One-of-a-Kind Trash

"One thousand~, %..."

"One thousand^--%..."

"This hurts... I can't count anymore..."

"I don't want to count... I want to go home..."

Chanting like the Great Compassion Mantra rose and fell throughout Uruk City.

These pitch-black four-legged creatures opened their mouths wide, their snowy teeth chattering nonstop. Once the numbers exceeded one thousand, they all entered a state of mental confusion.

They could not distinguish the magnitude of these "huge" numbers, so they had no idea how far they had counted.

"So they can never finish counting the number that was implanted in their minds?"

Achilles looked at the monsters calling themselves New Humans, known as Lakhmu.

A moment ago, they had been arrogantly slaughtering humans throughout the city, cackling madly all the while. In the blink of an eye, they had become babies driven into mental collapse by mathematics.

"Mm-hmm."

Li Heng nodded.

"That clay tablet implanted a very basic algorithm into those fools' minds. In plain language, it made them start from 1 and perform anywhere from ten billion to one hundred billion +1 operations."

"However, those fools have very primitive minds. They cannot arrange enormous numbers beyond their intuitive comprehension in order of magnitude."

"They do not even have the concept of Natural Numbers."

"After every +1, they do not know where the new number they have never seen before stands among the Natural Numbers, nor do they understand how it relates to other numbers."

"The simple idea of one-to-one correspondence can only create sets matching the quantity of concrete objects. In modern terminology, that is the Cardinal Number of a set."

"But the magnitudes of those sets' Cardinal Numbers are chaotic. There is no connection whatsoever between one number and another."

"To determine how many objects there are, one must find a representative set and painstakingly match