Chapter 48 Section VI

A large gap appeared in the wire mesh, and 30 small mesh knots with a diameter of 50 cm formed a 50 cm diameter ball next to the gap.Each small knot has a thick silk thread attached to the center of the sphere.At first, Richard didn't see anything in the ball.Slowly, he saw a small green object wrapped in hundreds of filaments. The thing grew slowly, and Richard finally saw that the web was forming a managua.He was stunned, never expecting that the vanished Moomin laid eggs here, and it took so long. "There must be cells here, some very tiny embryos that are raised here somehow..."

Richard saw the newborn Managua spawning twenty meters away from the Moomin's cocoon. "The web-like creature transports the eggs from place to place and takes weeks to generate them," thought Richard. Richard finally came to an affirmative answer slowly. The biological phenomenon he witnessed was much more complicated than any biological phenomenon on earth. "Are the managuas, the moonies, and the silk web different manifestations of life within the same species?" Richard fell asleep and woke up again. After waking up, he carefully reviewed everything he saw in this residential area, searching for thousands of answers.

The academic research that Richard is proud of is his "hard science", mathematics and physics are his best subjects.He struggled to make sense of the biological circle in which he had lived for weeks, exasperated at his ignorance.How he wished he knew more about biology. "How do I help them? I don't know how." Over time, Richard imagined, the creatures learned not only how to read his memories, but also how to translate his thoughts. A few days later, Moomin came to visit him.There was another passage leading to the gate ahead of him.Moomin cat took his clothes and beckoned him to come out.

Richard tried to move out, but this time, the net didn't bind him anymore.Richard's legs were trembling a little. He dressed and followed Moomin to the corridor of the brown cylinder. The great room had obviously been remodeled, with a huge unfinished mural on the wall.Richard knew the purpose of the studio when he saw it: it was telling him how to help the creature survive.Obviously these creatures know that they are facing the disaster of being destroyed by human beings.The murals provided Richard with information about the rescue, but were the paintings alone enough? The wall paintings created by Moomin cat artists are exquisite.They support their bodies with their rear two feet and create with their front four feet.They were talking to each other, apparently discussing something.But these artists are quiet and orderly.

The first half of the mural is the textbook of the alien creature, which can help Richard learn more about the entire life process of these alien creatures.The mural uses many suns and moons to indicate time, from which Richard learns that Moomin's life form is much shorter than that of the silk screen.He still couldn't understand what the illustrations were trying to convey. Apparently, each managua produces a Moomin, and the silkscreen produces managuas.Richard never saw the twins in the mural.But what is the ratio of silk screen to managua, Richard does not know.One picture shows 12 different Moomies in a large silk screen, each encased in a cocoon.This shows what?

Richard slept in a small room not far from the fresco room.His Moomin cat teacher taught him about murals for 3 to 4 hours each time, and he could eat and rest only after learning.Sometimes Richard glanced at the unfinished lower half of the mural.At this time, the lights in the room will be turned off immediately.Obviously, they wanted him to understand their biological processes first. After about ten days, the second part of the mural was completed.To Richard's astonishment, the mural accurately represented both humans and ivans.Richard himself recurs in the painting with long hair and beard, making him almost unrecognizable.

Part of the content shows human aggression against this residential area.Richard got much more information from paintings than from silkscreens.He was outraged by the horrific acts of violence shown on the screen. Richard wondered curiously, "Why doesn't everything shown on the murals tell me directly through the silk screen?" He answered his own question to himself: "Maybe, the silk screen is just a recorder, and cannot generate imagination; maybe Silkscreens can only show what a mommy sees." The final content of the mural is for Richard to complete.In each painting Richard sees himself carrying a big blue bag.The large bag had two large pockets, each containing a managua.There are two additional bags on both sides of the blue bag, one contains a silver test tube about fifteen centimeters long, and the other contains two hard little Aiyun eggs.

The mural neatly shows Richard the course of action to take: he needs to exit the brown cylinder through an underground exit and come out on the other side of the green field; two ivans are waiting for him there, and then lead him to the wall a ditch; then take a small submarine into a body of water; and finally anchor on an island with many high-rise buildings. Richard smiled. "So the Sea of ​​Columns and New York are still there." He remembered that Hawkman had told him that Rama would only make necessary changes.The mural details Richard's escape path, the alien creatures and plants growing in the green space, and how to operate the submarine.Richard was about to enter the most important information into his laptop when his teacher Moomin suddenly became impatient.Richard worries that things have gotten worse.

The next day, Richard had a long sleep, woke up and started packing.A mommy cat hurried him to the net room.There, he watched Moomin pick up four managuas that started growing two weeks ago and put them in his bag.Those four melons were heavy, estimated at twenty kilograms.Another Moomin used something like scissors to remove some of the filament and put it into a silver tube, which he put in Richard's bag.At the end they also filled him with two Iyun eggs. "It's time to say goodbye." Richard took a deep breath.Moomin cat pointed to the passage, and Richard suddenly remembered Watanabe Nai's Thai etiquette: fold your hands together in front of your chest and bow gently, which is common throughout the universe.He smiled and gave three Thai bows to the surrounding Moomies.

To his surprise, all the moonies stood upright, with their feet crossed in front of their chests, and bowed to him. Apparently, the very bottom of the brown cylinder is not a living area.Richard and his guide left the net room, said goodbye to the other mommes, and went down to the dungeon together.Since then, Richard has never seen another Moomin other than a guide. The guide puts a reggie down ahead.Lackey ran down the narrow passage, through an arched emergency exit and onto the green.After a while, Ricky came back and climbed on the head of Moomin cat for a few seconds, then jumped to the floor again.The guide motioned Richard to go forward.

On reaching the green, Richard saw two aiyun birds, one of which had an unsightly scar from a gunshot wound on its wing.Richard followed the two Aiyun birds in front of him to find the entrance in the dense fog and dim light.From time to time, gunshots were heard from afar. Everything went smoothly for the first quarter of an hour, and the thick fog gradually dispersed.Richard estimated that it would take another 10 minutes to see the submarine parked by the sea.Suddenly, the sound of machine guns came from 100 meters in front of them, and one Aiyun bird fell to the ground in response, and the other disappeared quickly. Richard quickly hid in the dark when he heard soldiers coming towards him. "Two rings for sure," one of them said. "Maybe three...so I'll have twenty this week." "Shit, it's not a contest, this one doesn't count. Those stupid birds don't know where you are." "That's not my problem, it's its problem, I'm still counting its wings. Ah, isn't it? . . . Oops, only two rings." The soldier was only 5 meters away from Richard.Richard stood there motionless for five minutes, watching the two soldiers stop where the Ivan had fallen, discussing the war with burning smoke. Richard suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right foot. He moved it lightly, thinking that his muscles were too tense, but the foot hurt even more.He looked down in horror to see that a rodent he had seen in the mural had gnawed through his shoe and was gnawing at his toes.Richard shook his feet silently and vigorously, and the rodent jumped off his feet and ran away.But something worse happened—the two soldiers heard the noise and were coming this way. Richard had a way to escape, but the pack on his back was too heavy for him to do so.A minute later a soldier called out, "Over here, Bruce, in the jungle." The soldier pointed his gun in Richard's direction. "Don't shoot! I'm human!" Richard said quickly. Another soldier also came over: "What the hell are you doing here alone?" "I'm playing hide and seek," Richard replied. "Are you crazy? Come out, come here, let me see you." Richard rose slowly from the bushes.In the dim light, his long hair, long beard and bulging bump made them startled. "My God... who are you?" one soldier said. "This is crazy... He must have escaped from the Aiyunniao residential area, lost his way and wandered here... Hey, don't you know this place is dangerous? You will be killed." "Look at his bag, he's carrying four big melons..." At this time, many Aiyun birds suddenly appeared in the air, screaming and rushing towards the soldiers angrily.The two soldiers fell to the ground, and Richard ran away.An iyun bird landed on a soldier's face, tearing his face with its sharp claws.Hearing the noise here, nearby soldiers ran towards this side with their guns in hand. Richard didn't know how to find the submarine, and the voices of people kept coming from behind him.Suddenly, there was a short bird call from the bushes on the right, and the leader of the Aiyun bird was flying over his head with four guard birds, and they flew low towards the sea. Under the guidance of Ai Yunniao, Richard found the submarine in less than three minutes. He went in and put his bag in a small control room behind him.Looking at his fellow ivans, Richard tried to make their calls, and the leader of the ivans called out slowly and clearly "We are all grateful to you." They sailed in the water for more than an hour, and Richard barely spoke to the leader of the Aiyun bird.At first he carefully observed the leader driving the submarine and recorded it on his computer, and then he drove it himself for a while.Richard kept reminiscing about his experiences in the settlement, wondering why he, and not Moomin, escaped in the submarine with these managuas and thread creatures. The submarine surfaced, and Richard entered an environment he was very familiar with.The tall buildings of New York appeared before his eyes again. "Thank the Lord!" he shouted excitedly, and put the bulging bag on the ground. The leader of Ai Yunniao leaned the submarine against the shore and was about to leave immediately.It turned to Richard, made a bow, and headed north.Looking at the big bird flying away, Richard realized that he was standing on the ground many years ago when three Aiyun birds carried him and Nicole on their backs across the column sea of ​​Rama 2, flying to a place of freedom!