For the first time in his life, Ryan had seen such a sight. The sky shrouded like an infinite curtain, the vastness and depth were indescribable, and the stars were like fine sand, scattered into the deep sea, deep and shallow, each shining. Ryan's eyes hurt when he saw it, and his heart hurt even more.

"Hey!" The long-haired woman needed to call him back from time to time to get him to follow.

Ryan looked back, and the ark was no longer visible, and couldn't help asking, "Where are we going?" ”

"You'll find out when you're gone."

Ryan glanced at the bracelet, but it was still silent, indicating that it was not recognizing his whereabouts, which also meant that it could not provide him with location information.

Seeing Ryan hesitate, the girl said, "Do you dare to keep walking?" ”

"Why don't you dare?" Ryan gritted his teeth and followed.

The woman's mechanical boots clicked on the ground, and she didn't use the power of the mechanical boots at this time, but Ryan felt that even with her normal pace, he would have a hard time keeping up. His breathing had been uncomfortable, he could only catch half of each breath, the smell of rubber in his mask became more and more unbearable, and the lead wire cloak he wore was as heavy as a tin cage, all of which made it difficult for him to walk.

Exhaustion is accompanied by fear and hesitation. I don't know if someone has ever walked outside the cabin in such a crude equipment, and followed such a strange woman, and he didn't even think much about it, so he jumped out with her......

"Wait, wait," Ryan said, his voice muffled by the mask and barely audible.

But the woman turned around like a cat, "What's wrong?" ”

"I, I," Ryan gasped as he put his hands on his knees, "I...... I can't walk anymore. He was telling the truth, even though it hurt his self-esteem as a preferred person.

"All right," the woman didn't show any surprise or teasing, "then let's rest for a while." ”

The two sat down by a small dirt bag, and Ryan felt tiredness wash over his body and leaned back.

"How are you?" The woman leaned in to look at him, and Ryan blinked that it was okay, but he felt that it was difficult to even nod his head.

"Your oxygen consumption is too great. Take a break and keep breathing. She said.

Ryan looked at the stars, they shone silently, but he couldn't get enough of it, and time seemed to stand still.

However, reason reminded him again: I don't know what happened to Jasmine, it's late at night, what if she finds him gone...... Ryan habitually raised his hand to see the time, but put it down weakly, feeling that his mind was getting duller and duller.

"Hey, don't sleep." The woman's voice came.

Ryan seemed to float up from the deep sea, barely opened his eyes, and felt the woman shaking him, "Don't sleep, Ryan, don't sleep!" ”

"Why?" Ryan said vaguely.

"We don't have that much time."

"Why ......" Ryan's mind was no longer turning, and his eyes were about to close again.

"Breathe, Ryan, speak to me and stay conscious!"

"So good......" Ryan gasped, barely stirring a ball of jelly-like thoughts, "I ask you, why do you ...... Don't have to wear anything? If it weren't for his poor form, he would have 10,000 question marks waiting for her.

"Because I'm different from you."

"How is it different?"

"Because I'm human."

Ryan blinked and reacted with chaotic thoughts, you are human, so what am I? I couldn't help but smile and ask, "Are you human?" ”

"yes." The woman turned her head and looked at him, her gaze calm and natural.

Ryan looked her up and down, and said in his heart: I'm afraid of hitting you if I say it, a short height like you has long been eliminated by the Ark, even if your physical fitness is not bad, and your sense of hearing and hearing is also keen; Your face is also very strange, to be honest, I haven't seen a combination of facial features like yours, and it's hard to judge your racial affiliation; Also, you probably didn't keep up with the nutrition of your puberty, so you have a certain developmental delay, and you look like an underdeveloped child; And what's going on with your eyes, which can glow like prehistoric nocturnal animals, what kind of strange mutation is this! - You still say you're human?

"You know, you won't understand." The woman turned her face away as if reading Ryan's thoughts.

Ryan sat down, the sound of air in his mask whirring, he didn't have the energy to smooth out these strange things now, or maybe he was in a dream right now......

Suddenly, there was a tingling in the arm. Ryan opened his eyes to see that the woman was inserting a syringe into his arm, and a stream of unidentified fluid was propelled through his body.

"What are you doing?"

"Adrenaline, gotta get out of here."

"What, you inject me with adrenaline?" Ryan shouted.

"Let's go."

Ryan felt his strength and energy quickly recover, got up, and walked forward with the woman.

The gradual clarity of consciousness made him feel a distinct chill, the cold penetrated deep into his bone marrow, and Ryan couldn't help but shiver all over. To be honest, he hadn't experienced a temperature difference of more than 10 degrees Celsius since he was a child, and the temperature outside the cabin at night was said to be close to freezing......

Ryan folded his shoulders and his lips trembled, "I said, why are you in such a hurry, now, it's so cold, let's light a fire and keep warm, no, okay?" He was suddenly excited by the thought: "Oh my God, yes, we can make a fire!" ”

The woman glanced at him indifferently, "Excuse me, where are you going to find combustibles?" ”

"Forehead......" Ryan clasped his hands and looked around blankly.

"Well, we can wait for the sun to come out before we go, right, the sun, the warm sun!"

"Unless you want to be blind."

“……”

"Let's go, it won't be cold when you walk."

Ryan had no choice but to bite the bullet and keep up, "So, aren't you cold?" ”

"It's fine."

A gust of wind blew, bringing up a puff of dust and crackling, "Oh my God! Ryan crouched down with his head in his hands.

The woman stood down, turned around, and looked at Ryan, who was hiding behind her.

Ryan stood up, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen ...... So much dirt. ”

Perhaps to prevent Ryan from falling asleep again, the woman began to speak: "The current atmosphere is much thinner than before, because the vegetation has been destroyed, the oxygen content in the air is very low, the ozone layer has almost disappeared, the earth has lost its thermal insulation function, and now the temperature difference between morning and evening outside the cabin is very large, the night is very cold, the day is very hot, the ultraviolet rays are also very strong, and the day is not pleasant. ”

"When you say before, do you mean prehistory?"

"Well, before your so-called New Era."

"Well, though, there's a bonus." Ryan said.

"What's the benefit?"

"The sky is more beautiful than ever." Ryan pointed to the heavens, the fine and dense galaxy that seemed to glow in the deep sea.

The woman glanced up, curled the corners of her mouth, and said, "I like it too." ”

Ryan caught that smile, and when she smiled, she was a little like a child.

"Actually, I don't think there's anything, because that's how I was born, as if the world was the way it is," she said. ”

Ryan said, "What's your name?" ”

"Sand Man."

"Which sand, which vine?"

"The sand of the desert, the vine of the grass."

Her Oriental language has always had a strange tone, but fortunately, the words are compatible.

"Oh......" Ryan looked down and smiled.

"How?" The woman seemed to notice the change in his expression behind the mask.

Ryan smiled and said, "I've seen you." ”

"Really?"

Ryan then recounted the memory that he had already cooked, "Have you been near my house at about nine o'clock in the evening on March 1, 1305 A.D.?" ”

The woman lowered her head and said, "So sure?" ”

"Isn't it?"

"Probably."

"Probably?"

"I can't remember."

"Okay......"

"But how do you remember it so clearly?"

"Uh...... That...... It happened to be the day of the inspection, you know, the annual out-of-cabin inspection day......"

The moonlight covered the ground in front of him with a layer of silver, and the faint shadows of two people were reflected on the ground, one tall and bulky, and a small and light. Ryan didn't know where he was going, where he was, or even how long he could go, he just followed her, the figure that had been haunting his heart all along.

He knew nothing of her except for a name, and she was even quite different from what he had imagined, and once again he was suspicious, perhaps in a dream, because only in a dream could everything be illogical, yet so natural.

I don't know how long I walked, maybe a few hours, but in short, the horizon gradually changed from dark to light ink, and then to cyan. The adrenaline action was getting weaker and weaker, and Ryan was tired and cold again.

When Ryan's steps grew slower and slower, to the point of taking a few steps before he had to take a break, Shaman said, "Okay, I'll take you." ”

Sand Man pulled one of Ryan's arms over his shoulder, wrapped his other hand around Ryan's waist, activated the mechanical boots, and flew up.

"I say......" Ryan said weakly, "why didn't you use this trick earlier?" ”

"Fuel is precious." Shaman replied succinctly.

It was getting brighter, and in the extreme distance, Ryan looked at Sandman's blown hair, ears, and neck, her eyes illuminated by the morning light under her thick eyelashes. If it was in the Ark, he would never have looked at a person of the opposite sex like this, but fortunately, he was wearing goggles and a mask. The light illuminated them, and he saw the spots on the bridge of her nose and cheeks, and her hair was tan.

As the morning glow turned red on the horizon, Ryan saw a few wisps of smoke rising from the ground in front of him, and Shaman said, "It's here." ”