Chapter 2: "I" and Hirsch
There are three sacred trees in the world, Fuso, Wakaki, and Jianmu.
Among them, Jianmu is a kind of sacred tree worshiped by ancient ancestors.
Legend has it that Jianmu is a bridge between heaven, earth, man and god.
Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor and other emperors all passed through this sacred ladder to go up and down between the world and the heavenly court.
- Its nickname in the Ark is the Tower of Babel.
From the Tower of Heaven, Jianmu, you can ascend to the upside-down capital of Duguang.
Whenever the light of the Tower of the Sun hit the dome of the inverted Hanging Capital, Nuwa was already floating on the console in the center of the Star Atlas Hall, watching the countless prayers streak across in front of her.
On this continent where technology and the Demon Dao have been integrated, the thoughts and thoughts of human beings can already be transformed into visual words, and through the construction of wood, they can reach the capital directly.
Among the prayers of the faithful, there was a golden prayer that caught her attention.
"βto create a country where there are no stupid guys."
She glanced at the source, and sure enough, the voice came from the first human she created, Jiang Ziya.
It was the first life born from her hands, a perfect new humanity.
Unlike the androids of the old era, the power of the new humans to resonate with this world is comparable to that of a demigod.
But once they awaken such power, they will rebel against their master for the selfish desires in their hearts.
Thinking of this, in the golden pupils under Nuwa's mask, the light flickered and flickered.
She moved her fingers and decided to give the disobedient child some suffering.
The war between the Warrior King and the Demon Seed...... Interwoven into a glorious war epic.
After that, many more years passed.
In the past, the place where civilization originated, because of time, space and earth movements, human beings left this place.
The Tower of Babel was gradually abandoned, and there was a sound of rupture within the gods, and in the end, Nuwa let all the compatriots of the old era evacuate the King Continent.
They are going to build a new ark in the North Continent, and after waking up, they will go to their second destination.
Sleeping in the cultivation warehouse, the last "person" she saw was not Pangu, who had been incarnated into mountains and rivers, nor Fuxi, who was sleeping in a distant canyon.
It was the commander of the ark who provoked the rupture of the gods at the beginning, the fallen god Emperor Jun.
But he is not the emperor Jun in Nuwa's memory, but a complete destroyer of civilization.
The last words that Di Jun said to her were: "In the memory of G19, I saw you. β
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[I am G, the civilization recorder of the Ark.
Although the title of "Civilization Recorder" sounds powerful, it is simply a historian.
As for why I became a Civilization Recorder, I started with my first story.
I'm from the Old World in 2028, when the Earth already has cryonics, and I'm one of the first volunteers to take part in the Cross Base from the past to the future.
The number is G19, and it belongs to the seventh team, and the number 19 team member.
According to the original premise, I should have woken up in the twenty-second century and stayed in that era forever.
However, I was lucky again and again to be drawn, and again and again I went into a long hibernation.
In this long and boring life, I have witnessed countless events that have been recorded in the annals of civilization.
For example, from the advent of the ark and the creation of the world by Nuwa, to the division of theocracy and the glorious war.
Another example is from sacrificing compatriots and opening up territories to abandoning their people and preserving hope.
Finally, from the Bronze Age, where civilization was forged with blood, to the Golden Age of miraculous history...... It's all grand events.
Until the war between humans and demons burned to the upside down capital......
After the Commander of the Ark, Nuwa, disappeared, I evacuated to the Northern Continent with the last members of the Ark and began a long hibernation.
It was a long hibernation, spanning countless eras.
During this time, I gradually lost myself in my dreams and split into two different personalities.
One is a super-intelligent life form that has taken recording civilization as its mission since distant times, and the other is a true self that dreams of stepping on the King Continent.
About 3,000 years later, I vaguely felt that my personality was the first to awaken.
Without Nuwa's guidance, she made the same mistake as Jiang Ziya and became involved in the war between humans and demons.
Thankfully, there was a more sane me, and after the other twenty-five members of the Ark Council woke up, my consciousness also woke up, thus covering the consciousness of "Hirsch".
Then I saw a lot of good experiences for her from her memory.
But for me, these experiences shake the beliefs I've been holding onto.
Before returning to the Northern Continent, I came to the Ancient Altar in King's Canyon again.
This is where Hirsch became companions with Guiguzi and Mengqi.
What I am more concerned about is that on the edge of the cliff of the altar, there stands a huge statue of the goddess Nuwa.
Now the "Nuwa" in the upside-down city is not the real her, but the virtual consciousness left behind before she turned into a pure consciousness.
I stood on the altar, looking up at the statue of Nuwa, and for the first time remembered my story with her.
No one among the Ark members today knows the story between us, because it dates back to the distant age of Earth.
A long time ago, the earth was still in the Common Era, and at that time, she was not the creator of the current King Continent, but an ordinary girl who dreamed of climbing over the walls of the research institute and pursuing the sky and freedom......
In the Common Era, my name was Arctic Ice, and I was the only volunteer in the Cross Base [To the Future] project to fuse Adel Crystal.
When I met her, it was on the rooftop of Dawning Technology, the delicate-looking girl who was sleeping in the dormant chamber, named Xi.
Nuwa's real name is not Xi, Xi is just her code name, which means [Dawn].
Because she is one of the only two unscathed beings after touching the heart of the universe, she has become the focus of Dawning Technology's research.
If you can control the power of the heart of the universe, you can make the earth a third-level civilization.
But, failed.
That was my last mission, to escort Xi to Ark One before the base was destroyed.
Dr. Kita Gardenia, who has set up the countdown to self-destruction at the Cross Base, said that Xi is a god born to perpetuate the civilization of the earth.
Let me have a reverence for Him and follow her forever.
But I didn't follow her......
After sending Xi to Ark One, I went into hibernation again.
This is the first encounter and separation between me and Nuwa.
Seeing each other again will be many years later.
The vicissitudes of the world are changing, as if they were another world.
The era I came from became a few lines in the history books......
In the distant past, a power stone called [Heart of the Universe] appeared on the earth, and the creatures who came into contact with it gained incredible power.
Their power caused panic around the world, and when they learned that it could be taken from their own kind, they immediately began to fight.
Scholars say that it is the power of creation and the power of destruction.
But in the eyes of most people, it is just a story that happens on the other side of the screen, and it does not make a wave in people's peaceful lives.
At the same time, the Dawning Science and Technology scientists at the Cross Base used the power of the [Heart of the Universe] to rapidly develop technology, creating powerful weapons such as [AI Source World], [Evolutionary Species], and [Ark].
Then, in less than a hundred years, it surpassed the entire civilization of the earth.
After that, the entire history of the planet is only the history of war.
After a few more centuries, the earth's energy resources were finally exhausted, and in order to continue the earth's civilization, the escape plan of the cross base was launched, and 4,000 people were selected from each generation of dormant volunteers to board Ark 3.
Around 3000 A.D., Ark III carried the last flame of civilization through the wormhole to the new world and start a new civilization.
- "Ark 3: Journey to Creation"
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The sequelae of long dormancy is confusion.
After much consideration, I decided to start over in a time that my best friend had dreamed of.
So I washed away my old memories and became the executor of Ayato.
The leader of Xuandu, named He Xi, was the only one who did not die in the heart of the ark, another research object.
At that time, Xi became the leader of the Floating City Scientists of the Peaceful Faction, and the battle between her and the leader of the Radical Flame Capital caused countless galaxies to fall into war.
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Later, the star change began.
Unable to prevent this catastrophe, the people built Ark 3 in Earth orbit and went to the new world with the last spark of civilization.
After landing on this strange planet, a lot of things happened.
I forgot a lot of promises and promises to others, but there was one thing I never forgot.
Back to Earth!
And Hirsch's story continues......]
The year 5615 of the Ark calendar, the land of the far north, the highest mountain of glaciers.
Above the glacier is the snow, and under the snow, there is metal that is as sharp as mud, and there is frost and snow all year round.
Vast flaming red clouds on the horizon, Hirsh stood on the highest ground, overlooking the snow-capped expanse between heaven and earth, an ice field that concealed the world's greatest secret.
She stood silently at the top of the mountain for a long time, and finally jumped off the iceberg and rushed towards the frozen plain.
Landing smoothly on the ice, Hirsch took out the golden Rubik's Cube star map, which was divided into sixteen small pieces and surrounded her.
When it reaches the right angle, it stops spinning and fires a golden laser at the ice, carving out an ice hole in the ice.
Hirsch floated in the air, keenly aware of the huge metal city hidden in the ice field, long deserted.
Outwardly, it is two quadrangular pyramids linked together, and like the elongated star map, there is no entrance on the surface.
Hirsch controlled the ring, moved to a certain side of the huge city, held up the fused star map, and opened a door from that side.
She landed on the stairs, the star map divided into sixteen squares, and floated forward, the door behind her falling silently.
Three thousand years ago, a war broke out between humans, demon seeds, and super-intelligent life forms, and when the demon seeds rushed into the inverted hanging capital, everyone gathered at the spaceship mooring place and evacuated to Ark 3 in Luochuan.
Only she and the metal city stay here.
After fusing the memories of the past, Hirsch suddenly understood what Dr. Kita had said.
[Xi is a god born to perpetuate civilization......]