Chapter 883: The Message Revealed by the Hymn
Chapter 883: The Message Revealed by the Hymn
"Hey, hey! Hurry up! It's time to sing praise! ”
A loud voice came from outside the door, interrupting the conversation between Glick and us, and he stood up happily and said, "Ha, the party has begun!" Water droplets, hurry up, get ready to go out. ”
The little girl named Shuizhu put down the half-eaten hard food in her mouth, and ran to open the door in small steps, this is indeed a child who does not like to talk, from just now to now, she is hiding alone in the farthest corner from us eating her own things, looking at us strangers with cautious eyes, only my sister and adult can be considered successful in chatting with her, we can only learn about this little family from Glick's mouth - just out of curiosity, we are curious about this twisted world, How do the most ordinary brother and sister like Glick live?
"Glick, what about your parents? There are only two of you brothers and sisters at home? ”
Tsuiko inadvertently remembered this question, because we didn't see any adults in this small family from the beginning, it is said that today is the town's rest day, and all the adults who work on the metal station on weekdays will rest at home on this day, but so far there is only a little girl who doesn't talk much - what about Glick's parents?
"Mom left at a very early age, and when I was five years old, she worked at the Heavy Elemental Fabricator and got infected," Gorrik's expression was a little gloomy, but it wasn't too sad, thinking that he had come to terms with this fact very early, "Dad hasn't been home for two years, but he's a great guy!" ”
When Grek mentioned his father, who hadn't been home for two years, his face immediately brought a look of pride: "He worked on a big ship, and even took a spaceship to the 'Little Triangle Island' at the end of the world, and found a brand new vector engine from there!" It's not easy for people from small towns to work on big ships, and I received news from him a few months ago that he was going to work on a big warship, and as long as he worked for a year, our family would be upper-class. However, I haven't heard from him recently, and I've heard that working on a warship can't be casually connected to the outside world......"
"Brother, it's time for us to get out."
The small sound of water droplets interrupted Glick's somewhat excited narration, and the thin girl wore a brighter dress, the material of which looked a bit like plastic fibers, shiny, and it was clear that this should be one of the best clothes in this little house.
There were already a lot of adults gathered in the circular square, I looked around, there were about one or two hundred people in my sight, this settlement was really not big, these two hundred people were all the adult residents of the town, they were all wearing dull and old coarse cloth overalls, with solid muscles, and a sturdy physique that had been trained by doing physical work in the metal station all year round, and even the women were the same, they spontaneously formed several circles around the center of the square, Keeping a distance from the metal countertop with the blood-red triangular insignia in the center of the square, on which the old man Barnard, who had a previous relationship, stood on the triangular insignia, and it seemed that he was indeed the mayor of the town, or at least the most respectable old man, and the so-called "hymn celebration" was presided over by him.
More than a dozen children, ranging from four or five years old to twelve or thirteen years old, ran around the outer edge of the circular square, as happy as a festival, shouting and fighting, and some of the bold ones would even take advantage of the adults' inattention to suddenly burrow into the square, drill under the feet of the adults, and then be scolded by their respective parents and thrown out of the circle: when singing hymns, children are not allowed to enter, they can only play outside.
Shallow was attracted by such a novel and alternative activity, and jumped up and down outside to get in, and Bingtis was more powerful than us, she had already led the Protoss Sliver Five to occupy the most central position in the square, and the townspeople there unconsciously vacated a large open space, but no one paid attention to the five: it was obvious that Monina had distorted the place with her divine powers, making the people around her ignore her.
Shallow immediately shouted and joined the circle of the five, and also pulled Yakumo Blue and the interested Poison Island Tsuneko......
Glick felt very inexplicable that several of us had suddenly "disappeared", because he was also one of the mortals affected by Monina's strength, but the nature of children did not make him think much about this after all, and soon, several children about his age ran over and invited Glick and Waterdrop to participate in their activities, Glick still proudly introduced "guests from the big city" to his friends this time, which almost became a few words of reflex after he met the townspeople, And Shui Zhu turned her head to look at Lilina before being called away by a girl, and asked expectantly, "Do you want to play together?" ”
Lilina's expression was instantly stunned: "...... Ha? ”
"Take this doll......" Shui Zhu timidly pointed to the mercury lamp that was dozing off my shoulder, and the latter looked up in a daze, reacted for a few seconds, and then began to frantically toss my sleeve and try to pull my head off, and kept yelling.
Glick's sister is really amazing, I am very worried that her next step is to invite Pandora and Viska to participate in a game of a group of little girls, it is definitely enough to trigger the beginning of the disaster that will lead to the end of the world, there is nothing more than being invited by a group of little girls with an average age of ten years as peers to stimulate the soul of resentment in Pandora's heart - is it easy to grow one meter two? Seeing the malnourished droplets, they are almost as tall as her!
In order to save this world, I quickly made an excuse to let Glick take his sister to accompany the bear children, leaving Lilina who had fallen into resentment and the mercury lamp that was still frantically biting my scalp, the largest bishop of one meter and nine muttered sullenly, as the spiritual pillar of hundreds of millions of believers, she was invited by a group of bear children just now, which is definitely a great shame for her, the little girl gritted her teeth and thought for a long time, and suddenly stood up and was full of momentum: "No! This look is simply not conducive to action! Sister Sandora, you can help interfere, I'll change my body! ”
We understand what Lilina said about changing her body, she will change into a royal sister every once in a while, become a girl, change a young woman and something like that to wander outside, but it is also a disguise on the outside, and she is still a guy of one meter and nine meters in her bones, Shandora helped to interfere with the perception of the ordinary people around her, and Lilina became a royal sister with a height of one meter and seventy long hair and hips in a burst of green light, and she also specially changed herself to an emoji copied from Gianna, and then jumped to the ground......
Ran over to find those little girls and hopscotch.
We: "......"
Dare to ask you, is there any point in going to those little girls hopscotch after you grow more than 60 centimeters taller?
"Ha Lu Ha! That fool! ”
The mercury lamp almost pulled over my shoulder, and then there was another flash of light next to me, and before I could react, I saw a tall girl of about 1.7 meters walk out from behind the black shadow that rose up behind everyone at some point to cover the sight, and she still had a face like Pandora had grown up a little - this was Pandogothra.
"Let's go find Lilina!"
From the mouth of the combined version of "Pandogodzilla", the double voices of the Pandora sisters overlapped, and after the merger, the one-meter-seven dwarf winter melon looked at the pseudo-Lori who was also one-meter-seven after the transformation in the distance, and the cold wind in her eyes was steep, and my sister hurriedly reminded: "Don't forget to come back quickly, you can be combined for five minutes......"
"It's ten minutes!"
The double dwarf winter melon glanced at his body rather proudly, and then walked in the direction of Lilina, but only after taking two steps turned back, and pecked me in the face with the thunderous speed that the bell jingled, before walking away......
It's normal to say that Pandora and Viska rub on themselves or something, but after they got together, they came together to make such a gesture that people couldn't react, so I was stunned for a few seconds on the spot, and in these few seconds, what was the mercury lamp doing?
She resolutely went violent......
A Lilina suddenly turned into a royal sister and attacked gorgeously in front of her, and even the little puppet was still interested in complaining about the pseudo-Lori goddess official maliciously selling cute and tender hopscotch, but then I saw that the most hardcore dwarf winter melon in the family also became a combination of one meter and seven high, it was different, looking at her thunderous 92.3 body, the little tempered puppet girl began to go crazy and curse and bite my brain, and I had to coax the child in a hurry: "Little light, don't envy them for the time being, Have you forgotten that you still have a form of more than 100 meters? ”
The mercury lamp was the same when he thought about it, but the second thought was a bad thing: "Isn't there more than 20,000 meters and a half meters high?!" ”
Everyone: "......"
The daily life of a bear child is simply too big.
At this time, the gathering of this strange town was about to begin, and the adults of the town were participating, and they were in a circle around the mayor, and the old man Barnard was talking in a subdued tone, holding an old information terminal in his hand, and the glimmer of light from the terminal cast a blue glimmer on his face. It was still late in the evening when we first arrived, but now it was night, and it was the first night we had seen in this world of ruins, and like everything else in this space, the night was man-made: the large fusion reactors in the sky were dimming so much that the metal rings around them that were used to generate strong magnetic fields could be easily observed with the naked eye, and the light around them gradually dimmed, and the street lights in the town came on at the right time, and the brightest light was this small circular square, Several lampposts around it were humming lowly, and the glowing crystals at the top were becoming more and more dazzling, making it seem like daytime.
A couple of muscular men brought out a sound device that looked like a large resonance system on the bridge for broadcasting, but it had been remodeled in a crude way, with a lot of messy cables connected to the data terminal in Barnard's hand (as if that thing's network function was broken?). The big thing that had been used to broadcast to the bridge was now only a grossly under-volume, out-of-tune musical sound, hoarse and unpleasant, or even out of tune, and the townspeople sang in unison with a festive look to the soundtrack:
“…… Praise the ancient gods who created this world, praise the ancient gods who have given me endless riches, who have left us everything so that we will always have enough food and clothing...... They have piled up the entire world with beautiful resources, everything is inexhaustible, and they have watered the universe with infinite energy, so that we will never have to worry about darkness......"
More than 100 metal station workers sang in chorus, and they were accompanied by something that was out of tune from the first note, and its lyrics were so tongue-twisting and unrhythmic, of course, the melodiousness of this hymn can be imagined, but everyone was very engaged, as if they were really gratefully praising this "beautiful" world, and I and Shandora looked at each other and listened to the strange chorus around us, and felt weird and embarrassed......
And thinking that this world world is actually the wreckage of a war of destruction in Viskar back then, we feel that in addition to being embarrassed, there are also bursts of strange feelings welling up in our hearts.
At this time, the hymn had reached the last few bars, but these last few words caught the attention of me, Sandora, and even my sister:
“…… The treasures of the world are everywhere, the legacies of the divine angels are endless, we have brilliant machines, we can draw clean water and sacred food, but all of these are gifts that we should follow carefully...... We cannot leave the worldly realm, we cannot leave our homeland, we cannot leave the universe, beyond the borders of God, there is endless darkness and brokenness, and we will enjoy heaven forever because of the protection of the barrier, but deviating from the teachings will invite disaster! Those who stay away from the three stars will be tired, those who are far away from the Great Ruins will be displaced, and those who are far away from the storm and the ocean will be crushed!
Praise be to the gods! ”
The chaotic and unwitting hymn ended with a chorus of praise to the gods, and my sister leaned over and whispered to me, "It seems that in this world, it is forbidden to explore beyond those ruins. ”
"And it is forbidden as a kind of religious power, and in this kind of social system, the power of religion is probably the most effective means of restraint." A crisp and pleasant but somewhat unfamiliar voice sounded in my ears, I turned my head, but I saw the royal sister's version of Lilina came over without knowing when, and unconsciously lay on my back, suddenly, the soft touch made me have a layer of goosebumps - mainly because of the subtle eyes of Sandora next to me for a moment made people feel great pressure, I knocked Lilina on the head without saying a word, and knocked her back to the prototype of one meter and nine: although the warm fragrance of nephrite is a kind of enjoyment, you have to see whose nephrite jade, Lilina, this wonderful girl, is definitely not an ideal welfare broadcaster, they all say that women are made of water, but I have 10,000 reasons to prove that Lilina is actually made of water kings - believe her, you just wait for even the bones to be melted away!
"Hey, the boss really doesn't understand the amorous feelings, I don't want people to stuff such a beautiful body into you," Lilina rubbed the bag on her head, looked up at this side with a sad height of one meter and nine meters, and gave a charming and moving white eye, and then under the increasingly courageous gaze of Shandora, the girl became serious, "It's easy to see, the three stars refer to the three largest ruined planets in the center of this space, The Great Ruins Ring refers to the wreckage of large and small spaceships floating in space, as well as the floating islands and satellites where the wreckage is piled up, as for the storm ocean, it is undoubtedly the area where the general flagship is currently anchored, and the layer of 0.3 light-years thick ghost energy enrichment belt. Exploration and mining of the Ruined Planet and the Great Ruined Ring are allowed, but leaving the Great Ruins Ring and exploring the Storm Ocean will be warned, and as for going deep into the Storm Ocean or even trying to pass through it - the local church curses that the kind of person will be crushed, which is remarkable. ”
"But the logbook we got from the Eternals that crashed on Mars has a lot of coordinates in the spectral enrichment zone," Sandora rubbed her chin with a solemn expression, "In other words, that ship is not ordinary." ”
"Now I've connected the dots," my sister reminded us of something, "remember the video in the logbook, which mentions that the ship is being attacked by some fanatics?" ”
"It may be that the religious forces of this world are intercepting the pioneers who are trying to leave this universe," I suddenly realized, "and then we can finally figure out why the ship was destroyed." ”
"But that doesn't mean much to us, does it," Sandora shrugged, then picked up a strand of blonde hair and played with it around her hand, "I don't care what the ship was wrecked for, I just want to know that this world was created and who Viska fought with here...... Looking at the scale of the wreckage of this universe, the fragments of the spaceship even formed several planets, it is likely that half of Visk's small army of destruction was folded here, and such a large-scale battle must not be a simple encounter...... And the barrier that separates this space from the void is also very curious, there is absolutely no such technique in the old imperial era, at least I have not heard of it, the war that broke out here 720,000 years ago not only destroyed a universe, but also left behind a network structure that is still inexplicable, which is really curious. Besides, what is the matter with the indigenous inhabitants of this universe, why are they in the wreckage of the Legion of Destruction and worshipping Visk's legacy, are they a vassal race of some emperor of the Old Empire or even a vassal race of Viska? These questions are more and more curious. ”
Sandora's words caused several of us to agree, indeed, as we spend more and more time in this ruined world, and learn more about the "post-apocalyptic life" here, our curiosity is gradually mobilized, and these things mentioned by Sandora are only a small part of the curiosity, but now there is too little accurate information, and it will probably take a few days to understand the truth of 720,000 years ago......
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