Earth Invasion

Chapter 427
Zhangmai's home is a small third-tier city. In recent years, more and more industries in the Greater China region have been transferred to space, and the industries on the ground have begun to transform into deep processing of agricultural products and retain industries that require gravity.Therefore, there are more and more new farmlands and smoke-free industries on the ground.Industries that are more advantageous in zero gravity, such as base metal processing and mechatronic assembly, have already taken to the sky.Therefore, the living environment on the ground is getting better and better.

Seen from the sky, the small town is almost surrounded by green mountains.

Yes, the small town is surrounded by small hills of the same shape and height.Ann didn't notice it at first, but when the airbuses stopped at the traffic tower, she realized that it didn't seem to be a mountain at all.

"What is this?" The two got off the elevator in the traffic tower. Zhang Mai was going to brush an above-ground car, but An unexpectedly pulled her aside, and asked those mountain-like things outside the traffic tower square.

Those things are man-made mountain buns in the shape of steamed buns, and the center is empty, and the periphery is a grid structure that spirals up in circles.Among the green plants, there are layers of white metal structures.And inside this outer structure, there seems to be another layer of this same spiral structure.

"You mean this? Three-dimensional planting."

Pulling An to go there, Zhang Mai knew that if she didn't make it clear to her that her curiosity would not be satisfied.

Going up the spiral gangway and walking all the way to the top, An finally saw clearly what this thing was made of.According to the above description, this three-dimensional planting is a planting form with the highest utilization rate of land neps and Yangon.The outermost layer is the one that loves the sun the most, the lower layer is the one that doesn’t require much light, the lower layer is a variety of edible fungi, and the bottom layer is a small pond that uses the upper layer to reflect sunlight. Viewed from above , which seems to be raising fish.

Ann is very puzzled by this, because she just learned at that family banquet that people on Earth can artificially synthesize starch.

"Who doesn't want to enjoy it?" Zhang Mai replied to An's question, and the two slowly walked down from the top, passing an agricultural robot that was moving fast on the railing track.

"People are always greedy for pleasure. When they are satisfied with food and clothing, they want to enjoy. When there is food to eat, it is like eating meat. When they eat meat, they want to eat more delicious meat, healthy meat, and meat made by an excellent chef. And Now, we want to eat all kinds of natural foods grown from the land, grown naturally, without pesticides and fertilizers. The glucose complexes produced by synthetic methods can only be used as industrial raw materials.”

An nodded half-understood: "I feel that you speak of human beings as greedy."

Zhang Mai said dumbly: "You haven't developed to that point."

They didn't go directly to the city, Zhang Mai stopped an unoccupied vehicle, swiped it with his ID card, and set the destination.Ann looked at the pop-up light screen, and there was a tombstone sign on the destination.

She didn't speak, but held Zhang Mai's hand.

The cemetery is located in the outskirts. Zhang Mai picked a bunch of white lilies in the nursery at the gate, and Zhang Mai stopped in front of the gate of the cemetery.

"Ann, how about you wait for me here for a while."

Ann shook her head and took off her decorative glasses: "I'll go in with you."

Cemeteries everywhere are almost the same, with rows of black marble walls, each family has a small space, where the ashes are stored.

Holding the bouquet in hand, Zhang Mai came to the tombstone that belonged to himself and his spouse.

Beloved wife Wanja Yusatis Simla.Zhang Mai put the bouquet in his hand on the tombstone, and wiped the tombstone again.Then he stood in front of the tombstone, without moving for a long time.

After a while, his shoulders shrugged and his whole body twitched.

"I'm sorry! Wannjia! I hurt you!"

"I really shouldn't have left you and Mio in the Hilton Hotel. I thought you two would be able to take care of me, but I didn't expect that it would end up killing you, and almost killing Mio..."

Seeing Zhang Mai who couldn't help himself, An sighed softly.She suddenly felt a little jealous. It seemed that there was no place for her on this tombstone.Although I met Zhang Mai first, but most of the time I couldn't help myself.

Shaking his head, he threw these useless things out of his mind.She took a step forward slowly, took Zhang Mai's arm with her hand, and rested her head on his shoulder.

……

After leaving the public cemetery, the two didn't go anywhere else, but went directly to Zhangmai's home in the urban area.

It takes about half an hour to go to the city from the traffic tower on the outskirts of the city by taking an unmanned bus.This time is actually longer than the time it takes to take an air bus from the tube maglev train station to the outskirts of the city.But there is no way, the population density in the residential area is high, and there are many super high-rise buildings, low-altitude aircraft cannot be opened.This last mile is the most time-consuming step.

When he got up from the elevator and saw the door of his familiar home, Zhang Mai couldn't help being stunned for a while, then put his hand on the fingerprint recognition switch at the door.

The door opened, and Zhang Mio, with half a popsicle in her mouth, was looking at the door from the aisle of the entrance in a backward posture.

"Wow!" Zhang Mai was shocked by her loud cry.

"I stepped on your tail!" Zhang Mai was a little speechless when he was still so surprised by his sister.

Taking the popsicle out of her mouth, Zhang Mio, who was still barefoot, jumped over from the sofa in the living room like a monkey.

"Grandma! My brother and sister-in-law are back!"

Zhang Mai couldn't help but have black lines all over his head, what does little sister-in-law mean? !

Zhang Mai's grandma rushed out of the kitchen in three steps and two steps with a spatula in hand!After coming out, he grabbed Zhang Mai by the ear.

"You ancestor! Why didn't you contact your family before you came back! Your father and your mother are planning to pick you up in BJ!"

"Grandma, it's okay. It's not that An and I don't know the way." Breaking free from his grandma's grasp, Zhang Mai pushed An to the front of his grandma.Then he urged in a low voice, "Hurry up, call me grandma, grandma is also fine."

Ann was a little overwhelmed, or she didn't know what to do at this time.Before coming to Earth, she was the flower of the royal family. After returning to Assyria from Earth, her family was ruined.She really doesn't know anything about this kind of strong, ordinary family interaction.

After calling grandma in some out-of-key Chinese, her tears came down with a bang.

I never thought that I still have the opportunity to enjoy the warmth of the family and the care of relatives.

A pair of slightly rough hands stroked her face, wiping away the tears for her with the palms.The old lady whose eyes and face were already full of wrinkles said with a kind smile.

"It's okay, girl, this is your home, no one can bully you, so let's not cry!"

Ann couldn't speak, and could only nod vigorously.

The atmosphere became heavy, and Zhang Mio, who was usually heartless, didn't intend to use her talent for trouble this time.Zhang Mai quickly changed the topic and asked about his parents.

"Your father's plane at night. Your mother has gone to the community and will be back in a while. Your grandparents' house and your little uncle will come from Yinchuan tomorrow morning. Your aunt and uncle will take your cousin and cousin in the afternoon. It's here. By the way, you go to Taoyuan to find your grandfather, what day do you still miss his peach trees!"

"In March, it's time for the peach tree to bear fruit. Grandpa should be busy there. I'll pick him up right now." Saying that, Zhang Mai grabbed his coat and went out.

"Maizi, I'll go with you." Anjue herself was a little in the way at home, so she also went with her.

"I'll go too!" Zhang Mi feared that the world would not be chaotic.

"Come back here!" The old lady grabbed Zhang Mio by the collar of her neck, "Don't make trouble, come and help me!" Saying this, the old lady took out her ID card from her pocket.

"Here, and your ID card, this month's personal insurance is due, remember to bring some oysters and salmon!"

When she came down from the stairs, Ann breathed a sigh of relief. She was nervous for some reason.Zhang Mai messed up her hair a little funny, making her complain for a while.

SCO Greater China now has no private cars.Although the country distributes standard spaceships for households to every family, and encourages them to use their own personal security and luxury share to replace larger spaceships for solar system voyages, they drive out private cars.In addition to the public vehicles of various agencies or enterprises, the ground vehicles running on the ground are unmanned ground vehicles that are part of the public transportation system.

These small cars using metal hydrogen batteries and solar panels are not slow, and have automatic driving functions. Just get on the car and swipe your ID card, and then set the destination and road, which is very convenient.The disadvantage is that they all look the same, with the same spherical magnetic levitation tires and the appearance of a business MVP.And a unified white body and light green gradient stripes.

Swiping his alloy ID card on the card slot, a virtual screen popped up, and just after the speaker of the car on the ground said "Welcome to use...", Zhang Mai pressed the button for the next step Click, and then select the manual driving mode.

These ground vehicles have two modes, automatic driving and manual driving.There is a long section of suburban expressway to the suburban Taoyuan, where you can experience the fun of manual driving.Moreover, I have been grasping the steering column of UFP in the past few years, but I haven't touched the steering wheel of the car on the ground for a long time.

Holding the half-moon-shaped steering wheel, put on the head-mounted HUD, Zhang Mai stepped on the accelerator pedal, and the car sped away on the ground.

(End of this chapter)