"Brother, what are you doing here!"

Ah Liang clapped his hands violently, Nipu was startled by him, and returned to reality from his trance, Nipu's eyes gradually focused, looking at the colleague in front of him.

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay, you've been restless today." Ah Liang looked Nipu up and down with a cigarette in his mouth, knocked one out of the cigarette case and handed it to the other party, Nipu shook his head and waved his hand to refuse.

"I don't smoke, I have to go to work in the afternoon, and my hands will tremble."

"Smoke a little more and you won't shake." Ah Liang sniffled and approached Nipu: "What kind of strange smell do you have?" ”

“……”

Nipu turned his head and looked around, it was noon, most of the people had gone to eat, there were not many people near the workshop, and no one was paying attention to them, and then whispered to Ah Liang: "I'll tell you one thing, it's very serious, you must not say it." ”

Ah Liang frowned and said, "What kind of nerves do you kid have?" ”

"The other day...... We went down to the underside of the living ring, about five or six kilometers above the ground, where there was a scrap dump. ”

"We?"

"Me and Kinna." Nip scratched his head and whispered.

"That name sounds like a girl."

"It's a girl, she's my colleague...... It's not important, it's ...... We found a place underground, and we heard people as we walked back, because we were sneaking in, afraid of being seen, so we hid to the side, and in the corner we saw the people, who were driving small trucks down some small cargo boxes from above. Nipu was very serious about what he said he saw, but Ah Liang interrupted him.

"You two, what are you doing down there?" Ah Liang squeezed his eyebrows and said.

"It doesn't matter!" Nipu suddenly became anxious, and asked the other party not to care about these details, not noticing that his face was flushed.

"Okay, you go on."

"One of the cargo boxes was broken, they sorted it out casually and left, and when they were far away......" Nipu said and carefully opened his bag, opening the corner of the bag for Ah Liang to see: "I picked this up in the corner, it must have fallen out of the cargo box." ”

"What is this?" Ah Liang didn't know why he was so nervous, it was just a yellowed old book, so old that even the cover had peeled off, and there were a few unrecognizable words on it, and he couldn't make up a complete vocabulary at all, and he didn't know what kind of book it was just by looking outside.

"History books, which record some ...... I couldn't understand it at all, it was like telling bizarre content from another world, and the historical year used in it was different from our calendar. ”

"Maybe it's just a random spike jotted down by a madman." Ah Liang disagreed.

"There is a mention of earth in it......" Nip's voice was kept to a minimum, because he knew that the word earth was an absolute taboo.

"What!?" Ah Liang was also stirred by this word, and the expression of indifference on his face was swept away.

"I don't know what Earth is, and I don't know where it is, it's just that Starlight City has been destroying news about Earth, don't you remember? Some time ago, an underground organization was wiped out, just because they had a lot of information about the earth. Nip's expression was very complicated, there was excitement and fear, the more he spoke, the more excited he became, he had been searching for the truth, and now he felt that he was the closest to the truth.

"Are you crazy? How dare you bring this thing back, quickly find a place to burn it! Ah Liang put his arm around Nip's shoulders and pulled him aside, trying to find a more hidden place, but his big movements were all the more noticeable.

"Don't you want to know?" Nip grabbed the other party's arm tightly, his eyes were shining, and the muddy years could not be erased, the light that had been buried in his heart all along, at this time, the embers rekindled, shining in his eyes: "Where did we come from?" ”

"I don't want to know that kind of thing, I just know that if you don't burn that thing again, we won't be able to save our heads!"

"There is no planet in the solar system that is suitable for human life! Where did humans live before we established the Star City Alliance? Where did our civilization come from? What has really happened in these years? Did we destroy our home, or did it for some reason no longer fit for human habitation? Or is it simply ...... We are from outside the solar system, what are we? Don't you care at all? Nip's voice was not loud, but his whole neck was red, he seemed to have changed as a person, the reason why he was restless these days was because of this book, this book interpreted many doubts for him, through these vague words, Nipu probably guessed the secret that Xingyao City ** tried his best to hide, but this book also brought him more doubts, he must know this, even if he pays more......

Ah Liang had never seen such a Nip, and he was suddenly suppressed by the momentum of the other party, he was silent for a while, sighed and looked up.

There is no sky above, and the people born in Xingyao City never know what the sky is, what Ah Liang looks at is a layer of copper-colored metal sky, and then above is the central heater that is emitting strong light, more than a hundred kilometers away from the ground, the factory area is at the bottom level, and some of the buildings above are residential areas, which are buildings interwoven with countless layers of hive-like lattices, and continue to go up almost to the end of the line of sight, where is the main transportation network, which is the line of communication between the various residential rings. Passing through the top barrier, you will see another habitation ring that is not much different from this one.

"Did you see that?" Ah Liang seemed to be talking to Nipu, and thought he was talking to himself: "The limit of what we can see is only so far, maybe we can't leave here for the rest of our lives, from life to death in this ring area, I have a little better luck than you...... I'm from the Middle Ring, and I've seen the scenery there, but so what, we can't live without Star City in our lives, what's the use of thinking so much? How do you know...... Isn't the truth you're looking for another elaborate lie? ”

"If that's the case, I'm willing to believe it." Nipu clenched his fists, put away his backpack and turned to leave: "I'm going to go underground again today, it must lead to the place where the contraband is destroyed, I'm going there to find more evidence...... If you want to come, we can come together. ”