A flash of surprise flashed in Cassandra's eyes, but she quickly regained her composure, pointing to the Shroud of Eden tied to Lu Xiao's hand and asked: "Did it tell you? This piece
The Pieces of Eden also contain the souls of the Isu?"
"Or maybe you learned about it through other channels?"
Lu Xiao smiled noncommittally and changed the subject: "Before answering your question, can you satisfy my doubts first?"
"After entering Greece, I felt an inexplicable call. Is it from you?"
"Did you also buy the last page of Altaïr's Codex and deliberately lead me to the ruins of Atlantis under the island of Thera?"
"Ha~" Kassandra admitted with an unabashed smile: "Yes, everything is a deliberate arrangement I made to lure you here."
Taking out a folded book page from her breast pocket, Cassandra threw it to Lu Xiao: "Follower of Chaos, who are you? Why does Aletheia think you are beyond time?
A heretic outside the stream?”
"The first time I secretly observed you, I clearly confirmed that you did not have the blood of the Isu people. Why did you have a completely different change this time when we met? What methods did you use?"
Picking up the page with his hand, Lu Xiao was not surprised by Cassandra's questioning. When he confirmed the other party's identity and behavior, he guessed that Cassandra must have monitored him in advance.
"Before I answer your question, let's let the two Isu people present show up and talk about old times."
With the energy support provided by the triangle of unknown material above his head, the translucent shadow wearing an off-shoulder simple white robe broke away from the Shroud of Eden in Lu Xiao's hand.
Consus, who was over two meters tall, moved his hands and feet tremblingly, his face full of joy: "It feels good to be in touch with the world again, even if this is just an energy body."
At the same time, an Isu woman of similar height to Consus also emerged from the golden apple held by Cassandra in her left hand.
"I have long admired your name, the great scholar Consus."
The Isu woman politely saluted Consus, and then a mysterious smile appeared on her face: "Or should I call you Prometheus?"
Lu Xiao raised his eyebrows in surprise. He didn't expect that there was such an identity hidden behind the name Consus.
Prometheus, a descendant of the Titans in ancient Greek mythology, is said to have created mankind together with Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, and stole fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to mankind so that they could establish their own civilization.
As punishment for disobeying the gods, Prometheus was chained to a rock forever, and his liver was eaten by eagles every day.
Of course, myths and legends are just legends after all, and the truth is destined to be quite different from the legends.
"Haha! You should call me Consus."
Consus laughed and stroked his beard and said, "So, who are you? Have we met before?"
"We haven't met directly."
Aletheia explained with a smile: "But the consciousness uploading technology I used was completed with the help of the information you left. Thanks to this technology, I can keep my consciousness alive until now."
The Isu people have a lifespan far longer than that of humans, but they are ultimately unable to be immortal like real gods.
It was precisely because his life span was approaching and he still had so much knowledge to learn and explore that he decided to transfer his consciousness to a Piece of Eden and become an immortal existence in this way.
He succeeded, but also failed.
Consus' consciousness did survive physical death, but he was trapped in the shroud, unable to let anyone know that he was still alive.
When Consus communicated with Aletheia, Lu Xiao and Cassandra listened silently with great interest.
Through the exchange of information between the two, Lu Xiao and Cassandra learned the source of Aletheia's consciousness uploading technology.
"Juno and Aita are an insidious couple. They deceived me, stole my technology, and even planned to use it to achieve their own ulterior purposes."
Mentioning Juno and Aita, Consus gritted his teeth with hatred, and Aletheia also agreed with his views on Juno and his wife.
"Everything Juno did was to rule the world for herself. She used the excuse of saving our civilization to infiltrate the research group chaired by Minerva and Jupiter."
"Juno secretly bound his consciousness to the great temple built by Minerva to save the earth, and luckily escaped the Toba disaster that destroyed the world."
"Minerva and Jupiter discovered her conspiracy and intentions, and could only seal Juno and the Great Temple together before disaster struck."
"That insidious woman is probably still planning to find a way out of trouble. One of the purposes of my existence is to completely destroy Juno."
Consus nodded solemnly and said: "It seems that we have at least reached a consensus on this aspect?"
Aletheia smiled and saluted: "Of course, the faction I inherited was passed down by you and Hephaestus. Our ideas are fundamentally different from those crazy people in the radical faction."
Based on the conversation between Consus and Aletheia, Lu Xiao obtained a lot of information about the Isu civilization.
The Isu of Juno's faction insisted that humans were created by them and should be their slaves forever, and humans should not be given too much autonomy. Juno even advocated the destruction of all humans.
However, the Isu people of Hephaestus' line believe that humans have innovative thinking capabilities that surpass the Isu people, and the Isu people should cooperate with humans to find ways to deal with the upcoming Toba disaster.
The Toba Catastrophe, there are records of this disaster in the Mayan civilization and the Bible, occurred in the prehistoric era of mankind, about 75,000 BC, 2306 Isu Era.
Scholars of later generations generally believed that this disaster originated from a super volcanic eruption, but Aletheia told the truth about the Toba catastrophe.
"That disaster was actually caused by the sun's coronal mass ejection phenomenon, and the entire planet suffered a devastating blow."
"When the disaster happened, the Isu and the radical factions among the humans were still fighting each other. This disaster changed everything."
"After the catastrophe, there were less than 10,000 human beings left, and the Isu people were almost extinct as a result."
Aletheia used the energy provided by the triangle energy source to construct a holographic image in front of the three people, intuitively showing the damage caused by the original catastrophe.
The coronal material ejected from the sun hits the earth directly, reversing the north and south poles of the earth's magnetic field, completely exposing the planet's surface to the sun's deadly radiation.
The entire planet was engulfed in a sea of fire that lasted for weeks, as earthquakes and flames swept through the remaining safe spaces on the surface.
"After the disaster, the surface of the earth turned into a blazing wasteland. The surviving humans and the Isu shook hands and made peace, working together to restore the vitality of the earth."
"Unfortunately, the number of Isu people who survived the disaster was too small. We ultimately failed to continue our civilization. Humanity replaced the Isu civilization and rebuilt its own society, and the earth prospered again in the following tens of thousands of years.
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As the time of the holographic image displayed by Aletheia progressed, the landforms and geographical environment of the planet's surface were completely reshaped, and the vibrant Earth appeared in front of several people again.
Consus questioned in confusion: "Isn't this great? Although the Isu civilization was destroyed, humans have inherited our heritage and restored life to the earth. The only one worth worrying about is Juno, right?"
"It's not that simple."
Aletheia sighed: "The Toba Catastrophe was only the first devastating disaster faced by the earth. According to Minerva's calculations, around 2012 AD, the second coronal ejection will hit the earth again."
"If humans cannot prepare relevant response measures before this, human civilization will eventually be destroyed by this inevitable catastrophe."