Chapter 7 A Lack Of Understanding
"Mother?" The word startled me so much that it popped up so high that I didn't recognize it. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"That's right, mother, mother, mother, Lingtang ......"
"Wait, why is my mom here?"
"No, we have to think about this question the other way around, because in our place, it was your mother who came first and you came later, so we should ask, why are 'you' here?"
"I ...... Leave this at that, you mean, my mom is also one of the humans you chose to bring to the sub-chasm? β
"Well, yes, so to speak."
"So how did you know who my mom was in such a short period of time? No, how did you know I was her son? β
"A proper noun, I don't know how to translate it into words that you can understand, in short, I did a genetic analysis on you before you woke up, after all, you know, you can't just let people in, we also have rules between sub-gaps, in case you are some kind of dangerous person, right? So, find out. Genes determine your ethnicity and tell us if you're a good fit to live here. β
"The same set of rules you use to screen humans?"
"Ah, that's pretty much it. But your data is not bad, although it is low in the good data, but it still enters the good category, your mother's initial data is similar to yours, but the growth is very high, well, we are very optimistic about her. It's a pity, hey, that the people we elected to the Asian Gap all have some personality problems, which I only discovered recently, not late, because you have to come into contact with so many people, and you have to establish this point of view, which is not something that can be concluded at once. But my recent conclusion is, well, a personality issue. Of course, there are light and heavy. β
"My mom is one of those people with serious personality problems, right?"
"Oh no, it's lighter. It's just that, well, it can't be said to be very light. Bad, well, bad. Even in such a peaceful environment as the Azama, she still insists on liking to divide things into two categories: meaningful and meaningless, and for meaningless things, hey, too negative. By the way, the worst part is that the speech is too hurtful, always call me garbage pudding, just pudding, why garbage pudding, right? In short, not a likable earthling. By no means that I am biased against her, she is obviously at the age of human reproduction, and she is almost past the best breeding age, but she has not even found a mate to mate, this must be a problem, right? Reproduction is the biggest advantage of your earth creatures, you say, is she a shame on your earth, I often laugh at her like this, but this attack is still effective against other humans, against her, it is useless. What's going on, I don't understand. I used this to attack the Earth man, and I said, 'Shut up, you virgin,' and the man immediately twisted his face to the side in pain and fell silent. But as soon as you talk about your mother, you make faces with me, aren't there many people chasing her, it's amazing, isn't it that no one has coped with it until now? Originally, I proposed to rescue the earthlings to the sub-gap, just to let them work hard to reproduce, and if the number is overshadowed, won't the earth be snatched back, don't you say? And it turned out to be, well, what to call it in your human terms, 'the plan didn't pass', miserable, tragic. β
"Okay, okay, I'm dizzy." I almost couldn't tell if the pudding in front of me was an alien or a middle-aged aunt.
"Ouch, have you been here too long? Logically not, obviously-"
"Didn't you just say you were going to take me to my mother?" I quickly interrupted it before it could start babbling again, "Go now." β
"Okay, I know, you humans, family. Hey, I can't laugh at your mother anymore, she really has a son, which means that she has really found a mating partner, so how can I attack her in the future? Oops, oops. β
That pudding, no, Xiao Ming Xiaohong spun and turned into a human form while thinking about it, but this time she didn't carefully conjure up her specific facial features, and it looked like a plaster model. It didn't give me a chance to prepare, it grabbed my hand and took me out of this place.
"You can't 'jump' now so you can only 'teleport', and you won't have to be so troublesome after 'jumping'." It says.
"Jump? So what? β
"It's just jumping straight from one location to another, and heck, it's a bit complicated to explain, but you'll find out after that."
I didn't go any further, because in a few moments I would have no time to get distracted by these questions. The experience of this "flight" is not as bizarre as that of the Psionic Passage, but it is also breathtaking. The surrounding environment is constantly changing rapidly in black and white, one second it is bright to the blind, the next second it is so dark that you can't see anything, and even if you close your eyes, you can still feel the violent changes in light and shadow beyond your eyelids. After a period of staggered blackness and whiteness, it finally stabilized, and I opened my eyes to see a point of light appear in the quiet dark center around me, and as we got closer and closer to it, this point slowly expanded into a "door", which was filled with the pattern of the shape of the earth, and this pattern was slowly rotating on the "door" like the earth.
"This is it?" I asked Xiao Ming Xiaohong.
"Well, yes, yes, that's right."
I couldn't guess how far I was from the door floating in mid-air, but every time I thought I had arrived, I could open it with my hand, but it was still expanding infinitely. The pattern on the "door" became clearer and clearer, and I could even distinguish the ocean, mountains, and basins, and after a while, even the houses and roads could be distinguished, as if I was infinitely magnifying a point on a map. It was a strange feeling, on the one hand, I felt like I had jumped straight into Earth from outer space, and on the other hand, I didn't feel any air currents and there was no temperature change around me.
"This is the area where you humans live, how about it, is it well restored?" Xiao Ming Xiaohong proudly puffed up his chest at me, which was not gender-specific at all. Not only did it bother to change its face when it changed into a human form this time, but it didn't even make a decision on its gender.
I took a cursory glance and if I didn't look closely, the aliens did a good job of grasping the characteristics of the Earth. There were spiraling roads, real (or seeming) buildings, gravity (albeit a little), humans walking on two legs or floating a short distance from the ground, and the size of the "town" was about a few hundred people as far as I could see.
Even I, who have always prided myself on being imaginative, have a hard time describing what an alien refugee shelter on Earth should look like, but it definitely won't be like it is nowβthe sun is shining, the grass is fragrant, and it's beautiful like the outing scene in my mother's fifth-grader essay back then.
"Ah yes, what about the two Van Xi Xingren? Have they arrived? "I don't really want to know their whereabouts, but I still have to ask this question in order to prepare myself for what might happen in the future.
"They are still going through some diplomatic formalities with Qing Shaodu, don't worry, they will be able to join you soon."
"I don't want to be with them at all."
"Ah, no, I forgot where she lived. Where should I go next? There? Ahh Road blindness, good word. β
"Are you lost?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, we have time."
Xiao Ming and Xiao Hong took me through the various areas for a while, and finally slowed down in a very nonsense area.
"It should be here, probably, maybe."
This area looks like a messy hodgepodge, with Chinese, European and Japanese buildings all mixed together, as well as churches of various styles, and the location of the buildings is disorderly, and every road is crooked, like a person grabbing a big dart and throwing it on the map, poking it wherever it goes, and if an urban planning expert sees the appearance here, it is estimated that he will pass out on the spot.
The thought that I would see my mother, who was a complete stranger, made me feel a little panicked, so I quickly found a random topic to divert my attention.
"You built all the buildings here?"
"No, it's all self-selected by human beings, and different regions will have different characteristics. Like I like it here, clearly. There is an area where people are skyscraper enthusiasts, and the highest residential building provided by the sub-gap is 100 floors, and then the people there choose to live in 100 floors, and everyone lives on 100 floors, only on the roof. There are also some people who like to play bungee jumping and live there, and from time to time they open the window and jump off the building to play a bungee jump or something. Heck, I'm not trying to interfere with their interests, it's just that it's too troublesome and inconvenient to get there, so it's better here. β
"Isn't that a very high mortality rate in that area?"
"Ah no, no, no, I forgot to tell you that human beings will not be born, old, sick and die in the sub-gap, and as long as you stay in the sub-gap, you will maintain your current state for as long as you are now, and you will not suffer any external damage, uh, what does that word say, invulnerable. Because you see, we don't know when the earth will be repaired, and you humans have too short a lifespan to protect you, then it's just a change of place to see you die. If you are allowed to breed freely, there may be an overload of numbers, so after we discussed it, we unanimously made the decision now, you see, isn't it good, everyone is living happily and without worries. More than one human has told me that this is paradise. β
"This ......," I wanted to say, "how is this possible", but this is alien territory, and there is no point in asking such questions, it's like a third-rate novel that can't be written, and all the puzzles that can't be explained are thrown at aliens. Immortality, eternal youth, this is completely turning people into "gods", although the Puma people want to let human beings solve the problems of the earth by themselves through this way, but once there is a chance to become a "god", who will want to return to the earth?
"Found it, you see, there are few tall buildings here, you can find it at a glance."
As Xiao Ming Xiaohong said, there are basically no skyscrapers here, the tallest house is only three floors, the tallest building nearby is a beautifully carved Gothic castle that looks like a bat will fly out at any time, as soon as you get to the castle, the sky is dark, and the castle under the moonlight flashes with a faint blue light.
"Alright, it's here." Xiao Ming pulled me to land at the gate of the castle and announced cheerfully.
"She lives here?"
"Go knock."
He shoved me from behind.
I know that the man behind this door will put an end to all my luck up to now.