In the darkness, Qiu Yu accurately patted Coulomb on the shoulder, "You can actually have such observations and insights, which completely surprises me."
Jack curled his lips, "How could he understand this? It was all said by the scientist who gave you the coin."
"It's amazing to be able to remember these things. Many people will hear countless important things, but most of them don't pay attention to them. So those who know what things are worth remembering and do remember certain things correctly, It is worthy of admiration in itself." Qiu Yu lowered the raised corner of the tent, and the noisy voice was slightly weakened. "By the way, that scientist of yours is a person worth remembering. You can tell me his name. ?"
In the darkness, both Jack and Coulun remained silent for a long time. Afraid that they might not hear clearly, Qiu Yu repeated loudly again, and then Coulun slowly said, "He, they call him a scientist."
Qiu Yu "..."
"It's like this." Jack explained, "Many people have asked for their names, but the answer is always the same - it is not our names that need to be remembered, but our identity as scientists. When one day , when human beings can live happily on this planet through our efforts, the memory we give to future generations will not be a long list of unpronounceable names, but scientists and science."
"Is this it...sleeping..."
Despite what he said, Qiu Yu didn't fall asleep until dawn.
When Qiu Yu opened his eyes, Coulomb and Jack, who were afraid that the food would spoil due to the high temperature, had already finished the rest of yesterday's meal and were discussing whether to wake themselves up.
The journey under the scorching sun begins again.
Because of the communication with the two people and the stay in the settlement, yesterday's walk actually lasted only half a day in the afternoon. But today, feeling the temperature of the sun gradually rising, Qiu Yu's fragile body walked for less than three hours. There was an obvious deficiency. Although his big bag has been handed over to Jack to hold, he is already on his way empty-handed. However, the continued call from the communicator failed, and coupled with the fantasy that others might be able to solve this problem, Qiuyu gradually felt that maybe it would be a good idea to just stay in the settlement and wait for victory. After all, both Jiuwei and Li Ningfeng are more suitable to find things in such an environment than themselves, not to mention Qiu Yan who is the finale.
Once the idea of cowardice is formed in the mind, people will keep looking for various reasons and excuses for their cowardice, especially Qiu Yu. No matter how many excuses he has to find for himself, it is easy for him. After thinking in detail about the power of the second level under the leadership of Sima Tianzhi, and the more or less effective third level, Qiu Yu has almost convinced himself that there is no need to embarrass himself too much with how much power he has.
In the end, there were only a few stories about giving up halfway and leading to no good results, which became a fragile line of defense to support Qiu Yu from retreating.
Another half hour later, the sound of something collapsing came from Qiu Yu's mind, "I think we should..."
"Hide."
Qiu Yu's words were interrupted by a low shout from Coulun who was walking in front. His reaction was a little slow before he was pushed to the ground by Jack.
The gravel on the ground was as hot as a stove. Qiu Yu instinctively wanted to stand up, but Jack's strength was greater than he imagined. When he struggled, Jack's strength triggered a backlash, and his body and the hot stone contact becomes more intimate.
Qiu Yu frowned and looked at Jack. This man who was rarely afraid was actually trembling a little, and his whole body was as stretched as a bowstring about to break due to the excessive tension. The force that pressed him so hard that he couldn't resist seemed to be caused by his instantaneous secretion of adrenaline.
It was hard to imagine what could possibly frighten him to such an extent. Qiu Yu never takes any detours when it comes to things that don't require a lot of thinking. He looked in the direction Jack was looking.
There was a RV two hundred meters away. All the wheels on the car were missing, so the bottom of the car was stuck to the ground. Most of the paint on the car body has peeled off, and the areas in contact with the ground are covered with sand and gravel. Judging from these two points, it has been parked here for at least fifty years or even longer.
The location where Qiu Yu and the others are now is an environment similar to the Gobi Desert. Everything they can see is the same pile of rubble and a small amount of unknown weeds that are yellow but still alive. Therefore, the sudden appearance of an RV that does not belong to this environment gives people a considerable sense of disharmony, but within this sense of disharmony, there is also a sense of horror and horror embedded in it.
On the outer edge of the roof of the RV, a row of... things were hung like bacon. Half of them were animal parts that Qiu Yu didn't recognize, but the other half was quite familiar.
They were thighs, arms and a torso cut into several pieces that originally belonged to humans.
Qiu Yu immediately understood where Jack's fear came from. Being bitten to death by an animal is as natural to them as human birth, old age, illness and death, but being eaten by the same kind is something that people of any era cannot easily accept, especially before eating, they don't know what will happen to make life worse. Dead things.
"Is that a homeless car?"
Seeing Coulomb carefully lying on the ground and gradually retreating, Qiu Yu also imitated his actions and retreated. Jack only joined the retreat after hearing Qiu Yu's questions.
Relative to the location of the RV, the group of people were on a slightly higher hill. After exiting a few meters, the RV was completely out of sight.
"Yes, the only people who would stay in a place like this are homeless people." Jack exhaled heavily.
Coulomb dusted himself off, "Looking at that car, it must have been here for a while, right? Haven't you walked this road?"
Jack smiled bitterly and said, "I can only tell the general direction by walking. There is no road here. There is nothing we can do if we deviate by a few kilometers. Let's go and stay away from them."
After following Jack for a few steps, Qiu Yu suddenly stopped.
"Where do you think the people they eat come from?"
"Where did it come from? It must be unlucky guys like us wandering around."
"But you said that there are no other settlements nearby. Those unlucky people wouldn't have traveled dozens or hundreds of kilometers to give them food here, right?"
Coulomb also stopped walking, "You mean, they are eating their peers!"
"In some ways, homeless people are no longer human. It's not surprising even if they eat each other. It's none of our business anyway." Jack just wanted to get away from here as soon as possible.
"Indeed." Qiu Yu looked at the sky again, "Whether this is just an ordinary cannibalism, or it may trigger a task related to some treasure. Or those limbs are just quite realistic models, we will walk over and see We found a poor mother and son. They used their models to intimidate other passers-by or homeless people around them, waiting for someone to rescue them. Or maybe it was a trap set by homeless people for us. As soon as we passed by, they would all come out. A bunch of guys who want to use us as food... An RV in the wilderness can really lead to too many stories. If we don't look, all these conjectures will always be just conjectures, but conjectures will not hurt us. But once we come into contact with it, no matter which of the facts it is, the fate of us and the owner of the RV will be entangled, and the straight path of fate will become complicated. Therefore, I still prefer simplicity."
Coulomb shook his head and said, "Why do you keep talking about fate? Scientists have said that the so-called fate is just the experience of life. As long as we survive, everything we do is a part of fate. Since every move we make is fate, so fate It’s essentially the same as eating and sleeping, so there’s no need to talk about it every day.”
"If it were me in the past, I would definitely agree with this statement of your scientists, but now... the extent to which we understand a thing depends on the degree and direction of knowledge we have. If you ask a child what is in the world The fastest, he might answer rockets. If you ask an ordinary person the same question, he will probably answer without hesitation, it is light; a basic physicist might answer that the fastest known thing is light; theory A physicist would probably say it is entangled quanta; a philosopher would definitely say it is thought. So from the perspective of fate, you are only standing in the perspective of your own scientists, and this is not necessarily the case. .”
Coulomb habitually pulled off a piece of skin from his hand, "Your words are too difficult to understand. Anyway, what you mean is that we won't go there, right?"
"Yes, what we have to do next is to reach the next settlement in the shortest straight line on the road of destiny. Try not to take any branches that deviate from this road."
Qiu Yu didn't mention anything about wanting to return just now. After Jack pointed out another direction, he continued walking towards the distant destination.
After walking out in silence for more than ten minutes, Jack suddenly said, "Can you tell me what fate you understand?"
"I understand..." Qiu Yu ended another futile call, "The fate I understand is more boring than what you scientists said."
"It can't be more boring than our current life, right?"
"I'm not saying that fate itself is boring, but that after knowing my understanding of fate, it will make you feel boring."
Coulomb slowed down and walked together with Qiu Yu and Jack, "Walking like this is the most boring thing. Since you don't have to save water, just talk about it and listen to it. I like things that make sense."
Talking is indeed a good way to distract energy. The farther you go forward, the less likely you are to retreat, so Qiu Yu is also willing to find something to say, "In my opinion, the so-called destiny is what you want to do." A collection of things you do and things you are forced to do by external forces..."
