Most of the races that escaped the Guardian's World-Destroying Scourge seem to have been aided by the Starry Sky People.Those ancient beings from the depths of the stars are shrouded in a veil of mystery, so far Hao Ren has not found any reliable historical materials or relics about the people of the starry sky in the dream plane, he does not know where those light creatures were born, nor does he know their social and civilization forms, and even their language and writing are in the clouds, the only thing that is certain is that these creatures are extremely skilled and quite familiar with the goddess of creation - if it were not for this, Nor will they be able to confront the mad Guardians after the fall of the Goddess."
They brought the golden disc?"
Hao Ren touched his chin, feeling that there seemed to be more and more secrets entangled in the people of the starry sky, "Where did they find the artifact......
Before the Founding Star exploded, the golden disc should have been in the Kingdom of God. ”"Muru had mentioned some special races called the 'Ancients', which were said to be ancient races that lived in this universe before the Creation Goddess created creatures," Vivien suddenly remembered some details, "At that time, we didn't ask in detail, could the Ancients be the people of the stars?"
”Hao Ren snorted and turned to the old man: "What about after that?"
As you embark on your journey, are these people of the stars still with you?
”"It is said that for the first few hundred years of the voyage, they were with us, and the glowing creatures lived in the navigation module of the Ark," the old man said tremblingly, "but after a few years, they determined that the artifact had worked, and left, perhaps to help the other survivors."
Our fleet continues on its way, trying to find a safe place, but the entire universe has been polluted......
There are natural disasters on every habitable planet, all ecosystems are diseased, and there are huge tentacles and poisonous pools of blood everywhere, and our artifacts can only protect fleets, but cannot purify the entire planet.After losing several ships, the fleet decided not to dock again, and we will continue to wander until we find a planet free of natural disasters......"
Vivien frowned and asked, "What's the contagion?"
”The old man gasped heavily, and said in a low voice, "No one knows what is going on, it appears suddenly, without warning, and there is no way to treat it, and with our medical technology, we can't find the cause at all.We only know that it will infect adults, but the impact on children is gradually weakened, the younger they are, the weaker they are affected by this disease, and the mortality rate of adults after being infected is almost ......100 percent" "Almost 100 percent," Nangong May looked at the old man's face, "Are you the only exception?"
”The old man raised his hand, looked at the furrows on his skin, and said hoarsely, "Yes, I was the only exception, because I was very young, oh, very young, and probably because of this, the plague opened up on me—but many people my age were not so lucky. ”Vivien raised her eyebrows slightly, "How old were you when you were first frozen?"
”"I ......
I can't remember, twenty, or twenty-two?
”The old man's eyes clouded again, "I just remember that I was locked up in a white house, training, studying, and brainwashing day and night to master those knowledge and skills......
Because when the disease spread, we found that it was irresistible, just like the ecological disaster that happened in our hometown, it was a super disaster, so we began to prepare for the future.It took us several years to rebuild the Ark and build the final vault, and in the process, more than half of the people died, and the project nearly failed due to lack of manpower......
We put healthy children in hibernation facilities and try to teach the older ones as much as possible, because they will be able to use them in the future, but these are not enough, very inadequate......
The oldest of them is only thirteen years old, and these thirteen-year-olds make up less than one percent of the total. ”"So there are you," Hao Ren slowly guided, letting the old man recall more things, "You are the teacher and parent of those children, and when the virus in the Ark is extinct one day, you will lead them to rebuild civilization?"
”The old man's head trembled slightly, and he seemed to nod up and down: "Oh yes, I'm going to guide them......
After the children fall asleep, the adults fend for themselves, and the shelter is closed for a hundred years until the ecosystem completes a complete internal cycle.When everything is ready, the children will wake up and start their lives again under the guidance of their 'parents'.But I wasn't the only 'parent', we had many candidates, and each of them was tenacious, capable of learning, able to lead a team, and most importantly resistant to the plague.But then the other candidates died one by one, and the plague was only weakened in them, and they had no real resistance.Eventually, I was the only one who came out of the training facility, the kids were already lining up to enter the hibernation pod, and the last dozen dying people in the ark gave me a little farewell ceremony, and I've been here ever since. ”Lily asked curiously, "Why are you being placed here on your own?"
”"For safety," said the old man slowly, "because until the day the vault was completed, our medical scientists were not sure if I was really completely ill, or if I was carrying a 'virus', and if even the last healthy person was infected with the plague, then we would rather abandon the reconstruction plan."
So I was kept in my own place, and every ten years, I was awakened and checked on myself—I remember, those were the ......
I used," the old man trembled and pointed to the corner of the room, where Hao Ren saw an old set of devices that seemed to have been used for medical purposes."
Every ten years, I wake up and go to my own alone to draw blood, to do tests, to examine my skull," the old man said slowly, bowing his head, "through a small glass window next to the door, I look at the 150,000 small cradles outside, and I know that my bloodline is still frozen in ice waiting to continue, which gives me enough courage."
Every time I woke up from the ice I counted the number of times I 'got up', and I told myself that I could count to ten times and everything would start again......
Until one day I suddenly found myself writing 11 in my notebook - and the vault host was unusually silent. ”There was silence."
System glitch," Hao Ren sighed, "The reactor radiation leaked and spread throughout the pod, and the vault host urgently activated the dormant pod outside, presumably it felt better to let people hide in Vault City than to sleep in the hibernation pod forever."
But that machine missed you. ”The old man's wrinkled face froze on a complicated expression, and it was impossible to tell whether it was crying or laughing, but there was no accident in it.He just followed Hao Ren and sighed softly: "I know, it must be the system that is malfunctioning, but now I finally know the details." ”Lily felt that all this was hard to accept: "This kind of accident shouldn't happen, there is a problem with the program of the vault host, and there is also a problem with the location of this vault, it is separated from the Vault City by a reactor, this is not a good path, if only more tests could be made......
Alas, forget it. ”Lily didn't say anything more, because she knew that the people in the ark had done their best: their people were dying every day, they could only choose a few corners of the ship, they didn't know how long they would live, and they didn't even know if they would see the day the project was finished.By the time the vault was complete, there were only a few dozen adults left in the spacecraft - they couldn't test the entire system and hadn't had a chance to think of any alternatives.It's all a gamble, and there will be no problems with this plan.But no one is the protagonist, and fate does not favor anyone."
How did you live after that?"
Vivien stared at the old man's face, wrinkled, withered and emaciated, a face that was only in his twenties when he first entered the room, full of youth, but now old and gone, "You......
How long have you been awake?
”"For a long time, waking up on and off, at first I forced myself to keep waking up every ten years, checking my body as planned every time I woke up, praying that the next time I woke up I could see the children standing in the doorway, but then I slowly gave up, gave up on myself, and ate and drank - I should be glad they left me enough food, because I was the only one in the ship who had to eat, and they simply stuffed the rest of the food into this room, and they didn't need it anyway," the old man smiled like a cryer.
Really, I wasted a lot of time, but then I found that it was worse than death, so I went back to sleep, and set the time to wake up once in thirty years, and this went on many times, and I found that my hair was gradually turning gray, and my face was wrinkled, so I was scared, and I suddenly realized that I was wasting not only my own time, but also the children outside, so before the last sleep, I did one last meaningful thing......
Oh yes, that's right, I remembered, the most important, the most important!
”The old man suddenly became excited, and raised his hand to another corner of the room, his face shining like a return of light, and Hao Ren hurried over, and he saw that there was a long table there, and there were many manuscripts neatly stacked on the table.If these manuscripts were stacked, I am afraid they would even be half a meter thick.And if the manuscripts weren't surprising enough, the walls next to them were enough to stun him: he saw that almost every surface of the wall next to the long table, on the nearby ground, and on the furniture, was covered with dense handwriting and drawings, and he followed these marks to the side, and finally found that they filled almost half of the room—only the light here was dim, and most of the walls and floors were covered with debris, which he had not noticed before.Behind Hao Ren, the old man struggled to stand up, slowly opening his hands with a proud glint in his eyes: "Our ......
History. ”(To be continued.) )