Su Wen could at least be considered to have traveled to the Third Era.
Combined with the memory abilities of a Tier 3 Transcendent, recognizing an emblem should have been effortless.
But clearly, aside from that emblem, this relic bore other markings as well.
And that was what shocked him beyond measure.
Because:
"That is the emblem of the Human Federation."
The handsome Scholar crouched down.
Then, he shattered all the ice surrounding the not overly massive relic, finally revealing its full appearance:
It was a Difference Engine wrapped in some kind of writhing fluorescent substance.
"It differs greatly from the third-version algorithm of the Difference Engine designed by Charles Babbage.
It truly does not belong to our era."
Jiang Menghan confirmed Su Wen's thoughts in her cool voice.
But immediately afterward,
the iceberg girl suddenly discovered that the spatial psionic energy she had extended through the Lightless Mirror was being completely absorbed by the machine.
In an instant,
the gear assembly of this Difference Engine, utterly unlike the human civilization of the Fifth Epoch, began emitting an ancient hum.
It seemed
the sound Su Wen had heard upon entering had come from it.
Next, the fluorescent substance wrapped around the Difference Engine began condensing into web-like veins beneath the ice.
An enormous Holographic Projection instantly unfolded before the three of them.
It even expanded to a size greater than a movie theater screen:
It was a shattered star map,
with black cracks seeping from every star within it.
And for human civilization, which was about to enter the Interstellar Age of Exploration,
a star map
might have been the most precious treasure of this age.
Even a star map from the Third Era represented countless hidden resources that could allow human civilization to advance by leaps and bounds.
But