Chapter Two Hundred and Three: Joy and Loss
There are still a few people in the control room, and the rest are in the carriage, everyone groped in the dark to find the door, I don't know who opened the door, everyone escaped from the escort car in an orderly manner. Not far from the escort car, they saw a scorching flash of light in the control room of the escort car, followed by a puff of white smoke. The nondescript escort car was still parked on the old highway like that, and the explosion that everyone expected did not happen.
"That's the end, the escort is over?"
"Then what do you want, the program self-destructed, and the escort car is just a pile of metal plates and a pile of parts."
"God, I thought there was going to be a big explosion. It's scared to death. β
"No wonder you ran so fast, you were the one who almost squeezed me out of the car just now."
"Hehe, I really didn't know that self-destruct was the death of the program, and I thought it would explode."
"It's terrible to have no knowledge. Counting the number of people and starting to register. Rose said loudly in the dark.
"Bell, Electricity, Thunder, Joan, Clean...... And babies. β
Twenty-three people, many of them standing in the dark, have now left the center of the shield of the void, and after a while, everyone is slowly getting used to it, and they can also see the scenery around them.
"It's about to get out of the shield and get home."
"Yes, we have been driving in the escort car for more than an hour, how can it be faster than our convoy, and how many times faster than walking, Guoguo Huahua, you two estimate all of a sudden, how far is the distance?"
"Master, we can't connect to the Internet here, we're just a timer, we walked 80 kilometers in the escort car, and we don't know how far it is."
"80 kilometers, I feel like it's a while, and it's still a modern means of transportation. Hurry back home, city, we're back! β
"It's still divided into several teams, everyone distances, although they are far from home, it's still in no man's land, and safety comes first."
"yes, who still has a weapon in their hand?"
"Rose, we all have it, but we don't have much ammunition, and we can still contact each other."
"Okay, don't forget to throw your weapons away when you leave no man's land. Let's go, get out of the shield and get home. β
It was still Zhong's team at the front, the Rose team in the middle, and the tree team was still the largest and the slowest. Now the space is not so dark and cloudy, although it is not yet sunny, the sun still shows its big face above the clouds. The old road under everyone's feet followed the appearance of a no-man's land, and the thick dust was as difficult to walk and tired as snow. Walking fast, the dust raised was choking, coughing again and again, and the mask couldn't stop it from drilling into the throat. Walking slower is more tiring, and every step is like a tug-of-war with dust, and dust always prevails.
"God, the dust has been so thick for more than a hundred years, this is still the erosion of rain, snow and frost, if there is no this, I am afraid that no man's land will be buried."
"It won't be buried by the dust, which will eventually turn into soil for the plants to grow and reproduce."
"That's right, but it's so hard to walk now, we've already rested twice halfway, what a waste of food."
"Don't complain, it's time to get back home, and you'll have something to eat then. Do you still have fast food, it doesn't speak, it won't starve you. β
"Alas, there aren't many of them, and I don't see that the backpacks are all deflated."
The three squads almost talked about food, and they walked like this for two days, and everyone had no food left. And in the past two days, there are ruins as far as the eye can see, smooth ruins, not to mention the town, even the big dirt bag is rarely seen. The light is getting brighter and brighter. This rekindled hope in everyone's hearts, and in the evening, everyone gathered together to camp again.
"Alas, I miss the old days, when I could still set up a tent, and now the sky should be made into a bed by dust, and the wind is drunk and the ashes are eaten."
"I'm hungry, I still have a piece of quick food, let's eat it separately." Ray said.
"I also have a piece here, each person eats a mouthful of pads, pads, pads, and stomachs." Joan followed. There were also a few people who had some food, and everyone divided it equally and counted it as dinner.
"If you insist on it, it shouldn't be far away. Prepare for the hosts of this city to have a treat. Zhong joked to ease everyone's emotions.
"Zhong, when we walked over just now, we looked at the soil here, and it should be able to grow plants, but nothing has grown." The water looked at the dust in the night and said.
"Water, this is an old road, if you want to find plants, you have to go to the original village, even if the soil here is suitable for the growth of plants, there is no condition to blow the seeds over."
"Yes, when I see the right soil, my heart is itchy, an occupational disease."
Another sunny day, the brightness in the space is stronger, and the faint mist is cool and pleasant. It's not clear how many years have passed since the ring crack survived, but this is the first time I've seen such good weather, and everyone is in a very good mood, and they are not at all frustrated because they only got a few mouthfuls of fast food for breakfast. It seemed that he was walking forward with a full meal, and no one complained about the dust raised in the sky.
"Zhong, we will soon get out of the most difficult shield in the no-man's land, I don't know whose hometown this is, I said that when we go back, we will be invited to a full meal, take out a good sleep, and give us a set of clothes that fit." Iron Legs is starting to talk poorly again.
"Iron legs, I didn't see that you are still so greedy, it's okay to have a full meal, it's also trivial to get a good night's sleep, as for the clothes that fit, it's a bit difficult. Preferably, this is your hometown, and when the time comes, you will be ruined. Dian said with a smile.
"Electricity, it's still a partner, maybe this is the city you live in, you and Rose are two people, you can't do a meal, you have to double."
"Virtue, I originally wanted to help you find a daughter-in-law, but this time it's no fun." Rose also joked.
"Hey, is it a green forest belt in front, but I don't know if it's a real tree or a fake tree."
"yes, it's a nice color, and as far as I know, not all places have green belts of this size. What kind of city is this? β
"Water, you're sick again, you know how many cities there are on the whole planet. However, such a large area of green belt is really rare. Ray said musefully.
"Rose, why do you feel a little familiar with this green belt?" Zhong said as he looked at the green woods in the distance.
"Familiar? Zhong, this shouldn't be your hometown, you have to treat you too. β
"Then you will be disappointed, my hometown is a small county, there is not much population, and it is impossible to have such a large area of green forest. That little bit of land is not enough to grow food. β
"Zhong, I look familiar too, is this placeβ" Rose hesitated, and only said half a sentence.
"Rose, what is your hometown?"
"Not really. Let's take a closer look. Rose said and looked at the clock, and then at the expression of thunder.
The green belt was less than fifty meters in front of everyone, and Rose told everyone to stop. There are two colors in the woods, dark green and emerald green, which cannot be distinguished from a distance, and when you walk in, you find that the two greens are distinct, and they are mixed with each other.
"Rose, what do you mean, why can't you go forward?"
"Yes, after passing through the green belt, we are really back to the place where human beings live, why do we have to stop at the door of our home."
"Rose, just tell everyone, this is not something that can be walked over casually."
"That's what Ray said, do you know whose hometown this is? This is the common home of all of us, the place where we are the backbone. β
"Ahh Zhong, you didn't mean the high city, did you? β
"It's the High City, I don't know how the bell saw it, the building where I work is at the back of this forest, I can see it almost every day, watching it fall with snow in the winter, and watching the birds that occasionally fly here in the summer, which are the little life that has just appeared in front of humans on the earth. But he flew away disappointed because he didn't have a real leaf. This forest is the last barrier in the no-man's land, and it is still the city around the high city, do you think it may be a place that can be passed through casually? β
Rose's words silenced everyone.
"It's also the first time I've seen this forest, but I know from the Ringtall database that there is the only military facility on Earth that surrounds the Ring. I also know that if you want to pass through this forest, you need the instructions of the ring network terminal, otherwise it will be a child - death! β
"It's not a secret of the ring height, when I left the ring height, this forest had just begun to demonstrate the design, and I didn't know much about the specifics. If you want to walk through this forest, it is difficult to enter the sky. Ray also said.
"Although this is not a secret of the ring height, but few people know about it, no one cares that there is such a green belt in the ring high city, most of the people in this city work in the ring high area, and they will not be idle to talk about its existence."
"Yes, who did you say it, it's not hundreds of years ago, everyone had seven aunts, eight aunts, uncles and uncles, and a group of distant relatives and cousins. On weekdays, there are few opportunities to see humans, and the most people I see are robots. It's stupid to tell if it's a real person. β
"The robot goes shopping on the street, the robot handles the daily chores on behalf of the owner, and the robot takes care of the human service to the comfort of the whole."
"Rose, Zhong, Ray, you've never said anything about the High City."
"There were hundreds of countries on the whole earth hundreds of years ago, and now there are hundreds of cities, who knew that we were so lucky to embark on the ultimate station line connecting the high city. It's a few hundred points out of a hand, and our luck is really good. β
"Rose, this is still called good luck, you have to think of a way, doesn't it mean that the ring network is dormant, and it can still be controlled by the ring network here."
"No knowledge, if the ring network is still running, we still have time to decrypt it, and now that the ring network is dormant, we don't know what state it is in. It's impossible to be allowed through, and it's impossible to predict what will happen if you force it through. β
"If it's okay with the escort car driving halfway here, if not who would dare to take this risk."
"What can I do? When we all arrived at the door, we lost the key, which is not the rhythm of telling us to die. Rose, isn't this just like a long, long time ago, these trees are movable formations, looking at the two kinds of green is this possibility. β
"You're really brain-opening, it's high-tech modern here, and there are no guns, artillery, and biological weapons. You've watched too many online dramas. β