"I'll go, I'll go. I still have fish-shaped rice cakes here, do you want to take them with you and bake them? ”

"Okay, take them all and let the master roast them. By the way, how did you have this? ”

"It's not that my mother saw that it was the Spring Festival, so she sent it to me."

The Spring Festival as a festival has become more and more symbolic. Even the requests to watch the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala are very few - definitely much less than the request to be able to send the chopped items to the public address of the portal on Double 11. Moreover, it is the height of summer in Elta, so people have no motivation to "celebrate the festival" in the heat.

However, the Spring Festival is still keeping pace with the country - but it is undeniable that they are gradually disconnecting from modern society. Even though the total time is only five years, and the interval between each return is less than a year, the disconnect is still frightening.

Dr. Wei put down the fruit mobile phone in his hand, and then dialed the owner of the stall. He is a loyal fan of fruits, but the new-generation machine in his hand was actually delivered to him two months late - it does not match his style of chopping his hands immediately in previous years.

It is normal for an ordinary mail, to be shelved in the previous Elta or the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties before the telegraph began to run, and it is normal for it to take two months to receive a reply after it is sent.

And an active group of 500 people can converge into a 99+ on the interface in just one minute. It's often joked: just look down and pull your pants and you'll miss the topic.

This is an exaggeration. What if this time is stretched to a year, or even five years? Five years is enough time for a person to change from social integration to an old hat.

It didn't take long for the tendency to "try to catch up" to appear in the workforce. The most intuitive - the new ones brought back by people on vacation with removable storage media, American dramas, and the old driver collection have become sought-after goods.

The friendship between men has changed from a double-row, up-and-down game to an online game in the local area network...... The women, after taking out the gesture of Mrs. Kuo and "inspecting" every store in Mendong City, but returning disappointed, also joined the competition for the screen, and watched the eight o'clock ethical drama and the Gong Dou novel adaptation - in previous years, they all watched it on mobile devices, and they scoffed at everyone crowding together to watch dramas with different tastes.

Even if Mendong City's elites try to build a network of restricted access and replicate modern civilization in and out of the city, their sense of superiority in leading the world cannot make up for the sense of loss of being "left behind" on the other side of the portal.

Dr. Wei stepped into a small convenience supermarket on the side of the street and greeted the owner. On the glass wall of the convenience supermarket is a poster of "Elta sour soup flavored instant noodles" piloted by an instant noodle manufacturer, although this is only a "special supermarket" for Chinese.

I should come and buy two buckets another day to see what the difference is from traditional goods such as tomato lo mein. Thinking so, Dr. Wei casually picked up his electronic tag and paid off the bill for two bags of beer with a drop.

"Thank you, comrades workers." Dr. Wei took the heavy beer and read to the familiar and unfamiliar logo on the cans - the pre-tender for the vertical and horizontal line of the Elta continent a month ago has been well known here, and all kinds of insider and on-site restoration have almost become a must-have conversation for the big men before and after dinner.

Such a large project is not something that can be undertaken by a single company or even a group. More than thirty units of various types, and their agents stared almost blood-red at the various sections and projects on Elta's map—only pens and paper and sockets on the table, but it was filled with the tense smell of tigers preying for food on the African savannah......

The final result was almost happy - after all, more than two-thirds of the units could get the project they wanted. Some of the lots are ready to start, and the rest will just wait for Elta to break ground as soon as it settles down.

The beer in Dr. Wei's hand was released and supplied at the request of the road construction workers and the general public in Mendong City.

With the passage of time, the Chinese employees in Mendong City, who are basically equivalent to expatriates and are isolated "overseas", will have more or less psychological problems, and "disconnection" is just one of the phenomena. Most of the beer supply is also intended to appease them......

However, they are much luckier and more unfortunate than their "counterparts" in black Africa.

Some expatriate jobs in Black Africa risk being hijacked, sniped, and bombed at any moment. Those who are a little more stable also have to live a life of growing their own vegetables and licking and eating the old godmother as a treasure.

In this respect, these people on the continent of Elta are lucky.

If it weren't for the fact that interrupting the Elta might be cemented by the power structure of the "pulling the mountain", the expatriate in Mendong City would not have been only five years...... However, five years away from the civilized world and almost disappeared from society, does it seem too long for these elite social people?

From this point of view, the visitors on the continent of Elta are unfortunate again. And even more unfortunately, they are separated from the formed civilization by a portal that does not know when it will close.

Even if an equally advanced, or even more advanced, city or country is built here, only the other side of the portal is home. Even if Black Africa is far away, they can have countless means to get out of a foreign land.

However, as soon as the portal is closed, these Elta's expatriates should be at a loss. Moreover, there are many advanced countries in black Africa that can still save their lives, and whether the portal is closed or not has nothing to do with how advanced Elta is.

Complex sterilization and isolation mechanisms are nothing in the face of this...... The fear of eternal separation from home, the forced parting with friends, family, and familiar things like the dead, but unable to close their eyes and forget their pain and longing. This is torture more cruel than death.

Moving across the ocean, getting a green card and a foreign nationality, speaking a 26-letter language is nothing. You can take a cruise ship from Xinxiang to Mo, you can go to San Francisco to take the latest supersonic passenger plane to arrive in Namba in Yamadai and then transfer back to China, or you can directly take a stable wide-body passenger plane, in short, there are various ways - as long as you have money, it is not a problem whether you have a hometown or a hometown dish.

The bewildered scientist couldn't confirm the mechanism of the portal, and even the elf Ramahedi shook his head and didn't know. But no matter how unclear it is, this portal is not always for money or coins, right?

"The work we do is to make the future better both at home and here." Dr. Wei swallowed a piece of sheep's kidney, "Is it not understood that the work of the great predecessors is different?" ”

"I don't understand whether I care about our bullshit, I just can't get used to seeing them upright, eating with a bowl, putting down the bowl and ordering grass for our own mother, pointing at our backbone." The owner of the barbecue restaurant shook his legs and scolded - after all, it was a self-service barbecue, and he could also come down to "have fun" with the guests.

"I don't know what the recent domestic reviews look like." Dr. Wei's colleague hurriedly stuffed a piece of beef tongue into his mouth, "I don't know how long it has been since I have been on Weibo and news websites." ”

The owner of the barbecue restaurant squinted and said: "Isn't it like that since I came, 'losing power and humiliating the country'." After saying this, he quickly picked up his chopsticks and flipped a row of chicken breasts - not with tongs, but with chopsticks to turn the food on the iron net, was a habit he had developed a long time ago.

"'Loss of power and humiliation of the country', I still want to smack his face of 'Showa Mandate'." Dr. Wei calmly fired a map cannon, took advantage of the situation to bite his teeth, and a large baked rice cake disappeared in an instant.

"It's still fried to be delicious." It's easy to destroy the slimy enemy, "How can there be a mellow taste of festival products on weekdays." ”

"That's because you don't usually eat, do you know what those brothers who went out to the canyon to build roads were like after a month's shift? About a month ago. ”

A month ago? Dr. Wei was delighted. "I don't know, I'm still on an enemy mission at that time." Speaking of which, he also deliberately pulled the collar, showing that he had made great contributions.

"Alas, those brothers who do engineering are really bitter for them." The barbecue restaurant owner seemed to feel that he had a special say at this point. "A group of people with black hands and faces, and they didn't bother to wash them, and rushed straight into our eating place."

He was a first-hand witness. If it weren't for someone waving his papers, he really couldn't tell that these tanned clay figurines were not black migrant workers from Mozambique or Tanzania.

And as soon as these sturdy men of the engineering team, who could only make do with the standards of the cooking class for nearly a month, they showed that they did not lose the amount of food that Elta's hungry men did not lose at all - not to mention that the consumption of the self-service barbecue restaurant without profit and loss increased exponentially that day, and I heard that someone next door next door ordered four fried rice at once, along with a large amount of soup......

"They are suffering in the front, but they are just a little more than the money they get back home. It's nothing for us to be brainy and busy, people are really desperate to walk the construction site in the wilderness, and there are still so many people in the country pointing fingers...... I don't know if they will be looked at differently when they go back. ”

The length of stay of the engineering team is not the same as that of Dr. Wei, and they will return to China as soon as the project is accepted.

"It's just us who should be worried, five years." Dr. Wei also added an accent to the five-year number.

"Yes." The agitated barbecue restaurant owner seemed to have been poured a bucket of cold water on his head. "God knows what it will be like in five years."

"Five years ago, when Europeans were full of confidence, they didn't expect to end up like this."

"Many people in China also say the same, how do you say it?"

"The Europeans have lost their place because of Our Lady, and sooner or later the new district and Mendong City will be ousted because of Our Lady." Dr. Wei's colleague deliberately pretended to be serious, and waited until the meat and wine in the mouths of the two people in front of him had swallowed before deliberately frowning and saying.

"Hahahahahaha

The ridicule of his fellow human beings who toiled in the other world was so pale and powerless in the face of everything here that it made people laugh.