Underground world.
Mira held onto the stone wall beside her, a small ball of white flame appeared in her hand, illuminating the surroundings. There was silence all around, and she could even hear her own heartbeat.
There was a broken hole on the huge metal wall, with torn black steel and deep darkness that seemed to have no end even with the light.
As time passed, Loran Hill still didn't come out. Mira became a little worried and her mind started to wander.
She stepped back and forth with her feet, sometimes pausing, sometimes moving. From time to time, she looked at the hole leading to the inside, wondering whether she should go in and take a look.
There is no sunlight or clocks underground, and time seems to have lost its boundaries. Mira felt hungry, and then no longer felt hungry. After this cycle happened three times, just before her patience was completely exhausted, a familiar voice suddenly appeared underground.
"Sorry I'm late."
Mira looked back and saw that it was Loran Hill. She slowly floated down from the air, touched the ground with her toes, and then stood steadily on the ground.
Compared to when she entered, Loran Hill looked very tired at this time. When Mira asked her questions, she answered very slowly, as if she was always thinking about other issues.
After a few times, Mira stopped disturbing the sage who was lost in thought and followed him quietly, and the two returned to the ground.
When he saw the silver-haired girl coming out from underground, the knight captain who was standing by also breathed a sigh of relief.
Loran Hill looked at the sky. It was now completely dark. At the exit of the mine, there were about 20 fully armed knights standing. They were all around Sequence 3 and were the elite of the army.
In the dark and lonely mountains, these knights stood in the firelight, their shadows so straight, only swaying slightly with the flames when the wind blew.
"You guys can go back. You've worked hard. The monster worms in this area have been dealt with." Loran Hill said.
"Yes, sage." The leading officer stood at attention and saluted before arranging for the team members to leave together.
After seeing the group of knights leave, Loran Hill turned around and said.
"Let's go back too, Mira."
"Um."
A dark land, with forests shrouded in darkness, undulating along the curves of the hills.
As the airship slowly rose, the night wind blew towards her, lifting the girl's long hair, and then disappeared into the night sky behind her.
Loran Hill looked down at the earth, the scene he saw from the storage device still echoing in his mind.
It was the middle to late twilight period, when the setting sun bathed the earth.
The thick clouds that once obscured the sky have long since dissipated, and the sky presents beautiful colors like the sunset, with large aerospace warships flying in the sky.
They are like giant whales in the deep sea, with countless small aircraft flying in and out.
These aircraft have hollow metal wings, and their shape is similar to that of early propeller planes, but the hollow wings seem to contain some kind of magic circle that allows them to fly and hover in the sky with extremely low power consumption.
Under the belly of the machine is some kind of particle-launching weapon. The high-energy particles of magic are compressed in a specific loop spiral and then fired out, like a heat flow of metal, melting gold and breaking iron.
However, what is on board the aircraft is not a complete human being, but only a brain that is well sealed and has various protective measures.
The members of the Mechanical Council finally abandoned their weak and unusable limbs and torsos, using their single brain and transcendental core to control and perceive everything. Their bodies were like accessories, interchangeable at will.
The perfect network allows their consciousness and ideas to be communicated freely, and efficient cooperation and information sharing have greatly improved the overall efficiency of their group.
All its members no longer need to mate with each other to reproduce. Everything is allocated by the central parliament, and the new generation is uniformly cultivated in the gene production cabin and then educated.
At birth, it is decided whether a person will become a pilot or an agricultural worker. They will learn the relevant knowledge according to the plan and then take up the job.
After completing the work, the brain will secrete substances that make people feel happy under the stimulation of the control device.
Individuals no longer need entertainment activities; the meaning of life lies in work, which makes people feel happy and excited. They will be rewarded with medals for their work achievements, thereby improving their status in the overall group.
All rewards and promotions are calculated by super AI, which is open and transparent. The world becomes absolutely fair in another way.
Pilots and agricultural workers receive the same rewards and work the same number of hours per day (approximately 16 hours).
With this united, efficient, orderly, and fearless collective effort, the Mechanical Council's strength began to soar. Whether it was technology, the number of extraordinary people, or the number of combat groups, they all increased rapidly.
They defeated many organizations, such as the 'Tree of Life Sect', the 'Angry Dragon', the 'Deep Sea Alliance', the 'Original Heart', the 'Tracing Cloud' and so on.
Finally, before the arrival of the fourth millennium, the Mechanical Council unified the entire earth and began to move towards the vast starry sky.
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"Your Majesty the Sage."
"Sage?"
"His Highness Loran Hill."
The girl woke up from her past memories and looked around. She had already arrived.
Seeing the girl wake up, Mira stopped waving her hands and continued speaking.
"We're already at our place. I'll go boil some water for you to take a bath."
Although the girl was not dirty, she had been traveling underground for the past two days and had stayed there for about a day before coming out. She definitely needed to take a good wash, Mira thought.
"Okay." Loran Hill nodded, got off the airship and came to the yard.
She didn't go into the house directly, but looked up at the starry sky above her head.
It is now May, the air in the mountains is still unpolluted, and the night sky is exceptionally clear. You can see the tilted and vague Milky Way, with stars densely covering the sky.
Find a wooden chair to sit down. In the grass around you are the cheerful chirping of insects, and occasionally a long and cold bird song can be heard from the darkness in the distance.
The breeze gently brushed across the surface of her skin, causing the white skirt to flutter slightly up and down.
The starry sky above our heads is different from what is recorded on Earth.
Loran Hill slowly closed her eyes. The reason why she hadn't realized that this was not Earth was because the starry sky was different from the star map on Earth.
But now she observed it again and found some traces still hidden in it. Although the position had changed, those dazzling stars still existed.
This is still the Milky Way, but this planet is no longer in the solar system.
What happened in the distant past? After the Mechanical Council unified the Earth and entered space, what happened to them that led them to move the Earth out of the solar system and transfer it to this remote galaxy?
This star system is called Ivar, located at the end of the Milky Way's spiral arm.
And where did they themselves go?
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