wandering planet

After Jiang Che calmed down, no one mentioned this gift and this matter to him again.

Fei Lian quietly asked Tang Mo if he had done something wrong, but Tang Mo couldn't tell why, so he could only tell him to be a man and take responsibility.

Fei Lian used his own system to think for several days, whether he is a pure AI or a man.

He observed Jiang Che carefully, and found that he didn't have any violent mood swings after that, and his life was the same as before, very peaceful.

Just ask him every day before falling asleep: "Listen to me again?"

"You should sleep well." Fei Lian kindly reminded.

"I will." Jiang Che held his special earphone, "I will teach Ovid to learn Chinese, let him listen more."

His affair with Ovid has been discovered by all.Song Junxing was jealous and envious, and seriously warned Ovid: "Don't kiss where I can see!"

Ovid was eating the scorpion pie made by Song Junxing, not daring to disobey, nodding repeatedly.

The giant scorpion pliers brought back by Song Junxing was bigger than half of his body, and it was covered with fluff. It fell on Lao Huang's ground and was covered with sand. He washed it for a long time, and the things almost wiped out the Phoenix The entrance to the garbage disposal system is blocked.

Originally, I wanted Jiang Che to handle it, but everyone thought that Jiang Che should rest and enjoy the present life, and stop working. Song Junxing, go ahead.Song Junxing's passionate blood gradually dissipated when he cut open the giant scorpion's shell.

The shell was too hard, and the kitchen tools couldn't handle it at all. In the end, Fei Lian had to use the maintenance tools of the Phoenix to split the pliers in two with high-temperature guns.

The flame licked the scorpion meat, and immediately cooked the surface layer, releasing a subtle fragrance.

The pliers are huge, and although the shell is thick, there is also a lot of meat inside.The scorpion meat showed a neat and beautiful texture in the tongs, and it was divided into several parts.Song Junxing carefully cut off all the meat, stored half of it, and cooked the other half immediately.

He first chopped some scorpion meat, added seasoning, put it into half a scorpion shell, and steamed it directly.

The remaining part is cut into diced meat. First, a pot of soup is boiled, and the slightly marinated diced meat is put in to cook. Then the rest of the meat is minced and mixed with leeks and green onions brought from the Black Sea. Made a pot of stuffing.

Tang Mo kneaded the dough for him, kneading the dough into balls according to Song Junxing's instructions.She did it with great interest: "I didn't expect you to be so good."

"I'm not good, who will cook for me when I'm in the Black Sea?" Song Junxing snorted, "Come, have a taste of the soup."

The soup was a little red, and Tang Mo ate the soup mixed with diced meat, only to find that there was still a sweet and sour taste of tomatoes in it.

"You picked the tomato in the cultivation room?" She jumped up angrily, "I only got one! It's so small!"

"You grow tomatoes for eating. Now that they have grown, you must pick them right away." Song Junxing said triumphantly, "Is it delicious?"

Tang Mo stared at him with displeasure, chewing and chewing, but couldn't say anything negative.

The scorpion meat was very tender, and Song Junxing accurately grasped the timing of cooking it.In addition to fresh tomatoes, the soup also has ginger slices and seasoned chopped green onions.Of course, green onions are also grown in the cultivation room. It grows very fast and good, and they have already eaten several stubbles.

"It's delicious!" Tang Mo gave a quick comment.

"This pie may be a little salty, I put too much salt. But the soup and steamed scorpion meat are relatively bland, so it should be passable." Song Junxing actually didn't know much about it, so he made steamed white-bone snake and steamed old yellow for everyone. "Sweet potato", "Is it okay? Can you eat it?"

Tang Mo swallowed, and motioned him to look at the steamer: "That's great. It's cooked over there too, you can open it up and have a look."

It was not only Song Junxing who had no idea, but also Lin Ni and Pierre.

The two were the last to arrive at the kitchen, and the other four had already sat down at the dining table, waiting for them eagerly.

"Eat first." Linney said, "No need to wait."

"Song Junxing said that he must wait for you." Tang Mo kept his eyes on the stack of pies on the table, "If you don't eat them, no one can eat them."

Lin Ni suddenly became full of doubts: "Why? Let me be the test subject?"

In addition to a bowl of rice in front of each person, there are steaming tomato soup, pies and half a scorpion shell enough to occupy most of the table.The scorpion shell was filled with steamed scorpion meat, which was kneaded into small balls by Song Junxing, which looked very delicious.

Linney picked up a pie and took a few bites until he swallowed it before saying slowly, "It's okay."

As soon as his comment came out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Song Junxing was so happy that he could hardly sit still: "Eat all, everyone eat!"

Fei Lian was still sitting with them, with an empty bowl in front of him, looking a bit bleak.

He watched them eat with relish, while mobilizing information in the system, and kept reading the parts related to food.

The pie gravy was thick and delicious. Although Song Junxing thought it was a little salty, the noodle cake neutralized the salty taste, making it very suitable to eat.The tomato and scorpion broth was the first to be divided, it was so appetizing, and even a little soup from the bottom of the basin was poured into Jiang Che's bowl by Ovid.The scorpion meat balls steamed in water are firm and springy, but what is more delicious than the meat is the juice contained in the scorpion shell.The juice has a clear light brown color, just like a clear soup, but it is only after entering the mouth that the water is full of the umami and aroma of the scorpion meat itself, and it is dozens of times more delicious than tomato broth.

All that was left was pies.Everyone seems to have reached a tacit understanding: "The pie can be a snack."

After Song Junxing was full of wine and food, he began to criticize Ovid and Jiang Che's kissing behavior anytime and anywhere.Jiang Che ignored him, playing with Ovid's hair while sipping soup.Ovid gnawed on the pie, and it was not easy to refute the maker of the pie, so he nodded obediently.

The Phoenix was traveling smoothly, and they were passing through the star field without any records.

"Lin Ni is amazing." Fei Lian said to Jiang Che.

When handing Jiang Che the headset that stored the language of the Changyang Ship, Fei Lian said this sentence two or three times.

Static star maps are easy to draw, but they are traveling in the universe, and the stars are moving anytime and anywhere, so it becomes very difficult to draw a star map: not only to know the distribution of the stars, but also to calculate their trajectories.

Due to the gravitational relationship, the star trails affect each other and even intersect each other. It is not an easy task to calculate accurately.

Lin Ni spent a few days drawing the star map by hand. Fei Lian once said that it was "correct", but he didn't really admire Lin Ni until he actually entered this star field.

"He is qualified to be the captain of the Phoenix."

Jiang Che's obsession with Fei Lian is really helpless: "You have always doubted him?"

"Because the people I have served are all very good." Fei Lian shrugged, this action made him look very old-fashioned, "The crew on the Phoenix are all the best, let alone the captain. "

They didn't ask Fei Lian about the Phoenix crew, and Fei Lian didn't say anything about it.

This seems to be a tacit agreement to avoid pain, and they all obey it sensibly.

The Phoenix had been captured by raiders, and the ship was covered with traces of raiders. They could almost imagine what happened to the ship.The best crew members have all disappeared, and all their traces are stored in Fei Lian's system, without leaving any records in reality.

These traces cannot be easily touched.Especially for Fei Lian, an extremely human-like AI.

"So did you tell Linney you admired him?"

Fei Lian's eyes widened in surprise: "It doesn't need to be said. He must understand. I have already opened many permissions that only belong to the captain to him."

"..." Jiang Che keenly caught the subtext in his words, "So there is still a captain authority that has not been activated for him?"

Fei Lian coughed twice again, turned around and walked away lightly.

"I've never seen such a stubborn AI as Fei Lian." Pierre said angrily, "I asked him to lower the night light in my room by two degrees, so that I couldn't sleep. But he still refused, and emphasized Above, 4 degrees is already the lowest brightness."

Tang Mo wiped the skin of the red tomato carefully and lovingly: "I can sleep, it's not bright at 4 degrees."

"No, I want a perfect sleeping environment, I want to grow taller."

Jiang Che walked into the cultivation room and said casually: "Give up, Pierre, you are already 24 years old, you can't grow any longer."

Pierre: "This is in the universe! The gravitational environment of the universe is different from Marseilles, and I think it must have some special effects on the bones."

Tang Mo: "Hmm... the longer and the shorter?"

Jiang Che wiped the skin of the tomato with her, and laughed non-stop with her.

Pierre devoted himself to the care of the peppers.He was looking forward to the fruit of this small, spicy plant, and he hadn't eaten anything spicy in a long time.

The three of them were halfway through their work when Tang Mo suddenly poked Jiang Che's arm.

"Jiang Che, let me be your sister." She whispered, "I've been thinking about it for a few days."

Jiang Che wondered, "Why?"

"I will be your second sister." Tang Mo said, "In this way, I will have a brother and a sister."

Jiang Che put down the cloth towel in his hand and remained silent for a long time.

The sprinkler system in the cultivation room is not in the right position. Every time it is watered, the soil on the ground will be sprayed up. The tomatoes, peppers, green onions, and weeds are all covered with sand.He looked down at the small tomato in his hand, and took a damp cloth to wipe it a few times.

The cooked one was taken away by Song Junxing. It was very small, but it was also very delicious.Later, these grew bigger and redder, the size of Jiang Che's fist when they were immature, and their skin gradually turned bright red.

He wiped off the muddy spots on the tomato in his hand.

"What is your little head thinking all day long?" Jiang Che said with a smile, "No need."

Tang Mo was very disappointed. After thinking for a while, he pulled Jiang Che's clothes and pointed at Pierre: "Then Pierre is your younger brother?"

Pierre quickly interjected: "Actually, what we discussed was that she will be your sister and I will be your brother."

Jiang Che didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why?"

The two people in front of them looked at each other, as if they were quite embarrassed about what they were going to say next.

"We want to be your family." Tang Mo said, "Jiang Che, if you have family members, you won't be so sad in the future."

Jiang Che quickly lowered his head, he found that since he cried a lot in front of Ovid before, his tear glands seemed to be getting shallower and shallower.

He gently held the immature tomato in his hand.Although immature, it is still very cute and likable.

"I have a family." He whispered, "Ovid is my family, Lin Ni, Song Junxing, and you are all my family. I am not sad... I just occasionally... But I will always won't be sad."

A gentle hand reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

He also heard Pierre yell at Tang Mo in a disconcerting manner: "Tang Mo, your hands are really dirty, and you even touched Jiang Che's clothes..."

Jiang Che was actually not in such pain anymore.

Ovid always cuddled up to him and did his best to be with him.

He also heard from Ovid about the strange custom in his hometown, that if someone is given food, that person will become his slave.

How could Jiang Che need slaves?It is even more impossible for him to make Ovid his slave, even mentally.

"You are yourself." Jiang Che kissed his brow and whispered, "You don't belong to anyone."

Ovid was half asleep and half awake, and heard Jiang Che's words in a daze.

Before falling asleep, he confessed all these things to Jiang Che, and finally got a peaceful sleep.But obviously Jiang Che lost sleep.

"...what?" Ovid asked vaguely.

The curly blond hair was wrapped around Jiang Che's fingers, and Jiang Che's lips were leaning against the hair, and he could feel Jiang Che's slight breath when he breathed.

"Ovid, you are not my slave, and I am not your master." Jiang Che said, "Even if you are a clone, even if you have no legal status, you will always be free. Everyone is free Yes, I am the same as you."

"..." Ovid felt startled, and quickly grabbed Jiang Che's lapel, "But I hope I belong to you. I don't use words like master to address you...but I really do. Think so."

"I'm not your master. We are lovers, partners." Jiang Che is patient and gentle, "You can scold me, scold me, criticize me, when I do something wrong. We will always be the same .”

Ovid obviously didn't quite get it.His brows were slightly wrinkled, and his eyes were full of puzzlement and sadness.

"Clones are just different from other humans."

He closed his eyes and didn't continue the topic.

Jiang Che hugged him, and suddenly remembered some things he had said to himself.

For example, the deep pit that Ovid accidentally discovered, the pit is full of dead clones, like useless garbage, discarded in the pit dug at random.

Just as he was about to find something else to chat about, the emergency communicator in the corner of the room suddenly lit up.

The two jumped up from the bed immediately, and just as they landed, they heard Lin Ni's voice.

[Everyone, come to the cockpit immediately, we have discovered an abnormal situation. 】

The Phoenix is ​​sailing in an unfamiliar star field.

Linney originally thought that they should be near the route 18 leading to the earth, but after checking the information of the Changyang ship, he found that the route of the "Great Retreat" was different from the route 18.

The "Great Retreat" route is more tortuous than the 18 route, so it is more complicated.

The Phoenix was originally capable of subspace transitions.While the number of warp jumps available is far lower than Marseille's current ships due to technical limitations, warp jumps are essential to their journey.

According to Fei Lian's arrangement, after leaving this unrecorded star field, they should return to the correct route recorded by the Changyang ship.

Once returning to the correct route, it is necessary to jump three times in a row, shortening the journey by nearly one-third.

Seeing that it was about to leave this unrecorded star field, the Phoenix began to detect the path ahead, but found a strange signal.

The signal was sent from the edge of a galaxy near the "Great Evacuation" route.

It's not a call for help, nor a warning, but like someone is shouting aimlessly at the universe - I'm here, if you find me, don't bother me.

When the Phoenix found the other party, the other party also immediately discovered the message from the Phoenix.

"This communication signal cannot be decoded." Fei Lian turned off the translation system, "It has been translated 64 times, and it is all garbled characters."

Linney nodded.

This shows that the communication signal that has just been discovered is not human, or it cannot be translated by the Phoenix system.

Pierre sat in the navigator's seat, and he had already slowed down the Phoenix.Warp jumps will not be possible for the Phoenix until it picks up speed again.

They couldn't take any chances with the odd comms near where they were going to make the jump.

"This is the Agulance star field, very old and stable." Pierre recalled what he had learned, "There are many high-level civilizations in the Yagulance star field, and they have no connection with us. and communicate."

Jiang Che and Tang Mo didn't know anything about these things, they just felt strange: "Why didn't you contact me?"

Song Junxing also heard about this star field for the first time: "Your hearts are too big, aren't you? If discovered by a high-level civilization, wouldn't there be a crisis of destruction?"

"They are different from the predators." Pierre explained, "The predators are doing a little bit more to rob resources, but from the perspective of the high-level civilization in the Agulance star field, our Marseilles are equivalent to ants. You will Do you care about the presence of ants?"

In the end, Linney gave a simpler explanation.

500 years ago, the Maasai people accidentally discovered the Yagolans star field during countless deep space explorations.

The high-level civilizations in the Agulance star field are extremely strict with their own protection. Although they do not reject communication with the outside world, they have always dismissed asteroids like Marseille.

Among the various civilizations in the universe, there are low-level civilizations such as Marseilles, and of course there are high-level civilizations such as the Agulance star field-but above the Agulance, there must be more advanced civilizations. Cosmic civilization.

Therefore, the high-level civilizations in the Yagulance star field absolutely dare not attack the low-level civilizations rashly.

Every blow may cause a higher civilization to invade itself, which is an unavoidable contradiction.

"Speaking of this, I remembered." Linney rubbed his chin, "Marseille set up a space station near the Yagulance star field."

So far, the Agulance star field is the highest level among all the civilizations discovered by the Maasai.They are completely unable to communicate with any cosmic creatures in this civilization. Although they can occasionally see starships coming in and out of the Yagrans star field when they are active nearby, the shape and mode of operation of the starships are no longer Masai people. The current level of technology can explain it.

They have seen circular starships advancing in circles, and they have also seen Yagulance patrol ships passing by their own ships.

The Yagolans patrol ship destroyed the power system of 16 Marseilles and took away their Birog rings.Just when these military ships were facing the crisis of the death of all crew members, the Yagulans patrol ship returned the Birog ring to them without anyone noticing.

The entire process took less than an hour, and nearly three-quarters of all Birog ring energy was lost.

The remaining energy, no more, no less, was just enough for them to get back to Marseille.

That was the first time the Maasai had close contact with a high-level civilization. All crew members of the 16 military ships left the Marseille fleet due to a severe state of fear and anxiety, unable to carry out any further exploration activities.

"But the Masai people didn't give up." Linney said, "We set up the Egret space station on the edge of the Yagulans star field."

The setting up of the space station was full of twists and turns, and it took almost a hundred years to finally convince the advanced civilization of the Agulance star field that the ants were not malicious.

They just want to observe, want to get closer to advanced civilizations, and find the key to the evolution of their own civilization.

The Egret Space Station was a resolution unanimously passed by the joint parliament of the Marseille countries, so they almost did their best to complete it.

However, due to the great difference between the Agulance civilization and the Marseille civilization, and the discovery of the 16 military ships that year was once again hyped up by interested people, the voices against the Egret space station on the ground in Marseille became more and more intense.

In the year 452 of the Marseille calendar, the Egret Space Station was forced to close down after it was established more than 200 years ago.

All personnel and supplies are evacuated.Egret Space Station became a ghost space station floating on the edge of the Yagolanth star field.

Since then, Marseille has completely lost contact with the high-level civilization of the Yagolans star field.

Lin Ni didn't know the cosmic coordinates of the Egret space station, and Fei Lian couldn't be sure if it was a ghost space station that had been vacant for nearly a hundred years.

"What a pity." Song Junxing sighed slowly, "How difficult it is..."

Linney doesn't seem to want to give up.

"If it's not the Egret space station, it's very likely to be another signal sent by the civilization of the Agulance star field." He said to Fei Lian, "Don't transfer the other party's signal, we will send a letter directly to it, sending our code , and add the year to see if it can tell."

Shortly after the message was sent, the communication indicator light suddenly lit up.

"...It's the other party's communication!" Fei Lian was taken aback, "It uses a signal that the Phoenix can interpret! This is a communication request for the Phoenix channel!"

He turned to look at Lin Ni: "The other party actually knows the communication channel code of the Phoenix."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, tense up instantly.

The Phoenix is ​​a ship from 500 years ago. All the channels in the "Great Retreat" have been suspended, and no one will use it, let alone know about it.

...was that the "Great Retreat" guy?

Fear and excitement set everyone afloat.

"Connect!" Linney yelled, grabbing the edge of the console.

After a while, the communication channel was connected.

Amidst the rustling sound, someone yelled twice into the microphone.

"I saw your code, is it Phoenix? Hello? Hello? Answer me?"

It was a man who spoke, his voice was between youth and middle age, deep and deep, but there was a trace of undisguised lightness in the ears.

"Oh, yes, sorry... No one has contacted us for so long, I almost forgot about the delay."

The man spoke Maasai.

Pierre almost jumped up: "He's from Maasai! It's the Egret space station! It must be!"

He turned back excitedly, only to see Lin Ni and Song Junxing had already stood up.

Both of them had unbelievable astonishment on their faces.

The other party is still talking.

"Phoenix, hello." He said with a smile, "This is Egret Space Station."

Jiang Che suddenly remembered that he had heard this person's voice.

That was when he just woke up from the freezing cabin, a young man bent down and helped him sit up from the drenched cabin.The young man had a scar on his face, but his voice was very gentle.

Linney had to hold on to the console with trembling hands.Amidst the other party's chatter, he turned his head to look at Song Junxing, opened his mouth, but couldn't make any sound.

Jiang Che completely remembered.

It was Linney's brother, Cicero's voice.