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Chapter 1649 Verifying History (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

The city government of Hickraland did indeed collect a considerable number of pages and arranged them in order.

The first page in the display case happens to be the first page of the second volume.

The content on this page is very simple: the explorer received sponsorship and thanked several sponsors. These sponsors were all old companies that He Ao did not recognize, but some of them were still in existence, such as Nord Electronics.

Although this explorer was relatively unknown, he was quite adept at securing sponsorships, having managed to get sponsorships from numerous companies.

Although it is said that no one who went to the depths of the Arctic Icefield ever returned alive, he still managed to assemble a sizable team.

In his expedition book, he claimed that this was the largest expedition to explore the Arctic at the time, and everyone was curious about what was in the deepest part of that vast ice field.

He chose a summer, a time of rising temperatures, to enter the Arctic. According to his estimation, by the time he reached the depths of the Arctic, the temperature should be at its highest, and they would soon achieve their goal.

But soon, reality proved him wrong.

As he entered the outer layer of the ice sheet, the temperature did indeed gradually rise, just as he had imagined.

They even saw some frozen soil exposed after the snow melted in the ice field, and some cold-resistant creatures moving around the edges of lakes in the ice field.

But as they continued deeper into the ice field, everything changed; the weather, which had been warming up, began to cool rapidly as they went further in.

Soon, they reached a depths that no one had ever been before. At this point, even the most experienced guides could no longer discern the path ahead.

At this stage, the team experienced its first internal conflict, with some refusing to continue and wanting to turn back.

But in the end, the explorers persuaded them, and everyone continued in.

As they ventured deeper, the temperature dropped, and the surrounding area was a vast expanse of white snow. Even the magnetic field was disrupted, making it impossible for compasses to provide accurate directions, and the team frequently got lost.

However, the explorers built a purely mechanical compass chariot, which maintained their basic sense of direction, and the team continued to venture further in.

But soon, a huge blizzard disrupted the entire trip.

Approximately ten people died in the blizzard.

Ultimately, the team experienced a second internal conflict, with approximately two-thirds of the members refusing to continue and choosing to turn back.

Even if the explorer's reward is generous enough, you still need to be alive to spend the money.

Those who left took a lot of supplies with them, and the explorers led the remaining people to continue deeper into the area.

Then they encountered an even bigger storm, and in the storm, they saw an entire frozen city.

The city was completely frozen in the ice field and shrouded in raging blizzards. They entered the city and saw its former 'inhabitants,' who had been turned into ice sculptures.

The residents seemed to be running frantically outwards, but a bone-chilling cold suddenly descended, freezing everyone into ice sculptures at the same time.

The pages that followed didn't contain photographs, but rather what looked like a copy of a painting.

This painting has clearly undergone special treatment, and even now, it retains a good level of detail. You can still vaguely see the ice sculptures inside, as well as the expressions of fear on the faces of the people who were frozen inside.

Based on their clothing styles and the items found in the city, the explorers determined that these people likely lived during the late Cataclysmic Era, in the early period of the former Federation.

The expedition team roughly counted the population and found that only a small portion of the city's population was ultimately frozen in ice. The majority of the population did not exist there; they may have escaped successfully or they may have been completely destroyed.

However, the discovery of this city made the explorer begin to doubt whether the legends of Heclairan that he had heard were true.

During the Cataclysm era, there may indeed have been many cities north of Hiccleland, making it a prosperous region.

They sought shelter from the blizzard in this icy city and camped out for a day.

But when they woke up the next day, something surprising happened.

The city where they had taken refuge from the blizzard last night had turned into a pure snowfield.

Only the drifting snow echoed between heaven and earth.

Even the people who kept watch last night couldn't explain what had happened, as if this place had been a desolate snowfield ever since last night.

The items from the city that they placed in the package all disappeared along with the city itself. Even the city depicted in the photograph vanished completely, leaving only a vast expanse of white.

The explorer included a photograph here, a blank picture of a snowfield.

Judging from the shooting angle and the ground angle, this photo should be taken from the same angle as the painting that was painted earlier, and should be the 'photograph' corresponding to that painting.

However, the city in the painting and the frozen figures have completely disappeared in the photograph.

After encountering this incident, the entire expedition team was clearly panicked. Some guides believed that the expedition had angered the gods and that this was a warning from the gods.

Others believe this is a kind of collective hallucination caused by magnetic field factors.

However, the explorer's personal opinion is somewhat 'exceptional'; he believes that the city was real, but disappeared for some reason.

He had heard the legends of Heclairand and believed that the city was indeed the northern city of Heclairand.

But his judgment was soon challenged.

As they ventured deeper, the temperature grew colder and strange phenomena became more frequent. They often saw figures walking in the blizzard, but when they got closer, there was nothing there.

These recurring hallucinations also made the explorer lose confidence.

The temperature had dropped to nearly minus sixty degrees Celsius, and the supplies they carried had been consumed far more than expected. Some team members got lost because they took the wrong route and never returned.

The team had several arguments, and a few people took the supplies and left the group. The remaining people were all determined explorers, who were longtime friends or partners of the explorer.

They continued forward despite the blizzard, and all they could see was a vast, boundless snowfield.

Afterwards, they encountered several more cities similar to the ones before, all appearing in sudden blizzards that allowed them to temporarily escape the storms, only to disappear again the next day.

These cities each have their own unique characteristics. Some cities are completely emptied out, with not a single person left, while in other cities, the people who remain are not flustered at all, as if they have already made their choice.

But in every city, there were obvious signs of evacuation, and not many people remained in the cities.

However, what puzzled the explorers was where all these evacuated people went.

If these evacuees survived and integrated into the Federation, then their bloodline should be present among the current Federation citizens.

If so, why don't these survivors tell their stories to their children? Why are there almost no related legends within the Federation?

The explorer wrote down his questions, but clearly he didn't get an answer.

However, these cities that appeared in the blizzard did indeed help them in a way, sparing them from the blizzard's onslaught to some extent.

But as the last city they saw disappeared, all that remained of the world was a vast snowfield.

In the ensuing blizzard, they were left without shelter and had to brave the storm to continue their journey, which made their operation much more difficult.

But they persisted in continuing northward along the snowfield, and half of them perished there forever.

Although the city was gone amidst the snowstorm, all sorts of illusions increased.

Sometimes they can even see huge whales swimming in the sky, but when they get closer, there's nothing there anymore.

Their supplies were dwindling, and they no longer had enough for their return journey.

Even the explorers were starting to wonder if they should turn back.

The depths of the Arctic ice plains don't seem as terrifying as legend has it; it's just a vast snowfield and still quite cold.

But in the end, he and the entire expedition team decided to continue deeper to see what was in the deepest part of the Arctic.

During their journey across this long ice field, several more members of the expedition went missing.

By the time they had completely crossed the ice field, only five people remained in the entire team.

Then, after passing through another huge blizzard, they came to see a city.

A city completely frozen in ice.

This city was unlike any they had seen before; it was older and more rudimentary.

The entire city was deserted; there were no people frozen in the ice who had escaped.

An unusually fierce battle also seems to have taken place within the city, resulting in the complete destruction of the city's core area.

But none of this was enough to surprise the explorers so much.

Because the city did not disappear after he took a nap.

Upon seeing these descriptions, He Ao was slightly taken aback.

His gaze quickly moved downwards, and sure enough, he found the city photographs taken by the explorer.

It was a city built against a mountain, whose center was almost completely destroyed.

The city was covered in thick ice, and its appearance was exactly the same as He Ao remembered.

The city-state of Roc.

The place where he and Kayla once fought against the angel monsters.

The entire city center area was destroyed in their battle.

He's gaze quickly moved downwards. As he expected, the explorer had conducted a detailed investigation of the city-state and even discovered remnants of abandoned temporary igloos next to it.

He took many photos, from the outer city to the inner city, almost everywhere he could take pictures.

He judged that the city existed before the original Federation, during the Great Cataclysm era, and lamented the forces that destroyed the city's core.

The ruins of the city revealed that they were not destroyed by many people or by war, but by a powerful force that destroyed them almost all at once.

Between the explorer's words of reflection, He Ao also constructed in his mind what the city he saw looked like through the photographs he took.

It looked almost exactly the same as He Ao remembered.

Even the ice slide left by Kayla and the marks of his sword remain.

Although no valid records were left of these ruins.

But He Ao had already realized this at that moment.

The historical world is real.

The traces he left in the world of history still exist today, but no one remembers the stories and names he left behind.

As he came to understand the meaning behind these photos, he sensed those long-forgotten stories, and vaguely, a kind of invisible pollution was spreading through the void and affecting him.

In that instant, the lines of fate that were originally tied to him were also disturbed, and some of the lines of fate that were not obvious before deviated slightly.

This force is extremely weak, and the resulting deviation is almost imperceptible.

If Heo hadn't been an angel associated with fate and hadn't remained vigilant while reading these pages, he wouldn't have even noticed the deviation of these lines of fate, nor the emergence of this power.

He Ao took a slight breath, and with his twisting and writhing flesh, he mobilized the power of his super memory to dispel the slight and invisible force.

This must be what is known as the 'curse of knowledge'.

He couldn't sense the source of these forces; they seemed to have appeared out of thin air, naturally covering him as soon as He Ao became aware of the relevant knowledge and history, attempting to guide and change He Ao's fate.

But these shouldn't be Kayla's powers; this might be related to the formation of the Arctic.

As this power dissipated, the disturbed lines of fate returned to their original positions.

He Ao looked up and continued looking at the pages of the book in the display case.

The power that even he couldn't perceive, and which could easily manipulate fate, most likely originates from some power above the angels.

I just don't know where it comes from.

He Ao took a deep breath and continued looking at the next page.

The explorers spent three days in the ruins of the city-state of Rhok, collecting enough photos and samples, before continuing their exploration deeper into the ice field.

Before they set off, a large blizzard struck, but it did not deter them. The discovery of the city-state of Rhok greatly encouraged them and made them even more curious about what lay deep within the Arctic Plains.

Once the blizzard subsided slightly, they continued their journey; this is the content of the third volume of the adventure story.

The pages that follow are missing a lot. He Ao could only vaguely make out from the contents of these pages that the explorer's 'teammate' seemed to have encountered various problems during his exploration.

Then a large portion of the content was missing.

Then, it seems to jump directly to the end of the third book.

The explorer returned to the Federation alone, only to discover that the entire expedition team, including the one that had separated from him at the beginning and headed back, had not made it back to the Federation alive.

Of the entire massive expedition team, only he returned to the Federation safely and successfully.

The book ends abruptly here.

Clearly, the explorer made other discoveries deep in the ice field after leaving the city of Rock, otherwise he would not have bothered to compile a separate book on the subsequent events.

However, the main contents of that volume are not stored here.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked at the display case in front of him. His eyes swept over the photo of Rock City and lingered for a moment.

Then he raised his hand, picked up the gray cloth next to the display case, and covered it up.

Around that time, his bracelet rang, and Denon called.

"Loren, did you get into that hidden exhibition hall?" Denorn's question came through as the call connected.

“It’s in, thank you,” He Ao said slowly. He felt it was good to thank someone for their help. Then he continued, “I need the relevant rules and information about Sky City. Do you have them?”

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