The Sabbath Chapter 49: Aion

"This is Uris, the Tower of Eternal Sun, and where we are now is her underground part."

"It's not a planet, nor a spaceship. If you have to find an adjective you can understand to describe Uris, you can think of her as a huge building, or a sky fortress."

"All the planets in the space were destroyed, and all the carriers that humans could live in were completely annihilated, and Uris became the only building in the Eternal Light Belt."

As Xiaomei said, she stretched out her hand and drew a solitary building on the sand. His painting level was similar to his aesthetic ability, but it was very precise, and Ronggui could understand it right away.

Because he understood it, he was stunned.

Driving with rhubarb for so long, there are mines and big rivers, and I thought I had traveled far, far away, but it was not until Xiaomei told him today that he knew that he had been spinning around in a tower. This--

Ronggui felt that this completely surpassed all his cognition!

And——

Is the universe destroyed?

He didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Holding his small trailer, he lowered his head to study the abstract paintings on the ground for a long time, pointed to the bottom of the tower body and asked for a while, "Are we here now?"

At the bottom of the tower, Rong Gui couldn't think of anything worse than this.

Unexpectedly, Xiaomei shook her head.

"Because the population has been increasing, the tower body has been continuously expanding. Today's tower body is no longer a single building like before, but has become more complicated. The total number of floors has already been hundreds of times that of before. As Xiaomei said, she used her fingers to draw out several abstract sporadic buildings on the sand. Each building was connected by a straight line, which looked like tree roots. After finishing the painting, Xiaomei pointed to a point on a certain branch that was very far away from the main building and said: "We are probably here now."

Ronggui looked at the distance between that point and the main tower, and said nothing for a long time.

Then, Xiaomei's voice sounded again:

"However, the most important main body is still the central white tower, and the original main body tower is now at the highest level of the entire building, and only a few people can live there."

And there is also the pinnacle of power of the entire tower - this sentence only flashed in Xiaomei's mind, but she didn't say it out of her mouth.

Ronggui just looked down at the stick figure on the ground, and it took a long time before he came back to his senses.

"Since they are all in the same building, why can the people above see the light, while the people below can only shrink in the darkness forever?" He thought for a while: "By the way, Xiaomei, you said Eternal light belt or something, what exactly is the eternal light belt? From the name, it seems that it should be a place that is always on."

Xiaomei looked at him, for Ronggui, this is a rare and good question.

"In the last month of 1299 in the Faryuta calendar, on the last day of the last week, the stars in the sky will burst like fireworks, the stars will fall from the sky, and the stardust will fill the breath of human beings.

The shattered fires of the stars are still burning, the entire universe is brilliant, and the survivors of human beings have entered the eternal light belt. "Xiaomei read a passage of obscure text in a flat voice, and then explained: "This is a passage from the last published paper on the life of Uris, a well-known scholar in the last era. The general meaning is that the universe is destroyed, all the stars explode, and the flames after the stars explode will burn for a long time, and those lights turn the entire universe into a place of eternal day. "

"This is the Eternal Light Belt."

Ronggui raised his head, as if imagining what kind of scene it was.

"That passage sounds more like the prophecy of the Great Immortal." Without thinking of the word prophet, Rong Gui could only use a more rustic word to describe his feeling.

"Uris was indeed obsessed with religion in his later years." Xiaomei said lightly.

Ronggui lowered his head and thought for a while, "I still can't figure it out, if the whole tower is in the eternal light belt, then it should be daylight everywhere."

That's another good question.

Xiaomei took a look at him, and continued to repair the TV in her hand, and slowly said while repairing: "Part of the reason is that the distribution of resources is uneven. The materials that can best isolate external rays are all on the original main tower; The material is not as good as the original material, and the place of residence can only be assigned by hierarchy."

"Another part of the reason is that even though the external light is filtered, it still mutates. Some of the people who escaped the catastrophe gradually cannot bear the light from the outside, and these people finally moved to the lowest part of the tower. end—it was completely sealed from the beginning, and no light came in.”

"Some people gave birth to defective children and threw them there."

"Those who committed crimes were also put there in the first place."

"The underground city is getting bigger and bigger, and the stardust absorbed from the outer space is also used in the expansion project. The expansion project of the underground city uses completely different materials from the upper part. You can use this The process is understood as the formation process of a planet.

In short, over time, the world above ground and the world below ground have been completely divided into two areas. "

"Even underground, there are different layers. If you want to leave the original layer and live in a higher layer, you have to pay a price. It's like we left Erni City and came to Yedehan City. Conditions for tens of thousands of points.

The use of points is only one of the various immigration rules, the higher the rules, the more restrictions there will be. "

"The layer migration in the dungeon can also be achieved by accumulating points and other conditions. However, if you want to move from the dungeon to the sky city, it is not something you can do with points."

Speaking slowly, Xiaomei suddenly stopped what she was doing, and turned on the TV, and the TV screen suddenly lit up.

As he was talking, he had already fixed the TV.

Seeing the scene on the screen, Ronggui suddenly froze.

What was played there was a scene of blue sky and white clouds.

Flocks of white birds flew across the clear blue sky, over high-tech skyscrapers, and on some of the transparent buildings, Ronggui even saw people.

Those people wore elegant and simple white clothes that were completely different from the style of his era, and they were elegant and elegant, and they all looked great! However, this is not the reason why Ronggui was stunned, what really stunned him was——

"Why do these people have wings behind them?" Pointing at the figure on the screen, Ronggui immediately turned to ask Xiaomei.

"?" Xiaomei tilted her head: "Shouldn't all healthy people be like this?"

Ronggui: Oh! ! !

Am I disabled?

Still

Deformed? !

No matter which statement is a bit difficult to accept, Ronggui thought for a long time, and finally he could only say to Xiaomei: "I think we must not be from the same place, not from the same universe, but definitely not from the same planet. people."

His eyes were fixed on the TV screen, following the wings of the birds, he saw more people, and even a dwarf.

Even those dwarves have wings!

And the people there seem to like white very much, the main color of the clothes they wear is white, white birds, white clothes, white buildings

Ronggui felt that he was going to be snow blind! ! !

Xiaomei glanced at him again: "Our differentiation started a long time ago. Degeneration of wings is the earliest criterion for differentiation. A long time ago, people without wings were gradually assigned to live in places other than the main star."

"Your planet may be one of them."

"Impossible!" Rong Gui said loudly.

But looking at the winged man on the screen, he suddenly remembered a word he often heard before: angel.

What is "beautiful like an angel" "like a holy angel"

At that time, they often used angels to describe a person as good-looking, but the original meaning of angels was those bird people with wings in western stories!

Think about it carefully, isn't it similar to the winged man on the TV screen?

If the myths and legends of a place have real historical counterparts, then, then

Ronggui is also uncertain.

He shook his back reflexively, but just after shaking, he remembered: Uh, he is not using his original body now

Could it be that he and Xiaomei are really people in the same universe, but he lives on the earth in the east, and Xiaomei lives on a certain planet in the west. People from a certain planet in the middle were separated, but they were driven away by their hometown because they didn't have wings.

Then the earth went through several times of destruction and regeneration. All the records in the past were destroyed. They also forgot about their hometown and wings. Until Ronggui fell into a coma, the scientists on the earth were still trying to climb The moon is trying to take a step deeper into the universe, and then there is a "bang"——

The universe exploded.

The remaining people were housed in the giant white tower, and the freezer he was in was also taken in.

Then

Immersed in all kinds of illusions, Rong Gui was completely stunned.

"If you have wings, you can directly submit an application to live in Sky City. It is more useful than any points. This is the best application condition." Slowly reinstalling the back panel of the TV, Xiaomei slowly explain.

Ronggui could no longer hear his voice.

Staring at the screen, all his attention was attracted by the picture on the screen.

Blue sky, white clouds, gentle sunshine, beautiful people, laughing children running across the green grass, and white birds

Except that all the people in the picture have wings, the other scenes are really no different from his previous world

Ronggui looked at the screen almost greedily.

Xiaomei didn't speak.

After fixing the TV, he went to do other things again. He was busy with Ronggui's work for a long time, and he hadn't taken out his own tools to rearrange it.

Before he left, he took another look at Ronggui who was concentrating on watching TV and the TV screen in front of Ronggui.

The consistent monotony of the screen is the most common scene in Sky City.

No dialogue, no sound, no special effects of any kind.

However, it is the highest-rated TV show in the Dungeon.

Living in the dark underground and using various methods to simulate light are all manifestations of people's yearning for light.

It's no wonder this tedious show is so popular.

However——

Do you want to live in such a beautiful place? Then work hard, live seriously, and earn points hard.

The real meaning of this show is actually this, like a big pie, painted in front of hungry people.

Then, look harder and harder, then

The hungrier you get.

Withdrawing her gaze, Xiaomei walked into the back room.