Ma En followed Zasna to see the spear called "Chasing the Sun", although they were in an extremely heavily guarded treasure house at the time and could not really get close to the weapon.
Even looking at Ma En from a distance, he could feel the extraordinaryness of the rusty-looking spear. Ma En could confirm with his naked eyes that this thing must be a level 5 weapon, and he also remembered to go to the treasure house. path of.
When visiting the weapon, Ma En also felt quite confident about grabbing it. In other words, even if all his plans in the Titan ruins failed, in the worst case scenario, he could just steal it and run away. .
Of course, Ma En didn't intend to just grab a level 5 weapon and run away, so when visiting the weapons, he didn't say or do any more meaningless things. Instead, he asked Zasna to learn about the history of Titan.
After mentioning this request, Zasna took him to the largest floating island of books.
The Book Island in City 9 is actually closer to a social and entertainment place, because both the flesh Titan and the mechanical Titan have other ways of reading text and receiving and browsing information. Most of them will have some kind of machine implanted like a miniature personal terminal. Organs, and exchange information directly with Titan's internal database.
However, although this thing looks like a more advanced computer and can theoretically be connected to the Internet, in fact these Titans do not have the same infrastructure as the Internet. This seems to be the same reason why they cannot communicate remotely.
According to Zasna's explanation, this is because many long-distance and high-speed information transmissions are hindered, so today's Thirteen Cities still retain ancient messengers. For some reasons that she cannot easily explain, it seems that all creatures carry No information will be affected by this, so they will still retain the messenger profession.
That's why, to them, implanted organs are more like some kind of information storage device. The Titans are not like today's humans who all have Internet-connected devices such as mobile phones, so the library can still use social media. It has the nature of an entertainment venue. After all, there are still some Titans who want to use their own eyes.
However, it is completely different in cities dominated by Mechanical Titans, because for Mechanical Titans, implanting personal terminals is as easy as drinking water, so almost every Mechanical Titan will have a personal terminal implanted.
He has also read a lot of books in the past few days, and his understanding of the ancient Titan civilization has finally caught up with what he originally knew. He also has enough understanding of the post-Titan civilization composed of mechanical and flesh-and-blood Titans.
The history of Titan recorded in the book is also clearer the closer it is. The data on the ancient Titan civilization and the early post-Titan civilization stage are relatively vague, but it may be different from the situation on land. Ma En can vaguely detect the closer. The clearer history is not because the past history has been lost, but because they deliberately concealed something.
Based on these books and previously learned information, Ma En was also able to figure out a basic historical line. The original Thirteen Kings woke up a long time ago, and then it seemed that they experienced a particularly chaotic era, in which they roughly mentioned By the time the Thirteen Kings created today's flesh-and-blood and mechanical Titans through ancient facilities, there seemed to be various internal and external wars, and then something big happened.
This incident directly caused the Thirteen Kings to fall into a deep sleep again. It was not until a thousand years ago that they woke up again and established the current Titan civilization again, and slowly formed the situation that Ma En sees now.
In fact, there is nothing particularly important about the past thousand years, so after clarifying these things, Ma En once again devoted himself to the books that recorded more distant times, and then tried to find useful things.
And he really found something.
Ma En, who was sitting attentively reading, put down the thick ancient book in his hand, raised his head and looked at Zasna who seemed to be "accompanying" him to read, but was actually looking at him.
After noticing Dumaen's gaze, Zasna immediately put down her book and looked at him.
Ma En showed a curious look:
"This book mentions that gods betrayed their own kind a long time ago. Is this true?"
Similar questions have occurred countless times in the past two days, so at this time, Zasna did not have any suspicion because Ma En asked here, but regarded this as an extremely ordinary question.
"It's really unexpected, isn't it?" Zasna said, "It must be hard for you to imagine that the gods would betray their own compatriots to help us. You would think so because the gods are like this now.
"But in fact, the causal relationship here is the other way around, because the gods today are like this precisely because those righteous and kind gods died in battle a long time ago.
"It was that ancient war that wiped away the last vestiges of goodness and justice among the gods."
Ma En said with some surprise:
"If you put it this way, then the Ancient Titans should be the extremely just party in that war."
Although there is no justice in many wars, if it was really a war in which both sides were equally right and wrong, it would be impossible for those kind and just gods to betray their compatriots and help mankind.
Zasna nodded slightly and said:
"Yes, these ancient gods are extremely great and admirable heroes."
Ma En also looked a little downcast when he heard this:
"So if I understand correctly, they are all dead?"
There seemed to be sadness flowing in Zasna's eyes, but it disappeared almost instantly, making Ma En, who was sitting opposite her, a little doubtful that he had seen it wrong.
"Yes." She replied with a normal expression, "Without the sacrifices of these gods, the wars in the past would not have been won. They deserve to live more than other gods."
"But they voluntarily gave up their eternal lives for the sake of mankind."
Ma En blinked:
"These gods betrayed their own kind and sacrificed their lives for kindness and justice. I don't think most humans and Titans today can do the same thing, but your mother also cares, right?"
Zasna nodded:
"Yes, my mother was the kind of person who could have love and compassion for other races. Many of her compatriots thought this was an extremely stupid thing to do, but I disagree.
"She feels that the gap between our two races is not that big. There is no need for us to treat each other as completely different races. The gap between you and me is like the different skin colors of human beings - it just looks a little different at first glance, but We all have almost the same consciousness structure, yes there are indeed differences in our consciousness.
"But are the consciousnesses of humans and humans exactly the same? She feels that the gap in consciousness between humans and Titans is not fundamentally different from the gap in consciousness between humans and humans. If she loves her compatriots...
"Then she should love people of almost the same race as her compatriots."
