Chapter 1 Leaves
"Hey, Shaw! Can you slow down! ”
"Haha, you can't catch up with me, can you? A sucker! ”
At six o'clock in the morning, Xiao and Mei, who have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, were running in the direction of the school, and the bell was ringing at this time, and they were late again.
"Boss Luo, bring me two green onion cakes as usual." Luo Hui was still busy with the work in hand, and when he heard Xiao's voice, he gave him the two green onion cakes that had been prepared.
"No, and then Fool Mei."
"Oh, be careful." Mei almost didn't catch the green onion cake thrown by Xiao, and she was afraid that she wouldn't eat it anymore when it fell on the ground that countless people walked on every day.
Xiao smiled again, turned around and ran to her and said, If you don't hurry, then when the teacher enters the classroom, you can wait for the punishment to stand.
Mei is also quite helpless, and she is a little puzzled, why the world is like this, students still have to study, instead of engaging in scientific research to save the earth.
"Xiao and Mei, I'm late again today." Who would have expected the teacher to arrive in the classroom early, because this is the most important lesson in high school - the surface of the earth!
They smiled awkwardly and went back to the back as usual.
"Look at the blackboard, and I'll tell you what the Earth looks like." The teacher turned his back to the student and slowly drew trees, animals, streams, and mountains on the board. It's not that they are not allowed to read the textbook, because the textbook has been used by dozens of generations of students, and each time the current level is used up for the next level, because of the lack of tree resources, so it has to be like this.
Because plants and animals are cultivated in special areas, few people have seen these things, and curiosity drives children, after all, they have lived in Farr all their lives, and they have never seen anything before or on earth.
"Xiao, what's the matter with your hand raised?"
"Teacher, is this the current surface of the earth?"
The teacher was silent, this seems to be the problem of all existing human beings, and this is also the suspicion of all scientists, who have been living here for hundreds of years, living in Farri, their knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation, and people like them who have never seen the surface of the earth may doubt the knowledge that has been handed down.
"Xiao, your question, the teacher can't do anything about it, no one can say for sure about this matter."
"So how did the teacher know about these things?"
"That's because before the earth was polluted, our ancestors passed it down, and it was passed down from generation to generation, but everyone must follow the first important law of Farr - not to leave Farr."
"Teacher, teacher! Didn't there be everything on Earth before? ”
"Yes, according to records, the earth was very rich in resources in the first hundred years before the Fallen, there was no indiscriminate logging, no overhunting, blue skies and white clouds everywhere, birds migrating in flocks..."
"Teacher, what is a bird?"
"Birds, the teacher remembers that they are magical creatures that can fly in the air, and they fly far away in winter and come back in summer..."
The whole lesson was spent in the children's curiosity, and they wanted to see more and more the outside world, whether there were blue skies and white clouds and wild grasses and wild flowers everywhere, ignoring the first rule of Farr.
"Mei, do you want to go out and have a look?" Xiao, who was eating green onion cakes in his mouth, suddenly had this idea in his heart, his curiosity was too strong, and he didn't take the law seriously at all.
"Are you crazy?" Mei does not yearn for the outside world, she feels very satisfied with this kind of life: "You can't think about it? ”
Xiao gave her a roll of the eyes for her to slowly realize, he really wanted to go to the ground to see, probably because the teacher's lecture induced him.
"You still have to think about how to solve the problem of food and clothing every day." In fact, Xiao's family is not very wealthy, their family was originally very happy, but unfortunately a cancer took his father's life, only his mother was left to pull him up, but it is a pity that his mother lost her life because of an accident half a year ago, and now Xiao will go out to work every weekend, just to solve the problem of food and clothing every day, even so, every time he buys something, he buys double portions, and deliberately buys more than Mei.
The two of them are like boyfriend and girlfriend, and they are enviable, just like the man who is responsible for working to earn money to support the family.
"Hey, what do you see I've found in my book?" Shaw excitedly opened the book like a monkey and showed it to May, as if he had found some rare treasure.
"What is this? How do you get so excited? ”
The yellowish color gives the lifeless book a hint of color, and the clearly visible lines are not damaged, or even brittle, as if they were fresh.
"Don't you know?" Shaw slowly closed the book and whispered to her in her ear, "It's a leaf." ”
"Fake," Mei covered her mouth with a shock, she had never seen a tree, let alone a leaf.
Because he often works outside, he often goes to some exclusive breeding places to carry things, and when he sees many animals, plants and trees, he will ask in confusion what is this? The rest of the staff would patiently tell him the answer.
"I also think it's a bit fake, I remember the leaves were supposed to be green, but how did this turn yellow?"
"It can't be artificial, right?"
Xiao also felt a little like this, but because it was too similar, he still wanted to bring this leaf home, he longed for the outside world too much, and this leaf was not enough for him to be satisfied!
finally stayed up until the end of school, Xiao quickly hid the book in his schoolbag, for fear that others would see it.
"This should be left by the higher-level people..."
Mei also followed Xiao into his house, after all, it was a childhood sweetheart, Xiao's appearance at home Mei really didn't care very much, the only light in it emitted a faint light, if there was no artificial sun, then it would be almost dark here, even if it was Farr at night, it was brightly lit, but he still had to go to school, he still had to eat, and he was really reluctant to change these things that were not bad at home.
He took the book out of his bag and opened it, carefully removing the leaf for fear of breaking it.
He put the leaves in front of the lamp, and suddenly the leaves were illuminated transparently, and the clear veins of the leaves were dark and distinct under the shadows, even the pale yellow leaves also emitted a pale green light, and Xiao was like a treasure.
And Mei was dumbfounded, she didn't seem to have seen anything so beautiful in her life.
It can be seen that for Farne, who had never seen animals and plants, a single leaf filled all his curiosity...
But even so, humanity has not lost its selfish nature, and no one knows how long Farr will be able to survive for the remaining humans, maybe years, maybe decades, but it will certainly not always protect humanity.