Dimensional Bookstore

He has planted the seeds of magic. If it blooms, he will take good care of it, fertilize it regularly, and prune its branches and leaves. If it rots, he will try to remove it and never let it pollute other clean soil.

Three days later, the diligent Victor has sent all the magic books to the right people. It will take a long time for things to ferment, so Le Jing plans to go to other planes to continue his adventure. After asking Le Ling to make a small program to upload "Revolutionary Road" regularly, just in case, he also asked Victor to leave a black cat clone to monitor the development of the incident and avoid it from getting out of control.

Under the warning eyes of Le Jing and Keynes, Victor raised his paw obediently and honestly promised that he would maintain social order fairly and justly. Le Jing was cautious and reserved about Victor's promise.

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The next second after arriving at the C52 plane, Le Ling sounded the alarm: [Alarm, alarm! According to the test, the air of plane C52 contains a lot of dust, volcanic ash and poisonous gas, there is no sunlight, the oxygen content is extremely low, and it is not suitable for human survival! 】

Even if Le Jing was calm, he was stunned by this huge amount of information for a moment, and four big words popped up in his mind almost immediately: the end of the world.

After a brief exchange with Le Ling, Le Jing fell silent.

The technological level of this plane is similar to that of the earth, so after Le Ling arrived at this plane and sensed the network signal, he immediately connected to the network to collect information, and Le Jing also had a clearer understanding of this plane.

This plane has been similar to the development of the earth for thousands of years, and then twenty years ago, the history of plane C52 deviated, and thus went on a completely different path from the earth.

April 1, 1999, this was a normal Thursday. Husbands picked up their briefcases and prepared to go to work, housewives were calculating bills in a panic, children were playing on the streets with schoolbags on their backs, and the streets were bustling with people. If you take pictures of all of this, it will be an ordinary photo of fireworks in the world.

Then, at noon that day, an asteroid with a diameter of 10km passed through the earth's atmosphere and fell into the Atlantic Ocean. The dozens of meters of tsunamis it triggered quickly engulfed most of America. The subsequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters caused a painful blow to the creatures on the earth. And that's not all. The dust and volcanic ash produced by the meteorite impact gathered in the atmosphere, blocking the sunlight and moonlight, and the whole world fell into a long darkness. 90% of the species on the earth became extinct, and the surviving humans and animals hid underground and survived in the dark underground. All this sounds ridiculous like an April Fool's Day joke, but it has become the [daily life] of every creature that survived on this planet.

65 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of 10 km hit the earth, which eventually led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, the dominant species on earth. And now, 65 million years later, humans, as the new dominant species on earth, are helpless against asteroids of the same size. So history repeats itself.

Le Jing is now in a huge and vast underground cave, a small human settlement area, where people from various countries are mixed.

He looked out the dark window, and a huge sense of desolation came over him. The history of mankind is largely a history of conquering, transforming and even domesticating nature. Humans conquered land, sea and sky, reclaimed wasteland to improve crops, and domesticated animals... For nearly 10,000 years, humans have trampled on nature and transformed it beyond recognition.

However, the civilization that humans spent nearly 10,000 years to build was destroyed by nature in just a few minutes. In the end, humans still did not conquer nature, and it was nature that destroyed humans. Under the power of nature, no matter if you are a prince, a noble, or a great man, you are just some insignificant parasites. The only one who survives, or even lives forever, is nature itself.

"What a hellish scene." Victor commented after listening to Le Jing's explanation.

"Then should we leave here?" Keynes looked at Le Jing blankly, "This place should not meet your interesting standards, right?"

"No, you are wrong. Although this world is dark, I firmly believe that there must be a glimmer of light. Because humans can be destroyed, but the human spirit will never sink." Le Jing looked out the window with full of expectations, "After all, humans are such a weak and powerful creature."

Only such humans can climb to the top of the food chain in just a few thousand years and develop an exceptionally dazzling civilization.

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Ji Xing walked through the winding caves with ease. Years of underground life have given her excellent night vision, and she can identify directions even in the dark night.

She is going to collect a kind of moss that grows deep in the cave. In today's era when most plants are extinct, this kind of moss is one of the few foods that can supplement vitamins for underground residents.

She walked around a huge stalactite and turned into a fork on the left. She only needed to turn a few more corners to reach her destination. She had walked this road countless times, so the route map was already clearly engraved in her mind. However, when she turned into another fork, what she saw was bright and soft lights.

She squinted her eyes, which were uncomfortable because of the light, and felt a little angry. Energy is so scarce now! They still turn on the lights at night! This is a crime!

Then she realized that the power was turned off at 7pm, so how could there still be lights here?

She approached the direction of the lights suspiciously, and the vague outline became clearer and clearer in her vision under the light. A wooden door appeared on the rock wall, and noisy voices could be heard faintly from inside.

Ji Xing had come and gone here countless times, and never knew that there were people living here!

She knocked on the door curiously, and a clear male voice came from inside the door: "Come in, the door is not locked."

Ji Xing pushed the door open and carefully poked her head out. A handsome big brother was looking at her with a smile.

She whispered: "Hello."

"Hello, young lady." The young man's eyes curved into beautiful crescents, and he greeted her kindly: "It's very cold outside, come in and warm up."

Ji Xing didn't feel cold. She was born underground and had gotten used to the temperature here. According to her father, the ground is now frozen, and it's snowing in some places. That's cold!

She had never seen snow, and her father said it was white and looked a bit like cotton. But how can cotton be cold? She felt that her father was lying to her, and that he was always like this. But she was already 8 years old, not a child anymore.

However, the room was indeed quite warm, and Ji Xing broke out in a sweat not long after she came in. She still felt a little hot even after taking off her outer jacket. She was secretly amazed at how many books this big brother had here, and she had never seen so many books before! She guessed that he must be an amazing person.

Le Jing looked at the little girl's face flushed with heat, and quickly lowered the temperature of the heating. Le Ling had modified all the electrical appliances in the store, and used the redstone as the energy supply, so that they could enjoy the convenience of modern technology in this doomsday of energy shortage.

Ji Xing really felt much better. But then she looked at the remote control in Le Jing's hand with curiosity: "What is this?"

"It's the remote control of the heater."

The little girl blinked her big eyes and asked blankly: "What is the heater?"

"It's a heating device that can make the temperature higher." Le Jing explained.

Ji Xing immediately grasped the point: "That must be very energy-consuming, right?"

"... Maybe?"

"Turn it off!" Ji Xing immediately stood up and looked at Le Jing fiercely, "Every bit of energy is precious, and it should be used where it is most needed! You wasting energy for personal enjoyment is..." The little girl was stuck for a moment, and soon remembered her father's original words, "It is irresponsible to all mankind and a great crime!"

"Sorry, I didn't know before." Le Jing looked at her apologetically and turned off the heating immediately, "Thank you for your correction."

Being treated so seriously, Ji Xing felt a little embarrassed Thinking about it, she blushed shyly: "It doesn't matter, knowing the mistakes and correcting them is a good child."

Le Jing smiled and asked: "My name is Le Jing, what's your name?"

The little girl answered crisply: "My name is Ji Xing."

Le Jing asked: "Is it the star of the stars?"

"Dad said yes." Ji Xing lowered his head in frustration, and his toes slid on the ground, "But I haven't seen the stars. Not only me, but other children have not seen the stars. Adults say that the stars are covered by a cover, so no one can see them."

Le Jing was stunned, and finally at this moment, she felt the reality that the world was in the end of the world.

Kant once said: "There are only two things in the world that make me awe, one is the brilliant starry sky above my head, and the other is the eternal moral law in my heart."

But the children of this world have never seen the starry sky.

They live in the dark and cold underground, like seeds, waiting for a future where they don't know whether they will have the opportunity to break through the soil, sprout and bloom.

When Le Jing was a child, he stayed in his father's hometown for a while. It was a closed and backward mountain village, still following the simple routine of working from sunrise to sunset.

Whenever the sun sets, the whole mountain village falls into a long darkness. Occasionally, there are sporadic lights on, which are as faint as candles in the night wind.

But it was in such a backward, boring, and closed village that he saw the most beautiful starry sky in his life.

The gorgeous and dazzling Milky Way hangs on the sky, and the bright stars are like flowers competing for beauty, each of which is as beautiful as a passionate life. It is as beautiful as a dream.

Le Jing knows that the stars in the sky are very far away from him, and there are countless light years between them. Those lonely and huge planets shine silently in uninhabited corners. The light may have to travel tens of thousands of light years in the universe to reach the earth, and during this time, the planet may have been annihilated into nothingness. In other words, the starlight that Le Jing saw may be the moment when those planets exploded.

This magnificent starry sky is a grand cemetery.

As long as he thought of this, he felt that this great starry sky also had a touch of tragic color.

Putting himself in other people's shoes, he felt that the children who had never seen the stars were really pitiful.

So he rubbed the little girl's soft yellow hair, "Want to see it?"

Ji Xing raised her head blankly: "What?"

Le Jing blinked at her mysteriously: "Want to see the starry sky?"

Ji Xing's eyes lit up at first, and then dimmed quickly. She shook her head sensibly and said: "No, the outside world is too dangerous, there is poison gas everywhere, we will die if we go out. And the sky is covered by a hood, so we can't see the starry sky."

"No need to go out." Le Jing showed a childish smile, "We can see it here."

Ji Xing was even more confused when she heard it, and then she saw Le Jing take a book out of the bookcase. She understood a little, and then her face almost immediately turned red, and she whispered: "I, I don't know how to read." She said embarrassedly: "After Teacher Li in the school died, it was my father who taught me to read. But my father was too busy, so..."

Le Jing smiled at him soothingly, "No need to learn to read. Just read it is enough."

He spread the book "Beautiful Starry Sky·Public Stargazing Handbook" by Ma Xingyuan on the table and waved to Ji Xing: "Come here!"

So a girl named Xingxing saw the star in her name for the first time when she was eight years old, on the illustration of a book.

For the children living in the dark underground, the sun is too hot, the moon is too lonely and cold, only the stars, which are spread all over the sky and the universe, seem insignificant in the darkness, but are beautiful like a dream when gathered together, are their eternal longing.

They are children who have never seen the stars.

They are also stars.