The Sabbath Chapter 266: Era
Only go out for half a day every day, do things for half a day, and let the older children study for a few hours at night. Even when they come to Sky City, the lives of these children are still regular.
What they do the most is to grow vegetables and paste lanterns. One by one, the lanterns are put out from the children's little hands and put into the big cardboard boxes next to them. Now there are quite a few full cardboard boxes .
The seasoning can't grow so fast, but with Xiaomei, with the help of Xiaomei's powerful fertilizer, some easy-to-cook dishes have been cooked for a round, and these vegetables have been carefully preserved.
The preparations for the opening of the store are mainly done by adults. Grandpa Alan has probably thought about it for a long time. Before he came here, he made a lot of store supplies that are easy to assemble and use at home. The kitchen utensils and cooking utensils are also brought from his old home in the underground city. over here. It’s easy to say if there is a place, move these things there, and simply move them, and the prototype of the store will come out.
"It takes a lot of effort to open a traditional restaurant. Just the woodcarving needs to be carefully crafted, but we are only here to do business and let everyone taste the food of our hometown. The important thing is the atmosphere and excitement. It doesn't matter whether the shop is gorgeous or not." These are the original words of Grandpa Allen, he said so, and he did the same.
Simple small shops were set up one by one, and the children came out in groups. After the adults adjusted the thread, the children climbed the ladder to hang the lanterns.
They are used to doing this kind of thing, and they don't think there is anything wrong with it. On the contrary, the volunteer grandparents in Coral City were terrified. They discouraged these children one after another, saying, "This kind of climbing work Let them do it", but hanging lanterns seems simple, but in fact, a volunteer who offered to help accidentally fell off the ladder.
Fortunately, the fall was not heavy, his wings flapped and he stabilized his balance.
Uh, the volunteer who fell was none other than Professor Alufa.
Ronggui: =-=
He didn't know until this time: Professor Arufa seems to have less developed motor nerves
And the children took advantage of this time to finally confirm: Oh? Those beautiful little wings really can't fly, can they?
These children who grew up in an extremely closed environment are born with a pair of eyes that are good at observation. They don't ask questions easily when they find problems. people will ask.
So, that night, they secretly asked Ronggui this question.
Ronggui: Oh! ! ! ! !
Having lived in Coral City for so long, this is the first time he knows about this problem! ! !
If it wasn't for the children's reminders, he, he, he, he, he really didn't realize that the people here can't fly! ! ! !
This quick observation
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In Xiaomei's words: Ronggui's reaction this time is much slower than the time when we met for the first time, when he woke up and only remembered to ask where he was in 40 and 59 seconds.
That's right, who is Ronggui? He is someone who just asks (Xiaomei) if he doesn't understand! After being asked this question, he immediately found Xiaomei who was cooking in the kitchen, grabbed Xiaomei's wings, and asked anxiously, "Xiaomei, can you fly?" and went away.
Eh, everyone knows that in this world, the wings are quite a **** part——
Ronggui is holding on to the naked part tightly in his hands. In the kitchen, besides Xiaomei, there are Professor Alufa, Mrs. Sadan, Grandpa Alan, Poma, and Ronggui. A group of kids who swarmed in behind your buttocks.
Xiaomei: =-=
It was only at this time that he realized that he had never mentioned the symbolic meaning of wings to Ronggui.
But Xiaomei is Xiaomei, even if his wings are stroked in public, he is not in a hurry. Turning down the fire on the stove, he lowered his head and shook the tips of his wings slightly
Then answered the question with a straight face:
"Can't fly."
"Huh? Is it a disability or..." Ronggui suddenly panicked. Anyway, there were no outsiders at the scene, so he simply asked directly.
"It should be that everyone can't fly. The wings have a feeling, and they can also be unfolded and retracted. In special circumstances, it's okay to help maintain balance. However, if you want to fly, the wings are too weak." Xiaomei said, still He stretched his wings to show Ronggui and the children behind him: "Look, it's completely impossible for such small wings to bear the height and weight of a normal adult."
"Isn't it possible to fly on TV?" Ronggui remembered the Sky City promotional video he had seen when he was in Ye Dehan!
There is evidence that wings can fly!
"That was a promotional video made a long time ago. About 500 years ago, people born in that generation could still fly their wings. Ye Dehan's position is relatively deep, the news is blocked, and the promotional video has not been replaced "In a few words, Xiaomei explained this problem to him as well.
"Then isn't that just a decoration?" Ronggui was dumbfounded.
When he asked, Xiaomei actually nodded: "In my opinion, it is just a decoration."
"Lying on the bed after growing wings is not as comfortable as before. Although there are special bedding, it is still not as comfortable as the back without wings."
"Then! Why didn't you say it earlier!" After Xiaomei said this, Ronggui immediately digressed: "The bed I'm using now is uncomfortable, so let's change it quickly!"
"Master, what brand of bed do you two use? Are the wings comfortable when you sleep?"
He also learned from Professor Alufa.
Professor Arufa: =-=
Ms. Sadan: =-=
The fact that the two of them slept on the same bed was exposed by the apprentice.
Well, although this is not a secret, it is still a little shy to be known in the public.
But Professor Arufa is a "professor" after all
"I'll book a bed for you later on." After being shy for a moment, Alufa said seriously, "It's good to think of this question."
"What I'm most afraid of is getting used to this kind of thing. Over time, I think it's normal not to be able to fly. Today's Sky City has this trend."
"Few people think about why their wings can't fly. Wings only represent the blood that can make people live in the sky city. It's okay to be idle, and they also study various ways to decorate wings. The more gorgeous the makeup, the more people ignore this problem"
As Arufa said, he also shook the wings on his back: "I was discovered by you today. My motor nerves are not good."
"I was not good at sports since I was a child. Compared with other children, I have more time to think."
"When I see other kids using ladders to climb, I think, why don't they use wings?"
"When I saw people go up to the sky in an aircraft, I thought, why don't they fly up with wings?"
"I'm still thinking about this question."
When he said this, he paused for a moment, his eyes gliding over the children's faces, Ronggui's face, and Xiaomei's face in turn.
Slightly different from the previous expression, Xiaomei looks like she is thinking now.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and Alufa's voice became more gentle. He continued: "Probably because I have been thinking about this issue since I was a child, so I have been interested in various sciences one after another. Fortunately, God is good to me. , He gave me a brain that can understand this knowledge, and a brain that can memorize all this knowledge so that I can think better.”
"I studied astronomy and the Atmospheric Defense of the Eternal Light Belt. The reason why I studied these is to understand whether the reason why people can't use their wings is outside the atmosphere, whether there are air, temperature, and light pollution restrictions there. It has reached the height of human flying"
"I studied biology, human physiology, genetics, and medicine to study the secret of the inability of human wings to fly from a physiological point of view."
"In these studies, I have determined that the human wing is indeed unable to fly, not only that, but the situation is getting worse."
Arufa stopped smiling.
"Does this mean that humans are degenerating?"
"Or is it evolution?"
"I, who can only exist for a short period of time in human history, have no way to understand this problem now."
"However, even knowing this, my original question remains unanswered."
"In the end, I vaguely understood something in the study of history."
"Early before our ancestors entered the light zone, in earlier ages, in earlier ages that we almost considered only belonged to myths and legends, our ancestors had a very An incredible era of evolution!"
Alufa's eyes sparkled, his tone of voice raised involuntarily, and his speech speed increased slightly:
"It was a time when we looked very incredible!"
"They, they can actually change their own form of existence!"
"The original posture, and the same shape as our current ** form, this evolutionary form I haven't fully studied yet, but in my opinion, the ultimate purpose of this model is to reproduce."
"Just like us now, any evolution of human beings is for continuation and reproduction, otherwise it will eventually go backwards"
"In the genes of existing human beings, I have observed many very wonderful gene remnants! Since I lived in Sky City since I was a child, I have relatively more genetic research on the residents of Sky City."
"It's very unbelievable that the gene that exists in our body, makes our body stronger than others, and allows us to live in the sky city, most likely comes from a creature called a dragon!"
"If the things in the myth are true, how powerful our ancestors should be!"
"Strong enough to destroy a city alone!"
"This is a power that makes people tremble with excitement!"
"There is almost reason to believe that we are almost too powerful, and we will eventually attract such a disaster. The vast majority of human beings perish, and a few people hide in the tower, drifting aimlessly in the eternal light belt"
"But even then, that era! How exciting it is!"
Professor Arufa's eyes are almost shining!
"The reason why I care so much about the era that Agui lived in is because in that era that Agui lived, creatures like dragons were mentioned a lot."
Speaking, Professor Alufa's shining eyes fell on Ronggui's face.
His eyes were so bright that Ronggui felt that Professor Alufa's eyes were shining brightly.
Ah, how incredible
As for what Professor Alufa mentioned, Rong Gui couldn't imagine it at all, but this did not affect his understanding of this matter as a very powerful thing, so powerful that it could affect all human beings.
Not only him, but everyone in this room who heard what Professor Alufa said was the same as him.
Everyone is fascinated. Although the body is here, the soul has reached the era described by Professor Alufa.
Only Mrs. Sadan's cold eyes will only soften when she looks at Professor Alufa.
At this moment, looking at such a high-spirited professor, his eyes softened even more.
"Each of us is a relic of that era."
"Each of us may contain precious genetic samples that are enough to decipher that era."
"Any act of abandoning one's body and using a substitute is a complete destruction of this precious relic."
"Whether it is a sky city or an underground city."
"We come from one origin, I have a hunch that the restoration of this secret era is inseparable from the samples of dungeon residents."
"Even, I have a premonition that leaving the Eternal Light Belt and starting a new human history on the real planet is also inseparable from the integration and cooperation of Sky City and Dungeon City."
"We come from a time, and after a long separation, we will probably come together again."
"In this way, we can walk into a new era together."
Such astonishing words appeared in a small kitchen in a small star city at an inappropriate time.
Not many people heard it, but everyone who heard it fell into silence and thinking.
Especially Xiaomei.
Ronggui looked up at Xiaomei ignorantly, although he couldn't tell from the outside, but he knew instinctively that Xiaomei was the most surprised among all the people.
Xiaomei was deeply shocked by Professor Alufa's words.