Chapter 31 Children chasing the stars (5)(1/2)
Le Jing decided to leave the base.
He has been in this place for too long. This is a very small human base, and there must be more and larger human bases in other places.
The books in his shop have limited roles here. He wants to go to places where they can play their true roles.
"I will come back." Le Jing looked firmly at the resurrected and vibrant children, and said with a smile: "Before that, you must live."
Ji Xing nodded vigorously, with a vigorous vitality in his smile: "I haven't seen the stars with my own eyes yet! I want to live until I can see the stars!"
"I still have to be a pilot!"
"I want to see what the future looks like, so I will try my best to survive!"
The children spoke in a verbal manner, and their smiles were shining with a glimmer of light passing through the haze.
The reality is so dark, what's the use of dreams? Dreams are still useful.
Because dreams have a glimmer of light, they can illuminate reality.
And humans themselves are creatures that are eye-catching.
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So Victor turned into a black dragon again, Le Jing and Cairns sat on the dragon's back and began their journey.
Logically speaking, the air is full of poisonous gas and the oxygen content is too low, so Le Jing cannot stand on the ground for too long. At this time, you have to sigh at the magic of magic.
Under Cairns' casting, Le Jing had a green translucent bubble on his head, making him breathe freely as if he had brought an oxygen cylinder.
Le Jing heard Cairns say that this is a magic used by the elves to breathe underwater. He guessed that this magic should play a role in absorption and filtering.
He also considered letting Keynes teach the people in the base magic. But he didn't know whether the people in the base had no talent or the world was not integrated with the magic system, and no one in the base could learn magic. Le Jing was a little regretful about this.
Sitting on the back of the dragon, Le Jing could see more intuitively the terrifying impact of the asteroid on the earth.
Wherever you see, there is a deadly desolate desolate. Black and gray are the main colors. Occasionally, a few bright colors appear, but the colors of abandoned buildings that have not completely faded. This is the deadly desolate and desolate that no matter how realistic the disaster movies are, they cannot be filmed. After watching such a scene for a long time, sometimes Le Jing feels that he is the last human in the world. The huge sense of loneliness can drive any normal person crazy. Therefore, many people survived the initial natural disaster, but did not survive the loneliness after the natural disaster.
Le Jing's destination for this trip is the largest gathering place of humans on earth. He didn't know where it was, but only learned from the head of the base that it was in the east - where the sun rose.
So he went all the way east. He was not worried about not being able to find his destination, because the earth was round, and as long as he walked in one direction, he would eventually find the place he was looking for.
Then on the thirty day, he found a red five-star red flag on the desolate ruins. The red flag fluttered in the wind, like a ball of unscathed flames.
In addition to the five-star red flag, there are also the star-striped flag, maple leaf flag, and rice-shaped flag... dozens of flags fluttering in the wind, extremely spectacular and shocking.
Above them, a larger flag is erected. On the blue flag, a white olive branch holds the earth.
This is Le Jing’s destination - the shelter base of the United Nations on Earth.
Humans from all countries, ethnic groups, and colors live here. They use different languages, believe in different religions, and have different customs and habits, but now they gather here and use a common identity - humans on earth.
Humans are sad creatures that can only unite when resisting foreign enemies.
Under the cover of Leling, they did not disturb the radar and surveillance in the base and landed quietly.
Le Jing gently brushed away the dust on his body, asked Cairns to retract his magic, and then walked towards the sentry. After a brief interrogation and body search, the sentry was released.
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Wang Lei is a registrant in the registration office. His job is to register information for refugees and then provide them with work based on the personal information of refugees. If there are special talents, they must report to the superiors, and the superiors will assign them to suitable positions.
However, special talents are very scarce. If the base did accommodate a large number of special talents in the first few years of the disaster. But now it has been twenty years, and even if there are any special talents outside, they will almost die. As for the new generation that has grown after the disaster? People outside can't be happy, who has time and energy to study?
So Wang Lei hasn't met a decent special talent for a long time.
On that day, he was sitting at the table bored and turning his pen, when he saw an oriental man and a foreigner with a deep nose walked in.
Oriental people have gentle and handsome facial features, and are a typical elegant scholar. They have a strong fragrance of books on their bodies, which makes people feel very fond of. However, that foreigner is completely opposite to him. He looks only exquisite and perfect in his life, and it seems like he came out of a movie. But when he faces the dull green eyes, Wang Lei felt his scalp numb and furious.
The only thing that the two have in common is that their skin is fair and delicate and healthy body, which is not common nowadays. Even Wang Lei’s face is covered with malnourished blue and white! What surprised him the most was the shiny and fat black cat in the arms of the Oriental young man. What’s going on in this era? These two people actually have extra food to keep pets?
...Maybe it is reserve grain?
The oriental youth had a gentle smile that made people feel very affectionate: "Are you registering here?" His voice was clear, as if a cool stream flowed into the cracked land, making people feel refreshed.
Wang Lei came to his senses and took out a registration form. First, the oriental man started to register.
First, there were some regular personal information. When asked about any special talents or expertise, the oriental young man thought for a moment and replied with a smile: "Maybe the memory is better, right?"
Wang Lei raised his head and looked at the young man speechlessly. What is this answer?
"How good is your memory?" Wang Lei asked.
The young man's smile remained unchanged, and Feng Danyun replied lightly: "It's probably possible to hold the next National Library."
Wang Lei stared at him as if he was a ghost, and he subconsciously asked, "What did you say?"
The young man repeated the previous words again, then calmly asked, "Do you need my proof?"
Wang Lei nodded, his eyes filled with jokes. In his opinion, although this young man looked like a scholar, he might have read a few books, but he could remember books from a national library? This is ridiculous.
Wang Lei has seen many such people. In order to make the base leaders pay more attention to him, many people want to brag about the shamelessness to the sky! Now, he also classifies this young man and those people.
"Tell me a book you have read and I can memorize it."
Since the young man said that, Wang Lei casually said the title of a book he saw in the base library a few days ago. This is a book about mechanical manufacturing, with difficult and complicated content. Wang Lei felt drowsy at the beginning of reading it. He dared to say that it was the most profound book he had ever seen.
Then, in his gloating eyes, the young man began to recite clearly.
Three minutes later, Wang Lei's expression began to be a little surprised.
Five minutes later, Wang Lei's expression began to move towards shock.
Ten minutes later, Wang Lei looked unconscious and interrupted Le Jing's recitation, and then brought Le Jing a higher physics book.
Then there is a collection of poems, a philosophy, a biology book, a geography book...
Every time the young man recited it smoothly without any pause, as if he could only do it easily. Although Wang Lei could not understand it, he had already realized the extraordinaryness of the young man.
He no longer looked down on the young man, and his back was sweating unconsciously. This time, he interrupted the young man's recitation and became much more polite. Then he asked the young man and his team to wait for a while, then went to the inner room and used the inner line to call the president of the Academy of Biological Sciences in the base.
Under the secretion of adrenal hormones, his heart thumped and his excitement came out. He had a premonition that perhaps he had discovered a genius for humans, a genius among geniuses.
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Xu Yuan is 72 years old this year, and is already in his seventies. His life has been quite bumpy. When he was young, he devoted himself to research and research, but he was not familiar with the world. Although he had high scientific research ability, he not only did not have to pay for scientific research funds, but was excluded. What's more, his achievements were called by others. In this way, he wasted most of his life. He originally thought that his life would be like this, but he did not expect that a disaster would come from the sky, and an asteroid from afar destroyed the entire earth's human civilization.
The government of the surviving countries began to actively organize post-disaster reconstruction and resettlement of refugees. Xu Yuan, a biology expert with excellent knowledge, emerged as a special technical talent who was regarded as a guest of honor by the government. In the next twenty years, he was promoted step by step with his scientific research results, and finally became the president of the entire United Nations Academy of Biological Sciences.
This is like an excellent black humorous satire. But if you can choose, Xu Yuan would rather do nothing for the rest of his life than live in this end-of-day where he cannot see hope.
When he received a call from the reception room, he was studying the latest scientific research report from the Agricultural College. The high yield of the new experimental rice made him very excited. He heard Xiao Wang say on the phone, "I found a talent in a library in my head." "He demonstrated to me and memorized a lot of books, and he was very good at me." Xu Yuan smiled helplessly.
In his opinion, the young man had a good memory, so he could only fool Xiao Wang, who was not well educated. After all, even if he memorized it wrongly, he couldn't hear it. However, he had no intention of blaming Xiao Wang. After all, it was him who told him before. If he found that there were special talents, he must report it to him as soon as possible. Xiao Wang had not reported to him for a long time, so it would be okay if he went to meet that person.
If he really has some real talent and knowledge, it would be good to absorb him into the Academy of Sciences. And maybe the knowledge he knows can slightly fill the current gap in the Academy of Sciences - he is optimistic.
Today is different from the past. Thinking of the technological development over the years, he could only shake his head and sigh. He can say that the current technological level has been regressed forty years overall, and in some fields, it has been regressed for more than a hundred years.
Many talents from all walks of life before the end of the world were no longer available after the end of the world. Because under the fine division of labor in modern society, no individual knew enough knowledge needed to maintain the operation of key social processes. Even if an experienced technician in the factory survived, he only knew the details of his own work, and might even know nothing about the knowledge that other workers in the factory mastered to maintain production - not to mention technical issues such as how to mine ore and coal resources, make CNC machine tools and molds, and provide electricity for the factory to operate.
The most conspicuous technologies used in daily life are just the tip of the iceberg. Even a small screw is a standard assembly line product born after hundreds of years of development of industrial society. If a standard production assembly line cannot be established, and the small errors generated in the middle are enough to crash an aircraft.
So what the United Nations government is doing now is to try to find special talents in all walks of life and position, organize them, integrate the knowledge they understand, and play a greater role. However, it has to be said that the results are slow. Moreover, the death of a large number of talents and the damage to information have caused a knowledge gap within the base, which not only poses great resistance to base construction, but will also have profound impact on the education of the next generation.
In modern society, the cultivation of a talent requires more than ten years of basic education and at least four years of higher education. During this period, they will learn basic knowledge in various fields. Don’t underestimate the basic knowledge in the compulsory education stage. It is the crystallization of the entire human civilization for thousands of years and the foundation of all science. Only by laying a solid foundation can human beings have the opportunity to develop further.
However, after the catastrophe, the lack and gap in basic education are the main root causes that affect the inheritance of human civilization.
Although they rescued a lot of books from some surviving libraries, some computer hard drives that were still running were also stored a lot of knowledge.
However, the way this knowledge is presented is undoubtedly not conducive to a society that starts from scratch. How can an ordinary person understand the proper nouns and definitions in a biological book? How can a professor who does not understand foreign languages study a foreign language book? Can a physicist understand a local classic?
A large part of these books and papers is written on the premise that the reader has mastered some basic knowledge, but if his readers do not have relevant basic knowledge, then this knowledge will be like waste paper.
And those books whose target audience is ordinary readers? Xu Yuan almost wanted to laugh. Those books that teach you how to manage a business, improve emotional intelligence, and make money are now waste paper. Although there are some popular science books, they are often written too briefly and cannot play a role in improving basic subject knowledge.
And this is just the loss of basic disciplines. The losses of higher disciplines are also shocking. Not to mention how many talents and geniuses have died in disasters, just the advanced research results and cutting-edge knowledge are kept secretly in special journal website servers, and some are even locked in safes in the form of manuscripts. Then, after tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, blizzards and other natural disasters, they can never be found again.
Sometimes Xu Yuan couldn't help but think how great it would be to have a book that could fully record the basics and even higher disciplines of all disciplines on earth. As long as you read this book, anyone can understand the essence of a discipline and can immediately devote themselves to scientific construction.
However, he also knew that he was whimsical. Before the disaster, no one would invest a lot of manpower and material resources to do this, but after the disaster, they were more willing but less able.
Under his random thoughts, he soon arrived at the registration room, and the "genius" mentioned on Xiao Wang's phone sat upright on the stool.
Seeing him coming, Xiao Wang immediately stood up and gave up his seat. He did not refuse and sat down directly in Xiao Wang's seat, only then could he see the young man's appearance clearly.
It looks like a good seedling.
Xu Yuan was very satisfied with the bookish spirit on his body. There is a saying that goes: "If you have poetry and books in your belly, you will be blessed." A person can see whether he has read a book or not, he can see it from his temperament.
Xu Yuan first asked straight to the point: "Young man, I heard from Xiao Wang that there is a book from the National Library in your head?"
Le Jing first asked: "Who are you?"
Xu Yuan replied: "I am the president of the United Nations Academy of Biological Sciences, Xu Yuan."
Le Jing asked again: "No intention to offend, is you the one who can speak in the Academy of Biological Sciences?"
Although the words were unintentional offense, Le Jing's words could be said to be provocative. Xu Yuan was a little displeased at this time, "I don't think this has anything to do with the content of our conversation."
Le Jing shook his head and said seriously: "It's related." He pointed to his head, "The crystallization of human civilization for thousands of years is stored here. And I only leave it to the person who is right."
This sentence is really too arrogant. The arrogant are almost ridiculous. Xu Yuan also laughed: "Young man." He kindly advised: "It is better to be humble and be more down-to-earth. People who are too arrogant generally have no good ending."
To be continued...