"The age of steam, the age of electricity, the age of nuclear power..."
"Given enough time, perhaps this Empire truly could have created a world where every person was like a dragon..."
"Unfortunately, there is no time left!"
Fan Qingmeng drew the curtain over the carriage window and looked overhead. Above her was a solid roof and soft lighting, yet her gaze seemed to pierce through the shackles of matter, seeing at a glance the boundless terror hidden within the distant void.
In a daze, she saw divine beings standing upon the earth, gathering the power of mankind to hold up the heavens. Yet the demonic power within the void was even more vast, having long since tainted those divine beings and transformed them into demon gods.
In the end, these heavens could not be held up.
As for the three ages Fan Qingmeng had mentioned, she had read of them in Great World, a literacy book published by the court.
It was something akin to an encyclopedia, containing a bewildering variety of material. Many literate people treated it as leisure reading.
It was not a single book, but an entire series. Its authors spanned numerous fields, so its contents were equally diverse and kaleidoscopic.
From teaching people how to farm and raise livestock, to treating their own illnesses with limited means, even to ordinary people using crude conditions to make black powder, handcraft grenades and landmines, while also teaching them how to conduct basic military training alone...
And that was not all. It also contained folk tales, accounts of spirits and strange phenomena, and even short stories...
As the saying went, interest was the best teacher. Drawn in by this book, many people had kindled an enthusiasm for literacy and learned all manner of knowledge. Though that knowledge was