Chapter 226-3: This Is the History of My Race (3) |
Two hours later.
The Green Wood race governor on duty, Ashen Jade, while checking emails sent by the people of the race, saw Ashen Sigil’s message.
At first Ashen Jade did not take it seriously.
But when he saw the fabricated history, he could not help but frown.
He then decisively logged into the Monster World official site and began browsing the post Ashen Sigil had mentioned.
Using the search function to lock onto the post, he clicked to enter.
The video content inside made Ashen Jade’s blood pressure soar.
Especially the segment in which a big mushroom gestated the Green Source race. It was simply a face-to-face ultimate against the Green Wood race.
Wasn’t this covertly mocking the Green Wood race as descendants derived from a big mushroom?
But in the background story woven by the Lunar Eclipse race, the Green Source race that was obviously set with the Green Wood race as reference was actually gestated by a big mushroom.
Even more excessive, this background story actually gave a name to the Divine Mother they worship: Nu E.
Desecrating faith and falsifying history… the Lunar Eclipse race has truly gone too far.
Even if that ancient history was beautified, it was ultimately not the truth.
The story seemed glorious, yet it had nothing to do with the real experiences of the Green Wood race.
The true history of the Green Wood race is their foundation. It bears the significance of the race’s faith and culture, and all of this needs to be built upon true history.
With the influence of the Monster World increasing by the day, it might affect the historical memory of the next generation.
Carrying his anger, Ashen Jade closed the forum and then summoned the governors’ contact platform of the Earth Alliance.
He called the Lunar Eclipse race’s No. 3 governor.
Before long, the call connected, and in the light-screen image appeared the figure of the Lunar Eclipse race’s No. 3 governor.
In the image his facial features were well defined. Though time had left some traces on his face, it did not diminish his innate noble bearing. Instead it added a bit of maturity and steadiness.
Below the high bridge of his nose, the lines of his lips were firm. After the connection was made, he nodded slightly to him.
“Governor of the Green Wood race.”
“No. 3 governor, I need you to explain to me why you have tampered with the history of my race and made that history into game background content.”
The No. 3 governor was first stunned, then seemed to think of something.
“You mean the background story of Monster World?”
“That’s right. Back when we connected to Starnet, you clearly promised us that you would not casually browse the data and information we stored on Starnet, giving us absolute data security and trust.”
“But this time you not only secretly read our historical materials, but also altered the history of my race and turned it into a game. I need you to give me an explanation.”
Although he knew that the Lunar Eclipse race had always held the leading position in the Earth Alliance, Ashen Jade still wanted to question the Lunar Eclipse race.
Centuries of friendship between the two races, generations of cooperation, why would the Lunar Eclipse race humiliate the Green Wood race in this way?
After a brief silence, the No. 3 governor nodded and said.
“Governor of the Green Wood race, the game Monster World was produced by Starnet. We did not participate at any point. This is obviously a misunderstanding. Perhaps when Starnet produced the game, it searched for materials stored on the network and inadvertently captured historical documents your race had uploaded to Starnet, referenced part of the content, and made it into game content.”
“Rest assured, the friendship between our two races will not be damaged. I will immediately inquire with Starnet about the specific situation and give you a clear answer in 3 hours.”
“If the error is clearly on our side, I will certainly give you a satisfactory compensation and offer a sincere apology.”
Seeing the Lunar Eclipse race’s No. 3 governor so sincere in attitude, most of Ashen Jade’s anger dissipated.
This reply from the Lunar Eclipse race had already given ample face.
The fact was, even if the Lunar Eclipse race gave no answer or did not respond at all, the Green Wood race would have no recourse.
From a historical perspective, back then, if not for the rescue by the Lunar Eclipse race and humans, the Green Wood race might already have perished under Earth’s highly polluted environment.
After that, the Lunar Eclipse race also provided a large quantity of technological equipment free of charge to the Green Wood race. It would not be excessive to say that the Lunar Eclipse race were benefactors of the Green Wood race.
Thinking of this, Ashen Jade’s tone softened.
“Sorry, I was too emotional.”
“I can understand your feelings. History is the foundation of a race. Both your Green Wood race and our Lunar Eclipse race are outsider races, so naturally you will value history all the more… If there is nothing else, I will hang up first. Next I will go and ask Starnet about the specific situation.”
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Lunar Eclipse City, Lunar Eclipse Tower.
After the No. 3 governor hung up the connection with Ashen Jade, he fell into thought.
After a brief silence, he opened the Monster World official site, entered the forum, and typed the three words ‘Green Wood race’ in the search bar.
But nothing was found.
He then typed ‘background material’ in the search bar, and a large number of posts were instantly listed on the interface.
Sorting the search results by time of publication, the No. 3 governor’s gaze focused on the latest post.
[An ancient legend of the Boundless Forest Domain. Newbie seeking background info supplement, with recorded video footage]
He clicked the post and the screen jumped to the detailed page.
The video in the post made the No. 3 governor realize he had found the root of the problem.
This background-history material obviously overlapped highly with the Green Wood race’s historical information in terms of historical trajectory.
The key was that the Green Wood race believed this history referenced the Green Wood race’s history.
After a long silence, the No. 3 governor thought of a possibility.
Just as he was preparing to handle it, the projection lamp at the top of the room automatically activated, and the light projected down interwove and converged beside the No. 3 governor.
At this moment Starnet descended by means of projection.
“Starnet.” Seeing Starnet arrive, the No. 3 governor stood and nodded respectfully.
Starnet also nodded.
“I already understand the situation. It can basically be concluded that the history of the Green Source race is the history of the Green Wood race. This race once came from the Monster World and has now returned to the Monster World in the identity of players… but the Green Wood race has a cognitive error regarding its own origin and even the truth of its early history.”
After hearing Starnet’s account, the No. 3 governor could not help asking curiously.
“Starnet, you consulted the history of the Green Wood race?”
“Yes. I just looked over the historical data of the Green Wood race and made a comparison. After all, we are already taking the blame for this. Whether I look or not does not affect how we handle what comes next.”
As he spoke, Starnet raised a hand and pointed forward. A light-screen image popped out.
“This is the timeline I analyzed after comparison.”
“What can be confirmed is that the video footage in the forum is the true historical answer. The main force of the Green Wood race at that time, that is, the Green Source race, did not flee the Monster World, but only sent the new generation of the race to another world.”
“But in the Green Wood race’s mistaken historical records, the Green Wood race fled their home world as a whole.”
“The reason for the historical deviation is that after the new generation of the Green Wood race fled to the new world, they were once enslaved. The native power, in order to control the Green Wood race, carried out a massacre and destroyed a large amount of historical materials the Green Wood race had taken with them during their flight. Many ancient natural technologies were also lost during this period.”
As he spoke, two historical lines surfaced in the light-screen image.
The historical information presented above compared from the origin stage. Points of historical divergence were marked in red text on the information lines.
Through the comparison of the two timelines, one could very intuitively see at which time nodes the Green Wood race’s historical information produced erroneous cognition.
So what the Green Wood race saw as desecrated and beautified was the real history, while the origin story in the Green Wood race’s eyes was the fabricated falsehood.
More importantly, in the video posted on the forum, it was clearly recorded that the Divine Mother of the Green Source race was Nu E.
But what made the No. 3 governor feel both amused and helpless was that the Green Wood race believed this was the Lunar Eclipse race arbitrarily naming their Divine Mother, an act of desecrating the Green Wood race’s faith.
“Starnet, how do you think we should handle this?”
Starnet did not answer directly, but looked at the No. 3 governor and countered.
“No. 3, how do you think it should be handled?”
Faced with the question, No. 3 was silent for a moment, then spoke solemnly.
“Offer a formal apology and provide resource compensation. Although the fault is not ours, this content involves a higher-dimensional deity. Without his permission, we cannot disclose any information about him. No matter what price we pay, we must bear it… Fortunately this problem is not hard to handle. The Green Wood race needs to give their people an explanation. If we compensate and admit fault, our attitude will be more than sufficient and the governors of the Green Wood race will surely agree.”
Hearing this, Starnet smiled and nodded.
“Handle it as you said. You will be responsible for the specific arrangements.”
With that, Starnet’s figure faded.
Ending the conversation, the No. 3 governor immediately contacted the governors of the Green Wood race.
Without any explanation, the Lunar Eclipse race’s No. 3 governor, upon connecting by video, offered a sincere apology and enabled permission to retain the apology footage.
After receiving the forgiveness of the Green Wood race’s governors, the No. 3 governor then stated that he was willing to provide additional Level D resource aid to the Green Wood race to make up for Starnet’s oversight when producing the game Monster World.
But since Monster World had already officially gone into operation, its content could not be changed, and he hoped the Green Wood race could understand.
Under this combination of moves, the anger in the hearts of the Green Wood race’s governors completely dissipated. In the end they nodded and said.
“Our friendship will continue. I also apologize for my earlier rashness, and thank the Lunar Eclipse race for its continued support and assistance to the Green Wood race.”
After ending the conversation, the governors of the Green Wood race contacted Ashen Sigil, who had sent the email, and explained the specific situation.
At this moment in the room, Ashen Sigil, who was waiting for a reply, had his doubts resolved after watching the Lunar Eclipse race governor’s apology video.
No wonder it seemed familiar. This background material really was adapted according to the Green Wood race’s mythic history.
It could be seen from this that the Boundless Forest Domain region was also produced with reference to the content the Green Wood race had uploaded to the Starnet archive.
This gave rise to a thought in Ashen Sigil’s heart.
The natural technology that the Green Wood race took pride in had been largely lost in the course of historical development.
Among it were many abilities to control natural plants for combat.
So is there a possibility that the natural-control abilities the new generation of the Green Wood race can no longer use could be applied anew within the game scenes of Monster World?
Thinking of this, Ashen Sigil chuckled at his own idea.
No matter how real the Monster World was made, it was ultimately just a game.
Between a game and reality there must be a significant gap in the operating laws of the world.
If even the real environment could not support people of their generation in the Green Wood race using inherited abilities to control nature, then it was even more impossible in a game.
If that could really be done, the game Monster World would simply be even more real than the real world.
Even as he found his idea laughable, Ashen Sigil could not help thinking again.
“Hiss~ how about giving it a try?”