"Fortunately" (time) 11:41 on February 23, 5 years. On the slope covered with more than ten centimeters of snow on the east side of the volcanic mountain, almost all the sixty or so people on the planet gathered here, including two babies in the arms of two adults. Most of these people were standing there, and a few of them had worked tirelessly to move stools and chairs to sit on. What are they doing here?

I'm looking at the sky!

In the sky, blue, there were a few white clouds floating just now, and the sun was still yellowish and white, and gradually, its color began to change, it became more yellow, and then it began to change from yellow-red to red.

Someone in the crowd said, "Here we are!" Now it's on. ”

As the sun turned from yellow-red to red, the color of the sky began to change and became gray, to be exact, the color of the sky is now blue-white.

Someone said, "This is it?" Doesn't that seem unusual! ”

One person sneered: "Hmph! You'll know in a few days that it's not unusual. ”

"Really? Why? ”

The third person replied: "He means that if you want to stay here again in a few days, you won't have to go back to the cave, we just need to collect the popsicles from the flesh here." ”

It was starting to get dark. The lady holding the child walked in the direction of the cave. Some people walked away in a litter of threes, threes, twos, and twos.

Ivan turned on his communicator and said, "Lang Dai, we have started here, the sun is already red." You need to be careful on your spacecraft, try to stay as far away as possible from the meteorite cluster, you just need to control the probes and satellites and be able to observe through them.

The spaceship is our treasure, and you are our treasure. I don't want anything to go wrong. ”

Communicator: "Don't worry, Doctor, we're on the back of 'Luckily' in the opposite direction of the meteorite cluster through you, and it's still far away." ”

"Then you can't be careless. If there are scattered meteorites that are free from the meteorite clusters, where do they pass through you? ”

"Don't worry! To be on the safe side, we've released another probe in the direction where the meteorite cluster is coming, and this probe is placed in the direction opposite the meteorite cluster, and it's always staring at that large area of space. As soon as it calls the police, we know what's going on, and then we take evasive actions. ”

"Then you can't relax, the meteorite must be running very fast, so you have to arrange someone on duty, and the command and control room must be there at all times, you know!"

"Got it! Doctor. ”

The beginning of the process of entering the disaster is slow and regular. Every day, the "lucky" outside temperature drops at a rate of 2 to 3 or 4 degrees Celsius compared to the normal average. The snow began to fall uninterruptedly until it stopped completely after a few days. According to the radar in the sphere, there is too little water in the air to condense into snow particles, which means that the atmosphere is now "fortunately" dry.

At the edge of the island's border with the sea, a circle of white ice is frozen, forming a color difference between the dark water and the dark water. The white ice, towards the far reaches of the sea, increases in distance and thickness day by day.

"Boom!" Explosions rang out. The sound wave of the explosion smashed into the volcano's mountain, and many people in the cave heard as if the mountain had been smashed by Hercules with a giant hammer. Those who were sitting, standing, walking, and lying down were all startled by this sound, and all movement stopped. Listen carefully to see if there is a second sound coming out. He or she would be more "lucky" if someone was near the entrance of the cave at this time, not only would he or she be able to hear a louder and clearer "boom", but also the sound of "crackling" rubble falling on the mountain (or simply thinking that the rubble was scattered on the door of the cave).

This is after the detection of ground-based radar and space probes a few days ago, I warned Ivan that the people in their cave were about to hit the ground "luckyly".

This time, the explosion appears to have been in mid-air not far from the island, and was formed after the meteorite finally burned and disintegrated. The time was "lucky" April 3, and more than a month had passed since the day the disaster began on February 23.

Then after this explosion, there were continuous "boom" sounds, which appeared several times a day every few days, and were more or less heard by the people in the cave. But at this time, people are no longer serious, because Wen He has already told everyone through the loudspeaker: these unburned meteorites, when they pass through the atmosphere of "Lucky", have almost burned up, and the volume and weight of the final fall into "Lucky" will not be too large. So, they either disintegrated in mid-air, or they landed on the ground or at sea. And landing on the ground and at sea has nothing to do with it. At most, those who fall on the ground can only smash a small pit for the "lucky", and if they fall into the sea, we don't have to worry, because the sea water can swallow its small body in an instant.

Wen He's tone of voice was relaxed, and people's expressions relaxed.

More than two months after the disaster began, the entrance to the cave where the Fire Tribe was located was also sealed for more than two months, and the surface temperature at this time had dropped to more than minus 50 degrees.

The bottom of the valley and the mountains on both sides, except for those particularly steep walls where snow could not be touched, and finally had to be paddled down the steep walls to form a snow slope, all the rest of the place was white. The straight trunks of the trees were free of snow, but the long, slender branches of the tree or shrub were covered with a layer that could even enclose their slender foliage, leaving only a thin dark line in the direction of the ground.

The whole of the "lucky" ground (or the entire surface of the "lucky" planet) is now made up of only two colors - very large white patches and very small gray-black patches dotted in between.

At the entrance of the black cave in the former of the Fire Tribe, most of the area now built is a piece of stone, and the irregular gap between the stones is deep in gray concrete, and then there are snow lines that twist and turn.

In the middle of the stone, there is a gray-white wooden door, and the size of the door can only be used by one person to enter and exit. There is also a facility in the upper right corner of the stone pile, which is a square wooden frame with thin wooden strips evenly arranged on top of it. Behind the ice-filled grille, something could be seen spinning rapidly—a few fan blades moving. A few meters further inside, behind the stone block, there was a second, identical stone wall and wooden door, except that the upper right corner was no longer a grille, but a cube made of planks connected to the opening in the first stone wall, which should have been wooden pipes.

Entering from the second door, more than ten meters away, is a very high and wide irregular hall. There are more than a dozen electric heaters standing not far from the stone wall of the hall, and there is a circle of stones in the middle of the hall, and there are several firewood burning and emitting yellow light in the stone circle, and the ground between the stone circle and the stone wall and the electric heater is messily laid with straw mats. Most of the places on the straw mat were lying the people of the Fire Tribe.

In the depths of the cave, in a branch cave slightly taller than a man, about three or four meters wide and six or seven meters long, on a straw mat in her left hand, lay Huomi—she was already pot-bellied. At this moment, he was closing his eyes as if he was still sleeping. On a stone on his right hand sat Chad. He took out the communicator in his hand and prepared to make a call.

He fixed the eager expression on his face just now: "Is it Dr. Ivan?" He asked the man on the other end of the communicator.

"Hmmm! It's me. ”

"Then I won't go through Wen He and look for you directly."

"Hmmm! What's the matter, look for me. ”

"That's right, Huomi said that she was going to give birth, so which volcano she was going to."

"To the volcano? Oh! As they've said before, their children were born from volcanoes, right? ”

"Hmmm! Yes. So she had to go to the volcano to give birth to the baby. ”

"It's a special time, it's more than -50 degrees outside, and there are meteorites falling on the ground, both of which are dangerous. Well! Can't she give birth to a child in a cave in her house? ”

Cha De hurriedly said: "Why don't you say it's not!" That's how I persuaded her, but she wouldn't listen. She said it was a rule that had been left behind from her mother, from her ancestors. She just wants, and must go, to the volcano to give birth.

She still wants to fly by herself, so I didn't agree at all, how dangerous it is! I think she probably froze to death before she even flew to the place. She also said that in the past, when she had other women giving birth, they flew by themselves. I definitely disagree. After my repeated insistence, I offered to find a way to help her, and she agreed to wait. ”

"Hey!" Ivan sighed: "I want to think about it, let's discuss it with others and see what to do!" You wait a minute. ”

After a while, Ivan didn't reply, and he was in a hurry, and he thought it was because the signal of the communicator was not good. A closer look at the signal strength display - half the outdoor strength, okay.

Seeing that it had been almost an hour, Chade called Ivan again.

Ivan received: "I was about to call you!" We're going to send a collector to you right away and help the rice to the volcano for production. In addition, we sent Lesia with us. ”

"Lesia? What did you send her for? When they, Huomi, give birth, it seems that there can't be outsiders present. ”

It was Le Siya herself who asked to follow, and she knew that they had this rule. But I think it's precisely because we're in a special period that Lesia has a way to convince Huomi. ”

"Whew! All right! We wait. ”

Chad wanted to take a look at the sleeping fire rice and found that she was looking at her with her eyes open. Her expression was calm in the light of the cave light.

Chad smiled at her: "Honey! Our collector will be here right away, and it will take you to the volcano as soon as it comes. The collector is completely enclosed, so you won't get frozen. What do you think? It's not uncomfortable now, is it? ”

Huomi shook her head, meaning that it was still uncomfortable. Chade got up and sat down next to Huomi and said, "Can you bear with it for a while!" ”

"I'm afraid!" Huomi spoke, but what came out of the mouth turned out to be "afraid".

"Afraid of what?" Cha asked softly.

"I'm afraid this child won't be saved."

"No, haven't you already given birth to two? The front is fine, and the back is even more fine. ”

"Really?"

"Hmmm! It's true, I read a lot of material about production. Hehe! You know what? With the knowledge I have now, I must be qualified to be a pregnant woman. ”

Huomi grinned, and she reached up with a lazy hand, which she held out. Her hands were cold: "Next time, you can conceive a child!" I serve you. ”

"Hey, hey! I want to come too. But I don't have the organs to conceive a child! ”

"Don't you have a bag that can conceive a baby? It's like the one you showed me that Princess Zhao and her mother used, can't you have that one? Huomi looked at it with wide eyes.

"That's a complicated thing. It seems that something has to be connected to the organs in the body, and this organ is mainly used to make the nutrients that the baby needs, and if there is no organ in the body to provide nutrients for the baby's growth, then it will not work. ”

"Oh, we're going to change the organs. You for mine, I'll change for yours. ”

"But you have two, and I only have one!"

"Change both. Didn't you say that many of you people on Earth have changed like this, and it is not a technical problem for you. ”

"But which organ do you have more than me, I don't know where to put it on me!"

"Find a reason, usually to say it nicely. Once you get here, when it comes to the critical moment, you will push back. I've seen you through, and you're all virtuous with the men here. ”

"That's what it was!" Chade said aggrievedly: "If you are like which one on your back, I can't put it down on my back, right?" My back is densely packed with my spine and ribs, how do I put it? ”

"Why, it's lined up under your body!" Huomi laughed.

Chade is also a "flutter": "I think you can study medicine, and you will become a very creative doctor." ”

"Why haven't you come yet?" Huomi asked about the collector.

"It's speeding through the air. It's almost there, don't worry! ”

The snow raised by the rotors of the collector rolls up a very high snow wave, and the top of the snow wave is pushed to the ground as it passes over the rotors, and the fine snow is beaten into a vortex between the ground and the rotors. Soon, under the attack of the collector's rotors, a thick layer of snow on the ground platform was blown away, revealing a large area of blue-gray ground.

Wearing a bulky space suit, Lesia struggled down to the platform in front of the cave, stepping on the snow that had accumulated dozens of centimeters behind the vertical angle between the cave door and the ground, and her gloved hands pounded on the wooden door fiercely.

She shouted from her mouth, "Chad, here we are, open the door." ”

A misty voice found behind the door: "I know you're coming." Isn't this door frozen, and it won't be able to open for a while. Wait a little longer. ”

Inside, there was the sound of a heavy object hitting the wooden door, "Boom! Boom! "of. After a while, the bottom of the wooden door opened with a low "boom" on the ground, and then a large cold mist penetrated into the hole from the bottom half of the open door.

As soon as the door opened, the figure of Chad, who was wearing a thin space suit, ran into the cave, and as he ran, he turned back to Le Siya and said, "It's so cold! Close the door. ”

Lesia complied, and turned over and pushed the wooden door to its previous position with difficulty.

She followed Chade to the inside of the cave, and on the transparent mask of her spacesuit helmet, the hoarfrost condensed when she breathed was revealed, and the hoarfrost only stayed on the transparent cover for a moment before disappearing, and as she breathed gas again, it would appear and disappear again: "Oh! You smell terrible! Le Siya sighed.

Chad glanced back at her and smiled, "Hey, hey! Whoever tells you not to bring your own oxygen has to use the 'natural' air here. ”

"The grille outside your ventilator is full of ice and you don't knock on it, the air is not smooth, can you smell good here? If you are really there, you are not afraid that the air in the cave will make you sick. ”

"Boom!" "Boom!" Le Siya's shoes trembled with excitement.

She still hadn't opened her hood when she came to the cave.

Huomi had been staring at her since Lesia came in.

After taking a hanging instrument from the waist of her clothes, Le Siya swept it on the belly of the lying hot rice. Then say, "Wrap her in your sleeping bag." You'll also have to put on your thick spacesuit. We're on our way. She turned to look at Chad.

Chater went to a corner deeper in the cave and pulled out his thick spacesuit. He took off the thin one first, revealing the light yellow jumpsuit inside**, and then asked Le Siya to help him put on the thick one, and finally, put on the same square backpack as Le Siya. Finally, they wrapped the thick sleeping bag they had found, from Huomi's neck to his ankles.

The two of them just helped Huomi to the outside of the branch cave.

The movement just now brought some children in. They looked inside the mouth of the branch cave to see what the three men were doing.

When the second door was opened and the first door was opened, the wind under the rotors rushed into the cave with snow, and at the same time, it also blew the three people who were about to get out of the cave for a moment, and then they moved to the collector against the wind and snow.

The moment the two doors of the collector were automatically closed, the wind, loud noise, and cold were all shut out of the machine.

A voice inside the machine asked, "Are you ready?" Everybody. ”

"That's it!" Lesia responded: "Take off." ”

As the machine vibrated more and more, and the shadows of the snow outside the window became less and less, the collector left the ground on one side and rose into the air with a slight jump.

The collector flew in a southerly direction. Inside the machine, Remmy sat on the cushion by the window on the left, while Lesia sat on the right window on the other side.

"You're a man, you can't go with me." Rice said to Chad.

"With such bad weather, I'm not at ease to let you go alone. Besides, when I get there, I can hide away from it. ”

"What about her? She couldn't go either. Huomi glanced at Lesia and pointed out to Chad. And Lesia just stared at everything outside the window, she neither looked at the two nor participated in their conversation.

"She? She is a woman, why can't a woman go? ”

"She doesn't have children. What are you going to do? ”

"Why doesn't she have children, she wants to have children. Don't believe you ask her. ”

"I, how can I ask! Ay! Didn't you use any backpack to give birth? ”

"Maybe she won't want to carry any bag by then, and she wants to go to the volcano to have a baby like you!"

"I'm here to study how you have children," Le Siya interjected, "If you study well, maybe you won't have to have such a painful way of giving birth in the future." ”

"You mean, give us that kind of backpack too?" Hummy asked.

"That's right! That's what it means. ”

Outside the window, a column of smoke rose from the direction of the window and rose to a high altitude.

The collector didn't fly very high, and when I looked into it, I could see what the ground was below the window. Huomi also leaned closer to the window and looked out.

I saw a clear black narrow strip of land on the snow-covered ground, running east-west. Many of the trees around this area are spitting fire or black smoke. This black color is the color of the land that has been hit by a meteorite and turned to the surface.

"Wow! It may have just been visited by a meteorite. You see the smoke and the fire are blazing. Chade said to Huomi: "You also said that you want to come alone, now you can see clearly, see how dangerous it must be along the way." Huomi didn't say a word when he looked at him.

"You used to produce on this volcano in the south, didn't you? Rice in the fire. Lesia asked.

"I don't know, we didn't have anything to say about the North and the South before."

"The general direction is right, right?"

Huomi shook her head: "I can't see it on this, and now that the ground is full of snow, I can't see it." ”

"Just tell me where you're going to fly from your house and how long it will take."

"We didn't have time to say before."

"Whew! Right! Le Siya pondered for a moment: "Why, after you flew from home to the place, it was not dark yet, right?" ”

"Hmmm! There is no black! ”

"Whew! That's right. ”

"What's wrong? Wrong direction? Not this volcano? Chad asked Lesia.

"I'm just making sure, yes. Judging by the distance from the flight time of the fire rice, that is, the distance between the volcano in the south is appropriate, and the other volcanoes are too far away, not quite like the place she said. ”

"Tighten your seatbelts, I'm going to avoid a meteorite." A loud male voice came from the buzzer in the machine.

"Look at your seat belts." Lethia prompted Chad and Hummy, and she herself used her hands to move the safety of the connection from the shoulders to the shoulders. Chad's seat belt and the sleeping bag that held her were both pulled to confirm reliability. (To be continued.) )