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Bees fly by, flowers bloom.

After a few familiar intros, a string of cold, rusty, old text appears on the laptop screen.

"On Pluto, we sit down and cry," Tang Jiayi turned her head slightly and asked in a low voice: "I wanted to ask just now, why is this name so familiar?"

"Of course it's familiar," Atletico Madrid replied from afar, "change Pluto to the Babylonian River!"

The lady nodded knowingly, "It turned out to be the Babylon River of Byron." ”

Despite the misfortune and displacement, the Jewish people were able to survive through cultural and religious centripetal forces and cohesion, persevering to a time more suitable for them, and finally returning to Jerusalem, where their ancestors lived.

The story that takes place on the banks of the Babylonian River is the best expression of the centripetal force of Jewish culture.

In 597 B.C., Jerusalem was conquered by troops from the Neo-Babylonian kingdom.

After the fall of Israel in the north and the enslavement of all its people, the Hebrew kingdom of Judah in the south was also destroyed.

What awaits the people of Judah will be to become "prisoners of Babylon" and to contribute their strength, sweat and even life to the construction of the city of Babylon and the hanging gardens.

By the Babylonian River, the slaves of Judah sat down to rest, remembering their homeland and feeling nostalgic for themselves, and could not help but shed tears of sorrow. Seeing this, a foreign soldier approached a Judah musician and asked him to play the music of Zion.

Naturally, this humiliating request was rejected by the latter, who hung his harp on a willow tree and choked up: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, I would rather let my right hand forget its skill." If I do not remember you, and if I do not look at Jerusalem above what I am most pleased with, I would rather have my tongue knotted. ”

What happened to the musician is unknown, but the vows he made to his hometown of Jerusalem were written down by others and eventually recorded in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) in the form of psalms.

Later, the Jews became Jews because of the translation into the Roman language, and the Hebrew Bible became the first half of the Christian Bible, and the poem became Psalm 137 of the Bible, gaining greater visibility. The Jews see in it the nostalgia of their homeland, the Christians in it in it the unchangeable devotion of faith, and the spirit of resistance in others.

With the poem "Babylon River" as the source of his creation, Byron, a famous bourgeois fighter and English romantic poet, wrote "By the Babylon River We Sit Down and Weep". In a strong and resolute tone, he said, "I will not mix its beautiful tone with the voice of a tyrant!"

Tang Jiayi has read Byron's poems, read some Bible articles, and knows several versions of the "Babylon River". Hearing Atletico's words, she asked without thinking, "Then what is this talking about?"

She only knew that this video was an animated short film produced by Bee Pictures, and that she would participate in the animation unit of next month's Magic Capital International Film Festival, but she didn't know exactly what it was about.

Atletico's voice came from afar, "See for yourself, the spoilers won't be interesting!"

"Okay," the lady pouted, reached for the screen of her BBQ laptop, ran to Atletico and lay down comfortably, and continued to watch with one hand on the screen.

Thanks to the ultra-thin design, this screen weighs only a few tens of grams, and it is not at all pressurous to hold in the hand, which is very suitable for lazy lying down. One reads ??? book·? ｋ?ａｎ?ｓ?ｈ?ｕ?· ｃ?ｏｍ?

Click to continue, and the text quickly weathered into sand, and the black background gradually brightened, and the cold mountains, the potholed ice fields, and the bright and unfamiliar starry sky appeared in turn.

The picture that greeted her looked very strange, Tang Jiayi was about to open her mouth to ask, but when she thought of the title of the video, she quickly became relieved, this is Pluto, it is normal to be different.

Pluto is located at the edge of the solar system, so naturally it does not get much sunlight, the surface of this planet is dark and cold, the temperature is below minus 200 degrees Celsius for a long time, there is little oxygen and a lot of nitrogen, but it exists in the form of liquid nitrogen.

Also because it is far from the sun, the stripping effect of the solar wind is very weak, Pluto has a thin atmosphere up to 100 kilometers, although mixed with a lot of ice and stone chips, Pluto's sky is still thin and transparent, no matter day and night, you can look up at the starry sky.

The camera pans down and zooms in slowly, taking in a giant four-wheeler in motion.

Astronomers had miscalculated Pluto's volume and mass, happily placing it at the end of the "Nine Planets of the Solar System", but later new data came out and it was found to be smaller than the Moon, and its performance was somewhat unqualified in all aspects, and finally in 2006 it was disqualified as a "planet" and downgraded to a dwarf planet.

Because of its small size and small mass, Pluto's gravitational acceleration is only one-tenth of that of the Earth, and Pluto's walk is easier than walking on the moon, and Pluto's car can be built even bigger, just like the one in front of you.

The huge body was riddled with potholes and patched patches, and it was in a terrible condition that made it amazing how it could drive.

The old giant car drove through a ravine-strewn ice field, up a high slope, past a set of snow-covered, dilapidated antenna racks and the ruins of a series of buildings, then turned over a hill and finally braked next to a igloo.

The heavy door was opened from the inside, and a tall figure in a white warm suit with a helmet over his head appeared in the doorway, and he looked down at his headlight, and then he bent his legs and jumped out, and in a long arc, he fell to the ground, leaving two wide footprints.

After him, another figure in the same costume appeared at the door, jumped out of the car as the man in front of him, and then turned away to close the door. He was only one-third of the former's height, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach the lower edge of the door, so he jumped up on the spot, but this time he was taller.

Thanks to Pluto's low gravity, he jumped up and down casually, directly over the roof of the car, without touching the door at all.

This action triggered Tang Jiayi's laughter, and she couldn't help laughing.

Noticing that his companion didn't follow, the big man turned around and stopped him, saying the first line of the film: "What do you care about it?

The sound has been normalized, and it sounds interference and distortion, and there are also harsh noises and whistling, which makes Tang Jiayi frown for a while.

After pausing the playback, she turned her head and smiled and said, "It's finally a bit loud! I thought you were going to make a silent movie!"

Atletico pouted, "Pluto's atmosphere is thin, and the sound attenuation is particularly strong, so you can't hear it if you are a little farther away." In fact, there was a sound before, and if you turn it up to the maximum, you should be able to hear the roar of the engine, and the clatter of rolling over the ice and snow. It's just that your ears are too woody to hear. ”

"Well," Tang Jiayi nodded casually, but didn't slide the screen to increase the volume, but continued to ask: "Isn't it that in the future of human beings hundreds of years later, why are they still using old-fashioned voice communication, and the call quality is still so poor?"

Atletico Madrid didn't answer directly, "Of course there is a reason, there are hints in the plot, you can see for yourself." ”

"Hmph!" muttered the lady, "if you don't say it, don't say it, I'll find it myself!"

The button continues to play, and the screen starts moving again.

Hearing the big man's question, the little man stopped his futile jumping movements, lowered his eyebrows and shoulders depressedly, and said in a low tone: "Yes, we are all going to die, what do you care about it?"

At this moment, the big man jumped back, stretched out his hand to push the car door, and then explained in the stunned gaze of the other party: "Close the door, it can be kept longer." It can be regarded as giving it a decent ending. ”

This conversation was so informative that before Tang Jiayi could react, the two of them left the car and jumped to the igloo not far away.

Coming to the front of the igloo, the big man spoke again, "This is it?"

"Yes!" replied the little man quickly, "the back door to Gene Bank No. 201 is here. It's a good place, it's empty, it's not occupied by too many people, and it's a good place to be our cemetery. ”

The big man nodded, grabbed the doorknob, and was stunned to find that it was frozen on the door frame, "Hey!

The little man explained: "The location here is too far away, and it has never been cared for, otherwise this door would have been torn down and transported away." ”

"Yes, come over and do me a favor!"

There were no thawing tools at hand, so the big man had to call his companions to help.

However, the low gravity made it difficult for them to exert their strength, and even if the two of them worked together, it was in vain, and the two men had no choice but to start the winch on the cart and use violent means to break the door.

Leaving behind the violently destroyed partition door, the two of them, one tall and one short, stepped into the igloo.

With the help of the illumination of the headlamp, the two of them and Tang Jiayi behind the screen soon discovered that there was something else in it, and there was a door inside the igloo. Although the door was also frozen, it was not frozen enough, and it was soon opened by the two of them, and then closed from behind.

Following a zigzag passage up and down and through several screened doors, the two of them came to a large hall and turned to check the environment.

Scanning the walls and floor of the hall, you can see many holes and grooves, which look like traces left by various installations. All of that equipment was gone, and only an empty hall remained.

The big man looked down at his feet, the ground was illuminated by the light, and a familiar picture appeared before him, but it was a huge painting of the earth, a vast blue ocean, a polar plateau covered with ice and snow, and gray-green plains and hills.

Looking for his bearings, he lay on one of the plains in eastern Asia. Tilting his head to look at his companion, who was standing on the territory of South America in search of a target, he asked, "Haven't found it yet?"

Standing on the Caribbean islands, the little man replied without raising his head: "I am different from you, I am a new human born in the orbit of Jupiter, I have never been to Earth, and I don't know where to lie down." ”

Looking at the little power left, the big man spoke: "The place under your feet is good, the tropical archipelago, rich in fruits all year round, is a world-famous tourist destination." In addition to being susceptible to typhoons, oh no, hurricanes, there are few disadvantages other than being prone to hurricanes in the summer and mosquitoes are more troublesome. ”

"Oh, I'm the fruit I love the most!" the little man asked, lying down on the spot, "Do you want to turn off the lights?"

"No need to turn it off," replied the big man, "it's not interesting to have a few more minutes." ”

"Oh," the little man continued on his fruit topic, "There are only algae in the space station and the Pluto base, and we can only experience the taste of fruit and the sea breeze in VR, but we have never really experienced it, and we don't know if the virtual system simulation works well. Alas, you old humans are still living comfortably!"

Hearing this, the big man was silent for a long time, and the other party was so frightened that he shouted again and again.

"I'm fine," he said, and then he suddenly asked, "By the way, there's a question I've always wanted to ask, and I don't know if you can tell me the answer." ”

"If I don't know, there's no way to do it. ”

"Your body size is only a fraction of that of the old humans, and your metabolic rate and fertility rate are much lower than those of the old humans, so it is said that you can achieve sustainable development. But why did it come to this point?"

"Yes, it is theoretically possible," the little man's voice was full of remorse, "but that's only theoretical!"

As he narrates, the camera naturally transitions to three hundred years ago.

The sun flashes helium and turns into a slightly faint red giant. Humanity escaped before the final moments, building a large number of space stations in Jupiter's orbit and temporarily living there.

As soon as they escaped the catastrophe, humanity was divided by the future route, some of them boarded the spaceship to find a new home, some stayed on the space station to try to survive, and the shrewd guy chose to hibernate in the ice, intending to "smuggle" into the future.

Obviously, the big man is such a "time stowaway".

Unfortunately, his one-way trip went wrong, and when he woke up, he found that human society had come to an end, and he had become the last old human in the solar system. If it weren't for the fact that the new human gentleman next to him was collecting food everywhere and "accidentally" opening his hibernation pod, he might have slept to death like the people around him, and then quietly disappeared.

"With the sun's brightness declining and Jupiter's mining failing, our ancestors had to choose the development strategy of saving energy and reducing consumption and developing Pluto. To reduce consumption, they used gene-editing technology to tailor their offspring to make them short and metabolically low, thus creating us new humans. ”

"As originally envisioned, we would be able to continue to grow by taking energy from solar panels and reactors, mining asteroids for matter, and then handing over the work to robots, and plugging into a brainwave virtual network to pass the time with movies and games. ”

"It's a pity that our ancestors designed it too ideally, but they didn't expect their descendants to be too vulnerable, because of a big blackout, the whole society collapsed, and then that's it. ”

"That's it?" the explanation didn't convince the big man, and he quickly asked, "How destructive is a power outage?"

"There are no blackouts, there is war!"

Before the big man could say anything more, the lights on the two of them suddenly went out, and they were plunged into darkness.

When the power is insufficient, the system automatically enters the energy-saving mode, and the lighting, communication, auxiliary power and other systems are all turned off, leaving only the power of the life-sustaining system running at the minimum power to still on, trying to prolong their survival time.

Unfortunately, no one around them could save them.

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