Steampunk City [Infrastructure]

The dappled sunlight shone into the dim cave, forming a beam of dusty light.

A snail with an iron shell struggled to climb out of the cave along the light on the wall.

Even a snail wants to see the outside world, but this is an incredible thing for Luo Zhan. If you listen carefully, you can hear the roar of giant beasts and the screams of fierce birds outside the cave, even through the cave. The wind that blows in through the gap carries the stench of moth poisonous insects.

Normal people know how dangerous it is outside, so why not just stay in the cave quietly, watch videos and watch dramas?

In the corner of the cave, the computer screen emits a soft blue light.

This computer was picked up by the old patriarch from the ruins ten years ago. Luo Zhan still remembers the collapse of the earth's crust at that time, and the ancient ruins that had been buried underground for an unknown number of years were exposed to the surface.

Also since ten years ago, Luo Zhan has never been able to leave this cave again, because he is immersed in the world in this computer, the collision of different civilizations, and all the beautiful things in the computer, which made him start to escape from reality from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, he didn't know how to use this computer at the beginning. It was the boot program when the computer was turned on. He taught him bit by bit, words, numbers, symbols...etc.

Anyway, he is very slick at playing computer now, and he can easily open Wushuang in "Prince of Persia".

On the computer screen is the browsing history of short videos.

"Learn the principle of steam engine in 2 minutes."

"How to make the simplest steam pump ever."

"Handmade masters teach you how to make your own steam pump..."

Luo Zhe used his pale and slender fingers, which hadn't seen the sun for a long time, to pick up a burnt charcoal as a pen, and drew the blueprint of the steam pump on the animal skin.

Why did you draw this?

This is a long story. When the old patriarch of the tribe came to deliver food to him, he would always talk about the tragedy of the tribe's water transport team. Luo Zhan felt that a steam pump should be helpful to the tribe.

Of course, the most important reason is that the old patriarch died a few days ago, and his only direct blood relative automatically became the new patriarch. He had to get out of the cave and lead the clan to hunt and survive.

It's a bit unrealistic to think about it, he... a person who hasn't been out for ten years and has no hunting experience to lead a hunting team?

For this matter, he didn't sleep well for several days, but he also thought of a solution. Even if he doesn't leave the cave, he can still contribute to the tribe, right? So he got a steam pump to solve the problem of water transportation. idea.

In the past few days, he didn't even watch his favorite food videos and TV series, he was just researching the steam pump.

"Whoever said that the patriarch has to take a stone spear to stab the wild beast, it's too dangerous, if you are timid, you have to learn to hide!" Luo Zhan muttered, he has no advantages, but he has self-knowledge.

After finishing the painting, Luo Zhan also watched a play, the little Japan in it made him struggle to hold back his laughter, and of course the two huge mushroom clouds also made Luo Zhan's face pale for a long time.

To be honest, he didn't particularly understand why a civilization with such powerful weapons was buried underground and never saw the light of day.

The only clue he knows about the demise of that civilization is the diary left by the original owner of this computer.

"Today is 2050 AD, the beginning of everything."

"In the vast starry sky, an unimaginably huge meteorite swarm attacked the entire earth, causing the surface to be covered in lupus, but this was only the beginning of the disaster, because with the meteorite swarm came to the earth, there were countless strange beasts mixed in it Eggs, some are as big as mountains, some are as small as mustard seeds..."

"No one knows where these beast eggs came from, how they existed in the starry sky, and how they fell to the earth through the atmosphere without damage."

"For unknown purposes, both the government and private collectors have begun to frantically collect these magical beast eggs. This is also the real beginning of destruction. Failure to destroy them in the first place is the biggest mistake in human history. .”

"Beast eggs... have hatched, and they are thousands of times stronger than imagined. When human beings are repairing their homeland that was smashed by meteorites, these ferocious beasts frantically destroy everything within sight... ..."

"In the face of continuous disasters and animal hordes, the surviving humans had to go underground and build underground bases for their survival."

"Humanity clings to the hope of returning to the surface every day."

"But according to the paleontologists at the base, without the massive carbon dioxide produced by humans on the surface, the oxygen concentration will rise to an unimaginable speed, which means that organisms living in high concentrations of oxygen, even ordinary organisms, will not will become larger and larger, and the surface may even return to the Jurassic or older Carboniferous period."

"Of course, these are all speculations. It is impossible for us to see the results, because... Gradually, the various underground bases began to lose contact. Everyone can guess what happened. Those unknown creatures captured the base."

"In 2080 A.D., I can no longer receive any news from other underground bases. The base I am in may be the only base left by human beings."

"People started to panic and started to realize that humans might be completely wiped off the face of the earth."

"In 2090, I finally couldn't bear the torment of fear. I replaced my computer with renewable energy panels, stored all the resources I could find, and set up a fire program. I hope that the human beings who get this computer or Other intelligent creatures can learn our language and knowledge, and know that there used to be an intelligent creature called human beings on the earth..."

That's all that Luo Zhan knew. Countless years have passed, and no one can tell what the truth is.

As for how such a long time has passed, how can this computer still be used?Luo Zhan also deduced some possibilities from the content on the computer. People accidentally discovered that the meteorites that fell to the ground seemed to have storage capacity beyond imagination, so people made these meteorites into some storage boxes.

When this computer was first discovered, it was found in a black meteorite box, and the box is still lying in the corner of the cave.

Playing with the computer happily for a while, at this time, a "cuckoo" sound suddenly sounded in the cave.

Luo Zhan: "..."

How long has he not eaten?

In the past, the old patriarch came to deliver food. After the old patriarch died, there was no movement, and the food he had stored had been eaten up.

But Luo Zhan's temperament is that he will not come out of the cave even if he is killed.

He can continue to watch dramas even if he is hungry. He has been slack in studying the steam engine these days, and he has to make up for all the dramas he didn't watch.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Luo Zhan lay down weakly.

"What should I do? I'll starve to death if I don't eat any more."

I'm really hungry, I almost spit out the bitter water.

Luo Zhan glanced at the position of the cave entrance. If he couldn't hold on, he would never have had the current idea, "They won't forget that there is their new patriarch in the cave, right? Why don't they go out and have a look anyway? Have to give them the blueprints for the steam pump."

Luo Zhan endured it for a while, and had to say that in order to get out of the cave, he could do as much as he could bear.

"No, no, no."

Luo Zhan hid the computer in the meteorite box in the corner of the cave, covered it with animal skins, and got up dizzily, "I will come back immediately after explaining, the outside world is not suitable for me."

He took the animal skin blueprint, gathered the self-made robe on his body, covered his head with the hood on the robe, and only showed a pair of eyes, because what his tribe wanted to see was a powerful patriarch who could lead them to survive, and It's not his thin body that doesn't see the sun all year round...

In the past, the old patriarch told him more than once that he could keep his mouth shut, but he must let everyone see the ferocity of the tribal people hunting the land.

"Nobody sympathizes with the weak."

Every time the old patriarch said this, there was inexplicable sadness in his eyes. Luo Zhan knew what the old patriarch was worried about. He was too immersed in the beautiful and peaceful world of the computer, and he lacked the most basic wildness of tribal people. .

His appearance and character, no matter which tribe he was thrown in, would be as abrupt and out of place as if he stood out from the crowd.

But people's character is not something that can be changed just by changing it. Besides, Luo Zhan has already made a plan, and he will stay in the cave to strategize. Is it possible that their tribe will not be unable to survive?

At the entrance of the cave, Luo Zhan carefully stuck out his head.

The pale face is more obvious in the sun, the whole person looks soft and cute, without any aggressiveness, I am afraid that anyone who sees Luo Zhan for the first time will be confused for a long time, a person's temperament is determined by his thoughts, And Luo Zhan's thoughts are destined to be different from everyone else's.

The light outside is relatively strong. After the short-term blindness caused by the strong light, the eyes suddenly open up...

The world is vast, the land is magnificent, with continuous volcanoes, dense jungles, and an ancient and primitive atmosphere.

If the world in the computer is an orderly world full of steel, then this place is wild, the most primitive wild.

The vision of Luo Zhan's tribe is very good, because it is on a continuous volcano, the wanton lava burned all the surrounding ancient trees, leaving only some tenacious weeds, very barren, there is no way, like It is very good for a small tribe like them to have their own habitat.

The wide field of vision allows people to see very far. In the sky, a huge beetle with raging smoke dragged long flame particles in the air, overlooking the earth ferociously, ready to hunt and kill all creatures at any time.

Farther away, an indigo giant as shoulder-to-shoulder as the mountain was walking in the river and sea. Luo Zhan could feel the aftermath of the indigo giant's trampling on the ground under his feet.

Luo Zhan: "..."

If he wasn't about to starve to death in the next moment, he could immediately retreat to the cave.

It is as wild as an epic, and a world completely different from the computer, this is the reality he has escaped for ten years.