wandering planet

The braised snake steak is wrapped in flour fried to a crisp, hot and fragrant, and the box can't hold the fragrance, it goes straight to Ovid's nose.

After leaving Building Zero, the most terrifying thing was the sour smell.The blood on the predator's body seemed to be the source of the sour smell. Several people stepped over the piles of corpses spread out in the ruins. Only Tang Mo stretched out his feet and kicked them a few times out of curiosity.

The mimic part of the Predator has gradually lost its human form, and has re-formed into a circle wrapped in internal organs.This seems to be their real attitude.

Jiang Che and Tang Mo tried to persuade Ovid to try the food taste of the Predator, and the three argued endlessly behind Lin Ni.Linney led them to the direction of the ship, while sorting out things about the predators in his mind.

While patrolling the area around Marseilles, military ships would occasionally encounter marauder ships, but never with a single vessel.

That is, predators are used to acting independently.A leader controls a ship and brings a ship of predators out to hunt.

They have no habit of acting in groups.

So there is a problem that is particularly important: Cicero once saw countless marauder ships surround Marseilles and launch an attack in "Future", which is obviously a purposeful and planned group action.

But this action is completely different from the predator's usual mode of action.

They have no way of knowing when the "future" that Cicero saw appeared, nor why the predators changed their mode of action.

However, the "leader" that Ovid and Jiang Che saw made Lin Ni very concerned.

Even though the human form is only the mimicry of the predator, the mimicry of this "chief" is obviously far beyond the ordinary humanoid form, it is too similar to human beings.

In Linney's knowledge structure, evolution is the change of the gene frequency of the biological population. He didn't know whether the imitation and learning of humans by predators belonged to a kind of evolution.

If predators become infinitely closer to humans in terms of action mode and appearance during this simulation and learning process, and even have organs such as vocal cords, does this also belong to non-genetic evolution?

Linney is not a researcher in this area, and he cannot give himself an answer.But if predators are really infinitely close to humans and use vocal cords to communicate, it is entirely possible to change from independent actions to group actions.

If so, how can the ruined "future" of Marseille be avoided?

There are nothing more than three methods: strengthen Marseille, so that the predators cannot attack; find foreign aid, let the remaining humans on the earth help the Maasai; and the last method - destroy the predators that will threaten Marseille.

They are now on the Black Sea, and there is no way to strengthen Marseille. All they can do is to find foreign aid and destroy the predators.

Not long after, Jiang Che had already walked to his side.

Tang Mo was still enthusiastically trying to convince Ovid, Jiang Che patted Lin Ni on the shoulder: "What are you thinking?"

Lin Ni told Jiang Che carefully what he thought.

"Destroy the predators..." Jiang Che scratched his nose, "I have an idea."

"please tell me."

Jiang Che smiled and signaled Lin Ni not to be so polite. "I remember Song Junxing said that the Phoenix was found from a Marauder's ship. And we found that the operating system of the Marauder's ship is very similar to that of a human military ship. So I think that the Marauder captured the 'Great Retreat' 'After the ships, I have been learning. There may be humans alive on some ships at that time, and these humans have also become the objects of study by the predators."

Linney listened very carefully.Jiang Che has not received basic education in Marseilles, but Linney believes that such a person can give some different ideas.

"500 years, from the 'Great Retreat' to now, 500 years have passed." Jiang Che whispered, "The marauders spent 500 years learning, they learned how to operate the ship, but they still can't perfect The shape and actions of a human being are closely simulated. The 'chief' we have seen is a special case, and I think this special case is very, very rare."

Lin Ni thought for a moment, and gradually understood Jiang Che's meaning: "You mean, the learning ability of predators is not as good as we imagined?"

Jiang Che thought exactly so.

Marauders can quickly learn the handling of ships, but they can't do it against humans-this unexplained simulation dilemma may be the key to saving Marseilles.

"...If your thinking is correct, then the 'future' that my brother sees may not come so soon." Lin Ni said quickly, "It is difficult for us to destroy the predators, what we have to do is to reduce the plundering samples for learners."

Thinking of this, Lin Ni once again felt a headache.

The Marseille fleet has 101 unwritten taboos for ships, 68 of which are related to predators: do not approach predators, do not try to communicate with predators, do not approach places frequented by predators, where there may be predators belonging to them Colonizing planets is extremely dangerous.

But now they are going to take the initiative to approach the predators.

"...It's all Song Junxing's fault." Lin Ni couldn't find anyone to take the blame for, so he immediately took his anger out on Song Junxing.

Song Junxing sneezed on the ship, rubbed his nose, and Pierre fell to the ground one after another along the rope.

The Phoenix was right in front of them, and Lin Nijiangche and others were carrying the hot braised snake steak through the stairs to the depths of the canyon.

The braised snake steak was enough. Jiang Che gave Pierre and Ovid two pieces each, and the rest one piece each.The six of them didn't bother to exchange pleasantries anymore, they just sat on the ground and started eating.

The snake meat has been beaten by Jiang Che, so it is soft and delicious, and because it is wrapped in egg liquid and flour and fried, the meat juice is wrapped in the texture of the snake meat without leaking.The meat of the winged snake is not very tender, but these pieces of snake meat are rich in fat, and the muscle and fat are separated by layers, forming a very delicious taste.

Jiang Che was the slowest eater. He was used to eating slowly, so he couldn't imitate Ovid's speed.

Ovid killed the chief and Pierre took the ship, averting one of the greatest crises, and both should be rewarded.Pierre, who was well educated, ate very politely, while Ovid wished he could have a piece of food with one hand and play both sides.Reluctantly, he couldn't lift his right hand at all, so he simply used a fork to fork two bites in one breath, and bit them openly.

Squeeze some fruit juice on the snake steak, with natural sweet and sour, very appetizing.Jiang Che and Tang Mo also brought a bag of fruit and a large can of honey tea.

They finally finished eating the Griya honey that Song Junxing had hidden, and began to use the honey they brought over.This time the honey is relatively fresh, without long-term precipitation, and the sweetness is slightly lacking, but the floral and fruity aromas are particularly strong.As soon as the big jar of honey tea was opened, several people all raised their heads and looked at Jiang Che together.

Tang Mo ate half of the snake steak, and began to cut open the shell with a knife.

No one knows what the name of this kind of fruit picked from Nini is.Song Junxing called it Ninigo simply and rudely, and the rest of the people followed him.

The fruit is round, and the shell is covered with a film with soft spines. The shell is tough but not hard.After the husk is cut open, there are densely packed citrus-like pulp inside, but the fiber is obviously much thicker, and the number of seeds is also surprising.The fruit is sour in the mouth, but soon, the tip of the tongue can taste a very subtle sweetness, like the sweetest center of a summer watermelon, or the reddest tip of a strawberry - a very fresh and refreshing fruit taste.

Tang Mo likes to eat very much, she cut open more than a dozen in one go, and put them all in front of everyone.

"Tang Mo, look, how delicious this meat and this fruit are." Ovid said, "Don't think about predator intestines."

It was only then that Tang Mo realized that he had forgotten something: "Ah, thank you for reminding me! Speaking of intestines, I just discovered that there are quite a lot of intestines in the organs of predators. In addition to intestines, there is also a lump that looks like pig liver Toys..."

She, Jiang Che and Song Junxing once again had a lively discussion.Pierre and Linney looked at Ovid with eyes like dead fish.

Ovid remained silent and lowered his head to eat the meat.

After a full meal, the six climbed onto the Marauder ship one after another.

Song Junxing and Pierre have already loaded and unloaded eggshells once, and this time they are already familiar with the process.Lin Ni and Jiang Che took out the rope they brought over, tied up the eggshells, and wrapped them tightly.

Pierre turned on the backup energy source and kept the ship in the air. The four of them spent a lot of effort and finally pushed the eggshell to the ship's exit.

From the bottom of the ship made of black rocks, the eggshells that were tied up with ropes so that they could not see their original shape slowly fell. The four of them used several bends inside the ship to fix the abandoned pulley that Song Junxing found on Greia F before. Use the rope to lower the eggshell little by little.

With nothing to do, Ovid turned to Tang Mo and said, "Do you know the principle of leverage?"

Tang Mo: "Do you think the rope looks like intestines?"

Ovid decided to never talk to Tang Mo again in a short time.

The descent took half an hour.The eggshell finally hit the ground, kicking up a tiny cloud of dust on the canyon floor.

Pierre immediately returned to the control room, waited for the rest of the crew to leave the ship, then maneuvered the ship to the top of the forest and then landed, directly discarding the ship.He ran out from the entrance, ran all the way, almost jumped down the canyon.

He didn't want to miss the moment when the Phoenix was activated.

When entering the Phoenix, there was still darkness in front of my eyes.Ovid and Tang Mo held up the lights, while Lin Ni and the other three were rolling the eggshells to the power cabin at the rear of the Phoenix.

Everyone is uneasy.

They had hopes, but also fears: What if the cables inside the Phoenix had failed?What if the eggshell can no longer provide energy?Or even if everything goes well, Phoenix, as the best vanguard ship, its secrecy system refuses anyone to log in?

But they also all watched eagerly as the eggshells and Birog rings rolled into the pod.

The exhausting bumps along the way finally paid off at this moment.

Lin Ni and Song Junxing climbed onto the eggshell and dropped a huge cable interface from the top of the power cabin.This interface is indeed the same as the interface of the Predator ship.

Just about to plug it in, Song Junxing suddenly pushed Lin Ni: "Go down."

Linney: "Why?"

"In case something happens during the connection, the captain must be alive." Song Junxing pulled the interface in front of him with an extremely serious expression, "Lin Ni, you leave, take everyone away, and I will connect by myself."

Linney knew he was absolutely right.

He jumped out of the eggshell, without looking back, chased the rest out, and closed the door of the engine room himself.

Song Junxing was taken aback for a moment: "You go out too."

Linney walked to the console of the power cabin, still didn't look up at him, but just put his hands on the console: "Don't be stupid. I'm not the captain yet, but your partner. Go ahead."

Ovid pricked up his ears to the sounds in the power cabin.

"What if it explodes?" He looked at the rest of the people, "We are in danger."

"There's still a lot of meat in the freezer." Tang Mo expressed regret.

Pierre stammered to interrupt their discussion: "Don't, don't talk about this, okay?"

Jiang Che leaned against the wall, looking at the completely dark interior of the cabin.In the distance, the entrance of the Phoenix has light thrown in, the only light in this dark tunnel.

The strange thing was that he wasn't scared at all.Even though the environment was similar to the freezer he was in, he wasn't afraid.

Like a trial, he waited calmly and longingly for that moment to come.

There was a strange noise in the power cabin.

Immediately afterwards, the ground under their feet suddenly lit up.

It was as if a river of light gushed from the power pod, flowed past their feet, flowed through the dark corridors, and meandered into the depths of the tunnel that engulfed everything.

There was light streaming down from the top of his head, and only now did Jiang Che clearly see the lights inlaid on top of his head.They are extremely gentle and not dazzling, but Jiang Che still feels tingling in his eyes.

More light sources came on.Little by little more things appeared.

The signs in the corridor are marked in Chinese and English. Ovid pointed to those square characters and looked back at Jiang Che in surprise.The floor colors of different functional areas are different, and the flashing fluorescent indicator lines extend in the corridor, leading to all directions.Song Junxing and Lin Ni left the power cabin, they walked through the corridor together, and ran towards the cockpit of the Phoenix.

Everyone's heart beat faster.

The looters had entered the Phoenix, and they had left sticky, unidentified substances stuck to corners or walls, flashing strange reflections in the lights.

The light at the door of the cockpit seemed to be particularly strong. When it got closer and closer, Lin Ni, who had been running at the forefront, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The cockpit door is closed, the red lock light is on, it is now closed.

In front of the cabin door, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy was wearing a white researcher's robe, with his hands in his pockets, calmly looking at the several people running towards him.

The light on his body is not very clear, it seems that because the system is still adjusting, the image keeps showing slight jumps.

This is a holographic projection.

The boy was completely Asian in appearance, but the pupils under the glasses were slightly reddish.

After scanning the crowd with undisguised hostility and vigilance, he spoke.

"I am the AI ​​of the Phoenix, number 56233, and my code name is Feilian. Who are you and why did you step into my territory at will?"

The author has something to say:

Feilian is the name of a mythical animal in ancient China, with a deer body and a bird head.This AI will soon be assigned to Song Junxing's side by Lin Ni!It's the "I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, but I can't do anything about it" side.I like it very much, (￣▽￣")