The tome is quite thick, with a heavy layer of dust on its surface.

Like the books in the church's library, the pages of this book are made of tough, non-perishable materials.

But even so, there were plenty of cracks and signs of damage on the cover and spine.

"It's ......"

Chen Fan stretched out his hand and gently brushed the cover without any words, wiping the dust off it: "What your parents left behind?" ”

Xu Huai looked at the classic book held in Chen Fan's hand with a complicated expression, nodded and shook his head.

"It's true that my parents left this book to me, but they weren't the ones who wrote it."

Chen Fan was stunned.

He reached out and gently flipped through the pages, scrutinizing the heavy tome.

After a few brief glances, Chen Fan realized a problem.

"It's ...... A diary? ”

"Yes." Xu Huai bowed slightly, "A diary written by a member of the Resistance Army from outside the city of Varela. ”

Outside Varela!

Rebels!!

These two sudden pieces of information were like two deep-water torpedoes, which directly shocked Chen Fan into dizziness.

"Wait, wait!"

Chen Fan raised his hand and interrupted Xu Huai's words.

"Didn't it say that the Wall of Sighs cut off the city of Varela from the outside world, why did the books from outside the city appear here? And the Resistance...... What does this mean? ”

"You already know about the cataclysm that took place in the first year of the Varera calendar, right?"

"Nuclear war, right?"

Xu Huai was stunned: "Do you still know about nuclear war?!" ”

"Are you really a resident of Varela?"

She cast a questioning glance at Chen Fan, and without waiting for Chen Fan to reply, she shook her head: "Forget it, it's not important." ”

"The nuclear war in the first year of the Vareira calendar caused many believers in the city to contract a disease called nuclear radiation."

"It's almost an incurable disease."

"By the second year of the Varela calendar, the city's population had dropped to less than 2,000."

"Seeing that the city of Varela was about to die, the Pope gave the order to open the Wall of Sighs."

"After the Wall of Sighs was opened, the surviving outcasts from outside the city poured into the city and became followers of the goddess."

"That's when the rebel infiltrated the city and left this diary."

Chen Fan looked down at the diary in his hand again.

……

1800 in the old calendar.

The war between humans and intelligence has entered a white-hot phase.

A full-scale nuclear war broke out after all.

In order to destroy as many of these insurgent sapients as possible, we launched a large number of nuclear bombs into the air in order to create an electromagnetic pulse attack that swept the world.

Unfortunately, the intelligent machines that have mastered the technology of the relics do not seem to be afraid of high-intensity electromagnetic pulses.

Humanity was defeated.

But......

Something surprising happened.

The Wisdom Machine did not wipe out the human race.

At the last moment when humanity was about to become extinct, the tide of intelligence receded.

……

The year 1801 in the old calendar.

A year is now before a full-scale nuclear war.

During this time, the machine built walls of steel and concrete on the ground.

What the hell are they going to do?

……

The year 1802 in the old calendar.

Walls! That's the city wall!!

They built walls and kept the surviving humans in captivity!

Gan fucking smart machine!!

……

1805 in the old calendar.

This is the 16th counteroffensive of the Resistance.

If nothing else, this should also be the last counteroffensive.

We can't break through that wall, and we can't save the humans who have been kept in the city by the sapient machines.

Humanity is defeated.

……

1807 in the old calendar.

The sapient attacks on humans continue.

As before, when the population declines to a certain level, the tide of smart machines will recede on its own.

Damn it.

We seem to have been kept in captivity, too.

……

The year 1808 in the old calendar.

One city took the initiative to open its walls.

But no one came out of the city.

On the contrary, some of the wanderers wandering in the wasteland took the initiative to enter the city made of intelligent machines, perhaps because they saw the good life in the city.

Anyway, humanity is finished.

……

1810 in the old calendar.

So far, 7 cities have voluntarily opened their walls, and after attracting enough displaced people, they will close them again.

For this reason, the rebels devised a final plan for resistance, the Awakening Project.

Strong fortresses are often breached from within.

We decided to find an opportunity to infiltrate the cities built by the machines and let the inhabitants of the city storm the walls.

For this reason, I disguised myself as an outcast, and waited silently by the side of a city that had not yet opened its walls.

……

1811 in the old calendar.

Here's your chance.

In a loud rumbling sound, the sky-high flames above the city wall slowly dissipated, and the originally tightly sealed city wall slowly cracked a crack.

The cracks opened open, revealing the inside of the city.

Some guards in bright silver armor guarded the gates with lagging spears.

I was secretly worried in my heart.

What age is this, and he still holds such an outdated spear.

Is this thing lethal? Can a poke on the side of the wall leave a mark?

The prospect of the Awakening Project......

Doesn't seem good!

Beside these guards, there were mysterious men in black robes who stood silently.

Behind them, there was a lush forest, and under the blockage of the forest, I could not see the scene inside the city at all.

Suddenly, a mysterious man in a black robe stepped forward and read the rules of the city in a strange tone, indicating that those who were willing to follow the rules could enter the city immediately.

The black-robed man's tone was very strange, and the guards around him looked at him strangely.

I had some bad premonitions in my mind, but I couldn't say what it was like.

I stepped forward slowly, and under the scrutinizing eyes of the black-robed man, I walked through the thick walls and entered the city made of intelligent machines.

……

1811 in the old calendar.

I followed the black-robed man and the guard, washed away the filth from my body in a strange chanting tone, and put on clean, coarse linen clothes.

It's like medieval religion.

As I listened to the unexplained chanting, I had this unbelievable thought in my heart - this city will not go back to the religious era, right?

It didn't take long for my thoughts to be confirmed.

The black-robed man informed us of the existence of the goddess in a hoarse voice, and asked us to believe in the gods and dedicate our bodies and minds to the so-called goddess.

And the so-called goddess is the wisdom machine that built this city!

A smart machine made by a human being claims to be a god in a vain attempt to turn humans into its own believers?!

This is ridiculous!!

Several of the homeless people in the group expressed their opposition in great anger and tried to do something to the black-robed man.

I know them, they, like me, come from the Resistance.

But......

With just one face, these highly trained rebel fighters were knocked to the ground.

I watched it from the sidelines.

The black-robed man ......

His hands have been transformed into mechanical prosthetics!!