Chapter 52: The Living

In the mine where the underground ore is exposed everywhere, in the most central position, there is a large scientific and technological building that does not match the surrounding area at all, the whole body is round, exuding a blue luster, the height is only a dozen meters, and it is divided into two floors above ground.

The first floor is fully open, with hundreds of "mouth-open" machines that the Tanlons will put into the mined ore, and the underground factories will automatically break down the rough ore into the metals or other minerals needed - the coolies of the Tanlons are practically worthless, and if the interstellar people are willing to use their machines, they will get more.

The second level is where the high-tech machines of the interstellar people are placed, including but not limited to various minecarts, and even small flying vehicles, underground detectors, medical repair equipment, etc., but unfortunately, even the Overseer only has access to one minecart.

After pacing Akuli's body, he came to the small mineral processing base, and of course he had been there before, just like the miners who carried pieces of irregular ore around their waists, so he had never looked closely at the building.

The walls that can't see any gaps, as if they are integrated, and the machines that can calculate the mass of each piece of ore without the need for face recognition without measurement, just look at this place, even more prosperous than the earth in the distant world, but the eyes fall on the side, those who are unclothed and most of their bodies are exposed, but this prosperity seems particularly ridiculous.

They don't even know what the patterns on the transparent screens are, they are still in the age of ignorant cold weapons, but these high-tech technologies are forcefully inserted into their lives, like shackles to completely seal them in obscurantism.

"Be careful." Shiqi suddenly reminded him.

"The amount of data you can carry is too small, I can't tamper with the entire base, and if you're not careful, it's easy to detect the problem."

Parker nodded silently, in reply.

It's a pity to pick up Qi, this base is very good, but it's not very useful, especially for Mo Lan, it's too high technology, the use method is very simple, but it's difficult to understand.

It's like letting the ancients on the earth learn to drive a car thousands of years ago, as long as the hands and feet are coordinated, there is no difficulty, but let the ancients thousands of years ago study how to make a car, then it is not a matter of hand and foot coordination.

For Mo Lan, this base of the interstellar people and the high-tech machines in it are not difficult to use, but how to research the same machine is a difficult problem, if she can't master the technology herself, but can borrow the technology of the interstellar people, she might as well concentrate on her own zerg.

A miner silently took Parker's side, and the location he went to was the machine that received supplies, in Mo Lan's eyes, this machine was a bit like a vending machine on the earth, as long as he stood in front and scanned his face, it would pop up his workload for the day, and then convert it into the amount of nutritional paste.

[Current record: 1936KG, redeemable: 193.6g]

100g of nutritional paste is almost enough for the normal consumption of an adult man on the planet Tanlon, but heavy physical labor like mining requires 150g-180g of nutritional paste to ensure that there is enough physical strength.

If the miner had only himself in his home, or if there were only two people in his family, he and his wife, the ointments would have been sufficient, and it could be seen from his expression that there were more than two people in his family.

Parker looked at each other quietly, although he couldn't read, most of the miners understood what the patterns meant.

There was no sigh, no despair, the miner just numbly took the ointment on it, and then walked out step by step, staggering, and could see one of his legs as if unconscious, dragging on the ground, occasionally dripping with blood.

He's hurt...... Parker retracted his gaze, no wonder he only got such a small amount of nutritional paste in exchange.

"Are you trying to do something?" In Parker's mental network, it can feel that Parker's emotions are brewing like a volcano before the eruption, but most of the time, it can't understand human thoughts and practices very well, it's too complicated.

"I know, not here." Parker looked up at the nimbly rotating surveillance camera on the roof, and thanks to the knowledge that Her Majesty had transmitted to him in his head, he knew what it was and what it did.

After calming the pick-up in his mind, Parker withdrew his gaze and walked to the second floor of the base, patience, he will be patient.

The place on the second floor was large, it was a place to store all kinds of machines, without authorization, Parker could not easily enter, there was only one room he could enter, it was the place where the overseers of the past lived it.

Living here, warm in winter and cool in summer, the climate is self-adjusting, much better than living in those abandoned mines, so most of the overseers will choose to live here, but the cruel point is that only the overseers are allowed to enter here, and the family members or other relatives of the superintendents are not qualified to enter, and only one person ascends to heaven if one person attains the Tao.

As a supervisor, the only benefit for the family is that they can provide the family with a sufficient amount of nutritional paste so that the family will not continue to starve and do not have to continue the hard work, but if the supervisor wants to distribute the food to more people, the bracelet will remind him, deduct points for him, and even deprive him of his status as a supervisor.

Kindness is not a good quality for regulators.

Parker first went to get his own share of the Overseer uniform to put on, this kind of uniform made by the interstellar machine, has a special constant temperature effect, not afraid of heat in summer, not afraid of cold in winter, has a certain protective function, but not exaggerated, otherwise Akuli would not die so easily.

For interstellar people, the regulator is just a consumable, and there is no need to worry about any accidents at all, anyway, it would be good to change the regulator without trouble.

Akuli's overseer uniform was stripped off by Parker and sent home, although Mo Lan wanted a few human clothes to wear, but he couldn't look down on this kind of stripping from the dead man, and he couldn't accept it at all, and Parker's family obviously didn't care about this kind of thing, for the Tanloner people who didn't even have few clothes, it was not a big problem for the dead to wear it, as long as it was washed clean, it was better than being frozen.

According to Shiqi's instructions, Parker went around the second floor of the entire base and probed all the information that Shiqi needed, and this behavior did not cause a warning from the entire system, because the reactions of other regulators in the past after taking office were actually similar, and even more exaggerated than Parker's reactions, not to mention that Parker has always been very restrained and did not touch anything.

After confirming that Gleaning had all the information he wanted to know, Parker returned to the Overseer's room, where he still had a lot of personal belongings belonging to Akuli, especially the rewards Akuli had received from the interstellar people by turning in Starworms, a large part of which was still here, all for his second successor, Parker.

Parker looked at the food that was obviously different from the nutritional paste, his mood was a little complicated, the starfall insect was the beginning of everything, in order to find food to supplement the nutrition for the grandma who was about to give birth, he pulled his younger brother Hulan into the Yegu Forest, met the queen of the zerg, Lan, and got a starfall insect given by the other party, which was found and snatched away by Akuli...... After all kinds of experiences, I didn't expect to return to him in such a way.

Because this part of the things belongs to the regulator's personal belongings, so the regulator's bracelet does not require this restriction, Parker can dispose of it at will, and he is unceremonious, so he packed all these foods that even Akuli is reluctant to eat at one time, ready to take them back to his family, and by the way, he received the portion of nutritional paste that belongs to the regulator, 1kg a day, a lot, but there is no more.

I don't know whether it should be a coincidence or a fateful arrangement, on Parker's way home, he met the miner with a broken leg he had seen first, the figure was so lonely and helpless in the rain, Parker came a distance closer, only to see that the other party seemed to be holding something in his arms.

Before Parker could decide whether to get closer and see clearly, the miner had already turned around, he should have been talking to someone just now, and as soon as he turned around, Parker's non-human eyes had already seen what was in his arms, it was a thin little girl of about eight or nine years old, her face was pale and blue, her body was obviously stiff, and she had probably been dead for some time.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are the fate that human beings can never escape, even if they are interstellar people, their lifespan has reached an average of three or five hundred years, but in the end they still have to die, and they can't get rid of the possibility of illness and injury at all.

Parker looked at the little girl's appearance, it was most likely not a serious illness, maybe malnutrition and hunger were the main reasons for her death, looking at the miner's injured leg, Parker clenched his fists.

As long as the interstellar people take out the medical equipment they have stored in the base and allow these miners to use it, even if it is only once, so that the injured miner can heal his injured leg, the little girl may survive, but the funny thing is that the machine will only be allowed to be used once when the Overseer is injured, and the other times, the Overseer is not even allowed to touch it.

Parker didn't know what to say, he didn't know what he could say, he just watched in silence as the absentee dragged his unconscious legs, holding his cold daughter in his arms, and walked out step by step, the destination seemed to be the direction of the Yegu Forest, where he wanted to bury his daughter.

Behind the miner, at the entrance of the abandoned mine, which was extremely short and simple, a thin female figure holding a baby was looking out, even though the heavy rain blocked her vision, she couldn't actually see anything, but she still stood nervously and worriedly.

Parker watched in silence, because neither the miner nor his wife, who was looking at the door of the mine, noticed Parker watching them.

It was already very difficult for a young man to feed his family, not to mention that the miner's leg was injured in the rain, and it was difficult to recover from it......

"I can assure you that they will live." Parker suddenly approached the miner and spoke up, his voice reaching the miner's ears so clearly in the rain.

The miner looked up at Parker without any hope, and it was only a little fluctuating when he landed on Parker's overseer uniform, he couldn't tell if Parker was joking with him, or if he was making fun of him, he didn't hold out hope, but he still instinctively looked up at Parker.

"Give me your life, and I promise they will live."

The Overseer bracelet on Parker's hand seemed to be invalid, and there was no response.

The miner glanced back in the direction of his wife and son, but the heavy rain made him unable to see anything clearly, and said in a hoarse voice, "How can I believe you?" ”

Parker threw him the nutritional paste in his hand, which was a full 1kg of serving, at least enough for his wife and son to live for half a month, and if he saved it, he could even eat it for a month.

And with this half a month, his wife can find a new husband - this is really normal, there are always people who collapse and die in the mines, but the living people have to continue to live, so they will look for people who are willing to accept them into a new family, and then continue to live.

The miner had lost one of his legs, and in the days to come, it would be difficult for him to get enough food to keep his family alive, and it would be a better option for his wife to start a new family, and if he could find a strong new husband, his children would also be able to live.

Without asking why, and without asking again, the miner took the ointment, put down his daughter's body for a short time with a gentle movement, and trotted back to the mine in his house step by step with a little anxiety, handed the nourishing paste to his wife forcefully, and then said goodbye to her resolutely.

Parker watched the miner's staggering figure towards him, and heard the painful cries of his wife behind him, coming from the rain and disappearing into the rain.

The miner picked up his daughter on the ground and followed Parker in silence, he didn't ask anything, and Parker didn't say anything.

The first living human ...... Parker touched his already empty heart, and unexpectedly, he didn't have any more mood swings, even if it was the sacrifice of a living human to Her Majesty.

"Will Her Majesty be happy?" Parker asked softly, there was no admiration or closeness in his eyes, his voice was completely drowned out by the sound of rain, but Shiqi still heard it, or maybe it didn't rely on listening.

"Do people care about the joys and sorrows of food?" Shiqi asked rhetorically.