The city inside the ship is full of long nights, cold and quiet. Since the ancestor's furnace was extinguished a few years ago, the temperature in this enclosed space has been dropping, and the power of the lighting system has also been greatly affected. People can only draw power from a few branch lines. With a little limited power to maintain lighting, their entire "world" fell into darkness, like a never-ending twilight.
But it is said that in ancient times it was not like this.
Bachelor Oro carried a heavy and large book with him. This book was bound with something that looked like a synthetic fabric. It was a large manuscript. Kai, 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 transcribe the encyclopedia. It took me half a year to transcribe it... You see, these records A picture of the glorious past of our ancestors…”
Hao Ren and Lily probed over, and they saw that the pictures depicted on the pages of the book were very complex. Sometimes, various things such as running machines, circuits, maps, and daily things were drawn on a page at the same time. comments and personal tags. Hao Ren felt a little dazzled when he glanced at it: Many of the items on it were objects that he saw every day, but it may be due to various errors and omissions caused by hand-copying from generation to generation, and the content on the pages is strange everywhere.
"Many, many years ago, there was a day when winter never came," the bachelor rubbed the pages of the book, speaking very slowly, "the whole world was thriving, and all factors of distortion and destruction did not appear. Our ancestors lived in a Wealthy, stable surroundings. The electric spirits were much more active then than they are now, and they were endless, all the lights and furnaces could run all day long, and the big factories never had to stop. Our ancestors were killed by a The wise king led—oh, yes, one king, one king, when 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, ma'am. Be patient, I'm about to stop here," the maester glanced at Lily, and continued in that unhurried tone, "According to ancient legends, the whole world was built on a floating Inside the giant sea turtle, this turtle is wandering in the stormy sea of 'Edos'. There are many monsters in the sea of Edos. These monsters are bigger than the whole world, and they are chasing this turtle desperately, trying to make the human world It was swallowed whole, so the ancient wise king prayed to the gods, and finally got the favor of the gods, and an artifact came into the body of the turtle. The king placed his throne on this 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 shines in the ancestral cauldron. Dispelled the monsters around the giant sea turtle, and saved the world from being swallowed up... "
Hao Ren listened very carefully. As expected, these remarks of the bachelor coincided with the situation of the Ark in Exile. Among them, the more ambiguous ones are the legends about artifacts and the protection of gods-I don't know if this is a rumor in religious stories or it has something to do with the goddess of creation. The bachelor noticed that his audience was serious, and he couldn't help smiling on his old face: "Nowadays, there are really fewer and fewer people who are willing to listen to these stories seriously. Especially young people like you. If Willy's father knew His son is here hearing this again, and he's bound to be furious."
Willie couldn't help shrinking his neck: "He won't know."
"In short, the ancient world was like this: the artifact dispelled the monsters outside the world, allowing humans to wander safely in the sea of Erdos, but the good times didn't last long, and something happened later that caused the entire world to be almost completely subverted," The bachelor paused at this point, and then continued, "People have been peaceful under the protection of the artifact for too long, and finally gradually take this protection for granted. So they began to forget the gifts of the gods. After people stopped 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 shell of the giant sea turtle. The whole world also experienced a major earthquake and the first "winter". At a critical moment, the king at that time asked the gods for help again, and people swore that they would never betray the gods. After praying for many days and nights, the gods finally gave a second favor: He reinvigorated the giant sea turtle and saved the world. But this time, in order to punish human beings for their fickleness and cunning, the gods also issued three curses while bestowing favors:"
Hao Ren and Lily raised their ears at the same time.
"First, the world is no longer rich, and the spirits of electricity are no longer infinite. From now on, the whole world can only provide limited food. Human beings must often be trapped by famine, so as to warn people not to indulge in pleasure.
"Second, the trauma of the giant sea turtle will become a hidden danger. From now on, various disasters will occur in the world. The electric elf will suddenly disappear, the mother of the earth will suddenly lose its strength, and the strong wind will suddenly blow from the giant's nose. The biggest disaster is the cold winter. Whenever the giant sea 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.
"Thirdly, the human kingdom is divided into four. People will fight each other and bleed continuously, but they will not be extinct. People should keep in mind the threat of death at this moment, and never fear death from now on. Firewood: Using one's own life as the power to maintain the world, this is the last shackles that the gods have placed on mankind."
The old maester was old, and spoke very slowly, and it took him a long time to finish these stories. After the old man's story came to an end, Hao Ren began to ask some simple questions: "Is there only one giant sea turtle in the sea of Erdos?"
He wondered if people remembered the existence of other arks.
"Of course there is only one," the old scholar widened his eyes, "there is only one in the world!"
"Er... so do you know who 'made' this giant turtle?"
The old bachelor's eyes widened: "Of course it's the gods—do people still have the power to create the world?"
Hao Ren covered his head: "Okay, I'm fine."
The old bachelor didn't know why, so he glanced at Willy: "You friends have strange ideas."
The old man couldn't chat with others for too long, and he was also responsible for teaching the young electrical technicians in the hearth city, so after exchanging a few questions with Hao Ren and the others, the old man left with Willy's support leave. When only his own people were left on the scene, Hao Ren stood up and stretched a long way: "Huh—what do you think of the situation here?"
"I'm very concerned about the 'artifact' mentioned by the bachelor," Vivienne said immediately, "according to the legends he described, I don't think the term 'artifact' should be groundless."
"This machine agrees," the data terminal also popped up, "Have you ever thought about why this exile fleet can escape the guardian's pursuit for ten thousand years? The technological content of these spaceships is actually not high, and they have just set foot in the sky." The spaceships of the Guardians are several generations more advanced than this, and the black battleship that Muru rides on can sweep the entire fleet. But the Ark of Exile still escaped until the end because the machine exceeded its service life They just collapsed one by one—compared to those races that never escaped from their home planet, don’t you think these arks are incredibly lucky?”
Nangong Wuyue's eyes lit up: "So they really have an 'artifact' to protect themselves?"
"Even if it's 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's escape from the home planet."
Hao Ren looked out of the window thoughtfully. From this angle, he could just see the giant machine at the end of the enclosed space—the Ancestor Hong Furnace.
"If there is really an 'artifact', it can only be hidden in one place: in that control center."
Vivienne frowned: "But Ancestor Honglu must have been guarded by the locals layer by layer. We haven't gained their trust yet. If we want to go in and check the situation, we may have to force ourselves... 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 "Ancestor Honglu". The others looked in the direction of her finger, and suddenly their eyes widened:
A string of huge electric flames erupted from the inside of the ancestral furnace, and they were rushing out along the shell of the ancient machine! (to be continued~^~)