"The snake dies, the tome emerges. Pass on hope, keep the seed alive. "
"This legend is about the Phecda Hero, Gu Jun. It happened in the last era of Earth. At the time, the world changed and many scary plagues ravaged our home world. To find the cure, the Phecda Hero entered the Dreamlands with the Goddess of Hope.
"They arrived at the Island of the Giant House and worked together to defeat a snake monster that was as large as a house. The Phecda Hero used a knife to cut open its stomach. The cure and the Seven Cryptical Book of Hsan were inside its stomach! So it knew that they were coming, so it swallowed them all into its stomach. "
The more Peacock spoke, the more excited she became. She tried to maintain her composure but Malachite was getting worked up.
The Phecda Hero and the Goddess of Hope fought the giant snake! This was a legend they would never get tired of hearing.
But on the other side, Gu Jun's brows creased slightly …
"But the cunning snake monster was not completely dead. It bit the Phecda Hero when he was searching for the cure." Peacock sighed. "The venom gathered on the Phecda Hero's body. He could use the cure to save himself but that would be the end of our home world."
"The Phecda Hero did not use the cure. He used the last of his power to open a space channel. The Goddess of Hope returned with the cure and the spell book while he himself remained in the Dreamlands forever … buried on the Island of the Giant House."
Peacock explained the story vividly. She raised her voice to recite the famous quote that the Phecda Hero told the Goddess of Hope, "'Where there is the tome, there is hope, there is the seed. And the seed, one day, will light up the whole world. 'From then on, this has been our motivation. "
Gu Jun listened, 'The problem is … I never said that.'
"The Phecda Hero has many other famous quotes." Peacock added, "They are the source of our spirit."
"A true warrior dares to face all fear, dares to look directly at any kind of blood." Malachite said solemnly, there was fire in his eyes.
Gu Jun felt his stomach ache. He sighed but his heart felt suffocated. "Are you sure this is the truth?"
"That is a legend that everyone in our tribe is familiar with." Peacock said. "That is all we know." She did not dare say that was the whole truth.
"That must be it." Malachite was much more fanatical and persistent than her. "That must be it."
Legend. Gu Jun understood that this was a kind of myth and legend. Even if he were to speak of a history book from 300 years ago, it might not necessarily be true. Word of mouth would also constantly change in the process. Some people would exaggerate, some would modify, and in the end, it would show the original mythical form of humanity's collective unconscious.
The legend of the Phecda Hero going to the Dreamlands to search for the elixir sounded similar to Gilgamesh going to the underworld to search for the Elixir of Immortality …
If what Peacock said was true, then in this era, the Phecda Heroes were people like Gilgamesh, Yu the Great and Prometheus.
Legends were not 100% true, but they did express part of the truth.
Gu Jun and Wu Shiyu did come to the Dreamlands, they did defeat the enemy, Gu Jun did stay and Wu Shiyu did bring something back.
"And then?" He asked, "What happened to our home world?"
"The Seven Cryptical Book of Hsan ushered in the last golden age of the old world." Peacock said with yearning, "It was a time of peace and progress. The World Supernatural Alliance was formed. The elites of various countries gathered together and they walked before the people. According to legend, there were tens of billions of people. "
There were not tens of billions but there were at least several billion. Gu Jun thought about it. 'World Supernatural Alliance?'
He did hear from Tong Ye that Phecda would promote international cooperation to form a new global organization but was it that easy for the nations to unite?
Especially in times of peace? He did not believe it. This was probably another exaggeration or a reversal of time.
"That era was filled with heroes! These elites from all over the world inherited the spirit of the Phecda Heroes. They gained power from the Seven Cryptical Book of Hsan and led their people to defeat the supernatural evils. "
Peacock said proudly but like all roses that withered after blooming, her expression was the same. "After the end of the golden age, it was the age of great change … First came the outbreak of the Bloody Lung Disease. According to legend, this disease can be transmitted through the air. Once infected, it can cause death within a few days."
Gu Jun's eyebrows shot up. Transmitted through the air, quick onset, rapid progression … He knew what that meant …
"Bloody Lung Disease? Why is it called that? "He asked. A shadow flashed past, it was the hemoptysis that destroyed the foreign civilization.
"According to legend, the disease starts from the lungs and then spreads to the rest of the body." Peacock could not give more details, "In the end, the patient would die from coughing blood."
Coughing blood … Gu Jun leaned against the back of the chair and closed his eyes weakly. But hemoptysis was not transmitted through the air …
But according to legend, it could change shape … Gu Jun had a feeling this Bloody Lung Disease was hemoptysis.
Why would hemoptysis still erupt on Earth in Peacock's future story? Was it caused by the Afterlife Cult?
"During the age of change, there were two other plagues." Peacock's voice darkened. "One was Petrification Disease that would turn a person into stone and the other was Mutated Scale Disease that would grow fish scales all over the person's body."
Gu Jun felt a heavy blow. Multiple plagues at the same time?
Fish scales? If fish scales were just a metaphor for appearance, then humans already had the skin disease "ichthyosis", so Mutated Scale Disease was a possibility …
But how did they turn into stone? Was that the effect of a spell? Biologically speaking, that did not seem possible.
Or was the word 'stone' just a metaphor? Unmoving … like locked-in syndrome?
"What is the deal with Petrification Disease?" He asked, "Is it the kind of stone that turns into stone?"
"Hmm …" Both Peacock and Malachite were confused by this question. Malachite could not help but grumble, "A stone is a stone, a stone like a statue."
"The power of mortals." Atal sighed on the podium, "They are too weak."
"These plagues took a very short time to spread across the world." Noticing the silence from the nightmare man, Peacock continued, "In less than a year, all the cities around the world collapsed and the world fell into chaos and death. The heroes of the Alliance led the survivors to build the last human settlement of the old world at the south pole, the City of Tinder. But the plague still followed the monsoon and in the end … 10,000 kindling moved into the plains of Leng. "
Malachite's face was tense, he did not sigh or make a sound, he was disappointed by the fallen glory of humanity.
"Oh." Gu Jun's mind was in a mess. He studied the two carefully but the more he looked at them, the stranger he felt …
No, these two were not Asian.
Some small differences that he had not noticed in the past few days started to surface. They were mixed-blood faces that were mainly Asian and they had been mixed for many generations so they were not that obvious. Global migration, this was bound to happen …
Gu Jun could see that they did not look like they were lying but he could not understand what was going on.
Peacock was about to tell the story after the 10,000 kindling arrived at Dreamlands when Gu Jun stopped her and asked with a frown, "What happened to the Goddess of Hope that you mentioned?"
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