"What did you say??"
Han Meng recovered his senses, immediately shaking his head. "How is this possible... I know the Lord of the Aurora does not belong to any Divine Pathways, and is an existence independent from all power systems in the world, but he also absolutely cannot be a Fusionist."
"Then that depends on how you define a Fusionist."
Dr. Yi sized up Han Meng and Chen Ling behind him with a glance, waving his hand drunkenly. "Forget it... this matter is not considered any secret inside the base. Since our Vice Captain Han Meng is curious, I will properly teach you surface people a lesson... follow me."
Carrying the liquor bottle, he walked unsteadily towards the other side of the corridor.
Han Meng didn't know what kind of trick this drunkard was exactly playing. Frowning tightly he still followed up, with Chen Ling closely following behind.
"Hello Dr. Yi."
"Good evening Dr. Yi."
"Dr. Yi, over there requires you to take a look when you have time, sorry for the trouble."
Dr. Yi's status inside the Aurora Base seemed to be extremely high. During this period of passing through the corridor, whoever was a figure draped in a White Coat Wearer would all bow to greet him. A tall female scientific researcher passing by, even directly threw him a flirtatious glance.
"Dr. Yi, where are you going?"
"Just finished an experiment, going to vent and relax a bit..." Dr. Yi naturally stretched out his hand, forcefully pinching the female doctor's plump buttocks, grinning as he laughed, "Wear something stimulating tonight, don't lock the door ah~"
"Dead ghost." The female doctor didn't expect him to be so bold, daring to get hands-on right in front of others. She glared at him flirtatiously, turning around and leaving.
Han Meng behind took everything thoroughly into his eyes, his brows frowning increasingly tighter.
Waiting for the female doctor to walk far, Han Meng spoke indifferently, "During working hours there's both alcohol abuse and flirting... Your Aurora Base, truly has a good atmosphere."
"Hehe, thanks for the praise."
"You said the Lord of the Aurora is a Fusionist, then what Calamity did he fuse with?" Han Meng asked again. "The Lord of the Aurora is a Rank 9, if he is a Fusionist, then wouldn't his target of Fusion be at least 'World-Ending' grade?"
"Calamity? No no no... what the Lord of the Aurora fused with, is not a 'Calamity' kind of thing."
Dr. Yi pushed open a door at the very edge of the third floor. A long corridor that looked like an art exhibition appeared in front of the two, Chen Ling and Han Meng. Under the bright incandescent lights, photographs and manuscript notes were displayed on the two sides one by one, like a historical museum.
Chen Ling's gaze swept past the photos on the wall. Below the photos were the shooting times of these photos. As they gradually went deeper, the ages of these photos also became increasingly distant... But what was eerie was, following the distant age, these photos instead became even clearer, more advanced.
Conversely looking at the photos from the recent two years, they were even all black and white. Within this long corridor, time and technology were flowing in reverse in a form that had never been envisioned before.
"This is the Aurora Base's archive, however I am more willing to call it the 'Human Extinction Museum'." Dr. Yi spoke unhurriedly. "Here, from the perspective of the Aurora Base, records everything from before the Great Cataclysm until now...
If it's said that history since the birth of humanity, is a number axis growing in the positive direction, then starting from when this thing appeared, this number axis then began to reverse towards the negative direction... and its final endpoint, is the origin, which is 'extinction'."
Dr. Yi's finger, tapped on a photo at the deepest point, subsequently continuing to walk forward unhurriedly,
Chen Ling took a glance over there. On the photo there was a scarlet long trail, like a meteor slashing across the sky... This photo was a color photo observed by an astronomical Telescope, and also the photo with the highest technological content over the recent three hundred years.
"And the origin of the Lord of the Aurora, is also it."
Dr. Yi slowly stopped his footsteps. He took down a photo from the wall, passing it into Han Meng's hands.
Han Meng lowered his head to look. In the photo, there were nine figures wearing protective suits. They held different exploration instruments, standing in front of a military off-road vehicle, holding a map seeming to be currently comparing something, their expressions incomparably serious.
"What is this?"
"Before the Great Cataclysm, on August 8, 2024 AD, a scarlet meteor slashed across the earth's sky." Dr. Yi's voice rang out calmly. "According to calculations, that meteor's orbit existed an impact risk with the earth. So after human higher-ups passed a resolution, they decided to deploy Nuclear Weapons to intervene with the meteor's trajectory...
That day, humanity launched large-yield Nuclear Weapons towards the meteor. The shockwaves produced by the explosion caused the meteor's orbit to produce a minute deflection, thereby missing the earth. But at the same time, a fragment of the meteor deviated from its orbit, plummeting into the atmosphere.
This fragment ultimately fell into a certain country's territory. Subsequently the officials gathered nine young scientists who were the outstanding talents in various fields at the first notice, conducting exploration and recovery towards the fallen Red Star Fragment..."
Dr. Yi paused for a moment,
"But ten minutes after they began the exploration mission, they collectively lost contact."
"By the time the rescue team found them, the nine of them were currently in nine entirely different eerie postures, surrounding an empty Meteorite Crater, just like sculptures, but the people had already thoroughly lost consciousness.
At that time all modern equipment within a ten kilometer radius failed. It is said that among the rescue team present at the time, someone attempted to use a film camera to capture this scene. It was only when they went back to develop the photos after shooting did they discover, everyone in the rescue team existed in the photo, only the nine of them alone were unable to be imaged... only leaving behind nine lumps of mysterious white shadows."
Hearing this, Han Meng couldn't resist asking, "You're saying, the Lord of the Aurora is precisely one of these nine scientists?"
"Correct." Dr. Yi picked up that pre-departure photo in his hand, his fingertip pointing towards a tall and thin man in the corner. "He is the Lord of the Aurora."
"And then?"
"At the time this matter didn't obtain too much attention, only thinking it was the special magnetic field of that Red Star Fragment causing the equipment to fail. The nine young scientists also returned to their respective work units to continue working, not perceiving any abnormalities in their bodies... But since the day The Red Star slashed past, human technology began to regress bit by bit, and within a short year world wars broke out.
In that chaotic war sweeping the world, the Lord of the Aurora was caught in the blast of a nuclear explosion, and along with an entire surrounding city was turned into flying ash, tens of millions of lives instantly evaporating.
In that explosion, intense auroras enveloped above the ruins, not dissipating for three days and three nights... By the time the aftermath of the nuclear explosion dissipated, a white-haired figure walked out from the auroras filling the sky. It was also starting from that time, that the Lord of the Aurora only then became the Lord of the Aurora..."
"So, the regression of technology was very possibly caused by that fallen Red Star Fragment?"
"Hard to say, but right now the majority of scholars believe, that The Red Star's main body is the true culprit that caused all of this, the fragment was just an accident... After all, the fragment's volume isn't even one ten-thousandth of the true Red Star."
"But having said so much, you still haven't explained clearly why the Lord of the Aurora is a Fusionist... What exactly did he fuse with back then?"
Dr. Yi's drunken face became rarely serious. He looked at Han Meng's eyes, speaking word by word:
"What he fused with, was the scientific research inference he spent his entire life studying and exploring... which is 'Magnetic Field Theory'."