"You've been a thief since you were born?"
"You are the thief!" the girl glared.
She finally exploded, and kept using words like "arrogant", "shameless", and "cocky" to describe the other person. In her words, Feather Hat was a rich young man who had nothing better to do and was looking for death. She felt justified in stealing money from such a person, and felt that "you should pay the price for your arrogance and rudeness."
"Oh, I didn't realize you're also a thief."
The man in the feather hat was delighted, squatted down and stretched out his hand to her.
"My name is Dismatic, Dismatic-Avondale."
"I am a historian, not some idle young man who wants to die, Miss Helian."
Hitzfeld thought that at this moment he must be emitting something that could be called "personal charm", otherwise it would be impossible to explain why Miss Helian stared at his face in a daze until a few seconds later.
But Hai Lian did not take the hand. She just looked at him strangely, then stood up and left.
"I'm serious," he began again, "I'm a historian."
"I came here to explore a strange phenomenon called the Sea of Time. I searched many places before I found this place. They didn't believe that I could produce any results. I just want to slap them in the face."
"You don't have to... huh... explain this to me... huh..."
"It's necessary because I don't want to be thought of as a lunatic."
“Huh… is that so?”
Hailian stopped again and turned back with a look of sarcasm on her face.
"Even if what you said is true, you are really a lunatic."
"why?"
"I don't know who 'they' are, but I know they're right to look down on you."
Hailian turned and continued walking, making low sounds as she walked.
"history?"
"When you and the people around you don't even have enough to eat, huh... will you still care about history?"
"History... I know history too! Isn't it just things that happened in the past... What's the use of such things? Can they help us live a good life?"
"It seems that you are prejudiced against society, Miss Helian."
"It's not that I am biased against society, it's that society is biased against us!"
"I have no intention of correcting you."
Facing Hai Lian's ridicule, the man did not show the slightest anger.
He just followed the girl closely, and when she slipped, he quickly approached her and pulled her, then he came close to her and whispered:
“But all the poor people, have you ever thought about why they live?”
What did he say?
Hailian stared at him with wide eyes.
What kind of weird question is this?
"They have hope, don't they?" The man quickly revealed the answer. "Poor people without hope don't even have the will to live. They are willing to live because they have hope. They believe they have a chance to get rid of poverty and their future life will get better and better."
“History is something similar.”
“Human beings look forward to tomorrow with hope.”
“History will tell mankind which direction to go tomorrow.”
Chapter 73: Falsified
He is indeed not just a rich young man who has nothing better to do than to seek death.
There are some well-mannered people who you can tell they are well-mannered the moment they start talking. Apparently Dismatic is one of them.
He always habitually puts on a frivolous face, and seems to be at ease in everything he does, which makes people angry but also admire him. Then that emotion may turn into jealousy. Imagine if it were me... If I had the opportunity to receive such an education since childhood, would I be able to become a similar person, or even do better than this person.
But from this moment on it was no longer the case - those messy emotions completely disappeared, and what remained was only emotion and a trace of huge shock lingering in the admiration.
"My grandfather mentioned people like you to me..." Hai Lian was held in his arms, looking up at his face blankly, "He said... not all nobles are bad people, some of them are fools among the nobles... He called them 'idealists'..."
"That's a very apt description." Dismatic let go of her and straightened her up. "He's right. I am an idealist."
"But." Hai Lian narrowed her eyes, "But does all this really make sense?"
"I mean, you are a noble, and you don't look like an ordinary noble. If you want to study history, you can find a professional to help you. Why—"
"Why do you have to run around alone?" Dismatic began to grin. "Of course if I don't come in person, no one will take it seriously."
"You are one of this kind. You know better than me how broken this world is and how many rules are left."
"It's like when I came to the central city, I saw people urinating against the wall everywhere, and the police passed by and turned a blind eye... I heard people calling for help in the middle of the night, but the neighbors just turned off the lights. I saved the people, but they just wanted to escape from there."
"Order is collapsing." He looked at the girl's face seriously. "As you can see, she is collapsing."
"The deterrent power of the Kingdom of God is running out. Many people even believe that it does not exist at all and has never left any trace in history. Everyone tells me that what is rising now is science and technology, but I don't see any trace of order in it."
"Why do I have to be alone? Because there aren't many people who still believe in me now."
"Maybe my views on history can impress some people and make them temporarily feel some random positive emotions towards me - but so what?"
"Will they come and help me with anything?"
"Do they dare to say publicly, in the face of the current trend of thought, that the myth of the Sun King is true?"
"That's impossible..." Hai Lian replied reflexively, "If it were in some extreme areas, anyone who dared to say that would be burned to death..."
"That's right." Dismatic nodded vigorously and said with emotion: "The whole world has gone crazy... They are immersed in leaps and bounds of technological progress, and they only see tomorrow and not yesterday. This is very dangerous."
“A civilization without tomorrow will not last long, but a civilization that does not value yesterday, or even learns from yesterday, will not be able to go far either.”
"I'm here to hear them talk about this?" Ali muttered suddenly.
Then he quickly attracted Knight Raymond's big fist and was hit hard on the top of his head.
"Don't take it lightly." Raymond said in a low voice, "He is right."
"If my guess is correct, the era they lived in should be before the gray fog fell." He frowned and stood there lost in his memories.
"There are serious disagreements within the Order about that era, of course - it was actually a long, long time ago... Some people believe that there was a period in history when the whole world was in a panic because it was abandoned by the Lord, and that it was a temporary breakdown of order."
Has it collapsed to the point where even believing that myths are true will result in being burned as heretics?
Hitzfeld took a breath. She really didn't know there was such a dark history.
But she soon discovered something was wrong and asked, "Is the time wrong?"
According to the information currently available, the Gray Mist officially invaded around 1800. The invasion of the Gray Mist led to the demise of civilization and order, and the ancient country of Serran collapsed in this disaster. In the end, it relied on the alternation of the sacred oak and the poplar to transform into Sara and be reborn.
The problem is, even in such a tragic period of history, the lower-class people on this continent did not abandon their belief in the goddess.
Why would Sanfeli tell such a big lie?
Why did he create the Mechanicus in the name of the Goddess?
Isn’t it because there are too many devout believers who are unwilling to give up their faith until they die or until they are truly desperate!
So if they are such people, why would they remain silent during that dark period just because of a little oppression?
Or maybe this dark period sounds more like a fabrication. Given Seran's religious foundation at the time, it would be impossible for such a trend of thought to arise even if he was abandoned by God.
Hitzfeld felt that there was something strange about this.
Isn't it too abrupt to jump from the attitude of "deeply hating myths and legends" before 1800 to the attitude of "believers of all the people" after 1800?
A person may be able to undergo such a huge and strong transformation, but that is an era!
is it possible?
Is there something missing in the middle?
“That’s where the divide lies,” Raymond said. “Some people think there is no such history, that it was made up.”
"Where are the others?" Ashley asked expectantly, staring.
"I think it exists, but I can't prove it." Raymond shook his head. "There are too few documents unearthed in this regard to form a sufficient argument. And even if we can form an argument, the time period doesn't match. There are other documents before 1800, and they all show that it was not a completely dark and crazy era."
"Of course, there is another theory."
Dismatic's voice came from the front.
"I'm also very puzzled, because according to the literature I've read, this change in attitude towards mythology is a bit too abrupt. It doesn't seem to happen naturally, so I think we need to explore what happened yesterday."
Coincidentally, he was also discussing the same topic with Helian, and what he said happened to be consistent with what Knight Raymond said.
When he said these things, his voice was very low.
It was like, even though he was of noble status and had excellent martial arts skills, he was still afraid that someone would hear what he was about to say in this remote place.
"You just said another way of saying it."
Hai Lian was unconsciously attracted by this danger and quietly approached him to ask him.
"What does it mean in another way?"
“It’s just that time has been cut up by someone.”
Everyone who listened, including Hitzfeld, couldn't help but skip a beat.
"At least civilization's understanding of time has been cut."
His voice was like nails, hammering into everyone's hearts character by character.
"People who hold this view believe that the Dark Ages was real, and the corresponding Age of Contradiction was also real. They both existed in the same time period, the same era, but they ended up in two different ways, just as if the long river of history rushed to this era and found a fork in the road. It touched its chin and then split itself into two parts, with the larger one going to the left fork and the smaller one going forward along the right fork...which is the era we are in."
"Are you serious?"
Hailian was going crazy.
"There are two eras? Two worlds existing simultaneously?"
She didn't understand - for her, who only wanted to have enough food and clothing every day, everything this man said was too magical... She had never imagined that the world could be so gorgeous and colorful. That was imagination - the world in Dismatic's mouth was like a kaleidoscope, which made her sink and intoxicated.
"I lied to you."
But unexpectedly, Dismatic quickly denied it.
"I haven't confirmed it yet. This is just my own random thought..."
"Of course, that's because I can't think of any other possibilities... But this is too fantastical anyway. It's better to say that some person or force has tampered with people's understanding of this. This sounds more scientific."
“…That’s what I thought not long ago.”
He is simply the king of panting!
Hitzfeld's accumulated resentment was almost about to burst out all at once.
Can't this person speak properly?
"Not long ago I thought it was just a fantasy, until I discovered the mother river of the Nemo people... I found out from those documents that there might be a place called the Sea of Time."
"So you want to come with me?"
He looked at Hailian, and his gaze seemed to penetrate Hailian and shoot towards the water pool team standing behind.
"There might be something like this up there."
"Are you ready for a dreamlike adventure?"
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Chapter 74: Crossing the Long River of History
No one knew how dreamlike this adventure was, but they had already suffered enough during the climb.
Experienced climbers know how tiring it is to climb at night. Although Shuangshen Peak is not the kind of mountain where one wrong step will kill you, they still have to spend a lot of energy to pay attention to the road conditions. Physical and mental strength are consumed in the process.
And there are other difficulties here. That is, the Twin God Peaks that Dismatic and Helian climbed are not the same mountain they are climbing now.
They are both called Shuangshen Peaks - indeed, but the time does not match. Some subtle changes in terrain caused by wind, rain, sun and weathering will clearly distinguish them, making some sections that the other side can easily pass through separated by mountain roads in reality.
Then they would have to speed up and take a detour, which would consume even more energy.
