Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 1107 Newspaper
The system felt as if it was touching the edge of some forbidden area that could not be explored. The unfathomable feeling made him panic, but he couldn't resist the urge to find out. He wanted to pursue those things that, even after a long time and even though they had been forgotten, were still buried deep in the hearts of all Blue Star people.

In a sense, the system is not even a life, it is just a tool composed of data.

But when he was invented, those researchers whose ancestors came from the Blue Planet loaded certain emotions deep into his data without them even noticing.

Those feelings come from the blood of all those who came out of the Blue Planet, and their extreme love for their mother planet.

Perhaps the system itself did not notice that, unknowingly, it had already regarded itself as a part of Blue Star.

The system ignored its own data which was on the verge of collapse and searched frantically in the core data.

It was also at this time that the system discovered the truth that had been ignored and intentionally buried.

It turns out that since leaving the Blue Planet, humans can never go back.

It was as if Mother Bluestar had shut out all of her children.

It was as if the blue planet had never existed.

At the beginning, humans did not notice this. When they first entered the interstellar space, they had already spent all their energy in order to survive.

Later, after experiencing hardship and danger time and time again, and even facing the risk of extinction countless times, the humans on the stars finally relied on their indomitable spirit, accumulated little by little, and fought desperately, and finally gained a firm foothold in the interstellar space.

By then, humans will come to their senses and start thinking about the problem of their home planet.

It was also at that time that humans suddenly discovered that they had lost the coordinates of their home planet and could not even find the Milky Way.

In the beginning humans were crazy.

Many people are crazy about returning to their home planet.

But they couldn’t go back, and countless people died on the way to find their home planet.

At this time, some people with strong mental strength who had broken through certain limitations suddenly calmed down as if they had discovered something.

From then on, the number of times humans mentioned the Blue Planet began to decrease.

Gradually, everything on the blue planet seemed to be erased from human memory.

In the end, humans only remembered that their ancestors came from a place called Blue Star.

The system detected a problem from the original records.

I believe those people with strong mental powers at that time also noticed it.

Back when we were on Blue Star, everyone had clearly defeated the enemies who wanted to colonize Blue Star through concerted efforts, and even captured the invaders' spaceships.

Next, as long as we keep our composure and slowly digest the technology obtained from the invaders, Blue Star Technology will develop by leaps and bounds.

It won’t be too late to plan to enter the interstellar space then.

But why did no one seem to think of this at the time? Everyone seemed to be blinded by something and "learned" how to build a spaceship in a hurry. Then they used up all the resources of the solar system and worked together to build several spaceships to take all human beings away from the blue planet.

Thinking of this, the data in the system, which was already on the verge of collapse, had several more cracks.

"Don't think about it anymore." Zhang Yu seemed to have noticed something and spoke to stop him.

Suddenly awakened by Zhang Yu, the system finally got out of the involuntary crazy state just now.

Looking at the data that was about to collapse, the system crashed first. He let out an almost desperate scream in Zhang Yu's mind: "What did I just do! Ahhhh!!! Why am I so stupid, I..."

Zhang Yu spoke to comfort the system for a long time before finally calming it down a little. After a while, the system suddenly asked, "Can I take a look at those myths and legends?"

Zhang Yu was stunned. This was not a difficult task. Although he had not found many treasures in the scrap collection station in the past few years since his rebirth, most of the time they were just some ordinary books and old newspapers.

But I didn't give up. It's not that I was obsessed with finding some treasure. It just became a habit. If I didn't go to the scrap yard every few days, I would feel uncomfortable.

Although no treasures were found other than those two times, it was not a complete loss.

In other places, this might be difficult.

But Jing City is quite special. It is both the capital of the last feudal dynasty and the capital of the New Dragon Kingdom.

Compared with other places, Beijing has natural advantages in economy and culture.

Take newspaper subscriptions for example. Although Beijing’s newspaper subscription rate may not be the highest, it is still among the highest among many cities in the country.

There are individuals and large units that subscribe to newspapers. Nowadays, people advocate thrift and consider frugality as a virtue. At this time, after reading the newspaper, people do not throw it away like in later generations, but collect it carefully.

When these newspapers accumulate to a certain amount, they will be sent to waste collection stations.

It was also because of this that Zhang Yu found newspapers from many years ago.

At least in the past two years, he has managed to collect almost all the newspapers ever published by Longguo.

Some of them even pre-date the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he collected them all.

What surprised him the most was Shen Bao. He actually found a complete set of newspapers from 1872, when Shen Bao was first published, from 1872 to 1949 when it ceased publication, without missing a single one.

I don't know who collected them, but after so many years, those newspapers are still not stained at all except for the indelible traces of time. The stacks of newspapers are preserved very well according to their years, and some don't even have creases.

I think the original owner put a lot of thought into it, but now I don’t know what happened and it has ended up in a scrap collection station.

In the end, it was a good deal for him.

All this is thanks to the janitor at the scrap yard.

After learning about Zhang Yu's hobby, the other party would keep the newer newspapers for him every time they were received.

After he has finished picking them all, he will pile them in a special place.

When enough is accumulated, it will be sent to the paper mill, made into pulp and reused. In the end, it is a bargain for him.

In addition to newspapers, Zhang Yu also found a lot of books.

But compared to newspapers, those books are a bit shabby.

It is common to have missing pages, and many of them are almost incomplete.

However, Zhang Yu had plenty of time, and after careful searching, he finally found a lot of intact books.

He selected some commonly used books that did not violate any taboos and placed them outside.

As for the rest, he placed them all in the space.

The small wooden house, originally used for sleeping, had long been filled with books and newspapers.

He also plans to build another one when he has time.