Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 173 History
After a night, the severe cold came again.

When Lu Xian and Yao Wei woke up, they saw ice flowers on the windshield of the car.

The whole world was frozen, the sky was gloomy, and people felt depressed and breathless.

“It feels like there have been more cold days recently.”

Lu Xian said, “But to be honest, it’s not that there have been more cold days recently, but that there were fewer cold days during the period of time we were on Jianshan Mountain.

“I wonder if this has something to do with the Jianshan Mountains, or with the weirdness on the mountain?”

"do not know."

Yao Wei said.

She went to the back to turn on the air conditioner, then turned to Lu Xian and asked, "Do you want to play games?"

It's so cold today that we usually can't do anything, so we might as well find some entertainment in the car.

Yao Wei actually doesn't like playing games on the game console.

Because in her opinion, the things above were too unrealistic and of little help to her.

The characters in the game are indeed fighting, but one uses all kinds of outrageous props and guns, and the other uses weapons with all kinds of weird attributes and all kinds of impossible magic. There is no reference value at all.

She could learn something from watching those action and war movies. Even the campus drama she watched before seemed to have mastered some of the moves after watching half of it.

But the only two games in this game console are really useless.

Yao Wei thought that if it were in the old world, she might like something like this?
But the problem is that this is a new world where survival is so difficult. She has too many more important things to do and has to work hard to survive. This game console really has no meaning to her.

But Lu Xian likes game consoles very much.

Since Lu Xian liked it, she didn't mind playing with Lu Xian, or sitting in the passenger seat and watching Lu Xian play when she had nothing to do.

However, Lu Xian shook his head and said, "No more playing. I will be too focused on playing video games and won't be able to pay attention to the outside world.

"We still have to keep an eye on it and see if there's anyone outside so we can investigate the situation in Yao County. Let's read for a while."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and took the book she had not finished reading and continued reading.

Lu Xian went to the boxes in the back row to look for other books. He found the history books in that box.

I had been reading Chinese textbooks before, but ignored history textbooks.

If you take out your history textbook and take a look at it now, you can understand a little bit about this world.

If you want to understand, you have to start from the very beginning. He took out all three junior high school history textbooks and started reading from the first grade.

There wasn't anything special about it at first, and it felt similar to my previous life, with the discovery of the ape skull, evolution, the Stone Age, and so on.

The following part, however, was a little different.

The Luoshui carvings mentioned above refer to the lack of fishing and hunting in the Luo River basin, so tidal symbols were carved on tortoise shells, forming the earliest directional writing system used to record monsoon patterns.

This pictographic symbol is called "water pattern characters" and is the prototype of modern language and writing.

Then in the next stage of civilization, the earliest city-state was discovered in Yangcheng County, Pingchuan City, and dynasties began to change.

A bronze star tracker was also discovered in Yangcheng County. It was invented by the Zhou Dynasty after two dynasties of evolution. It could observe the North Star to formulate laws and promote agricultural settlement.

From then on, astronomical data began to be recorded in writing.

Later, there was a Hundred Schools of Thought, and a certain dynasty implemented the "standardization of writing and measuring of wheels". The evolution of writing culture and the change of dynasties were all very similar to the development in the previous life.

It took him a day to glance over the contents of this history textbook. At the end, the short two pages of content made Lu Xian's eyes widen.

The content is roughly:

In 2045, after twelve years of research, consultation and preparation, the United Nations officially launched the "New Energy Project", mobilizing all resources to develop the "World New Energy" project.

As the only pictographic language that has survived to this day, Chinese has structural characteristics that are highly consistent with the "New Energy Engineering" project and has been identified as the only designated language for the project.

In 2077, after years of preparation, all the work was completed and the project entered the formal construction phase. The project was renamed the "Sun Chasing Project".

In 2090, the "Sun Chasing Project" entered its final stage, and mankind was about to usher in the best tomorrow.

After the "Sun Chasing Project" is completed and the new energy source is officially put into use, the United Nations will disclose the specific details of the project, and everyone will wait and see.

……

After reading this, Lu Xian took a deep breath.

It's really too late to read this history textbook. I should have taken out these books and read them earlier.

How come I was so focused on reading Chinese that I forgot about the history textbook?!

Lu Xian read the last chapter of the junior high school textbook several times from beginning to end, but in the end he could not understand what this "Daily Project" meant.

Looking at the description above, it seems that once the "Sun-Chasing Project" is completed, people will completely solve the energy problem and usher in the best tomorrow.

At that time, all the details and true features of the "Daily Project" will be announced.

Lu Xian couldn't understand why there was any project that needed to be done in secret, or if it needed to be covered up, why not cover it up completely?

What's the point of revealing this little bit of information?

I even wrote a short chapter in the textbook...

What is this? Wanting people to know, but also afraid of people knowing?

Anyway, Lao Shu probably doesn't know... Lu Xian recalled his previous conversation with Lao Shu in Jianshan City. The old man never said anything about the "Sun Chasing Project" from beginning to end.

Or did he simply forget?
If I see him again, I'll have to ask him about this.

If he knew, I wonder if the old man knew the final details of the "Daily Plan"?
Now Lu Xian also wanted to know what the "Daily Plan" was. After he finished reading the textbook, he suddenly felt that the world today might be related to the "Daily Plan".

And that inexplicable pressure from the sky that I felt in Jianshan City, could it also be a product of the "Daily Plan"?

Recall that the person at the Niutou Mountain Observation Point once wrote in his observation log on his laptop: That thing should not have been built. This world is just a huge makeshift team.

What exactly is “that thing”?
Due to insufficient information, Lu Xian was unable to find out. But he still felt that "that thing" must be related to the "Daily Plan".

The history textbook in my hand was revised after 2090. In 2100, it became a child's birthday gift.

There should be no updated history textbooks during this period. If there were, Lu Xian didn't believe that the parent would not choose it.

So... the specific details and truth of the "Daily Plan" were never revealed in the end?

Lu Xian also took out his high school history textbook and looked at it carefully. It was the same as the junior high school one. Even though there were some differences in the historical content and depth of details in the previous chapters, the last chapter was exactly the same.

It seems that the contents of the "Daily Plan" in this last chapter were written in a unified manner, and the disclosure of its contents was strictly controlled.

The content of the "Daily Plan" is not disclosed in history textbooks. Perhaps it was disclosed through other channels back then?
Or maybe the disaster struck too quickly, and people quickly entered a state of disaster response and no longer cared about anything else?

That's possible.

Lu Xian thought.

他把初三历史和高三历史都翻到了背面看了看，上面的修订日期，一个是2091年9月10日，一个是2092年9月10日。

A whole year difference.

By this time, the end of the world was almost here, and it was normal for people to not care about anything else.

But what exactly is going on in these details? It really makes people curious!
Lu Xian scratched his head, feeling a little angry.

How could this world be so unrefined that textbooks used to impart knowledge to students are used as riddlers?!

"what happened?"

Yao Wei asked when she saw Lu Xian's irritable look.

Lu Xian handed the history textbook to Yao Wei and asked her to read the last chapter directly.

After reading it, Yao Wei began to think deeply.

Lu Xian asked: "What are you thinking about?"

Yao Wei said: "I don't know, I'm just thinking."

Lu Xian: "..."

It seems that this woman's mind is a little confused.

He shared his doubts and conjectures with Yao Wei. Yao Wei nodded slightly and said, "You're right. I'm not good at analyzing these things, but you must be right."

Lu Xian: "..."

As Yao Wei was talking, she suddenly turned her head and looked at the dog behind her who had turned into a power bank and was powering the air conditioner.

Lu Xian also followed Yao Wei's gaze and suddenly a light bulb went on in his head.

"The history textbook says that before the 'Daily Plan' was renamed, it was called the 'New Energy Plan,' right?"

He asked Yao Wei, then picked up his senior year history textbook to confirm.

Yao Wei nodded and said, "Yes, it also said that after the 'Daily Plan' is completed and the new energy source is officially put into use, the details will be disclosed."

"New energy is officially launched..."

Lu Xian muttered to himself, "What could the new energy be? Do you think...could the dog be related to the new energy?"

"should be."

Yao Wei didn't say "I don't know" this time. It seemed that when she turned her head just now, she already had a guess and judgment in her mind.

Lu Xian jumped to the back seat of the car, sat down cross-legged, and stared at the mechanical dog.

Yao Wei followed and sat down next to Lu Xian.

The two men stared at the dog for a long time, but couldn't see anything, so they finally gave up.

"Alas, we are not scientists, how can we possibly research this kind of high-tech stuff?"

Lu Xian sighed and said.

Yao Wei nodded and said, "As long as it works."

"..."

Lu Xian was silent for a moment, but he had to admit that what Yao Wei said made sense. He nodded and said, "Yeah, as long as it works."

As he spoke, his eyes unconsciously fell on the game console next to him. He picked up the controller and looked at it, saying, "Back then, the world must have been fully engaged in the 'Sun Chaser Project'. It's already 2100, and game consoles are still like this. It's so backward."

Yao Wei asked, "What should the game console look like?"

Lu Xian said: "I don't know, I've only seen this at most."

(End of this chapter)