Blue Star Survival Project: Animal Edition

In the middle of the night, Shengcun woke up from hunger.

The snow was quietly glowing white under the sky, and the huskies at the foot of the mountain were pitch black, and the huskies huddled together made a few vague grunts from time to time, singing in harmony with his stomach.

Sheng Cun strode his long legs, trotted down the mountain, and went straight to the junior slide next door.

There were a lot of people going there during the day, and he was sure he could always find some leftovers.

Sure enough, after going around in a circle, he got a lot of harvest, half a piece of bread, a piece of bacon that fell out of the burger, and even a can of lunch meat with more than half left.

There were fine footprints all around, which looked like some kind of weasel, and when it was still a short distance from the food, it made a detour and disappeared into the woods in the distance.

It seems that I, a traveler, was the first to snatch other people's food. I didn't expect that the garbage left by humans can really feed a large number of animals.Sheng Cun was in a turmoil, thankful that he acted first.

"Going down the ridgeline where the ski resort is located, there is a salt mine at an altitude of about 500 meters, and it is expected to arrive in a week."

The system went online, and after a short instruction, disappeared again.

Salt mines...?

Sheng Cun chewed the meat in his mouth slowly, thinking: No matter how unreliable the system is, it is impossible for me to mine with wolf claws.

He had a good idea, because along the road, there were quite a few pickaxes specially used for mining that were discarded by the roadside. They were stained with rust, and they looked like they had been abandoned for a long time.

But there is a wooden slideway lying on the path, and soon after, a rather retro-looking cart passed by, and at the end is a dark cave.

A group of people wearing dark blue miners' uniforms and hard hats got out of the car. The first thing they did was to line up at the entrance of the cave, showing a standard "here for a visit" smile.

It seems that this place has been transformed into an experience hall.

Shengcun avoided the crowd and went into the woods.

I don't know if the dense evergreen forest blocks the sunlight, Sheng Cun always feels that the place is gloomy, and there is a cold current rushing around.

Abandoned mine pit, that's a high incidence of horror stories.

Sheng Cun's heart was fuzzy, he patted the ground lightly with his tail, silently thinking about prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony in his heart.

"Thorn."

The haystack not far away moved without wind, Sheng Cun was so frightened that he jumped up on the spot.

There was also something flashing in the grass, and then, there was a smell of hare wafting through the tip of the nose.

Shengcun's heart suddenly shone with sunshine. It's been more than a month, he hasn't seen such a delicious little thing for more than a month!

What a ghost story, go to hell!

He ran over as fast as he could.

The hare darted upwards, jumping over a barricade with a high threshold.

Below is a small slope that slopes slightly downwards, with weeds growing at the end.

The hare rushed behind the grass without hesitation.

The swaying dead grass didn't stop, and was soon knocked away by a bigger object.

Shengcun's head passed through smoothly, and then got stuck at the shoulder.

A wave of heat came rushing in from the cave, Sheng Cun blinked, watching the hare hop and hop and disappear into the depths of the cave in despair.

The wind blew cold on his buttocks, and Shengcun's heart was also half cold.

But he didn't give up, after a painful self-compression, he finally squeezed into the hole.

Once the hole is passed, the space inside is suddenly spacious, which is a height that allows people to walk upright.

The cave walls here are exceptionally flat, and there are still remaining supports, which are undoubtedly mines dug by humans.

However, the wooden bars supporting the entrance of the cave have long since rotted away. I don’t know that the snow melted in the spring of that year, causing a small landslide, which directly buried more than half of the entrance of the cave, and became a temporary shelter for wild rabbits.

"This is Hallstatt in Austria, known as the oldest salt capital in the world." The system began to popularize science.

"I've never heard of it." Sheng Cun replied honestly.

"I don't understand it. In ancient times, this place was once a vast ocean. The violent plate movement caused the Alps to rise from it, and the ocean disappeared, but the sea salt was deposited in the rocks and remained."

"The aborigines here are the Celts. Since 900 BC, they began to mine the salt mines here and sent them to the whole country and even the whole of Europe. The salt at that time was a precious resource, which brought considerable wealth to the local and royal families. income."

"So our task this time is..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

Sheng Cun's miserable howl abruptly interrupted the system's speech. Because he was too frightened, his voice was severely altered, and he forced a human voice out of the wolf's throat.

Can't blame him for that either.

Adhering to the concept of "everyone is coming", Shengcun walked slowly in while listening to the system's long speech, as if he was visiting a scenic spot with a free guide.

Then, his front foot hit something hard.

He looked down casually, and saw two black holes staring at him firmly.

Sheng Cun froze, his eyes moved down slowly, a row of neat teeth were half buried in the soil, as if he was smiling politely.

This, is this...

a human...

skull……?

The brain was down, and there were two wars, and it was difficult to find his own thinking.

"Don't be afraid, you guessed right. But strictly speaking, it's half, because the back of its head is missing." The system said quietly.

No no no, actually it would be happier if you told me I was wrong.Shengcun shook his head frantically.

"I haven't finished talking just now. During the process of developing the salt mine, an ancient tomb was unearthed. This is the famous Hallstatt prehistoric civilization relic. The representative cultural relics are a large number of bronze and iron objects."

"You mean, what is this skull, the ancients?"

In Sheng Cun's eyes, this broken skull was instantly coated with the brilliance of years, and he jumped away like an electric shock.

"It's been almost 200 years since this ancient tomb was discovered. It stands to reason that the archaeological excavations have been relatively thorough. The skull was probably washed out during a landslide..."

The system looked thoughtful.

"Back to the topic, our task this time is to send this skull to the church in the small town."

"I don't want it, I don't want to destroy cultural relics, hey!"

Shengcun tried to stop the system's nonsense.

"Have you forgotten, now your identity is a wolf."

The system reminded me friendly.

"I don't understand, what's the point of doing this..."

Shengcun resignedly put down the flower seeds in his mouth, dug out the skull from the soil, and held it in his mouth with a frown.

Fortunately, it is getting dark now, otherwise if someone saw a wolf with a skull in its mouth, they would probably be shot dead on the spot...

He chose to walk along densely forested paths for fear of being discovered.

"See, there's a church halfway up the mountain."

Shengcun was lying in ambush in the bushes, his wolf eyes glowing green quietly poked out, and saw an independent pointed building on the opposite side.

Listening carefully, there is only the whistling wind in the forest, and there is no human movement.

He leapt out, preparing to cross the clearing in front of him.

Rows of small pocket houses are neatly arranged in front of it, and there are small flower beds in front of it.

In winter, the flower beds are not bare, and the pink and purple primroses crawl on the snow surface sporadically.

Although he knew that traveling fast is the kingly way, Sheng Cun still couldn't hold back his curiosity and couldn't help stopping to see what it was.

"...1944-2015..."

With the faint light, he struggled to decipher the words on the small house, and finally realized that it was a tombstone.

"2000, 2001, 1998, 1999..."

"Strange, why is the time so close?"

Sheng lived in the cemetery, full of doubts.

"In the past, there was not enough space in the cemetery, so people in the town had a custom to take out the bones of their loved ones after 10 years of burial, leaving the skull and leg bones, and then painted the name of the deceased on it, and carefully decorated it. Later, it will be sent to the bone hall of the church for future generations to pay homage to.”

The system is hard to solve.

"The church across the way?"

Sheng Cun asked softly.

"Yes."

The door was locked, but there was a window blown open by the wind.

Sheng Cun jumped and landed lightly.

Under the instructions of the system, he quickly found the place.

This is a small space, a wolf can occupy a small half of the space.

Candles burn silently, and the cross casts a huge silhouette in the center of the wall.Except for the gate, there are brackets fixed on the three walls, on which the skulls are displayed.

Their names were outlined in elegant cursive letters, and painted laurel, ivy, and roses circled their foreheads like wreaths.

The candlelight was beating, and their eyes were bright and dark alternately, as if they were reminiscing with old friends.

Sheng Cun stood blankly, he didn't feel afraid, only an inexplicable sense of sacredness rose from the bottom of his heart.

They were born in this land, lived in this small town, and finally stayed here forever in such a lively way, watching the world.

Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves.

This poem suddenly popped up in Shengcun's mind.

What hypocrisy, from a secular sense, am I not a dead person myself.

This kind of literary sentence does not fit the personality, he shook his head and drew his attention back.

"See that skull named William in the far corner?"

The system brought him back to his senses.

"found it."

Sheng Cun hurried to the bracket. The skull was from 1994, and there was still a small space beside it.

He found that the skull was out of place in a pile of plant patterns, because his head was still painted with a small skull.

"what's going on?"

he asks.

"He played in the mine when he was a child, and accidentally fell into the cave you went to. He didn't find the skull buried deep in the soil, but he picked up an ancient and mysterious bronze."

"William was so fascinated by these things that he took a vow to become an archaeologist."

"But when he was in college, he went to work in the salt mines to save tuition fees, but he died in an accident by accident."

"..."

Sheng Cun was silent, and he gently placed the thousand-year-old skull next to William, and looked at his empty eyes complicatedly for a few seconds.

"Brother, it seems that you are as unlucky as me."

After a while, he uttered a sentence of sympathy for each other.

Before leaving, Shengcun prostrated himself on the ground, and solemnly saluted these seniors.

Perhaps the people who are buried here were once ordinary people. What have they experienced in their ordinary lives?It is only after death that one can imagine.

This is the end and the beginning.

"We were what you are now, and you will be what we are now."

On the way Shengcun rushed back to get the seeds, the system suddenly spoke.

"What kind of philosopher are you pretending to be?"

Shengcun is inexplicable.

"This is the slogan at the entrance of the bone hall, I will translate it for you."

The system replied calmly.

Shengcun stretched his limbs, felt the whistling wind in his ears, and suddenly had the urge to sing to the moon.

"Anyway, now—"

He restrained himself in time, revisiting the law of time travel in his heart.

"Survival comes first, it's good to be alive!"

The author says:

Originally finished writing at night, because it was a bit scary (?) so I posted it in the morning (laughing and crying)

Small reminder: Please hand in any cultural relics you find, and you must not handle them privately.

Inspired by a friend's Austrian travel diary, reference "Hallstatt __ in the world's oldest salt capital __ the art cemetery meets the bone church"

感谢在2022-04-2100:00:10~2022-04-2302:12:06期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: 4 bottles were lost in the trousers;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!