Chapter 14: The Village (4)
The editor-in-chief said that extravehicular detection has been carried out all the time. The expedition team has been probing for months and months, and publishes the results once a year, and the Ark Daily has been followed by reporters to report on the matter, after all, this is also one of the most important news about the Ark. When he first arrived at the Ark Daily, Ryan said that he wanted to be a reporter for extravehicular exploration, and then mentioned it several times, but the editor-in-chief never responded. Ryan thought that his level was not enough, his ability was not enough, how could it be his turn to be such a difficult task, so he just kept paying attention to the relevant reports. Because he often watched it, he remembered the pictures of those reports clearly, those reporters were tightly wrapped and standing outside the cabin, and the background behind him, sometimes the yellow sand, sometimes the Gobi, sometimes in the windy night, sometimes in the drizzle, he said to the human beings of the whole ark: "Today is the X, X, 13XX year of the new era, and after testing, the oxygen content in the atmosphere outside the cabin is about 25.38% (sometimes 24.69%, or a similar number), The level of sulphide in the air outside the cabin is still exceeded, the radiation level is still well beyond the range that the human body can tolerate, and we have found no other organisms outside the cabin except for a small number of plants......"
What a fucking bullshit!
The editor-in-chief said that news also has to be processed, and the truth of news is limited to the part you see.
Today, he finally understands the meaning of this sentence.
However, he couldn't believe that the Ark had cheated on this matter.
All the people of the Ark were kept in the dark.
Also, do they know about the purge, what is in the protein cube they eat?
As soon as he thought of this, Ryan couldn't help but vomit, which almost became a physiological reflex.
What Ryan wants to know is whether the editor-in-chief knows this, and whether he, as one of the core senior managers of the Ark and the only person in charge of the Ark's official media, knows this.
Ryan got up from the stone bed, put on his cloak, and went to the window. The moonlight poured in and sprinkled on the table in front of the window. The table is made of wood, and the top is made of several wooden strips, which can be seen to be a very slow-growing tree. Ryan caressed the fine, solid texture, in such an environment, being alive was far more important than being tall.
The bracelet on the wrist was still tightly wrapped, it had been silent for many days, and through the lead cloth, you could still feel its coldness, precision, and indestructibility. It is like a blindfolded hound, Ryan believes that the signal of the bracelet can be tracked remotely, and if the lead cloth is removed, the small village will be exposed in an instant.
What was Shaman thinking, did he believe him so much? He can also understand Wu Wei's hostility towards him.
Since the day we had seen the huge orange sunset together, Sand Man hadn't been here, and he hadn't been out again. He thought that his presence might be causing her trouble. It is possible that she and the rest of the clan have disagreements. Thinking like this, he had no reason to let her come.
I don't know, what's wrong with Jasmine...... She and the child, are they all right, he still remembers the doctor's notice to them, if there is no miscalculation, the deadline for the child to be removed is coming.
And what needs to be eliminated is not only this one child...... Thinking of this, he was enveloped by a great sorrow, and he was almost out of breath.
Whenever this happens, the thought comes to my mind: it is better to never wake up if I knew this was the case.
He finally lifted his face from his hands.
Outside the window, the moon hung quietly in the sky, a sight that I had never dreamed of before, but now I could see it when I looked up.
I remember when I was a child, only the Ark boy, who won the highest honor of the Ark, could get the opportunity to visit the cabin, which was something that Ryan dreamed of but could only dream. But Mei Li once won this award. I remember that day, Mei Li was full of red faces, put on a new uniform, and went out proudly, but when she came back, she looked disappointed and shouted "It doesn't mean anything". She brought back a video of the bracelet, and she was right
The reply of the three boys in the room who were waiting for it. In that video, although the shooting technique was poor and the framing was very haphazard, it was the first time that Ryan saw yellow sand, scorching sun, rolling mountains in the distance, and unobstructed sky outside the news camera. That ten-minute video, which others regarded as boring, Ryan watched many times. It's a pity that they only stayed outside the cabin for a few hours that day, and Mei Li only cared about eating the team meals that were distributed, and they didn't take too many pictures, nor did they see the beautiful sunset and the bright moonlight.
Ryan wondered what he would say if Mei Li also saw the scene in front of him, and would he still feel bored? What if they also knew everything he knew, would they be like him, where everything inside collapsed and there was no other way but to flee desperately?
Moreover, there were more question marks in his mind, that is, he remembered that he had also entered a dark tunnel. He was moving through the tunnel (now he thought it was a conveyor belt), and he wanted to climb out, but he didn't dare, so he could only watch the little light in front of him get closer and closer...... The memory of this fragment was evoked by the child who had been placed in the transmission port that day, and was turned over from the depths of the original memories in his mind. But the clip was so real that he was almost sure he had had had the same experience.
But he didn't die.
Perhaps, not all children who are put into the transmission port will be chopped, or maybe, he should have been chopped up, but he didn't?
……
Voices came in from outside the window.
Every night, some men would enter the women's house. They do that. They didn't seem to think there was anything about it, so they made a sound unabashedly, and even if it was normal to make a sound, they were happy, so the sound came one after another, coming from the mud house with the door wide open, and echoing in the silent night.
Ryan sat motionless at the voice. He was just thinking that this matter was as common as eating and sleeping here, but in the Ark it was extremely complicated, and even regarded as a right, or an obligation, given only to a few.
And the few people who won this honor, did they get happy?
This usually ends before midnight, when the man either returns to his dwelling or sleeps on the spot. Since then, the village has entered a real tranquility.
The dark night seemed empty and far away, and the moonlight illuminated the ground in front of his window, and tonight there was no wind, and the dry and thin air looked very clear. But he could only sit in this stone house and enjoy this beautiful scenery, and he could not go out without wearing that bulky outfit. It was as if he had gone from one ark to another.
What is this, he laughed self-deprecatingly.
The night is as cool as water.
He folded his shoulders and felt the chill biting. He thought he should go to bed, lie down on a dry mat, and cover himself with the quilt, but he wanted to wait a little longer. After a while, the horizon will turn white, and then it will slowly turn red, and then the red will get thicker and brighter, until the orange sun will show its edge. The sun would rise higher and higher and bigger until it shot a light that he could no longer bear.
He never gets tired of seeing it.
There was a knock at the door.
Ryan sat up straight and looked at the door. There were people outside the door, and the footsteps were not seedlings, nor sand man.
The door was pushed open, and a man walked in. The man was tall and burly, a figure that was rare for a wild man, and he was a strong man. Ryan knew that he was Wu Wei, the person next to the Wild Patriarch.
"Yo, don't you sleep?"
Ryan stood up, "Wu Wei, what's the matter?" ”
Wu Wei looked around the house, he saw the stone walls full of leaves, the bubbling sink, and the stone bed covered with thick cushions, his eyes shimmered in the darkness, "It's a good day." ”
"What's the matter at such a late hour?"
Wu Wei approached, his height was only half a head shorter than Ryan, Ryan was not wearing a mask, Wu Wei looked at Ryan's face, he seemed to be trying to see something from Ryan's face. "Oh, sure enough......"
"Sure what?"
"You're just a good-looking skin, you bastard!"
Ryan stared at him, "What did you say?" ”
Wu Wei grabbed Ryan's collar, and Ryan also grabbed Wu Wei's, and the two were deadlocked.
Wu Wei felt the force in Ryan's hand, almost lifting himself up, he touched the ground with his toes, stared at the bracelet on Ryan's wrist, glared and said, "Say, what are you here for?" ”
Ryan said, "I'm not obligated to tell you, but I always feel like you're targeting me, why?" ”
Wu Wei's toes were lifted off the ground, and Wu Wei shouted, "I'm asking you, what the are you doing here?!"
Ryan knew that the explanation would not be believed, so he loosened his hand and said, "It's not what you think." ”
Wu Wei's hand tightened, "You, you'd better get out of here for me." ”
Ryan looked at Wu Wei and said, "If I said that I came for the people of the Ark, you probably wouldn't believe it. ”
"The Ark Man? What do the Ark people have to do with us? The people of the Ark have a common enmity with us! ”
“….…”
Wu Wei grabbed Ryan by the collar and pushed him back, pushing him against the wall, and said, "You brazen liars, except for the full of sanctimonious lies, all that remains is a despicable heart!" ”
Ryan lowered his eyes, not knowing why he said this, but he felt irrefutable for the people of the ark.
Wu Wei grabbed Ryan's neck with his hand, approached him, and said, "I warn you, if you dare to play any tricks, I will kill you immediately!" ”
Ryan grabbed Wu Wei's hand, looked at the bracelet wrapped around his wrist, and said, "If I wanted to do something, I would have taken this cloth away a long time ago." ”
Wu Wei said: "If you have any other purpose, I advise you to die as soon as possible, and tell you something, the wife of the patriarch, the mother of Sha Man and Miao, was killed by your Ark people!" ”
When Wu Wei said this, he used his hand fiercely. He then turned and walked away. Ryan stood firmly against the wall, his hands down.
At dawn, Miao came in and put food on Ryan's table. Her hand then stopped, "What is this?" ”
On the table was a piece of leather armor from Wu Wei's body.
Miao turned and walked out of the room.
Soon, Sand Man came in, looked at the table, and then at Ryan.
Ryan sat on the edge of the bed, propped himself up on the bed, and said, "I ask you one last thing, you tell me, and I'll go." ”
Shaman said, "Go? Why go? ”
"I'm not your tropical fish."
Sha Man's expression paused, and he said, "Then what do you want to ask?" ”
Ryan looked up, "About, about my father." ”