Africa, November 6, morning, Tangier camp near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Yamazaki saw that Artoria didn't quite understand the current situation and food issues, so he explained it to her, and by the way, why they wanted to cause sabotage.
First of all, what needs to be affirmed is that the rule of European aristocrats is relatively civilized. After all, they are people who grew up in modern times, and most of them are elites.
They maintain a supply of marine fish and multivitamins. If there is no rat plague, the food produced in Europe, plus the food from trade, should be enough.
However, the rat plague led to poor or even no harvests. It can be said that although the landlords had a surplus of grain, it was only a drop in the bucket and they could only meet their own needs first.
The production of multivitamins is often suspended due to rat plagues, and the output cannot meet people's needs. As a result, people are even more afraid to eat more sea fish, fearing nutritional imbalance and making their bodies unable to withstand viruses.
On the other hand, only the Yamazaki family trades food with the European aristocratic mutants. Others either do not need to trade or are hoarding food.
The main items traded are fuel and technology, but the food-producing camps are all short of fuel, so fuel prices are kept very low.
In terms of technology, they have only opened up a little. They are worried that if they open too much technology, the armed enhanced people will gain the strength to compete with mutants, which will directly affect their rule.
In order to overthrow their rule, Yamazaki did not send them free food. After all, he could not help the enemy.
This is the situation of the food problem in Europe. In short, it is the reason why the aristocratic mutants are in politics and are unwilling to use more technology for trade.
This is actually a derivative of the current root problem in Europe, that is, most of the aristocratic mutants, with the help of the powerful force of the mutants, suppressed the enhanced people, and wrote laws that were obviously beneficial to their long-term rule, with the intention of restoring the declining aristocratic system.
As the enhanced people grow, those with a larger base are bound to make a sound, and there will inevitably be a collision between the two parties.
It can be said that under the conflict of interests, large-scale battles will inevitably occur between the two parties who are unwilling to give in, and a large number of innocent people will be involved.
People with aristocratic mutations should also see this, but they choose their own interests.
Letting ungrown enhanced people fight rats can be seen as a kind of killing with a borrowed knife, in order to kill the future strong among the enhanced people.
This strategy can be said to be successful. As for Artoria, with her current strength, occupying a camp is not a problem. If there is a group of Artoria, they can completely overthrow the order established by the noble mutants.
Yamazaki's purpose, from a broad perspective, is to prevent large-scale conflicts between mutants and enhanced humans in Europe and minimize the losses on both sides.
From a selfish point of view, Europe's advanced technology is needed to deal with more problems that may arise in the future.
Arturia listened straightforwardly, but she actually seemed to understand, maybe, well, she didn't understand.
Regardless of whether she understands it or not, it’s almost time to digest food after a meal and you can start practicing.
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Ms. Diji helps Shan Dai and trains the little lynx Miaomiao, the big lion two lions and the big bear, as well as 40 female tyrants.
Train them how to fight with spiritual power and stimulate their spiritual power.
It is not required that they can use spiritual power alone, but I hope that they can mix spiritual power with attack and defense.
Yamasaki exercises his body by gathering dust and dirt into a ball and carrying it on his shoulders while running, exercising both his mental and physical strength.
Denisa, Pricia, Inili, Sophia, and Loluia are all similar, but they use water.
Arturia looked left and right, and finally decided to follow her usual practice method, that is, to take a sword stance and concentrate her mental power on the sword.
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morning.
Arturia tried to invite Denisa to fight again, but Denisa didn't agree. She didn't like meaningless fights.
Sophia, who has always been calm, accepted the challenge. Due to the drugs, she was still in a state of excitement.
A battle between water and wind lasted for half an hour, but no one could do anything.
Sophia used the flowing water as armor to protect her body, and Artoria's wind blade could not penetrate it.
Artoria used a whirlwind to protect her body, and Sophia's water blade was deflected.
The tricks were useless, and in the end it became a battle of mental strength.
One of the two was under the influence of drugs, and the other became more and more excited as the fight continued. The fight was endless and the fight was endless, so they simply stopped.
But Arturia felt tired soon after the truce and fought, and fell asleep holding her sword.
It was the same for Sophia. The effect of the medicine wore off, and she felt very tired and went to sleep.
The two of them slept until evening, just in time for dinner.
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During dinner.
Yamazaki told everyone that if physical cultivation is like a boat going upstream, then spiritual cultivation is like climbing a waterfall backwards.
There are shortcuts to the growth of mental power, but if you cannot use it for your own use, the increased mental power will soon disappear, just like falling from a waterfall to the bottom.
Any means of stimulating mental power can increase mental power. Fighting, exercise, medicine, eating, even drinking water, as long as you think it is exciting, you can forcibly increase mental power.
But as the mood drops and returns to normal, the mental strength will drop back, even lower than before.
Yamazaki is still exploring this situation of always maintaining an excited state of mind.
In fact, Yamazaki once experimented with Iona.
But it doesn't work. My mood always has ups and downs. This is for sure. Otherwise, I would be a non-human being without joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.
At the same time, there is also a time for sleep. Even if you don't sleep for seven days and seven nights, you still need to rest after that, and it is impossible to maintain an excited state of mind during sleep.
In short, if you want to increase your mental power and use the increased mental power for your own use, there is only one way, and that is basic practice, such as piling sand into balls.
Use a hundred grains of sand at a time to gather the sand into a ball, and use 10,000 grains of sand at a time to gather the sand into a ball. This is real progress.
In addition, when mental power suddenly increases, the extra mental power may not be able to control well. No one can say whether the things that cannot be controlled are good or bad.
Therefore, it is good to stay excited when fighting, but don't forget to be normal.
"yes."
Artoria knew that the last paragraph was meant for her.
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While Yamazaki, Shandai and others were having dinner happily, the high-level aristocratic mutants in Europe were having a meeting in full swing, because Kisho Arima and Izumi Takatsuki were devouring them unscrupulously.
After much discussion, everyone still didn't dare to take the risk, so they decided to release a surefire move - a micro-sized insect robot.
This decision was opposed by some people, who were worried that it would trigger the Skynet system, but most people agreed. They believed that the Skynet system was just a legend.
Even if it is true, there is still a question mark as to whether the Skynet system can still be used.
What's more, people now are very strong, dozens of times stronger than the original people on Earth, and the Skynet system is aimed at the people on the original Earth. Even if the Skynet system is running, it won't have much power in comparison.
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What happened was beyond their expectations. The tiny insect robot had no effect on Arima Kisho and Takatsuki Izumi, and was blocked by the air armor controlled by the two's mental power.
"What is this, a bug?"
"It seems to be a robot bug."
In fact, the two people's air armors prevent each other from attacking. Although the two have been cooperating with each other, they are also wary of each other.
Both of them believed that if given the chance, the other would definitely devour them.