(Everyone, a new month has begun...so start throwing away your monthly tickets!)
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.
As it somersaults, it is getting familiar with this unfamiliar world, and changing its body structure and energy circulation methods to cope with the possible working conditions in the local natural environment. This amazing adaptability and pseudo-evolutionary ability can make it a leader in the eyes of ordinary civilizations.
It is an extremely sophisticated ultimate robot, but among the various mechanical facilities in the Xiling Empire, it plays just the same role as a pipe cleaner, and has the same value as a wrench.
But it seems that to the little boy, its value is different.
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 took out happened to be something that is not available in this ruined world? This will make it difficult for us to encounter it.
The local man on the board was scared away, and at this moment, the autonomous machine just completed its "rapid evolution". It adjusted the angles of several of its robotic arms, and then made an indistinct beeping sound.
It briskly carried out the order given to it by onee-sama: move closer to its new master.
"ah!"
The little boy Glick let out a cry of terror, and was frightened by the sudden attack of the autonomous machine, which made him sit down on the ground. The latter immediately braked suddenly in mid-air, circled its new owner twice in distress, and then said to us
There was a somewhat aggrieved beep.
These little robots made by Gaia are so much fun.
Grik awkwardly climbed up from the ground, and the autonomous machine in mid-air immediately approached him again, but this time it learned wisely and did not pounce on the opponent. Instead, it stopped about one meter away from the opponent and beeped.
The beeping kept ringing, and the little boy didn't bother to pat the dust on his pants (in fact, I was very curious whether there was any need to pat those pants, it looked much dirtier than the ground here), but stared blankly.
He looked at the shiny new machine in front of him, and then turned to look at us: "A brand new 'big craftsman'? Give it to me? You must be joking! I know, I heard the old people in the town say that the big city
People would make jokes like this on country children. If I touch this, I will get beaten..."
"No, this is yours, as a reward for being a guide," I breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that this thing also exists in this ruined world, but its value here is probably not the same as the machine tools that are everywhere in my impression.
The formation is different, "Of course. In exchange, we have some special requirements: don't ask too many questions, cooperate with our questions, and don't talk nonsense about us to others. Can this be done?"
The little boy Glick carefully looked into my eyes to make sure there was no cunning smile, and then glanced at the self-disciplined machine that was flying around him cautiously with a somewhat dazed look. Finally, he nodded firmly: "
The old Glicks are the most trustworthy people, and the whole town of Condenser knows it!"
Here we go again, that weird town name, this world full of ruins. Even the planet is made of huge spaceship wreckage. It’s so weird. Not only does it look like something we’ve never seen before, but even its place name is...
It's also strange. Putting aside the so-called "big city" for the moment, what is going on with this town called "Condenser"?
"Condenser Town is the name we gave it," Glick took us on another road that could bypass the nearly 90-degree slope in front of us and be covered with sharp metal fragments and lead to
The main entrance of the town below 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 give the settlement a name, and they consulted many information disks. Then
I found that the big metal plate under the town was something called a condenser, so they called it a 'condenser' town. I think there must be more condenser towns in the world, because many temporary settlements will be built on the same town as ours.
On the metal platforms similar to the thing below, 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 has never done this, or maybe there is no tourism industry in this world. Although he tried hard to tell us the history of his town in vivid language, he could not
What was said in the end was messy and rambling. Fortunately, we don’t care about the origin of this town. What everyone is most curious about now is what this ruin-like world is like, its origins, and its origins.
Residents, its vicissitudes over the past 720,000 years - it is hard to imagine that the indigenous residents here are survivors of the Doomsday War 720,000 years ago, and they are still lingering in the ruins so long after the end of the world.
, and living in such a strange wasteland life. If it weren’t for the judgment of the Temple of Life, I would never believe that the residents here have survived hundreds of thousands of years after the end of the world in the ruins. Everyone is here.
The original purpose was to find Viska's lost fleet and to find the truth about the Legion of Destruction's attack on the world 720,000 years ago. But now, these two goals don't seem so urgent, and everyone's interest has begun to shift to this ruined world.
itself.
"Interesting idea, probability and statistics."
Lin Xue suddenly glanced at Glick and said in a light tone, "Tell us about the situation in this place. You can't see such a dirty place in a big city. I'm very curious about this place."
"Of course, people in big cities are sometimes curious about various collection stations and workstations, because you usually don't do this... Oh, I don't mean anything else," Glick walked briskly in front, and gradually
As he approached the light in front, his tone became more 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 machines that have been scrapped again."
As we all know, the world's resources come from the earth under our feet. But not all resources can be picked up and used, and scrapped things must be found to be reused to avoid waste. This metal station is for all kinds of people.
A place where various resources are collected and sorted. Every week, large ships will dump a lot of scrap metal collected from other places and resource metal that needs to be dismantled here. Adults sort them during working days and put away useful things.
Send them to large factories or small factories - but most of them are sent to small factories. After all, most of them are smaller parts, and large factories will not accept them. It is different if it is a first-level recycling station.
They all deal with big things. There are bigger metal mountains, and a piece of stuff on the mountain is bigger than the small piles around us. There are even some first-level recycling stations that can dig out resources that can be used directly from nearby settlements..."
Glick talked about the things he knew, but these things sounded a bit unclear to us. I couldn't ask him more directly, so I could only try my best to restore a world in ruins based on his description.
The social system of middle-aged and disabled people.
The mercury lamp was lying on my shoulder in boredom. She looked at the dilapidated garbage piles around her. She couldn't help shrinking her body and hugged my head harder, feeling that small and exquisite body moving back and forth on her shoulder.
, I patted the other party's leg gently: "What's wrong?"
"Stupid human being, 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. This may remind her of some not-so-good things. Although she has overcome those things, she will still feel a little uncomfortable when she comes into contact with them suddenly.
"Be good and be obedient."
"Don't treat me like a child," Mercury Lamp hit me on the head with dissatisfaction, but still shook his head firmly, "That would be even more boring. There are rigid soldiers on the ship and the scientist who puts clones everywhere. With you,
I can still fight with Lilina when we are together..."
I:"……"
I always feel that the problem of educating my children at home is becoming a serious problem before me again.
After walking for a while, we have arrived at the main entrance of the town called "Condenser" in Glick's mouth. It is said to be the main entrance, but in fact it is just a triangular frame supported by three crooked alloy frames. This triangular frame is welded on
A circle of more than one meter high fence that surrounds the entire residential area is the only entrance and exit to this fence. The material of those fences seems to be the soft metal lining of the corridor inside the spacecraft, and you can faintly see that it has been almost worn.
There is no imperial writing on it, 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 door. A dozen irregular high-energy gratings are blocking the door. I observed it carefully and found that they came from the two tall pillars at the door. The pillars were decorated with unknown symbols.
There are many pairs of beam generators tied with metal wires, and their energy lines are roughly exposed to the outside, extending from the low walls to the inside of the town.
The fence is a little over one meter long, the access control energy is completely exposed, and there are shaky joints everywhere on the fence. I can't help but think about how many unscrupulous intruders it would take to be blocked by such a security system. To be fair,
With this kind of security level, my high school classmates who jumped over the wall with me to play games outside the school were able to crack it. If they installed such a high-tech grating wall, they might as well put a director of education at the door...
Glick was used to the simple facilities here. He just gave us a sign of waiting, then took out a small crystal card from his pocket. The crystal card looked very rough in workmanship and did not seem to be in the imperial style.
Thing, he swept this gadget over the beam generator in front of the door, and the intercepted beam disappeared.
"Welcome to Condenser Town - people from the big city are rare here. The last time we welcomed guests from the big city was three years ago." Glick happily waved his thin arms, obviously his mood after returning home
I feel very happy.
We followed each other with a sense of curiosity. The dilapidated and messy environment around us may not be so refreshing, but the freshness brought by this strange world has diluted this negative effect well. I looked around.
, and found that this is indeed a settlement built on a huge metal plane. The "ground" under the feet is a whole piece of alloy.
The extended pipe joints or cable joints were recycled from waste and tied with ropes to become fixtures in shantytowns, used to reinforce the roofs of the iron-clad houses that can be seen everywhere here.
When we were on the high ground just now, we had seen the cluttered iron houses in this settlement from a distance. At the time, we felt that they were completely dilapidated, but now we are getting closer and taking a closer look - it is better to take a closer look just now.
We are surrounded by houses like that: crooked shantytowns connected by old and twisted metal plates. The most messy shantytowns are tied directly with metal wires and rivets, and the gaps between the metal plates are enough to make people laugh.
You can see the scene inside at a glance from the outside. There are signs of welding in the slightly better shanties. It is not easy to weld the metal plates disassembled from the imperial warship. Maybe they used laser cannons picked up from the garbage dump.
Focusing tube, because I don’t remember that Xiling technicians also used welding guns when repairing the spacecraft. Of course, it is also possible that they found an autonomous machine that was still functioning and was originally used to repair pipes in the spacecraft (according to Glick
, it seems that they should be called "big craftsmen" here), these autonomous machines can learn any kind of work. Including turning themselves into a welding gun.
The best houses in the field of vision were some neat large metal boxes. It took me a long time to figure out that they were residential cabins prepared for soldiers on large spaceships, but they were separated from the hull sections.
, only a pitted shell remains.
The arrival of strangers like us seems to have attracted the attention of the town residents. Some adults and children dressed in the same shabby and dirty clothes as Glick poked their heads out of nearby tin houses or corners of "streets and alleys", looking far away
They were looking here. Their expressions were nervous and their eyes were wary. After seeing Glick standing beside us and waving around, some people muttered something and retreated into the room. More people were worried.
They had the courage to come out, but no one came close. They were like the villagers who saw a heavily armed tank suddenly appearing in a quiet mountain village. They remained fully vigilant and curious about outsiders like us. Despite this, they always
I didn't dare to step forward and ask a few words.
Sandora was of course very impatient with this situation of being watched. She looked around and suddenly snorted. Then everyone had a blank look on their faces and turned around and returned home.
Glick, however, had no sense of the changes in the atmosphere around him. He began to introduce us to the most important place in the town with great interest, which was the disc square in the center of the town. It seemed that the short contact along the way had allowed him to confirm what was happening in front of him.
The people who seemed to be difficult to get along with were actually very easy-going, and the seemingly very precious "big craftsman" as a gift made this little boy who was only thirteen years old relax his vigilance. He pointed to the road not far ahead.
A clearing tells us that that is the best and most worth-seeing place in Condenser Town: the Disc Square.
In fact, it is just a circular open space, which is quite clean. The area is smaller than a basketball court. There are four lampposts around it. The crystals on the lampposts are emitting bright light. It all looks very simple.
, but in this dirty and impoverished place, it seems that such a smooth and clean square with sufficient lighting is an amazing center for residents' activities.
"Look, this is our square. Every weekend, adults will sing hymns in this square. Children can play on the edge of the square and get one or two sugar cookies," Glick said excitedly.
I (it seemed that he had figured out that I was the leader and the best talker among the group) walked towards the center of the square, "Today is a day off, but there is still some time before the party starts, and the adults are all preparing.
I am going to take my sister out today. I can still receive sugar cookies six times. Then I will no longer be considered a child, and of course I will not be considered an adult. At the age of fourteen, I will start to do half of the work of an adult and stop receiving children's benefits.
Food rations, but that’s nothing to old Glick’s son, I was able to feed myself two years ago!”
"You have a sister?"
I asked casually, and then my eyes fell on the ground.
In the center of this so-called disc square is a circular area that protrudes about ten centimeters from the ground. On this small circular table with a diameter of one meter, there is a clearly legible symbol, which is particularly eye-catching.
A blood-red triangular emblem.
A faint light flashed through Viscana's cat-like blood-red vertical pupils, which shrank into two narrow slits in an instant. She knelt down and gently stroked the triangular blood-red 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 Loli happily extended an invitation to everyone, and we were dumbfounded: "..."
Well, it seems that those scenes just now were all my imagination. This girl didn’t have any feelings at all when she saw her legion emblem!
Before I could make a move, Visca was already being dragged aside by Pandora's ears to tutor. Sandora touched my arm: "These are the remains of Visca's old subordinates."
"Perhaps before we understand the situation in this space, we should try to find out who Huesca was at war with back then," I responded in a low voice, "Let the mothership put some stealth probes down and conduct a comprehensive search of the people in this space.
Ancient wreckage... By the way, Sandora, if it were the emblem of another emperor's legion, would you be able to recognize it?"
"It would be no problem if the imperial database was still there, but it's a pity that we can't tell for sure now," Sandora shook her head regretfully. "The empire's area of demobilization is vast, and I didn't care much about the affairs of other emperors back then. I never recorded them.
Legion emblem. I think Pandora’s situation is more serious than mine. I’m afraid she doesn’t even remember the name of the emperor in the next area..."
I once again: "..."
You said these two war madmen survived in such strange circumstances back then!