Chapter 638: Quiet Tutor Tilan
Three days later, after selling his coats and doing some small business, Guy was ready to return and came to say goodbye to Tilan.
"Leave these two ponies with Heshia." Guy led the two ponies he had exchanged in the Lake Wind Settlement to the shed next to the cabin.
He purchased a lot of supplies before leaving, and it was not enough to use these two underage horses to pull the cart, so he exchanged them for two larger pack horses.
"Heshia should be able to use them when she goes out in the future." Guy told Heshia.
"I see." Heshia nodded, accepted the two still somewhat ignorant ponies, and then talked to Guy for a while.
"I'm afraid we won't have time to explore the ruins until next year after winter. Now the weather is about to turn cold, and the settlement is short of manpower, and there are many things to do."
Guy then told Heshia that if he sets out to explore the ruins next year, he will come to the mountain fort to find Heshia to go with him, after all, the strength of this girl is obvious to all.
"Then goodbye, Heshia, Orles." Guy then got on the carriage, waved to the two, and then drove out of the city.
The girl prayed in her heart that the moose boss, Sula Guy and others could spend this winter safely.
Back to her and Orles's cabin, she and Orles took buckets and brooms to clean everything in the past three days. The whole place was much cleaner. Although there were a lot of grinding on the slate tiles on the ground, there were no stains now. When you step on it barefoot, you can feel the coolness and roundness of the tiles.
The first floor is the living room and kitchen, and there is a utility room on the side. The second floor is the bedroom for the two, and there is also a place for Tilan to work and read.
After drawing a bucket of water from the well behind the cabin, Tilan poured it into the stone trough in front of the two ponies, and touched the two little guys again. They settled down now and licked the girl's wrist with their tongues.
After interacting with the two little guys for a while, the girl returned to the second floor. At this time, Orles was sitting on the bed, flipping through the picture album that Tilan borrowed yesterday. This was a collection of Sigmund scholars. It was said that it was made by a painter a hundred years ago. He used a brush to depict many famous scenic spots and places in the area around the Stone Forest Castle.
"Is it beautiful?" The girl saw that Orles was looking at it attentively.
"It's beautiful, Tilan." The ice elf girl answered happily. She was interested in some gorgeous colors and new things, just like a child.
She touched Orles and continued to help her comb and check the extraordinary core in her body. Similar to Heshia, Orles's extraordinary core suffered a lot of damage in the forced promotion ceremony. After coming to this world, Heshia has never dared to teach Orles too complicated things to prevent any accidents.
In the past month, under her daily attention and care, the extraordinary core in Orles' body has gradually recovered. She returned to the perfect state of Sequence 6 earlier than Tilan, and even vaguely has the intention of stepping into Sequence 7.
In terms of training talent, Orles is a genius, but not better than Heshia. Although the crown ceremony failed, it also had a small side effect, which was to speed up Orles' progress in training the Sequence, making her close to the threshold of Sequence 7 before she was 30 years old.
Unfortunately, she has lost all her memory now, and the complex theoretical knowledge and mental will required to advance to Sequence 7 must be relearned and cultivated.
Releasing her fingers, Heshia was thoughtful.
In the future, it seems that she will have to take care of being Orles's enlightenment teacher. I don't know if the ice elf training secrets she has mastered are behind the times compared to the ones mastered by Orles' original family.
Putting these aside for the time being, Tilan returned to the table, opened the book she borrowed from Sigmund yesterday, and began to read it carefully. This was also the first time she systematically learned the origin of this world from written records.
From the records of Shilinshan Fortress, although Heshia did not see the whole picture of the entire history, from the description of many details, this planet should have changed hands several times. It was a place where several dark suns fought back and forth at that time, and all parties invested their strength to fight for it.
However, this chaotic situation suddenly ended one day. According to the description in the records, the entire sky was dark for several months. When it was restored to light again, the satellites and spacecraft in the outer orbit of the planet disappeared.
Although there are still many new races on the earth, and they also have the most advanced technology at the time, this planet does not have a complete industrial chain for building superluminal starships.
Then there was a very chaotic war period. Although the old humans collectively called them new races, the differences between these new races were huge, and they were incompatible with each other.
The battle lasted for about 200 years, and there was no final winner. The reason why the war ended was that the new races were surrounded by various problems and could no longer continue to maintain high-intensity war consumption.
After that, there was a long process of decline. The environment of the entire planet gradually deteriorated, and many technological heritages were cut off. In addition, war machines slowly eroded various strongholds on the earth, forcing the surviving new races to migrate frequently. Such transfers caused the loss of many technical data, and finally gradually formed the current situation.
I didn't expect the current situation to be like this. Tilan closed the book and leaned back in his chair to think.
According to the records in the book, it is speculated that the new races were strong in the early days. Even without superluminal spacecraft, they still had the ability to build space stations and aerospace aircraft carriers. The war at that time was almost an overwhelming bombing, with supersonic fighters competing in the sky, and heavy armored mechas galloping on the earth.
With the continuous destruction of the war, the industrial strength and technological level of all parties are also declining rapidly. First, the talent gap caused by the war and the harsh environment, and then after the death of the previous generation of technicians, the new generation of personnel could not understand the overly complex technical data and could not restore the past technological achievements. Later, they had to abandon the damaged giant factories and move towards miniaturization and simplification.
If it were just like this, the new races that realized the crisis might reach a delicate balance and recuperate, but the awakened war machines destroyed the new races' plan to recuperate, and many bases on the earth were destroyed. These legacy machines of the old humans were originally made to fight against the dark suns that dominated the galaxy. In the prototypes of all the machines, an unchangeable physical code was entered to eliminate every gene-tampered race that was seen.
In addition, according to the records of the Gray Feathers, before this planet was isolated and abandoned, the dark sun Rou, which was surrounded by the Rho Mechanical Council, was strangled by four dark suns, namely, the dark sun Hefashimo, the dark sun Xiefulian, the dark sun Cuikalans, and the dark sun Amoronqin.
According to the records of the cult, these four dark suns had a close relationship in their early years, and their respective dependent races were also quite similar, namely, the "Light Cicada", "Silver Wing", "Butterfly Eye", and "Thunder Wing". Because the dependents all have wings, they are also called the "Four Kinds of Sky Wings".
It is said that the last Dark Sun, Rou, was burned through the hundreds of millions of mechanical units surrounding the planet by Dark Sun, Emorentin, and his followers, and then went deep into the earth's core to pull out and tear apart the mind core of Dark Sun
, Rou, causing the Dark Sun held by this old human to perish. However, after the demise of Dark Sun, Rou, the four Dark Suns also had a serious internal struggle. Dark Sun, Trikarans, led his followers to flee to other places. Dark Sun, Xi Efren was first injured in a fight with Dark Sun, Emorentin, and then was controlled by Dark Sun, Hefasime, gradually dimming, and then extinguished. Many of his Silver Wings were also absorbed by Hefasime and became his power.
Combining the historical records she had obtained from various parties, Heshia slowly pieced together the outline of past history in her mind.
When she came to her senses again and turned to look out the window, it was already dark.
Heshia stood up and walked to the bedroom next to her. She found that Orles was sleeping soundly on the bed, and the picture album she had opened before was spread out beside her. One page described a high cliff with white flowers blooming.
"Beiti Cliff", Heshia silently read the words on the corner of the picture album, then put the picture album away and put it back on the table. Then she came to Orles and gently woke her up.
"Orles, get up." She touched her face, brushed her fingers over Orles's slightly pointed ears, and scratched them with interest.
"Oh, it's itchy." Orles sat up and covered her ears with both hands to indicate that she couldn't touch them like that.
"Okay, no more touching, let's go eat." Heshia said with a smile.
"Eat, I'm hungry." When Orles heard about eating, she immediately put down her hands and took Tilan's arm.
Then the two of them changed into hooded robes for going out and went to the tavern in the city for dinner.
This time, they didn't order black pork steak because it was more expensive. Tilan and Orles ordered toast and potatoes, which almost filled them up. She
had to think about ways to make money. It was foreseeable that she would have many places to spend money in the future, such as borrowing books, buying firewood for the winter, warm bedding, making new clothes for Orles, and occasionally buying new and curious things.
In the next few days, Heshia spent half of her time reading and half of her time touring the city. Occasionally, she would be invited by Sigmund to visit and exchange experiences with him.
"It's rare to have such a learned person like Miss Heshia. If you rely on tailoring for a living, it would be too unfair to your status. I wonder if you are willing to be a teacher for my children and the children and nephews of my friends?" Sigmund proposed this after learning that Heshia needed money.
"This... can be considered, but I'm more curious, why don't you teach them yourself?" In her opinion, Sigmund was also a scholar with a good reputation in the local area, and he could be ranked even among the gray feather species.
"I've been studying the information issued by the Mountain Fortress Council recently. The task is quite heavy, so I can't spare much time to take care of them. In addition, even though I'm a scholar, I have to hire an extra teacher."
"Why is that?"
"Because the more knowledgeable people are, the easier it is to fall into a blind spot. When you learn something, you will take it for granted and ignore it when teaching others."
"In addition, it is precisely because I am a scholar that I have a complete set of logic. Not only do I let my children learn from me in life, but I also learn from me in education. It is easy for him to fall into a narrow and closed thinking environment."
"I hope he can be exposed to more and different viewpoints, and I will listen to his ideas and make certain corrections according to the situation, so that while he inherits my knowledge, he can also have a new perspective and thinking. Only in this way can he have the possibility of surpassing me in the future, instead of being stupider and more rigid from generation to generation." The other party told me.
"I always feel that you gray feathers are particularly keen on learning and inheriting knowledge." Heshia answered while holding the warm teacup in her arms.
"Hehe, that's right. In the past, some people also said that our ideas were greatly influenced by the 'Tracing Cloud' faction."
Star Child, 'Tracing Cloud'? Tilan touched the teacup and lamented the deep influence of various factions in the Twilight Age. Even the new races accepted their ideas and thoughts.
The Mechanical Council, the Tracing Cloud, the Tree of Life Sect, the Original Heart, the history and everything of the galaxy today are almost the result of the interweaving of the views and beliefs of these factions.
The fusion of the Mechanical Council and the Original Heart gave birth to the most glorious Transcendent Age. Then, under the diverse evolutionary concept of the Tree of Life Sect, various human subspecies and new races were created. After that, they, like the Mechanical Council, integrated the throne of God concept of the Original Heart, creating a galloping and tyrannical black sun. In the fifth era of despair and darkness, the spacecraft adhering to the belief of the 'Tracing Cloud' finally arrived at the lost planet and brought the 'Golden Flame Flower' Isenissa.
"I understand. I will live in the mountain fortress for a while. If you think it's appropriate, I will serve as a tutor to teach the children."
"Then I'll leave it to Miss Heshia." Sigmund was also very happy. After all, in such a barren land, there were not many people who could read, let alone those who were educated.
That afternoon, Sigmund sent servants to deliver four bags of flour and four bags of rice to Heshia's house, as well as a bag of potatoes and a bag of vegetables. These things were enough for the two to eat until the beginning of next spring, but they were only the first month's salary.
After thanking Sigmund, Heshia put these things away and put them in the cellar full of ice. As for where the ice came from, it was naturally made by Tilan herself. Orles also learned to make a few small ones in the middle.
With food for the winter, Heshia felt that life became leisurely. In the following month, she basically went to Sigmund's house every one or two days to teach the four children, including history, poetry and literature, music, arithmetic, and a small amount of economics.
Several thirteen or fourteen-year-old children liked this teacher very much. After all, compared with those rigid old men, this quiet and beautiful girl was indeed more charming, more intellectual and intelligent, and understood many of their young and naive ideas.
"Teacher Heshia, are you married?" One day, one of the children finally couldn't help asking.
"No, but I don't have the idea of falling in love yet, so don't think about it." The girl smiled and interrupted the thoughts of several people. Then she continued to sit on the chair and explained the mathematical formulas and application skills on the blackboard to several people.
"If you learn the Pythagorean theorem well, you can easily estimate the height of many buildings, especially the common sun shadow method." She turned the pointer lightly with her fingers and knocked on the stone slab.
Time passed slowly. Because there was no suitable barber to take care of it after coming to this planet, Heshia's hair became thicker and thicker. Some of it was placed on the collar and chest, which made her temperament change from the past girlish softness to a little more mature.
In this way, until the first snow of winter fell on the mountain fort.
(End of this chapter)
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