Chapter 229: Essentially a Rout
"This is the origin of interstellar humanity. The true history of interstellar humanity actually stretches back thousands of years. As for why the world developed into this state..." Master Forging Dreams paused and leaned back. "I'm tired. Tell me first, what's happening on Earth? After thousands of years of development, I thought you would find us soon."
"There is no thousand years of development." Xu Lingqu blinked.
"What do you mean?" Master Duanmeng noticed that Xu Lingqu was in a bad mood. She seemed a little shocked, but what was more obvious was her silence.
Why the silence? This must have troubled her for a long time. When the truth was revealed, didn't she feel the slightest bit of sudden enlightenment?
"At least from my perspective, there hasn't been a thousand years of development." Xu Lingqu said calmly, "You said that you officially launched the Golden Plan in January 2030, began sailing through the universe, and finally landed in the Xuanluo Galaxy, right?"
"Is there any problem?" Master Duanmeng looked at her with his hands clasped.
In 2030, Xu Lingqu was in her second year of graduate school and got an opportunity to study abroad. She boarded a plane to the other side of the ocean, and then—
"In October of 2030, Earth's doomsday arrived." Xu Lingqu looked at Master Duanmeng and said, "As soon as you left, Earth's doomsday arrived. I struggled to survive the apocalypse for 11 years before dying and coming here."
Master Duanmeng looked at her in disbelief, his eyes full of inquiry and questioning. He really wanted to find evidence that Xu Lingqu was a liar, and his eyes seemed to want to penetrate her skin and directly torture her soul.
Xu Lingqu just looked at him steadily, her eyes full of calmness. This lonely secret had been buried deep in her heart ever since she came to the interstellar world. On the day she told it out, she felt inexplicably relieved.
"Doomsday?" Master Duanmeng asked her through gritted teeth.
"Yes, doomsday." Xu Lingqu pushed his hair behind his ears wearily. "Huge mutant beasts appeared on Earth and first invaded the capitals of various countries, destroying many important buildings on Earth. The human world was paralyzed for a time..."
"Later, the giant mutant beasts disappeared on their own. Small and medium-sized mutant beasts appeared and began to hunt down the remaining humans. In order to survive, humans established several doomsday bases."
"At first, they were just hunted, but with the emergence of Evolved Humans, humans were able to resist small and medium-sized mutant beasts on their own. Later, mutant beasts suddenly became able to contaminate Earth's land and supplies. Law Enforcers, Evolved Humans willing to protect humanity, would bring back supplies. However, those contaminated supplies would be handed over to ordinary people, and once they used them, they would infect humans."
"Infecting humans will attract mutant beasts to attack the base... Until the moment we die, humans are barely in a standoff with the mutant beasts."
"You've been asking me how I ended up here. I can tell you straight away, I traveled through time." Xu Lingqu looked at Master Duanmeng. "I traveled through time after death. You should understand this, it's a common plot in novels and TV dramas. I don't know if I traveled through time over a thousand years, or if I traveled through time immediately after my death..."
"Based on my state at the time of my death, if a thousand years really had passed here, then they should have perished. If there was no time gap and I came to the interstellar space immediately after my death, then there must be a huge time difference between Xuanluo Interstellar Space and Earth."
"According to the time you mentioned, from the time you set out until now, a thousand years have passed in the interstellar world, and from the beginning of the apocalypse to the moment of my death, 11 years have passed. If time is synchronized, then roughly speaking, 100 years have passed in the interstellar world, and one year has passed since the apocalypse..."
"If so, are we still in the same time dimension? You only sailed for a few months, how could you reach such a far place?"
Master Duanmeng was overwhelmed by the vast amount of information Xu Lingqu brought him. He still couldn't accept what Xu Lingqu said about the end of humanity. He shook his head and said, "Impossible! Yinhe also told me that he would take me back with him if he had the chance... How is that possible? I know he's bragging, but why..."
"And what kind of lame excuse is that? Traveling through time? Who would believe you? Tell me now, you're lying to me, right? Did Galaxy teach you these things? Are you guys playing a prank on me together?"
Master Duanmeng's eyes turned red. He frantically questioned everything Xu Lingqu said, trying to find loopholes in her words and refute the fact that the end of the earth had come.
But he also clearly realized through these repeated questionings that Xu Lingqu was not the kind of person who would lie to him about such things.
Xu Lingqu looked at him quietly, watching him struggle and question, from excitement to calmness, and reaching a state where he could answer her questions.
"You said Yinhe said there was a chance to take you back?" Xu Lingqu asked. "Since interstellar spaceships and mechas are so advanced, why hasn't anyone ever explored the outer space? If it takes only a few months to reach Earth, why hasn't anyone tried to return?"
"If I could answer this question, I wouldn't have been so excited in asking how you got here." Master Forging Dreams rubbed the bridge of his nose tiredly. "At the time, he was the only pilot on the Futurer. I asked him if he had ever considered returning to Earth. It was at that time that he said he would take me back if he had the chance..."
A very important part was missing from the information between the two people, which was how the humans on Earth arrived at the Xuanluo Galaxy. There was only one person who knew this, and that was Yinhe - Li Fengyuan.
Thinking back to the day when they arrived at the Galactic Cemetery, Xu Lingqu felt that as long as he walked in, he would know all the truth, but at that time he was forcibly interrupted by the federal army's wormhole attack.
She lowered her head and looked at the photo that had not been taken back by Master Forging Dreams.
There is already a preliminary answer to the question of the two worlds, but the question of why this world has become what it is now remains unanswered.
"So that person in the middle is you?" She pointed at the young man with a sour face in the middle of the photo.
"That's me." Master Forging Dreams had been silent, his thoughts interrupted by her question. He came to his senses and looked at the photo with a complicated expression. "That exaggerated red-haired guy, you should have guessed it by now."
"Caesar Euripides, the founding emperor of the empire."
Master Duanmeng nodded. He opened his mouth to explain the whole story of the photo, but stopped halfway and looked at Xu Lingqu.
"Has the Earth really reached its end?"
"real."
"As soon as we left, the earth was plunged into doomsday?" He frowned, unwilling to accept this reality no matter what.
"Yes, it's such a coincidence, as if you have predicted the end of the world in advance. Is that mysterious rich man on the Future?" Xu Lingqu looked at Master Duanmeng.
“…He did say that he was also in the hibernation chamber, but he never revealed his true identity.” Master Dream Forging’s lips trembled.
The organizer of the game was also on the Future, which made it seem even more likely that he had foreseen the coming of the end of the world by some unknown means...
In the mind of Master Dream Forging, the sacred and great golden plan of human exploration of extraterrestrial space is likely to be a long-planned rout.
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