117 The limits of mercy
"Waiter, order."
"Hello sir, are you four?"
"That's right," Shen Changwen took the menu, glanced at it, and then handed it to Wu Xiaoqing, "You can all watch what you want to eat." ”
Wu Xiaoqing's whole face was pale, and he passed the menu to Wang Youquan: "If you don't have an appetite, you can order it." ”
Wang Youquan only said: "The waiter will bring a pot of tea first, a little stronger." He passed the menu to Xu Yan again.
Xu Yan was lying on the table, grabbed the menu, and took a few brief glances. The menu of this restaurant is still very exquisite, and there are pictures behind several signature dishes, but looking at those colorful patterns, Xu Yan not only did not ignite any appetite, but instead of burning any appetite, a sour taste came out of his stomach. He quickly covered his mouth and rushed to the bathroom.
The menu was back in Shen Changwen's hands, and he didn't have the heart to order anything. The bathroom is not far from here, and the sound of Xu Yan spitting inside makes the little appetite that few people have left gone.
"Let's make it simple...... Scrambled eggs with tomatoes and stir-fried greens...... What are your signature dishes here? ”
"Cut meat for nothing."
"Boiled meat?" Wu Xiaoqing's head shook even more, "Why don't you have some barbecue, do you have it?" ”
"Excuse me...... "The barbecue is not," said the waiter, "is it okay to roast the duck?" ”
Several people dismissed the idea: "Forget it, let's have a braised eggplant in oil." ”
"Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried greens, braised eggplant, anything else? How many meat dishes are you ordered? ”
"Don't use it first...... the three of them refused, they were said to be meat, even if it was stewed eggplant, they all felt a little tired.
Four people eating three dishes sounds a bit miserable, but in terms of their appetite right now...... That's quite a lot.
When the dishes came up, it turned out to be true. On one side, everyone was grumbling with hunger, and on the other hand, four people were pulling the rice, but they couldn't eat it at all.
"Let's eat more," Shen Changwen said...... "I'm going to skydive tomorrow." ”
"Skydiving?"
"Let's take a day off...... Are we not going to be able to do it," Xu Yan said, "Did you jump from the plane?" What should I do if the parachute doesn't open? ”
"Paragliding, with the instructor, Chen She has made an appointment. Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, come to the company on time to leave. ”
Shen Changwen ate a few bites, but he really didn't have an appetite, so he put down his chopsticks and left. It was not far from the city center, and he took a taxi himself to the hotel near the company. The three of them are left Wu Xiaoqing, you look at me, I look at you, they all saw despair on each other's faces.
What is it like to jump 23 poles in one day? I should have broken the world record, right?
Xu Yan really went to check it on the Internet - it turned out that they were still too young, the world record was one hundred and fifty-one, and they were still far behind! Four people together are not enough for one person to dance!
"It's good to get used to it......," Wang Youquan comforted them, "You see, at the beginning, we were not afraid to die, and then we jumped down and screamed." ”
"That's not a habit, it's too scared......" Wu Xiaoqing recalled the dozen or so bungee jumps behind. This kind of thing doesn't mean that the more you experience, the more you get used to it, on the contrary, the first time you will have the courage to jump because of curiosity. When I experience that fear, I will become more afraid.
"Did any of you jump the parachute?" Xu Yan asked Wu Xiaoqing and Wang Youquan again.
Apparently not at all. Compared with the price of bungee jumping more than 100 at a time, the cost of skydiving is obviously unacceptable to the previous economic level of these people, and it is said to cost more than 400. Today they spent about 17,000 yuan just for bungee jumping, and tomorrow they will go skydiving, and Professor Shen said that they will pay 20,000 yuan for the deposit alone.
"Is the search and rescue team going to train us all into special forces......" Xu Yan's idea is quite romantic.
"Special Forces...... Is it possible for Mr. Wu to start practicing at this age, the two of us? Wang Youquan said, "I'm in my forties...... Still as a special forces? ”
The three of them ate a few bites hastily, and then checked out and went out. The car stopped at the door, but Xu Yan and Wang Youquan had no energy to drive. The only thing they want to do now is go back and lie down and sleep – the feeling of falling for so long that they can't even walk steadily, let alone drive.
Back in the dormitory, as soon as Wu Xiaoqing's body touched the bed, he didn't want to move, he didn't take off his clothes and shoes, and fell asleep in a daze.
Wu Xiaoqing had two nightmares in one night, both of which were about him being pushed off the cliff - but the strange thing is that every time Wu Xiaoqing jumped down, he would look back at his feet - this was his bungee jumping action, and he felt relieved when he saw the safety ring on his foot. It's a pity that there wasn't in the dream every time - so he was woken up every time.
Because I went to bed early, I woke up early. At four o'clock in the morning, I couldn't sleep anymore, and my stomach felt very hungry, so I got up in the dark and wanted to find something to eat in the dormitory.
It's a pity that they've only moved here for a few days, and because they have money, they've never eaten at home - they're too lazy to do it. Wu Xiaoqing wanted to order a takeout, but found that most of the breakfast sellers had not yet opened during this time period.
"I'm hungry." Wu Xiaoqing walked around the house twice, and after making sure that there was nothing to eat at home, he decided to go out and walk around casually. Or take a taxi, the driver will always know some places to eat that are open all night.
Wu Xiaoqing just walked out of the door of the community, but saw the subtitle of the search and rescue team coming from the glasses: "Come to the company...... Elise wants to see you, and invites you to breakfast by the way. ”
The dormitory is just one street away from the company, and a few minutes later, Wu Xiaoqing has already come to another world.
At the entrance of the cave at the teleportation point, Elis's army was now stationed, and when Wu Xiaoqing walked out all the way, he saw a lot of familiar faces in the middle, and they all saluted Wu Xiaoqing - this made Wu Xiaoqing, who had not come over for several days, suddenly remember that he had the identity of an oracle here. Ordinary people on earth and gods from other worlds...... It turned out that every time Wu Xiaoqing came over, he had to at least travel a long way, and some time was for him to adapt to his identity. But now, it's just a portal.
The volcanic ash outside is still falling, and according to the search and rescue team's estimates, the ash will be floating for at least half a month.
But the catastrophe had already passed, and in some places that had just stabilized, Elise had sent troops to search for other places, anyone who might be alive. But apart from a few mountain dwellers hiding in the surrounding mountains, the army found little else.
The kingdoms they were familiar with were completely gone, and the plains they had traveled south had formed some rolling hills due to the accumulation of magma. The temperature inside these volcanoes was still very high, and there was no vegetation on the mountains, and the soldiers did not dare to climb over them. Everything you knew before, farmland, roads, castles, canals...... Now they are completely engulfed in magma, and there is not a trace of them in sight.
Everyone was already convinced that the world they had been familiar with before had completely disappeared.
When Wu Xiaoqing walked out of the cave, he found that it seemed to be night outside—but it wasn't, and if you looked closely, you could still feel a little light. All the nobles at the door were waiting for themselves. When they saw him, everyone knelt down and saluted him—even though the ground was covered in black ash. Many also kowtow to the ground.
They all already knew the news that the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing were going to leave soon.
Of course they want to stay, no, they are begging Wu Xiaoqing to stay for a while longer.
These nobles, as the ruling class among the hundreds of thousands of people, of course, know the difficulty of surviving the entire team and the fragility of the order.
If it weren't for the machines that brought countless food, clothes, medicines, and purified water from the heavenly realm, if it weren't for the machines that taught them to use "electricity" and brought hand-cranked "chargers", even if they escaped the ravages of magma, there would be no way to survive in an environment where there is no sunlight all day long.
The ash has completely obscured the sky for the time being, and the low temperature has dropped below 10 degrees last night - it's the height of summer. According to Professor Ma's analysis, the temperature will continue to drop and eventually remain around minus 5 degrees. In this era, this temperature can be considered very cold.
"Divine Envoy, stay for another month, it's just a month!" It was Elis's Chancellor of the Exchequer who spoke and the head of the distribution of supplies for the entire relief operation.
"I am just a messenger, my lord," said Wu Xiaoqing, "and God has many missions, and you are not the only ones who need him. All difficulties will pass. ”
There will always be difficulties, whether they are there or not. When he rescued the primitive people for the first time, Wu Xiaoqing didn't understand this very well, but now that he has been in contact with the war for a period of time, he understands this truth that is not difficult to understand. From the point of view of salvation, their mission has been successfully accomplished, because the aftermath of these aftermath work has brought in supplies, which is already the greatest mercy - but there is a limit to this mercy.
According to the search and rescue team, these medieval farmers and soldiers have been so happy that they have eaten, slept, slept, and eaten - they have gone out to walk, and they have not done any work at all, and of course they have not done anything. This happiness is far beyond the level of civilization that they should have—and the longer they stay here, the more difficult it will be for these people to break away from this material dependence. At this point, the idea is the same as when saving primitive man.
If it weren't for the belief in the "land god" that already existed in this world, Wu Xiaoqing wouldn't even have to say goodbye. But after all, this is related to the question of the legitimacy of the king's rule - if the people below are misunderstood, thinking that it is the king and the nobles who have made the gods angry, with the fanatical belief of the vast majority of ordinary people and soldiers in the land gods, it will be a matter of minutes to directly overthrow the existing order.
In this era, for the size of the two suns, a holy war can be created, and if Wu Xiaoqing and the others don't say goodbye, the search and rescue team can almost be sure that just because of the priority of the four divine envoys, more than a dozen different sects can be generated.
So Wu Xiaoqing came over this time, mainly to make a parting speech, so that everyone could understand that God had something to go and had nothing to do with everyone else.