Chapter 565 The End of the Old Era
Saint Casonas, residential area, night.
The night breeze was cool, Tilan sat on the water tank on the roof, overlooking the night view of the city below, and relaxing.
No wonder the Federation sealed the history of the Fifth Era, and only used a few words to describe the tragedy of the year in education. Seeing too much of these things really makes people physically uncomfortable.
The Fifth Era lasted for more than 4,600 years, and the killings and destruction caused during the period were countless, so that the lives of that era were numb to death, and the overly chaotic environment also made technology almost stagnant, and even partially regressed. After all, the scientists you think of may have only taken three months to get out of the culture tank. If you want to expect them to be different from the previous batch of dead researchers, it would be like dreaming and praying.
In the first 1,200 years, there was barely order, and the historical records were relatively detailed. In the next 3,000 years, the entire civilization was shattered. Even if there were records, they were all private records from various places. There was no unified text that recorded from the perspective of the overall civilization.
According to calculations, at the beginning of the Fifth Era, about 1,000 years ago, the human race was about 4 trillion. By the end of the Fifth Era, the human race might only be more than 100 billion, including the "primitives" who hid on various hidden planets and lost a lot of technological heritage. The human race that still maintained a certain level of technical research capabilities might be only about 50 billion. At the same time, the new races in total might be nearly 10 trillion, 200 times the number of old humans.
Fortunately, most of these new races gathered under the dark sun to fight each other, and at that time they were too lazy to care about these insect-like old humans.
Shaking her head, Tilan tapped her eyebrows with her fingers, a touch of coldness spread, and then took out the flute and played it in front of her.
The sound of the flute was not loud at first, and as the graceful flute sound spread, her mind slowly immersed in it, with a hint of sadness, probably sighing for the scenes in history.
The night was cold and lonely, the sound of the flute was distant, and the girl's thoughts turned into a thread of music and passed into the wind.
The neon lights of the night market not far away are still flashing, and the traffic and lights on the streets are endless. Quiet and ordinary life can be seen everywhere, making it difficult to notice any difference. But in the world 1600 years ago, people of that era thought that this might be a scene that only existed in dreams.
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[Fifth Era 1200-2400, during these 1200 years, the various dark suns in the Milky Way rose and fell, and the fighting and killing between them became more and more fierce. During this period, many old human countries disappeared, and new races gradually replaced the status of the main body of civilization]
[Fifth Era 2400-2500, even the dark suns were afraid of too tragic wars, because when the race that supported them died, it meant their own demise. During that period, most of the habitable planets in the Milky Way were destroyed, and the new races lacked a foothold to rely on. It took a long time and energy to build large habitable space stations and transform desolate planets. For this reason, many dark suns began to tacitly reduce the intensity of battles and not to start wars easily. This tacit understanding has also spread in the past 100 years. 】
【In the year 2582 of the Fifth Era, a special fleet sailed into the Galactic Center, attempting to obtain the legacy of the first throne of God left over from the glorious era. This move stimulated the high-level mechanical life sleeping in the throne of the Galactic Center. As Sequence 9 mechanical life created by the Transcendents, these huge and extremely powerful mechanical behemoths destroyed the fleet after awakening, and gave hope to many wandering old humans. 】
【In the 2677th year of the Fifth Era, many humans gathered in the center of the Milky Way slowly found ways to coexist with these mechanical life forms, and gradually interpreted the legacy left by the Transcendents. After that, they announced the establishment of a new Mechanical Council. According to the Greek alphabet, the 15th letter is Ο (Omicron), and the 16th Greek letter is π (Pie), so they called themselves the π Mechanical Council】
【In the 2700-2800th year of the Fifth Era, more and more dark suns showed interest in the ruins of the Milky Way Center. Although they were already powerful enough, there was still a huge gap that was difficult to cross compared to the Sun Crown of the glorious era. In order to make up for their own shortcomings and find ways to be eternally powerful, they successively sent fleets to invade the throne of the Milky Way Center, trying to use violence to pry open the treasure that had been sleeping for tens of thousands of years. 】
【In the 2901th year of the Fifth Era, after more than 100 years of continuous war, the mechanical life forms guarding the throne of the Milky Way Center were completely wiped out, and the π Mechanical Council also died during this period. Only a small number of people escaped with the inherited relics and mechanical life forms. 】
【In the fifth era 2915, the Sun Throne left over from the glorious era was destroyed in the fight, and a large number of precious materials and cultural relics about the Four Primordials were destroyed. In the same year, the Moon Throne became abnormal during the battle. According to records, it may have been activated for a few seconds, but in the era when the Transcendents and the old humans were almost wiped out, the remaining throne did not raise the Moon Crown, but only flickered once. 】
【In the fifth era 2916, the next year, the roar of dragons rose from the dense stars in the center of the Milky Way, and another guard force left by the Transcendents was awakened. That is, the slumbering star dragons. These dragons are huge, with a body of hundreds of thousands of meters, and their strength far exceeds that of ordinary Sequence 9. Their awakening destroyed the galaxy fleet that disturbed the center of the Milky Way. 】
【5th Era 2900-3400, the battles between the dark suns continued for 500 years, destruction and death occurred everywhere, and the increasingly mature technology also allowed the birth of new races to be faster and faster, just like a swarm of insects. Perhaps at this time, the "humans" should be called "insects" more appropriately. They matured in the honeycomb-like culture chambers, and after coming out, they performed various predetermined repetitive tasks according to the orders of the superiors. There was no need for entertainment, no need for thinking, no need for complex emotions, and no longer had the concept of independent individuals. All individuals were limbs of the entire group, like the life of a Gestalt. 】
【5th Era 3589, the star dragons entrenched in the center of the Milky Way were wiped out by the increasingly powerful dark suns, and the information about the Moon Crown was also obtained by some of the dark suns. 】
【5th Era 3711, the dark sun Easis was reborn. He rose again after extinguishing the crown and gained new abilities. Different from the power to interfere with matter and energy in the past, he gained power related to space, which was the power field that the Moon Crown once had. 】
【In the fifth era 3711-3904, about 7 special dark suns were born. They successively obtained the power of the space-time domain, which greatly increased their strength and surpassed other dark suns. 】
【In the fifth era 3956, in the edge of the galaxy, the ρ Mechanical Council was established. They built their own dark sun · Rou based on a large number of mechanical life forms to obtain protection. The dark sun · Rou also has the power of the space-time domain, which enables the members of the ρ Mechanical Council to obtain extremely strong mobility and survive in the cracks of many dark suns fighting. 】
【In the fifth era 4000-4200, with the secret support of the ρ Mechanical Council, the old humans in various places obtained technology and inheritance materials, and gradually established various forms of rescue associations to help the old humans who were hunted by the new race. 】
【In the 4200-4241th year of the Fifth Era, the multiple Dark Suns jointly launched a stranglehold on the Mechanical Council, which was protected by the Dark Sun Rou, and tore the Dark Sun Rou apart in 4241. The ρ Mechanical Council was destroyed, and the scattered rescue societies lost their support and struggled to survive again. 】
【In the 4250-4400th year of the Fifth Era, in order to avoid being hunted down by the new races, the remaining old humans and the various rescue societies began to build superluminal spacecrafts with all their strength and live a wandering life. In this process, some old humans and rescue societies received support from another branch of humans, the mermaids of the Deep Sea Union. They taught these refugees the skills and experience needed to wander around in the universe, and gave them extremely precious star map data to help them avoid various dangers. After that, these wandering fleets gradually learned to trade between stars, and were called "locust merchants" by the new races at that time, meaning that they were as annoying as bugs but could not be killed. 】
【In the 4400-4500th year of the Fifth Era, although they were called "locust merchants", their long-term wandering around also allowed these caravans to gain a lot of knowledge and technical information, and gradually developed their own unique characteristics. They began to call themselves enterprises or companies, and sold things they were interested in and lacked to the new races in the war. These things included entertainment products that the upper new races liked, such as stories, movies, games, gorgeous clothes, and intelligence from distant star regions. Relying on the bribes of these things, these enterprises or companies finally gained the right to survive in the battle of the dark sun. 】
【July 27, 4502 of the Fifth Era is a day worth remembering. Melero, Monedisa, and Metrid, three sages who were later called saints, broadcast the secret formula of isolating consciousness connection to the entire galaxy. This formula can allow individuals in the new race to break away from the consciousness network constructed by the race and become independent individuals, avoiding direct spiritual infiltration by the same race. At the same time, it can also protect other races, including the old humans, from the influence of mind control spells. 】
【In the 4512th year of the Fifth Era, the Sigma Mechanical Council was established. They used the new partition formula to construct a brand new mechanical life. These new mechanical lives were not affected by mental abilities, so when facing the Dark Sun, they would not be brainwashed or driven crazy by its powerful mental consciousness, and became daggers that could kill gods, although they were still quite weak at that time. 】
【In the 4526th year of the Fifth Era, the 'Flower of Golden Flame' Isanissa followed the visiting spaceship and left the Twin Trees Star Region where she was born, heading for the vast universe. Her arrival announced that the last piece of the puzzle had been completed, slowly opening the curtain for the end of the Fifth Era. 】
When the book turned to the last page, Tilan felt like she breathed a sigh of relief. This sad era finally came to an end.
In the days that followed, the "Flower of Golden Flame" Isanissa began her legend, uniting various interstellar forces, slowly twisting them together, and gradually forming a unified and powerful force. Unlike the dark sun that was born from brainwashing and industrial cultivation, she showed the intellectuality, unity, wisdom, spirituality, and sacrifice that humans should have, these dreamlike qualities, and gradually pulled the entire civilization out of the abyss step by step and back on track.
When reading history, one always feels that the character of people in those recorded times is too good, and it feels unreal. But if you go back to that painful and dark era, and truly experience all kinds of life and death, the cruelty and hardship of the world, you will find how precious and desirable that touch of warmth is.
Because in that era, life was not a very rare thing, just like the broken dirt on the roadside, it would disappear at any time, and it was worthwhile and cost-effective to exchange this weak and easily dispersed life for a little hope and warmth in their eyes.
Yes, it is worth it and worthwhile. In peacetime, people often say that life is precious and priceless, but in an era when life is like weeds, life has a price, and it is still a very low price.
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After finishing the sorting, Tilan visited Filuselin again to learn about angels and the cult.
'The inheritance of the cult comes from the ρ Mechanical Council, which is the sage who raised the dark sun Rou. The π Mechanical Council that was trapped in the center of the galaxy was destroyed, and some descendants fled and scattered, and we are one of them. '
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"You asked me why there is no mechanical inheritance. This is because the Rho Mechanical Council was also destroyed later. The branch that inherited the mechanical technology established the Sigma Mechanical Council, and we only inherited the parts related to the four originals."
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"Yes, it is precisely because we have raised the dark sun that we are particularly familiar with it. We understand how this artificial angel was born."
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"In your case, you are probably not an artificial angel, but your birth was partly caused by human intervention, which makes it difficult for me to distinguish."
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"Do you think you have a mission? I can't answer you about this. If I have to say it, I certainly hope that you will be a great singer in the future and bring civilization to another peak, but I also deeply understand that this kind of thing cannot be forced. Everything depends on your personal choice."
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"If I can choose, I actually want to kill you, because your existence is too unstable. Half of it may be a great singer, and the other half may be the resurrected dark sun. I don't like gambling."
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"Why did I choose to give up killing you? It's because I failed. If Sifnerian's Sigh can't destroy you, then other means are doomed to be difficult to kill you. The most likely scenario is the birth of a ghost full of resentment. Doesn't this mean that my actions have led to the realization of the prophecy of doom? I am a smart saint and angel, and I won't do such stupid and extreme things."
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"Lying is a troublesome thing. You are still a singer, and it is even more troublesome and difficult to lie to you. I tell you this not only to show my kindness to you, but also to hope that you can foresee the danger of your own situation now. I don't want to say that because of some accidental misunderstandings, you are forced into some kind of dark and desperate end."
"You must consciously avoid options that may make you fall into darkness, and try to keep yourself on the right path."
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"I will stay in Saint Casonas. If you feel something is not right one day, you can come back here to recuperate and take refuge."
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"Goodbye, Heshia Tilan."
Heshia boarded the super-time plane to space and waved to the city below. Although she couldn't see it now, she knew that in some corner, the Saint of Sifnerian must be watching her leave.
Goodbye, Philuselin. Although she liked and hated her at the same time, this Saint with the power of the Seraph was indeed an unforgettable friend for Heshia.
(End of this chapter)
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