Chapter 0227: The Dark Curtain of the World
In the dead of night, the tops of the hills of ancient trees shimmer. The 'Door of True Knowledge' opened, and Zhou Qingfeng sat at the table and chair in the library, flipping through the history books written by elves page by page.
From the 'Age of Thunder' 35,000 years ago, to the 'Age of Dawn' 24,000 years ago, to the 'First Boom' 12,000 years ago, the rise of humanity ...... about 4,000 years ago.
In ancient times, there was no human on the continent, and even the dragons had to stand aside, it was the age of some extremely ancient and primitive creatures. For example, the Fish Man and the Snake Man.
Over a long period of time, the elves recorded as much historical information as they could.
"The books in the Gate of True Knowledge are from the Crown Library on Eternal Gathering Island, and they are a simple summary made by an elven prophet thousands of years ago. He selected as much useful information as he could, compiling about one-thirtieth of the original library's contents. ”
Healy sat next to her, watching Zhou Qingfeng slowly flip through the book and casually explain a few words. Zhou Qingfeng asked strangely: "One thirtieth is so much?" Who is this prophet? ”
Healy just smiled and gestured to the rows of bookshelves in front of her desk, "I'm not allowed to reveal the name of this prophet. But he's in these books. If you get recognition, he will naturally come out to you. ”
Zhou Qingfeng looked up at the almost endless bookshelves, and in a dizzy state, he stretched his waist and asked the hidden servant to turn the pages for him. He was now concentrating on Faeron's history books, hoping to learn more about this world full of various planes and countless possibilities.
Healy asked again, "Victor, have you gained anything from the books?" ”
In Zhou Qingfeng's hand is a historical book called "Dark Natural Disaster", which records the great disaster that occurred about 13,000 years ago. There was an elven kingdom called 'Mayerita' that was destroyed by a killing storm that lasted for three months.
The storm was so terrible that it scowled the spirits of the entire Faeron into silp. They believe that the High Wizards of 'Mai Yerita' created the storm. But why the wizards created this storm that destroyed themselves, the book doesn't say.
"I have a feeling that every time a civilization in Ferron develops to a considerable height, it will inevitably lead to a great disaster. Wars, famines, demonic invasions, irrational natural disasters, so civilization is destroyed and then restarted.
Every thousand to fifteen hundred years, this kind of thing is bound to happen somewhere in Faerun. Looking at these historical records, there are countless kingdoms that have been destroyed.
More than 30,000 years ago, an ancient lizard founded the Mershok Empire. After only two thousand years, the ancient lizards began to decay, and the snake people took control of the empire. However, civil strife continued to lead to the instability of the rule of the snake people until they were completely destroyed by the dragons thousands of years later.
The dragons weren't having a good time, and the war between them and the giant race continued until one day the elves used the 'Dragon Maniac Lock' to completely deal with it. This mighty species is now, like the giants, all huddled to the corners of the continent to survive.
As for the elves, the current human beings feel that the elves are secluded, peaceful, and leisurely. However, there were also non-stop wars between the many kingdoms they founded. Until they crippled themselves, they could only flee from the mainland and hide on Yongju Island.
Human civilization has also been around for 10,000 years, and has flourished since 4,000 years ago. During this period, many, many great kingdoms were born and countless civilizations were created. Netherre, Imasca, Karinsan, these empires rise and fall, constantly alternating.
Dragons, giants, elves, dwarves, humans, and even orcs and goblins have all built their own civilizations and kingdoms. But none of them escaped a cyclical process of destruction. Whenever the history books say that their civilization has developed to an extremely high level, its demise is imminent. ”
"This cliff-like destruction is so unreasonable." Zhou Qingfeng was sighing, but Healy said, "Isn't that the case with the intelligent race? It is not unusual for war and destruction to be played out every day. At least before their destruction, these great empires had flourished. ”
"No, it's not that simple." Zhou Qingfeng shook his head in a deep voice, "I got a wind forging machine in Harmony Village, and I always thought that no one had invented this thing in the past. If you look at the history of technology, elves, dwarves and even goblins have created the same thing. ”
"Goblins have also had civilizations?" Healy asked in surprise. She couldn't imagine any civilization with the greenskins who could only scream 'Orkeok'. "The 'Gate of True Knowledge' also records the civilization of the goblins? I didn't know. ”
"That's exactly what I wondered." Zhou Qingfeng put down the book "Dark Disaster" in his hand, "What is it that causes civilization to be constantly destroyed, and there is not even a trace of inheritance left." He vaguely guessed something, and asked Ciric as well.
But the god of murder refused to answer the question.
"Fifty years ago, Silver Leaf City was destroyed by a demonic invasion. Along with the destruction of several powerful nations in the Northlands. Now, the Iron Curtain covers the Northlands. This seems to be a kind of punishment, a punishment that even the demons dare not speak, directly ruining the future of the Northland. ”
Zhou Qingfeng was in a state of confusion. He looked down at his desk, and all the history books on the table told him - this damn otherworld, civilization has no future, only reincarnation.
"Lao Tzu lives in this kind of hellish place, it's so fucking pathetic." Zhou Qingfeng's heart was unhappy. The direct consequence of the civilization of constant reincarnation is that his life is extremely backward - he can't live well, eat well, dress badly, and there are few beautiful girls.
The people of the Black Forest eat bran and live in extreme poverty. The black bread was mixed with a little sawdust, and the people below praised President Hugo for his generosity and kindness.
Zhou Qingfeng originally thought that this was the reason why food could not be grown in the north, but according to the succubus's account, even in the grain producing areas in the south, the crop yield was so small. The more his men ate, the more serfs in the south starved to death.
Turnips, turnips, acorns, these are the normal rations of ordinary people. In good years, you can feed your livestock, and in bad years, you can eat yourself. Even weedy weeds are scooped into rice as a staple food.
If a family goes without food for three or four days, the women and children often starve to death first. The remaining adult males had no choice but to flee. That's how most of the population of the Black Forest came from.
When Harmony Village can provide a more stable supply of food, the leaders of other human settlements will not be able to control the flight of their farmers. Everybody has to eat. Hungry and red-eyed, it's useless to believe in any bullshit, the king of heaven will kill you.
Standing on the top of the ancient tree hills, you can see that the cowardly goblins gathered tens of thousands of people to repeatedly attack the defense line of acidophiles in order to fill their stomachs, forcing hundreds of thousands of acidophilus ants to retreat underground.
The pressure to survive is so great. Goblins are like that, let alone people.
Zhou Qingfeng opened the door of true knowledge to read history, and his mood was even worse after reading it.
This otherworldly civilization has been reincarnated for more than 30,000 years, and there must be more than one or two intelligent races that see the problem. But they didn't solve the problem...... and they all disappeared into history.
Faced with this environment, Zhou Qingfeng asked himself - what should I do? Do you go with the flow, or go with the flow, or ...... it, and hit it with the sky and the earth, and the sun and the moon have no light!
Ask yourself, do I have what it takes?