Chapter Seventy-One: The End of the Dream
The alarm clock in Sun Zhan's arms made a slight birdsong, and all the soldiers woke up from their slumber, and Yu Jia, who had been holding her knees still, also opened her eyes, but her eyes were bloodshot, and she knew at a glance that she had not rested well.
The team hit the road in the gray morning light, marching in silence.
After one night, thick clouds gathered in the sky, and rain could fall at any time.
Huang Quan slowed down a little, came to Yu Jia's side, and said in a low voice: "From now on, you may encounter enemies at any time, and that kind of battle may be unprecedented. You need to get some rest, I may not be able to take care of you. ”
Yu Jia snorted and said coldly, "Who wants you to take care of it?" ”
Although her mouth was hard, her body that had been tense relaxed. Huang Quan didn't say anything more, his feet accelerated, and he moved to the front of the team.
It was rare that there was no rain all morning, and it was like the unknown force of the rainforest that it was difficult to form an effective block, so it was no longer in vain.
Approaching the first destination, Huang Quan walked to the front of the team and searched for it himself. Sun Zhan, Yao, Yu Jia and others responded in the back, and Tianhuo and Luan Jie turned to suppress the formation.
The rainforest is still muddy, and only occasionally birds are frightened and flutter their wings.
The torrential rain that lasted all day was torture for Huang Quan and others, as well as for the beasts and birds in the rainforest, and even the cannibals. Now the whole rainforest is too quiet, and I don't know how many protists died in yesterday's rainstorm.
At around eleven o'clock, the first destination finally appeared. It's a small hill that is significantly higher than the surrounding area, so it has a better view and is a landmark in the area.
Huangquan was the first to set foot on the hill.
The top of the mound is actually a ruin, thick grass has grown among the scattered rubble, and a few broken walls and rusty machinery and equipment silently tell the story of the past.
Huang Quan came to a broken wall, reached out and wiped the dust and rust off a metal plate, revealing a line of words: "Third Base Armory." ”
It was once a base set up by humans to communicate with the Holy Land and strengthen the perimeter. As the cannibals expanded, the humans had to abandon the base with heavy casualties.
Judging from the records on the route map of the Holy Land, it has been a full two hundred years since the last person set foot here.
Huang Quan walked around the ruins and found nothing of value. For 200 years in a rainforest environment, almost all of the man-made creatures of the shelter will rust and rot.
But it can also be said here that everything is valuable, and it records the history of human loss. It's just that at this moment, under the shadow of survival, no one has the interest or ability to pick up this memory.
Several warriors stood at the four corners of the ruins, observing the sky and surroundings. Huang Quan also walked around the hill, and then called over a few soldiers and asked them to search ten kilometers deep in different directions, and then come back to gather.
The rest set up camp under the cover of the ruins, preparing to spend the night.
In the afternoon, the soldiers who had gone out to search for it were estimated that they had not yet arrived at the intended location, and the torrential rain that had been accumulating for a long time finally came down. The torrential rain was pouring in, and everything was washed away in a frenzy.
However, with the support of ruins and remnants of materials, the camp was built very strongly, and the hills were so high that they finally did not have to soak in the rain all night.
Huang Quan was sitting in his tent and was looking at the map when Sun Zhan lifted the curtain and walked in.
"It doesn't seem like there's anything to be gained." He said.
"It's normal, look here."
Huang Quan stretched out his hand and drew a circle on the map, just marking the hill under his feet inside, and then said, "This place is not too far from the shelter, with the cruising performance of the Holy Land, you should be able to reach the shelter if you fly here." I suspect that the trouble it goes with should be after this point. ”
"Could it be that there is a problem with the flight path of the Holy Land?" Sun Zhan put forward his own ideas.
"No, it won't." Huang Quan categorically denied that he knew very well how accurate and reliable the navigation system of the interstellar spacecraft was, and it could be said that even if the spacecraft crashed, the navigation system would be the last to break.
Sun Zhan had a hint of worry in his eyebrows, and said slowly: "I hope we can find the holy land." ”
"It's okay if you can't find it, it's not hopeless." Huang Quan said, handing Sun Zhan a piece of paper. There is a sketch drawn on the paper, although it is rudimentary, but the subsystems on it are very detailed.
Sun Zhan looked at it for a while, and said in disbelief: "This, this is the same as the Holy Land......"
"Spaceship." Huang Quan finished helping him finish and said, "Yes, and it should be able to fly away from this world." If we can't find a holy place, we can try to build it. ”
"Will this work?"
"There's no other way to do it anyway, is there?"
Sun Zhan's hand holding the drawings was trembling slightly, and from Huang Quan's expression, he felt that Huang Quan was not exaggerating. The spaceship on this picture can really be built, it can really fly!
When he left the camp, Sun Zhan was a little depressed. It's no wonder that the impact on him is really big.
Huang Quan continued to look at the map, and then spread out the spaceship drawings and added details little by little.
Of course, this spaceship cannot be compared with the Holy Land, since the birth of the starship, the top-level design has not undergone fundamental changes, and it is impossible to distinguish it from Sun Zhan's eyes.
The drawings that Huang Quan took out were actually the primary interstellar spaceships designed by people during the transition from the old era to the interstellar era.
During the Empire's interstellar colonization, this spaceship technology was included in the Commander's Emergency Manual as a reserve plan for leaving the planet in extreme cases.
The technical requirements of this kind of ship are not high, and the primary resources can be collected from most of the habitable planets of humans, so the scientific and technological level of the shelter is completely unlimited. It's just that the performance of the spaceship is rudimentary, and it may take hundreds of years to fly out of the star system.
However, this problem is not unsolvable, and if what the soul said is true, then the Paradise Thruster, which the ogre is searching for, will be a good solution.
It was late at night, but there was another person in Huangquan's tent, Yu Jia.
She was already soaking wet, her hair was on her forehead, and her big eyes were no longer heroic, but full of confusion and loss.
"Why haven't you rested?" Huang Quan is not blind, of course, he can see that she has been raining outside.
"I can't sleep, I'm afraid I'll go back to that dream."
Huang Quan frowned slightly and said, "Now that we have met, that dream has come true, what is there to be afraid of?" ”
"No, that dream isn't over yet, it still has an ending."
Finale......
To be honest, Huang Quan was reluctant to think about that ending, or even deliberately avoided it. At the end of the dream, he held hands with her and walked along the road that never ends, towards the front.
In the world of dreams, they are the last human beings.
"That ending, it's better not to achieve it. You see, I'm trying to avoid it right now. Huang Quan said patiently.
Yu Jia's face turned even paler, she looked up at Huang Quan, there was something indescribable in her eyes.
"Hug me." She said suddenly.
Huang Quan hesitated and did not stretch out his hand.
"I'm cold."
Looking at her rain-soaked body, Huang Quan finally reached out and took her into his arms, and at the same time, the biochemical organs in her body activated, and her body temperature rose rapidly, drying her clothes.
Maybe it was too tired, maybe Huang Quan's embrace was too warm, so she fell asleep like this. Huang Quan thought about it and didn't wake her up, but freed up one hand and continued to draw the spaceship drawings on paper.
I don't know how long it took, Yu Jia suddenly woke up. She let out a soft snort, and then looked around.
"You're awake."
"How long did I sleep?"
"Not long, less than two hours."
Yu Jia looked at Huang Quan in a daze and said, "I had that dream again, and that ending." You said you didn't want that ending, did you? ”
"Of course."
Huang Quan felt that there was nothing to say about it, and if the ending of the dream really came true, it would mean that all human beings had perished.
In the myths of the old times, a pair of humans could create a race, but Huang Quan had no interest in this, according to his sociological and biological knowledge, if the human race became extinct, he and Yu Jia would not survive for long.
This is the end of the history of mankind.
How can such an ending be achieved?