Mystic Dominator

"Nessus, did you remember the time correctly?"

"Big...probably..."

Against the starry sky that was completely different from the one he remembered, Ronald stared at the embarrassing and laughing companion in front of him with puzzled eyes full of suspicion.

In the evening, Nassos saw a gap in the forest from the treetops.

After more than half an hour's trek, they even came here before the sun went down.

It turned out that a well-structured railway was laid on the ground.

Following both sides of the road in the forest, they even encountered a temporary camp built by railway maintenance workers.

Then......

Then there is no then.

From the sun setting on the mountainside, until the stars in the night cover the sky.

On the other side of the railway, let alone the steam train, the two of them didn't even wait for a ghost, and all they could see were the nocturnal animals passing by by chance.

"Forehead......"

"I can't remember wrong?"

In the face of Ronald's questioning, Nassos could only begin to explain, while trying to recall the memories in his mind.

"Wait, I'll count the time."

"The train departs from Wolfman, and the departure time is 4:30 this afternoon."

"From Wolfman to our location, the straight-line distance is 170 kilometers."

"So after almost two hours and forty-eight..."

"Even in three hours, the train will arrive here."

"We've been waiting since the sun set, so there's no way we could go wrong!"

The initial hesitant tone gradually became firmer.

Finally, jumping up from the seamless log stool, Nassos confidently announced to Ronald:

"Now this season, the sun normally sets at around 19 o'clock in the afternoon."

"The train has no wings, we can't miss it!"

"..."

Staring at Nessus with a blank expression, Ronald pointed to the starry sky and asked a very simple question:

"What about the car?"

"Where did the car go?"

"..."

Nessus, who had just radiated confidence.

His face darkened instantly.

The air was quiet for a long time, and it was not until the sound of an owl in the distance that Nassos forcibly made an excuse:

"This... Maybe the train is late, right?"

"Anyway, it's impossible for me to remember the date and time wrong."

After a moment of contemplation, Ronald continued to ask:

"You said just now that the train's starting station is Wolfman, right?"

"Is there a stop in the middle?"

Nessus simply shook his head and said:

"Joiz Forest is not a place where humans can live."

"From Wolfman, the train will arrive at each station one after another after passing through the big forest, and stop at the same time."

"This train..."

"I can't be a few hours late at the departure station...?"

"..."

The night wind blew across the earth, bringing moist air from the forest.

On an autumn night when the temperature gradually drops.

Ronald and Nessus looked at each other.

No one can guess why the steam train has not appeared yet.

It's not the merchants who drove the carriage to do business like they did before.

It couldn't have been a few savages popping out of the virgin jungle, and then holding a wooden stick to hijack the train, right?

In silence, another quarter of an hour passed.

Seeing Nessus spinning back and forth, he couldn't figure out the key.

Ronald said:

"We take turns vigil, you go to rest first."

"Now the situation is uncertain, we may have to hold on for a long time,"

"You are always the one to open the way during the day. Hunting and other things also consumes stamina."

"If there is movement, I will call you up."

"Okay." Hearing Ronald's suggestion, Nessus didn't hesitate to get into the camp left by the railway maintenance worker. "If there is any movement, be sure to call me up!"

"Hurry up and rest."

"Um."

Soon, Ronald was left to sit alone under the starry sky at night.

The stool under the buttocks is the stump cut by the railway maintenance personnel directly. It feels very bad to sit on it.

But even so, he still didn't pay attention to it.

With the autumn wind blowing, his mood gradually drifted away—

It's been almost a week...

From coming to this world to pass the test of illusion, to encountering a merchant team and crashing into Montenegro.

Just five days.

Among them are excellent judgments that penetrate into secrets, and there are secrets that are still incomprehensible.

But in general, I encountered a completely different experience from my past life.

Sometimes Ronald also wondered if all this was a big dream after he was buried in the rubble, and his colleagues were contacting all parties to rescue him.

But this kind of fantasy still cannot convince himself.

The cold wind blowing slowly in the night sky, Nessus resting in the camp behind him, and even the two original-class magic books hidden on his body.

All this reminds Ronald.

this is the truth!

"Call—"

Taking a long sigh of relief, Ronald rubbed his cold hands, and then added firewood to the bonfire.

Raised his head, it was different from the cloudy clouds in the previous days.

The sky is full of stars shining far away.

It was equally dazzling, but I couldn't find those familiar stars.

Here, I look up at the starry sky that humans have been watching for thousands of years; in my hometown, who else looks up at the magnificent universe?

A kind of loneliness of being alone in a foreign land arises spontaneously.

"Xingxing, are you also the origin of human civilization in this world...?"

Ronald, who works in writing, has always liked a saying.

A very romantic, but also very possible statement.

——That is, human civilization originated from the stars hanging in the sky. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

It is not an outrageous theory of the origin of aliens, but it points to the origin and cornerstone of civilization.

-Word.

The words that carry knowledge, are responsible for inheriting culture, and form the structure of civilization.

When he was traveling, among the archaeological activities on the earth, the earliest texts unearthed came from the ancient civilizations of the two river basins.

And in the results of the excavation.

The two characters that appear most frequently on those slates are 'star' and 'god'.

Why are these two words?

Because 6,000 years ago, the Vela X supernova exploded.

This is the largest astronomical event that can be remembered in human history, far exceeding all celestial phenomena that can be observed today.

In those ancient times, the light released by this sudden supernova could reach the earth, dazzling as bright as the sun during the day, and obscuring the brilliance of the moon at night!

What did this unimaginable natural phenomenon mean to the human beings of that era?

Confused, confused, frightened, in awe.

The unknown deep in the brain!

In the end, human's ignorance and reverence for supernova evolved into myths and religions. In order to record the greatness of this star, words based on the words 'star' and 'god' were also created.

Human civilization in this world will also be like this...

woo-

woohoo—

Suddenly, Ronald was pulled out of his mind by a faint sound from a distance.

Although it was mixed in with the night wind, he did discern some subtle sounds coming from the train passage opened in the forest!

"train......"

"It's the train!"

"Nessus, get up quickly!"