After a round of research and discussion, everyone arrived at a chilling truth.
That is, history does not suddenly disappear, but is slowly vanishing at a certain pace.
Just like the history book Jiang Xiao just read.
The handwriting on it is already very blurred, and one can only roughly discern it because this history of the Grand Dynasty is over eight hundred years old.
Although the history of the Grand Dynasty has no "flavor," it can at least show the general direction of the dynasty.
But if it were history from more than a thousand years ago, it would only exist in scattered fragments.
If it were history about four hundred years ago, the printed text would be relatively clear.
Modern history can be viewed normally, but the font...
The font looks like it has grown tentacles, with each corner extending a bit longer than normally written text.
It looks very clear, but after looking too much, it gives one an uncomfortable feeling.
And when it comes to modern history, there's completely no problem!
"Haven't you guys been researching history for most of your lives? These books had such obvious problems, and you haven't noticed until now?"
"No... no..."
The old men lowered their heads in shame, not understanding why they didn't notice before.
Jiang Xiao couldn't be bothered to criticize them; this already explained something.
"Divine power has long been permeating your civilization, but I don't understand why it targets history?"
"Actually, I think it doesn't matter, right?" The silent mathematician spoke up: "The disappearing history doesn't affect us much."
At first glance, this statement seems correct.
However, Jiang Xiao spoke up, sounding a bit frustrated.
"Haven't you thought that one day, the history you're living now will be gradually covered by the next history?"
"It's as if you, standing at the pinnacle of science, never existed in this world, even if you're a physicist with countless awards, future generations can't find any records about you."
"They use the technology you've developed, enjoy the products you've invented, live with your advanced medicine, yet don't know who the inventors are. Don't you find it tragic?"
Jiang Xiao's words struck like pearls, leaving everyone speechless.
"Moreover, the main point, which I can't clarify, why does the Divine want to erode your history? For what purpose? For what reason?"
Everyone fell into deep thought.
The occurrence of this global disaster plague is easy to understand; it's because humans polluted the ocean, causing the sea High Priest to summon Divine punishment.
However, the erosion of history can be said to have never stopped from ancient times to present.
Every action requires a reason, doesn't it?
Indeed.
Previously, Old Yang said that Divine power has infinitely exceeded human cognition.
Whenever They move, it is unresistable harm to humans.
They view humans like humans view ants.
But!
Humans wouldn't keep staring at ants for countless years, destroying their nests each time, right?
This metaphor may be inappropriate, but the general idea is that this Divine is not so invincible but is clearly "deliberately targeting" the history of this world.
"Why is there no issue with modern history?"
"Why are Divine's effects on history very severe in the past, but weaker the closer to present they get?"
Jiang Xiao frowned, feeling something was off with what was said, thus correcting them.
"No, you need to understand, It is not suddenly starting to erode history now, but has been doing so from ancient times to present, with the longest erosion in the past, and the shortest now."
As soon as Jiang Xiao finished speaking, an elder raised his hand.
"Jiang Divine, take a look, the Da Qin Dynasty is over fifteen hundred years old, but its history is clearer and more complete than the Grand Dynasty's!"
Jiang Xiao quickly went over and picked up the Da Qin book.
Indeed, not only was the handwriting clearer, but the recorded stories were more interesting.
Far more detailed than things like: 'Certain battle, one side wins', 'Major famine, countless deaths'.
"Why is this? Isn't it true that the longer the time, the more severe the erosion?"
But there are no issues?
Other dynasties from the same time period as Da Qin have only scant records.
But why is Da Qin's history so well-preserved?
"Because Da Qin is impressive?" An elder tentatively answered.
This world's Da Qin is similar to Blue Planet's, also sweeping across the lands to establish a unified dynasty.
Not correct...
Jiang Xiao felt he grasped something but couldn't express it.
"Right, you have museums, don't you? Do they house old items left behind by ancient dynasties?"
"Yes!"
Jiang Xiao directly checked those ancient artifacts' photos and information on the computer.
The results were as he expected.
Clearly, porcelain from only a few hundred years ago was already a wreck.
Those jade artifacts that are not easy to damage had turned yellow and dull.
As for the books left by their dynasty [the books he just read are modern compilations] are even worse.
Whether paper records, bamboo slats, or animal skin records, all looked tattered, like they had been soaked in sulfur.
This further convinced Jiang Xiao of his earlier thought.
These dynasties did not intentionally hide their consciousness; otherwise, so many documents wouldn't have been unearthed.
"Huh? This sword?"
Jiang Xiao discovered a brand new bronze sword, not only free of rust like other bronze artifacts but with the sword edge faintly flashing cold glints.
"Ding Qin Sword, excavated from Qin Tomb."
"So new?"
"Well, yes, when unearthed it was very new, unknown what material is applied on it, we couldn't detect it, nor explain why it hasn't decayed over a thousand years."
Applied what?
Previously Jiang Xiao also thought those unearthed Divine weapons might have some material applied to prevent decay for centuries.
But in ancient times, was there such formidable anti-decay material?
According to a local informant, this Ding Qin Sword wasn't carefully preserved in any vacuum environment but was stuck in a stone in Qin Tomb.
Jiang Xiao silently changed the selection criteria to only view the Da Qin period.
Da Qin's history being more complete is already surprising.
Unexpectedly, even the unearthed artifacts are so well-preserved?
"Carefully investigate, I believe there might not be only Da Qin as the anomaly!"
This world's dynastic changes are frequent, far beyond Blue Planet, but fortunately, now manpower is abundant, and quickly found several special dynasties.
Da Han!
Da Ming!
Da Tang!
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