In the eyes of a plumber, Glick's father was definitely an anomaly in this world. In this world, there were bound to be people who cared about the outside world, people who wanted to uncover the secrets behind the energy storm, and people who worried that the world would cease to function one day. However, under normal circumstances, those people who worried about these things were mostly knowledgeable people. Their position in society determined the knowledge they had access to. For example, the legendary captain of the Hope was said to be a high-ranking friar in the Senate of the big city.
However, Glick's father was just a plumber. He was born and raised in a small town called 'Condenser'. A plumber who had spent his whole life sorting metal, so his knowledge was truly impressive.
It was no wonder that even Barnard, who looked generous and peaceful, would say that Old Glick was "delusional". As a civilian, Old Glick was indeed too unsociable. Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people in this world, he was one of those who suffered from serious paranoia. Of course, his "paranoia" was 100% real.
Glick showed us many things about his father. There was the squeaky MDT, the flickering holographic recorder, the tattered notebook, and the pictures. After hundreds of thousands of years, many things had almost lost their original appearance. Even the creations of the Empire, which were supposed to last forever, were constantly being damaged after the war. Glick's' crazy imagination 'father had deduced the truth of this world from these messy records and came to the shocking conclusion that this world had already been destroyed once and everything would eventually dry up.
If a plumber could discover this truth, then what were the people in this world who were more qualified to discover all this?
Sandora and I thought of this at the same time.
Even though Glick couldn't sleep due to the excitement of the day, he couldn't resist the exhaustion of his physical strength. He rubbed his eyes, bade us goodnight and returned to his room. The child wanted to arrange a place for the guests to stay, but he knew that his small metal house was not a good place to entertain guests. He knew that we had our own spatial equipment, so naturally, we had a way to solve our problem. So, he went back to sleep.
Originally, we could have teleported back to the Admiral of the Empire and spent the night in the comfortable royal resting area. However, spending a bleak night in this post-apocalyptic world was also a new experience. So, Shallow Shallow (as many people would have guessed, Shallow Shallow's suggestion would be the first to pop out) excitedly dragged us to sleep on the ground outside the town …
Fortunately, Sandora had set up spatial concealment and trigger devices to prevent any nocturnal sufferers from panicking when they discovered a row of corpses lying on the street outside the town. Lying in the warm sleeping bag, my emotions fluctuated. I thought of the classic joke of two people sleeping in the wilderness only to discover that their tent was stolen. I thought of the bitter experience of a certain brother who had a snake crawling into his sleeping bag in the wilderness. If that brother was called Bell, then the snake would have many bitter experiences. Most importantly, I thought of how I could have easily rested in the warm and comfortable living quarters of the spaceship, but instead, I had to sleep on the ground on this scrap metal planet with an air pollution index of six skulls. What a stupid thing to do …
"Let's experience life, let's experience life."
Shallow Shallow's sparkling eyes twinkled in the dim light of the night. She blinked as she looked in our direction. Because we had spread out a large piece of high-speed gel on the ground, it was like a bed that took up more than ten square meters. So, she rolled over in her sleeping bag and curled up on me like a caterpillar. "When I watched movies in the past, I used to imagine how romantic it would be to wrap myself in a warm sleeping bag in such an apocalyptic world, watching the world fall into a deep sleep for the last time. Now, my dream has finally come true …"
"…"
Two meters away, Lin Xue muttered, "Blockhead, if you have the time, you should really take Shallow Shallow to have her brain examined. How many words do you think she said were logical?"
Alright, let's do it again. "…"
Whenever I was with Shallow Shallow, things would always happen that made me speechless but in the end, it was a joyous event. Perhaps this was one of the girl's unique talents, which was to make everyone around her happy with herself as the center of attention.
We were always dragged by her to do this and that. Whenever she came up with an idea, it would cause everyone to jump up and down. For example, she excitedly created her own superpower organization, and now, she was dragging everyone to sleep on the metal ruins in the middle of the night, discussing how romantic the apocalypse was. Although it sounded silly, I had to admit that it was a rare experience.
In the end, I slowly came to a conclusion. The reason why I was so happy with Shallow Shallow was because only when I was with her, I could find an excuse for my childish fun and have a good time. "Because I have to accompany Shallow Shallow, I can only go crazy with her." But that being said, when did I not enjoy it as much as she did?
As we gradually grew up, we gradually matured, we ground away our sharpness and threw away our childishness and naivety. We wrapped ourselves in a calm and capable outer shell. Thus, many silly things that we did not do enough of were thrown to the corner of our memories. But to Shallow Shallow, it was as if the process of grinding away her naivety had never even begun. Her heart was forever stuck in the era where she could jump over walls with her childhood sweetheart. She was lively, quick-witted, willful, and filled with childishness. She did not care about her identity and the opinions of others. She immersed herself in the joy of the wildest fantasies and pulled us along to go crazy. She gave everyone an excuse to throw away their outer shell and let out the childishness that they normally suppressed — — For example, sleeping in the ruins.
Perhaps this was her greatest strength, a side that I, Sandora, Big Sis, Lin Xue and everyone else could never hope to reach.
"Ah Jun." Shallow Shallow's head popped out of the sleeping bag. She had always dreamed of hiding in a sleeping bag in the wilderness until dawn, just like in the adventure novels she read when she was young. Now, her wish had finally come true. "This looks like a big bed."
"… Oh."
"Ah Jun sleeps on the same bed with many girls."
"Pfft!"
Does this girl's brain work in another dimension when she speaks!?
Lin Xue's giggles could be heard from not far away, as though she was about to suffer from internal injuries from holding back her laughter. Sandora didn't make a sound, but the moment her body stiffened, it was obvious. Big Sis let out a faint sigh from the other side, "… Even I'm included in this. Ah Jun, we should really examine Shallow Shallow's brain when we have the time."
The other person who stayed behind to accompany Shallow Shallow in making a mattress on the floor was Rhododendron Spp.. However, the fox couldn't be bothered with us right now. She was trying her best to stuff her nine tails into the sleeping bag. It wasn't easy at all. She had been struggling for half an hour and had only managed to stuff her sixth tail into the sleeping bag. There was no more space left in the sleeping bag. Actually, I was curious about one thing. As a general animal with nine tails, did she really need to be covered by a blanket?
"Blue, do you need help?"
I turned my head to look at the fox who was about to turn herself into a ball. Mother Zi told me to bring this fellow out to see the world. She even said that she could be our assistant. However, from the looks of it, other than being used as a bed for Mercury Lamp or Little Bubble, this fox was basically just a cute launcher.
"No need, I can do it myself. Sleeping bags are really strange things. Why didn't they leave room for tails when they were designed?"
I rolled my eyes speechlessly. "Because we don't grow tails. Take your time. Be careful, the fur on your tail has just grown out. Don't cry if you drop it yourself. "
Blue Might vaguely agreed, but my eyelids were already heavy. I couldn't hear what he was saying. After adjusting the pillow under my head that didn't match the sleeping bag but was forced to be used by Icetis, I directly fell asleep.
The dream only lasted for a short period of time. Perhaps it was because this environment wasn't suitable for people to rest. In my daze, I was startled awake by a sudden burst of cold air.
My surroundings were dark. In this ruined world, artificial lights were precious because they required extra energy. No one would install street lights in the wilderness, even if this "wilderness" was only a kilometer away from the nearest residential area. High up in the sky, I could only see a dim red ring. That was the lowest power fusion reactor in outer space, providing the lowest nighttime illumination and maintaining the temperature of this world.
The nighttime temperature of this place was really low. It seemed that the artificial atmosphere on this ruined planet wasn't that strong. It wasn't efficient in maintaining the temperature. The surrounding temperature was only around ten degrees Celsius. Fortunately, with our physiques, environmental temperature and the like were no longer a concern.
Shallow Shallow was sleeping quietly beside me. Her body was facing me and she was slightly curled up like a baby. It was rare to see her sleeping posture even slightly better. I believed that the semi-enclosed sleeping bag played an important role in maintaining her sleeping posture.
There weren't any sun, moon, or stars in the sky, so I couldn't estimate the approximate time. I could only read through the information link and realized that I had slept for less than thirty minutes.
Perhaps it was because of the unexpected insomnia in this unfamiliar environment, I didn't feel sleepy at all. After lying down for a few minutes, I got out of the sleeping bag and decided to walk around. Perhaps a moderate amount of exercise would help me fall asleep. Of course, I was also a little curious about the scenery of this world at night.
The world after the apocalypse was silent at night. There seemed to be a philosopher who once said that there were only two periods of the quietest and purest night on Earth. The first period was before the birth of human civilization, and the second period began on the second night after the apocalypse. Now, this was verified. When human civilization lost its motivation to make noise, the world could really be this quiet.
Unknowingly, we had already left the campsite by a few hundred meters. After turning around a small mound formed by the armor plates of a cannon tower that was inserted into the ground, an endless land of scrap metal appeared in front of us. Sharp and twisted steel stood on the ground. In the deep night, it looked like countless bony, withered arms grabbing at the sky from hell. My enhanced vision allowed me to see these strange and craggy alloy bones under such dim light, but it couldn't dispel the eerie atmosphere that these alloy bones gave me.
It was as if I was walking on the rotting corpse of a giant. Everything on this ruined planet was exuding the stench of death. The giant spaceship wreckage that looked magnificent during the day had now become monotonous silhouettes in the dark. Under the simplest light and darkness, there was only the sadness of the end of the world. There was no longer a trace of beauty.
The path under my feet was the frame beam of some spaceship. After walking for a long time, I found myself at the end of the path, standing on a flying cliff.
This flying cliff could be the joint of a spaceship. The special interface section made it a steep spectacle that protruded dozens of meters out from the cliff below. I felt that I might have come to the other end of this metal station. In front of me was an unfamiliar small basin. The "condenser" town should be on the other side of this small basin — in the direction behind me.
The surrounding temperature seemed to have dropped even further, as though the final heat radiation from the fusion reactors in outer space had stopped. The world was immersed in an unprecedented silence. I stood in this eerie silence for a while, until I suddenly felt a low commotion coming from beneath my feet.
It was oppressive, low, and slowly spreading, as if an unimaginably huge beast was slowly awakening from the depths of the earth. Some kind of low-frequency sound that was almost indiscernible to the human ear was being transmitted from the tens of thousands of kilometers thick metal ground below, forming a dizzying and nauseating resonance in the air. A lot of messy images seemed to flash through my mind. Vaguely, I saw the full picture of this ruined planet.
In the deep darkness, it shivered, and then its body was quickly covered in dark red cracks.
The illusion in my mind and the scene in front of me suddenly overlapped, and there was a sudden and ear-piercing scream in my ears. Then, the ground began to split in front of me.
A crack suddenly appeared in the small basin in front of me, and bright energy sparks were spewing out from the crack. The crack was only dozens of meters long at first, but in just a few seconds, it exploded and extended beyond the horizon as far as the eye could see. It connected with the wider cracks that were spreading from there, forming a chaotic network of sparkling energy sparks that covered the entire land. Blue-white psionic sparks jumped between the metal pieces, rapidly heating up the debris until the edge of the debris turned fiery red, just like in the illusion. I looked at the drastic change in front of me in a daze. I thought that the people in the town might not know about this huge disaster, but I didn't know why I didn't have the slightest interest in taking action.
It was as if I had become a bystander, watching a scene that had already happened a long time ago. I watched as the ground collapsed in front of me, and the ruins that had been silent for hundreds of thousands of years stretched its body. It shook off the accumulated dust on its surface, and then everything was instantly overturned.
The crevice that extended from the basin suddenly changed direction and instantly extended to his feet. Then, the rapidly expanding crevice swallowed him without any suspense. What he heard was the whistling sound of his body falling at high speed …
Everything that was strange came to an abrupt end. When I suddenly opened my eyes, it was still a quiet night in front of me. The dim fusion reactors were hanging in space three thousand kilometers away, evenly arranged in the sky, like tungsten lamps with insufficient voltage. Only a dark red ring of light was emitting a weak glimmer.
The collapsing ground and the sound of the fusion reactors starting up from deep underground had all disappeared. After being stunned for a few seconds, I realized that I had just had an absurd dream.
I rubbed my eyes to wake myself up a little, and suddenly felt a heavy weight on my chest. I lowered my head to take a look, and what entered my eyes was a silly face that was muddled from sleep. It was Shallow Shallow. This girl had almost completely overlapped on top of me, and her posture was like a white crane spreading its wings. Her sleeping bag had already disappeared …
It seemed that the scene in my dream was indeed absurd. Even a sleeping bag was unable to stop Shallow Shallow's perfect sleeping posture. I felt that other than Tawil's coffin, there was probably nothing in this world that could stop Shallow Shallow from acting cute in her sleep.
I gently placed Shallow Shallow to the side, and got up to walk to the edge of the campsite. I had to carefully step over Rhododendron Spp., who I didn't know when she had rolled over to my feet. This big fox seemed to have obtained the final victory last night. She had stuffed all nine of her tails into her sleeping bag, and the only regrettable thing was that she had forgotten that I was outside …
That's right, it's just like what you're imagining. I don't know what this nine-tailed girl is thinking. She stuffed all her tails under the blanket while she sleeps naked outside. Speaking of which, she really likes to sleep naked.
Just as my gaze swept over the fox's body, a sinister voice came from behind me. "Blockhead, if you want to take another look, do you believe that I won't go and wake up Sandora and Shallow Shallow?"
My entire body quivered, and I hurriedly focused my attention on my Dantian. I tossed aside the beautiful fox who liked to walk naked in front of me, and turned my head to reveal a silly smile at Lin Xue. "Morning, girl."
"Morning? It's getting late. "
Lin Xue had already put on her clothes, and even her wet hair looked like she had just washed herself. She lifted her head to look at the pitch-black night sky, and spoke softly along with the night breeze. "It's already morning, but the fusion reactors haven't lit up."
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