Chapter 830

【The King of Qin heard this and said:】

【"I wish to establish a great cause to honor the spirits of the six ancestors. I have heard that Chu has a Blue Bird, a divine messenger; if one observes it, the Mandate of Heaven can be known. If I obtain it, will not the completion of my cause be just around the corner?"】

【He then attacked Chu and soon broke the capital of Chu, Ying.】

【When the Geng star rose, the King of Qin observed the sky; the sky was clear, the Milky Way shone, but the Blue Bird had hidden itself and never appeared again.】

【-Praise-】

【Chu has a spiritual bird, following the Queen Mother, lining up the mansions, teaching the way of star observation.】

【After Qin, virtue declined, and it appeared no more.】

【Alas! The appearance of the Blue Bird is over.】

【The nine heavens rotate, what object shows it? The sun, moon, and stars, what principle determines them? The distinction of the six qi, what path governs them?】

【The Chu River surges with water as the Geng star rises, the Milky Way splits the clouds and the Jade Dipper is clear.】

【The Blue Bird patrols the sky and cannot return; how can the world understand the name of the Purple Forbidden Enclosure?】

Upon realizing that the Foundation was about to display some ancient documents, the audience was all excited.

This meant that in addition to understanding the Foundation, they would understand the history of human civilization before the formal establishment of the Foundation and recognize an ancient civilization they had never known before.

And myths and legends are equivalent to a civilization's imagination of the universe in its infancy, which more or less bears the characteristics of the civilization and permeates its personality.

However, when they saw those highly refined lines of text, the audience was collectively stunned.

Even the most authoritative scholars of ancient human languages could not help but let out a long sigh, recalling the nightmare of being dragged along by their mentors when they first entered the field.

"Can any expert translate this? I can't really understand it."

"Save... save, save me!"

"I once naively thought that as long as the 'Synesthesia Beacon' was popularized, there would be no barriers to communication between civilizations and races. Now it seems I was quite young."

"Hiss, I seem to have discovered something incredible... does anyone think the ancient script of Shenzhou is a bit similar to the ancient books of the Xianzhou?"

"Well, naturally, those of the same level can't read it."

"Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit similar. Could Shenzhou have some relationship with the Xianzhou?"

"You got it backward; you should ask if the Xianzhou is a branch of the Shenzhou civilization that was left behind."

"Huh?"

Meanwhile, on the other side of the "Luo Fu" Xianzhou, the "Artisanship Commission."

Under the shroud of the stars, it was very quiet here.

Even though it was filled with rows of precise automated machinery and production lines, everything seemed to have been pressed on the pause button, unplugged, and fallen into stagnation.

Here, other than the sound of footsteps made by Mara-struck monsters patrolling.

There was the sound of the roots of the "Ambrosial Arbor" growing, constantly breaking through the surface, destroying buildings, and occasionally making one or two loud noises.

At this moment, Dan Heng was walking together with two passersby he had happened to meet.

"Shenzhou?"

Dan Heng always felt this name was very familiar and couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows.

However, he didn't think too much about it, because he was currently walking with two people he had met on the road, traveling through the "Artisanship Commission," and also had to be careful of the Mara-struck soldiers that might be lurking in the corners.

"I always feel that the legends in this file have a very Xianzhou style."

At this time, Li Sushang, who claimed to be from the "Cloud Knights," said with great interest.

There was no direct evidence for this; if one were to say, it was more like a girl's intuition... a sixth sense?

But the names "Cowherd and Weaver Girl," "Twenty-Eight Mansions," and "Heavenly Questions" all brought her a trace of inexplicable familiarity.

It seemed that the Foundation's Shenzhou Branch had some unspeakable connection with the Xianzhou.

Dan Heng had a good impression of this Miss Li.

Her martial arts were decent, she had a natural sense of justice, was willing to help others, and would stand up when she saw injustice.

The only problem was that her eyes were a bit too clear, as if they had never been polluted by knowledge.

"Shenzhou... Shenzhou?"

Pointed out by Li Sushang's unintentional words, Dan Heng suddenly realized where this familiarity came from.

When Bai Xuan was telling his life story, he had said he came from Shenzhou.

If all this was really as he thought, then it would not be difficult to explain Bai Xuan's relationship with the Foundation, and it would not even be difficult to explain why "SCP-4138-Fenrir" had not launched an attack on the Xianzhou.

To go further, the connection between the Xianzhou Alliance and the ancestors of all human civilizations in the entire galaxy might be closer than everyone imagined.

And if the home planet of the Xianzhou had once hidden its existence together with the Foundation, and the Xianzhou Alliance could no longer find its way back, it would also become logical.

Dan Heng took a deep breath and emptied his mind of all kinds of thoughts.

Not to mention that all this was just his inference.

Even if it were all true, what could be done?

The Xianzhou Alliance had been traveling from its home planet for over eight thousand years.

Eight thousand years of time is enough to rewrite many things.

The races on the Xianzhou were no longer purely descendants of the races from the home planet when they set sail; there were more Vidyadhara and more Foxians.

Even the Xianzhou natives, after receiving the baptism of the "Abundance" divine power, had little to do with their ancestors.

The Xianzhou Alliance had long been accustomed to drifting in the sea of stars, considering itself one of the strong among the many strong in the galaxy.

Not to mention the Xianzhou high command, how many were still willing to return to the home planet, hand over the power in their hands, and take orders from an ancient civilization they had never heard of or seen.

Just the Xianzhou people alone, they had long been accustomed to treating the home planet as a distant legend; whether it was found or not was not important, what was important was the peace and stability of their current lives.

Just as he was thinking, a cry of surprise suddenly came from Li Sushang in front.

"It seems someone is injured!"

Dan Heng's consciousness instantly returned to reality.

He looked closely and saw wounded people lying not far ahead, and there was a considerable number of Mara-struck soldiers beside them.

"Wait! Don't act rashly!"

Unlike the audience who were tortured by classical Chinese and were somewhat screaming and scratching their heads.

Jiang Wenhan read every word carefully, and then a faint smile appeared on his face.

Looking at these materials, he seemed to be looking through the long river of time, traveling through the past and present, seeing the ancestors of his family, and seeing the persistence and longing that carried the ancestors' pursuit of the shadow of the "Blue Bird."

A moment later, he clicked on the previous file and continued to write:

【I still remember the wish I made when I was blowing out the candles on my sixth birthday.】

【It was to see with my own eyes the Blue Bird from the legends passed down through our family that my father would tell me about every spring night when I was a child.】

【Especially its legendary blue tail feathers that danced actively like flames.】

【After the birthday party, I told my father this wish. He just smiled, touched my head, and said:】

【"When you run to stars further away in the future, you will be able to see the Blue Bird."】

【As a child, I didn't understand the sky, but I enjoyed the days of lying under the starry sky and letting my imagination fly.】

【In those years, humanity was making the final preparations before completely leaving Earth.】

【There was amazing news in the aerospace field almost every day; it was the golden age of aerospace technology development when the interstellar wandering era of humanity was budding.】

【Born in the budding era of interstellar civilization, I liked to read legends related to the starry sky.】

【I knew that the stars in the sky were the heavenly markets of the East and the ships of heroes of the West.】

【I knew that the Milky Way was the Heavenly River drawn by the Queen Mother to separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and I knew that the crimson Fire Star was the heart of the Scorpion of the Queen of Heaven in Greece.】

【But what I liked most was the story of the Blue Bird.】

【I drew little blue birds in the homework I handed to my teacher, drew little blue birds on the doors of my home, and every time I had to draw their tails very long and very bright.】

【Even the novel I wrote during my rebellious period in middle school had a protagonist named "Blue Feather Sword Saint."】

【I didn't know at the time that my father, as the chief researcher of "SCP-C-1559," was the person in the world who knew the "Blue Bird" best.】

【And all his knowledge about the "Blue Bird" almost pointed to a cruel reality—the "Blue Bird" was just a beautiful rumor.】

【After thousands of years of changes, the legendary "Blue Bird" also seemed to have shed the coat of the messenger of the stars and became a messenger of longing.】

【This ancient legend was slowly remembered only by a few people, including our family.】

【And I myself ultimately had to walk out of the wild dreams of my youth and return to reality.】

【Under my father's encouragement, I earned a double doctorate in astrophysics and Earth history.】

【The tension between these two disciplines was so great that I almost collapsed during the years I was studying.】