As soon as the little girl finished speaking, the detector sent back the latest batch of images, in which the whole town has changed a lot. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first thing everyone saw was the image in the middle of the road, and in the lens of the detector, the original bright "moonlight" had been replaced by other brighter lights. All the lights that had been clearly visible during the day, hanging on the facades of the buildings on both sides of the road, were lit up. Although these lights are hung at the height of a dozen or so stories, their bright lights can still clearly shine on the road, making the road look as bright as daytime. Of course, on top of this row of lights, countless more lights are also lit up, and at first glance it looks like the sky is full of stars.

The rest of the images are similar, with lights on buildings that aren't on either side of the road, but the lights on the facades of these buildings are noticeably sparser than those on either side of the avenue. In addition to the building's façade, in one of the images, the detector also captured the lights in the stairwell of the building coming on, and the staircase and other facilities in the staircase were clearly visible through the windows. Of course, it was still pitch black inside every room, and all the townsfolk still hadn't shown up.

At the moment when a new picture appeared, Zhou Xin also came back to his senses, and he was a little surprised to see that the pictures before and after had changed so much in such a short period of time. Then he asked, "What's going on?" Are the people of the town coming back soon? ”

Aina nodded and said affirmatively, "That's right, when the lights are on, it means that everyone is coming back soon." ”

"Is this what the town looks like every night?" Spred asked curiously, "I mean, do these lights come on on time every night?" ”

"That's natural, as soon as it's almost time to get off work, the lights on the road will automatically turn on." The little girl explained.

Next, most of the screen is occupied by a town full of lights, and the detector is constantly sending back images from various parts of the town. There is a shot that happens to be overlooking the whole town from directly above the town, and around this picture, it is almost pitch black, and there is only an extremely narrow band of light running through the whole picture, which is supposed to be the light on the main road that passes through the town. In stark contrast to the darkness around him is an area in the middle of the frame, which occupies more than a third of the entire shot, and Zhou Xin sees a bright irregular quadrilateral, which is outlined by countless dense lights, which reminds him of the scene when he was on earth looking down on the city from above.

It had been ten minutes since the probe sent back the first picture of the town's lights, but there was still not a single figure in the latest footage, which made everyone in the command module, including Zhou Xin, feel a little puzzled. After another fifteen minutes, Zhou Xin finally couldn't help but ask, "Aina, it's been so long, why haven't you seen anyone?" ”

"Wait, it's coming, it's coming." The little girl replied, "It will take a little time to get back from the factory." ”

Within three minutes of Zhou Xin asking this question, a new situation began to appear in the footage sent back by the probe.

Christy was the first to notice this, and the moment this image appeared, she cried out in confusion, "Hey, what is this?" Immediately everyone's attention turned to her, and Christy pointed to one of the latest images sent back on the screen and said, "Look, this picture is not the same as the previous one." Following Christy's hand, the group looked across the screen and realized that the one she was pointing to was the one overlooking the town.

When he saw that picture, Zhou Xin didn't notice any difference between the town in the camera and before, so he asked Christy suspiciously, "Isn't it the same as before?" What's the difference? Huh? But when his gaze swept over the edge of the camera, he noticed something strange.

Zhou Xin noticed that the narrow light strip at the edge of the screen seemed to be brighter than before, and after repeated comparisons, he found that this was indeed the case. The band of light that runs through the picture starts from the edges, and the lights on one of the roads are indeed brighter than the others, but this change in brightness is not obvious, and you can't see it at first glance, but I didn't expect Christy to notice it at the first glance.

"Brother Captain, this section of the road seems to be brighter than the rest of the road." After Zhou Xin found out about this, Atlas also spoke.

Zhou Xin nodded, "Atlas, can you identify the reason for this situation?" ”

"The camera is too far away, the picture is too blurry, and people can't see it." The little girl replied, "Captain, wait a minute, and let the probe get closer to the ground and take another picture." ”

After a dozen seconds, the probe sent back a new image, but the probe did not seem to have started to move at this time, and the latest image still looked the same as the previous one. After another minute, a new image was sent back again, and this time the image began to change significantly. Zhou Xin saw that the town that was previously in the middle of the detector lens had now moved to the edge of the picture, revealing only one corner, and the originally narrow light band had also widened. By this time, it was clear to everyone that there was a difference in brightness in the light band, but they still couldn't tell what the reason for the difference was.

"How did this particularly bright area come about?" In the process of waiting for the probe to continue to send back the picture, Zhou Xin asked, and the moment he asked this question, an idea popped up in his heart, so he asked himself, "The brightness of the whole road was still the same before, and now it looks like this, which means that there should be a new light source on the road, can it be said-?" ”

Before Zhou Xin's words were finished, the screen on the screen refreshed again, and this time the probe was closer to the ground. Everyone saw that the narrow light strip that appeared in the original lens had become two, and the smooth road surface could still be seen between the two light bands. Everyone's eyes moved along the light band, and suddenly, several new light bands appeared between the two light bands, although the middle light bands were not as bright as the light bands on both sides, but they were indeed several new light bands, these light bands suddenly appeared side by side from the road, and then extended along the road to the edge of the screen.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xin was almost sure that the idea in his heart was correct, and before he could speak, Spred had already spoken, "This should be the lights of the vehicle, it looks like the townspeople should be coming back." ”

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "It's the same as I thought." Looking at the picture on the screen, he continued, "Judging from the distance, it seems that these cars are not far from the town. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the probe sent back a footage, in which the probe had flown to a position less than 100 meters above the ground. By the lights on the road, people can already see the situation on the road very clearly.

On the wide road, there are several "cars" driving side by side on the road, each occupying the width of a lane, and other vehicles can be seen not far behind and behind this row, all of which form a mighty convoy, like a long dragon, and the head and tail of the convoy are not even visible in the lens of the detector. Zhou Xin saw that a bright light shot out from the front of all the vehicles, and the extra rows of lights that everyone saw before came from this. Although it was only a static picture, seeing such a long convoy, except for Zhou Xin, who felt very normal, everyone else in the command cabin felt a little surprised.

The vehicles in motion all have a uniform shape, and the tops of these vehicles are pointed, which looks a lot like the roofs of the old buildings on Earth. Zhou Xin noticed that although the bottom of these cars was flat, there were no tires, and the whole car looked as if it was suspended on the road. However, due to the angle, Zhou Xin could not see the full bottom of the car, so he was not sure whether the car was really suspended.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xin asked curiously, "How did these cars move forward?" Why does it look like it's floating on the road? ”

"It's floating on the road." Hearing Zhou Xin's question, Aina replied a little strangely, and then she explained in detail, "When you move forward, there will be a gas ejected from under the car to levitate the whole car on the road, and there is also a beam of gas sprayed backwards to propel the vehicle forward, isn't your car like this?" ”

"I see." Zhou Xin showed a look of surprise on his face, and then he replied, "This type of vehicle just stayed in our theory, and was later replaced by another more convenient theory, so we didn't design a similar object, I didn't expect to see it here." As he spoke, he stared curiously at the nearest car on the screen.

After looking at it for a while, the screen changed again, and in the field of vision of the probe, the front of the convoy had already driven into the town, but the entire convoy stretched out as if it had no tail and could not be seen from a distance on the screen. For the next half hour, the probe continued to send back the latest footage, in which everyone saw that the cars had quickly dispersed along the various side roads of the main road after driving into the town to make way for the vehicles behind them. Like the flow of water, all the roads in the town are gradually filled with more and more cars.

Nearly half an hour passed, and the end of the entire convoy finally appeared on the screen. At this time, as you can see from the bird's-eye view of the town, almost all the roads in the entire town have been filled with vehicles. The cars that had stopped a long time ago had already opened their doors, and people finally began to appear in the town where there was no one in the daytime.

Most of the people walked straight to the nearest building as soon as they got out of the car, and only a few chose to stay on the street, and these people were almost all standing alone on the road, barely interacting with other people, and everyone had no idea what they were trying to do. At the same time, Zhou Xin noticed that the locked-up gates that had occasionally appeared on both sides of the road during the day were now open. After the door opened, a counter was revealed in these rooms, and there were a small number of items in the counter, which looked similar to the store Zhou Xin had seen in Space City before.

Sure enough, at this time, Aina pointed to the open doors and said, "These are the very expensive shops I mentioned earlier. ”

"Shops? So small in number? And the door opens so late? Spred's tone was astonished.

"If the doors open during the day, will there be people in this town?" Zhou Xin immediately answered without thinking.

Aina nodded, "Yes, and these shopkeepers and clerks also have jobs during the day, where is the time to open the store, and they will only have time to open at night." ”

"They still need to work during the day?" At this time, even Zhou Xin felt a little surprised, as soon as the little girl finished speaking, he couldn't help but ask, but as soon as he said it, he reacted, and the question he asked seemed to be superfluous.

"Of course they need to work during the day." Aina's tone was a little strange, "If they don't work where they get food, if they just rely on opening a shop to earn food, then these people will only be able to eat a meal in a few days." Her answer was not much different from what Zhou Xin thought after reacting.

Looking away from the shops, Zhou Xin looked at the people in the picture who had just stepped out of the car, and then he saw a very strange picture. As far as the probe's field of vision could see, he saw that the faces of those people were all tired, and some of them even walked straight down the stairs with their heads down. Moreover, Zhou Xin can clearly see that these people almost do not do any communication after getting out of the car, and they all go their own ways, even if the two people get off from the same car and go to the same corridor, but these two people also maintain a distance of more than one meter in the process of entering the corridor, and they look no different from passers-by. After staring at the screen for a while, Zhou Xin felt that although the whole town seemed to have a lot of people, everyone didn't seem to have any vitality, just like the walking dead, and the whole town still felt a little lifeless.

Then, as more and more people walked into the building, the dark rooms began to light up from the bottom up......