The so-called Monument Square is also the Totem Square. Everyone has their own name for this place, but as long as the relevant words are mentioned, everyone knows where they are talking about. I don’t know why Fina suddenly proposed to have an affair with Anu.
Lili went to see those monuments together: this little queen who lacked common sense rarely invited strangers like this, but anyway, the route she took Anulili to visit also passed through the Monument Square, so she was happy to do so.
Decided to go together.
Of course, before going to Monument Square, we still passed by the commercial street. After all, the biggest tourist attraction in Shadow City is the several giant commercial districts here. They come from various civilizations in the macro world, so dazzling that you can’t even guess their purpose.
Items are the most important feature of Shadow City. Many people finally get the opportunity to visit Shadow City. One of their purposes is to bring some rare things back: even if they bring back something, they will never know what it is for.
In the commercial street, we bought a lot of souvenirs for Anulili and asked her to take them with her. The girl was completely dizzy now and was basically being dragged wherever we went: her first time in Shadow City.
This is the case with most people. She didn’t even look at the things we picked for her. She kept them happily anyway. These things will be good gifts. She can take them back to open the eyes of her compatriots, and she can also let others know about them.
Her younger brother was happy. Anuzha didn't follow her this time. The young man is also very busy now. Although he can't help in terms of technological reconstruction and the like, he is also a very infectious young leader.
He once only led a village, but now he leads a team that is working hard to build a new city. Originally, Anulili wanted Anuzha to hand over the work at hand to others and come to Shadow City with her to see it.
But Anuzha now has another mission: to cooperate with the local goddess of life missionaries and imperial researchers to find a solution to the sequelae of brain injury.
Anulili's race was the most severely ravaged by the Merova people. Not only were they used as slaves, but their racial genes and acquired growth and development were also tampered with. The Merova people derived from the babies of these slaves
The era destroyed their brain tissue. As a result, Anulili's people were unable to count and perform more than three steps of logical reasoning: this locked the possibility of their technological recovery. After the war, the main task they had to face was
In addition to rebuilding homes and resuming production, the most important thing is to eliminate the sequelae of this brain injury. It is obviously not enough to rely on the little information in the hands of the resistance organization and the only technical personnel with sufficient knowledge. Fortunately, the Imperial Army left
Many life missionaries and carbon-based biology researchers were left behind during that time. These people are experts in the field of health. Now that research on treating the sequelae of brain injury has made initial progress, Anuzha volunteered to become one of the first volunteers.
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"Although I don't know your brother, you should be proud of him."
After hearing the story of the Anulili siblings and their race, Fina spoke to the former seriously, with a serious look on her face.
At the same time, she pushed Biberu, who was making a rumbling noise all the way.
"Well, Anuzha is a brave child. I have always felt that he is the luckiest part of my life." Anulili held a large bag of souvenirs with a smile on her face. She seemed to have adapted to this dazzling life.
place and start enjoying your amazing journey today.
"No, I mean his contribution to the race being able to think freely," Fina took the time to say to the new friend next to her while pushing Biberu forward. In fact, I was curious about how she usually pushed this big round ball.
How do you see the road when you are young? "Freedom is a very important thing. The freedom of a race or civilization is even more so. Those who can contribute to this are worthy of pride. You are outstanding."
Anulili smiled a little embarrassedly. She was still not used to Fina's strict, precise and straightforward way of speaking, but Biberu suddenly interjected: "Your Majesty the Queen, your evaluation is very good."
Yes, but...but there is a..."
"It's a slope!"
Then we saw that the big ball pushed by Fina suddenly began to accelerate, accompanied by a flurry of exclamations, and rolled out along the ramp just like when it appeared before. I found out sadly that there was a moat at the end of the ramp.
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"Bibulu! Wait for me!" Fina said seriously and stood there, and then chased down the ramp. My sister and I couldn't help but look at each other silently: Facts have proved that in an emergency, nonsense
Just seeking death, Biberu just said the first half of the nonsense...
In fact, I think Fina should be able to catch up with her own ball...could catch up with the ball she pushed before, so her sister and I didn't take action, but we all forgot that Fina is not an original Xiling apostle, she often forgets
This superhuman body of mine has many functions such as sonic charge and short-distance jump, so we watched her stupidly run to the end of the ramp, and watched her prime minister jump on the fence of the moat, and then plopped down.
Falling into the river with a sound...
This is really a sad story. We still have disturbed passers-by who need to be comforted and explained...
Anulili was frightened again at this time.
In Shadow City, every citizen has two things that are necessary. The first is naturally the citizen identification card. For ordinary races who cannot use the Xiling network, this card is your ID card, whether it is long-term or long-term.
Temporarily, in short, activities in the shadow city and use of city services and other matters all depend on this card. And the second thing... is the citizen safety and security package.
This suit consists of sensors that detect the wearer's physical fitness and a hazard response system plus a small personal shield. If an external threat is detected, it can choose to activate the shield to protect the user after determining the user's damage tolerance. This
The set is essential in the Shadow City, because there are too many races gathered here, and the environment is unfamiliar and dangerous to those races. Some races often accidentally hurt others. They are really
It's very careless, and some races often accidentally put themselves in dangerous places. This is even more careless. In order to prevent a superman from one plane from shaking his hand, he would pinch and hurt someone from another plane.
To prevent sightseeing students or monks from Lingtai Fairy Mountain from being burned by psionic crystals in order to collect psychic jade, we have to equip every citizen with this kind of protection device to keep them away from the deadly factors in Shadow City.
Point. Facts have proved that they are very effective: although you will often see people walking on the street with a shield popping up on their body, or you yourself will have a shield popping up on your body while walking... But at least in the city
It has been two months since the priests of the Cult of Life wrote a letter of complaint to Lilina asking for a reduction in work intensity.
When Biberu rolled down, I saw at least twenty shields lighting up one after another along the way, and then pedestrians running around like bowling pins being bounced: There are quite a lot of people on this slope. Now.
My sister is comforting the frightened citizens. However, everyone living in this city is accustomed to various unexpected situations. Occasionally, a dragon god who fails to land falls from the sky or an out-of-control Godzilla rushes out of the military academy. What about the Shadow City?
It's not a big deal for the tough citizens, let alone being knocked away by an iron ball weighing one and a half tons: the folk customs here are very tough.
And I pulled Anulili and quickly ran to the edge of the moat, and together we looked at the place where Biberu fell. The ripples there had not yet subsided, and Fina was staring at the last splash of water by the river. On the bank of the moat.
There were large areas of water stains. There was indeed a lot of movement after the big iron ball fell.
"Is Mr. Iron Ball going to be okay..." Anulili has now accepted the miracle of diversity of life and the fact that the prime minister of a country can be a big talking iron ball. She looked at Biberu
The place where he sank to the bottom showed a worried look on his face.
And at this moment, there was a sudden violent splash in the moat, as if something was about to emerge from there. Anulili and I looked at the water in surprise, and then a wet girl really rose from the water.
Woke up!
This is a girl with long hair and a very beautiful appearance. The clothes she is wearing seem to be made of some kind of slippery leather and shells. When she came to the water, I saw a fish tail on her
There was a flash of water behind her. Anulili continued to be stunned, and I was also surprised: "Isana, aren't you a saltwater fish?"
"You can survive in fresh water. I'm here today." The mermaid girl was very surprised when she saw me appearing on the bank of the moat. She was stunned for a moment before replying, "A group of freshwater mermaids recently moved here from a world called Gampola.
They live in the moat..."
...The population of Shadow City is really becoming more and more diverse.
At this time, Isana also recovered from her initial surprise and remembered that she had a serious business to do when she rose to the water. So she cleared her throat: "Ahem, a big ball fell into the water just now. I want to ask you.
Was it a gold ball that fell? Or a silver ball?"
Me: "..." Has this saltwater fish finally become so bored?!
Fina was stunned for a moment. She probably had never heard the story about the golden ax and the silver axe, but she still answered honestly: "It's just a big alloy ball. I don't know what material it is made of, but it can talk..."
Isana smiled happily: "Very good, you are very honest. It seems that you dropped the big ball. It smashed the storage room of the mermaid village below and the courtyard wall of a house. It has now been detained.
Yes, you can pay the compensation."
While we were talking, another little girl who looked much younger than Isana floated up from the water. In the flash of water, I saw a lavender tail. This may be the Tamsui that Isana mentioned recently moved to Shadow City.
Mermaid, the new little girl looked timidly at the strangers on the river bank: "Did you drop that big ball?"
I looked up and silently looked at the land of Gaia thoughtfully: In my impression, the story of the two axes did not develop like this...
But forget it, don’t worry about the details, nothing in Shadow City develops normally...
Later, I called the imperial soldiers who were patrolling nearby and asked the Urban Construction Engineering Department to send people to help repair the houses of the innocent mermaid citizens. Only then did Biberu finally get sent up by the mermaids living in the moat.
, the prime minister said that a lot of things happened today, and he was in a delicate mood and did not want to talk about it in detail. Isana chatted with us happily for a while, telling stories about her and her mermaid friends living under the water. These stories are in
It sounds strange to us people on the shore. For example, mermaids never know the use of the seasoning packets in instant noodles... After Biberu was thrown to the shore by other mermaids shouting slogans, Isana happily and
Everyone said goodbye and returned to the river with a flick of their tails: Before I had time to ask her, how did the mermaid make noodles...
When I left this place, I finally discovered that there were projected signboards at regular intervals on the river bank, which said that mermaids had recently moved into the moat:
"Information to all citizens. Mermaid international students from Gampola World and their families have settled in sections C33 to C36 of the moat. This area is now a residential area. It is prohibited to put debris into the river and swim in the corresponding section of the river. Violators will be deemed to have infringed upon other people's property.
Punishment. In addition, fishing in the corresponding river section is strictly prohibited, and the mermaid caught will have the right to confiscate the angler’s fishing rod and all bait. This is hereby notified.”
There is also a line of small words under some signboards: "Another emphasis: Once again, swimming, especially naked swimming, is strictly prohibited in the corresponding river section. Please be decent, citizens, you are all people with ID cards. Lirina, Shadow City Cultural Propaganda Department."
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...In short, don't worry about these strange customs and customs of Shadow City. Nothing is unusual about this place.
"This is Totem Square. It's also called Monument Square."
Soon, we arrived at the destination of our trip, the most solemn place in Shadow City, where any disrespectful behavior is absolutely prohibited.
The large circular square gradually sunk inward, like a shallow plate embedded in the ground. Deep obsidian and cold and hard silver-gray alloy are spread on the ground, which is extremely solid. Monuments formed by holographic projections are on the square.
Arranged in sequence, circle after circle, column after column, solemnly and solemnly. Holographic images scroll on the monument. Texts and images are used to record the nations and heroes who have fallen on the journey or are still moving forward persistently.
You can play and have fun anywhere. But not here. Even the leaders of the empire are obliged to remain solemn in front of the monuments in this square. In front of the entrance to Totem Square, there is an iconic monument.
It is the only monument here that does not use holographic projection on the monument, but is entirely made of astrology stone and super alloy. It does not record anyone's name, nor is there any carving or image. There is only one line of words on the monument:
"For them, keep going."
I stopped in front of the monument and paid my respects silently. Next to me was Fina, who also lowered her head. Biberu could not move in a human way, and he had no ability to move now, so he said in a low voice: "Old guys
, we are still moving forward.”
Anulili didn't know why the atmosphere was suddenly so serious, but she could already see something from the surrounding environment and those solemn black monuments. She didn't know whether an outsider like herself should salute rashly, but she agreed with me.
Fina bowed her head in greeting in the same manner.
"This is the epitome of every historical moment on the way forward for the empire, and most of them represent battles of life and death." I took the lead and walked slowly to the center of the monument square, followed closely by Anulili, Fina, and my sister. As for
Biberu temporarily stayed at the edge of the square and waited. He was unable to move now and felt that he would disturb the peaceful atmosphere of the place.
"...Is this a monument to the fallen soldiers?" Anulili seemed to understand why this place was so solemn.
"...Not all," Fina was silent for a moment before replying, "Only a very small part of it will be used to commemorate those who died in battle. Most of it belongs to a certain race, or a certain war, or a certain historical event.
The moment of sex. Look at these holographic images, you can spend days and nights watching them all. These glory are too heavy, few people can bear them, they should belong to the entire species, the entire civilization, and even the entire world...
…”
We stopped in front of a monument. On its heavy black monument, there was a line of text floating: "Salute to the whole family of Tam, you fell before dawn, but please rest in peace. Dawn has arrived."
"This race was completely wiped out at the end of the Battle of the Great Nebula. Their remaining population was not large, but they refused to return to the rear," Fina stroked the cold surface of the monument, "'Someone has to stop the shepherds, our
Civilization has been completely eradicated, but your history is still intact, so let us go.' I still remember what the patriarch of a race with only 2,600 people said to me."
"Race...world..." Anulili was shocked by this fact. She didn't even hear Fina's words clearly. This girl who had never imagined how huge the empire was was at a loss in this magnificent square. She was like
He looked at the monuments surrounding him as if he were sleepwalking. They were arranged one after another, and there were so many of them. Behind each of them, it might even be the story of an entire race, or at least the story of a hero who had saved the world.
"There is a saying circulating in the macro world:" Fina said suddenly, "When I stood in that black square and looked at the history in front of me, I suddenly felt that I was worthless. The battles I once led, I once killed
The enemies who once piled up mountains of wealth and every glorious title slowly collapsed in front of those cold monuments. I once rushed to my own small battlefield with my sword, full of pride, and felt that I was a hero, but now I would rather
I am the most ordinary soldier behind these real heroes, and I only hope to rush to the battlefield full of glory.
These are the words of a general from the macro world who stood on the Monument Square. His name is unknown today, but his words are widely known. This should be the most worthy words in this square."
"I hope you and your people can forget those unpleasant histories and fight for my Majesty," Fina suddenly turned to Anulili, "As you can see, this is an empire full of glory, and it has sheltered so many
But it's facing challenges, and if you want to protect your hard-won freedoms... we hope you'll join us."