China, the north, the eastern ice city.

It is a luxurious room where the light clouds of burning spices linger in the room and the fragrance of black tea from Darjeeling, making the mood extra quiet and peaceful. The flat marble floor is covered with a soft carpet from Persia on which are encased openwork chairs made of boxwood with traps. The ingenious, Chinese-style furniture is topped with soft cushions in the style of the Austrian Habsburgs ((1)).

Strangely, there are no electronic devices – not even electric lights.

The delicate crystal ceiling illuminates everything and becomes the only source of light for the house.

At her feet, with her as the center, there are 12-fingered swan-like elegant lampholders, and the light of burning lamp oil radiates from the end of the twelve swans, and through the floor-to-ceiling bed curtains made of various solid colors, they are reflected back into the house with ingenuity, making the whole house full of fairy tale magnificent colors.

Beneath the chandelier is a circular conference table like a bar, but the table is hollow, and when viewed, it looks like a giant laurel wreath - for some reason, this huge round table, and the people who sit around it, are reminiscent of the well-known Celtic legend - the story of King Arthur.

Some people say that time is like an ocean that submerges everything in this world. And the god of death – or the god of annihilation – is the fisherman of the sea, in a flat boat, ready to spill his fishing nets into the sea and catch his "prey".

And everything in this room is like escaping the sea of time and then luckily escaping from the fish caught by death. Time seems to have lost its meaning here.

The Sea of Time stopped flowing here and became a forbidden lake.

If it weren't for the people at the round table, it would have become an oil painting depicting a gathering of medieval aristocrats.

"Then," said the silver-haired young man sitting directly north of the table with a host-like smile to the crowd, "if you all have no objection to the above proposals, let us swear by here." ”

As soon as the words fell, the young man's expression changed, if just now he was a hospitable host and was warmly entertaining the guests, then now he is the most pious archbishop, presiding over a solemn ceremony.

"I," the young man stretched out his left index finger and middle finger to point to the center of his forehead, then slid over his right shoulder, then his left shoulder, and finally stopped at the heart of his left chest, and joined his right hand, and bent his middle and ring fingers together, the roots of the fingers facing each other, and the tips of the thumb, index finger, and tail finger against each other. Finally, the young man kept the gesture and slowly moved up, and the opposing index finger rested on his brow again.

For a moment, the room was filled with his low and solemn voice:

"The gods are gone, but the cowards live on their own. ”

As soon as the words fell, the rest of the people spoke at the same time with the same gesture and the same serious expression:

"The gods are gone, but the cowards live on their own. ”

Although only a dozen people took the oath here, the significance of the event will not be diminished by this. This moment is destined to be recorded in history forever.

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After Nuwa mended the heavens with her body, the enchantment she set up with the secret treasure "Mountains and Rivers Society Map" lost her blessings. But thankfully, the time of the gods has come. Theocracy is gradually being stripped away in the human world.

However, since December 21, 2012, the boundary between heaven and earth has collapsed, and the age of the gods has come again.

In September 2013, Hard Wall, a "Watchman" college established by China, Russia, the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries in Longcheng, northern China, was officially established.

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Exegesis:

Note (1): The House of Habsburg, the most widely ruled royal family in European history, ruled the Holy Roman Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Archduchy of Austria, the Austrian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Habsburgs are also known as the Austrian families.

Members of his family served as Holy Roman Emperor (1273~1291, 1438~1806), Duke of Austria (1282~1453), Archduke of Austria (1453~1804), Emperor of Austria (1804~1918), King of Hungary (1526~1918), King of Bohemia (1526~August 1619, November 1620 ~ 1918), King of Spain (1516 ~ 1700), King of Portugal (1580 ~ 1640), Emperor of Mexico (1864 ~ 1867) and duke of several Italian duchies.

The Habsburg dynasty flourished widely in the later period, and the Spanish king Carlos I (that is, the German king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) was divided into two branches: the Spanish Habsburgs and the Austrian Habsburgs (later replaced by the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty).