A hint of surprise flashed in Kassandra's eyes, but she quickly regained her composure, pointed to the Shroud of Eden tied to Lu Xiao's hand and asked, "Did it tell you?" This Piece of Eden also contains the soul of the Isu? ”

"Or did you find out about it from another source?"

Lu Xiao smiled noncommittally and changed the topic: "Before answering your question, can you satisfy my doubts first?" ”

"After entering the Greek realm, I felt an inexplicable call, was it from Your Excellency?"

"Could it be that the last page of Altaïr's Codex was also bought by your Excellency to lead me to the ruins of Atlantis beneath the island of Thera?"

"Heh~" Kassandra admitted with an unabashed smile: "That's right, everything was specially arranged by me to lure you over. ”

Pulling out a folded page from her breast pocket, Kassandra threw it to Lu Xiao: "Follower of Chaos, who are you?" Why does Alethea think you are a heretic outside the flow of time? ”

"The first time I secretly observed you, I made sure that you didn't have Isu blood, so why did this meeting change so differently? What exactly did you use? ”

The detective caught the page, Lu Xiao was not surprised by Kassandra's questioning, and when he confirmed the identity and behavior of the other party, he guessed that Kassandra must have monitored him in advance.

"Before answering your question, let the two Isu present show up and catch up."

With the energy support provided by the triangular body of unknown material above his head, a translucent phantom in an off-the-shoulder ancient white robe broke away from the Shroud of Eden in Lu Xiao's hand.

Consus, who is more than two meters tall, shook his hands and feet, and his face was full of joy: "It feels good to be reconnected with the world, even if it's just an energy body. ”

At the same time, among the golden apples held by Kassandra in her left hand came an Isu woman of similar height to Consus.

"I've admired the name for a long time, University Scholar Consus."

The Isu woman saluted Consus politely, 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 humans along with Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, and stole fire from Mount Olympus to give them to them so that they could build their own civilization.

As punishment for disobeying the gods, Prometheus was chained to a rock forever, and every day eagles pecked at his liver.

Of course, myths and legends are just legends after all, and the truth of the facts is destined to be quite different from the legends.

"Haha! You might as well call me Consus. ”

Consus laughed and stroked his beard and said, "So, who are you?" Have we seen this before? ”

"We haven't met directly."

Alethea smiled and explained, "But the consciousness upload technology I used was done with the help of the information you left behind, and thanks to this technology, I was able to keep my consciousness alive until now. ”

The Isu had a much longer lifespan than humans, but they could not be immortal like the true gods.

It was precisely because Consus was approaching his lifespan and he still had so much knowledge to know and explore that he decided to teleport his consciousness into a Piece of Eden, and in this way become an immortal being.

He succeeded, but also failed.

Consus's consciousness did survive physical death, but he was trapped in the Shroud, unable to let anyone know that he was alive.

While Consus was communicating with Altheia, Lu Xiao and Kassandra listened silently with great interest.

Through the exchange of information between the two, Lu Xiao and Kassandra learned the source of Aletya's access to consciousness upload technology.

"Juno and Aita, a sinister couple who deceived me, stole my technology, and even intended to use it for their own ulterior purposes."

Consus gritted his teeth at the mention of Juno and Aita, and Alethea agreed with him about the Juno.

"Everything Juno did was to rule the world for herself, and she mixed in with the research group chaired by Minerva and Jupiter under the pretext of saving our civilization."

"Juno secretly bound her consciousness to the Great Temple that Minerva had created to save the Earth, and narrowly escaped the devastating Toba catastrophe."

"Minerva and Jupiter discovered her plot and intentions, and were only able to seal Juno and the Grand Temple together before disaster struck."

"That sinister woman is still planning a way out of trouble, and one of the purposes I have survived to this day is to destroy Juno once and for all."

Consus nodded solemnly and said, "It seems that we have at least reached a consensus on this point?" ”

Alethea smiled and saluted, "Of course, the faction I inherited was passed down by you and Hephaestus, and our philosophy is fundamentally different from that of the madmen of the radical faction. ”

According to 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 that humans should not be given too much autonomy, and Juno even advocated the extermination of all humans.

However, the Isu of Hephaestus believed that humans had the ability to think creatively beyond the Isu, and that the Isu should work with them to find a way to deal with the impending catastrophe of Toba.

The catastrophe of Toba, which is recorded in the Mayan civilization and the Bible, occurred in prehistoric times of mankind, around 75,000 BC, in the year 2306 of the Isu era.

Later scholars generally believed that the catastrophe was caused by a supervolcanic eruption, but Alethea told the truth about the catastrophe.

"The catastrophe was actually caused by the coronal mass ejection of the sun, and the whole planet was devastated."

"The catastrophe was happening while the Isu and the radicals among the human race were fighting each other, and the catastrophe changed everything."

"After the cataclysm, there were less than 10,000 humans left, and the Isu were almost extinct."

With the help of the energy provided by the triangular energy source, Alethea constructed a hologram in front of the three of them, visually showing the devastation caused by the original catastrophe.

Coronal material ejected from the Sun hits the Earth directly, inverting the north and south poles of the Earth's magnetic field, exposing the planet's surface to the Sun's deadly radiation.

The entire planet was engulfed in a sea of fire for weeks, with earthquakes and flames sweeping away the remaining safe space on the surface.

"In the aftermath of the catastrophe, the surface of the earth was turned into a blazing wasteland, and the humans who survived shook hands with the Isu and worked together to restore the earth's vitality."

"Unfortunately, the number of Isu who survived the catastrophe was so small that we were not able to sustain our civilization, and humans replaced the Isu civilization and rebuilt their society, and the earth flourished again for tens of thousands of years."

As the holograms displayed by Alethea progressed in time, the topography and geography of the planet's surface were reshaped, and the vibrant Earth reappeared in front of several people's eyes.

Consus questioned puzzled, "Isn't that great?" Although the Isu civilization has been destroyed, humanity has inherited our legacy and brought the earth back to life, and the only thing to worry about is Juno, right? ”

"It's not that simple."

Althea sighed: "The Toba catastrophe is only the first devastating catastrophe facing the earth, and Minerva calculates that around 2012 AD, the second coronal ejection will hit the earth again. ”

"If humanity fails to prepare relevant countermeasures before then, human civilization will eventually be destroyed by this inescapable catastrophe."