The day before the "Silver Ring Elegy Day", the headquarters of the Knights of Twilight City, between the kings.

"Your Majesty, the person you are looking for is already waiting outside the door. ”

The squire's reminder caused Todd to look up from the official document like a mountain: "Please let him in." ”

A Southern scholar dressed in a Twilight College scholar's robe walked in, with a white cloth towel wrapped around his head, taking small steps, his eyes looking at the floor, his hands clutching, looking a little cramped or nervous.

"Abu Ben Kendi, we haven't seen each other for a long time, haven't we?" the king's voice sent a shiver to the Southern scholars.

The latter lowered his head: "That's right, Your Majesty. ”

Todd picked up a handbook and said to Kendi, "I've heard you tell your students in class at the academy that Heavenly Father's time is not the whole of history?"

Beads of sweat slowly oozed from Kendi's forehead and nodded.

Todd flipped through the manual and said with interest: "You claim that the history of this world is much longer than the world knows. The ruins of the Heavenly Father found in the Holy City of the East are estimated to have been built 6,000 years ago, the fossils found in the North Island Ruins are estimated to be about 12,000 years old, and the remains of the ice caves found in the Northern Shadow Country are older than the previous two?"

Kendi hurriedly argued, "I am not doubting the existence of the Father, nor am I opposing the doctrine of the Church. ”

Todd knew what the Southern scholar was afraid of, and he smiled and continued to ask, "Tell me, do you have any basis for these findings?"

Kendi glanced at the king and saw that there was no annoyance on his face, so he plucked up the courage to explain, "This is thanks to the invention of the electron microscope by Your Majesty, as well as the assistance of the Anomalous. First of all, I was in the lab, and I heated a small fossil to 1200 degrees Celsius, and inside it would release some strange gases with powerful electricity and radiation. After filtering out impurities, the resulting product can be processed with abilities such as "light gathering" and "magnetic energy flow" to calculate a value for electricity and radiation. ”

When it comes to his academic expertise, Kendi no longer looks afraid, but instead frowns and gushes: "Next, we went to look for some antiques that have been dated as references. For example, Terrence has a 2,000-year-old volcanic rock specimen from Taylor's early days. After a set of processes such as heating, filtration, collection, and calculation, the contrast coefficient of electrical energy and radiation can be calculated, and through many experiments, the approximate age of the previous fossil can finally be obtained. ”

Todd listened to Kendi's introduction, and remembered a technique used to detect the age of objects in his previous life - "40K-40R", also known as "argon isotope decay detection method". To put it simply, the argon atoms hidden in the molten specimen are detected based on the number of charges and the process of decay period, so as to finally determine the age of the substance.

This technique is also often used to detect the age of microorganisms and the specific history of biological evolution.

Todd's silence was mistaken for suspicion by Kendi.

The southern scholar walked up to the king and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, don't you know what this means? This discovery can completely change the history of religion today! Think about it, the world 6,000 years ago was a biblical world, 'Genesis' and 'The Great Flood' It is true that God created human beings and all things, and more than 10,000 years ago, it was the age of the gods, Asgard existed on the earth, and the golden tree fed all beings, and before that, there were many more age of gods, buried in the earth and the sea. ”

Kendi paused and said to himself: "The key question is, why did these mythical eras appear and disappear? From the perspective of time, the emergence and disappearance of gods seem to have a pattern and cycle. ”

Todd sighed, the conversation with the "Crystal Su" in the ruins of the North Island is still engraved in his mind, the so-called "space agent", what does such a strange character represent?

"Kendi, I came to you this time, on the one hand, because of your history lectures, after all, Twilight City is now a holy land blessed by Heavenly Father, and you have taught these lessons to the students...... It's not appropriate, so it should be stopped altogether. Todd stared into the scholar's eyes until he was pressured to agree, and then added, "On the other hand, I want to learn about the history of this world unilaterally. ”

Kendi looked at the king with some confusion.

Todd shook his head helplessly and said, "Most of the books in the Twilight Library come from churches and monasteries, and those books that introduce history have either been burned or tampered with. You are from the Abbasid Empire in the south, and I think your country should have some restoration and preservation of the history of this world. ”

Kendi nodded and said, "Your Majesty, which piece of history do you want to know about, and what aspect do you want to focus on?"

"Let's start from the early days of Gutaylor, and focus on some well-known historical events and historical figures. ”

Southern scholars pondered for a while and began to give a general introduction to this history.

From the introduction of city-state immigrants to tribal union, from the Taylor commune to cultural integration, then to the Taylor Republic, the League War, the Führer Politics, and finally to the division of the empire.

Todd listened and memorized, comparing these historical events, and the historical figures that appeared in them, with the history of ancient Rome in previous lives, and found that most of the elements were strikingly consistent, but there were also differences in some details.

After waiting for the introduction, Todd suddenly remembered a well-known hypothesis from his previous life: "If the world were to go back to the beginning and let everything start all over again, would history repeat itself the same path as it was?"

Those who reject this hypothesis will use the "butterfly effect" as the basic theory, emphasizing that small changes in things will cause a series of immeasurable events that will turn the whole world upside down, while those who support this hypothesis will use the "deviation correction theory" to explain that even if there are small changes, the overall trend of history will automatically adjust and correct the deviation to ensure that the historical trajectory does not deviate too much from the original direction.

"Your Majesty, the latest battle report from the North Stone Fortress has arrived. ”

Todd was interrupted by a voice outside the door.

He waved his hand at Kendi, motioning for him to stand down, then picked up the report from his attendant, read it carefully, and finally put the paper down, closed his eyes and tapped the table with his fingertips.

"The battlefield in Beishi is still in a stalemate...... I wonder how Cumberland and the Knights of the North Island are doing now?"

The attendant flipped through the memo in his hand: "Your Majesty, there are two more things. ”

Say. ”

"First, regarding one of the 'Twilight Civil Codes' - 'whether the use of abilities in the city should be restricted or forbidden', there is a conflict between the scholar representatives and the Xenomorph Association. Yesterday, two groups of people quarreled for a whole day in the Decree Tribunal over this matter. ”

As soon as he thought of the open and secret struggle between the "scholar faction" and the "alien faction" in Twilight City, Todd had a pain in his brain, and a "Twilight West Civil Code" was revised and improved on the basis of the "Taylor Code", and the two factions quarreled for a whole month, but there was no result.

"I'll make time to go over tomorrow, is there anything else?"

The attendant added: "Second, the day after tomorrow is the last day of Advent, and it is customary for the Church to send a bishop to celebrate Mass, but it is ...... because of the war."

Todd waved his hand indifferently and said, "You don't need the church to send someone over, I'll just preside over it." ”