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129. Chapter 129 (Supplement)
If there is anything in common between the current world and the world we passed through, it is probably the "Blue Star".
It’s just that in the world they passed through, the people of the Galactic Empire experienced the era of great annihilation, their homeland was reduced to wasteland, and finally chose to completely abandon the mother star “Blue Star”, and then survived the difficult era of great migration before they became Finally ushered in the era of great explosion, found his home, settled in Sikkim, and officially established the Galactic Empire.
The original parent star "Blue Star" was abandoned, and it has long been silent in the dust of history. Only in surviving historical data, there will be occasional mentions.
This planet far away from the Galactic Empire star field, except some ancient humans remember it, has long been forgotten by most people.
But in his current world, it is different. Humans have lived on the blue star from beginning to end. This planet has lasted for too long, and its development process has been tortuous and ups and downs. There are many hardships and tribulations, and even history textbooks cannot fully record it.
Ruan Shiqing had never paid close attention to the history of Blue Star before, so he only had vague memories from textbooks about the development of Blue Star, but now when he searched, he found something that surprised him.
Three thousand years ago, Blue Star suffered a devastating blow - a nuclear war.
At that time, Blue Star was divided into different countries and races. Because of their interests, there was often friction between them. This was originally very normal. Even the current Blue Star Alliance is not monolithic, and there are still inconsistencies. But the bad thing is that there are several major powers that have possessed extremely destructive nuclear weapons.
After an unprecedented economic crisis, some major powers started foreign wars in order to divert domestic conflicts. Naturally, it is impossible for other countries to sit still and show resistance.
The Eighth World War broke out completely, and the nuclear weapons, which no country dared to use rashly, were finally thrown into the war on a large scale.
The technology at that time was quite mature, and nuclear weapons could achieve precise range strikes and minimize environmental pollution.
But even so, the effects of nuclear war are still irreversible. A large-scale nuclear war caused a large amount of dust on the ground to rise into the atmosphere, blocking the sun, causing a "nuclear winter"[Note 1]; not to mention the explosion of nuclear weapons, which also brought severe radiation.
Because of the lack of sunlight, the temperature dropped sharply, a large number of plants died because of the lack of sunlight, and the wild animals starved to death because of the lack of food. The ecology has been severely damaged, the biological chain has completely collapsed, and only human beings can survive with the help of science and technology [Note 2].
But that's not the worst-case scenario.
During the melee between the two countries, a nuclear bomb launched by country A accidentally blew up a hidden nuclear base in country B.
This secret nuclear base is quite large, with more than a dozen large nuclear reactors built. It was originally a secret weapon of country b, but it was accidentally blown up by country a before it could play its role.
Country b is an island country, surrounded by the sea. After the nuclear base was blown up, successive explosions caused fires and emitted a large amount of high-energy radioactive substances into the atmosphere.[Note 3]; Into the ocean, with the rapid spread of ocean currents to other sea areas, resulting in extremely serious marine pollution.
In this world war, the number of people who died directly in the war was only tens of millions, but the number of people who died directly or indirectly from nuclear radiation, nuclear pollution and "nuclear winter" was as high as more than three billion.
In the five years after the war, the ecological environment has deteriorated severely, a large number of animals and plants have become extinct, and the extreme climate has become more and more severe. In the end, the Blue Star population has dropped sharply to less than one billion.
The originally vibrant Blue Star became a wasteland after this war.
The extremely cold climate made the ground no longer suitable for human habitation. They abandoned the buildings on the ground and chose to live underground with more thermal insulation.
The human beings who encountered the war finally let go of their country and race, and began to try to unite to rebuild their homeland. This is the prototype of the Blue Star Alliance.
These surviving ancestors did not give up their homeland. They gave up all their prejudices, gathered all their strengths, and began to rebuild this planet that has become a wasteland.
Until today, 3,000 years later, there is no country in the world, only the Blue Star Alliance and its jurisdiction. Although there are still contradictions and frictions in various jurisdictions, no one dares to rashly provoke war again with the lessons learned from the predecessors.
And about the shadow left by the nuclear war, after the Blue Star Alliance was rebuilt, researchers gave up research on nuclear energy and turned to antimatter energy, which is safer and more environmentally friendly. This is also the reason why antimatter energy is very popular on Bluestar today, and the root cause of the decline of nuclear energy.
Ruan Shiqing took a close look at the entire development process of Blue Star, and something came to his mind.
He remembered the abandoned planet he had seen in his underwater dream. It was also full of withered plants and carrion. The sky was lead-grey, and there was no sunlight. There are also abandoned nuclear power plants faintly visible in the distance.
How similar it was to Blue Star's. It's just that the human beings in the dreamland failed to hold on to their homes in the end. They left the devastated wasteland and traveled away from their homeland in spaceships to find their homes. The ancestors of Blue Star have survived thousands of lives, washed After clearing up the sins he once committed, he built his home on the wasteland of the old days.
Like two leaves on a branch. From the same source, but at different nodes, they become two completely different leaves.
Ruan Shiqing felt that he had vaguely caught a clue.
But the current information is too limited, and he can't fully grasp this erratic feeling. He needs more information and clues to support his guess.
After thinking about it, he applied for half sick leave in the internal system of the institute, and then he brought his light brain and went to the library in the city center.
Maybe by figuring out the connection between the two worlds, he can find a way back.
The city library is managed by a service robot, and it operates for 20 hours. Ruan Shiqing booked a room in a hotel near the library. Apart from eating and sleeping, he spent the rest of the day in the library to check materials.
After three months, Ruan Shiqing lost five pounds, and he found some information to support his guess, but when he went back, he still had no clue.
Rubbing his temples tiredly, Ruan Shiqing sighed and told himself not to rush too much.
Putting away his light brain, he planned to go out and let his thoughts go out. During this time, he was eager to find a way to go back, and he kept pushing himself very hard, but instead he shackled his thinking and did not make any breakthroughs.
After coming out of the quiet library, the noisy and lively sounds from outside rushed into his ears, Ruan Shiqing took a deep breath, and only had a real feeling of stepping on the ground.
In the past three months, he always felt that he had fallen from one dream into another.
The whole person has an unreal feeling.
This feeling was even worse when he stepped into a lively street and saw the stalls set up by the roadside.
Looking at the familiar gray cloak and the familiar face, he stopped in surprise, his eyes fixed on Fang Fang.
The stall wearing a cloak was doing business. After collecting the customer's money, he met Ruan Shiqing's eyes with a smile. He didn't show any surprise, as if the two were still meeting at the b3024-star underground market. , greeted warmly and eloquently: "I've got some good things in, do you want to see Mr. Ruan?"
Too shocked, but calm down.
Ruan Shiqing walked to the booth and looked down at the things on the booth, which were some old-fashioned gadgets: "Who are you? How come you are here?"
"I recently got an antique key 'Time', the name comes from 'The man of heaven and earth, the inverse journey of all things; the man of time, the passer-by of a hundred generations' [Note 4], Mr. Ruan want to see it?" He avoided Instead of answering, he pointed to a black-gray key on the booth.
The key was different from ordinary keys. It was half the size of a palm, but it was not gorgeous. The whole body is black and gray, and only the key handle is curved with complicated patterns, while the key shaft below does not have the serrations or protrusions that any normal key would have, and it looks like some kind of decoration.
In this stall full of bizarre antiques, the key seemed too ordinary and mundane.
But Ruan Shiqing didn't dare to take it lightly, not only because of its name "Time" and its origin, but also because... the things that this stall sold to him in the past have never been approved.
From the earliest 09, to the later dragon eggs that hatched small dragon cubs, and a bag of dragon crystals, this is all.
Ever since the little dragon cub ate the dragon crystal, he had tried to find this stall, but Fang had vanished from the world, leaving no trace.
In addition, encountered various incidents later, and the matter of looking for someone was nothing.
But he never thought that the two would meet again at such a place and occasion. After thinking for a while, Ruan Shiqing did not ask the bottom line, but skillfully asked the price: "I want it, how much money?"
"I'm a regular customer, I'll give you a discount. One piece is 20% off, and two pieces are 40% off." He pointed to a crystal ball at the booth: "If you buy this crystal ball together, you can get a 40% discount, and the total is as long as Five thousand dollars."
An old decorative key and a crystal ball that can be seen everywhere are 40% off for five thousand.
In the past, Ruan Shiqing would have turned his head and left, but now he paid the money without blinking: "I want it."
The stall has made a business, and his smile is even more enthusiastic: "You will never suffer from this transaction!"
Ruan Shiqing played with the things in his hand, but couldn't help but ask again: "How did you live—"
"Hey!" Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Tan raising his hand. He pointed to the thing in Ruan Shiqing's hand and smiled meaningfully: "I already gave you the answer."
After finishing speaking, he put away the stall, waved his hand without looking back, and walked away.
Ruan Shiqing wanted to chase, but after a few steps, he found that the stall had entered the water with the fish, and after a while, it disappeared into the crowd. He stood on the street where people came and went, looked at the key and crystal ball in his hand, frowned for a moment, and turned back to the hotel.
Back in the hotel room, he put the key and the crystal ball in one place, Ruan Shiqing studied it for a long time, but did not find anything special.
But the origin of that stall is a mystery. It suddenly appeared in this world and sold him these two things. Ruan Shiqing felt that Fang would never just lie to him for fun.
Although it is not clear whether Fang is an enemy or a friend for the time being, but if he can really help him go back, even if he is an enemy, he will go through this road to the end.
And he had a strange intuition - those two things would help him get back.
It's just that can't find the key for a while.
Ruan Shiqing tried all kinds of methods, and he tossed it until the early morning. The key was still the same key, and the crystal ball was still the same crystal ball, and there was no change.
On the contrary, he struggled in vain, mentally exhausted, and emotionally restless.
For the past three months, he has been admonishing himself to keep calm and not to be in a hurry, but when things came to an end, and hope was in front of him, he was unable to find a way, and finally he was unable to suppress his restless emotions.
"Fairy Wood"
Holding the key tightly in his hand, he was about to throw it out in anger.
But when it came time to throw it out, his fingers clenched hesitantly. After a stalemate for a while, he sighed, relaxed his body tautly, and lay down in the armchair with the key in his hands.
That night, Ruan Shiqing held the key, lay on the table, and fell asleep restlessly and tiredly.
So he didn't know that, after he fell asleep, the spiritual power that overflowed because of his emotional ups and downs was absorbed by the key in the palm of his hand, and a faint gray light gradually enveloped him in his entire body...
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