Chapter 7022: Holy Land
Although deleting periods from the calendar is somewhat counterintuitive, this operation has actually existed. For example, on Dorothy's hometown Earth, Catholic Pope Gregory XIII once deleted the ten days between October 4, 1582 and October 15, 1582 from the calendar. The original intention was to reconcile the accumulated precession of the Roman calendar, return the calendar to normal, and correctly guide agricultural production.
So in the history of the earth, the day after Thursday, October 4, 1582, was followed by October 15, 1582, a direct jump of almost ten days. Of course, this operation is just an operation within the calendar rules set by humans and does not affect the actual natural time.
However, the same operation would be very different if applied to the virtual history of this world. The virtual history world is dominated by "Inspiration". The elements of "Inspiration" such as history, calendar, and legal principles are the support of this world, and the other so-called "real" things are attachments attached to the support. Therefore, changing history here can also change the world, and changing the calendar can also change time. Here, the calendar is not a measure of time but time itself.
Gregory XIII cancelled ten days in the calendar, and Dorothy cancelled seven thousand years in the calendar here. By canceling the long years in the calendar, Dorothy can make tomorrow of a certain day become the day after seven thousand years, making the seven thousand years of time become nothingness in an instant, so that she can witness the scene seven thousand years ago.
In the fictional world, in the endless desert of Buserit, Dorothy stood on a towering sand dune, silently gazing at the spectacular scene before her.
That was a huge virtual image of an incomparable scale in the wind and sand, an image of an entire city, which seemed real and fake. This mirage-like virtual city stretched to the horizon, covering the entire horizon as far as the naked eye could see, far exceeding the scale of Bastis.
The huge virtual city looks blurry from a distance, with only one huge pyramid standing out among them. The seven or eight meters high virtual pyramid looks majestic and magnificent on one hand, but it also looks illusory on the other hand. The overall feeling is light and airy, and it will be scattered if blown.
Ever since Dorothy changed the calendar, the original virtual world disappeared, and was replaced by the current scene. Dorothy understood that this was some kind of truth deep in the virtual world that she had guided out.
"That is... a city?! Is this style a city from the First Dynasty? There are actually ruins of the First Dynasty on a city scale, which is simply unheard of..." On Dorothy's side, Evie, who was in the iron coffin, couldn't help but sigh after witnessing such a magnificent spectacle. Too many things that happened in the past day were far beyond her previous understanding.
"A city hidden in the inner world, is this the legacy left by the First Dynasty? Is this what you are looking for? Is this what Yunina wants to take away now?" Evie continued to speak in astonishment, while she looked silently into the distance and did not directly respond to Evie's words. On the other side, Vanya looked at the city in the distance and could not help but sigh.
"Such a magnificent city, it feels even bigger than Tivian... If it didn't feel like an illusion, it would feel as shocking as Mount Saint..."
Vanya said this, and then involuntarily took two steps forward. However, at this moment, many mysterious 㫧 characters suddenly flashed in front of her, and a translucent wall made of 㫧 characters appeared in front of her, blocking her steps.
"Is this... a forbidden area? There is a forbidden area in this city that won't allow me to pass through?" Vanya couldn't help but mutter as she stroked the invisible wall in front of her. After Dorothy heard Vanya's words, she also stretched out her hand and reached out towards the imaginary city in the distance. However, there was no forbidden area in front of her.
"It seems that this ban recognizes people. I don't seem to be blocked." Dorothy said this while looking at her arm in front of her. Then she turned around and continued to speak to Vanya Neveu, Evie and others behind her.
"Wait here, I'll go explore inside."
Dorothy spoke to the people in front of her, then she immediately flew into the air, turned around again and floated towards the imaginary magnificent city in the distance. For a moment, only two people and one coffin were left at the scene.
"Miss Bachelor went over there alone... Is it okay?" Vanya said worriedly as she stood there, looking at Dorothy disappearing into the dust. Neveu on the other side waved her hand in response.
"Don't worry, don't worry... Vanya, we should worry about no one but Miss Maester. We have seen her abilities before. Look at Miss Maester's exemption from the ban. This must be a privilege only given to the orthodox inheritor of 'Enlightenment' who is chosen by the Judge of Heaven. There is really nothing to worry about after entering. Just choose to believe..."
Neveu said this lightly, and then she leaned against the forbidden wall beside her, wanting to rest on it, but an accident happened the next second.
"Ouch!" Neveu leaned sideways, but she did not lean against the invisible forbidden wall that should have existed in the air as she imagined. She fell directly down, rolled twice on the sand, and accidentally swallowed a mouthful of sand.
"Pah, pah, pah... What's going on? Where's the wall?!" Sitting back on the sand, Neveu complained while spitting out the sand in her mouth. Vanya on the other side was stunned after seeing the scene in front of her. Then she stretched out her hand and tried to touch the forbidden wall hidden in the air. As countless glowing 㫧 characters reappeared in the space in front of Vanya's hand, the forbidden wall once again appeared in front of Vanya, blocking the reaction arm from continuing to extend forward.
Seeing this scene, Vanya was stunned, and Neve was also stunned. After they looked at each other for a long time, Vanya slowly spoke.
"Ms. Thief, you don't seem to be affected by this restriction either."
"Eh..." After listening to Vanya's words, Neveu didn't know what to say or write for a moment.
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On the other side, after passing through the Forbidden Wall, Dorothy flew straight into the sky full of dust and flew towards the mirage-like city in the distance. After flying for a long time, Dorothy finally gradually approached the illusory city.
This huge city had no walls. After flying for a while, Dorothy flew directly above the city. Unlike a real mirage which would disappear after getting close, Dorothy could see the real condition of the city here.
These buildings were generally four stories high, with decorations that clearly showed the characteristics of the First Dynasty and were all very luxurious. Huge and wide roads cut through the city's buildings, and flying over the city and looking into the distance, one could not see the edge at a glance. In addition to the huge pyramids in the city center, there were also many other conspicuous giant buildings that stood ten feet high in the city, demonstrating the former magnificence and prosperity of this city. Dorothy had seen these scenes before, but what she saw was just a model, far less shocking than what she saw now.
If there is one flaw, it is that the magnificence of this city is not "real". The whole city is in a vague and illusory state, a state that Dorothy has never seen in the fictional history world before. Although the history of things in the fictional history world is forged, they are real in this world, unlike the nothingness of this city.
Apart from the fact that the city is 100% illusory and blurry as a whole, and cannot be truly seen or touched, another characteristic of this city is that there is no one or any living creature in it. The entire city seems to be completely empty and there is not a trace of life.
'Is this what the Holy Land of the First Dynasty, hidden behind the curtain of history that stretches back seven thousand kilometres, looks like? It's impossible to read any valuable content like this. Can I really find information about the Golden Ascension here?'
Looking at the scene in front of her, Dolusi couldn't help but think in her heart that although she had obvious worries in her heart, she still did not stop her exploration, and her target of exploration at this time was the center of the city, the huge pyramid.
The giant pyramid was at least seven feet high and covered an extremely huge area. A large part of the entire city was occupied by this pyramid. When Dorothy flew to the edge of this illusory pyramid, she looked up and felt a huge illusory wall that covered the sky and the sun stretching before her eyes, revealing an extremely strong sense of oppression.
Dorothy flew for a long time along the outer wall of the Pyramid of Fantasy and finally found the entrance to the pyramid, a huge stone gate guarded by two eagle-headed statues. The stone gate itself was open, and a road led directly into the interior of the pyramid. The entire gate was more than 20 meters high and about 10 meters wide, which looked very spectacular.
Dorothy paused for a while in front of the gate, picked it up and looked at it, then chose to enter the gate. Then, Dorothy came to an extra-long corridor that was much wider than a normal road, and followed the corridor deep into the interior of the pyramid.
On the huge walls on both sides of the corridor, there were countless characters and murals densely engraved, and no space was left blank. As Dorothy flew through the corridor, she wanted to take a closer look at what those carvings and murals looked like, but as soon as she looked carefully, the contents of those carvings and murals became extremely blurry, making it impossible to see clearly.
Just like that, Dorothy ignored the murals on both sides of the corridor and flew straight along the long corridor towards the deeper parts of the pyramid, until she reached the end of the corridor, a vast space.
This is an enormous indoor space. The whole space is roughly square, nearly a kilometer high and several kilometers long and wide. There are countless giant human-shaped relief statues on the walls of the space. Most of the bottom of the space does not exist, and it is an abyss that sinks downward. There is no ceiling at the top, but instead countless shining stars. Under this starry ceiling, above the huge pit abyss, there is a huge circular platform suspended. There is a corridor on each of the four walls of the huge space, and a small bridge is built along it to the platform. The corridor that Dorothy passed through was one of them.
"It looks like this is an altar, not a tomb..." Dorothy couldn't help but mutter as she looked at the scene in front of her. At first she thought this pyramid was a tomb, but judging from the current scene, it seems more likely that this is an altar.
After sighing, Dorothy flew along the thin bridge extending in front of her until she reached the circular platform in the center of the space. Here, Dorothy could see the things on the platform more clearly.
On the circular platform, there were star images corresponding to the sky. These star images were strung together by lines to form constellation patterns. Surrounded by the huge star patterns, in the center of the platform, there were a simple stone chair. Four of the stone chairs were placed facing each other, forming a circle. In the center of the four stone chairs, there was a third stone chair. On this stone chair, there was a figure sitting.
It was a corpse, she was wearing a luxurious robe, a complicated, heavy and huge exquisite crown, countless mysterious decorations were hung on her body, many laces were wrapped around her body, depicting arrays of stars, and there were many star decorations and embroidery on her robe. Her face was covered with a white mask of unknown material.
Although many parts of the body were sunken due to the decay of the flesh, and the hands revealed withered bony palms, Dorothy could still tell from the characteristics of the clothes that the owner of the corpse was once a woman. Her overall clothing was similar to that of the female pharaoh Dorothy had seen before, but more solemn and gorgeous.
And...more importantly, this corpse is a real entity! That's right, in this illusory and blurry city, this corpse is actually a real, extremely clear entity! When Dorothy saw the corpse, she was stunned and it took her a long time to react.
"This kind of clothing is... the dead pharaoh? No... This looks like a real dead person, not a ghost..." Dorothy thought to herself as she approached the corpse in front of her. Soon, she roughly determined who the corpse in front of her was.
He was the pinnacle of the faith of the Judge of Heaven in the First Dynasty, corresponding to the Four Undead Lords and the Four Pharaohs, the golden man of the path of pure reason, and the highest priest of the Judge of Heaven in the past - the Sage of Heaven's Appointment.
'When the First Dynasty fell, the Gold of the Path of Pure Reason did not choose to become a ghost...
"I have reduced seven thousand years of my life, but she still appears here in the form of dry bones... What does this mean?" Dorothy sighed as she looked at the silent corpse sitting on the stone chair in front of her. Looking at the dead body, Dorothy had all kinds of thoughts in her mind. At this moment, her intuition told her that the secret she was looking for was in her.
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