Wei School's Three Good Students

Chapter 317 The Alliance Between Humanity and Nature

Throughout the winter of 2112 in the Han calendar, after extensive searches and investigations, sixty-seven savages who had broken away from their tribes were captured. The Hanbei Protectorate's control over the region was strengthened.

After being washed, cleaned, and dressed, these savages were recruited into the "Forest Rangers" team.

The instructor told the savages, "I don't expect you to change your carefree way of life. But you must remember the Protectorate's trading rules." He gave them a map and a list of trade transactions. Next, he taught them how to make phone calls, how to report messages, and how to record corresponding wages.
Their "exchange list" includes a range of modern items such as penicillin, steel knives, and hand grenades, while they also carry a futuristic item provided by the Dragon Group—a "telephone." Once they can confirm valuable information, these rangers go to a fixed location, dial the number called "God," and a container will be airdropped from a predetermined point in their area.

Oh, this "main god" is Xuan Chong's twisted sense of humor. Because Xuan Chong hopes that these individuals, detached from "society" and living in the law of the jungle, can reconnect with modern society by earning "contribution points" to exchange for items.

Xuan Chong referred to these isolated individuals who were singled out as "forest rangers".

The items that can be exchanged include marriage. Occasionally, female prisoners will appear in Hanbei. Due to the preferential treatment policy, they cannot be sentenced to death - so they are "sent to the armored people as slaves".

…human beings have maintained diversity…

Humans are social beings, but there are always people with "social anxiety" who suffer from social conflicts.

The method of "causing social death" is a tool of "violence" that a certain group of people at the top of the rules have focused on mastering since humanity entered the era of social cohesion; compared with overt violence such as "fists, sticks, and axes," it has long been ignored. In fact, because its users are often the traditionally weak, it is often overlooked.

From being driven out of tribes in primitive times, to being exiled in feudal times, to being denounced in newspapers in modern times, and to the (harmonious) approach in postmodern times.

It is precisely this kind of "soft violence" that has created a large number of "atomic people" who are detached from social groups and occupy space in marginal areas.

This leads to a situation that is rather unique compared to "social races" in the universe.

Human genes retain certain tendencies that cause individuals to separate from the group. These tendencies are currently "hidden" in the Ork.

Orcs possess the ability to mimic target "social organizations" and are themselves a true social being.

While the Orks appear to be individuals capable of expressing unique voices, the powerful group at the top lacks complex internal strife.

Xuan Chong: Orcs, creatures with a solidified "true social nature," are a special kind of attack against other civilizations in the universe. But what if we bypass this "special attack"?

After the Protectorate took in the wild men, they released them back into the mountains and gave them the task of "supervising exploration."

…Xuan Chong: In the Age of Empires game, you need to send scouts to explore the area right from the start…

Three months after the Protectorate General of the Northern Han established a forest patrol team in the Central Siberian region, truly important intelligence emerged.

A forest ranger on the upper reaches of the Qian River rushed into the protective barrier of the high tower, turned the telephone dial, and excitedly reported a piece of highly valuable information—a chance to get a wife.

There are indeed Orks in the northern wasteland.

In November 2112, Xuan Chong deployed an airship to the target area. As the special forces prepared to land, a gyrfalcon (eagle) detected abnormal tree shaking in the target area. This shaking in the jungle indicated the presence of a large animal. The gyrfalcon circled in the sky, emitting cries. The special forces then advanced towards the target.

Upon arriving at their destination, the investigators examined the half-meter-tall mushrooms in the mountain stream and confirmed that, like the three-meter-tall mushrooms found in the southern desert region, these were not native to Earth.

Experts removed the mushroom and found cysts inside that had not yet developed into embryos.

The investigators quickly netted an individual less than half a meter tall in the surrounding area. Experts identified it as one of the little monsters who helped the Great Orks scavenge for scraps on the battlefield.

Where are the Orks here? The survey team found no Ork colony.

The appearance of these "fart spirits" confirms the speculation of Hanbei that an Ork race exists in the cold northern subcontinent during the spore dispersal process.

This also verifies a hypothesis: in the early days of the Ork tribe, was it a question of "which came first, the farts or the Orks?"

However, since there was no mature civilization to refer to in this region, the Orks could only produce this type of species.

…the airship continued its pursuit…

Based on previous battlefield discoveries, the biological experts from Hanbei arrived at the scene and excitedly summarized their observations of the "native Orks" in the wilderness: the Orks have consistently attacked areas where humans are highly organized, and although they have suffered fierce attacks, they have continuously evolved their organization during the war.

Just as humans tend to gravitate towards areas where they can live better, they have a thirst for food and reproduction.

The Orks have no shortage of reproduction or food. As a "tool species," what is their craving, etched in their genes, that drives their expansion and development? Undoubtedly, it is a place where they can "waaagh!"

Before the arrival of the Hanbei Protectorate, the level of human social organization here was zero; it was utterly nonexistent.

When the Protectorate's forces entered this area, they acted very peacefully, rebuilding communication with the locals not through weapons, but through trade. The current peace and stability of Hanbei has left the Orks with no interest in dealing with evolution.

Xuan Chong couldn't help but recall a lame joke Xie Ming had told him: "The Orks aren't a 'bloodthirsty' race. They have no interest in completely destroying species that pose little threat to them, even if those species occupy resources."

Now that the Protectorate has arrived in the north and human organization has been strengthened, it seems that this race is about to "hot start".

At this moment, Xuan Chong could hear the "whispers" in the mountains, which were made by those small monsters, about half a person's height and as big as monkeys.

If this sound were dozens of times louder, it would activate "waaagh!".

Suddenly, Xuan Chong wondered why the "fart devils" hadn't become rampant in the north.

However, just as Xuan Chong was leaving, a tiger's roar suddenly echoed from the mountains. As the roar passed, the leaves of the trees in the forest seemed to tremble.

Xuan Chong activated the monitoring equipment and witnessed a scene worthy of contemplation: a tiger weighing approximately 300 kilograms suddenly emerged from the jungle. This tiger seemed to be a repeat offender. It effortlessly snatched a man who was sharpening a wooden stick and then devoured it.

The enormous tiger head seemed curious, smelling a peculiar scent. It then made eye contact with Xuan Chong, and upon seeing Xuan Chong's gaze, the mountain lord immediately flicked its tail and flew away.

Xuan Chong was stunned for a moment, and then he thought of something about the situation after the appearance of the mountain lord.

He quickly picked up the "Temple of the Imperial Ancestral Temple" from his body and activated the "Biological Group Identification" ability (an ability derived from "Ji").

Xuan Chong rarely uses other people's superpowers.

After frantically applying his ability for an hour, Xuan Chong finally determined that the Siberian tiger population was extremely large, and that Hou Tu had taken special notice of him.

Xuan Chong suddenly realized that wild animals lacked civilized organization, and that the organization of intelligent life was not invincible in its early stages. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the struggle between Homo erectus and saber-toothed tigers in the Upper Cave was roughly even.

I should have realized it sooner. Since the spores of Ork have spread here, but have not spread to the local residents' eyes in the past few years, it must have been contained by some mechanism.

It seems that large wild animals like tigers don't produce "waaagh!" when hunting alone.

Xuan Chong looked at the mountains and muttered to himself: It seems that the mountain lords in this area have gotten a great deal!

In his book "Talking about Tigers", Zhao Biaozhao, a contemporary of Emperor Kangxi, pointed out that during the Shunzhi period (1643-1661), Sichuan was plagued by tigers. They would come in groups of ten or hundreds, sometimes climbing down from the roof tiles at midnight and devouring the old and young in the houses.

In other words, even in the Iron Age, humans were not the top predators. The next day, Xuan Chong called the tiger park in Yandu and asked for a batch of tigers. He specifically requested that they be "wild" and capable of killing cattle, and not some idiot tigers.

…To raise a tiger only to have it become a threat, or to release it back into the mountains?…

It is worth mentioning that the "Tiger Garden" in present-day Han Dynasty was a royal monopoly.

Besides producing royal luxury items like tiger bones and tiger penises, the most important product was "tiger skin." The large-denomination bonds currently issued in China are not printed, but rather processed from tiger and leopard skins; tiger skin corresponds to bonds worth 100,000 silver dollars, while leopard skin corresponds to bonds worth 10,000 silver dollars.

Because each tiger and leopard's pelt is unique, much like a fingerprint, these bonds are impossible to counterfeit. They also have extremely high collectible value and are often collected and stored by private individuals in various countries.

Even if a few people privately keep tigers, they cannot forge bonds. A bond is considered genuine only after the tiger skin pattern is entered into a database. The tiger skin on each bond is listed in the database.

Tiger Garden replied, expressing concern that the tigers released into the mountains wouldn't survive. Xuan Chong countered, "Those Ooks are easy to catch. Your Tiger Garden has hundreds of tigers; every month, several tigers die in fights."

Tiger Garden suggested releasing the wolves, but Xuan Chong shook his head: "Wolves are social animals, they are organized, and they can be domesticated by organized humans. What if the wolves are released and then tamed by the Oaks instead? Wouldn't that be ridiculous?"

During the report to Yandu, the emperor finally agreed to the Xuan Chong plan, requesting that twenty tigers be released first.

However, Xuan Chong had another plan. He opened the book "Heroic Soldier" and flipped through chapters "192 to 196". Looking at the "Winged Tiger" on the page, he picked up a pen and tried to draw a line. Hmm, he could draw a line.

However, this time Xuan Chong did not summon the winged tiger, but suddenly received an imperial edict in his hand.

After Xuan Chong issued the edict, he determined its usage, allowing him to command tigers to selectively prioritize feeding on foreign species.

…Cats defeat mice, chickens eat centipedes, natural enemies…

Three months later, the tigers, now wild, were released by helicopter. Suddenly, the intensity of tiger roars in the mountains increased. As the most powerful carnivores on Earth, they still maintained their territoriality, only their territories became slightly more concentrated.

Two months later, as the activities of the Hanbei Protectorate increased in the Northwest, the Pi Jing began to show signs of forming tribes. They were no longer wild monkeys in groups of a dozen or so, but were beginning to prepare to gather in groups of hundreds or even thousands. —The Ork's "passive" response mechanism was activated, albeit a little slowly.

But this was a little too late—on February 13th, the newly formed Farting tribe suffered a major blow. After the tigers had eaten and drunk their fill, another airship flew over. The Fartings, peeking out from the caves, cursed and yelled at the airship, just like farmers cursing factory owners for dumping sewage.

These stone-crafting devils offended the mountain lords and began to be chased and bitten, forced to wander between the territories of various mountain lords.

And the humans (troops deployed by the Protectorate) who wanted to shout "waaagh!" well, the airship dropped off the mountain tigers and ran away. These mountain tigers were occasionally caught in the ropes of the swarming demons, but these large felines were wild and untamed, and with a roar, they summoned their kind from several kilometers away to come and rescue them.

After March of 2113 in the Han calendar, the farting spirit attempted to rebel and restrain the tiger, but was subsequently met with a brutal reprisal from the large felines.

The giant cats' nocturnal hunts weren't even "hunting for food" like lions, but purely for revenge. One by one, the shattered heads were placed at the entrance to the demons' village.

Some of these tiger kings, after hunting hundreds of piranhas, had reached a shoulder height of 1.8 meters, breaking through previous individual limits, and their fur could turn as red as flames when hunting. The piranhas were like college students who had mistakenly entered a world of advanced martial arts, their minds full of gun-making and cannon-making abilities finding no use.

These tigers, like the wolf packs that ate the Orks after the Battle of Corpse Ridge in 2111, began to mutate. (Chapter 59) Of course, later, the wolves all died in the slaughter caused by the Orks' tamed war beasts.

This alienation is not the alienation that the Orks created after taming large beasts, but rather an evolution under the guidance of the planet's will into natural enemies of invasive species.

The farts also considered traps, but once a trap is used, the big cat will lock onto it.

In this contest, although the regeneration of the fart spirit is strong, wild mushrooms can no longer develop in the wild, and the tiger's fertility rate is not weak after eating the fart spirit.

In the Northwest, artificial breeding of tigers has begun, with the plan to have the mother tiger give birth to four cubs at a time. Once the cubs reach sub-adulthood, they will be fed mushrooms, and after the tigers have become accustomed to eating mushrooms, large quantities will be airlifted to the North.

Xuan Chong sensed a strange spiritual link formed between himself and a certain super tiger king. Ah, this was the being he had summoned. Now it would write its own legend in the mountains of this world.

…Ecological warfare is also warfare…

In April of 2113, the Orks, who were originally stationed along the Caspian Sea, suddenly split into two groups. One group rushed towards the Yuezhi region, while the other group headed north along the North Sea route and the Caucasus Mountains.

Although they were called two forces, the northern force was far smaller and smaller than the southern force in terms of both size and numbers. The total number of its larger members was only 70,000, less than a third of the southern force's. The Hanbei Protectorate began its interception.

After these 70,000 Orks marched north in a lively, bustling manner, it could be said that all the scoundrels in Siberia were overjoyed to welcome the royal army. So much so that the thousands of tigers that were sent there inexplicably felt as if meat was being delivered to their mouths.

However, this large Ork force, during its northward march, first sensed a large-scale human gathering and excitedly headed northwest. Then it sensed that humans had moved south, so it turned around, circled around several times, and then encountered a cold snap from Siberia.

Although these Ork beastmen had warm clothing, they were still tormented by the cold, and many weak Orks were frozen to death on the sluggish snow.

Xuan Chong dispatched a batch of bomber airships, rushing past the "cold front" predicted in the weather forecast, and launched a bombing raid to eliminate this northward threat.

After the bombing ended, Xuan Chong mobilized the combat squad assigned to him by the Lin Group to land from the air.

…an hour later…

When Xuan Chong arrived at the battlefield, he saw charred iron sheets, shattered gun barrels, and an Ork that was still writhing.

Xuan Chong casually fired a shot at Oak's forehead as Oak emerged from the garbage dump tunnel, then kicked Oak's custom-made "hook-equipped" movable metal prosthetic limb away.

Xuan Chong told his teammates to spread out and control the battlefield's wide field of vision, then led three people straight to the source of the loudest "waaagh!" sound he had heard.

Since the time he passed the test, Xuan Chong had once again come face to face with the orc war chief. Half of the orc war chief's head was embedded in a steel helmet. Since the helmet was a human helmet, compared to his enormous five-meter body, it looked like a fat toad with a head the size of a soybean, which was quite comical.

However, a fierce and resentful look appeared on that little head.
Lu Changfeng, who was accompanying Xuan Chong, muttered, "How did it survive the bombing?"

Xuan Chong then said: Waaagh! The force field will prioritize protecting their leader. Any attack on the Orc group, unless our commander personally comes to "see it for himself," will result in all "lucky accidents" falling on their Orc leader.

Although he didn't understand, Lu Changfeng knew that now was not the time to dwell on the problem.

Xuan Chong had already begun exchanging fire with the Ork, gun in hand. He raised his weapon and started firing, his bullets piercing the orc's shoulder. The Ork boss, who was originally invulnerable to bullets and blades, had his limbs severed after the bullets embedded themselves in his body.

…simple yet highly effective…

Among the Orcs, the larger the leader, the stronger they are, and the more "thoughtful" they are; when they think they can survive a bombing, the trajectory of the bombs they drop will drift and avoid hitting them.

The Orcs' war boss's waaagh! force field phenomenon is even more powerful.

During the bombing, all the bombs were dozens of meters away from him; only the shockwave and shrapnel affected him.

Even with a covering thermite incendiary bomb, the ignition point of the napalm that lands on him will abnormally drop below its ignition point and then extinguish, provided that their waaagh force field is not interfered with by external forces.

At the same time, Xuan Chong can hear "waaagh!" and see how the trajectory of the shell he controls with torque is deflected by "unexpected disturbance".

Therefore, to destroy the Ork Chapter, a "general-to-general" decapitation was necessary. Xuan Chong knocked off the screws securing the prosthetic limb to the Ork's shoulder, then poured an incendiary warhead into its flesh, watching as the warhead destroyed its body. The powerful Ork fell.

Xuan Chong sensed another familiar surge of energy entering his body.

This wave of Ork troops marching north was thus annihilated.
A few days later, within the Protectorate of Hanbei, messages also came from the mountain lords wearing electronic tracking collars. Tiger roars echoed throughout the northern mountains.

Those Orks scattered during the great war will break into small tribes in past battles, then spread spores, produce mushrooms, and grow back into a large population after several months.

The tigers and leopards of the northern frontier pursued and devoured him, and these tigers and leopards even cooperated with the Han army in the chase. They actively led the Han army to kill the Ouke.

The Han soldiers who were pursuing Ork reported the following: while chasing them through the mountains, they sensed a phantom-like entity urging them in the right direction with a low growl, to find Ork's hiding place and destroy it with firepower. This phantom-like entity seemed to be able to fly and burrow underground.

(End of this chapter)