Chapter 17: Energy Gem
"It looks a bit like a rat, or a rat animal. But those were wiped out by humans thousands of years ago? ”
"Rats? They are said to be one of the few small animals found to carry a deadly bacterial toxin. When medicine was not developed, it took the lives of countless people, and it was extremely contagious, which can be called a kind of human plague. ”
"Well, that's how it was written, and later humans developed drugs to restrain this virus, and fewer people died because of the rat virus. Rats are also listed as a category that must be eliminated. In fact, more than 1,000 years ago, this rat family rarely appeared in human life. Most of them have returned to the mountains and forests, and the vitality and reproduction of this kind of thing is also one of the reasons why it is difficult for humans to eradicate it. And they have more food, but anything that can be nibbled on can be fed. ”
"It's not about exterminating them, it's just driving them away from human life. Speaking of this kind of thing called rats, how can it look different from what we remember. The teeth, the tail, the claws..."
"It's mutated, on this earth that has been planned by the ring high, in the area where lava erupts intensively, what else is not mutated."
"Perhaps, these are the names we call outside of technology, in fact, the earth is still the earth, but there is not too much energy to govern, ruins, wilderness, environment, etc."
"To put it simply, there are too few people, too few people. And with such a small number of human beings, we have also built a ring height, a hundred years of hard work, almost two generations, there is still time to heal the wounds of the earth. And the robots that assist humans are all for human beings, and the environment can only rely on nature itself. ”
"So, now we are gradually discovering that nature is working hard to recover, the mountains and rivers have shown their original colors, and the plants and animals are also there, and the days of beautiful mountains and rivers are not far away."
"Zhong, don't deceive yourself, how many years have human beings hurt the earth, I'm afraid the kind of scenery you said will be calculated for another hundred years."
"Even if our generation can't catch up, our descendants will always be able to live under the blue sky and white clouds again."
"Stop, I've been thinking so far, what now? This rat-like creature will not attack us. This grass is black on a single look, and dark green on a piece. It's simply our shortcomings, and we can't see anything. ”
"You can't go back, and even if you don't go forward, you'll have to pass through such grass again. We've been more than half the way. What are you afraid of, what does it mean when you see people running fast? It shows that they are afraid of humans in their bones. ”
"yes, we don't even have food now, so I guess they won't sneak up on them."
"Damn rats, it's right to be exterminated by humans."
"Speed up, so that they have fewer opportunities, they don't have anything to eat, and who knows if they will be infected with any germs and viruses."
"Zhong, I don't think it's better to burn this grass with a fire. Is it good to burn them along with them? ”
"Bad idea, that's a bad suggestion. Nature has its own rate of evolution, and can we afford to burn all this grass now? ”
"Not really, the fire source is still there for a greater purpose. Hey, whoever brought the light source, let's see what's under the grass. ”
"Yes, the grass here is so dense that you don't know what to step on under your feet, which makes people afraid."
"I agree with this, just take a look."
The so-called light source is just the old portable lighting, and the energy source is the kind of round and flat battery. This battery was left over from the ancestors of Lava Village, and it was an antique thing like those robots. The light source is not very large, but it is bright and bright. Pushing aside the dense black-green grass stalks, a scene that everyone regretted seeing appeared. The grass has no roots in sight, and everywhere it comes into the eyes, it looks like feces, and there is no grass to cover it, and the smell goes straight to the nose. It was as if there was a layer of creature wriggling on top of the feces, and it looked disgusting. The worm was the first to vomit.
"Hey, turn it off, turn off the light source quickly, I can't stand it."
"What? It's all rat droppings, and it's all living creatures, and it's even more terrifying than rats. ”
"God, no wonder it's stinky and sticky when you step on it, it's disgusting and sick, vomit!"
"It's also strange that the grass grows like this, and there is too much fertilizer. It's simply that the plants are too full. ”
"Zhong, I still suggest burning this grass and exterminating those rats along with it."
"Stop, what are we doing with that little fire, and it's all fresh grass here, you think it's dry." Zhong said as he covered his mouth and nose and jumped out of the place where the light source was shining. Everyone followed the big leap and walked away.
No one thought about what they had just seen, they just kept jumping and walking. Tiredness is forgotten until the end of the grass. It's not the same here as when I came, there is no carpet of velvet, there is still a knife-like grass abrupt and gone, and what is presented in front of everyone is a bare hillside, the hillside is shining, and there is a layer of pink dust on it.
"Oh my God, this is where we look at the glow. Isn't it a gem? ”
"It's a mineral, and the pink on it should be that little pink bug."
"Why are there pink bugs here, and how do they pass through the grass with rats?"
"Don't ask us, we don't know. It's not a little bug to purify the gems. ”
"Whimsy, can that little bug gnaw on a gem?"
"Why can't it, how painful it is when biting, haven't you all experienced it?"
"It's really possible that the pink bugs feed on this mineral, or they die, how can they be like hard particles."
"Hey, those protruding everywhere are gemstones, and they're all angular and angular."
"What eyes, and round," a few people stood on the bare hillside, watching, and guessing.
"I'll take a look, you're all waiting for me." Zhong was the first to jump up the glittering hill. But unexpectedly, the person slipped under his feet, and the person fell on the smooth hillside, and the pink dust flew up.
"Zhong, are you hurt?" The person behind hurriedly asked.
"It's not hurt, it's just that the pink dust is like talcum powder, otherwise it wouldn't be so difficult to walk here. Be careful when you come. Zhong remembered as he spoke, but he didn't expect to slip and fall again, but this time he was hurt in the waist, and it hurt very much.
"Mom, I don't believe it, I can't go over, Zhong, you wait, I'll go over and help you up." The tree also jumped over, but as soon as it hit the ground, it fell down with it.
"Oops, what's on my waist?"
"Tree, are you okay, it's that raised gem that reaches your waist, and I've been knocked too, and I can't even climb up now."
"It's really a gemstone, it's too hard. Hey, you guys have to find a way to come over, it's not terrible to fall, it's terrible to be touched by a gem for a while. The tree joked bitterly.
"What can I do, I just stepped on something slimy, and it's disgusting to wipe the soles of my shoes clean."
"Hey, isn't there grass? Why not. ”
"yes, it's okay to use grass to wipe the soles of your shoes."
"Stupid, why don't you polish the soles of your shoes and tie them directly to your feet!"
"Brilliant idea, but why is this grass so difficult to pull?"
"Knife cut, I have a small knife."
"Who doesn't seem to have it, this kind of backpack left by the ancestors comes with knives, scissors, daggers or something, mowing grass and tying feet!"
Several people had the black and green grass stalks tied to their feet, and then they walked to the place where Zhong Heshu had fallen and helped the two of them up.
"Are you seriously injured, can you still jump?"
"It's heavy, I can't jump, I can barely walk. Damn, you're hitting my waist. Zhong said as he lifted his foot tied to the grass stalk and kicked it at a round bulge, but unexpectedly, the bulge was kicked up and rolled to Zhong's feet. The original place left a small round pit. Zhong picked it up casually and couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.
"Gems, real gems, are the same as the energy gems of robots."
"Really, I'll look at that piece." The tree also kicked out an angular gem, took it in his hand, and looked at it.
"In other words, it's the same as the robot. Zhong, we've made a fortune. ”
"It's a fortune, but how can you cut such a gemstone? Is there anything of the same shape and size as the energy gem? ”
"I remember, there are some tools in the warehouse that we don't recognize, do you remember that there is a workbench?"
"Why don't you remember, it took us a few days to clean up the warehouse of our ancestors, and it turns out that the workbench is for this?"
"I don't know if these gems are not meant to be eaten, and they don't look like real gemstones, they can only be said to be minerals."
"Then the question arises, was the robot made by the ancestors and brought to the lava monitoring point a long time ago, or was it made in the process of monitoring the lava?"
"There is no solution to this question. Through the inference of this incident, it is at least certain that the events we are encountering now should have also happened to the ancestors of Lava Village. Even if there was a written record, it has disappeared with the passage of time. I don't know how to save the only work diary. And the robots apparently exist in the part outside the lava village, and the inside is not built by the same people as the outside. Regardless of history, it's always good that we've discovered minerals that are similar to energy gemstones. ”
"Yes, it's unknown who came first and who came later. I thought it was figured out, but now it's still a mystery. From the perspective of science and technology, we are modern people living in the era of technological explosion, but when we get to this place where science and technology are in rudiment, we don't understand anything. ”
"Sorrow, the sorrow of history, the sorrow of our own."
"Zhong, it's too early to say that these can be used on robots, first they have to be cut out, and then they have to be of equal composition. These are all issues that need to be addressed. ”
"yes, we don't understand the cutter and the console. It's ironic to say that we live in a high-tech age, but we don't understand antique things. Is technology abandoning us, or are we simply not aware of technology. ”
"Or maybe it's technology that feeds our generation of waste."