Chapter 1770 Remember to read the instructions first
Elizabeth, but everyone came to the church in the center of the city. They could not understand the words of this world, and the environment on the surface was relatively harsh. There were no paper books preserved, and there were only some stone buildings and wooden buildings that happened to be petrified.
, can barely survive.
After entering the church, the most eye-catching thing is the altar in the center. On the altar in the center, the statue of the god enshrined is not a person, or the image of their race, but a sphere. To be precise, it should be.
It is a cracked ball, and in the cracked gap, the shape of a bud is carved out using exquisite carving techniques.
This is what is enshrined in the church. Everyone is surrounding this strange statue, looking up and down, wondering why some people believe in this thing.
There are only ruins left in the church, and there are not many things that can provide them with clues. Most of them have decayed over time. But fortunately, some murals left by predecessors can still be seen on the ruins.
There are many defects in the murals, but part of them can still roughly tell the meaning they want to express.
Arranged from left to right, the first mural depicts a humanoid creature holding seeds in its hands. Next to him are neat farmland and creatures cultivating in the farmland.
Although the shapes of these little people look a bit abstract, you can vaguely see smiles on their faces. It is obvious that life in this era is happy for them.
The content of the second mural is a little man standing on the edge of a cliff. This time the perspective is a flat perspective similar to a side-scrolling game, with the little man standing on the edge of the cliff. In front of him is a cliff of more than 90 degrees and an abyss.
Below there are sharp thorns, with other dead villains stuck on the sharp thorns.
The meaning of this mural is obvious. They have just seen the appearance of the edge of the ecological roller. This civilization has gradually expanded from agricultural civilization, discovered the existence of these abyss, and realized that the world in which it lives has boundaries.
The thing painted on the third mural is a bit abstract, and it looks like someone was excited because he invented a specific machine.
Elizabeth was a little unsure. She looked at the mechanical thing painted on the mural and scratched her head: "This thing looks a bit like a steam engine. But I'm not sure."
In the second half of this mural, a group of people smashed the newly invented machine, dragged out a wire, inserted it into something like an altar, and drove another strange machine.
"What does this mean? Why are there still people destroying steam engines?" Elizabeth scratched her little head, and then she immediately figured it out. If the electricity in this world extends from the ground, its application will definitely be better than ordinary electricity.
The steam engine is much simpler. You only need to pull a wire and drive the motor to solve most of the problems that the steam engine can solve. Once such a thing is invented, the steam engine will naturally be destroyed.
At the same time, above the artificial sun in the sky, Lan Nuo continued to read the contents of the book: "Our first insurance is the free supply of electricity. The consumption of electricity by farming civilization is very limited, and this
Part of the consumption is provided by the spacecraft, which will hardly put much pressure on the spacecraft. It is not even one thousandth of the consumption of the artificial sun.
Relying on free electricity can prevent them from inventing new power machinery. Steam engines that consume huge amounts of energy and are extremely inefficient will not be born. All subsequent technologies will also be based on free electricity, which can be easily
Manipulation. The level of energy they expend.”
With this insurance, the civilization living in the ecological drum can indeed stay in the era of agricultural civilization for a long time. Even if someone has an idea and wants to launch an industrial revolution, they will find that the steam engines and other things they create are relatively inferior to other things.
Free electricity is uncompetitive.
In such a closed environment, if civilization wants to survive, it can only put on shackles.
Lan Nuo continued to look down: "And the other set of insurance we left behind..."
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Elizabeth continued to read the murals in the church. The next mural showed many people starting to use machinery connected to wires, and at the bottom of the picture, someone erected a huge statue of a god.
The shape is the shape of the huge socket that is the source of electricity in the city, and there is a lightning-shaped symbol drawn on it. This seems to be the church they were born. They believe in electricity coming out of thin air, or it can be said that they believe in the God of Thunder.
This is completely understandable. Obtaining energy out of thin air has truly changed everyone's living conditions. It is difficult not to believe in such a god.
However, the next mural makes people understand that gods not only have a gentle side, but also a violent side. With the development of productivity, people look to the sky in order to satisfy their curiosity. People in this world are because of
Living in an ecological roller, you can see the world on the other side by looking up, so many people are curious about whether they can fly into the sky directly to another direction above their heads? Or fly to the sun.
So in this mural, there may be a hot air balloon rising into the sky amidst the attention of everyone.
However, as the hot air balloon took off, the next picture showed a mechanical falcon flying over the hot air balloon and shooting it down.
At the very back of this mural, there is a little man holding a wire in his hand. The machine connected to the wire next to him stopped running, and the god they believed in sent down divine punishment.
The next mural is a separate one, with hot air balloons, gliders, and towers reaching into the clouds, and a huge cross is drawn on them with bright red strokes. It seems that even in this
In civilization, the cross still represents negation.
People have tried various methods of contacting the sky, and then concluded the rules. The sky is the domain of the gods. Once it is touched, it will anger the gods, attract attacks from the gods' mechanical messengers, and cause large-scale power outages.
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"The other insurance we have left is to prohibit the civilization on the ground from developing any aerospace-type technology. Once similar technology is developed, it will be attacked by unmanned mechanical equipment and the power will be cut off.
We believe that as long as people on earth do not develop aerospace technology, they will not discover the truth of this world, and they will be content with the status quo and continue to exist.
In fact, we almost succeeded. At least 1,000 years ago, our plan maintained the existence of civilization for more than 4,000 years. During this long period of time, no one resisted, and everyone lived contentedly with the status quo and maintained extremely high standards.
If we continue to maintain a low-consumption life, we can last for up to a hundred thousand years or more. According to the estimates of our predecessors at the peak of civilization, as long as we can persist for 50,000 years, the space storm will gradually subside.
It will be possible for us to leave, and leave this starship that is about to run dry. But I think we may not be able to hold on until then.
I don’t know whether I should feel lucky or sad? They told us with their actions that no one can break off the wings of our race, but their tenacity was shown at the wrong time.”
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Elizabeth looked at the mural and was still confused. The mechanical falcon on the mural was undoubtedly sent by the more advanced aliens on the spaceship, but why did they stop these people from developing flight technology? And provided them with
Electricity? Is it simply to prevent them from escaping? But it seems that the people living here have reproduced for several generations. Are the descendants of sinners also guilty?
Although Elizabeth didn't quite understand the content on the mural, she still patiently continued to look back. The next mural was painted with more abstract content. It seemed to be a series of plants in the ecological roller, from germination to
withered and formed a ring.
In the middle of this ring, there are a bunch of horizontal and vertical lines drawn. Elizabeth observed these horizontal and vertical lines. These horizontal and vertical lines also appeared in other murals, but these lines were
It did not appear in the picture, but appeared at the top of the picture. The little girl was very smart and quickly guessed the meaning of these lines: "These things should be the numbers of this civilization, and the drawing on the top should mean the page number.
"Since they have seen this place from the first mural, they can naturally decipher the numerical laws of this world according to the order of the murals.
After a while, they returned to the mural. Looking at the large number of lines painted on it, the little girl counted it on her fingers and said: "The number above should be three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one. It should mean that the grass and trees are withered and flourishing."
Thirty-seven hundred and sixty-one times, perhaps so many years have passed according to their concept of time."
Everyone also agreed with this guess. The meaning of this mural is probably that under the rule of the God of Thunder, the world has been running smoothly for more than 3,000 years, and the existence of this mural means that the next mural will be the coming of change.
The next mural should record the great changes of this civilization.
On the next mural, there is a little man wearing a crown, and next to him is a cloud that represents his thoughts. What is drawn inside is a crossed hot air balloon, and a crossed
A picture of a tick digging down into a cave.
The meaning of this mural is more obvious. This should be a king. He realized that releasing aircraft into the sky would anger the gods, but he was looking forward to exploring a wider world, so he thought of digging downwards. They lived in a
Inside the drum, what is outside the drum?
Will it be the endless earth, or are there other rollers? As long as you dig underground, you can reach other rollers?
The yearning for freedom and the desire for the unknown, as well as the innate curiosity of intelligent creatures, drove him to mobilize domestic manpower and material resources to start digging downward at the lowest point of the earth they measured.
The next picture is of the excavation site, and the painting in the next mural has a more epic feel.
When the king began to dig underground, the gods were furious as never before. Countless machines climbed up from the abyss and attacked the excavation site.
The king organized an army to resist these attacking machines. The army was seriously injured and the king was even impeached by the church, but this still did not stop him from continuing to dig deeper. The reason was not given on the mural, but Elizabeth saw that
When I reached this scene, I felt like goosebumps all over my body, and there was a heat flowing deep in my heart, as if something was coming out of my eyes.
Although the figure of the king is just a simple little man, the little devil girl seemed to see the figure of the tall Yzaks in this little man. When his father learned that the universe he lived in was just the real universe
After seeing the tip of the iceberg, he resolutely chose to fight against the whole world even though he knew that he couldn't do anything.
Others may not be able to understand the crazy behavior of this king at all, but as the daughter of the mad king, Elizabeth can only feel her blood boiling. She wishes she had been born in that era, fought side by side with the king in the mural, and extended the tunnel to the underground infinitely.
, finally completely breaking through the shackles of the ecological drum and tapping into a broader world.
In the mural, the furious god cut off the power supply, so the steam engine that had been smashed was rebuilt. The god dropped heavy rain in the sky to flood the cave.
So people built huge awnings, built tall dams, and invented pumping equipment to pump out the rainwater in the caves.
But such a violent confrontation with the gods is impossible to win after all. This king, who can be called a tyrant, eventually caused the destruction of the empire that had lasted for thousands of years because of his madness. The new empire was destroyed in a short period of war.
After re-establishing it, this is the content of the next mural.
Elizabeth rubbed her somewhat red and swollen eyes, and the demons following him were also sighing. This scene looked very much like their king, but it also made them feel suffocated. The king in the picture was dead, and there was no one left.
A chance to come back. But their king is not dead yet, and they still have a chance to fight against the whole world again and win.
The re-established kingdom seems to have become gentle, but on the other side of the mural are more and more people who are dissatisfied with the cruelty of the gods.
Intelligent creatures have sensibility as well as rationality. Reason tells them that they should not fight against powerful gods, but previous drastic methods have allowed sensibility to gradually gain the upper hand.
In the newly established kingdom, rebellions broke out one after another, and the excavation progress of the huge cave was restarted time and time again. It was buried by loess again and again.
