"Uncle, this is yours, Uncle Beard, give it to you, long ears...... Grandma, your, wow, uncle help, woo woo, sister with long ears, I don't dare. ”

Well, the poor girl was beaten again.

Compared to the small rooms in the city center, Delia's home is quite large, or rather, the West Outer Ring is a large and sparsely populated area, and all the buildings are much larger than the city center. Usually the house where Delia lives alone, even if the shadow chasers enter, it doesn't seem crowded at all, and the eight people are just right to move in it, imagine if Delia is the only one, it seems a little too deserted.

The architectural style is very rough, the interior decoration is also very simple, the furniture is very old, and there is no furnishings, on the utility cabinet, there are several picture frames, and the portraits inside are clear as if they were real, well, maybe not portraits, but images left directly by special technology.

In the portrait, a pair of adult men and women holding swaddling babies are smiling brightly, it should be Delia's parents, but unfortunately, soon after Delia learned to walk, there is no portrait record left, presumably since then, her parents have left her forever.

Maybe it's been a long time since anyone has been a guest at home, but Delia seems to be very happy, and as soon as she enters, she runs into the kitchen and gets busy. According to her, the lumpy stuff she ate in Haven these days is just compressed biscuits to eat in an emergency, and they can't be counted as food at all, everyone is an alien guest, and it would be too embarrassing for everyone to eat that kind of thing, so you must prepare some hearty food to entertain the guests.

Soon, the kitchen was filled with the sound of clanging busyness, and there was a trip out of the kitchen, but within half an hour, the food was on the table. In my heart, it really wasn't hearty, but judging from Delia's subtle expression, in the Brown Star, or in the West Outer Ring District, such food was enough to entertain guests.

The staple food is not the bread that everyone is used to, but the rice that is a specialty of some parts of the eastern and southern parts of Pavatiga, Delia introduced, there is no season in the city in the sky, the constant temperature is in autumn, and the crops are artificially modified, and they are ripe in January, so although the planting range is not large, the food is enough to supply the consumption of seven or eight hundred thousand people in the city in the sky.

The dishes are also very monotonous, a few plates of green vegetables, a bowl of vegetable soup, and the green vegetables are deliberately salty, which is the usual method used by Pavatiga's difficult people. Unexpectedly, there is actually a plate of bacon, the bacon is thinly cut, almost transparent, and the quantity is not much, looking at Delia's actions when eating, she deliberately ignored the existence of bacon several times, I am afraid that it is already a very luxurious food for this girl. Well, for some reason, Shuer suddenly felt a sense of sympathy, woo, this kind of life is all too familiar.

Taste the bacon, it is indeed meat, but the taste is very special, I can't taste what kind of meat it is, put a few pieces into Delia's plate, the girl was stunned, showed a bright smile, and chewed on the luxury goods that she usually couldn't eat.

"What kind of meat is this?" Shul also tasted a slice, it was also very salty, and the meat was relatively delicate, but it was really impossible to determine the source of the meat, maybe it was a local creature.

"Huh? It's meat. Delia stopped her movements and looked at Shul in bewilderment.

"I mean where it came from, not to mention the store. ”

"Source? Synthesized in the factory. ”

"Huh?" This time it was the turn of the shadow chasers to be stunned, the meat still needs to be synthesized?

"Eh, I suddenly remembered a question. "Moria never touched the meat from beginning to end, and was entertaining herself with a few green vegetables, oh no, happy eating," It seems that since we came, we have never seen other creatures, not to mention birds and beasts, because it is a city in the sky, and rats can be ignored, but insects have never been seen, which is a bit strange. ”

"Rats, bugs?" Delia was even more confused, "what are they?"

"Could it be that there are no other creatures on your planet except humans?"

"Other creatures?ah, I see. Delia suddenly realized, "It is said that a long time ago, there were still dozens of species of creatures on the Brown Star, but they all slowly became extinct, and since the last extinction hundreds of years ago, only humans are left on the Brown Star. Ha, this is all knowledge in the history class of the basic education school, and I have almost forgotten it after leaving school for too long. ”

"Plants are still there, and microorganisms should still be there, otherwise plants and humans will not be able to live, but it is difficult to say about the formed organisms. As an expert in life sciences, Miridi whispered to her companions, "Even so, the biosphere is so strange that it is hard to imagine that living in such a biosphere can continue for human beings." ”

"Well, the world is full of dissonance. Shuer also frowned and said, "I always feel that something is wrong. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing is right, the environment is weird, the city is weird, the people are weird, there is nothing wrong. Xiuer pondered for a moment and whispered, "No matter how much, the task is priority, we will evacuate as soon as possible when we get the information, and what happens in this world has nothing to do with us." ”

"Hush. Mia sneered, "That's a nice thing to say, people are screaming uncles one after another, I don't believe you can do it." ”

"Uncle, what's wrong?" Delia sat opposite, couldn't hear the whispered exchange of several people, tilted her head and asked curiously, "Your planet, aren't creatures extinct yet?"

"Well, not yet. "Damn, maybe I really can't do it," Shure rolled his eyes at himself and said to himself, "Tell us about your city, I think it's curious, the island-like floating city, it's difficult to produce anything other than food, how to operate." ”

"Huh~~" The teammates let out a coaxing chuckle at the same time, saying that it doesn't matter so much, saying that it doesn't matter too much about the world, and saying that it is good that he is cold-blooded and cruel, and no one cares.

Shut up for me, this is intelligence acquisition, in order to increase the success rate of the mission, you know the shit. Shul suppressed the senseless resistance of his teammates with a murderous look.

"Since the mechanical apocalypse, the land outside the capital area has been completely lost, ground traffic has been completely cut off, air traffic has been blocked, and only shuttles can travel between cities. ”

"Wait, shuttle?" Shul interrupted Delia, "What's that?"

"I don't understand, I heard that it is a kind of passage at high speed, completely unaffected by the anti-aircraft fire of the mechanical beast, and the speed is very fast, you can fly to another city in a few minutes, but unfortunately the human body can't withstand this mode of transportation at all, and can only use drones to transport goods. ”

"Space teleportation. Mia explained in a low voice, "It's very similar, the essence of spatial teleportation is actually to use magic to create a direct passage between two points in space, but teleportation will also collapse the space so that it can be reached instantly, and the shuttle here still needs to travel through the process." ”

"Well, I see. Shuer nodded, "Are you just relying on the shuttle to exchange supplies with other cities?"

"Other cities? No, no, no, the shuttle channel is fixed, and the floating city only has a passage to the capital area, and each city directly exchanges goods with the capital area. ”

"It's the capital area again. Xiuer said thoughtfully, "I really want to go to the capital area to see, is it true that the shuttle can't sit people?"

"Uncle, don't do anything stupid. "I didn't expect Delia to react so much, she stood up so violently that she almost knocked over her chair, "More than thirty years ago, someone tried to hide in the shuttle to smuggle in, but when they were discovered, they could only see a large pool of flesh and blood, and their bodies had turned into a thin piece of paper pasted on the wall. ”

"High pressure due to high speed. Mia frowned, "The effect is a bit exaggerated, incomprehensible speed, however, it is not recommended to take the risk of trying, judging from the effect of her dictation, our body may not be able to withstand it." ”

"Hmm. Shuer nodded and continued to ask, "In other words, you have been relying on the materials allocated by the capital area?"

"It's not distribution, the capital area only allocates the most basic maintenance energy and minerals to the sky city, it's miserable, it's worse than my current living conditions, I want a better life, and all the rest of the materials, including luxury goods, have to be obtained by exchange. ”

"In exchange for what?"

"A small number of luxury goods produced in the East Outer Ring District, mainly rely on reporting technology, that is, those things that you are interested in, uncle, after evaluation, you can get a large number of trading points, and you can exchange a lot of things. ”

"Tsk, interesting. The shadowchasers quickly exchanged glances, and the strange social structure was almost like ...... "Breeding?"

Locked in a closed space, feeding resources, and then regularly harvesting scientific and technological achievements, this is simply a standard captive mode, too strange, the original mechanical apocalypse, human beings can escape to the floating city, is it really because of the small number of machines in the sky city?

"There's no need, Shure. Saf knew what Shul was thinking, and whispered in his ear, "If it is true that the machines have life, and the captive humans obtain technology, there is no need to launch a mechanical invasion every once in a while, and don't forget that there are some floating cities that have been destroyed by the attack of the machines, and there is no need for them to destroy their wealth." ”

"No, there is a saying in my hometown, comfort can only lead to death, only suffering and rough life can bring people fighting spirit, and mechanical invasion may not be the reason. But the situation is not clear now, it is too early to say anything, let's ...... first"

"Knock, knock", in the center of the city in the distance, suddenly there was a continuous roar, which was similar to the sound of the crystal cannon firing.

Hearing this voice, Delia got up and walked to the window, looking out of the window with a somewhat stunned expression: "Mourning cannon, this mechanical invasion, one hundred and seventeen citizens, have left this world forever." ”