In the dark green night
There are black spikes protruding from the ground everywhere, some are huge metal plates, some are the bows of warships, and more are broken alloy steel bars one by one. A large steel forest is densely erected on the whole ground.
Between the various metal jungles on the ground, there are gap paths like earthworms, spreading and extending towards the distance.
On a black path, a white convoy moving as slowly as a snail along the bend of the path.
Woo.
The sound of the convoy's engines was very low, and the yellow lamp posts kept scanning around, piercing through the green fog and shooting into the distance.
The entire convoy consists of four white armored vehicles with thick turrets installed behind them. Each vehicle is more than 20 meters long and more than six meters high, looking like a mobile giant. But in such a huge steel jungle, it looks extremely small.
In the fourth car, the space is divided into small single rooms. Each single room is spherical and has bunk beds inside, which can accommodate four people.
Garen slept on the third upper bunk, with the window of the car next to his head. Covered with a thick quilt, he tilted his head slightly, watching the night scene passing by outside the window, feeling very novel.
The large metal jungle outside stretches its teeth and claws like a real giant tree, and its limbs extend around, giving people a feeling of ghosts and ghosts. Looking from afar, those who are illuminated by the light beam can see the remaining marks such as the production trademark on it, but in the distance, only a piece of darkness can be seen.
Three blue, red, and white planets are suspended in the sky, occupying most of the entire sky, but the moonlight sprinkled down interweaves each other, forming a strange green color through the night and fog.
Garen looked at the distant scenery outside the window, feeling faintly oppressed.
"Is this your first time traveling?"
The uncle roommate in the lower bunk asked casually with his hands on his head.
"The scenery outside is the radiation belt between the domains. Our mother star federation is still relatively slight, at least it will not affect the physical functions of normal people, as long as we don't stay there for a long time."
Garen didn't make a sound, but just moved his body.
The uncle didn't care, and continued.
"It's like living in the depths of the ocean outside. There is a deep and cold radiation poisonous fog everywhere. Plants are distorted and killed by radiation, and only a few microbial spores can survive." He took out the lighter and lit it. Meimei smoked a cigarette.
"I really miss it"
Garen frowned slightly.
"Can you stop smoking? I hate the smell of cigarettes."
"Really? I'm sorry, I forgot that you are not yet an adult, hahaha." The uncle laughed a few times cheerfully, and put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray on the bedside table.
"Can you tell me about the inter-domain radiation belt?" Garen continued to observe the dark green environment outside and asked in a low voice. "It is indeed the first time for me to go out to the field. I thought it would be a good natural environment, but I didn't expect it to be like this"
"It's so miserable, isn't it?" The uncle laughed again. "Boy, you are really very lucky. You have the foundation laid by your father's hard work. It may also be the luck of your previous family. You successfully entered the territory and became one of the residents. But many other people are not so lucky." He paused Paused, as if remembering.
"There has been no contact with other parts of the mother star federation for decades. I don't know the situation, but our mother star knows it better. I have also traveled around this planet for so long."
"Oh? Uncle, tell me?" Garen suddenly became interested. "How could the domain be such a desolate scene with no vitality at all?"
"Not all domains are like this. Some places are still normal. Moreover, even outside the black disk domain, it is normal during the day, only in this part of the area at night. There will be radiation belts, the Great Interstellar Era , It has indeed brought a large number of powerful technological means to human beings, moving mountains and reclamation is omnipotent, and even the sun has succumbed to our human feet. However, such powerful technology also brings the most terrible destruction. The radiation belt is the negative impact brought by such technology. We overuse planetary energy, overextract the earth’s heat from the star’s core, and overdraw and consume the star’s heat, which is beneficial to radiant energy. This leads to the gradual destruction of the planet’s ecological circle, and there is not enough solar radiation. There is not enough geothermal energy, except within the range covered by technology, other places are gradually deserted or become weird." The uncle talked endlessly with emotion.
"Is it the ills brought about by the era of the big interstellar era?" Garen understood it very well.
"Yes. Matter annihilation energy is one of the greatest inventions of mankind in the last century, but who would have thought that it is the root killer that really destroys the environment? At the cost of annihilation of matter, it releases huge energy. Energy is actually the most basic force that constructs planetary materials. It is constantly consumed and stimulated, and finally consumes the most original source of planetary materials. It is just like the ancient nuclear energy research. When nuclear energy is discovered, people are ecstatic, just like discovering oil and As with coal, people feel that the planet is so big, and there is so much oil and coal, that it cannot be used up. Similarly, people also think that there are so many radioactive substances, and the universe is so big, that it cannot be used up.”
The uncle chattered endlessly, with a low voice.
After Garen heard it, he couldn't understand it very clearly. Instead, the snoring of the two sleeping women on the opposite side became louder and louder.
They were two fat women who looked like they were in their thirties or forties, dressed in gold and silver, lying on the bed tossing and turning and snoring constantly.
The faint humming outside the window is the sound of the team's engines.
"Little ghost, where are you planning to go after leaving the Heipan domain? Judging from your appearance, you should be a resident of the Heipan domain." The uncle at the bottom asked softly. "Anyway, the two on the opposite side can't sleep, why don't we talk?"
"Go to the Aurora Region." When Garen got into the car, he changed into ordinary clothes, a black T-shirt and gray trousers. He looked unremarkable, more like an ordinary working boy from a poor family.
"Prices in Aurora Region are higher than those in Heipan Region, and the salary is also higher. If you work part-time in the past, you can save some money after working hard, which is good." The uncle seems to know the situation very well.
"Is that so? How's the situation over there?" Garen asked casually. He planned to just go there quietly. Whether it was after solving the territorial issue or carrying out his own plan within the legal scope, he needed extra care. hidden. So in order to get rid of the eyeliner and sight behind him, he took a lot of thought to succeed, but even so, he still doesn't know if he can succeed.
"The Aurora Domain is an imperial system, and the rules of different noble territories are different. However, the Heipan Domain is an alliance domain, and residents will have good preferential treatment when entering. You can find some good jobs. The quality of education for the civilians there is not high. You Residents of such a strong area used to be equivalent to talents with better quality, and they could hold more positions.”
The uncle started talking again.
Garen chatted with him one after another, came out of Heipan City, took a train to the border city of Masiro, transferred to Bingling City, and finally found a cross-border convoy that quietly crossed the border, and did not take the regular formal convoy. Departing, Garen chose this kind of transit convoy, which was similar to people smuggling, and headed for the Aurora Domain.
Only in this way can the maximum avoidance of one's own course of action be thoroughly grasped.
And along the way, he also fully saw the number of people who practiced consciousness among the residents.
Basically, in Heipan City, one out of ten people can see it, and in the border city of Bingling City, one out of twenty or thirty people can see it. Most of the rest are ordinary people without consciousness. After all, not everyone likes to yearn for a combat life like a pilot, and more people want a flat and peaceful life.
After leaving the field, the people on the convoy basically couldn't see any consciousness practitioners. After being in the car for a day, he could feel that some mercenaries had a certain level of fighting and shooting, but the consciousness was still lacking. Saw a few. Obviously, in this regard, the academy has very strict management on exercise methods.
Garen sometimes doubts how the tens of millions of consciousness practitioners on the planet mentioned on the Internet are counted. But when I think about how expensive the exercise method is, it feels natural.
It must be that the consciousness practitioners are relatively concentrated in a small number of places.
Hearing the nagging of the uncle in the lower bunk, Garen gradually fell asleep.
I don't know how long it has been.
Bang! !
A dull, loud bang shook Garen, waking him up from his sleep.
He opened his eyes suddenly, his muscles were tense, and he was always ready to be alert to the situation around him.
"What's going on!? What happened?"
There are other travelers in single rooms asking in the distance.
"It's not yet dawn! He's so troublesome! Why did he stop suddenly!" Someone scolded.
The uncle on the lower berth also woke up scratching his head. The two fat women opposite seemed to have been hit on their bodies, and sat up screaming in pain.
"It's actually Youhuo! Tsk tsk...it's so beautiful, I have to take a picture of it quickly!" The uncle seemed to have discovered something.
Garen quickly followed his line of sight and found that it was outside the window, so he followed suit.
In the dark green night outside, among countless steel forests, a vertical light yellow flame can be seen burning out of thin air from a distance, floating in mid-air, like a vertical pupil quietly opened at night. If you look carefully, you can see the flames dancing with good eyesight.
"What's that?" Garen saw such a scene for the first time.
"That's called ghost fire. Who knows the cause of its formation! Anyway, some scholars are said to have studied it. In addition to a lot of technical terms, the main effect is the natural phenomenon of poisonous fog caused by radiation, which is similar to the will-o'-the-wisp produced by the burning of phosphorus. It's just that travelers on the road will see them as a sign of safety for the trip, representing good luck and safety."
Soon, maybe the drivers also stopped to take pictures to miss the ghostly fire, and the convoy slowly started to move forward again.
"A few years ago, there were a lot of You Huo here, but now there are fewer of them. It's rare to see them once. It feels really good." The uncle said leisurely, crossing his legs.
"Ghost fire?"
Garen stared at You Huo, who was gradually disappearing from sight, thoughtfully.
(end of this chapter)