Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1085 - 423: Layered Schemes, the Empire in Shadows

In the first layer of false history on the Source Star, it is depicted as the birthplace of humanity. After billions of years of ecological evolution, humans evolved from mammals. This fabricated history is written as a poignant struggle, focusing on the ancient history of human struggle against the Ruined Beasts, and the "great" Nine Major Groups integrating human civilization over the past millennium, altering the course of the era, and advancing in communication with extraterrestrial civilizations.

This layer of false history portrays extraterrestrial civilizations as shrouded in mystery, with an aura of powerful alien forces subtly imposed. Most of the wild people and lower-class citizens on the Source Star are inculcated with this first layer of false history.

The second layer of false history is the "Ten Thousand Year History" that Ma Xiaoling conquered in the game world. According to it, the origin of human civilization and its timeline suddenly shifted direction. The "Ten Thousand Year History" is widely circulated among middle and upper-class citizens, supported by numerous falsified so-called "relics," propping up a whimsical historical view that is as fragile as a bubble but universally accepted. One typical example among these forged relics is the mural Ren Zhong saw in the Underground City of the Qi Mountain wild people tribe.

According to the "Ten Thousand Year History," the origin of Source Star civilization lies in the escape ship named Pioneer. Ten thousand years ago, the escape ship brought civilization to the Source Star, altering its ecological structure. According to records, the home civilization of Source Star humans was at a disadvantage in an interstellar-level war against external enemies and sent out the escape ship to prevent the complete severance of civilization's heritage. A few adults with a large number of frozen embryos on the escape ship arrived at the Source Star, took root, and began rapid reproduction and development.

In the process, the escape ship lost some technology, creating a technological gap, while also facing the threat of the "native" Ruined Beasts.

To prevent uncontrollable variables caused by longing for the home civilization, the Elder Council, composed of the escape ship's adults at that time, decided to create the first layer of false history, altering humanity's origin to Source Star to enhance the sense of belonging among the lower classes.

This false history spanning ten thousand years is filled with epic stories. Within these epic tales, many remarkable figures from ancient times are inscribed in history. Ren Zhong had to admire the text writers who crafted the false history; their work was intricately detailed, logically coherent, grand, magnificent, and comprehensive. If not for the carbon-14 half-life of the relics giving it away, the false history would be almost invincible.

Of course, as a true 21st-century human well-read in genuine Earth human history, Ren Zhong spotted the inconsistencies at a glance and found it extremely discordant. For example, during the Three Kingdoms period depicted in the ten thousand-year false history, there is an event where the Martial Saint Guan Yu, who had assimilated Ruined Beast genes, cleaved Hua Xiong while warming his wine.

When Ren Zhong first encountered this seriously pretentious "history book," it made him laugh. Just this one point was enough to prove the origin of the "Ten Thousand Year History." It was simply a cunning plan by a logically sound editorial team, which absorbed real Earth history and numerous Earth-related literary works, then modified and seamlessly integrated them, ultimately creating a "Comprehensive Collection of Lies" that could deceive everyone. Nowadays, Ren Zhong doesn't even need to investigate the author; he already knows it's the "Net."

The timeline of the false history continues to advance. A thousand years ago, nine frozen Elders emerged, fully advancing technological development, successfully reconnecting with the home civilization, confirming that the home civilization had reversed its defeat and could return, and formulating a grand plan to return home, preparing to go back to the home civilization, the Empire, and gradually implementing it.

This, of course, is still a deception.

The third layer of history might be closer to the "truth."

In this layer of history, the truth is once again reversed, and the Source Star is again the origin site of humanity, only it was abandoned in even more ancient times.

The historical anecdotes repurposed in the "Ten Thousand Year History" are actually the evolutionary history of the "real" Source Star humans in the previous era.

The real "Source Star Civilization" emerged and vanished in the long river of history even earlier, before the Empire's inception.