After the market ended, Arthur said goodbye to his classmates and then returned to his rest cabin.

The stars are all around me, and the girl is somewhere in those stars.

Such a strong feeling lingered in Arthur's heart, getting stronger and stronger.

But where will you be?

He tried to talk to the little expert, but it was quiet, as quiet as the day he found her.

Arthur knew that the universe was actually very complex, and it was not a quiet empty state. There were tens of billions of planets in the universe, and they were integrated into each other and had absolutely no relationship with each other.

About thirty minutes later, the little expert heard the girl's voice. It still had a language habit that did not belong to this era, and it sounded more like the grammar used by humans hundreds of years ago.

But, they sound nice.

Because he couldn't communicate for nearly a month, and only through messages, Arthur couldn't even confirm whether the girl could hear the diary-like thoughts he buried in the little expert.

"I have received all the messages. Let me tell you a joke. I thought it was you talking to me. I also said a lot to the messages. At that time, I was floating in the mottled sky. How are your paintings?

Did it help you make enough money? Do you want to leave Mir?"

"Yes, I am participating in a program. If I pass the test, I can successfully enter the next stage of study. Although regarding the ultimate goal of the program, it must have a purpose, right? The teacher did not mention a word about it, but I know

, this plan may require us to fly a spacecraft, if there is a chance... I think..."

Arthur is not yet old enough to express his thoughts without fear.

He wanted to say that if he could find the girl's location, he would want to meet her.

This idea is so romantic that every time he has such an idea, Arthur will push open the door of the training ground and practice on the rowing machine for an hour until his brain completely forgets this idea.

But the next day, when sitting in the white classroom and going through heavy calculations, Arthur would feel an unspeakable concern.

When did it start?

When he could talk to her every day, he had never experienced this kind of caring feeling. But now, as long as he is alone and calm down, the girl is like a missing part of his body.

Maybe something like this should be consulted by someone with more experience, dad or mom.

Maybe this is a kind of love?

Will it be?

"Have you ever thought about leaving the place where you live? Go and see a more distant world?" the girl said again.

She told Arthur that she had been in a very bad state recently and that she might be near the end of her life.

A sense of purposelessness surrounded her, and she thought that maybe she had no similar kind at all. She didn't know what she was. Except for the constantly changing sky around her, she had no way of knowing what kind of situation she was in.

"Are you human?" Arthur suddenly asked.

"Why do you ask? Should I be human?" the girl asked.

"I can't imagine that you are some kind of creature other than human beings. Please allow me to tell you a story about humans.

Arthur told the girl how a group of primitive humans experienced a series of genetic and cultural changes 300,000 years ago, leading them to a unique evolutionary path and becoming later humans.

"The theory of evolution you mentioned sounds amazing. Humans actually evolved from apes. Those apes were originally more like monkeys?"

"Yes, it is."

The girl smiled softly.

When she heard about the Cambrian explosion of life, the girl happily urged Arthur, "Besides, it's amazing that so many creatures suddenly appeared in a period of time."

"The earth is such a magical place. It breeds infinite possibilities for life."

"Are you on earth too? I mean once?" the girl asked again.

"No, we lost it. We lost it hundreds of years ago. It is said that we were forced to leave the earth for the same reason as 65 million years ago."

"What happened? What about those civilizations? Are they all gone with the departure of humans? What continent is the Queensland tropical rain forest you mentioned coming from?"

"Oceania, a land with many animals."

"Okay, Oceania. And the Sydney Opera House, you said it was built on the sea?"

“Yes, the Sydney Opera House covers an area of ​​1.8 hectares and is located on a granite base 19 meters from the sea. The highest shell top is 60 meters from the sea, with a total construction area of ​​88,000 square meters.

Human beings are masters of architecture and have been good at building all kinds of magical and great buildings since our ancestors."

The girl suddenly felt sad and said, "It's a pity that I can't even see it."

"Maybe it's more beautiful there." Arthur was eager to comfort the girl, fearing that he would say something wrong. No matter how he listened, her voice seemed to be becoming more and more transparent, as if it was about to break.

"You said you made paintings of what I saw. Later, someone made many similar paintings based on your works. What do they look like?"

"I swear to the stars, none of those paintings are as breathtaking as the ones you described. The pictures you described have a terrifying power. I can't describe them now. I can only draw them on paper according to my imagination.

, from the initial very abstract pictures to gradually more concrete, maybe because of the name, so some people imitated them and painted many more concrete paintings, and interestingly, they also sold for good prices."

"Are all the names you chose related to the earth? You said that the project you are participating in has given you a lot of inspiration, the [World Heritage List] project. What kind of project is that?"

"I don't know the purpose of the plan yet, but there is an interesting phenomenon. Paintings based on heritage-listed scenic spots are indeed very popular now, which is a bit strange."

"What's weird?"

Arthur paused and replied: "This is an unpopular topic, because we lost our home and were forced to leave the earth, so most people are unwilling to remember it. Psychologists say that this kind of deliberate

The phenomenon of avoiding memories may last from several years to hundreds of years. Psychologists say it right. People are not willing to recall the civilization of the earth, but they crazily collect things on the earth, such as a piece of paper, a flower, and a stick.

The necklace with the image of the Potala Palace, all the things that were saved from the catastrophe that lasted ten years, were all shipped to Mars and the moon base, the former is another planet in our solar system, where my grandparents were

Born on Mars.

The moon is a satellite of the earth and our first home outside the earth. Many of our ancestors were born in the moon city.

The earth seen from the moon was once a blue planet with an atmosphere that protected the growth of all things, oceans that nurtured life, and the footprints of human civilization."

"You call these tracks collectively the World Heritage List? Is it a book? A dictionary?"

Arthur smiled, the girl's innocent questioning made him relax, and he seemed to see the girl's clear blue eyes.
Chapter completed!