The Sabbath

"This is Uris, the Tower of Eternal Day, and where we are now is her underground part."

"It's not a planet, nor a spaceship. If you have to find an adjective you can understand to describe Uris, you can think of her as a huge building, or a sky fortress."

"All the planets in the space were destroyed, and all the carriers that humans could live in were completely annihilated, and Uris became the only building in the Eternal Light Belt."

As Xiaomei said, she stretched out her hand and drew a solitary building on the sand. His painting level was about the same as his aesthetic ability, but it was very precise, and Ronggui could understand it right away.

It was precisely because he understood that he was stunned.

After driving the rhubarb for so long, there were mines and big rivers, I thought I had traveled far, far away, but it was not until Xiaomei told him today that he realized that he had been spinning around in a tower, this... this, this this--

Ronggui felt that this completely surpassed all his cognition!

and also--

Is the universe actually destroyed?

He didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Holding his small trailer, he lowered his head to study the abstract paintings on the ground for a long time, pointed to the bottom of the tower body and asked for a while, "Are we...are we here now?"

At the bottom of the tower, Rong Gui couldn't think of anything worse than this.

Who knows, Xiaomei shook her head.

"Because the population has been increasing, the tower body has been continuously expanding. Today's tower body is no longer a single building like before, but has become more complicated. The total number of floors has already been hundreds of times that of before." Xiaomei said Then, he used his fingers to draw out several abstract sporadic buildings on the sand. Each building was connected by a straight line, which looked like tree roots.After finishing the painting, Xiaomei pointed to a point on a branch that was very far away from the main building and said, "We are probably here now."

Ronggui looked at the distance between that point and the main tower, and did not speak for a long time.

Then, Xiaomei's voice sounded again:

"However, the most important main body is still the central white tower, and the original main tower is now at the highest level of the whole building, and only a few people can live in it."

And there is also the pinnacle of power in the entire tower - this sentence only flashed in Xiaomei's mind, but she didn't say it out of her mouth.

Ronggui just looked down at the stick figures on the ground, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

"Since they are all in the same building, why can the people above see the light, while the people below can only shrink in the darkness forever?" He thought for a while: "By the way, Xiaomei, what did you say about the eternal light?" Yes, what exactly is the Eternal Light Belt? The name seems to be the place that is always on..."

Xiaomei looked at him, for Ronggui, this is a rare and good question.

"In the last month of 1299 in the Faryuta calendar, on the last day of the last week, the stars in the sky will burst like fireworks, the stars will fall from the sky, and the stardust will fill the breath of human beings.

The shattered fires of the stars are still burning, the entire universe is brilliant, and the survivors of human beings have entered the eternal light belt. "Xiaomei read a passage of obscure text in a flat voice, and then explained: "This is a passage from the last published paper on the life of Uris, a well-known scholar in the last era.The general meaning is that the universe is destroyed, all the stars explode, and the flames after the stars explode will burn for a long time, and those lights turn the entire universe into a place of eternal day. "

"This is the Eternal Light Belt."

Ronggui raised his head, as if imagining what kind of scene it was.

"That passage... sounds more like the prophecy of the Great Immortal." Without thinking of the word prophet, Ronggui could only use a more rustic word to describe his feeling.

"Uris was indeed obsessed with religion in his later years." Xiaomei said lightly.

Ronggui lowered his head and thought for a while, "I still can't figure it out, if the whole tower is in the eternal light belt, then it should be daytime everywhere."

This is another good question.

Xiaomei glanced at him, and continued to repair the TV in her hand, and said slowly while repairing: "Part of the reason is the uneven distribution of resources. The materials that can best isolate external rays are all on the original main tower; Without the original material, the place of residence can only be allocated using a hierarchy.”

"Another part of the reason is that even though the external light is filtered, it still mutates. Some of the people who escaped the catastrophe gradually cannot bear the light from the outside. These people finally moved to the lowest end of the tower—— It was completely sealed off from the beginning, and no light came in."

"There are people who give birth to defective children and leave them there."

"People who committed crimes were put there in the first place."

"The underground city is getting bigger and bigger, and the stardust absorbed from the outer space is also used in the expansion project. The expansion project of the underground city uses completely different materials from the upper part. You can understand this process as The formation process of a planet.

In short, over time, the aboveground world and the underground world have been completely divided into two regions. "

"Even in the underground, there are different layers. If you want to leave the original layer and live in a higher layer, you have to pay a price. It's like leaving Erni City and coming to Yedehan City, you have to meet the [-] point requirement. condition.

The use of points is only one of the various immigration rules. The higher the level, the more regulations there are, and there will be more conditions and restrictions. "

"The layer migration in the dungeon can also be achieved by accumulating points and other conditions. However, if you want to move from the dungeon to the sky city, it is not something you can do with points."

As she spoke slowly, Xiaomei suddenly stopped what she was doing and turned on the TV, and the TV screen suddenly lit up.

It turned out that while talking, he had already fixed the TV.

Seeing the scene on the screen, Ronggui suddenly froze.

What was played there was a scene of blue sky and white clouds.

Flocks of white birds flew across the clear blue sky, passing high-tech skyscrapers, and Ronggui saw people on some of the transparent buildings.

Those people were wearing elegant and simple white clothes that were completely different from the style of his time, and their appearance was elegant and elegant, all of them looked great!However, this is not the reason why Ronggui was stunned, what really stunned him was——

"Why do these people have wings behind them?" Pointing at the figure on the screen, Ronggui immediately turned to ask Xiaomei.

"?" Xiaomei tilted her head: "Shouldn't all healthy people be like this?"

Ronggui: Oh! ! !

So am I disabled?

still is……

deformity? !

No matter which statement is a bit difficult to accept, Ronggui thought for a long time, and finally he could only say to Xiaomei: "I...I think we must not be from the same place, not from the same universe, but definitely not from the same planet. .”

His eyes were fixed on the TV screen, following the wings of the birds, he saw more people, and even a dwarf.

Even those dwarves have wings!

And the people there seem to like white very much, the main color of the clothes they wear is white, white birds, white clothes, white buildings...

Ronggui felt that he was going to be snow blind! ! !

Xiaomei glanced at him again: "Our differentiation started a long time ago. Degeneration of wings is the earliest criterion for differentiation. A long time ago, people without wings were gradually assigned to live in places other than the main star."

"Your planet may be one of them."

"Impossible!" Ronggui said loudly.

But looking at the winged man on the screen, he suddenly remembered a word he often heard before: angel.

What is "beautiful like an angel" ~ "like a holy angel"~

At that time, they often used angels to describe a person as good-looking, but the original meaning of angels was those bird people with wings in Western stories!

Think about it carefully, isn't it quite similar to the winged man on the TV screen?

If it is said that the myths and legends of a place have real historical counterparts, then, then...

Ronggui was also uncertain.

He shook his back reflexively, but just after shaking, he remembered: Uh... now he is not using his original body~

Could it be... He and Xiaomei are really people in the same universe, but he lives on the east side of the earth, and Xiaomei lives on the west side... a certain planet. The two planets do not interfere with each other. They seem to have nothing to do with each other. In fact, they are both People who were separated from a certain planet in the middle were driven away by their hometown because they didn't have wings.

Then the earth went through several times of destruction and regeneration, all the past records were destroyed, and they forgot about their hometown and wings. Before Ronggui fell into a coma, the scientists on the earth were still trying to climb the moon and try to get closer. Take a step into the universe, and then there is a "bang"——

The universe exploded.

The remaining people were housed in the giant white tower, and the freezer he was in was also taken in.

then……

Immersed in all kinds of illusions, Ronggui was completely stunned.

"If you have wings, you can directly submit an application to live in Sky City. It is more useful than any points. This is the best application condition." Xiaomei said slowly as she slowly reinstalled the back panel of the TV.

And Ronggui could no longer hear his voice.

Staring at the screen, his attention was all attracted by the picture on the screen.

Blue sky, white clouds, gentle sunshine, beautiful people, laughing children running across the green grass, and white birds...

Except that all the people in the picture have wings, the other scenes are really no different from his previous world...

Ronggui looked at the screen almost greedily.

Xiaomei didn't speak.

After fixing the TV, he went to do other things. He was busy with Ronggui's work for a long time, and he hadn't taken out his own tools to reorganize.

Before leaving, he took another look at Ronggui, who was concentrating on watching TV, and... the TV screen in front of Ronggui.

The picture is consistently monotonous, which is the most common scene in Sky City.

No dialogue, no voice, no special effects of any kind.

However, it is the highest-rated TV show in Dungeon.

Living in the dark underground and using various methods to simulate light are all manifestations of people's yearning for light.

It's no wonder this drab show is so popular.

however--

Want to live in such a beautiful place?Then work hard, live seriously, and earn points hard.

The real meaning of this show is actually this, like a big pie, painted in front of hungry people.

Then, look harder and harder, and then...

Hunger.

Looking away, Xiaomei walked into the back room.