Chapter 312 Civil War

 Zhou Island is mainly divided into two parts: Beizhou and Nanhai.

Beizhou is where Zhouzhou people live. They can gather, fish, and hunt, use leather and wood, and make simple medicinal herbs. They have established villages very early.

 Zhouzhou people developed rapidly at one time. Their number reached 150,000 at their peak. Piers were spread all over the headlands and beaches of Beizhou, and roads extending in all directions connected every village.

 They are extremely ambitious to conquer the ocean and leave the mark of the north on every island on the sea.

The sea began to become the hunting ground and road for Zhouzhou people. Their ships headed towards the depths of the southern sea to explore the limits of the world.

 However, during a change of era, the people of Zhouzhou suffered a devastating blow.

  The New Age saw an increase in the number of animals called cane toads. Cane toads are originally small and inconspicuous animals. They usually hide in shallow seas and hunt insects for food. They are highly toxic.

 As the number of cane toads increases, they begin to come ashore to look for food.

 The toxins they carried caused a large number of deaths among livestock raised by Zhouzhou people, and people who came into contact with them were also poisoned and died one after another.

 Zhouzhou people had to recall their sea members and make every effort to eliminate the toads in Beizhou.

Cane toads are highly prolific and like to hide in the sea, making them difficult to eradicate completely.

This war between Zhouzhou people and toads lasted for a long time. It was not until the next era that an animal called the weaver bird grew in power. They began to hunt toads and finally curbed the damage of toads.

 After this poisonous disaster, the people of Zhouzhou have been severely weakened.

 Toad poison has directly or indirectly caused the death of more than 30,000 people, the vast majority of whom are elderly people in Zhouzhou.

 The successive deaths of the elderly have severely disrupted the knowledge inheritance of Zhouzhou people. The society has lost the hub and buffer connecting the new and old groups, and has become extremely unstable.

In order to compete for resources, people from different regions frequently clashed and fought, and civilization even entered a temporary regression.

 At the same time, the sharks in the southern deep sea are growing rapidly.

Unlike the Zhouzhou people who developed civilization early on, the sharks have maintained a beast-like life for thousands of years. Their enlightenment came from eating the corpses of Zhouzhou people and making use of sunken ships on the seabed.

People in Zhouzhou have a custom of sea burial. The deceased will be loaded into a boat by the living and allowed to float into the sea. They believed that the dead would find their way back to the north through the currents of the ocean.

These corpses buried at sea have become food for fish schools.

The poisonous toad disaster caused the corpses of tens of thousands of Zhouzhou people to float into the sea, making the sharks gradually gain wisdom while eating and observing.

 In the past, when the sharks encountered the Zhouzhou people, they would run away and hide, fearing that they would be hit by their fishhooks and spears. But after eating many corpses, they became bolder—the Zhouzhou people are not strong anymore.

 Long ago, people in Zhouzhou were very interested in sharks because this underwater creature had a human-like shape. They are full of curiosity and respect for Zhouzhou people's ships, and will exchange pearls for Zhouzhou people's livestock and fruits.

At its peak, people from Zhouzhou would give food to the sharks and teach them how to weave with rope or rattan, showing a kingly aura to rule the world.

At that time, the sharks were also sincerely convinced. They would always take the initiative to greet the Zhouzhou people's ships and guide them into safe seas.

 But now the people of Zhouzhou are weak and lack everything. They no longer have the high spirits they had before.

 Zhouzhou people hunt sharks, lock them with ropes and hooks, and let them go to the sea to find pearls and corals.

 The strong sharks became the underwater collectors of the Zhouzhou people, the weak sharks were used to feed livestock, and the shark corpses were turned into bait to attract more sharks.

 The anger that had been suppressed for many years finally broke out at a certain moment.

The sharks began to fight back wildly. They sank ships, destroyed docks, and dragged Zhouzhou people under the water to drown. They raised large numbers of cane toads and threw these poisons into the villages and settlements of Zhouzhou people.

As soon as the Zhouzhou people's ships enter the southern sea, they will be attacked by the sharks, causing the ship to sink or be attacked by some deep-sea monsters.

 The hatred between the two groups is growing day by day.

 At this moment, the coir raincoat finally took action.

This **** who rules the world sends out apostles.

 The apostle announced the oracle of peaceful co-governance of the two races and also suspended the protracted civil war.

 After another two eras, the hatred was gradually diluted by time, and Zhouzhou and the Sharks began to cooperate.

They traded with each other. Fruits, grains, and livestock from the north were transported by ships to the south on the sea, and exchanged for oysters, fish, sea vegetables, pearls, and corals in the sea.

The Shark people learned simple hand-woven textiles and leather processing from the Zhouzhou people, and the Zhouzhou people learned from the Shark people how to identify the location of the sea and how to avoid dangerous sea areas.

 The land provides livestock, fruits, vegetables, and herbs that are not found in the sea, while the sea provides a large amount of fish, meat, and various ores that are lacking on the ground.

 The land and sea races have entered the honeymoon period, and the "Red Coral Mirage" is the witness and creation of this period.

The existence of red coral and mirage allows the Zhouzhou people and the sharks to see each other across the sea. The mirror formed by the refraction of the mirage makes their mutual worlds clearly visible, which makes transactions and communication smoother and faster.

 The northern land and the southern ocean are connected in an unprecedented way.

Later, the **** Coiron became the **** of the dragon tribe, and nine grain pillars were fixed under the sea on the island.

  Dragons of various shapes began to appear in this world.

 Their mere existence and appearance have brought a series of changes and opportunities to the world. The existence of the dragon also made Zhouzhou and Yuren more cautious and kept each other warm.

 This is also the time when the island is most peaceful and stable.

 In the 6th era, the gods and dragons suddenly left the Nine Harvest Pillar, and then the Nine Harvest Pillar was destroyed, and the fire of faith in the entire world was quickly extinguished.

 The fall of the gods came without any warning, but the great changes in the world have come quietly.

 In the 7th Era, the entire world entered an era of extreme cold. The northern land was covered and submerged by heavy snow, strips of ice grew on the promontories, and the sea surface in the offshore areas turned into thick solid ice. A large number of land animals died in the cold, and trees continued to wither and collapse.

The biggest source of food for Zhouzhou people became the ocean. They cut through the ice to catch fish and asked the sharks for help.

At this time, the long-standing resentment and ambition of conquering the land were no longer hidden. They rejected the request of the Zhouzhou people, blocked the coastline, and prohibited the Zhouzhou people from setting foot in the sea.

 There were fewer and fewer trees, and fuel for fires and heating was quickly running out. People in Zhouzhou desperately searched for food and firewood everywhere.

 But the reserves on land were already a drop in the bucket, and eventually, the Zhouzhou people completely perished in this long and cold era.

 A new era dawned, the ice melted, and the ground and oceans returned to warmth and moisture.

The sharks celebrated each other. They finally ended the humiliation of the past, completely wiped out the Zhouzhou people, and became the only civilization master in the world.

 However, temperatures continue to rise.

 In the 8th Era, the entire island was plunged into extreme heat.

Red-green algae floated on the sea surface. These algae spread all over the water, causing a large number of fish in the sea to die or become sick. The sharks were poisoned and infected by eating these fish.

 Without Zhouzhou people’s medical treatment, the sharks could not heal themselves, and their numbers continued to decrease.

While the sharks were weak, a ferocious small shark was born in the sea.

They have extremely strong survivability. They eat seaweed and all kinds of poisoned fish. Even if only half of their body is left, they can swim in the water for a long time.

 The sharks began to hunt the weak sharks in groups, because the sharks' fat was delicious and provided a lot of strength.

 In this hot and bright era, the sharks are dying and fleeing.

They ultimately failed to survive this difficult period and fell prey to deep-sea monsters, retreating into their basic animalistic nature of survival and reproduction.

 The once prosperous civilizations of the North and the South have come to an end in world records.

 (End of this chapter)