"Hey, hey! Come on! It's time to sing praises!"
A loud voice came from outside the door, which interrupted the conversation between Glick and us. He stood up happily and said, "Ha, the party has begun! Shuizhu, hurry up and get ready to go out."
The little girl named Shuizhu put down the half-eaten, hard food in her mouth, and ran to open the door with small steps. She was indeed a child who didn’t like to talk. In a far corner, eating our own food, looking at strangers like us with wary eyes, only the elder sister has successfully chatted with her, and we can only learn about this small family from Glick—— Just out of curiosity, we are curious how the most ordinary brother and sister like Glick live in this twisted world.
"Glick, where are your parents? Are you two brothers and sisters at home?"
Saeko thought of this question inadvertently, because we didn’t see any adults in this small family from the beginning. It is said that today is the town’s rest day, and all the adults who have to work on the metal station on weekdays will rest at home on this day. But so far, there is only a little girl who doesn't speak much in front of us—where are Glick's parents
"My mother left very early. When I was five years old, she was working at a heavy element manufacturing machine, and she got infected." Glick's expression was a bit sad, but there was not much sadness. I accepted this fact at the time, "Dad hasn't been home for two years, but he is a big man!"
Glick mentioned his father who hadn't come home for two years, but his face immediately showed a proud look: "He worked on a big ship, and even took a spaceship to the 'Little Triangle Island' at the end of the world, from there he found A brand new vector engine! It is not easy for someone from a small town to work on a big ship. I received a message from him a few months ago that he wants to work on a big warship. He only needs to work for one year. Our family He's a member of the upper class. But I haven't heard from him recently. I heard people say that you can't contact outsiders casually when you work on a warship... "
"Brother, we should go out."
The small voice of water droplets interrupted Glick's excited narration. This thin girl wore a brighter skirt. The material of the dress looked a bit like plastic fiber, with a luster. It turned out that this should be one of the best pieces of clothing in this small home.
Many adults have already gathered in the circular square [Guang], I looked around, and there were about one or two hundred people in sight, this settlement is really not big, these one or two hundred people are all the adult residents in the town, they are all wearing The dull and old coarse work clothes, the muscles on the body are solid, and they have a strong physique trained by doing physical work in the metal station all the year round. Even the women are the same. They spontaneously formed several circles around the center of the square. Keep a distance from the metal countertop with the blood-red triangular emblem in the center of the [Guang] field, and the old man Barnard who had met once before stood on the triangular emblem. It seems that he really belongs to this town. A role like the mayor, at least the most respected old man, who presided over the so-called "Praise Song Celebration".
More than a dozen children aged from four to five to twelve or thirteen were running around on the outer edge of the circular [square], happy as if they were celebrating a festival. They would sneak into the [square] square while the adults were not paying attention, sneak under the feet of the adults, and then be thrown out of the circle by their respective parents: when singing hymns, children are not allowed to enter , they can only play outside.
Qianqian was attracted by such a novelty and alternative activity, and wanted to go in even after jumping up and down outside, but Bingtis was more mobile than us, and she had already led the protoss five-member team to occupy the last place in the [Square] field. The location in the center of 〖Central〗, where the townspeople unconsciously vacated a large open space, but no one paid attention to the group of five: obviously Monina had twisted the place with divine power. A place to let the people around you turn a blind eye to yourself.
Qianqian immediately yelled and joined the group of five, and also pulled Yakumo Lan and Busujima Saeko who was full of interest...
Glick felt very baffled by the sudden "disappearance" of several of us, because he was also one of the mortals affected by Monina's power, but the nature of a child did not make him think too much about this after all. Soon, several children of his age came running over and invited Gehrig and Shuizhu to participate in their activities. Gehrig still did not forget to introduce "guests from the big city" to his friends with pride These almost became a few words that he reflexed after meeting the residents of the town, and Shuizhu turned to look at Lilina before being called away by a girl, and asked expectantly: "Want to play together? "
Lilina's expression froze instantly: "...huh?"
"Bring this doll..." Waterdrop timidly pointed to the mercury lamp dozing on my shoulder, the latter raised his head in a daze, and after a few seconds of reaction, he started frantically tossing my sleeve and trying to pull it out. Drop my head and keep yelling.
The younger sister of Glick is really amazing. I am very worried that she will invite Pandora and Viska to participate in a group of little girl movies in the next step. That will definitely be the beginning of a disaster that is enough to trigger the end of the world. Compared with being invited by a group of little girls with an average age of ten years old as peers, it can arouse the soul of resentment in Pandora's heart-is it easy to be 1.2 meters tall? Seeing that the malnourished water droplets are almost as tall as her!
In order to save the world, I quickly found an excuse to let Glick take his sister to accompany the bear children, leaving Lilina who had fallen into resentment and the mercury lamp that was still biting my scalp crazily, with a height of 1.09 meters. The chief bishop grumbled sullenly. As the spiritual pillar of hundreds of millions of believers, she was invited by a group of brats just now. This is absolutely a shame to her. The little girl gritted her teeth and thought about it for a long time. : "No! This appearance is simply too unfavorable for action! Sister Sandora, please help me interfere, I will transform!"
We understand what lìlìna said about changing her body. She will change into a royal sister, a girl, a young woman and so on every now and then to wander around outside, but it's just a disguise on the outside. , Sandora helped to interfere with the perception of ordinary people around, and Lilina became a 1.70-meter-tall Yujie with long hair and bulging buttocks in a burst of green light. The emoticon package copied from Jaina, and then jumped up and down...
I ran over to find those little girls and went to hopscotch.
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Dare I ask if it makes any sense to go to those little girls to hopscotch after you grow more than sixty centimeters taller
"Haha! That fool!"
The mercury lamp was on my shoulder laughing so much that it was about to twitch, and then another burst of light flashed beside me. Before I could react, I saw a tall girl about 1.7 meters rising from behind everyone and covering my sight She came out from behind the black shadow screen, and she still had a slightly grown-up Pandora's face—this was Pandagosz pulled out.
"Let's go find Liliana!"
The overlapping double voices of the Pandora sisters came out from the mouth of the combined version of "Pandora Godzilla". That cold wind is coming, my elder sister hurriedly reminded me: "Don't forget to come back quickly, you can fit together for five minutes..."
"It's ten minutes now!"
The double short winter melon glanced at his body quite proudly, and then walked towards Lilina's direction, but turned back after taking two steps, and hit my face with such a speed that it was so powerful that the ears were jingle bells. After pecking, I just walked away...
It's normal for Pandora and Viska to rub against me, but it's really hard for them to come together after they fit together, so I froze for a few seconds on the spot, and then What was the mercury lamp doing during these few seconds
She resolutely ran away...
It’s not a big deal for a Lilina to suddenly turn into Yujie and attack gorgeously in front of her. Even the little puppet is still interested in complaining about the fake radish priestess maliciously selling cute and pretending to be young, but then I saw the most hardcore of the whole family. My short winter melon has also turned into a 1.7-meter-tall combination, which is different. Looking at my unshakable 92.3 body, the doll girl who came up with a small temper started to go crazy and cursed and bit my head, and I had to be in a hurry He gently coaxed the child: "Xiaodeng is good, don't envy them for now, have you forgotten that you still have a shape of more than 100 meters?"
The Mercury Lamp is right at the first thought, but the second thought is a bad thing: "Aren't there more than 20,000 half-meter-high ones?!"
Everyone: "..."
The daily life of bear children is simply too overwhelming.
At this time, the rally in this weird town was about to start. The adults in the whole town participated in the event. They formed a circle around the mayor, and the old man Barnard was saying something in a cadenced tone. , he was holding an old information terminal in his hand, the shimmering light from the terminal cast a blue shimmer on his face. It was evening when we first came here, but now it is night, the first night we have seen in this world of ruins, and like everything else in this space, night is artificial: The large fusion reactors gradually dimmed until the naked eye could easily observe the metal rings around them used to generate a strong magnetic field. The surrounding light gradually dimmed. The light here is this small circular plaza. Several lampposts around it are emitting low humming sounds, and the luminous crystals on the top are getting more and more dazzling, making this place look like daytime.
A few well-built men brought out a sound system. It looked like a large resonance system used for broadcasting on the bridge, but it was modified in a crude way, using a lot of messy cables and Mr. Barnard The data terminals in my hands are connected together (it seems that the network function of that thing is broken?), this big thing that was used to broadcast to the bridge can only emit music that is seriously insufficient in volume and out of tune, which sounds hoarse and unpleasant, and even Not a melody, but the residents of the town sang in unison with a festive look on the soundtrack: "... Praise the ancient gods who created this world, praise the ancient gods and give me endless wealth. Leave everything behind, let us have enough food and clothing forever... They piled up the whole world with beautiful resources, everything is inexhaustible, and they water the universe with infinite energy, so that we will never worry about darkness... "
With a chorus of over a hundred metal station workers sung by something that's out of tune from the first note, and with its lyrics so twisted and rhythmless, this hymn Of course, the melodiousness of the song can be imagined, but everyone is very devoted, it seems that they are really grateful to praise this "beautiful" world, Sandora and I looked at each other and listened to the strange voices around The chorus sound, I feel very embarrassed...
And thinking that this world is actually the wreckage produced by a war of destruction in Viska, we felt that besides embarrassment, there were also strange feelings in our hearts.
At this moment, the hymn had already sung to the last few bars, but these last few words caught the attention of me, Sandora, and even my elder sister: "... the treasures of the world can be seen everywhere, and the legacy of the envoy of God Infinity, we have brilliant machines, we can draw clean water and sacred food, but all these are gifts, we should follow the teachings... Cannot leave the world, cannot leave the homeland, cannot leave the universe, in the frontier of the gods Outside, there is endless darkness and brokenness. We can enjoy heaven forever because of the protection of the barrier, but if we deviate from the teachings, we will suffer disasters! Those who stay away from the three stars will be exhausted, those who stay away from the belt of the Great Ruins will be displaced, and those who stay away from the stormy ocean Will be smashed to pieces!
Praise the gods! "
This messy hymn with weird rhymes and no confrontation ended in a burst of praises to the gods. The elder sister leaned over and whispered to me: "It seems that in this world, exploring the places beyond the ruins is Prohibited."
"And it is banned as a religious force. In this kind of social system, religious power is probably the most effective means of restraint." A clear and pleasant but somewhat unfamiliar voice sounded in my ear. When I turned my head, I saw I didn’t know when Lilina in Yujie’s version came over, and unconsciously lay on my back. Immediately, the soft touch gave me goosebumps—mainly because of Sanduo next to me. The look in the eyes that became subtle for a moment made people feel a lot of pressure. I knocked Lilina on the head without saying a word, and knocked her back to the prototype of 1.09 meters: nephrite jade and warm fragrance are a kind of enjoyment, but you have to See whose nephrite jade it is, Lilina is definitely not an ideal welfare broadcasting officer. They say women are made of water, but I have ten thousand reasons to prove that Lilina is actually made of Wang Shui. Wait until even the bones are melted away!
"Hey, Boss really doesn't understand the style, you don't even want such a charming body for you." Lilina rubbed the bag on her head, looked up at this side with a tragic height of 1.09 meters and presented a charming She rolled her eyes, and then became serious under Sandora's more and more powerful gaze, "It's easy to see, the three stars refer to the three largest ruined planets in the [central] area of this space, Daxu The ring refers to the large and small spaceship wreckage and the floating islands and satellites where the wreckage is piled up. As for the storm ocean, it is undoubtedly the area where the general flagship is currently anchored. The layer is 0.3 light-years thick Psionic Energy Enrichment Belt. Exploration and mining of the ruined planet and the Daxu Ring Belt are allowed, but you will be warned if you leave the Daxu Ring Belt to explore the Ocean of Storms. The Church curses that kind of person to be smashed to pieces, it's a big deal."
"But the logs we got from the Eternal Mothership that crashed on Mars contain a lot of coordinates in psionic energy enrichment belts." Sandora rubbed her chin with a serious expression, "That means, that ship is not ordinary Nah."
"Now I have connected things." The elder sister reminded us of something, "Do you still remember the video in the flight log, it mentioned that the spaceship is being attacked by some fanatics?"
"It may be that the religious forces of this world are intercepting the pioneers who are trying to leave this universe." I suddenly realized, "In this way, we finally figured out why the spaceship was destroyed."
"But that doesn't mean anything to us, does it?" Sandora shrugged, then picked up a strand of blond hair and twisted it around her hand, "I don't care why the ship was destroyed, I just I want to know the reason why this world was created, and who Viska fought here back then... Looking at the scale of the wreckage in this universe, the fragments of the spaceship even formed several planets. It's here, and such a large-scale battle must not be a simple encounter... And the barrier that separates this space from the void is also very curious. There is absolutely no such technology in the old empire era, at least I I have never heard of it. The war that broke out here 720,000 years ago not only destroyed a universe, but also left a network structure that cannot be explained until now. This is really curious. Besides, this What happened to the indigenous inhabitants of the universe, why did they appear in the wreckage of the Legion of Destruction and worship the legacy of Viskar, are they a vassal race of an emperor in the old empire or even a vassal race of Viscar? These questions One is more curious than the other."
Sandora's words aroused unanimous agreement among us. Indeed, as we stayed longer and longer in this ruined world, we became more and more aware of the "post-apocalyptic life" here, and our curiosity was gradually mobilized. It seems that these things mentioned by Sandora are only a small part of the curiosity, but the exact information is too little now, and it may take some days to figure out the truth of 720,000 years ago...