Rules for raising elves [Interstellar Apocalypse]

After sailing for less than half a month, a brown planet finally appeared in front of the spacecraft.

"Where is this?" Sia, who was munching an apple in Caleb's arms, pointed to the planet with a pink face and asked.

"This is Castleman, the outpost of the Empire's ninth district. We will take a break after handing in the supplies." Caleb's tone was calm, and then he adjusted the elf's position in his arms to ensure that she could sit Got to be comfortable.

After this period of being forced to take care of a child, Caleb has successfully transitioned from being stiff in his limbs to becoming more comfortable with it. Sia's nestling episode inexplicably made Caleb the one who has been taking care of the child for the longest time.

The Finger Wolf, which was once not even wanted to be touched by noble ladies, has now almost become a means of transportation for the elves.

If his former colleagues were to see his skillful movements, their jaws would probably be closed.

Fortunately, most of the time, the elf has been well-behaved and obedient beyond his years, and has taken great care of this "newbie in parenting".

Since robbing the wave of interstellar pirates, her food has been significantly improved. At least she no longer needs to drink those weird-tasting nutrient solutions.

Compared to nutrient solution, elves prefer to eat more primitive foods, which was what Leo discovered first.

When food is scarce, the elf can force himself to drink nutrient solution, because although the nutrient solution does not taste very good, it can still provide a certain amount of energy and satiety.

But if given a choice, she obviously still prefers ordinary food. Even a piece of rough-tasting quinoa bread can be eaten cleanly by her.

In addition to a batch of precious star iron ore, the pirate's starship also received some other food, such as fruit and bread. After discovering that Shia didn't like to eat nutrient solution, Leo recently became obsessed with studying recipes. Unfortunately, their dilapidated spaceship did not allow him to use his cooking skills.

Of course, if they have their own starship in the future, this will no longer be a problem.

After passing through the atmosphere, the spacecraft slowly landed in an open area.

Leo urgently sewed a cloak with a large hood for Sia, which was used to cover Sia's dazzling blond hair and pointed ears. The brim was so large that it even covered part of her face. Inside is a dress modified with a wide shirt.

Leo was responsible for holding Shia, while the others unloaded the materials except for the star silver mine from the spacecraft one after another, loaded them into the transport vehicle, and prepared to return the mission to the materials department.

This was the first time Shia saw anyone other than Caleb and the others.

In fact, District Nine is the collective name of the Empire and the several small galaxies farthest from the core area, and Castleman Star is at the edge. Other areas outside Castleman Star are not within the scope of the Empire and belong to the unexplored universe. area, so Castleman Star is also called the "Outpost of the Empire". It is under the jurisdiction of the Third Army and mainly performs some exploration missions.

The place where they landed was relatively remote, with sparse vegetation and exposed brown soil everywhere. Some large trucks roared past loaded with ore.

Poor Castleman Planet only has this little ore resource left.

Most of the people on the road were young men in ragged clothes digging for rocks. Their bodies were thin and thin due to malnutrition, their eyes were dull, and they mechanically repeated the work in their hands. Their lips were dried and cracked by the sun.

A young man's movement in his hand was a little slow, and he was stabbed by the supervisor with a gun butt in dissatisfaction and almost fell to the ground.

This action brought back many unpleasant memories. Leo's lips tightened and his brows furrowed. In the end, he couldn't help but stop him: "Walker!"

The supervisor named "Walker" turned around when he heard the voice, touched his loose belt with one hand, and smiled meaningfully after seeing the speaker clearly: "Hey, I said whose voice is so familiar? Isn't it Li Ao? It's been a long time since we last met. Why, you're tired of living the good life and starting to miss the past life? "

Leo said nothing, his fists at his side clenched tightly. His voice was very soft, but every word was clear: "They are human beings too."

After hearing this, Walker not only did not restrain himself, he laughed loudly and pushed the young man to the ground.

Seeing that the other party did not dare to say a word even though his arm was scratched by a stone, Walker became even more proud. He sneered sinisterly: "Look, he doesn't even regard himself as a human being, so why do you worry about him?"

Leo suddenly became angry, and his eyes were as sharp as sharp knives: "Does it make sense for you to do this? Now every time there is one less engineer, the higher-ups will no longer send people down in a steady stream. By then, if the task cannot be completed, we still don't know who will be unlucky. Woolen cloth."

The low-level mixed-blood orcs can only engage in such hard work, and they are driven wherever people are needed. The orcs of the empire have always vaguely called them "engineers".

They were still in a stalemate, but Shia saw the young man still lying on the ground from under his cloak, with a hand that was extremely bony due to long-term malnutrition.

It was so thin that there was only a layer of skin left that clung tightly to the bones of the hand. It was covered with ugly scars and calluses. It didn't look like the hands of a boy of this age.

Carl stepped forward and pulled Leo away. Walker also cursed and walked away under Caleb's dangerous eyes. The elf took advantage of them not paying attention and quickly took the apple in her hand that was a little warm in her hand and was reluctant to eat it for a long time. It was quietly stuffed into the skinny, scarred hand.

"For you to eat."

Hearing that crisp voice that was obviously different from the others, the young man with eyes like a dry well suddenly raised his head, but he could only see a flash of white under the cloak.

The other party has left.

The boy with hair as messy as dead grass tightly held the apple that still seemed to be carrying her body temperature. His face was still pressed against the ground, but his eyes followed her leaving back closely. After a while, he burst into tears. The ground fell into brown dust, leaving some traces of varying shades.

After leaving the desolate mining area and continuing forward, it was not until we entered the urban area that we saw a different scene.

The houses here are generally not very tall buildings. They are all small buildings with several floors stuck together like old sardine cans. The division between residential areas and military camps is very clear.

The people on the road were either poorly dressed engineers and residents, or garrison soldiers wearing dark combat uniforms who were obviously in much better condition.

The legendary Materials Management Office is one of the places where a huge blue warehouse stands side by side.

The security was loose, with a few scattered soldiers carrying energy guns and making jokes out of boredom, and then some commanding engineers kept moving things into the warehouse.

"The materials for this search mission are all here, forty C-level energy stones, twenty-three B-level energy stones, and ten stc-y engines." Caleb motioned to Dak to unload the things.

Fat frog Harry looked up at the person he was looking at with a pair of mung bean eyes. He wiped his oily mouth that had just finished eating the chicken legs with his hand, and reluctantly moved up from his leather chair. The huge oily mouth was My belly was almost stuck on the table.

Harry looked up and down at the supplies on the transport truck with his little eyes, and flattened his mouth in dissatisfaction: "Is this the only thing?"

"What do you mean it's just this little thing? Even if other teams spend twice as much time as we do, they may not be one-fifth of what we do!" Karl was obviously not convinced. As the most powerful team in the base, they were sent to the most dangerous places every time. area, but the harvest is several times that of other teams.

Duck stared at the annoying fat frog impatiently, as if he was about to pick him up and hammer him into a sandbag in the next second.

"Show me some respect, boy!" the soldier on the side threatened, raising his weapon.

The fat frog waved his hand nonchalantly, signaling for them to leave. He asked people to drag the things into the warehouse, then slumped back on his leather chair, took out a green leather notebook from his arms, and sketched for a while.

"Two thousand six hundred and twenty-five star coins, five purifiers, this is enough tolerance." Harry looked at them and spread his hands. Seeing the disgusting look directed at her, Leo held Sia and turned slightly sideways to ensure that Sia was fully covered.

Harry thought it must be a petite cub.

God, look at these poor, desperate people, adopting a cub!

A disgusting smile appeared on his face covered with fat: "Oh~ Is he your new member? This reminds me that the threshold of your team is not high at all."

After saying this, the soldiers around him laughed out loud, full of malice.

"You obviously did this on purpose." Before Karl could finish his angry words, Caleb raised his hand to stop him.

"Yes, sir." The last two words were bitten hard.

Caleb stopped talking, but his cold silver eyes kept looking at Harry. After a while, a pressure from the high-gene bloodline rose from Harry's feet to the top of his head.

The laughter around him suddenly stopped.

"Hmph, what's there to be proud of for a person who was sent from the core area to fend for himself here?" Harry twisted uncomfortably, as if to hide his discomfort, and reluctantly opened his hand. Terminal.

With a beep, 2,625 star coins were transferred to their terminal.

With that expressionless face, Caleb turned around and strode away with the aggrieved team members.

"I really thought I was a person!" An orc on the side whose genes were hyenas spat hard and showed his fangs: "So what if it's an A-level! You can't live in a good core area, so come here to show off your power!"

The fat frog took out his handkerchief and wiped his fingers, then threw it on the ground.

"Those who disobey should be taught a lesson."

Mung Bean rolled his eyes, paid attention, and whispered a few malicious instructions. After a while, several black figures sneaked up and followed Caleb and the others in the direction they were leaving.

It wasn't until he was far away from the supplies department that Caleb spoke slowly: "It's useless to argue for a while."

Golden Retriever swallowed the words that came to his lips in grievance, and his head hung down in frustration.

It’s not just once or twice that they have been treated unfairly. They paid the most supplies and received the least in return.

But Carl understood what the captain meant. After all, the Materials Department controlled the distribution of purifiers, so they had to swallow their anger.

The cosmic radiation on the junk planet is stronger than that in other areas. Even if they have protective clothing, they have accumulated a lot of pollution in their bodies during this trip, especially him and Leo. Their bloodline gene level is not high to begin with, and they are not resistant to cosmic radiation. Their sex appeal is not high. Without purifiers, they will lose control to a great extent once they return to their animal form.

Caleb handed them all five purifiers.

"You gave us all the purifiers, what about you, captain?" Karl asked.

"It's okay. My resistance is relatively high, so I don't need it that much." Caleb replied.

But out of sight of them, Caleb's hand moved back without leaving a trace.

There is a wound on it that has not healed for a long time. If the team members see it, they will definitely recognize it. This is the injury Caleb sustained during their battle with the Dark Beast two months ago. With the orcs' strong recovery power, these injuries should be healed in two or three days.

Carl and the others all went to inject purifiers. Leo turned around and looked around, and decided to take Shia to the market to see if he could buy some clothes that the cubs could wear.

This was the first time Shia had seen a human market, but she didn't expect it to be such a scene.

Shabby, dirty and disorderly.

The population of Cassman Planet is not large. Most of them are desperadoes and scattered garrison troops who want to venture into unknown areas and make a fortune. The only part of the poor are also orcs with low genetic levels. Most of them are Wear simple clothes, lay a piece of cloth on the ground and put something on it, and it becomes a stall.

The types of items sold were also very limited, such as the cheap nutrient solutions with strange flavors that she had drunk, as well as various old parts that scavengers had dismantled from abandoned starships, and some outdated protective clothing.

"Leo! You're back, what do you want to buy today?" Shia followed the voice and looked over. It was the capybara orc Kerry who was selling nutrient solution, greeting Rio enthusiastically. He wore a pair of reading glasses and had some white hair. Although his clothes were simple, his expression was very kind.

Leo often buys nutritional solutions here, and the two of them have developed some friendships from time to time.

"Same old thing, same as before."

"okay."

Jia Li put the nutrient solution in a cloth bag, tightened the rope and handed it to Leo. Then I took a closer look and found that Leo was holding a child in his arms, and the material of the cloak he was wearing seemed a bit familiar.

"Is this the cub you went to the nursery to adopt?" Kerry asked curiously.

Unexpectedly, Leo immediately blushed and stammered in explanation: "No, no! It's not what you think! This is, ahem, this is the child we picked up on the garbage planet when we were on a mission! Both parents were affected by the darkness. The beast attacked, but we took pity on him and brought him back."

Then he immediately felt his collar tighten, and Sia pulled him silently. .

"Really? This is really strange."

Jiali looked at Sia's exposed little hands and a few strands of smooth blond hair like fine satin, obviously not believing it.

Can cubs of this level be picked up casually?

But Leo didn't want to say anything, so Kerry stopped asking. The first rule of thumb for surviving in District 9 is: don't meddle in other people's business.

After collecting the star coins, Jiali kindly suggested: "If you want to buy something else, you can go to A Liang's house at the end of the alley and ask. They just came back from the fifth district and brought a lot of good things. They are busy now! You Go take a look, maybe there’s something you need.”

Leo's eyes lit up and he quickly thanked him.

After pushing Xia into Caleb's arms, Leo quickly ran to the end of the alley, his voice still lingering in the wind.

"Captain! I'll be back as soon as I go!"