"The mainland back then has surprisingly turned into a sea like this... What happened? Moreover, there isn't a single corpse here; clearly, everyone has left." Ziyu wandered around, deep in thought.
"What is this?" Ziyu noticed something floating and walked over to take a look; it turned out to be a book.
"It seems to have been left here..." Ziyu opened it and found that it recorded events from recent years.
The day Ziyu left was referred to as Heavenly Omen Day, and afterward, it was marked by the Heavenly Omen Calendar, becoming the Year of Prophecy... Year of Tian Zhao Two...
In the thirty-sixth year of Heavenly Omen, chaos engulfed the world, and the Qin Emperor ultimately unified the Six Kingdoms...
"How does this resemble China's history?" Ziyu wondered as he continued reading.
After the Qin Emperor unified the realm, although there were unsatisfactory aspects, it was a rare period of peace. However, this good fortune did not last long; after the Qin Emperor passed away, Qin Ershi ascended the throne, and his tyranny led to widespread discontent.
Soon after, the Qin dynasty fell, and a new regime changed its name to Han. Nearly fifty years later, the emperor abandoned the Heavenly Omen Calendar and first used the era name "Jian Yuan."
Afterward, almost every time a new emperor took the throne, there would be a change in era names; some emperors even frequently changed their own era names...
"This is all history, completely aligning with what I know... Why?" Ziyu was puzzled; the history of Huaxia seemed to be reappearing here.
Initially, the states of Chu and Yan where Ziyu resided were part of the history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States. Xiaoyaozi mentioned other states like Qi and Zhao... At that time, Ziyu dared not speak up because he knew far more than Xiaoyaozi did.
This historical record was incomplete; he felt it necessary to find more comprehensive historical texts.
Ziyu traveled upstream to contact Ground and report his safety while continuing to explore this world.
Ziyu would not disclose anything about this civilization to others because if he did, humanity would surely spare no effort to explore this "treasure land." Ziyu wanted this land to remain peaceful.
Half an hour later.
"This..." Ziyu accelerated his search for large places like palaces for records and indeed discovered a complete historical text in the palace of Yan.
One day, disaster struck, and a colorful aurora appeared, more imposing than the Heavenly Omen of that day... However, it was precisely because of this that the entire civilization was nearly destroyed.
The sea flooded this place; some people fled, while others remained.
"That should be the Aurora..." Ziyu speculated.
The charged Particle Stream from the sun passed by Earth, attracted by the geomagnetic field, producing the Aurora.
"Wait... I've lived for twenty years and have never encountered a single Aurora? And I didn't feel cold when I was living..." Ziyu found something odd and continued to observe.
Some who left this place soon returned, saying there was a kind of monster there with a body as large as a skyscraper, with legs as thick as the pillars supporting a grand hall. There was even an illustration describing it in historical texts.
"............" Ziyu stared in silence for a while, "Isn't this just a Dinosaur..."
However, Ziyu quickly realized: "Dinosaur? That's not from the same era!"
In the next moment, Ziyu dismissed the idea that it was due to their own time travel, because the society Ziyu was in now had not changed at all. If Ziyu's time travel had caused changes in ancient times, then this current world would not exist.
The modern world Ziyu was in had already been influenced by their time travel... but this world seemed to contradict much of what Ziyu knew... and this was in the Arctic.
After some time, land became completely insufficient and was almost entirely submerged, forcing these people to move toward the land on the other side of the ocean.
Upon reaching this place, records ceased; people were no longer here, so what could they talk about regarding records...
This is roughly the story... but there is one more thing.
"Jing Mountain..." Ziyu found it and learned something.
Xia Yun, in order to have a child for herself, although historical records did not mention this matter, Ziyu knew it was their child. Then Xia Yun told this child to wait here for generations for someone who would descend from the sky...
Sure enough, just before everyone was about to evacuate, a man descended from the sky, clad in iron armor, able to stand in midair. He guided the people away.
"It seems necessary to go back... but whether I can return is another matter," Ziyu thought.
If there could be mutual communication with alien technology, Ziyu felt that time travel might be possible.
"That's probably the meaning..." Ziyu briefly sorted through the thoughts.
After the Heavenly Omen, there were changes; the highest martial arts techniques like sword energy could no longer be used. Then, possibly due to Aurora, water was about to flood this area, and people needed to evacuate. However, other land had Dinosaurs, so there was no large-scale evacuation for the time being. Later, a man came and led everyone away.
"Although I don't know why Aurora caused changes here, and I have never experienced Aurora while in this world, there must be a reason for it..." Ziyu became more determined to go back and take a look.
Why were there Dinosaurs? Why did humans exist in that era? Why did stories from thousands of years ago in China happen during the Dinosaur age? Why wasn't it cold in the Arctic at that time? Why did the first Aurora only appear later?
These all needed verification by Ziyu.
"These are matters for the future; it's still somewhat dangerous here, so I should return early."
Ziyu put away the historical texts, picked up the teapot, and began the return journey.
"Ground Control Center, this is Ziyu. I have discovered an unidentified creature and have eliminated it. I am currently returning with the body," Ziyu sent a message to Ground.
Ziyu found the large hole from when he arrived and entered it. After locating the body of the first creature he had eliminated, he secured it with Battle Armor and began his return.
"This guy is really heavy..." Ziyu said helplessly as he looked at the weight displayed on the Battle Armor screen.
The mouth could fit Ziyu entirely; could it be small...
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Antarctic Surface, Organization Base, next to the hole dug by Ziyu.
"Ziyu has discovered a mysterious creature and is returning!" a staff member shouted.
"What? Really?"
"What? Say it again?"
Everyone perked up and gathered around the hole that Ziyu had created, waiting expectantly.
"Back away twenty meters from the hole," Ziyu's voice echoed through the communicator.
"Hurry, spread out!" Everyone stepped back more than twenty meters.
"Boom!" Ice was thrown up and then shattered, with Ziyu's Battle Armor emerging first, followed by a massive creature...
"It looks just like a Plesiosaurus..." a scholar adjusted his glasses and said in astonishment.
This creature had a long neck, a "small" head, a gigantic body, and four flippers. Of course, the head being small was relative to its size.
"Legend has it that there are substances in Antarctica that cause species to grow larger. Could this be due to that substance?" Ziyu panted.
"It should be natural evolution," the scholar replied.
[End of Chapter]
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