Huh? Are they all real?...

The sound was so faint that Moen almost thought it was his imagination.

The sound was so loud that Moen froze on the spot.

Turning around in surprise, Moen clearly saw ripples spreading across the artificial lake beside him, even though there was no wind.

This wasn't just happening around Moen, but in both worlds.

At this moment, all the lake surfaces surged in unison with the heart of a supreme being.

Moen couldn't help but walk to the lakeside.

Looking at my reflection in the middle of the lake.

Moen instinctively reached his hand into the lake.

Unfortunately, this time, Moen's hand did not touch her face, which was cool yet infinitely gentle.

This time, all that remains is an unreachable longing and a cold lake.

It is said that at the end of verdant June, the ancient god who arrived at the Lake of Twilight in search of truth did not find the legendary Great Grail, but instead found his own king.

From that time onward, the love that the Queen represented became the true Holy Grail for this ancient being.

After a brief silence, Moen withdrew his hand from the lake.

Since we can no longer feel that beautiful memory that is both cold and infinitely tender.

Let's focus on the present for now.

Moen almost forced himself to focus his attention back on the present moment.

The city of Truth boasts a library that ranks among the top three in the entire Human Federation, reportedly housing countless treasures from the pre-war era.

Of course, the vast majority are 1:1 replicas, while the originals are carefully preserved deep underground in the library.

That's all Moen wanted.

Having experienced the great war, the Human Federation had no intention of blocking knowledge; on the contrary, it tried its best to make the knowledge that everyone wanted accessible to them.

Only in this way can we have a better chance of rebuilding our homes after a new great war.

What Moen wanted to investigate was that great battle.

It was a great battle that came too late, yet at just the right time.

It won't really destroy everything, but it can also truly make people let go of everything.

Many historians believe that this great war came about in a very strange way; it could have been avoided, but it still happened.

The pocket watch always seems to bring itself back here, as if this is its home turf, but it is clearly a product of that place.

Furthermore, two completely different worlds interacted.

So Moen has some doubts about how long the interaction between the two worlds actually took place.

Chapter 167 The Strange Diary (4k)

Moen's understanding of that great war was limited to what he had read about in books.

Even so, those who compiled the textbooks specifically wrote a sentence in a history book that needed to be practical:

This war, which affected the entire civilization, broke out in a way that remains incomprehensible to this day.

This is precisely the direction that Moen is trying to investigate.

After checking the management AI at the entrance of the public library, Moen had planned out the general direction.

According to the pocket watch, I should have another afternoon and evening.

Hopefully, this will be enough.

As Moen pondered, a small mountain of books slowly accumulated in a corner of the library.

This aroused the curiosity of passersby.

However, everyone was very tactful and polite, pausing briefly to observe before leaving.

Only Moen, hidden by the hill, frowned even more deeply.

First, the first World War of the People's League originated in the year 2155 of the old calendar.

The historical changes on the People's Union side and in Moen's hometown are quite similar.

But the biggest difference is that in the 20th century, when the People's Federation was in power, there was no world war. As global trade gradually unfolded, geopolitics was on the verge of collapse.

The leaders at the time chose to exercise restraint, thus avoiding the First and Second World Wars that occurred in Moen's hometown.

Until nuclear energy was developed, the emergence of weapons of mass destruction further curbed the possibility of a major war.

According to the information Moen found, during the 20th and 21st centuries, and even the first half of the 22nd century, many people believed that a world war was simply impossible.

Because everyone knows that with current technology, if a global war breaks out, it will only be a nuclear war.

This was not only the perception of ordinary people, but also the judgment of many high-ranking officials at the time.

Therefore, when the first nuclear warhead was launched, many countries thought it was a false alarm or even an accidental launch.

They even maintained an almost obsessive level of restraint, demanding that the other side detonate the failed interceptor intercontinental ballistic missile to avoid a full-blown war until the nuclear warhead finally landed.

But the result was that the nuclear bomb was successfully detonated in the center of a megacity with a population of 30 million.

Thus began the nuclear war.

The war lasted for fifty years, until 2206 in the old calendar, when the surviving people, led by ten large organizations that could still be considered nations, began to rebuild civilization.

The leaders of these ten major forces later became the head organization of the Human Alliance—the Council of Ten.

And this year will be the start of a new calendar.

Reconstruction took approximately sixty years, and only then was about fifty percent of the land cleared for habitation. Even now, in the year 166 of the Gregorian calendar, only seventy-one percent of the land remains habitable.

The remaining 30% are heavily polluted areas that even the Human Resources Federation, which has made another leap forward in technology, does not know how to deal with.

The lethal nuclear radiation that can last for at least tens of thousands of years, and the genetic virus that was already exceptionally powerful before the war and has now evolved into who-knows-what kind of monster, are all child's play in the face of these things.

Furthermore, it is said that the rogue AIs that were declared completely terminated by the Human Alliance are still hiding there.

These things were originally unrelated to what Moen was investigating.

But Moen found a very interesting entry in a cleaning worker's diary:

On March 12, 1989, I accepted a job with the Eastern Corps and went to Greenland, one of the three most polluted regions.

To be honest, I didn't want to go. I'd heard that even the stones on the ground might still contain highly active genetic viruses.

Speaking of gene viruses, I remember when I was a child I witnessed a scavenger wearing a level 3 hazmat suit die right there in a lightly contaminated area just because he accidentally tore his glove.

Good heavens, I have never seen anyone die like that.

Or rather, it was just a puddle of water. I really don't know what those people were doing researching these insane viruses before the war?

It hasn't lost its vitality after all these years!

Not to mention the various radiation and mutated animals.

However, the offer they made was too tempting: a permanent green card in the capital!

For my family's sake, I should give it a try.

April 7, 1989 (Gregorian calendar). Everything went very smoothly. I've been a cleaner for many years, but I've never had such a smooth experience.

I think this is all thanks to the huge investment made by the Eastern Corps.

Good heavens, there are over 300,000 of them, not counting us sanitation workers.

It seems that the authorities really want to completely clean up this polluted area.

I apologize; I thought they were just putting on a show for the votes.

If that's the case, I'm willing to take it seriously.

After all, it seems that everyone has remembered the motto "For the People's Federation"!

Up to this point, it's still just normal diary entries and complaints.

But as Moen flipped through the pages, he initially didn't pay much attention. However, he soon came across some details that really caught his eye:

On May 17, 1989, because I did a good job, I was assigned to the vicinity of the officers' tents. It was a good place because the filtration system here was the best on the front line.

However, I heard something very strange while I was in the bathroom.

It sounded like an officer, but the voice was unfamiliar; it didn't sound like someone from our camp.

However, I recognized the other person he was talking to; he was the person in charge of our camp, and his rank was lieutenant colonel!

They said the compass was malfunctioning and the ritual was useless.

I can understand the compass, but what about the ritual?

Could it be one of those supernatural or ghostly things from comic books?

My God, the officers of the People's Liberation Army actually believe this?

Moen took it to heart the moment he saw this.

The People's Federation is a highly developed technological society.

They were at least two hundred years ahead of Moen's hometown, and they also fought a nuclear war, not to mention the technological leap forward forced by the war.

That could be more than three hundred years.

Yet, this very person, within the context of society, allowed Moen to perceive obvious elements of mysticism.

Of course, this might be a minority of superstitions, after all, the wasteland era turned many people into barbarians. And these barbarians passed on such mystical beliefs to their descendants.

However, the speaker was a lieutenant colonel, a lieutenant colonel officer in charge of a front-line camp.

Therefore, this is likely not his personal approach, but rather the approach of the entire system.

As Moen continued reading, he discovered even more details that surprised him.

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On July 8, 1989, we ventured into a place we had never been before.

It was at this time that I saw something in the camp that really surprised me—weapons.

The quantity and quality of the weapons were highly abnormal.

In order to deal with possible mutated monsters and the still-functioning self-defense system.

It's quite normal for cleanup teams to bring weapons or even troops. Especially since this is Greenland, one of the most polluted regions in the world.

But I swear, the guys they brought were way too much. It didn't look like they were here for cleanup; it looked like they were here to fight a war!

Upon closer reflection, were the 300,000-plus people they brought really all military personnel involved in the cleanup?

If that's the case, is there any need to hire us?

Moen unconsciously straightened his posture.

Moen's inspiration told him that this diary entry could be a huge breakthrough!

On August 9, 1989, our cleanup efforts encountered a major obstacle. The complex pollution ahead was too intense.

Our best cleaning robot broke down after working for less than ten minutes!

Good heavens, I dare say that even if I wore the heaviest and best hazmat suit, I would die instantly if I dared to get within ten kilometers of that place!

I think this is the end of it. The only solution for this super-polluted zone is to wear it down with time and credits.

But the place I treated this way before was far inferior to this one, and it took me almost eleven years. This one, it might take a hundred years?

Also, it's really tough to live on radiation-relieving and anti-radiation drugs like rice, but thankfully that should be over soon.

On September 3, 1989, we were all ready to evacuate, but what did those guys bring?

A tunnel boring machine! And that colossal behemoth built by the Heather Group!

My God, are they trying to go underground?

Okay, I have seen similar things before. If you go deep underground, you can create a high-speed passage that goes straight through the contaminated area.

But that was the method used in the past to connect two regions.

What's the point of using this here? There are no cities around Greenland!