Chapter 645 Reason and Emotion

That night, Mrs. Anderson muttered at the dinner table again, persuading Joann to kill the four little roosters.

The experiment has been done, and the roosters are fat and strong, but they can't lay eggs, so what's the use of keeping them?

It is better to kill and eat meat.

Joan didn't agree to kill the chickens yesterday, but today he changed his mind, nodded silently, and agreed to hand over the four little roosters to the landlady for cooking.

Early the next morning, the coop was empty.

On the breakfast table of Joan and Holden, there were two big bowls of delicious stewed chicken soup.

Mrs. Anderson also said that there were two fatter cockerels left, which had been marinated with spices, and were being roasted for them in the evening.

Holden was very satisfied with the landlady's arrangement, drinking chicken soup and full of praise.

Qiao An didn't drink the chicken soup, and said that he had a bad stomach in the past two days and couldn't eat greasy things.

From a rational point of view, in fact, Qiao An is not disgusted with eating experimental animals that have lost their use value, especially domestic animals such as chickens and ducks, which are originally raised for human consumption, and it would be a waste not to eat them.

However, human emotion and reason always conflict.

He needs some time to adjust his mentality and eliminate psychological barriers until he can face the bowl of hot and fragrant chicken soup on the table with a calm attitude.

Putting aside these mixed feelings, judging from the experimental results, the "aphasia technique" invented by Joan performed well, which made him very gratified, and the hard work these days was finally not in vain.

Experiments have proved that "aphasia" is effective for animals like roosters, but it cannot be deduced that "aphasia" is also effective for other species including humans. After all, the structures of vocal organs of different species are not the same. technique", Joan had to continue the live experiment.

This time, the target he chose was a "humanoid creature".

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One night in early February, outside the city of Midgard, a half-man, half-eagle figure flew in the wind under the hazy moonlight, casting a slender black silhouette on the snow.

Yingman's figure gradually moved away from the bustling port city behind him, and flew to the southwest along the coastline, passing by patches of neat farmland, majestic manors, and criss-crossing roads. The scenery below him gradually became desolate. In place of towns and estates are rolling hills and jungles.

Joan flew out for two hours in one breath, retracted his wings and landed among the mountains, and landed by a frozen stream.

At this moment, the barren mountain where he landed is more than 100 miles away from Midgard City, surrounded by snow-covered coniferous forests, desolate and quiet, and uninhabited.

This barren mountain is called "Bailun Mountain" by the locals.

Looking up from the halfway up the mountain where Joan is, the towering peaks are hidden in the clouds. According to Mrs. Anderson, there are a large group of monsters with stag heads and eagle bodies in the caves on the top of Bailun Mountain. They are ferocious, cruel, and eat people. Dian flew down to attack pedestrians passing by, but Joan had never seen this legendary monster with his own eyes so far.

Looking down from the mountainside, you can faintly see the remains of large and small mining fields at the foot of the mountain. As early as 20 years ago, the foot of Bailun Mountain was famous for producing magic crystal ore, which attracted thousands of miners and investors. Regardless of the risk of being attacked by monsters on the top of the mountain and wild beasts in the forest, they rushed to dig mines at the foot of the mountain, hoping that the big windfall.

It's a pity that the magic crystal veins in Bailun Mountain are far from being as rich as people expected, and they were exhausted within ten years. Unprofitable mines went bankrupt and closed one after another, and the miners also left here to find another way out.

The abandoned mining field was gradually covered by shrubs and weeds. After ten years of inactivity, it has become a dead ruin, only occasionally used by passing wild animals or bandits as a nest for shelter.

The reason why Qiao An worked so hard to fly to Bailun Mountain in the middle of the night was to study the newly invented second-level magic "Aphasia".

In order to find humanoid test subjects, Joan asked Mrs. Anderson, the landlord, about the dangerous areas near Midgard City where bandits were rampant, preferably the ones frequented by goblins or orcs.

Mrs. Anderson provided him with three alternative locations: the Vymur River Valley in the west of the Vigrid Great Plains; Jinlunga, the magic crystal mining area near the "Iron Forest" in the northern part of Midgard; It is Bailun Mountain, located in the south of Midgard, between "Hot Spring Town" and "Free Port".

All three places are recognized as dangerous areas by local residents, but the source of danger is different.

First of all, take the Vymur Valley as an example. The reason why Mrs. Anderson thinks this area is very dangerous is because it is the territory that the Midgard colonists and the Asir people are trying to compete for. Asir hunting horses often appear in the area. Specialize in attacking the colonists, and once they succeed, they will kill them. They will even cut off the hair and scalp of the deceased and take them away as trophies.

The colonists and the aborigines had deep grievances, and the major newspapers in the colonies heavily exaggerated the bloody custom of Asa hunters killing and scalping, which further deepened the colonists' fear and hatred of the aborigines, calling it a brutal "barbaric" people".

Under the influence of this concept, the Vymur Valley, as a conflict area between the aboriginal forces and the colonial army, would of course be regarded as a dangerous area by ordinary citizens like Mrs. Anderson.

When Joan was in his hometown of Yalfheim, he got along well with the local Asa people. He was also invited by the Conti family to visit the Asa settlement. The relationship is as close as family members; he came to Mead last winter Jiade was attacked by a snow monster during the trip, but fortunately was rescued by the Logan family from the northern Asa tribe of the Volsong tribe. During his stay in Shizhu Town, he was awarded "Honorary Citizen" by the elders of the Volsung tribe title.

Because of these encounters, although Joan was born in a colonial family, he never regarded the aborigines of the Asa people as his enemies, and never thought of destroying them and robbing their land. Joan was powerless to stop the colonists' brutal expansion backed by violence, but he didn't want to participate.

In Joan’s view, the aborigines and the colonists are both human beings, and no one is more noble than the other. His moral bottom line does not allow him to randomly find passers-by in the city to conduct experiments, nor does he allow him to randomly capture Asa people as experiments. body.

Excluding the "Vimul River Valley", Joan still has two alternative experimental sites, "Prime Abyss" and "Bailen Mountain".

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