ultimately

Qi Lin, Irena, Catherine, and Rowling walked down the long staircase and came to a spacious silver-white hall.

It is very empty here, without any superfluous furnishings, the overall style is extremely concise, capable, full of a sense of science and technology, except for the white crystal tube on the ceiling, only in the center of the hall, there is a neatly cut "cuboid", which is extremely conspicuous in the empty hall.

This rectangular body is more than three meters high, about one meter wide, and the whole body is silvery-white, and the surface is engraved with dense fly-headed small characters.

"The Stone of Prophecy!"

Seeing this, Rowling immediately ran over excitedly, "This is the real Prophecy Tablet!" The association's record is indeed correct! The Holy See of Light hid the real stone tablet here! ”

"Yes, it is."

Qi Lin's eyes were complicated, and he said softly: "But, President Rowling, the truth recorded on this true prophecy stone tablet may not be the same as the truth you imagined...... Forget it, see for yourself, release the magic and touch it, and you will see it more clearly. ”

"Uh, okay."

Rowling was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and did as Qi Lin said, releasing the magic and making contact with the cuboid.

"Drop!"

Suddenly, inside the silver-white stone stele, a cold mechanical prompt sounded.

"Hum—"

Immediately afterwards, the entire stele seemed to be "activated", and the small characters engraved on the surface of the stele all refracted golden light, forming one after another enlarged holographic projection fonts around it, reflecting the entire hall with golden light for a while.

Qi Lin swept his eyes and found that it was all about all kinds of knowledge, such as fireball technique, water polo technique, and farming technology, animal husbandry technology or something...... All texts are phonetic with letters.

The language system of the civet world is very, very similar to the language system above.

"Huh?"

Seeing this scene, Irena was slightly stunned: "This thing has no magic breath, it seems to be ...... Uh, is it a simple holographic 3D projection technology? This doesn't seem to match the painting style of the civet world......"

"Technological civilization."

Catherine looked around, looked at the silver-white science and technology exhibition hall, and hesitated: "This place is built by a certain scientific and technological civilization, and the degree of technological development far exceeds that of the current Ed Kingdom, and these 3D projections give me a feeling of the Blue Star Federation." ”

“……”

Rowling ignored Irena and Catherine's words, instead engrossed in the golden fonts, trying to find the "graphic that teaches humans and civets how to use magic".

She wants to use that passage to prove to the world that human beings are born with the same power as civets, and that they have the right to learn magic, and that they are all lies for the three hundred years of the Holy See of Light.

But she seems to be ...... Can't find it!

The information projected by the prophecy stele is not much different from the information recorded in the fake stele placed outside by the Holy See of Light.

Of course, there are differences.

For example, the fake stele records various historical events and people in the "future", but the real stele does not, so it simply records intellectual information.

But the problem is that on this real stone tablet, in the information about magic knowledge, all clearly explain "how to learn and use this magic".

As for the human race?

No.

Not at all!

On this real stone tablet, as long as there is knowledge and information about magic, there is no word "human" at all, as if humans really shouldn't learn magic!

"How is that possible?"

"How is that possible?!"

"No!"

"No, no, no, no, no! Impossible! Impossible!! Impossible!! ”

Rowling slapped her cheek hard, stared at her bloodshot eyes, and started from scratch, searching again in the fonts of these holographic projections.

But she searched again and again, and the end result was the same.

No!

There is no such thing as "humans can learn magic" on this real prophecy tablet!

“……”

Qi Lin stood next to him with Irena and Catherine, and waited quietly for more than ten minutes.

They didn't choose to bother the vice president of the Wizarding Guild.

Until the end,

Rowling was on the verge of madness, clutching her head with both hands, repeating "impossible, impossible" and "the founder's account could not be wrong."

"Alas......"

Qi Lin looked at Rowling at this time, sighed softly.

He walked up to Rowling, patted the other party's shoulder gently, and said softly, "President Rowling, the truth you've been looking for is here, tell me, do you want to see the full truth?" I'll show you if you want. If you don't want to, then let's turn around and leave, get out of here, and forget everything you see here, the Holy See can make a fake stele, then you can too, the Pope of Light is dead, and anything you move out now can be a 'real stele'." ”

“……”

Rowling lowered her head and was silent for a long time.

In the end, the vice president of the Wizarding Association slowly spoke, and his voice was hoarse: "I have been fighting for half my life to overthrow the Holy See's rule of lies, so how can I become the kind of person I hate the most, and continue to use my lies to deceive the world?" No, I don't, I don't want to! I want to see the truth, the whole truth! Pioneers, please get started. ”

"Okay."

Hearing this, Qi Lin nodded slightly, then turned around and walked to the corner of the silver-white hall, and drew a "circle" on the wall with his finger.

This wall is not actually a wall, but a touchscreen console disguised as a wall.

And this "circle" he drew was a gesture command.

"Hum—"

Qi was on the wall in front of him, and soon a standard groove appeared in the upper position, and then pushed a green button out of the wall.

These were all seen by Qi Lin in Li Haoran's memory.

In the past ten years, Li Haoran has studied this hall almost clearly.

"Rowling!"

Qi Lin shouted loudly, and then slapped his right hand towards the green button, "Calm down, look!" This is the truth that your Wizarding Guild has been searching for hundreds of years! The whole truth! ”

"Hum—"

At the ceiling of the hall, more than a dozen black cylinders stretched out, and then beams of light were projected from them, and finally formed a lifelike holographic projection, floating in the middle of the hall.

The background of the projection is like a large hall surrounded by hundreds of humans in strange costumes.

And on a floating podium in the center of them, a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes stood with a white British short cat in his arms.

"I am Adrian Brewster Ochmilsdi, the 128th Speaker of the Empire."

The man looked at the camera and said in a deep voice in a powerful tone: "Today! On June 19, 2376 in the Imperial calendar, the 38th year of the end of the world, I will issue a new decree in the presence of 163 Imperial Councillors.

However, before this decree is issued, I have a few things to say to the general public.

It is known that the culprit of this apocalypse is the Caddell Corporation.

The No. 0 virus developed by the Caddell company, after an accidental leak, mutated into a terrifying virus that no one can do anything about, and the mutated No. 0 virus will continue to update itself and iterate, becoming more and more difficult to eliminate!

Eventually, Virus 0 evolved into the apocalypse of our planet Anriel, gaining the ability to spread through the air, and causing all creatures that come into contact with it to completely mutate into terrifying monsters in just ten seconds!

Countless fellow human beings have died at the hands of monsters over the years!

And three days ago, Dr. Misau's latest discovery, I think, has spread to every street in Base City.

Yes!

That's not a rumor!

That's the truth, Dr. Misau's latest discovery, which has been thoroughly verified as the true truth after a great deal of arguments!

- When we humans release magic, we humans will indeed produce an invisible gas named 'Virus 0 Gain Mist', and this gas will intensify the activity of Virus 0, making the virus more violent, and making those mutated monsters more powerful!

That is why I have decided to issue this new prohibition with great difficulty, today, at this very moment, in my capacity as Speaker of the Imperial Parliament:

From now on, all humans are forbidden to learn and use magic!

Anyone who violates this decree will be punished by death!

At the same time, I would like to announce another news, good news! ”

Speaking of this, the Imperial Speaker raised the British short cat in his hand towards the camera and said loudly: "This cat is Dr. Miso's latest work!" It's a genetically bred mutant cat that Dr. Misso calls 'civet'!

Civets have been genetically modified to have a similar level of intelligence to us humans, and can use magic just like we humans.

However, unlike us humans, the gas produced by the spirit cat's release of magic was named the 'Virus Weakening Mist No. 0' by Dr. Miso, and the nature of this gas is completely opposite to the 'Virus Buff Mist No. 0' produced by us humans releasing magic!

The 'Virus 0 Weakening Mist' produced by the civet's release of magic will not increase the activity of Virus 0, but will gradually weaken the activity of Virus 0, suppress the power of those monsters on the surface, and even reduce their lifespan!

Dr. Misso believes that with the help of the civet, one day, virus 0 will be completely inactive and truly die!

And when the virus is completely dead, after all the monsters are dead, it will be time for us humans to return to the surface and see the light of day again!

So, I announce that starting today, the civet cat will be used as a tool for us humans to eradicate the No. 0 virus, and it will be mass-produced!

And from now on, civets will be the only group that can legally learn and use magic!

Above!

Thank you! ”

With that, the Imperial Speaker faced the camera, bowed his head, and bowed deeply.

And the hundreds of surrounding parliamentarians also stood up one after another, applauding thunderously.

——

From there, the holographic projection ends.

Silence returned to the silver-white hall.

“……”

Irena and Catherine looked at each other, both stunned.

Qi Lin leaned against a wall and sighed silently.

This is where the civet comes from - artificial mutant beasts.

The civet cat is the product of the human race in the last civilization in order to eliminate a certain virus.

It's no wonder that the cats of the Bright Sect have controlled this place, but they have been hiding it for more than three hundred years and have never disclosed it to the world.

However, there is one thing that the Holy See of Light is not lying, and that is that humans are not allowed to learn magic.

In other words, the so-called "rights" that the Wizarding Association has been fighting for for hundreds of years are not allowed, and once the ancient Virus 0 is activated again, both humans and civets will have to die.

“……”

Thinking of this, Qi Lin couldn't help but look at Rowling.

At this time, the vice president of the Wizards Association looked sluggish, his pupils fluttered, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

"Bang!"

Eventually, Rowling fell to the ground, staring blankly ahead.

"Do you believe this projection video?"

Qi Lin asked softly.

“……”

Rowling lowered her head, covered her face with her hands, and did not answer.

"I have a guess."

Qi Lin looked at the silver-white hall in front of him and hesitated: "Perhaps, many, many years ago, the No. 0 virus was silent, the monster died, and the descendants of the group of humans and civets in the video were able to return to the surface, continue to live, and rebuild civilization.

However, many, many years later, because the monster disappeared for too long, the doomsday virus of that year gradually became a legend that no one believed.

So slowly there was a group of humans, a group of humans similar to the Wizarding Guild, who did not believe in the truth of the end times.

In order to fight for the power of humans to use magic, they began to rebel, began to relearn and use magic, and their power became more and more powerful.

Until one day, the No. 0 virus began to revive and the mutant monster reappeared.

And this time, the monsters have completely destroyed the previous civilization era, making your civilization level go backwards...... Eventually, it regressed to primitive civilizations.

One day later, a civet cat discovered this place and activated the projection video just now, from which it learned the truth that humans can't learn magic, so it established the Holy See of Light, became the first pope, and began to restrict humans from learning magic in the name of the gods.

The reason why that civet cat did this was not to rule the world, not to suppress humans.

It's because ......"

Qi Lin paused, then looked at Rowling, and continued: "Because it is very clear that on your planet, humans really can't use magic, maybe the No. 0 virus has never completely disappeared, and maybe those mutated monsters have never really left you." ”

"No, no!"

Rowling covered her face with her hands, her voice full of struggling cries.

She has fought for more than 40 years for today, but she never thought about it...... The "Holy See lie" that she dreams of tearing apart is instead another form of truth.

Qi Lin didn't say anything more.

He rubbed shoulders with the vice president of the Wizarding Guild and walked over to the cuboid tablet, pausing to stop.

"So ......"

Catherine walked up to Qi Lin, looked at the cuboid in front of her, and hesitated: "So, uh, this thing, is it the knowledge seed bank left by the previous civilization of the civet cat world to the survivors?" ”

"Probably yes."

Qi Lin walked around the rectangular stele a few times, and said softly: "The Holy See of Bright has added a lot of 'future events' made up by itself to the fake stele made by itself, in order to give the stele the 'prophecy' attribute, and the purpose of doing this is to give the things they want to do have legitimacy and sacredness, such as supporting the Elder Kingdom to unify the continent, and building all kinds of giant buildings that cost people and money.

But, the real stone monument, there is no such mess.

On the real stone tablet in front of us, there are only all kinds of knowledge and technology, and they are all basic knowledge.

Basic magic, basic breathing, basic mathematics, how to build basic farming tools, basic techniques for cultivating fertile fields...... For a civilization that needs to start from scratch, these technologies are important and easy to understand.

So I think that this stele is not actually a prophetic stele.

It is just a carrier, a carrier of knowledge.

It is the knowledge spark deliberately left for the survivors before the last civilization was completely destroyed by viruses and monsters, so that the survivors can rebuild their civilization after the apocalypse! ”

(End of chapter)