wandering planet

When they set off again to catch the Bone Snake, the three of them chose the protective clothing with extreme caution.

The protective clothing obviously had quality problems. Linney repeatedly emphasized "500 years" and rubbed the protective clothing with his hands.

Fei Lian was very distressed: "There are more than 500 crew members on the Phoenix, and 4000 pieces of protective clothing are equipped. Are all of them broken?"

Jiang Che, Lin Ni, and Song Junxing were buried in the warehouse where the protective clothing was stored, with debris all over their heads and faces.They had to wear protective masks.

They turned over hundreds of pieces, and some broke immediately when they were taken apart, while others were slightly better, and cracks appeared after rubbing a few times.The three of them worked for a long time, and finally found three barely wearable clothes, put them on quickly, and walked to the clean cabin.

Ovid was still not allowed to land, so he handed over his shotgun Little Fox to Jiang Che and asked him to bring some extra bullets.The laser gun that Jiang Che is used to is larger than the little fox, and it is also relatively heavy. Hanging it on his back may cause damage to the protective clothing, and it is also inconvenient to move.Jiang Che took the little fox and touched Ovid's neck.

Fei Lian has been silently watching the movements of the two of them.

He knew what they had done and that their relationship had changed, but he still didn't quite understand why the extremely simple "touching the neck" had such an intimate meaning.

Too bad I can't touch anyone.Fei Lian thought to himself, otherwise he could try this action on Pierre or Tang Mo's neck.

He looked at his hands and walked slowly towards the cockpit.

Tang Mo told him about Jiang Che.He intends to retrieve the voice data of the Changyang ship's black box again.

This will take longer.

On the way to the gathering place of the bone snake, Song Junxing explained to Jiang Che in detail the key to catching the bone snake.

"To put it simply, it's fast. The moment the snake's entire body emerges from the ground, strike immediately." Song Junxing shot violently, grabbing Lin Ni's shoulder.

Lin Ni turned his head, his eyes full of killing intent.

He let go resentfully, and twisted his wrist: "If it only got out one head and grabbed it, the lower part would probably be broken in the ground. Because it has many bones and is very flexible, its crawling path is very complicated and winding." Go around. If you pull it casually, it will be a waste."

Jiang Che was thinking about other things: "For Lao Huang and the animals on Lao Huang, we are actually predators, right?"

Linney stopped in his tracks: "Yes."

In order to meet their own survival needs, they broke into other planets, plundered resources and destroyed the ecological environment.

The biggest difference from the predators I have seen before is only the difference in quantity: what they need is food to supplement their nutrition and satiety, as long as they can feed six people.

Lin Ni scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "How about I tell you about the life convention?"

Song Junxing: "No need. We all know what we are doing."

Among them, perhaps only Linney cares most about the life contract.This agreement that restricts the various behaviors of the Marseille interstellar explorers during their travels has no effect at all at this moment.

They move on.The Bone Snake colony they discovered before has been almost captured, and they have to climb over a mountain.Afterwards, the mountains were beyond the detection range of the Phoenix, but fortunately, they saw a large swamp at the foot of the mountain.

Song Junxing shook off the cloth bag and pushed Lin Ni: "Let's go, don't think about it too much, the most important thing is to live. Either we will eat it, or it will be eaten by a giant scorpion."

Linney glanced at him and said nothing.Although Song Junxing said that "living is the most important thing", when he captured the bone snake before, he not only let go of many bone snakes that had not yet grown up, even the plants around the quagmire where the bone snake lived were not damaged in any way.

They want to live.

Besides being alive, he is also trying his best to maintain the life convention in his own way, carefully maintaining the eternal and unchanging powerful rules in the universe.

Even in the vast universe, no one will know that they have violated the life contract, and no punishment will come.

Lin Ni and Song Junxing walked side by side, tossing and turning in their hearts, they all had the same idea: this garbage manager was indeed under the hands of his father.

Although he is sloppy and full of nonsense, he is also strong and tenacious. Like all the soldiers from General Lee Swright, he has a soul that will not change easily.

He thought I had changed too.Am I actually starting to admire a trashy soul? !

Song Junxing didn't know what he was thinking. He slid down the not-so-steep hill, checked his thighs and butt first, and shouted happily: "Great, the clothes are not torn!"

Fei Lian's voice came from the communicator: "Don't make too much noise, I can't monitor the situation around you, be careful to attract giant scorpions. Also, what is the life contract? If the captain is free, can you tell me?"

"Of course." Linney heard a strange voice on the communicator, and tapped his helmet, "Fei Lian, what are you listening to?"

It was a fast-paced conversation, and there was only one thing Lin Ni could confirm: it was not Maasai, but more like an ancient language that Fei Lian and Jiang Che used to converse.

"I'm searching the voice recording of the Changyang Ship, looking for something." Fei Lian said, "Don't worry about me, please continue."

There were more bone snakes in the quagmire than in the previous place, and all of them were lazy, indifferent to the predator's hand stretched out by the three, and did not even resist at all.

"So obedient...so stupid!" Song Junxing was very excited, talking non-stop, and walked around the mire.

Shrubs as tall as a man grew around the quagmire. Almost everything on Lao Huang’s planet was dusty, only the bone snakes that had been in the quagmire for many years could appear a little white after washing. .

Song Junxing pushed another snake into the almost full cloth bag.

There are too many snakes here.He said to himself: "It's like a bone snake farm..."

He had already got into the bushes, and suddenly discovered that these strange plants did not grow in the mud.

They grow on sandy ground.

He froze for a moment, and immediately understood: because the bushes and rocks obscured his sight, none of the three of them noticed that there was a piece of sand next to the mire.

A spike as thick as an arm quietly drilled out of the sand.

Song Junxing's throat moved slightly, and a dangerous idea quietly took shape.

He aimed his gun at the spikes.

Jiang Che and Lin Ni are sealing the cloth bag on the other side.They have packed three bags, but there are still a steady stream of white bone snakes coming out of the quagmire.

Just after sealing the third bag, the two of them suddenly heard a gunshot.

"Song Jun Xing!"

Lin Ni and Jiang Che immediately raised their guns and aimed in Song Junxing's direction.

"Run!!!" Song Junxing rolled and crawled out of the bushes, holding the gun in one hand and dragging a cloth bag full of bone snakes in the other, "Run! I hit the giant scorpion!"

Lin Ni and Jiang Che: "..."

Song Junxing: "If you beat him to death, we can eat scorpion meat!"

Linney: "Bastard!!!"

Song Junxing: "Almost, almost..."

The three of them desperately climbed up the hillside, and the rich loot became the heaviest burden at this moment.

The giant scorpion, who was briefly frightened by Song Junxing's gunshots, finally got out of the sand.Its entire body was taller than a bush, and there was a notch on the tall tail spine, which was obviously Song Junxing's masterpiece.

"It's angry...it hurts!" Song Junxing threw the gun behind him and fired another bullet, laughing wildly, "Damn! Damn! It's not afraid this time!"

Jiang Che finally understood Lin Ni's killing intent.

He had the least burden on his body and was the first to climb the hillside.The giant scorpion was less than 50 meters behind Song Junxing and Lin Ni. It opened and closed its huge blue-purple pincers, which were bigger than a human head.

Jiang Che's heart was pounding, he found that this scorpion was very similar to the scorpions on the earth.

Besides the shape, the eyeballs of this giant scorpion are completely gray.

"Don't crawl!" he yelled. "Don't move! He's blind and can only see things that move!"

Jiang Che instantly understood why all the bone snakes in the quagmire were unwilling to move - this was no ordinary quagmire, but the feeding ground of this giant scorpion!

It is already blind and unable to travel far to hunt prey, so it occupies the sandy land next to the quagmire as a habitat.The Bone Snake is not aggressive at all, nor can it cross the dry mountains to leave this settlement. Over time, it has learned a way to save its life: reduce its activities.

Once inactive, the giant scorpion is unable to recognize the direction.

As he expected, after Song Junxing and Lin Ni stopped, Ju Xie's pursuit speed also slowed down immediately.Its body was covered with fine black hairs, and its tail spines were erected at this moment, twisting from side to side, seemingly in a daze.

It was the opportunity——Jiang Che didn't hesitate, and shot directly at one of the giant scorpion's pincers!

The bullet came out of the little fox's gun and broke the giant scorpion's pincers.

Pain and sound shook the scorpion.Lin Ni and Song Junxing looked at Jiang Che suspiciously, and then saw Jiang Che take out a grenade from his arms after finishing shooting, and threw it into the quagmire.

The grenade exploded on the edge of the mire.

The huge noise frightened all the bone snakes in the quagmire, and they crazily drilled out of the quagmire.

The loud noise also affected the judgment of the giant scorpion. Holding up the damaged pincers, it quickly followed the sound and rushed towards the food it had stored.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Ni and Song Junxing immediately continued to climb up the hillside.Halfway through the climb, Song Junxing suddenly turned his head and ran down the mountain with a cat waist.

"Song Junxing?! What are you doing!" Lin Ni was anxious and angry, "Get back!"

Seeing that Song Junxing was actually smiling, he bent down and grabbed the giant scorpion pliers that Jiang Che had just sent flying halfway up the mountain.

"There's fresh meat!" Song Junxing moved faster than Lin Ni who was carrying two cloth bags.He jumped up the hill, laughing the whole time.

"Pierre, Xiaotang, Ovid!" Now he became the fastest one, and the three ran towards the direction of the Phoenix with all their strength. Song Junxing's protective mask had just been broken, After eating the dust in his mouth, he still shouted excitedly, "We have scorpion meat to eat!"

There was cheering on the communicator.

Ovid was hugged by Tang Mo and Pierre, swaying back and forth, barely able to maintain a limited calmness under the temptation of scorpion meat: "Who did it? You?"

"I won't." Song Junxing said decisively, "Let Jiang Che do it. Braised scorpion meat in oil! Braised scorpion meat! Braised scorpion meat! White cut! Stewed! Deep fried in oil! Jiang Che can do anything!"

"Jiang Che can do anything!" Tang Mo and Pierre shouted while hugging Ovid, "Jiang Che can do everything! Eat meat! We eat fresh meat!"

Jiang Che was taken aback: "Me neither."

"Sure!" Tang Mo and Pierre's voices came in a mess, "Jiang Che is so good! Jiang Che can do everything!"

Lin Ni cursed behind him, and Jiang Che didn't know what to say for a while.

The strange thing is that amidst Tang Mo and Pierre's unreasonable compliments, while smiling lightly, he also seemed to have a wonderful illusion that he should be able to do everything.

Fei Lian got up, left the three people who were excited by the meat, and cleared his throat into the communicator.

"Huh? Can AI also cough?" Song Junxing asked without thinking.

"Humans seem to do this before saying important things, although I don't think this action makes any sense." Fei Lian's voice was unusually calm, in stark contrast to the noise behind him, "Mr. Jiang Che, I have a gift to give for you."

At this time, the three of them were already close to the shallow pit where the Phoenix landed.

Jiang Che was puzzled: "A gift? Mine?"

"I think you should like it." Fei Lian said gently, "It's a conversation record left by the deputy captain and navigator of the Changyang ship 500 years ago."