After billions of reincarnations

"Who hasn't stumbled a few times when he was young, and crying is not a shameful thing." Holding a gong in one hand, old man Liu was beating the gong while talking about Jiang Ge beside him, "But To be alive, that's all, you young lads one by one..."

Jiang Ge followed old man Liu and followed him slowly.

Old man Liu babbled on, and he didn't refute, but just listened, looking like a young man with a good temper.

The wind mixed with the smell of rust and minerals blew over with coolness. The young man put his hands in his pockets and raised his head, watching the dim yellow setting sun filling between the sky and the earth, interlacing long shadows indirectly.The old man walked in front of him carrying an old gong, and his crooked figure was like an old silhouette.

Surrounding the young and the old are steel equipment as tall as mountains, huge iron towers, horizontal lever arms, and falling anchors... The old and the young walk through these ruins, and there is a relatively flat area outside the abandoned mine pit. go.

With the sound of the old man's gong, Jiang Ge watched as old men came out of the ruins one after another.

"Old man Liu, the gong wasn't knocked hard enough today."

The old lady carrying the half-full woven bag greeted Old Liu, teasingly.The old lady looked about the same age as old man Liu, and her old bones were also dried out by the wind of this waste planet.

The old lady could tell that she was a beauty when she was young, even if she stayed in this kind of place when she was old, she still paid more attention to her own image than other people.A head of silver hair that has obviously been styled with great effort, and is pinned back with a clip made of polished iron wire.

Old man Liu took a sip: "Old man, I knock like this every day 360 days a year, why are your ears so sensitive today?"

"Yo, why don't you tell me if you can't beat it yourself?"

The old lady's articulation is not forgiving, so she laughed.Her eyes swept over Jiang Ge who was following Old Man Liu.

"Young man, don't learn from this kind of stubborn guy."

Jiang Ge smiled, and didn't answer the old lady's ridicule. He walked up from behind old man Liu, reached out and took the woven bag from the old lady's hand: "Let me carry it for you."

The old lady tucked a strand of messy hair back behind her ear, looked at Jiang Ge, and saw that the original melancholy in the young man's eyes was less.

The young man landed on Venus half a month ago in a spaceship accident.

It was also the first time in 13 years that there were foreign visitors on Venus.

There are no young people living in their colony on Venus. Thirteen years ago, after the last space port on Venus was damaged, Venus completely became a lonely old planet in the universe.After these old bones are also buried in the soil, there will probably be no one left.

No one would want to live on such a planet except the very old.

The young man who landed on Venus after the spaceship accident had been withdrawn, depressed, and rarely talked to others in the previous half month.

This is the first time that young people have taken the initiative to speak to them.

The old people who had always been worried about whether the young man would be overwhelmed by the situation breathed a sigh of relief, and a little smile appeared on their faces.

When the last ray of the setting sun was shining on the thick iron, Jiang Ge followed the long-lost old people back to the residence.

"Don't hide on your hard-shell spaceship at night, it's all iron bumps, no one will steal it. And there are still beasts in the wasteland tonight..."

Jiang Ge looked at the old houses that were not too high and not too low. Under the purple night, the windows of the old houses were pitch black.The old people returned to their houses with the harvest they found in the abandoned mine during the day.The darkness of the old house engulfs the dry old people.

Jiang Ge knew that although the old people had picked up some supplies from the mine, they had to use them for cooking, and because the quantity was too small, they were reluctant to light the fire at night.

He was fascinated by the black silhouetted houses.Seeing him standing still, the old Liu who was at the side thought that the young man was going to go back to the spaceship stubbornly, so he tried to persuade him immediately.

"How can it be."

Jiang Ge came back to his senses, and took the not-so-light gong from Old Liu's hand.

"Old man, you don't want a house with free rent. Wouldn't you be ashamed of yourself if you don't rubbish?"

His tone was a little brisk, and he made a joke.

"What a fart if you don't charge rent, come pick up coal with me tomorrow morning."

Seeing that he didn't give in, old man Liu felt relieved, snorted, and led him towards an old house on the left side of the road.

These old houses were the dormitory buildings built for the employees when the Venus Mine was mined.However, with the passing of the generations, the old and the dead, these neat dormitory buildings have few people living in them.

Old man Liu had already packed out a room, and it seemed that he was already worried about Jiang Ge who was sleeping in the wilderness.But the space explorer who hadn't been reborn at that time didn't accept the old man's kindness.

Old man Liu fumbled in the dark, regardless of Jiang Ge's refusal, found a jar from his cabinet, opened the lid, and gave Jiang Ge some dried fruit.The dried fruit should have been dried by Old Liu Tou himself. While putting the jar back to its original place, he muttered that it was too dark to cook other meals for him. If he was hungry, he would eat some dried fruit first. Bar.

After receiving the dried fruit, old man Liu went back to his house and went to sleep.

Jiang Ge closed the door and sat on the bed that smelled of decay.

He lowered his head, and gently fiddled with the dried fruits that Old Man Liu had just stuffed into his palm with his fingers.Pick one up and put it in your mouth. The fruit is actually a small tomato that is easy to grow.There is a lot of wasteland on the wasteland planet, but the land is barren. It is good enough to grow enough food for the old people, and the remaining vegetables and fruits are very precious.

The small tomatoes may have been dried for a long time, and the taste is not very good.

Sitting in the dark, Jiang Ge ate the stale dried tomatoes one by one.

There is no lamp, no light, and in the interstellar era, the planet that recovers from sunrise to sunset is quiet and cold at night.In the night wind, Jiang Ge flicked his wrist, and the dagger mined from the Arz mine appeared in his hand.

It seems that a delicate relationship has been established between Jiang Ge and the dagger that Jiang Ge held before he died.This relationship is directly established in the soul, and Jiang Ge can vaguely feel some subtle information of the dagger itself.

Jiang Ge lowered his head, groping along the lines on the knife.

On the upper half of the blade, a word is engraved in an ancient, lost script.

"greedy".

One of the seven original sins mentioned in ancient religions, greed.

Jiang Ge flicked the blade with his fingers.

The dagger made a slight, air-splitting hum.

Jiang Ge hooked the corners of his lips.

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"Young man, get up. If you don't get up, you won't have food."

Early the next morning, old man Liu got up early, shouted, and pushed open the door of the room that Jiang Ge had packed up.

The sunlight shone through the window into the room, and the quilt was neatly folded and placed squarely inside.The room was empty and empty.

"what?"

Old man Liu looked into the kitchen again, but there was no one there.

"Couldn't this brat run back early in the morning to see his iron bumps?" Old man Liu muttered to himself.

"Old man, that's called a spaceship, not an iron lump."

With a teasing voice sounded.

Old man Liu looked back, and the young man opened the door and walked in.

"Early in the morning, where did you go?"

"Pay the rent early." Jiang Ge said lazily, with a bit of carelessness.As he spoke, he raised his hand to show old man Liu what he was carrying.

I saw Jiang Ge holding a mammal with black fur in his hand.Looks like a small cheetah or something.Seeing that thing, old man Liu's face changed, and he hurriedly scolded him for running to the wilderness to catch wild animals in a good manner. Did he die? There are no doctors in this place.

Listening to old man Liu scolding, Jiang Ge leaned against the door frame.

He is familiar with the situation on Venus.

With the migration of the population, the ecology of Venus tends to return to the desert ecology.Affected by the radiation of various waste energies, there are indeed many large beasts in the wilderness, but they usually come out at night, and they will not be too close to the mines and dormitory buildings - because there are too few prey here.

After Jiang Ge figured out the general situation, he spent several days walking around the residential area, killing all those with claws and fangs.

He knew roughly where the beasts that threatened the old people were generally distributed.

Old man Liu scolded, nagging and telling him which is dangerous and which is not allowed to go.Old man Liu was thinking, maybe this young man picked up such a wild beast by mistake. Looking at his thin body, he didn't look like he could punch a beast and kick a dragon.

After listening to Old Man Liu's rant, Jiang Ge straightened up.

"Where to put it?"

Jiang Ge handed the beast to old man Liu.

Seeing his carelessness, old man Liu cursed again angrily.After taking the beast, I thought about marinating it for him, eating it slowly, young people don't know what it means to cherish.

It would take a lot of time to skin the beast and clean it. Old man Liu planned not to go to the wilderness to pick things up today, but to help this bastard who didn't know the value of meat get rid of the beast.

"Old man."

Jiang Ge sorted out the tools Old Man Liu usually used to pick up waste, and then stood in front of the kitchen door, watching Old Man Liu pick up salt.

"I forgot to say, this stuff can't be pickled. Affected by the mining area, people can't die if they eat meat, but once it reacts with salt, it can only be thrown into the trash."

"real or fake?"

Old man Liu stopped taking the salt.

Jiang Ge reported a lot of chemical formulas.

"Let's make a big pot of soup. Everyone will share."

Jiang Ge said before going out.