Chapter 5 The Torch

This may be the most comfortable sleep in the world more than a hundred years later, which the sickly body of the past could not have, so it is precious, and I slept soundly until the next morning, until the door was knocked, and then I woke up from my sleep.

"Bang bang!"

"Are you awake?"

This was the voice of the little five girls, with a hint of concern in her crisp voice.

"Wake up."

He lifted the warm bedding, put on his clothes and boots, stretched his muscles a little, and opened the door, where she stood with a bowl and basin, the dry cold wind blowing her face and lifting the hair on her forehead.

"Good morning."

Zhou He smiled and said hello.

"yes, okay."

She hurriedly nodded in response, glanced at him secretly, and hurriedly took her gaze back, "It's food." ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly withdrew his hand after handing the water and food in his hand to Zhou He, and said with a red face: "I'll go and get busy first." ”

"Okay."

Zhou He smiled and nodded, thinking: This is a girl who loves to be shy.

"He's so good when he laughs."

She thought, in Zhou He's smile and gaze, with joy and innocence, she jumped and left.

Most of the people in the village are busy, so it seems that he has nothing to do, like a virtual passerby, watching their busy figures come and go, occasionally with curious eyes, but most of them are children and old people, and the young people are busy, and they seem to forget that there is such an outsider. He didn't know where to learn about the world, and it might be counterproductive to ask rashly.

Maybe you can learn to adapt to the environment first.

"You have knowledge, don't you?"

The little boy who was less than four or five years old gently poked Zhou He's thigh with his hand, raised his head, and looked at him curiously. Coming back to his senses, he smiled and nodded, squatted down and rubbed his messy hair, and said to him, "yes." ”

"Can you teach us?"

It was an innocent and innocent face.

"Okay."

He couldn't seem to refuse the hope and longing that glittered in his bright eyes. Nothing to do anyway, isn't it?

"Yay!"

The little boy laughed and let out a bubble of snot: "Wait, I'll call them." ”

After speaking, he was about to run away, but he was gently hugged by Zhou He, gently wiped off his snot with his hand, and pinched his face with a smile: "Go, bring all the children, and I will teach you knowledge." ”

"Uh-huh."

The little boy nodded, broke free from the crook of his strong arm, and hurried away.

After a while, more than a dozen children of different ages walked towards Zhou He amid the little boy's shouting and surrounded him.

"You're going to teach us, aren't you?"

An older boy pretended to be an adult and asked, holding a little girl with a snot in his arms and a thumbs up.

"Yes."

Zhou He wiped the sweat off her face from a girl who might have just finished helping adults and was sweating profusely, the weather was cold, and she sweated so much that she was prone to catching a cold.

"Let's go, we're going to find a larger plank, and some lime or charcoal for writing."

Zhou He gently rubbed the little boy who grabbed his trouser leg and picked him up.

"I'll look for this."

A boy raised his hand.

"I'll go get charcoal."

The other girl raised her hand.

"Okay, hard work."

Zhou He smiled and praised.

Under the wall of a bungalow, a group of children moved wooden piers and benches to sit on the front.

Zhou He held charcoal in his hand, bent his knees, wrote and drew on the wooden board hanging on the wall, and then turned around: "This is my name, Zhou He, from now on, I will be your teacher, starting from the rhyme table to teach you literacy." ”

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Time passed quickly, more and more people learned that group of children moved to the wooden bench to sit around, listening to Zhou He's teaching, lectures, he is not a regular teacher, has never had teaching experience, but he feels very happy, looking at the pair of eyes full of curiosity, always touching.

"Teacher Zhou, are you still lecturing?"

After dinner, the big boy who led the children came over to ask Zhou He about the little girl with a thumbs up.

"Learning requires a combination of work and rest, and I will teach you tomorrow."

Zhou He pinched the little girl's face and said to the boy. His name is Ah Sixteen, and the names of the people in the village are all named after numbers.

"Okay."

The boy nodded.

"Well, go back and get some rest."

Time passed quickly, five days was enough time for him to integrate into the group, his students grew more and more, and most of the young adults in the village would move a bench to listen to his lectures in their spare time.

"Sixth mother-in-law."

After a class, the old woman walked towards him on crutches, her expression was about to speak and stopped, he had noticed it several times, but she didn't say it, and Zhou He didn't dare to ask rashly, just greeted politely.

"Xiao Zhou, can I ask you a question? Or ask for advice. She asked tentatively, in a sincere tone.

"If you ask, if I know, I will answer you truthfully."

Zhou He thought she was going to ask herself some questions about her life or related to scientific research.

"How much knowledge do you have?"

She asked, the question was a little weird, maybe she saw the stunned in Zhou He's eyes, and asked instead, "Knowledge····· For example, 'mathematics', do you know? ”

Zhou He nodded, feeling that she was testing her own knowledge, "You want to ask me what kind of knowledge I have, right?" ”

"Yes."

The old woman nodded, saw that Zhou He understood what she meant, and smiled: "For example, knowledge like mathematics." ”

As she spoke, she gestured a few times with her hand on the ground, and muttered in her mouth: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, addition, subtraction." ”

"If you see it, I'll do this, my parents taught me, and I can't read."

She smiled.

The old woman said that all the knowledge was some basic knowledge taught in the first and second grades of primary school.

"I'll do all of that, and I'm going to teach them that."

Zhou He nodded, pondered for a long time, observed the old woman's face, and then asked, "This should be some very simple basic knowledge······

"That's right."

The old woman nodded, the smile on her face became heavy, and her eyes were full of helplessness: "But we don't have a source of knowledge····· Even the little bit of knowledge I know is passed down from my father, and those subspecies will kill all of us who have knowledge. They ······ We are absolutely not allowed to have knowledge. ”

After speaking, there was a pause: "Yes, their army of robots, has been looking for us, killing us, or capturing us, knowledge and books······ Even a single word, they will destroy it. ”

"Subspecies?"

Zhou He's expression was full of surprise, who is the subspecies? Cyborg army? Is it possible that technology is so advanced today? Is this a war-torn area?

Many questions came to his head one after another, causing his brain to be confused for a moment.

"Yes, subspecies."

She sat on the wooden pier and seemed to be caught in her memory:

"From the beginning of my memory, they slaughtered us, we resisted, we fled, and countless human beings were facing death.

This is not supposed to be, we are not brutes, but they launched a massacre against us, how many people? I can't count them······

They have powerful technological weapons, as well as mechanical armies. They are always hunting us, calling us aliens or parasites. ”

As she spoke, she closed her eyes, as if she couldn't bear to remember the bloody slaughter.

"Later, I realized that they are different from humans, they don't have the whites of their eyes, and their eyeballs are either black or other colors."

"Are all the humans who are different from them hunted and killed?"

He finally couldn't help but ask, this is really terrifying, what has happened in the past hundred years? How did those subspecies come to be? Why don't you have the slightest memory in your brain about this type of person?

"Yes, they are too strong, our resistance has never been effective, we can only choose to flee, flee to a place where they can't find it for the time being, flee to a place where there is danger everywhere, for decades, I have lost count of the dead, and now that's all left······"

The thin hand trembled slightly, and he opened his eyes and looked at Zhou He, his eyes were full of sadness: "You have a way, right?" ”

She said:

"We've reached a desperate point, the behemoths around us are becoming more and more difficult to hunt, and someone always has to die to bring back food, and we don't have many people left."

She stretched out a pair of scarred hands, as if counting, and muttered unconsciously: "It's not enough to die, if you continue like this, you'll be dead." ”

Heavy topics always make people silent, and I don't know how long it took for her to come back to her senses from her state of distraction, look at Zhou He calmly and sadly, and repeat the previous sentence: "You will have a way, right?" ”

"If you have enough knowledge, please help us."

She took Zhou He's hand, word by word, and said seriously, her eyes flashing with expectation and hope: "My fathers always said that knowledge is omnipotent, it is the torch passed down from human beings to human beings, and it is the spine of human beings!" ”

His body trembled slightly, as if he had thought of something terrible.

"Yes, that's it·····"

Although it is not known how subspecies were born and how they are directed against humans, after all, war is uncontrollable. But they are preventing the inheritance of human knowledge, whether it is historical civilization, spiritual civilization, or intellectual civilization, they are thinking about interrupting the spine of this giant who once stood at the top of the world pyramid!

Zhou He remembered the genocide that had occurred in history, and he realized that this was not just a matter of war, but the extinction of a race····· It's not just the region that is at war, it's ····· The whole world.