Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1353 Rest Time
"Speaking of which, Shangluo, are you asking Miss Apollonia to come out and do some errands now?"

Later, Wen Yuan came back from outside. He was very concerned about personal cleanliness, so he took a shower and changed his clothes before meeting Shangluo.

Phaethon's words were actually a bit conservative. It was much hotter in this dress than she said. Phaethon had already made her sweat, and Wen Yuan felt like she had just put out a fire. If he didn't wash himself clean as soon as he came back, he wouldn't be able to go out to see people.

"Yeah." Shangluo nodded, "You two are having a lot of fun outside. So what are you playing?"

"We are playing softball. You've never played it before, right? That's normal. It's a military sport, usually only played among military households."

Although Han Xingzhi attended a school for craftsmen like Shangluo, his family's military registration was not here, and they only moved here later to attend school.

"Can you play in space?"

"Of course you can play. Softball is something you can play anywhere."

Shangluo knew there was such a thing as softball, but Wenyuan might be talking about baseball, because baseball also has bases. But no matter which one it was, Shangluo couldn't understand it.

"I've always wondered how you guys played this kind of thing."

In Shangluo's impression, the way this sport is played is very confusing. One person throws the ball, and another person hits it. After the hit, a group of people run around on the court. This is not as intuitive as basketball or football.

Basketball is about throwing the ball into the opponent's basket, and soccer is about kicking the ball into the opponent's goal. But baseball has no goal, and the two teams have different positions. The running circle in the middle is even more confusing.

But generally speaking, it seems to be a competition to see who can hit the ball farther. After hitting the ball, both sides start a short distance round trip race based on the flight distance of the ball - although it can be said that, it is still difficult to understand.

"Well, let me put it this way," Wen Yuan replied, "Actually, you shouldn't think of softball as playing ball. Think of it as throwing grenades."

"Grenade? What do you mean?"

"Look, isn't softball played by one person throwing the ball, hitting the ball, and then everyone runs together? Think of it this way - there is only one grenade in the whole field, and everyone wants to kill the other person with the grenade. I throw the grenade at you, and you have to use the stick to hit it away. If you can't hit it, you will be killed."

"So that's how it is? What happens after we defeat him?"

"After you hit someone, the grenade has a delay, right? You knock the grenade away and run away, and I'll pick up the grenade and chase you. If I catch up with you before it explodes, you die. If I can't catch up, I die. It's that simple."

“So it’s this military sports”

Indeed. If you think of it as a ball, the rules of softball are not intuitive at all. But if you think of it as throwing a grenade, the rules immediately become much more intuitive. With a grenade in hand that explodes at a set time, it makes more sense for everyone to run.

"Eh?" Shangluo thought for a moment, "Can we just throw a grenade for fun?"

"As a player, I am confident that I will not be blown up. But if I hit a home run, the audience will be blown up - but that's basically it. Throwing grenades, hitting grenades, and then passing the parcel. Did you play hide-and-seek with a can when you were a kid? It's exactly the same. The can is a fixed softball - by the way, why are you asking this all of a sudden?" "I saw that you guys were having a lot of fun, so I thought about doing some cultural construction on the space station."

"Then I probably can't play it. Because just like you said, if you don't play softball yourself, you won't understand it. It's popular among the military households because we have a regional league and we've been playing since we were young. But because we only represent our own garrison and not the local prefectures and counties, other people don't watch this game much except for us."

"Have you ever won an award?"

"Ah," Wen Yuan shook her head, "If I had won an award, would I have waited until I could share a car with you to improve my resume? Although I like playing, I'm not very good at it. The same goes for Xiao Han, he also likes to play, but he's not very good at it. But this can be played by two people, and when two people play it is like kicking the can, one person throws and the other hits, and after the ball is hit, they chase together. Because the person who hits the ball can decide the direction, he or she can gain the upper hand if he or she runs."

"Is it fun?"

"It's not fun. I felt so stupid running around with him for the whole afternoon. But it's fun to be stupid once in a while."

While they were playing, someone else had already taken over the construction, but they were still free to come in and out. After all, for Qigong practitioners, entering and leaving the universe did not require too much preparation, they only needed to bring their golden elixir and oxygen cylinders.

However, Wen Yuan's words did give Shangluo some hints - although this ball looked a little confusing, the rules were not unclear. Plus, if you play it in the community, it's quite fun. This was originally the ball played by the military according to the organization, and this space station happened to be very similar to the military.

"I'll keep this in mind." Shangluo nodded and said, "This matter can be arranged."

"Then I have a suggestion." Wen Yuan said, "I just saw you call Apollonia out to do some work, and you were about to submit a petition - how about we hold a ball game? After we finish playing the Moon Rabbit, we can hold it on the moon."

"On the moon? Isn't it possible in space?"

"It's easy to lose the ball in space. Once you throw it, you can't find it again. And it floats everywhere, so you can't find it at all. It's better to play this kind of ball on the low-gravity surface of the moon."

"Then you don't need to ask him for this matter. I think it's okay. Take me with you when the time comes."

If it can be done, this will be the first unique cultural activity after humans enter space.

This is very important for future space migration. Shangluo wants more people to leave the earth and live in the sky. This will free up living space on the earth and also allow the development of space.

But if space is cold, it will be hard to attract immigrants anyway. After all, if the five teams have interesting imaginations about life in space, it is hard to have a vision of life here.

"By the way, when the Nanyang was being developed, how did those land guards attract immigrants?"

"In fact, it hasn't attracted much attention." Wen Yuan thought for a while, "When we set up the garrisons in Nanyang, we chose places where there were people. The logic is different. On the contrary, the military households going to Nanyang need subsidies before they are willing to go. Compared with this, it is more valuable to study why so many people want to go to Nanyang."

(End of this chapter)