wandering planet

The cultivation room on the Phoenix takes up a very large area, equivalent to five or six cockpits.

The cultivation room is divided into two parts, inside and outside, filled with cultivation platforms and petri dishes.

Fei Lian called the outside cultivation room No. [-], and the inside cultivation room No. [-].Although there is soil in the two cultivation rooms, nothing grows in the first cultivation room, and there are a large number of withered and dead plants in the second cultivation room, which are heavily entangled and look like plants that died after being infected.

"Because there is fertilizer in the No. [-] cultivation room." Fei Lian asked everyone to wear biochemical masks, and opened the door of the No. [-] cultivation room.

A stinking musty smell rushed out, carrying with it dust-like powder.Although you can't smell it, but looking at the smog-like scene, you can guess what it's like.Jiang Che heard Lin Ni's husky voice: "Isn't it 500 years? Why haven't the plants in the No. [-] breeding room rotted?"

"Because of the fertilizer." Fei Lian laughed, "There is a special fertilizer in the No. [-] cultivation room, which forms a virtuous cycle with these plants. Although this cycle cannot provide effective nutrients to the plants, it does Let the sealed cultivation room No. [-] form a relatively stable space."

He motioned Linney to touch the black plant in front of him.

As soon as Lin Ni's fingers touched, the seemingly solid and hard branches immediately turned into powder and scattered on the ground.

Lin Ni took a step back subconsciously, his eyes fell on the soil of the petri dish, and he was suddenly taken aback.

Inexplicably, a large lump bulged in the soil, as if something was buried.

"This is the fertilizer." Fei Lian raised his leg and made a stamping motion on the lump of soil, "Below are the corpses of five predators."

Everyone: "...???"

"Actually, the No. [-] breeding room grows edible plants, while the No. [-] breeding room grows aggressive carnivorous plants." Fei Lian tilted his head with a smile on his face, "The predators invaded the Phoenix. I was not fully asleep at the time of No. [-]. A looter broke into Incubation Room No. [-] and was attacked and died. I closed the doors of all the rooms, including the airtight partition door between No. [-] and No. [-] Nursery Room, so It’s what you see now.”

The carcasses of the marauders are dragged by the plants to their roots in an attempt to absorb nutrients.But Fei Lian fell into a deep sleep, the power source of the Phoenix was unloaded, and the light, temperature and humidity of the cultivation room could not be maintained.In the icy universe, these aggressive plants died one after another maintaining their previous posture.Their leaves and slender twigs shattered and fell on the carcasses of the marauders as if covered with dirt.

Pierre was curious.He was full of curiosity about the entire Phoenix, and after resting, he began to wander around, so he discovered the cultivation room.He couldn't help but asked Fei Lian: "Why is there an incubation room on the vanguard ship? Shouldn't the vanguard ship be loaded with navigation systems and tools?"

Fei Lian's figure passed through the completely dead plant branches, looming among the black plant corpses, and the voice came from afar: "The cultivation room is the characteristic of the Phoenix, a pioneer ship. Because the crew of the Phoenix cannot bear to eat dehydrated vegetables , they must eat fresh."

Tang Mo was surprised: "At that time, there was no technology to grow fresh vegetables on board the ship?"

"It can be cultivated, but it's not tasty." Fei Lian inspected it again, and then walked back, "Now the Marseille ships can do it?"

Tang Mo nodded: "Yes. Even ordinary civilian ships, as long as conditions permit, can grow delicious vegetables."

Fei Lian nodded: "It's amazing."

He seems to be very pleased, but also seems to have a lot of emotion: "500 years..."

Song Junxing, who had been hovering near the partition door between No. [-] and No. [-] cultivation rooms, suddenly made a sound.

"Jiang Che, let's grow vegetables." He said, "I have a few packets of seeds in my backpack."

Linney: "...you brought the seeds?"

"We have arrived on the earth. If we bring seeds, we can try to grow Marseille plants on the earth." Song Junxing looked very happy, "Jiang Che, Fei Lian, let's grow vegetables."

The voyage of the Phoenix was very smooth. Linney, Ovid, and Pierre spent most of their time in the cockpit, communicating with Fei Lian.

Jiang Che, Song Junxing, and Tang Mo had nothing important to do, so they decisively started using the cultivation room.

Although the three of them wanted to know what could be grown with the soil containing the nutrients from the predator's corpse, but in view of the strong opposition from the other three, they had no choice but to agree to limit the planting scope to the No. [-] cultivation room.

All the plants in the cultivation room No. [-] have died, and no one knows whether the soil can be used normally.

The fresh water they brought from Virgil to the Black Sea, as well as the fresh water originally stored by Song Junxing, were all poured into the Phoenix's water circulation system.Jiang Che moistened all the soil, Song Junxing and Tang Mo planted some plants to see if they could grow normally.

"Fortunately, I didn't lose it." Song Junxing held up the root system of the weed weed that Greiya F dug up, "It may grow near the water, and it will be alive after soaking in water. Squeeze the juice from the leaves of the weed and use it to steam steamed buns with noodles , are very delicious.”

Tang Mo took out some of the seeds he brought, divided them carefully, and buried them in the soil.She had never done this kind of thing before, full of curiosity and freshness, she pulled Jiang Che and Song Junxing to ask many questions.

After a few days, the seeds sprouted one after another.

The green spikes protruded from the soil, surrounded by six people and an AI.

"It can really grow..." Ovid didn't believe it at first. After all, the soil was already 500 years ago.

Jiang Che and Song Junxing insisted that it can still be used.Even in a cosmic environment, the Phoenix spends most of its time with the Marauders.Although the conditions of the planet where the predators live are harsh, their ability to survive means that there is an ecological cycle system on that planet.Some of the microorganisms in the soil died, and another part survived tenaciously in the strange environment.

Even new microbes enter the soil and start multiplying.

The soil will not die, and the possibility of it gestating life is always there, and it only needs the right opportunity to wake up again.

"You are all right." Fei Lian poured cold water on them, "But what it will grow into, and whether the fruit can be eaten is another matter."

The cultivation room has become a place where everyone is worried.

When Jiang Che was cooking, he didn't dare to put vegetables, the amount was not enough.Fei Lian has cleared all the supplies. They use the Phoenix as the carrier. If everything goes well, it will take about three months to reach the earth.The food on board would last the six of them for a month, so they must continue to find new edibles along the way.

Fei Lian thought it was a crisis, but everyone else showed eagerness to try.

They have already tasted the sweetness in the Sirius planetary belt, and they can completely obtain the materials they want from the planets along the way.

"...Okay." Fei Lian waved his hand, and a planet on the route suddenly jumped out and slowly rotated on the screen.

It was a tawny planet with two rings of varying width and shrouded in a thin atmosphere.

"This is a planet that the Changyang ship docked before approaching the Black Sea. It is also the closest planet that can dock to us." Fei Lian said, "We commonly call this planet Laohuang, and there is a species of bone snake on it. Animals may be of interest to you."

"Bone Snake?" Jiang Che remembered, "Isn't this a specialty of the Black Sea?"

"It was the ships of the 'Great Retreat' that took Lao Huang to the Black Sea when they passed Lao Huang." Fei Lian twirled his fingers, and the huge yellow-brown planet rotated on the screen, revealing a fiery red eye.

"There is a huge active volcano on Laohuang, which is currently in an unstable eruption period." Fei Lian was still full of doubts, "Are you sure you really want to go?"

Everyone: "OK."

Fei Lian: "Okay. The Phoenix will arrive at Lao Huang in three days."

Lin Ni and Song Junxing began to prepare the materials and tools needed for landing, Pierre and Ovid stayed in the cockpit for a long time, and Tang Mo and Jiang Che often stayed in the incubation room.

Jiang Che chopped up all the crabs that Virgil caught and fried them. They were spicy and fragrant, and they were eaten up soon after they were served.Ovid drank the bowl of crab porridge endlessly, picked up the tongs inside and bit into his mouth from time to time.The porridge crab was chopped into four pieces, and the crab roe was all in the porridge water. The sweetness of the crab meat and the thickness of the rice porridge blended just right. Except for Pierre and Linney who were not used to porridge, everyone Everyone loves it.

Fei Lian sat at the table like them, watching everyone eat.He likes this scene very much, it will give him a feeling of going back to the past, as if the 500-year slumber never happened, the kitchen and dining tables of the Phoenix are always steaming, and there are many people sitting there.

Ovid said that his wound was painful, so Jiang Che helped him change the dressing.After everyone finished eating, they left one after another. For a while, only the two of them and Fei Lian were left in the kitchen.

They told Fei Lian the story of Faust and the Black Sea, especially the story of Copernicus sacrificing himself to save Faust.Fei Lian's eyes widened: "...the Homer rescued the Phoenix in the same way."

For an artificial intelligence, even things that happened 500 years ago are just a bunch of data in the database, which can be recalled at any time.

"The Homer sacrificed a lot, but the Phoenix never made it to Marseille." Fei Lian got up and walked around in the kitchen.The automatic dishwasher had started to run, and the machine made a slight sound. He stopped to look at it for a while, and decided to share the story of the Phoenix crash with the two people in front of him.

The disappearance of the Phoenix is ​​directly related to the Marauders, as it was ambushed by the Marauders.

"The looters are all aimed at our ship," Fei Lian said. "I even suspect that their target is not the ship or the material itself, but the Birog ring on the ship."