After the story was told, Mu Guo sighed a little and felt a little nostalgic. The same expression as him was the clan leader Tuoshan.
Mu Guo led Chen Mo to a large shelf and opened the animal skins wrapped on it. A laser transmitter and gun came into Chen Mo's eyes. They were made of metal.
"Sir, you should know what this is, right? This is a machine left by the ancestors of our Manshan tribe. There used to be a lot of them, but then they were gradually lost. The machine on your body is the first time I have seen it besides these. Mechanical, it is somewhat similar to what was described in the records of our ancestors.”
Chen Mo asked the battle armor to scan and restore the structure of the "weapon" left by the Manshan tribe. The design is different from the guns on Earth, but the function is similar. It is a gun, but there is no ammunition, and the small laser has no energy.
The level of this kind of weapon is comparable to the level of craftsmanship of earth civilization.
Seeing Chen Mo studying the machine carefully, Mu Kuo took off the translator and gave it to Tuo Shan, indicating to him to introduce it.
"This is actually related to the history of our ancestors, and also the history of our Manshan tribe. According to records, our ancestors originally lived on a peaceful planet. Later, a disaster occurred on that planet and it was no longer suitable for habitation, so the ancestors began to plan to migrate. Migration There are many teams, and our ancestors are one of them. After flying for more than five hundred years, they finally arrived on this planet."
Tuoshan sighed and continued to speak.
"Ancestors recorded that seven hundred years ago, during their migration, they encountered an accident in the sky. They called it a 'space vortex.' After our migrating team fell into the space vortex, we arrived here. Two million people migrated The team, after five hundred years and various disasters, came here with only 50,000 people left.”
Tuoshan's voice was a little deep, like he was opening an ancient history book.
Jing Ge and Tuo Li were attracted by him, and Chen Mo also listened carefully. He needed to find clues about this place from these histories.
"But the disaster was not over. The remaining 50,000 people were lucky enough to discover a planet. But when they arrived on the planet, they discovered that the environment here was different from the planet where their ancestors lived.
All the weak scholars and intellectuals died, and only thousands of rigorously trained warriors survived. That was the beginning of misfortune. The warriors were not proficient in technology and knowledge, and there were gaps in the inheritance of cultural knowledge. At first, I wanted to rely on the spacecraft's machinery to maintain the inheritance of knowledge. Later, the spacecraft broke down and was completely scrapped because of the high technical requirements and lack of maintenance. "
Chen Mo could imagine that situation.
A person from a planet with a low gravity suddenly lands on a planet with five times the gravity. His weak constitution cannot bear it.
When the number of people is small, there is a gap in cultural knowledge, which is very scary.
This means that their civilization is discontinuing and degenerating.
"The ancestors realized that the crisis was coming. Without the support of technology, on this planet with a harsh living environment, their weak bodies would be extinct sooner or later. The urgency of extinction forced the ancestors to use the only remaining technology at their hands to solve this problem. .
But what's more serious is that the surviving ancestors, after women become pregnant, cannot withstand the environment here, and it may be life-threatening. Even the offspring they give birth to are still babies. It is simply impossible to continue the race. "
"How did you solve this problem later?" Chen Mo asked curiously.
"The ancestors found some indigenous people on this planet. The indigenous people had low intelligence, but their bodies and characteristics were similar, and they were the same species. In the end, the ancestors compromised and combined with the indigenous women, so we, the Barbarian Mountain tribe, came into existence. We inherited the intelligence of our ancestors. They have the physique of their indigenous ancestors, normal intelligence, and their physique can withstand the living environment here.
The ongoing crisis was resolved and the population began to increase, but the gap in knowledge became more and more serious. There is a technological gap. As energy is exhausted, some machines begin to be scrapped. Although our ancestors recorded all the knowledge they knew before they died. But it cannot change the situation where the loss of knowledge is becoming more and more serious, and the loss of machinery is also getting worse.
Seven hundred years ago, after many disasters and migrations, the only knowledge that has been preserved is the knowledge recorded by these ancestors on furs and wooden books. Fortunately, the inheritance of writing has not been interrupted. We can only learn from these retained knowledge to understand the world, but the effect is limited. We all know a lot of esoteric knowledge and texts, but we cannot understand and interpret them. "
Tuoshan was in deep mourning and burdened with heavy worries.
Jing Ge and Tuo Li stopped talking. Although Tuo Li was young, he understood what his grandfather said.
"Those selected through this natural environment are all powerful warriors, but their ability to learn knowledge is not that strong, and esoteric knowledge is passed on less and less. The civilization efforts condensed by our ancestors are being lost, so the current disconnection situation has emerged. Only What can be retained are some basic truths and the truth about heaven and earth, leaving at least some hope for future generations to rekindle civilization. If one day these words and knowledge are lost, the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors will completely die out."
Chen Mo understands that civilizational gaps are hard to bear. The hard work and knowledge of countless ancestors will eventually disappear because of civilizational gaps. Just like the Mayan civilization and other ancient civilizations on Earth, they encountered faults and eventually died out.
No wonder there are traces of mechanical civilization, and the Manshan tribe still uses primitive cold weapons.
After hundreds of years of interstellar migration, all the people who knew advanced technology and energy technology died, and the machines broke down and were scrapped. With only a few thousand people left, it is admirable to be able to establish a foothold, multiply, and continue to grow in such an extreme environment, while still retaining the most basic knowledge and written inheritance of civilization.
"Have your ancestors ever said where this is?" Chen Mo asked.
Chen Mo is a little confused now. He is just a lost traveler. He needs to determine where this place is. Tuoshan told the history of the Manshan tribe, but it did not help Chen Mo understand the location of this space.
"No." Tuoshan shook his head.
"However, there is one very important thing that has been passed down." After hearing Chen Mo's question, Mu Ye remembered an important item and hurriedly walked to a wooden cabinet and carefully took out a fur-wrapped Big box.
Taking the translator from Tuoshan and putting it on, Mu Kuo began to introduce it seriously.
"This is something that our ancestors told us to pass down. It records the information of our ancestors' civilization, and there are many important information that can be used when civilization is revived in the future."
Mu Kuo opened the box carefully.
The box opened, and a square machine appeared in Chen Mo's field of vision, looking like a Rubik's Cube machine.
The square machine is well protected and has no trace of damage. It is like a machine that stores a computer host. It is made of metal and has a projection-like lens. The craftsmanship is very high, and it has the technical level of Chen Mo when he left the earth.
Chen Mo looked at it carefully and guessed that it might be a microcomputer or something like that. If so, Chen Mo would have a chance to find some clues about this space.
I originally thought this was a primitive planet, but I didn't expect an unexpected gain.
"Can you give me a try?" Chen Mo asked, pointing to the square machine.
Tuoshan and Mucho discussed in low voices for a while, and finally nodded in unison as if they had made up their minds.
Their clan has waited too long. Since the energy technology gap, this thing has never been turned on again. Now that they have met Chen Mo, a visitor from outside the world, and they can feel that Chen Mo has no ill intentions, this is an opportunity for them to resume the inheritance of civilization.
Even if this thing is precious, they still want Chen Mo to try it, otherwise there is no hope.
(End of chapter)