Douluo: The Adventures of King Skin

“NeupranseLamiaevivumpuerumextrabatalvo”

——Horace

In Greek mythology, Lamia is a half-man, half-snake monster.

She was originally the daughter of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Rabbi. She was also the queen of Libya. She had outstanding beauty. She was later punished by Hera for Zeus's treachery.

Furious, Hera killed all the children born to Lamia. In order to make her suffer endlessly, she cast a spell so that Lamia could never close her eyes, so she would constantly see the scenes of her sons being killed.As a result, she was tortured by the spell day and night and went out to kill and devour children, making other mothers feel the same grief.

In order to compensate Lamia, Zeus gave Lamia the ability to "remove her own eyes in a short time" and to be good at divination without daring to go too far against Hera's spell...

Although it sounds like a man-eating monster, Lamia is also worshiped in some small places.

For example, here in Lamia City.

The opinion of Lyceum scholars is that this is a foreign evil god with maritime characteristics introduced from North Africa in the early days - many ethnic groups there have the custom of sacrificing children to obtain maritime prophecies - and was later integrated by the Greeks into their own gods. Down.

Pyrrhus had an inspiration from this. He believed that there were actually many very instructive images in the legend of Lamia.

——For example, retribution caused by atrocities, such as the destruction of innocent children by war, and eyes that will never close.

He decided to create a unique city card for the newly born city of Lamia, whitewashing the monster into a cursed guardian image, and applying it to various decorative occasions, such as shields and ship bows.

But this is all secondary. The main aspect is an idea he had from the experience of Nicesi, which is to launch a public welfare undertaking to rescue children who have lost their limbs.

Therefore, he persuaded his partners to establish an institution integrating conservation, rescue, upbringing, and education to adopt orphans in Thessaly and surrounding areas, or to send children from poor families who were unable to feed them.

These children will be called "Sons of Lamia."

And he donated all the land in the city under his name, and after collecting other donations, planned the entire inner city area of ​​Lamia into a comprehensive academy for the use of Lamia's sons.

The city of Lamia will become a city of refuge for children. Children who are difficult to feed can be sent to Lamia to provide free education.

In the plan finalized in the early stage, Lamia will be divided into two cities, the inner and outer cities.

The inner city is a rhombus, facing the Gulf of Maris in the southeast, with two acute angles opening towards the coasts on both sides. There is a city gate on each side, deriving four avenues, respectively connecting to Magnesia in the east. The coastal corridor, the Seine Pass in the hinterland of Thessaly to the north, the Spezius Valley in Aetolia to the west, and the Thermopylae Pass to the south;

The outer city is four diamond shapes extending from the four inner city walls. These four urban areas are independent and surrounded by city walls, and there are also walls between them and the inner city.Once besieged by foreign enemies, such a plan is more conducive to defense, because it is obviously difficult to launch an attack between the corners of the two outer cities.

Among them, North City is a residential area, and some basic services such as medical care are also concentrated here;

Dongcheng is a workshop area, which produces a large amount of wastewater. It happens that the outlet of the main river in the city is also here;

The southern city is a commercial district. In addition to merchant houses and markets, visitors from other Greek city-states and some foreign nationalities such as Phoenicians, Jews, Gauls, and Scythians will also live here;

Xicheng is an entertainment district, with theaters, pubs, casinos, restaurants, extracurricular tutoring, duck shops... and even gladiatorial arenas all here.

Each urban area is a well-organized diamond grid city combined with radial lines and circular loops!

Lamia's municipal, religious and other public institutions are not located in the above-mentioned urban areas, but are located between the corners of the two outer cities in the southeast and near the harbor, which is called the port area.

Independence Square is also here

On the one hand, this is because these large buildings themselves are semi-fortresses with defensive capabilities. On the other hand, the dock is indeed the economic center of this era.

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By the time all the celebrations are over, it has entered the "marriage" month of the Athenian calendar.

Although the construction is far from complete, and the inner and outer cities are full of temporary tents, the Lamia Academy in the inner city has received tens of thousands of children from infants to 15 years old, and has built two buildings equipped with machinery. There are oversized canteens, four theater-style open-air lecture theaters, and longhouse dormitories that look relatively simple but can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

At the same time, the four major teams of the nursery, the rescue home, the nursing home, and the education center have initially completed the staff construction-mainly the aunts from the previous women's camp and some Lucian bachelors, as well as many external personnel and volunteers who came here because of their reputation. By.

The nursery is basically a hospital. In addition to daily outpatient clinics, it also has academic attributes, focusing on infant and pregnancy;

The rescue home is responsible for rescuing children and is an external agency - it is also preparing to build an armed force;

The nursing home is responsible for managing the daily life of Lamia's son, including all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation;

The Institute of Education is responsible for the education of all children, and many of its staff now work part-time, and Pyrrhus will also teach when he is free.

In addition to being divided into fifteen grades according to age, all students are temporarily divided into four large classes according to course progress.

They are basic classes that teach basic reading, writing and numeracy;

Advanced classes that teach foreign languages, geometry, and sports;

Advanced classes that teach various practical knowledge such as astronomy and navigation, geography and geology, medical treatment, military affairs, commerce, agriculture and animal husbandry, and machinery;

As well as the top class dedicated to philosophy established at the strong request of Stratton and others - although no one has enrolled yet.

Frankly speaking, this is the most meaningful thing that Pyrrhus has done since time travel. Many people, such as Stratton, who previously regarded him as an ambitious man, had to look at him with admiration.

This is because the Axial Age is still relatively warm and humid, and food is generally abundant, so that such large-scale public welfare projects can be supported.

When the climate changes a few hundred years later - perhaps sooner - food production decreases, and natural and man-made disasters follow, Pyrrhus himself is not sure whether this paradise can still survive.

He can't control what the future will bring, he can only rely on the people of the future.

I hope these sons of Lamia, who have grown up in the kindness of the world, can give kindness back to the world.

In short, Pyrrhus just remembered what he said to Nicesi. Since he had the ability, there was no reason not to do it.