How am I still alive?

Chapter 1912 Era

Chapter 1912 Era

On the long shelves are piles of bones, creating a strange and sacred scene.

The road is peaceful and I walk along it, but I can't feel a soul. The long time has washed away all the non-sedimentary things except knowledge.

What other records are more difficult to detect than human memory?

Is there any collection more hidden than the bones of a dead person?

What other secrets are worth burying with countless lives?

"After we have been poisoned by knowledge, we are doomed to be unable to enter reincarnation. Our souls should break into pieces and return to the earth, but some things are doomed to be insoluble."

These gravekeepers are destined not to enjoy the normal treatment of the dead in the upper world. After their souls have suffered severe damage, even if they are not rejected by the world, it is impossible for them to reincarnate completely into the underworld and start a new cycle.

And even if they could cycle, considering that the underground world has a more primitive social structure than the upper world, it is obvious that they did not bring any knowledge down with them.

"These bones are the tomb we have to guard"

The nameless old gravekeeper spoke calmly about his duties.

There are not many gravekeepers, and they often die young, so they need to be replaced regularly. In a sense, this is also a kind of murder.

However, some things are just passed down like this.

Under the "great cemetery" scattered throughout the world, those corpses that the earth cannot digest are the true heritage of this world.

"The cemetery is our real library. I don't know how many large cemeteries there are in this area. Many of the stored items are duplicated and not systematic, but this does not affect our inheritance."

Every "collection of books" may be incomplete. After all, the knowledge they record may only be a small part of one's lifetime.

But there are probably many large cemeteries like this all over the world. They each store a large amount of memory and knowledge, and destroying most of them will not completely cut off their existence.

Although they are just fragments, if there are enough "collections of books", we can eventually piece together the "truth".

"Can you let me see what's inside it?"

Although it was a bit blasphemous, Lu Ping'an was indeed very curious about what the inheritance of this world was.

If it's just about civilization and history, will it arouse hostility from the whole world?

"Please, if you can, take them with you."

There was some expectation in the old man's tone, and he didn't know what the point of passing it on like this was. But if the world was really destroyed and these things were passed on, at least the lives of people like him would still be valuable.

At the same time, he even handed Lu Ping'an a silver umbrella.

After opening it, it turned out to be pieces of bones.

Lu Ping'an closed his eyes, touched it, and tried to "understand" it.

And this is the general outline.

Just one glance and Lu Ping'an was stunned.

"How could this be?"

The most basic foundation of a civilization, or a world, is always history.

The "General Outline" provides more than just the correspondence between "ancient characters" and "modern language". For Lu Ping'an, a high-level scholar, it is equivalent to directly providing a translator. More importantly, it explains the true history of this world, the truth before this world was forced to become like this.

"This ancestor was really rich."

What appeared in Lu Ping'an's hands was not the history of "orcs".

In fact, this world has gone through several eras.

In the beginning, it was the world of dragons, and the ancient dragon king ruled this world.

After that, it was the world of giants, who drove out the dragons.

Next, there is the world of the hybrid dragonborn, who are weakened hybrids of dragons and other races (mainly giants), but they successfully drove out the giants.

Further back, it is the world of beasts, where huge and powerful demon beasts and divine beasts occupy the world.

But like the giants, they were also driven away by their own descendants. The birth of the half-blood orcs means that "beasts" are also destined to come to an end.

"Now I finally understand why those ancient orcs would behave like this."

In this world, it is not just the orcs that are evolving. The intelligent races are also constantly evolving. The latecomers are constantly expelling the former, causing the dominant races to constantly change.

Before, Lu Ping'an didn't know why the "ancient orcs" wanted to isolate themselves from the outside world and refuse to evolve. Perhaps they had seen through everything and hoped that their tribe would always be the ruler of the world.

This exquisite world design must have been created by some intelligent creatures, and if I am not mistaken, it should be the oldest creatures in the pantheon. Or, in other words, the orc gods, is this their choice? To let their descendants continue in such an ignorant way.

Lu Ping'an shook his head. There was still too little information to make a judgment.

It is also true that in this era of generational change, evolution has stopped.

Perhaps, the so-called "Orcs" are not just a hybrid of beasts and "humans", but a continuation and genetic hybrid of creatures from all previous eras, which can explain why their racial potential is so high.

"Part of us possesses knowledge from past epochs."

Now, Lu Ping'an finally understood.

Whether it is art, music, and other cultural creations that are private to a race, or the fleeting supernatural power in memory, they are all quite valuable.

Even just the past forms of existence, the genetic modules of those extraordinary races can make life systems like Lu Ping'an very fond of them.

However, the older something is, the lower the chance of it being passed down.

This is just like a pornographic book in Haoran Library. It takes a lot of luck to get it.

Looking at this little old man, Lu Ping'an also suddenly understood.

He, and they, hope that the Ark of Lu Ping An can take away everything.

"How many graves are there?"

"I don't know. No one knows. It's very likely that most of the grave keepers in a certain area have died, and they will try to bury them together, or even bury them underground, to avoid being discovered as much as possible."

“The source of knowledge should not just be inheritance.”

"Yes, the most valuable part is actually recorded by our ancestors themselves. They are the ones who experienced it and also the victims."

The gravekeepers are probably always there, but they don't have any impact and just record everything silently.

Does it make sense? I'm afraid they were looking forward to the rise of a new race, and after changing the world, they would eliminate these rules that hinder civilization and rebuild a new world with the "treasures" of the past.

But until the end of the world, this day still has not come.

“I’ll try to take as much as I can.”

After reading the book for a while, Lu Ping'an determined its "value". It was a treasure that could not be refused.

"Dragon language magic, giant martial arts, beast talent. They really all have their own unique skills."