DipNovel Chapter 36 Upright Ape - Full Moon Special Assessment
Chapter 36 Upright Ape - Full Moon Special Assessment
"Anomalocaris, giant nautilus, Tyrell fish, giant dragonfly, Antiomon, and Grimodon—the situation of these countries is similar to that of the four major Rogue states, only on a smaller scale. Their exotic creatures are also evolving and causing destruction, but the scope of destruction is limited to specific areas. Coastal countries are trapped by marine life, and inland countries are cut off from transportation by terrestrial creatures. They don't have water dragons or underground networks; they can only tough it out."
He stood up and walked to the map.
"But they are not the worst off."
"Who is that?"
"They chose a small country with upright apes. The four major powers have industrial bases, armies, and intelligence systems, so they can withstand it. But India, South Korea, Australia, and Thailand—their industrial bases are weak, their armies are small, and their intelligence systems cannot cover the entire country. With ten million upright apes evolving on their land, they can't even keep up with observing them all."
Lu Cheng moved his finger to the location of India on the map.
"In Rajiv's telegram today, there was a sentence: 'People who drank the polluted water are starting to squat by the roadside and look at things. The pollution of black blood has spread from upright apes to humans. Not through attacks, but through water sources. The Ganges River in India is becoming a conduit for black blood. People downstream who drink the water have discolored blood vessels, changed behavior, and altered language. This is not replacement, it is transformation.'"
Carrie's fingers tightened slightly.
"What about other small countries?"
"The upright apes of South Korea built a machine they couldn't understand, the upright apes of Australia reduced the speed of dismantling ships from one night to two hours, and the upright apes of Lion Country completed thousands of years of human water conservancy history in a month. Every small country that chose upright apes is experiencing the same thing—their upright ape evolution speed is no slower than that of the four major powers, but their coping ability is much worse than that of the four major powers."
Lu Cheng sat back down in his chair.
"That's why they all sent their applications on the same day. It wasn't pre-arranged; they couldn't hold on any longer."
……
The Kingdom of the Boulder, the Golden City.
Louis signed the Treaty of the Underground, and the Water Dragon has been transported from the Kingdom of Winners to the Golden City.
Eight water dragon cubs dug in four directions from the original site of the bronze statue, and the underground network has been dug through the main urban area of Jincheng.
But Louis was not happy.
Because the upright apes of Jincheng built a machine using parts from a steam mill.
His engineer looked at it for a long time and finally understood that it was a loom.
The upright ape disassembled the piston, connecting rod, and flywheel of the steam engine and reassembled them to create an automatic loom.
Without blueprints or teachers, they observed the machines at Jincheng Textile Factory and then replicated one using their own understanding.
It has a simpler structure, fewer parts, and is three times more efficient than textile mill machines.
"What do they need looms for?" Louis asked.
The Minister of Works' voice trembled: "Weaving. They started weaving yesterday, using cotton thread from the dismantled steam mill conveyor belt. The cloth they've woven..."
He handed me a piece of cloth.
Louis took the cloth.
It has a fine weave, a soft feel, and neat edges.
It's even better than the cloth woven by the best textile factory in the country of Bullling.
"How many did they weave?"
"Twenty bolts of cloth were woven overnight and neatly stacked in the center of the tribe. A bipedal ape squatted beside it, holding a charcoal stick and drawing tally marks on a wooden board, adding one mark after each bolt of cloth was woven."
A chill ran down Louis's spine.
Upright apes are counting pieces!
They not only learned how to weave cloth, but also how to manage production.
"Send a telegram to Lu Cheng." Louis placed the cloth on the table. "Tell him that the upright apes of the Bulgan Kingdom have built an automatic loom, three times more efficient than manual looms, and have begun mass production. The cloth they weave is better than ours."
……
The Winners' Kingdom, the government.
Lu Cheng was watching the water dragon digging a hole in the backyard when he received Louis's telegram.
After reading the telegram, he folded the paper, put it in his pocket, and squatted down to continue watching the Water Dragon Beast.
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The water dragon beast had dug to a depth of forty-three meters, and the excavated soil had piled up into a small hill at the entrance of the cave.
It crawled out of the hole, covered in dirt, with a stone hanging from its large fangs. It tilted its head, looked at Lu Cheng, and then spat the stone at his feet.
It's like paying taxes.
Lu Cheng picked up the stone.
The stone has fine golden veins on its surface.
"A gold mine," he told Carrie. "It's struck gold."
The water dragon yawned, turned around, and burrowed back into the hole to continue digging.
It has no interest in gold. It's only interested in digging holes.
"What did Louis's telegram say?" Carrie asked.
"The upright apes used steam-powered parts to build an automatic loom, which is three times more efficient and is already in mass production. The cloth they wove... is of better quality than that produced by human textile factories."
Carrie was stunned.
"They're no longer learning to dismantle things. They've dismantled them, learned them, and started building. They dismantled bronze statues to learn metalworking, steam mills to learn mechanical transmission, and steamships to learn power systems. Now they've learned everything and are starting to build in their own way."
He placed the gold ore on the windowsill, picked up a pen, and began writing a reply telegram.
The reply was only one sentence: Accelerate the construction of the underground network, at a depth of no less than fifty meters. Homo erectus learned to weave cloth; the next step is to learn to make clothes. Once they learn to make clothes, they'll be one step closer to disguising themselves as humans.
After sending the telegram, Lu Cheng walked out of the Executive Government building.
Dozens of adult water dragons were lazily basking in the sun in the square.
Their round bodies gleamed in the sunlight, their large fangs pointing skyward, making them undeniably ugly.
One of them rolled over, belly up, kicked its four paws a few times in the air, and then stopped moving.
Lu Cheng squatted down next to it.
The water dragon glanced at him with its mindless eyes, then yawned and continued sunbathing.
It has no idea what is happening on the surface of the earth.
Unaware that the upright apes had invented an automatic loom, unaware that twelve countries were frantically digging underground tunnels, and unaware that the system had just announced that the disguise would begin in fifteen to twenty days.
All it knows is that the sun is shining brightly today, the soil is loose, and it's perfect for sunbathing.
Lu Cheng patted its head.
"You're so easy to take care of."
The water dragon let out a satisfied snort.
Then it rolled over, stood up, and swung its claw at the ground of the square.
It decided to dig another hole here.
The sun warmed the soil, making it easier to dig.
A month ago, everyone on the planet Blue Star thought the Water Dragon Beast was the most useless option.
A month later, the entire planet Earth was learning how the Water Dragon Beast dig burrows.
The Water Dragon Beast was completely unaware of this.
It just likes to dig holes.
……
When Lu Cheng returned to his office, there were three new reports on his desk.
The first one came from South Korea.
In the bipedal ape village on the outskirts of Seoul, the machine that President Lee called "the incomprehensible machine" was finally confirmed to have a function.
It is a stone crusher.
The upright apes used the copper plates and iron bars they obtained from dismantling the copper lion to build a stone crusher, which crushed the ore they collected from the mine into powder, and then... they began to wash the ore.
The South Korean mining engineer squatted in the distance and watched for three days. When he returned, his face was pale.
"They are processing ore using the most primitive gravity separation method. The crusher breaks the ore into smaller pieces, which are then washed with water. The heavier metal particles sink to the bottom, while the lighter silt is washed away. What they get is copper ore powder."
How do they know the principles of gravity separation?
The engineer shook his head: "I don't know. But they built twelve ore processing tanks along the Han River, processing more ore per day than our ore processing plant."