Interstellar Destiny

This place called the recycling station is just a corner of the entire underground world. The recycling station is named because the ground often dumps garbage here regularly, and the garbage sorting station is here. What the teenagers just fought for are those dumped, Garbage that has not yet entered the disposal station.

In the recycle bin, the closer to the surface, the fewer people live. Only those poor homeless people will stay here, and often they will not live here, because the strong radiation there will shorten the lifespan of these people and return to stardust early. In the depths, those who have the ability and conditions will move deeper underground.

In fact, the entire recycling bin should be classified as an "uninhabitable zone." Even though ordinary humans have evolved to be able to resist some cosmic rays, the recycling bin is too close to the ground.Most of the ulcers and scars on the skin of those teenagers who snatched garbage were caused by excessive radiation.

The black-haired boy walked through most of the recycling bin, walked to the deepest part of the darkness, and stopped in a corner.

There is a large black hole above this corner, and the whistling sound of the air can be faintly heard. The entire underground world is covered with such ventilation holes for the survival of the humans below.

In fact, there is no suitable air on the ground. These ventilation holes are all connected to huge replacement machines buried in the ground to absorb solar energy. They use light energy to repeatedly convert waste gas into fresh air, and the suction holes convert the waste gas into fresh air. Inhale, while the exhalation hole exhales new air.

This is a dead corner, and there is no one around. The boy straightened the shoulder straps of the suitcase, tied them tightly, and began to climb towards this huge exhalation hole. Under the force of the huge exhaust, the boy's worn clothes and bangs They all flew up, and if he was not careful, his whole body would be blown off. The higher the altitude, the greater the resistance and the greater the danger of falling. The point does not need to be observed at all, it is obvious that it is familiar with it because it has climbed too many times.

When the boy climbed to a position 30 meters away from the huge exhaust machine above, he groped on the wall of the hole with one hand, and then miraculously opened a door on the wall. , and then the door was closed, the cave wall was clean as before, and it was completely impossible to see that there was a door there.

The boy casually pressed the switch by the door, and lit an old lamp. The boy's house is not big, and there are a lot of things, but they are arranged in an orderly manner.

Li Yao unloaded the box, and began to sort out today's harvest by the light.

The food was put aside by him, including nutritional supplements and synthetic nutritional supplements, together with the fruits and vegetables, they were carefully stored in a dilapidated but clean metal bucket.

There were not a lot of energy boxes this time, and there were seven or eight. Li Yao carefully looked at the marks on the edge, arranged them according to the energy level, and decided to charge the rare third-level energy box first.

Even though the old energy box cannot be charged to its original energy value, the energy level of an old third-level energy box will probably still be higher than that of a new first-level energy box.

The young man pulled over an old energy meter on one side, took out a first-level energy box that was already full at the bottom, and began to charge the third-level energy box. The wire at one end of the energy meter was directly connected to the solar energy conversion device of the air replacement machine above.

The teenager still doesn't know how his elder brother did it back then, but he actually thought of stealing energy from the air replacement machine. Their consumption is small, and no one will notice unless they carefully check the pipes one by one.

Like the energy source, there is also clear water, which is the condensed water and moisture attached to the outer edge of the air converter, which is enough for their domestic water after being collected by the water collector.

In the mind of the little black-haired boy, his elder brother is miraculously powerful and omnipotent. He can set up his home so close to the ground but can basically shield those uncomfortable rays.

Li Yao opened a tool box, and carefully disassembled a broken instrument with the small tools inside.

Since his brother disappeared, Li Yao has learned to "collect" those waste items by himself, and also learned to reuse them like his brother. He often doesn't know the purpose of this kind of waste machinery, but after taking it apart, look at the structure inside. Can roughly figure out and even use components.

For him, the most important thing is a component called a chip inside.

In most mechanical instruments, there will be a place for controlling instructions and performing calculations, just like the human brain, where information is processed and stored, and this is the chip.

Li Yao carefully held the thing that was not much thicker than a hair with tweezers, took a book-sized box next to it, carefully inserted the chip into the card reader socket on the box, and then pressed it on the box. to operate.

There was a beep, and a soft female voice said in Chinese: "Hello, today is July 1990, 7 in the Guangming calendar. Your birthday. Your brother wishes you a happy birthday."

The young man was startled, it turned out to be this time again, he looked at the two rows of palm prints on the wall next to him, and was a little lost for a while.

But the boy quickly came to his senses. For his birthday, when his brother was around, he would collect a lot of ingredients and send them to the woman below. The woman would prepare steaming food and keep it warm for them to pick it up.

Even though he has developed a certain night vision ability, Li Yao still feels vague about the woman's face, and only thinks that she is very gentle and kind.When I was very young, when my brother went out occasionally for a long time, he would put him with women for a while.

But every time my brother leaves, he will give the woman some food, and the woman will take off the red light on her door, talk with little Li Yao in the dark, coax him to sleep, and prepare hot food for him. Even in retrospect, Li Yao's deepest impression is the woman's gentle and soft voice and the faint aroma of food.

Li Yao opened the small bucket of food, put all the ingredients he had collected recently into another worn-out small bucket, and added some extra synthetic nutrients, but recalling the care of women when he was a child, Li Yao put some more Add nutrients that I am not willing to eat.

Then he hooked the handle of the keg with a hook, and opened the door on the other side. The door on this side was connected to a suction hole, and the waste air was sucked upward by the huge suction force. Once the door was opened, the air flow Swept away some things in the house.

Amidst the whistling wind, the young man could clearly hear the human voices coming up from below, which seemed to be in pain but also in joy, there were faintly excited cries of men, and mellow and lingering cries of women.

Li Yao has long been accustomed to this kind of sound. Every time he opens the door here, he can hear it two or three times out of ten times. He only pokes his head out carefully, and sure enough, the red light below has been removed.

In the pitch blackness, a basket was gently lowered from the suction hole, and gently placed on the small platform above the woman's door where the red light is usually placed.When the woman puts on the lamp, she will see these ingredients and understand the meaning. Li Yao only needs to come back the next day to retrieve the prepared food in the basket.

The boy who had finished this work closed the door on the side of the air suction hole, and continued to complete the work he had just done.

My brother said that the environment is never a reason to give up on yourself.

The box-like thing is a player, but it is the most antique kind. It can read various chips, have a calendar, and store some information, but it is so damaged that it cannot connect to the outside network.

In this way, it took my brother a lot of effort and a lot of injuries to get this player back then, and Li Yao still cherishes it very much.

Li Yao remembered that he was so frightened by his brother's injury that he cried loudly. At that time, his brother only touched his little head and said that the environment is never a reason to give up on himself. Even in a place like the recycling bin, he must never stop changing. strong footsteps.

For so many years, even though his brother is not around, Li Yao still maintains the good habit of being with his brother. He will definitely start studying after returning home every day. If some chips have special codes, or are not used to store information at all, play The player cannot read it, but if some chips have stored information and the encoding is appropriate, the player can play it.

The teenager is very eager for the content in each chip. He gradually found that if he changed the code on the chip of the player itself, just like his brother changed the voice when it was turned on, he could also modify its decoding method. If you find the correct key, you can see even those messages that could not be played before.

In a boring life, teenagers never get tired of this kind of guessing game.Repeatedly observe those codes and find the correct key. Even if the puzzle is solved, the answer is only a string of command symbols, which will make the teenager very happy and study it repeatedly.In the dark underground world, these puzzles make his life full of fun.

Today, however, his luck seemed to be really good. He only tried the first and most common decoding. After the player ran rustling for a while, a sign was projected in mid-air, which was a swirl-shaped map of galaxies, and then A line of words "Federal Secondary School General Textbook (Grade [-] to Grade [-])" flashed out.

The boy was overjoyed, and immediately began to manipulate the player to play it. He began to watch it attentively, frowning and thinking from time to time.

His elder brother enlightened him when he was a child, and he has been insisting on learning the things in different chips all these years. Some of the things in this textbook are too simple for him, and some of them are not particularly clear to him, and it will take some time.

After studying for a while, Li Yao began to use the equipment next to him to start exercising. These things were also left by his brother, but Li Yao can't use many things now, or it is too difficult to use, so he can only choose some used by his brother. Exercise with the lightest equipment.

After the boy finished today's study and exercise, he poured clean water into the bathtub, added some other things, and scrubbed off the dark layer on his body, revealing fair and clean skin.

Li Yao changed his clothes and wiped the drops of water from his hair, then he turned on the universal instrument, and listened to the sentence that his brother preset in the early years.

"...your birthday, your brother wishes you a happy birthday."

The black-haired boy showed a charming smile, wiped a layer of that black thing on his palm, walked to the wall, pressed on the far right of the second row of palm prints, and then he wiped his hands clean, Pour the waste water into the exhalation hole. Anyway, no one will come to this blind spot, and the waste water he pours will be drained along the ditch without anyone noticing.

When the young man who had packed everything in the house passed by the wall, he suddenly tilted his head and showed a mischievous smile. He put his hand on the first palm print in the first row, and found that he was slightly bigger than that palm print, so he put it on the first palm print again. The two palm prints are about the same size, maybe a little smaller?

He nodded in satisfaction, but was a little dazed when he saw that there were only four palm prints getting bigger and bigger in this row, and only three plum blossom marks getting bigger and bigger on the far right.

My brother only spent four birthdays with me... That big white cat also spent three with me!

The black-haired boy suddenly felt a little wronged, sniffed his nose, and made up his mind that he must find his brother, and he will have his palm print on his birthday in the future!If you don't press it, just cry for him.

Li Yao suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he was so old, maybe he can no longer cry to find his brother like when he was a child, yes, he is also a man, he can help his brother with many things.

The young man who was thinking like this fell asleep on the bed and fell into a deep dream.There may be steaming food in the dream, maybe there may be a brother's smile, and the boy showed a faint smile in the dream.