When Zhou Li woke up, it was already afternoon, and some dim sunlight shone in from the window. The antique clock on the wall was ticking minutely, and the hour hand finally crossed the five o'clock mark.
"Are you awake?" Li Zijin sat next to him, raised his head from the pages in his hand, picked up the exquisite teapot in front of him and poured a cup for Zhou Li: "What do you want to eat?"
Zhou Li rubbed his eyes, thought for a moment and said, "Well, I'm not too hungry yet. Just give me some comfort. I'll give you some blueberry mousse."
Leaning on the sofa, he looked at the street scene outside the window in a daze. After a long time, he finally regained consciousness. He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face. He also brought down the computer he had placed here from the second floor.
The wireless wifi was just connected here two days ago. Sometimes when Zhou Li has nothing to do, he will use it to watch movies and sort out a paper that now has little meaning to him.
The decision he made a month ago overturned his plans for his life from now on, and also caused him to embark on a different path. Now it seems In fact, many things have no meaning to him.
As expected, the plan of working, graduating, and becoming a teacher now seems to have little difficulty and meaning. What Zhou Li desires has changed tremendously from the past. Sometimes he looks back inadvertently. You will find that your plans are always not as fast as reality changes.
This trance-like feeling made Zhou Li helplessly smile. After turning on the computer, he continued to flip through the electronic version of the "Encyclopedia of Abilities" - the stingy 'Ghost' had to accept the physical book even if it was an electronic version. Same price, and more expensive at the same time. Downloaded files must also be viewed with a special program.
There is no applicability at all. Why hasn¡¯t such a company closed down? Zhou Li, who had been defrauded of a lot of money, thought maliciously and continued to read the history recorded in it.
¡°This is really a very painful thing for a former history major college student. Zhou Li needed to face the history and passages he had painstakingly memorized all night long. As the hidden secrets were slowly revealed, his preparations collapsed beyond recognition.
He never thought about it in history. There is still such a big blank that he has not touched. It is the tragic time that remains after layers of whitewash and disguise have been peeled off behind layers of curtains.
For thousands of years. The history of people with abilities has always been hidden behind heavy curtains, as if there is some kind of force that deliberately suppresses them, allowing people with abilities to lurk in the shadows behind human society. Promoting the ups and downs of thousands of years.
The battle between Yan and Huang, the Peloponnesian War, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, the Crusades, the Hundred Days Reform Even World War I and World War II have their shadows - the Battle of Verdun , Sea Lion Operation, Defense of Moscow, Normandy Landingeven the American Civil War and the Apollo Moon Landing!
For thousands of years, they have left various traces, proving to the world that they are not illusions, and have always been directing or participating in the evolution and war of human society, and are inseparable from the history and glory of the entire human race.
But more often than not, they are regarded as gods, demons, immortals or wizards, as illusory characters in fantasy novels, and are admired, hated, or forgotten by others.
They willingly become ¡®legends¡¯, hiding in places where the sun cannot shine. It's not that they don't want to come to the forefront, but that they don't want to start a bloody struggle again.
Killing infidels, killing enemies, and killing everyone who stands in their way. Human beings are always accustomed to using violence to solve problems or achieve their goals.
¡°For this reason, even horrific genocide is just the tip of the iceberg of cruelty. More imaginable and unimaginable methods will also be used without hesitation when greedy or blinded by hatred.
Countless bloody lessons have taught ability users that when a group is artificially divided into two halves, it means the beginning of disputes.
Whether it is the mass massacre of people with abilities, the witch-hunting operation known as the "Dark Hundred Years" in European history, or the massive wave of counterattacks by people with abilities who are on the verge of extinction and are unwilling to perish, they are all shaking up human society. The structure is constantly in turmoil.
Plague, Black Death, Undead Disaster, Vampire Cloud
Countless sacrificed humans and ability users have paid the price in blood, which has become a lesson for those who will follow.
After experiencing countless frictions and disputes. With the full cooperation of various governments, foundations and other capable groups, they completely divided human society and capable society into two parallel lines, and signed the "Ability" at the end of World War II."Autonomy Agreement" completely hides the truth that ordinary people cannot accept behind the scenes.
They turned into drops of water and integrated into this huge world.
According to statistics in 2010, there are 2.71 million people with abilities registered in the Foundation around the world. It seems like a huge number, but the total number is not as much as the permanent population of a slightly larger county in China.
However, whether it is governments or foundations, they all understand that once there is real friction between these 2.71 million people and 6 billion people, the result will be turmoil for the entire human society.
Therefore, everything must be hidden in the darkness, and must be silent in the darkness. This fragile balance must be maintained where no one can see it, so that human history can continue peacefully, and then the entire ethnic group can survive. .
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In 1095, Pope Urban announced the First Crusade at Clement: "I say these things to those who are present, and I will also speak to those who are not present, and these are also the words of the Savior. command I, the recipient of all gifts from God, will confer it on those who venture Let those who are in the habit of provoking fights, even against Christians, go to those who are worthy of taking part and will surely win. In the war against the infidels, let those who have hitherto despoiled health become warriors of Christ to win his eternal satiety."
This is the first time the church has tried to use the power of superpowers to fight a war, to defeat those Muslims who manipulate flames like devils, to recapture the Holy Land Jerusalem, and then plunder it.
At that time, those with abilities who were regarded as the sons of the devil were told that as long as they participated in the war, they could atone for their original sins and obtain God's forgiveness. For this reason, capable people in half of Europe were forced to join the army in chains and shackles to plunder for God in the hope of gaining forgiveness and recognition from the church; even more, they put on a noble red robe and became members of the church. A member of the esper cult.
After the first taste of sweetness, the church could not stop using this terrible power. Until the end, when they had no more troops to use due to repeated failures, they did not hesitate to organize the descendants of those with abilities who died in battle to conduct the famous Children's Crusade in history, hoping to open the way to the Holy Land.
A large number of children whose fate marks have not yet awakened set out from the edge of the Mediterranean and finally poured into Marseille and other ports, where most of them were branded with a mark of shame with red-hot irons and sold into slavery.
Such a heavy blow almost caused the esper society, which had just formed at that time, to completely fall apart. It was not until the Renaissance that it could sprout again.
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Zhou Li looked intently at the history recorded in it, and constantly linked to the online library, making various comparisons to compare the clues and connections between them.
For him, this is a very interesting game. Watching the puzzle pieces of history slowly being completed in his own hands gives him an unexpected sense of accomplishment.
However, no matter how he searched for information or the ghost's information, he could not determine when exactly the "apostle" of the human demigod, known as the "god's agent", emerged.
Among the information that could be found, Zhou Li kept tracing back, and in the end he had no choice but to admit: the earliest trace of their existence could be found in AD 35, when the apostle named 'Cronos' appeared in Athens ¡
Before that, they had no trace and no history to trace. Zhou Li felt that all the clues he found would disappear into the artificial mist before the 35th AD.
Everything seems to have been completely modified.
After spending two hours and still getting nothing, Zhou Li finally closed the web page with some exhaustion and picked up the coffee that Li Zijin had just changed for himself.
His eyes swept across the screen unintentionally, and then his movements stopped, feeling like he was hallucinating.
A drop of coffee fell along the tilted mouth of the cup, staining Zhou Li's collar with a brown water stain. Zhou Li seemed not to notice it, just staring blankly at the computer desktop that he was so familiar with.
There, the photo of the ancient courtyard slowly dimmed, and the fish swimming in the pool disappeared without a trace. Zhou Li could even see clearly that each pixel was slowly extinguishing and then lighting up again.
It¡¯s like an invisible hand pushes the sand table, smoothes the ravines on it, and then writes the handwriting again.
After being silent for a long time, Zhou Li slowly put down his coffee cup and looked atA trace of imperceptible anger and doubt flashed through his mind, and he looked intently at the silent words on the screen.
The entire screen seems to have turned into a chat software window. Above the conversation bar, someone wrote in a square font that looks unusually standard:
"First meeting, an unknown ability user." (To be continued)
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