Perhaps because of the volcanic geothermal heat, the builders of this city defined several areas on the hillside of the inner city where land was already tight and built various botanical gardens. Now these botanical gardens have become parks, and most of the plants inside are plants that have disappeared from the snow and ice outside. Here you can still vaguely see the prosperity and vitality that the world should have before the disaster comes.

It is precisely because this place can make people feel the scene before the disaster that the houses surrounding the park become very precious, and all the people living here are not rich or noble, so people in New Rand also call this circle of buildings the Golden Ring of Power.

After leaving the big library, Leo found a house near the inner city park in the inner city for temporary residence. The original owner of the house was a city official and a monk of the Victory Goddess, and was a local real power figure.

Under the influence of his psychic ability, the owner of the house and his family did not feel anything wrong with Leo's stay, as if Leo had lived here a long time ago. At the same time, he also regarded the room where Leo lived as a forbidden place. Not only was his family not allowed to approach, but he himself seemed to have forgotten that there was such a room.

The room where Leo lives has a viewing balcony, which is very suitable for viewing the park. The balcony is built with the technology of a glass greenhouse and there are heating pipes on the ground, so even if you sit on the balcony and open the window, you won’t let anyone there feel cold.

After finding a place to sit down, Leo began to sort out and absorb the information he had just scanned and collected in the database using the Spirit Network. Through these information, he had a clear understanding of the situation in the world at an extremely fast speed.

Because of the disaster, there are very few books on the past history of this world and very few geography books. It is not that people in the past do not pay attention to history and geography, but that computers have been invented in this world, and all books have data stored on different hard disks.

The government of this world originally thought that even if the data in one hard disk was broken, other hard disks could be saved and recovered. However, when the disaster came, these sophisticated but easily damaged electronic devices were damaged first, and all the relevant information was lost.

Even though the data in some cities are still preserved, those cities have been occupied by giant vines, and all the data hard drives are trapped in the city. Even if those who go to the city to search for items have the ability to retrieve those data hard drives, the most important thing for them now is to find food, seeds, etc. that are helpful to survival. As for the data such as history and geography that are of no help to survival, they will naturally give up.

Now the books that are most collected in places like the New Rand Library are various reference books. These reference books include both agriculture and industrial aspects, which are basically related to manufacturing technology and principles.

It is not difficult to infer from these reference books how far the world's technological level had reached before the disaster came. For example, the world has used various large-scale engineering machinery on a large scale, has manufactured aircraft, bicycles and other means of transportation, has already had televisions, computers and other technological products, and has also begun to have preliminary space exploration, manufactured rockets, launched satellites, and developed towards manned space flight.

The energy used in this world is a crystal energy. This mineral crystal can be converted into energy required by electricity, thermal energy, etc. through special catalytic methods. When the crystal remains normal, it can create a normal temperature environment for the surrounding area. This environment is convenient for life and for plant growth. Therefore, wherever there are crystal mines, there will be cities nearby, and some cities are even built directly on crystal mines.

Although there are few historical and geography books in the large library, there are not none. However, those historical and geography books are the history and geography of the country where New Rand is located, and there are not many historical and geographical records related to the entire world.

The land where Leo is now located is called the Miral Plain. It is an extremely fertile land. Because there are a large number of crystal mines underground, the environment here can also be said to be like spring. According to the book, the grain produced in this land has always accounted for one-seventh of the world's total grain production, making it the third largest grain producing area in the world.

It is precisely because this land is extremely fertile that this place was a frequent wars a long time ago. The first people who came here to settle here were a group of nomads named Mumulan. Only the Tasi, Cullinan and other large and small southern nomads entered here. In addition, some refugees who fled due to the war in the Southern Kingdoms, soon there were hundreds of tribes of all sizes on this land.

Although the book mentions the Southern Kingdom, it does not provide much information. It can only be seen from the fact that this plain is a regime dominated by tribalism, the south already had a kingdom, and more than one can see that the south of this world is much more developed than the north.

Then there was the tribal period of the Miral Plain that lasted for thousands of years. There was only one theme during this period, that is, tribal war, large tribes annex small tribes and expand their land, and then the tribes split for some reason and became multiple tribes, and then annexed each other, repeating over and over again, never stopping, and lasting for a period of thousands of years.

It was not until a country called the St. Morac's Empire in the south began to invade the Miral Plain that the Miral War stopped, and under the wandering of the Mumulan tribe's great chief, the Miral lion, Lillier, the tribes temporarily gave up hatred and jointly fought against the invaders.

Then came the five-year anti-invasion war. The Miral Plain Tribal Alliance successfully defeated the St. Morac Empire. After that, the alliance disintegrated and the plain returned to the state of tribal war. However, the tribal war was no longer as cruel as it was at the beginning. In addition, the Miral Lion Lir gained great reputation with his identity as the chief of the alliance in the anti-invasion war, which allowed him to quickly recover various tribes. Finally, ten years later, the tribal war completely ended in the Miral Plain and the Kingdom of Miral was also established.

The Kingdom of Miral lasted for about five hundred years. The royal family of the kingdom fell, the palace prime minister centralized power, and the lords in various places acted independently, and internal political chaos. After that, the outbreak of thoughts in the south spread to the Kingdom of Miral. Driven by the trend of thought, anti-imperialism began to break out in various parts of the kingdom, and the revolutionary movement eventually broke out. Seven years later, the revolutionary teams in various places seized the power of the kingdom, and the Miral Republic was established and still existed until the disaster came.

There is nothing to say about the history on the Miral Plain. It is either war or court conspiracy. It rarely records anything else. The people who wrote the history are not interested in the outside world. Even the invaders, the St. Morac's Empire and the Southern Trends that led to the establishment of the Republic have not been recorded. Those history books are extremely sloppy.

The rest of the geography books are also very simple, which introduces the geographical situation of each tribe and state on the plain. Ninety percent of the content is the same. The content is recorded on only a few lakes and a few rivers running through the plain, and it also records the situation of some animals and plants.

There is no clear written record of what kind of disasters the world has encountered, because people's survival has become a problem after the disaster, so there is no intention to record these things. Only the large number of miracles recorded in the Redemption Book of the Redemption Society mentioned some related clues, and these clues are enough to make Leo infer a general situation.

First of all, the cause of this world-wide catastrophe is very likely related to the ongoing manned space flight in the Kingdom of Southern, because those redeemed people recorded in the Book of Redemption remember that before the disaster, they were watching the successful televised broadcast of the manned space experiment in the Kingdom of Southern, until humans had already landed in outer space.

The disaster occurred very suddenly. At first, a large number of plants withered and died, mainly from various types of food. After that, before the government of the Miral Republic reacted, giant vines grew out of the underground of all cities and controlled the entire city. Then, in just half a day, the temperature dropped sharply, and a blizzard that had never been seen swept the entire world. In less than two days, more than 90% of the people in the entire world died.

Most of these dead people are in cities. After the giant vines grow out, they are infected by spores in the vines and enter the roots of the vines to die, while the others are directly exposed to extremely low temperature blizzards and freeze to death.

The reason for this is entirely because the world is always in a temperature environment that is extremely suitable for human habitation due to the effect of energy crystallization. There is no seasonal change like spring, summer, autumn and winter. Except for the snow accidents at the tops of some extremely high peaks, there has never been ice and snow in other places. In this environment, people naturally don’t know what kind of heating methods are there, nor do they have heating clothes.

The Redemption Book records that when the world is in despair and humans are about to die out, the Lord of Redemption appears. She appears in the dreams of everyone in this world as the three goddesses. The Goddess of Civilization teaches everyone all the knowledge about how to survive in this harsh environment. The Goddess of Victory gives everyone blessings, making their bodies stronger, having a physique that is lower than the cold for a long time and the ability to fight against wild beasts in the snow. The Goddess of Lanterns points out to everyone a path to redemption and survival, so that they can come to the shelter opened by the Lord of Redemption.

At this point, all countries and cities in the world were in disasters, and only the shelter of the Lord of Redemption existed in this world that was trapped in destruction. The Lord of Redemption has also become the only faith in this world, and the Order of Redemption is also the only regime in this world.

In the book of Redemption, it is mentioned that the religious center of the Redemption Society is a place called the Holy City of Redemption, and it is also the only place where the Redemption Lord is manifested. However, the book does not mention where the Holy City of Redemption is.

In any case, Leo also determined his next target, but before setting out for the Holy City of Redemption, he wanted to go back to Rand City because he wanted to see what the kind of crystal that this world uses as an energy source is.

The various machinery used in the city of New Rand are driven by steam and heat, not the energy crystals as energy sources. According to the book of Redemption, the technology in the world now comes from the goddess of civilization and is completely decoupled from the technology in the world before the disaster.

This is because all survivors believe that the world will be in disaster. The main reason may be that kind of energy crystals, because where giant vines appear are cities with energy crystals underground and mining areas with a small amount of energy crystals. After the growth of giant vines, they will not spread outward and will always stay in the city.

Secondly, it is climate reasons. Before the disaster occurred, scientists from all over the world had already determined through research that the world's climate would be constant in a comfortable state. This is because of the energy emitted by this crystal, so the temperature will become so cold now. It is possible that the energy crystal has lost its function and can no longer maintain that environmental constant temperature state.

Leo has never seen this energy crystal that can change a world environment, so he is extremely curious, because even in the universe, he has never heard of similar energy bodies. If this energy body is really like this, it will definitely make any cosmic civilization keen on colonization and expansion crazy, because this means that those desolate planets that are not suitable for survival can be easily transformed into planets suitable for habitation.

As for the rumor that the energy crystal has lost its function, Leo thinks it is unlikely, because this energy crystal does not work for a year or two, but has been working since the existence of this world. Even if it may lose its effectiveness due to energy loss, it will be a long process and will never suddenly lose all energy.

Therefore, he inferred that there must be that kind of energy crystals under those cities, and the reason why he did not feel any abnormal energy fluctuations related to it in the city of Rand was most likely because it was blocked by giant vines. That giant vine is not only a carnivore plant, but also an energy plant. The energy emitted by that energy crystal is absorbed by it.

Just as Leo was sorting out the information he obtained and thinking about what he should do next, she returned to the lantern goddess priest in the prayer room of the lantern temple and started her daily prayer ceremony. However, the process of the prayer ceremony was different from the past. When the ceremony was just underway, her soul consciousness was involuntarily pulled into a pure white space. Then she saw the lantern goddess and obtained the oracle of the lantern goddess.

After the Lantern Goddess Priest escaped from that state of prayer, she immediately returned to her office, found paper and pen, and quickly drew a person on the paper. Although she had never painted, the people she drew this time were very realistic, just like a photo.
Chapter completed!