Old days in the box

Chapter 405: War is never a piece of cake, no matter what world it is in
In the real world, the rain gradually stopped in Jinghai City.

In the dilapidated warehouse, Zhou Xiao and his uncle were sorting out the records and documents accumulated over the years and preparing to move out.

The uncle stayed here for so many years just to complete the mission back then, but now that the mission has been successfully completed, he no longer needs to stay here.

The rain has stopped, and the turmoil caused by the divine storm has gradually subsided over the offshore waters of Japan.

After they have sorted everything out here, it's time to notify the Intelligence Department and report everything that happened here.

Zhou Xiao picked up all the old manuscripts scattered on the ground one by one, classified them carefully according to the year, and sorted out all the intelligence records that Sun Hao had done before.

These are all traces of Sun Hao's hard work. He doesn't want these things to be locked in a cabinet and wait for countless years without being looked at.

"Uncle, do you have records of other box holders here?" Zhou Xiao put the documents he had sorted on the table and asked Uncle Hu Zha behind him.

"There are many. In addition to the operating mechanism of the box, our main record objects are the former owners of those boxes. What's wrong?" The uncle responded to him and walked towards him while scratching his head.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly felt that although I have come out, I don't seem to know any of them. I just asked out of curiosity."

"...Could it be a mental illness?"

In that war, maybe there was no real winner at all, right? he thought.

That battle can be said to be the time when the box had the most profound impact on the history of that world. After Ivanov died in the battle, the countless legacies he left in the country of giants were fully accepted by Gaul, and Odin also retreated due to injury. Behind the scenes, the power of the divine domain was transferred to Thor, the God of Thunder.

"Sam...this person is indeed a bit special." The uncle pondered for a while and nodded.

"I have seen it, and the speculation above is very accurate. As far as I know, the former players named Sam and Ivanov did break out in the World God War not long after, and in the end the two of them died in the battle. one."

"But according to your records, isn't Ivanov also a person who descended into the God's Realm? Why did he later become the ruler of the Kingdom of Giants?" Zhou Xiao asked again.

Although Zhou Xiao did not deliberately understand the history of the world during his time at the window, he still had some understanding of the war that once shook the world.

"What about this Sam? Among all the records of the previous holders, this person is the only one with the least records." Zhou Xiao looked at another name in the manuscript and continued to ask.

When talking about these old contents, Uncle Hu Zha immediately started talking about them. These things happened more than ten years ago, and only he can remember them so clearly.

"According to Sun Hao, Sam is a highly confident, extremely self-centered and powerful person. His emotions are erratic and often have strong dramatic changes. He not only desires victory, but also desires praise and attention from others. Extremely eager."

"Don't tell me, the record we gave him really says he has 'histrionic personality disorder'. People like him often deliberately attract attention with excessively exaggerated behavior. For him, if he wins without the audience shouting, , then he will probably go crazy with anger."

Although he said so, Zhou Xiao was actually worried about his people in his heart - he didn't know what kind of people he would leave to that world, and whether they would cause any trouble in the world. Trouble comes.

"This is actually not difficult to deduce. You have to know that Sam is the first user of the box we know of. From his perspective, he certainly did not expect that the box would bring more users. He would be interested in The hostility to Ivanov that followed was not surprising at all.”

"He was indeed the holder who descended into the God's Domain, but his ambition was too great, and the God's Domain was a place full of order and rules, so in the end he could not be accommodated, and he was allowed to go to the Kingdom of Giants to open up. "

"If I have to say it, it's nothing special, because there are not many people, only four in total... You have seen the speculation on that timetable before, right?"

The uncle shook his head and laughed. In his opinion, these things happened more than ten years ago, and he had no idea what the world inside had become.

"I thought the people who picked the boxes were very strict...at least they should all be mentally normal people." Zhou Xiao smiled bitterly.

"Then you underestimate these former holders, kid." The uncle was amused by his statement and put down the record in his hand. "You may have the most cutting-edge technological support of this era, but when it comes to real war, You are far from their opponent." "Oh? I heard that you were still using text and pictures at that time. Is the efficiency comparable to today's computer models?" Zhou Xiao became interested.

"You may be superior in terms of efficiency and functionality, but you are still a person from a peaceful era. You may never be able to imagine the wars and fighting they carried out in that era, as well as the methods they used."

The uncle's smile gradually faded, as if he remembered some unpleasant past events, which made Zhou Xiao even more curious about the "those methods" he mentioned.

"You should have discovered the consequences of ordinary people touching the box, right?"

"You know, except for the box holder, anyone else who touches the box will be forcibly expelled inside. Does this have anything to do with it?" Zhou Xiao thought of Mr. Murata who was expelled to the atrium.

"According to records, both Sam and Ivanov used this feature to send a large amount of their own power into the box during the period when they held the box. Therefore, among all box holders, the two of them have the same power. The most massive.”

"Wait a minute, this feature is just the box's self-protection mechanism, right? The person transported inside will be reborn again and lose their memory. How can this help?" Zhou Xiao showed a very puzzled expression.

"This is what I said. People in peacetime always lack the imagination for this kind of war - although the people transported in will lose their memories, they will not lose their talents, right?"

The uncle looked at his eyes seriously, and his speaking speed gradually increased, which made him feel a thump in his heart.

"Although the people transported in will be reborn randomly, it is not difficult for the box holders to find these people with the help of the box, so they began to summon a large number of top scientists, engineers, and geneticists, and let them take the initiative to touch them one by one. Touch the box and be transported into that world."

"After that, they used the power of the box to reconvene these people, exchange some miracles for their worship and belief, and then use their minds and talents to start research and analysis again in that world."

"Can it still be like this? How could they find so many professionals alone? Didn't the authorities even investigate?" Zhou Xiao was dumbfounded. He had never thought that the forced banishment mechanism of the box could actually perform such an operation.

"Of course they are not alone. From Sam to Ivanov, the people standing behind them are all powerful countries in the world today. Otherwise, how do you think we know the existence of the box and can track it?" The uncle also said He smiled bitterly.

"At the beginning, they all thought that the box was a godsend that came to their country, so they never planned to make it public. It was not until the box left to find the next owner that they realized that this thing did not belong to anyone alone. A gift to a country, but a curse that lingers in the world.”

"After that, they finally began to coordinate intelligence with the outside world, hoping that all countries would work together to control this thing and prevent it from bringing potential disasters to the earth. Then, we and a series of subsequent things happened."

Zhou Xiao was shocked and speechless by what his uncle said. He had never thought that so many major international events had happened behind this box. He could not even imagine how many cruel things people had come up with around this box. Methods of War.

"The scientists you mentioned who touched the box on their own initiative, did they do so voluntarily?" Zhou Xiao couldn't help but ask.

"Do you think it's important? Regardless of whether they do it voluntarily or involuntarily, the moment they touch the box, their memories will be completely washed away and they will be reborn in that world, right? They have no choice at all."

"This is exactly what I said. You in this era will not imagine their methods in the past. They brought various technologies that have not yet been realized in the real world to that world, and then used magic and divine power to conquer them. , created all kinds of amazing technological miracles. They carried out countless human experiments and genetic experiments in that world, far more than what happened in the real world, a hundred or a thousand times, just to create that One or two perfectly stitched super individuals.”

Zhou Xiao fell silent again. The heavy history behind that box was obviously far beyond his imagination. He never thought that such an inconspicuous computer box could be involved in so many shocking past events.

On the eve of the 20th century, there is such an unknown secret hidden behind the sudden technological explosion in some big countries.

"You are indeed right about one thing. People at that time did not have so many technological means to use the box, but because of this, they came up with more cruel methods just to accumulate money for themselves in that world. A stronger force."

The uncle sighed, patted his shoulder, took out his cigarette, stood up, and continued to say to him seriously:

"You should be glad that you were not born in the same era as them, otherwise they would use real war to swallow you whole."

(End of this chapter)