Chapter 886: A Sumptuous Dinner and the Plumber’s Random Thoughts

Chapter 886: A sumptuous dinner and the plumber’s random thoughts

Lin Xue suddenly took out a lot of fancy snacks from his pocket, causing Glick and Shuizhu to fall into a sluggish state almost instantly. After the eldest lady carried them several times, those colorful packages were spread all over the floor. The number and variety of tables are staggering.

Regardless of whether Glick and Shuizhu were stunned, even the rest of us were in a serious state of sluggishness. What do you think these are? A pack of spicy strips costing 50 cents, a pack of sour plums costing one yuan, a piece of There are May Day packages of popping candies, crispy rice without labels, strange-flavored beans without production dates, puffed foods that may have leaked oil, and even chocolate bars with teeth marks...

Lin Xue conveniently stuffed the chocolate slab into my mouth, and then looked at my subtle expression and bared her teeth in a pretentious manner: "Why, do you dislike me? I just took a bite, and it's not like I didn't Taste it!”

You see, this "it's not like I haven't tasted it" simply has too many explanations in this context. I can hardly imagine any way to avoid being biased in this situation, and in fact, in this situation Under the circumstances, thinking wrong is the only right way. Anyway, everyone present except the real children all thought wrong at the same time. Bingtis looked at this side with a perverted look, his eyes were wandering. After touching her teeth, Sandora handed over a CD case with teeth marks. The mercury lamp began to bite my head, her mouth was like an angry kitten, and the culprit Lin Xue turned out to be... He continued to take out snacks as if nothing had happened.

I would like to boldly ask: As a wealthy lady worth billions, Xue Ya, do you really need to indulge in these snacks soaked in gutter oil and Sudan red?

If Lin Xue told everyone now that she took these things with her to provide food aid to Zimbabwe after returning to Earth, I think everyone would believe it immediately...

But after getting to know Lin Xue's character, I still have to admit that this rich young lady is indeed quite capable in some aspects unconsciously. She is a weirdo who dares to drink red wine with soy milk at the family's internal banquet. You and her It would be crazy to look like a young lady on your body.

"Wow! This, this, and this..." It took almost two or three minutes for Glick to react. He pointed at a lot of colorful flowers and willows on the table and exclaimed. Even the water, which was always quiet, Little Lolita Zhu stood by with her eyes widened in surprise, "What are these things? So beautiful! What are these used for?"

We all fell silent for a moment, with strange expressions on our faces, complicated and tangled. My sister was the first to react and explained to the Glick brothers and sisters with a smile: "These are food."

Shuizhu blinked, picked up a pack of sour plums, put it in his mouth and bit it hard, then looked at the plastic packaging with a tooth mark in confusion, and shook his head at us: "That's not right."

"You should take off the packaging." I couldn't help but press lightly on Shuizhu's hair, help her open the packaging bag of sour plums, take out a piece of pulp from it and stuff it into her mouth, "It's very sour. You may not be used to it when you eat it at once, so be careful as your saliva may flow out.”

Shuizhu stupidly chewed the black pulp in his mouth for a few times, which tasted absolutely different from "gypsum". Before the expression on his face could change, he suddenly reached out and covered his mouth, hissing and sucking in the cold air. It was quite good. It took a long time to calm down, but there was a look of panic and confusion on his face - this expression made people confused. What kind of evaluation did this make about the food?

The little girl pointed at the unpacked pickled plums in my hand, pointed at her mouth with one finger, and mumbled a lot of things incoherently, as if she wanted to describe the taste of this thing but couldn't find the words to apply it. It took a long time before two words came out: "More!"

Glick also opened a bag of potato chips in the same manner. The fluffy stuff disappeared after chewing it for a few times. Glick obviously felt incredible about such weird food, but obviously, this did not affect him. He quickly poured the whole bag of potato chips into his mouth.

Like the wind and the remaining clouds, the Glick brothers and sisters quickly swept away these wonderful foods that had probably never appeared in this world. The discarded packaging bags they produced were thrown to Shandora as usual. When they went out, Shandora Dora always acts as our trash can. Basically, anything we don’t want is stuffed into her and she eats it. She is more efficient at destroying garbage than the recycling furnace. Of course, these garbage have to be except for those that I really don’t see. Sandora herself doesn't care about hygienic things, but the problem is that she is used to coming over and kissing me after eating, which is unbearable.

Glick and Shuizhu's reaction to these snacks was a bit exaggerated. A handful of popping candies that had nothing but a sweet saccharine taste made them scream, but Lin Xue touched my arm at this moment. , whispered: "Actually, they don't know exactly what those things taste like. Shuizhu even now doesn't know that the taste of those sour plums is 'sour'. She doesn't have this concept."

I glanced at Lin Xue in surprise, knowing that she had directly seen something with her own power.

"Human beings in this world have undergone physiological degradation, just because they have to contend with the harsh environment. A certain degree of physiological degradation is also accompanied by physical strengthening in other aspects, so we didn't see it at first, but there are some aspects of degradation that cannot be helped. To make up for it: their taste nerves are ten times slower than ordinary people, and their brains have no ability to process complex tastes."

Perhaps Lin Xue was right. Glick and Shui Zhu had no idea what the food they ate tasted like, but this did not affect their excitement, even if they only had one-tenth of their sense of taste compared to normal humans. They couldn't accurately distinguish the taste of a lot of things, but the two children were still very happy: the things in front of them were already supremely delicious, even if they could only experience one-tenth of them.

The large amount of snacks that Lin Xue carried with him and the astonishing amount of food in Sandora's portable space became the biggest festival of the Glick brothers and sisters tonight. The two children who had never seen such things ate it all over their faces, and This also saved our family's stomachs: we no longer had to eat those compressed organic matter that rustled like chalk with a generous and sacrificial attitude.

"This is called bread, this is ham sausage, and this, this is not eaten directly, it is a condiment... Well, it is something that makes the food more flavorful. I'm afraid you have never seen it..."

My sister patiently introduced the mountains of food in front of the Glick brothers and sisters, and taught them how to mix these various foods. Shuizhu opened his curious eyes and watched us use "magical techniques" to combine them. Those already wonderful things are processed into even more incredible delicacies, especially the way the Dragon God Girl Lin eats is the most breathtaking: the girl first stacks bread slices and various lettuce, meat slices, egg salad sauce, etc. into a super one-meter-high dish. Burger, then press it up and down with both hands...

"Eating something a little harder is good for your teeth."

Lin looked at me carefully and handed over a thin pancake. Its predecessor was a giant burger that was half a head taller than a mercury lamp. Due to obvious density issues, the thing was placed on the table. There was a sound of gold and iron chiming together. Lilina scratched it on the table curiously, setting off a series of sparks, and my face turned pale on the spot.

Is this stuff really good for your teeth?

In the end, more than half of these super-compressed burgers processed by Lin herself went into Sandora's stomach, and the rest was taken care of by Lin herself. The two of them ate with sparks flying from their mouths, as if they were eating a bunch of The grenades are divided and eaten.

To be honest, I'm quite sorry. Originally, I planned to use the super-compressed burger made by Lin as a body armor. To be fair, I think it's no problem to withstand a submachine gun within a range of fifty meters. She just wanted to If you push harder, maybe those burgers will turn into neutron star material...

"We have never eaten such delicious food, although it tastes weird," Glick happily held up a cheap ham sausage with grease stars on the corner of his mouth, "Are these the food from the big city? Too much It's unbelievable. It is indeed the most magical place in the world... Wait a minute, I should bring these things to Grandpa Barnard to try. It is said that he spent some time in the big city when he was young, and he must miss this taste very much... "

"You don't need to make a special trip," Sister quickly stopped Glick, who was about to get up. "We have prepared a lot of food, and we will go and give him one ourselves. You can use these candies Take more and share it with other children when the time comes.”

This was a lively dinner, probably the most sumptuous dinner that Glick and Shuizhu had ever had. All the food in this place had only compressed organic matter that tasted like chalk dust, and all the drinks had only... In this world of salty synthetic water, there has been no such thing as food for a long time. Out of curiosity, I also asked Glick for some of the sugar cookies he received at the party tonight. The child was not willing to eat them all at once, leaving half of the sugar cookie that he planned to eat tomorrow.

Just as I guessed, these snacks claimed to be specially prepared for children are actually the kind of compressed organic matter that tastes like chalk. The only difference is that it has a weird sweetness. I swear with all my integrity, that The taste is definitely created directly using chemicals.

The town has entered a deep night. In this world without any entertainment activities, these lowest-level manual workers live their lives as if they went from sunrise to sunset in ancient times, because they will go to the metal station to continue working tomorrow. , the residents of the town have chosen to go to bed around eight o'clock every night. Now it is silent outside. In order to save energy, even the street lights in the town only leave three or two on the square, and only three or two from the sky. The fusion reactor thousands of kilometers away is using dark red waste heat to provide the world's only little illumination at night.

Glick's cabin may be the only place in the town that will still have lights on at this time, because there are no adults here who have to rest at night, and Glick and Shuizhu don't need to go to the metal station early tomorrow morning. Assembled, they are like any undisciplined child, always like to play late at night without sleeping.

Well, maybe it needs to be revised. The only one with unlimited energy is Glick. Shuizhu has already yawned and gone to his cabin to rest. An eight or nine-year-old girl still gets tired easily.

The five protoss gang members were bored in this environment, so they all took the excuse of going somewhere else to rest. When Glick wasn't paying attention, they tore open the rift in space and went back to the spaceship to play games. By the way, they also took away a few people who were already there. The obedient little girls who were trained by Big Sister include the most head-turning Lilina and the most delicate Mercury Lamp. Saeko has also returned. Her combat power is only 5. It's okay to have her play here during the day, but it's reassuring to let her go back to the spaceship at night.

Shandora and I plan to spend the night here, and now we are watching Glick show off his collection to everyone with great interest.

"These are all left by my father, and I don't know what they are used for." Glick pulled out several metal boxes from under the large iron box used to store clothes. Some of the metal boxes contained mechanical parts. There are also some vaguely colorful "gadgets" that aroused our interest: no matter how they look, they don't look like parts used on the spacecraft, right?

My sister randomly picked up a rectangular frame from those weird things and fiddled with it a few times but couldn't figure it out. Sandora seemed to have discovered the secret of this little thing. She took the frame and just stroked its edge with her fingers. , a light blue picture suddenly popped up in the center of the frame.

It turned out to be a vague image of a person - was this thing originally a frame?

"How did you do it? I haven't been able to fix it for a long time!"

Glick exclaimed in surprise.

"It's just that the energy is exhausted, so I activated its backup battery." Sandora said with a smile, but I think she was deceiving people. Have you ever seen any electronic photo frame equipped with a battery? She probably used her own energy to charge the photo frame, but this statement was too incredible, so she replaced it with a "spare battery" to deceive children.

Glick nodded happily, playing with the metal photo frame that was probably 720,000 years old. After confirming that it only stored a bust of an unknown person, he threw it back into the box with disappointment: "Dad Say, the world was not like this a long time ago.”

I turned my head and glanced. Sandora's eyes remained unchanged, but her eyebrows moved slightly.

"I heard that he is a person who likes to think wildly. Mr. Barnard said so."

"They all say that," Glick shook his head indifferently, "but dad is a great man. Of course he is different from ordinary workers - although he is just a plumber, he knows that the world should not be like this. .Look at these, photo frames, data terminals, projectors, and this..."

Glick pulled out a piece of tough "paper"-like material from the bottom of the box, and after wiping off the stains on it with a damp cloth, what appeared in front of us turned out to be a picture!

"There were no painters in the old empire, and we don't use this medium to store long-term information," Sandora whispered in an incredible tone, of course, without letting Glick hear, "These should be the indigenous people before the destruction of the universe. The drawing papers left by the residents were made of very special materials and the colors can still be distinguished after 720,000 years, which shows that their civilization at least reached a very high level in the field of materials science before being destroyed."

Shandora roughly judged the civilization level of the indigenous people in the ruined world before the end of the world from a technical point of view, while my sister and I were attracted by the content on that "paper".

Although the color is dim and there are large areas of defects in the pattern, one can still distinguish the clouds, trees, small pools, and even a small animal resting under the tree.

"The things on this are very confusing," Glick muttered. "This painting may be describing an area, but I think these strange colors may add up to an 'item', like a machine part. It's just a weird color and shape."

For Glick, nothing in this picture appeared in his world view, so faced with the completely unexplainable "color accumulation", he regarded it as normal.

"But I think it's very comfortable. I like this...so does Dad," Glick mumbled in a low voice. "Although I don't understand what this painting is trying to say, Dad feels that a long, long time ago, the world must have been There is such a thing. There are no such things in this world now, but Dad feels that something similar to it can be found in a very far away place."

"So he wanted to go across the Storm Sea, just to find the new world of his dreams."

Onee-sama said with some sigh.

"There are very few people who have this idea. Everyone is accustomed to everything in this world. Everything is logical." Glick shook his head. "The food synthesis machine can always produce food, and matter can be generated The machine can always produce twelve basic materials, and there is a never-ending factory deep underground in the big star, which can provide never-ending air and energy... But my father has told my sister and me since we were young that something is wrong."

There was worry on Glick's face that didn't match his age. "Dad said that this world is too small. It is very different from ancient records. Many terms left over from that era seem strange now. Planets , stars, matter clouds, closed layers of the universe, he always recited these strange words in front of my sister and me. I have never seen these words elsewhere, but my father said that they are all mentioned in ancient records. Things are part of this world. Dad also said that a long time ago, people’s food did not come out of machines, but grew directly from the ground. Water should not only flow in pipes, but should be in the big holes on the ground. There is only one glowing fusion reactor in the sky. Every day, this fusion reactor rises from one side of the earth and falls from the other side. There should be countless resources in the world, not just metals and various synthesis factories... But those words sound silly to me. How can food grow from under the ground? The ground is just a metal plate!"

At this point, Glick couldn't help but think of something, shuddered and said, "But if the food was pinched by that very strong sister, it might be able to grow from the ground."

Sandora and I looked at each other, and my sister sighed intentionally or unintentionally:

"No matter how much you like to think wildly, these things...are too exaggerated for a plumber's knowledge."

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