Chapter 132 Fingers
After Xiaozhen's juice business achieved great success, Captain Ban's cat-headed caterpillar also had good news.
"My caterpillar has finally reached its moment of truth!!" Captain Madara announced cheerfully.
Xiaozhen and Mr. Cat stared at the cat-headed caterpillar in the middle of the table with curiosity. At this moment, the fluffy cat-headed caterpillar exuded a hazy halo, which was quite sacred. This was the sign that the caterpillar was about to break through. Captain Ban excitedly took photos and videos around the caterpillar, as if he was determined to record every minute and every second of this major historical turning point for the caterpillar.
The caterpillar straightened up, and its usual cute cat head now looked quite serious. The halo became brighter and brighter, and several rapidly rotating halos appeared around it. "Oh, it's about to change!!" Xiao Zhen said, "I'm waiting to shout Wow, Golden Legend!"
A flash of white light passed by.
The halo dissipated.
The cat-headed caterpillar stood still.
Xiao Zhen said, "Has it evolved? It looks like it hasn't changed at all."
“It seems that nothing has changed.”
Captain Madara said, "No, it changed!!"
"where?"
"It has changed." Captain Madara took out a ruler and measured it. "It has grown about one centimeter taller."
“…”
“Is this evolution?”
Captain Madara flipped open the instruction manual and said, "This is called a realm breakthrough. It's the preliminary preparation before evolution."
“…”
"Don't underestimate the realm breakthrough. My caterpillar is no longer the same caterpillar!! It has been reborn!"
"Well, does that mean you have to keep spending money to evolve?"
“Call it continued investment.”
Mr. Cat and Xiaozhen looked at each other and left the scene tacitly.
There is no hope for the fresh green chives.
Mr. Cat told Xiaozhen that there have been new things happening in the Furry Kingdom recently.
"What?"
"You can go and see for yourself."
Mr. Cat had previously moved the fur balls to a larger greenhouse box, and the territory of the fur ball kingdom has expanded ten times its original size.
The current situation of the six countries has undergone subtle changes. The alliance of white, gray, and red balls is now the largest force, followed by the alliance of brown and blue balls, and the remaining black ball family has no alliance.
This is not the main point that Mr. Cat asked Xiaozhen to see.
There are new things in the fur ball kingdom now. In the central area of each fur ball kingdom, some kind of building has been built. The fur balls have piled up small stones and some sand. Xiao Zhen looked at it for a while and finally figured out what these fur balls were piling up.
"Are they building clay figurines?"
"Yes."
The fur balls used sand and stones to build a tall (in the eyes of the fur balls) clay man. Every fur ball country has similar clay man sculptures. But in addition to the clay man sculptures, they are also building another kind of sculpture, which is a few thin and long round strips. Xiaozhen didn't see what they were building.
After watching curiously for several minutes, Xiao Zhen still couldn't figure out what kind of statues they were making.
"What is that?"
"A fur ball fetish."
"I know, but what is that?" Xiao Zhen said, "It looks round and long."
"Guess?"
"Long round strip."
"Think about it again, what often appears with clay figures?"
Xiao Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Is this a finger?"
"Yes. In the eyes of the fur balls, they can only observe your fingers, and you are defined as 'fingers' in their hearts. Angels are sent by fingers to come to their world, so now the fur balls have developed a kind of finger worship. The gods in their hearts are a few white soft meat strips, and the messengers of these soft meat strips are clay figures.
"Oh..." Xiao Zhen tried to put his hand into the greenhouse box and shook his finger above a group of fur balls. The fur balls below immediately erupted in a turbulent commotion, and countless fur balls rushed under his finger. After a few dozen seconds, the area under the finger became a sea of fur balls. They excitedly shook their fur at the huge finger in the sky, chasing the direction of the finger. When the finger disappeared, they all fell forward in the direction where the finger last appeared in the sky, motionless.
"What are they doing?"
"Well, the religious behavior of believers. This is fine, but they will perform performance art in a moment. Look."
Some fur balls were pushed by other fur balls to roll on the ground. Although in Xiaozhen's eyes, they were all a group of fluffy balls, but when these fur balls were pushed by other balls to roll on the ground, they were still quite cute and funny.
“Is this also a form of religious behavior?”
"From what I've observed, this is a form of penance."
"What?"
"In their original form, the black cockroach hated turning over with their abdomen facing upward. Even though they have become fur balls now, they still hate this position. From a biological point of view, because the skin on their abdomen is relatively soft, exposing their abdomen is equivalent to exposing their vital parts. But for the gods they love and worship, exposing their abdomen is equivalent to dedicating their lives to the gods."
"Then wouldn't it be worshipping the gods if we just turned over and lay down? Why do we have to roll around like this?"
"Because turning over and lying still can be considered as a way of paying respect to the gods. And every time they roll around, it means offering their lives to the gods once. Rolling twice means two offerings, and rolling three times means three. Of course, the more times, the greater the offering. The fur balls are pushed and rolled around, and they are actually practicing hard to accumulate merits."
"What you said makes so much sense, I almost believe it!"
"That's right. Look how happy the fur balls are during their hard training. I think if the fur balls' technology can invent a fan one day, it will definitely be the most utilized thing in religious places. By tying the fur balls to the fan, they can easily and quickly show that they are pious monks!"
"...This sounds so familiar." Xiao Zhen looked away and continued to look at the statues of gods that the fur ball craftsmen were carving. He found that the clay figurines of each fur ball were basically the same, except for the slight difference in size, and the shadow of the original clay figurines could be seen. But when it came to the finger sculptures, the sculptures of each country were very different. This was probably related to the fur balls' own observations. The white and gray fur balls had six finger sculptures, the red fur balls had four, and the brown and blue fur balls had three, but the brown fur ball was the only fur ball that carved out the thumb. Only the black fur ball had the correct five fingers, probably because the black fur ball's national strength was too weak, and their fingers were piled up in a mess and quite deformed.
The finger sculptures of the white and gray balls are very delicate. They picked out white pebbles, mixed them with sand, and piled them into neat and slender fingers. The most surprising thing is that they evenly coated the outside of their fingers with some kind of white solution.
Mr. Cat said, "Because they can't make flesh color, they can only make white paint. Not bad."
“Where did this white paint come from!!”
"It's made with lime." Mr. Cat said, "After I expanded the territory of the Furry Kingdom, I improved the environment and put in more natural stones of various kinds. I also introduced two rivers and added some green plants. The current result is that they made lime paint."
"My fingers don't look like that, and I don't have six fingers!" Xiao Zhen complained while staring at the six-fingered statue.
"This is something that has been created with the efforts of the entire country, so don't complain."
"Ah, I saw your totem too."
Mr. Cat said firmly: "That's not me!"
"That's you."
“It’s not me!!”
"Okay, let me put it another way." Xiao Zhen stroked his chin and said, "Is that your cat's tail?"
"I refuse to admit that it has anything to do with me."
After the finger sculpture, there is always a simple mural, which often depicts a snake-like monster painted with mud. After careful observation, Xiao Zhen recognized that it should be Mr. Cat's tail. This tail pattern is shown to be winding, weird and strange in various furry countries. It probably symbolizes some kind of evil power in the furry heart.
Xiaozhen guessed that this symbol might be related to the day when the clay figures went to the greenhouse to distribute feed, but were swept directly off the elevator by Mr. Cat's tail.
The crude murals behind the finger statues are mostly depicted with horrible evil cat tails. The patterns are often drawn with twisted cat tails nailed to the ground by a fork-like object, while the finger floats in the air.
"What kind of early demon images are these..."
"I said, this stuff has nothing to do with me!!"
While Xiao Zhen and Mr. Cat were talking, the army of fur balls that were practicing fur ball rolling came in a mighty procession in the direction where Xiao Zhen's finger disappeared and came to the territory of the brown fur balls. The soldiers of the brown fur balls rushed out to stop these fanatical fur balls from moving forward.
But the believers' fur balls still tried to move forward. Naturally, the brown soldier fur balls were unwilling to let them enter their territory, and the soldiers directly attacked the believers who were the most aggressive. In the chaos, it turned into a stampede of hundreds of fur balls. Some fur balls that were doing rolling penance were directly injured, and some were even trampled to death on the spot.
A large number of brown-haired soldiers rushed out to drive away the believers who were blocking the border. Under the tough drive, the grieving believers finally dispersed.
Mr. Cat stared at the fur balls of believers and said, "Well, it looks like a war is about to begin."
"Another war?" Although the question was a question, Xiao Zhen didn't seem surprised. He said, "These believers who like to roll around are mostly gray and white. They got hurt this time and they're probably seeking revenge."
"They were following God's guidance, but they were blocked by the heretic brown-haired balls, and they injured the devout believers. This was the best opportunity for the white-haired balls and the gray-haired balls to start a war."
"Wait, how come the brown fur ball is a heretic in your mouth now? Don't they all believe in the finger?"
"That's a huge difference. White and gray balls believe in six fingers, while brown and blue balls believe in three fingers. To white and gray balls, brown balls are heretics!"
"I only have five fingers on one hand now! They're all heretical!"
"Anyway, you are the one who believes in me. I only have fingers because I can only see so much." Mr. Cat nodded, "The war should start soon. I can start live streaming and collect money again."
The next day, the coalition forces of the white-haired ball and the gray-haired ball rushed towards the territory of the brown-haired ball.
This was the first religious war in the Kingdom of Maoqiu.
