Chapter 17: Out of the Desert
Zhang Yimin sat in the car, carefully looking at the computer screen in front of him, which showed seven points of light, which were the approximate location of the crashed spacecraft determined by him and Wiener, although he had already seen it, but he still decided to confirm it carefully, and also review the relevant information.
After the Great Apocalypse, the topography of the entire world has changed dramatically, and there are currently only three lands that can be regarded as continents, and the rest are covered by oceans.
There are not a few islands in the ocean, but human beings have lost interest in the ocean, because after the great destruction, most marine organisms have a greater chance of survival because of the protection of seawater, and there are more genetic mutations.
After losing a number of warships and submarines one after another, human beings gave up their interest in further exploring the ocean, and the resources of the seabed were basically developed, and the sea could not provide more things except for the water resources needed by the earth, so human beings turned their attention to space, and the sea has truly become a paradise for marine life!
After years of reproduction and predation, marine life has gradually reached a dynamic equilibrium, and now living human beings can only experience the joy of sailing in old materials, but no one has tried it anymore.
As for the three continents, human beings actually only occupy a very small part of them, and most of them are located in the desert area near the sea, only here, when it was first established, there was no need to defend it on all sides, and later this became the habit of setting up a location for living quarters.
Only in the desert is the existence of orcs and the level of danger is relatively low, because there is no such thing as water necessary for life to survive!
Although the orcs are fierce and strong, they cannot convert seawater into fresh water like humans, and can only live on water.
Now that the earth's exploitable resources are running out, smart humans will not waste their lives to reoccupy the middle of the continent just to see green.
When the Living Circle was first built, there were some groups that tried it, but after the Life Circle was completed, this kind of thing rarely happened, because human beings need to concentrate more forces to find a place that is more suitable for the development of all mankind.
For the area occupied by the orcs, but because of the nuclear dust, the satellite has no way to monitor in detail, and can only take some blurry photos, although there are also some adventure enthusiasts who enter the exploration, but there is no one who can successfully come out, and slowly this place has become another forbidden area for humans!
These are all things that Zhang Yimin learned from the Internet, of course, they are only popular science materials to avoid ignorant people from going into the Jedi, and some of the more valuable content exists as top-secret information.
People only refer to the three continents as the East Continent, the West Continent and the Middle Continent respectively according to their geographical location, and Zhang Yimin's location is the westernmost side of the West Continent, not far from the sea.
Two of those seven points of light were obviously located in the ocean, and even if Zhang Yimin was given a warship, he didn't have the confidence to challenge those huge sea creatures, not to mention that he only had an off-road vehicle now.
The remaining four points of light have one in the East Continent, one in the West Continent, and two in the Middle Continent, and he is now sailing towards the point of light in the West Continent, about three thousand kilometers away from the spaceship of Wiener Star, the captain of this spaceship is a good friend of Wiener Star, Pu Suqing!
Now Zhang Yimin's biggest headache is that there is a huge mountain range on the route, if you want to bypass this mountain range, you have to add at least a few thousand kilometers of distance, and he is about to drive out of the desert area, he doesn't dare to expect that there will be a repaired road waiting for him, although he is driving an off-road vehicle, but this thing must not be an airplane!
"Hey! , forget it, take one step at a time", looking at a green slowly appearing in the distance, Zhang Yimin knew that the paradise of relying on automatic driving had passed, and the road below would only become more and more difficult to walk!
Feeling that the car was driving on a solid road, Zhang Yimin stopped the car, there was a hill in front of him, and the car could still drive safely, but the weeds on the ground reminded him that there were creatures nearby, as for the danger, was it dangerous? "Are there any safe creatures now?" Zhang Yimin shook his head and got out of the car.
Under the reminder of Venastar, he specially prepared a barbecue house, and now even if he eats the nuclear-contaminated creatures, he can absorb the energy in them without poisoning.
However, he obviously has little interest in this, although this is the pure natural food he has been craving, but it is still difficult to agree psychologically, he doesn't want to eat any creature that looks like a human, it feels similar to cannibalism to him, and it feels disgusting to think about it!
It was where the desert meets the hills, and although there were still a few hours before sunset, he stopped his car and prepared to spend one last restful night on the edge of the desert.
Casually walked around the car, although there are only a few green weeds here, but it is already a novelty for him, this must be natural green!
Except in the movie, he has never seen real green plants, pulled a green grass, smelled it next to his nose, the grass juice has a bit of earthy smell, it is very fresh to him, but the feeling from the palm of his hand clearly tells him that this grass contains a trace of energy, it seems that this world is completely different from the information!
The hills are not very high, he casually walked to a high point to look around, at this time, although the sky can no longer see the legendary blue because of the nuclear dust, and it looks a little gray, but the vision is still good.
There are high mountains standing in the distance, I don't know why, Zhang Yimin always feels that there is danger waiting for him in front of him, close to the mountains, the green is getting denser and denser, and there should be a lot of animals hidden!
Before the advent of the Day of Apocalypse, there were very few wild animals on the continent, although in the later period, in order to protect the natural environment, countries paid more and more attention to plants and animals, and even carried out planned genetic duplication to ensure that wild animals would not be completely extinct, but what about the Great Destruction?
Compared with humans, animals have stronger survival and adaptability, so the chances of survival of animals are also greater, but after nuclear contamination and long-term inability to see sunlight due to nuclear fallout, it is impossible to say what the situation is.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Yimin returned to the car and had a conversation with Wiener, and they were all talking and laughing without nutrition, because nothing actually happened now, so there was nothing to talk about.
The most thing Wei Naxing said to him was "Safety first", and the most he replied was "Good people don't live long, bad people live for 10,000 years", this sentence Wei Naxing laughed for a long time after understanding the meaning.
After ending the call, Zhang Yimin got out of the car again and moved, the first time he saw such a beautiful scenery, he didn't take a good look, he felt sorry for himself.
The sun was about to set, Zhang Yimin returned to the car, ate something at random, turned on the computer and began to study the materials, he didn't know what he should learn first, anyway, what he got to see, and if he didn't understand, he would save it in another place to study it in the future.
Especially the information on Vena, Zhang Yimin can not understand much, because the scientific and technological level of Nahu Planet is not the same as that of Earth.
Although it is now said that this is the technology of Nahu Planet a hundred years ago, it is really difficult to fully understand it, so Zhang Yimin had to find some basic knowledge on the side of Earth Technology and start learning.
In this case, it is usually necessary to look at the information of the planet Nahu for one hour, and it is necessary to turn over the data of the earth for three or four hours, and it may not be possible to figure it out!
When chatting and studying with Wiener at night, the first thing Wiener did was to ask him to learn mechanical and electronic knowledge, in Wiener's words: "You must go out on your own in the future, if you can't even repair the tools you use to break down, will you drive out and walk back?" ”
Zhang Yimin deeply agrees with Wiener's words, although he is genetically judged to be suitable for the job of a filmmaker, but at least it shows that his imagination is very good, so he is not completely indifferent to abstract things such as machinery and electronics.
It took more than a month, although I didn't dare to brag that the car could be dismantled and reinstalled, but at least some small problems can always be repaired, in Zhang Yimin's opinion, this is already a great achievement.
Although Wiener Star has repeatedly reminded him that the device on the aircraft cannot be compared with this, Zhang Yimin always stubbornly believes that as long as it is mechanical, the principle is the same, but the aircraft is more complex and more sophisticated, so he has always focused on this aspect of learning, and Wiener Star is also happy to see this, so he will try his best to help him as much as he knows!
However, mechatronic knowledge is not something that can be learned in a few months, otherwise the aviation field will not be able to become the vane of scientific and technological development, but it doesn't matter to Zhang Yimin, "If you are happy to learn, you can learn the best, if you can't learn, then you can still repair cars!" For the first time, Vena Xing rolled his eyes when he learned Zhang Yimin, which made Zhang Yimin laugh for a long time.
After so many days, Zhang Yimin's understanding of machinery has become more and more profound, but the most headache for him is microelectronics, which is too profound, especially those complex circuits, sometimes only a hair-thick line is a few microns in the direction, and the role of the whole chip is completely different.
Looking at those complex circuit diagrams, Zhang Yimin feels that this is a perfect art, the only pity is that he has not been very interested in art, which makes him very headache, watching Wiener Xing explain the head of the circuit diagram, Zhang Yimin's admiration in his heart is really like a surging river.
"Old man! Is there anything you won't? Zhang Yimin was a little helpless. In the face of Wiener's vast knowledge, he felt a deep inferiority.
Wiener Xing's faint words made him close his mouth, "If you stay on a spaceship for decades and can only face these things every day, I believe you will learn better than me!" ”
Thinking of Venaxing's words, he couldn't help but smile, "That's right! I'm still young! There's nothing I can't do! ”
The time to study always passed quickly, and slowly he became tired, so he fell down directly to rest, "I spent the last peaceful night first, what will happen tomorrow?" Let's talk about it tomorrow! Zhang Yimin thought in a daze.