After landing, Zhou Tang and his deskmate went back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers.
It was just before noon when I came out of No. 187 Pingdi Building, and I didn't return until the sun was setting. Aunt Wu next door shook her head and said that the world was declining, and the little girl of the old Zhou family had learned bad things.
The little girl Zhou Tang didn't look sideways and turned a deaf ear to Grandma Wu's words. She took out the key from her pocket and inserted it into the door lock.
Before he could twist the key, the door was opened from the inside.
It was Father Zhou who came home from overtime work.
Seeing Zhou Tang's smile, he said, "Tangtang, you're home! Are you hungry? Did you not eat at noon?"
Tangtang, you don’t have to save money for dad. Dad works just so you can eat and drink! "
Grandma Wu suddenly said loudly, "Boy Zhou, you should take good care of your little girl! She is still in school! How dare you get married with a man while you are not at home! Hey, you don't care about her anymore. , only..."
Father Zhou stretched out his hand and gently pulled Zhou Tang behind him and pushed him back into the room. He faced Grandma Wu, "I know Tangtang's temperament best. I won't do anything with a man!"
Grandma Wu let out a long sigh and said, "Hey, boy Zhou, don't wait until something really goes wrong, you will regret it! If you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer the consequences. After all, you have been colleagues with my boy for so many years! I am I won’t harm you! My daughter needs to take control of her as soon as possible..."
Father Zhou directly cut off Granny Wu's words and boldly admitted his mistake. He could not let anyone throw dirty water on his daughter. "It's also my problem. Granny Wu, the man you saw this morning is a colleague from our maintenance department." ! He helped me with my work yesterday! That’s why I’m so grateful to invite him to my home.
And because it was too late last night, I stayed overnight and asked him to rest at my house! When I woke up this morning, I remembered that yesterday there was another one... that hadn't been repaired. Without thinking too much, I went out to work overtime in the maintenance department!
My Tangtang knew how to help me deal with the aftermath even at a young age. He entertained my colleague and sent him out in person! "
Father Zhou's face was solemn and unquestionable, "Grandma Wu, I respect you as the mother of the Wu brothers! I don't want those rumors and rumors that slander my daughter to spread everywhere! Otherwise, if I don't look for you, I will also look for the Wu brothers. An explanation! You know who I am."
Father Zhou's words changed Grandma Wu's face into a five-color palette, which was both green and gray. He wanted to teach this disrespectful person a lesson!
She was worried again. If she said a few more words and caused trouble for her own son, then she would really be the biggest sinner of the old Wu family!
As soon as Father Zhou turned around, he saw his daughter giving him a thumbs up with bright eyes!
Zhou Tang's voice was neither loud nor quiet, "My dad is mighty!"
These words were passed word by word into Grandma Wu's ears that were not always alert and working well, and added a touch of red to her palette.
Zhou's father laughed and cursed, pushed Zhou Tang into the house, took her through the door, and completely shut out Granny Wu who spent too much money.
Father Zhou got busy as soon as he entered the door, "My dear, you must be hungry! Dad has already heated the food on the stove! I'm waiting for you to eat it as soon as you come back! There are good things in the canteen of the unit today, and I specially ordered a portion Here you go, come and eat."
Zhou Tang followed his example and went to the bathroom to wash his hands, then went back to the room, took off his coat, and put on his home clothes.
To be honest, she had already digested the meal in the morning! At this time, my stomach kept growling!
When his eyes came into contact with the dish Zhou's father brought specially for him from the cafeteria, he couldn't take his eyes away. It was a bowl of fragrant braised pork belly.
The pork belly is authentic, with a total of five layers, two fat and three thin. The surface is reddish brown and shiny, and it is simply fragrant.
Zhou Tang couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and a pair of chopsticks had already landed on the pork belly.
The brown and shiny pork belly falls on the white rice, and the two become a perfect match between heaven and earth.
When Father Zhou smiled, he wondered why he was working so hard. It was just so that his daughter could have enough to eat and drink, so that she would not have to worry about food and drink!
"Eat quickly!"
Zhou Tang responded to Zhou's father with "Ah woo".
The pork belly, which is two fat and three thin, does not feel greasy at all when it enters your mouth. Instead, it melts in your mouth. Paired with a mouthful of rice, it is delicious.
There were only five pieces of pork belly in the small aluminum box. After the Zhou family and his daughter gave in to each other, Zhou Tang ate three pieces...
After having a full meal, Zhou Tang's face turned rosy.
At this time, Zhou's father suddenly asked, "Where did Tangtang go to play today! Why don't you go to the maintenance department with dad tomorrow? The cafeteria in the maintenance department is much more delicious! You can choose it yourself, dad will Please eat."
Zhou Tang glanced at Zhou's father, and then said slowly, "After I saw him off, my uncle went out and wanted to take a walk outside to relax. Then he met my deskmate. When he saw me alone, he took me with him. Wander around as you please.”
"Oh, your roommate! Is that the young man from the Wang family? Wang Sen is quite a good person! But he has an elder and a younger one, just like your neighbor Wu and his family, Wang Sen has to support the whole family by himself. He is so tired. , and still eat less.”
Zhou Tang said coldly and ruthlessly, "...Dad, what are you trying to say in a roundabout way?"
Father Zhou smiled awkwardly, "It's nothing! It's nothing! It's just that my daughter has grown up! My daughter's affairs are my business! I can only care more about her."
"Why didn't you go to the restaurant on Jin Street to have something to eat? That young man definitely doesn't have the money to treat you to a meal," Zhou's father slapped his forehead and retorted quickly, "Hey, look at my nonsense, our Zhou family is rich , he doesn’t need to ask.”
This Zhou Tang was not the other Zhou Tang. Her mood was very calm. She did not change in the slightest because of Father Zhou's teasing. Instead, she calmly reminded, "...Dad, I want to hear the truest answer after twelve o'clock tomorrow night."
Father Zhou looked like he had eaten a fly and was choked.
Zhou Tang suddenly stood up, bent over and cleared the small dining table, and neatly stacked the lunch boxes for the two of them and the aluminum box containing pork belly...
Father Zhou reacted, "Hey, let me do it!"
Seeing that Zhou Tang's movements were not slow, he quickly grabbed the lunch box from her hand and urged Zhou Tang, "Go, go! You've been wandering outside all day, go back home and rest." ! I'll wash it! You go ahead and go ahead."
Zhou's father sent Zhou Tang away impatiently, and carried a pile of lunch boxes into the bathroom.
Seeing that Zhou's father had even closed the bathroom door, Zhou Tang chose to go back to his room to rest.
Here Zhou Tang is lying flat on the single bed, thinking about the world outside the curtain that his deskmate said...
Her deskmate and she grew up in the underground space and had never seen anything on the ground. However, in the books they read from elementary school to college, they always inadvertently mentioned the beauty and grandeur of the past.
This greatly arouses their inner desire, and they will use all means to go out and have a look.
So what is the world like outside today?
Zhou Tang closed his eyes, and many images flashed through his mind.
But Cheng Mu was pulled up from the creaking and shaking iron bed in the dilapidated maintenance department staff dormitory.
"Hey! Engineer Cheng, come with me!"
Cheng Mu looked at the haggard and unshaven man who opened the dormitory door, quickly turned over and got out of bed.
He casually grabbed a coat and put it on himself, and walked out with the visitor, "What's going on?"
"It's... something about the maintenance department! There have been a lot of things recently! What I discovered tonight is more urgent. As an old employee, stay far away. The director asked me to find you, the person with the highest academic qualifications."
Cheng Mu nodded, "What happened?"
However, the visitor did not choose to say it directly in the dormitory corridor, "Oh, we will discuss it in detail when we get to the unit!"
At this time, someone came out of the dormitory room to wash up. They saw the visitor and greeted him in a friendly manner, but they did not ask why Cheng Mu was following behind...
The main one, I saw it, but I shut up.
The two of them strode back to the maintenance department, and the man directly issued the task, "It's like this. There is a big problem with the canopy, which has affected several curtains in a row. You go and deal with it first."
Without saying a word, Cheng Mu took out the tool box from under the seat in the office and followed the man to the maintenance entrance.
When entering the entrance again, I also put on protective clothing.
As a result, the man only gave him the coordinates of the broken curtain, but did not go in with him.
If this were to others, it would definitely be as ugly as eating poop!
When doing maintenance, only one person can go in, and at least two people have to accompany each other.
This kind of maintenance behind the curtain is extremely risky. If it is not done properly, it is very likely that you will never come back!
Two people accompany each other and can help each other...
That man's behavior was simply an illegal operation. He dug a deep pit and let Cheng Mu fall into it, but no one made a sound when he fell!
Cheng Mu looked indifferent to the things that others cared about. He even wished he could act alone and find out everything about the people here!
Unravel the mystery early...
The man looked solemn and said, "I'll leave it to you!"
Cheng Mu nodded and turned around to enter.
There are also lights at the entrance. The further you go in, the further apart the two adjacent lights become.
Until Cheng Mu entered complete darkness, he groped the top of his head, and a bright beam of light shot out from the top of his head.
He raised his head and carefully observed the coordinate position marked above his head, and then followed the guidance of the coordinate position, entered the fork in the road, and headed towards the goal.
As we walked and stopped along the way and passed through several "safety gates", we seemed to be able to hear a lot of noises, similar to the sounds of animals gnawing, or the vibrations caused by groundwater flowing above our heads and around our bodies...
Cheng Mu slowly approached the coordinate point the man gave him.
The closer he got, the more obvious and louder the crackling and gnawing sounds were.
Cheng Mu directly turned off the lamp on his head. He suddenly remembered that when he came to this copy, he casually browsed through the books he had on hand.
The maintenance department is mainly responsible for the safe operation of the entire canopy, and the surface of the canopy means bringing scenery to the underground space, making people feel happy, etc...
But the sky curtain also has an underlying meaning. It is the first layer of barrier. It can withstand attacks by underground creatures and disasters...
Of course it has another meaning.
Cheng Mu retracted his thoughts, concentrated his attention, and slowly opened the toolbox in his hand, trying not to make any noise to avoid "disturbing" these animals...
He took out the stick from the tool box...
He held his hands tightly, and with the confidence, he dared to continue to smear the story.
After walking about thirty steps, five or six pairs of green eyes faced him. His body reacted much faster than his brain.
Just hit it with a stick, and the sharp screams instantly spread throughout this passage...
Without any hesitation, Cheng Mu continued to raise the stick and wave it in the rather narrow space, one stick after another, and none of the sticks missed.
After more than ten blows, both horizontally and vertically, there was only a desperate wailing sound left in this section of the passage.
Cheng Mu stood up straight and slowly stretched out his hand to turn on the light above his head.
White lampposts illuminate this small passage.
I saw the bodies of five unknown animals lying on the ground in the passage.
When Cheng Mu saw that there were still panting animals, he didn't hesitate. He stepped forward with a stick and gave them another stick to ensure that there was no chance of them getting up again.
After doing all this, he slowly relaxed and stared at these strange animals.
Because he comes from the interstellar alliance era in the distant future, he has no understanding of the animals that originally lived on the ancient blue star...
But even so, Cheng Mu vaguely noticed something unusual.
These animals have protruding fangs and bloodshot eyes. Some have five legs, some have six legs. But, at first glance, some of these legs are short and weak, just for decoration...
There is also the hair on the animal’s body. There is a bald patch on the left and a bald patch on the right. The fur is glued together with dried black blood. It is really ugly beyond description...
The strange shapes of these animals made Cheng Mu believe that something must have happened to them that caused them to undergo horrific mutations.
It's no wonder that maintenance department employees are generally reluctant to come to the passage behind the canopy to do maintenance.
Even if three or five people come at once, they will definitely be injured if they are not prepared, oh, it should be said that they do not have absolute force.
Cheng Mu moved his eyes away from these dead animals, with only the warmth of their bodies remaining, and looked behind the sky with the bright light above his head.
The metal structures behind several pieces of the canopy were gnawed away beyond recognition. It’s no wonder that several pieces of the canopy were blackened.
Thinking of this, Cheng Mu decided to return to the location where he left the toolbox not far from here, take the toolbox with him, and use professional equipment to detect the damage after being chewed by animals.
But when Cheng Mu returned to this place, two of the five miserable animal carcasses had disappeared.
Cheng Mu immediately entered the battle preparation state again. His eyes patrolled around the passage, and finally his eyes settled on an inconspicuous small hole.
Not far from here, there was a cave dug by these five animals. The cave was not big, and Cheng Mu compared it in his mind. He could get his head into it.
Five animals came here through the dug holes, and what animals dragged away the two corpses?
When Cheng Mu thought of this, he first blocked the hole with the tools at hand.
Then he turned his attention to the metal structure behind the canopy. More than half of it had been destroyed. His tool box did not have so many materials for him to repair.
