Planetary Museum

The official meeting with the First Earth Government was scheduled for the next morning.

In fact, for the dwarf civilization, they are far less sensitive to the changes in the morning and evening of the day than the people on the earth. In the language of the earth, hundreds of words about each time of the day can be written, early morning, early morning , morning...noon, noon, afternoon...afternoon, evening, evening...night, late night, midnight...

But in dwarf civilization, there are only two definitions of the time of day-hot time and cold time.When it is hot, it represents the state of the ground after the sun comes out, and when it is cold, it represents the state of the ground before the sun comes out.Because their state of civilization is not as overly dependent on sunlight as the civilization of the earth, and even in the history of their civilization development, they have not gone through a serious agricultural era... It is not difficult to understand, if human beings are only the size of ants, then there is still a need for farming. What, killing a mouse by hunting can feed a colony of ants for days...

Those who participated in this meeting were Shen Changwen and Xu Yan, who were also the candidates that had been decided at the beginning. Because of the huge uncertainty of Civilization A, Wu Xiaoqing needed to be on standby at all times.

Both of them logged in to the account provided by the other party more than an hour earlier.

The pre-booked meeting place is located in the central square of a huge underground city. After Shen Changwen and Xu Yan logged in to their accounts, the two met in the virtual world first, and then headed towards the pre-booked target area together.In the underground city of the dwarven civilization, the main means of transportation is to rely on a large number of elevators and subways. The subway is responsible for the plane movement at the same depth level, and the elevator is responsible for the transition between different depths.

Although it is a virtual world, Second Earth is almost equivalent to a complete independent country, which has its own unique laws, systems, and corresponding currency systems.Although the essence of "producing" things in the virtual world is to use algorithms to maintain the physical properties and optical state of something, the cost is very low, but in order to maintain a certain political status on the second earth, the prices here are basically no higher than those in reality. Where is the "first earth" in the book?Just like taking the subway, you need to spend money.

In the Second Earth, in fact, taking the subway itself is no longer a form of transportation, because there are free automatic vehicles everywhere on the roads between cities. Get it where you want it—and at no cost.Shen Changwen soon realized that for the dwarven civilization, taking the subway felt like they went to a tourist area to experience being a horse, and it was already a nostalgic travel experience.

Shen Changwen and Xu Yan actually still have a little money, which comes from a small part of it that was given away for free when the government of Second Earth gave them their accounts.On the contrary, as people from the earth age, they are still not quite used to the "autonomous vehicles" speeding on the road.

There were very few people on the subway. After Shen Changwen sat down, he reported safety to Wu Xiaoqing who was watching them outside the game, and then prepared to take a rest in the car to welcome the upcoming official ceremony.In comparison, Xu Yan was not so serious. He looked around in the car curiously - because of the size, the subway of the dwarf civilization is much more spacious than the earth.The subway on the earth feels like a long steel can, but here, almost every subway workshop is like a luxurious hotel, not only luxuriously decorated, spacious, but also provides a variety of entertainment and food services .

It's just a pity that they all only have the taste system of the earthlings - and according to the search and rescue team, because of the subtle differences in the brain structure of human and dwarf civilizations, it is difficult for the games specially developed for dwarves to present their profound food culture like the earthlings of.

"New here?" Xu Yan turned his head in the direction of the voice, and saw two people looking at him, who seemed to be greeting him, "Is this the first time you see this kind of antique train?"

Xu Yan didn't have the right to speak in this world. According to the requirements of the search and rescue team, he just brought his eyes and ears, but his mouth belonged to the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing.At this time, the search and rescue team answered the question for him: "Yes, for the first time, not many people seem to be interested in it."

"Nostalgia is a sign of aging, and it's not worth advocating," the two men nodded, "Come over, let's have a drink together."

Xu Yan walked over in embarrassment, because it was the face of an alien, he tried his best to keep no expression on his face - because any expression made according to human habits may be wrong.He gently pushed away the drink that the other party handed over, and the search and rescue team really helped him find a topic at this time, so Xu Yan pointed to the package that the other party was carrying and asked, "What are you holding?"

"gun."

"Gun?" Both the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing checked again through the language database, and confirmed that in the dwarven civilization, the word gun is highly consistent with the meaning on Earth, referring to some kind of lethal weapon.

The man thought that Xu Yan didn't know the concept of a gun at all, so he opened the package and took out something with a metallic texture.But the shape of the guns on the earth is very different. The guns in their hands look more like a telescope. Instead, a long barrel lens is the main part. Other features of the guns on the earth, such as the barrel and the trigger class, but did not see it at all.

"It's an ancient weapon," said the man, putting on another helmet and connecting the telescope to the helmet, "just like in the movie, you aim at your target, and then tap the helmet lightly Press the button on it to fire the projectile at the target."

"Is that part of the nostalgia?"

"Maybe." There was an expression on the other party's face that they couldn't understand, but it was a common expression for dwarf civilization. The search and rescue team interpreted this expression as mysterious and dark in words, "Are you also going to the Grand Square? "

"Yes," the large square the other party mentioned is actually the location of the public meeting. "Go and watch our first consul! And the giant civilization he invited!"

Even Xu Yan could hear the maliciousness in the other party's words, and he was a little afraid to continue chatting with the other party, because the other party was sitting in front of him with a gun at this moment.Now Xu Yan can roughly understand some of Wu Xiaoqing's state of mind when he was performing the mission, but this is not the real world, they have already understood it beforehand-in the virtual world, even if you are injured, the pain is just simulated, and Slightly—hardly more than pinching flesh with your fingers.

The search and rescue team was obviously more curious about the purpose of these people: "But in the second earth... What's the point of shooting the other side with a gun? You can't really kill each other."

"Even in the first world, we can't really kill each other," the man said again with that unique weird expression, "Even if the laser is used to melt the brain of the consul into gas... medical experts can also kill each other." way to fix it.”

"any solution?"

"Consciousness reconstruction, haven't you heard of it?" The other party shook his head, obviously hating Xu Yan's ignorance, "The upper echelons of the government have secretly used it, but they have imposed many restrictions on civilian technology..."

Their conversation attracted Shen Changwen, and he took the initiative to ask another question: "Then what's the point of your shooting?"

"Of course it is to obstruct this ridiculous meeting," the man's companion took over the conversation and said, "If the aliens provide the government with any better technology, the entire AI will be defeated, and then there will still be room for us citizens land?"

Shen Changwen and Xu Yan glanced at each other, then returned to their seats silently.

The subway stopped several times at the middle station one after another, and the number of people on the train gradually increased. Shen Changwen and Xu Yan noticed that many of the people who came in later had the same clothes as the two people before. package.Obviously, this kind of attack should be some kind of organized group activity.

When the subway stopped at the Grand Square Station, the other people in the car almost swarmed out. Shen Changwen and Xu Yan walked at the end of the line, but after they got out of the car door, they realized that everyone who had just walked out A line began to line up outside again, and almost all the weapons these people carried were seized and put aside by a group of people in black uniforms.There are words on the back of those people's uniforms, which are easy to understand when translated-police.

Obviously, these police officers had received orders in advance, and conducted strict checks on all people who came out of the subway. Many people with guns were forced to hand over their weapons, and at the same time, they all shouted angrily: "Where is this place?" The second earth or the first earth? Let alone a gun, even if you bring a gun, it is legal here!"

"Second Earth has now entered a state of martial law, and the freedom to carry weapons does not exist, at least not in this city," the policeman said while waving his hands, letting those who had been inspected pass through as quickly as possible, "It's almost as fast as possible." Go, don't dawdle."

When it was Shen Changwen and Xu Yan's turn, Shen Changwen noticed that after scanning their facial information and confirming their identities, all the policemen around suddenly focused their eyes.Soon after, a special vehicle that can maintain suspension on the ground came over, and the policeman who led the team got into the back of their seats after inviting them in.

"Welcome to the Second Earth," the policeman obviously didn't know that Shen Changwen and the others had been here before. According to the official announcement, they came here for the first time. "I will take you to the venue now."

The car is not a maglev vehicle, it is an air cushion vehicle... The first thing Shen Changwen cared about after getting in the car was technical issues.The speed of the car was very fast, faster than the vehicles driving around them. Obviously, in order to facilitate their progress, the road ahead of them was briefly cleared.Xu Yan pressed his face against the car window, looking in surprise on both sides of the road outside, the sudden, almost endless crowd of people... and the bright slogans and slogans in the crowd.

"Evil dinosaurs, go back to your planet!"

"The Federation cannot represent us!"

"Carbon-based organisms are destined to be eliminated!"

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They have seen the content of these slogans and slogans before, and they have already prepared for things in the subway, which did not surprise them. The only thing worth noting is that the words in all these slogans are all It is all Chinese characters——Theoretically, these Chinese characters were only provided to the government of the First Earth before, and the other party also made a promise. Before the official meeting, the information in the character library was kept as a high degree of confidentiality.

But judging from the current situation, it is clear that the reliability of the First Earth government is much lower than imagined-you know, it is a time of war.To fight a war in such a state... Although Shen Changwen still doesn't know the details of this war, he, Wu Xiaoqing and the search and rescue team have already reached a conclusion-it seems that this dwarf civilization is really a pill. .