Chapter 940: Bachelor
As a guest to help, Hao Ren and his entourage were entertained in the Fireplace City. Although the Governor of the Castle looked like a serious and stereotyped man, he was still not rude when he was entertaining guests. Only in view of the status quo of the world's ruin, the hospitality will not be more comfortable: Hao Ren, they led by Willie to the castle, which is the bottom of the old factory, where there is a row along the outer wall. A small room for the guests, these rooms are surrounded by iron and compression-molded panels, some of which are rudimentary furniture, shabby, and faintly with a strange smell, but it is already a pretty good room in the fireplace city.
As long as I saw how many holes in the metal shacks in the civilian area outside, Hao Ren knew that his party was actually treated with high standards.
This also shows that the Governor of the Castle, although he is very strict with Willie, can still value this son in his heart, otherwise he will not be so entertained by the people who will help his son.
Willie went to invite the famous "Oro Bachelor", and Hao Ren and several of them all huddled into a room to exchange their opinions. After seeing the ridiculous and bizarre state of the ship's city, everyone has a lot of speculation and ideas, and now there is an urgent need to talk.
"In any case, their inheritance is obviously broken," Vivienne said as she looked out the window. From here, I could see the scene on the square. On the streets that were piled up with scrap iron and plastic blocks, A group of dirty children are running around, "the civilization has returned to the era of cold weapons."
Nangong said in May: "Social form has returned to the feudal kingdom period."
"The social form has really changed. According to the previous findings on the 'Group', these Ark residents were also monarchy in the high-tech period." Hao Ren waved his hand. "I am curious about what is going to happen here." In order to make the whole society go backwards neatly, these people do not seem to know the concept of the spaceship at all. They don’t even know what the gravity system is. What is the terminal? Analyze it."
The data terminal is in the mouth of Hao Ren, but it sends its voice directly to everyone's mind: "The huge reduction in population, or the complete collapse of the industrial base, may lead to a significant retrogression in civilization. But it shouldn't be as thorough as here. Even if technology breaks down, people should at least know that their ancestors used to be. Their status quo is no concept for their own world. It is like..."
Lily couldn’t help but curiosity: "What is it like?"
“It’s like a whole generation of people who died,” the data terminal said succinctly. “Unless their entire generation is interrupted at the same time, the next generation has not received any systematic education or only received very little education. This can lead to civilization. The roots are broken. Or the memory is cleaned, all the knowledge of everyone disappears at the same time, and then they can't find a way to remedy."
"As far as we know. The Ark Fleet has been in trouble in the second half of the voyage. The ships must rely on the patchwork to continue to operate, but this crisis does not lead us to see these here. The situation," Vivian squinted, she saw a lot of knowledge, but at this time her knowledge is not really useful. "Ark's faults and accidents are a gradual process, will not break a whole generation. ”
Hao Ren silently thought, his eyes inadvertently swept through the window. Just to see three dirty men in the dirty alleys on the outside are maintaining the lighting on the streets. One of the older-looking men climbed onto the pole, carefully removed the broken fixture and replaced the new one, then he came down from the pole. With the other two people, smash the lights and lines and pull the switch. When the new light bulb illuminates, the children who are watching the neighborhood are cheering. There are even people who start singing and praise the "power elves" that bring light.
"They still have electricity, there are new light bulbs to change, these people still know how to install these things, although they don't know the principle," Hao Ren pointed out the window. "A part of the function of the ark is still working, such as generators and The factory, since these factories are still available today, it means that the failure of the living system has caused the civilization to be severed."
"Not a spaceship failure?" Nangong Sanba frowned. "Is it just because of the civil war? Hard life from the spaceship civilization into the original feudal?"
At this time, there was a bang from the door, and Willy pushed the door open: "Amount... I am sorry that I should knock on the door. But the door is not locked. I brought the Oro Scholar."
A camel-backed old man came in from behind Willie. He looked at least eighty years old. He had only a round of white hair around his head, and the wrinkles on his face almost spread to his neck. The old man was wearing a dirty thick cloth robes. The chest position of the robes was woven with a series of rings with colored silk threads. Each ring was hung with a small metal object. Hao Ren fixed his eyes. But they found that things like ornaments are actually capacitors, fuses, copper connectors and the like: the bachelor used these electronic parts as decorations on their clothes.
Lily first stood up and greeted the old bachelor, and she was very enthusiastic: "Good man! Have you eaten?"
This strange way of greetings gave the bachelor a glimpse. Then he laughed and smiled and said loudly: "It’s a little girl, I heard that a group of wandering warriors saved Willie and thought it was with those in the castle. Wu Fu is the same rough person, but did not expect to have a polite woman."
Willie helped the old bachelor to sit down in the squeaky chair at the door. Although he was the governor's son, he was as respectful as an apprentice: "Teachers, these people are very interested in your wisdom, they want Listen to the stories you told me."
"Oh? Oh... yes, those old stories," said the bachelor's face with a hint of surprise. He hadn't had time to hear more about Hao Ren and his party from Willie. He only thought that these people were from a remote place. The wandering passengers came here, and he looked at the big, muddy eyes carefully. He found that these people were strangely dressed, but they were very clean and clean. They were totally different from those wandering wanderers. "You are interested in this kind of thing? This year Few people besides scholars specialize in this boring story."
"We are just interested," Hao Ren smiled. "The winter is coming." There were signs many years ago. It is time to pay attention to the warnings of the old people."
"Winter, the winter is really coming..." The old bachelor subconsciously tightened his robes. When he heard the cold words, he looked serious. "Five years, from the ancestors to the present, it has been five In the year, it was much longer than it was last time to sleep. The world is getting colder every day, and half of the nose of the giant who blows out the hot air at the end of the world has frozen. The land of Rutherweitan began to drop snow last year... This is really a harsh winter."
Hao Ren can almost certainly determine that the "ancestral furnace" in the local population is the giant reactor and the central control station of its control device at the end of this closed space. When he was on the road in Kingdom Avenue, he was far from seeing that the state of the giant reactor was quite bad, even though it was still running, and it seemed to be a little more energetic than the quenching reactor of the group, but it still had more than half. The grid is dull.
The survival system of the ark seems to have reached its limit, and its power source will stop.
"How many times has the winter come down?" Nangong asked eight curiously.
"How many times? Oh... many times... every time it happens once or twice, sometimes only lasts for a year, sometimes it lasts for more than ten years," the old bachelor’s head swayed up and down. The cold winter of the year will only bring some scare, but the low temperature of ten years can kill one-third of the people. When there are too many dead, the recycling furnace will even be filled, the **** in the nightmare, that’s really People are shuddering."
"But this winter seems not so difficult," Willie suddenly inserted his mouth. "It's not so cold. So far, wrapped in leather can keep warm."
"That's because you are the warmest place in the world," the old bachelor scolded at Willy. "And the real cold is far from coming. The milder the winter comes, the more terrible it is, because slow cooling means The temperature rises more slowly, and the duration of winter will be very long."
The locals use their own understanding to explain the environmental changes in the ship's city after the failure of the core power furnace. Their theory is also justified and self-explanatory, but it is far from the truth of the world. In a limited body of knowledge, people simply cannot understand that their world is being supported by a huge machine.
(Going out today, only at home in the morning, so I updated it in advance.) (To be continued.)