It was no surprise that Gerrick had become a celebrity.
However, he did not seem to like this situation very much. Although he was quite happy at first, he was now afraid of being tormented by those enthusiastic uncles and aunties. The dirty little garbage man was washed and changed into new clothes brought by the rescue team. He was pushed in front of the public to be tormented by tens of thousands of people. In just half an hour, this guy ran back screaming and screaming.
We had already boarded a large transport ship to the city. Due to the transport ship's micro-warp system malfunction, the spaceship could only cruise within the atmosphere to the destination. The journey would take about an hour, and there were still about ten minutes before we arrived. The space inside the transport ship was much larger than that of a small transport ship like the Fighter. Due to the basic space expansion device, the garage here was almost as wide as a football field. The victims gathered in the garage, discussing the current situation and lamenting the destruction of their homes in low voices. Of course, there were also some who imagined a new life. The overall atmosphere was much better than what we had expected.
Perhaps it was easy to explain this. In this world, "personal property" was not a very important concept. Most of the production tools were actually owned by the collective, and the daily necessities had to be distributed from the food synthesizers and drinking water synthesizers. Daily clothes, medicine, and other daily necessities came from all kinds of synthesizers. Most of the individual houses and belongings came from the ruins and could be seen everywhere. In this subtle "communist" state, the residents would not react too much to any degree of loss of their property. Due to the instability of the material production in the ruins, many ordinary people were in a state of migration. They had to follow the scope of their work, so moving was a common thing. Even in the condenser town that had existed for decades, there were still many residents moving. Under these two circumstances, the impact of the destruction of their homes was naturally much weaker.
Most of the people's sorrow came from the sudden departure from the place they were used to and the regret of not being able to take away many things in time. These feelings were not enough to make them want to die. Apart from the elderly who were more sentimental, many young people did not react too strongly to this incident. Therefore, it seemed that disaster relief work in this world was much easier than on Earth …
The spaceship arrived safely at its destination ten minutes later. It was a large town that was ready to welcome the disaster victims. The transport spaceship landed on the huge metal platform behind the town, unloaded all the disaster victims and some staff responsible for arranging related affairs, and then left. The few of us were the last to get off the spaceship. Sandora used mental interference to make everyone ignore the group of people who seemed to be out of place in the surrounding environment. The elder sister and Lin Xue began to study the surrounding environment.
"It looks as dilapidated as Condenser Town," Miss Prophet muttered. "It's just that the area is larger, the shacks are neatly distributed, and the town is built along the steps. Maybe this is the urban planning of this world? But it is still a shack. "
"The location of this place is really ingenious." Sandora looked at the huge metal platform under our feet. "This should be a barge dock of an aircraft carrier. They built a town along the terrain outside the comprehensive command center of the aircraft carrier, and then used the nearest barge dock as the town's airport, allowing spaceships to take off and land here. If I'm not wrong, this should be a place similar to a logistics transfer station. It should be the supply hub of the big city."
"Let's take a look at the big city?"
I glanced at Sandora, and she smiled. "It seems that these victims can't enter the big city. But we have learned enough about the ordinary individuals in this world. Now it's time to see how the upper echelons are doing."
"I have to remind you," Lin Xue rubbed her forehead and closed her eyes slightly. "Don't play for too long. There will be a disaster waiting for us in the near future."
"We are fully prepared." Sandora crossed her arms in front of her chest. "PL-15 has prepared enough ecological colonization ships and assault ships. Once this world collapses, no matter what the cause of the collapse is, we will have enough time and manpower to rescue the indigenous people here. Of course, it would be better if we can find the reason for the imbalance of the world before that happens. No matter what, this is one of the best preserved ancient battlefields from the Old Empire era. There are rare living fossils everywhere. "
I thought about it and felt that there were actually many people here who had a longer history than the fossils in this universe. But considering that age was a taboo for girls, I didn't dare to say it out loud. Otherwise, even if Sandora didn't make a move, the violent woman Icetis would have killed me with a brick.
At this moment, Sandora suddenly frowned and removed the mental hint around us. After a while, Glick's voice came from not far away. "Ah! Here you are! I have been looking for you for a long time. Someone from the city is looking for you. They should be bringing you home. "
Glick seemed to have been looking for us for a long time. However, due to the presence of Sandora's mental hint, no one would pay attention to the landing platform. In the end, he had been circling around the area for a long time until Sandora noticed him. He ran in front of us while panting and pointed at a group of figures in black robes not far away. "They … Cough, cough. They are Daoists from the city. They said they were looking for you. I asked them if they were bringing you home but they didn't say anything."
Sandora and I exchanged glances and saw a faint smile in each other's eyes.
Alright, it seemed that they had finally found a small group of suspicious people. This saved us a lot of trouble.
"Let's go and take a look." Big Sister nodded and walked forward. However, just as she lifted her foot, she seemed to remember something and turned to look at Glick. "Right, we might have to leave for a while. Let's say our goodbyes here. We will meet again soon."
Glick's eyes widened, but he quickly lowered his head and said, "Mm, I know … You guys are going home after all. It's not like you will always be with us. However, these days have been really fun. Everyone and I have seen many wonderful things while we were with you! Thank you so much … That … That … "
"Ha, don't worry. That 'spaceship' is yours." I was slightly stunned, but I immediately understood what Glick wanted to say. This child who had been influenced by his father since he was young would only be interested in one thing — spaceships. "Little Captain, you are indeed qualified to have it. Who knows, you might even have a real spaceship that belongs to you in the future."
Glick instantly raised his head in surprise. "Really?"
After getting our confirmation, the child instantly cheered and shouted 'Long Live!' before running away in a few seconds.
"Eh, did he forget to say goodbye? Aren't we saying goodbye to him? " I supported Mercury Lamp, who was dozing off on my shoulder. I felt a little helpless. As soon as I said that, Glick ran back like a gust of wind. "Ah, yes, Uncle. I forgot to say goodbye. Aren't you going to say goodbye to the others? Grandpa Barnard wants to thank you again. If it wasn't for Sister Sandora's reminder, everyone would really be in danger this time. "
Why is it that Sandora is the big sister, but I'm the uncle now?
"There will be a chance," the big sister said with a smile. "But for now, it's better for you to accompany your sister. You don't have to worry about a nine-year-old child, right?"
"It's okay. Water Drop may look small, but she's actually smarter than me." Glick scratched his head and smiled. "She just doesn't like to talk. She was the one who led me to find someone to register. Then … I'll leave first. "
After saying goodbye, Glick ran away excitedly. I didn't know if he was going to look for his sister or if he was busy checking if his' spaceship 'was still there. The big sister and I looked at each other and smiled. We said in unison, "What a child."
The figures in black robes were still patiently waiting at the edge of the landing site. They had seen Glick talking to us just now, so they must have confirmed our identities. Now that Glick had left, one of the black robes raised a hand at us from afar, indicating that he was waiting for us to come over.
"What arrogance." Quicksilver Lamp hugged my head and rubbed it against me. Her eyes were still a little sleepy. "Hey hey, stupid human. Shouldn't you be saying 'I bestow upon you the death penalty'?"
As I carried the mercury lamp forward, I furrowed my brows and asked, "Where did you learn this nonsense from?"
"TV series! Chestnut taught me a lot of TV series. "
I stumbled and looked at Zi Changzhi helplessly, "You spoil your child too much, don't you?"
Now I knew why Mercury Lamp kept yawning before night fell. There was actually a guy here who allowed a child to stay up late?
Chestnut looked a little embarrassed and stuck out her tongue, "Uncle Sicarro said that there was a market crisis and the interruption of the industrial chain. It wasn't easy to do business, so he sold me a lot of … things at a low price. I picked something interesting and gave it to Water Drop."
I thought for a while and suddenly burst out, "Bullsh * t market crisis and interruption of the industrial chain! Isn't it just last week when Ling Meng led the city management team to block more than two hundred low-level officers in the dormitory? That guy is on the flagship now. I have to put him in detention for half a month. His business has even reached the royal family! "
As we spoke, we arrived in front of the black-robed people. According to my understanding over the past few days, these unsmiling black-robed people in front of me should be the ruling class of this world. They were called "monks", but in some cases, monks were government officials because this church that worshipped ancient civilizations was the governing body of this world.
The ruling system of this ruined world was very strange. It only needed an organization that had the final say in managing all the ancient machines and weapons, and the other citizens would be responsible for production. There was no complicated economic structure here, no military strategies between countries, and no political disputes. The world's resources, production methods, and survival methods were extremely simple, so the ruling body of this world could be unbelievably simple. The church that these monks belonged to, which was the ruling religion of this world, didn't even have a name because this was the only faith in this world. At the same time, this faith was the only political system in this world. When talking about a church, there was no doubt that it was the black-robed monks in front of us. Of course, there were also high-ranking monks who didn't wear black robes. They didn't have any rigid rules in many aspects, except for their extreme worship of ancient civilizations and the prohibition against exploring the outside world.
"Thank you for everything in this world. It's a pleasure to meet all of you." Standing at the front of the black-robed people was a tall man with white hair. He looked to be around fifty years old. At a glance, one could tell that he had meticulously taken care of his short beard. When he spoke, he seemed to be very polite. He glanced at us, and his gaze clearly paused on Mercury Lamp and Rhododendron Spp.. Then, he nodded and said, "I am a high-ranking monk, Yodel."
We still didn't know why these monks were looking for us. However, since they had introduced themselves politely, we also told them our names. Of course, it was only our names. We didn't say anything else. Although we didn't have a bad impression of these monks, we didn't trust them either. In any case, it seemed that Glick's father was indirectly killed by the monks' intercepting fire. This made our impression of these people in front of us a little worse.
"We received news that when the disaster happened, you were the ones who warned us in time and saved the civilians," Yodel said straightforwardly. Yodel went straight to the point. Both of his hands were hidden in his loose black robe. Only his face was exposed. This kind of attire made him look especially strict and rigid.
After getting our confirmation, Yodel nodded and said what I thought he was going to say in a roundabout way, "That's why the Church of Big City is very concerned about you. We have investigated your identities and found that you aren't in any of the population records. You claimed to be from Big City, but that is also a lie. In other words, your identities are suspicious. Am I right? "
Sandora coldly said, "Oh." She raised her voice and said, "Then, what do you plan to do?"
In this ruined world, it wasn't surprising at all. Even though there were many administrative organizations in this world that were almost completely empty, only the resident population registration was abnormally complete. This was all too normal. Everything in this world was based on the distribution of survival resources. Everyone had to obtain their own quota of survival resources from various factories, and they also had to use the same method to submit their own labor records. This sort of universal distribution was based on absolutely strict population registration. There was no such thing as an undocumented person in this world, because such a person wouldn't even have the possibility of survival. Without personal records, they wouldn't receive food, clothing, medicine, or even water.
As for us, we couldn't find any information on us no matter how hard we tried. Moreover, we had caused a lot of commotion. I'm afraid that we had long been noticed by Big City, including the small gifts we had given to Glick … Those weren't secrets. Any resident of Condenser Town could easily ask about it.
"Don't worry, we don't have any ill intentions, at least not now." Yodel nodded slightly, as though he was strengthening his tone. "But we need to bring you to Big City for questioning. Don't worry, this isn't an interrogation or an arrest. The Archbishop is just curious. He has personally ordered me to bring you to him. "
The monk was very polite and his attitude was much better than we had expected. Plus, we had planned to go to Big City along the way anyway. We nodded happily on the spot.
The monk's team had come in a transport aircraft, an antique Strife transport aircraft. However, their aircraft was slightly different from the ordinary ones. At the very least, it looked cleaner and had a better appearance. It was also painted light purple. This color was probably the 'noble color' of this world. I had never seen civilian facilities painted this color before.
The town where the refugees were settled was actually a satellite town of Big City. Just as Sandora had guessed, this town had a ready-made airship landing platform and all kinds of loading and unloading equipment (all of them were ready-made semi-fixed robots on the deck of the giant aircraft carrier). It was a resource transfer hub for Big City. The transport aircraft flew at its lowest speed, and the journey only took around ten minutes. Soon, we arrived at the absolute center of this world, a unique existence among unique existences: Big City.
Even though we had seen the entire appearance of the city from the information we had received from the probe, we couldn't help but feel astonished when we flew over it.
This was a huge city that could be called a mega metropolis in the normal world. It was located in a very strange place. It was a huge circular crater with a radius of over a hundred kilometers. It was bigger than any battleship wreckage on this planet. Surrounding the crater was the same metal ground that was piled up by countless battleship wreckages. However, from the edge of the crater, there was a layer of alloy wall that was so smooth that it was almost like a mirror. The crater was shaped like a standard round bowl, and Big City was in the middle of the bowl. The radius of the city was about three quarters of the crater's radius. Looking at the strange terrain of Big City, especially the mirror-like parabolic surface on the wall of the crater, I had maliciously speculated more than once. If there was no transportation, how did the people inside climb up?
The bowl-like crater where Big City was located had already attracted Sandora and my attention two days ago. At that time, when we saw the image sent back by the probe, Sandora made a conjecture. She felt that this was a mark left behind by a high-powered weapon after the planet was formed. This could explain why there was such a circular crater on the metal ground that was piled up by countless battleship wreckages. Moreover, there were obvious traces of metal melting on the inner wall of the crater. However, Sandora also admitted that this did not make sense under normal circumstances.
"When the planet was formed, all the spaceships on it had already disintegrated and crashed. There was no point in attacking a pile of battlefield wreckage. It was a waste of energy."
That was why we could not explain why a certain battleship commander who fought in this universe hundreds of thousands of years ago decided to fire a shot at a pile of battlefield wreckage. Whipping corpses was not the style of the Shiring Apostles.
In any case, after thinking about it for a long time, we could only guess that the shot was done by Visca because she was the only one on the battlefield who could do such a crazy thing.
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