Metamorphosis - Extraterrestrial Adventures (9)
As I thought when I first came here, all the prisoners here are felons in various life forms. Of course, one important thing is that their intelligence is comparable to that of the Big Mouth, otherwise the Big Mouth Man probably wouldn't be able to control it.
Ever since the barbarians were sanctioned by the Space Military Tribunal, it has become an important place to dispose of space junk, and these prisoners have become the main tools for dealing with space junk. By the time the barbarians were stopped, the homes of the Big-Mouthed were in ruins, and everywhere there was a desolate and miserable scene. At that time, the Bigmouths asked the military court to allow them to travel to the Barbarians' planet, and the Barbarians went to live on their planet. The court-martials did not allow it, because it did not comply with the relevant laws and regulations, and it was true that the barbarians had committed a crime, but their planet could not be possessed by other living beings, and if so, the barbarians could also sue the big-mouthed people for aggression. In the end, the military court said that in the future, let the barbarians work for you, let them go to your planet to reform, and bring the land that was destroyed before back to life. The big-mouthed man had no choice but to agree. Later, the relevant departments saw that the progress of soil improvement in the current space prison was very limited, so they proposed that why not approach the desolate nature of this place and transform it into a place to collect space junk. One can create wealth, and the other can use the prisoners serving their sentences here, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. The Big Mouth disagrees at first, because everyone knows that space junk can never be cleaned up, because a huge amount of new space junk is created every year. In this way, the authorities want to turn this place into a permanent site dedicated to the disposal of space junk, which is undoubtedly unacceptable to the big-mouthed people who love their planet. But it's not okay to accept it, because the number of big-mouthed people is very small, and the strength is very weak, even if you want to oppose it, you don't have the strength, so in the end you obediently accept it.
I wonder if there is only that kind of bullying between us low-level life forms, it turns out that it also exists in high-intelligence life forms. It seems that it is very necessary to strengthen the strength of one's own team, because the power of one person is really limited, and it is impossible to make some transformative moves. Just like a member of our scripture-learning team, if the master went alone, he wouldn't be able to keep it, because he would soon be eaten by monsters; If Brother Monkey goes alone, I guarantee that he doesn't have that patience, maybe one day he will be too far away from the mountain and return to Huaguo Mountain; If I only want the old pig to go, although I have the patience, I must not be able to resist the temptation of those beautiful women on the way; Senior Brother Sha is even worse, mainly because he has no opinions, and he can't make his own decisions in case of trouble.
This shows the importance of a strong team.
Every day, some of the prisoners here are escorted to all directions of space, and the space junk is collected by special transport boats, and then the prisoners on the ground are sorted and disposed of.
By the way, the reason why the relevant departments want to recycle them is because they are really harmful and useless floating in the atmosphere, and often become an obstacle to various means of transportation; Second, because of the shortage of energy, we will encounter the situation that we cannot find raw materials when carrying out certain projects.
Among the prisoners serving their sentences, I saw a very strange kind of lifeform: when they were dealing with space junk, they were similar to Wali in "Robot Wall-E", they all ate some messy garbage into their stomachs, and then pulled it out. The only difference is that the robot is only on its belly because it is a robot; But these living beings in front of us are different, because they are all spiritually intelligent creatures like us, but they have to eat garbage to get by. The Big-Mouthed explained that they had been modified to be like this, but they weren't. The so-called improvement is to inject a special potion into their bodies to make them develop into their current form. Their current appearance is: like a machine, with iron teeth and copper teeth, steel intestines, and vajra stomach, which can basically digest all kinds of metals.
I asked if they would have a bad stomach because of this? The big mouths said don't worry, we can't eat those things, but they are professionals, and that kind of work is commonplace for them, just like us eating, if they are not allowed to eat space junk one day, they will be uncomfortable keeping it. I thought that such a punishment was too inhumane, but when I thought about it, they were also inhumane when they killed other people's relatives, and now they are just receiving a-for-tat retribution, which is still more reasonable.
The Big Mouths say that the energy they have is not the same type as the energy we need, and it will take time to convert. The people of the valley said okay, let's just wait here for now, and then go to the planet from the other passage pointed out by the big mouth man when we have enough energy. I'm looking for a while, I can just keep my head for a while, I've been non-stop since the start of the earth, and I'm going to leave immediately after replenishing my energy, so I'm very unaccustomed to it, and I think I'll have to take a break again, and I won't even give my old pig a chance to breathe?
Except for the head, the big-mouthed person looks very similar to us earthlings, and the old pig is basically acceptable. Moreover, there are also crops on the prison planet, red and green; The big-mouthed people eat the same thing as we eat - I mean the type of food: large grains of plants like rice, plants like vegetables, red fruits like tomatoes...... Of course, all of these are much taller and more burly than those on our planet. For example, things like rice, which are also eaten by the large-mouthed people, but their size is almost impossible to hold with a single hand; For example, green plants like vegetables often only need to pick one of them to make a plate of dishes at a meal; Another example is the fruit like a tomato, which is different from our earth, where each vine can only produce a single fruit, and it is very huge, usually a meal or a day can not be eaten, so when the large-mouthed people pick them, they do not pick them whole, but use a knife to cut a piece from there, and then the scar on it will heal automatically......
Not only is it large, but it also contains a lot of energy. Normally, I have to eat eight or nine or ten bowls of rice at home, but here I only need to eat a little bit to feel full. I think this is a good weight loss food, it is estimated that if you eat this food for a long time, you can't get fat if you want to, then Sister Qing doesn't have to worry about my weight loss career before, but it's a pity that the food on our earth can't hold such a high energy.
For the time being, we live in a small room on a hill, a large area, next to the quarters of the big-mouthed prison guards. I don't know if I'm scared by the scene of the war, the big-mouthed people are still more apprehensive, anyway, I haven't seen a house that rises on the ground alone, all like the bandits in ancient times, the residents of the Loess Plateau, set up their rooms in caves, and the living conditions are the same as when my old pig used to be a monster. However, although it is a cave, the decoration inside is not much different from the real room, and all the equipment is used.
Sure enough, it turned out that my guess was correct, and the original motive of the Bigmouth people to build their house in the cave was indeed with war in mind, and they said that if there was another war in the future, they would be less worried. There are only a dozen or so big-mouthed prison guards living on this hill, and some big-mouthed people told me that they are just a small team, and most of the prison guards are stationed in a large camp in the distance, and every hill around us is stationed with a small number of prison guards with the same number as them, usually only to keep in touch, and only come to cooperate with each other when there is an emergency. Of the dozen or so prison guards, two of them took care of the big guys, and the rest were tasked with maintaining order, and they also held some special duties depending on the situation.
At mealtime, all the prisoners lined up in a straight line and went to the window one by one with a metal container with symbols to receive the meal. Looking at the strangely shaped lifeforms dragons and snakes standing in a mixed row, the funny effect is really indescribable.
I forgot to mention that the place where we fell earlier was not in the hands of this prison guard squad, and we were in the middle of the two squads, so many prisoners stood in two rows to watch us, one on each side; According to the relevant regulations, the prisoner cannot exceed the area where the sentence is being served, and unless it is allowed, it is treated as an escape.
The prisoners ate all of them squatting on the ground, looking very embarrassed, and even a little pitiful, but when they thought that they deserved their crimes, they were relieved. The inmates ate in different ways. Some use a straw-like organ to extend directly into the rice bowl; Some of them are like eating ginseng fruit back then, and they pour rice and vegetables into their mouths and swallow them in one go; Some need to eat different kinds of food separately, such as eating with one mouth, eating vegetables with one mouth, and eating meat with one mouth; Some need to catalyze the food into something suitable for them to eat first, and complete the energy conversion...... Of course, the amount of food they eat is also large and small, some only need to eat very little, and some need to eat bowl after bowl like my old pig before. The prisoners here come from all the planets of each galaxy, and the crimes they commit are also varied. I once saw a few inmates in the office of the big-mouthed prison guard, one of whom was an aircraft manufacturer, who was sued by the Universe FBI for creating too much space junk, and was sent here; The other is because of the excessive consumption of stealing the atmosphere on another planet and using it to replenish the atmosphere above his own planet; Another crime is even more serious, he tried to use some special gravitational pull to pull two planets that were both living beings together, causing a collision and then causing the destruction of living beings. I think that we earthlings only know that there are river and ocean thieves and international criminals, but we don't know that there are higher-level criminals.
Most of the prisoners on the ground are responsible for sorting and sorting the collected space junk and putting it into the corresponding area according to the prior arrangement.
According to my observations, the criminals here are not quite the same as human prisoners, they seem to be on an equal footing with the prison guards, especially when they speak, they are usually loud and angry. I didn't know what they were talking about, but I could feel the menacingness. I asked the big-mouthed prison guards, they look so bad, do they often escape from prison? The big-mouthed prison guard said that under normal circumstances, they would not dare, because then the crime would be more serious, and if the impact was bad, they would face the fate of being disintegrated.
The so-called decomposition means that the body will be emitted like vapor and become a part of the atmosphere. This is harsh for advanced life forms.
Maybe it was by mistake, but the prison break actually happened while we were still there. Here's how it all happened.
There is no difference between day and night on the prison planet, but there seems to be a concept of time here. There is a planet near the prison planet that blocks it at regular intervals, blocking the shiny material shining from the luminous star, and the prison planet does not completely darken down at this time, but forms a shadow area for a period of time. When the planet in front of it turns around, the prison planet will regain its previous brightness. The big-mouthed prison guard said that if you want to prevent prison escape, you should only be vigilant when the shadow appears, because there are usually big-mouthed prison guards patrolling the sky above the prison planet, even if they go to collect space junk from afar and are accompanied by prison guards, they also need to go through a series of strict checks to prevent prison escapes. Coupled with the fact that this is where felons serve their sentences, preventing prison escapes has become a top priority. It just so happened that when we were still on the prison planet, there was a natural landscape similar to a solar and lunar eclipse, that is, there were planets blocking the front of the prison planet.
Maybe the shadow will have a certain effect on the functioning of the living form for a while, anyway, when the shadow comes, I will be very sleepy. So later, I said hello to Mugu No. 2 and said that I should sleep for a while, and if anything happened, I would be informed. The two of the Mutani agreed.
By the way, the big-mouthed people are likewise sleepless, and the same goes for those who are serving their sentences. According to the people of Kitani, only low-level life forms need to sleep to accumulate energy. Although they don't have to sleep with their eyes closed, the concept of rest still exists, and they will stop and rest after a while, especially before and after eating. Of course, the concept of time here is just "wishful thinking", and in fact, the big mouth people also do not have the word "time".
I was sleeping when I was suddenly awakened by a sound of rattling. My old pig was not easy to be woken up, but now that he has been woken up, you can imagine how loud that sound is. I wonder if this shadow is relatively rare, so they are as happy when they see the shadow as we earthlings see a lunar and solar eclipse? I wasn't convinced, so I leaned on the window to see what was going on.
The scene outside was very surprising to me, because just like when I used to watch a movie when I saw the enemy sneak up on the other party's camp in the middle of the night, it was brightly lit, full of people, and chaotic; And there was the sound of "Ula Ula" like an alarm that we had just begun to fall. The lights, in particular, flickered back and forth one after the other; Not only on the ground, but also in mid-air, there are as many swaying light sources as stars.
I didn't know what was going on, so I ran to ask the big-mouthed guard at the door. It turned out that it was a felony who escaped from prison, and now the prison guards are pursuing it with all their might. At the end, the big-mouthed man told me not to run around, otherwise it would cause them unnecessary trouble. At first, I was going to go out and take a closer look, but listening to the doorkeeper dispel my previous thoughts.
After a long while, the sirens were cleared, the lights in mid-air and on the ground were extinguished, and the area of shadows was gradually shrinking. Later, during dinner, I heard from the prison guard on duty at the time that a felon, who was proficient in aircraft assembly, quietly hid some parts and assembled them into a small improvised transport boat, trying to escape by taking advantage of the shadows. Unexpectedly, the prison guards had just installed a remote sensing device before the shadows came, but before the felons could escape far, they were caught by the fast-attacking big-mouthed prison guards, and it was said that he might face the fate of being disintegrated.
I don't know how to think about this felon, since it's space junk, it means that it is an extremely backward thing that has been discarded and not used, and it is really more knowledgeable to use them as a tool for escape. If you had used something more advanced, it probably wouldn't have been where it is now. Of course, I just think about it this way, and I also hate criminals. It needs to be explained that although I look down on those space junks and think they are old, I have used them to save our lives before, so I don't have any malice or contempt in my heart.
I once went to the farm on Prison Planet, which is an extremely "secret" place.
Mugu No. 2 and No. 4 thought that they would be able to leave after two meals, but the kind of energy we needed happened to be in short supply, and the big-mouthed people didn't dare to replenish it to us casually, saying that if there was any emergency, if the energy was not enough, it would be a very serious matter. I very much agree with the Big Mouth, think about it, if those vicious felons take advantage of the lack of energy in the prison to initiate an escape, the consequences will be unimaginable. So when Big Mouth Man No. 2 said that, I immediately raised my hand in approval.