wandering planet

The reason why the old yellow is yellow-brown is because the whole planet is affected by the active volcano Hugo, and it is filled with dense smoke and dust that does not disperse all year round.

The place where the Phoenix chose to dock was the safe continent that the Changyang ship had once marked.And beyond this continent, there is a vast desert that has not been explored by anyone.This planet lacks water, and the atmosphere is thin and turbid, but even so, there are creatures that reproduce and evolve on Laohuang.

"The biggest animal on Laohuang is the giant scorpion that lives in the desert." Fei Lian warned, "Never get close to any sandy land. You can only walk on mud or hard rocky ground. There are many animals living in sandy soil. Tiny creatures, you can't bring them back to the Phoenix."

Before entering the atmosphere of Lao Huang, the Phoenix carried out a very careful cleaning procedure outside the ship to clean up the bacteria or other microorganisms carried on the Phoenix ship, so as not to affect Lao Huang's own ecological circle.

Jiang Che and others put on protective masks and bulky protective clothing, and stood in the cleaning cabin for disinfection and cleaning.

Ovid's voice came from the headset: "So your targets are only bone snakes and underground tubers?"

"The tubers are very good." Jiang Che said, "There are not many starchy foods on board, and we need them very much."

Ovid found that since he was injured, Jiang Che's attitude towards him was much gentler.He pushed forward and made a request: "Come back and make bread? I want a burger."

"I'll give it a try, I've never made this before." Jiang Che thought to himself, he hadn't even eaten much, and he almost forgot what was in it.

But now the wounded is the biggest, so what the wounded will do is what he says; besides, the wounded is still Ovid, so of course he will do whatever he wants.

Jiang Che smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Ovid asked immediately.

Before Jiang Che answered, Tang Mo had already pulled Ovid away: "Don't occupy the communication channel to fall in love!"

Ovid: "I'm not...I'm not!"

Pierre's voice takes the place of the rowdy Ovid.

"Starting to land, all units pay attention." He cleared his throat, reminding the "units" that did not exist on the ship, "There are 15 seconds before landing, and the countdown begins now."

Phoenix's outer shell rubbed against the atmosphere, generating extremely high temperatures.The sand and gravel in the atmosphere bumped against the smooth hull of the Phoenix, but did not leave any visible scars.

After 15 seconds, the entire ship shook slightly.

It landed.

The channel connected to the cleaning cabin opened, and an exit appeared at the rear of the Phoenix.

It was the first time for Jiang Che to walk in such heavy clothes, and he fell down as soon as he hit the ground.

After falling down, he still couldn't get up. Lin Ni and Song Junxing pulled him a few times, and then he slowly stood up in a ridiculous posture.

"It's really not easy to move around." Lin Ni said, "You can look around. Song Jun and I will go to the front."

Jiang Che nodded.

The landing point chosen by the Phoenix is ​​a huge shallow pit.After the eruption of Hugo Volcano, the volcanic ash spread all over the ground, and was blown away by the strong wind that carried the sand.The shallow pit was covered with black-gray mud, and the landing gear of the Phoenix was deeply sunk in it.Fei Lian signaled them not to worry about it. He had already started the procedure and began to clean up the soil around the landing gear and the Phoenix.

The three people's field of vision is full of grayish yellow sky and turbid air.The world seemed to be invaded by a huge sandstorm, all the mountains and peaks were blocked from sight, and could only cast a hazy thin shadow on the retina.As far as the eye can see, there are no moving creatures, only a few plants growing sparsely around the shallow pit, and they are all dusty, without any bright colors.

Jiang Che began to doubt whether there was really what they were looking for.

"At eleven o'clock, two kilometers away, there was an activity track similar to that of a bone snake." Fei Lian told them through the communicator, "When catching a bone snake, pay attention to its bone spurs, and don't pierce the protective clothing."

Lin Ni was startled: "The protective clothing is so useless?"

"It's been 500 years." Fei Lian said, "No matter how durable it is, the shelf life cannot be as long as 500 years, brother."

"...Then you still use it for us?"

"Although it's not easy to use, it's at least a piece of clothing, brother." Fei Lian said, "Let's go, there's so much nonsense, how can I not see you talking?"

Both Lin Ni and Song Junxing fell silent.

After a while, Song Junxing suddenly realized: "I understand. Those books I gave Fei Lian, he should have finished reading "My Twelve Brothers"..."

Lin Ni strode forward, having already made a decision in his heart to destroy all of Song Junxing's collection of books immediately after returning.

The coot snake is an animal with almost no muscle fibers.

Although it is called a snake, it is only similar in shape to the common snakes of humans, but it is actually a viviparous animal, which is completely different from egg-laying snakes.

The coot snake has a spine, which is really skinny.Its skin is almost transparent, but because it is easily contaminated with debris, it usually looks gray and inconspicuous.After washing away the impurities on the skin, the bones of the White Bone Snake can be clearly seen through the translucent skin.

Hundreds of bones of different sizes constitute the entire skeleton of the coot snake.They are no more than one meter long and feed on tree sap or root tubers of plants. They are not poisonous and are not good at attacking humans.When in danger, it will quickly reveal the four claws hidden in the abdomen, and with the head, quickly dig a tunnel in the ground to hide.

It is said that the instantaneous speed of bone snakes digging is faster than that of moles, and because they have more bones on their bodies, they are extremely flexible when traveling underground.Therefore, anyone who catches the Bone Snake knows that once the Bone Snake dives into the ground, it may never be caught again.

The bone snakes on the Black Sea were captured from Lao Huang by the "Great Retreat" team at that time, and they multiplied rapidly in the Black Sea.Although it eats the roots of many plants, it also dredges the land. It is a very important animal in the Black Sea ecosystem.

Song Junxing caught it and ate it.

He knew that Linney was very familiar with ships, but the general's son could only be full of theory at most for catching animals and the like, and would not have the opportunity to practice them.

Following Fei Lian's instructions, he gradually approached the place where the Bone Snake haunted.Before them was a field of mud overgrown with vegetation.

"It's like a swamp." Linney squatted down, picked up a stone on the ground and threw it into the mud.

There was a lot of moisture in the mud, and the stone gradually sank halfway.

"It's okay." Song Junxing also squatted down and lowered his voice, "In places where bone snakes are active, the ground is relatively loose. In Laohuang's climate, it is estimated that there will not be a lot of rain, and the loose mud on the ground is better for water storage, so That's why it's so wet."

He picked up a few more stones, rubbed the ground and threw them out.Stones skimmed the roots of plants and stopped in the distance.

After a while, the land where the stone passed by suddenly moved.

The Bone Snake hiding under the shallow surface was frightened by the slight vibration.But unlike the Black Sea snakes, they have few predators here.This vibration did not cause vigilance.

Immediately Lin Ni saw three or two small white snake heads poking out from the dusty roots of the plants.

"Is everything going well with Linney?"

Jiang Che listlessly squatted on the ground digging tubers.

He was not able to move well, so he could only move around the area, circled the shallow pit twice, and turned around to see Tang Mo and Ovid opened the porthole of the Phoenix, looking down at him.

The two also shared a bag of potato chips, watching while eating.

"Very well." Fei Lian poked his head out from behind the two Kaba Kaba chewing potato chips, "How about you? How did you dig the sweet potatoes?"

The plants growing around the shallow pit did have tubers at the bottom.According to the records of the Changyang Ship, these tubers are edible.Jiang Che dug out more than a dozen, piled them on the ground first, then walked slowly to another place, squatted down and continued digging.

He went to the field to explore, not to dig sweet potatoes.

The stems and leaves on the ground of these plants grow gray and listless, but the tubers underneath are quite substantial, and each piece is about the size of a palm.The color of the tubers is consistent with everything on Lao Huang's planet, an unattractive tan.Jiang Che held the tuber in his hand and weighed it, thinking it was quite heavy.

After continuing to dig for a while, from the corner of his eye, Jiang Che saw a few apparently much shorter trees growing among the sparse vegetation.

This is not a tuber plant.

The few thin, thin plants stuck to the stems of the tubers looked like some kind of parasite.They have no branches and leaves, only a long thick black stem with a flat round fruit on top of the stem.

The fruit is black, and the surface layer seems to be a thin layer of net-like skin, with a bright red inside faintly revealing.

Although Jiang Che was curious, he didn't dare to move it casually. He carefully dug up the mud beside it to find out the tubers that had formed on the roots.

The strange plant closest to him moved, the fruit at the top split open suddenly, and a light red powder mist sprayed out.

Jiang Che subconsciously raised his hand to block it, and the tuber he was still holding slipped from his palm and brushed against the surface of the protective clothing.

The powder mist dissipated quickly.Apart from the light red powder inside the fruit, there is only dripping red mucus, and the net-like black-gray skin is cracked, like a hollow flower.

Jiang Che didn't dare to dig any more, picked up the tuber just now and threw it behind him, but felt that the sense of touch in his hands was different from before.

Looking down, there was a crack at the palm of the protective suit at some point.The light red dust stuck to the protective clothing and also got on his skin.