Chapter Seventy-One: A Little Story After the Meal

"Oh my God. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ralph patted his head. "How did you get over this kind of life of working all day and having no entertainment at all?" Seeing that Zhou Xin looked at him and just wanted to speak, Ralph seemed to know what he wanted to say, "I know, this civilized person has never experienced the same life as us before." But why have all of them been able to endure this life for so long, that is, none of them can think of inventing some entertainment. ”

"When you are forced by life all day long, do you still have the leisure to care about any entertainment?" Zhou Xin said a very philosophical sentence, and then he continued, "Okay, now that we know that this civilization doesn't have any entertainment, let's stop this topic. Aina, I have one more question, do you know anything about civilizations on another continent? ”

Aina shook her head, "I've never been to another continent, and few people dare to go there, and I don't know what it's like on another continent." ”

"Didn't anyone else tell you?" Zhou Xin then asked, "Or did you learn it from school?" ”

"No one has ever told me about another continent, but I've learned something from school." The little girl replied, "But I've already told you what I've learned." Then she seemed to remember, "Oh, by the way, the usual radio also mentions something related to another civilization." ”

"What was mentioned?"

Aina recalled, "Well, it's just that we've been attacked somewhere, or maybe we've managed to sneak up on one of each other's towns." ”

"Is that all?" Seeing that the little girl nodded affirmatively, Zhou Xin frowned, "Isn't that equivalent to not knowing anything?" Then he said, "Well, since you don't know anything about another civilization, let's not talk about that." Aina, I've heard you talk about the history of how you fought with another civilization, but what was your country like before the battle? ”

Aina still shook her head, "I don't know. There was no pre-war history in school, and adults didn't talk about it. Then she wondered herself, "yes, what was our country like before the war?" Why didn't I know? ”

Aina's answer also confirmed that Atlas's previous investigation of the situation that both civilizations were concealing history was consistent, and Zhou Xin's question was also for the same purpose, so Zhou Xin did not make too much fuss about the little girl's answer, but continued to ask the next question. Next, in a series of questions from Zhou Xin, although Aina could know very little, everyone still had a certain understanding of the country. At the same time, according to what the little girl said and combined with Atlas's previous investigation, Zhou Xin also summarized some information that may be useful:

The triangular continent, which this civilization calls the Mu continent, is about the same size as the Eurasian continent on the earth, but on such a large continent, the place that can actually be suitable for life is not large, accounting for only about one-third of the entire continent's area. Nearly 5 billion people live in such a small area, and although the government is now trying to renovate the surrounding environment so that the residential area can expand outward, the rate of expansion is far from keeping up with the rate of population growth, and it seems to be a bit stretched. Today, the civilization has even turned its attention to the offshore, and they are trying to reclaim more habitable land, but with little success.

In addition, from further chats, Zhou Xin learned that the political system of this country called Eun on the Mu continent is actually similar to the imperial system on the earth. When Zhou Xin first learned this, he was very surprised, and it was hard for him to imagine that a civilization that had already gone into space was still using such a dictatorial system.

However, there is a difference in the fact that at the top of the country is not an emperor-like person, but a small group like a three-member council, and the ideas of these three people determine the functioning of the country, while the rest of the government can only assist the work of the three-person council and cannot make decisions on any major national affairs. In addition, the way in which the three-member council chooses its heirs is also strange, and when any one of them feels that he is no longer up to the task of the three-member council, he can directly appoint his own heir without the consent of the other two. It can be said that although these three people are collectively called the three-member council, these three people basically have no connection at all, they don't even work together on a daily basis, and only when they make decisions on some national affairs, the three of them will gather together to discuss.

As far as Aina knew, this style of governance had been going on in their country for a long time. Although Zhou Xin felt that this way of governing was very strange, but for so long, the country was still functioning normally, and there has never been chaos. Even the three-member council, which held the supreme power, did not have any private struggle between them, and none of the members of the three-member council had ever wanted to drive the other two out of the center of power and take all the power alone. For this situation, Zhou Xin was surprised and also felt deeply puzzled, he really didn't believe that the real situation in this country was really as beautiful as the little girl said.

At the same time, in the chat with the little girl, Zhou Xin also learned that the country's reward system is based on military merits, and once they have military merits, then their lives will be much better than ordinary people. Of course, this kind of "much better" is also what Aina herself thinks, and those who have achieved military merit are nothing more than being able to get more food than others. But even so, everyone is still eager to achieve military merit. There are two ways in which they can obtain military merit, one is to rely on the outstanding contribution of the two countries that are still going on, and the other is to make outstanding contributions to the military industry, and there is no other means of reward.

Zhou Xin felt a little strange about this kind of reward method that only focused on military affairs, but he knew that Aina should not think about this kind of problem, so he just hid this doubt in his heart and did not raise it.

By the time Aina had finished saying this, everyone had been sitting here for more than half an hour, and as for lunch, they had already finished eating one after another. Next, after thinking for a while, Zhou Xin found that he couldn't ask any new questions for the time being. And, after a morning of inquiry, he has now obtained a lot of information related to this civilization from Aina's mouth, and now he is anxious to return to the command cabin to sort out this information, and at the same time, he also wants to hear other people's opinions on some doubts.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xin received the empty bag on the table into the previous box, and then stood up and prepared to leave, and the others also began to clean up the table in front of them when they saw this, and then stood up one after another. But at this time, there was still one person still sitting, and suddenly, the eyes of the other four people focused on him.

The person sitting in the seat was naturally Blue who had taken a lot of food before, and this time, Zhou Xin saw that his face was slightly red, and he also showed an embarrassed look. In front of him, seven empty bags were neatly arranged on the table, and as for the remaining two, Zhou Xin didn't have to think about it to know that they were still in the box next to him. Walking to Blue, Zhou Xin reached out and touched the box, and sure enough, he took out two bags that had not yet been opened from it.

Carrying two bags and shaking them in front of Blue, Zhou Xin did not speak, while Blue looked like he had done something wrong and lowered his head.

Zhou Xin still didn't speak, but Aina next to her couldn't help but start teaching her younger brother a lesson, "Look, I just swore that I could finish it, but now there are so many left, so what did you do with so much before?" There was an unconcealed anger in her voice.

The little boy did not dare to answer his sister, his head lowered, and his face showed an expression that was about to cry.

When the little girl finished teaching, Zhou Xin asked Blue with an expressionless face, "Have you eaten enough?" Can't really eat it? "Now he is like a robot, and he doesn't have any emotion in his words. But this made the little boy even more scared, and there was a look of fear on his face, and he was even so scared that he didn't even dare to answer Zhou Xin's words, just nodded lightly.

"Remember what I just said?" Zhou Xin asked with a straight face, the little boy hesitated, nodded again, and seeing Blue's movements, Zhou Xin continued to ask, "Are you ready to be punished?" ”

"W-can I be punished for my brother?" Zhou Xin's current expression made Aina a a little scared, and she asked in a low voice.

Hearing Aina's question, Zhou Xin didn't speak, just turned his head to look at her, and when he saw Zhou Xin's eyes, the little girl shrunk her neck, and then stopped talking, but there was obviously a worried look on her face.

"Come with me." Zhou Xin threw the bag back into the box, and then motioned for Blue to clean up the table. After he finished cleaning up, Zhou Xin led everyone out of the table, but the direction he was heading was not the exit, but towards the innermost part of the hall.

Although he was very scared in his heart, the little boy did not dare to run away, he followed Zhou Xin step by step holding the box, obviously delaying time. However, Zhou Xin didn't urge much, and every few steps he would stop and wait for Blue behind him to follow. Such a strange behavior attracted the attention of the people who came to eat behind, and when they saw that it was the captain who walked in front, they came over to say hello, and after saying hello to Zhou Xin, some people would also say hello to Blue who was following Zhou Xin. However, at this time, the little boy was obviously not in the mood to pay attention to these people who greeted him, he just walked slowly with his head down, and Aina, who was following them, kept apologizing to these greeting people, but fortunately they didn't care about this, just smiled in the direction of Aina, and walked to the food dispenser.

While Aina was saying sorry to those people, the worried look on her face became more and more serious, and in the end, she was even about to cry, and even her apology voice had a hint of crying. Christy finally couldn't help it, she leaned over to the little girl's ear and whispered comfortingly: "Don't worry, it's just a small punishment, it's not that serious." ”

"Yes, it's justβ€”" Ralph heard her too, and she spoke loudly, intending to comfort the little girl. But as soon as she said a few words, Christy took her hand and stretched out her hand to point in Zhou Xin's direction. Looking in the direction that Christy was pointing, Ralph just saw Zhou Xin stop in place, looking at herself with an unkind face, she subconsciously covered her mouth and shook her head, and what she wanted to say came to an abrupt end.

However, after hearing Christy's comfort, the little girl's expression was noticeably much lighter, and although her eyes were still fixed on Blue, the look of extreme worry on her face was obviously gone.

Under the little boy's friction, it took everyone more than five minutes to walk in just a few steps, and by the time Zhou Xin stopped again, several people had already walked to a counter in the innermost part of this hall. At this time, there were already many people busy behind the counter, these people were both Atlanteans and Thunder Star people, seeing Zhou Xin's arrival, they did not stop their movements, but became more sharp.

"Why are you guys again? How much is left this time? Looking at Zhou Xin's expression, it seems that he has already seen it.

"It's not because the food here is so delicious, I ordered a little more for a while." One of the Atlanteans blushed and replied depressedly. This person Zhou Xin has known for a long time, he is one of the researchers who brought Atlas on the ship - Tarst, but now he does not look like a researcher at all, but has an apron around his neck, and now he is packing up the boxes that others have taken after eating with several other people.

"You're lucky today, it's easier to do your job." Zhou Xin teased, "I brought you a new person." As he spoke, he motioned for Blue to come to his side.

Looking at the little boy standing next to Zhou Xin with timidity, Duster was a little puzzled, "Is this a newcomer?" How haven't I seen it before. ”

"Oh, he didn't come to the ship long ago, and he's from the planet we're docked to now." Then Zhou Xin briefly introduced Blue and Aina who followed behind.

"So what are you bringing them here for? Are they here to use us as negative teaching materials? Tarst's tone became even more depressed.

"Not really." Zhou Xin shook his head, and then patted Blue's head, "This little guy made the same mistake as you, I brought him to be punished......"