The little boy named Glick looked at the mechanical creation floating between his sister and him with a dull expression. The miniaturized autonomous machine with a diameter of less than half a meter was like a naughty little pet, flipping back and forth in the air Afterwards, it is familiarizing itself with this strange world, and changing its body structure and energy circulation to cope with the possible working conditions in the local natural environment. This amazing adaptability and pseudo-evolutionary ability can make it a human being in the eyes of ordinary civilizations. An extremely exquisite and ultimate robot, but in the various mechanical facilities of the Xiling Empire, it is just a role like a pipe cleaner, and has the same value as a wrench. But it seemed to be of different value to the little boy.
Glick's eyes widened, as if he had never seen such a magical machine before. This made me a little worried. Is the thing that my sister brought out happened to be something that this world of ruins does not have? The local on the road was scared away, and at this moment, the self-discipline machine just completed its own "rapid evolution". It faithfully carried out the order given to it by its elder sister: move closer to its new master.
"ah!"
The little boy Glick uttered a horrified cry, and was frightened by the sudden rush of the self-discipline machine and sat down on the ground. The latter immediately braked in mid-air, circled its new owner twice in trouble, and gave us a slap in the face. There was a bit of aggrieved beeping.
These little robots made by Gaia are simply too much fun.
Glick awkwardly got up from the ground, and the self-discipline machine in mid-air immediately moved forward again, but this time it learned how to be smart, instead of jumping at the opponent, it stopped about one meter away from the opponent, beeping The beeps kept ringing, and the little boy didn't bother to slap the dust on his pants (in fact, I was curious whether there was any need to slap those pants, it seemed that they were much dirtier than the ground here), but he was stunned. Looking at the shiny new machinery in front of him, he turned his head to look at us: "A brand new 'big craftsman'? Give it to me? You must be joking! I know, I heard the old man in the town say that Dacheng People in the country make fun of country kids like that, and I'll get beaten if I touch this..."
"No, this is yours, as a reward for the guide." I breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this thing also exists in this world of ruins, but its value here is probably the same as the machine phalanxes that are everywhere in my impression Not the same "Of course, in exchange, we have some special requirements: don't ask too many questions, cooperate well with our questions, and don't talk about us casually with others, can this be done?"
The little boy Glick carefully looked into my eyes to confirm that there was no sly smile there, then he glanced at the self-discipline machine that was flying around him cautiously with dizzy eyes, and finally nodded firmly: " People in the old Glick family are the most trustworthy, and the whole condenser town knows it!"
Here we go again, that weird town name, this world full of ruins, and even the planets are piled up from huge spaceship wreckage is so weird, not only its appearance is something we have never seen before, even its place name is It's also rare, leaving aside the so-called "big city", what's going on with this town named "Condenser"
"Condenser Town is the name we gave it." Glick led us on another road, this road can bypass the nearly ninety-degree ramp covered with sharp metal fragments and lead to the bottom The main entrance of the town is just a little further away. "Most of the temporary settlements have no names, but this settlement has lasted for decades, so the old people in the town decided to name the settlements. They checked a lot of data disks, and found that the town The big metal plate underneath is a thing called a condenser, so they call this 'condenser' town. I think there must be more condenser towns in the world, because many temporary settlements will be established under the same town as ours On metal platforms like things, there are always several of those metal platforms that are also condensers. If those towns can last long enough, and there are a group of smart old people, they can also be called 'condenser' towns... "
Glick obviously tried hard to become a qualified tour guide, but maybe he really didn't do it, or maybe there is no tourism in this world, although he tried to tell us the history of his town in vivid language, but What was said in the end was messy and rambling, but luckily we don’t care about the origin of this town. What everyone is most curious about now is what this ruined world is like, its origin, its Residents, its vicissitudes in the past 720,000 years - it is hard to imagine that the indigenous people here will be survivors of the doomsday war 720,000 years ago, and they are still alive in the ruins after the end of the world so long, And living such a strange wasteland life, if it weren't for the judgment of the Temple of Life, I would not believe that the residents here survived the hundreds of thousands of years after the end of the world in the ruins. The original purpose of everyone coming here is to find the lost fleet of Viska, and at the same time to find the truth about the Legion of Destruction attacking the world 720,000 years ago, but now, these two goals seem not so urgent, and everyone's interest has begun to shift To the ruined world itself.
"Interesting idea, probability and statistics."
Lin Xue glanced at Glick suddenly, and said in a calm tone, "Tell us about the situation of this place. In the big city, you can't see such a messy place. I'm very curious about this place."
"Of course, people in big cities are sometimes curious about various collection stations and workstations, because you don't usually do this... Oh, I have no other meaning." Glick walked briskly in front, and as he gradually approached The lights are on, and the tone is relaxed, "This is a metal station, and it is a secondary recycling station. As you can see, there are scrap metal cut into small pieces everywhere. They are all dismantled from scrapped machines. We all know that the resources in the world come from the earth under our feet, but not all resources can be picked up and used, and things that have been scrapped must be reused to avoid waste. This metal station is to recycle various resources In the place where the collection is done, every week there will be big ships throwing a lot of scrap metal collected from other places and resource metal that needs to be dismantled here. The adults sort them on weekdays and send the useful things to the big factories or small factories—but most of them are sent to small factories. After all, most of them are smaller parts, and big factories won’t accept them. If it’s a first-level recycling station, it’s different, they all deal with big Things, there are bigger metal mountains, a piece of things on the mountain is bigger than these small piles around us, and even some first-level recycling stations can dig up resources that can be directly used from the vicinity of the residence... "
Glick babbled about the things he knew, but these things sounded a little unclear to us. I can’t directly ask him more things. I can only restore a world in ruins based on his description as much as possible. A dying social system.
Mercury Lamp lay on my shoulder boredly. Looking at the dilapidated garbage dumps around her, she couldn't help shrinking her body, and hugged my head even harder, feeling that small and exquisite body moving back and forth on her shoulders. , I patted the opponent's leg lightly: "What's wrong?"
"Stupid humans, I don't like it here"
Mercury Lamp whispered "I... hate the atmosphere here."
"Do you want to go back to the spaceship?" I can roughly guess the reason why Mercury Lamp is in a bad mood. It may remind her of some bad things. Although she has overcome those things, she still feels a little uncomfortable when she comes into contact with them suddenly." Be good, listen to me."
"Don't treat me like a child." Mercury Lamp knocked on my head dissatisfied, but shook his head firmly, "That's even more boring, the ship is full of rigid soldiers and that scientist who puts clones everywhere, stay with you I can still fight with Liliana..."
I:"… "
I always feel that the issue of children's education at home is about to become a serious problem in front of me again.
After walking for a while, we have come to the main entrance of the town called "Condenser" in the mouth of Glick. It is said that the main entrance is actually a triangular frame supported by three crooked alloy skeletons. This triangular frame is welded on the A wall that is more than one meter high and surrounds the entire living area is the only entrance and exit of this wall. The material of those walls seems to be the soft metal lining of the corridor in the spaceship. There are no imperial characters, and the triangular door may come from a scrapped gun mount bracket. It is five or six meters high, which is a bit too big compared to the wall.
Unexpectedly, there is an automatic access control system on the triangular gate. A dozen irregular high-energy gratings block the gate. I observed carefully and found that they came from two tall pillars at the gate. There are many pairs of beam generators tied to the metal wires, and their energy lines are exposed to the outside in such a rough manner, extending from the low fence wall to the inside of the town.
With a wall of more than one meter, the completely exposed access control energy, and the crumbling seams everywhere on the wall, I can't help but think how unscrupulous intruders can be blocked by such a security system. In all fairness, With this kind of security level, the high school classmates who jumped the wall with me to play games outside the school could crack it. They installed such a high-tech grating wall, it would be better to put a director of the teaching department at the door...
Glick is used to the crude facilities here. He just gave us a gesture of waiting, and then he took out a small crystal card from his pocket. The crystal card looks rough, and it doesn't seem to be an empire style. Something, he swiped the gadget over the beam generator in front of the door, and the intercepting beam disappeared.
"Welcome to Condenser Town—People from Dacheng are rare visitors here. The last time we welcomed guests from Dacheng was three years ago." Glick happily waved his thin arms, obviously his mood after returning home very pleasant.
We followed each other with a feeling of curiosity. The dilapidated and messy environment around us may not be so refreshing, but the freshness brought by this weird world has well diluted this negative impact. I looked around and found that this is indeed a settlement built on a huge metal plane. The "ground" under my feet is a whole piece of alloy. It is a pipe joint or a cable joint extending from the metal floor. These joints are used by waste, and after being tied with ropes, they become fixtures in the shantytowns, and are used to reinforce the roofs of the iron houses that can be seen everywhere here.
When we were on the high ground just now, we had already seen the messy iron houses in this settlement from a distance. At that time, we felt that they were simply dilapidated, but now we got closer and took a closer look—it might as well take a quick look just now.
We were surrounded by houses like that: crooked shanty towns held together by battered, twisted metal panels. The messiest huts are directly tied together with metal wires and rivets. The gaps exposed between the metal plates are enough for people to see the scene inside at a glance from the outside. The better huts have signs of welding, which can It is not easy to weld the dismantled metal plates on the imperial battleship. Maybe they used the laser cannon focus tube picked up from the garbage dump, because I don’t remember that Xiling technicians still use electric welding guns when repairing spaceships. Of course, it is also possible that they found a functioning autonomous machine originally used to repair the pipelines of the spacecraft (according to Glick, it seems to be called a "big craftsman" here), and these autonomous machines can learn any kind of work. , including turning yourself into a welding torch.
The best houses in the field of vision are some very neat large metal boxes. It took me a long time to distinguish them. It turned out that they were living quarters prepared for soldiers on large spaceships, but they were stripped from the hull compartment. , leaving only a pitted shell.
The arrival of us strangers seems to have attracted the attention of the town residents. Some adults and children dressed in the same shabby and messy clothes as Glick poked their heads out from the nearby tin houses or the corners of "streets and alleys", looking far away. Looking at this side, their expressions were tense and their eyes were vigilant. After seeing Gehrig standing beside us and waving to the surroundings, some people muttered something and retreated into the room, and more people were shocked. They dared to step out, but no one approached them. It was as if they saw a fully armed tank suddenly appearing in a quiet mountain village. They were full of vigilance and curiosity towards us outsiders. Even so, they always Did not dare to step forward to ask a few words.
Of course, Sandora was very impatient with this situation of being surrounded by crowds. She looked around and suddenly snorted softly. Then everyone showed blank expressions on their faces, and turned and went back home.
Glick didn't feel much about the changes in the atmosphere around him. He began to introduce us to the most important place in this town, which is the Yuanpan〖Square〗 in the center of the town. It seems that the short contact along the way has convinced him In fact, the group of people who seemed difficult to get along with in front of him were actually very easy-going, and the seemingly very precious "Great Craftsman" as a gift made this thirteen-year-old boy relax his vigilance. An open space in the distance tells us that it is the best and most worth-seeing place in Condenser Town: Yuanpan〖Square〗Foundation.
In fact, it is just a circular open space, but it is quite clean. Its area is smaller than a basketball court. There are four lampposts standing around it, and the crystals on the lampposts are emitting bright light. All this looks very simple. , but in this dirty and poor place, it seems that such a clean and well-lit [square] is quite a remarkable center for residents’ activities.
"Look, this is our square. Every weekend, adults will sing praises in this square. Children can play on the edge of the square and get a piece or two of sugar pancakes. "Glick [excitedly] pulled me (it seems that he has seen that I am the leader and the most talkative person in this group) and walked towards the center of [Guangzhou] field, "Today is a rest Day, but there is still some time before the party starts, the adults are preparing, I will take my sister out today, I can still get six sugar pancakes, and then I will not be considered a child, and of course I will not be considered an adult, fourteen I will start doing half the work of adults at the age of 10 and stop receiving the children's food ration, but this is nothing to the son of the old Glick family, I was able to support myself two years ago!"
"You have a younger sister?"
I asked casually, and then my eyes fell on the ground.
In the center of the so-called disc square, there is a circular area protruding about ten centimeters from the ground. On this small circular table with a diameter of one meter, there is a clearly identifiable symbol, which is particularly eye-catching.
A blood red triangular emblem.
A slight brilliance flashed across Viscana's cat-like blood-red vertical pupils, and the pupils shrank into two narrow slits in an instant. She squatted down and gently stroked the triangular blood-colored emblem on the ground for a long time. , took out a piece of chalk, and drew a chessboard on it...
"The ground here is very clean, who will play backgammon with me?"
Maotong Luoli happily extended an invitation to everyone, and we were dumbfounded: "..."
Well, it seems that those scenes just now were all my hallucinations, and this girl didn't even have any feelings when she saw her legion emblem back then!
Before I could make a move, Pandora had already dragged Huska by the ear to the side for tutoring, and Sandora touched my arm: "This is the wreckage of Huska's old subordinates."
"Maybe before we understand the situation in this space, we should find a way to find out who Viska was at war with back then." I responded in a low voice, "Let the mothership put some invisible probes down and search the ancient wreckage in this space comprehensively." ...By the way, Sandora, if it is the emblem of another emperor's legion, can you recognize it?"
"If the imperial database is still there, it will be fine, but unfortunately it is uncertain now." Sandora shook her head regretfully, "The empire's ruled area is vast, and I didn't care much about other emperors back then. I never recorded their legions. Emblem. I think Pandora's situation is worse than mine. I'm afraid she hasn't even remembered the name of the emperor in the next sky area..."
I again: "..."
You said that these two war madmen survived under what strange circumstances!