Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 1770 Remember to read the instructions first

Elizabeth and the others came to the church in the center of the city. They could not understand the characters of this world, and the environment on the surface was relatively harsh. There were no paper books preserved. Only some stone buildings and wooden buildings that happened to be petrified could be barely preserved.

After entering the church, the most eye-catching thing is the altar in the center. On the altar in the center, the statue enshrined is not a person, or the image of their race, but a sphere. To be precise, it should be a cracked sphere. In the crack, a bud is carved out using exquisite carving techniques.

This is the thing enshrined in the church. People gathered around this strange statue, looking up and down, wondering why anyone would believe in this thing.

There were only ruins left in the church, and there were not many things that could provide them with clues, as most of them had decayed over time. But fortunately, they could still see some murals left by their ancestors on the ruins.

There are quite a few incomplete parts of the murals, but some of them still allow us to roughly understand what they are trying to express.

Arranged from left to right, the first mural depicts a humanoid creature holding seeds, and next to him are neatly laid out farmlands and creatures working in the fields.

Although the shapes of these little people look a bit abstract, you can still vaguely see smiling expressions on their faces. It is obvious that life in this era is happy for them.

The second mural shows a little man standing on the edge of a cliff. This time the perspective used is a flat perspective similar to that of a horizontal scrolling game. The little man standing on the edge of a cliff has a cliff of more than 90 degrees in front of him, and below the abyss are spikes with other dead little men stuck on them.

The meaning of this mural is obvious. They have just seen it. The edge of the ecological drum, this civilization has gradually expanded from an agricultural civilization, and discovered the existence of these abysses, realizing that the world they live in has boundaries.

The third mural is a bit more abstract, and looks like someone is excited about inventing a certain machine.

Elizabeth was a little unsure. She scratched her head as she looked at the mechanical-like thing drawn on the mural: "This thing looks a bit like a steam engine. But I'm not sure."

The second half of the mural shows a group of people smashing the newly invented machine, dragging a wire out, plugging it into something like an altar, and driving another strange machine.

"What does this mean? Why would someone destroy a steam engine?" Elizabeth scratched her head and immediately figured it out. If the electricity in this world came from underground, it would be much simpler to use than an ordinary steam engine. You only need to pull a wire and drive an electric motor to solve most problems that a steam engine can solve. If such a thing is invented, the steam engine will naturally be destroyed.

At the same time, above the artificial sun in the sky, Lan Nuo continued to read the contents of the book: "Our first insurance is the free supply of electricity. The consumption of electricity in agricultural civilization is very limited, and this part of the consumption is provided by the spacecraft, which will hardly cause much pressure on the spacecraft. It is even less than one thousandth of the consumption of the artificial sun.

Relying on free electricity can prevent them from inventing new power machinery. The steam engine, which consumes huge amounts of energy and is extremely inefficient, will not be born. All subsequent technologies will also be based on free electricity and can be easily controlled. The level of energy they consume. "

With this insurance, the civilization living in the ecological drum can indeed stay in the era of agricultural civilization for a long time. Even if someone wants to start an industrial revolution, they will find that the steam engines they have made are not competitive at all compared to free electricity.

In such a closed environment, civilization can only be shackled if it wants to survive.

Lan Nuo continued to look down: "And the other insurance we left behind..."

……

Elizabeth continued to read the murals in the church. The next mural showed many people starting to use machines connected to electric wires, and at the bottom of the picture, someone had erected a huge statue. The shape of the statue was the shape of the huge socket that was the source of electricity in the city, and there was also a lightning-shaped symbol drawn on it. It seemed that this was the church where they were born, and what they believed in was electricity that came out of thin air, or it could be said that they believed in the god of thunder.

This is completely understandable. Obtaining energy out of thin air has truly changed everyone's living conditions. It is hard not to believe in such a god.

However, the next mural makes people understand that gods not only have a gentle side, but also a furious side. With the development of productivity, people looked up to the sky to satisfy their curiosity. Because people in this world live in an ecological drum, they can see the other side of the world when they look up, so many people are curious whether they can fly into the sky and fly directly to the other side above their heads? Or fly to the sun.

So in this mural, there may be a hot air balloon rising into the sky under the attention of everyone.

However, as the hot air balloon was taking off, the next picture showed a mechanical falcon flying over the hot air balloon and shooting it down.

At the end of the mural, there is a little man holding an electric wire in his hand. The machinery next to him connected to the wires has stopped working. The god they believe in has brought down divine punishment.

The next mural was painted separately. It depicted hot air balloons, gliders, and towering towers. Above all of them, a huge cross was painted with bright red strokes. It seemed that even in this civilization, the cross still represented negation.

People have tried various methods of contacting the sky, and later summed up a rule: the sky is the realm of gods. Once touched, it will anger the gods and attract attacks from the gods' mechanical messengers, which will also cause large-scale power outages.

... "Another insurance we left behind is to prohibit the civilization on Earth from developing any aerospace technology. Once similar technology is developed, it will be attacked by unmanned mechanical equipment and the power will be cut off.

We believe that as long as people on Earth do not develop aerospace technology, they will not discover the truth of this world, and will be content with the status quo and continue to exist.

In fact, we almost succeeded. At least 1000 years ago, our plan maintained the survival of civilization for more than 4000 years. During this long period of time, no one resisted, and everyone lived in contentment with the status quo, maintaining a very low-consumption life. If we continue to maintain this, we can last up to 5 years or even longer. According to the estimates of our predecessors during the heyday of civilization, as long as we can hold on for years, the space storm will gradually subside, and we will have the possibility to leave, leave this spaceship that is about to run out of energy. But I think we may not be able to hold on until then.

I don't know whether I should feel lucky or sad. They have shown us through their actions that no one can break the wings of our race, but their tenacity was shown at the wrong time. "

……

Elizabeth was still confused when she looked at the mural. The mechanical falcon on the mural was undoubtedly sent by the more technologically advanced aliens on the spacecraft, but why did they stop these people from developing flight technology? And provide them with electricity? Was it simply to prevent them from escaping? But it seemed that the people living here had reproduced for several generations. Could it be that the descendants of the sinners were also guilty?

Although Elizabeth did not quite understand the content on the mural, she continued to look back patiently. The next mural was painted with more abstract content. It looked like a series of plants in an ecological drum, from germination to withering, forming a ring.

In the middle of this ring, there are a bunch of horizontal and vertical lines. Elizabeth observed these horizontal and vertical lines. These lines also appeared in other murals, but these lines did not appear in the picture, but appeared at the top of the picture. The little girl was very smart and quickly guessed the meaning of these lines: "This thing should be the number of this civilization. The one drawn at the top should mean the page number." Since they have seen this from the first mural, they can naturally decipher the numerical pattern of this world according to the order of the murals.

A moment later, they returned to the mural. Looking at the numerous lines painted on it, the little girl counted on her fingers and said, "The number above should be 3,761. It should mean that the plants withered and flourished 3,761 times. Perhaps that is how many years have passed according to their concept of time."

Everyone also agreed with this speculation. The meaning of this mural is probably that under the rule of the god of thunder, the world has been running smoothly for more than 3000 years. The existence of this mural means that the next mural will be the arrival of change. The next mural should record the great changes in this civilization.

On the next mural, there is a little man wearing a crown, and next to him is a cloud representing his thoughts, with a hot air balloon with a cross through it and a picture of a cave being dug downwards with a check mark on it.

  The meaning of this mural is quite clear. It should be a king who realized that releasing a flying vehicle into the sky would anger the gods, but he also wanted to explore a wider world, so he thought of digging downwards. They live in a drum, so what would be outside the drum?

Is it an endless land, or are there other drums? If we dig underground, we can reach other drums?

Driven by his yearning for freedom, his thirst for the unknown, and the innate curiosity of intelligent creatures, he mobilized manpower and material resources in the country and began digging downwards at the lowest point of the earth they measured.

The next picture is of the excavation site, and the painting in the next mural is more epic.

When the king began to dig underground, the gods became furious like never before. Countless machines climbed out of the abyss and attacked the excavation site.

The king organized an army to resist the attacking machines. The army suffered heavy losses and the king was impeached by the church, but this did not stop him from digging further. The reason was not given on the mural, but when Elizabeth saw this scene, she felt goose bumps all over her body and a warm current flowed deep in her heart, as if something was bursting out of her eyes.

Although the king's figure is just a simple little man, the little devil girl seems to see the figure of the tall Yzaks in this little man. When his father learned that the universe he lived in was just the tip of the iceberg of the real universe, he resolutely chose to fight against the whole world even though he knew it was impossible.

Others may not understand the king's crazy behavior, but as the daughter of the mad king, Elizabeth felt her blood boiling. She wished she could be born in that era, fight side by side with the king in the mural, extend the tunnel leading to the underground infinitely, and finally break through the shackles of the ecological drum and dig into a wider world.

In the mural, the angry god cut off the power supply, so the steam engine that had been smashed was rebuilt, and the god sent down heavy rain from the sky to flood the cave.

So people built huge awnings, tall dams, and invented pumping equipment to pump rainwater out of the caves.

But such a violent confrontation with God is ultimately impossible to win. This king, who could be called a tyrant, eventually destroyed the empire that had lasted for thousands of years because of his madness. A new empire was re-established after a brief war. This is the content of the next mural.

Elizabeth rubbed her red and swollen eyes. The demons behind her sighed. This scene was very similar to their king, but it also made them feel suffocated. The king in the picture was dead and had no chance to come back. But their king was not dead yet, and they still had a chance to fight against the whole world and win.

The re-established kingdom seemed to become gentler, but on the other side of the murals, more and more people were painted, dissatisfied with the cruelty of the gods.

Intelligent creatures have both sensibility and rationality. Rationality tells them that they should not fight against powerful gods, but the violent measures taken before have allowed sensibility to gradually gain the upper hand.

In the newly established kingdom, rebellions broke out one after another, and the huge cave was repeatedly reopened for excavation, and was buried by loess again and again.

……

[To be continued]

  Please bookmark and recommend votes~

Ask for a ticket~