Chapter 10
But of course that could just be Jiang Yunu's illusion.
When people dream, they naturally dare to dream about anything.
If people don't dare to be bold in their dreams and don't dare to think positively about things, then how much less fun will there be in life, and wouldn't living in reality be even more difficult?
Jiang Yunu dared to make a wish and imagined that her wish had been granted.
She felt as if she had had a long, beautiful dream, in which she was transported away from the isolated island that trapped her and carried to a vast expanse of galaxies. The universe was dim at first, and she wandered through the vast, silent space, free to move without the need for protective clothing or an oxygen mask. The entire universe seemed to hold her up, embrace her, and she could go wherever she wished. Then, gradually, a faint light appeared in this silent universe. She saw stars slowly light up against the inky sky, first one, then two, three... and finally countless.
Countless stars, whose light came from nowhere, lit up the universe. They made the universe brilliant and surrounded Jiang Yunu with bright stars.
The stars gathered into a galaxy, which then looked like a bright ribbon, intersecting above Jiang Yunu's head, on his left, right, and under his feet, weaving into some beautiful totems that Jiang Yunu could not quite see clearly, but could feel at first sight with his naked eyes.
However, the most magnificent totem is not above Jiang Yunu's head or around him.
When she lowered her head, Jiang Yunu saw a rainbow road under her feet, as if the rainbow rose all the way to the universe and spread out under her feet.
The stars and the galaxy are just bright and dazzling, but she is the color in the dim universe.
Wherever she goes, she brings color.
Am I a colored pen?
Jiang Yunu thought in his dream.
In her dream, Jiang Yunu still remembered what had happened to her before, her embarrassing yet stubborn struggle for survival, and her fragile and vulnerable strength in the face of the disaster.
Jiang Yunu sighed in his dream, and then thought devoutly to the brilliant universe: [It's okay to make colored pencils, but I hope I won't be so bad at it again in the future.]
It’s okay to make colored pens, but it’s not okay to make the homonym of colored pens.
The universe may feel that Jiang Yunu's additional wish is a bit cold, and it is also a bad homophonic pun, and does not want to listen to her inexplicable jokes.
So after Jiang Yunu thought this devoutly to the universe, he was thrown out of this beautiful dream.
She regained consciousness.
“……?”
Jiang Yunu originally thought that after she opened her eyes, she would see the "modern minimalist" ceiling of the simple temple again. Before she opened her eyes, she felt as if she had regained some strength, and she wanted to get up and take a closer look at the entire temple.
After all, it was the second building she had seen in this world, ranking among the top three, and it was of great significance.
But when she opened her eyes, she found another sky above her head.
She was lying on the ground in some unknown land.
The reason why Jiang Yunu was sure that this was an "unknown land" and not that she was sent back to the isolated island beach by a mysterious force was that she could clearly see that the sky above was still fine, without the spider-web cracks caused by the "meteor" attack, nor a huge, conspicuous gap.
Moreover, there would not be such solid and flat ground on an isolated island.
Where am I?
Jiang Yunu sat up, puzzled. She felt herself, realizing she had indeed jumped into the unknown "seawater," swimming vigorously and being rescued by the temple. She still wore the tattered, unsightly garments of a color barely covering her body. The wounds on her limbs, which couldn't be covered by the rags, were hideous. The only good thing was that they had stopped bleeding, and the stone fragments that had been deeply embedded in her flesh had been pulled out by someone unknown at some point.
Jiang Yunu touched his wound and pressed down on a certain wound.
"hiss--"
She gasped and couldn't help but say three times: "It hurts, it hurts!"
But she still felt pain, and her body's sensory nerves were still sharp, no longer numb as before, which meant she was still alive.
The duration of "life extension" was a little longer than she expected.
This cheered Jiang Yunu up. She stood up. The shoddy shoes she made herself were lost when she escaped. She was not wearing shoes when she jumped into the water, so she could only walk barefoot on the ground. But Jiang Yunu did not care. She walked barefoot in the place where she woke up. She had been accustomed to running around without shoes on the deserted island. It was no big deal for her to be without shoes in a strange and new land.
Jiang Yunu explored the land barefoot and found that she seemed to have come to a new desolate place.
There is no yellow sand all over the sky or solitary mountains standing here.
There are more hills here than on the isolated island, with groups of barren mountain sisters, and the ground is solid rock.
——But this difference cannot change the fact that this place is also desolate.
Jiang Yunu walked for a while and found no signs of human activity around, nor did he see any signs of supplies nearby.
"Excuse me," Jiang Yunu paused, a little doubtful, and said to the air, "Am I someone who is 100% sure to encounter a wasteland opening?"
However, she never expected that the air would respond to her.
A nearby voice replied to Jiang Yunu: "Ji?"
Jiang Yunu: "Ji?"
The sound was not Jiang Yunu's illusion. Behind the nearest barren hill, something really made a sound. It responded to Jiang Yunu's repeated syllables and said again as if in secret: "Chijiji?"
"What is that...?" Jiang Yunu did not repeat the "codes" that she could not understand. She walked straight to the back of the barren hill and bypassed the slightly shorter hill from the side. The closer she got to the hill, the more she could feel that the thing behind the hill seemed to be moving towards her, but its movements were slower than hers.
Jiang Yunu turned around the hill first and saw clearly the object that could only make a "chi" sound -
Cylindrical body, lead-gray shell, and two small pliers-like robotic arms.
There is also a universal pulley that has been stuck and damaged on one side.
This is a small robot.
Jiang Yunu's eyes lit up instantly.
The presence of robots means that this must be a place where humans have been active!
Moreover, although this small robot looks a little damaged and one of its pulleys that touches the ground has malfunctioned, its shell is not old and aged, which means that it has not been placed here for a long time.
Jiang Yunu felt like she had grasped a glimmer of hope. She immediately greeted the little robot: "Hello?"
The small robot was also observing Jiang Yunu. It didn't look like it was equipped with any weapons or ammunition. It was some kind of gentle and harmless working robot. Under the black panel on its head, a light flashed, as if it was scanning the data of the stranger in front of it.
The little robot can only say: "Ji."
But it is a polite AI and will respond to human greetings.
Jiang Yunu could only reply with a "ji" when she heard another sound. She was not much taller than the little robot now, so she simply squatted in front of it, allowing herself to be more within the scanning range of its head.
"Hello." Jiang Yunu said, "Could you help me contact any other human beings, preferably those who can still help me?"
Jiang Yunu's predictions about the robot model were all speculations and were not certain, but the other party seemed to be able to communicate anyway. Jiang Yunu hoped that the other party had any signal transmitting device that could help her contact others.
No matter how brave and adventurous Jiang Yunu is, she will recognize one fact - that is, it is unrealistic for her to leave another desolate place alone with her childlike body.
The little robot may not only have a broken pulley, but also move a little slowly. Its information reading and writing speed is also slow. It held the small □□ on its head and shone it at Jiang Yunu for a long time. The □□ was flashing, like a computer with a blue screen that took a long time to reach the bottom and displayed a progress bar of "99%". It was unknown when the program would finally be loaded.
But after a long time, Jiang Yunu saw the flashing blue light stop and turn green.
Green generally represents safety and smooth flow.
Before Jiang Yunu had time to be happy about the procedure that seemed to have finally been completed, the next second, the green light that he had been waiting for so hard turned yellow again.
A large yellow triangle with a red exclamation point appeared on the robot's panel.
Jiang Yunu saw that it was an alarm sign.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Yunu was a little alert. She quickly stood up from in front of the robot and kept some distance from it.
"You're not going to judge me as an illegal outsider and sound the alarm to arrest me, are you?" Jiang Yunu said cautiously to the robot.
The little robot did not arrest Jiang Yunu, nor did it suddenly show a weapon that was not what Jiang Yunu expected to signal her to surrender voluntarily.
About half an hour later, the humming sound of some engine was heard near the hill.
A high-tech car that Jiang Yunu had only seen in science fiction movies came speeding over and stopped in front of her and the little robot.
Jiang Yunu was ready to meet the first living person he would officially meet in this world.
But unexpectedly, when the car door was opened, it was empty.
This was an empty car running automatically. It was probably summoned by a robot through signal control. The small robot lit up the warning sign and moved its body with a damaged pulley to the side of the car door. It gestured with its small clamp-like hands to signal Jiang Yunu to get on the car.
Jiang Yunu hesitated for less than two minutes before quickly getting into the car and sitting down on the seat that looked much cleaner than hers.
An electronic voice rang out from inside the self-driving car: "The trapped people at the garbage processing station have boarded the vehicle. Robot Sweeper No. 129, please stay with us. We will soon be carrying people back—"
Robot Cleaner No. 129 should be the little robot that helped Jiang Yunu call a taxi.
The little robot's faulty rollers prevented it from getting on the car. The wheel on one side rolled into the door pedal, but the wheel on the other side could not be lifted up, leaving the pulley spinning in vain.
Seeing the situation was difficult, Jiang Yunu reached out to help pull the robot cleaner into the car.
The robot said: "Chichi!"
Maybe it's saying thank you.
After getting on the car, the small robot automatically slid to the rear, stopped in front of a platform that looked like some kind of charging device, and slid itself into the low cabin that fit perfectly.
Jiang Yunu was reminded by the car's artificial intelligence to fasten her seat belt. It was her first time riding in this kind of car, and she didn't even know where the seat belt was. After groping for a long time, she triggered the vehicle's automatic seat belt fastening program. A belt automatically popped out next to the seat, fastening her body, which looked even smaller in the wide seat.
The AI also criticized Jiang Yunu: "Please pay more attention to your own personal safety. Driving safety is not trivial. Please take the initiative to fasten your seat belt."
After criticizing Jiang Yunu, the car's engine started again and the car body took off into the air.
370 hours after arriving in this world, Jiang Yunu finally set foot in a human settlement for the first time—
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