Volume 1 The Age of Chaos Chapter 4 An Untraceable History
The two chatted for a while, and the curtain of the tent was lifted, and a big man who was also 1.9 meters tall rushed in in a rage, shouting: "What about people!
Tian Yuanxing hurriedly stood up and called, "Teacher Fang." β
This is an old man, his beard and hair are gray, and his long beard hangs on his chest, but he looks stronger than Tian Yuanxing, wearing a thick reading glasses, and his small eyes are staring directly at Qi Wanli, ignoring Tian Yuanxing at all, he walked directly to Qi Wanli and sat down, looked at him for two or three seconds, and said: "Hello, my name is Fang Bajiu, and I am the leader here." Big Bear told me that you were from hundreds of years ago, but I didn't believe it very much. I think we can adopt a more effective way of communicating. β
He looked at Qi Wanli and asked, "Xiao Tian should have told you, after you read some of our things, maybe we can communicate better, I plan to take you to have a look." β
Qi Wanli naturally readily agreed. Tian Yuanxing and Da Xiong didn't follow, only Fang Bajiu and one person took him out of the tent.
It was already early afternoon, and it was getting dark. The sea breeze became a little stronger, and the salty taste came to the face, but it was not the leisurely and relaxed atmosphere that Qi Wanli was familiar with.
Bursts of cooking smoke began to rise in the camp, and the people of the White Bear tribe were cooking their own dinners on the pots set up at the mouth of the tent, and those pots were boiling thick broth, although they didn't know what kind of animal meat was boiling in them, but the fragrance was blown away by the sea breeze and sent to the bottom of Qi Wanli's nose, which had already made the taste buds and stomach of this person who had been hungry for a long time begin to twitch.
Fang Bajiu glanced at Qi Wanli, who subconsciously sniffed hard, and his eyes behind the reading glasses showed a hint of a smile: "Xiao Tian, they will help you prepare dinner, although the sword pork is delicious, it is not easy to cook, and it is just right to eat it after we finish talking." β
Tian Yuanxing is right, this Teacher Fang does have very poisonous eyes.
Qi Wanli smiled embarrassedly and said, "I also chatted with Tian Yuanxing for a while just now, and he said that you have the ability to see through people's hearts at a glance, and you are really not bragging." β
"Hmph, that stinky boy. Fang Bajiu didn't answer this sentence much, he led Qi Wanli through most of the camp and came to a large tent, outside which was guarded by two tall and strong White Bear Tribal warriors with iron rods in their hands.
Fang Bajiu casually explained: "This is where we stack up our supplies, although it is unlikely that someone will come to steal these things, but it is not good if there are unknown night corpses to steal food at night, someone has to guard it." β
Night corpse? Could that be the monster that Tian Yuanxing said?
The people of the White Bear tribe obviously didn't know much about neat and orderly cargo management, and the things in the tent were piled up in a mess, with large boxes pressed on top of small boxes, dry food and weapons put together......
Fang Bajiu didn't care about these at all, he walked around piles of materials, pulled around the corner for a long time, and pulled out a wooden box.
Fang Bajiu patted the box with his big hand and said, "There are some photos in here, but they are not originals, they are copies." There are some pictures of the glorious era in the photo, and now there are definitely no more than ten people in the entire southern continent who know what they represent, if you can tell half of them, it means that you are indeed a person from the glorious era, and we can communicate better at that time. β
Qi Wanli seriously responded to the word "good", and he also wanted to see if the "era of hundreds of years ago" in these people's mouths was the era he was familiar with.
Fang Bajiu quickly opened the box and took out a stack of "old photos" that had long been yellowed. As Fang Bajiu said, these photos are obviously not originals, but rubbed in a special way, without bright colors, only the transition of gray, white and black can be seen. He pondered for a while, then took out one of them and handed it to Qi Wanli.
The photo shows a skinny young man, sitting in front of a computer screen, leaning on a gaming chair, wearing big headphones, his eyes focused and serious, holding the mouse with one hand and pressing on the keyboard with the other.
"He's playing games, like he's a professional esports player. Qi Wanli replied in less than a second, and at the same time his heart sank heavily.
The conjecture began to be confirmed.
Fang Bajiu's gaze behind the reading glasses froze, and he quickly took out another photo. The photograph shows the man standing on the stage, wearing short sleeves and revealing large flower arms, with what appears to be a dazzling light behind him, holding an electric guitar and singing hoarsely into the microphone.
Qi Wanli smiled sourly, took the photo and looked at it carefully for a few seconds, and said: "This is the lead singer of a band I like very much, and he is holding a concert." I remember this one, it was last year...... No, in June 2019, I couldn't make it to the site, it's a pity. β
Fang Bajiu's hands trembled, and he took out another photo and handed it to Qi Wanli.
In this photo, she is a beautiful woman with a very good figure, she is half-lying on the beach in a sexy swimsuit, stretching out one hand to support the sunglasses on her face, and the fingertips of the other hand are gently resting on her white and tender thighs, posing in a pure and seductive pose.
Qi Wanli kept a wry smile and said, "She...... It's about taking pictures and recording your beauty with photos. β
"Yes, I trust you. Fang Bajiu's voice trembled a little, he took off his reading glasses, and there was an indescribable taste in his eyes when he looked at Qi Wanli: "These things, even the most knowledgeable people on the mainland, can only roughly judge that they are carrying out some purely spiritual entertainment, no one, no one has ever been able to make it as clear as you......" He was about to take the photo back from Qi Wanli's hand, but he never thought that Qi Wanli suddenly said: "Wait a minute, I want to finish reading these photos." β
Fang Bajiu was stunned for a moment and acquiesced. Qi Wanli took the stack of photos in his hand and looked at them one by one seriously.
I don't know why people in this era have these old photos, some of them are more like they were cut out of magazines or other mediums. The pictures in the photo, as Fang Bajiu said, are very common entertainment methods in his life. Little girl dancing on rooftop, middle-aged man playing golf, high school student on basketball court...... Qi Wanli's eyes were a little hot.
He lowered his head under the quiet gaze of Fang Bajiu and the others, wiped his face vigorously, then raised his head and said as calmly as possible: "Okay, I also confirmed." β
After confirming that the person in front of him was really an "ancient", Fang Bajiu's movements were much lighter, he was no longer so arrogant, but carefully took the photo in Qi Wanli's hand like an archaeologist, as if once he made a big move, he would shatter the living fossil in front of him.
It seemed that after some thought, Fang Bajiu said slowly: "The next conversation is not suitable for here, let's go back and talk while eating." β
Qi Wanli nodded, a little reluctant to watch the wooden box being put back into the corner.
The things recorded in those photographs are not very distant memories for him, but in fact, all these things have long disappeared into the dust of history.
Tian Yuanxing had already prepared a large pot of broth. Qi Wanli, a creature called the Sword Pig, had never heard of it, but he knew about the pig, and he didn't think it would be a very different animal, and since the people here used it as food, he also ate this future creature as an exotic specialty.
When he took a bite of fresh meat, Qi Wanli almost burst into tearsβthe fragrance was quite fragrant, but the meat was too hard! After a bite, his teeth almost collapsed! This kind of thing was the main food of the people of the White Bear Tribe? But there was no way, he could only eat a few bites of meat and drink more soup......
At the dinner table, Qi Wanli asked about history. But without waiting for Fang Bajiu to say anything, Tian Yuanxing said: "Wait until you finish this meal, I can't listen to those things." β
Qi Wanli was surprised, Fang Bajiu explained: "In our time, knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing, Xiao Tian may not be able to bear the weight of history, and knowing things that should not be known will affect his cultivation. β
The meal was mixed, but it was so full. It's strange that when he didn't eat before, Qi Wanli didn't feel hungry, but from the first bite of food, he couldn't stop, and he drank the soup until he was full, but fortunately, the people of the White Bear tribe ate a lot of food, and the broth that Tian Yuanxing cooked for three people was probably enough for seven or eight people to eat in the previous era.
After eating, it was also night. Tian Yuanxing lit a kerosene lamp and left the tent. Inside the tent, the lights flickered and the figures flickered, adding a mysterious atmosphere to the conversation that followed.
Fang Bajiu said: "Next, I will tell you the history I know, in exchange, I hope you can share some things about your era with me." β
Qi Wanli nodded in agreement.
Fang Bajiu cleared his throat and began to tell the history he knew.
"In the recorded history of the Southern Continent, the era of glorious civilization, that is, your era, was probably more than three hundred years ago. It is said that the civilization of that era has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, and human beings at that time could draw energy from all things in heaven and earth, and then use this energy through extremely sophisticated mechanical technology. β
But then, the glorious age of civilization ushered in the cataclysm, and then mankind entered an eighty-year dark age. After that, there was the Divine War, after which civilization gradually recovered and came to what we now call the Wasteland Age, but everything in the Glory Age is difficult to verify, except for leaving many magnificent buildings abandoned on the land, we can no longer know most of the things of the Glory Age, and can only guess through some items occasionally found while exploring the continent, like those pictures. β
"Next, I'll tell you what I know about the Cataclysm, the Dark Ages, the legends of God Wars, and some of the things in our wasteland years......"