Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 92

The so-called “public schools” in the Puland city-state are completely different from the real universities in the upper city-these schools funded by the city hall are not institutions for cultivating real scholars. Their greater role is to Train skilled workers for the factories of the Lower Town and for the Church’s steam engine, and in the process educate the masses on basic literacy.

Under this premise, the resource level of the public school in the Cross Street District is naturally conceivable.

Duncan was in contact with Morris for the first time, but even from the first impression, he could see that the old gentleman had extraordinary academic attainments. An uptown university would have more than enough experts to identify an antiquity and give its exact date and historical background.

As far as the facts are concerned, it is a waste of all his knowledge in the public school in the Cross Street District. Nina has said that few students in her class care about the content taught by the old man. To sleep is to respect the teacher.

What’s more, this Mr. Morris can spend a lot of money to buy a dagger from a century ago-it’s not like ordinary citizens to carry a check book with them.

Duncan thought for a while, and it seemed too abrupt to ask directly, “Why are you so rich?”, but it is very natural to use the art of language to say: “

Actually, I am a little curious, how can a scholar like you stay in the public school in the cross street?” Be a teacher at school?”

“…You’re not the first to ask this question,” Morris seemed to be accustomed to other people’s questions in this regard, he just smiled and said while carefully putting away his things, “Actually, it’s nothing. It’s just that I’m getting old, and I’m tired of the overly tense academic atmosphere in those universities in the upper city. Instead of competing with young people for the few resources, it’s better to find a quieter place to complete my research… and I can still use myself in my later years. Wouldn’t it be great to pass on more young people’s knowledge?”

The old man didn’t seem to be telling the truth, but Duncan saw that the other party didn’t want to go into too much detail, so he didn’t ask, but just casually said: “But I heard from Nina that her classmates don’t value the knowledge you teach very much. … In this lower city where survival is difficult, is it too far to pursue the glory of the ancient kingdom of Crete?” “

Even in the deepest and darkest sewer alleys, as long as the spiritual mind is still thinking, ‘history’ will be It is always valuable,” Morris shook his head, “It is because of the history of the past thousands of years that we can come to where we are today.

” The lifespan can far exceed the limit of an individual, and this is the key to distinguishing us from those strange and blind things in the deep sea-they are long-lived, but they don’t know how to record civilization, so they can never destroy us.

“Of course, Mr. Duncan, what you said is correct. In this downtown area, few people are willing to listen to my long speech… But even if I only teach one student, I feel that my time these years has not been in vain.

” Reese spoke in such a leisurely manner, and then seemed to suddenly realize something, showing a gentle and apologetic smile: “Sorry, professional habits, I have some lectures.” “It’s okay, I think it is very valuable”

preaching ‘,” Duncan waved his hand immediately, “In fact, I would be happy to talk to you—you see, you are a history expert, and I am an antique dealer. In a sense, we are colleagues.” From

” “Teacher” is also a colleague in this regard – Duncan added silently in his heart.

“To be honest, if only from the first impression when I walked into this antique shop… I really don’t believe the word ‘peer’ in your mouth,” Morris spread his hands, “but now I somewhat believe it— —You still have a real one anyway.”

Duncan’s expression on his face was very calm, and he said in his heart that there was more than one real thing—the moment the old man filled out the check, he had already drawn all the warehouses of the Lost Home in his mind Once again, if he wasn’t worried about impacting the market, he would have even planned the decoration style of the eighth branch at this time…

With a calm mind, Duncan continued to maintain a calm posture with a smile on his face: “I heard from Nina that you are actually better at ancient history, especially the history before and after the ancient kingdom of Crete?” “Strictly speaking,

only ‘After’, there is no ‘before’,” Morris immediately corrected, “The ancient kingdom of Crete was the beginning of civilization in the deep sea age, and before the ancient kingdom was the Great Annihilation Event, which was the melting point of civilization, no one can say It is clear what the world looked like before that time point—something is just a self-contradictory statement in the wilderness tales circulating in various city-states.”

Duncan thought thoughtfully: “The melting point of civilization…is like a criss-crossing path in history. Is the ‘horizon limit’ in the river…”

Morris obviously heard this word for the first time: “The horizon limit?

” The invisible time wall, all the information on the other side of the wall cannot be transmitted to the other side of the wall, whether it is optical observation or the causal connection of things, they are all cut off in front of that boundary, and you can never stand on the side of the boundary Knowing what happened on the other side, it seems that the timeline of everything suddenly appeared from that boundary.”

“Quite an interesting statement!” Old Mr. Morris opened his eyes slightly, with They even lighted up slightly, “The horizon limit in history… a wall of time… Indeed, very appropriate! Mr. Duncan, forgive me for my wrong impression and… contempt for you at the beginning, you are bigger than I imagined Do you often study ancient history?”

“No, I don’t know much about ancient history, but my thinking is more flexible, and sometimes I can think of some wonderful metaphors,” Duncan immediately said modestly. Now I should be a little ignorant, “But I am really curious about the events of the Great Annihilation period… You mentioned just now that the orthodox academic circles have not yet recognized the history before the Great Annihilation, but there are many contradictions in the ‘unofficial history’ of various city-states records? What are these records like?”

“It’s just unofficial history… But I have indeed studied some,” Morris thought, and said slowly, “For example, there was a record in the city-state of Puland, which was a manuscript in 1069 of the new city-state calendar. It is no longer possible to test, but the manuscript describes the world before the Great Annihilation as follows:

“The world is a sphere, floating in the vast sea of stars, and there are countless celestial bodies dotting the night sky as stars. There is one sun and three moons in the sky. Humans occupy There are three continents, one of which is frozen all year round, so people built a device called a “dome” to cover the continent to create an “eternal spring”. The energy of this dome is modeled on the sun in the sky to A certain component in the sea water is used as fuel, which is almost eternal…”

Morris paused for a while, as if to give Duncan some time to think, remember, and organize, and then continued: “

And near Cold Harbor On one of the islands, explorers found a record carved on rocks, which also described the world before the annihilation. Scholars tried their best to decipher it, but they were very confused—”The book on the stone tablet

describes , a homeland called ‘Mother Star’ has been exhausted, and the world is riding on a huge ship called ‘Abynyx’, which can cross the sea of stars, fueled by dust and gas captured in nothingness, The giant ship sailed for 47,000 days and nights, and was suddenly involved in a “huge flash and vortex”, and then the ship disintegrated and disappeared in the vortex, and the descendants survived from the sea water, leaving memories of their hometown in the cave.

” Of course, these records are not as bizarre as the legends left by the elves in Qingfeng Harbor.

“The elves have a lifespan of a thousand years. Their history should be more detailed and reliable than other short-lived races, but for some reason, the history of Qingfeng Harbor is the most fragmented and absurd among all city-state histories. Many of their files have even been destroyed. An unknown force distorted it into an unreadable ‘lost scroll’, which had to be sealed due to serious pollution. In the narrative poem passed down by the elves, this is how the world before the annihilation is described:

“The world is a dream, it is a call of the Great Demon God Sasloka in a half-dream and half-awake state. The elves were born in the dream and kept Sasloka’s sleep, but one day, the Demon God suddenly dreamed of the Great Demon God. When the flood came, he woke up, and the flood leaked from his dream to the real world, and the elves were also swept into reality by the flood… The demon god Sasloka woke up and disappeared, and the elves could never return That peaceful and peaceful homeland was settled in the deep sea age after the flood.”

(End of this chapter)