The Sabbath

Although he wanted to treat guests, Ronggui's manuscript fee was really very little.

Only 100 quarpicks.

And 100 quarpics, if you want to treat guests to dinner in Coral City, you can probably only invite "Kiyaya" ← probably a fast food restaurant like McDonald's, and each person only has one hamburger, and you can't even buy drinks...

And Ronggui not only said that he wanted to treat guests, but later added that he wanted to treat the three of them to a big meal.

Ronggui: =-=

This must be influenced by Professor Alufa's habit of "big meals" at every turn. Ronggui usually eats home-cooked meals at home, which are healthy and delicious, and save money.

"Uh... "Ancient Civilization" is a non-profit magazine after all. It is placed in schools and newsstands, and everyone can use it for free..." Scratching his head, Professor Alufa explained a few words in a low voice.

"Since it's to celebrate getting the first draft fee to treat guests, you can't use money earned from other channels!" You don't need to guess that Ronggui probably wants to treat guests with the money earned from singing. Professor Alufa shook his finger and stopped. his way.

Ronggui: =-=,,

Looking at the momentarily depressed apprentice, Professor Alufa was in a good mood, raised his eyebrows, and said, "But a big meal doesn't have to be rich and delicious—"

Ronggui looked up at him.

"It's like the big meal at the Balayabudo Restaurant that I invited you to eat last month. The dishes there are small, right? It's still unpalatable." Arufa raised his eyebrows as if recalling the food he ate that time. The professor twitched the corner of his mouth, and then continued: "But the dinner plates they use are all antiques, and the dining environment is all antiques. The dining environment completely restores the situation when the antiques were used. No one can say that it is not a big meal."

Speaking of this, the corners of Ronggui's mouth twitched a little.

That was when he and Xiaomei were studying the Balayabudo civilization in the Department of Ancient Civilization last month. This is an even smaller ancient civilization, and there are very few research materials. They have already studied all the existing materials. , the remaining ones that have not been studied...

It was at the Balayabudo Hotel.

The owner of the hotel is an antique collector. Because he likes the unique patterns and patterns of the Balayabudo civilization, he collected a lot of tableware, tea sets and decorations with similar patterns. Of course, he didn’t know which ones they were at that time. The things left by the civilization were not sold when they found out about them. Many fans of ancient civilizations have asked him to buy them, and they are not easy to receive customers. Under such circumstances, is there no way to see the antiques of that period?

No, that person opened a restaurant and decorated it with all his collections about the Balayabudo civilization. He also used real goods as tableware to restore the situation of the past and sell expensive meals!

In order to study these precious antiques, Professor Alufa took the students to "eat a big meal".

It's luxurious and unpalatable, and it's not full. Professor Alufa is right.

"So, if the dining environment is luxurious enough, it can also be called a big meal~" Professor Alufa gave Ronggui a hint.

however--

Ronggui didn't understand at all.

Nodding, after nodding, Ronggui continued to lower his head, as if to think carefully about where the environment is good and the food is bad and the food is cheap.

Professor Arufa: =-=

The hint was useless, the old man decided to give this stupid apprentice a clear indication: "We can go to Keyaya to buy four three-layer cakes, and then go to your planet to eat, where is there a more luxurious dining place than the New World~ "

Ronggui: "Hey? Can ordinary people enter the New Earth now?"

It’s no wonder that he asked this question. In the past year or so of his hard work, the New Earth has been in a state of strict lockdown, extraterrestrial flight has been strictly restricted, and those who can land on the New Planet have been strictly restricted. ← Xiaomei every day A very important job is to process these applications.

During this period of time, the New World is closed to ordinary people. The so-called ordinary people are all kinds of people who have nothing to do with exploring the New World. Naturally, this also includes the "New World Code" promulgated by Ronggui himself ← Xiaomei. There is a clear stipulation that Ronggui will never violate it.

Hearing Ronggui's question, Alufa immediately knew that Ronggui must have read the "Code of Law" before, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he smiled and said: "You are the master of the new earth, you are not an ordinary person, but ..."

"Forget it, actually I wanted you to go there in person today, not only you, Xiaomei is also going. It just so happens that you want to treat guests, so why not go to the New World to treat guests! There is something for you to see."

So far, Professor Alufa is smiling, but he refuses to say a word.

So, feeling a little apprehensive and a little excited, Ronggui bought four three-layer cakes and left with Professor Alufa.

A group of four, they took Professor Alufa's private light spaceship to the new earth.

They flew for a total of three days, and went through a total of two safety inspections of the mobile mechanical fortress. Just when Ronggui was worried that the three-layer cake he bought would be broken, they finally came to the last mechanical fortress.

This is a huge mechanical fortress. The so-called "fortress" is actually a kind of mechanical base. You can also think of it as an unusually huge spaceship, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people living on it at the same time, and can carry a large amount of materials. , can move, that is, the speed is much slower than ordinary spaceships. One of the greatest meanings of its existence is to carry materials and personnel stationed in the designated coordinates in the light, or to carry out defensive work, or carry out construction work.

This mobile fortress apparently does both.

Scholars applying through Xiaomei naturally cannot live in the precious new world, they live here, and after obtaining precious research materials from the new world, they can conduct research in the fort immediately.In addition, there are a large number of defense personnel, technical personnel, and construction personnel here.

"I also have a room here." Professor Alufa introduced Ronggui.

However, he obviously didn't come here this time to do research work. After the last inspection, Ronggui's three-layer cake was turned over and inspected for the third time, and they were finally let go.

When they came for inspection, they came in according to the designated orbit. They flew directly into the interior of the fort along the orbit from the light. After the entire spaceship was inspected by the detection equipment inside the fort, they continued to slow Flying at a high speed until reaching the end, when the hatch opened and the familiar scorching white light appeared before them, they finally entered the eternal light belt again.

Ronggui closed his eyes reflexively, and when he opened them again, he was stunned——

God!

Across the huge space fortress, what appeared in front of his eyes at this moment?

A beautiful blue planet!

Most of the area is blue, then green, besides brown and white... This is really a beautiful planet, and it is so similar to the earth he only saw from photos in his memory... …

Ronggui was stunned.

Walking over, he lay down in front of the window and quietly admired the blue planet in front of him, until he noticed that the outside of the blue sphere seemed to be surrounded by a transparent cover.

Having sailed in the Eternal Light Belt, Ronggui knows that it is something that exists outside every space city and is called a "protective shield" among the people. One of Professor Alufa's most outstanding contributions is the protection shield. Outstanding Contribution.

When I left last time, I didn't look carefully due to physical reasons, but Ronggui vaguely remembered that there should be no such protective cover at that time, but now there is... It should have been erected in the past year.

No wonder there are so many Battlestars here.

"This is the Earth's protective cover. The erection of the complete protective cover was finally completed 1 minute ago. I want to invite you and Xiaomei to come here, mainly because I want you to see how the protective cover is fully opened."

"?" As for the protective shield, Ronggui didn't know anything about it, but Xiaomei next to him was quiet, her sky blue eyes were calm and unwavering, he should have known about it a long time ago.

Ronggui was not surprised at all.

After all, Xiaomei is the actual manager of the New Earth. After handing over the management rights to Xiaomei, Ronggui completely let go and never managed anything.

Their spaceship moved forward a little more, and then it was suspended in the light, and stayed in front of the blue planet without moving.

"You wait." Professor Arufa said this, and then stopped talking.

He didn't speak, Mr. Sadan was standing beside him, Xiaomei looked straight at the blue planet opposite, her eyes slid across the profiles of the three of them one by one, Ronggui finally looked forward and stopped moving.

Then, as if the electricity was turned on suddenly, the blue planet in front of Ronggui suddenly changed!

Half of it was still exposed to the eternal light belt, while the other half suddenly darkened and sank into the shadows.

This is……

"Dark night?!" Ronggui exclaimed in surprise.

"That's right." Professor Alufa nodded, affirming his judgment: "It's the night."

"My main work this year is this new type of shield, the dual energy shield. Unlike the previous shields, this time the protection system can achieve the largest filtering of light."

"Simply put, it can simulate the night effect."

=mouth=! ! !

Ronggui's mouth opened slightly.

He may not know how difficult this technology is, but he does know: In Sky City, all planets have only daytime, and the Tower of Eternal Day has no night, and today's earth is actually the first planet with night!

"Remember your description of the sky when you woke up?" Professor Alufa suddenly said something completely irrelevant.

Turning his head, Ronggui looked at him.

"You said, you raised your head and saw that the sky was half bright and half dark, and there were faint stars hanging in the sky."

"You said you saw the dawn."

Professor Alufa spoke quietly, with a flat tone, and stated the sentences that Ronggui excitedly said at that time.

Ronggui didn't think about anything at the time, he just described his feelings faithfully, but now he heard Master Alufa repeating his words, he suddenly felt that something was wrong...

and many more!

dawn?

By the way, Sky City is Eternal Day, when has there ever been a dawn?

Could it be... I was sleepy and confused at the time, did I read it wrong?

Ronggui tilted his head.

"Not long after the new world was discovered, scholars and experts settled in one after another, and after they began to explore the earth one after another, some scholars believed that there was a trace on this planet that indicated that it might have come from an environment with day and night."

"Others think it's not very scientific, but I immediately thought of what you said to me at that time."

"Then he and I continued to explore further in this direction, and finally we were surprised to find—"

"He was right, this planet really had day and night before!"

"The moment I proved this point, I suddenly thought that the sky was half-light and half-dark when Ah Gui said that he was awake..."

"Oh my god! Agui, do you know what you went through at that time?"

"You can't do it, no! You are definitely experiencing the moment when a planet slips into the eternal light belt from another place!"

"Like a lost child, and like a guide, he broke into our world from outside."