Chapter 34 Chapter Thirty-Four

The things that Little Bread said about the ignorance are all true.At least he really got to Fool's Island.A police patrol caught Omniscience, Kid, Cranberry, Little Thumb, Tiny Squirrel, and the rest of the runts who had spent the night under the bridge, and put them in covered police wagons and sent them to the city of the gods.There they were loaded into the hold of a steamer where three hundred other similarly unfortunate people were already suffering.Many people wept because they were leaving their hometowns.Looking at others, I don't know and cry.A fat little man with a bare belly climbed onto an empty bucket in the middle of the hold and began to comfort everyone.He was shirtless and barefoot, but he wore a straw hat and a gaudy woolen scarf round his neck.

"Brothers!" he said, holding out his hands to the dwarfs. "Listen to me, brethren! Don't cry. What are we sorry for? It's nothing to be sorry for, at least we'll get enough to eat over there. You'll see: You can get by with enough food. Don't be pessimistic and disappointed! There are dwarfs living on Fool Island. As for the possibility of turning into sheep there, this may not be true. Time will tell." "That's right, that's right, you can see clearly how to become a sheep after living for a while!" the little goat murmured. "Shut up!" the dwarfs scolded him. "People are comforting you, but you are talking about sheep."

"I didn't need anyone to comfort me." "If you don't need it, then don't hinder those who need it. Get out of here before you get hit!" The little goat walked aside aggrieved.The man with the bare chest and belly continued to talk, inserting his favorite words almost every sentence, "Life will become clear after a while", "Eat enough to make do and live well" . These words had a calming effect on the poor moonman.People are talking happily.Everywhere I heard someone say, "Brothers, you will see clearly after a while! You can only make do if you have enough to eat!"

Only the kid was still frowning. "Consolation found, huh!" he muttered. "Sheep can live well if they are full! They should escape from here." "How did you escape?" Quan Mo asked. "Of course you can't escape from here. When you get to the island, you can't just sit back and do nothing. You have to escape in a small boat." The steamer soon left the shore, and the voyage began.The road is long and hard.The ship tossed and tossed in the waves for two days and two nights.The little man who had never seen the sea before was worried that the ship would capsize and sink to the bottom of the sea soon.For two days and nights they did not sleep a minute, and by the end of the voyage they could barely stand.On the third day, the ship finally sailed into a calm bay, and the exhausted little boys were let out of the damp and dark cabin.

The poor souls cried out with joy when they saw the green shore with palms, peaches, bananas, walnuts, and tangerines.It's even nice to finally be able to keep your feet on the ground and stop feeling the bumps and wobbles under your feet.The dwarfs frantically screamed and yelled and rushed to the shore, chasing each other towards the woods.There they jumped and danced in excitement, picked bananas, dates, peaches and tangerines, and beat walnuts from the trees with sticks.When they were full, they started swinging again (there were many swings in the woods), riding carousels, turning magic reels, and sliding down long carpets or spiral slides from high wooden platforms.

Suddenly the bell rang.Without thinking, the dwarfs ran towards the sound of the bell, and they saw a canteen with its windows wide open.A chef in a white hat stood by the door and greeted everyone for lunch.But no one wanted to eat it, because everyone was full with fruit.The dwarfs stopped at the door hesitantly, when the bell rang again from the other direction.They rushed over there as if they had heard a password, and saw a movie theater covered with colorful posters from top to bottom.In large letters on one of the largest posters it read: "Undersea Murder or Bloody Mark".This thrilling new film draws on the criminal life of murder, robbery, drowning, rape and wildlife mutilation.This is the only one staged.Please watch it quickly!

The little ones thought the movie was about to start, so they ran to get seats.Before they could sit down, the lights went out, and all kinds of terrible scenes appeared on the screen.The poor spectators screamed and screamed at these. However, the noise in the arena became smaller and smaller, and gradually subsided completely.Exhausted from the long journey, the little boys sat on their seats and fell asleep one by one before finishing the movie.It should be said that the seats in the cinema are made like sofas with folded backs, just like those in a long-distance bus.The backrest can be lowered backwards to lie down and sleep comfortably, just like sleeping on a bed.Everyone was so tired that they slept all day and all night, and didn't wake up until the next morning.

When the little boys heard the breakfast bell, they all jumped up and ran hastily to the cafeteria.They wolfed down their breakfast and ran out of the cafeteria to play tag, miniature baseball, "jumping back" and other fun games.Some ran to swings and carousel horses, and some returned to the cinema when the bell rang.The movie theater started showing movies early in the morning, to be more precise, it started showing after breakfast. The dwarfs were chasing each other through the tangerine grove.They found a clearing in the woods with a rectangular field for baseball.A complete longwood set and two baseballs are also found here, that is to say, everything you need to play this attractive game.It should be noted that the Moonman's baseball was a large wooden ball the size of a dwarf's head.Play using two baseballs; one black and one white.The players are divided into two teams, each with twelve players.The first team chases the white ball across the field with a wooden bat, trying to drive the ball into a small hole in the center of the field while preventing the second team from hitting the black ball into the hole.Of course, the team that sinks its own ball into the pit first is the winner.

This seemingly uncomplicated game is actually very attractive, and it is widely spread among the lunar people.Like any game, there are rules to playing baseball, and even strategy and strategy.Its rule is that those who participate in the game have no right to hit each other on the head and legs with wooden sticks!Other players can step on the ball with their feet, and push the opponent with their elbows or hands.Strategy and strategy is that the captain can divide the players into two teams, attacking players and defending players.The task of the offensive player is to drive the opponent's baseball into the pit, and the task of the defensive player is to protect his own baseball from being scored by the opponent.Sometimes the captain divides the team evenly.This is called the "six-six" formation.Sometimes, he thinks it is necessary to have seven players on offense and only five on defense.Such a formation is called "seven-five".There is also the formation of "August 4th" and the formation of "Twelve", that is, the captain does not divide the whole team at all.Of course, in this case, the players have agreed in advance who will defend and who will attack, but in the process of playing, they change their respective roles to confuse the enemy.Needless to say, the rich variety of strategies makes this game extremely interesting.

As soon as the field was discovered, four baseball teams were formed, but since the four teams could not play at the same time, two teams played first, and the other two teams waited for their shifts.Of course, they didn't have a wheel that day, so they woke up early the next morning and took the field all day.After that, whoever woke up early and ran to the field first played baseball.Later, the most addicted man in baseball decided to sleep on the field at night without leaving it.It didn't matter to them at all, because the climate on Fool's Island is very warm, it hardly rains, and it is okay to sleep in the open air.In this way, there are only two teams left. They play from morning to night, and they don't even know about rest and time.

During this time, if I may say so, the other dwarfs also separated according to their interests.In addition to baseball, there are people who play horses, magic tricks, jumping backs, watch movies, play cards, and top bulls all day long.It is needless to say that this monotonous activity dulled the intellect of the dwarfs, and gradually prepared them for their transformation into the animal state. Some people think that watching movies is an activity with higher intelligence than playing ball or "topping the cow", that is, an activity that is more beneficial to intellectual development.However, this is wrong, because the movies they watch all day long have no content and cannot provide much spiritual food.The main character in the film just runs, jumps, lifts, somersaults, and shoots a gun. This can only make people stupid, but it can't make people smart anyway. It should be said that Omniknow and Little Goat cannot avoid being attracted by the same thing. They stay in the movie theater all day long, sitting motionless on chairs, staring at the screen from morning till night.One evening, they suddenly felt that their backs were numb due to inactivity, and they could not even straighten their waists.So neither of the two can stand up from their seats.Quanzhi and the little goat were terrified, trying to jump from their seats to the floor, hunched over, and crawled out of the theater on hands and feet.They crawled on the grass for a while before they straightened their spines and stood up. At first, they looked at each other inexplicably for a while, as if they couldn't figure out what was going on.Then, with a sober look on his face, he said, "I said, little goat, when are we going to make a boat?" "What kind of boat?" the little goat asked puzzled. "Hey, you don't know what a boat is? It's a boat that paddles on the water." "Why are we paddling on the water?" "Aren't we going to escape from this fool's island?" "Oh, that's it!" exclaimed the Kid. "Well, let's start building the boat tomorrow." But on the second day, the two of them forgot about preparing to build the boat, and ran to play on the swings, carousels, and slides early in the morning.These things fascinated them, and they forgot about the escape, and the days passed as before. Of course, Knockout sometimes kind of gets it right before the day's over and says, "Oh, kid, I think we're both turning into sheep!" "Come on you!" the little goat always said, waving his hands. "We haven't become sheep yet, and we won't become one in the future. Who said that? No one said it. Let's look at the future." "By the time we see clearly, it will be too late." "Okay, let's start building the ship tomorrow." Tomorrow passed again, and everything remained the same.The Kid was so fond of swinging, sliding, spinning, and other pastimes that he didn't even want to hear about running away.Little did he know that as soon as he opened his mouth to mention the matter of shipbuilding, the little goat immediately waved his hands impatiently and shouted: "Tomorrow!" As a result, I didn't even know anything about building a ship anymore. One day, the two friends went to ride the merry-go-round early in the morning. They were dizzy and fell to the ground.He stood up vigorously, staggered as if he was drunk, and wandered in the citrus grove.Everything in front of him was like fog.After a while, he walked to the edge of the forest and saw a very dense wooden fence painted with sky blue paint in the distance.I don't know how I got here.He stopped, when he heard a strange voice from behind the fence: "Baa-baa-baa! Moo-moo-moo!" Quan didn't know what it was that was making this strange cry, so he approached the wall, trying to look in through a crack in the wall, but couldn't, because the wood boards on the wall were so densely nailed.After a moment of thought, he grabbed the top of the plank with his hands and climbed up the fence.A piece of green pasture unfolded in front of his eyes, not far away there was a small stream flowing, and a group of snow-white sheep were grazing.Two big, fluffy brown-red dogs guard them.As soon as a sheep leaves the flock, the big dog will bark and pounce on it and drive it back into the flock. Not far from Quanwu, at the foot of the fence, a large pile of sheared wool stood up like a haystack.A few dwarfs were squatting beside the pile of wool, shearing the sheep with large shears in their hands.The poor creatures lay on the ground silently and docilely, with their legs bound.A dwarf finished shearing, untied the sheep, and held the sheep's belly with one hand to make it stand up.The lamb limped awkwardly toward the flock, moving its legs numb from inactivity.It took off its furry fur coat, and it looked extremely skinny and funny. It didn't know how to look at it, and it was hard to hold back its laughter.At this time, the little sheep stopped, tilted his head to the side, and cried out in a distressed way: "Baa-baa-baa!" "So it's calling here!" Thinking of this, Quan somehow felt uncomfortable. At this time, there was a sound of a motor, and I didn't know that I saw a truck driving to the pile of wool.The little man stopped shearing.Started loading wool into the car.The driver poked his head out of the cab, saw nothing, and waved happily. "Well, do you want to come here too?" he called. "Just wait, I'll cut your hair soon! Hahaha!" The laughter sent a chill down Quan Zhi's spine.All the old tales of what had happened to the poor little dwarf on Fool's Isle came to him at once.He was so frightened that he slid down from the wall in a panic and ran back without touching the ground. "Stop it, boys!" he called, running up to the little ones who were riding the merry-go-round. "Stop! Gotta run!" Seeing that no one was listening to him, Quan didn't know that he grabbed the kid by the collar and dragged him off the merry-go-round.The poor little goat was so dizzy from his long circling that he squatted down with his hands on the ground.No matter how he lifted his collar, he still stood on his hands and feet, and made a sheep-like cry. "Little goat, my dear, you have to run away, my dear!" cried Quan Zhi desperately. The little goat looked at him with perplexed eyes, and said inarticulately: "I said, I don't know at all. I turned - turned - too much, and I can't say anything." He mumbled the words, let out a meaningless laugh, and crawled on all fours, crying out, "Moo-moo-moo! Baa-baa-baa!" "My dear little goat, don't do this! Don't do this!" Quan Zhi begged. I don't know how to pick up the demented kid and run to the sea.He felt that the little goat would turn into a sheep as soon as he spoke, and then there was no salvation.In a little while they came to the edge of a palm grove.The sea shimmers with sparkling waves through the sparse tree trunks.In the distance was a steamship wharf with a tall shelf on top of which a flag fluttered in the wind.Quan Wu ran to the beach with the last of his strength, and fell down on the beach exhausted.His hands loosened involuntarily and he lost consciousness. After arriving at the beach, the little goat looked around for a while inexplicably.The cool sea breeze lifted his spirits, and his head was no longer dizzy.It dawned on him that he was not on a merry-go-round, but on an ordinary beach.I didn't know that I was lying beside me with my arms outstretched.His eyes are closed. "He's asleep," thought the Kid. He looked at the turbulent waves in the sea, rumbling rhythmically up to the beach, and quietly retreating slowly into the sea.Suddenly, his eyes found a small black spot like a flea appeared in the distance, otherwise, I don't know how long he would have been admiring the waves on the shore.At first, he thought it was a bird skimming over the sea, but the black spot was gradually approaching, and after a while he saw that it was not a bird, but the little goat didn't know if it was an airship or an airplane, and after a while , he finally saw that it was a ship. "What a miracle!" murmured the Kid in bewilderment. "When did ships fly in the sky?" So he shook his ignorant shoulders.The little goat saw that Quan Wu was still awake, and was so frightened that he poured cold water on his face, which made Quan Wu regain consciousness. "Where am I?" he said, opening his eyes. "Look, steamer!" cried the Kid. "Where is it, the ship?" Quan Zhi got up from the ground and looked at the sea. "Not over there. You see, in the sky." The kid pointed. Quan Zhi looked up and saw a ship flying in the air, with a chimney, a mast, an anchor, and a lifeboat hanging on the deck.I was stunned at all.The ship was getting closer and bigger.The little man standing by the side of the boat could already be seen clearly.Quanzhi and the little goat held their breath in fright, looking at the approaching giant.The little goat opened its mouth wide in fright, and its eyes widened.He wanted to say something, but the words stuck in his throat.At last he managed to utter a sentence: "What is this? ... Why is this? ..." "This is weightlessness!" Quan Wu suddenly shouted. "He must be a know-it-all. I knew he'd come to our rescue! Hurrah!" He tossed his hat up and jumped up on the bank for joy. At this time, the ship drew an arc over the pier and landed on the sea smoothly.Quanzhi and the little goat ran towards the pier hand in hand.Before the two of them got on the ladder, they saw the know-it-all, the doctor's little pill, the little screw, the little chisel, the little bread and a few strange moonmen coming down from the gangway. Unaware that his heart was beating violently in his chest with excitement, he stopped in his tracks, not daring to take a step forward, but muttered, "It looks like I'm going to be reprimanded!" Know-it-all, accompanied by the other dwarfs, walked to Quan Shi. "Hello." He said, holding out his hand. "Honey, why didn't you come earlier?" Don't know, and didn't even answer the greeting from the know-it-all. "We waited and waited here, almost turned into sheep, but they didn't care at all! They said it was rescue!" "Follow you, idiot, I don't even want to talk to you when something like this happens!" Know-it-all said angrily. "We are here now, you should say thank you." The doctor Xiao Yaowan said. "How is your health?" "very good." "Then get on the ship right away. It is said that the air here is very harmful, so we can't stay here for long." "Hey, I think it's okay to stay for a little while," Quan Mo said. "I've got to get the other dwarfs out. We've got a lot of people here." "We'd do it without you," said Doctor Pill. "No, no, brothers, without me, you might be in trouble and forget someone. I should go and find all of them myself. One more thing, do you have any spare weightlessness instruments?" ?” "What is this for?" Little Screw asked. "I had an idea," replied Omniscient. "We bury the weightlessness instrument in the soil of the island, so that a weightlessness zone is formed around it. The air above the weightlessness zone will completely lose weight and rise upwards, and the fresh air from the sea will be blown from all directions to replenish here. In this way As soon as it comes, the air on the island will be purified, and no one will become a sheep." "You see," said the little chisel approvingly, "our ignorance has become an inventor." "What's the matter? I've become really smart recently. I came up with this method of purifying the air when I came here by ship. Do you understand that it's okay to stay in the bottom deck all day? Just thinking about ideas." "All right," said the little screw. "We'll find you a weightless instrument. Also, I think you need a pair of shoes. Okay, you go to the boat and get them, and now, before some dwarfs really turn into sheep, come and tell us Where are they all?"