There can't be a Harvest Moon in the RimWorld.

"Tell me the code corresponding to the document, and I'll tell you what I know..."

...The stone statues are indeed silicon-based lifeforms, but does "silicon-based" mean they're made using vacuum tubes and diodes? That's ridiculous! They're like the original Decepticons!

"Are there any keywords?"

"Basic permissions application completed. It is recommended to start reading the user manual, ep1 [Root].

"Hmm... [The Root]? Is that so?"

As I spoke, the stone man began to recite strange phrases, the unfamiliar language transforming into a familiar voice that entered my brain.

[...When psionic energy was mastered, the great race began a new wave of conquest. Magnificent cities and ships were built one after another, and the azure lands became new territories. Everything began here, and it will end here, because the great race discovered that an even more powerful psionic energy was surging at the core of the planet...]

"Next message code, ep2 [upgrade]."

"[Upgrade]!"

I think the stone statue could be renamed ENIAC. The first electronic computer ENIAC was 30.48 meters long, 6 meters wide, and 2.4 meters high, occupying an area of ​​about 170 square meters, which is quite similar to it.

The planet's immense power astonished every priest, but the shared origin of this power brought new possibilities. Mastering this power could lead to a collective ascension, and a great race could become the true rulers. However, the psionic energy hidden deep within the earth is difficult to fathom, and can only be obtained through special nodes that have leaked out...

"Next message code, ep3 [node]."

"Hurry! [Node]!"

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"...The nodes on the continent had long been polluted, which is why the great nation chose the azure sky. The nodes scattered across the ocean became an important part of the energy network. By simulating the flow of planetary energy, the great nation finally discovered an inexhaustible source of energy! The first experiment successfully lowered the overall temperature of the planet by twelve degrees Celsius, and then rapidly recovered within a few years. This dramatic temperature change seemed to have facilitated the replacement of continental vegetation and the formation of a unique ecosystem. The upheaval occurred at the center of the continent..."

"Next message code, ep4 [Mainland Center]."

"[Mainland Center]".

This story sounds familiar... Could the extinction of the Ghost Tree really be related to the climate experiment they mentioned?

[...The temperature experiments altered the continental environment, causing the extinction of our commonly used shipbuilding timber. In the dense forests of the continent's heart, the great race encountered a mysterious life form, seemingly attempting to quell the disaster polluting the energy points. Its flames could dispel the disaster and spread from the energy points, creating more servants. Communication through rituals yielded partial results; the mysterious life form, nameless, was willing to send messengers to the great city to jointly study psionic energy...]

"Next message code, ep5 [Messenger]."

It's confirmed! You guys really did the extinction of the Ghost Tree!

"【messenger】."

[...The nameless messengers constantly resonate with psionic energy, sharing the energy of the mysterious life form. This discovery inspired a great race; the path to ascension will begin with this collective resonance. The merging of consciousness and energy will eliminate differences, and everything will become even more perfect. This experiment proceeded rapidly, with boundless psionic energy merging with countless individuals, leading to a new explosion of technology and understanding, until the crisis arrived...]

"Next message code, ep6 [Crisis]."

"【crisis】."

This code looks familiar, is it Resident Evil or Crysis?

[...The nameless king warned the great race that psionic energy and pollution are two sides of the same coin, and even its flames cannot negate the harm. But with the node separating the land and sea, the priests were assured of safety, and thus the research on psionic energy finally shifted to the study of the vacuum zero point and the exploration of theoretical limits. While researching the vacuum zero point, the priests heard the desperate cries of countless people, followed by a terrifying roar never before heard in nature. That roar told the priests that catastrophe was imminent, and boundless terror would unleash a colossal wave...]

"Next message code, ep7 [Terror]."

"【fear】."

Infinite Terror! Great! It matches up!

[...From that day on, terrifying things began to awaken. They existed in a state between the tangible and the intangible, sometimes as a clump of snow, a gust of wind, a dream, a strange melody, eventually evolving into indescribable, bizarre entities that relentlessly attacked cities. The nameless king sent word that the pollution on the continent was expanding, and he could no longer send reinforcements; only the original messenger remained with us. The psionic energy at the planet's core also began to stir, seemingly resisting the influence of the great race. A protracted war had begun...]

"Next message code, ep8 [War]."

"【war】!"

[...Under the unification of psionic energy, the power of the great race reached unprecedented heights, with indescribable disasters occurring incessantly, only to be quelled at a tremendous cost. As unimaginable monsters began to appear, and the nameless king lost contact, everything slid into an unknowable abyss. The increasing number of misty regions caused divisions within the great race, with some questioning the origins of psionic knowledge, yet no one could answer, not even the collective wisdom of the entire race. Just when it seemed that only annihilation lay before the great race, the priests received a message from a mysterious voice from the vacuum...]

"Next message code, ep9 [Message]."

“[Message]”

[...The pollution was unstoppable, originating from the very great, unified nation itself. The seeds of corruption had invisibly spread to every corner. The pollution of the infinite energy nodes meant endless disasters, and the potential for the birth of absurdities was ever-present. The priest then moved the underwater mountains, causing them to rise and reshape, suppressing the numerous polluted nodes. The vacuum transmitter finished speaking, telling the great nation that there was still a final solution, and that the error would reach its end with the arrival of the third full moon...]

"Next message code, ep10 [The End]."

"【The End】!"

[...The end is drawing ever closer. The great race has created a city for commemoration, to be erected at the center of the planet, never to be forgotten, its glorious achievements etched in stone. Here lies one last, unpolluted, tiny point of energy. To preserve everything, we created a special life form using technology beyond psionic energy, possessing infinite time to guard it all. The nameless king's emissary, utterly weakened, has also been placed here. A valiant portion of the fleet remains sailing the seas, searching for any possible opportunity. But they are unaware that their mission is solely to save themselves. And the day of the end arrives silently...]

"The user manual has been read, but the document is missing an index and cannot be read further."

The light in the stone man's eyes slowly faded, and he turned his head and spoke slowly in a mechanical voice, showing no signs of thirst, leaving only my dumbfounded face.

Chapter 655 Pokémon GET DA☆ZE!

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The words uttered from the stone statue's mouth initially sounded like an ordinary log of civilization's destruction, recording everything in a chronological order and strictly adhering to the four-step process of "getting rich quick—inflated ego—messing around—dying quickly"—a process that also applies to any startup team.

But the more I listened, the more fragments of information I heard, which perfectly matched what I remembered. Even more amazingly, after investigating the source of these memory fragments, I found that they did not come from the same source of information.

This book contains bold conjectures from the Voynich Historical Manuscript, firsthand experiences of old miners, supernatural tales of Father Carter, fragmented memories of the water element, oral histories of the Navigators' Alliance, and information I discovered at various historical sites. All of this is corroborated in this "operation manual."

This makes me wonder, could this be the truth of history? Could the twists and turns across the continents and the mysteriously vanished maritime empires all be found in this cemetery-like city?

My imagination has run wild. The main body of civilization has long since changed, but the unknown wildflowers have already seeped into the land and bloom along the roads of the new generation of humans.

If we compare this familiar yet unfamiliar Earth to a mountain, then the "Great Nation" is the original primeval forest that once covered it. The area now governed by the Federation is merely a secondary forest that grew after a great fire burned it away!

The more one pondered, the more terrifying details surfaced. It seemed that the "great nation" had long ago waged war against unimaginable terror, and even had the ability to stabilize the situation for a considerable period before finally falling into a disadvantageous position. Even the highly destructive disaster memes failed to completely defeat them.

Ultimately, everything relies on the power of "phantom energy," but that's where the strangest thing is.

"Psionic energy," a force I cannot yet confirm, seems to have played a significant role in supporting a collective leap in civilization. It can connect spiritual forces and, through the establishment of a network of planetary energy nodes, allow the "great nation" to control a power almost comparable to that of a planet.

The planetary gravity tuning device and planetary ecological management system that have turned into two mountain peaks on the edge of the planet are nothing special, or even slightly inferior.

Old Man Hook has been emphasizing that the rampage Zak is facing is the "Herodian Dream" state in alchemy, while I believe he is encountering the "inner demon" of the early stage of the fourth level of the gene lock.

What we say may all be right, but it may also all be wrong. We all prejudge and apply what we already know.

But the predicament that Zach's power faces was never intended for his purposes.

If the legendary "psy energy" is truly so miraculous, then Zach could completely rely on the inexhaustible energy to temper his body and overcome collapse. Negative will would also crumble under the immense spiritual power of collective fusion, posing no danger whatsoever.

His current situation is like a chip that has had its water cooling, air cooling, graphics card, and memory removed, and is being forced to mine cryptocurrency by simply overclocking it with increased voltage—no matter how powerful the computing power, it will only lead to its demise.

Then another question arises: how did this so-called "psy energy" come about?

The practice of linking minds is almost as dangerous as the Human Instrumentality Project, extremely risky, yet it seems destined to be the correct application of "psy energy." Based on my experience watching the Evangelion TV series and theatrical versions, even the slightest mistake in this approach could leave humanity with nothing but a glass of orange juice.

Even more intriguing is the origin of that voice that proclaimed the arrival and end of the disaster. How could sound travel through a vacuum and resonate throughout the world?

It seems a bit difficult for me to rule out the inevitable connection between "psy energy" and all of this. And this kind of behavior—using technology to wreak havoc on the world—seems familiar to me, like something out of a parallel universe's Mineral Town…

Thinking further, it seems the connection between the "Lord of Light" and me being thrown here to learn all this began in the Mineral Town of a parallel world. Could the enemy entangled in the struggle against the "Lord of Light" have also already entered this world...?

"Too many elements and too few clues, it's impossible to understand..."

I reluctantly decided to abandon the vast and disorganized stream of inspiration and start thinking from the most direct and effective aspects.

For example, one thing I can be certain of right now...

This city of a thousand pillars, nestled in a mysterious valley, is the "home" that the Navigators' Alliance has been searching for for countless generations, dreaming of finding!

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"Can't you really send me out?"

I stared intently at the Cybertronian statue in front of me and cried out for help once more.

The stone statue's mocking face grew increasingly distressed, its eyes unconsciously glancing towards the sky. "No... the Creator wants me to wait here. You can't leave unless you pass through the Fountain of Truth..."

“But if you see me out, you’ll find the person you’re waiting for!” I deliberately held up two fingers. “And two of them! Two whole fingers!”

The first one is Kai, a true member of the Navigator's Alliance, a veteran of the Skull and Cross Banner, who knows, he might even have a Heavenly Mark on his forehead! The second one is Zack, that guy also clearly knows the truth about the Alliance's history, plus he's the original first Baturu of the Navigator's Alliance, I, Chen Jinnan, am so envious I want to do justice to the heavens.

Such a vast treasure trove contains knowledge that a "great nation" could preserve. With the help of the stone statue librarian's interpretation, it's not impossible to rebuild a powerful force.

It's a pity that Captain Kai was unaware of the treasure he was walking into, and ultimately died in the ritual of sacrificing himself to summon an unknown entity. If he hadn't been driven to desperation, why would the descendants of a once-powerful nation have been so pathetic?

The stone statue's body trembled again, the buzzing sound even stronger than before.

“No… this city has been lost in the dimensional labyrinth. If I leave now, I will never find it again. And those who do find it will never gain knowledge…”

What?! A dimensional maze!?

I quickly asked, "What do you mean? Is there no way out from here?"

The stone statue replied in a low voice, "The magnificent city that the Creator once built, standing atop the planet, lost its pillars of existence on the day of the apocalypse, drifting in the chaotic sea of ​​dimensions... The Well of Truth can only glimpse the truth of the individual, but the city can no longer flow back to its former course..."

Well, after so many rounds of quantum doomsday nuclear bombs and artillery strikes, apart from the strange ruins buried at the bottom of the island, the buildings on Kuroshio Island have long been destroyed beyond recognition, and other cities are even more difficult to preserve.

Could this contemporary city have been preserved in a quantum state? Or did it become a castle built on superstrings due to the vibration of spatial strings?

"Then you're just waiting here to die? How could anyone possibly come back?"

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt something was off—for example, I had just stumbled in by accident, hadn't I? Oh right, and Doma Umaru's Ptolemaic scientific legion members had also arrived here without incident.

The stone statue ignored this obvious logical flaw and persisted in a strange viewpoint.

“I will not die… The Creator exiled the city to the dimensional labyrinth in the final moments, and then made me wait here. There must be a special reason for this…”

In its mind, it seems that the creator's command is always above all else, and the rest is filled in by its own logic. It never explores or thinks about anything superfluous.

But in order to know more, I have no choice but to continue to explore what it already knows.

"So, in your face, is it more important to wait for the person to be found, or to let the city fall asleep? The creator left such a contradictory task, surely not so that you would be stuck here getting bugged."

I continued to ask the stone statue questions.

The stone statue shook its head: "Your questioning is pointless. My mission is to preserve the city's knowledge and await those who come after..."

"What if the city's heirs don't care about this knowledge?"

I sighed. “They have their own lives now and have forgotten the tragedy. In this new world, they just want to find the place of their ancestors and know their own history, not to find this vague and cold stone tomb.”

The Navigators' Alliance never knew what the "great nation" left for future generations—at least now it has been completely lost—these peoples who have drifted at sea for generations are nothing more than the descendants of that army that was deceived and sent away from their homeland.

They believed they were searching for a new land, free from pollution and disaster, for their people and the common folk. But in the end, they lost their homeland and completely forgot their history. After countless years of sailing, all they wanted was to return to their homeland that had vanished at sea.

The most resolute yet most painful force in this world is the desire to go home.

"Really?" The stone statue looked lost. "No... the Creator said they would return... this holds the knowledge they need..."

I said regretfully, “You may be disappointed. Compared to the creators you claim to know everything, the survivors don’t know as much. They attribute everything to the ‘curse of knowledge,’ carefully collecting the remnants of what was first discovered, but unwilling to use them much.”