Durin's Diary

Chapter 988: Emperor Woxi

At noon, since there were no living people inside the shelter, Dulin and Anta could only eat a meal of vegetarian nutritional paste produced by the shelter.

Although it sounds horrible, it tastes surprisingly good—the entire nutritional paste is made from potatoes, which are the most abundant plant tubers in the shelter's ecological park. After being mashed into a paste, various vitamins and seasonings are added.

This is the army's emergency rations, highly praised by millions of army soldiers—although the taste isn't great, it's very filling, and countless soldiers throughout history have survived sieges thanks to this nutritional paste.

Moreover, although Dulin didn't think much of it, Anta thought it tasted pretty good—after all, Lublin is also famous for its potatoes. Dulin had even developed a potato set meal back then. After eating one, the girl looked at Dulin with a face full of nostalgia: "It reminds me of my hometown, but back home, the mashed potatoes couldn't be mashed this finely."

This remark delighted Dulin.

After lunch, Dulin and Anta also visited the command center.

There, Dulin saw a somewhat tattered flag, and the large four-star five-pointed star made him pause for a moment.

He had seen this kind of flag before; there was one behind the chair in the office of the Sage Yu in the tower.

wrong!

I understand why the Nameless One doesn't care much about this world anymore! He's so indifferent to even the ecosystem of a miniature universe!

Luo Houtu probably noticed the doubt on Du Lin's face, and he walked over to Du Lin's side: "Mr. Du Lin, what's wrong?"

“I’ve seen this flag in my office in the tower in my past life. You said your production site is the Biotechnology Research Institute on the outskirts of Beijing. Is this outskirts in the north, near the foot of a mountain?”

“Yes, but I don’t think I told you that the Bio-Research Institute is in the suburbs.” Luo Houtu said, frowning. “I heard your story. You must have been the seed that the Nameless One found from another timeline.”

"Yes... I have a concern now, but I feel I can't say it out loud."

Upon seeing the flag, Dulin suddenly understood why the Nameless One refused to take action personally.

Because this timeline is very likely the timeline in which Dulin and he coexist!
Only in this way could he be forced to stay out of it, because another nameless person had told Dulin at the elevator exit that the nameless person represented being forgotten, but if someone remembered who the nameless person was, the oath would be twisted, and he would be immediately 'expelled' from this timeline by this more terrifying will.

"Luo Houtu, are all of you prosthetic bodies surnamed Luo?"

“No, the eldest and second eldest brothers took their teacher’s father’s surname, while the third brother initially took his teacher’s father’s mother’s surname.” Luo Houtu looked at Du Lin as he said this: “Who founded the tower?”

His surname is Yu.

“Our teacher’s father’s surname is Yu.” Luo Houtu was silent for a while, then sighed with some regret: “Tell me, how long did the destruction last there?”

"I was born more than a thousand years after the end of the Destruction Era, which, according to records from the Eastern Lands, lasted for about eight thousand years. In my timeline, there was a very strange being who, in the last ten years or so of the Destruction Era, left his bloodline in several families in the Western and Eastern Lands."

Luo Houtu took a deep breath: "In other words, it's not that Master Wu doesn't want to help us, but because he's also involved in this situation... He should have been born and promoted to Nameless in the future of our timeline, but earlier than you..."

Du Lin nodded.

Luo Houtu sighed: "Back to your story about Sage Yu, do you know his name?"

Dulin shook his head: "We apprentices only know that his surname is Yu, and we know nothing else. We only know that when the Destruction Era came, he went south with the defensive legion of Tainan in the East to the Hangzhou line, where he established a solid defensive system and stopped the Chaos Legion's advance. Over the long years, countless people died for the last human stronghold in the East."

He tried his best to recall everything he had read in history class.

"Our ecosystem has endured such tragedies for a thousand years. Compared to you, we are far more fortunate... No wonder Master Wu couldn't hide the smile on his face when he saw me and Qingquan. There are eleven of us brothers, and we all use the same face model. Master Wu must know our eldest brother, because he and the second brother stayed on Earth to help the teacher with his research. I came here with the teacher's last words to let Eleven understand that he was not rejected by the teacher. It's just that one child always has to make a sacrifice, so the teacher decided to let the child who most wanted to become human witness everything about humanity."

At this point, Luo Houtu sighed, "Mr. Dulin, you won't tell anyone about this, will you?"

“Why tell anyone? There’s no point in kicking out the anonymous person,” Dulin shook his head.

Luo Houtu sighed with relief: "Then I should thank you."

“No need to thank me. As I said, I did this because of the young people who lie buried in the mountains. Their sacrifice helped me make up my mind. I've lived two lives, that's enough. I don't want to see generation after generation of children grow up and then fall in pools of blood for this land. If I alone can change the future of generation after generation of children and stop them from seeking their own deaths, then my sacrifice will be well worth it.” Dulin said, then looked at the flag again: “The sage in the tower said that he was asked by his father to help the people of this land and help them find a way to survive.”

How did this prosthetic body survive for those long eight millennia? How many young people did it send off? Dulin dared not think about it.

But he understood that eight millennia must have been an extremely long time for this individualized prosthetic body that could remember everything. So many people had sacrificed themselves that even he might not be able to remember exactly how many people a single name represented.

Until the Nameless One appeared, he ended the era of destruction with his sacrifice and stopped the invasion from continuing.

He used his existence and all his descendants as a hostage to bring about a new dawn. In this dawn, no one remembers him, and no one can recall him. Those non-humans—such as the Sage Yu and the legends of the past—also devoted their lives to protecting this secret that should have been remembered, until death took them away.

Some might argue that great civilizations can be achieved without sacrifice.

Dulin could only part his lips slightly and spit a peck on the face of such a person.

(End of this chapter)