Chapter 1878 Disaster History
Perhaps because of the volcanic geothermal heat, the builders of this city originally demarcated several areas on the hillside of the inner city, where land was already scarce, and built various botanical gardens. Now these botanical gardens have become parks. Most of the plants in them are plants that have become extinct in the ice and snow outside. Here you can still vaguely see the prosperous and vibrant scene that the world should have before the disaster.
It is precisely because this place can make people feel the scene before the disaster, so the houses around the park have become very precious. All the people living here are rich or noble, so the people of New Land also call this circle of buildings the Golden Ring of Power.
After leaving the Great Library, Leo found a house near the inner city park in the inner city to stay temporarily. The original owner of the house was a municipal official and a Victory Goddess monk, a local powerful figure.
Under the influence of psychic abilities, the owner of the house and his family did not feel anything wrong with Leo's stay, as if Leo had lived here a long time ago. At the same time, he also regarded the room where Leo lived as a forbidden area. Not only were his family members not allowed to approach, but even he himself seemed to have forgotten that there was such a room.
The room where Leo lives has a viewing balcony, which is very suitable for viewing the scenery of the park. The balcony is built with glass greenhouse technology, and heating pipes are laid on the ground, so even if you sit on the balcony and open the window, you will not feel cold.
After finding a place to sit down, Leo began to organize and absorb the information he had just scanned and collected into the database with the mental network. Through these information, he had a clear understanding of the situation in this world at a very fast speed.
Because of the disaster, there are very few books about the past history of this world, and there are also very few geography books. It is not that people in the past did not pay attention to history and geography, but this world has invented computers, and all books have data stored in different hard drives.
The government of this world originally thought that even if the data in one hard drive was broken, other hard drives could still be saved and the data could be restored. As a result, when the disaster came, these sophisticated but easily damaged electronic devices were damaged first, and all the relevant information was lost.
Even if the data in some cities are still preserved, those cities have been occupied by giant vines, and all the data hard disks have fallen into the cities. Even if those who entered the city to search for items have the ability to retrieve those data hard disks, the most important thing for them now is to find food, seeds, and other things that are helpful for survival. As for those historical and geographical information that are of no help to survival, they are naturally abandoned.
Now the most collected books in places like the New Land Library are various reference books. These reference books have both agricultural and industrial aspects, and are basically related to manufacturing technology and principles.
From these reference books, it is not difficult to infer what level of technology this world has reached before the disaster. For example, this world has already used various large-scale engineering machinery on a large scale, has manufactured airplanes, bicycles and other means of transportation, has televisions, computers and other technological products, and has also begun preliminary space exploration, manufactured rockets, launched satellites, and is developing towards manned spaceflight.
The energy used in this world is a crystal energy. This mineral crystal can be converted into electricity, heat and other energy through special catalytic methods. When the crystal is kept in a normal state, it can create a normal temperature environment for the surrounding area. This environment is convenient for life and plant growth. Therefore, wherever there are crystal mines, there will be cities nearby, and some cities are even built directly on crystal mines.
Although there are few history and geography books in the library, they are not absent. However, those history and geography books are the history and geography of the country where Newland is located, and there are not many historical and geographical records related to the whole world.
The land where Leo is now is called Miral Plains. It is an extremely fertile land. Because there are a lot of crystal mines underground, the environment here can be said to be spring-like all year round. According to the records in the book, the grain produced by this land has always accounted for one-seventh of the world's total grain production, making it the world's third largest grain producing area.
It is precisely because this land is extremely fertile that it has been a place of frequent wars a long time ago. The first people to settle here were a group of nomads called the Mumlan tribe. Only then did the Tashi tribe, the Cullinan tribe and other southern nomads of all sizes settle here, plus some refugees who fled from the war in the southern kingdom. Soon there were hundreds of tribes of all sizes on this land.
Although the southern kingdom is mentioned in the book, it does not provide much information. It can only be seen from the fact that when this plain was still a tribal regime, there were already kingdoms in the south, and there were more than one kingdom. This shows that the south of this world is much more developed than the north.
Then there was the millennium-long tribal period of the Miral Plain. During this period, there was only one theme, that is, tribal wars. The big tribe annexed the small tribe and expanded the land. Then the tribe split for some reason and became multiple tribes, and then annexed each other. This cycle never stopped for a thousand years.
It was not until a country called the Saint Morak Empire in the south began to invade the Mirar Plain that the thousand-year tribal war stopped. Under the guidance of the chief of the Mumlan tribe, the Mirar Lion Liril, the tribes temporarily gave up their hatred and fought against the invaders together.
After that, there was a five-year anti-invasion war. The Mirar Plain tribal alliance successfully defeated the Saint Morak Empire. After that, the alliance disintegrated and the plain returned to the state of tribal war. However, the tribal war at that time was not as cruel as at the beginning. In addition, the Mirar Lion Liril gained great prestige by virtue of his identity as the chief of the alliance in the anti-invasion war, which enabled him to quickly recover the tribes. Finally, ten years later, the tribal war ended completely in the Mirar Plain and the Mirar Kingdom was established.
The Miral Kingdom lasted for about five hundred years. The royal power of the kingdom fell into the hands of others, the palace was centralized, the lords of various places ruled their own territories, and the internal politics was chaotic. Later, the outbreak of thoughts in the south spread to the Miral Kingdom. Driven by the thoughts, anti-imperialist movements began to break out in various parts of the kingdom, and finally the great revolutionary movement broke out. Seven years later, the revolutionary forces in various places seized the power of the kingdom, and the Miral Republic was established, which existed until the disaster came.
There is nothing to say about the history of the Miral Plain. It is either war or court conspiracy. There are few other things recorded. The people who wrote history are not interested in the outside world. Even the invader Saint Morak Empire and the outbreak of thoughts in the south that led to the establishment of the republic were not recorded. Those history books are extremely bland.
The rest of the geography books are also very simple, which is to introduce the geographical conditions of various tribal states in the plains, and 90% of the content is the same. There are only slightly more contents recorded on several lakes and several rivers running through the plains, and some animals and plants are also recorded.
There is no clear written record of what kind of disaster this world encountered, because after the disaster, people's survival became a problem, so who would bother to record these things? Only the large number of miracles recorded in the Redemption Book of the Redemption Order mentioned some related clues, and these clues were enough for Leo to infer a general situation.
First of all, the cause of this worldwide disaster is very likely related to the manned space flight being carried out by the Southern Kingdom, because those who were redeemed in the Redemption Book remembered that before the disaster, they were watching the TV broadcast of the successful manned space flight experiment of the Southern Kingdom, until humans had already landed in outer space.
The disaster occurred very suddenly. At first, a large number of plants withered and died, mainly various types of food. After that, before the Miral Republic government could react, giant vines grew out from the underground of all cities and controlled the entire city. Then, in just half a day, the temperature dropped sharply, and the unprecedented blizzard swept the entire world. In less than two days, more than 90% of the people in the world died.
Most of these dead people were in the city. After the giant vines grew out, they were infected by the spores in the vines and entered the roots of the vines to die. Others were directly exposed to the extremely low temperature blizzard and froze to death.
The reason for this is that this world is always in a temperature environment that is extremely suitable for human habitation because of the effect of the energy crystal. There are no seasonal changes such as spring, summer, autumn and winter. Except for the snow on the top of some extremely high peaks, there has never been ice and snow in other places. In this environment, people naturally don’t know any way to keep warm, and there are no warm clothes.
The Redemption Book records that when the world fell into despair and humans were about to become extinct, the Lord of Redemption appeared. She appeared in the dreams of everyone in this world in the image of three goddesses. The Goddess of Civilization taught everyone all the knowledge on how to survive in this harsh environment. The Goddess of Victory gave everyone blessings, making their bodies strong, with a physique that is enough to stay below the cold for a long time and the ability to fight against wild beasts in the snow, and the Goddess of Lanterns pointed out a way for everyone to save and survive, so that they could come to the shelter opened by the Lord of Redemption.
At this point, all the countries and cities in the world have fallen into the disaster. Only the shelter of the Lord of Redemption exists in this world that has fallen into destruction. The Lord of Redemption has become the only belief in this world, and the Order of Redemption is also the only regime in this world.
In the Book of Redemption, it is mentioned that the religious center of the Order of Redemption is a place called the Holy City of Redemption, and it is also the only place where the Lord of Redemption appears, but the book does not mention where the Holy City of Redemption is.
In any case, Leo has also determined his next destination, but before leaving for the Holy City of Redemption, he still wants to go back to Rand City, because he wants to see what kind of crystals are used as energy sources in this world.
Now all kinds of machinery used in the city of New Rand are driven by steam and heat energy, not energy crystals as energy sources. According to the Book of Redemption, the technology of the current world comes from the goddess of civilization, and is completely disconnected from the technology of the world before the disaster.
The reason for this is that all the survivors believe that the world will fall into disaster. The main reason may be the energy crystal, because the places where giant vines appear are cities where energy crystals are hidden underground and mining areas with a small amount of energy crystals. After those giant vines grow, they will not spread outward and will always stay in the city.
The second reason is the climate. Before the disaster, scientists from all over the world had determined through research that the world's climate would remain constant in a comfortable state. It was because of the energy emitted by this crystal that the current temperature became so cold. It is possible that the energy crystal has lost its function and can no longer maintain the constant temperature of the environment.
Leo has never seen this kind of energy crystal that can change the environment of a world, so he is very curious, because even in the universe, he has never heard of a similar energy body. If there is such an energy body, it will definitely make any cosmic civilization that is keen on colonial expansion crazy, because this means that those barren planets that are not suitable for survival can be easily transformed into habitable planets.
As for the rumor that the energy crystal has lost its function, Leo thinks it is unlikely, because this energy crystal has not been in effect for one or two years, but has been in effect since the existence of this world. Even if it may lose its effectiveness due to energy loss, it is a long process and it will never lose all its energy suddenly.
Therefore, he deduced that there must be such energy crystals under those cities, and the reason why he did not feel any abnormal energy fluctuations related to it in the Rand City area was most likely because it was blocked by giant vines. The giant vines were not only carnivorous plants, but also energy plants. The energy emitted by the energy crystals was absorbed by them.
Just as Leo was sorting out the information he had obtained and thinking about what to do next, the Lantern Goddess Priestess who returned to the Lantern Temple Prayer Room began her daily prayer ceremony. However, the process of this prayer ceremony was different from the past. When the ceremony just started, her entire soul consciousness was involuntarily pulled into a pure white space, and then she saw the Lantern Goddess and received the oracle of the Lantern Goddess.
After the Lantern Goddess Priestess left that state of prayer, she immediately returned to her office, found paper and pen, and quickly drew a person on the paper. Although she had never drawn before, the person she drew this time was very realistic, just like a photo.
Seeing the person on the paper, she was stunned for a long time, and suddenly rang the bell on the table. After the servant came in, she loudly ordered: "Copy it as soon as possible and find the person inside. He is our savior."