Wei School's Three Good Students

Chapter 322 Summoning "Gaia's Consciousness"

On the ninth day of the ninth month of the 2113th year of the Han calendar, Xuan Chong, who was concerned about the troubles of the world before himself, addressed the troops who had won their first battle: "Previously, we won all our battles. You are all very proud, and that is something to be proud of. But remember, once you start to be proud, don't expect to rely on others to draw our attention! The Orks have already regarded us as their main enemy."

Xuan Chong said this because he had already heard the message from Mobei, "waaagh!" aimed at him.

In the next round, the Orc Chapter will immediately adapt to the tactical changes and will also emulate our "radio communication" network warfare model.

No matter how the Orks manage to conjure up a communication machine that can generate electric sparks, even if they were given only a ball of magnets and a wire, they would eventually figure out a way to generate radio waves for communication.

The Orcs' waaagh! force fields were originally capable of communicating with each other like telephones, but by using tools to mimic humans, their waaagh! force fields can be liberated so that they can be used for other purposes.

Especially now, this group of Orks, facing the Hanbei Legion and being repeatedly defeated by Xuan Chong, with their force fields being plundered, have an even greater urgent need to improve their technology compared to other warbands in the world.

Xuan Chong's "Waaagh!" to the Orks! He'd been exploring force fields for a year or two and knew that the Orks' defeat would accelerate their technological development. Only by completely eliminating their war leaders and tech tyrants could they interrupt the Orks' technological accumulation; otherwise, the longer the war dragged on, the greater the danger they would face.

Xuan Chong even suspected that if humanity were to enter the nuclear age, these Orcs could also hand-knead yellowcakes and eventually create a nuclear-powered reactor that leaks steam everywhere.

The Han Ministry of War has now realized that engaging in an endless war of attrition with small war gangs is futile in order to truly curb the spread of Orks. Small war gangs are like weeds; once one is eliminated, another will sprout from the ground. Only by striking at the core war gangs and destroying their ability to "think" of heavy weapons manufacturing, while simultaneously annihilating the war boss, can the devastation in the northern desert be resolved.

However, while the central authorities may have this intention, those below are unwilling to carry it out.

The current high command of the Han army has concealed the fact from the lower ranks that "Ork discovered the mobilization of human organization through the waaagh! position."
This has led to the commanders of the Han army corps on the southern front not being aware of the urgency of the battle. On the contrary, due to certain events, they have begun to understand it in reverse. — Well, it was when Lin Yang fully understood the Ministry of War's intentions and led his elite marine division to emulate the Marquis of Champion, only to be ambushed halfway and annihilated.

Currently, the Han army commanders at the front are holding the fortress to the death and ignoring some of the Ministry of War's "suggestions".

These officers used the excuse that "the O'Kings are reckless when they charge, but that doesn't mean they don't have ulterior motives" to deflect some of the "bizarre" orders issued by the Ministry of War.

Although Hanbei won a round against Oak, it did nothing to improve the situation on the southern front.

Xuan Chong discovered that the Han's battalion-level military forces on the Xiongnu Plateau rarely conducted proactive combat reconnaissance anymore, and were more willing to replicate the defensive experience of the Yibo Fortress.

…Xuan Chong: Sigh, if you don't want to lead a group, just sit at the kids' table…

On October 11, the Orks launched another attack. This time, about 10 Orks assaulted, but due to a lack of steel, their equipment was rather crude. They were covered in pottery shards, which resembled armor, but when the Orks reached the Han army, they self-destructed, turning the pottery shards into explosive fragments.

In this counterattack, with the cooperation of the Tiger Group, Xuan Chong successfully parachuted into the central area of ​​the Oak boss right from the start.

On the shores of Beihai Lake, Xuan Chong led a force of five hundred men on a time-space teleportation to Ork's dilapidated base.

They immediately unleashed a barrage of magnetic storm grenades, crippling the land fortresses assembled from mining trucks within the Ork base. Then, Xuan Chong led everyone in a surprise attack on the source of Waaagh!, the Ork's main boss.

The big boss was holding a battle axe and gesturing on a map resembling the Hanbei Command Center. When he saw Xuan Chong suddenly appear, he roared excitedly and charged forward without regard for the plasma grenades.

A powerful electric current, strong enough to carbonize a person, bypassed the Orc boss thanks to the protection of the Waaagh! force field, but the electric light blinded him. Xuan Chong rushed forward and slashed the Orc boss's throat with his sword, severing his head.

For some reason, within the Waaagh! force field, Xuan Chong is now increasingly confident that he can take down Ork's head within ten steps. This is because Waaagh! has absolutely no effect on him.

Like taking a quick trip to the toilet, Xuan Chong dealt with the Ork chieftain first, then returned to command. The Han troops stationed along the Dalie River in Hanbei found this wave of Orks to be "exceptionally weak," and easily routed them with artillery fire. Their morale soared, and they accepted Xuan Chong's orders for a counterattack.

Hanbei then mobilized 60,000 military troops to carry out a large-scale cleanup operation east of the Dalie River.

Compared to last year's reliance on the Shihu Mountain to defend the North China Sea coastline economic zone, this time the Xuanchong aims to seize control of all the land north of Xingguo Ridge, along the eastern tributaries of the Dalie River, and extending to "North Lake" (Baikal).

After the Oak leader was killed, the several war minions hadn't yet decided on a new leader. Xuan Chong, with a loud "waaagh!", charged over, determined to strangle these little Karamis one by one.

Xuan Chong dispatched a black-clad guard squad on motorcycles, which accurately located the fleeing group of the gang leaders and completely wiped them out under gunfire.

Meanwhile, on the rear, a cavalry unit composed of herdsmen, carrying guns, arrived at the ruins of the Ork, sprinkled red paint, and guided the heavy-duty airships in the sky to tow the wreckage away. If it wasn't towed away, mushrooms would grow on this land the following year, and little farts would sprout from the mushrooms.

These little devils would use methods that humans couldn't comprehend to disassemble parts from the wreckage and then take them south to continue assembling heavy equipment.

On October 15, the cold wind in northern Han brought a heavy snowfall, and Xuan Chong's troops once bypassed Xingguo Ridge and arrived at the battlefield grassland.

The campaign went too smoothly, so much so that the Ministry of War issued a notice: "Temporarily suspend the operation, seek stability, and await cooperation from friendly forces."

When Xuan Chong asked, "What are the cooperation plans of our allies?" and "What combat preparations are we making now that Ork is weakened?", the answer was, "We'll study it and then make a decision."

Xuan Chong knew what the generals on the southern front of the Gobi Desert were studying. Because of the cold weather, several corps on the southern front had various reasons for not being able to move, and everything had to wait for the weather to improve.

Now that the Ministry of War has sent a letter, it's hard for Xuan Chong not to wonder if he's "made too many contributions too quickly," and Lin Sima, who has no connection to the matter, is starting to get anxious.

Xuan Chong knew this kind of thinking was petty, but in officialdom, deliberately not following the unspoken rules of these "petty people" would lead to some people intentionally or unintentionally whispering that he was "naive." —Xuan Chong: He couldn't "use his petty mind to fathom the machinations of superiors," yet he had to be "sensible"—it was difficult!

The Ministry of War of Han did not provide any military cooperation to Hanbei, but before the war, the Yandu Dragon Group did indeed send "Nuwa" over.

It seems that the Dragon Group was worried that Xuan Chong would directly destroy "Wa", causing Hanbei to lose its effect as a "beacon of hatred". Therefore, Liu Yi came to supervise, and he happened to run into this team fight in the North.

…the front lines of artillery fire…

In the wind and snow, Xuan Chong got off the motorcycle and looked at the big guy Ouk who had been killed by artillery fire.

Dust covered the beast, its body rapidly losing moisture and becoming shriveled, leaving only bones, emitting the putrid smell of mushrooms. Xuan Chong used his military knife to poke at the corpse and saw a large number of silk threads entering the ground below.

Yes, after Oak died, the cells in his body, which were originally animal-like, began to transform into fungal-like cells as the temperature continued to drop, and then invaded the earth. Current industrial methods cannot completely eliminate this. While large pieces of the corpse can be sterilized by scorching them with fire, the remaining smaller pieces will still sprout.

Therefore, only superhumans can handle it; on the vast grassland, who knows how many will be scattered.

Xuan Chong opened "The Fierce Soldier," picked up his pen, and underlined the "section of content" he had already set his sights on.

Although the lines had been drawn twice before, this time, the result was quite different.

As the defined paragraphs progressed two or three lines, multiple progress bars appeared in the view. These progress bars indicated that a matching process was being established because the characteristics of the extracurricular items differed significantly from those in this dimension.

Library system: You can set the matching degree yourself, or you can set it up yourself.

After thinking for a while, Xuan Chong picked up his pen and made some new notes on the edge of the book, speeding up the progress bar.

…Heaven seems to have a special fondness for “international students”…

Just as Xuan Chong finished writing down the contents, inside the base under the strict control of the Dragon Group, "Wa Shi" opened her eyes in the tank. The cunning and arrogance in her pupils disappeared, replaced by endless awe. Immediately afterwards, a large number of alarm parameters appeared on the screen next to her.

Half an hour later, Liu Yi rushed over and looked at the red lines on the "Nuwa" body indicators on the screen.

Liu Yi asked, "What's wrong with her?"

Liu Yingshou, whose hair was still elaborately styled, shuddered. In her perception, her spiritual link with Nuwa had been severed, and it took her a full half hour to recover.

After she got up, she was immediately asked about the situation.

Liu Yingshou: "Before the mental connection was severed, I sensed that she (Wa) was very agitated, as if she wanted to say something." She paused for a moment and then continued: "Someone has awakened something even more dangerous."

Liu Yi was slightly taken aback: "Even more dangerous?" Liu Yingshou covered his head: "The north is currently undergoing large-scale development, and it seems that something we hadn't discovered before has appeared."

Liu Yi muttered to herself, "Over there?"

A few minutes later he arrived on the surface and made a phone call to the main camp along the Great Wall: "Connect me to the military intelligence call from the Protectorate General's office. Hmm, wait a minute. I'll go there myself."

…A reasonable setting has increased…

Xuan Chong only learned about extracurricular supplies from Xie Ming over the past year. He was shocked when he saw Xie Ming's "orc mining" and "farting road construction" scenes, so he asked, "Isn't your cheating a bit too much?"

Xie Ming then asked in return: "You didn't hang up? You should carefully check your belongings."

As transmigrators of the same type, Xuan Chong and Xie Ming, as "students," possess special items they carry, such as "novels" and "cell phones," which have the ability to reshape the definition of this world.

Of course, the definition wasn't changed arbitrarily. Xuan Chong had been trying to underline the passages about the tree people in "The Fierce Soldier." But every time he tried to underline that long section with his pen, there was no ink left.

After Xuan Chong asked Xie Ming, Xie Ming became curious about Xuan Chong's "extracurricular items" and said, "You can't just draw them directly; you have to write the settings, but these settings have to fit the situation of this plane."

Xie Ming: "Don't ask the system. According to the school system, our 'extracurricular items' are all considered 'cheating.' Don't ask the system. Just make it up yourself based on the situation. If you get it right, nothing will happen."

After a year, Xuan Chong finally came up with an "explanation" of why tree people could exist in this world.

According to modern science in the present timeline, is it possible that the Earth itself, with its negative entropy, is actually a living organism? And how can such a life form react to external invasions?

Xuan Chong's setting was added: "The recipients of the planet's will projection not only include the superhumans who have formed the present world with humans; but also those who have been generously bestowed upon animals, such as winged tigers, and who have a conscious projection link with natural ecological plants."

All life forms on the planet are influenced by the projection of a superconsciousness within the planet, including humans and this newly emerging being. —Just like ichthyosaurs and killer whales, belonging to two different classes, but whose limbs degenerated upon entering the ocean, their bodies became streamlined, and their tails evolved into fins.

With Xie Ming's help, Xuan Chong completed the setting: "Forest consciousness, grassland consciousness, algae consciousness" are the immune responses that this planet has developed in the face of Waaagh! invasion.

Since biological evolution requires an "ecological niche" to provide energy, the Orc waaagh! force field is the best external fertilizer. Of course, first, we have to kill "waaagh!".

To make it more plausible, and to make the ink and brushstrokes more prominent, Xuan Chong added a setting: if these "forest spirits" and "grassland spirits" are to demonstrate sufficient ability to "resist the invasion of Orc spores," then the Earth's native civilization needs to use the harvesting of "waaagh!" as fertilizer.

At this moment, Xuan Chong arranged the heads of Orks into a mound and began to pray sincerely, muttering to himself, "Earth, I am willing to fight to the death, you must stand up!"

At that very moment, the "progress bar" was completed, but the colors of the world seemed to change, with Qian above and Kun below, and a 360-degree perspective watching Xuan Chong.

…The shaman offers sacrifices, completes the ritual, and seeks blessings and responses…

If the ancient shamans in the present Han era witnessed the aura connecting heaven and earth around Xuan Chong at this moment, they would know that this was "heaven and earth giving a response to the supplicant".

Whenever the world undergoes sudden changes, if a person who breaks through the calamity makes a great vow and fulfills it, they will be appointed by Heaven.

In this ancient era, the Dragon Power users on the land of Yanhuang were born in this way, and the same is how superhumans from other civilizations around the world received planetary responses.

The Way of Heaven responds to its favored believers, much like the ancient gods in the Cthulhu Mythos, but the Way of Heaven is not as irrational as Cthulhu.

Humans are the most important "variable" among the biota on the planet; and as a member of humanity, Dragon Power users can receive a response from Heaven as long as they can control the "variable" and conform to the stability of various systems on the planet.

Of course, for someone like Xuan Chong who came with a system, as long as he doesn't make any mistakes, it's easier to get a response.

After the world changed color, Xuan Chong sensed that the "Wu Qing" he had summoned had successfully entered the pre-programmed second transformation, becoming a subordinate of some ancient being in this plane. (Xiao Qing transforming into a giant snake woman would fit a similar plot.)

This ancient being is now awakening, and the seeds it sows can suppress Orc spores, growing stronger by absorbing the scattered Orc waaagh! energy.

But this "new summoning" setting is undoubtedly wild. This wildness requires some immune mechanism, just like Wu Qing in the Great Yao Plane. This snake woman is extremely wild, the kind that can devour people alive, while the character "Wu Fei" has established an immune mechanism against her.

Xuan Chong sensed, deep down, that something he needed existed in the Xingguo Ridge in the north. Unlike the mythical five-colored divine bird that brought ears of grain to the sage, Xuan Chong needed to find it himself.

…Six days later…

Inside the Protectorate's laboratory, a fruit was soaking in a glass bottle. The fruit, in normal water, stretched out its branches lazily, just like a water hyacinth.

On the other side, three previously lively Orks were bound hand and foot, their chests cut open; the fruit's branches writhed like tentacles. The fruit was then planted inside.

The three Orc individuals immediately fell silent, staring blankly at the sky. Microscopic observation revealed that the plant cells had engulfed the organelles within these spores, beginning to transform the Orcs into "plant Orcs."

According to researchers at Modern Chinese Literature Institute, this fruit was used by hunting and fishing peoples before its discovery by Modern Chinese Literature Institute. In deep forests, it was called the "Miasma-Avoiding Fruit." It was said that after consuming one, one could find one's way even in the most miasma-filled mountain streams, and while walking in the forest, one could sense the territories of tigers, bears, and wolves. Therefore, this fruit was also called the Mountain God Fruit. However, outsiders should not ingest this fruit casually. Ingesting it would immediately cause food poisoning and hallucinations.

The old hunters said, "This fruit is selective. Only those who drink water and eat local food in the remote mountain areas for a year or two can swallow the miasma-avoiding fruit without any problems."

Xie Ming explained to Xuan Chong: Don't dwell on why the "legend" that appeared just happened to correspond to your summoning happened to appear. Extracurricular items can directly rewrite the settings of this classroom plane. Continuing from "cause and effect".

After half a month of research, the researchers from the Protectorate General discovered that most people would experience a large release of alkaloids in their bodies after consuming the fruit for the first time, leading to hallucinations, but the old hunters in the deep mountains were unaffected.

According to the old hunter's legend, after eating the miasma-avoiding fruit, one must live in the deep mountains for a period of time and gain the approval of the mountain god and various immortals before one can obtain the miasma-avoiding effects.

Subsequently, the research team of the Protectorate General conducted a comparative experiment and found that it was indeed true. People living in the mountains would quickly become desensitized to alkaloids after eating the miasma-avoiding fruit.

Of course, modern Chinese scholars are all trained by reading the words of sages. Aside from their ultimate belief in the concept of "interaction between Heaven and humanity," they generally avoid discussing gods and immortals, as Confucius said, "I do not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorder, or spirits." Therefore, they quickly become desensitized to this phenomenon. They seek mechanisms to avoid miasma and recognize the local population.

The answer was finally found in the feces: "The fermentation of the miasma fruit in the intestines of local animals produces a unique symbiotic bacteria, which are excreted with the feces and flow into the local water source."

After these symbiotic bacteria enter the water source, they are absorbed by the human gut, which in turn allows humans to adapt to the miasma-avoiding fruit.

But how does the "miasma-avoiding fruit" prevent humans from getting lost in the forest? It seems to be related to the forest's microbiome.

Of course, with the help of "Ji's" abilities, the Protectorate General discovered an entity codenamed "Forest Consciousness".

A single tree is not conscious, but each tree is like a "neuron in the brain." When all the data is gathered together, it forms a kind of biological instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm. The forest consciously condones creatures that help it to reproduce and expand.

Researchers have discovered that by following the pathways of forest consciousness, they can find some node trees whose endocrine complexity is dozens of times greater than that of other trees.

Such a forest mentality, when faced with creatures that are detrimental to oneself, will lead to harm. — Humans swallowing the miasma-avoiding fruit and seeing villains is the mildest form of harm; however, if they go into the mountains and indiscriminately cut down trees, they will contract parasites, which can then lead to encephalitis.

However, humans are still considered to be living beings on Earth. Four billion years ago, we were all one family. As for the Orks?

The researchers at the Modern Han Dynasty were very excited, as was Xuan Chong.

As for Xie Ming from Longzhou, after confirming that Xuan Chong's progress bar had been loaded, he immediately sent an application: Share, share, may good people live in peace.

…outside the classroom…

The proctor watched the two students huddled together whispering and shook his head: "Sigh, they've summoned Gaia's consciousness."

(End of this chapter)