interstellar enemy

Qiao Xi walked under the tree. The mushrooms should be newly grown, with some moisture. The meat is not thick, but it feels very tender.Qiao Xi didn't release the smoke and dust, but directly let the smoke and dust test in the space button.He didn't want the smoke and dust to attract attention. After all, this place was just a strange place to him. Although Harry took him in, he was still just a stranger.What can be said and what cannot be said, Qiao Xi has her own set of judgments.

The test results came out soon. The mushrooms are not poisonous, but they contain an unknown ingredient that is not fatal, but it is impossible to judge the harmfulness of this ingredient.Qiao Xi was a little surprised. Even if the dust is not a high-end mech, the detection system is common to the empire. It stands to reason that it should not be able to detect this unknown component.

Qiao Xi tried to test again, but the result was still the same.Mushrooms are not poisonous, but it is not certain that they are completely edible.Qiao Xi thought about it, and decided to take some back and ask Harry. As an elder, maybe Harry would know the reason.

After picking some mushrooms and putting them in the space button, Qiao Xi went to the stream to wash his hands, and then began to eat bread.It was indeed a lot more comfortable when my hands were immersed in the water, but as soon as I left the water, the hot-hot sensation quickly reunited, making it even more uncomfortable than before.Qiao Xi could only let himself ignore the rising pain, survival was his number one priority now.

After eating the bread, Qiao Xi drank a few mouthfuls of stream water and went back to the woods to continue working.The lunch break is not long, and everyone starts working after eating.I also hope to cook more and get more food when I pay.

Qiao Xi's progress in the afternoon was better than in the morning. More than half of the tree trunk has been cut down, and it can be pulled down tomorrow.At the time of settlement, the foreman felt that his progress was not bad, so he shared some vegetables and bread with him. There were very few things, and they were enough for dinner at most, and night snacks were ignored.And this kind of physical labor also made Qiao Xi tired and hungry, and for the first time felt the value of food, and there was no room for picky eaters.

Back at Harry's house, Jack hasn't come back yet.Harry poured him a glass of water and asked, "Is today going well?"

"It's okay." Qiao Xi didn't want to say more, anyway, Harry couldn't help with this matter.

"That's right." After drinking the water, Qiao Xi took out the mushroom and put it on the table, and said, "Grandpa Harry, I found this by the water, can I eat it?"

When Harry saw the mushrooms on the table, he was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Although this kind of mushroom is not poisonous, eating it will cause harm to people, especially you people from the Witton Empire."

"What?" Qiao Xi thought this explanation was a bit funny. How could there be mushrooms that were born specifically for the Weedon Empire?

Harry sighed, and walked into the room with slow steps. After a while, he took out a notebook that looked old and asked, "Can you understand it?"

Qiao Xi took the notebook and casually flipped through a page. The words on it made Qiao Xi frowned and looked up at Harry.

Seeing his reaction, the old man Harry smiled and said: "It seems that I can understand it. Then you can take a look. The person who left this note told me that if you meet someone who can understand this text, you can read it." Let him see, if the other party doesn't understand, just make up a reason to deceive him. It was the same person who told us that this kind of mushroom is not edible, and he didn't elaborate on why, but said that it would hinder the normal growth of people."

Qiao Xi rubbed the paper. This notebook should have been written on Wadden Star. Generally, people in the empire prefer to write the words in their brains rather than on paper, unless they are students who need to take proper notes.What surprised Qiao Xi the most was not that Harry would have such a notebook, but the text on it—Solomon.

Before Solo was captured by the Witton Empire, it had its own language and characters.After becoming a vassal state of the empire, this writing and language was gradually replaced by the writing and language of the empire. Today, this language and writing have been forgotten by the Solomons. No one can speak the language anymore. The writing is probably only Only by going to study will you know.And Qiao Xi knew So Luowen, and this was what Rong Su wanted to learn at that time, so Rong Bo specially hired So Luowen's tutor for him.At that time, Qiao Xi had just entered elementary school, and her studies were easy, so Rongbo let him study with her.Although many years have passed, Qiao Xi has never forgotten this kind of writing, even though he can't read it.

After a simple dinner, Qiao Xi took a shower, entered the room with a notebook, locked the door, sat on the bed and leaned against the bear puppet to read slowly.Due to the passage of time, Qiao Xi inevitably forgot these words a little, but Qiao Xi could still read them smoothly by combining the words before and after.

The person who wrote this note was a Solomonian. The soft and graceful font should be a woman. She is a botanist and her husband is also married.When they took a private spaceship to the Yixia Empire for their honeymoon, they encountered stone rain falling on Wadden Star.She and her husband's friends went to the Yixia Empire with them. Her husband is a doctor, her husband's friend is also a doctor, and her friend is a geologist.

The four people became very curious about this place, and because the spaceship was damaged, they couldn't leave for the time being, so the four people temporarily lived in this city.During the period of living here, she found that she had never seen many plants here, so driven by curiosity, she began to study the plants here.

After a brief introduction of the cause in the notes, there will be a research report on each rare plant.

Qiao Xi found records about this mushroom in it.

The botanist named this mushroom the little man mushroom. It is small and tastes good.But it contains a growth-inhibiting ingredient.

She recorded in it: Because the land here is barren, many women choose to pick wild vegetables on the mountain, and the little man mushroom is one of the common fungi, and it is very easy to get.But it is also because the people here eat the mushrooms that the children are still only five or six years old in their teens.I am very thankful that I am used to carrying experimental equipment with me, otherwise I probably would not be able to draw such a definite conclusion, nor would I be able to know the reasons why those children did not grow taller.What surprised me even more was that I found that this substance can actually inhibit the maturation of gene elements.As a Solomon, I don’t know if this is good or bad for Solo, but I know that I have to keep this secret from the Imperials, which is why I re-recorded these plants in Solo script.Fortunately, I know this kind of ancient writing, otherwise I can only take this secret to the grave.In that way, I will feel sorry for the Solomon I love, and the Solomonites who are experiencing matching marriages like me.I was lucky, the man I married was my type and treated me well, but that doesn't mean that all the Solomons who were matched were like me.We can't decide our own marriage, but I hope we can have the right to decide whether to give birth to a new life.

After reading this passage, Qiao Xi only felt that her heart was beating violently, and the unknown ingredients detected by the smoke and dust should be this kind of thing.Suppressing the maturation of gene elements is the most urgent thing for him, and he never expected to find a way by such a coincidence.Let's not say whether this method is effective, but it is better than nothing.

Qiao Xi continued to look down, which introduced the extraction method, ratio and time limit, which saved him the need to find someone to study.This note also made him understand that he is not the only one who is dissatisfied with this kind of marriage, but others are silently enduring it without breaking out, and he is the one who wants to resist.In fact, this kind of forbearing silence often contains greater energy. Once this energy explodes, it is not just the king who is overthrown, but the entire royal family.

After calming down her heartbeat, Qiao Xi continued to look down. The husband of the botanist also confirmed that the children who did not grow up were indeed the reason for eating "little man mushrooms", so she was even more sure of the special substance in the little man mushrooms role.But she didn't tell her husband, it was a secret to her.

As for the empty city, there is also a little record above.It was proposed by the geologist friend. She believed that there should be a very special mineral deposit underground in the empty city. This mineral deposit contains a very large amount of energy, so when the energy accumulates enough, an earthquake will occur.The fluidity and fusion of this kind of mineral deposits are very good, so when another earthquake occurs, it will fuse with itself to make up for the cracks and gaps caused by the previous earthquake, making the road surface look like it has never been shaken.This principle is similar to sand, but it is more fluid than sand.However, because the house is very short and the foundation is surrounded by mineral deposits, it formed a certain buffer and accommodated the earthquake direction during the earthquake, so it did not collapse.

Of course, these are just guesses. The geologist didn't bring any tools, so he couldn't detect the empty city.

The notes are not thick, and Qiao Xi finished reading them in a short time.And this notebook is obviously not finished. It may be that the rescue spacecraft came and took them back, so it was not completed in time.But it was enough for Qiao Xi.

However, Qiao Xi suddenly realized a problem. Even if a place like this is barren, it has something that the empire does not have. Logically speaking, the empire would not turn a blind eye to it.There are probably only two reasons why the empire ignores it so much. Either the road here is really difficult to find, and it is not worth the time and effort and waste of resources to come here; The people here will do something that threatens the Witton Empire.

If it is the former, it can only be said that the barren place here does not attract any interest in competition. If it is the latter, Qiao Xi thinks that he should refresh his understanding of the current king of the empire.

After closing the notebook, Qiao Xi rubbed the center of her brows, lay down and got ready to sleep.Starting tomorrow, he will have a new task - to pick as many mushrooms as possible.As for the empire's attitude towards Vaden Star, he really has no time to worry about it.

For nearly a week after that, Qiao Xi's schedule was very fixed. Every morning he would get up early, then go to the stream to pick mushrooms, work in the logging forest in the morning, and continue to pick mushrooms at noon.Go back to the logging forest in the afternoon, and go back to Harry's place directly after receiving the food in the evening.

He didn't tell Harry that he was picking mushrooms, only that he moved slowly and went to cut the forest early so that he could bring more food back at night.

Now Qiao Xi has mastered some logging skills, but there are more and more wounds on his hands, and some small wooden thorns are stuck in his hands, which cannot be removed without tools, and it will hurt a little when touched.Jack said that they would be like this at the beginning, but after a long time, a thick layer of calluses was worn on their hands, and they would not be easily let go.Qiao Xi has nothing else to do right now, his ability is not a cure, and there is no way to take this kind of thing without medicine, so he can only look at his scarred hands and calmly deal with it.

This morning, Qiao Xi went out early as usual. As soon as she entered the logging forest, the sun above her head was blocked.Qiao Xi looked up and saw a spaceship slowly passing by, as if looking for a place to land.Qiao Xi stopped and looked at the huge national emblem of the Witton Empire on the military spaceship—whether he wanted to or not, it was time for him to go back.