Chapter 93 – Endless Speculation
Chapter 93 Endless Speculation
Maurice sighed.
“When those of us who dig through history try our best to come to the high wall of the Great Annihilation, and spend our lives trying to find artifacts and compare canonical texts, trying to get a glimpse of what lies on the other side of that high wall, this is the kind of light we’re dealing with.”
The old man’s face was thick with fatigue and frustration, as if he was a traveler who had already trekked for most of his life, and had to accept reality at the end of his journey when he still could not see the end.
“The history before the Great Annihilation is fragmented and contradictory, and the records between the different city states are like a strange story, or an incompatible dream …… There is no decisive evidence that can prove which of these records is correct, or that there is a set of theories that can integrate these contradictory things. things together.”
Duncan, however, did not speak for a while, because his thoughts were already undulating like the waves of the sea, and in these incredible “wild pieces of history” described by Maurice, he seemed to be experiencing a storm of information.
As a “foreigner” who had experienced the information age and had a good ability of association, he was able to imagine or guess something from the other party’s description – the dome covering the whole continent, the “wild history”, the “wild history”, the “wild history”, the “wild history”, the “wild history” and the “wild history”.
The dome covering the entire continent could be some kind of man-made ecological device, and the energy system that was homologous with the sun and relied on substances in seawater as fuel could be fusion technology.
Giant ships sailing through nothingness, relying on capturing dust and gas clouds in space for power, that could be a colonial starship or several.
As for the so-called Demon God’s Dreamscape …… the seawater that came to reality from the dreamscape …… this he had trouble imagining what it was for a moment, but it sounded very much like a fantasy concept, something that painted a very different picture from the technological atmosphere of the first two histories.
Many things he could find explanations or conjectures for, yet they could not be pieced together in any way.
As Morris says, they are more like disjointed dreams that paint a completely different picture of “prehistory”.
Contradictory and fragmented, they cannot be used to recreate the world as it was before the Great Annihilation.
“Perhaps you are correct in your assertion that there is a ‘Limit of Sight’ on the critical event of the Great Annihilation,” Maurice’s voice came from across the counter, interrupting Duncan’s thoughts, the old man held his forehead, his tone low, “We can’t observe the Limit of Sight, we can’t see it,” he said. “We are unable to observe the ‘event’ on the opposite side of the field of view, so the history prior to the Great Annihilation is a concept that can never be traced back to us.”
Looking at Morris, who was full of emotion, Duncan’s thoughts still didn’t stop, gradually, he instead came up with a rather bold idea: “So …… what if all these records are true?”
Maurice raised his eyes and looked at Duncan with some surprise: “Oh?”
“What if these records are all true, and the history recorded by each city-state or each race is really what they perceive the ‘world before the Great Annihilation’ really looked like?” Duncan stroked his chin and said thoughtfully, “Perhaps our ancestors 10,000 years ago really did come from a completely different ‘homeland’ with a very different civilization? The Great Annihilation trapped these exiles from different worlds on this great sea, and the descendants of the exiles barely recorded what they knew before their civilization’s inheritance was completely cut off, and ten thousand years later, it became the ‘contradictory history’ that bothers scholars… …”
His thoughts came alive, and after a pause he continued, “What about the nature of the Great Annihilation perhaps not being the end of the world, but a ‘Great Transmission’?”
Maurice looked at Duncan in surprise and suddenly said, “…… The Brock Bendis school of conjecture? The World Drift theory? That’s a rather cold school of thought, did you turn out to be so deep in ancient history?”
This was a complimentary remark on his part, and Duncan was instead a little baffled for a moment: by the sound of it, it turns out that someone had thought of this possibility a long time ago?
He blinked, rather than letting his surprise show, and just pretended to go along with the conversation down the line, “It’s all bits and pieces of knowledge, but I like the conjecture.”
“I like the conjecture as well – as cold as it is,” Maurice shook his head, “but like all other conjectures, we have no proof, then it’s just a guess.
“The Clarke School had hypothesized that subspace interference in the real world had distorted all historical records, the Verentium School believed that the world before the Great Annihilation was a myriad of lattices cut off from each other, and the people of the City-State of Bologna even believed that the world before the Great Annihilation didn’t exist at all, and that all the records of prehistory were illusions created by the shadows in subspace ……
“To put it bluntly, even some heretical cults have their own understanding of the world’s history, the final preachers who worship subspace firmly believe that the end of the world has already begun, and are chasing and devouring our civilization along the long river of history, the contradictory historical records of the various city-states are the result of the real history gradually being torn apart by subspace, and that the Great Annihilation is a barrier that will prevent the world from ending before the end of the world. Before the day of the barrier, wait until the history after the great annihilation is also gradually torn apart by pollution, is the day the whole world falls into subspace ……”
The more Duncan listened, the more stunned he became, and only after a long time did he subconsciously shake his head, “I didn’t realize there were so many strange and bizarre assumptions ……” “Ordinary people don’t dabble in this kind of field, the study of history is, after all, a dangerous thing in the occult sense of the word,” said Morris, “but one thing is obvious: if there are thousands of scholars who have been groping for hundreds, if not thousands of years, in a field with no way out, then they must have come up with something. thousands of years, then they must have formulated all the hypotheses they could.”
Duncan slowly understood what the old man meant.
For these people who had spent their entire lives in the tomes and artifacts, coming up with a hypothesis that could explain the status quo was very simple, and as scholars, what they lacked was never imagination or vision.
What they lacked was evidence, evidence that could prove even any kind of hypothesis.
“Isn’t there any evidence left at ……?” Duncan asked, “Any ‘physical evidence’ from the history before the Great Annihilation that would prove that what some of the ‘wild stories’ say is not true, not a single one?”
“None so far,” Morris said slowly, “Ten thousand years, plus one Dark Age after another in between, with countless city-states rising and falling in the Boundless Sea, it’s too hard for anything from the ancient times to be left behind . …Those that have managed to be passed down are either handwritten copies from unreliable sources or stories passed down by word of mouth, and these things themselves may have changed long ago in the process of being passed down.”
Duncan didn’t say anything for a moment.
In the depths of his spirit, on the distant Lost Country, the waves were gently undulating, and the infinite sea covered, as it always did, the entire world.
It also covered all possible truths.
He couldn’t help but sigh, “Studying ancient history is such a difficult thing.”
“Yes, it’s not just the fragmented ‘ages’ we have to deal with, but also the current situation of having nothing to fall back on,” Maurice sighed, “If anything could be dug up on such limited land as the city-state, it would have been dug up long ago , and if it can’t be dug up, it means that what can prove our history is hidden beyond the reach of mortals.”
“Like the bottom of the sea?” Duncan said suddenly.
“The bottom of the sea? Ha, what a frightening and bold statement,” Maurice laughed, “but it’s really the only thought left in the minds of a lot of history scholars who’ve come to the end of their rope …… There’s evidence at the bottom of the sea, mountains of artifacts, cities of ancient civilizations, and sites that can explain There are cities of ancient civilizations, there are ruins that explain everything, but what’s the point? We can only touch the shadows when we dive down, and mortals cannot touch the deepest parts of this world.”
At this point he paused for a moment and then spoke again, “But this does give rise to another conjecture …… Although there is no school of thought, there are quite a number of people who have speculated that the lost ‘Old World’ of history is actually located in the Infinite Sea below sea level, and have even pinpointed the exact location of it. below sea level, or even pinpointed at a certain ‘depth’ between the Profound Deep and the Spirit World – the world before the Great Annihilation slumbered at that depth.”
“Why do you say that?” Duncan was a little curious, the fanciful but unsubstantiated assumption piquing his interest.
Maurice thought for a moment and explained, “Because many shattered ancient histories mention that the world before the Great Annihilation had a ‘starry sky’ enveloping the four wilds, and it’s well known that the ‘starry sky’ is right at the Profound Deep and the Spirit World’s interface.”
Duncan almost choked himself to death with a mouthful of water, “Ahem …… ah?”
“Are you alright?” Maurice was startled by Duncan’s reaction, “This shouldn’t be anything incredible ……”
“I’m fine, just listening too mesmerized, choked a bit,” Duncan hurriedly waved his hand, “the starry sky is between the profound deep sea and the spirit world well, of course I know, of course I know ……”
(End of chapter)