Mysterious journey

In the green night

The ground is full of black spikes protruding from the ground. Some are huge metal plates, some are the bows of battleships, and most of them are broken alloy steel bars. The entire ground is densely erected into a large steel jungle.

Between the various metal jungles on the ground, there are cracks and paths like earthworms, spreading into the distance.

On a black path, a snail-like white convoy was moving forward along the curves of the path.

Woo.

The engine sound of the convoy was very low, and the yellow lampposts kept scanning around, penetrating the green mist and shooting into the distance.

The entire convoy consists of four white armored vehicles, with thick turrets installed behind them. Each vehicle is more than 20 meters long and more than six meters high. It looks like a mobile behemoth. But it seems extremely small in such a huge steel jungle.

In the fourth car, the space is divided into small single rooms. Each single room is spherical in shape, with bunks and bunks inside, and can accommodate four people.

Garen was sleeping on the top bunk in the third row, with the car window next to his head. Covered with a thick quilt, he tilted his head slightly and looked at the night scenery passing quickly outside the window. It felt very novel.

The large metal jungle outside looks like a real giant tree with its teeth and claws extending in all directions, giving people a sense of monsters and monsters. Looking from a distance, those who are illuminated by the beam can clearly see the remaining production trademarks and other marks on it, while in the distance, only darkness can be seen.

There are three blue, red and white planets suspended in the sky, occupying most of the entire sky, but the moonlight shining down is intertwined with each other, forming a strange green color through the dark night and fog.

Garen looked at the distant scenery outside the window, feeling vaguely depressed.

"Is this your first time traveling far away?"

The roommate on the lower bunk rested his head on his hands and asked casually.

"The scenery outside is the radiation belt between domains. Our home star federation is relatively mild. At least it will not affect the body functions of normal people, as long as they don't stay there for a long time."

Garen didn't make a sound and just moved his body.

The uncle didn't care and continued.

"It's like living in the depths of the ocean outside. There is a deep and cold radiation poisonous mist everywhere. Plants have been distorted and killed by the radiation. Only a few microbial spores can survive." He took out a lighter and lit it. A cigarette, Mei Mei took a puff.

“I really miss it”

Garen frowned slightly.

"Can you please stop smoking? I hate the smell of smoke."

"Really? Sorry, I forgot that you are not yet an adult, hahaha." The uncle laughed happily and put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray on the bedside table.

"Can you tell me about the inter-domain radiation belt?" Garen continued to observe the green environment outside and asked in a low voice. "It is indeed my first time to go out to the field. I thought it would be a good natural environment, but I didn't expect it to be like this."

"Isn't it so miserable?" The uncle laughed again. "Boy, you are so lucky. You have the foundation laid by your fathers' hard work, or it may be the luck of your family in the past, and you have successfully entered the domain and become one of the residents. But many other people are not so lucky." He paused. After a pause, he seemed to be reminiscing.

"There has been no contact with other parts of the home star federation for decades. I don't know the situation, but our home star is relatively familiar with it. At least I have been traveling around this planet for so long."

"Oh? Uncle, tell me?" Garen suddenly became interested. "How could the domain be such a desolate scene with no vitality at all?"

"Not all regions are like this. It is still normal in some places. Moreover, even outside this black disk region, it is normal during the day. Only in this part of the region at night. Radiation belts will appear. In the Great Interstellar Era , has indeed brought a large number of powerful technological means to mankind, which can move mountains and seas, and even the sun has succumbed to the feet of us humans. However, such powerful technology also brings the most terrifying destruction. The radiation belt is the negative impact of such technology. We overuse the planet's energy, excessively extract the geothermal heat from the star's core and crust, and excessively consume the beneficial radiation energy of the star's thermal energy, leading to the gradual destruction of the ecosystem on the planet. There is not enough solar radiation. Without enough geothermal energy, except within the scope of technology, other places will gradually become deserted or become weird." The uncle gushed with emotion.

"Are these the disadvantages brought about by the Great Interstellar Era?" Garen understood quite well.

"Yes. Material annihilation energy is one of the greatest inventions of mankind in the last century, but who would have thought that it is the root killer that truly destroys the environment? It releases huge energy at the expense of annihilating matter. This kind of Energy is actually the most basic force that constructs the planet's material. It is constantly consumed and stimulated, and ultimately the source of the planet's material is consumed. Just like the ancient nuclear energy research, people were ecstatic when nuclear energy was discovered, just like the discovery of oil and It’s the same as when it comes to coal. People think that the planet is so big and there is so much petroleum and coal that it will never be used up. In the same way, people also think that there are so many radioactive materials and the universe is so big that it will never be used up.”

The uncle kept chattering in a low voice.

Garen was not very clear as he listened. Instead, the snores of the two women sleeping opposite him became louder and louder.

They were two fat women, who looked to be in their thirties or forties, dressed in gold and silver, lying on the bed, tossing and turning and snoring.

The faint whine outside the window was the sound of the motorcade's engines.

"Kid, where do you plan to go after leaving the Black Pan Territory? Judging from your appearance, you should be a resident of the Black Pan Territory." The uncle below asked softly. "I can't sleep since the two people across from me are here, why don't we have a chat?"

"Going to the Aurora Domain." Garen changed into ordinary clothes when he got in the car, a black T-shirt and gray trousers. He looked unremarkable, more like an ordinary working boy from a poor family.

"The prices in the Aurora Territory are higher than those in the Black Disk Territory, and the wages are also higher. If you work there, you can save some money back after working hard, which is good." The uncle seemed to understand this situation very well.

"Is that so? How is the situation over there?" Garen asked casually. He planned to go there quietly. Whether after solving the territorial issue or carrying out his plan within the legal scope, he needed to be extra careful. hidden. So in order to get rid of the eyeliner and sight behind him, he spent a lot of effort to succeed, but even so, he didn't know whether he could succeed.

"Aurora Territory is an imperial system, and different noble territories have different rules. However, as the Black Pan Territory is an alliance territory, residents will have good preferential treatment when entering, and you can find some good jobs. The quality of education of the civilians there is not high. You In the past, residents of such strong areas were equivalent to talents with better quality and could hold more positions."

The uncle started talking incessantly again.

Garen chatted with him at various places. He came out of Heipan City, took a train to the border city of Masilao, and transferred to Bingling City. Finally, he found the transit convoy that quietly crossed the border without taking the regular official convoy. Setting off, Garen chose such a transit convoy, which was similar to smuggling people, and headed for the Aurora Domain.

Only in this way can we avoid being completely aware of our course of action to the greatest extent possible.

Along the way, he also fully saw the number of people practicing consciousness among the residents.

Basically, one in ten people can be seen in Heipan City, and one in twenty or thirty can be seen in the border city of Bingling City. Most of the rest are ordinary people without consciousness. After all, not everyone likes to yearn for a fighting life like a pilot, and more people want a standard and peaceful life.

After leaving the domain, people on the convoy could hardly see any practitioners of consciousness. After being in the car for a day, he could feel that some mercenaries had a certain level of fighting and shooting, but those with consciousness still did not. Saw a few. Obviously, in this regard, the academy has very strict management of training methods.

Galen sometimes wonders how the tens of millions of consciousness practitioners on the planet mentioned on the Internet can be counted. But when I think about how expensive the exercise method is, it seems natural.

It must be that the consciousness practitioners are relatively concentrated in a small number of places.

Dazedly listening to the nagging of the uncle on the lower bunk, Garen gradually fell into sleep.

I don’t know how long it took.

Bang! !

A dull loud noise came and shook Garen, waking him up from his sleep.

He opened his eyes suddenly and the muscles in his body were tense, ready to be alert to the situation around him.

"What's going on!? What happened?"

There were other passengers in single rooms asking in the distance.

"It's not even bright yet! What a trouble! Why did the car suddenly stop!" someone scolded.

The uncle on the lower bunk also woke up scratching his head. The two fat women across from him seemed to have been hit, and they sat up screaming in pain.

"It's actually Youhuo! Tsk tsk...it's really beautiful, I have to take a photo of it quickly!" The uncle seemed to have discovered something.

Garen quickly followed his gaze and found it was outside the window, so he also looked out the window.

In the green night outside, between countless steel jungles, a vertical yellowish flame can be seen burning out of thin air from a distance, floating in mid-air, like a vertical pupil that opens quietly at night. If you look carefully, you can see the flames dancing if you have good eyesight.

"What is that?" Garen saw this scene for the first time.

"That's called ghost fire. Who knows the cause of its formation! Anyway, some scholars are said to have studied it. In addition to a lot of professional terms, the main function is the natural phenomenon of poisonous mist caused by radiation, which is similar to the ghost fire produced by phosphorus burning. It’s just that tourists on the road will regard them as signs of safety during their journey, representing good luck and safety.”

Soon, perhaps the drivers also stopped to take photos and miss the ghost fire, and the convoy slowly started moving forward again.

"There were a lot of ghost fires here in the past few years, but now there are fewer. It's a rare sight. It feels really good." The uncle said leisurely, crossing his legs.

"Youhuo?"

Garen stared thoughtfully at the ghost fire that gradually disappeared from his field of vision.