I, transformed into a vampire girl, sparked the Industrial Revolution.

Chapter 194 Ten Thousand Years

Tens of thousands of years can turn a math idiot into Archimedes, or reduce a great man to mediocrity.

Raffarin Loe sketched and wrote on the board in front of her, occasionally looking up at the night sky. Since being cut off from Earth, she had been gazing at the stars, hoping to find a response from the endless stars.

But time has eroded any expectations. In these thousands of years, she has never dared to press the button to send a signal into deep space, but has only silently looked at the stars with a faint, hopeless expectation.

"The planet's trajectory... is as expected... spanning approximately ten thousand years, with a slight delay."

The calculation formula yielded the answer, and she put pen to paper. The result was clear, and Raffarin Lo nodded. It was consistent with the result of the calculation. She looked at the stars in the sky. Planets in the same star system, on this scale, are like grains of sand far away from here, but from the perspective of the star system, they are similar and close.

She was still unsure whether the enemy from beyond the stars still existed, so much so that she hadn't yet conducted the experiments on radio and stars for this new world. But Karl Janski's work had already been completed long before humanity set foot on this planet.

23 hours and 59 minutes is the time required for Emelanc IV to actually complete one rotation.

Beside her were several small devices. If anything was expected, it was the Delalaye family. The most chimeric genetic modification of humans and psionic beings came from the experimental team. After that, she took over the experimental samples sealed on the South Star Ring Island and modified them herself.

This race was her proudest achievement, possessing the most powerful adjustable metabolism, the greatest potential for psionic energy, and the greatest strength... She knew she couldn't control the trajectory of a civilization's development, so she chose to take a gamble.

Those new humans who can inherit this artificial bloodline must possess a powerful vision and implement it through forceful means, whether their vision is to ignite a frenzied war or to drive progress. The new civilization on this planet must undergo tempering, war, development, and the convergence and conflict of civilizations. Someone must do this to ensure success.

This was one of the countless ways she tried to save herself during those desperate years, and also one of the countless possible lifelines she grasped at.

And now it seems that the most successful one is Alice Delalaye, who is fast asleep on the sofa behind her.

Another achievement, born out of despair yet far exceeding its own expectations, came from an interdimensional hyperspace teleportation device left behind by an ancient alien civilization, built upon the computer core of this planet.

During those long, lonely, and dark years, she hoped countless times to see the figures of her compatriots, but apart from their cold bodies and the new humans who lived in caves in grass skirts and animal skins and were almost like wild beasts, there was nothing else.

After researching and discovering this facility hidden on the desolate continent, she once held onto hope, or at least had a glimmer of hope for the revival of civilization.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. The ability to transcend time and space required unimaginable, surging energy. The solar energy receiving/transmission pipelines built in near-Earth orbit and perihelion were destroyed by the aliens. It wasn't until a thousand years after she sank into her dream that the so-called teleportation device was discovered by the first group of new humans who arrived there due to the aging and circuit failure of some power-consuming plots.

Ancient scientific wonders were revered by the monks as palaces of gods, and the occasional projections of autonomous consciousness from the cores of ancient machines were also given the name of gods.

The church was built upon it, but the old humans who finally arrived through the portal were controlled by the ignorance of the new humans.

This plan had never had a positive effect in the previous thousands of years, but it helped the primitive monotheistic worship to expand all the way.

At this moment, she stood in a room in the city of Dela Leyen. Everything she had done had not been in vain. After waking up, she saw her compatriots from the past for the first time, and she saw the glory of the old human civilization shining on this land once again.

Raffarin Law tapped her pen on the white paper laid out on the tilted drafting table, the scattered papers around her densely covered with all her calculations and thoughts.

She raised her hand, the terminal in her hand now connected to a signal transmitter tens of thousands of kilometers away through the night's ionosphere. With just one more button pressed, a signal could penetrate the atmosphere and be sent to the solar system via a star.

However, she looked at the sky and realized that among these beautiful stars, there might very well be old enemies hiding.

She hesitated for a moment, then Alice's silvery-white hair caught her attention. The young girl, holding a board with documents clipped to her hands, had fallen asleep on the sofa, while the pencil she was holding in her other hand had already fallen to the floor.

She noticed the ink writing and wiping marks on the girl's left hand, a flaw that added a touch of life to the porcelain doll-like beauty of the girl in a suit and with her hair in a high ponytail.

She suddenly thought of something, sighed, and then turned off the monitor strapped to her left forearm.

She finally raised her head to look at the stars, then towards Earth—the direction of home. Hundreds of light-years away lay that eternally blue planet from her memories.

She loves the Earth and humanity deeply, both then and now.

But time changes everything. Tears welled in Raffarin Lau's eyes. Perhaps she would live to see that blue planet again, or perhaps not.

The artificial ring islands surrounding Amelansi IV have long been turned into deadly ruins by alien enemies, and the ancient automated defense computer has lost control due to nuclear contamination and overload.

There were no ready-made staircases to space. She thought to herself, then turned her gaze to the Galileo telescope beside her. Through the small telescope, she saw the wreckage of UNS-Amelansi IV orbiting Amelansi IV. It had become a satellite orbiting a new civilization, and whenever the nascent human civilization stepped into space, it would receive a gift from its predecessors.

But now—Raffarin Law gently snatched the whiteboard from Alice's hand and began to annotate with his pen.

As the two moons set and rose again, Alice opened her eyes. The setting sun pierced the darkness, shining across the vast plain. She felt herself leaning against something, and that thing was also leaning against her.

She turned her head, and there was Raffarin Law with his eyes closed and his mouth slightly open, his timeless beauty right above her. Alice was stunned for a moment, then closed her eyes again and continued to lean against Raffarin Law.

Alice thought to herself, "I should sleep a little longer."