Chapter 10 wind

Gobbled lunches begin, and as long as there is scrambling, there is never enough food.Aina's culinary skills are much improved than before. According to her own words, returning to Mars, there is nothing interesting except cooking.Wheat Flour Golden Cake, Beef Protein Noodles, Roasted Carrot Cheese Pie, Assorted Vegetables with Shredded Fish Protein, Seaweed Salad, Nut Green Asparagus, Asla Apple Tart, and Corn and Chicken Protein Soup.The aroma was overflowing, and the laughter mixed with the coughing of choking wine permeated the banquet. A total of twelve children came out this time, four girls and eight boys.There is a large circle around the table, sitting crookedly.The boys sat around the table with their feet crossed, while the girls were chatting and peeling fruit.Outside the small porthole, you can see the unchanging loess sand and gravel.The big ship moved quite steadily, and if one didn't discern it carefully, one wouldn't even feel that it was moving.

"Are your reports procrastinating?" Anita asked. Mira asked her back: "What? You handed it in?" Anita smiled and said: "It's early. That's why I asked you. If you haven't handed in yet, I will be at ease." "Who has time to write this? I'm exhausted from rehearsal," Thorin said. "What's the rush?" Mira said, "I don't know if I need to write yet." Anita wondered, "What does that mean?" Mira laughed: "We fled so privately. If we were caught, we would have to write a 30,000-word confession report first, and then be fined for two months of labor. Who knows what will happen after that. Maybe it will be delayed. .”

Luo Ying watched as Chenia arranged the pears on a plate and brought them to the big table, the boys gave out admiration one after another.She narrowed her eyes, and the regular hum of the machine surrounded her.This is her own person, she thought, although she likes Jill and the others so much, she is so different from them. With them, she feels that she is not compatible with her surroundings, but being with the people on this boat The feeling will go away.Why, she asked herself, how to describe all this. They headed south all the way, the afternoon sun began to be westward, and the air became more lazy after a full meal.The mechanical arm used in the early years is hung on the bulkhead wall, and the sharp-edged fingers are clenched into fists, showing the solemn appearance unique to antiques.Some of the paint on the vertical circulating water pipes has peeled off, and the sound of gurgling water can be heard flowing regularly.The cabin was warm in the afternoon, and the worn-out fan on the roof was like a grinning mouth.

Anka and Longe were driving at the bow, pointing with one arm, opening and closing vertically and horizontally, and turning a knob with the other, as swift as playing a piano.Anka controlled the course and stayed at the bow. Longe only controlled the instruments, and ran to the console every few moments to check the jumping needles on the old-fashioned instrument panel. "You said, can this performance have any results?" Longe returned to the table from the console, and began to cut to the point. "It's hard to say," Thorin said. "According to my judgment, the adults are likely to be silent."

"I think so too." Longge said, "I'm sure I won't say anything in public, but I think they will look for us in private." "Then what shall we say?" "What else can I say? Tell the truth. It's all actual experience, so there's nothing to say." "That's not what it means," Thorin said. "I mean, what should we say if grown-ups ask us if we have any plans?" "Let's be honest. Let's just say we don't plan to cooperate with them." Thorin didn't answer, and looked at the others silently. The atmosphere in the cabin slowly became dignified.Luo Ying didn't understand what Longe meant.Longge has always been an insightful and sharp character, and he likes to exaggerate. She is not sure what level of non-cooperation he refers to by non-cooperation.Longge was sitting by the window, tapping his fingers alternately on the table, with a resolute and dismissive arrogance on his face.Everyone was silent, looking at each other, only Chenia stood up and stood beside Longe by the window.

"This question is also what I want to ask." Chenia didn't speak for a long time. At this time, she looked at everyone and said slowly, "Do we have any plans for the future?" "You mean..." Luo Ying asked softly, "What's the plan?" "Revolution." Chenia said clearly, "a real revolution." "Didn't acting mean revolution?" "That's not what I actually said." "I said it." Sorin explained to Luo Ying, then turned to ask Chenia, "But didn't you agree at that time?" "Yes, but I keep saying it's just a phase."

"Then what else do we want?" Luo Ying asked. "Break something," Chania said, "those things that have become more and more rigid." "That's right," Longe said, "I can't take it anymore. Those people around me are getting thicker and thicker. They use all kinds of tricks to please their superiors, opportunistically, and conduct research only for the taste of the elders of the system. Utilitarian, downright depraved Utility." "But," said Thorin, "is it not like this on Earth?" "That's right, but people on Earth are the same outside and inside. Since they are utilitarian in their bones, they say they are utilitarian. Unlike ours, who say it better than anyone else, 'everyone pursues creativity and wisdom', but they are still all utilitarian in their bones. The hypocrisy is extreme! "

"Isn't it all like this?" Luo Ying said, "There are still many people who really live in the cloud of exploration." "I haven't seen any of them." Longge said, "I don't even believe that there are people who are not utilitarian." "I think you are influenced by theories on Earth," Thorin said. "Can you find a man who is not doing things for his own benefit and power?" "There are always." "That's just an appearance." "Then what do you think of those people who are immersed in the laboratory every day?" Thorin asked.

"Seeking a good reputation has a purpose behind it." Luo Ying interjected softly: "Why are we fighting for this? Is it meaningful to fight for this?" "It's meaningful, of course it's meaningful." Longe said, "What we have to do is to admit utilitarianism, tear off the covering cloth around it, and expose all the gorgeous meanings that are talked about." "Are you talking about returning to Earth where only money transactions are left?" Chenia replied for him: "At least make this kind of utilitarianism public, so as not to put on a show, and everyone will be uncomfortable."

Sorin looked into Chenia's eyes and asked, "You agree with Longue?" "Yes, I agree." "Then what do you think we should do?" "The first thing is to make people flow. Let the identity flow. The house should also allow flow. Like the wind. Now this situation binds people in one place forever. There is no competition on the surface, and I don't know how many behind-the-scenes struggles." "But you know, Mars doesn't have enough natural resources for anyone to fight over." "It's always the same sentence, how many years have I been saying it?"

"Chenia," Sorin seemed to look at Chenia worriedly, "You are too extreme." Chenia also looked at him with her mouth tightly shut, neither lowering her head nor responding, her long hair hung on one side, revealing her slender neck. For a moment no one spoke.After a while, Mira interjected slowly, "I think it's not a big deal that there's always been everybody." "It was numb," Longo said. Mira frowned slightly, tilted her head and thought about it seriously, but didn't say anything.Luo Ying felt that she had a lot to say in her heart, but she didn't know where to start.Longge and Chenia were standing by the window, one was sitting and the other was standing, their postures were more certain than anyone else's. Although their movements were not stiff, there was a trace of metal smell flashing from their bodies, and the air became hard. "Hey, Longo!" At this moment, Anka suddenly called from the front, interrupting the sparking conversation. He turned his body to the cabin, beckoned to everyone: "You all have a look, we may be here." Everyone stood up with a whoosh, leaned to the front of the cabin, and looked at the view outside the window and the navigation map on the screen. Looking out the front window, they saw that the mining ship was passing through a relatively narrow valley and skirting a cliff.The big ship staggered at the foot of the mountain, and the fiery red cliff was so steep and high that you couldn't see the top when you looked up.The sun illuminates the entire cliff, and under the uneven stones, the shadows are like a crescent moon covering the entire mural.They put their heads against the window and looked at the big cliffs on both sides that towered into the sky. There was a latent excitement of slowly sailing into another world.On the navigation map drawn by contour lines, the mining ship is a small red dot, moving minute by minute in the gap between two sets of dense curves. "Do you think it's here?" Anka pointed to the screen and asked Longge. Longo nodded. Anka turned her head and looked at Luo Ying: "I don't know if this is the place you want to look for, as far as the information we can find, it can only be located here." As he was speaking, the mine ship had already passed the pass, and the sun, like a curtain that was drawn quickly, filled the cabin and shone on everyone's head.They quickly cast their gazes out of the window, and at that moment, everyone's eyes were fixed. In front of you is a funnel-shaped open land, hidden among the mountains, surrounded by highlands in all directions.The huge slopes are full of ravines, just like the scouring of glacial rivers.Although there is not a drop of water, but the thousands of years of wind and sand erosion, the top soil crust has flown away, and the hard basalt has peeled off the rugged shape.The mountains and rocks are unobstructed, rushing straight into the sky, about hundreds or thousands of meters away.Their spaceship is at the entrance of the valley, hanging at the bottom of the valley, like a tiny bug, sliding against the rocks, looking up, the brown-gray circular crater is like an ancient Roman Colosseum magnified dozens of times, facing The world is open, majestic and majestic. The northern hemisphere of Mars is a plain, while the southern hemisphere is a group of mountains. The average altitude of the southern hemisphere is 4,000 meters higher than that of the northern hemisphere. The 6,000-meter-high cliffs lie near the equator, cutting the gentle face of the planet like a scar, and slamming sharply in the center of the land. abruptly.The teenagers were stunned. They had never entered the mountains of the southern hemisphere. Although they lived on Mars since childhood, they had only seen the valleys of the earth.Compared with Mars, any geological structure on the earth is as exquisite and lovely as the small mountains and small lakes in the park.Mount Everest is only one-third the height of Mount Olympus, and the Grand Canyon is only one-ninth the length of the Valley of the Mariners.Mars does not have those beautiful mountains. It is sharp, rough and bold everywhere. The craters and huge craters are connected together, like a traveler in the vicissitudes of life, quiet and naked, with suffering written on his face. There was no trace of human beings in the valley at all.Although the history they found told them that this place was once a popular place for prospecting, but just looking at the empty valley and the silent lava, they couldn't see a trace of it being busy.The entrance and exit pass here used to be a post road for thousands of cabin ships to enter and exit. Tens of thousands of people once lived on the rocks, and the camps were densely covered. Production was once operated on a large scale here, but now nothing can be seen.They all tried their best to find houses, spaceships and abandoned ruins, but apart from the faintly visible metal fragments scattered on the cliffs, there is no complete remnant.The wind and sand destroyed everything, leaving only sand and gravel covering and flowing on the surface.Heaven and Earth easily erased the brand mark.Only forty years have passed, and the earth has returned to its ancient solemnity. However, they were still stunned and shocked, convinced that this was what they were looking for. They saw the cave.It extends up the mountain to a very high cave.They are not much different from ordinary wind-eroded holes, but the holes can be clearly shaped and carved.The shape of the hole is not natural and strange. Although it has been covered by dust, traces of man-made, the former shape can still be seen.They stared blankly, the history hidden under the sand.They all seem to have seen the scene of people coming and going, as if a magical hand swept away the gravel accumulated at the entrance of the desolate cave, and the dust and sand from the doors and windows, so that the dead scene began to slowly revive.They saw people going in and out of those caves, spaceships coming and going overhead, and a whole mountain of cities busy and quietly laying out in the space between the earth and the sky. ※※※ The time to fly has finally arrived. The mining ship stopped at the foot of the warm southern slope, and the sun was shining brightly. The three boys opened the hatch and were the first to step out.Oxygen cylinders, helmets, communication headsets, and emergency kits are all carried on the body. The sensor electrodes are fixed on the back, step out of the hatch, measure the wind direction, and spread the wings against the light.Everything went well, they quickly exhausted the high-pressure gas from the small engine on the soles of their feet, the propellers turned, and they rose against the wind. Everyone looked at them with bated breath, watching them rise into the air quietly, and everyone cheered excitedly at the same time. Luo Ying quietly hid behind everyone and watched, feeling a little unusual.She had been looking forward to this day for a long time, but when this day finally came, it seemed that it was no different from every moment of the day.Sunshine on the body, like ethereal whirling singing.Flying turns into a dreamlike reality, descending peacefully, like an ordinary and distant smile.She felt that the air was strangely peaceful, and through the oxygen mask, the boy in midair was like an elf in a story. The boys floated slowly up the slope.Sorin's elasticity is the best, twisting his ankles from side to side, taking advantage of the wind to move forward and backward; Ren's movements are stretched, and each transition has no corners; No surprises.Their figures are slender against the huge wings, drifting leisurely with the wind. They fly.They flew on their own wings, in the bright sunlight of the red sky.They fly.At that moment, Luo Ying became excited. This is their final experiment.There is no cabin, no seats, and no engine. It maintains the original human fantasy of flying. It only needs two pairs of wings and a pair of spirals on the soles of the feet.Their wings have great potential to generate electricity, and the electricity generated can make the wings vibrate at high frequencies, like a giant dragonfly.The wings are connected to the body by lightweight alloy soft rods, without the speed of breaking through the air, they just flutter with the wind. They flapped their wings so that they turned to face the wind.Mars has a peculiar geography.Under the sunshine, the surface of the earth can reach more than ten degrees Celsius, but the temperature drops sharply at night, and can drop to minus one hundred degrees.The hot and cold distribution is clear, and the air flow is fast.Rocks exposed to direct sunlight heat up rapidly during the day, and warm air climbs up the slope, forming a powerful upwelling.The mountain wind is the thickest in the afternoon, and in the bright light, the thin molecules are frivolously transpiring.In such a terrain, the thin air also becomes a wind that can be leveraged. The speed of the wind increased with height, and when they drifted to the middle of the mountain, the boys' ascent speed was significantly accelerated.For safety, they weakened the propeller and the vibration of the wings, let the body fall at a constant speed, fell to the ground, staggered a few steps, and stood firmly. Everyone cheered and embraced.Silent cheers filled the air.Before a few could fold their wings, the other boys strode up to them, clasped their arms still outstretched, and tapped on their helmets.Luo Ying could see the smile blooming under the mask, like the sky. "Ulla!" This is already their second cheer today.The sound couldn't fly out, but it rang in the earphones. The boys quickly changed their outfits, helped each other fasten their gear, and the second batch of fliers took to the sky again.They made six wings in total, taking turns to fly and take turns to protect. "Hey girls, anyone want to try it now?" Thorin's voice came from the earphones.Luo Ying was still hesitating, but Chenia stood up and moved her hands and feet.She clasped her hands, extended them to the top of her head, raised her toes and kicked left and right, then supported her lower back, turned her hips, and pitched back and forth.She smiled at Luo Ying, jumped and ran towards the boys, the upturned corners of her eyes exposed by the helmet, like a pair of spread wings. Luo Ying looked at her back, a gust of wind blew up at the bottom of the valley, and a gust of fine sand rolled and flew in front of the mask.The second batch of tryers find experience faster than the first batch.The memory of Maas seemed to return to everyone's body. They seemed to have returned to the weightless ball cabin. achieve a balanced posture.The boys even began to recall the formation at that time, two dodging and two defending.Chenia shuttled among them, like a nimble celesta in an orchestra.They seem to have returned to the night sky at that time.If it weren't for the nightly singing at that time, it would be impossible to grasp the essentials of control so quickly now.Free blood and air surrounded them again after months of absence. On the undulating mountain ridges, sunlight and shadows are sharply separated, half of which is yellow and half black, like half a face of rich makeup. Luo Ying was in a daze, when Anka suddenly appeared beside her, stretched out her hand and asked her with a smile, "Do you want to fly together?" Luo Ying raised her head, and Anka stepped on her left foot behind her as if inviting a dancer, with one hand raised flat and the other open by her side. She smiled and said softly, "Wait for me, I'll get the skirt." The skirt made by Jill has not been worn since the performance, and Luo Ying held it quietly in the cabin, trying to put it down several times, but finally decided to put it on.She fastened the straps carefully, and refastened the wires of the limbs. When Luo Ying walked into the sun again, the dancer's state returned to her body.She gave Anka her hand, and he supported her and sent her into the air. The moment it took off, Luo Ying swayed a few times.The wind in the valley is brisk, so the touch of the pressure sensor is soft and full of changes.The wings were much larger than the last time she experimented, and she was a little stiff at first, but gradually became easier as the wind got along.Entrust the whole body to the airflow behind you, let the wind lead the dance, forget the direction, and liberate the body. Anka was obliquely behind Luo Ying, using the air between them as a guide, Luo Ying adjusted the direction of the wings and the angle of the propeller, and followed his shoulders through every transition.Every movement is much slower than on the ground, like a well-rehearsed slow motion, neat and delicate.She felt very at ease suddenly, with Anka and Feng behind her, she no longer felt uneasy.She became happy, remembering the past when she turned off the lights after the training, and danced around like a puppet with her hands and feet. The windows penetrated into the huge flashing advertisements of the tall buildings opposite, and the lights flowed between the buildings, just like hanging in the sky at this time. Dancing in the air, that's exactly what she imagined.It was she who suggested to Anka and the others that the control of the wings may not require programs or calculations, but only the instinct of the body.Like walking and dancing, borrow the instinct of the body for thousands of years, and control it with muscles, like a real dragonfly. Reni's little shoe helped her, and its neurosensing was used by them to connect the wings to the body, amplifying every movement. Luo Ying flew lightly, narrowing her eyes, her eyes gradually filled with illusions.She felt that she was standing on the boundless wasteland, the wind blows left and right, and laughter and singing are rolling in the sand.For a while, she saw the smiling faces of girls from the dance troupe on the earth, wearing bright gemstones on their heads, smiling sweetly in the clouds.After a while, I heard the cry of the girl from the old house, wearing straw clothes and holding an ancient shield.After a while, I saw Jill and Puranda sitting on the kite like a nutshell, drawing houses in the air, blushing with screams.Luo Ying wanted to catch the picture, but the wind blew too fast and disappeared into the sky in a blink of an eye.She felt that there was a crowd in every gust of wind, but she herself did not belong to any group.She could feel the wind blowing from all directions, blowing her away in all directions, but she stood alone, unable to be taken away by the wind.She doesn't belong to any team, and she doesn't know how to beat others.She is no longer a person who can be carried away by the wind. The more the wind blows, the more unwilling she is to just follow one of them.She would like to fly, but only wants to fly alone. She felt the slowly slanting afternoon sun, receiving the air with the angle of two pairs of wings.She could feel that Anka was always keeping a close distance behind her, and she suddenly wanted to keep flying like this and never land. "It seems that someone is coming!" Suddenly, a cry passed through the earphones, as abrupt as an alarm. "Land down on the spot! Get back in the boat if you can. If you can't get back in the boat, hide on the rocks for a while. We'll pick you up later." It was Longo's voice.Luo Ying didn't have time to react, so she followed Anka down to a platform on the mountain wall and folded her wings. They flew high unknowingly, much higher than other combinations, and had no time to land on the ground, so they had to temporarily settle on the rock.This is a small platform in front of the abandoned hole, and you can still see the remains of the stairs that have broken and collapsed on one side.They sat on the ground and looked down.Mira and Sorin descended to a hole much lower than them, and the others had successfully withdrawn the mine ship. The mine ship started to start and sailed quietly towards a corner closer to the mountain wall. Soon, they saw a huge ground-effect airship slowly emerging from the entrance, silvery white with reddish-brown stripes, and the flame emblem was shining.It's slow, like searching. "This is... the ship in our center." Anka whispered. "Your center? Why is it here?" Anka shook her head with a confused and serious expression.Luo Ying couldn't help but admire Longge's sensitivity.