A Thousand Years of History

A Thousand Years of History

Su Ze and Zhang Fantie bid Zhao Yuanyi farewell and drove to Qinggu Airport.

Though Su Ze was unwilling in every possible way, he could not change the fact that Zhang Fantie was traveling with him.

I need to find a chance to shake Zhang Fantie off. Otherwise, I'll be finished sooner or later...

After arriving at the airport and parking the car, the two headed straight for the VIP passage. The airport was somewhat deserted in the early hours, and they did not encounter many people along the way.

A ground staff member had already been waiting for them and led them aboard. When Su Ze and Zhang Fantie reached the foot of the boarding stairs, they saw several beautiful, poised flight attendants smiling as they welcomed them.

After boarding, Su Ze deliberately chose a seat far away from Zhang Fantie. Zhang Fantie did not care and simply reclined in his seat to rest.

"Hello, sir. What would you like to drink?" A sweet-smiling flight attendant with long legs walked up to Su Ze and bent down to ask.

"Cola with ice, thanks."

Before long, a glass of cola, a fruit platter, and some small desserts were brought before Su Ze.

Su Ze took a small medicine bottle from his bag. It was labeled "Body Strengthening Pill." The name was straightforward enough: it strengthened the body and improved one's health, a type of tonic medicine.

The Life Pharmaceutical trademark was printed beside it.

When he opened it, he found small blue pills inside. Su Ze poured out two, swallowed them with a gulp of cola, and immediately put on an expression of agony.

They were fucking bitter!

Even though he had washed them straight down his throat with cola, the bitter taste still surged back into his mouth.

Su Ze hurriedly wolfed down a couple bites of cake, finally masking the bitterness in his mouth.

The Body Strengthening Pills took effect immediately. Su Ze felt heat course through his whole body, turning him red as a cooked shrimp, his face flushed as though Guan Yu had possessed him.

About five minutes later, the heat finally faded. Yet Su Ze still felt pleasantly warm all over, as if every muscle and every bone in his body was being continuously strengthened.

"As expected of the tonic Zhao Lingxiao left behind. Its effects are definitely among the best of its class!"

Every time human evolvers absorbed an extract, it placed a certain burden on their bodies. If their physical condition could not keep up, the extraction process could easily fail, so they had to continuously strengthen their physiques.

Exercise alone provided extremely limited gains. To achieve improvements that surpassed human limits, they still needed the help of various tonic medicines.

Taking medicine as the main approach, supplemented by high-intensity training, was the most efficient way to improve one's physical condition.

For every evolver hoping to reach a higher level, tonic medicine was an indispensable resource.

The medicine could not stop!

The raw materials for these tonics all came from various evolved animals and plants, which was why they possessed such potent effects.

Although extracts from plant lifeforms could not be absorbed by humans, they were excellent materials for making tonic medicine.

Su Ze reclined his seat and lazily leaned back, admiring the scenery outside the window while familiarizing himself with the memories of Blue Star's history in his mind.

Blue Star a thousand years ago had been extremely similar to Earth. Hundreds of countries, large and small, covered the entire planet, and humanity ruled the world. At the time, Blue Star's technological level was roughly comparable to Earth's. No Evolutionary Force had appeared, and humanity's focus remained on technological development.

That was until a global "Rain of Evolution" fell, completely changing Blue Star's landscape.

The God of Evolution scattered the seeds of evolution across the entire world, but humanity alone held up umbrellas.

That Rain of Evolution set all life across the globe on the path of evolution. Both animals and plants underwent mutations, gaining all sorts of powerful and bizarre abilities. Only humanity seemed unchanged, forced to take up modern weapons and fight all manner of monsters.

Whether animals or plants, their methods of evolution were simple and brutal. Plants could naturally grow stronger with the passage of time, while animals could become stronger by devouring other evolved lifeforms.

Humanity, as higher animals and intelligent life, lost the initiative in that War of Evolution and fell into a passive position. Countless humans became food for mutated beasts. The overwhelming majority of nations perished in that disaster, while humanity's habitable territory steadily shrank.

That War of Evolution lasted nearly five hundred years. During that time, humanity gradually discovered its own path of evolution. One powerful human lifeform after another rose to prominence, ending the War of Evolution and preserving humanity's last remaining habitats.

But there were no shortage of powerful mutated beasts, and they held an absolute advantage in numbers. Humanity had enough strength to protect itself, but lacked the power to counterattack. Most of Blue Star was now mutated beast territory.

If one drew a map of Blue Star, one would find that humanity's habitats amounted to no more than scattered specks upon it.

There were now only three major human settlements on Blue Star, and Linhua Continent, where Mu Kingdom was located, was one of them.

Linhua Continent was ruled by the dominant nation, Linhua Kingdom, which governed six subordinate countries: Mu Kingdom, Luofan Kingdom, Dongli Kingdom, Guan Kingdom, Peninsula Kingdom, and the United Kingdom of the Great Desert.

The status of these six nations was similar to that of vassal states in ancient times. Though each governed itself and competed and clashed with the others, they still had to follow the Dominant Nation's lead and obey its directives on major matters.

No matter how great the conflicts between the six nations, whether ancient feuds or territorial disputes, none dared launch a large-scale war. They could only resolve their disputes through relatively peaceful means under the mediation of Linhua Kingdom, the Dominant Nation.

Mu Kingdom and Luofan Kingdom had a fairly good relationship, but the Black Rock Mountain Range lay along their shared border. It was filled with countless mutated beasts and was incredibly dangerous, greatly obstructing travel between the two nations.

Fearing that planes would be attacked by mutated beasts while crossing the Black Rock Mountain Range, there were no international flights between the two countries. There was only one cross-border highway, jointly constructed and maintained by both nations, their sole "official road."

The starting point of that cross-border highway was Black Rock City, a frontier city of Mu Kingdom, which was also the destination of Su Ze's flight.

Su Ze lay in his seat. Having gone without sleep all night, he could not help feeling drowsy and soon drifted off.

When a flight attendant gently woke him, he realized it was already noon and that the plane had landed at Black Rock City Airport.

Su Ze washed his face on the plane, then disembarked with Zhang Fantie.

The moment they left the airport, they hailed a taxi. Upon hearing that they had a big fare bound for Luofan Kingdom, the driver's attitude instantly became enthusiastic. Driving the cross-border highway would be tiring, but it paid well.

But when the car reached the entrance to the cross-border highway, they found it jammed so tightly that they could not move an inch.

The driver opened the Safe Journey group on his phone and asked around, only to learn that the cross-border highway had been attacked by mutated beasts and was temporarily closed. It would not reopen until tomorrow.

Though this was not common, it was hardly unusual. It happened once or twice every year.

The cross-border highway ran through the Black Rock Mountain Range. Although the mutated beasts around the road had long been cleared out by experts from Mu Kingdom and Luofan Kingdom, and evolvers from both countries patrolled it year-round, the occasional straggler would inevitably slip through and attack passing vehicles.

Su Ze and Zhang Fantie had no choice but to have the driver take them to the best hotel in Black Rock City. They planned to stay the night and set off again tomorrow.

After all the back-and-forth and the traffic jam, the sky had already begun to darken by the time they reached the hotel.

The driver was reluctant to let such a big fare slip away, so he insisted that Zhang Fantie leave his contact information, saying he would pick them up from the hotel early the next morning.

Meanwhile, Su Ze could think of nothing but how to ditch Zhang Fantie.

What if I sneak away in the middle of the night?

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