Chapter 46 fourth quarter

The elevator has 20 square meters.There are still 8-10 meters from the top of Richard's head to the top surface, and there are two parallel grooves on the floor.Richard thought: "They probably use this elevator to carry large loads." The elevator descends very slowly.With no reference, Richard couldn't estimate its speed.According to the map he drew, the Managua storage room is still 1,100 meters away from the foundation.At the normal speed of an elevator on Earth, it would take a few minutes to descend to the bottom. It was the longest three minutes of his life.The elevator finally stopped, and Richard was hesitating what to do. "Maybe I should go out first, maybe go to the outer edge of the white buildings... Will they come and take me back?"

Richard was imagining how life in New Eden would change when the elevator doors swung open.Richard looked ahead and nearly passed out: two unimaginably strange creatures were standing in front of him, staring at him. Richard couldn't move, and carefully looked at the creature in front of him: there were four eyes on the "head"; there was a milky white round eye on the left and right sides, and two stalks on the top of the head that could reach 10-12 inches long. There are two centimeter poles with two eyes on the top of the pole; the body behind the huge head is divided into three sections, each section has a pair of legs, and there are six legs in total.The two alien creatures stood upright, propped up on their hind legs; their front legs were neatly coiled together on a smooth creamy white belly.

They entered the elevator, and Richard took a few steps back in horror.The two creatures turned their heads to look at each other, and a high-pitched sound came out from the hole under the round eye. Richard blinked, feeling dizzy.He knelt down on one knee to support his body, feeling his heart hurt. The two alien creatures changed their posture, put the middle two legs on the floor, raised their heads high, and looked like giant ants.The spheres at the top of the two eye sticks on the top of the head rotate continuously 360°, and the milk-like substance rotates back and forth in the dark brown eyes.

For several minutes they sat motionless, as if encouraging Richard to come up and examine them.Richard was terrified, but still tried to look at them with a scientific eye: the creature was about the size of an average-sized dog, but much lighter; the body was divided into three sections, the middle section being slightly smaller than the front and back sections Some; the three-section body is covered with a hard carapace. Apart from their peculiar appendages, Richard classifies them as giant insects.Their legs are thick and covered with dense black and white short "fur"; their hands are hairless, with four fingers on each hand and one exposed thumb.

Richard mustered up his courage and was about to look at their incredible heads again when there was a shriek like a siren behind the alien creature.The two creatures turned immediately, and Richard saw a third such creature running swiftly in this direction, running on six legs like a cat: two landed first, and then the other pair. The three creatures chatted quickly for a while, with the new one raising its head and forelegs in a clear sign for Richard to leave the elevator.Richard followed it into a large room. This is also a Managua storage room, with high-tech automation everywhere.There is a partition 10 meters above their heads, and a robot is standing on it to pick fruit.It puts the plucked fruit in a transport cart parked on the groove of the room.Richard saw a cart full of fruit driving along the groove and stopping in front of the elevator.

Three alien creatures ran into the room along a groove, and Richard quickly followed.The alien creature stopped by the door to wait for him, then continued to run to the left, looking back to see if Richard was following.Richard ran after them for two minutes, entering a tall and large hall with a large transporter in the middle. The large transporter is actually two escalators that go up and down, spiraling up along the two thick slanted columns in the center of the hall.The escalator is fast and has a steep ascent angle.Richard and the three aliens ascended the escalator, reaching a new platform level every five minutes.There is only a 30cm fence next to the elevator.The six legs of the alien creature lay flat on the escalator. Richard stood up at first, but soon fell down. Because the escalator was too steep, he was easily thrown out.

Their escalator goes up, and the escalator on the other side goes down.There are more than a dozen other alien creatures of this type standing on the descending escalator.Richard looked at them curiously, and they looked at Richard curiously.Richard noticed that their round, talking mouths were too small for food. "How do they eat?" Richard noticed that there were no other holes in their heads.These alien creatures also have some unidentified small bumps and folds on their heads. Three alien creatures took Richard to the eighth platform.He followed them into a hexagonal building marked in bold red. "It's ridiculous," Richard thought, looking at these weird symbols. "I've seen this symbol before... on the map or document used by Ai Yunniao."

Richard was placed in a bright room with walls decorated with black and white geometric figures, surrounded by objects of various sizes and shapes of unknown purpose.The alien creature gestured to him—this is where he was coming—and hopped away. Mr Walkerfield was tired, and he looked around the room for something that could be a bed.Finally he stretched out on the floor and fell asleep. "Moomoooo, that's all I can call them." Richard slept for four hours and woke up thinking about the strange alien creatures.He wanted to give them a name, cat ant, cat bug... In the end, he decided that Moomin cat was the best.

Richard's room is very bright.Compared to the upper part of the brown cylinder, the Moomin's home is quite bright. "I haven't seen an ivan bird since I stepped on the elevator. Apparently the two creatures don't live together, but not quite. They both use managua...what's the connection? thought Richard. Two Moomies hopped into his room, set down a managua cut into teeth and a glass of water in front of him, and left.Richard was hungry and thirsty, and quickly finished his breakfast. The two Moomies were back again, beckoning Richard to stand up with their forelegs.

Richard stared at them and wondered, "Are the creatures the same as yesterday? Did they bring me water and melons?" He thought of the Mums going down the escalator he'd seen on the way up here. Kitten.In his eyes, these alien creatures look exactly the same, without any difference. "They look exactly the same, how can they be distinguished from each other?" Two Moomies lead him down the aisle to the right, and Richard runs after them, admiring their graceful gait and thinking, "Honey, they must think humans are athletes." A Moomin Stop 40 meters in front of him.It didn't turn and Richard knew it was looking at him: the two eye sticks on its head were bent towards him.

"Here I come," cried Richard, "I can't run that fast." It didn't take long for Richard to understand that two creatures were giving him a tour of Moomin's place.The visit was quite tight: the first stop was the Managua storage room; after five minutes of running, I arrived at a secret room with gray and white metal walls; There are about a hundred Moomies in this big house, half of them are swimming in the pool, and the other half are either sitting by the pool or walking around a strange building. "Are they really swimming?" Richard took a closer look - it turned out that these creatures were soaking in the pool without moving.Two of the pools were deep and held some sort of earthy, greasy soup, and the third pool was filled with cool, clean water.Richard saw a Moomin climb out of one oily pool and down into a third clear pool. He was completely confused. "What are they doing? Why did they bring me here?" A mommy patting Richard on the back, hinting at something.It pointed to Richard, then to the pool, and finally to Richard's mouth.Richard didn't understand what it was trying to tell him, and the Moomin went to the pool ladder, climbed down the ladder and doused himself in the soup.After a while, it came back, standing on its hind legs, pointing to its soft, creamy white belly where there were some grooves. It seemed important to Moomin for Richard to understand what happened in the pool. At the next stop, he saw Moomin using a high-tech machine to grind up some fibrous matter and then mix it with water and other liquids to produce a thick, pond-like soup. An alien creature dipped its finger in a little of the liquid and smeared it on Richard's mouth. "They're telling me the pond is for feeding them," thought Richard. "So it's amazing that they don't eat managua, or, at least, their diet varies." Then they ran to the other corner of the chamber, where Richard saw thirty or forty of these small creatures, probably Moomin's kittens.They are moving under the guidance of adult cats.There is only one difference between a baby mommy and an adult mommy - they don't have a carapace.Apparently, the hard coat that wraps around the body doesn't grow until it's fully mature.It might be a school or kindergarten, Richard thought, but couldn't be sure.He watched the baby Moomies keep imitating the sounds made by the grown-up Moomies. Under the guidance of the guide, Richard took the elevator to the height of the 20th floor, and they entered a large factory.There are lots of Moomies and machines going through an assembly line process.This factory is very similar to the machine factory on the earth, all kinds of chemical and metallic smells are mixed with the roar of the machine, and the purring of the moon cats communicating with each other. A corner of the factory was cordoned off, and the guide did not take him there.Richard walked over curiously, but no one stopped him.He took a closer look and saw an automated production process in progress. Richard thought about it, and was shocked: "It was Moomin who made Reggy, and those maps! And maybe this spaceship! But where did they come from, and those aiyun birds? What is it? Some kind of developed symbiosis?" Richard shook his head, looking at the Lackey assembly line going on in front of him.After a while, he heard the meowing of Moomin cat behind him.He turned and a guide handed him a slice of managua. Richard was so weary that he couldn't remember how long he had been visiting, it might have been a long, long time. They took the elevator to the Moomin's hospital run by Moomin, where he saw Dr. Moomin watching the baby moomies hatch from their fluffy brown eggs. Richard affirms that there is a complex symbiotic relationship between the two species. "Why is that? Obviously, the Aiyun birds are the beneficiaries of Moomin cats, but what benefits does Moomin cat get from these birds?" The guide led Richard slowly into a passage several hundred meters deep, with a large door at the end of the passage.As you approach the gate, three other Moomies come out from a smaller passage next to it.They talked in high-pitched voices, and fell silent for a while.Richard thought they might be arguing about something, and he watched them carefully, especially their faces.He still couldn't find any features that clearly distinguished Moomin cats. They headed for the gate.Richard took a closer look: this is a gate more than 3 meters wide and 12 to 15 meters high, with exquisite artistic patterns engraved on it.Richard stopped to admire the artwork, as if he had seen this door somewhere before, at least this pattern. Richard tried to tell himself it was impossible, but as his fingers slid over the Moomin carving, his memory was instantly awakened. "Yes!" he said to himself excitedly, "Rama 2, the back wall of the Aiyun Bird Cave, where the fire was lit." The door opened, and Richard entered a huge underground church more than fifty meters high.There is a round platform with a diameter of about 30 meters in the middle of the church, and there are six auditoriums around the platform.The exquisitely carved patterns on the walls are breathtakingly beautiful. There is a podium in the middle of the church, and a Moomin cat is giving a speech on it.Surrounded by a lot of Moomies, they sat and listened carefully to the speech with their four back legs supporting their bodies. Looking around in amazement, Richard noticed that the carvings on the walls told a whole story.He found the beginning of the story quietly, looked carefully at these artworks about Managua and Moomin, and said to himself: "What the hell! Managua is the egg laid by Moomin." His thoughts were fast. It's running: "It's unlikely, Aiyun bird eats managua... Moomin cat feeds me with managua... What's going on here?" Richard was shocked by what he found.Sitting in front of the painting with the little baby Moomies, he tried to search for the relationship between Moomies and Ai Yunniao.How can one species live in peace and friendship with another species that lives off their eggs?The basic survival laws of organisms cannot explain this phenomenon. Richard was working on this new project when a group of toots gathered around him, beckoning him to stand up.He followed them into a special catacomb on the other side of the church. It was the first time Richard had seen such a dim light since entering Moomin's living area.He followed Moomin slowly down a wide passage, past two doors at the end, and into a large room filled with soft white matter.These white substances look like cotton filaments, thin and thin, and arranged extremely tightly. Richard and Moomin stopped a meter away from the white substance.This cottony web stretched in all directions as far as Richard could see.When Richard was about to study it carefully, each thread began to move slowly, gradually diverging to the two sides, making way for a path leading to the inside of the network. "This thing is alive!" Richard was dumbfounded, and his heartbeat accelerated. Five minutes later a passage appeared, just ten meters into the network.The moonies around Richard pointed to the cotton silk web ahead, watching him expectantly. Richard shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I don't like this very much. If I can, I would like to skip this tour program." All the moonies were pointing there, leaving him no choice. "What will this thing do to me?" He took a step forward. "Will it swallow me? Is that so? It's unlikely." He turned around and saw that even the Moomin cats hadn't moved.Richard took a deep breath and walked into the depth of 10 meters of the network.When he was about to check this center, the white matter around him started to move again.Richard turned sharply to find that the passage behind him closed again.He tried to run out of the net, but to no avail: the net bound him so tightly that he couldn't move. The web began to wrap itself around him, and Richard could only stand there motionless as the white threads, only a millimeter thick, wound slowly and tightly around him. "Wait, this will suffocate me." Richard shouted.The strange thing is that the hundreds of threads wrapped around his body tightly wrapped his head and face, but it didn't make him have the slightest difficulty in breathing. Before the hands were bound, Richard tried to pull one of the filaments wrapped around his arm, but the filaments were already firmly bound to him, embedded in his skin.After many attempts, Richard finally managed to get one out of his forearm, but it bled immediately where it was pulled out.Richard watched as millions of threads wrapped around him, embedded deep in his skin.He was trembling with fear. To Richard's surprise, there was no suffocation at all, and he wondered how much air there was in the net for him to breathe.He said to himself: "Don't analyze, you will never understand. You only have this experience in your life, enjoy and experience this incredible adventure!"