Chapter 13: The Newcomer
In the days that followed, the gathering place was in full swing.
Susie worked overtime to equip everyone with hook claws, and when they were free, everyone followed Lias to train how to play trapeze.
Barr, who was in charge of collecting the water that day, noticed that the water in the pipes had become much larger and hurried to tell Mamba.
After getting the news, Mamba called everyone, and everyone took the big cloth curtain that they were reluctant to use on weekdays, and came to the mouth of the water source pipe together.
Tang Hao has been studying the crawler robot for the past few days, but unfortunately his limited mechanical knowledge is not enough to understand the internal structure of this robot.
After seeing the strange behavior of the people, he immediately turned the camera to where they were.
This is a glass pipe with a diameter of about one meter, and there are always murky water drips in this pipe, which is also the source of drinking water for everyone.
Today the water flow in the pipes is much larger than usual, and a small pond has accumulated under the pipes.
However, the crowd did not rush to collect the water, and together they held a large curtain under the pipe, as if waiting for something.
Seeing that the water flow at the outlet of the pipe was getting bigger and bigger, Tang Hao couldn't help but be curious, could it be that what other treasures could fall out of this glass pipe?
"Wow!" A huge stream of water suddenly rushed out of the pipe, and the Mamba hurriedly shouted: "Hold on, don't let go!" ”
The current of the water staggered everyone to the side, and at the same time, a dark shadow rushed out of the pipe mixed with the current.
Everyone pulled the curtain in their hands, and finally held the black shadow in the center of the cloth, and only after the water stopped did the image of the black shadow appear.
It was a kid about 10 years old.
The child was curled up in a ball, his eyes closed, and before he could come to his senses, Mamba asked everyone to put him down, and slapped him on the back with a big slap.
With this slap, the child immediately let out a long gasp and coughed violently.
His lungs had just breathed for the first time, and his eyes were open for the first time.
Looking at the stranger in front of him, the child seemed to be a little frightened, and then he opened his mouth and began to cry.
Mamba looked at the child and said to Fran, "It's a girl, she's your daughter from now on." ”
Fran nodded, wrapped a piece of cloth around the girl, "Your name is Armand Graff, my daughter. ”
Tang Hao looked at everything in front of him, and his heart was extremely shocked.
He never thought that the people of this world did not reproduce naturally, but fell from the sky from a glass pipe.
This really solved a lot of Tang Hao's previous doubts.
For example, the family structure in the team has always puzzled him.
With the number of these dozen or so people in the gathering place, coupled with the long-term lack of communication with the outside world, it is impossible to multiply the population.
Now I know that there is no blood relationship between the upper and lower generations of the team.
All population replenishment is done by this pipeline.
Moreover, Tang Hao also found a key point from Armang, this newcomer born from the pipe, also has a module interface behind his neck.
This module interface has obviously just been implanted, and the surrounding wounds have not completely healed, and there are even blood streaks oozing.
He quickly figured out his thoughts.
At the upper end of this pipeline, there must be a human body manufacturing plant.
Whether it is fully automatic or human-operated, it is not known at this time.
But every once in a while, it throws a mature human individual into the pipe.
In this underground world, there must be more than one glass pipe exit like this.
This is the only reason why other agglomerations can thrive.
Moreover, it is clear that these human individuals were implanted with module ports before they were sent into the pipeline, so everyone in the underground world could access the module through the port.
Only Tang Hao himself is the only exception.
But after having this idea, Tang Hao also thought of a way to break the situation for himself.
Since the module port is implanted, as long as he can find the machine with the implanted port, he will be able to implant himself.
When the time comes, you will be able to access the module and thus gain freedom.
Although the process is complicated, at least Tang Hao sees a clear goal.
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The addition of a new person to the team is a great cause for celebration.
For the first time, Mamba took out the treasured spider jerky and distributed it to everyone for dinner.
With delicious food, the happiest are the young children.
Including Armand, there are now three children, two boys and one girl.
They are the hope for the future of the agglomeration and the focus of the team's protection.
Watching the children happily nibble on the jerky, Mamba felt quite relieved.
He said to his son, "Barr, you will go and prepare the ritual props later, and we will take Armand to the Lord." ”
Barr nodded, "Okay, father, I'll get ready." ”
The ritual props are a dagger and a stamp.
After the meal, everyone went to the room where the statue was located, and everyone's expressions were solemn, and this ceremony was very important to them.
The girl Armand is led to the idol by her mother Fran, who is still very unfamiliar with everything around her and curious at the same time.
She poked her head out from behind her mother and stole a glance at the seat in the center of the room.
The "man" in the seat, who was wearing metal armor and a strange helmet, looked very abrupt.
Fran brought her to the "man" and then made her kneel.
The Mamba walked over, picked up the stamp that Barr had handed him, and placed it on the idol's chest.
Then he raised the ceremonial dagger again.
In Mamba's muttering, he placed the dagger on the arm of the girl Armand.
The dagger was so sharp that it could easily cut through Armand's skin, and the blood stood on the blade.
The main structure of the dagger is very special, and all the blood that flows out is adsorbed on the dagger, and not a drop falls.
The girl screamed in pain and tried to run away, but Fran held her down until the dagger was full of blood and turned blood-red.
The Mamba picked up the dagger and placed it upside down on the idol's inverted triangular helmet, and the blood drawn from the dagger began to flow slowly under the influence of gravity.
Fran on the side hurriedly grabbed the wound on her daughter's arm, her palm lit up with the green light of "spiritual healing", and the wound quickly healed on its own.
On the other side, blood slowly runs down the edge of the helmet and then converges at the sharp corners underneath the helmet.
As the first drop of blood dripped from here, more and more blood began to accumulate on the stamp on the idol's chest.
Eventually, the blood covered the surface of the stamp, and Mamba picked it up and pressed it to Armand's forehead.