"The book says that a long time ago, people lived on the earth, and they breathed air that was a hundred times cleaner than it is now, drank water that was a hundred times purer than it is now, and ate food that was a hundred times better than it is now.

"The book says that cockroaches were only the size of fingers, ants were not as thick as fingernails, rats at that time would not bite a large piece of meat on people, and earthworms would not attack our houses at every turn, because the houses at that time were all on the ground." The book says that at that time, everyone could live to be over eighty years old, and men at that time did not need to stand guard all day for the settlement, did not need to work day and night to expand the space, and did not need to worry about the mutated creatures that would appear at any time.

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"The book says that in those days, everyone could see the sky every day. The book says that the sky is a more beautiful blue than the roofs of the richest people in the entire underground kingdom with the purest bluegrass juice, and the book says that the sky is very high, higher than the height of the ground of the five Night God Province and the height of the Night God Province dome combined...... However, I still don't know what the sky looks like, though I'm curious to know, just as I've never been to the Night God Province, never seen the invisible Night God Dome, never seen the richest people in the entire Underground Country, and never seen the roof that the richest people have painted out of the purest bluegrass juice.

"Because I'm just a normal guy in a little settlement called Spices on the frontier of the Pioneers. In our Speith, the highest place on the roof is none other than Veteran Sean Square, and the furthest distance from the ground to the top is nothing more than the memorial platform in Veteran's Sean Square to the place where two fists are on top of Mr. Sean's memorial. My brother Dan and I often carried my dad on his back to climb Mr. Sean's statue, because my dad said that Mr. Sean was a hero in town, and he always didn't allow us to touch Mr. Shaun's statue, let alone climb it. But Mr. Sean's commemorative statue is actually not that tall, Dan and I calculated that the two dads together can touch Mr. Sean's nose......"

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"Oh, what an unbearable composition...... Garcia wrinkled his nose as he read what he had written down as a teenager, and then threw the yellowed notebook into the storage box next to the earthen table as if he were carrying something unclean.

"I still remember that this was a proposition essay called "Sky" that Mr. Hyde asked us to write when I was in the third grade of the basic school, and now it seems that the words in it are simply childish and unsightly, vomit~" The teenager also made a vomiting onomatopoeia, as if it was really an unbearable memory, but the boy's eyes flickered in the dim light were full of remembrance, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, which obviously betrayed his inner idea of yearning for childhood. But soon, his gaze darkened, and he pulled out a wry smile, "Childhood that yearned for the sky without restraint, but in the entire underground country, at least in the ...... of Spice"

The boy leaned back in a clay chair, sighed, and then threw his hair back. The room was wet, the chair and table were cold, and when Garcia leaned back in the chair, he found that his already dirty undershirt had been made even dirtier by the back of the chair, but he didn't care, instead he leaned his head against the wet dirt chair. The hair, which had already been yellowed due to malnutrition, was immediately stained with a grayish earthy color.

It was a small room, which looked like a room made of soft earth into a brick wall, and was roughly a cube with a length and width of five meters and a height of two meters, except for the tables, chairs, beds, and cabinets that were also made of clay. The Spicers call it the box. Because they live underground and do not have a vast living environment on the ground, the Spices can only seek the best living conditions in the limited underground space. Since the first batch of pioneers who came to Spices more than 100 years ago found that the loose soil here was suitable for compressing into hard mud bricks and leaving enough living space for themselves, digging earth and bricks to build houses has become the best and only way for Spices people to survive and develop outward. More than 100 years later, a group of outstanding Spices youths have transformed this place from the first 5x5x2 living space to what it is today through their own efforts - hundreds of families bustling here, thousands of boxes have been built over the years, and together with the hollowed-out two-box-high dome, it has become the whole picture of Spices Town.

In fact, it was only a matter of more than ten years to make the dome, at the beginning, only to commemorate the veteran Sean Shawn, the veteran of the town guard, there were two box-high domes in Sean Square, so that people could see the appearance of the heroes who guarded them even when they gathered, but many Spayers said that looking at the high dome in the square would have a sense of comfort and relaxation, which slowly led to the dome that now covers the entire town. But if you really want to talk about it, the dome of Sean Square is the highest, in order to reflect the lofty position of the square in the hearts of the people of the town, everyone dug up the dome height of the third box on the basis of the dome of two boxes in other places, and the extra clay was made into better quality adobe bricks and paved on the entire square and the roads leading to various places. Of course, that's all irrelevant.

"Teacher Hyde...... I don't know where the teacher who resigned from his basic school position and embarked on the path of pursuing the truth on his own has gone......" Garcia muttered to himself against the roof, as if thinking about something, his upper and lower lips pursed together.

"Garcia!"

The shouts from outside the door rushed into the boy's ears with several echoes, Garcia sat up and looked at the place where the sound came from, the low box door, the light of the perpetual motion lamp set off the figure outside the door as brilliant as the mortal power god - the angular muscular silhouette, the functional shovel and toolbox on the back glowed with cold light under the light, Garcia's eyes couldn't see the appearance of the person well when he first looked at it, he only felt that it was a silhouette full of power, After a closer look, I realized that the silhouette had a scruffy beard and Mediterranean hair, and there was a bit of anger on it.

"Daddy, what's wrong?" Garcia stood up suddenly, it stands to reason that this point should be when he was working on the border construction site, why did his father appear at the door of the house? Could it be that he did something bastard that caused his father to come all the way back? Thinking that he hadn't done anything bad recently, the young man felt a little relieved, but he was still puzzled, "Why did this point come back?" ”

"I, Cai, didn't come back!" Mediterranean Daddy glared, "Look what your bastard brother has done!" ”

"Uh, Dan?" Garcia pursed his lips and thought, what bad thing can that kid do? It's nothing more than what I had left over from playing with my childhood, let me guess, digging the power lines buried in the ground with a small shovel? Prie open the door of the Spices Workshop warehouse and steal the calorie-clad biscuits stored inside? Throwing adobe bricks into the pump? Or did it sneak up on Mr. Sean's head again?

"Your brother has snuck on Mr. Sean's head again! This time, I was caught by Mayor Daxter! "Mediterranean Daddy's anger is not ordinary, and he must have been reprimanded by Mayor Daxter first. He put his hand behind his back, and pulled hard from behind, and a half-old yellow-haired child was dragged out from behind, the child was about twelve or thirteen years old, and his face was covered with mud stains from east to west and west together.

The child sobbed and sobbed, and choked when he cried, and before he could slow down, "Brother......" The child sobbed and whispered to Garcia.

"Okay, Dad, the people have also been arrested, scolded and beaten and beaten, Mr. Sean has not fallen, Dan will let me go here, I will educate him, you go to work hard." Garcia smiled at his father, who was still angry, got up from his chair and walked to the door, "The salary of the basic teacher alone in the family can't support the whole family, not to mention that the school was attacked by a fringe earthworm swarm a few days ago, and I am still unemployed at home." If you don't go to work again, we won't have anything to eat tonight. ”

"Teacher, take care of your brother! It's carved out of the same mold as when you were a child, and you were still in charge of Mr. Hyde at that time, and what about your brother? The old man was still thinking in pieces, and the boy had already smiled and pushed him out of the door, and turned in the direction of the construction site.

"Hurry up, Daddy, Dan, I'm measured here!" The boy gave another slap on Mediterranean Daddy's back, and Daddy reluctantly walked towards the construction site.

"Go Dad, when you're late and miss your salary, I'm really going to drink muddy soup again tonight!" The Mediterranean just started running, and soon disappeared at the end of the dim light.

The basic school teacher at the time, yes, that's who Garcia is now. To be precise, Garcia has been in charge of the learning of the third-year students at the Basic School since Mr. Hyde resolutely finished teaching his last class of students three years ago and left Spice with his bags on his back. In the words of Mr. Hyde, "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", oh come on, Garcia said to himself more than once that if he had thought that old Hyde would suddenly jump out to chase his dreams, he would not participate in the last so-called basic school last academic test. The day before the old man left, he was still at the school gate and said to himself with a smile, and in the future, I will not be there, and the school will depend on you, and I will be stupidly sensational, and I almost burst into tears...... There are stupid enough.

Anyway, it was too late to say anything after the old man was gone, and the school was only closed for one day, and the next day Garcia forcibly came to the staff office to report as Hyde's personal student and the first in the school's final test.

"Well, since you're on a thief ship, let's be a thief." Garcia said this to himself, and then began his career as a teacher. At that time, Garcia was only sixteen years old, but at the age of sixteen, Spice was already old enough to start a family and start working, so the fact that the sixteen-year-old erudite boy was a teacher did not make the people in the town complain, not to mention that when Mr. Hyde was still there, he almost approved Garcia as the successor teacher.

It has been three years since I became a teacher, and the boy who was sixteen is now nineteen years old, and my younger brother has grown from a young and ignorant to a thirteen-year-old who is active and rebellious. The most direct change is that when I was thirteen years old, my hobby of climbing the Sean Memorial Statue was perfectly restored to my younger brother Dan......

"Oh, my night god ......" sent away the angry Mediterranean father, the yellow-haired boy looked at the yellow-haired boy in front of him and the mud on the yellow-haired boy's face that was as clean as the ground, and couldn't help laughing, "I said Dan......"

"Brother, I was wrong, I shouldn't climb Mr. Sean's likeness, I won't climb Mr. Sean next time......" The yellow-haired boy who saw his father go away was obviously much more clever, and he didn't care about his face full of mud, and he gave a verbal guarantee to Garcia vigorously.

Garcia, who saw this scene, couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Okay, go wash your face first, and talk about other things later." ”