Enigma above Alpha

After this dinner was finally finished, Qi Xin sat on the sofa and rubbed her stomach, but she was a little full, Gu Jing sat beside him and gave him a glass of lemon juice with a smile: "Appetizer."

Qi Xin hugged the cup and took a sip: "I'm a little full." He wanted to act coquettishly and ask Mr. Gu to rub it for him, but there were still many uncles here so he gave up.

Qi Xin groaned and sat on the sofa to watch the eight o'clock show. The TV series of Mermaid Kingdom was also very bloody. While watching, he chatted with his uncles. After chatting for half an hour, he turned to the topic: "Where did the Queen go on patrol? We Open the spaceship, I want to see her."

As soon as the words came out, all the people present fell silent, Prince Qi sighed in his heart, stood up and said: "Go to the study and tell." It seems that this matter cannot be hidden.

Qi Xin stood up and followed behind him, and all the court ladies met on the road called him His Highness instead, Prince Qi should have ordered him to go down.

Gu Jing didn't follow, Qin Zhou leaned over and said in a low voice: "There is indeed something wrong with this mermaid country, it's mysterious."

Gu Jing frowned and said: "Ninety percent of the time something happened to the queen."

...

Qi Xin has been following Prince Qi to the study. Prince Qi's study is full of books. Qi Xin looked down and found that many of them were medical books.

Prince Qi opened the curtains even further, he stood there looking at the night scene outside the palace, and said in a low voice: "Do you know why we closed the country?"

This is an irrelevant question, but since Prince Qi wants to say it, there must be a reason.

Qi Xin thought for a while and asked, "Because of barnacles?"

"Yes." Prince Qi turned around, "Barnacles are insects that can invade the human body to parasitize. A tiny mother body lurks in the body. After a few decades, they will wake up and reproduce, but by that time, it is too late. Too late, these things are in the blood."

Qi Xin suddenly looked out the window: "Are a large number of people in Mermaid Kingdom infected?"

"Yes, it started about 50 years ago." Prince Qi frowned deeply and expressed some regret, "Those barnacles are afraid of being exposed to the sun, but it's different in the water. An egg can float with the water for thousands of miles. Not to mention thousands of eggs."

Qi Xin imagined that scene, and suddenly felt his scalp go numb, he frowned: "What about the queen?"

"The queen has been missing for 50 years." Prince Qi pressed the bridge of his nose. "We couldn't find her, but the previous queen disappeared at that time. In order to appease the people, we faked an illusion of peace."

"..." Qi Xin was silent. What Prince Qi meant was that even he didn't know where the Queen had gone. The infected people in the mermaid country can still be saved without dying."

"That's right...Xiao Mo is very powerful." Prince Qi picked up a book on the table, "I've been searching for a long time but I can't find a solution, and it really doesn't work...I still have to rely on you young people."

Qi Xin looked up at him, and always felt that Prince Qi's words had some kind of helpless and sad meaning, and his behavior when he knew that his brother's potion could cure the people's illness was too plain, this situation would either be Cold-blooded, or he has experienced more desperate things, he tends to the latter.

As for whether Prince Qi really didn't know where the Queen had gone, he was skeptical.

...

Gu Sanye on the other side was also invited by the elders of the mermaid tribe not long after. He came to a place called the Holy Temple, and there were elders of the mermaid tribe sitting on both sides of a long table.

Gu Jing sat on the cushion at the end. He looked, and there were 21 elders of the mermaid clan.

"Are you Xiao Qixuan's partner?" An old lady with red hair asked.

"Yes, I don't know why you invited me over?" Gu Jing asked indifferently, he looked directly at the Great Elder directly in front of him, and the Great Elder seemed to have no intention of speaking with his eyes closed.

"No, just to talk about family affairs."

"We only now know that Xiaoqi has a partner, Ruiying didn't tell us." Ruiying is Qi Xin's mother.

Gu Jing heaved a sigh of relief, at least he wasn't looking for faults, but he was still too naive, this talk about family affairs was actually the meaning of investigating household registration, from how old he was to his plans for the future.

Gu Jing answered one by one.

"How much property do you have?" A white-haired elder suddenly asked.

Thinking of the luxury of the Crystal Palace, Gu Jing pondered for a while and said, "There are some planets."

"How many?"

"There are twelve in every galaxy." Gu Jing admitted that he still prefers the number twelve, and he rounded up the numbers without twelve to twelve.

The elders looked at each other, it is not bad to have it in every galaxy, and the star system is like a sky full of stars, but they said on the surface: "It's not bad, although it can't compare with Mermaid Kingdom."

"..." Gu Jing has no expression on his face. His is a family business, while the Qi family is his own country. To compare them is to play hooligans.

Then they asked him how many relatives he had and whether he got along well. One of the elders stroked his beard and narrowed his eyes: "You said your family also has elders? How many are there?"

"Twenty." Gu Jing's mouth became dry after being asked, and he finally couldn't help but took a sip of tea.

The second elder looked at the 21 elders in his family and was finally satisfied. He waved his hand and let Gu Sanye go: "That's not bad. Let's go fishing and mountain climbing together when we have time. You should go back first."

"..." It's better to say goodbye, Gu Jing's forehead twitched, he stood up and said, "Then I'll take my leave first." He looked at the Great Elder sitting at the top again, at this moment the Great Elder suddenly opened his eyes.

When Gu Jing saw his pair of star eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything, he was slightly taken aback, and then there was a very strange feeling from the soles of his feet to his forehead, which made his scalp tingle.

"Bless you." The Great Elder said slowly.

Then all the elders stood up and made a strange gesture: "We also bless you."

"Thank you." Gu Jing thanked him and walked out. Looking at the closed door, he remembered that the great elder of the mermaid clan was already five hundred years old and had reached the age of knowing his destiny.

...

When Gu Jing went back, he happened to bump into Qi Xin, Qi Xin rushed over and hugged him, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Third Lord, Grandfather doesn't know what to hide from us, we'll stay for another three days before leaving."

Gu Jing understood what Qi Xin meant—they were going to find the queen.

So Qi Xin took people here for a few days and left. Before leaving, Qiao Mo gave the formula for making medicine to Prince Qi. Prince Qi said: "I heard that you want white crystals. Inventory, you all take it away."

So both parties traded the formula and Baijing happily.

After transporting Bai Jing to the spaceship, Qi Xin and the others bid farewell to Prince Qi and others.But they didn't go back to the imperial capital, but went to the border to let the army transport the white crystal back, and turned around to look for the queen.

...

The spaceship crossed the mermaid country and went to a deeper place in the universe, but couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

"We've already left the mermaid country, do we want to go deeper?" The captain asked Qiao Mo, the commander of the ship. He was a little worried that he might sail to some strange place, and remembered those weird science fiction movies.

Qiao Mo coughed as he sat on the main seat, as if he had caught a cold: "Continue, strengthen the transmission and reception of information."

"Do you want it?" Qin Zhou stood by and looked at him with some trepidation, always feeling that this person might die in a second.

"I'm fine." Qiao Mo stood up and closed his white coat. "Brother, look here. Call me if you need anything. I'll check the results of the experiment."

"Okay." Qi Xin replied, he was playing cards with Chen Gui and the others, "Xiao Guizi, let me tell you that you can't do it all the time."

"Hands are slippery, I'm used to it." Chen Gui was also very cheeky, secretly poking out a straight flush.

Qi Xin laughed: "I'm sorry, mine is also a straight flush, which is as big as yours."

Meng Jiangping flicked the cards in his hand: "I admit defeat!" Damn it!There are actually two scammers in their den, how can this be done?

"I also admit defeat." Gu Jing behaved very flatly, he smiled and looked at Qi Xin, "So you are better than Xiao Chen."

Chen Gui thought that Gu Sanye was biased, and when he was wondering whether to admit defeat, the spaceship AI suddenly said: "I have received intermittent signals that seem to be calling for help."

Everyone hurriedly gathered in front of the screen: "Accept! Interpret!"

"Please wait."

Qi Xin looked at the screen, the information bar on the screen was swinging up and down, and some voices came out intermittently: [This is... Canghai... We met, the spaceship, let's go in... There is... a request for help...]

There were rustling sounds from behind, and Qi Xin immediately sat in the co-pilot's seat: "Analyze the direction of the signal." He typed a series of codes on the screen.

It took a long time for the AI ​​to respond: "There is an unknown wormhole ahead, do you want to enter?"

"Enter." Qi Xin turned on the horn and said, "Warning, you will enter the wormhole in 15 minutes. Crew members, please get ready."

Gu Jing also returned to his seat and sat down. The spaceship entered the wormhole 15 minutes later. The wormhole here was unstable, so the spaceship was squeezed severely.

A drop of sweat leaked from the captain's forehead: "80% of the right power loss"

"The left power is reduced to 80%, stabilize the direction, but it can't be lowered." Qi Xin ordered to go down and then pulled up the left and right wings, "The power of the two wings is activated to assist in acceleration."

They collided and collided, it seemed that it took them a long time to pass through the wormhole, and when they came out, there was a dark universe, just not close to any planets, only the stars twinkling in the distance.

"The signal received here is even stronger." Qi Xin looked at the screen, where the position was displayed, and the spaceship flew past that position.

Gradually, they saw a huge red thing, which was spherical but not a planet. The surface of the red ball was covered with a network of brackets, and the color was a little darker than the red ball inside.

Qi Xin narrowed his field of vision, those network-like stents were like muscle lines protruding from the red ball, and even the ball had thin red lines, like blood vessels, which looked like a thin film, through which with light.

Gu Jing frowned: "Is this a spaceship?" Such a strange spaceship looks very scary.

"It may be a biological spaceship." Qiao Mo said, "Although the technology of the empire is not yet mature, there are still some. It is very similar to this one. Unfortunately, their appearance design failed."

"..." Chen Gui covered his eyes, it's not that he failed or failed, but that it was terrible, okay? "The people inside are inexplicably new aliens?"

Qin Zhou lifted his glasses and said, "It's possible that neither the Empire Federation nor the existing races will make such ugly and terrifying spaceships."

Chen Gui didn't want to listen anymore, Qi Xin raised the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Then what do you think? Do you want to go in? I have already sent a message, but the other party didn't respond." But he didn't attack them either, obviously with danger temptation.

Meng Jiangping said with some interest: "Since it is a mysterious interstellar ghost ship, of course we have to go in and have a look."

The rest looked at each other in unanimous agreement.