"Since the traditional ethics of the Asmat people encourage them to hunt strangers, there is nothing to complain about if they are killed. They can just find opportunities to take revenge in the future."
"When a man is killed by his opponent, it shows that his enemy is very powerful, amazing and worthy of everyone's awe!"
"If a man's relatives and friends have a chance to take revenge in the future, by killing this powerful enemy and eating his flesh and blood, they can absorb this powerful enemy's strength and even take away his identity - this is the simple concept of the Asmat people.
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“Contrary to the exotic imagination of those ‘arm chair anthropologists’, the Asmat people are not ‘noble savages’.”
"Asmat warriors do not advocate fair one-on-one duels. As long as they can defeat their opponents, sneak attacks and deception are reasonable means. There is no need to be despicable or noble. Using means is itself a part of strength."
Finally, Tangning concluded in a slightly mocking tone:
"On this issue, the Asmat people are not as hypocritical and double-standard as the Western colonizers."
After breakfast, Gao Fei and his party boarded Pep's boat. The rest of the trip will be on the river.
If there are no accidents on the way, the SWAT team will arrive at the third area on the "Arc of Mutation" within a week, which is Brother Pep's hometown - the Asmat area.
In the south of Irian Island, rivers are like natural highways, and the Asmat people's means of transportation are canoes. Even the houses built by the water are called "boats."
Compared with traditional canoes, Pep, a catamaran equipped with a 300-horsepower outboard engine, can be called a Rolls-Royce on the water.
The spacious cabin, in addition to eight hammocks, also has enough space for a "spray turkey" bird's nest.
This ship also has special enchantment effects. Whenever Pep comes ashore, by reciting a spell, he can shrink the 15-meter-long × 8-meter-wide catamaran into the size of a palm, put it in his pocket, and carry it with him.
When you need to use a boat, place this model-like boat on the open water and recite the incantation to make it bigger.
After listening to Brother Pep's introduction, Gao Fei nodded thoughtfully and turned to look at Ma Yun.
"Brother Fei, no need to say more, I understand what you mean."
With Pep's permission, Xiao Ma drew an analytical array on the deck and used the professional expertise of an artificer to analyze the enchantment process of this magic ship.
After a while of busy work, she successfully cracked the mystery of the ship's ability to scale freely. The answer was the third-level "Shrinking Object Technique" of the "School of Change".
Ma Yun extracted the configuration of the "Shrinking Object Spell", then opened the astrolabe and took pictures of the spell configuration.
"The richest man, what are you doing?" Gao Fei asked inexplicably, "According to the method in the game, shouldn't you be able to copy the spell configuration into your own magic book?"
"Brother Fei, modern technology is changing with each passing day. You can't always look at new things with old eyes!"
Xiao Ma put his hands on his hips and expressed himself proudly:
"In the game, I struggled to copy spells with a quill dipped in ink, but the conditions were limited and the tools were crude, so there was no other way."
"In reality, there is no need to go through so much trouble. You can just use the astrolabe to take a photo of the analyzed spell configuration, and then click on this small app developed by Tiangong to automatically scan the photo and capture the text and graphics corresponding to the spell.
and data, transcribed into my electronic magic book."
"After the program has finished processing it automatically, I can manually calibrate it and correct typos and garbled characters, and it's done."
Gao Fei scratched his head and thought to himself, isn't this just an OCR software?
Good guy, the mage profession has also launched a "paperless office". It is truly the number one productive force in the fantasy world!
Gao Fei also made a copy of the spells analyzed by Ma Yun and stored them in the imitator's spell book.
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Level 3 "Shrinking Objects": Designate a group of non-magical objects whose three-dimensional dimensions do not exceed a certain limit, so that their length, width, and height are reduced according to a fixed ratio, and the reduced state is maintained for 1 day/level.
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The size of the materials that can be processed by the "Shrinking Material Spell", as well as the reduction ratio, completely depend on the level of the caster.
Take Ma Yun as an example. With the level 8 "Artificer" and the additional 4 spell casting levels provided by "Skilled Spellcaster", there are a total of 12 spell casting levels. At most, the length, width and height can be no more than 64 feet.
The three-dimensional dimensions of the objects are reduced to 1/16, which is equivalent to the volume being reduced to 1/4096.
At the same time, the weight of the object has also shrunk to 1/4096 along with its volume.
In the fantasy world, the "shrinking technique" is widely used in commercial and military fields. It can greatly reduce logistics costs and reduce long-distance container freight by three orders of magnitude.
In the military, the mobility and portability of heavy weapons are also inseparable from the guarantee of "shrinking objects".
To take the simplest example, shrinking a 200-ton steel ingot into an iron block that can be picked up with one hand and throwing it from a high altitude can easily destroy an armored battleship.
Such tactics are not new in the game world, but in the real world, if Tiangong is willing, he can create a "Big Ivan" that can be carried in his jacket pocket at any time.
Therefore, Gao Fei truly feels that "Tiangong" should and can only be a purely public welfare organization.
It’s not that the high-level people in Tiangong have high moral standards, but that they are in a state where they have nothing to seek but public welfare.
A "black technology" like the "Shrinking Object Technique" that can not only bring about technological revolution, but also destroy the world, Tiangong has as many as it needs, and it can destroy Blue Star's most powerful aircraft carrier fleet in ten minutes.
Tiangong can't find any comparable hostile forces in this world. If it weren't for the common interests of all mankind, Gao Fei couldn't think of any other career worth pursuing.
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The Digur River originates from the snow-capped mountains in the central part of Irian Island, has a total length of 525 kilometers, flows through the Savan Valley, and finally merges into the Arafura Gulf. It is the most important water system in the southern part of Irian Island.
During the rainy season, the river is up to two kilometers wide at its widest, and both sides are either swamps or dense rainforests.
The Asmat people, who live in swamps and rainforests, have an ancient myth circulating.
In mythology, the Digur River is also a mysterious "River of Styx". Through this river, mortals can reach "Safan", and ghosts and gods can return to the earth.
"Safan" is the underworld in Asmat mythology, the home of ancestral souls.
There are many passages for two-way travel between the world and the underworld, and the Savan Valley is the most famous entrance to the underworld.
In addition to the Safan Valley, there are many whirlpools on the Digul River. The Asmat people believe that these whirlpools are also the entrance to Safan and can send the souls of drowned people to the underworld.
