After billions of reincarnations

What Jiang Ge wanted to use as a metaphor at first was not "The Truman Show".

What he meant to say was a puppet show.

However, Jiang Ge paused and changed his words.

In fact, there are not many archived things of the ancient earth civilization. Only those things that left traces on the Internet when the data network began to develop were uniformly saved in the alliance's ancient civilization database.Those other things, in the process of human beings leaving the earth, drifted scattered on countless stars in the universe along with spaceships.

In the alliance's database, there is no specific image of the puppet show.

In fact, on the ancient earth, puppet show was also close to decline. It was something that prevailed in the earliest hundreds of years of human history and civilization.

Jiang Ge was fortunate to have seen a puppet show with his own eyes.

At that time, Jiang Ge was reborn on a planet, and that planet was considered a complete wasteland planet.It was the earliest immigrant planet for human beings, and it was the first planet that human beings set foot on after breaking out of the Earth-Moon system. It was named Venus.That is, the "Chang Gung Star" and "Evening Star" that people called in the ancient earth period.

A real morning star.

As the first stop for humans to step into space, Venus is full of messy buildings and huge mines everywhere.Venus is the first place people try to step into space, and when people have accumulated enough experience on Venus, there will be nothing left of the resources on Venus.

It became a waste planet.

So humans quickly abandoned Venus, and with the experience accumulated on it, they rushed into space with confidence and never returned.

Those who stay on Venus are those who are unwilling to leave the solar system and want to get closer to the earth.But as time passed, young people set foot on spaceships to other nebulae, leaving only some old, lonely old people among the abandoned places on Venus.

During that rebirth, Jiang Ge woke up in the abandoned mine on Venus.

The waste earth planet is full of huge steel supports, and the huge mining equipment on the dry veins is covered with thick white rust.The real sun was very close to Venus, and at sunset the long legs of the cranes on those veins were like the arms of dying giants.

Jiang Ge sat on a support covered with thick rust, watching the sun go down little by little.

There are [-] nebula systems and [-] star regions, and the number of planets in billions.

The universe is so vast, Jiang Ge wakes up on one planet after another during his countless reincarnations.But this is the first time he was reborn into the original origin of human civilization, the solar system.

It was also the first time he saw the real sun with his own eyes.

Not the star that is customarily called "the sun", but the real sun.

The orange-red light ball fell towards the horizon little by little, and the dim light spread on the ground.The setting sun in the evening brings a sense of tranquility.It's as if, no matter how long people have left the earth and entered the universe, the sun has always risen and set in place, waiting for people who don't know when they come back by chance.

Jiang Ge stretched out his hand, letting the sunlight fall on his palm.

It was so warm that it made people trance.

"Young man, what are you doing sitting on it? Come down quickly, that thing is not strong and it will collapse." When Jiang Ge watched the sun go down, there was an extremely long-echoing gong sound, and someone on the ground pointed towards the sun. He shouted at the top of his voice.

Jiang Ge lowered his head and saw an old man standing on the ground with his head up, his white hair messed up by the wind.

Seeing him bow his head, the old man beat the gong and drum again.

"Hurry up, come down."

Jiang Ge responded, and in the voice of the old man "Ouch", he jumped straight down from the high iron frame.The old man complained one after another, "You young people don't want to die, right?" He rushed forward to take clothes for him, and told him to go with him quickly. It was getting dark, and he had to leave these abandoned factories quickly.

"I know you young people can't stay in this kind of place, but there's no need to be so impatient."

The old man led him through the abandoned factory, beating the gong as he walked, and complaining incessantly.

Jiang Ge listened quietly, occasionally answering once or twice.

Amid the old man's complaints, Jiang Ge understood his identity in this rebirth.

He is an astronaut. When he traveled through a strange space node, he accidentally returned to the original starting point of human beings, the solar system.The spacecraft was damaged during an emergency landing on Venus.Astronauts had to live on Venus.

The old man's surname is Liu, and others call him Old Man Liu.

As the old man Liu walked through the ruins, he kept beating the gong with a strong penetrating sound, and some people came out of the ruins one after another.There are no young people, just old people.

Venus is an energy-drained, abandoned planet.There are damaged original artificial satellites piled up in the inverted place, and there are traces of excavation everywhere.The most primitive and least utilized equipment is all over the place.Not many people live on it anymore, and there is no hydroelectric system—the last working generator broke down years ago.

Long after entering the interstellar era, human beings have stepped out of the universe for the first time, but they are living a life like an abandoned civilization.

Deserted, backward.

During the day, people would go to the abandoned mine lode factory to pick up some usable things, such as one or two unused batteries, some leftovers, sporadic coal, and a few barrels of gasoline.Then when it was almost evening, old man Liu would beat gongs and drums in the ruins to remind others that it was getting dark and it was time to go back.

Then everyone walked back to the place where they lived together.

Jiang Ge woke up in the abandoned factory because the astronaut was trying to find something that could be used to repair the spacecraft in these garbage dumps.No wonder old man Liu felt that this kid might be out of his mind when he saw him sitting on the iron frame.

Jiang Ge followed the nagging old man Liu back to the residence.

The settlement is fairly neat, with smooth roads and street lights beside the road, although they cannot be turned on.

Jiang Ge is not that unlucky astronaut, and it doesn't matter where he is.Not day and night thinking about fixing the spaceship and leaving.Old man Liu packed a room for him, and advised him not to sleep on his spaceship because the wilderness is dangerous at night.

Jiang Ge replied "Yes".

The people in the settlements lived the life of the ancient civilization, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.Anyway, the black light can't do anything.

One night, old man Liu fell off his leg while walking in the dark after getting out of bed.Old man Liu lay on the bed humming, and entrusted the gong to Jiang Ge, asking him to help him beat the gong to lead the way in the evening for a few days.

Jiang Ge took the gong, looked at it a few times, turned around and threw the gong into the room after going out.

In the evening, old man Liu was worried, and went out with a stick to see if Jiang Ge remembered.As a result, standing at the door, old man Liu was stunned.I saw the residential area was bright, and the street lamps beside the road were shining for a long time.

Jiang Ge wiped off the dirt on his hands, stood under the street lamp, and looked up at old man Liu.

"Aren't you afraid of falling again?"

"What did you kid do?"

Old man Liu opened his mouth and looked at the street lights.

"The generator has been repaired, and the gong is beating every day. It's not annoying, but I'm tired of hearing it." Jiang Ge threw away the cloth casually, understating it.

Old man Liu opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.

It took a whole day for Jiang Ge to dismantle the spaceship's equipment, use it to repair the generator, and even modified it.Later, Jiang Gelu found some useful things one after another, and tinkered with a solar generator for these old guys.

It was on Venus that Jiang Ge watched the last puppet show in the universe.

Among the group of elderly people staying on Venus, several are the descendants of the inheritors of Earth's "intangible cultural heritage".Old man Liu with a gong is also one of them.That night, these old guys tidied up a small stage in an open space, and lit candles that were usually unusable.

Old man Liu changed into a Tang suit that was said to be from the bottom of his ancestral press box, played with his guy, and smiled at Jiang Ge: "Boy, I will let you open your eyes today."

Jiang Ge found a stone stool and sat down, among a group of old men shouting "rare".Hearing Old Man Liu's words, Jiang Ge raised his head and smiled.

When the gongs and drums beat, the red curtain opened.

The play begins.

There is a hollow carved screen, and an old man sits on the cage behind the screen. In the lively opening, he manipulates several puppets, and the puppets with three carvings and seven paintings come alive.Amidst the sound of gongs, drums and suona, exquisite puppets staged a love-hate relationship between ancient beauties on the stage, and the cloudy eyes of the old people outside the play were imprinted with the light of candles.

"Lang Jun, please listen to me..." An old man sang the words of the young woman in the thin sound of the flute through the words of the old man Liu, "All the right and wrong are just the next one ordered by Lu Weng. Huangliang Nankemeng..."

The puppet on the stage draws the silk as a thread, performing a parting of life and death. The young people in the audience listen to the old man singing "Huang Liang Yi Meng", look up and almost cry.

He changed Venus, but to no avail.

In the next reincarnation, the world will still restart, and the old man beating the gongs and drums will still have to live in the dark with candles.On the wasteland planet, there will be no generators he has modified, and the roadside lights will not be turned on, and the place will still be barren.

His efforts are pointless.

He is just a drop of water, when it falls, it disappears without a trace.He once thought that he could change the world, but in fact, after restarting, the world has not changed at all.

Bad, flawed, never fixed.

"Some people, after realizing that they are puppets, want to cut off the thread that controls them."

Jiang Ge slowly said to Ya Jiu, but he actually said it to himself.

If you want to turn him into a puppet... that's a god, and he will kill you for you!