However, no matter how relieved you are, you can't offset the fear of the unknown.

Especially when Mr. Summer said "it's here", the fear in their hearts once again swept away their calmness.

"This is the ground," said Summer, pointing to a cleared exit, with a hint of relief in her words, the gravel and the vines on both sides had been cleared, and now it was so clean that it didn't fit in with the ruins around it, and the work was effective these days.

"The sun and stars you want to see are above, but it is night now, and only the moon and stars are hanging in the sky."

Although they are close to the sun and star that can only be seen by the stalkers in the sky, but they are really in such a situation, do they really have the courage to face it?

Fortunately, the youngest boys and girls were finally willing to go up because of their ignorance and curiosity. One girl looked at the faint light at the entrance of the cave, and she let out a sigh of "It's so dark", while another boy pointed to a glimmer of the sky and said inexplicably, "Don't adults often say that the sky is big?" Why is there only such a small piece. “

"Stupid," the other girl scoffed, "it's just an exit, and you can see how big it is when you get out." “

Summer had taken a few steps forward, and now the passage was large enough for a transport truck full of goods to get in and out, and more than enough to accommodate them at the same time. He beckoned to the boys and girls below.

Having never set foot on the ground, they naturally cringed.

A deformed girl shook her head with fear on her face, "There's poison on the ground, that's what the teachers say." The tall boy echoed, "the headmaster also said that we would be poisoned by the sun if we stepped on it." ”

Even if Summer walked out first, the children behind her were still worried, but Wei Ning, the freak, was not afraid at all, she walked straight out without a trace of hesitation, which made Summer only feel a burst of exclamation, "Have you been to the ground before?" “

Wei Ning shook her head, "First ......"

Oh, Summer suppressed the surprise in her heart, "And what do you think of this place?" “

Wei Ning raised her head and looked up at the stars soaked in black ink, and the lonely moon surrounded by stars, she fixed her eyes on Duyue, her eyes were as cold as ever, until the breeze blew, and the black clouds suppressed the corner of the silver moon for a while, she turned her gaze to summer, but the corners of her mouth hooked up a signature sweet smile, "It's a beautiful place, underground, we can't see the sky at all." Her tone clearly did not have a trace of appreciation and nostalgia, just as if she had seen a small pebble rolling by the side of the road.

"......" summer has nothing to say.

He brought all thirty boys and girls to the base. The synths were already standing at the gate of the base waiting for them, dressed in black, with uniformly patterned, number-coded fiber masks on their faces. Two security robots are one behind the other, and if any of them dare to make any unusual move, they will make sure to shoot him first.

Fortunately, all the children were attracted to the base. They gathered in front of the entrance to the towering gate of the Dawn Base...... As their eyes wandered along the castle-like base, and especially at the tower, which belonged to the summer alone, all the children were impressed by the majestic and towering round tower, which looked like a ladder to heaven leading to the heavenly palace, and made people wonder what was at the end.

"It's pretty........," cried a very young boy. , "It's so high....... It's like ....... "He couldn't have imagined how to describe such a tall building, after all, he had spent his life begging for a living in underground tunnels that were only a few meters high."

"It's a big ........"

"This is a castle where only a prince can live," exclaimed an innocent girl, "and there must be a handsome prince waiting for us inside." ”

Another girl argued, "Strange, I've read a book about a big castle, and I can guarantee that even the largest castle in the world is not a tenth of its size, it's not a castle at all, it's a city." ”

The blind girl who had begged her to take her in sniffed her nose, "It's so fragrant....... she raised her head and said softly, "Mr. Summer, it must be beautiful here, isn't it?"

Summer had been keeping an eye on her, these were two sisters, just like Villeri and Werna, but they were quieter and more timid, and they were probably the most insignificant stars next to the moon compared to Winning.

He nodded, "Of course it's beautiful." Rest assured, soon, you will be able to see everything here with your own eyes," he solemnly declared, "as long as you agree to my request." ”

"Seeing everything? What do you see? The blind girl took her mute sister's hand in confusion and clenched it tightly, which was her only reliance, "Mr. Summer, what is the request?" ”

Summer clapped his hands and drew the attention of all the children to himself, and he cleared his throat.

"Children," he proclaimed, "I have not brought you here not only so that you may see the night sky," he raised his hand slightly, and saw the door of the white metal castle open as quickly as it could from the center to the periphery, and a carpet of light as white as the rising stars of the sun and stars radiated from the main entrance to the depths of the great corridor, and at the end of which was surrounded by metal stomachs, was a fan-shaped round arch printed with the Milky Way. "This is the Dawning Base, the ugly words are ahead, for each of you who intends to join the Dawning Base, I need him to follow the rules of the Dawning Base, but anyone who violates it will be severely punished."

The blind girl raised her head and looked at Summer with those gray eyes, "Mr. Summer, are those rules strict?" She was blind, but she did give the impression that she had good manners, or at least that she would solemnly "gaze" at herself with her blind eyes.

Summer looked at the blind girl whose face was covered with rotting white skin, and shook her head gently, "It won't be stricter than the school, where I can give you respect and freedom, and I won't do boring and obscene things to you like those so-called vice principals, I won't humiliate your self-esteem, and I won't abuse your body." Here, though, everything will require your hard work in return, as simple as that........ Number One (synths as they are called here), show them the working regulations of the Dawning base, and read them by the way. ”

It's really simple.,It can be said that it's a very humane work regulation.,What a five-hour work system.,Three-hour knowledge education system.,Saturdays, Sundays and holidays system.,And the messy food distribution system and the reasonable redemption system.,For those who are too young.,Synthetics give a proportional adjustment of working hours.,In short,Compared with school,Life here is in heaven.。 However, Xia is very worried, among these children, there are still quite a lot of illiterates, and many more people can't read a few words, and they probably can't recognize all the words on this regulation, let alone understand its meaning.

"Mr. Summer," the blind girl listened attentively as Number One read aloud, repeating one by one, and finally couldn't help but say, "I think five hours is too long." ”

Summer is shocking, and five hours is also a long time? At one point, he had some kind of doubt about himself. "Oh, what kind of life did you expect?" The dumb girl beside her, who was even shorter, pulled the blind girl, but the girl didn't seem to be able to stop her mouth.

"We all know that the ground is full of poison, unless there is something very important, ordinary people will not come up to the ground, since Mr. Summer has given such conditions, there must be treasures worthy of Mr. Summer excavation, but...... Twenty hours a week without any equipment, the stalker will die quickly, I think, Mr. Summer still needs Sister Wei Ning to go back, then five hours a day in the field will make her quickly catch radiation sickness. ”

It turned out that they really thought that I was going to treat them as disposable consumables, but I had to be convinced, they were willing to go out of the ground when they thought I was going to treat them as consumables, and it seemed that those educators were really effective in the ideological work of this group of children.

"Do any of you have a radiation test form?" As far as he knew, radiation detectors were a must-have in underground stations, and some people even gave them to their children, because no one knew when they would eat something that would have a huge amount of radiation. There is no guarantee that their belongings will not be taken by the Stalker from a high-radiation area on the surface, or that the groundwater and food somewhere have been accidentally adulterated with radioactive materials.

The children looked at each other, most of them were fatherless orphans, and there was definitely no radiometer, and even if there were, it would be taken away by the teacher and the principal. In the end, it was Wei Ning who took out the radiation test form, "The number on the table shows that the radiation value is zero," she was suddenly a little surprised, "My watch is broken." ”

"It's not necessarily .......," Summer also pulled out the delicate, unusually lightweight radiation detection watch from his bosom, "Look at the screen, the readings are a few tenths of a zero," he said, showing the watch to all the children, "The radiation values here are insignificant." ”

"How is that possible?" The blind girl cried out, "Mr. Summer, is your watch broken too?" ”

Summer waved her hand, "Okay, there's no need to argue, I can tell you clearly, there's no radiation here, and so is where you work, in short, you can rest assured." Now, everyone is following me. ”

Even if they were reluctant, the children did not dare to say anything, so they had to follow with trepidation.

Soon, they entered a pure white laboratory filled with the smell of disinfectant water, where a dazzling array of instruments was neatly placed everywhere, in the middle of the two closed compartments were covered by soundproof metal plates, and in the middle lay two capsules-like capsules, the cabins were covered by a dark blue glass cover, unable to see the true face inside, and the cover was filled with a faint sea-blue mist, the fog churned from time to time, hitting the outside of the glass cover, as if it had life.

"Everyone, men and women in two columns, stand in front of the capsule marked with their respective genders, please lie down in this capsule in turn," Summer patted the red button on the pod, and pointed to the pod with a smirk, "who will come first." ”

As expected, this time it was Wei Ning who walked out first, and she walked into the women's compartment without hesitation, "Mr. Summer," she suddenly asked as she entered, "What does this thing do?" ”。

"It's not something harmful, specifically, it's possible to modify cortical genes to make it more radiation-resistant," Summer said, putting her hand on the thick mist that was escaping everywhere, "whatever it is, each of you must go inside." ”

Wei Ning nodded sweetly at Summer, "I'm sure Mr. Summer won't hurt us," and with that, she walked straight in, and the door to the cubicle closed automatically.

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