Sandman sat down by the fire. When she handed the roasted snake meat to Ryan, Ryan was still sitting there, not saying a word.

"Hey, let's eat first."

Ryan thought that the wild people didn't need cloaks and rubber masks, let alone make them, so the origin of this shabby outfit could only be from the Arkmen. Also, next to the man in the cloak on the mural, there was a handwritten signature, in the same font as on the title page of his notebook......

The mask on his face was suddenly lifted, and it was Sha Man: "If you have anything, let's finish eating first!" ”

The smell of barbecue entered his nose, and Sha Man was right, he had such a large weight, it would not work without continuous intake, and now he had already put his chest against his back.

Ryan took the snake meat and nibbled on it. Compared to noon and yesterday, he was less resistant to this thing.

He ate fast not only because he was hungry, but also because he couldn't last long without a breathing mask.

"Snake meat is ready to eat?" Sand Man looked at him.

Ryan nodded. Actually, he had a stomach strain in the morning...... But, I can't care so much.

"That's good." Shaman seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Why do you say he's my father?" Ryan said with his mouth open.

Sand Man took a snake egg from the ashes under the fire with a stick, and said, "Don't eat too much snake meat at once, come, eat an egg." ”

"You answer me first!"

Shaman glanced at Ryan, "What's the hurry, I'm not in a hurry tonight." ”

Sand Man peeled off the snake's eggshell and handed it to Ryan, which looked like a trumpet egg, steaming.

"Then why don't you eat it?" Ryan said.

"I'll figure it out again."

"Isn't there still snake meat?"

"I've eaten them all, what are you going to do?"

Sand Man took some of Ryan's leftover snake bones, walked away, scattered them in the corner of the cave, and took out the viscous liquid from a small jar he carried with him, and applied it to the side.

After a while, something crawled over and was stuck in the viscous liquid. Shaman picked up one, "Ha, sure enough, it's still big!" ”

Ryan craned his neck to look over, "What's that?" ”

Shaman walked over, "Oh, do you want it?" ”

I saw that Sha Man was holding a large insect in his hand, several centimeters in size, his black beard was still moving, and his brown shell looked very hard.

"What is this?"

"Cockroach, I thought you knew." The sand man puts the worm in his mouth.

Ryan even heard the sound of the worm shell being bitten, his scalp was numb, he stood up suddenly, and the snake egg in his hand almost fell, "You ......"

"How?" Shaman looked up at him, his mouth still moving.

Ryan covered his ears with both hands, hearing too well, and it was also a pain.

Sand Man walked to the base of the wall again, crouched down, and looked at the cockroaches. "Do you know, cockroaches, it's a very ancient creature, it has lived on this planet for more than 200 million years, it was there long before we humans appeared, and it is still there today."

Ryan calmed his breath and walked over, only to see cockroaches crawling beside the snake bones, large and small, some of them were stuck with the slime and couldn't move, and the brown shells looked shiny.

It can be seen that this is a very vigorous insect family, and they all look alive. As if the great changes that had taken place on this planet had nothing to do with them or had any effect on them.

"And you know what, they're very nutritious." Sand Man turned his head and said.

Ryan nodded, having to admit that under the existing conditions, these live bugs were a rare source of nutrients.

He suddenly covered his mouth with his hand again, "You don't want to give me food!" ……”

Sha Man smiled, "Don't worry, let's talk about it when you get used to snake meat." ”

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief. He picked up a bunch of snake meat and handed it to Shaman, "No matter what, it can't be compared to cooked animal meat, you can also eat snake meat, snake meat is more delicious." ”

"It's okay," Sand Man waved his hand, "the bugs are delicious too." ”

"I know, you're ...... because of me"

"No, you don't have to be sentimental."

Ryan knew that he had eaten a lot more than the wild people, which made him feel a little ashamed and embarrassed, and although he was not full, he ordered himself to stop eating, and to leave some good parts of the snake meat behind, and to put on a rubber mask.

Ryan breathed sharply, pulling himself out of the dizziness of lack of oxygen. No way, breathing and hunger can't be solved at the same time.

He couldn't help but think of that person again, that man...... Not to mention whether it was his father or not, how did he survive in such conditions?

Ryan sat down by the fire and said, "Tell me, talk about him." ”

"Who?"

“…… That person. He still couldn't say the word, it was too foreign to him.

Sand Man glanced at him, and as he put away the rest of the food, he said, "At that time, we lived in this cave, and we lived here long before that, and some of us would go out in search of food, in search of a more suitable environment, and, perhaps, to find our own kind. However, we have never found our kind, and just when we almost believed that we were the sole ruler of this desolate planet, that man fell from the sky. ”

Ryan listened intently.

"One day, more than ten years ago, a strange person suddenly broke into this place. He was very tall, dressed in your outfit, with a pair of huge metal boots on his feet, and the boots were still spitting under them, hanging in the air outside the hole, and we were all stunned at that moment.

But it can be seen that he was no less shocked than we were at that time, and he fell quietly into the cave, and did not dare to come near for a long time.

"Soon, though, we were able to live together peacefully, he didn't hurt us, and he was obviously not in good shape at the time, so we helped him. He was carrying a large bag, and he also took out some food and gave it to us.

"At that time, we didn't know anything about each other, we just thought that he was very different from us, he looked strong, but for some reason he looked weak, and he had a high fever, and since then he has been having a fever on and off, and his body has been weakening little by little......

"He's made things out of limited materials to barely survive himself, like the oxygen supply for the sink in the stone house where you live now. But he doesn't seem to be used to it at all, and every minute is a torment for him.

But he seems to have allowed his health to deteriorate, and he has no intention of leaving.

Ryan sat silently, "...... And then what? ”

Then he was irretrievably at the end of his life. Maybe he knew that his time was short, so he seized all the time, told us everything he knew, taught us words, taught us technology, taught us everything he knew, he tried his best to let us know more, he was almost trying to help us with his life. ”

However, the people at that time did not understand what he was saying, did not know what he was talking about, and thought that he was a monster, even a madman, and that what he was talking about was illusory and useless. Fortunately, there was one person at that time who understood what he was doing and agreed with him, and that was my father, our patriarch. His father learned a lot from him, and in the last moments of his life, they even spent all day together until he could no longer speak. ”

"What are they talking about?"

Shaman shook his head, "I don't know, I was only five years old at the time, and I didn't understand what they said, but I remember that they talked and talked, and sometimes they would quarrel, and even fight red-faced." ”

Ryan said, "Five years old...... Go on. ”

"He was very nice to me, he taught me to read and write, and he told me a lot of stories, and I liked to listen to them, so I pestered him every night to tell ......," said Shaman.

Shaman lowered her head, her long hair covering her face, "If I had known at the time that it was so difficult for him to speak, he wouldn't have ......"

Shaman raised his head again and continued: "He likes me very much, and his little sweet little beans are left for me to eat alone, because he said that he has a son, who is as old as me. ”

Ryan looked at Sandman, and Sandman looked at him. "He also said that his son's name was Ryan, and the name means lion — did you know the lion, which was a fierce animal that galloped across the steppe in prehistory?"

Ryan sat motionless. He didn't know anything about it, he never even knew that the name he thought was just a simple label to distinguish him from the rest of the people still carried such hopes.

"Later, he died."

The flames danced silently, and the black smoke drifted into the air, disappearing into nothingness.

"Soon after his death, disaster struck. A group of Ark people came and ransacked the place, and on that occasion, many of us died, and we escaped by fleeing into the desert at night, but many of them remained in the desert forever, including my mother. ”

Ryan looked up at the sandman, "I'm sorry......"

Sha Man shook his head, as if to say something that had been relieved, "When my mother left, I was five years old, fortunately, I was young at that time, and I didn't have many memories......"

"Since then, we have lived a life of displacement, and the Ark people have become our haunted nightmare. We must always be vigilant, because if we are discovered by the Ark people, it may be a catastrophe. We were forced to leave this natural sanctuary and go to the more inhospitable wilderness and even the desert, but fortunately, the knowledge that your father taught us came in handy, such as making easy-burning fuels and building houses.

"However, we still don't understand why the Ark people did this, when the planet is so big and empty, and we have no other companions except each other."

“……”

"Since then, very few people have come here. Naturally, the Ark Man became the embodiment of the Devil, along with your father, and although we respected him during his time, and Father proposed that he be carved on the wall of our ancestors, no one has mentioned him since, for it is believed that he was the one who brought the Ark Man.

"But I know no. He was already dead when the Arkman came, and if he wanted to do that, there was no need to wait that long, and if he wanted to live, the Arkman would definitely be able to save him.

"In my heart, he will always be the one, amiable, humorous uncle, he understands everything, even if he is reasonable, he also loves to listen, I am afraid of my father, but I like him very much, I want to be with him every day, it's just that he doesn't have so much time to spend with me, I miss him very much......"

Ryan saw a crystal sparkle slip down Sandman's face.

Shaman raised his hand to wipe it away, and smiled embarrassedly: "I know, you don't remember him, you may not be able to understand this." ”

Ryan didn't know what to say.

"But he remembers you, and he thinks about you all the time. He showed me a picture of you, in a pocket on his chest, and you were still a baby, only one or two years old, and he said that when you left him, you were that big, and after that, he never saw you again.

"He always mentions you to me, how smart and lovely you are, how early you can walk, how early you can talk, when you laugh, you will show four little teeth, I was jealous at that time, as soon as he mentioned you, I covered my ears with both hands, and did not listen or listen!

"He said that you are very naughty, and sometimes you will show a melancholy expression like your mother, at such a young age, which makes people look funny. There were many times when I looked up and saw him looking at me and said, if you're still around, you should be that big.

"He never knew if you were dead or alive, he probably thought you were dead, and I saw him cry about it.

"Until he died, he thought about you, and he left me his flying boots, saying that if I grow up, if I can go to the ark, let me help him see how you are."

After a long time, Ryan said, "So you went to the ark to ......"

"Yes, that's what I promised him."