Chapter 15: The City of Water
Mo Zihan saw that familiar scene in his dream again, the colorful starlight, the vast universe, he imagined himself as a time traveler traveling between the past and the future, no, he was a time traveler at this moment.
Unlike last time, this time the travel time was very short, and in an instant, Mo Zihan had opened his eyes and looked around, and he was lying on a big gray bed.
"It's a bed again. Mo Zihan seemed to be a little disappointed with this way of playing.
"Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell~~" A familiar bell came from the pillow.
"Isn't it, it's been thirty years, and anyone still uses this kind of ringtone?" Mo Zihan muttered to himself as he picked up this model of mobile phone that he had never seen before.
The "Lin Ran" displayed on the phone, but after tinkering for a long time, Mo Zihan failed to connect to the mobile phone without buttons and touch keys, and the annoying ringtones kept echoing in the room with "ding, ding, ding".
Mo Zihan was calm and carefully recalled all the science fiction films he had watched before, knowing that he was now but in the future, and he couldn't look at things in this world with the idea of "backwardness".
So, he brought the phone close to his mouth and whispered, "Connect." The phone then made a "ding" sound, and a white light shot out of the phone, which frightened Mo Zihan and hurriedly threw the phone back on the bed.
The white light shone on the wall of the room, reflecting a big human face, and when I looked closely, this big head, yes, was the fat boy Lin Ran before.
"Xiao Mo, why are you not answering the phone for a long time?" Lin Ran's two eyes looked left and right, as if looking for something: "Xiao Mo, what about you? Why do I only see your roof?"
Mo Zihan reacted at this time, could it be that this phone also has 3D projection technology? He threw the phone on the bed, of course Lin Ran couldn't see himself.
"What are you doing? I didn't hear that. Mo Zihan hurriedly picked up the phone and faced himself, but his tone was very calm.
"You're embarrassed to ask me, let's make an appointment with Yu'er to gather at the base at nine o'clock, it's nine thirty, what about you cultivating immortals at home?"
Lin Ran on the other side of the phone was louder than the other sentence, and the big head was facing Mo Zihan, not to mention how strange it was.
"Alright, alright, I'll be right there. β
"Okay, don't forget to have breakfast, you kid don't forget to eat breakfast, I don't care about you if you get sick again this time. After Lin Fei finished speaking, he hung up the phone, and the big head disappeared with the fading of light and shadow.
Mo Zihan breathed a long sigh of relief, walked to a gray wardrobe, opened the cabinet door, there were all kinds of men's clothes hanging in the cabinet, Mo Zihan didn't have time to choose, so he walked out of the bedroom with a random set of clothes.
What catches Mo Zihan's eye is a duplex house with a minimalist decoration style, but without losing style, and the whole room is mainly gray and light blue, like a mix of Mediterranean and simple European style.
Walking down the steps from the bedroom to the living room, facing Mo Zihan is a 50-inch ultra-thin LCD TV, a gray and blue three-piece sofa, and a white shading marble coffee table in the middle. The decoration style of the entire living room is in line with Mo Zihan's appetite.
Maybe it's because the curtains on the left wall block out the sunlight and make the room look a little dark. In the last two "dream crossing" experiences, Mo Zihan has long been tired of the feeling of darkness.
He approached the curtain and was about to lift the two gray cloths that blocked the sunlight, but before he could do it himself, the curtain would automatically slide open to both sides.
The dazzling light instantly spread through a huge floor-to-ceiling glass window throughout the living room, and outside the window was a small green lawn, Mo Zihan walked out of the living room with his eyes half-covered.
Standing on the balcony and looking into the distance, as Shirley said, the city in front of her is all built on an endless ocean, and she was born in the south and has never seen the sea, which can be regarded as fulfilling her wish since childhood.
However, the current Mo Zihan has no time to appreciate the great changes in his hometown, because he has not forgotten the terrible Lin Ran who was urging him on the phone just now. But the only thing that bothers him now is how to get to the "base" in Lin Ran's mouth, and it is obvious that there are no taxis and buses in this city now.
Mo Zihan picked up his mobile phone and flipped through the screen but couldn't find a function such as a boat.
"Squeaky Squeak"
There was a sound of mechanical friction behind Mo Zihan, "What's it?!" he turned around with a loud shout, and a small robot less than a meter tall was walking towards him.
The pure white mechanical shell, the faintly visible wires, the little robot in front of him was even designed to be a humanoid face, and its two eyes emitted a gentle green light, it slowly approached Mo Zihan, suddenly stopped, and looked up at the man who was a lot taller than it.
"Xiao Mo, you are lazy again. β
This sudden sentence made Mo Zihan instantly feel that he had come to a science fiction world that only existed in movies, although the taste of speaking was still slightly sluggish like a robot, but this little robot successfully attracted Mo Zihan's attention.
"Do you know me?" Mo Zihan asked tentatively, bending down.
"Of course, I am, the housekeeper, you, the day I was born, I also, hugged, you. The robot's sluggish tone made Mo Zihan laugh out loud.
"Haha, just now my friend Lin Ran asked me to go to some 'base' to find him, can you take me there?"
The robot nodded: "Let's go, you, already, late." After speaking, he led Mo Zihan to a dark room. The robot presses the red button on the door, "bang", and the door of the room closes.
In the room where you can't see your fingers, the green light from the robot's eyes is the only lighting tool.
"You, what's your name?" Mo Zihan didn't know what to call this robot who called himself "housekeeper".
"You, aren't you, sleepy," the robot turned to look at Mo Zihan, and a pair of delicate artificial small eyebrows were cutely raised upwards: "I'm you, Uncle Bai." β
"Uncle Bai?" Mo Zihan couldn't believe that this robot, which was not as tall as a primary school student, had to be called uncle when he came here?
But before Mo Zihan could figure it out, the door of the room had already opened, and Mo Zihan, who walked out of the room, found that Uncle Bai had taken him into not a small black room, but a gently moving elevator, and unconsciously came to a large room located underwater.
Rather than a room, it is more like a hemispherical research room made of glass, the entire research room is completely submerged under water, and the room is full of all kinds of strangely constructed scientific research equipment, like a secret base for superheroes.
Mo Zihan climbed on the edge of the glass, curiously looking at the underwater wonders he had never seen before, where he could clearly see that all the buildings on the water were supported by huge white columns, and these columns all went straight to the bottom of the water without exception.
The water is densely covered with this kind of solid column, the only difference from the present world is such a vast underwater world, Mo Zihan didn't even find a single fish after watching it for a long time.
"Xiao Mo, you, already, late, hurry, let's go. Uncle Bai stood in front of a door and urged.
Mo Zihan reluctantly walked to the door, watching Uncle Bai stretch out the small white mechanical palm and gently place it on the door, "The palm print has been verified." A voice came from nowhere.
"You are a robot and have palm prints?" Mo Zihan couldn't help but widen his eyes and exclaimed.
Uncle Bai didn't pay attention to the surprised Mo Zihan, in the eyes of this all-intelligent machine housekeeper, this little Mo in the family today is a little abnormal.
The doors opened to both sides, and Mo Zihan's eyes were greeted by a streamlined white submarine, equipped with two seats in front and one in the back under the transparent glass cover, four propellers of the same size around the hull, and two silver pipes hanging on the tail, and the three big English letters printed on the side of the hull - EXP.
The machine in front of Mo Zihan is simply an underwater version of "Aston Martin", and this submarine with a sense of science and technology is lying on the ground obediently like a beauty, motionless, Mo Zihan glanced at Uncle Bai, decided to restrain the ecstasy in his heart, and pretended to be calm and said: "Uncle Bai, you can drive it." β
Uncle Bai nodded, opened the submarine cover with the same way of scanning the palm prints, and his petite body slowly climbed into the wheelhouse little by little, while Mo Zihan jumped into the back row by a flying body
Uncle Bai turned on the power, and the various instruments and button lights in the cab lit up, "Close, hatch." Uncle Bai gave an order, and the glass hatch covered the two. Later, after Uncle Bai performed an operation in the wheelhouse that Mo Zihan couldn't understand, a circular fan-shaped door in front of the submarine opened. A large hole in the water is revealed
"Sit Tight"
The "buzz" trembled as the hull of the boat shook, and a flash of fire erupted from the rear, and the submarine erupted like a bullet from the round hole.
It turned out that behind this round hole was a long underwater transparent pipe, which went straight to the surface of the water, and within five seconds, the submarine carrying the two people had already flown out of the beautiful underwater world and jumped out of the water.
The bright sun in the sky shone on the transparent hood, reflecting a golden light, and the fuselage that jumped high with a "bang" fell back into the water, and four propellers replaced Fang Cai's jet device, leading the two of them to gallop on the water.
"End setting: Explorer's House, estimated time: 10 minutes. There was a sound of announcements in the boat.
Mo Zihan leaned on the comfortable cushion, and then relaxed and slowly admired the surrounding scenery:
The sun is unusually bright at 9 a.m., and on the vast expanse of water, you can see all kinds of new styles of water boats, colorful and small.
Although there were no flat asphalt roads, the speedboats seemed to be moving on the water in an orderly manner, and suddenly a red light swept from above.
Mo Zihan looked up and saw that in the clear blue sky, a drone was circling, and the dazzling red light on the body kept shooting back and forth on the moving speedboat, and this similar drone was equipped with one every 500 meters or so.
On the sparkling water in the distance, all kinds of buildings are lined up one after another, there are towering buildings, there are criss-crossing middle-rise residential areas, the architectural style is almost the same as the present world, but all the high-rise buildings are more fully transparent construction methods, the golden sunlight shines on the transparent glass outside the building, and the light refracted is once again projected into the blue water surface, and the whole city shines brightly, exuding a vigorous atmosphere of science and technology.
This is W City thirty years later? Mo Zihan couldn't help but feel surging in his heart. He looked back at the location where he and Uncle Bai started, and then found that the house he lived in was a separately built water villa, although it was far away, but with that outstanding geographical location and construction style, it was not difficult to judge that the owner of the body he occupied at this moment had a family background that was not something ordinary people could achieve in this era.
The speedboat sped across the water, drifting away from the high-rise city center, with a long splash behind the fuselage.
Ten minutes later, a huge building flickered in front of me, and unlike the high-rise buildings in the city center, the entire faΓ§ade of the building was made of opaque material, resembling a huge church.
Above this building there is a colorful glass-like light, the light shines through the clouds and cracks into the clouds, under the colorful light, this "church" stands proudly above the water, and the top of the building is five big characters - Explorer's House!
Looking at the colorful light in the distance, what I saw and heard in the last dream is still vivid.
After a while, I heard Uncle Bai in the cockpit turn his head and say:
"Xiao Mo, we're here. β