The Sabbath

They only go out for half a day every day and do things for half a day. In the evening, the older children will lead them to study for a few hours. Even when they come to Sky City, the lives of these children are still regular.

What they do most is to grow vegetables and paste lanterns. One by one, lanterns are put out from the children's little hands and put into the big cardboard boxes next to them. Now there are many full cardboard boxes.

The seasoning would not grow so fast, but with Xiaomei, some easy-to-cook vegetables have been cooked for a round with the help of Xiaomei brand strong fertilizer, and these vegetables have been carefully preserved.

The preparations for opening the store are mainly done by adults. Grandpa Alan probably has been thinking about it for a long time. Before he came here, he made a lot of store supplies that are easy to assemble and use at home. He also brought kitchen utensils and utensils from his old home in the dungeon.It’s easy to say if there is a place, move these things there, and simply move them, and the prototype of the store will come out.

"It takes a lot of effort to open a traditional restaurant. The wood carvings alone need to be carefully crafted, but we are just here to do business and let everyone taste the food of our hometown. The most important thing is the atmosphere and excitement. The shop is gorgeous. It's not important to be gorgeous." These are the original words of Grandpa Allen, he said so, and he did so.

The simple shops were set up one by one, and the children came out in groups. After the adults adjusted the wires, the children climbed the ladders to hang the lanterns.

They are used to doing this kind of thing, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with it. On the contrary, the grandparents of the volunteers in Coral City were terrified. Come on", but hanging lanterns seems simple, but in fact it is not so simple, and in the end, a volunteer who offered to help accidentally fell off the ladder.

Fortunately, the fall was not heavy, his wings flapped and he stabilized his balance.

Uh... the volunteer who fell was none other than Professor Arufa.

Ronggui: =-=

Only then did he know: Professor Alufa...it seems that the motor nerves are not well developed...

And the children also took advantage of this time to finally confirm: Oh?That pair of beautiful little wings... Sure enough... can't fly?

These children who grew up in an extremely closed environment are born with a pair of eyes that are good at observation. When they find a problem, they don't ask easily. Instead, they observe for a period of time until they are sure that it is indeed a fixed problem. will ask.

So, that night, they secretly asked Ronggui this question.

Ronggui: Oh! ! ! ! !

Living in Coral City for so long, he... he he he he he is the first time he knows about this problem! ! !

If it weren't for the children's reminders, he, he, he, he, he, he, he really didn't realize that the people here couldn't fly! ! ! !

This quick observation...

Barley

In Xiaomei's words: Ronggui's reaction this time...was much slower than when we first met, forty minutes and 59 seconds after waking up to ask where he was...that time.

That's right, who is Ronggui~ He is someone who just asks (Xiaomei) if he doesn't understand!After being asked this question, he immediately found Xiaomei who was cooking in the kitchen, grabbed Xiaomei's wings, and asked anxiously, "Xiaomei, can you fly?" and went away.

Uh... Everyone knows that in this world, wings are a rather private part——

And Ronggui is holding on to this private part tightly in his hands. In the kitchen, besides Xiaomei, there are also Professor Alufa, Mrs. Sadan, Grandpa Alan, Poma, and a swarm of bees following Ronggui's ass. A group of kids running in.

Xiaomei: =-=

It was only at this time that he remembered: he never seemed to have mentioned the symbolic meaning of wings to Ronggui... such things.

But Xiaomei is Xiaomei, even if his wings are stroked in public, he is not in a hurry. Turning down the fire on the stove, he lowered his head and shook the tip of his wings slightly...

Then he answered the question with a straight face:

"Can't fly."

"Huh? Is it disabled or..." Ronggui panicked.Anyway, there were no outsiders at the scene, so he simply asked directly.

"It should be that everyone can't fly. The wings have a feeling, and they can also be unfolded and retracted. In special circumstances, it is okay to help maintain balance. However, if you want to fly, the strength of the wings is too weak." Xiaomei said, and stretched a bit Showing the wings to Ronggui and the children behind him: "Look, it is completely impossible for such a small wing to bear the height and weight of a normal adult."

"Isn't it possible to fly on TV?" Rong Gui remembered the promotional video of Sky City that he had seen when he was in Ye Dehan!

There is evidence that wings can fly!

"That was a promotional video made a long time ago. About 500 years ago, the wings of people born in that generation could still fly. Ye Dehan's position is relatively deep, the news is blocked, and the promotional video has not been replaced..." A few words , Xiaomei explained this problem to him.

"Then... isn't that just a decoration?" Ronggui was dumbfounded.

When he asked this question, Xiaomei actually nodded: "In my opinion, it is just a decoration."

"Lying on the bed after growing wings is not as comfortable as before. Although there are special bedding, it is still not as comfortable as the back without wings."

"Then! Why didn't you say it earlier!" After Xiaomei said this, Ronggui immediately digressed: "The bed I'm using now is not comfortable, so let's change it quickly!"

"Master, what brand of bed do you two use? Are the wings comfortable when you sleep?"

He also learned from Professor Alufa.

Professor Arufa: =-=

Mrs. Sadan: =-=

The fact that the two of them slept on the same bed was exposed by the apprentice.

Well, although it's not really a secret, it's just known to the public, but... I'm still a little shy~

But Professor Arufa is a "professor" after all~

"I'll book a bed for you later on." After being shy for a moment, Alufa said seriously, "It's good to think of this question."

"What I'm most afraid of is getting used to this kind of thing. Over time, I think it's normal not to be able to fly. Today's Sky City has this trend."

"Few people think about why their wings can't fly. Wings only represent the blood that can make people live in the sky city. They have nothing to do. They also study various ways to decorate wings, and as wings are more and more decorated, The more gorgeous it is, the more people ignore this problem..."

As Arufa said, he also shook the wings on his back: "I was discovered by you today. My motor nerves are not good."

"I was not good at sports since I was a child. Compared with other children, I have more time to think."

"When I saw other kids using ladders to climb, I thought, why don't they use wings?"

"When I see people going up in aircraft, I think, why don't they fly up there with wings?"

"I'm still thinking about this question."

When he said this, he paused for a moment, his eyes gliding over the children's little faces, Ronggui's face, and Xiaomei's face in turn.

With a slightly different expression from before, Xiaomei looks like she is thinking now.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and Alufa's voice became more gentle, and he continued: "Probably because I have been thinking about this issue since I was a child, so I have been interested in various sciences one after another. Fortunately, God is good to me. I have a brain that can understand this knowledge, and a brain that can integrate all this knowledge and remember it so that I can think better."

"I studied astronomy, and I studied the Atmospheric Defense of the Eternal Light Belt... The reason I studied these is to understand whether the reason why people cannot use wings is outside the atmosphere, whether the air, temperature, and light pollution there limit The flying height of human beings..."

"I studied biology, human physiology, genetics, medicine... I want to study the secret of the inability of human wings to fly from a physiological point of view."

"In these studies, I have established that the human wing is indeed not able to fly, not only that, but the situation is getting worse."

Arufa stopped smiling.

"Does this mean that humans are degenerating?"

"Or is it evolution?"

"I, who can only exist for a short period of time in human history, have no way to understand this problem now."

"However, even knowing this, my original question remains unanswered."

"Finally, in the study of history, I vaguely understood something."

"Early before our ancestors entered the light belt, in earlier ages, in earlier ages, which were almost considered by us to belong to myths and legends, our ancestors had a very incredible evolution era!"

Alufa's eyes sparkled, his tone raised involuntarily, and the speed of his speech sped up slightly:

"It was a time when we looked incredible!"

"They, they can actually change their own form of existence!"

"The original posture, and the same form as our current physical form, this evolutionary form I haven't fully studied yet, but in my opinion, the ultimate purpose of this model is for reproduction."

"Just like us now, any evolution of human beings is for continuation and reproduction, otherwise it will inevitably go backwards in the end..."

"In the genes of existing human beings, I have observed many very wonderful gene remnants! Since I lived in Sky City since I was a child, I have relatively more genetic research on the residents of Sky City."

"It's very unbelievable that the gene that exists in our body, makes our body stronger than others, and allows us to live in the sky city, most likely comes from a creature called a dragon!"

"If the things in the myth are true, how powerful our ancestors should be!"

"Powerful enough to destroy a city alone!"

"This is a power that makes people tremble with excitement!"

"There is almost reason to believe that we are almost too powerful to attract such a disaster in the end. The vast majority of human beings perish, and a few people hide in the tower and drift aimlessly in the eternal light..."

"But even then, that era! How exciting it is!"

Professor Arufa's eyes almost glowed!

"The reason why I care so much about Agui's era is because Agui's era mentioned dragons in a big way."

As he spoke, Professor Alufa's shining eyes fell on Ronggui's face.

His eyes were so bright that Ronggui felt that Professor Alufa's eyes were shining brightly.

Ah...how incredible...

Ronggui couldn't imagine what Professor Alufa mentioned, but this did not affect his understanding of this matter as a very powerful thing, so powerful that it could affect all human beings.

Not only him, everyone in this room who heard what Professor Alufa said was the same as him.

Everyone is fascinated. Although the body is here, the soul has reached the era described by Professor Alufa.

Only Mrs. Sadan's always cold eyes will soften only when she looks at Professor Alufa.

At this moment, looking at such a high-spirited professor, his eyes softened even more.

"Each of us is a relic of that era."

"Each of us may contain precious genetic samples that are enough to decipher that era."

"Any act of abandoning one's own body and using a substitute is a complete destruction of this precious relic."

"Whether it's a sky city or an underground city."

"We come from one origin. I have a hunch that the restoration of this secret era cannot be done without the sample offerings of the residents of the dungeon."

"I even have a hunch that leaving the Eternal Light Belt and starting a new human history on the real planet is also inseparable from the integration and cooperation of Sky City and Dungeon City."

"We come from a time, presumably to be reunited after a long separation."

"In this way, we can move towards a new era together."

Such astonishing words appeared out of season in a small kitchen in a small star city.

Not many people heard it, but everyone who heard it fell into silence and thinking.

Especially Xiaomei.

Ronggui looked up at Xiaomei ignorantly, although he couldn't tell from the outside, but he instinctively knew that among all the people, Xiaomei was the most surprised.

Xiaomei was deeply shocked by Professor Alufa's words.