Dimensional Bookstore

Le Jing decided to leave this base.

He had stayed in this place for too long. This is a very small human base. There must be more and larger human bases in other places.

The books in his store have limited effect here. He wants to go to a place where they can really play a role.

"I will come back." Le Jing looked at the children who were resurrected and full of vitality firmly, and said with a smile: "Before that, you have to live."

Ji Xing nodded vigorously, with a vigorous smile: "I haven't seen the stars with my own eyes yet! I want to live until the day when I can see the starry sky!"

"I still want to be a pilot!"

"I want to see what the future will be like, so I will try my best to live!"

The children talked in a flurry, and their smiles flashed with a glimmer of light that penetrated the haze.

Reality is so dark, what's the use of dreams? Dreams are still useful.

Because dreams have a glimmer that can illuminate reality.

And humans themselves are creatures that tend to light.

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So Victor turned into a black dragon again, and Le Jing and Cairns sat on the dragon's back and began their journey.

It stands to reason that the air is full of poisonous gas and the oxygen content is too low, so Le Jing can't stay on the ground for too long. At this time, we have to appreciate the magic of magic.

Under Cairns's spell, a green translucent bubble appeared on Le Jing's head, allowing him to breathe freely as if he was carrying an oxygen tank.

Le Jing heard Cairns say that this was the magic used by elves to breathe underwater. He guessed that this magic should play the role of absorption and filtration.

He also considered asking Cairns to teach magic to the people in the base. But I don't know whether the people in the base have no talent or this world is not compatible with the magic system. No one in the base can learn magic. Le Jing is a little regretful about this.

Sitting on the back of the dragon, Le Jing can see the terrible impact of the asteroid on the earth more intuitively.

Everywhere he looks, it is all dead and desolate. Black and gray are the main colors. Occasionally, a few bright colors appear, but they are just the colors of abandoned buildings that have not completely faded. This is the dead silence and desolation that no matter how realistic the disaster movie is, it can't be filmed. After watching such scenery for a long time, Le Jing sometimes felt as if he was the last human in the world. The huge loneliness could drive any normal person crazy. So many people survived the initial natural disaster, but did not survive the loneliness after the disaster.

The destination of Le Jing's trip was the largest human gathering place on Earth. He didn't know where it was, but he learned from the leader of the base that it was in the east - where the sun rises.

So he went all the way east. He didn't worry about not finding his destination, because the earth is round, as long as he walked in one direction, he would eventually find the place he was looking for.

Then on the 30th day, he found a red five-star red flag on the desolate ruins. The red flag fluttered in the wind, like an unquenchable flame.

In addition to the five-star red flag, there are also the Stars and Stripes, the Maple Leaf Flag, the Union Jack... Dozens of flags fluttered in the wind, which was extremely spectacular and shocking.

Above them, there was a bigger flag. On the blue flag, a white olive branch held up the earth.

This is Le Jing's destination - the shelter base of the United Nations on Earth.

Humans from various countries, nationalities, and skin colors live here. They use different languages, believe in different religions, and have different customs, but now they gather here with a common identity - Earth humans.

Humans are pathetic creatures that only unite when resisting foreign enemies.

Under the cover of Le Ling, they landed quietly without alerting the radar and surveillance in the base.

Le Jing gently brushed off the dust on his body, asked Cairns to take back the magic, and then walked towards the sentry post. After a simple interrogation and body search, the sentry let him go.

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Wang Lei is a registrar in the registration room. His job is to register the information of the refugees and then provide them with jobs based on their personal information. If there are special talents, they must report to the superiors, who will assign them to suitable positions.

However, special talents are scarce. If in the first few years of the disaster, the base did accommodate a large number of special talents. But now it has been 20 years, even if there are any special talents who are stranded outside, they are almost dead. As for the new generation that grew up after the disaster? People outside are almost unable to survive, who has the time and energy to study?

So Wang Lei hasn't met a decent special talent for a long time.

One day, he was sitting at the table spinning a pen boredly, and saw an oriental and a foreigner with a high nose and deep eyes walked in.

Orientals have elegant features and are typical images of elegant scholars. They have a strong smell of books, which makes people feel very good. But the foreigner is completely the opposite of him. Obviously, his appearance is the most exquisite and perfect he has ever seen in his life, just like he walked out of a movie. But when he met those dark green eyes, Wang Lei felt his scalp tingling and scared.

The only thing in common between the two is that their skin is fair and delicate and their bodies are healthy, which is not common nowadays. Even Wang Lei's face is pale and pale due to malnutrition! What surprised him most was the shiny, fat and strong black cat in the arms of the oriental young man. What era is this? These two people actually have extra food to feed pets?

...Maybe it's reserve food?

The oriental young man had a gentle smile on his face that made people feel very good: "Excuse me, is it here to register?" The voice was clear, like a cool stream flowing into the dry land, which made people feel refreshed.

Wang Lei came back to his senses and took out a registration form. The oriental man started to register first.

First, some routine personal information. When asked if he had any special talents or expertise, the oriental young man thought for a while and replied with a smile: "Maybe it's because of my good memory?"

Wang Lei raised his head and looked at the young man speechlessly. What kind of answer is this?

"How good is your memory?" Wang Lei asked.

The young man smiled unchanged and answered calmly: "It can probably hold a national library."

Wang Lei stared at him as if he had seen a ghost. He subconsciously asked: "What did you say?"

The young man repeated what he said before, and then asked calmly: "Do you need me to prove it?"

Wang Lei nodded, with a look of ridicule in his eyes. In his opinion, although this young man looked like a scholar and might have read a few books, could he remember the books in a national library? This is ridiculous.

Wang Lei has seen many such people. In order to make the base leaders pay more attention to themselves, many people want to brag to the sky! Now, he also put this young man in the same category as those people.

"Please give me a book you have read, and I can recite it."

Since the young man said so, Wang Lei casually mentioned the title of a book he had seen in the base library a few days ago. This is a book about mechanical manufacturing. The content is difficult and complicated. Wang Lei felt drowsy when he read the beginning. He dared to say that this is the most profound book he has ever seen.

Then, in his gloating eyes, the young man began to recite clearly.

Three minutes later, Wang Lei's expression began to be a little surprised.

Five minutes later, Wang Lei's expression began to develop in the direction of shock.

Ten minutes later, Wang Lei looked confused, interrupted Le Jing's recitation, and then gave Le Jing a book on advanced physics.

Then there was a collection of poems, a philosophy book, a biology book, a geography book...

Every time the young man recited, he recited fluently without any pause, as if these were nothing special to him. Although Wang Lei did not understand, he had already realized the young man's extraordinaryness.

There was no longer any contempt for the young man in his eyes, and his back had been sweating unconsciously. This time, he interrupted the young man's recitation in a much more polite tone. Then he asked the young man and others to wait for a moment, and went to the inner room and called the dean of the School of Biological Sciences in the base using the internal line.

Under the secretion of adrenaline, his heart was pounding, and he got goose bumps of excitement. He had a hunch that perhaps he had discovered a genius for mankind, a genius among geniuses.

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Xu Yuan is 72 years old this year, and he is already in his seventies. He has had a rather rough life. When he was young, he was devoted to research and learning, and did not understand the ways of the world. Although he had high scientific research ability, he not only could not get research funds in the institute, but was also excluded. What's worse is that his achievements have to be named after others. In this way, he wasted most of his life. He originally thought that his life would be like this, but he didn't expect that a disaster would come from the sky, and an asteroid from afar destroyed the entire human civilization on Earth.

After the disaster, the governments of the surviving countries began to actively organize post-disaster reconstruction and resettlement of refugees. However, Xu Yuan, a knowledgeable biological expert, emerged and became a special technical talent treated as a guest of honor by the government. In the next 20 years, he was promoted step by step with his scientific research results, and finally became the dean of the entire United Nations Academy of Biological Sciences.

This is like an excellent black humor satire. But if he could choose, Xu Yuan would rather live a mediocre life than live in this hopeless end of the world.

When he received the call from the reception room, he was studying the latest scientific research report of the Agricultural College, and the high yield of the new experimental rice made him very excited. Hearing Xiao Wang say on the phone, "I found a talent with a library in his head" and "He showed me that he was very good at memorizing a lot of books", Xu Yuan smiled helplessly.

In his opinion, the young man just had a good memory, so he could only fool Xiao Wang, who had little education. After all, Xiao Wang would not be able to tell even if he recited it wrong. However, he did not intend to blame Xiao Wang. After all, he had told him before that if he found any special talents, he must report to him as soon as possible. Xiao Wang had not reported any special talents to him for a long time, so it would be okay for him to meet that person.

If he really had some real talents, it would be good to absorb him into the Academy of Sciences. And maybe the knowledge he knew could fill in the blank areas of the Academy of Sciences a little bit - he thought optimistically.

Today is different from the past. Thinking of the development of science and technology in recent years, he could only shake his head and sigh. He could say that the overall level of science and technology has regressed by 40 years, and in some fields, it has regressed by more than 100 years.

Many talents from all walks of life before the apocalypse will have no use after the apocalypse. Because with the fine division of labor in modern society, no individual has sufficient knowledge to keep the key processes of society running. Even if an experienced technician in the factory survives, he will only know the details of his own work, and may not even know anything about the knowledge possessed by other workers in the factory that is indispensable to maintain production- Not to mention the technical issues of how to mine ore and coal resources, make CNC machine tools and molds, and provide the electricity to run factories.

The most visible technologies used in daily life are just the tip of the iceberg. Even a small screw is an assembly line standard product born after hundreds of years of development in industrial society. If it is impossible to establish a standard production line and rely solely on manual polishing, the small errors produced in the process are enough to cause a plane to crash.

Therefore, what the United Nations government is doing now is to try to find special talents in various industries and positions, organize them, integrate their knowledge, and play a greater role. But it has to be said that the results are slow. Moreover, the death of a large number of talents and the destruction of materials have caused a knowledge gap within the base, which not only creates huge resistance to the construction of the base, but will also profoundly affect the education of the next generation.

In modern society, the cultivation of talents requires more than ten years of basic education and at least four years of higher education. During this time, they will learn the basics of various fields. Don't underestimate the basic knowledge in the compulsory education stage. It is the crystallization of thousands of years of human civilization and the foundation of all science. Only by laying a solid foundation can mankind have the opportunity to develop further.

But now after the catastrophe, the lack and blankness of basic education is the main root cause affecting the inheritance of human civilization.

Although they rescued many books from some surviving libraries, a lot of knowledge was also stored on the hard drives of some computers that were lucky enough to still be running.

But the way this knowledge is presented is certainly not conducive to a society starting from scratch. How can an ordinary person understand the proper nouns and definitions in a biology book? How can a professor who doesn't understand foreign languages ​​study a foreign language book? Can a physicist understand a geography classic?

A large part of these books and papers are written on the premise that readers have mastered some basic knowledge. However, if their readers do not have relevant basic knowledge, then this knowledge will be like useless paper.

And those books aimed at a general readership? Xu Yuan almost wanted to laugh. Those books that teach you how to manage a business, improve your emotional intelligence, and how to make money are just waste paper now. Although there are some popular science books, they are often too simple and fail to improve basic subject knowledge.

And this is just the loss of basic disciplines. The losses in higher education are equally alarming. Not to mention how many talents and geniuses died in the disaster, but those profound research results and cutting-edge knowledge were secretly kept in specialized journal website servers, and some were even locked in safes in the form of manuscripts, and then They are no longer found after natural disasters such as tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and snowstorms.

Sometimes Xu Yuan couldn't help but think about how great it would be if there was a book that could completely record the basic and even advanced knowledge of all subjects on earth. After reading this book, anyone can understand the essence of a subject and immediately devote themselves to scientific construction.

But he also knew that he was being crazy. Before the disaster, no one would invest a lot of manpower and material resources to do this, but after the disaster, they were unable to do so.

In his wild thoughts, he quickly arrived at the registration room, where the "genius" Xiao Wang mentioned on the phone was sitting upright on the stool.

Seeing him coming, Xiao Wang immediately stood up and gave up his seat. He didn't refuse and sat down directly on Xiao Wang's seat. Only then did he see the young man's appearance clearly.

Looks like a good seedling.

Xu Yuan was very satisfied with his bookish style. There is a saying that goes well: "The spirit of poetry and calligraphy comes from the heart." Whether a person has read or not can be seen from his temperament.

Xu Yuan first got straight to the point and asked: "Young man, I heard Xiao Wang say that you have a National Library book in your head?"

Le Jing asked first: "Who are you?"

Xu Yuan replied: "I am the president of the United Nations Academy of Biological Sciences, Xu Yuan."

Le Jing asked again: "No offense intended, are you the one I can speak to in the School of Biological Sciences?"

Although the words were said to be unintentional, Le Jing's words could be said to be provocative. No matter how good his impression was, Xu Yuan was a little unhappy now, "I don't think this has anything to do with the content of our conversation."

Le Jing shook his head and said seriously: "It does matter." He pointed to his head, "The crystallization of thousands of years of human civilization is stored here. And I will only give it to the person who can tell the truth."

This sentence is really arrogant. It's almost ridiculous to be arrogant. Xu Yuan really laughed: "Young man." He kindly advised: "It's better to be more humble and down-to-earth. People who are too arrogant usually don't end well."

He has met countless people in his life, but the more arrogant a person is, the less likely they will end well. Regardless of the country, people prefer a humble person to an egomaniac.

The young man was unmoved, and said a little stubbornly in Xu Yuan's eyes: "You can test me to your heart's content."

Xu Yuan smiled. At his age, he had already seen all kinds of people, so he didn't feel dissatisfied with the young man's stubbornness.

He casually asked him a biological question, and to his surprise the young man answered it fluently.

Xu Yuan couldn't help but slightly raise his evaluation of the young man. Because the question just now was quite difficult, and if the young man could answer it, it at least proved that he had a certain knowledge of biology.

Then he asked the young man a more difficult question, and this time the young man answered it fluently.

The young man answered the next few questions as perfectly as a textbook.

Xu Yuan was really completely shocked now. How old is he? He looks like he's only in his twenties! But his knowledge is not inferior to him at all!

This is a true genius! People have always been tolerant of geniuses, and Xu Yuan was no exception. He has forgiven Le Jing for his "arrogance" and believes that this is the arrogance common among geniuses. So he said to Le Jing kindly: "I am the one who has been told by the Academy of Biological Sciences. If you have any requests, just ask me. If we can satisfy you, we will definitely satisfy you."

Unexpectedly, the young man shook his head and said, "What you just asked me were biology questions. I can also answer your questions in other subjects."

After he said this, Xu Yuan tentatively mentioned a recent cutting-edge issue in the Academy of Physical Sciences. His original intention was to embarrass this young man and make him calm down. Who knew that the young man would answer this question without thinking.

Although they were in different subject areas, Xu Yuan almost immediately realized the technical content contained in this answer due to his keen intuition as a scientist.

His expression immediately became serious, and he immediately called someone from the School of Physical Sciences on his landline.

Then the people from the Academy of Physical Sciences called the people from the Academy of Geographical Sciences with a blue face.

Then there are people from the medical school, people from the engineering school, people from the mathematics school...

Top scientists from various fields quickly gathered in this small registration room, and it was almost too crowded. They rushed to ask all kinds of tricky questions to the young man sitting in the middle, trying every possible means to stump the young man.

However, this young man's brain really seems to "store the crystallization of thousands of years of human civilization" as he claims. No matter what kind of difficulties he is faced with, he can answer them fluently. He even easily answers many difficult questions that have puzzled scientists in various disciplines for a long time. !

In the end, everyone including Xu Yuan looked at Le Jing in awe. This can no longer be described as a genius!

The monster is a complete monster!

If technology hadn't developed to that level, they would have even doubted whether he was an intelligent robot!

Le Jing calmly looked at everyone's awed eyes and gave an explanation that was destined not to be believed by everyone: "I am not a genius, I am just a porter of human civilization."

The author has something to say:

Le·Porter of Human Civilization·Ling: Hehehe~ (￣▽￣~)~

[Note] Part of the content of this article is referenced from the book "The World Restarts: How to Rapidly Rebuild Human Civilization After the Catastrophe" by [UK] Louis Dartnell. Please note that.