The official meeting with the First Earth Government was scheduled for the morning of the next day.

In fact, for the dwarven civilization, they are far less sensitive to the changes in the morning and evening of the day than the earthlings, in the language of the earth, the words about each time of the day can be written hundreds, even thousands, early morning, early morning, morning...... Noon, noon, noon...... Afternoon, dusk, evening...... Night, late at night, midnight......

But in dwarven civilizations, there are only two definitions of time of day – hot, and cold. When it's hot, it represents the state of the ground after the sun comes out, and when it's cold, it represents before the sun comes out. Because their civilization is not as overly dependent on sunlight as the civilization of the earth, and even in the history of their civilization development, they have not gone through a serious agricultural era...... It's not hard to understand that if humans are only the size of ants, then what else do you need to do in the cultivation industry, hunting and killing a mouse can make a nest of ants eat for days......

The participants in this meeting were Shen Changwen and Xu Yan, who were also the candidates who were decided at the beginning, because of the existence of the huge uncertain factor of civilization A, Wu Xiaoqing needed to be on standby at all times.

Both of them logged in to the account provided by the other more than an hour earlier.

The booked meeting place is located in the central square of a huge underground city, and after Shen Changwen and Xu Yan log in to their accounts, the two of them first meet and meet in the virtual world, and then go to the booked target area together. In the underground cities of the dwarven civilization, the main mode of transportation is to rely on a large number of elevators and subways, the subway is responsible for the plane movement at the same depth level, and the elevator is responsible for the transition between different depths.

Although it is a virtual world, Second Earth is almost equivalent to a complete independent country, which has its own unique laws, institutions, and corresponding currency systems. Although the essence of "producing" things in the virtual world is only to use algorithms to maintain the physical properties and optical state of something, and the cost is very low, in order to maintain a certain political status of the second earth, in fact, the prices here are basically not lower than the real "first earth". For example, taking the subway costs money.

In the second earth, taking the subway itself is no longer a kind of transportation, because there are free automatic vehicles everywhere on the roads between cities, and after doing it, you can easily get people to their destination by saying an address - and it doesn't cost money. Shen Changwen soon realized that in fact, for the dwarven civilization, the feeling of taking the subway was like going to a tourist area to experience being a horse, which was already a nostalgic tourist experience.

Shen Changwen and Xu Yan actually still have a little money, which comes from a small part of the free gift when the government of the Second Earth gives them the account. On the contrary, as people from the age of the earth, they are still not very accustomed to the "self-driving vehicles" that are speeding on the road.

There were very few people on the subway, and after Shen Changwen sat down, he reported his safety to Wu Xiaoqing, who was watching them outside the game, and then prepared to take a break in the car to welcome the official ceremony that was coming soon. In comparison, Xu Yan was not so solemn, he looked around in the car curiously - because of the size, the subway of the dwarf civilization is much more spacious than the earth. The subway on the planet feels like a long steel can, but almost every subway workshop here is like a luxury hotel, not only luxuriously decorated and spacious, but also with a variety of entertainment and food services.

It's just a pity that they all only have the taste system of earthlings - and according to the search and rescue team, because of the subtle differences in the brain structure of human and dwarven civilizations, it is difficult for games developed specifically for dwarves to present their vast and profound food culture like earthlings.

"New here?" Xu Yan turned his head in the direction where the voice came from, and saw two people looking at him, looking like they were greeting him, "Is it the first time you've seen this kind of antique train?" ”

Xu Yan has no right to speak in this world, according to the requirements of the search and rescue team, he just brought his eyes and ears in, but his mouth belongs to the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing. At this time, the search and rescue team answered this question for him: "Yes, for the first time, there don't seem to be too many people interested in it." ”

"Nostalgia is a sign of aging, and it's not worth advocating," the two men nodded, "and let's sit down and have a drink together." ”

Xu Yan walked over in embarrassment, because it was an alien's face, he tried to keep his face without the slightest expression - because any expression made according to human habits could be wrong. He gently pushed away the drink handed over by the other party, and the search and rescue team really helped him find a topic at this time, so Xu Yan pointed to the package that the other party was carrying and asked, "What are you holding in your hands?" ”

"Guns."

"Guns?" Both the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing confirmed it again through the language library, and determined that in the dwarf civilization, the word gun is highly consistent with the semantics of the earth, referring to some kind of lethal weapon.

The man thought that Xu Yan didn't know the concept of a gun at all, so he opened the package and took out something with a metallic texture from it. But it is very different from the shape of the gun on Earth, the gun in their hand looks more like a telescope, and a long barrel lens is the main part, while the characteristics of other guns on Earth, such as the barrel, trigger, etc., are not seen at all.

"It's an ancient weapon," the man said, putting on another helmet and attaching the telescope to the helmet, "just like in the movie, you aim at your target and then press the button on the helmet to shoot a projectile at the target." ”

"Is that part of nostalgia?"

"Maybe count," the other party's face showed an expression that they couldn't understand, but it was a common expression for dwarven civilizations, and the search and rescue team interpreted this expression as mysterious and gloomy with words, "You guys are also going to the main square?" ”

"Yes," the large square he said was actually the place of this public meeting, "go and watch our First Archon!" And the giant civilization he invited! ”

Even Xu Yan heard the ill-intentioned in the other party's words, and he was a little afraid to continue chatting with the other party, because the other party was sitting in front of him with a gun right now. Now Xu Yan can roughly understand some of Wu Xiaoqing's mentality when he was on a mission, but this is not the real world, they have already understood beforehand - in the virtual world, even if he is injured, the pain is only simulated, and the degree is slight - almost not more than the degree of pinching meat with his fingers.

The search and rescue team was apparently more curious about the purpose of these people: "But in the Second Earth...... What's the point of hitting the other side with a gun? You can't really kill each other. ”

"Even in the First World, we can't really kill each other," the man said with that strange expression again, "even if the laser melts the Archon's brain into gas...... Medical professionals also have the means to fix it. ”

"What's the solution?"

"Consciousness reconstruction, haven't you heard?" The other party shook his head, obviously hating Xu Yan's loneliness, "The upper echelons of the government have secretly used it, but they have given many restrictions on civilian technology......

Their conversation also attracted Shen Changwen, and he took the initiative to ask another question: "Then what's the point of your shooting?" ”

"Obstructing this ridiculous meeting, of course," the man's companion continued, "if the aliens provide the government with any better technology, and the entire AI is defeated, will there still be a place for us citizens?" ”

Shen Changwen and Xu Yan glanced at each other and silently returned to their seats.

The subway stopped at the middle station several times one after another, and the number of people on the car gradually increased, Shen Changwen and Xu Yan noticed that many of these people who came in later were holding the same packages as the two people before. Obviously, the attack must have been some kind of organized group activity.

When the subway stopped at Grand Square Station, the other people in the carriage went out almost in a swarm, Shen Changwen and Xu Yan walked at the end of the line, but when they walked out of the door, they found that everyone who had just walked out began to line up outside again, and then almost all the weapons carried by these people were seized by a group of people in black uniforms and put aside. There are also words on the back of those people's uniforms, which translate easily - police.

The police, apparently having received orders in advance, strictly checked all those who came out of the subway, and many of the people with guns were forced to hand over their weapons while shouting angrily: "Is this the second earth or the first earth?" Don't say it's a gun, even if you bring *, it's legal here! ”

"Now that Second Earth has entered a state of martial law, the freedom to bear arms no longer exists, at least not in this city," the police said, waving their hands to let those who had been inspected pass as quickly as possible, "Hurry up, don't be slow." ”

When it was Shen Changwen and Xu Yan's turn, Shen Changwen noticed that after scanning their facial information and confirming their identities, all the policemen around suddenly focused their eyes. Soon a special vehicle came over that could remain levitated on the ground, and the policeman who led the team got to the back of their seats himself after inviting them in.

"Welcome to the Second Earth," the policeman obviously didn't know the information that Shen Changwen and they had already come before, according to the official announcement, they were here for the first time, "I'll take you to the venue now." ”

The car is not maglevit, it is an air hovercraft...... After Shen Changwen got in the car, the first thing he was concerned about was technical issues. The car was fast, faster than the cars around them, and apparently the road ahead of them was briefly cleared to make it easier for them to move forward. Xu Yan put his face on the car window, and looked at the almost endless crowd of people on both sides of the road outside in surprise...... and those distinctive slogans and slogans in the crowds.

"Evil dinosaurs, go back to your planet!"

"The Federation can't represent us!"

"Carbon-based organisms are doomed!"

……

The content of these slogans and slogans, they had already seen it once before, plus they had already been mentally prepared for things in the subway, it did not surprise them, the only thing worth noting is that the words in all these slogans are all Chinese characters - these Chinese characters were theoretically only provided to the government of the First Earth before, and the other party also gave a promise that the information in the text library would be kept as highly confidential before the official meeting.

But judging from the current situation, it is clear that the reliability of the First Earth government is much lower than imagined - you know, it is now wartime. To fight a war in such a state...... Although Shen Changwen still didn't know anything about the details of this war, he, Wu Xiaoqing, and the search and rescue team had already come to a conclusion - it seemed that this dwarf civilization was really a pill.