Planetary Museum

"anyone there?"

Wu Xiaoqing knocked on the door.

No one answered, probably scared away by Wu Xiaoqing's outfit.

Although the news I heard before said that entering the eastern mountain range would be deserted, it was not.

The so-called desolation is just that there are no nobles wearing armor and riding horses, but there are actually many free people everywhere.

These people do not belong to any country or lord, and naturally they do not have any military protection.So every time Wu Xiaoqing meets these people, they all hide away from Wu Xiaoqing.

At the beginning, Wu Xiaoqing didn't really want to deal with these people, and kept a distance from each other. For Wu Xiaoqing, it was more secure in terms of safety.

But eventually he couldn't take it anymore.

It's not just him, Jing Ding, his horse can't stand it anymore.

On TV, Wu Xiaoqing was always envious of those ancient chivalrous knights, but when it really made him start to ride the dust freely, he knew that it was really uncomfortable.

Although modern saddles were brought in, after riding a horse for a day, the two legs would basically not stand up.When I took off my pants, I saw blood blisters all over the inner thighs.Jingding was also uncomfortable. After leaving the barracks, it ran for three days in a row, a 150-kilometer long-distance run every day, with only a few short rests in between, and the feed that Wu Xiaoqing brought was almost eaten. Horses need rest and supplies.

At this time, Wu Xiaoqing discovered a small settlement of thatched huts. Around the house, Wu Xiaoqing also found some freshly planted farmland, which should be owned by someone. When he came in just now, he saw the smoke from cooking in the settlement. .

Wu Xiaoqing was helpless, took out the loudspeaker, asked the search and rescue team to explain the situation for him, declared that he was only here to buy something to eat, and promised to pay.

After the statement was completed, Wu Xiaoqing tied the horse under the shade of a tree, and then sat and waited.

It's very hot here at noon, and people can't stay outside at all. The two suns are shining in the sky, and soon those who hide can't stand it anymore. An old man took the lead and walked out, carefully paying attention to Wu Xiaoqing's sword, He begged him: "Sir, we really don't have any extra food. You see, all we eat now is this. I really dare not take it out for you to see."

After finishing speaking, the old man took out a handful of black things from his dirty robe.Wu Xiaoqing took a look, and his whole face wrinkled.He has seen this thing several times before, it is the daily food of the poor in this era, black bread.

However, don't think that black bread is black bread. Even when Wu Xiaoqing saw it for the first time, he imagined it was chocolate-flavored bread.Theoretically, the raw materials of black bread in this era are wheat and bran, but in fact, the poor put everything, sawdust, bark, leaves, and even mud...anything they think can fill their stomachs, they will be doing it When making bread, grind it into flour and mix it in.

Because cooking requires a lot of firewood, this kind of bread is only made once a week, or even a month in winter. In short, the purpose is to make enough bread at a time, and then eat it bit by bit.In an era when there were no refrigerators, no preservatives, and the sanitation was so bad, the appearance of those breads was often quite horrible, moldy, and worms were common, and some poor people even believed that the worms that grew would help increase the bread’s health. Flavor - at least a little more meat is not.

The piece of bread that Wu Xiaoqing saw in front of him was such a standard "medieval poor man's hamburger".

The surface of the bread was already moldy. I tried it with a knife, and it was as hard as a brick. The military dagger he brought didn't even cut it.After cutting it hard, you can clearly see that there are a lot of rich fillings in the bread, which looks like a mixture of bark fibers and leaves. It is really a pure natural organic green food.

Smell it carefully, and the whole bread has a very unpleasant sour smell.Wu Xiaoqing didn't dare to continue probing, and waved his hand to let these people take the things down.

He originally wanted to buy some meat and make a barbecue or something for a change, but now that the economic situation of these families is in view, it may not be possible.Compressed biscuits and self-heating rice are not delicious, but compared to these things... Wu Xiaoqing dares to bet that these poor people's fantasy kings may not be able to eat compressed biscuits.

"Then... help me get some water. Is there any clean water in your village? I want to take a bath."

At this time, a child came over curiously, looked at Wu Xiaoqing and his horse, and after listening to the search and rescue team talk about taking a bath, he asked his grandfather: "Grandpa, what is a bath?"

The old man had never heard of this word from the upper class, but he probably understood the meaning of the word, and replied to his grandson: "It means that people are soaked in water."

The child looked at Wu Xiaoqing with sympathetic eyes: "Why do you want to soak people in the water?"

The grandfather quietly pulled his grandson away, and told him in a low voice: "It may be because of an injury, and the wound needs to be cleaned."

Then the old man called out several middle-aged people from the house one after another, and assigned them to carry water and harvest hay to feed the horses.Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted to ask them if they had beans or eggs to add some nutrition to the horses, but now he had to give up - no one had anything to eat, and the horses would be happy if they had some grass to eat.

I haven't showered for four or five days, and there are two suns during the day here, and the highest temperature often exceeds 40 degrees. Wu Xiaoqing needs to avoid rest at the hottest time, and can't hurry.Wu Xiaoqing felt that his whole body was like that piece of black bread, almost fermenting a sour smell.When the water arrived, he almost couldn't wait to take off his clothes and jumped into the water.Of course, he hasn't forgotten to keep his pistol in his hand, so as to prevent those people from approaching and stealing things.

Fortunately, the people here seem to be relatively simple, and Wu Xiaoqing is right in front of their house, and the monks can't escape the temple if they run away, so they didn't make any dangerous moves.When Wu Xiaoqing was taking a bath, each of these people poured himself a bowl of water, and shared the big piece of black bread together.

Wu Xiaoqing saw the process of them eating bread, which was an eye-opener.

First, use a piece of stone as a knife, and hit the bread hard, as hard as rammed earth.As if instead of bread they ate a brick.Then carefully collect the small pieces and debris that were smashed out, little by little, and carefully sprinkle them in the bowl of water.Then repeat this process until the bowl of water in front of you has soaked enough bread crumbs and is thick enough to look like a bowl of porridge.

The old man carefully thought out everyone's rice bowl, and made sure that everyone got the right portion. Some of the portion was too large, and he had to carefully scoop out some with a wooden spoon and distribute it to those who had less.After distributing, in the eyes of everyone, the old man carefully took out a wooden jar from his clothes, then stuck in with two fingers, and carefully sprinkled some off-white powder into each bowl of the contents in the wooden jar.

The search and rescue team analyzed it, and it should be salt.

Then everyone ate happily.The bowl that the little grandson got didn't seem to be spoiled yet. He took a few mouthfuls and suddenly called out to his grandpa, "Grandpa, I lost my tooth."

It is true that a tooth was lost, but it is not known whether it was knocked off by bread or because of a replacement tooth.Grandpa carefully added some water to his grandson, and told him to eat it after soaking.

But the grandson seemed to be unable to wait any longer. He stared at the other people gulping down the porridge, swallowing saliva in his throat.But he didn't dare to disobey his grandfather's order to eat his porridge first.

Wu Xiaoqing couldn't stand it anymore, and threw a bag of chocolates to the child: "Let him eat this."

The child looked at the beautiful packaging hesitantly, and confirmed that it seemed to be a precious thing, and he would hand it over to his grandpa. Grandpa had never seen such a thing before, and he had nowhere to start with the beautiful plastic packaging—he would never think of it Such a beautiful package is meant to be torn open.

After Wu Xiao took a shower and got dressed, they still didn't dare to open the bag of chocolates.

Wu Xiaoqing came over directly, tore it open, broke off a piece and ate it first, then broke off a large piece and stuffed it into the child's mouth.

The child's eyes were wrinkled at first because of the strange bitter taste.But soon the brows and eyes were relaxed, and after the chocolate completely melted in his mouth, he had already closed his eyes, his throat didn't move, and he deliberately didn't swallow—as if he wanted to try his best to keep the taste in his mouth.

Wu Xiaoqing told the search and rescue team: "If the volcano erupts, the people here...will die."

"The probability of death is 99.4%, and the probability of survival still exists, but it is negligible." The search and rescue team said, "This place is too close to the volcano."

Only less than three days away, two to three hundred kilometers.If everything was okay here, there shouldn't be a red alert, or even an alert.

"Or, tell them first and let them run first."

"They won't believe it, and they have nowhere to escape. These people are refugees who escaped from the feudal system. Do you expect them to escape back?"

"Life is a matter of life and death, we can only do our best," said the search and rescue team. "The faster we move now, the sooner we determine the outbreak time and rescue plan, the more hope of people here will be saved."