The Sabbath

At first glance, the outside world is white.

Like a white sea.

Boundless, with no end in sight.

If you keep staring outside, it seems that time has been deliberately slowed down.

However, watching and watching, Ronggui saw other scenes in the sea of ​​blazing white light.Probably because the imager has adapted to the huge difference in indoor and outdoor light perception. After a period of automatic adjustment, Ronggui saw a little more "scenery":

It turns out that the sea of ​​light outside is not all incandescent white, and the colors of those lights are layered.

Not only are the colors layered, but the "sea" is not so calm.

Ronggui saw the "waves".

A huge ball of light exploded at a point in front of him to the left.

He couldn't hear the sound, and very slowly, Ronggui saw that there was nothing there, and then it suddenly bulged, getting higher and higher, like a budding flower, blooming——

Huge flowers bloomed in the Sea of ​​Light.

The petals of the flower are layered on top of each other, all of which are flames!

It was a very dreamy scene. Pressing his head tightly against the glass, two small flames bloomed in his eyeballs made of black ore.

Those flowers bloom so fast and decay even faster.

Soon, when the huge, fiery flower "bloomed" to its fullest, Ronggui saw those "petals" fall down.

They fell down, falling down like lava, and flowed into the sea of ​​light below. The huge "sea surface" fluctuated slightly, and then calmed down again.

Not even a "water splash" splashed.

It wasn't just that one "flower", Ronggui saw many kinds of extremely spectacular blooms.

The biggest bloom was so spectacular that it finally stirred up the waves.

Suddenly a huge wave broke out on the calm ocean of light, and the huge waves of light rushed towards them. For a moment, Ronggui thought that the gravitational instrument that he and Xiaomei were riding on would be involved and overturned. , Who would have thought that such a huge "wave" would still go out before reaching their location.

The sea surface seemed to be calm like this, but in fact, the waves were rippling in Ronggui's eyes.

After a long time, he reluctantly left from the window.

"It's really... so beautiful!" Turning his head, he said to Xiaomei.

As an ordinary person with no common sense in this area, what Ronggui saw was only excitement.

"What is that?" After watching the excitement, he thought of this question.

"It's just an explosion." Then, the professional Xiaomei told the truth.

Ronggui: Oh!

"Outside is the Eternal Light Belt. The reason why it is full of light is because explosions have been happening outside."

"The band of light that you think is as calm as the sea outside is the alpha ray, the brightest ray in the universe."

"It is also the most powerful form of explosion known so far."

While continuing to drive the gravitational meter forward, Xiaomei said calmly.

"Then, aren't we at the scene of the explosion?" Ronggui was taken aback, and turned his head to look at the glass again. The sea of ​​light that seemed calm outside instantly turned into a scourge, as if it would engulf them at any moment.

"No, in fact, we are at least three galaxies away from the explosion site. Those explosions happened a long time ago, but the light and rays produced by the explosion have only penetrated here for you to see." Xiaomei said.

"After Uris' prophecy, all the planets in the entire universe exploded, and the remnants after the explosion continued to explode. The light produced during the explosion penetrated the entire universe, and the entire world became a sea of ​​light. Now you The Eternal Light I saw is gone."

Ronggui... Ronggui's mouth opened, he didn't know what to say anymore.

When he looked out of the glass again, what he saw was no longer the boundless sea of ​​light, but——

Boundless loneliness.

Live in a universe where stars explode everywhere?

Not one or two unrelated explosions, but all the planets exploded?

Ronggui is simply unimaginable.

In fact, however, he is now living in such a world.

Xiaomei glanced at Ronggui:

If Ronggui was so excited when he first saw the Sea of ​​Light, then how depressed he is now after hearing Xiaomei's truth

Watching the fireworks from a distance is completely different from the feeling that you may be living on the fireworks that are about to explode. The depression on the petite Zhengtai robot is so strong that Xiaomei can feel it.

Not knowing why Ronggui's depression came from at this time, and not knowing how to get rid of it, Xiaomei could only change the subject: "The broken gravitational meter is just ahead, we should go there."

"Well, okay." Still a bit lacklustre, but Ronggui dutifully picked up Xiaomei's toolbox.

He didn't forget that he came here as Xiaomei's assistant this time.

Ronggui originally thought that the broken gravitational meter should be a machine about the size of the gravitational meter they are riding now.It was only when they arrived that they realized that the opponent's volume was much larger than theirs!

Their gravimeters stopped at the port on the top of each other's round heads, like an extra ear on a huge ball.

Immediately, the two parties opened their respective connecting doors, and Ronggui followed Xiaomei and walked towards the opposite gravitational meter.

The location where they landed was directly the repair compartment inside the instrument, where all the large components supporting the operation of the instrument were located. As soon as they saw Xiaomei and Ronggui, several workers in overalls hurriedly surrounded them.

They are the maintenance personnel who originally worked on this gravitational meter. When a large machine is on a mission, it will not only be equipped with a driver, but will also be equipped with a maintenance personnel. This time the fault is rather strange. They have studied it for a long time and can't solve it. Contact Remote guidance was useless, and it was about to give up the instrument and prepare to go back, and Xiaomei arrived at this time.

There are three large-scale gravitational instruments in this star-making activity. This large-scale instrument called "Star Maker" has undertaken the heaviest task in this star-making activity. In case there is a big problem with one of the gravitational instruments , The progress of the project must be greatly affected!

The "Star Maker" is a new type of high-end instrument distributed from the upper tower. The reason why it cannot be repaired is because this type of gravitational instrument is not common at present. When an assistant appeared, to be honest, the staff on the gravitational meter still didn't quite trust Xiaomei's ability to work.

However, without talking to them, Xiaomei took Ronggui directly down to the middle of the line group that needed repairs.

The place where the line group is placed is not good, it is crowded and dark, and it is very narrow. There is no place to climb, and the maintenance personnel can only use a rope to hang in mid-air to repair the line.

Xiaomei hanged for six hours while repairing, and Ronggui hung with him for six hours.

Seeing that Xiaomei was concentrating on her work and getting dirty, Ronggui squeezed a small handkerchief in her hand, intending to wipe it for him, but she was afraid of disturbing him.

On the one hand, I feel that "Xiaomei who works hard is really handsome", but on the other hand, Ronggui feels even more distressed.

Xiaomei from their family~ It's really hard work to make money for the family.

The previous depression has completely disappeared and turned into pity for Xiaomei.

With only Xiaomei in his eyes, Ronggui was afraid that the parts on Xiaomei's body would accidentally fall off.

This was a habit they developed when they used the previous body, but their new bodies were obviously of good quality, and until Xiaomei put away the tools and announced that the work was complete, no parts fell off their bodies.

Pulling the rope, someone immediately dragged them up from below.

Without Xiaomei telling them, the staff in the operation center had already discovered that the gravitational meter had been repaired.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Hastily thanked Xiaomei, and the people in overalls left and went back to work.

The gravitational instrument, which had become quiet due to the stop working, re-sounded a slight roar, indicating that it had started working again.

And as the hero of all this——Xiaomei, no one cares about her.

While Ronggui was still standing in the corridor in a daze, Xiaomei had already started to recheck her toolbox, to make sure that all the tools were in their proper places, and he said to Ronggui, "Let's go."

"This, this is leaving?" Ronggui still hadn't reacted a bit.

"Well, we'll leave naturally after we fix it." Xiaomei didn't think there was anything wrong with it. On the contrary, he also thought that the staff on this gravitational meter were good.

Talk less, do more-the appearance of these people is still in line with Xiaomei's work philosophy.

Seeing that Ronggui was still a little dazed, Xiaomei seemed to be careless and said: "You, don't you want to see how they make stars?"

Ronggui:! ! ! !

"Think about it! I really want to see it!" Ronggui immediately hugged Xiaomei's arm!

Letting him hold her, Xiaomei dragged Ronggui away from the "Star Maker", walked through the dock, and they returned to their own gravitational meter. Xiaomei then drove the small gravitational meter they were riding on a distance away .

He intentionally parked the glass window at the position facing the "Star Maker" in the distance, and Xiaomei signaled Ronggui to go over there to prepare.

"As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Tower of Eternity, Uris proposed the term star-making."

"The Tower of Eternity is not a place where humans can live for a long time. The population is bound to increase. To develop in the future, there must be an environment comparable to that of the planet."

"When the external environment does not allow, human beings should create the conditions themselves."

"Just like building a car, a building, a planet should be able to be made."

"This activity is called a star-making activity."

"And after so many years of research and application, today's star-making technology is very developed."

Standing beside Ronggui, Xiaomei explained slowly, as if confirming what he said, Ronggui saw the Star Maker in the distance start to move.

It moved.

Very, very slow movement, if it is not for the mechanical imager, its change can hardly be felt.

It is spinning and moving.

The whole body is silvery white, even if it is a mechanical eye, Ronggui would not be able to notice that it is turning, but Ronggui saw stardust, they gathered together, like a belt, surrounding the building Astral.

At first it was just scattered stardust, and then more and more, and more and more "belts", until finally, the star maker was almost surrounded by stardust.

Those stardust come from the universe, there are stardust, there are also large or small meteorites or other forms of solids.

They are densely covered around the Star Maker, and Ronggui can't see the Star Maker covered by them at all!

This process is still not over, the Star Maker is still spinning, attracting more stardust around it, and gradually, it looks like a small planet!

"Wow!" Ronggui exclaimed.

"The gravitational meter uses its own gravity to attract stardust in the universe that can be used as a component of new planets. When it attracts enough mass, the gravitational meter will absorb them around and dump them near the star core." Previous Seconds, Xiaomei's explanation still sounds very lofty.

"The so-called gravitational meter can actually be regarded as a large excavator and earth moving machine." The next second, Xiaomei changed back to her old self.

Ronggui: ...

It's not that I despise backhoes and earth movers, it's just that...

But this statement is really easy to understand. With Xiaomei's explanation, Ronggui finally understood what star-making movement is.

The Star Maker, which had absorbed enough stardust, began to leave, and Xiaomei adjusted the window to keep up, and then, following behind the Star Maker, a bigger "ball" suddenly appeared in front of Ronggui's eyes!

The densely packed large pieces of meteorites floated within a circular boundary, and Ronggui almost thought that there was a bigger Star Maker inside that was absorbing these meteorites and dust!However, he soon discovered that it was not, besides the Star Maker they were following, there were two other Star Makers moving over with stardust.

The original Star Maker is big enough, but in front of this "ball", they look petite and cute.

Ronggui saw that the stardust outside the Star Makers suddenly drifted away, and those stars and meteorites were involved in the frequency of the sphere's rotation. Since the volume was already very large, the sphere with a little more stardust didn't look like it. It was bigger, but the Star Maker managed to "lose weight", and it was smooth and smooth, and it returned again.

Ronggui suddenly realized: Ah!That's the new planet they're making!

What Xiaomei said next confirmed his guess:

"There is a star core inside, the man-made core of the planet, the attraction is very strong, enough to gather the transported star dust, compress and compress continuously, after a certain period of time, it will become a new planet. "

"Of course, the formation of the planet is very complicated, and other auxiliary means are needed, but as temporary workers transferred by emergency call-up orders, what we are exposed to is simple handling work."

Xiaomei said lightly.

Accompanied by his voice, Ronggui grabbed the glass window again with his hands, and he carefully looked at the little planet that was in the process of being formed.

As the angle changed, he saw more.

In addition to the small planet that was forming, he also saw another sphere below, and then changed the angle and saw another one.

He saw a lot of huge planet-like spheres, not suspended in the universe, but surrounded by soil boulders, and they were fixed together in a string!

"Then, what is that..." Ronggui murmured.

Then, he heard Xiaomei's voice again:

"That's the body of the tower."

"The original tower can no longer meet people's living needs. On the basis of the original, humans have created many star cities. These star cities are connected to each other, wrapped in thick stardust, and intertwined under the Tower of Eternal Day. It’s where people live today.”

"Every sphere you see is a star city. Stardust and meteorites in the universe are adsorbed on the tower. Below that, each star city is connected to each other by pipes. Inside the pipes are roads. We pass through those towers. Road, from one star city to another star city."

It's rare for Xiaomei to say such a long word in one breath, and it's rare for Ronggui to understand it.

Listening to his words, Ronggui seemed to have seen the formation process of man-made star cities under the tower, and then batch after batch of people settled there and lived...

He thought of Mesertal, Xiaomei's hometown, his hometown "Siping Town", Erni City, and Yedehan City where Mary and the others lived...

"This world is..." Staring at the Eternal Light Belt outside, Ronggui was startled, and then sighed: "It's really amazing!"

"The people here are better."

"There are no planets anymore, and you can make your own planets."

"If every city is a planet, Xiaomei, the places we have been to before are actually equivalent to interstellar travel!"

"Rhubarb is also equivalent to a spaceship!"

"If I become a well-known singer in the entire tower in the future, it will only be a temporary well-known singer in the tower."

"When I reach the right place, the universe where everyone can live normally, and the star cities disperse and become planets again, I will become a well-known singer in the universe!"

"Oh! Next, I have to work hard!" Ronggui clenched his fists as he spoke.

"Thank you, Xiaomei, for bringing me to such a beautiful place and seeing such amazing things!" Drinking water without forgetting the well digger, turning to look at Xiaomei, Ronggui smiled at Xiaomei.

Seeing Ronggui's smile, Xiaomei was stunned.

Is this a beautiful place?

Obviously just a desperate place, isn't it?

And... something amazing?Is it this tower?

Shouldn't the tower be just a sad cage?

Driving in the long eternal light belt, I can't see a trace of hope for the future, just floating like this...

Looking away from Ronggui's smile, Xiaomei looked at the eternal sea of ​​light outside the glass window.

Unlike Ronggui, he never thought there was anything interesting about it.

It's just that Ronggui wanted to see it, so he brought him here. From the beginning to the end, Xiaomei didn't give any more attention to the sea of ​​light.

until now-

"I used to think it looked a bit lonely outside, but now I don't feel it anymore, Xiaomei, how long can we stay here?" Rong Gui pulled Xiaomei back.

"...One hour and five minutes." Even when she was thinking about things, Xiaomei's answer was still accurate.

"Ah~ time is running out, shall we watch the sea together in the next time?" Pulling Xiaomei by his side, Ronggui generously divided half of the glass window to Xiaomei.

So in the following time, the two little robots really watched the "sea" for 10 minutes together.

Until the alarm clock set by Xiaomei in advance rang, reminding the two of them to return immediately.