Chapter 1033 Flashback
Chapter 1033 Flashback
Although she had seen cars before, Dora was still very surprised when she sat in the iron box. She touched it left and right, as if she wanted to figure out how this thing moved.
Seeing this guy making a fuss, Ye Shi couldn’t help but complain.
”You’ve even ridden a starship that can travel in hyperspace, so what’s so curious about this little thing?”
Dora was stunned for a while before she realized what a starship was, and then she whispered.
”A starship… is more powerful than this?”
The little koala tied to the co-pilot seat with a seat belt made a helpless sound.
”This is probably the worst time that the Orion has been hacked.”
”Sorry, I didn’t mean that–”
”I know,” Ye Shi sighed and said, looking at Dora who was hurriedly explaining, “Let me think… It seems that I have to start with the most basic common sense.”
Perhaps after returning to Dawn City, he should go to the bookstore to buy a set of elementary school Chinese textbooks.
Although psychic power is a very convenient communication tool, lack of common sense is also a big problem.
A line of cars stopped at the entrance of Lowell Camp.
This former military base has now been transformed into an old-time museum for visitors to visit.
The half-man-high stone tablet at the entrance is engraved with what happened here –
a general named Lowell made “unprecedented achievements” in the ice and snow.
Later generations have mixed opinions about him.
Some people think that his idea is good, but the execution was wrong. Moreover, the red soil later played a role in some unexpected ways, and it is not as useless as General Lowell’s opponents said.
But some people think that he is just a paranoid tyrant, a stubborn gambler, who fantasizes that he is an omnipotent savior. For a plan that is impossible to succeed, he killed people who should not have died, and destroyed the last possibility of passing on civilization.
Others say that if General Lowell had not tried to use the few remaining resources to gamble on that almost impossible future, perhaps the people in this institute would not die, or at least half of them would survive.
Maybe they will become another Shelter No. 70.
Perhaps the people living here, like the survivors in the southern seas, don’t need red soil, which is a radical thing. They don’t even need to be led by others to move forward. They can spread their light and heat to farther places…
Unfortunately, there is no “if” in history. The shape of another future can only be left to the imagination of future generations.
In addition to the relics of the Lowell period, this museum also stores many relics from the Xilan Dynasty, the Dayue Dynasty and other periods.
Most of these objects are private collections of Duke Nihak, the former governor of Jinjialun Port in the Xilan Empire.
After studying and scanning and filing those relics, the Alliance’s Social Science Research Institute returned these trophies to this museum belonging to the people of Jinjialun Port in the form of donations.
There are also some objects that entered the market during the renovation of the old city.
Jinjialun Port City Hall bought back some of them from the auction through financial appropriations.
In addition to those old relics, there are also some later accounts of these histories.
For example, “Red Soil” written by Mr. Rat.
However, this is an ignominious history after all.
The residents of Jinjialun Port, who had been wasting time for a few years, were not as interested in this period of history as before, so most of the visitors in the museum were tourists from outside.
As they walked towards the interior of the Lowell Camp, the mayor of Jinjialun Port, Yodu, said in a slightly apologetic voice.
”It would have been better if you had told us your itinerary a few days in advance, so that we could make some arrangements in advance.”
Han Mingyue said with a smile.
”No need to be so troublesome, we are just here to take a look and will leave soon.”
As the two were talking, there was a commotion outside the museum.
Hearing that the guests of Nanmen 2 had suddenly visited here, the media in the whole city were alarmed, and a large number of reporters rushed over.
Fortunately, Yodu was a man who knew how to deal with things. He had anticipated the reaction of the media in advance, and had said hello to the people from the Security Bureau in advance, and dispatched a large number of police forces to set up a cordon outside the museum.
The guests who had already entered the museum could continue to visit, while those who came later could only wait outside.
Dora was shocked by the overwhelming enthusiasm. She had never seen so many people.
”Are those… all reporters?”
She had heard the word reporter from Ye Shi, although she didn’t fully understand what the word meant.
”Not all of them. There are probably some people just watching the fun.” Looking at some people in the crowd who were praying to the gods, Ye Shi said with a subtle expression.
It was true that the guest from Nanmen 2 had psychic powers, but these fanatical guys probably misunderstood something.
But soon he remembered that it seemed the same when he first landed.
Those people called them “Iron Men” and worshiped them like they did now.
It was not until later that they had more contact with them and received some education that they knew that the iron lump that was invulnerable to swords and guns was just an exoskeleton that anyone could wear, and the name “Iron Man” gradually became unpopular.
Ye Shi suddenly felt a little disappointed.
These people should have received some education, but they seemed to be the same as before.
The same recipe, just a different soup, they couldn’t recognize it at all.
This group of smart people are obviously extremely smart, but they are stupid in the most fatal place.
As if noticing Ye Shi’s expression, Yodu smiled embarrassedly and said.
”Excuse me.”
He has been with Fang Chang for a long time, and he can be regarded as an elite in this settlement.
He is very clear about his responsibilities in this, but he also feels deeply powerless in the face of the unstoppable torrent. All
he can do is just maintain the status quo.
When the alliance still needs this place.
”There is nothing funny about this, and it’s not funny,” Ye Shi shook his head and sighed, “To be honest… I even wondered if my friends and I actually did something bad, or maybe we shouldn’t have come here from the beginning.”
Yodu said hurriedly.
”Don’t think so, every resident of this settlement is very grateful to you. If you hadn’t come, this museum would still be Nihak’s ranch…”
”Maybe.”
Ye Shi looked up at the tower of the wall, where a centurion or a thousand-man captain had been hanging before.
He still remembered who had hung that guy up there.
After a pause, Ye Shi continued.
”What a pity… the first person to capture this camp is dead.”
Yodu was stunned for a moment, and after a while he remembered who he was talking about, and then he fell silent.
He and that person had met once before, and even tried to persuade him before he planned to go north, but in the end he accepted the resignation letter at the instruction of Fang Chang.
Looking at this scene, thinking of the man’s later fate, he couldn’t help but feel a little sad.
Not wanting to write that sadness on his face, he looked at the outsider on the side – the guest from Nanmen II.
He said with a forced smile.
”I heard that… you can see the souls of dead people? Then can you help me see if there is a general with eyes wide open here.”
Dora was slightly stunned, and corrected his statement in a serious manner.
”This is a misunderstanding. Only living people have souls. Dead people don’t have that kind of thing.”
Yodu was stunned and asked.
”Then… where did the soul of the dead go?”
”Nowhere, it’s still in the place where he existed, but it no longer belongs to him, but has become a part of someone else,” Dora blinked and said with a smile on her face, “We will be more or less influenced by our ancestors, and we will more or less carry their marks on our bodies… and we are their continuation.”
She discovered these things from the little koala.
”Nowhere…”
Yodu lowered his head and muttered to himself, looking at his hands, and suddenly he couldn’t hold back his emotions.
It turned out that he didn’t go anywhere…
He has been here all the time, watching them continue to move forward.
”Don’t give up.”
Han Mingyue patted his shoulder gently and took Dora into the camp.
The ruins have basically been excavated, with only a few doubts left.
At this time, Dora suddenly stopped and her eyes stopped on several iron cages in the center of the camp.
”That was the place where slaves were detained in the Xilan era.” Seeing her confused expression, Han Mingyue said in a gentle tone.
Dora nodded and asked.
”Most of those imprisoned here before…are from the Moon Tribe?”
Han Mingyue’s face showed a surprised expression.
”How did you tell that?”
Dora didn’t say anything, but cast her eyes on the iron cages.
Just as her eyes focused on the mottled rust, a man with deep eye sockets also looked at her, and a surprised expression appeared on his face.
”You can see me.”
”Are you…the Great Moon King?”
When Dora was in French Fries Port, she learned about the history of the Moon Tribe from Ms. Han Mingyue.
Although she was not very sure, the word popped into her mind when she saw this man for the first time.
She felt that he was very similar to Tunnan.
They might be of the same type, but they have many differences.
”The Great Moon King…is that what my descendants call me?” The majestic monarch muttered, and then looked at Dora and asked anxiously, “By the way, how are my people?”
Recalling the good times in French Fries Port, Dora smiled shyly and said.
”They are all good, at least… the ones I have met are all good.”
”That’s good…”
He seemed to be relieved, heaved a long sigh of relief, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.
”Thank you, I feel much better.”
Looking at the king who seemed to be relieved, Dora asked in a puzzled voice.
”Did you do anything bad?”
King Dayue was silent for a while, shook his head and said.
”I don’t know, but… they did suffer a lot because of me. I heard them kneeling here and calling my name, and praying to me every night.”
”But… I have heard less recently. I thought they were all dead.”
”It’s good that they are still alive.”
He smiled with relief, and the transparent shadow gradually faded, as if it had never existed.
The two communicated silently, and no one heard it.
Dora nodded slightly, watching the looming shadow disappear in the wind.
However, at this moment, another shadow emerged from behind the mottled rust.
The temperament of that person was completely different from King Dayue. He was a bit like the “officer” with glaring eyes mentioned by Mayor Yodu.
However,
Dora could clearly feel through her psychic power that he was not the person Mayor Yodo had mentioned.
Moreover, they were two completely different people.
”These bastards… I gave them the red soil to save people, not to use as a bargaining chip to seize territory! Doesn’t anyone think it’s stupid? Playing primitive people in a zoo to play tribal wars!”
”Also – the nuclear winter is over, why are they still using this stuff as food! Damn it! They even came up with slavery… It’s really going backwards!”
Dora was stunned and didn’t understand his endless chatter, but fortunately there was a guy next to him who knew a little about psychic power.
Maybe because of the mark of the human connection on their bodies, Ye Shi also “saw” that person this time, and he was with Dora.
Not surprisingly,
he should be Lowell.
Looking at the nagging guy, he couldn’t help but complain.
”Is there a possibility that your red soil developed only after the nuclear winter ended?”
He speculated maliciously, thinking that the warm spring weather alone might not be enough.
The expansion of the red soil might also be inseparable from the bloodshed during the tribal wars.
Someone must break through the lower limit of human beings again and again, so that the red soil can find the soil that is truly suitable for its growth.
That is when everyone has only one thought left in their hearts –
to survive.
Apart from that, everything else can be abandoned.
This rhetorical question silenced Lowell.
He stared at the ignorant junior in front of him, and his nose was crooked with anger.
”Who the hell could have thought of this? What was my situation at that time? Did I have any other choice? One hundred million people! The troops I have are not enough to fill their teeth. If I can’t feed them, do you know what will happen? Cannibalism, I will be recorded in history books!”
When he said this, General Lowell suddenly fell silent again, sighed dejectedly, and sat on the ground.
”Forget it… What should have happened has happened, I have already been recorded in history books, I know you want to laugh at me, you can laugh as much as you want.”
As he was talking, he suddenly couldn’t continue, put his hand on his forehead, and murmured in pain.
”I admit that I am also wrong, at least half of it… I feel sorry for the soldiers who believed in me. Some things can be overcome with the spirit, and some things cannot. I feel sorry for those scholars. They said it was impossible. Even at the peak of the prosperity of the Human Union, a huge research institute was needed to complete this project. But I think they are scholars of the Human Union. If they try hard, there will always be a way…”
”I can’t evaluate, but in the world composed of matter, there are indeed too many things that the spirit can’t do,” Ye Shi sighed, “For example, black can’t be turned into white, and square can’t be turned into round. Even psychic power can’t do it.”
Lowell suddenly raised his head, and a glimmer of hope rekindled in his eyes.
”Are they… okay?”
Ye Shi was silent for a while and asked back.
”Can’t you see?”
Lowell shook his head and cast his eyes on the wall of the camp, saying with a blurred look.
”I can’t see outside, I don’t know which idiot started it… It seems to be a fool who calls himself the Moon King. He was afraid that those dirt-eating people would oppose him, so he built a wall here. Although he miscalculated, no one dared to oppose him when he was still alive, but later people followed his example and built the camp wall higher and higher.”
His Adam’s apple moved and continued.
”And… my feelings for them are getting weaker and weaker. Maybe it’s really too long ago, and I’m not worthy of their remembrance. Maybe it won’t be long… I will disappear from this land with my momentary confusion.”
Ye Shi shrugged his shoulders without comment.
Although he didn’t ask for anyone’s forgiveness, at least he still admitted his momentary confusion.
However, at this moment, Dora seemed to understand something and suddenly spoke.
”You… may not actually be here.”
Lowell was stunned, looked at the bottom of his feet, and then looked around him, with a strange expression on his face.
”I’m not here? Then… where am I?”
Ye Shi was also confused by Dora’s words.
Although his attainments in psychic power were not as good as that of the “maid of the temple”, the resonance field that had already taken shape could not be fake, right?
It was like talking nonsense in front of a ghost…
But Dora didn’t think so.
Looking at the ghost that ordinary people could not see, she continued to speak in silent and affirmative language.
”The real you is in everyone here… They are all you, or your continuation.”
”And the one who stayed here is only the you who lived a long, long time ago… 200 years ago.”
”The you who has not died yet.”
”It’s all me…” Lowell was stunned for a long time, and for some reason a trace of fear appeared on his face.
”No…”
”That kind of thing…”
Dora nodded and looked at him seriously, even though he might not want to continue listening.
”You have not been forgotten, neither your red soil nor your momentary confusion…”
”Your soul is regarded by everyone here as… as sacred as the Insof Tree. They sing your stories and the miracles you have brought down, and pass them down from generation to generation as an example.”
”No! Stop it, shut up!”
He screamed hysterically, covered his face with his hands, and then disappeared in the wind like howling.
Or –
back to the timeline he was originally in.
Ye Shi, who was originally confused, suddenly had a glimmer of enlightenment in his mind.
So that’s it.
What he saw just now was not Lowell, who had died many years ago, but the tyrant who knelt on the execution ground and roared hysterically 200 years ago.
His soul crossed time at the moment of his death, and saw the appearance of this land two hundred years later in the moment before he died.
Of course, it was not a real time travel.
Just like the crew of the Orion.
It’s just that they are standing on different timelines, and due to the high resonance of their spirits on their respective timelines, they have made deductions or associations at the same time.
Psychic energy is just one of the media that triggers resonance, not the bridge that connects the spirit itself.
”…Is this the resonance field?”
Ye Shi suddenly realized that his understanding of psychic energy and resonance field has improved a bit.
And the distance between him and the void has become closer than before…
Dora’s shoulders shook slightly, as if she had been hit by something, and she fell back dizzy.
Han Mingyue, who was standing next to her, held her shoulders and asked with concern.
”Are you okay?”
Dora slowly opened her eyes and shook her head.
”I’m fine.”
Seeing a hint of something strange in her eyes, Han Mingyue’s expression gradually became eager, looking into her eyes and continued to ask.
”What happened just now? You saw Lowell himself… right?”
Dora nodded with a complicated look, but there was a hint of confusion, or confusion in her eyes.
Seeing her nod, Han Mingyue hurriedly continued to ask.
”What did he say?”
”He… cried, and cried very sadly. I wanted to comfort him, but he pushed me away.”
Dora shook her head, paused, and continued a little lonely, “I told him that everyone here is his continuation… He should be happy, but for some reason, he suddenly burst into tears.”
Almost all the souls she met before felt relieved after learning that they existed in another form.
Including the father of the little koala.
Including the “Big Moon King”.
However, General Lowell was different.
When he learned that everyone here was his continuation, his excitement even surpassed his regret for the red soil itself.
Looking at Dora talking to herself, not only Professor Han Mingyue standing next to her was stunned, but everyone including Professor Sun Zewen and Mayor Yodo was stunned on the spot.
But that didn’t last long, Professor Han Mingyue quickly came to her senses and said.
”I think I understand… You saw him 200 years ago, right?”
Dora nodded gently.
”Yeah.”
Han Mingyue smiled sincerely on her face.
”Thank you, I think I understand.”
Dora looked at her blankly, with a happy expression on her face, and said timidly.
”Did I help?”
Han Mingyue nodded seriously and cast her eyes on the camp in front of her.
”The last piece of the puzzle we are missing is actually General Lowell’s own testimony.”
”After the rebellion was successful, his subordinates destroyed almost all of his relics, whether it was notes or personal clothing. As a result, General Lowell’s own opinions were only a few words, and the remaining clues were mostly indirect comments from others, or poor imitations of his notes by later generations.”
”Whether they were trying to preserve the last bit of dignity for their superiors or to maintain their own legitimacy, their self-righteous erasures have seriously hindered our excavation of the relics and the restoration of the full picture of history.”
”Even, their self-righteous behavior, like Lowell, inspired – or influenced generations of self-righteous descendants, causing an impact far greater than red soil and inestimable.”
When she said this, a relieved smile appeared on her face, as if a great cause had finally been covered with the last brick.
”…Thanks to your help.”
”This blank space has finally been filled.”
(End of this chapter)
