When Levi was playing games by himself in his previous life, he never felt anything wrong.

Basically, traditional role-playing games that have something to do with dragon characters usually have rare and powerful orange equipment, so they don’t hesitate to kill their warlock teammates before opening the box.

But now... I always feel that this kind of dragon skin armor is no different from the human skin mask in Silence of the Lambs...

Oh, there may be a slight difference. After all, it was peeled off when I was sleeping, so... it's more like the dead skin that was peeled off when I got athlete's foot?

Thinking of this, Li Wei first made himself sick...

In the end, he couldn't muster up the courage to personally deliver this thing to Miss Frost Giant.

Instead, he wrote a casual letter of thanks and asked Remulu, who was about to rush back to the market to sell grilled fish, to stop by and run on his behalf.

After leaving Eagle's place, Levi transformed into a fish-man form again, and continued to visit the other workshops of the Zelandia Underground Demon Research Institute except the golem workshop. This was something he didn't have time to do during the last group inspection.

thing.

After all, as someone who has been there, I know that so-called ‘leader’s’ inspections are often routine under some glamorous whitewash, and it is difficult to see where the real problem lies.

This is why some back doors and side windows have become places where class teachers often spy.

Even though doing so can easily cause psychological shadow to some family members and employees, Levi still enjoys it.

'Hey, after all, I ended up living the life I hated the most.'

Li Wei sighed unhappily.

After forty-six years of expansion and refinement, the entire Demon Research Institute and his memory had changed beyond recognition.

However, it is still roughly based on the proposal before sleeping, classifying the articles according to different disciplines, and establishing projects according to the different needs and progress at the current stage, and forming a temporary development team to deal with certain urgent needs.

For example, the tights that Li Wei got from Bestena have been thoroughly studied by a group of demon researchers recently. I don't know if Miss Frost Giant would come to Li Wei if that heartbreaking scene was seen.

A certain dragon fought hard...

Today's Magic Research Institute's magic industry classification alone is divided into military industry and civilian use, with more than 200 detailed items in five major categories.

Perhaps it is far from comparable to the Netheril era or Blue Star's majestic modern industry with more than 6,000 branches, but Levi is already very satisfied.

Because according to Iger, it only took them less than fifty years for Zeelandia to travel the same path that Netheril had for centuries.

Before Netheril got the mysterious scroll, it was just a small fishing village that was lucky enough to gain the trust of the Ellan elves and established trade relations with them, thus exchanging some magical knowledge.

Perhaps without this magical knowledge as the cornerstone of path exploration, they would not have discovered the two 'Nether Scrolls'.

Even after obtaining the Netherese Scrolls, all kinds of mysterious knowledge are still monopolized by the upper-level arcanists, and most magical technologies are rarely used by civilians. This once led to Netheril being in a long-term situation.

state of class differentiation.

Perhaps the arcane masters at that time had achieved the goal of lifting the entire city into the sky and driving magic ships to explore other mysterious planes, but the lower class people might still be living in the backward Middle Ages.

With their poor wisdom, they simply cannot imagine what those high-ranking great arcanists are chasing...and what do they believe in?

This created a huge divide.

Yig's teacher once said to him: Perhaps it was the 'arrogance' of the great arcane masters that caused that 'tragedy'.

If those 'thieves' knew the value of the Nether Scroll, maybe... they wouldn't do such stupid things.

They never knew until their death what kind of priceless treasure they smashed into pieces with a hammer.

The successive losses of Nether scrolls have undoubtedly caused the originally rapidly developing Nether Empire to fall into stagnation and confusion. The emergence of the Felin Demon Sun has made this contradiction even worse.

The only way for the people at the bottom to get rid of the shackles of this class is to go through many tests and screenings to study in private academies run by some great arcanists, like Xia Duo did back then, and to impress the great arcanists through their scientific research results.

They become each other's apprentices.

Only in this way can we officially enter the real mainstream society of Netheril and enjoy the dividends of that country of scholars.

But that probability is really slim.

In the history of Netheril for nearly five thousand years, there have only been a few people like Shado who have truly stepped from the common class into the ranks of great arcanists.

Most of them can only be students like Brad who were born into a wealthy family and received elite education since childhood.

Li Wei once heard an interesting statement, that is, the "second generation of students" will be far more difficult to surpass than the "second generation of rich people" in the future.

Because in a general sense, what the ‘rich second generation’ may enjoy is just the inheritance of wealth.

Not only can the "second generation students" monetize their knowledge at any time, but they also monopolize educational resources that may be difficult to achieve even with ordinary wealth.

A top student will most likely find another top student as a spouse, and it is not easy for the offspring who have inherited their wisdom to become stupid...

Even under the same exam-oriented education system, others are born with a "low IQ", can be proficient in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and have a photographic memory of foreign languages.

Such 'competitors' undoubtedly make ordinary people feel suffocated and desperate...

The Netheril Empire is undoubtedly a true portrayal of this case.

It is precisely because of this past experience that even if the process of involution is unavoidable in the future, at least at this stage, Levi still wants to open Zelandia's road a little wider and give ordinary people more opportunities.

And this is why he spends so much resources to popularize compulsory education for all people in Zeelandia.

He didn't want to go down the old path of Netheril.

Just as Li Wei was thinking about his future plans, he happened to pass by a project department called Magic Military Motorcycle.

Different from other small departments, this project that Levi personally named has undoubtedly received more resources from Zelandia, so both the site and the scale are far larger than other projects, and there is even a dedicated smelting line.

The steel mill is dedicated to this project department.

From a distance, you can see the red-hot molten iron flowing out of the blast furnace, falling into the mold, and being divided. Then you can see many gray dwarves using iron tongs to clamp out these red-hot parts and turn the iron.

The hammers and bells were beating loudly.

Originally, Levi didn't pay much attention to this scene, but he actually saw many figures of Brother Cavins on these steel casting parts assembly lines.

To a certain extent, they are the derivatives of the Extreme War Rats for more than 40 years.

Later, due to some reasons, Li Weichen temporarily stopped it before going to bed.

But Levi was not ruthless enough to 'destroy' all the Cavans rats who volunteered to participate in the Dragon Knights transformation plan and became extreme war rats.

Although most of the work done by these Cavins rats was mechanized hands-on work, it still attracted Levi's attention.

Because this means that this batch of Cavins rats can at least initially communicate with the gray dwarves and understand the technical requirements stipulated by the gray dwarf technicians...

For some reason, this discovery actually made Levi feel a little chilled down his spine...

too fast...

We need to know that it took unknown generations for early apes to evolve from walking upright to learning to make and use tools.

Although these Cavins rats have been transformed by them and taught them how to adapt to the society of intelligent creatures for their use.

But when he saw with his own eyes that they actually held tools, knew how to start thinking like apprentices, and would actively feedback problems to the dwarf teachers and innovate their own work experience, this scene still shocked him.

With such curiosity, Levi slowly approached the Cavins rat workshop team leader who had just finished communicating with the dwarf technical engineer and was about to return to the production line. However, he suddenly found that the Cavins rat in front of him looked familiar.

...

So when the other party turned around, Levi raised his paw and tentatively called out a name that was forty-six years old:

"Guga! Chattering?"

This was the name of a food delivery rat he met when he woke up forty-six years ago.

The Cavins rat was obviously startled when he heard the word "chirp". It seemed that he couldn't remember when he met a kuo-toa man, but the aura of the other person gave him a complicated feeling.

It was obvious that he instinctively felt a sense of natural awe, but he couldn't help but want to get closer.

So he raised his paw and pointed at his chest, and asked with some difficulty: "You, know Chi Chi Fei?"

Levi suddenly remembered that the last time he met the other party, he was still in rat-man form, but now he was in fish-man form, so he had to laugh and said:

"Guga...yes!yes!"

"Aha, then you got the wrong mouse. It's my great, great, great, great grandfather, he, are, die! He has died for many years... my, name, Chat Beta! The blacksmith, Chat Beta!

"

There was no trace of sadness on the face of the noble rat-man. Instead, he rubbed his beard proudly and said.

It suddenly dawned on Levi that Calvin seemed to have told him that the average lifespan of Caverns rats was only three to five years. In some harsh environments where food was scarce, most Caverns rats did not even survive two years.

Their whole life is to constantly look for food, find everything they can eat to ensure that they survive, and then mate to produce as many offspring as possible.

This was originally the only meaning of their survival:

If you continue, even if you are ignorant and shameless, you must do whatever it takes to survive.

Until...their arrival.

Breaking the original peace of the rat people...

Seeing that Li Wei was silent, the rat man thought he was remembering his great-great-great-grandfather, so he smiled "Jiejie" and comforted Li Wei with his convoluted "Kapu dialect".

Said that his grandfather was once the oldest Skaven in their family.

It was the appearance of Chachafei that led their family out of their original ignorance and darkness, and found meaning other than dedicating their flesh and blood to the ‘Lord’.

Having said this, the rat man solemnly clasped his paws together and prayed to an unknown existence:

"Chacha! (Thank you, Your Majesty Calvin, for giving me peace!)"
To be continued...