MTL - Overturned Tower-v2 Chapter 30 Traveler Hua Mingshu
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In the mountains and fields in early autumn, the smoke-like heat has gradually dissipated.
If one looks down on the land from above, one can see the gray-white dry land that criss-crosses like scars one after another. There are no weeds, no wildflowers, and no trees. There are no houses built on it, not even animals.
Under the high autumn sun, they were shining with a cold silver-gray light. Like a pale corpse floating on the lake, illuminated by the moonlight.
It is also like salt particles precipitated from dead fish washed up by sea water.
It is the evidence of the great sin with which men once pierced the world with poisonous blades, and wounded each other... a mark seared and oiled with a malicious branding iron.
In addition to these deadly branded marks, the breath of human civilization is still permeating this wilderness.
Henrik is a lumberjack.
In today's era, lumberjack is a job that requires both technology and physical strength, and is highly dangerous. But Henry is different from other woodcutters... the ax he uses is not a stone axe, nor is it an ax spliced from metal fragments obtained from the ruins of old times.
Instead, through transactions with Sky Islanders, they obtained advanced tools created by "Sky Technology". Not only is it more durable, handy and strong, but it's also sharp enough.
Those empty islanders will graze their slaves on the ground, let them wear some strange metal utensils, and follow their orders to log and mine. This is just like the people on the ground go to graze those livestock.
Henrik doesn't know much about Sky Islanders.
They were always haughty—the chiefs of the slave herds, who always wore a heavy shell and didn't even show their faces. It is a kind of strong armor, which is also a kind of "protective clothing". According to the scholar old man in the village, when the radiation on the ground was relatively strong, they also had to put on this kind of thing when they went to search for things in the ruins.
Curse and radiation, those are two different invisible crises.
On the earth that has become "gray and white", there is always one of two kinds, or both. Including those ruins and relics with the most materials, these things are always entangled, like ghosts. Even the relics of the old times that adventurers tried their best and risked their lives to bring out of it may have been contaminated.
The curse cannot be prevented by any means, and the flesh and blood will deform for a period of time after contact-or grow tentacles, or have an extra eye, or crack wounds that cannot heal, and the eyes can see Things become strange, strange visual and auditory hallucinations and memory impairment.
Generally speaking, the curse will occur within half a day, and you will feel obvious physical discomfort before the attack. But because of this, curses are easier to detect. Before the curse officially begins to occur, it can be washed by the holy water of the priests.
It is said that the previous curse was much stronger, not only the onset was more rapid, but also it was not easy to disperse. But now the curse, like the radiation, has faded a lot.
As for radiation, it can only be isolated by protective clothing. Because the radiation dust accumulated in the body, the continuous damage to cells and even genes cannot be treated by the priests.
Just like old Newt in the neighboring village... Even if his wounds were healed by the priests in the village, his flesh would still fester, his skin would crack, pus would ooze from his body and emit a foul smell. Last month, there were not many wounds on his body, but his spirit became worse and worse, holding his stomach and screaming for pain every day. Shouting heart-piercingly, rolling on the ground, the wounds on his body were all split open, and there were streaks of blood on the ground.
The old man said that he had cancer. It should be stomach cancer, bowel cancer, liver cancer or pancreatic cancer.
The priest had no way to cure him, so he could only feed him a cup of sweet milk. Let him die in a drowsy sleep.
The old people in the village always say that there is no radiation on the ground now.
There are some more curses, but not many. Those Sky Islanders are so cautious that they don't even breathe the air on the ground while carrying oxygen tanks... They are really cowardly.
But according to Henrik, the radiation may not be gone. Those sky islanders are cleaner and prettier than them
And clever, they will wear such heavy protective clothing when they come down to the ground, which means that the radiation probably still exists. Old Newt's ability to get radiation sickness is an example.
As long as people on the ground get radiation sickness, it will definitely not be cured on the ground. Only Sky Island people can possibly save them.
But those sky islanders who are high above will not let any people on the ground fly to the sky island. Henrik has seen many leaders of the Sky Islanders pleading with them, wanting to smuggle to the Sky Island along the supply ship, but they were all sternly rejected. And those who sneaked into the boat were all executed in the end.
The people of Sky Island strictly control the circulation of materials, and Henryk was able to get this ax because his brother had entered the ruins before.
His brother didn't dare to go in too deep at that time, so he wandered around the door, and finally picked up a black crystal slab.
That should be some kind of electronic device. They studied it around and felt that it should be left by the adventurers who entered the ruins early.
The reason why the ruins become ruins is that the destruction is not complete enough. This thing looks very fragile. If it was in the ruins, it must have been destroyed together. It should be that when someone left or entered, it accidentally fell out, and then it stayed here without anyone noticing.
After staying in the radiation zone for so long, it has long been useless. But they were lucky...opened it up and got a decent battery out of it. At least it can be charged and discharged. They sold the battery to an old scholar in the village and exchanged their first calf for their family.
And the remaining slate, after Henrik wiped it clean, tried to sell it to a group of Sky Islanders.
Because his brother was felled by a fallen tree while logging, and his arm was broken and had to be amputated. Henryk originally wanted to replace the mechanical arm of the Sky Islander—he could see clearly that some slaves were also equipped with such expensive looking things. But I don't know if it's because the language has become different, and there is a barrier to communication between them... Or maybe he didn't pay enough, and they still don't want to give that thing to themselves.
It is obviously a part of a slave, so it should not be that the price is not enough. It can only be a communication problem. Henryk was very remorseful.
But in the end, he still got a very advanced and smooth axe. So Henrik quickly forgot the unpleasant things before.
After cutting down the tree and carefully pushing it down, Henryk was finally relieved.
He sat on the log, picked up the corner of his clothes and wiped his sweat. He took out a boiled corn from his bosom, peeled it, and prepared to have a hearty meal.
This is the time for them to harvest corn. But fresh corn tastes better than sun-dried corn. After this season, it is not so easy to eat fresh corn.
Usually, they can eat a lot. Tomatoes, corn, radishes, potatoes, beans, amaranth... relying on the exchange of crops with the surrounding villages, each year will be better than the previous year.
But in winter, it will become extra difficult.
Even if preparations are made every winter, many people will die. Some died of freezing, some died of starvation, and some died of fire, smoked by charcoal fire, houses blocked by snow, sick and dead... venturing out in winter is also the main cause of death. After the autumn harvest, those radiated beasts could not find food for a long time, and they would also become very manic. If there is a smell that accidentally leaks out, the Radiant Beast may break in directly through the wall.
They would stockpile firewood, seal the windows, and stay home to survive on their stockpiles of food. Radiation beasts in winter are extremely ferocious, and hunters are unwilling to catch them, and the **** smell is difficult to deal with—the water in the river will freeze to death in winter. If you want some meaty taste in your mouth, you have to rely on those smoked bacon sausages.
Those radiated beasts that roam outside to eat crops, farmers, loggers, and hunters may look ugly, twisted, and scary, but after being skinned, the meat inside is still edible. On weekdays, it is also a rare delicacy.
As for clean beef, they are definitely not willing to eat it... Milk is already an extremely expensive food, and beef can only be given to the elderly and pregnant women in most cases
, wounded and dying hunters, and the wisest children. The rest are sold to Sky Islanders in exchange for medicines, advanced tools and engineering parts they cannot produce, and some seeds that are very useful after breeding.
In late autumn, the labor force of the whole village will go out together, and even set up some traps with the surrounding villages to catch those radiation beasts that are a little bit intelligent but not smart enough.
Their meat is cured and smoked; their intestines are also taken out, washed, stuffed with blood and bits of offal, and hung out to dry. In winter, relying on the melted snow, taking out some air-dried meat and vegetables, and cooking a pot of hot soup, you can survive the wind and snow for a while longer.
The little electricity left in the village has to be used to ensure the low-temperature storage of the most precious medicines. There is no wind or water in their village, so the old scholar made a human-powered power generation device, relying on the children to ride their bicycles, they can also get a small amount of electricity. The extra electricity is generally used to keep babies warm or to ensure the safety of childbirth operations.
It's all about continuation.
If there is no "baby room", the infant mortality rate will at least double; without Madam Li's delivery and treatment, the probability of infection and death of pregnant women is not low. All adults respect these old people who have survived from the old times. Scholars, priests, old hunters... Almost as long as the old people who survived, they have more or less unique skills.
Young people will use a hanging bacon and a hanging sausage to give these old people who have no access to food, hoping that they can teach their children some knowledge. Old people don't hide their secrets, and even teach something for free. But as the number of old people who have experienced the war of annihilation is decreasing year by year, many inheritances are gradually being lost.
It is said that Sky Islanders lived on the ground before.
Later, after the war of annihilation, they got tired of the radiation and curse on the ground and went to the sky.
Occasionally, Henrik would also think.....is it really interesting to stay in the sky?
A floating island floating in the sky doesn't sound very big. Henrik had seen the island, it was a roundabout with two mountains. It can live in about seven or eight villages, and if it is denser, it can live in more than twenty. But then, there would be no place to raise cattle and sheep at all - so why would they buy cattle and sheep from the ground for a lot of money? In that case, why didn't they let the slaves keep cattle and sheep?
If you live in the sky, will you be stuck by the clouds when you walk on the road, and when the clouds leave the sky island and it rains, you will fall off the sky island? That's why I heard that when someone was fishing by the sea, they would also find some Sky Islanders who washed to the shore after drowning. Almost every one of them is a rich man with many advanced technologies on them.
Also, if we lived in the sky, wouldn't the sun get very hot? At night, it gets too cold again. One cold and one hot, maybe you will catch a cold. However, the medical technology in the sky is very advanced. They probably won't get sick. However, the books on their side seem to be very expensive. The old scholar wrote the engineering technology he mastered into a book and sold it for a very high price... directly exchanged for a pair of glasses and a box of antibiotics.
It is said that it is because they lack paper that can be used to make books, because they lack wood. Then maybe the sky island is bare, there is not even a tree-the evidence is that those sky islanders who are slaves will say that they are "so beautiful" when they see the bare ground.
It is said that before the war, there were not only hundreds of trees on that mountain. Instead, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of forests were destroyed by fire and artillery fire. But Henryk felt that maybe the old man was bragging too... If the world was really so beautiful before, why didn't they build another exactly like it on the empty island?
They could not chat with the "slaves" of the heavenly beings, but Henrik would listen in on their conversations. From their words, Henryk pieced together the appearance of an empty island:
They built the city with white marble, in which holy light shone, there were moving statues, and holy hymns echoed all the time. There are rivers leading to any place flowing on the ground, and the water in the rivers is clear and clean.
And Miss Mermaid swimming in the river, angels flying
in the sky. As long as anyone has an accident, the executive department will arrive as soon as possible. There was smoke everywhere—Henrik thought, it should be clouds—even at night it was not dark, and people tried their best to make others happy, and everything happened, as if they had wings, reported by the ladies of the press. Delivered immediately to everyone's bedside.
They can work even without arms and limbs. Even a person who has nothing good at it can sell himself for a good price.
—And, they still have "heroes".
What an aspirational existence that is!
Born from the depths of despair, save all beings from danger.
If there were heroes in this world, then he would have admired them as a child—the most inspiring thing is that anyone can become a hero.
Can I be like that too?
That's probably impossible, Henrik thought. Because he is not from Sky Island. He couldn't even understand the words they were talking about—some nouns, he couldn't understand what they meant at all. Henrik deeply realized that although they had only been separated for a hundred years, their languages were completely different. But at this moment, Henryk suddenly heard a strange and polite voice behind him:
"Can I sit here for a while, friend?"
"Ah, yes. You can do whatever you want."
Subconsciously, Henryk felt that the voice was not right. Because his words are too polite, like the kind of words that scholars would say.
And when Henryk turned around, UUReading Book www.uukanshu.com he was completely stunned——
It was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties.
There are two deep nasolabial folds on his face, deep eye sockets and compassionate eyes. There is an illusory halo above his head, emitting a bright glow. He was wearing a dirty cloth robe, it may have been white before, but now it has revealed a dirty dark yellow. His pupils are a warm yellow color reminiscent of sunset and dusk.
This is…..
"Master Angel!"
Henryk fell to his knees almost immediately, prostrating on the ground: "I, I have heard of you, the savior who returned from the old age—"
"Get up, friend."
The man's expression is calm and solemn, and his low and magnetic voice is reassuring: "There is no angel, let alone a savior. I am just a solo traveler.
"You can call me...Hua Mingshu."
