Seeing that I was silent in thought, Millet raised her voice and continued: "The part of the painting and manuscript that involves the information and materials of the celestial sphere cannot be taken away. It's not that we don't trust you, it's that the Earth is not yet united, and if you bring back information and materials from the Celestial Sphere, it may be against your hostile factions or conspirators. There is a system in place for the affairs of the Celestial Sphere, and I just remind you that the Captain will carefully inspect your belongings when we go on the spacecraft. I hope you understand! ”

Really, people are under low eaves and have to bow their heads. "Ahh Do what you say. ”

"As for Xiaocao, I also asked the local affairs office for instructions. The main problem is that Xiaocao is designed according to the conditions of the celestial sphere, she uses etheric light as the only energy source, and once she leaves the celestial sphere, she will die immediately. If you go to the earth and see the sun's rays, it will turn into a bunch of various chemical elements. So you can't actually take her back. ”

"How so?" I said helplessly.

As we spoke, a celestial sphere came from a distance. In my opinion, it is simply a large Xiaomi, about a third taller than Xiaomi, and the other body proportions and physiognomy are basically the same. I walked up to Xiaomi and said a few words of the Heavenly Sphere language to Xiaomi, and then the two of them turned around and walked towards me. Millet pointed to the big one and said to me in oracle bones, "This is our Captain Dali, the captain of the groundcraft, and he is here to pick us up and take us to the ship." "I nodded and smiled vigorously and got to know each other.

"I'm going to pick up your Earth Suit with Dali. You and Xiaocao are separated, and let Xiaocao transport the bag you want to bring to the interface. After Xiaomi finished talking to me, he and Dali went to pick up the earth service. Xiaocao and I hid aside and explained the reason why we couldn't take her to Earth. Xiaocao said reluctantly and helplessly: "Hey-no way." This is indeed the case with him. But what should I do when you're gone? ”

"In a moment, I'll ask Xiaomi. I will definitely let them solve your affairs, don't worry! ”

After Xiaomi took the earth suit, he came to the glass window. I asked Xiaomi, "How did Xiaocao arrange after I left?" ”

"Don't worry! The Land Affairs Office has decided to let Xiaocao live on the farm, and the Celestial Sphere will let her live well. You will see her when you come back to the Celestial Sphere, and she will be waiting for you all the time. I nodded in satisfaction. Then I watched Xiaomi say it to Xiaocao again in the language of the celestial sphere. Xiaocao also nodded in agreement.

Xiaomi turned his head and asked me to wear the earth suit, Xiaocao carried a big bag and followed me to the earth suit interface, I put on the earth suit, and reluctantly left the earth house where I had lived for more than 20 days with my luggage. Xiaocao was left alone in the Earth House on the farm, and Xiaocao and I said goodbye through the glass with tears. Pulling me vigorously, Xiaomi flew towards the spacecraft with a big bag on his back.

We landed at the spaceship base. In front of him, a huge cylinder stood on the ground, several hundred meters high and seven or eight meters thick in diameter. The elephant is standing head-down, because the part next to the ground resembles a shield machine digging a subway on the earth. Before boarding the ship, my luggage was carefully inspected by a clerk of the local affairs office, and all the things that did not meet the requirements were destroyed, and the remaining part passed through a channel similar to the baggage security check before the earthlings boarded (after returning to the earth, I knew that it could clean up all the lines and words involving the celestial sphere in my paintings and texts) and I seemed to have fallen asleep when I passed through the security gate, and after passing the door, there was no information in my mind about the unsuitable transmission of the celestial sphere, and I sat on the ground spacecraft with Xiaomi, Dali, and Dagang in a daze, vaguely heard vigorously reporting to the Celestial Sphere Command Center, "The spacecraft has penetrated 50 meters, 300 meters, and 1,000 meters into the ground, and has successfully penetrated the ground and flown away from the celestial sphere." The direction adjustment was successful, and it flew in the direction of the earth.

In order to save fuel and increase the flight speed of the spacecraft in the universe, as soon as the spacecraft drilled out of the celestial crust, it immediately took off its protective cover and ground-drilling equipment and took off lightly. Just now we were like in a stuffy tanker, and now it's like we're sitting on an airplane outside the clouds. I stayed in the earth compartment of the earth spacecraft, using the intercom device and talking to Xiaomi in the celestial sphere compartment, and I asked Xiaomi: "How long will it take to fly to Earth?" ”

"Now that we're out of the celestial sphere, it's about a month to use your earthlings' timekeeping method."

"January! I've only been on the celestial sphere for twenty days, and it's so hard to get over, and now I'm going to spend another month in the spaceship to see my loved ones! "I can't wait to ask Xiaomi.

"As I told you just now, we left the celestial sphere, and it will take a month to use the timing method of your earthlings. The twenty days you spend on the celestial sphere are equivalent to twenty years of Earth time, so you feel like a long time. The flyable month is Earth time, and the month passes quickly. ”

"You're saying that a day on the Celestial Sphere is equivalent to a year on Earth!"

"Yes, yes!"

"No wonder when I first came to the Celestial Sphere, you introduced the oracle bone inscription and said that the earth still used oracle bone inscription more than ten years ago. The 'more than ten years' you mentioned is the celestial time, which is equivalent to 4,000 years ago on the earth."

"Yes, I'm used to using celestial time"

"I eat hundreds of times a day, drink water a thousand times, and go to the bathroom hundreds of times, and I have the same routine as I do on Earth?"

"It's similar to you complaining that a day or a night is too long. Don't you always say that you wake up one night and wake up and sleep for a long time before dawn? I didn't tell you in detail before, because I was afraid that you would worry that your relatives would leave you for too long. Well, now you'll be able to meet them soon."

I thought to myself that dozens of 'pops' with Xiaocao a night are normal for dozens of times in half a year according to Earth time. The celestial spheres have not improved my abilities in that area. I'm a little embarrassed to think about it.

Turning his head to look outside the glass window of the spaceship, the starry sky of the universe was dotted and flickering. It reminds me of the happy time when I was a child, when I was forced to lie on the roof and sleep in the middle of summer because it was too hot in the house, looking at the stars in the sky and listening to the stories told by my mother. Think about it, I have been in Tianqiu for more than 20 years, and I haven't seen my parents. Are they okay! And my wife and children, will they still recognize me?

"Why are you sleepy? If you have something to talk about tomorrow, you can rest" Xiaomi saw that I didn't speak for a long time, and asked me on the walkie-talkie.

"Well, it's still a long time anyway, I'll get back in touch. Bye! ”

There is no alternation of day and night in space, and it is impossible to distinguish the length of time. Sleeping when you're sleepy, eating when you're hungry, staying there and thinking nonsense when you're not sleepy or hungry is really boring. When I think of the more than twenty years I've been on the celestial sphere, I'm in my fifties at the age of Earth. I don't know if it's a waste of time. In the past 20 years, I have mainly eaten, drank, pulled, slept and slept in the celestial sphere. Most of the memories of occasionally communicating with millet and Xiaocao, or visiting and traveling on the celestial sphere, were also erased from the brain by the celestial sphere's instruments when they returned.

I finally survived more than 30 days. Finally, Xiaomi's words came: "The earth-flying spacecraft is about to enter the Earth's atmosphere, and your body may react slightly, please pay attention." ”

I only felt a little weightless, and my body shook slightly from side to side twice, and the spaceship landed smoothly and floated on the Pacific Ocean.

Dagang opened the back half of the spacecraft in the spacecraft's celestial sphere compartment according to the vigorous instructions, and made it spread flat on the ocean behind the spacecraft's celestial sphere cabin, and built an airfield. Then I sent the earth capsule where I was staying to the airport by remote control.

"Wheat, please sit in your current seat and fasten your seatbelts, the Earth Cabin will soon become an unmanned aircraft on Earth. You don't have to worry! It can get you home safely. ”

"Good! I know. Thank you for your continued care! I hope we'll have a date later," I replied to Mi as I saw the wings of an airplane stretched out from the left and right sides of the earth capsule, and then it turned into the appearance of an airplane.

With a strong order, the plane flew away from the airfield of the ground spacecraft under the remote control of Dagang. A few hours later, the plane hovered over the side of the road outside a small town, the door of the plane opened, and a rope lowered me to the ground. Before I could do it, the rope automatically loosened and retracted, and the plane closed the hatch and flew back.

By the faint light of the early morning, I looked around and found a small town not far away. When I walked into the town, I inquired with an old man who was exercising in the morning and learned that this town was not far from my home. After dawn, there were many buses back and forth between the two places, and finally I took a hitchhike back to our community, and I knocked on the familiar door with trepidation. An old lady in her sixties looked at me and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”