The Sabbath Chapter 74: Tower

At first glance, the outside world is white.

Like a white sea.

Boundless, with no end in sight.

If you keep staring outside, it seems that time has been deliberately slowed down.

However, watching and watching, Ronggui saw other scenes in a sea of ​​blazing white light. Probably because the imager has adapted to the huge difference in light perception between indoors and outdoors. After a period of automatic adjustment, Ronggui saw a little more "scenery":

It turns out that the sea of ​​light outside is not all incandescent white, and the colors of those lights are layered.

Not only are the colors layered, but the "sea" is not so calm.

Ronggui saw the "waves".

A huge ball of light exploded at a point in front of him to the left.

Can't hear the sound, very slowly, Ronggui saw there was nothing at first, and then suddenly bulged, the bulge got higher and higher, like a budding flower, blooming——

Huge flowers bloom in the Sea of ​​Light.

The petals of the flower are layered on top of each other, all of which are flames!

It was a very dreamy scene. Pressing his head tightly against the glass, two small flames bloomed in his eyes made of black ore.

The speed at which those flowers bloom is so fast, and the speed of decay is even faster.

Soon, when the huge, fiery flower "bloomed" to its fullest, Ronggui saw those "petals" fall down.

They fell, falling like molten lava, and flowed into the sea of ​​light below. The huge "sea surface" fluctuated slightly, and then calmed down again.

Not even a single "splash" splashed.

It's not just that one "flower", Ronggui saw many kinds of extremely spectacular blooms.

The biggest bloom was so spectacular that it finally stirred up waves.

Suddenly there was a huge wave on the originally calm ocean of light, and the huge waves woven by light rushed towards them. , Overturned, who knows that such a huge "wave" was still extinguished before reaching their position.

The surface of the sea seems to be calm like this, but in fact the waves are rippling in Ronggui's eyes.

After a long time, he reluctantly left from the window.

"It's so beautiful!" Turning his head, he said to Xiaomei.

As an ordinary person with no common sense in this area, what Ronggui saw was only excitement.

"What is that?" After watching the excitement, he remembered this question.

"It was just an explosion." Then, the professional Xiaomei told the truth.

Ronggui: Oh!

"The outside is the eternal light belt. The reason why it is full of light is because there are explosions happening outside."

"You think the band of light that is as calm as the sea outside is the Alufa ray, the brightest ray in the universe."

"It is also the most powerful form of explosion known so far."

While continuing to drive the gravitational instrument forward, Xiaomei said calmly.

"Then, aren't we at the scene of the explosion?" Ronggui was taken aback, and turned his head to look at the glass again. The sea of ​​light that seemed calm outside instantly turned into a scourge, as if it would engulf them at any moment.

"No, in fact, we are at least three galaxies away from the scene of the explosion. Those explosions happened a long time ago, but the light and rays produced by the explosion are only now penetrating here for you to see." Xiaomei said .

"After Uris' prophecy, all the planets in the entire universe exploded, and the remnants after the explosion continued to explode. The light produced during the explosion penetrated the entire universe, and the entire world became a sea of ​​light. It is the eternal light belt you see now."

Ronggui Ronggui opened his mouth, he didn't know what to say anymore.

When he looked out of the glass again, what he saw was no longer the boundless sea of ​​light, but-

Boundless loneliness.

Live in a universe where stars explode everywhere?

Not one or two unrelated explosions, but all the planets exploded?

Ronggui is simply unimaginable.

But in fact he is living in such a world now.

Xiaomei took a look at Ronggui:

If Ronggui was so excited when he first saw the Sea of ​​Light, then after hearing Xiaomei tell the truth, how depressed he is now

Watching the fireworks from a distance is completely different from the feeling that you may be living on the fireworks that are about to explode.

I don't know how Ronggui's depression came from at this time, and I don't know how to get rid of it, so Xiaomei can only change the subject: "The broken gravitational meter is right ahead, we should go there."

"Well, okay." Still a bit lacklustre, but Ronggui dutifully picked up Xiaomei's toolbox.

He did not forget that he came here this time as Xiaomei's assistant.

Ronggui originally thought that the broken gravitational meter should be a machine about the size of the gravitational meter they are riding now. It was only when they arrived that they realized that the opponent's volume was much larger than theirs!

Their gravimeters stopped at the port on top of each other's round heads, like a huge ball with an extra ear.

The two sides immediately opened their respective connecting doors, and Ronggui followed Xiaomei and walked towards the opposite gravitational meter.

The place where they landed is directly the repair compartment inside the instrument, where all the large components that support the operation of the instrument are located. As soon as they saw Xiaomei and Ronggui, several workers in overalls hurriedly surrounded them.

They are the original maintenance personnel working on this gravitational meter. When a large machine is on a mission, it will not only be equipped with a driver, but will also be equipped with a maintenance personnel. It turned out that it was useless to contact the remote guide, and it was about to give up the instrument and prepare to go back. Xiaomei arrived at this time.

There are three large-scale gravitational instruments in this star-making activity. This large-scale instrument called "Star Maker" undertakes the heaviest task in this star-making activity. If there is a big problem, the progress of the project will definitely be greatly affected!

The "Star Maker" is a new type of high-end instrument distributed from the upper tower. The reason why it cannot be repaired is because this type of gravitational instrument is not common at present. When an assistant appeared, to be honest, the staff on the gravitational meter still didn't quite trust Xiaomei's ability to work.

However, without talking to them, Xiaomei took Ronggui directly down to the middle of the line group that needs to be repaired.

The place where the line group is placed is not good, it is crowded and dark, and it is very narrow. There is no place to climb, and the maintenance personnel can only use a rope to hang in mid-air to repair the line.

Xiaomei hanged for six hours to repair, and Ronggui hanged with him for six hours.

Seeing that Xiaomei was concentrating on her work and getting dirty, Ronggui pinched a small handkerchief in her hand, intending to wipe it for him, but she was afraid of disturbing him.

On the one hand, I feel that "Xiaomei who works hard is really handsome", but on the other hand, Ronggui feels even more distressed.

Xiaomei of their family has worked so hard to make money for the family.

The previous depression has completely disappeared, and it has turned into pity for Xiaomei.

There is only Xiaomei in his eyes, and Ronggui is afraid that the parts on Xiaomei's body will accidentally fall off.

This is a habit they developed when using the previous body, but their new body was obviously of good quality, and until Xiaomei put away the tools and announced that the work was completed, no parts fell off their bodies.

After pulling the rope, someone immediately dragged them up from below.

Without Xiaomei telling them, the staff in the operation center had already discovered that the gravitational meter had been repaired.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Hastily thanked Xiaomei, and the people in overalls left and returned to work one after another.

The gravitational instrument, which had become quiet due to the stoppage of work, re-sounded with a slight roar, indicating that it has started to work again.

As the hero of all this - Xiaomei, no one cares about her.

While Ronggui was still standing in the corridor in a daze, Xiaomei had already started to recheck her toolbox, making sure that all the tools were in their proper places, and said to Ronggui, "Let's go."

"This, this is leaving?" Ronggui still didn't realize it.

"Well, I'll leave naturally after repairing it." Xiaomei didn't think there was anything wrong with this, on the contrary, he also thought that the staff on this gravitational meter were good.

Speak less and do more-the appearance of these people is still in line with Xiaomei's work philosophy.

Seeing that Ronggui was still a little dazed, Xiaomei seemed to be careless and said: "You, don't you want to see how they make stars?"

Ronggui:! ! ! !

"Think about it! I really want to see it!" Ronggui immediately hugged Xiaomei's arm!

Letting him hold her, Xiaomei dragged Ronggui away from the "Star Maker" and walked through the docking port. They returned to their own gravitational instrument. Xiaomei then drove the small gravitational instrument they were on to leave some distance.

Deliberately parked the glass window at the position facing the "Star Maker" in the distance, Xiaomei signaled Ronggui to go over there to prepare.

"As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Tower of Eternity, Uris proposed the term star-making."

"The Tower of Eternity is not a place where humans can live for a long time. The population is bound to increase. To develop in the future, there must be an environment comparable to the planet."

"When the external environment does not allow, human beings should create their own conditions."

"Just like building a car or a building, the planet should also be manufactured."

"This event is called a star-making event."

"After so many years of research and application, today's star-making technology is very developed."

Standing beside Ronggui, Xiaomei explained slowly, as if confirming what he said, Ronggui saw the Star Maker in the distance start to move.

It moved.

It moves very, very slowly, if it weren't for the mechanical imager, it would hardly feel its change.

It is spinning and moving.

The whole body is silvery white, even if it is a mechanical eye, Ronggui would not be able to notice that it is turning, but Ronggui saw stardust, they gathered together, like a belt, around Lived on the Star Maker.

At first it was just scattered stardust, and then more and more, and more and more "belts", until finally, the star maker was almost surrounded by stardust.

The stardust comes from the universe, there are stardust, there are also large or small meteorites or other forms of solids.

They were so densely packed around the Star Maker that Ronggui couldn't see the Star Maker covered by them at all!

This process is still not over, the Star Maker is still spinning, attracting more stardust around it, gradually, it looks like a small planet!

"Wow!" Ronggui exclaimed.

"The gravitational instrument uses its own gravity to attract stardust in the universe that can be used as a component of new planets. When it attracts enough mass, the gravitational instrument will absorb them around and dump them near the star core. "In the last second, Xiaomei's explanation sounded very lofty.

"The so-called gravitational meter can actually be regarded as a large-scale excavator and earth-moving machine." The next second, Xiaomei changed back to her old self.

Ronggui:

It's not that I look down on excavators and earth moving machines, it's just

However, this statement is really easy to understand. With Xiaomei's explanation, Ronggui finally understood what star-making movement is.

The Star Maker, which had absorbed enough stardust, began to leave. Xiaomei adjusted the window to keep up, and then, following behind the Star Maker, a bigger "ball" suddenly appeared in front of Ronggui. !

Densely packed large pieces of meteorites floated within a circular boundary, Ronggui almost thought that there was a bigger Star Maker inside that was absorbing these meteorites and dust! However, he soon discovered that it was not, besides the Star Maker they were following, there were two other Star Makers moving over with stardust.

The original Star Maker is big enough, but in front of this "ball", they look petite and cute.

Ronggui saw that the stardust outside the Star Makers suddenly drifted away, and those stars and meteorites were involved in the frequency of the sphere's rotation. Since the volume was already very large, there were more spheres of stardust. It doesn't look any bigger, but the Star Maker successfully "lose weight", smooth and smooth, and returned again.

Ronggui suddenly realized: Ah! That's the new planet they're making!

And what Xiaomei said next confirmed his guess:

"There is a star core in there, the man-made star core, the attraction is very strong, enough to gather the transported star dust, compress and compress continuously, after a certain period of time, it will become a new star. planet."

"Of course, the formation of the planet is very complicated, and other auxiliary means are needed, but as temporary staff transferred by an emergency call-up order, what we are exposed to is simple handling work."

Xiaomei said lightly.

Accompanied by his voice, Ronggui's hands grabbed the glass window again, and he seriously looked at the little planet that was in the process of being formed.

As the angle changes, he sees more.

In addition to the small planet that was forming, he saw another sphere below, and then changed the angle and saw another one.

He saw many planet-like huge spheres, not suspended in the universe, but surrounded by soil boulders, and they were fixed together in a string!

"Then, what is that?" Ronggui murmured.

Then, he heard Xiaomei's voice again:

"That's the body of the tower."

"The original tower can no longer meet people's living needs. On the basis of the original, human beings have created many star cities. Below is the place where human beings live now.”

"Every sphere you see is a star city. The stardust and meteorites in the universe are adsorbed on the tower. Below that, each star city is connected to each other by pipelines. It is through those roads, from one star city to another star city."

It's rare for Xiaomei to say such a long word in one breath, and it's rare for Ronggui to understand it.

Listening to his words, Ronggui seemed to have seen the formation process of man-made star cities under the tower, and then batch after batch of people settled there and lived

He thought of Mesertal, Xiaomei's hometown, Siping Town, his hometown here, Erni City, and Yedehan City where Mary and the others lived

"This world can be..." Staring at the eternal light belt outside, Ronggui was startled, and then sighed: "It's really amazing!"

"The people here are better."

"There are no more planets, but you can make your own planets."

"If every city is a planet, Xiaomei, the places we have been to before are actually equivalent to interstellar travel!"

"Rhubarb is also equivalent to a spaceship!"

"If I become a well-known singer in the whole tower in the future, it will only be temporarily a famous singer in the whole tower."

"When I reach the right place, a universe where everyone can live normally, and the star cities disperse and become planets again, I will become a well-known singer in the universe!"

"Oh! Next, I have to work hard!" Ronggui clenched his fists as he spoke.

"Thank you, Xiaomei, for bringing me to such a beautiful place and seeing such amazing things!" Drinking water and not forgetting the well digger, turning to look at Xiaomei, Ronggui smiled at Xiaomei.

Seeing Ronggui's smile, Xiaomei was stunned.

Is this a beautiful place?

It's just a desperate place, isn't it?

Is there something else that is great? Is it this tower?

Shouldn't the tower be just a sad cage?

Driving in the long eternal light belt, I can't see any hope for the future, just floating like this

Looking away from Ronggui's smile, Xiaomei looked at the eternal sea of ​​light outside the glass window.

Different from Ronggui, he never thought there was anything good about it.

It's just that Ronggui wanted to see it, so he brought him here. From the beginning to the end, Xiaomei didn't give any more attention to the sea of ​​light.

Until now——

"I used to think it looked a little lonely outside, but now I don't feel it anymore, Xiaomei, how long can we stay here?" Rong Gui pulled Xiaomei back.

"One hour and five minutes." Even when she was thinking about things, Xiaomei's answer was still accurate.

"Ah, time is running out, shall we watch the sea together in the next time?" Pulling Xiaomei by his side, Ronggui generously divided half of the glass window to Xiaomei.

So in the following time, the two little robots really watched the "sea" together for forty minutes.

Until the alarm clock that Xiaomei set in advance rang, reminding the two of them to return immediately.