[Mission: The Queen's Curse
Mission description: After crossing the vast desert, you met the current Lamia Queen, Yanbai Lamia, in the city where Lamia lives.
Yanbai Lamia admired your courage and strength, and became slightly interested in what you said. Thinking that you might be able to help her remove the curse, she readily accepted your conditions.
Mission requirements: Accompany Yanbai Lamia and follow her to the ancient ruins under the pyramid to lift the curse on her and restore her original appearance.
Mission Reward: Lamia's method of controlling the magic power in the area. 500,000 experience points, 200,000 gold coins, dozens of draws (all rare or above), skill points +50, free attribute points +50
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This is the task Yang Yu received.
What the Lamia clan is guarding may be the remains of civilization left behind by ancient humans.
Seeing that Yang Yu was in high spirits, Yanbai Lamia struck while the iron was hot, skipped some miscellaneous etiquette, and took Yang Yu and the others into the huge pyramid.
Quite different from its ancient and glorious appearance, there is a different world inside the pyramid.
The sounds of various machines being operated were endless. Lamias of various shapes and sizes were operating a variety of machines, fiddling with the designs, making various precision parts, or assembling parts. It was very lively.
Occasionally, you can see a few Lamias happily high-fiving each other after they have completed assembling a machine.
It seemed that Yang Yu had not arrived inside the pyramid, but a large mechanical laboratory.
After a quick scan of the Lamia nearby, most of them possessed the special ability of [People who understand the mechanism].
Pretending to be unable to contain his curiosity, Yang Yu tentatively brought up the topic: "Your Majesty, this place really surprises me.
I always feel that you are a bit similar to dwarves.
However, this also caused me a lot of doubts. I don’t know.”
"If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I understand how you outsiders think." Yanbai Lamia answered indifferently and continued to lead the way.
“Then I’m welcome.
The population of your city, at most, is only about 10,000 or 20,000 people.
According to the productivity here, even with frequent upgrades, various machines will always reach saturation.
I haven't heard of anyone buying machinery from Lamia.
The legendary weapons from the dwarves can be sold through the trade network of the Dragon God's Council Nation.
Is this only open occasionally? "
“Then you are really ignorant.
However, no one would be so idle as to investigate specifically, right
We sell a lot of machinery every year to Wansheng Kingdom or Setis for mining or fishing.
Just for our own safety, we make a written agreement with them when we do business that those things must be claimed to be made by them.
This is the bulk of our trade and our survival in the desert."
"I see."
“It depends on whether it is started occasionally.
Except for certain times, it is always open.
As for the reason
There are some very special beings among us Lamia.
They are easily inspired to create special organizations to help solve real problems in life.
A long time ago, Lamia would occasionally leave where we lived, causing trouble and bringing problems to our tribe.
In order to solve this problem, this place has become what it is now.
You can learn a lot of knowledge here, and you can get a unique opportunity to try out ideas.
Many rules cannot be explained in a short time.
All you have to remember is that after the policy was implemented, very few Lamias left here.
We use the wisdom and intelligence accumulated by them from generation to generation to survive more stably in this barren desert.
Thanks to them, we also have some understanding of what we are protecting.
It’s a pity that we still know very little about what’s underground, otherwise I wouldn’t be like this.
The following things are all of extraordinary research value.
I emphasize again, you must not sabotage it at will, and you must handle it according to my instructions."
Yanbai Lamia reminded him again, and Yang Yu nodded to indicate that he would never do anything rash.
Arriving in front of a huge iron gate, Yanbai Lamia's fingers flew quickly on the keyboard, entering the password and verifying the palm print.
With a "click", the huge iron door cracked open, revealing a small square space.
Yanbai Lamia took the lead and walked into the elevator, followed closely by Yang Yu and others.
In order to protect Qingshi's safety, Yang Yu temporarily left him outside and let Yanbai Lamia's confidant lead him to tour the entire city.
Without any worries, Yang Yu continued to ask:
"Her Majesty the Queen just said that many people can learn without a teacher.
After they enter the ruins, do they know how to control the things in the ruins
Did they discover some unknown knowledge from the ruins, and thus create many things that people cannot understand
What we have seen so far is all developed by them themselves? "
“It’s both.
We occasionally find some blueprints among the things we guard, and they can easily understand most of the parts that Lamia cannot understand.
How to say it.
Snakes will lay eggs, but generally speaking, after laying eggs, they will no longer take care of their eggs and young. The baby snakes will be born individually and then start hunting.
Obviously no one teaches snakes how to hunt or eat, but they still do it.
This is the snake's instinct.
Perhaps, it is an instinct for them to understand the blueprints, although there are many Lamias who cannot understand the blueprints.
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"Instinct?"
Yang Yu pinched his chin and muttered to himself. He remembered that the dwarves had the instinct to create higher quality equipment, but because they lacked certain skills and did not have a large amount of materials to practice, they had been suppressing their instincts.
If all the current races were manufactured, it would be amazing if they could write certain things directly into their instincts without any learning.
However, this conflicts with the behavior of ancient humans using certain machines to inherit memories.
Yeah
Maybe not conflicting.
Yang Yu suddenly thought of a possibility:
There were disagreements among the ancient humans, and some did not want to admit that the modified humans were still humans.
If this is true, the meaning of the word "sub-human" may become somewhat vicious.
The meaning of sub-human may not be a subspecies of human, but a creature inferior to human.
Yang Yu wanted to continue thinking along this line of thought, but the light in front of him and Qiu Ye's abrupt question suddenly interrupted his train of thought:
“Speaking of snakes, ever since I heard that we were going to look for Lamia, a question has been lingering in my mind.
After meeting Lamia, I can finally confirm the answer to this question."
Qiu Ye took a deep breath and asked the question that had always been on his mind:
"Your Majesty, do you Lamia lay eggs or give birth to babies directly?"
(End of this chapter)