Chapter 15 Poppy (Part 1)

At night, the general guards brought dinner to Murphy.

Since it was in the military camp, the food was naturally not as exquisite as in the Athenian Governor's Mansion. A food box contained only a piece of long bread, a stack of dried fish and a bowl of thick broth, and some vegetables. Although it was not rich, the broth was fragrant. After taking a bite, Murphy tasted it, and it tasted really good, with a special flavor, which seemed to be in the seasoning.

"What's there?" Murphy asked, putting down the spoon and pointing at the broth.

The attendant of the general guard shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Governor, I'll ask the chef."

"Go." Murphy nodded.

Soon, the general guard servant came back. At the same time, he brought some blue-brown powder back in his hand. He put the small bag of blue-brown powder in front of Murphy and said, "Governor, this is something the army found at the former site of the elves, and it seems they had planted it. Later, they asked someone to ask, and then they realized that this was the seasoning used by the high elves. It was very expensive and rare!"

"The priests of the temple have identified that this thing is not poisonous and can be used to treat some illnesses." Speaking of this, the general guard servant took out a few seed-shaped objects and placed them carefully on the table.

"What is this?" Murphy picked up the powder and smelled it. He immediately felt that the fragrance was very special.

Then, he picked up the seed-like things and observed them carefully. After watching for a long time, he suddenly felt a very special feeling, as if this thing had evoked some special memories! But no matter how hard he thought, he could not remember what this thing was. So Murphy began to try to awaken the auxiliary system of "Total War" in his mind.

"Scan the object in front of you." Murphy issued a tentative order.

For a long time, most of the help provided by the auxiliary system of Total War is passive. However, after activating the "Total War-Kingdom" system, the total war auxiliary system seems to have added a lot of initiative. Although Murphy has not yet determined it, there is one ability that seems to be useful. That is, the database scanning of the auxiliary system, which has been activated several times by itself.

Once the order is issued!

Murphy suddenly felt a splitting headache, as if a needle was *** his brain, and he was extracting his brain!

In a trance, it seemed as if he had reached a stream of memory. From birth to now, all his memories emerged quickly like slides, and then became silent again.

"The memory data is being extracted, imported into the auxiliary system database, and the memory scanning system is being activated!"

"Activation progress...10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%... Activation is completed! The memory scanning system is turned on, automatic memory mode is activated, the data memory database is passively generated, and the auxiliary system of "Total War" is assimilated into the memory template!..."

A series of auxiliary system prompts sounded, but Murphy, who was in pain, had no way to pay attention to it or even heard it.

Because his whole brain seemed to be buzzing, his ears could not hear the sound from the outside world!

Finally, the pain subsided.

"Governor! What's wrong with you?"

When Murphy opened his eyes, he was already sweating profusely and was so wet. He looked at the general guard servant who was frightened by his pain in front of him and said hoarsely: "You go down first. No one can come in without my order."

"Yes." The general guards hesitated for a moment, and finally took the order and left.

The door was closed, and Murphy was left alone in the room.

He let out a long breath.

He gently rubbed his temples with both hands, which were still a little painful, as if he murmured: "Do you extract memory? It actually made me remember those things too."

The human brain is very mysterious.

In fact, everyone can never forget it, because there are so many things that the human brain can accommodate. However, most of those things are buried deep in memory by time, some can be recalled, while others are completely forgotten. But being forgotten does not mean that they do not exist. They still exist and are engraved in a certain place in the brain.

To use a more popular metaphor, then the human brain is a unimaginable U disk, and memory is the stored information.

Because the U disk is too large and there is too much information stored, many times people will forget the things that are present in a certain corner. On the contrary, children have better memory because there are not many things in their brains. However, being forgotten does not mean that they do not exist. It still exists in people's brains, but is no longer remembered by people.

What the "Total War" auxiliary system just did was to extract all Murphy's memories into the database.

The auxiliary system exists with him, and it cannot produce knowledge for no reason. This knowledge must come from Murphy, or from Athens, or even from the gods of Olympus. It is just a tool, and a tool cannot create knowledge for no reason, so it must extract that knowledge in order to form its database.

"Poppy seeds, mutant Papaver family plants, have the same medicinal properties."

The answers to Murphy that he had read accidentally in college and was not remembered by him. On the page of the "Total War" auxiliary system, a line of small words told Murphy the answer in a very simple and clear manner.

Poppy flowers!

The elves actually plant poppy flowers!

Murphy stared at the powder in front of him in disbelief, murmured something in a low voice.

This is actually the fruit of poppy flowers. The elves actually plant poppy flowers, and they were passed down by the high elves. This answer really surprised Murphy!

Because he really didn't expect it would be such a thing.

In such an era, poppy flowers naturally cannot be equal to 'opium' and 'drugs', but even without any purification, the medicinal properties of poppy flowers still exist. In ancient Egypt, poppy was called "sacred flowers". In order to express their praise for poppy, the ancient Greeks asked the goddess Sigu who was in charge of agriculture to hold a poppy flower in her hand. There is also a story about poppy in ancient Greek mythology. There is a devil god who controls death, called Xupunos, whose son Mafes held the poppy fruit in his hand and protected his sleeping father so that he could not be awakened.

Poppy was discovered by people in the Neolithic Age while traveling among the mountains on the east coast of the Mediterranean. More than 5,000 years ago, the Sumerians devoutly called it a "happy plant" and believed it was a gift from the gods. The ancient Egyptians also used it as a elixir to treat infants' night crying. In the third century BC, detailed descriptions of opium appeared in ancient Greek and Roman books.

The great poet Homer called it "forget-forget-forget-forget-grass", and Virgil called it "hypnosis".

The flowers of poppy flowers were very beautiful. At that time, many slave owners would plant poppy in their own manors, but just to believe in its beauty.

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Murphy really didn't expect that poppies in this world would be discovered so early, and they have been planted as a custom inheritance by the elves. This plant actually originated from high elves. Murphy really couldn't imagine how long it took for the elves to plant poppies. How long and terrible their race has to addiction?

"No wonder although the elves are powerful, they rarely invade foreign countries. Originally, this was not their nature, but because these elves were taking drugs all the time!"

Perhaps the elves' nature was the same as other races.

But in the long history of racial drug use, their nature has become what they are now. What can stimulate art more than slight hallucinations? What can make people more satisfied than drug use?

Although it still cannot reach the level of drugs, during the long process of using poppy flowers, the spirit of the entire elves has been eroded by poppy flowers.

This erosion even triggered a change in the entire race, a positive, beautiful, balanced change!

Because under the influence of poppy flowers, the elves that are now quiet, kind, kind, and do not fight with the world, maintain natural balance, but rarely invade others, and have been civilized for the entire world several times!

The slight hallucination and the satisfaction brought by drug use have made the powerful elves lose their ambition to invade externally, and have also made them content with the status quo, and have given birth to the current civilized way of maintaining world balance as their mission.

Murphy could not imagine if this was an arrangement, but there was no doubt that if there were no poppy, the whole world would have been ruled by the elves long ago. Because under the archery of high elves, mixed-blood elves, and a large number of half-elves, almost no race has the hope of victory. Because they are so powerful, they are born silver species, and from their birth, they are stronger than other races.

Too many too many...

Murphy suddenly thought of too many things.

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"Anyway, their lives are long, and just this level of drug use may not hurt them at all." Murphy smiled a little self-deprecatingly.

Breaking the wind!

Suddenly, Murphy's face turned apart and his expression became cold.

Since practicing arcane, his perception of the outside world has become stronger and stronger. Even if he has not entered meditation, he can still feel the changes around him to a certain extent. This seems to be a talent, activated after opening the door to arcane.

Then Murphy's face soothed.

Because he felt that the aura of the coming person was not unfamiliar, because she had appeared in front of him.

"The fruit of the divine flower!?"

The first thing Queen Evanna saw was not Murphy, but the few poppy seeds in his hand. In her eyes, Murphy saw a desire, which was a desire he had never seen before, as if it came from the depths of his soul.

He suddenly felt shocked.

Because he actually thought absurdly that their drug addiction might have penetrated into their souls!


Chapter completed!