The Record of Unusual Creatures

The suspended magic vehicle made by the Erim Elf carries a group of people to the center of the floating island known as the "Sunrise Island". The levitation vehicle flies lightly in midair, hundreds of meters above the ground. This kind of car should be a very advanced thing in the world of Erem, but in addition to the technical level higher than the earth, it is not as good as the private car on the earth in the interior and shape, almost all parts inside and outside the vehicle are the same The grayish white man-made material is cast, the color and material are very monotonous, and there is no decorative pattern. There is no soft seat, and no special material is wrapped in the armrest or window frame.

It is like a cheap industrial product molded in plastic at one time. Despite its high-tech shape and performance, once you have experienced it once, anyone can see at a glance that it is only manufactured according to the standard of “enough to use”.

The body of the Arim elves is generally thinner than humans, but the overall difference is not too big (at least closer to normal people than Izak), so the internal facilities of this car are also suitable for Hao Ren. . It was a little cramped to sit in, but he could bear it. There are a series of long and narrow windows on both sides of the car that extend down to the seat, through which you can see the city view that is flying over.

At first glance, the buildings are also beautiful. They have long circular lines and simple and elegant structures. Most houses seem to imitate the image of trunks and flower beds. The architecture of the Erim Elf is A variety of towers and elliptical buildings with sleek lines dominate, making their city as a thousand towers - of course, just the name makes people so associate. But these elegant buildings hide the realities of depletion of resources: all the building materials are gray-white man-made materials, from the outer wall to the roof, and then spread to the open space between the houses and the roads, everywhere It is a complex, seemingly deadly composition. The original and natural materials of construction should have been exhausted many years ago, or as the basic structure of the floating island, and cannot be easily mined. Therefore, the Erim Elf reclaims these things from the ruins in an industrial recycling cycle to build itself. Home. But a completely gray city is too oppressive. Therefore, some plants have been planted as much as possible between these elves, but the number of these plants is not large. It seems to be to maintain efficient urban functions, and most plants are planted in specialized places such as ecological domes. In addition, there is no decoration in the city.

There are no monuments, no street sculptures, no parks or anything else that is unrelated to survival, and wastes building materials. The city is like a low-quality scene that chooses the lowest material and ignores all the details of the terrain to ease the pressure on the graphics card, regardless of Wherever you look, there are only monotonous and repetitive houses and straight and simple roads. The elves who are in a hurry are living in this monotonous city. It's like a set of faded slides.

Izak looked at the city scene below, thoughtfully: "They are still in an orderly state of life, it seems that no matter how bad the situation, they are trying to ensure social order, and ... at least on the surface' normal'."

Hill’s attention was not in the city below. She had noticed the anxiety that her son’s face could not conceal: “How bad is the situation? Can’t it be maintained?”

"If you survive, you can still maintain it," Wim is a young man with a steady voice. He inherited from his mother - or every elf is like this - a near-perfect appearance, handsome and man-made. temperament. “The astrologers and magic guide scholars on the scene suffered serious casualties, but the test site was as far away as possible from the main island chain, so the loss of materials was still acceptable. The supply of the main residential areas and the ecological dome were fine. Still maintain the standard of living in the past, and it can last for a long time."

"The problem lies in confidence... Right," Hill knows the status quo of Arim, so he quickly wants to understand why. "You finally recovered the social order, but I can feel a dead atmosphere." ""

"Yes, this incident has dealt a great deal of confidence in the people, even including some members of the parliament," Wim nodded. “The space-time accelerator is the last big project we can start. The only way to find the depths of the starry sky under limited resource constraints is that the big bang has destroyed many people’s last confidence. We still have survival supplies, but also Only survived."

When Wim said these words, he finally couldn't help but look at the group of "outside visitors" sitting behind the car. The situation he reported was the social status quo before the return of Hill, but a group of people from outside the stars... No, the incredible guests from outside the universe completely disrupted his worldview and disrupted his current situation. Grasp. His first thought was that the embarrassment of the Erim Devils for thousands of years finally ushered in the dawn. Now a group of high-civilized visitors who know how to walk through the interstellar space appear in front of themselves, which may break the deadlock, but at the same time he Worried about a more realistic problem:

Can you get it? Will they help? Is their help useful?

Hill also turned his eyes to Hao Ren, but she didn't ask anything, but turned her head and looked at Wim: "We first announced the news of the strangers, and then we said that we have mastered the key to voyage. Time and space accelerators though It has failed, but from the perspective of technological progress, this is a great success. In short, it is announced that the first task is to reinvigorate people and restore people’s confidence."

Hao Ren nodded slightly and did not make a clear statement. He is still thinking about the best disposal plan, so there is no sloppy initiative to promise anything, but at least Hill said that these can be done. Wim seems to have gained some confidence from this slight nod, and the expression on his face stretched out.

"Iron Island... How much is left?" Hill asked about other situations.

The island of Aurora is the floating island that was originally tested by the space-time accelerator. It is the last space test site of the Erim Wizard with complete facilities and a large-capacity energy system. All along, because these elves have only one planet, and there are no other places to stay in tens of millions of light years around, they have not been able to carry out many large-scale experiments until they later break the planet and turn it into As a myriad of space islands, they began testing dangerous projects that could not be placed directly on the parent star. Struggling for thousands of years on the shackles of technology has caused them to lose one after another such test sites, most of which are enough to pollute the entire planet - just losing a space floating island is relatively optimistic. Even so, the number of floating islands in space is still limited, and thousands of years of continuous consumption have finally come to an end.

The island of Aurora is their last hope.

"The island of Aurora is gone," Wim whispered after a few seconds of silence. "Mother, you should have seen it at the end of the chain when you were in space? There is a new gravel...that is After the big bang, the debris flew around, some were thrown to the sun, and the other part rushed into space. We only had time to rescue one-fifth of its material. The gravel was temporarily placed in the wreckage of the island chain. Maybe you can mine some resources from it, the test site is gone, but its wreckage probably will let everyone live a few years."

"I saw those gravel, but I didn't expect..." Hill frowned. "Is the island of stars?"

The Star Island is another space floating island. It is an important industrial town and energy furnace. It receives the energy from the Sundial Station and stores it. At the time of the accelerator test, the island of the Rainbow is pushed to the island chain. To prevent threats to the residential area, but the island of the stars must be powered next to it, it is so close to the test site, Hill is very worried about the fate of the island.

She did not dare to carefully observe the situation of the entire island chain in space, so I did not know whether I saw the island of stars at that time.

"The island of the stars is still there, but some injuries have been made. Some of the debris broke through the air defense fire net, crashing a part of the gravity generator and propulsion device of the island of the stars, and a piece of debris almost inserted in the energy hub - But fortunately, a little bit. The situation there has been controlled, the technical elders are trying to restore its function, the magician workers have removed some equipment from the dead, they seem to be able to use ... at least than completely bad It’s much better off.”

"Well, the situation is better than expected," Hill said with a sigh of relief. "I will let Cardi Lun come to see me after I go back. I have a lot of things to discuss with him and our friends from different countries."

"Elder Cadillan..." Wim suddenly had a glimpse of Hill's gaze. "Elder Cardinal went to the ‘Pray for the World.'”

"What?!" Hill's voice suddenly rose. "Who allowed it?!"

"It is he who volunteers and prays that there are some problems in the world. The "Happy Land" organization two hundred years ago seems to be working again... part of the parliament..."

"So the current social order is only superficial?!" Hill's face was very ugly and severe. "When I go back, I will hold the Presbyterian Church, I will reorganize the order!" (To be continued)