Chapter 169 Epilogue: Promise to Me (4k) (1/2)

Chapter 169 Epilogue: The Promise and Me (4k)

"Well, it's time for you to die. Goodbye, old friend."

The young man patted the machine beast on the head, and the other person slowly moved his huge body. The giant bull-shaped machine beast rubbed the young man's body intimately at the end of his life.

Then he closed his eyes forever.

The last leyline-driven mechanism machine lasted longer than Ji Lin thought. It maintained a lifespan of 130 years with extremely low power until the leyline disappeared, even longer than the one in the container. It will be thirty years later before the stored earth veins are completely lost.

This is its limit.

One hundred and thirty years ago, all those Mohist disciples who broke into the imperial city and destroyed the world's earth lines have all returned to the earth, and it is the last existence that has witnessed everything.

They will never be able to preserve the energy of the earth's veins on a scale of hundreds of years. These energies are only subject to human constraints for a short time, and they will eventually return to the earth.

Everything built on the earth's veins has disappeared like snowflakes under the scorching sun in these hundred years, and all glory has been washed away with blood and tears.

Seeing these calm and silent machines, the young man felt a little sad in his heart. He knew that he would never see them move again in his lifetime. The pattern of war is changing. Their opponents, the royal families of the aristocratic families, are looking through the old books in the piles of old papers, hoping to regain the glory of the era without machine magic.

The royal family never saw that the taxes they put on the heads of the common people were the root cause of everything, and they never reduced the taxes. This was also the case after losing the Leyline Tower. This heavy tax continued to move forward with inertia as the Leyline was destroyed. After ten years, it became the last straw that broke the empire.

They had never felt the earth fire that had been slowly burning under the ground thousands of years ago. They did not know how to give in until the earth fire burned them.

"Do you want to dismantle it?"

The man in black clothes standing next to the young man asked.

The wood that has been refined by the earth's veins has extremely high physical strength, is light and hard, and many machine beasts have been dismantled and used as armor and shields for soldiers, or as important components for those machine people driven by new machine arts.

A mechanism that collapses after taking two steps is far from practical.

But it is finally a device that ordinary people can use.

The wood that makes up the mechanism beasts is the last remnant of the leyline.

"No, keep it, the war is over."

The young man shook his head and stared at the sleeping machine beast with complex eyes.

The war is over, and a new country rises from the ruins of this land. No one knows how far it can go.

But those seniors who went to death have left them an infinite future. The wealth accumulated by the aristocratic families has been shuffled in this wave, and the annexed land has been returned to the farmers according to the system. The earth's veins actually promoted the explosion of productivity, but they also created extreme wealth disparity and great injustice, and a natural ravine was formed.

And the emperor... This land has been poisoned by the dynasty for too long.

They did so many wrong things, but it was not too late.

"Leave some thoughts for the future."

The young man discussed with the man in black clothes beside him how these machine beasts should be preserved to last longer.

After his generation, the last person of their generation to see the afterglow of Mechanism, passed away, the next generation could only see the existence of Mechanism in books and paper. In another ten years or a hundred years, there may not even be anyone who remembers him. In another thousand years, even the existence of the Mohist family may have been relegated to the waste paper of history.

The erosion of time is not a threat to earth-line creations. If the environment is good enough, it can be preserved for thousands of years, perhaps tens of thousands of years - they have not experienced tens of thousands of years since they had writing. time.

The young man suddenly became excited when he thought of this.

If there are really latecomers who unearth mechanical beasts from the soil after forgetting about them, I don’t know what the latecomers will think of these wooden creations that are supernaturally hard but immovable.

Will you marvel at the skills of these ancients, who can't find the production method after countless reproductions, and lament for them?

However, the earth veins will definitely be re-formed. I hope that by that time, they who have gone further in the history of civilization can make good use of the gifts given to them by these planets.

In their time, perhaps there were no Mohist stories.

There will no longer be stories about generals, ministers and princes.

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"Students, this is the memorial hall of the New Hundred Schools of Thought. Please be careful not to make loud noises or wander around in the museum. You must listen to the staff. The teacher has something to do and needs to leave first."

The teacher with a professional smile brought the child to the museum guide, explained the situation to him, and apologized profusely.

"Please take them to visit the memorial hall first. I have something to do. I will come back in a few hours."

The man expressed his understanding and turned around to look at the group of young men who wanted to start chattering when they saw their teacher leaving.

The junior high school students raised their heads and looked at the label 'museum guide' hanging on his chest.

"Since your teacher handed you over to me, let me take you around this museum first."

The man looked like he was about to start business, and spoke softly to the child in front of him who was about to move.

He took the children to visit multiple locations, and two little shadows took advantage of the guide's unpreparedness to sneak out of the group and tiptoe towards the shadows.

"Hey, why did you run out!"

The little girl asked the little boy who took the lead in leaving the team.

"Didn't you run out too?"

The little boy made a face and stuck out his tongue.

"The administrator took us around and talked about things that have already been discussed in our textbooks. I want to see the real collection of the Central Museum."

They are very familiar with the New Hundred Schools of Thought. It is a sign of the beginning of modern times. For some unknown reason, various schools of thought began to develop rapidly and developed their own distinctive schools of magic and runes. Some of the practices left over from that time It is still in use today.

The textbook devotes two large chapters to describing this content, and all of them are key points!

"I just heard him talk about why the New Hundred Schools of Thought appeared, and you ran away."

The little girl pouted to express her displeasure.

"Isn't it all in the books... The fall of the dynasty...!"

The little boy answered her, obviously he could remember the content in the book better.

A voice sounded from behind them.

"The conclusion in the textbook is inferred from old historical data. According to the latest historical data unearthed in modern times, the destruction of ley lines is the fundamental reason for the emergence of the New Hundred Schools of Thought. However, the historians have been debating this issue. First, it can prove that ley lines once existed. The evidence is not sufficient, and secondly, it conflicts with the previous conclusion of the dynasty’s collapse and needs to be discussed again.”

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The previous commentator held down the two children from behind and started to talk at length. The two children were so frightened that they trembled. It was like a hide-and-seek that was not found by their good friends, but was caught by their parents first.

"If there is such an important energy source, then there must be an easy way to obtain it, and the ancients could use it so easily."

"!"

The little boy and the little girl tensed up and hurriedly tried to change the subject. They suddenly saw a tall tower placed in a giant glass storage cabinet in the distance. It was classic and solemn, almost as high as the top of the Central Museum.

"Uncle, what is that tower?"

"It's the Earth Line Tower, which we reproduced according to 1:1 in the history books. Nowadays, mainstream academic circles believe that it is a very important sacrificial tool for the ancients. The ancients firmly believed that as long as they placed it on the Earth Lines, they could control the weather and make the weather smooth. ”

When the commentator said this, he suddenly let out a long sigh.

"It's a pity that for some reason the Leyline Tower has not been preserved in real form. We later excavated and found some imitation buildings of the Leyline Tower. But those were also copies of later people's pictures of cats and tigers. They did not match the era. According to the historical records we unearthed, it should be in every town All are talented.”

"Is it possible that using this thing and just rubbing it can make bad weather better?"

The little boy asked a little unconvinced.

The man rubbed the little boy's head hard.

"No, the energy level is not enough at all. You don't know how much energy is used to turn bad weather into good weather. Even if there were so many advanced spellcasters in ancient times, there is no way to rush to various villages and towns in such a timely manner. In modern times It’s extremely troublesome to do, not to mention that the energy utilization efficiency is not as good as that of today’s ancient people.”

What the man did not tell the two children was that the historical data in the records were too detailed. Even the annual tax revenue of each place was included in the calculation, which far exceeded the output that should have been produced in ancient times. However, they could not reproduce everything based on the historical data, and reproduce that. It should be an extremely glorious era.

Before the New Hundred Schools of Thought, a super war involving the whole country seemed to have broken out. The scale was unprecedented. The boldest estimates in the academic circles estimated that nearly one-third of the population disappeared in this war. Many materials and historical materials and objects about the past were destroyed due to the war, which is also a difficulty in historical research.

Hence there is room for debate.

The two children nodded in understanding.

"Guess how many leyline towers there were in ancient times. If you guess correctly, I will give you a small gift."

the man asked.

"The construction of such a big tower must be time-consuming and labor-intensive, I guess five hundred!"

"Well, I guess two thousand!"

Both children gave their own answers one after another.

"About 4,500 leyline towers!"

Seeing the two children's mouths wide open in surprise, the commentator looked at their surprised expressions, shook their heads, and laughed, feeling that these boring contents would definitely not be popular with children.

"Okay, let me take you to see the most popular place in this museum."

The man stood up and threw the other children to another commentator. Let him have a headache. It was much easier to deal with two children by himself than fifty-eight children.

After leading the two children through the dense crowd, the docent frowned. The hall where the Mechanical Beast was viewed was already packed with people. This may be because of the newly unearthed bird-shaped Mechanical Beast.

Bird-shaped mechanical beasts are extremely rare. They have only seen them in books. This is the first one to be discovered.

"Look, that's the mechanical beast."

The two children's attention was immediately attracted by the giant wooden machinery in the glass preservation cabinet. Their eyes were firmly locked on these large models built of wood, and they couldn't leave them at all.

There were cows, tigers, and snakes, but what attracted them most was the wooden bird that had faded its bright red color and was placed in the most conspicuous position in the entire exhibition.

A bird made entirely of wood, its wings folded, its lower jaw drooping, the light red color on its body has faded, revealing the dark brown wood itself. This alone cannot hide the elegance it reveals. A bright red mark from its neck to the root of the wing is no longer obvious under the fading of time.

It sleeps in the long river of time, waiting for the day when it will be awakened again in the future.

There are countless people taking photos and videos around the mechanical beast below. If the mechanical bird was not protected by a thick glass wall, these tourists would rush to its feet and even climb up to take pictures.

The guide and two children stood at the maintenance passage. This is the best place to watch, but it's a pity that tourists are not allowed to enter.

"This is a large cultural relic that was unearthed recently. According to the frequency band analysis, it has a history of nearly 3,000 years. The era is completely consistent. It is the history before the new Hundred Schools of Thought. It is a bird made entirely of wooden structures."

"Awesome!"

The two children exclaimed, quietly took out their mobile phones to take pictures, and the guide did not stop them.

"Red Kite."

"Its code name is Red Kite. This is the name the excavation team unanimously decided to give it."

The guide suddenly saw someone in the crowd quietly start the device and leave the ground, wanting to take a full-body photo of the mechanical bird from a high altitude.

"Fuck, five, call."

The guide reached out and unfolded the interference device in his hand to the tourist who wanted to fly up to take pictures. The module rotated, called the power, and pressed the tourist down.

In the museum, except for the guide, it is strictly forbidden to use any energy equipment, but there are always people who don't listen to advice.

These new magic equipment obtained by converting modules can be used by civilians. It is very convenient, but sometimes it will bring them a lot of trouble.

The new equipment can convert the energy in spells and runes, or convert electricity into these energies, which means that the equipment can be recharged in places where it can be charged. It is no longer restricted to the form of energy. They can convert all known technologies.

This is their current cornerstone, the unified theory of energy conversion.

A notebook, with only a lot of phenomena and equations... and the name of the recorder... Gui Yu.

They should have erected a monument to this scholar. His theory is the cornerstone of modern technology, but... they have searched all history but have not found such a person. They don't even know whether he is a man or a woman. It is really a pity.

"Uncle, you know so much, what is your major!"

The child raised his head and asked.

"I've said... I'm not that old..." The guide touched his face and felt some prickly stubble on it: "An undergraduate student majoring in energy structure design, just a hobby to get along with these things."

The two children said.

They looked up, and a stream of light just happened to shine from the skylight of the museum, covering Chi Yuan in it.

The light streams along the glass here, scattering light and illuminating the whole hall with a brilliant golden light. It shines on a young green seedling that is shaking slightly and sprouting under the cover of the red kite. Maybe it is a seed that the red kite brought during transportation, and it sprouted when it touched the soil.

Growing in the golden world.