"What's that sword energy shield skill you used just now?"
After the battle ended, Hongyu, who had finished off her opponent, thought back to the fan-shaped sword energy shield that Guhan had shot out from the tip of his sword when facing the Assassin's self-destruct. After finding out that Guhan's Swordmistress was Yue Wang, she looked up Yue Wang's information and discovered that there was no such shield skill among Yue Wang's skills.
"That's a secret …" Guhan sheathed Yue Wang's Sword. Hongyu couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"Military Governor, Hongyu, have you cleared the entrance?" Clever Pen asked in the party channel.
"It's been cleared."
Hongyu replied dryly. Clever Pen then ordered, "We'll start clearing the Yuan Kou from the two sides to the middle. Finally, we'll meet up in the middle of Terminal T1."
Logically speaking, the author could have written four or five chapters on the process of clearing the first floor. However, he was afraid of getting beaten up, so he simply told everyone about it.
Since there were no Flood Dragon Level or Dragon Level Yuan Silhouettes that could match up to Famed Sword-level Yuan Silhouettes, Gu Han and Hong Yu swept through the area without any danger or accidents. They successfully met up with Wondrous Pen and Steel Centipede at the agreed location.
What surprised Guhan was that Clever Pen and Steel Centipede had arrived earlier than him and Hongyu. Although Guhan had purposely held back most of his strength, Steel Centipede's Arondate was a Swordmistress who specialized in defense. Most of the attacking was given to Clever Pen. From this, it could be seen that Clever Pen's Swordmistress' attack power was above that of Hongyu and Guhan.
The last to arrive at the rendezvous point were the You siblings. They directly jumped down from the second floor. Guhan looked at the time. It took them less than 15 minutes to clear the entire surface area.
[System prompt: Quest 4: Clear the surface area of Terminal T1 completed. Your party has successfully cleared out all the Yuan Kou and ensured that no information was transmitted to the underground parking garage. Quest progress 20%.
The main quest has been updated. "
[System prompt: Quest 5: Underground Labyrinth. The underground carpark of Terminal T1 has been constructed into a labyrinth. Please enter the labyrinth to reach the Dimensional Altar.
Please pay attention to your time. Wasting too much time in the underground labyrinth may cause negative changes. "
[System Notice: Special Notice: Please strictly follow the rules of the Underground Labyrinth. Violators will be severely punished.]
Had they finally arrived at the underground maze?
Hearing the system prompt, Guhan's lips curled up slightly.
Looking through the dungeon's information, this underground labyrinth was the part that interested Guhan the most.
In terms of mission design, this was a very interesting maze.
"Captain, which entrance do we go down from this time?" When it came to Mission Five, even the usually carefree Gunpiper became cautious.
There were a total of four entrances to the underground labyrinth. They were the northwest entrance and northeast entrance where Guhan and Wondrous Pen had entered. The elevator on the second floor led directly to the entrance. Lastly, there was an emergency entrance near where Guhan was standing.
The reason why the usually carefree Gunpiper had become so cautious was because the four entrances represented four themes. Entering from different themes would lead to different tests and different beginnings and endings. Even though Gunpiper had come to the entrance of this labyrinth more than 10 times, he could not help but want to cry when he recalled the scene of him being tricked.
"From … from …" Wondrous Pen hesitated for a moment. For him, which entrance to choose was a very difficult matter.
"Military Governor, if there is an examination, what subject are you best at?" Wondrous Pen suddenly asked Guhan.
Gu Han recalled the information about the underground maze for a while, and his heart was clear. He knew why Magic Pen wanted to ask him.
"I'm more proficient in history and culture!" Gu Han replied sincerely.
"History!
Culture! "
"History?
Culture? "
"History … culture …"
"Military Governor, do you mean the history and culture after or before the apocalypse?" Wondrous Pen added.
"I am good at both …" Guhan continued to answer sincerely. "Or rather, there is nothing I am not good at …"
Hearing Gu Han's reply, the others expressed their astonishment. There was actually someone proficient in history and culture nowadays, especially the history and culture from before the Great Calamity … The history and culture from before the Great Calamity had been thoroughly destroyed many times over …
That's right, a thousand years after the apocalypse, the history and culture before the apocalypse no longer existed. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a ridiculous joke as Wang Anshi cutting his own flesh to feed the eagles.
Logically speaking, after the apocalypse, humans did not go extinct to the extent of the Stone Age.
On the contrary, human technology was completely preserved. Even now, after a thousand years, it was still very powerful. For example, quantum transmission, gravitational wave detection, and other black technology had been developed to the stage of civilian use.
Logically speaking, the reason why technology could continue smoothly was that a large portion of it was preserved by the elite class with high IQ, wisdom, and knowledge. At the same time, various scientific and technological documents were also preserved.
So the question was, since such complex and diverse scientific and technological information had been preserved systematically, why was there no longer any historical and cultural information?
A set of 24 histories could be stored in a box. All the historical and cultural books of China could be stored in a 10EB hard drive. There was almost no difficulty in preserving them.
Oh, everyone might not know what 10EB was.
1024MB = 1GB; 1024GB = 1TB; 1024TB = 1PB; 1024PB = 1EB.
So far, the upper limit was stuck at 10EB. It wasn't that humans couldn't make a more powerful hard drive, but that 1EB was already enough for humans … Any bigger would be meaningless.
There was only one answer, and that was that these historical and cultural information had been destroyed in large quantities by humans, to the extent that these historical and cultural information had been completely cut off.
So the question was, why did humans act like idiots and destroy their own history and culture?
What was the difference between this and destroying humanity's own heritage?
What was the difference between this and cutting off humanity's roots?
Who was the hidden mastermind that gave such a stupid order to dig one's own grave?
In fact, this person was none other than the great Sword Ancestor calendar, and this matter had become one of the few black spots in the Sword Ancestor's life. Many people who opposed the Sword Ancestor liked to use this point to criticize him. They pointed out that the movement launched by the Sword Ancestor had destroyed the traditional culture of mankind and destroyed the spirit of mankind. He was not a savior of mankind, but an executioner who destroyed mankind …
Didn't this argument sound a little familiar?
The public intellectuals who accused a certain Taizu of starting a certain revolution all used this argument.
However, the reason why Kenzu did this was very different from the Taizu. At that time, the fundamental intention of Kenzu's order was to destroy Yuan Kou, not to destroy humanity itself.
In the first 100 years after the apocalypse, there was a theory that became very popular.
Because Yuan Kou came from the second dimension, from human history, from movies, from novels, and from anime, there was a saying among the survivors at that time:
"All Yuan Kou were created by us humans. As long as we destroy the soil in which Yuan Kou exists, then Yuan Kou will collapse on its own."
To be more specific, because Yuan Kou was created by humans, then humans could destroy them.
The soil in which Yuan Kou exists is the second dimension, so we have to destroy the carrier of the second dimension.
Be it books, DVDs, data disks, carvings, tapes, videotapes … In short, all the carriers that stored these things must be destroyed. Without these carriers, Yuan Kou would lose its own existence and would automatically disappear!
The theory was very simple, so simple that it was easy to understand. It was precisely because it was easy to understand that it sounded very reasonable, and it was supported by 95% of the survivors at that time.
Therefore, an operation to destroy the carriers of history and culture began. Under the threat of fear and with the support of all humans, all non-technological information that existed around humans was spontaneously destroyed by humans. The fire that burned these carriers lasted for a total of a year.
If you did not believe in this theory and dared to collect these books and carriers, then you would be reported by the people around you and be executed in public.
This was a cultural extinction that was even more tragic than the burning of books and burying of scholars thousands of years ago.
However, after five years of this extinction, Yuan Kou was still running around.
However, the survivors did not doubt that this theory was wrong. They believed that although these 2D things were extinct from books and carriers, they still existed in the consciousness of humans.
It could even be said that what existed in the consciousness was the key. It was precisely because there were all kinds of stories and legends in the human brain that these Yuan Kou appeared.
On the contrary, it was meaningless for them to exist in carriers. After all, they were just ink and data.
However, humans could destroy books and carriers, but they could not destroy humans themselves.
Therefore, everyone came to a new consensus. They would endure for a hundred years. During this hundred years, humans born before the apocalypse were absolutely not allowed to tell the humans born after the apocalypse about their past. They would let all their memories disappear along with the first generation of survivors.
As a result, humans once again succeeded in blocking the oral transmission of knowledge. They also succeeded in completely wiping out most of the historical and cultural knowledge.
Everyone knew the outcome. There were still no traces of Yuan Kou disappearing, but humans had completely lost their own history and culture. Their understanding of Yuan Kou was also completely cut off.
When humans finally realized that this was self-destruction, it was already too late.
98% of history and culture had already been obliterated into legends.
Although there was still a little bit of consciousness left, they risked their lives to preserve a portion of the information.
He had also salvaged some information from some ancient ruins and roughly restored the history and culture of the past to some extent.
Unfortunately, the people of the year 3001 would never know that KFC sells fried chicken; Chanel sells handbags; Qidian publishes novels; Canglan Billows has long seen through everything and wrote the book "Sword Maiden" to tell the story of Gu Han a thousand years in advance …