In the dead of night, a bonfire was burning on the top of the ancient tree hills. Everyone relaxed.
Todd was lying in a straw nest and fast asleep, Mondino and Old Berg were sorting out the harvest of this expedition, Adrian was wandering around, and several strange creatures were chattering together.
The ruins of Silverleaf City that caused the Northland to be surprised were right at their feet, but no one wanted to go in at this moment.
Everyone is tired.
The 'Door of True Knowledge' opened, and the original Silver Leaf Palace was now only the size of a study room. Zhou Qingfeng stepped in and took down the first tome from the bookshelf.
The 'Gate of True Knowledge' is first of all a library, which systematically records all the history, culture and technology of the elves. The first book on the bookshelf is the General History of Elf Civilization.
This is a growth-type wonder. As the user reads, the area of the study room will gradually become larger, and there will be more and more books on the bookshelf. It will expand from the original area of three or four square meters to seven or eight square meters.
Zhou Qingfeng sat at a simple table, reading the history book written by the elves page by page.
From the 'Thunder Age' 35,000 years ago, to the 'Dawn Age' 24,000 years ago, to the 'First Prosperity' 12,000 years ago, to the rise of mankind about 4,000 years ago.
...
There was no such thing as human beings on the continent in ancient times. Even the giant dragons had to stand aside. It was an era of extremely ancient and primitive creatures, such as fish people and snake people.
Over a long period of time, the elf recorded as much historical information as possible.
"The books in the Gate of True Knowledge come from the Crown Library of Evermeet Island. They were simply summarized and compiled by an elf prophet thousands of years ago. He tried his best to select some useful information and compiled it into a book, retaining about 30% of the original library.
The content of one.”
Xili sat next to her, watching Zhou Qingfeng slowly flip through the book and explain a few words casually. Zhou Qingfeng asked strangely: "That's one-thirtieth? Who is this prophet?"
Hilly just smiled and pointed to the rows of bookshelves in front of her desk, "I am not allowed to reveal the name of this prophet. But he is in these books. If he is recognized, he will naturally come out to find you."
Zhou Qingfeng looked up at the newly added bookshelf. Feeling groggy, he stretched out and let the book charm turn the pages for him. He was now focusing on reading Faerun's history book, hoping to learn more about this place full of various planes.
and countless possible worlds.
Hilly asked again: "Victor, have you gained anything from the books?"
In Zhou Qingfeng's hand is a historical collection called "Dark Disasters", which records a huge disaster that occurred about 13,000 years ago. There is an elf country called "Mai Yeli Tower" that was destroyed by a storm that lasted for three months.
Destroyed.
This storm was so terrible that it frightened the entire elves in Faerûn. They believed that the high wizards of 'Melita' created this storm. But why did the wizards create this storm that destroyed themselves?
It's not mentioned in the book.
"I have a feeling that whenever a certain civilization in Faerûn develops to a certain height, it will inevitably lead to a huge disaster. War, famine, demon invasion, irrational natural disasters, then the civilization is destroyed and then rebuilt.
start.
Every thousand to fifteen hundred years, this kind of thing will inevitably happen somewhere in Faerûn. Looking at these historical records, there are countless countries that have been destroyed.
More than 30,000 years ago, an ancient lizard established the Mershok Empire. Only two thousand years later, the ancient lizard began to decline, and the snake people took control of the empire. However, constant civil strife caused the snake people's rule to remain unstable until thousands of years ago.
Years later, it was completely destroyed by the dragon.
The giant dragons didn't fare well either. The war between them and the giant race continued until one day the elves used the 'Dragon Madness Lock' to completely defeat them. This powerful species is now like the giants, all shrunk to the corner of the continent and lingering.
As for the elves, today's humans think that the elves are reclusive, peaceful and leisurely. However, there have been continuous wars between the many kingdoms they established. Until they themselves became crippled, they could only flee the mainland in despair and hide in
Everlasting Island.
Human civilization has been around for ten thousand years, and began to flourish four thousand years ago. During this period, many great countries were born, and countless civilizations were created. Netheril, Imaskar, and Calimshan, these empires rose and fell.
Keep alternating.
Dragons, giants, elves, dwarves, humans, and even orcs and goblins have all established their own civilizations and kingdoms. But they cannot escape a periodic process of destruction. Whenever history books say that their civilization has developed to an extremely high level,
Destruction is imminent."
"This cliff-like destruction is so unreasonable." Zhou Qingfeng sighed.
Hilly said: "Isn't that what intelligent races are like? War and destruction are happening every day, it's not unusual at all. At least before the destruction, these great empires once prospered."
"No, it's not that simple." Zhou Qingfeng shook his head in a deep voice, "I got a wind-powered forging machine in Harmony Village. I always thought that no one had invented this thing before. But look at the records of the history of science and technology, elves, dwarves and even goblins
They all created the same thing."
"Goblins also had civilization?" Hilly asked in surprise. She couldn't imagine what kind of civilization those green monsters who could only scream "Oke Oke" could have. "The 'Gate of True Knowledge' also recorded the civilization of goblins?
I didn’t even know.”
"This is exactly what I'm wondering about." Zhou Qingfeng put down the book "Dark Disasters" in his hand, "Fifty years ago, demons invaded the North, and Silverleaf City also encountered disaster at its most prosperous and powerful moment?
Also destroyed were several powerful countries in the North. This seemed to be a punishment, a punishment that even the devil did not dare to speak, directly ruining the future of the North. What caused civilization to be continuously destroyed, and even a little bit of inheritance was lost.
Nothing left."
Zhou Qingfeng was in confusion. He lowered his head and looked at his desk. All the history books on the desk told him that in this damn alien world, civilization has no future, only reincarnation.
"I live in this kind of hellish place. It's so damn pathetic." Zhou Qingfeng felt unhappy. The direct consequence of the endless reincarnation of civilization is that his life is extremely backward - he can't live well, eat well, and wear well.
, there are not many pretty girls.
People in the Black Forest eat bran and live in extremely poor conditions. If there is less sawdust in the black bread, the people there will praise Chairman Hugo for his generosity and kindness.
Zhou Qingfeng originally thought that this was the reason why the Black Forest could not grow food. But according to the succubus, even in the food-producing areas in the south, crop yields were only so small. If the nobles took one more bite, several serfs would starve to death.
Carrots, turnips, acorns, these are the normal rations for ordinary people. In good years, they can be used to feed livestock, but in bad years, they can be eaten by themselves. Even weedy barnyard grass will be pounded into rice as a staple food.
If a family goes without food for three or four days, the women and children will often starve to death first. The remaining adult men have no choice but to flee. This is how most of the population in the Black Forest comes from.
When Harmony Village can provide a relatively stable food supply, the leaders of other human settlements will not be able to control the fleeing of their farmers. Everyone needs to eat. When your eyes are red with hunger, any bullshit belief is useless. The king of heaven will kill you.
look.
Standing on the top of the ancient tree hills, I imagined that countless races in the forest are struggling to survive. The pressure for survival is so huge.
Zhou Qingfeng opened the door to true knowledge and read history. After reading it, he felt even worse.
This alien civilization has been reincarnated for more than 30,000 years, and more than one or two intelligent races must have seen the problem. But they have not been able to solve this problem... and they have all disappeared into history.
What caused all this?!
If you want to uncover this secret, I'm afraid you still have to go through a lot.