When Lancer and Xuanji eat, they often go to either vegetarian restaurants or Japanese restaurants. Dining with a Platonic friend is not an easy task: she basically doesn’t eat meat, but she will eat some aquatic products to supplement herself.
High-quality protein, this is probably a compromise of living in Gaia.
They were sitting on Xuanji's "Pegasus" suspension car. The ergonomically designed seats were extremely comfortable. The two-seater pink-blue suspension car was like a marble running rapidly inside a transparent, fully enclosed tube.
This is the "highway" of Mangxing City. In countless pipes of different widths, floating cars of various colors and sizes rush like colorful sand grains in the transparent pipes. The traffic flow creates an effect like the mixing of paints. This is a world full of
The city of desire and vitality is always progressing, progressing, and progressing——
Lancer clicked on the projection interface of his wristband and searched for good restaurants on it. The information was like an explosion. Countless pop-up advertisements flew out, and eye-catching discount information was everywhere. The "Happy City" of eating, drinking and having fun in Mangxing City
A good reputation is not earned in vain.
Each restaurant also has reviews and ratings, and Lancer chose the one with the highest rating.
"This store is good, and the price is super affordable!" Lancer clicked on the advertisement, his eyes filled with greedy anticipation.
Xuanji, who was sitting in the driver's seat, came over to take a look. The hover car was driving automatically, so she didn't need to worry at all.
"It looks good." She never doubted Lancer's vision as a professional consultant, and his mind could always perform the most accurate and detailed analysis.
This is a newly opened Japanese food store located in the food area of Shanghai Flower, a super large shopping mall in Mangxing City.
The southeastern corner of Mangxing City extends on the Doris Ocean, where many winding rivers flow into the sea. As the name suggests, "Sea Flower" is a shopping city shaped like a flower and covers a vast area. When the night falls, it looks like a shopping mall from the air.
Like a blooming flower, radiant.
The food area is located on one side of an arc-shaped high-rise building. Each store is like a huge showcase of art. There are countless such food shops stacked up to a height of 200 meters. Countless floating cars frequently come and go in front of tens of thousands of food shops.
, neon lights made of various inert gases shine with lights of various colors and atmospheres, everything is full of colorful post-modernity.
Xuanji's hover car was parked in front of the automatic extension platform of a Japanese food store. The signboard with the words "Mishima YUKIO" at the door flashed in three-dimensional neon, and virtual 3D koi fish surrounded the two guests. As a special welcome effect, this
A pair of young people were pleasantly surprised.
The owner of this shop looks like a Frenchman, with curly hair like wool and a tall and big nose. The inconsistency between the last name and the bloodline is not surprising in Manxing City. Gaia has completed the "Great Unity of the People of the World"
, at least in terms of pedigree. "Mishima" is often full of guests because the boss is good at soliciting business and offers high-quality products at low prices. They were lucky today. They got a very early reservation code and arrived at the right time. They happened to have seats and didn't need to wait.
They sat on the suspended seats, and the transparent revolving sushi belt was filled with all kinds of food. The plates of sushi and sashimi made with skill and skill were extremely beautiful and looked dazzling. The atmosphere at the table was warm, and all the guests looked...
Very satisfied, only Xuanji remained silent.
She started to be absent-minded again. She has been like this since returning from NGC2547 base.
Lancer saw this and felt annoyed and helpless.
"Can we defect to Plato together?" Lancer tentatively asked. As expected, she looked at him immediately, and the indescribable and dangerous light in her dark crystal eyes appeared again.
"Really? When?"
"You're kidding, I won't give up so much delicious food!" Lancer immediately changed the subject.
The conveyor belt is filled with all kinds of exquisitely prepared food, and there are even no identical dishes at all. This is the gift of Gaia's fertile land, just like the life force represented by the name of the Earth Goddess. Gaia people are protected by it, and from then on
In the 500 years since we moved here after the doomsday crisis on Earth, the population exploded and multiplied more than ten times. This was in the context of non-stop interstellar wars and the loss of nearly 100 million people on the front lines every year.
There are seven oceans on Gaia, named after the sea goddesses in Greek mythology: Thetis, Eudora, Doris, Calypso, and Thalasa.
(Thalassa), Amphitrite and Cymopoleia. Their native environment is closer to the ancient chronological era of the earth than the original rock surface of Plato's star.
Its vast water area far exceeds the Earth's ocean area. At the beginning, people on the New Earth released marine organisms brought from the Earth into sea areas with suitable environmental conditions, but the result was that most of them were unceremoniously eaten by HDb native organisms.
These primitive creatures were giant beasts in the prehistoric sea. The Gaians first slaughtered them and then established vast marine ranches to provide seafood. As time went by, alien marine creatures came into contact with Gaians.
The cross-breeding of marine organisms in Asia, and the genetic modification of original marine organisms in various laboratories to make them suitable for consumption and taste better, have resulted in an increase in the range of seafood that humans can eat, and the number of seafood species has reached thousands in the age of the earth.
More than times. This is one of the reasons why the population in Manxing City is still exploding despite the raging war.
"Ah! This is delicious!"
Lancer Xu immediately took down the plate of grilled octopus nigiri that was placed in front of him. This is a special and precious sixteen-clawed "Queen Octopus" from the Amphitrite Ocean. This octopus can grow up to 20 years old.
Kilogram is still just a larvae, and its tentacles have been marinated and grilled. After being sliced, they taste extremely crisp and tender, and they are full of delicious flavor after chewing a little.
The transparent turntable is filled with all kinds of beautifully designed sushi, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as exquisite. In the face of today's high productivity, Gaia's chef community has also worked hard to create delicious dishes in nearly a hundred ways.
, in order to satisfy the appetites of nearly 40 billion people in the city. The food resources in Mangxing City are rich and diverse. This is the comfortable life of humans after they immigrate to the resource-rich "New Earth".
The rich material life enjoyed by the middle and upper classes of Gaia's society is far superior to that on Earth. The education Gaia people have received since childhood is to consume more to promote the economy. To develop the economy is to promote social development. Therefore, "consumption makes society move forward." The middle class can often
They can afford thousands of shoes, hats and accessories. As for the upper class, let alone their wealth. The lower class of Gaia are completely reduced to a group that provides services to the upper class. Due to technology, productivity has been unprecedentedly developed, and artificial intelligence
Intelligence has entered many low-end labor industries, and many lower-class people can survive through donations or welfare.
In short, the gap between the rich and the poor on the planet Gaia is huge, and the class stratification is very clear. The overall situation is materialistic and feasting. This makes Gaia and Plato completely contrasting existences.
After they finished their meal, the boss Mishima, who was wearing a Japanese-style jacket and a chef's hat, sent them out very politely. He was still smiling at the door and bowed and thanked them repeatedly, which made them pretend to be polite.
He kept returning gifts. It was really touching that the French boss was so polite and courteous to his guests.
Xuanji pressed the button on her wristband, and her cute pink-blue hover car floated out of the automatic parking lot of "Flower of the Sea" and parked in front of the platform with a transparent protective wall where they were standing.
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Life in Mangxing City is very convenient, but everything requires an identity wristband. When they enter, they will be given an automatic parking code. The hover car will automatically drive to the parking lot of the shopping mall, and consumption will be automatically settled when going out, without any need for anything.
Manually paid services, this extremely convenient life, are also based on the premise that individuals lose their right to privacy. All personal activities are known to the system, and everyone's life is traceable.
Xuanji's suspension car is a two-seater sports car. The car seats rotate so that they can get on and off the car on the same side. After they get on the car, the seats move to the driving position and the seat belts are automatically fastened. The streamlined suspension
The car flew towards the end of the food area, where there was a huge exit and then divided into different pipes, and flew towards the J481 area.
50 years ago, hovercars in Mangxing City could still drive freely on various aerial roads in accordance with regulations in the sky. However, humans naturally do not like to be restricted by rules, and the vehicles were too dense, resulting in a large number of traffic accidents, such as
Incidents of bumper car-like rear-end collisions and collisions with buildings are endless. Finally, private car-type hover cars are limited to various pipelines, and special vehicles and aircraft of various governments and large enterprises can be exceptions. These traffic pipelines are so complex,
Wandering around outside various skyscrapers, the streamlined and colorful private cars inside are connected end to end like a row of marbles, making the appearance of Manxing City even more chaotic and interesting.
The car was driving automatically, but the two people after a delicious meal were silent. Lancer found that Xuanji was unwilling to talk to him again.
Beside her, she lowered her eyelashes and looked thoughtful, which was quite touching, but Lancer felt angry in his heart.
The car flew to Xuanji's residence at lightning speed, stopped at the entrance platform of the apartment, and then automatically left to park in the parking lot, leaving the two people on the platform. The top was decorated with hundreds of flashing strips in a space-age aesthetic.
, just like everything in Gaia, it will drive people with trypophobia crazy, but they think they are very high-end.
"I didn't have time to clean up my room this morning. It's very messy, so I sent it here."
Lancer looked at Xuanji's face in the dark night. Her facial features were so beautiful and delicate, even with a hint of classical flavor. She always felt out of place with the post-modern Mangxing City.
His heart was full of energy: Xuanji, how could you do this to me? You also invited me to your home, we played games, and you even made me vegetable salad to entertain me. I have clearly confessed my love to you, so
I like you, and we could get along with you like good buddies in the past, but now we are even stranger.
"Okay...good night..."
Thousands of words can only be reduced to this sentence. I blame myself for being too introverted and cowardly.
After Lancer watched Xuanji leave, he had to walk to the apartment station not far away alone and take public transportation back to the dormitory.
Riding a public rail car was a pastime when he was an orphan. The car was like a long snake speeding through a transparent tube. This kind of car does not need straight roads and can spin around in twists and turns in the tube, but the level inside
The device makes the whole process very smooth, but when turning in circles, the passengers in the car can still feel the rotation of the shell, which has a very magical effect.
At nightfall, there happened to be very few passengers on this train, only some old or poor people on the fringes of society. Lancer, wearing a uniform, felt the snake-like car body turning rapidly, and he began to be attracted by a strong force again.
He was tortured by insecurities. Being abandoned by his mother when he was two years old was the biggest shadow in his heart. This caused him to have no self-confidence and always hesitant personality.
This shadow has demarcated the boundaries of his life so far, and the captain is so confident that he dares to break into a heavily guarded fortress alone with a laser assault rifle. This confidence and bravery are as bright as the sun, and Xuanji has
Also, when the two of them stared at each other, their breaths were connected. They were two people so close to each other. They were shining brightly, but he could only stand in the shadow.
He looked at the head of a gray-haired old man in front of him who was dozing, and thought: Will he be so lonely when he gets old? Xuanji ran away with someone else, and he will be alone all his life?
Lancer decided to apply to join the "Darjeeling Project" tomorrow. He originally didn't want to be involved in anything related to the Grand Master of the White Tiger Knights, and he rejected him in his heart. However, he always felt that this knight with a strange name had the answers to his questions.
Key
Kalki - it took him a long time to understand the meaning of this name. kar means "white horse" in Proto-Indo-European, and ki means "rider", which together means "white horse knight".
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"It turns out that Kalki's name means the knight on the white horse..." Lancer, who was looking up information, muttered to himself.
The appearance of the grand leader appeared in front of me, so heroic and extraordinary, it really fit him.
He continued to check and read out loud unconsciously.
"In Indian mythology, Kalki is the 'incarnation' of God, who will remove all 'sins' and return the world to a golden age..."
He saw Sanskrit words such as avatara and adharma. As we all know, Plato has a large number of Sanskrit words. Most of Plato's white nobles have blond and Nordic appearance. This homology of Indo-Aryan culture,
It made him feel inexplicably mysterious.
He continued to look up the origin of the Platonic people's names. It turned out that all the names of the Platonic people were given by "Logos" when they were born.
"Xuanji is a star, or more accurately the center of the ancient Chinese star system, and Kalki is a knight riding a white horse, the incarnation of God. The knight on the white horse has a special symbolic meaning in European culture. In the European Middle Ages, only kings could
Riding a white horse into the city..." Lancer took notes while repeating in a low voice, "In Christian culture, the savior appears as a knight riding a white horse, which coincides with Kalki in Indian mythology and legend.
The emergence of Kalki represents the end of a dark period of depravity and the beginning of a new period of time and space..."
"Is Kalki the beginning and the end?" he thought thoughtfully.
What kind of theological system is this world based on? The happy consumption life of the Gaians in the giant and prosperous shopping city appeared before his eyes. What kind of life did the Plato people live 1,450 light years away? Theirs
The names are usually those of stars or gods, as if they themselves are aloof existences, overlooking all living beings in Gaia.
This kind of imagination intensified the sense of inferiority for the sensitive man.
We must seize this opportunity and capture Kalki. Many staff members are formulating their own plans, and he must stand out among them.
"You are very confident, but I am not." When he presented his preliminary plan to Major Chen, his superior's attitude was rather disapproving.
"Confidence comes from adequate planning and preparation. I will definitely try my best." This time he seemed very serious.
Therefore, in order to join the Darjeeling Project, Lancer had to work overtime in addition to his heavy workload every day.
"There is no early data..." He muttered in disappointment, his hand still touching the projection screen.
He wanted to retrieve all the information about the Grand Captain of Kalki, but unfortunately there was only combat information after he was promoted to the Captain at the age of 24. His early career was blank. If he hadn't opened the visor himself, he wouldn't even know his appearance.
, he has been known as "Plato's First Warrior" for thirty years. He was promoted to one of the "Seven Political Officers" at the age of 26. He is now the strongest warrior on the front line of Plato's people.
"It's really perfunctory to only create files for commanders with a certain position level, instead of making an analysis list of personal tactics."
Lancer felt that the Gaia General Staff was in a state of sleepwalking, and he was shocked by the work efficiency of this kind of dawdling.