"Do you feel that this place seems to be more than just the den of the fierce wolf dragon?"

After scraping the nest clean and converting all excess resources into essence, the environmental cleaning master Ash suddenly asked a strange question.

Sonia: What do you want to say?

"In fact, I had doubts about the manufacturing machines in the resource point last night. Although the strange structures of these ancient gadgets can kill any science and engineering master, there is no way they could be made by knowledge creatures, right?"

Ash leaned against the front of the sports car, not afraid that the mechanism under his butt would eject sharp blades to kiss his feet: "Even the most sophisticated intellectual creatures, their claws are not as sensitive as the little fingers that the ogres use to pick their noses."

"It's impossible that they can actually play the piano and write cursive with their claws in private, but they hide their tools as soon as we appear, just to prevent us from discovering that they have civilization?"

Diya also began to think broadly: "Come to think of it, what would the knowledge creatures be doing when our magicians were not here?"

"There are no entertainment facilities inside, and they don't need to hunt, so the only thing they can do is... I understand, it's hide-and-seek!"

Ash said: "It could actually be..."

"Hey!" Sonia reached out and hit Ash's shoulder. "Witches don't have much experience in socializing with others. Don't tell dirty jokes in front of her!"

"Can I just talk to you casually? And I said 'communication'. It's because you have a dirty mind that you think I have a dirty mind too!"

"What is a dirty joke?" Diya looked curious.

Ash asked, "Don't the White Queen and Black Butler know?"

"I don't know. We just have different personalities, but we share knowledge. What I don't know, they won't know either." The witch adjusted her glasses. "But the White Queen said she roughly guessed what it was. She will explain it to me when we return to reality."

"I can give you an example. For example, Sword Princess - stop, there is no need to waste time, Sword Princess, your financial situation should not be so abundant, right?"

Sonia snorted coldly, stopped the "Sword Sharpening Day" that was in progress, and said, "Viewer, you mean that those production machines at the resource points and those broken walls and ruins in the wolf dragon's lair are all masterpieces of other civilizations?"

"That's the only explanation," Ash said. "Could it be that the magicians of the past had established a civilization on the Continent of Time? But according to the abstract aesthetics of those production machines, perhaps ogres are the pureblooded orthodox of the magicians, and we are all mudbloods who stole magic power."

This guess seems to have some persuasiveness, but Sonia still shook her head: "But the time of the Time Continent will migrate with the migration of the Golden River. For example, this place will become a quiet area where everything withers in about two hours. Only knowledge creatures can continue to survive. We magicians will be frozen into history by time. How can anyone build a civilization here?"

"Is it possible that knowledge creatures can also become magicians?" Diya said, "I read in the fairy tale picture book "New World" that a magician suddenly appeared in the human race, which was regarded as inferior creatures by the elf magicians. Then the human magicians launched a counterattack, destroyed the elf kingdom, and established a new civilization. Perhaps the knowledge creatures dominated the world in the past, and the magicians of other races rose up and destroyed the civilization of the knowledge creatures."

"Can this kind of story really be compiled into a fairy tale picture book?" Sonia couldn't help but say, "I think it's possible that the magicians in the past invented a miracle that can survive in the Quiet Realm, so they established the Magician Empire on the Time Continent."

They looked at Ash, "What do you think, viewer?"

"Well, the witch's guess is full of imagination, and the sword lady's idea is very stable. Both have their merits." Ash said with his chin held high: "But I think your vision is too small. Since you are just guessing, why don't you start from the whole world?"

Ash looked up at the sky covered by the countercurrent golden rain, and looked at the giant foot of the white bull in the distance: "Perhaps there was no Sky Chariot Bull and no Flowing Golden River before, and the Time Continent was just an ordinary habitable continent, so there once existed a prosperous civilization here."

Sonia subconsciously wanted to refute, but Ash waved his hand: "I know what you want to say - maybe the Skycar Ox existed a thousand years ago, two thousand years ago, or ten thousand years ago. But what about thirty thousand years ago, or a hundred thousand years ago? With a long enough time, all major changes will become natural truths that we are accustomed to."

"Perhaps one day in the future, the Sky Bull will get tired and stop moving. The activity area of ​​the Time Continent will be permanently solidified, and future magicians will not believe that the magicians of the past actually had to chase the white bull to move."

The red-haired swordsman had to admit that this was a possibility, "But is there any practical significance for us to discuss this unconfirmed conjecture?"

"Let's chat after work. Don't you think this is romantic? We can unravel the mystery of the virtual world and explore the history of the past, just like the protagonists in an adventure story." Ash looked at Sonia. "Besides, you have to train intensively during the day and explore the virtual world with us at night. I'm afraid you can't hold it, so I'll take some time out from my busy schedule to help you relax."

"I'm not that fragile!"

"Who just activated the sword-sharpening miracle and prepared to attack his companions?"

At this time, Ash noticed that the witch looked thoughtful and asked, "Do you have any clues?"

"No, I just remembered that the basic configuration of the adventure team in fairy tales is two men and one woman. There are many types of love relationships among three people, but the ending is basically that the second man is sacrificed, and the first man and the first woman live a happy life..." Diya said: "But we are two women and one man, which is a bit inconsistent."

Are there too many kinds of fairy tales you read?

Ash continued, "In addition, if civilization really existed, then in addition to resource points, there should be relics of the old civilization in the Time Continent, right?"

remains!

The eyes of Sword Lady and Witch lit up at the same time.

Whether in fairy tales or fantasy movies and TV dramas, it is a classic plot tactic that a lucky person finds the legacy of a senior magician or the remains of an ancient organization, and thus embarks on the path of a magician and becomes a legendary figure. After all, getting something for nothing is a temptation that no one can refuse.

Although the magician civilization is generally rising in a spiral, and the magicians of the new era are stronger than those of the old era, the magician resources are universal from ancient times to the present. The magic spirits and gold and silver from ten thousand years ago can still be used today, and even ancient schools may sprout and rise again. The only thing that is truly outdated is the ideas.

Moreover, because the "magician heritage" already exists in the virtual world, let alone the Time Continent, even if it is said that there are magician relics at the bottom of the Sea of ​​Knowledge, few people would be surprised.

Ash looked at Sonia, who shook her head: "I haven't found any relevant information. I can ask the professor tomorrow, but don't hold out too much hope."

"Why? Have you finally earned the professor's jealousy because of your overly arrogant behavior?"

Sonia glared at him. "You... did guess half right, but I didn't act arrogantly. The main reason was that I had to conceal the fact that I had set foot on the Time Continent, so I could only ask the professor in the name of 'pre-study'."

"And I think that even the professor may not know the secrets of the continent for many years."