Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 558
Before the Silence landed, Yareriga estimated the various situations they would encounter.She felt in her heart that this matter might not go well.However, the investigation progressed smoothly after landing.

That is literally.They marched with the wind of the land.They'd met people who looked so similar to Poddy and Ee that they were almost indistinguishable.They also use an almost identical set of gestures to express, only a few words are different: they use a different gesture to refer to the ground under their feet, and when Poddy asks about the old man, the appearance of the other party seems to have never been known. over the word.Besides, most of them were surprised by Boddy's clothes.That's because it's as cold as its name suggests.

Yale Liga brought the golden ball and camera equipment found in the base.She showed the images of Jin Qiu and Ji Xun to all the people she met on the road, and she would also specifically ask if she had seen a boy who looked very similar to this image, but was much younger.

No one knew the golden ball, but when they saw the image, their reaction surprised Yale Liga.At least half of them claimed to know the person in the portrait.And even those who didn't assert it, they thought it was a character they used to hear, based on the character's ears and clothes.

"Mr. Ji." They uttered these few syllables in the awkward and unfamiliar language of the alliance.They think the syllable itself is a name.

Where is his residence?Yale Liga asked.All pointing in the same direction.Follow the wind and current.This appears to be complete disclosure.

They rely more on flying vehicles, and they don't worry about the witnesses of the residents, because Yareliga predicts that there is no threat here, and she is also worried that staying too long will cause Poddy and Yi's rhythm disease.

However, both Poddy and Yi are surprisingly well adapted to the environment.During the dozens of hours of travel, none of them showed any physical discomfort.

On the last stretch of their journey to the destination, Boddy became silent, always sitting in the rearmost position of the aircraft, gazing out the window at the land with gloomy eyes.And Yi is full of novelty about this brand new world.He often chatted with Yale Liga, who was driving the flying machine, and asked her if she could learn to use this chariot.His fear of Sky Wing also gradually faded during the journey.When the latter spread its wings and soared around the craft, his eyes always followed it through the windows.

The flight journey ends where the water flows.That is not the edge of the world, but the towering mountains.The standing peak stone releases a constant and cold blue light.Higher up, away from the river, moisture condenses into frost and transparent ice, with little snow and permafrost harder to find.Here, silt land is always regarded as a precious resource.Hardy aquatic plants became a source of food and fodder.

At the foot of the wind-breathing highlands, beside a built stone pool, they found an old voice plumber and several of his family members.Because of his past contributions, this old man has a pronounced name called "Zha".Yale Liga showed the golden ball and the image to the Za family, and their reaction was the same as everyone else: they didn't know the golden ball, but they were familiar with "Mr. Ji".

Where is his residence?Allerica still asked the same question.

Zha raised his wrinkled face and examined these strangers.His bare face and hands bear many horrific scars, and there are some obvious deformities in the joints.He was certainly no match for this group of tall and strong young outsiders, but his reactions were as flat as the others.

He gestured for them to follow him, then grabbed an ore-filled acoustic lamp and led them toward the high ground.Only about four or five hundred steps, under a desolate rock covered with thin frost, they saw a simple house made of hardened grass-based laminates and rock beams.It is no different from Zha's residence in terms of materials, but the area is much smaller.

Everyone stopped when Zha took out the house key.The old voice plumber unscrewed the simple and rusty iron lock, and walked into the house naturally like a master.He put the lamp on the only straw-based square table in the house, grabbed ice cubes and sweet spices from the locker, and heated a few cups of hot water on the electric stove.Except for Qiaoqiao Tianyi who pretended to be a pack animal covered with a thick blanket and eagerly peeped from the crack of the door, the other three went in and sat down on the only bench.It was not for three guests, so Yi, who was next to Yale Liga, looked extremely disturbed.

He entrusted it to my care.Zha told them with gestures.Many years ago, when his sister was just born, "Mr. Ji" came here from the other side of the highland where there was no one, and built this house according to the local custom.It was a year when the collectors didn't come to visit, the wind was bitter, and life was tired and hard, so no one cared where he came from.People occasionally mentioned the new residents who appeared on the edge of the highlands, and he just quietly joined this vast land.

The exact time of his appearance is not known, since he hardly ever goes out, not even to the market.Zha, who was not yet old enough to be required to work, was the first person to walk into the single box-like house.While playing around, he lost a valuable mineral, which he never found.When his parents talked about it, they criticized him for being playful and dismissive, but they couldn't find the missing mineral.

Perhaps it was picked up by the person who lived on the far side.They draw conclusions like this.That's just a compromise to give up the search.But for some reason, this idea was deeply rooted in Zao’s heart. During a certain family rest period, he slipped out of the room, walked along the ice-covered path, and came to the door of the single house that was always closed.

He knocked on the door.From behind the door appeared a sullen and banal face.An ordinary middle-aged man.Even though he seemed as unfriendly as every adult in the place, he allowed Za to come in and sit for a while.

Most of the things in the solitary man's house were crude, but there were some things that would amuse a child.Zha found some paper on the table, which was whiter and more delicate than the compound paper of grass stems and leaves he usually saw.There were also fragments of ore, though not the one he had lost, of a color and luster never seen before.

At that time, he didn't know the laws and regulations, and he had never seen how collectors punish those who hide minerals.With the innocence of a child, Zha asked the solitary man, wondering in which cave those minerals were found.The owner of the house told him with gestures that those were not obtained from the ground.

"Synthetics," said the homeowner.

Zha didn't know those syllables.But anything that could be referred to by a syllable, he knew that must be a name.After he went back, he told his parents about the incident truthfully, only to see their terrified expressions.They asked him to pretend not to know about it unless the collectors asked.

He began to understand something.

In the second year after Zha entered the solitary house, the collectors followed the wind and current to visit from house to house.They chained the people captured on the road to the bottom of the chariot.All the children who saw this scene knew more from then on.

Gatherers heard of the newcomer, and some rumors that he never went to the market, and flocked towards the edge of the mountain.When people saw the queue of chariots with long strings of people flying across the sky, they all covered the doors and windows as equally and silently as the land, waiting for the chariots to return from the direction they had gone.

No one can explain exactly what happened that day.Collectors are known to be unafraid of sharp objects, heat, or electric shock.Their skin is covered with mineral bones, and they have eyes that are born to emit electric shocks.These envoys come from the dark abyss above, and are responsible for accumulating the bright crystals of the earth.They sacrificed the minerals to the Black Sky, lest it go mad with excessive jealousy and swallow the whole land in its belly.

Naturally, offering sacrifices is very important.

They described the wrath of the black sky. First, it sent countless electric currents thicker than an arm, sweeping away the houses with hidden light on the ground; then they sent fire monsters flying in the wind to evaporate all the water; In the poisonous breath spit out, all life will die.

Naturally, obedience is very necessary.

All the residents who kept their doors and windows closed can assure you that they have fully complied with the request.However, on that day, the angry sound of Heitian shot from the ground to the sky.The terrible light penetrated through the gaps in the house, and everything in the mountain and the house turned black and white.That huge sound was different from the eternal noise of the earth groaning in the dark that they had heard everyday and had long been accustomed to, but it was like a hammer beating violently on the soul.

The chariot with its long hanging string did not return.

(End of this chapter)