Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Eight Visitors

The little robot walked into the light and drew his sword.British troops had reached Havernall. "Strike the gap again! Dear friends, Go, go, go, Step on the dead bodies of our Britons, up that wall. in days of peace, Humility and tranquility are virtues praised by everyone; But when the wind of war passes our ears, We have to be like tigers coming out of the forest..." England's new king, Henry V, kept pumping up the imaginary soldiers before him.Nicole listened, laughing.She had a good time with little Prince Henry of Walkerfield.Nicole had read Shakespeare's three historical plays about King Henry, but that had been many years ago.She was familiar with that history because she had always admired Joan of Arc very much.

"Shakespeare invented many things that never happened," she said aloud to the little robot, and stooping to pick it up, flicked the switch with a stick to turn it off, "You are a warrior, yes, No one can deny that. But you were also a ruthless conqueror, and by your majesty Normandy was bleeding. You nearly destroyed France." Nicole laughed at herself uneasily, thinking: "What the heck! Talking to a 20-centimeter-tall, unconscious robot." An hour earlier, she had tried again to find a way out of here, but had been unsuccessful, and she was disappointed.Time is passing by every minute.She gulped down one gulp after another, and as it got worse, she was running out of water.

She picked up the little robot again, thinking: "Well, at least this is much better than self-sorrow." "What else do you have, little prince?" said Nicole. "If I press the 'C' key, what will you do?" The robot came to life again, took a few steps forward, and touched her left foot.After a moment's silence, the prince spoke.This time, its voice was not the recitation of the low-pitched actor just now, but Walkerfield's voice. "The 'C' key is for talking. I know everything, I know everything, but you have to say something first."

Nicole smiled. "Well, Prince Henry," she said after a moment's thought, "tell me about Joan of Arc." The little robot hesitated, frowned, and replied: "She is a witch, dear lady. Ten years after my death, she was tied to a pillar and burned at the stake. During my reign, France The northern part of France was conquered by my army. This French witch actually claimed that she was sent by God..." Prince Henry told the history in a low voice, saying that Joan of Arc forced him to come to France again to quell the rebellion. "British talk, typical British nonsense." Nicole said while poking Prince Henry's switch again with a stick.

At this moment, a shadow flashed suddenly, and Nicole looked up suddenly, as if something was flying over the top of the "barn".Her heart beat violently. "Here, I'm here!" she screamed. After a while, the shadow grew bigger and bigger, completely covering the light that came into the well.Nicole looked up desperately, her heart in her throat. A large bird flapped its wings and hovered over the mouth of the well.Nicole shrank subconsciously and screamed. The creature stuck its neck into the mouth of the well and made a series of noises.The voice was sharp and hoarse, but high and low, like music.Nicole went limp with fright.But this guy kept repeating the series of calls just now, and then seemed to be trying to slowly descend to the bottom of the narrow well, but its wings were too big to get down.

At this time, Nicole's sense of terror lessened, and she began to study the alien bird.Its face is bisected by two soft dark blue eyes; a brown ring surrounds the eyes.Nicole couldn't help but think of the pterosaur he saw in the French Museum of Natural History.The bird has a long, hooked beak and no teeth; two claws grow symmetrically on the body, each with four pointed toes. Nicole estimated that it might have weighed 100 kilograms.Except for the face and beak, its body, claws, and wings are covered with a thick black velvety skin.When the bird realized that it was impossible to go down to the bottom of the well, it screamed twice, flapped its wings, flew up, and disappeared.

When it left, Nicole didn't dare to move for a minute.Then she sat down on the ground, thinking.She still had lingering fears in her heart, and adrenaline was rushing through her body.She wanted to give a reasonable explanation for what was happening in front of her.At first she thought that this "bird" was a bio-robot like those running guys found in Ramari before.But she thought: "If it's a biological robot, it's a very advanced one." She recalled other creatures she had seen, including Captain Newton's pictures of various strange creatures found in the southern half of Rama during their first exploration.Nicole could not bring herself to believe that the "birds" were their kind.What's in those eyes...

There was the sound of flapping wings not far away, and she became nervous again. When the light at the bottom of the well dimmed and a large body covered the parallel mouth again, Nicole shivered and curled up in a dark corner at the bottom of the well. Not one, but two!The first bird also brought a companion, and the second was bigger.The new bird stretched its neck and looked at its mate. As the two birds moved back and forth, chattering, Nicole noticed that the later bird was the same as the first, except that it was larger and had a linoleum-like sheen on its body. Just the same. Finally, the new bird came to the other side of the well, and the two birds stood opposite each other, looking strange.There was still something in their mouths.They watched Nicole for a while, exchanged a few words, and flew away.

Exhausted from fear and fright, Nicole fell asleep curled up in the corner of the well bottom a few minutes after the alien bird, which she tentatively dubbed "Aiyun Bird," had left. After sleeping deeply for several hours, she was awakened by a loud noise.The sound echoed in the "barn" like a gunshot.Nicole regained consciousness quickly, but the sound ceased.She was thirsty and hungry, took out the food bag, and asked herself wearily: "Should I eat it in two portions? Or eat it all now, and what will happen to it later?" She sighed deeply and decided to eat up all the water and food.She thought that sharing two meals might give her enough energy and make her temporarily forget about the lack of food and water.Of course she was wrong.She drank the last drop of water, and a clear picture kept appearing in her mind: in Beauvais, she was drinking mineral water with her family.

Nicole had just finished her "big meal" when she heard another sound in the distance.She paused to listen, and again there was silence outside.Nicole's mind was once again focused on one idea: escape from the deep well.She thought, maybe she could use Ai Yunniao to help her climb out.She was very angry that she didn't try to communicate with Ai Yunniao when she had the chance.Nicole laughed to herself: "Yes, they might eat me, but it's not clear which is better to starve or be eaten." Nicole was sure the iyunbirds would come back again.Perhaps the desperate situation increased her courage to take risks, and she began to wonder what she would do if they came back.She imagined that she could say, "Hello, hello!" She could get up, reach out, and walk vigorously under the iyunbirds; She kept pointing back and forth between Jing and herself with her hands, indicating that she couldn't go out; she waved to Ai Yunniao and asked them to help.

Nicole was brought back to reality by two sharp sounds, and she heard the sound again.Nicole searched in his mind like a computer. In the chapter of environment in "Lama Atlas", there are records of various voices in Lama.Nicole suddenly laughed at herself, why didn't she recognize it immediately when it rang for the first time?This is the sound made by the cracking of the ice above after the Sea of ​​Cylinders melted from below.Rama is already in the orbit of Venus, getting closer to the sun, heat is penetrating into Rama, and the temperature inside Rama is already above zero degrees Celsius, but Nicole doesn't know all this. The "Rama Atlas" warns: After the sea water melts, the atmosphere will become unstable, and under the action of updrafts, violent hurricanes will be formed.Nicole stepped into the middle of the well and called out, "Come on, Iyunbirds! Whatever you are, come on. Give me a chance to get out of here." However, Ai Yunniao never came back.Nicole sat in the corner for 10 hours, listening to the noise outside getting louder and louder, and finally subsided after a loud boom.Her body also became weaker and weaker. got windy.At first it was just a gentle breeze, but then it blew harder and harder, and finally, the wind blew up and shook the world, until the sound of the water in the sea was over, and the wind stopped.She fell asleep again.She knew that after waking up once or twice, she might never wake up again. The wind blew wildly in the city of "New York" for hours.Nicole was curled up at the bottom of the well, sitting lifeless in a corner.She listened dumbly to the whistling wind, and recalled that she had been sitting in a Swiss ski chalet on Mount Conalado, and there was a lot of snow outside.She tried to remember some pleasant memories of skiing, but it couldn't.Hunger and fatigue had left her terribly weak and had sapped her imagination. Nicole sat very still, with no thought in her mind except the occasional taste of dying. At some point Nicole fell asleep again.Not sure if she woke up again, she was getting very weak.Dimly, she realized that something had fallen into the well, and the light dimmed again.Nicole crawled from one end of the well to the other, where the metal trash piled up.She didn't turn on the flashlight.She was startled when she bumped into something in the dark.If you touch it with your hands, it is slightly larger than a basketball, with a smooth surface and an oval shape. Alarmed, Nicole fumbled for the light to see what it was.It was light white in color and shaped like a bird's egg.She examined it carefully and pressed it with her hands, it was slightly elastic. "Is this edible?" she wondered.But she was unbearably hungry, and at this moment, she didn't care about the consequences. She drew out her knife and began to cut.It was strenuous, but still manageable.She cut off a piece and stuffed it into her mouth excitedly.It had no taste at all, obviously it wasn't edible.Nicole spat it out, burst into tears, and kicked the thing angrily.This "melon" is rolling.There are voices inside!Nicole reached out to grab it and rolled it again, "Yes, yes," she said to herself, "the sound of liquid flowing in it." It took a long time to cut the skin of the "melon".Nicole found the medical kit thrown on the ground and dug vigorously with the scalpel.This thing has three layers, the outer layer is tough, like the plastic skin of a football, which is not easy to deal with; the second layer is a royal blue, soft, wet, melon-like thing; in the center of the melon, It is a green liquid. Nicole reached into the cut hole tremblingly, cupped the juice and brought it to his lips to taste it.The taste is very strange, with a little medicinal smell, but it gives people a refreshing feeling.She took a sip and swallowed it immediately.Years of medical training had made her accustomed to the smell of this medicine. Resisting her desire to drink more, she inserted the probe of the biochemical spectrometer into the liquid and began to analyze its chemical composition.The conclusion appeared on the small screen, and Nicole cried with joy. This liquid is not poisonous to the human body. On the contrary, it is rich in many proteins and minerals that the human body can absorb. "That's great, that's great!" Nicole exclaimed, standing up suddenly, almost fainting.She didn't dare to be careless now, she sat down carefully again, and began to enjoy the fun of life.She gulped down the juice, gulped down the moist and soft flesh, looking like she was devouring it.She drank enough and ate enough, so she fell asleep contentedly. The first thing she thought of after waking up was to see how much of this "exotic melon" was left, which was very important to her.She still remembers that she gorged on a meal before going to bed.Now, she has to save the day's melons, so that she can have enough time to find a way to get Ai Yunniao's help.Let's call this "melon" "Managua". Nicole looked at the melon. It turned out that the whole weight was about 10 kilograms; the rest weighed a little over 8 kilograms.She estimated that in addition to the inedible skin, there are about 6 kilograms of liquid juice and royal blue flesh, each accounting for half. "Let me see, 3 kilograms of juice..." Nicole's thoughts were interrupted by the reappearance of the light.She looked at her watch and said to herself: "Oh, yes, this light changes very regularly and on time." She looked at the egg-shaped object, which was the first time she had observed it in good light. it. She recognized it immediately. "Oh! My God." Nicole walked over, running her fingers along the brown, sinuous lines on the milky surface of the melon. "I almost forgot." She reached out her hand and took out the oval stone that her grandfather gave her on New Year's Eve in Rome, looked at it, then looked at the egg-shaped object at the bottom of the well, and couldn't help crying loudly : "Oh my God." She kept repeating. She put the stone back into her pocket, and took out the green vial her grandpa had given her. "Ronata will know when to drink." Grandpa's voice rang in her ears again. Nicole sat down in the corner and drank the water in the small bottle in one gulp.