Planetary Museum

Fifty days until the eruption.

Professor Shen arrived at the place today, and their journey was relatively peaceful, because the Kingdom of Elis has not yet officially stated its position, so their team did not encounter much obstruction in the process of going south.After driving for nine days, he returned to the cave where the teleportation point was located.

"I heard from the search and rescue team that you are listening now, and there are now more than 3 people?"

"I'm afraid it's almost [-]." When Wu Xiaoqing was speaking, he was standing on the watchtower above the city gate. Under his feet, a huge flow of people was pouring into the city gate from outside the city. Through the telescope, he could clearly see I can see that more people are appearing on the horizon and converging into this stream of people, "faster than we imagined."

It has only been more than a week since the opening of the bakery in the city. Wu Xiaoqing originally thought that in this medieval era, the speed of news spread was very slow, and it would take at least half a month for them to distribute cakes. .But it turns out that in this era when the vast majority of people can’t get enough to eat, it’s unimaginable that there is a place where you can eat cakes for free. The attraction to the vast majority of people is unimaginable.

"Professor Shen, don't bring marbles this time. We brought too many marbles last time, and the merchants didn't recognize them," Wu Xiaoqing said. "Pearls are useless, just mirrors, lighters... um, And medicine, these things are very expensive."

"Understood, these search and rescue teams have already said it," Shen Changwen said, "do you personally need to bring anything else? We brought a lot of horses this time, so we can transport more."

"Wait, I'll ask them."

Wu Xiaoqing turned on the walkie-talkie: "Professor Shen has arrived at the teleportation point, do you want to bring anything? Xu Yan, Wang Youquan?"

Xu Yan quickly answered: "Bring more hand generators, we don't have enough electricity."

Wang Youquan: "Give my salary to my wife and ask her to bring me some tea."

Wu Xiaoqing conveyed these needs, and finally he asked with some uncertainty: "Are we going to go to war when you come back?"

"That's what it means," Shen Changwen said, "but we don't need to go to the battlefield, there is no danger."

"Do you still want to buy weapons?" Wu Xiaoqing heard the search and rescue team mention this, but he didn't elaborate at that time. "Are you buying machine guns?"

"No..." Shen Changwen said, "It's not suitable for us to buy, just buy some explosives, don't worry, the search and rescue team has already said that this Elis guards can be regarded as a strong army in this era , field battles are not afraid of anyone at all."

"Strong ghost." Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help complaining. When he was chatting with the king, he was curious about how powerful the king's guards were, but when Xu Yan really went to get close to these so-called "Elite", brought back the recording, and after Wu Xiaoqing listened to it, he was completely speechless about the concept of "elite" in this era.

The so-called elite, these troops do not have a mature command system at all. On the battlefield, the officer orders the trumpeter to blow the horn, and everyone rushes - and then it depends on God.

The so-called elite, only the most core, less than 1000 people have horses and swords, and a considerable part of them usually farm around the city of Elis. — These people are often the main force on the battlefield.

The so-called elite, when Wu Xiaoqing gave everyone eggs for the first time, these comrades could even beat chickens and dogs for an egg, and the officer even held a stick at the side and couldn't stop the chaos.

In addition, in the entire army, deduction of military pay, drinking, gambling, prostitution, rape of comrades in arms-similar things are almost endless.Sometimes Wu Xiaoqing simply suspected that this group of people, let alone going to the battlefield to kill the enemy, would be considered God's blessing if they could avoid internal strife and be killed by their own people.Wu Xiaoqing really felt insecure if he was asked to put his life in the hands of these scumbags.It can even be said that in Wu Xiaoqing's eyes, these people are even more worrying than those primitive people before.

"I have inspected the armies of several other kingdoms. Really, Elis' guards are pretty good. Although they drink, gamble, prostitute, and occasionally participate in robbery and rape, at least they are genuine Most of the armies in this era have these bad habits, but they still dare not fight," Shen Changwen sighed, "Don't always think about how bad they are, after all, they are at the level of the Middle Ages. Yes Come on, ask the king if he wants to bring something, we have to coax this master."

"Ah, do you want to bring him something?"

"Of course," Shen Changwen said, "to put it mildly, this kind of king is an ancient tyrant. When you are in a good mood, you can give you everything. If you are in a bad mood, you can turn your back on him. We have to find a way to coax him gone."

"But he doesn't understand anything himself." Wu Xiaoqing scratched his head, "He just likes to eat...he can't bring the food...how about bringing him two packs of instant noodles? He has eaten it twice, I quite like it."

"Ask him, is Wang Youquan in the palace? Let him ask. Give the king the walkie-talkie and let him talk to the search and rescue team."

"Okay, wait a minute."

About 3 minutes later, the king's voice appeared on the intercom. When he heard the answer from the search and rescue team, he was a little surprised and at a loss. Although he knew the abilities of these envoys, they were thousands of miles away from people Speaking, this experience was also unimaginable for the king.

"Are you going to bring me a gift from the kingdom of heaven?" The king was so surprised that he couldn't believe it, "Just choose?"

"Yes, in this way, you don't need to rush to make a decision. I will make a list for you to choose from. Just let me know when you have chosen."

……

When the king of Elis couldn't sleep at night because he was so excited that he could choose a gift from heaven, the commoners of Elis were also experiencing the first great change in their life mode.

Running from the feudal era to the communist era, I am afraid that none of these people can fully express this experience.

But one thing is for sure, everyone, like their king, is too excited to sleep at night.

Fam is a foreigner who just came to Elis King City for two days. Today, he queued up four times and ate cookies four times. The feeling of these four cookies was sweeter than his life in the past 40 years. Everything is sweet.

Fam was a freeman who inherited the land his father left him and the lord his father left him.In the past 40 years of his life, most of the fragments are the history of struggle with wheat, beans and weeds.Because the land he was allotted does not depend on the river and does not have a well, so whenever summer comes, his harvest will be much worse than others, which leads to the fact that he can finally harvest and eat less Pitiful.

His father was once the poorest farmer in their village, and this glorious title was soon inherited by him.But he is not as lucky as his father, his father can afford a wife anyway, and he...

No, in fact, his life is better, at least in his life, his father will not be able to eat the cookies he eats now.

Fam still remembered the first time he saw the cookie drawing on the messenger who came to the village.

The golden color, the gentle heat, the slight bulge on the cake... Even the most beautiful woman in the village could not bring such a big impact to Fam like that picture.After confirming that the messenger said that everyone in Elis King City can now eat cookies for free, he resolutely abandoned his piece of land that could not feed himself, and brought the seeds to be planted in late summer. He took a quilt handed down from his ancestors and set off for the city of Elis alone.

At the beginning, Fam was still very apprehensive. He would always think that when he came to the city, he found out that it was a scam, and he couldn’t find a job, so he ended up starving to death in a dark corner of the city.But when he walked out of the village, out of the town, and stepped on the road leading to the king's city, all his feelings disappeared at once.

He saw the crowd, countless, like him, people who had nothing, gathered into a stream of people.Fam felt like a drop of water into the ocean...

Along the way, everyone was discussing the cookies. Some people in the crowd had actually eaten them. When they were describing the deliciousness of the cookies, Fam could feel his mouth salivating uncontrollably. Swallowing sounds can be heard in the throats of those around them.

When Fam finally reached Elis, he had been out of food for two days, and there were people in the crowd who had been hungry longer than him, but everyone's eyes were bright, especially when they lined up at the gate of the city for inspection. When the time came, they could directly smell the sweet fragrance coming from the city, and that fragrance was like an invisible rope, pulling the nerves of everyone in the team.

Checking, passing, queuing... As the line slowly moved towards the bakery, Fam still had a strong sense of unreality in his heart.It's that simple, you can eat cakes?Just standing here, doing nothing, can he eat bread?

This feeling lasted until he suddenly woke up when a hot pancake was stuffed into his hand.

In that split second, Fam felt like the whole world disappeared, and there were only three things left: the cramping in his stomach, the saliva in his mouth, and the pie in his hand.

The moment the soldiers lined up for them and blew their whistle, Fam looked at the people around him hesitantly. The long-term farming life in the countryside made him dare not rashly eat something that did not belong to him, even if it was something In his hands, there is still a subconscious worry.But when he found out that everyone around him started to open their mouths to eat, Fam only felt a blank in his head.

These three things in the Fam world naturally combine into a simple, yet most powerful chain of behavioral drives that completely overwhelm everything else.

Fam can hardly remember the rest, how to eat the pancakes, how to go back to continue queuing, he can’t remember at all... Suddenly all this is a sweet dream, now, only the strange fullness in his stomach Only then did he remind Fam that all this was reality.