The city inside the ship has long nights and is lonely and silent. Since the ancestral furnace was extinguished a few years ago, the temperature of this enclosed space has continued to drop, and the power of the lighting system has also been greatly affected. People can only draw from a few branch lines.
With only a little bit of limited power to maintain lighting, their entire "world" fell into darkness, as if it was a dusk that would never end.
But it is said that this was not the case in ancient times.
Maester Auro carries a large, thick book with him. The book is bound with something that looks like synthetic fabric. It is a large manuscript. The maester spreads the book out with great care.
He opened it and said slowly: "This is a precious thing. Only bachelors who have studied in the Tower of Knowledge for more than ten years can be qualified to copy the encyclopedia. It took me half a year to copy it down... Look, these records
A picture of the glorious history of our ancestors..."
Hao Ren and Lily poked their heads over, and they saw that the pictures depicted on the pages were very complicated. Sometimes, running machines, circuits, maps and daily objects were all drawn on one page at the same time. There were many complicated pictures below.
Annotations and personal marks. Hao Ren felt a little dazzled after taking a glance at it: many of the things above are items that he sees every day, but it may be due to various errors and omissions caused by generations of people relying on hand-copied transmission. The content on the pages is everywhere.
eccentric.
"Many, many years ago, there were days when cold winter never came," the bachelor rubbed the pages of the book, speaking very slowly, "The whole world was running smoothly, and all distorting and destructive factors did not appear. Our ancestors lived in a world where
In a prosperous and stable environment. At that time, the elves of electricity were much more active than they are now, and they were endless. All lights and heaters could run all day long, and those large factories never had to worry about downtime. Our ancestors were driven by a
The wise king led - oh, yes, it was a king, the only king. At that time, there was only one country in the whole world, and it was not as divided as it is now..."
"What happened next?" Lily asked anxiously. "Why did people split into four countries all of a sudden?"
"Patience, madam, be patient, I'm just about to say this." The bachelor glanced at Lily and continued to speak in that unhurried tone, "According to ancient legends, the entire world was built on a floating
Inside the body of a giant turtle, this turtle is wandering in the stormy Sea of Erdos. There are many monsters in the Sea of Erdos. These monsters are bigger than the entire world. They are chasing this turtle desperately, trying to destroy the human world.
It was swallowed whole, so the wise king in ancient times prayed to the gods, and finally received the favor of the gods. An artifact came into the body of the turtle. The king placed his throne on the artifact, and then swore to the artifact that he would use the loyalty of all mankind.
and piety to thank the gods, so this artifact glowed in the ancestral furnace, driving away the monsters around the giant turtle. Let this world avoid the fate of being swallowed up..."
Hao Ren listened very carefully. As expected, these remarks of the bachelor corresponded to the situation of the Exile Ark. Among them, the more ambiguous and difficult to understand were the legends about artifacts and divine protection - I didn't know that this was a religious story.
The rumors in it are still related to the goddess of creation. The bachelor noticed that his audience was serious, and he couldn't help but smile on his old face: "There are really fewer and fewer people who are willing to listen to these stories seriously, especially people like you.
A young man. If Willy's father knew that his son was here listening to this again, he would definitely be furious."
Willy couldn't help but shrink his neck: "He won't know."
"In short, the ancient world was like this: the artifact drove away the monsters outside the world, allowing humans to roam safely in the Sea of Erdos, but the good times did not last long, and something happened later that caused the entire world to be almost completely overturned,"
The bachelor paused for a moment before continuing, "People have been peaceful under the protection of artifacts for too long, and finally gradually take this protection as a matter of course, so they begin to forget the gifts of gods. After people stop praying.
The artifact also lost its power. As a result, the monsters wandering in the Sea of Erdos gathered again and began to eat the shells of the giant turtles. A major earthquake and the first 'winter came' occurred in the entire world. In such a crisis
At the critical moment, the king at that time asked the gods for help again, and the people swore and swore not to betray the gods again. After praying like this for many days and nights, the gods finally sent a second favor: He re-energized the giant turtle and saved the world.
But this time, in order to punish human beings for their fickleness and cunning, the gods not only sent down favors but also sent down three curses: "
Hao Ren and Lily raised their ears at the same time.
"First, the world is no longer fertile, and the elves of electricity are no longer infinite. From now on, the entire world can only provide limited food. Human beings must often be trapped by hunger, in order to warn people not to indulge in pleasure.
"Second, the trauma suffered by the giant turtle will become a hidden danger. From then on, various disasters will occur in the world from time to time. The electric elves will suddenly disappear, the mother of the earth will suddenly lose her power, and the strong wind will suddenly burst from the giant's nose.
It blows out, and the biggest disaster is the cold winter. Whenever the giant turtle stops to rest due to pain, its blood will become cold, so the whole world will be frozen, and the cold winter will kill countless creatures.
"Third, the human kingdom is divided into four. People will fight with each other and bleed continuously, but they will not be extinct. People should always keep the threat of death in mind and never be afraid of death, and the human soul will become the furnace of the ancestors.
Firewood: Using one's own life as the force to maintain this world is the last yoke set by the gods on mankind."
The old bachelor was old and spoke very slowly. It took him a long time to finish telling these stories. After the old man's story came to an end, Hao Ren began to ask some simple questions: "There is only one giant turtle in the Sea of Erdos."
What?"
He wondered if people remembered the existence of other arks.
"Of course there is only one," the old bachelor's eyes widened, "There is only one in the world!"
"Um...so do you know who 'created' this giant turtle?"
The old bachelor's eyes widened even more: "Of course it's a god - do people still have this power to create the world?"
Hao Ren covered his head: "Okay, I'm fine."
The old bachelor didn't know why. He glanced at Willy and said, "The ideas of your friends are very strange."
The elderly man could not chat with others for too long, and he was also responsible for teaching the young electrical technicians in Hearth City. Therefore, after exchanging a few questions with Hao Ren and the others, the old man left with Willy's help.
After leaving. After he was the only one left at the scene, Hao Ren stood up and stretched: "Huh - what do you think of the situation here?"
"I am very concerned about the 'artifact' mentioned by the bachelor," Vivian said immediately. "Based on the legends and stories he described, I feel that the idea of this 'artifact' is not groundless."
"I agree," the data terminal also popped up, "Have you ever thought about why this exile fleet has been able to escape the pursuit of the guardians for ten thousand years? The technical content of these spacecraft is actually not high, and they have just set foot in it.
In the super-light speed realm, and the Guardians’ spaceships are several generations more advanced than this, one black battleship like Mulu’s was able to sweep across the entire fleet. But the Ark of Exile still escaped, until the end it was entirely because the machine had exceeded its service life.
They just collapsed one by one - don't you think these arks are incredibly lucky compared to those races that couldn't escape their home planet at all?"
Nangong Wuyue's eyes lit up: "So they really have an 'artifact' to protect themselves?"
"Even if it is not a real 'artifact', it should be something similar with powerful power, which can allow the Ark fleet to escape the detection of the guardians, and play a major role in the fleet escaping from the home planet."
Hao Ren looked out the window thoughtfully. From this angle, he could just see the giant machine at the end of the enclosed space - the Ancestral Furnace.
"If there really is an 'artifact', it can only be hidden in one place: in the control center."
Vivian frowned: "But the Ancestral Hong Furnace must be guarded by the locals at all levels. We haven't gained their trust yet. If we want to go in to check the situation, we may have to force... Wait, something seems to be wrong!"
She suddenly exclaimed in the middle of her words and raised her finger to point in the direction of the "Ancestral Furnace". Others looked in the direction of her finger and their eyes widened:
A huge string of electric fire burst out from inside the ancestral furnace and was rushing outward along the shell of the ancient machine! (To be continued.)