Learning About The World (1)

Keiko spent nearly two hours lying in bed looking for information about this world. The expression on her face changed several times, from doubt to shock to disbelief, and finally accepted the truth gloomily.

She was sure of one thing: she might have really traveled to the future, the future of the earth.

She wasn't sure if this was a parallel universe, but she knew that the history of the world she was in had been the same as the history of the Earth until 2016 AD when she had lived.

What the world was like in the past is what the world is like now. Until, In 2038 AD, a horrific worldwide nuclear war broke out.

In the historical encyclopedia on the Internet, the nuclear war is called "the Third World War,", also known as "the War of Destruction."

That war accidentally touched the tectonic plates, causing a large number of active volcanic eruptions around the world, including the dreaded Yellowstone, Marum, Uyeyako, Chiriqui, and more.

The violent movement of the earth's crust caused large earthquakes, which in turn triggered a large number of terrible tsunamis, submerged many continents, and destroyed many developed coastal cities in an instant.

Earth was experiencing an unprecedented change, the biggest since the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea.

Humans initially thought that war had destroyed the world, but after experiencing the catastrophe that destroyed the sky and the earth, the surviving humans suddenly discovered that the violent movement of the earth's crust turned out to be premeditated, and humans had just advanced the process themselves.

In the cracked Grand Canyon, in the erupting volcano, and in the new mountain that was born by extrusion, a large number of terrifying monsters began to appear.

They looked extremely ugly, and most of them had an appearance similar to insects, but they were like insects no one had ever seen before. They were known as the "Zerg".

Antonio briefly mentioned the Zerg in that report before. Keiko didn't understand what it was at the time, but now she understood that it was a terrifying alien race that threatened the survival of human beings.

They could fly into the sky, dig underground, and dive into the depths of the ocean. They are almost everywhere, coming in a swarm.

Also, they hunted humans for food and used human bodies as a breeding ground to incubate the next generation.

Terrible disasters had changed the Earth's environment. Oxygen was getting thicker every year, a lot of particulate matter was floating in the air, sulfides are rising exponentially, and there is ubiquitous radiation that cannot be dissipated for many years.

Even if humans were not preyed on by the Zerg, they died in large numbers because of these harsh conditions.

Finally, under the combined threats of radiation and Zerg, another terrifying monster was born. They were a devilish mixture of humans and Zerg.

They inherited both human and Zerg traits that made them endlessly curious and terrifying.

Humans named them "predators" and rated them as dangerous. The ugly big guy who looked like a hybrid of human and spider, whom she had met previously with Antonio, was the first-level predator, the most advanced predator.

In this terrifying world full of threats, the small number of humans who survived the brutal survival of the fittest started changing.

Their physical quality had undergone a qualitative leap, and their survival ability had greatly improved. This was the so-called neo-human.

Although there was no exaggerated special ability in those fantasy novels, the neo-humans have indeed undergone a lot of changes.

In addition to various changes in physical and mental ability, the most notable evolutionary feature is the substantial weakening of reproductive ability.

This may not be called evolution; it can only be called natural transformation. What is gained, what will be lost, this world will always be balanced.

In order to preserve the only remaining fire of mankind, great leaders stepped forward and embarked on the road of uniting all mankind.

The decade from AD 2038 to 2048 was called the Dark Decade. In this decade, human history was divided.

After 2049, records of human activities finally began.

Until 2099, in the past 50 years, the major forces of mankind had been in a state of separatism and governed themselves. In the past fifty years, the birth of a great man had prompted all mankind to embark on the road of unity.

His name is Baldwin von Heisenberg, a Deutsche. He was the only general marshal in the history of the Federation, the greatest leader, the leader of the "Hundred Years of Resistance". He united all the surviving human beings and established the homeland that human beings rely on for their survival—the seven major city-states.

Among them, the City of Valhalla was the first city-state to be completed. It was marked by the completion of the city walls of the City of Valhalla and the beginning of the new human calendar. That year was 2099 AD in the old calendar and the first year in the new calendar.

In the 18th year of the new calendar, marked by the completion of all the city walls of the seven major city-states, the Federal Republic of the World was officially established.

In the 22nd year of the new calendar, the "Constitution of the Federal Republic of the World" and the other five basic laws were promulgated, declaring that the rule of the federal government was officially established.

In the same year, Baldwin von Heisenberg was awarded the titles of "Father of the Commonwealth" and "Honorary Grand Marshal".

From 2038 in the old calendar to 22 in the new calendar, people habitually call it the "hundred-year struggle".

Until August 149 of the new calendar, the Federal Republic of the World had been established for 131 years. In the past 131 years, a lot of things have happened, and Keiko Lee couldn't understand all of them for a while. But two things intrigued her, and she read it really carefully.