Chapter 255 Tenderness and Hurt
When he first met the micron people, everything around him was very magical to Rong Yuan, and the micron people were also part of this magic. Therefore, although Rong Yuan was very surprised, he did not think about the irrationality in it. At that time, he was like a baby who opened his eyes to see the world for the first time. He opened his heart to accommodate all the wonders. Any form of the world was normal to him. He absorbed all knowledge like a sponge absorbs water, breaking up the worldview and reorganizing it. In this reorganization process, even if there was a little bit of disharmony, it would be easily ignored by him.
Afterwards, because the micron people had already occupied a place in his perception of the normal world, a shadow effect was formed. Even when the Baiselong appeared, Rong Yuan did not connect the two. This time, it was Pea who saw the problem more objectively.
——"Rongyuan, don't you think that the micron people are very similar to the spheres they call Baiselong?"
Hearing Wandou's words, Rong Yuan was shocked and immediately realized the problem.
Yes, the micron people and the Baise dragonflies are both extremely small intelligent creatures, and according to Rong Yuan's observation, the Baise dragonflies have an IQ level of only five or six-year-old children at most. Their real strengths are in their ability to devour, reproduce, and adapt. The micron people are different. They are several times larger than the Baise dragonflies, and their intelligence is far superior, similar to that of ordinary humans, but their minds are obviously much simpler. They must have a more complex and smaller organ system in their bodies than the Baise dragonflies, which is completely different from the formation rules of the earth's own life system.
——Are the microns also an invasive alien species?
Rong Yuan doesn't think so.
Because for the Microns, the word "invasion" does not exist.
They are different from the Baise Mantis. The entire race, whether individuals or groups, lacks desire, and thus lacks the drive to make progress; without pressure in life, there is no motivation for reform. Therefore, no matter how long it has been, when Rong Yuan sees them again, he feels that their lives have not changed at all. It seems that time has stopped for the Micron people.
However, this is not the case. Rong Yuan once calculated the time difference between the micron people and the macro world. One second in the macro world is equivalent to a little more than one hour for the micron people. So one day for humans is equivalent to more than ten years for them. One year for humans is nearly five thousand years for the micron people. In the earth's time, Rong Yuan has not become smaller for more than ten years. In the world of the micron people, the "Flying Clan" has not appeared for nearly 50,000 years. But now, except for the different names, he has not found any difference between them.
With such a huge time difference, they originally had an incomparable advantage over humans. If they had been determined, they could have conquered all of humanity, occupied the entire earth, headed for the stars in the universe, and dominated the Milky Way... But the fact is that the microns are happily and simply satisfied with a life of gathering and hunting, and they are even too lazy to improve their production tools. They and humans seem to live in different dimensions, coexisting harmoniously and without interfering with each other.
Afterwards, Rong Yuan asked the Microns about their origins, but even in the oldest legends, there was no such statement as "they traveled a long distance through the vast galaxy and arrived at a blue planet." Obviously, the time was too long. The Microns had lived on Earth for tens of thousands of years since Rong Yuan discovered them, and it was unknown how long they had lived before that. Even if it were humans, all of their history would be lost in the long time, let alone the Microns who lacked written and historical records?
"Rongyuan, what are your plans for the micron people?" Pea asked worriedly. It had a very pleasant stay in the tribe these past two days and liked this race very much. Therefore, it was worried that Rongyuan would also ask it to catch a micron man for dissection.
But Rong Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said: "Plan? Oh... no plan."
"No?" Pea was surprised. It stared with an incredible look on its face, as if it was expecting Rong Yuan to do something.
Rong Yuan smiled and asked, "Do you want to dissect them? Or do you want to find the books treasured by those legendary tribes to see if there are any records of the origin of the microns?"
"That's not the case." Pea shook his head and said, "But I think you should want to find out."
"Oh? Why?"
"Because... didn't you say before that you wanted to know all the secrets of the world?" Pea asked in a low voice. In its opinion, the simple micron people were full of secrets, and Rong Yuan just let them go. This was even stranger than the sun rising from the east. After all, in the universe, the sun rises and falls from all directions, and there are some that never rise or set!
"Oh... yes, I did say that." Rong Yuan thought of his past ambitions, or rather his boasting, and couldn't help but smile. He touched Wandou's head and said, "But now I find that the world is much more vast and mysterious than I imagined. It is impossible to figure out all the mysteries. One's life can only be spent in constant exploration and learning. And..." He tilted his head, brushed away a small piece of violet scale powder that was about to fall on him, and said with a faint but brilliant smile on his lips, "No matter how gorgeous the magic is, once you know the principle behind it, it will become boring or even ridiculous. Isn't it more interesting to retain a little mystery and unknown?"
Seeing his smile, Wandou stopped involuntarily. Rong Yuan left after he finished speaking. Wandou looked at his back for a long time, and muttered, "You just don't want to hurt the micron people just to satisfy your curiosity, right?"
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It took the Micron people two days to build a laboratory that met Rong Yuan's requirements, and at the same time greatly satisfied their curiosity about the "Flying Clan". Fortunately, they were just watching and did not master the skills of human fans to chase and block and ask for autographs. Rong Yuan also maxed out the skill of "ignoring" irrelevant people, so he did not feel disturbed.
In two days, in order to collect more experimental materials, he also went out hunting twice with the hunting team of the Micron people. In simple terms, the Micron people took Rong Yuan as far as possible to find a landform and Baise dragonflies that were completely different from before. Then the Micron people were far away, and soon, they could see Baise dragonflies rolling all over the ground in a large area with Rong Yuan as the center. Then they rushed over and admired the hero of the Flying Clan with admiration. First, they collected all the Baise dragonflies that Rong Yuan specifically requested, and then stuffed the remaining "reserve food" into the big box that was urgently made, and returned with a full load. In order to lock up all these harvests, they hurriedly made a large number of special cages in the tribe. Because Baise dragonflies have the characteristic of devouring living things, this kind of cage was also made by the Micron people with great effort.
Two days later, Rong Yuan finally saw his own "laboratory" in this place.
But in fact, he felt that it would be more appropriate to call it a "temple."
In this environment, it was impossible for Rong Yuan to have a multifunctional experimental stand or microscope. His main requirement for the laboratory was actually concealment and sturdiness. Because basically all experimental instruments needed to be exchanged from the Merit Mall, they could not be seen by the Micron People. In addition, the survival characteristics of the Baise Mantis were too terrible, and the possibility of their escape must be completely eliminated. The material requirements were very special. The Micron People did not usually have the habit of collecting such materials in large quantities, so they needed to look for them everywhere, which wasted time.
The main structure of the newly completed laboratory is made of many crystal fragments. Some of the fragments are pure blue like water, some have gorgeous patterns, and some reflect rainbow colors. After being carefully selected and put together, they are even more beautiful. No church stained glass window in human society can compare with them. There is also a wall of artificial green LED chips. No one knows how they were moved. They are so thick that it makes people feel confused in time and space.
He watched Rong Yuan walk into the laboratory with a cage containing several different kinds of lacewings, and the door was tightly closed. Ya Dao, who was used to information sharing in the tribe, was a little uncomfortable with this style, but he didn't say anything. He just sat down by the door with his arms folded, ready to listen to Rong Yuan's instructions at any time, and also to prevent curious tribesmen from getting close.
Pea stopped chatting and laughing with the micron children and sat down quietly on the other side of the door. Not long after Rong Yuan went in, reminders of deducting merits appeared one after another in its consciousness that was connected to the "Book of Merits".
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Wu Xi leaned against the wall, breathing hard. His exposed face and arms were covered with large patches of red spots. He felt as if there was a foreign object in his throat, and even breathing hurt like a knife.
He no longer had time to think about why he was infected with the virus despite taking precautions. He just felt like the Grim Reaper's scythe was already on his neck. He realized something was wrong. The virus seemed to be attacking him much faster than on Earth. He had seen many patients and knew that it actually took several days for them to develop symptoms and get worse. Even if the infection rate suddenly increased today, no one was as fast as him.
It has been less than half an hour since he saw the red dot, but he is already as sick as a bee. There were quite a few people around him when he came to the hospital, but most of them ran away after the onset of the disease. Only his agent Liu Jie and an inconspicuous assistant girl stayed to take care of him. After his symptoms rapidly worsened, Liu Jie said she was going to find a doctor for him, but she ran out of the hospital and never came back. The assistant wanted to go to the hospital for help, but at that time something happened in the hospital, and many people fled frantically. The assistant was also swept out by the crowd, and Wu Xi vaguely heard her screams. After everyone ran away, he saw the figure on the ground who had been stepped on countless times, staring at him blankly with eyes open, but no longer reacting at all.
Wu Xi didn't even have the energy to cry for her anymore. His eyes were dry and painful, and the fluid in his body seemed to be draining away quickly. He was too tired to move. He still had emergency medicine on him, but he didn't even have the strength to take it out.
His legs moved numbly, and then he heard a "crack" sound of broken bones, but he did not feel any pain - all the sensory nerves in his body had been paralyzed.
A man who had just run out of the hospital in a panic accidentally kicked Wu Xi's leg, breaking his leg bone, which was now as brittle as a potato chip. The man's body fell uncontrollably on Wu Xi. Then he heard a series of crackling sounds, as if all the bones of the man under him were broken by him. When he saw the horrible appearance of the man in front of him, he screamed in fear and hurriedly tried to get up and run away.
At this time, Wu Xi, who was waiting to die with his eyes closed, raised his lips slightly. He didn't know where the strength came from, and suddenly stretched out his hand like a ghost claw to grab the man who fell on him. With a force, their foreheads were pressed together, and a faint electric light flashed between them. After about a minute, Wu Xi's body fell to the ground like a broken sack, and the other man hurriedly took out a small box from his pocket, took out a needle from it, pierced his arm, and pushed all the medicine inside.
After a while, his expression relaxed and he gradually calmed down. He stripped Wu Xi's body naked again, peeled off a layer of transparent tights from the part close to his skin and put it on himself, wrapping himself tightly from head to toe. He put away the box, walked to the assistant, slowly squatted down, and reached out to close her eyes.
