Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Town in Aina's Eyes

"Come and see this. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Seeing that the little girl's attention had been focused on herself, Zhou Xin pointed to the picture on the screen.

Aina was obviously familiar with the scene on the screen, and after just one glance, she spoke, "Isn't this an ordinary town?" What's wrong? Her tone was very normal.

"Is this what your town looks like?" Spred asked directly.

"yes, that's what it looks like." Aina nodded, "I've been to a few small towns with my parents, and it's all like this, yes." Then she tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Of course, there may be other places that look different, but that person hasn't seen it yet." Then she asked, "Do you think it's weird?" Isn't that what your town looks like? ”

"It's a little different from ours." Zhou Xin said casually, then he pointed to the road on the screen and asked, "Uh-is your path like this-easy?" He couldn't think of any adjectives for a while, and finally squeezed out the word "simple".

"That's it." The little girl nodded as a matter of course, "Do you think it's weird?" ”

"I don't understand anything else, but why don't you have any directions? What should I do if I encounter a traffic crossing? Dart's question was obviously what Zhou wanted to ask.

"Why do you want to go in different directions?" Hearing Dart's question, Aina showed a puzzled expression, "The car goes in the same direction every time, why is there an intersection?" ”

"In the same direction?" The little girl's answer made everyone in the command cabin strange, and at the same time, Zhou Xin asked, "How can it be that every time you go in the same direction?" ”

"It's all going in the same direction." Hearing Zhou Xin's question, the little girl also felt a little strange, "In the morning, the car takes the people who go to work to the factory and sends them back in the evening, how can this have a different direction?" ”

"And in between? No one will use the car? Dart asked.

"Everybody is at work, so no one can use a car."

"Wait." After listening to Aina's words, Zhou Xin thought of something deeper, and he interrupted, "Are you saying that people in the town will take a car to their place of work during the day and then come back at night?" After saying this, he paused, then asked with some hesitation, "So that means - there is no one in the town during the day?" ”

As soon as they heard Zhou Xin's question, everyone was immediately surprised, and everyone focused on the little girl, waiting for her answer. Unexpectedly, Aina really nodded after hearing this question, "yes, there is no place to work in the town, what are they doing in the town during the day?" ”

"Uh-" Zhou Xin was a little surprised to hear this sound reasonable, but it was a little strange, and everyone hadn't thought of it before, and he then asked, "So that means that the people in this town didn't move away together, but just went to work?" ”

"Of course it is, Uncle Captain, how could you think that all the people in the town have moved away." The little girl asked curiously.

Hearing the real reason, Zhou Xin felt a little speechless, they had been guessing for so long before, thinking of various reasons for the disappearance of the townspeople, but they didn't expect that they were just going to work. When everyone present heard this answer, the expressions on their faces also became strange. Sighing slightly, Spred sighed: "I didn't expect that we had guessed for so long before, it was better to find her to come over and ask about the situation earlier, what is the point of our discussions before." Hearing this, Zhou Xin's face showed a helpless expression.

"You really think everyone here has moved away." Aina's tone was a little surprised, he kept looking back and forth at the people in the command cabin with all kinds of strange expressions, it turned out that she had just thought that Zhou Xin was joking.

"Pretty much." Zhou Xin said casually, "I've seen a lot of small towns, but it's really the first time I've seen such a well-behaved, but empty town, so I think a little too much." After thinking for a while, he asked the other questions that everyone had been puzzled about before, "You just said that this is a small town, are you sure that this is really a small town and not a city?" These buildings are too high, are they, are there really so many people living in this town? And these buildings are so crowded, do you really get used to it? ”

After Zhou Xin finished asking, Spred added a question, "The rooms in the building are almost identical, is there no other style?" Don't you decorate the room a bit? ”

"This scale must be a small town, how can it be a city, the scale of the city is much larger than this place on the screen. I've lived in a house like this for a whileβ€”" Aina recalled, and replied in a normal tone, "It's a good feeling, I'm used to it." The inside of the house was very comfortable and spacious, much better than staying in Space City. How could anyone feel uncomfortable in such a nice place. She asked a strange rhetorical question, and then the little girl continued to answer the previous question, "As for the number of people in this town-although people can't be sure if it's just full of people, but most of them are people, that's for sure, otherwise there are so many houses to do?" Finally, she answered Spred's question, "The room is a place to sleep, why should it be different?" And why do you need decoration? Wouldn't it be nice to do more with this time? ”

Hearing Aina's answers, especially to Sprede's question, everyone froze. At first glance, although her answer was a little inconsistent with the living habits of everyone present, it was not very contrary to common sense, but it was just a little extreme. After being stunned for a moment, Spred sighed, "The people here are completely workaholics, I have never seen anyone who puts work first even in daily life, and now I finally see it, and I see a whole country, it's really terrible." ”

"That's an exaggeration." Zhou Xin nodded and sighed, and then he glanced at Aina, "Although I have heard the description of the little guy before, I didn't expect that in reality, this civilized approach is even more extreme than imagined." Sighing, Zhou Xin continued to ask the little girl, "Since this place can only be regarded as a small town, what is the real city like?" Can you describe it to us, Aina? ”

"The real cityβ€”" the little girl gave her chin to a thoughtful expression, and then she replied slowly, "Actually, I haven't been to a real big city either." Hearing the little girl's words, Zhou Xin was a little disappointed, but then Aina said, "But I have seen a few pictures taken in Space City. After a moment to reminisce, she said, "Actually, those cities look like this town, but they're bigger and taller." ”

"Can't you be more detailed?" Zhou Xin frowned and asked, "How big is the area?" How tall is the building? ”

"Detailβ€”?" The little girl fell into thought again, and after a while she replied in an uncertain tone, "I don't know the exact size, but it looks like it's twenty or thirty times larger than this town." Looking at the map of the town on the screen, she estimated it, and then continued, "As for the height of the buildings, people have counted them before. The building was three hundred and forty-one stories long, and there were several taller buildings next to it. ”

"The city is not very large, and the height of the buildings is completely incomparable." Zhou Xin muttered to himself, listening to Aina's description, he silently compared it with the cities on the earth in his heart, and then he asked, "Are each building about the same height?" The layout of the buildings is also as dense as this town? ”

"Hmm." Aina nodded, "The arrangement is about the same, of course, there are a lot more roads than in this town. Heightβ€”only a few buildings are taller than the one I've counted, and most of them are shorter, but not much shorter, and it looks like two hundred and forty or fifty stories are still there. ”

"That'sβ€”" Zhou Xin silently estimated in his heart, and then said, "If every house is full of people, then this population density will be terrible. How do they go out every day? I can't do anything about it just by going to work. "It's like he's asking someone else, and he's talking to himself.

"There is a car to pick you up every day." Hearing Zhou Xin's words, Aina replied, "Oh, by the way, the roads in the city are different from the small towns. She added, "In the city, each road is divided into several levels, and each floor can run a lot of cars, and it won't be crowded at all. The tallest road I've ever seen is almost taller than a building. Speaking of this, a yearning expression appeared on her face, "People really want to try it out once at this altitude." ”

"Three-dimensional traffic? It's a good way to solve the problem. Zhou Xin nodded thoughtfully, and then he continued to ask, "Where do they all go to work?" Probably not in the city, right? ”

"Most of them are on the outskirts of the city, and some of them go further afield, but I don't know exactly where they are." The little girl shook her head.

"When will the people who went to work come back?" This time it was Spreed, who pointed to a shot on the big screen, "At this time, are the people in town coming back soon?" ”

While chatting, some of the images on the screen are constantly changing, and these changing images are the latest images sent back by the probe. As time passed, the backgrounds of these images began to fade into a dim color, and Spred was referring to the most obvious one. The image was taken in the middle of the widest main road, and in the image, the buildings on either side of the road stand tall and the nearby buildings do not even have their roofs, and they stretch to the end of the field of vision as if they were two rows of dutiful soldiers. On the wide road surface, only a few parallel dividing lines start at the bottom of the picture and slowly converge to a point in the distance. Looking into the distance, on the distant horizon, a bright "sun" is hanging above the horizon, which is exactly the star in the galaxy. At this moment, the "sun" is not far above the horizon, and the whole town is gradually entering the twilight hour.

Glancing at the screen, Aina shook her head, "It's only dusk, it's early, and it's impossible for them to come back until it's completely dark." ”

After that, everyone discussed and observed the changing images on the screen, and asked Aina if they had any questions. The only one who looked out of place was Blue, and as soon as Christy let go of his hand, he began to walk around the command cabin, constantly looking east and west, with a curious expression on his face.

As time passed, the images sent back by the probe became darker and darker. As the stars fade from the horizon, the "moon" on the planet slowly rises. In one of the pictures, everyone saw the bright "moon" in the sky.

On the screen, a circular object emitting a soft white light is hanging silently in the sky. Compared to the moon on Earth, the moon hanging in the sky today looks at least half as large. Moreover, the light emitted by this satellite is much brighter than that of the moon, and under its light, everyone can even clearly see the road below.

"Is every night on Songxing so bright?" Seeing the scene on the screen, Zhou Xin asked.

"Not really." The little girl rejected Zhou Xin's idea, "It's just a full moon today, so it looks very bright, and it's not so bright at other times." ”

Looking at the quiet moonlight on the screen, Zhou Xin seemed to miss the earth, and the expression on his face looked a little distracted. But the others didn't feel the same way as him, and seeing that Zhou Xin stopped talking, Spred continued to ask after a few seconds: "It's already so late, haven't the people in the town gotten off work yet?" How long are they going to work? ”

"It's coming-" Aina's tone wasn't quite sure, "it should be about the same time." ”

As soon as the little girl finished speaking, the probe sent back the latest batch of images, and in the new images, the whole town was completely changed......