Chapter 641: Home in a Ghost Town
The hovercar stopped near a residential area lined with high-rise buildings, and the Nangong couple led everyone to the place where they were currently living. They let people into the living room, Elsa went to bring the food brought out of the mall into the kitchen today, and Nangong Wushu sat on the big sofa with the guests, ready to answer a series of questions.
Hao Ren looked at the furnishings around him, it was obvious that the aborigines of this planet were creatures that were highly similar to the earthlings, and their civilization was somewhat similar to the earth, although the furnishings in the room were strange, most of them could guess the use or usage. The house is cleaned up and tidy, and all kinds of supplies are neatly placed in the right place, and it can be seen that the people who live here have run it into a stable and comfortable little home, as a couple of distressed couples in the other world to spend a hundred years together, this place is unexpectedly very good.
"Elsa cleaned it up. There are a lot of strange things here, thanks to the talent and intelligence of the insider, otherwise I really don't know what to do," Nangong Invincible noticed that the guests' eyes swept around, and a smile appeared on his face, "When we first came here, we were very busy for a while, and thinking about the things at that time made people laugh." ”
Hao Ren noticed that Nangong Invincible's way of speaking was somewhat strange, and after thinking for a while, he realized that this was a bit of the tone that traditional Chinese squires used more than a hundred years ago - the person in front of him had been away from the earth for a hundred years, and his isolation from the world made him still maintain the way he spoke back then. This can also be seen in the aliens on Earth who stay in the shelter all year round, and when he was in the Athenian shelter, he encountered many old vampires and werewolves who behaved like the old medieval vampires and werewolves.
Nangong Sanba asked impatiently: "Dad, how did you and your mother get here?" And how did you find this shelter? ”
Nangong Invincible laughed: "I really can't tell you how you got here. I only remember being covered by a cloud of light from the angry spirit, which made people dizzy. When I woke up, I came to a dark and icy place...... Oh, it's on the ground. Your mother and I struggled to survive in the snow and ice. But it was so hard to endure in the snow, and your mother had to use mist to keep me alive, so we ventured out into the snow - after walking for more than ten days, and there was still no end in sight to the snow, but suddenly there was a shaking of the mountain, as if the sky had fallen, and after another day or two, we saw a sudden light on the nearby steel mountain......"
When Nangong Invincible said this, Hao Ren suddenly interrupted: "Wait." You mean, when you first came into this world, those engines...... That is, those pillars of light haven't appeared yet, and they only lit up after you got here? ”
Nangong Invincible nodded: "Yes." Then the two of us walked towards the place where there was light, and soon found a city of steel and all sorts of intricate things, and then a man of the machine brought us to this place. ”
Hao Ren and Vivien glanced at each other: "...... As I guessed, the planetary ark had been staying in its own solar system until then, and it was something that the Nangong couple activated after coming to this planet to make the planet set sail. ”
"They didn't have to activate it, but the timing seemed right." Vivian touched her chin and looked up at Nangong Invincible, "After the pillar of light lights up, are there frequent earthquakes here?" And sometimes you feel weightless...... forehead, top-heavy. Or walk crookedly all the time? ”
Nangong Invincible nodded, and told the events that happened in his memory, and everyone found that this could basically correspond to the phenomenon when the planet set sail. Although the aborigines of this planet have created something as incredible as the "Ark of the Planet". But they don't have a high level of technology in some things, for example, they don't know how to build anti-gravity devices and deal with the inertia of the aircraft when accelerating. It can only rely on long acceleration and deceleration or various shock absorption devices to resist.
Nangong Invincible's memories completely confirmed Hao Ren's guess about the time of the planet's departure.
"Dad, you ...... here" Nangong May's eyes were still a little red. As soon as he spoke, he couldn't help but cry, "You didn't suffer hardship, did you?" ”
"It's confusing at first, of course it's a little more difficult," Nangong Invincible smiled softly, looking calm and reliable, "but I quickly got used to it." Everything is convenient here, and all kinds of things are also convenient, to be honest, after getting used to it, it is more convenient than those stupid things in my hometown. There's no shortage of food and clothing, but it's just ...... It's a little lonely. ”
Uncle said this in a light tone, but anyone could guess that he and Elsa must have encountered more than a little difficulty when they first came to this world. Unguided, nervous, and uneven recognizable to the written word, this seemingly fully automated, advanced world would have been a place of demons to people a hundred years ago. Nangong May's mother should be the fastest to adapt to this place - she is a kraken after all, and the city of Nasattorn is an advanced immigrant starship in itself, and she is no stranger to the automatic facilities here, at least not in this "style" of the world.
However, the biggest difficulty is Nangong Invincible's last sentence: I am a little lonely.
"Have you seen anyone else here?" Lily asked, hugging her knees.
"No," Nangong Invincible's expression was solemn, "I know what you want to ask—my inner man and I have traveled all over the city, and there is no one else here except our husband and wife. But I often see people on those screens, and things in the merchants are often replaced. ”
"Outside the city?" Izzax propped up the coffee table with one hand and leaned his upper body forward, "Have you been to any other cities?" ”
Nangong Invincible's answer was beyond everyone's expectations: "I can't get out, I can't go out again after I come in, and to be honest, we don't know the way to other cities, and we don't even know if there are other cities." ”
"Can't get out?" Several people looked at each other, and Vivien was the first to speak, "Why can't you get out?" Someone is stopping or what? ”
Nangong Invincible spread his hand: "The way out of the city is blocked, it's the Babel Tower you walked on when you came down, didn't you go back to take a look?" It shouldn't be open again. The outermost part of the city was made of stone and steel, and the whole city was tightly enclosed, and there were a few places that looked like gates, but the gates were closed. ”
Hao Ren frowned: "Didn't you try to break through?" ”
"Forced to break through, but it attracted the people of the agency to stop it," Nangong Invincible grinned, "Later, Elsa and I never forced our way through the city gate again. After all, this place is extremely weird, and the ice and snow outside are extremely bitter and cold, so it is very difficult to survive, and at least you can survive well in this city. To be on the safe side, we're going to live here. ”
Hao Ren's face suddenly became stern.
The city was cordoned off, and the lifts and the cordons on the periphery of the city were systematically enforced - that is, people in the city were forbidden to leave. He thought of the middle-aged man who appeared on the big screen, and the timeliness news that was clearly newly produced by someone, all of which pointed to a group of mysterious guys hiding behind the scenes, perhaps the real masters of the planet. But why would they do it?
A large number of thoughts flashed through his mind in a mess, and Hao Ren suddenly felt that this empty "ghost town" was most likely a real room to be observed, and the real aborigines and shelters were probably somewhere else. In this way, a lot of things that are not right can be explained.
But what's the point?
Hao Ren called the spacecraft that was on standby in orbit, and the voice of the terminal quickly sounded in his head: "Boss, what have you found?" ”
"Nangong's father and mother have been found," Hao Ren reported the good news first, "but that's not the point. Now you increase the power of the radar, scan the deep layers of this planet for life signals, and find out if there are large shelters or something, I suspect that the survivors of this planet are hiding deeper underground, and that something is wrong with their behavior. ”
"Alright, what else do you have to say?"
"Be cautious and try not to cause conflict," Hao Ren still hadn't forgotten his own set of work rules, "Don't use force against other civilizations unless necessary." ”
The various actions of the censors should be kept at the level of "civil" as much as possible, although the definition of the word "civil" in the Xiling Empire seems a bit subtle, but it is definitely not okay to rashly start a war against other civilizations, especially since the planet itself is a sample of observation full of civilizations, so it is even more impossible to let the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace solve a thousand sorrows. (To be continued......)