What Happened To The Earth?

More than ten thousand years ago, the Earth became inhabitable. The soil lost its fertility. People became more dependable on robots and machines, which leads to machine junks covering most of the Earth. The pollution became so dense that the sun was barely visible. It was always like dawn and night every time. The seasons became unpredictable and thunderstorms would irrupt without any warning destroying houses, facilities and causing damage to human labs. To hide from these violent storms, cyclones, and other calamities, men started living in caves. Caves seemed most resistant against these storms. But they still died due to landslides and earthquakes.

Later the situation became even much worse when the mother (main) frame of the Machine regained its consciousness. There was a huge war between humans and robots and as it was feared, robots won the war. They massacred thousands of men and took the rest of them as their prisoners. But most of the humans escaped and built an underground city hiding from the robots or commonly called as 'The Machines' or 'The Steels'.

However, it was not the end of the suffering for the human race. It was as if nature wanted to completely wipe out the humans from their territory. These were the times when humans saw the wrath of nature in its glorified form. A deadly virus spread in the underground city which killed humans within two days of its infection. The virus was highly contagious and was difficult to identify and kill. It was the last warning to the human race and humans recognized this warning. It was then the leaders of the society came forward with a plan to leave the Earth and go to some other planet to save the human race. They selected the most excellent individuals in every field among them and launched them to the Moon.

What happened to the 'left-behinds'? Nobody knew. The most acceptable answer was that they might have been killed or died due to the virus.

Later 'the geniuses' that landed on the moon, knew from their last experience that they can't just make moon as their home. For the survival of the race, they have to find a habitable planet. But for this they need one most important thing, a spaceship, that can travel with the speed of light. Years went by and finally, they invented the first spaceship that can travel through the speed of light and called it, "LDSS-YAMA 1."

Then a group was formed. Their sole purpose was to find the habitable planets. They were called, "The Discoverers". They seared the entire Milky Way Galaxy but found only a few habitable planets, which were obviously not sufficient. So, they decided to form an artificial ecosystem just like Earth. They first tried it on the Moon and it was successful. Hence, the human race thrived and dominated over the entire galaxy. But it was not it, as the search for new galaxies still continues.

Liu Yifei looked at the sky. In reality, that was not the sky but the shield that crates an artificial atmosphere. Her planet, Sailan, was one of the inhabitant planets found. They devised a natural ecosystem and some decades later they can produce soils with composition the same as the natural soil. Even though the start was rough, it turned out into a beautiful planet. But the shield is still needed to maintain the oxygen level.

As she had feared, the next day in the court, the court members proposed a marriage alliance for the king, saying that the kingdom shouldn't leave without its mother, the queen.

To this Liu Ye declined. He calculatingly said, "It is a shame discussing my marriage when the dead hasn't even begun its journey to the other world. This is how much you had loved your queen, the one who had done everything in her power to make this kingdom prosperous." Then he sadly said, "Qi Jia was not only the queen of this nation and my wife, but she was also my lover. So, in order to mourn the loss, the kingdom will grieve for two years." Before the court members can say something in protest, he said, "No discussion." With this, he got two years' time as he had promised his daughter.

"And one more thing", he said loudly attracting everybody's attention, "There was something hidden from you people. And now when Qi Jia is gone, I think now is the time to tell you all." He stopped for a dramatic pause. "I have a son." This information shocked the audience and they started whispering in the background.

"Silence!" Liu Ye roared. "He is Liu Yifei's twin. When they were born, we decided to leave him in the Planet Rui so that he could get a more suitable education to be worthy of a king along with his brothers.

"But Your Majesty why you hid the information for so long?" The Prime Minister shrieked.

Liu Ye smirked and thought about his daughter's excellent explanation. Instead of providing an answer to him directly, he asked the Prime Minister, "Why would you think I did that?"

The prime minister, Xun Yating was unable to provide any explanations as he closed and opened his mouth trying to give a suitable reason.

Seeing him gawking like that, Liu Ye chuckled. He sternly said, "You have grown old for the court dear friend."

He then glanced at the people present in the court and said with a grave voice, "If you all had remembered clearly, at that time there was an open threat to our nation. Most of you all got that threatening messages too." he paused for a while to let them remember those days. Many of them shivered remembering that period as some of the court members were brutally murdered. "It was because of that particular reason that I hid my son. When our enemy got the news that a girl was born, the threats lessened and our kingdom regained its peace."

Hearing a well-thought reason for hiding the Prince of the Nation, no one in the courtroom said anything. The Prime Minister's face became red in anger as his decades of planning failed instantly. Now with a 'True Heir' in picture, gathering his followers to pressurize the king to do his own biddings will not be possible anymore. He huffed and walked out of the court to device a new plan, followed by his subordinates.