The mushroom people are a very typical public ownership system, with colonies or associations as units. Especially in villages, there is a clear division of labor, which can be divided into hunter associations, explorer associations, sower associations, builder associations, and cultivator associations.
Needless to say, there is no need to say much about the Sowers Guild and the Builder Guild.
The former is responsible for growing mushrooms all over the world. Mushroom trees in most areas are in a free-range state. They can be planted and eaten by anyone. The other is the exclusive mushroom field in their village. It is standard intensive farming and even knows
Fertilizer, but their fertilizer is not just excrement, but also the corpses brought back by hunters, which can be used as fertilizer for their fungus crops.
The latter build living quarters for the myconids. They also dig caves, but their level of expertise is not as high as that of the mountain dwarves and underground dwarves.
The Cultivator Association is responsible for cultivating new myconids, which are of course grown in the form of spores in the ground. The new myconids are only a few inches tall and have not formed consciousness. They are no different from ordinary large mushrooms.
But in just a few weeks, they will turn into cute little mushrooms that run around the world. Apart from being overly curious, these little mushrooms are the most obedient children.
Due to the simplicity of childbirth and long lifespan, in order to prevent overpopulation, the myconids have a very strong concept of family planning. The time and number of each wave of young myconids are strictly controlled.
Generally speaking, they cultivate little mushroom people, many times not only for the sake of racial continuation, but because they feel that the current life is too boring and monotonous, so they use these little mushroom people as spices in life. Even if they are bragging, they can reveal themselves to new people.
Wouldn’t it be more fulfilling if someone who admires the eyes blows?
In other words, having children is just for fun.
Sean saw great potential in the unique way of reproduction of myconids.
What does the Yongye Army Leader lack most?
Population!
Myconids, they are humans too!
The City of Shadows is small and cannot accommodate more myconids, but the Eternal Night Army has a vast area.
In the Andes Mountains, there are large sections of karst landforms and a large number of underground caves, which can be turned into excellent settlements for the myconids.
Not to mention that Sean now has a Jedi artifact like the Digging Purple Worm in his hands. Building a dungeon suitable for them to live in is not too simple.
They are also suitable as workers for some jobs planned to be placed underground in the future, such as the subway.
It seems necessary to first train some military adjutants who are engaged in the ideological education of the Yongye Army leaders to carry out positive and correct ideological education for these mushroom people who lack life goals and are loose and free, so that they can become the leaders of the Yongye Army.
a member of the family.
It doesn’t matter if the thoughts of adult myconids are difficult to change, aren’t there still those little myconids?
Anyway, myconids grow very quickly, taking only six years from birth to adulthood.
Once the restrictions are relaxed, they will pop out like mushrooms after a summer rain.
The remaining two associations are more interesting in Sean's opinion.
Among them, the Explorer's Association is a typical non-mainstream gathering place for myconids who generally have a nerdy personality. It is composed of a small group of myconids who are interested in exploration. They spend all day doing nothing in the City of Shadows with simple weapons.
After all, this place is too small and has probably been trampled to pieces by them long ago. There is no danger for them to explore.
In Sean's opinion, this group of myconids should be the easiest to encourage and the easiest to use for their own purposes. This is due to their restless curiosity.
Therefore, when Sean went to each myconid colony, he paid special attention to collecting information about these people. Not to mention, he collected a lot of excellent seeds. When he needed it, he could absorb and assimilate them in the first wave.
The Hunters Guild is considered the professional fighting branch of the myconids, and it is the group of people led by Baba Jin that he saw earlier.
Their concept of kindness permeates their hunting.
Usually, they are not so much hunting as they are quietly stalking their prey. They rarely use active means to hunt, but quietly wait for their prey to die and recover their bodies.
To put it simply, we don't kill, but we can kill you.
In the underground world, there are really few people who are more alive than myconids. Theoretically, they can live for thousands of years. After all, they are plants.
But few myconids live to that age, because as time goes by, some myconids despise reality as too boring, and become addicted to the mind all year round, and as a result, they really turn themselves into big mushrooms.
This kind of mushroom is called the Tong Nian Mushroom, and it is surrounded by a Tong Nian Dreamland all year round. The soul consciousness of the mushroom man lives in this Tong Nian Dream.
Other myconids can visit this telepathic dream through telepathy.
If other creatures accidentally approach the telepathic mushroom, they will have to fight against the telepathic mushroom. Once the confrontation fails, the fun will be great, and their souls will be pulled into this telepathic dream.
Creatures that are unfortunate enough to be dragged into the Tong Nian Dream can negotiate with the owner of the Tong Nian Dream and let them take the initiative to let their souls and consciousness leave.
If they are kind souls and have never shown any malice or threat to the Tong Nian mushrooms, the kind and simple mushroom people will usually keep them as guests in the Tong Nian dreamland for a period of time, tell a few stories, and communicate with each other before letting them go.
This premise is that the mushroom man's consciousness is still intact and he has not turned into a mushroom in his telepathic dream.
If it's an evil soul, don't even think about it. No matter whether the other party's soul consciousness has turned into a mushroom or not, he won't be able to find it.
When the creature dragged into the Tong Nian dream dies, it naturally becomes the nourishment for the Tong Nian mushroom to thrive, and even its soul consciousness will become a part of the Tong Nian dream.
If one day you encounter a mushroom forest full of corpses, lush growth, but sparse living creatures in the Dark Territory, unless you are particularly confident in your own strength, it is best to take a detour.
Because it is very likely that there are one, or even multiple, thriving Tongniang mushrooms here, and this place has been completely shrouded in its Tongniang dream.
Usually by the time the intruder realizes it, it's too late.
As for leaving by killing the soul consciousness of the mushroom man in the dream, it is theoretically possible, but the possibility of doing so is slim.
Just like someone wants to enter Sean's conscious space and kill him, it is absolutely impossible.
In that world, they are god-like existences.
Most of those who were dragged into it had soul consciousnesses weaker than theirs, so how could it be possible to kill them, unless the soul consciousnesses of both parties were completely different and they forced their way in to kill them.
If it really has this strength, there is no need to go to such trouble at all, just humanely destroy its body.
There are very few Amanita mushrooms in the wild, and most of them grow in mushroom colonies.
Even if there is something accidentally growing outside the colony, if it is discovered by the myconids, a new colony will be established around it.
Not only because it is a natural defense facility that can withstand sneak attacks by many intruders.
Also because he has a natural telepathic dream state, which makes it easier for them to log in.
Not all myconids have the ability to create telepathic dreams.
Underage myconids are incapable of entering telepathic dreams.
Ordinary adults can only log into ready-made telepathic dreams, but do not have the ability to create corresponding telepathic dreams.
Once they possess the ability to create telepathic dreams, they immediately break away from the category of ordinary adult myconids and are dubbed the kings of myconids.
It is not unusual for multiple king mushrooms to appear in one colony.
But in every colony association, there must be a mushroom king.
If there is no Mycoid King, the colony association will automatically migrate and merge into the tribe that recently has a Myconoid King, or send Myconids to other colony associations to find a Myconoid King who will come back to serve as the supreme leader of the colony.
To put it in the original words of the mushroom people, how can we live a life without the Internet? Ahem, a life without Tong Nian?
Sean strongly agrees with this point.
There is a classic example on the Internet in the past life. If those otakus and otakus were given a computer and a network cable, they could stay at home forever.
If that network cable is cut off, they will go crazy within a few days.
Fungi people are definitely patients with severe home sickness. Apart from having to work, they spend the rest of their time in the dream state. Adults spend at least eight hours a day.
The more he learned about the myconid people's lifestyle, the more curious Sean naturally became about this telepathic dream.
You must enter it and experience it.
The result really shocked Sean.
The dream world is similar to Sean's consciousness space. They are both consciousness communication networks built on the basis of consciousness.
The only difference is that Sean is maintained through the transmission of energy through magic circuits.
The myconid's telepathic dream state is maintained by telepathic spores, which is a dream-like state.
Different people have different constructs, and their dreams are also different.
Some Tong Nian dreams are larger colonies, and the myconids that enter them all have different jobs or lifestyles. They build more buildings of different styles that are inconvenient to build in reality. Mushroom buildings are still the most common. The myconids that build this kind of dream
Wang is a typical construction enthusiast.
Some are more complex dark areas, where myconids can experience the adventurous life, and there may even be a large number of unique underground monsters. Myconids can try to track, conquer, or be hunted down, etc. The owner of this dreamland,
Either a hunting enthusiast or an adventure enthusiast.
Some build a sunny forest life, and the mushroom people who enter it can enjoy the sun bath leisurely. This mushroom king is probably full of yearning for life on the ground.
Floating Island Dreamland, Breeding Dreamland, etc.
Even if the dream created by each Myconid King or the Thought Mushroom is similar in style, there are differences in details.
This is entirely based on the builder's preference.
The specific situations in Tong Nian's dreams are obviously limited by their imagination and knowledge. Many mushroom kings with insufficient abilities have to copy the surrounding environment, giving people a sense of déjà vu.
Some even have multiple dreams, and you can travel back and forth between different dreams, provided that the telepathic spores released by the Mycoid King have overlapping areas.
I just don’t know if my own consciousness space can be connected with the mycoid’s telepathic dream.
If it could, the value of the myconids would be greatly increased.
We can even save the need to spread the network all over the world. We can directly pass the main pipeline through it, then dig out settlements suitable for myconids underground in each city, and open the spore WIFI. Everyone can log in to the consciousness network anytime and anywhere.
Even if you can't, it doesn't matter. These myconid kings are all ready-made dreamers, masters of constructing virtual worlds. They only need to expand their horizons and ideas, and the construction of different worlds in the consciousness space will be completed.
I believe that the mushroom kings must be very interested in this matter.
The simple and kind myconids never imagined that the person they were entertaining these days was actually a demon wearing a lawful good coat, who was thinking about how to pull out their bones, drink their blood, and squeeze out the last remaining value.
The second largest race in the City of Shadows is the underground gnomes, with a total population of about 3,000.
Their personalities are as kind as those of the mushrooms, but they are a little more solitary.
They are the best underground diggers and builders, unlike the myconids who modify existing caves to suit their own habitation.
Eighty percent of the caves where the underground gnomes live were dug by themselves, so they are very planned.
A standard underground dwarf village consists of two hundred to five hundred people. It has two clearly visible entrances and exits, one main and one other, and a varying number of secret escape hatches, in order to defend against threats from the darkness.
Walk along the main passage for at least one kilometer to reach the underground dwarf village.
This main passage is the first line of defense for the underground gnomes, and is filled with densely packed labyrinths and various traps designed to confuse people.
Every adult underground dwarf is a master trap master. He will make full use of the terrain and quickly lay out elaborate traps to make up for his lack of combat effectiveness.
If you want to capture the underground dwarf village from the front, you must first engage in an underground guerrilla war with their elite team.
After passing through the main passage, you will see a large underground square. This is the main place for underground gnomes to gather and trade. The circle of caves around the square is not a residential area, but a serious place.
Commercial housing store.
When Sean first entered Black Pickaxe Village, he was really startled by the bustling scene here, which was like going to a big market. The life was full of atmosphere. Regardless of the special environment and the appearance of the underground gnomes, in many aspects it was the same as that of farming and civilized humans.
Very similar.
With the underground square as the center, there are at least eight passages, connected behind are three-dimensional residential areas, which can accommodate at least a dozen or as many as twenty underground dwarf families living here, and the residential areas go deeper.
, it is a specialized fungus farming land. Every residential area must have a secret escape passage in case of emergency.
This design is also for preparation for battle.
Once the underground dwarf village is captured, these residential areas can block the entrance and temporarily seal themselves off as a last resort, or they can escape through secret passages, or they can defend themselves for a period of time.
Most of the underground gnome villages are tailor-made according to their own height, which is very unfriendly to ordinary humans.
Sean, who is in trouble, uses an energy clone, which allows him to adjust his height freely.
This unintentional move made many underground dwarves have a great impression of him. It is always easier to accept people who are not so different from themselves.
Cats have cat lanes, dogs have dog lanes.
Even the weakest creatures have their own way of survival.
This is clearly demonstrated by the underground gnomes.
Their individual strength may be weak, but they have their own way of survival.
"Village Chief Pei Di, I have heard before that you are one of the top construction masters in the underground, and today I saw that you are indeed well-deserved." Xiao En praised sincerely.
"Thank you, Your Excellency, for your compliments. This is our way of life." Village Chief Pei Di said with a bit of pride and a bit of expectation, "I wonder, Your Excellency, how you have considered our proposal? I
I can guarantee that everyone here is the best builder and will make your mage tower beautifully renovated."