like a constantly rising and falling mountain.

The spell version of knocking someone unconscious seems to have a stronger effect than magic, like giving the target an extra hard blow.

At the same time, the effect of the shrinking spell did not last as long as the magic spell. Du Mu found that the magic version of the shrinking spell had become a state of continuous casting.

As long as he takes the initiative to withdraw his magic power, there is no need to use the enlargement spell as a counter-spell, the target will directly return to its original size.

Du Mu was somewhat curious about the natural environment of Skull Island. At the same time, his eyes moved slightly and looked in a certain direction of the island.

There, there are human settlements.

Naturally, it is present in every version, the primitive tribe that worships King Kong, the Iwi.

Seeing that King Kong was still not awake, Du Mu stepped on the flying sword and flew to the territory of the Iwi tribe.

Before Du Mu got close, he noticed that all the Iwi people had walked out of their own buildings, gathered in an open area of ​​the tribe, and all looked up in the direction of their own home.

Du Mu narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly noticed a familiar aura.

Du Mu's current mental power is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine. For ordinary people, sometimes their subconscious can vaguely feel that something is wrong. This is the combined effect of his past experience, which allows ordinary people to predict future developments to a certain extent in advance without any evidence.

But for Du Mu, as long as his subconscious mind predicted the situation, he could immediately analyze which part of the experience was at work.

It is the power of faith.

But it’s not belief in oneself.

When those scientists were studying the chimpanzee virus, Du Mu not only studied on the sidelines, but also often went to the world of mutants to maintain his own God-King protection system.

As Du Mu's declaration was widely spread and his believers were actually protected when they were attacked, the popularity of the God became more and more widespread.

But this also led to more and more people needing Du Mu's protection.

Fortunately, during that period of time, Banner's Red Hulk form allowed Du Mu to obtain a long-lost excess of spell feedback, otherwise he would not be able to take care of the global protection needs that were coming one after another.

In addition, his current God-King protection system will only be activated when conflicts occur between humans and mutants. Conflicts between humans and humans, or mutants and mutants are not included for the time being. Under this level of screening, he can barely maintain his daily work.

As for how they screened...of course it depended on Charles's mind-reading ability.

Charles is now a little numb and no longer has the energy to empathize with every target of mind reading. He simply reads the minds, confirms the identities of both the enemy and us, and then deals with them.

It's almost become an assembly line operation.

There is no way. If you want efficiency, you always have to pay a price.

Charles is Du Mu's price.

Du Mu certainly didn't want to be a hands-off boss. He was indeed under a lot of pressure during this period. It was just that there were too many possible victims in the world of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, so he had to devote some of his energy.

Now that the problem of the gorilla virus has been solved, Eric is leading the X-Men to capture mutants who are doing evil, which has greatly reduced the frequency of humans invoking the protection of the gods. Charles' workload has been reduced to a certain extent, and Du Mu finally has some free time.

When they arrived at Skull Island, some of them wanted to take King Kong as their apprentice and then strengthen his physical body.

But Du Mu's consciousness has always contained a lot of faith power that is no longer used to strengthen his spiritual power.

The power of these beliefs is not pure. It is similar to the belief generated by the hundreds of thousands of people rescued by Hulk Peter on the Dashun side. It is slightly better, but also limited.

In the past, Du Mu ignored these low-quality faith powers and directly blocked them out. Luo Zu, who gave Du Mu this set of faith skills, did the same thing, only training elites to absorb high-quality faith.

However, the high load of the God's blessing system made Du Mu think about using the power of faith again.

No matter what... this system has to balance the income and expenditure, right?

However, only a week had passed and Du Mu still had no clue.

Realizing that the Iwi people were also producing the power of faith, Du Mu thought for a moment, mixed a part of the power of faith into his magic power, and then tentatively cast a spell at his eyes.

Suddenly, Du Mu could clearly see that countless golden threads extended from the Iwi tribe and connected to King Kong not far away.

When Du Mu saw this scene, he understood.

No wonder I have come into contact with many people who believe in different gods in the past, but have never seen the power of faith appear in other people.

The main reason is that those beliefs have nothing to do with oneself... Different beliefs are like electrical signals of different channels. If you are not in a certain channel, other people’s beliefs have nothing to do with you, and naturally you cannot feel them.

However, these things are very mysterious, and Du Mu was just forcing an analogy in his mind. In fact, things related to the senses are difficult to describe in detail with words.

Just like no matter how a person describes the color "red" to a blind person, until the person regains his sight and sees the color "red" with his own eyes, red is just a concept and the blind person cannot truly understand what it looks like.

Du Mu slowly descended in the golden silk thread.

He looked at the silent Iwi people around him and was slightly stunned.

If you ignore those threads of faith, their performance is no different from that in the movie.

They are taciturn, stare at others intently, move and behave in unison, and have no obvious leader.

They look more like a group of puppets than humans.

But if we add the perspective of faith, the situation will be different...

The entire Iwi tribe, in addition to being connected to the King Kong faith, is also connected to each other.

That doesn't mean they believe in each other, but that through the convergence of the same belief, they have achieved a nearly perfect spiritual synchrony. Relying on their not-so-strong mental power, they have actually connected each other's consciousness.

Du Mu felt that this situation looked familiar... Upon closer inspection, wasn't it the way Charles connected those believers?

Although the Iwi people do not have psychics like Charles, their mental strength is about 10% to 20% stronger than that of ordinary humans. It is not known whether it is due to environmental or cultural factors, or perhaps the special nature of the Titan world itself. This has allowed the Iwi people, while having physical fitness similar to that of ordinary humans, to develop a unique culture in which they can communicate with each other without even language.

Although there were some written words, they had no pronunciation and were purely used to pass information to future generations rather than for communication between each other.

Du Mu could sense that beneath their expressionless faces, there were surging, uncertain emotions.

Unfortunately, the spell version of Legilimency has too great an impact on consciousness, so Du Mu could only sense their emotions but had no way of knowing exactly what they were talking about in the large mental chat room.

But at this moment, an Iwi woman holding a young child came forward.

She stood two meters in front of Du Mu, not saying a word, just staring into Du Mu's eyes.

If it were an ordinary outsider, he would definitely think that there was something wrong with the other party, but Du Mu could feel that a cluster of mental power was cautiously extending from the other party.

Logically speaking, ordinary people like this should not be able to let their mental power leave their body. However, Du Mu, who was able to see the beliefs of the Iwi people, still discovered that their mental power was actually attached to a part of the power of faith.

Du Mu was a little surprised. He didn't expect that these people could actually use the power of faith in a preliminary way. What's more, they were not the objects of faith, but the producers of faith.

Therefore, all they can mobilize is their own pure faith.

Can even one's own beliefs be used as a kind of ability?
As soon as Du Mu thought of this, countless works he had seen in the past suddenly emerged in his mind: those divine magicians who relied on faith to cast spells, and knights who relied on faith to protect themselves... These combat-capable religious monks probably all belonged to this category.

Although some of them may be like the God's Protection System, and they receive the blessing of God after praying, there must be another part that just uses faith as a circuit to mobilize energy.

Suddenly, Du Mu thought, could he use the former method to strengthen the God's protection system?
Use clear prayers to determine the blessing or protection that needs to be granted, and use the strength of faith to divide the power and size of the blessing... With just a little contact with the Iwi people, the inspiration in Du Mu's mind began to erupt continuously.

Du Mu also didn't expect that in the King Kong world, he hadn't encountered those Titans who could shake the continent and the climate yet. Just a small Iwi tribe member playing a supporting role could bring him so much inspiration and reference.

While Du Mu was constantly thinking, he also extended his mental power and came into contact with the mental power of the Iwi woman.

The next moment, countless messages and questions flooded into my mind.

Without language or sound, the information was transmitted to Du Mu's mind in the most direct form.

The picture, pieced together from countless memories, showed Du Mu the living conditions of the Iwi people for hundreds of years, the death of King Kong's parents, the skeleton crawlers and other information.

These memories are not just the memories of this generation, but important images passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors.

No wonder the Iwi are so peaceful; this form of civilization is somewhat close to the so-called Gestalt.

Unfortunately, this kind of spiritual connection requires pure faith and a peaceful living environment. It is destined to be used only on a small scale and cannot be used as a direction for the development of civilization.

After receiving information from the Iwi people, Du Mu also understood what these people were worried about.

They conveyed so much to themselves just to tell themselves that there was nothing on Skull Island except King Kong, danger and their own culture, and there were no treasures worth coveting.

So they were curious about why they came to Skull Island, and begged him not to hurt King Kong.

Du Mu didn't expect that what they were most worried about was that he might hurt King Kong.

Logically speaking, a behemoth like King Kong should be invincible in the eyes of the Iwi people. What's more, they have an extremely devout belief in King Kong. Why do they doubt his abilities instead?
Pure mental communication is fast.

After Du Mu conveyed his doubts, he got the answer almost instantly.

The Iwi people said that they believed in King Kong not because he was powerful, but because he protected the Iwi people and was their patron saint.

This answer comes not through words, but through feelings.

So Du Mu also understood.

The fact that one must believe in the strongest god, or that the god one believes in must be the strongest, cannot be considered faith, it can only be considered "fandom."

Even the inexplicable "combat power fans".

The communication with the Iwi people was simple and direct, so it was very quick and did not take too long.

As for the Iwi people, they have been in direct communication with each other for a long time, so they have not developed any "courtesy" culture.

After realizing that Du Mu had no shortage of food or water they could provide, they no longer had any intention of hosting a banquet for Du Mu.

After Du Mu promised that he would not harm King Kong, the Iwi people calmed down, dispersed and continued their work.

Or drying animal skins, or sharpening spears, or sewing clothes, or fermenting food.

Their actions are natural and efficient, and their cooperation does not require words or emotions; they simply communicate their needs to each other.

Du Mu was in their communication network, constantly learning how they used the power of faith.

Unfortunately, he finished learning it very quickly.

After all, the number of Iwi people is too small, and how to use the power of faith is the result of hard work from generation to generation.

Moreover, even if the Iwi people can continue to pass on the memories of their ancestors to future generations, due to natural forgetting and unconscious additions and deletions, those memories will gradually become blurred and full of omissions as they are passed on.

Therefore, the Iwi people themselves only believe in the memories of their ancestors about 200 years ago. The memories earlier than that are vague and are regarded as myths.

At this moment, Du Mu turned around and looked at the dark clouds on the sea in the distance.

Even though the magnetic force on Skull Island was extremely chaotic, he still noticed some unnatural magnetic phenomena.

As he looked, helicopters broke through the clouds and arrived at Skull Island.

Du Mu narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed that they were the first wave of protagonists in the original novel who landed on Skull Island.

However, most of these people are American soldiers who have just evacuated from the battlefield in Vietnam, and they will not stop until they are beaten up by King Kong.

But apart from the troops used to set off King Kong, what is really important are the several scientists among them.

Their biggest purpose in coming to Skull Island is to explore whether the inner world exists.

If we were to say what is the most different about the worldview of this monster universe compared to other worlds, it would probably be the entire planet.

The center of this planet is hollow... Gravity seems to come from the mantle layer, which causes the gravitational forces to cancel each other out at the center, creating a nearly weightless space in the middle.

And in that underground world where gravity cancels out each other, this is one of the reasons why the Titan monsters in this universe can grow so large.

Only in the center of the earth where gravity is mild can species that are hundreds of meters tall be born.

The reason why they can move seems to be that most of the energy comes from nuclear energy... These are what Du Mu accidentally wrote down while watching the movie.

All of this will have to wait until I reach the center of the earth before I can study it.

These people are important or unimportant. Although their research can inspire future generations and affect the subsequent imperial plans and the mining plan of the earth's core minerals, that is decades later.

This can be regarded as an important process of human civilization in this world in its cognition of the world. Knowing that the earth is a geocentric world and exploring it, it is almost like landing on the moon. Du Mu has no intention of stopping it.

Of course, I will never be their babysitter.

Following the information given to him by the Iwi tribe, Du Mu temporarily went to the burial place of King Kong's parents.

There is a cave there that is suspected to lead directly to the center of the earth.

While Du Mu was looking down from the sky at the hazy miasma and discovered two huge King Kong corpses, the sound of a bomb was heard from the other side of the island.

It was the American soldiers who dropped bombs on the ground so that geologists could hear echoes from the center of the earth and determine whether the inner world existed.

But... the explosion of the bomb not only caused the animals on Skull Island to run around, but also made King Kong suddenly open his eyes from his coma.

He stood up quickly, looked at the familiar scene around him, and then looked at his hands.

King Kong was a little surprised, but also relieved.

It seems that everything that happened before was just a dream.

"boom--!"

King Kong frowned and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

I saw several giant fly-like crustaceans with a metallic luster flying in the sky.

It was an intruder I had never seen before.

King Kong simply picked up a pine tree next to him and threw it at the crustacean in the form of a javelin.

With a loud bang, the helicopter was instantly pierced from the front window to the fuel tank by a huge wooden javelin and instantly turned into a fireball in the sky.

"Roar!" King Kong roared to declare his territory, and then moved towards the other black crustaceans.

Du Mu ignored the dispute between King Kong and humans.

As soon as he approached the burial place of King Kong's parents, he instantly felt that there was a violent and surging magnetic field nearby, which was constantly overflowing with energy like a fountain.

Du Mu waved his hand and blew away the miasma surrounding the valley, revealing the bright and clear world under the bright daylight.

At the same time, a monster with an exoskeleton on its face and two thick forelimbs suddenly jumped out from the magnetic field vortex sensed by Du Mu.

And it almost instantly noticed that there seemed to be a tiny piece of food floating in the sky.

Without hesitation, it opened its big mouth and bit towards the food in the sky.

As creatures that have been suppressed underground by the King Kong clan for hundreds of years, they have long developed the good habit of not being picky about food and will eat even the smallest mosquito legs.

Happy Dragon Boat Festival
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