The predecessor of the alliance was the glorious Tianhai Empire. Since the First Emperor established the Autumn Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the myth of the White Dragon has been engraved in the empire's calendar. All important solar terms are directly related to every move of the sacred white dragon. The dragon raises its head. It means that spring is not far away, Grain Rain represents the white dragon's blessing and rain, and the summer solstice and winter solstice are metaphors for the white dragon's hot and cold mood. Regardless of whether the empire is divided into the first, second, or third, or Qiu, Wu, Ning, Zhongli, Zhou, and Zhao, the six dynasties all regard the white dragon as sacred. The Dragon Emperor, the Dragon Army, and the dragon have nine sons, and the sky is the white dragon. Heaven is offering sacrifices to the dragon.
What goes up naturally has consequences. Temples dedicated to the White Dragon and the Nine Sons of the Dragon are extremely prosperous. Every city, village and town has a shrine with strong incense. Although in modern times, science has falsified superstition, which is close to religious fanaticism. The worship of white dragons has gradually declined, but events such as the Spring Dragon Festival on the second day of February and the Tianzhong Festival on the fifth day of May still prove the Tianhai people's love and belief in the white dragon that is rooted in the collective memory.
Extrapolating to the fact that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, the nine rivers that nourished the Tianhai Continent can easily be embodied as nine dragons. Where these nine rivers flow, white dragon sacrifices are particularly prosperous, and the accumulated myths and legends are innumerable. The carp that loves to hear and see Jumping over the Dragon Gate, sacrificing dragons to pray for rain, or transforming dragons into dragons or dragons, or even slaying dragons, chasing dragons, and falling dragons form a complete and detailed folk narrative system.
In the most widely circulated myth, Hailan Tuduo, the eldest daughter, was seduced by the Dragon King of the Black Sea, abandoned her position as the God Emperor, and fled resolutely. She was chased and intercepted by the Yaozi sent by the White Dragon in Qianshan, and eventually the brothers killed each other. , the great power stirred up during the battle split thousands of mountains apart, so the Hailan Tuduo River split through the mountains and flowed southward. Yaozi fell to his death in anger and turned into Qin Lake, sealing Hailan for generations. Tuduo.
The common people are always interested in the tawdry drama of the goddess favoring her and running away secretly. Through countless years of word-of-mouth interpretation, a complete story chain has been formed, from the Dragon Dynasty worshiping Tianchi, the goddess and dragon king falling in love, to the agreement between the two dragons. After escaping, Bailong was furious and sent his youngest son to chase and intercept him. During the escape, the two dragons bid farewell to each other. Finally, the sister and brother bowed first and then fought. The goddess complained with grief and anger, and the two dragons perished. Although there are discrepancies in various versions, there is still no escape from the tragic ending, such as lovers cannot get married, and nobles cannot be free.
As precious folklore materials from various places, a large number of thread-bound books and manuscripts were not only intentionally digitized and moved into protective shelters for storage, but other archives that were helpful in maintaining post-war national identity were also preserved. As a history student, one of the very few history students in majors in this era, Gu Hongdie is also one of the few people who can freely access Longshan University and other archives. One of the reasons why the Liberal Arts Department of Longshan University is unwilling to move is that there is a treasure hidden under the "Brick Factory". Millions of ancient books can no longer be damaged by migration.
Just as no one expected that a full-scale nuclear war would suddenly come in 1981, no one would suddenly speed up the progress of text digitization. After all, industrial technology is the top priority for preservation. A large number of ancient text books will either be completely destroyed or destroyed. Scattered in lost ruins, dungeons, and shelters. For historians, every ruin clearance and expedition survey conducted by the Renaissance Army can be said to provide a small piece of the reorganization of the vast jigsaw puzzle of Tianhai history.
Although Long Da asked the military to pay attention to precious antiquities, books, etc. when clearing the ruins, the military also fully agreed, but compared with human lives, everything can be taken a little further, compared with the extensive survey Teams, expedition teams, scientific expedition teams, and archaeological teams may only have one or two. They are all together. Gu Hongdie basically knows this group of armed thugs. Out of the supreme passion for the continuation of national history, this group of people can completely They are considered mercenaries of the Renaissance Army. Oh, they are still the kind who bring their own dry food.
Gu Hongdie skillfully searched through the stacks of old books in front of her. It was so dusty that she had to wear a gas mask. Based on the staged research of various groups under the "Tudu Project", the clues point to Hailan Tuduo.
This is not difficult to understand. Miss "Fuxi" has extracted samples of dragon evil for testing very early. Different from the military's purely biochemical tests, "Fuxi" pays more attention to bloodline tracing. This team is probably still happily eating radiation science in Qinhu. The madman successfully demonstrated that a small amount of the dragon's evil genes came from some ancient creature, and then whimsically came to the white dragon itself.
Gu Hongdie is not opposed to this idea. After all, the work of her and the "Nuwa" team seems to be working hard to prove that Bailong is real, at least as an auxiliary work for some kind of biological experiment by the military. These days, the country is on the brink of danger. Even she, a female student, knows the difference in conventional military power between the Alliance and the Empire. If the military is indifferent to the ability of the deformed species and the dark species to control the wind and rain, they will simply destroy them. This stupid behavior made Gu Hongdie feel sick.
As for what kind of biochemical weapons the military wants to come up with, Gu Hongdie doesn't care. She doesn't mind whether it's a dragon or a real replica of a dragon. The thoughts of people engaged in liberal arts are not necessarily more complicated, because those who can be persuaded will not have other thoughts. This is not a peaceful era, and she is very sure what will happen to her if the imperial army enters Longshan.
Maybe this is the benefit of learning some history, she is more open-minded.
Putting away irrelevant thoughts, Gu Hongdie continued to search the bookshelf. This is a routine exercise to initially screen for available books.
Come to think of it, Beiqin is close to the Huijiang River, and the Huijiang River is the river referred to by the Nine Sons of Longsheng. The county annals and township biographies imported from neighboring towns in the past should have many folk legends about the Six Sons and Hui, right?
According to the group's search principles, Gu Hongdie started searching from the oldest books. Considering that papermaking was only introduced in the middle of the Wu Dynasty, and the Ning Dynasty improved movable type printing, the earliest thread-bound books were only dated to Ning Gaozu, about 900 years ago. However, this was already beyond her expectation, because at the Yanqi base, which was much larger than the Beiqin base, the team only found a dozen related ancient books, and unfortunately, these were all from the Hehui Provincial Museum. The collection of "classics" has long been digitized.
The work was urgent, and Gu Hongdie was unable to read the thread-bound book according to the best cultural relic protection techniques. She could only turn the pages as gently as possible. She briefly read the catalog and found that this was a family biography that tended to praise virtues. It must be extremely valuable in peaceful times. It can directly prove the humanities and customs of that year. Now?
Gu Hongdie put it aside, and the fragile seams of the thread-bound book fell apart and scattered on the floor.
After scanning several books in a row, Gu Hongdie found nothing interesting. In the slightly dark storage room, she felt that air-conditioning was pouring into her collar. She knew where the air-conditioning was coming from. Behind her stood a guard who followed her to the toilet. He was much taller than her and kept watching. Yes, it's weird if it's hot.
Since the team had previously determined that there were important clues in a cave somewhere on the north bank of the Huijiang River and in the Tong'an Mountains, there was no point in searching the library. After working for several hours and still finding nothing, Gu Hongdie decided to end the day's work. rest. After all, I might not be able to get a full night's sleep for the next two or three months. This is also the reason why she came to Beiqin Base.
The team must go deep into Tong'an Ridge to find the lost outpost and find the vital book.
Gu Hongdie stretched her hand back and said, "Water."
The guard, whom she nicknamed "Shepherd", fulfilled her request, took off the kettle, unscrewed the lid and handed it to Gu Hongdie.
Gu Hongdie walked back while drinking water, thinking about the current progress of her research. The most painful thing for her is definitely not the strict control, but how to prove that these seemingly anti-scientific legends are true. All the places where dragons have fallen in history, as long as they are not in war zones, don't mention them. The current team has conducted a careful survey more than ten years ago and found nothing. It wasn't until the recently killed Dragon Evil was sequenced that the gene contained an ancient bloodline that was not in the military records, but all attempts to verify it were fruitless, so I was desperate and thought of rebuilding this team.
Gu Hongdie felt irritated when she thought that the group might have been established by a certain big shot. However, recalling that her father solemnly handed over the task, she felt that this would not be a political show, and she could be arranged to join another large-scale The plan, such as "Gui" or "Qin", is safe and gold-plated.
Come on, guarding a concentration camp is better than going to a ghost place like Tonganling, right?
Gu Hongdie was thinking as she handed the kettle back. However, the narrow ancient road was full of books. She accidentally knocked down a few books when she stretched out her hand. She somehow didn't step over, but instead had a feeling of saying. With unclear intuition, he bent down and picked up the knocked-down book.
This is a... uh, probably a collection of letters from the Northern Army during the Second Republic era?
The alliance was established at the beginning of the last century, and officials claimed that its legal legitimacy was inherited from the Qiu and Zhao dynasties. At that time, Emperor Dezong favored his second son Zhao Jia, while his eldest son Zhao Yun gave up the title of crown prince for some reason, but he kept it secret. Dezong was originally scheduled to announce his second son to inherit the throne at the court meeting at the beginning of the year. However, on the eve of the court meeting, both Dezong and his eldest son died suddenly. The civil war broke out immediately. At that time, republican ideas were prevalent. The revolutionaries in Tianjing took the opportunity to seize the opportunity of the imperial army to go out to fight. They launched a riot and forced the last emperor to abdicate. They established a republican system and implemented a directorial government. Because the Directory government allowed the revolutionaries to implement the White Terror in Tianjing, the declaration of public enemy caused turmoil in Tianjing for four full years. Outside Tianjing, the four major frontier armies finally chose an alliance under the pressure of foreign enemies. They formed an alliance army and marched into Tianjing to re-establish Emperor Qisheng. Emperor Qisheng decided to give up the title of emperor after ruling for several years. The dynasty This ended, power was peacefully transferred to the hands of the Executive Committee, and the country's name was changed to the Tianhai Alliance.
This special period is generally called the Four Years of Civil War in history, and can also be called the Second Republic. The so-called Northern Army is the abbreviation of the Border Army of Hehui Province. Shanli and Yumen are called the Western Army, Linghai is the Eastern Army, Tianjing has the Forbidden Army, and the three provinces of Tianhai are called the Southern Army.
Gu Hongdie found it interesting, so she took the book and walked out of the library, intending to read it before going to bed.
During the break, the herdsman slept next to Gu Hongdie. Fortunately, she was a female soldier, otherwise Gu Hongdie would have been embarrassed.
Perhaps she was overthinking and her brain had not yet slowed down. Gu Hongdie was a little unable to sleep. She opened the book and landed on one of the pages. She began to read this letter signed by "Shen Yiye", a lieutenant colonel of the Northern Army. Letters from home.
【May 7, 1904】
Ignoring the greeting, Gu Hongdie went straight to the key parts.
[As a member of the border defense division, I can’t understand why the military region wants to move us away from the border. Beyond the border river are the Russians who are eyeing us. Once our division leaves, the troop density in the entire area will be reduced to the point where it is not enough for effective defense. Even if Behind is the Mangmang Tong'an Mountains, but the Russian army can fight along the railway embankment all the way to Changhai. The result of transferring 15 divisions and 150,000 people will be this! 】
Gu Hongdie read with interest this officer's complaint, which was as troubled as modern people's, but the following passage really piqued her interest.
