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Guan Yu stood on the aisle, looking into the kitchen curiously.It is said to be a kitchen, but it is actually a simple and temporary kitchen on the ship. There is no fully automatic cooking equipment commonly used on Galactic Federation ships, only the simplest energy heating stove and manual juicer.

Gamal poked his head out from the door, "Please don't just peek at women's private areas."

Guan Yu smiled and said, "I just want to know what to eat today?" He sniffed his nose, "It smells so good."

"It will be fine soon." Gamal said with a smile.

Ever since Kamal boarded Zhenzhen's boat, she has become the star surrounded by everyone on the boat.The few crew members on the ship were all ignorant of cooking skills, and they all paid real respect to the chef who could cook delicious food in the temporary kitchen.

Today's dinner did not disappoint everyone.Using the existing ingredients in the warehouse, Kamal quickly served an appetizing meal.Synthetic meat wrapped in cheese, taka fish in sour vinegar with lodia lentils, freshly toasted Gnus bread, and a big bowl of minestrone soup.All the meals were popular and delicious, which brought tears to the eyes of the crew members who had eaten the nutrient solution for a long time.

The three Gnusians barely maintained the etiquette of eating at the beginning, and after taking two bites, they ate and drank wildly.Xiao Zhen and Captain Madara kept nodding while eating.After a while, they ate up all the food on the table.

"Is Ms. Fei not here?" Liu Bei asked after finishing his meal.Only then did he realize that there was one person missing at the table.

"She said that she should follow the traditions of her hometown and observe the precepts these days, so she eats alone in the room." Ms. Fei is from Yimen, a mysterious race with a long ancient culture and complicated etiquette traditions.There is a well-known joke in the galaxy about Yimen people: you may violate hundreds of Yimen people’s taboos just by saying hello to one Yimen people.It is well known that the Yimen people are very polite, so Liu Bei shut up and didn't ask any more questions.

Xiaozhen said to Gamol: "Thank you for your hard work. These dishes are very delicious."

"I'm a chef certified by the Culinary and Gourmet Association." Gamol tilted his head, "The types of ingredients on the ship are still a bit small, and I want to buy some new ingredients when I arrive on the next planet."

The next planet she spoke of was Zonnom, a yellow planet.When this planet was discovered by the Galactic Federation, there was already a civilization circle, and the intelligent life on the land was a race called Tibetan Nome Sand Worm.After joining the Galactic Federation, the local system still maintained a dynastic dictatorship.

Zang Nome has two satellites, one of which has a stable vortex, and is now an important galactic space jump station.If Xiaozhen wants to go to the Thorn galaxy, he must pass through this transportation hub.

"There is a special product called golden-footed moth on Zang Nome. It is said that the meat is very tender." Jia Moer said, "I saw the news that the local capital happened to be holding an agricultural product fair, and I wanted to go to Zang Nome to buy some. "

Her proposal was immediately warmly welcomed by the three Gnuth.

Xiaozhen did some calculations, and it would take at least ten hours to pass the customs clearance and transition procedures on Zang Nome [-]. From this point of view, it was just right to go for a stroll on Zang Nome itself.So after some discussion, Captain Madara stayed behind while the others disembarked.

Xiaozhen was sitting in the interstellar control bureau in Zang Nome, and he really didn't get any news about Liu Xingquan.The local controller, a sand bug in a green uniform, rubbed his feet and asked, "Let me confirm again, is the missing Homo sapiens a juvenile?"

Xiaozhen nodded, "His name is Liu Xingquan, and he doesn't have any identification on him."

"No such report has been received so far. The law and order here is very good, but if he is lost on other planets, it will be hard to say. You know that pirate slave traders are particularly rampant recently, and it will be very bad if there is an emergency." Control She is a sentimental female sandworm, "If you lose an underage child, his parents will definitely be anxious."

Another sandworm said coldly: "This is the responsibility of parents." It stared at Xiaozhen and said, "In our Tibetan Nome, this kind of thing will never happen."

"Ah, I have heard a little about the customs of your land."

The female sandworm said proudly: "If the larvae of our local people get lost, it will receive the love and care of all of us, and it will be sent home by enthusiastic people within half a day."

Another sandworm added: "We are a loving and friendly race, and we love each other as much as we love each other. Love is our instinct. You are welcome to visit Zang Nome and enjoy your time, Alien."

When Xiaozhen left the control station, the female controller shouted behind him: "I hope you can find your friend soon!!"

At that moment, the worries and wishes of the female sand worm flooded into his mind.Xiaozhen felt the love of this female sandworm, not the kind of politeness and coping of passers-by, but genuine worry and wishes.She was genuinely worried about his missing friend and hoped he would find him soon.The same is true of the superficial feelings of the sand worm next to it. Although its words are a bit extreme, its feelings of wishing Xiaozhen to find Liu Xingquan at this moment are true.

What a strange emotion.Why can you be so sincere to a stranger like me?Xiaozhen admits that he knows little about these interstellar races, maybe this kind of sand worm is really a race full of love as they say.

After leaving the control building, the oncoming robot Roken 89 has just returned from the local Overseer's Eye liaison office.

Luo Ken89 said: "The liaison office of the Eye of Supervision reported that there is no local record of Liu Xingquan's trace."

"I see."

"To return to Lola from the Thorn galaxy, this is the space transition station that must be passed through." Luoken89 said to Xiaozhen, "I have already made arrangements. Once Liu Xingquan sets foot here, he will be under strict supervision. protection of."

"Your premise is that he can know the direction to go home." Xiao Zhen said, "But this good friend of mine knows nothing about Interstellar."

"Yan Zhen, your friend is an intelligent life form. Please trust his ability to act."

"You are so optimistic."

Loken 89's eyes flashed with electronic light: "I have always been full of respect for intelligent life forms. You can make unimaginable decisions beyond common sense in desperate situations. But our robots can only calculate according to the inherent path. In our logical behavior environment Now, the robot can know the result after the beginning, and there will be no accidents. But your intelligent life forms are different."

"What do you want to say?"

"Intelligent life forms can never be predicted 100%. From this point of view, you have a chance to create miracles. Yan Zhen, give your friends more trust."

Xiao Zhen rubbed his nose and smiled, "Are you comforting me?"

"No. I'm talking about intelligent life." Your crew seems to be having a good time strolling around. "

Ms. Fei and Liu Bei Guan Yu were walking along the street.Ms. Fei tied her silver-gray hair behind her head with a hair ring, and wore a silver tunic that is currently popular in the Milky Way. Her graceful figure and ice-snow temperament endowed her with a beauty that transcended race and civilization.Zonom sandworms walking on the side of the road stared at her curiously. Some sandworms even rushed up to ask for a group photo, and some female sandworms came to ask her which manufacturer produced this dress.

Even if there are many alien visitors in the area, Ms. Fei is attractively beautiful, like a star.

"The locals are really friendly." Liu Bei approached and said, holding bags of local specialties in his hand, "I just bought a few things, and many of them were gifts from sand bug vendors."

"The drinks and food they make taste very good." Guan Yu was eating an egg burrito in his hand. It used eggs produced by a local species of googoo, and inside the cake was the famous golden-footed moth meat unique to Zang Nome. When you bite down, the juice is overflowing, soft and slippery.

"Where are Jia Moer and Zhang Fei?"

Liu Bei said that Zhang Fei accompanied Jia Moer to the Agricultural Products Expo, and everyone can drop by.

The city of sandworms is composed of hemispherical mounds.From the ground, there are few pedestrians on the road, and the mound looks old and rough, but as long as you walk into the mound, you will find a vast, new and wonderful underground city.The underground streets under the mound criss-cross and extend in all directions.The ancient worm houses are densely lined up on both sides of the street.The inner wall is coated with self-luminous paint, which illuminates the underground as bright as day.It can be said that this is a prosperous city that never sleeps.

All sandworm residents are very friendly. When Xiaozhen and others are walking on the street, enthusiastic sandworms will move up to them from time to time, asking them if they are lost, and at the same time offering themselves to lead the way.

After rejecting the third sand bug who offered to lead the way, Liu Bei couldn't help saying, "These locals are too enthusiastic. On other planets, such enthusiasm is often a liar."

"They are really friendly races." Xiao Zhen said, he could feel that the attitude of these bugs was not fake.

Ms. Fei suddenly said something softly.Her voice was like breaking ice, and Xiao Zhen didn't understand her language."Did you say something?" he asked.

Fee replied in Common Tongue, "We Yimen proverb. It means nothing is perfect."

The streets are full of sandworms, sandworm ladies in gorgeous feathers, young worms in sports tights, and peddlers hawking customers at stalls along the street, mixed with apes with shiny fur.From just now, Xiaozhen was forced to close his consciousness receiving channel.Every sand worm has too much emotion for alien guests, "I welcome alien guests", "welcome to our house as a guest", "come and taste my cooking", this kind of similar but turbulent emotional wave exploded all the way Xiao Zhen felt dizzy.

He had to block all the consciousness information of the sand worm.

Well, much easier.

It is better to keep a proper distance between creatures.

Among these lively crowds of sand worms, two sand worms can often be seen shopping together with an ape.These apes are basically fat and strong, with shiny hair and good spirits, and they can tell that they eat well.At first on the ground they met two or three.After arriving in the bustling underground city, these apes can be seen everywhere.But basically it's two sand worms with an ape.

Liu Bei said, "What are these apes? Are they a hobby of the local people?"

Loken89 said, "It's an accessory for the Tibetan Nome Sandworm."

"What do you mean by accessories?"

Guan Yu swallowed the last bite of the omelet, and said, "Toke, these sand bugs call these apes that. I asked about it when I was shopping just now, and I think it's like a pet dog raised by Homo sapiens. We are The Nuss will also raise them, but we raise wild wolves."

Another two sandworms walked by with an ape. The ape smelled the aroma of the meat sauce pies sold by the vendor, and immediately stayed in front of the vendor.

It danced and pointed at the pate, and the two sandworms stopped.

The vendor worm smiled and said, "Oh, it seems that Toke in your family really wants to eat bolognese pie."

The two sandworms readily paid.The ape immediately got up to eat the pie, and even climbed up to the stall, making a mess of the pie on the stall.

The peddler worm was not angry at all, and the two sand worms kept saying they were sorry for helping to tidy up the booth, but they didn't accuse the ape of its nonsense.The peddler worms even praised their toke for being well-raised and looking energetic, and chatted with the sand worms, who looked like a couple, what they usually feed the apes to make the apes so lively.

On the other side of the road, a clothed ape stood next to a sandworm apparently dressed as a lady, who was carefully dusting off the ape.It moves carefully, as if treating a fragile treasure.

"I understand." Guan Yu said, "Just like the Lola people keep cats, they regard themselves as slaves and cats as masters. These sand bugs are all ape slaves!"

"Not all Lola people are like this. Cat slave is just an exaggerated description." Liu Bei said thoughtfully, "The residents here seem to regard apes as something more important."

Xiaozhen turned on the message reception a little bit, and aimed at these apes.He felt a strong love, yes, love.These apes deeply love the sandworms around them. This is not love for the master or the slave, but a deeper and stronger emotion.

Just like children love their parents deeply.That kind of natural, primitive, thick and deep love that comes from blood relatives and genes...

Strangely, on Lola, the bond between the dog and its owner is very deep, but it is not as hot as an ape.

"Apes are accessories." Loken89 repeated.

Guan Yu asked, "So what do accessories mean? It's pets."

"No, it's for their breeding..." Before Loken89 finished speaking, the ape standing next to the pate stand suddenly let out a sharp scream.

It kept digging its own head with its hands, drawing bloodstains.The sand bugs standing aside looked at it with a very calm expression.Then the ape knelt down on the ground and kept hitting the ground with its head hard. After a while, blood gushed out, the skull shattered, and a group of young sand worms wriggled out from its cracked skull. "Children!! It's children!!!" The two sand worms cried and laughed and took out a container to house these tender and young sand worms.

A group of sand bugs clapped around them, "Congratulations!! Congratulations!!! Great, it looks like the hatching success rate is very high."

The two sandworms wiped their tears and said that it was great. They never expected that this day would come so soon. In order to celebrate the sudden arrival of their children, the couple would definitely invite everyone present to have a meal.

Ms. Fei said softly, "Hehe, accessories."

Loken89 said: "That's what it means. These crypt worms are breeding accessories for the next generation of sandworms. The brains of Tibetan nome apes are excellent hatching and growth grounds for sandworm larvae. Sandworms believe that the stronger and smarter Toko they raise, the better their offspring will be."

Guan Yu whispered: "These sand bugs are really..."

"This is their unique way of breeding since the beginning of their own civilization, and it has been specially licensed by the federal government." Loken89 said calmly, "The Animal Protection Association once had arguments, but it was quickly respected by local cultural traditions. Squeeze it down."

"But..."

"Sand worms love peace, love and help each other, and rarely hostile to aliens. In terms of statistics, it is not too much to say that sand worms are one of the friendliest races. I can understand that apes have some characteristics that are different from those of aliens. The proximity of Homo sapiens and Gnus has caused you emotional displeasure. But please remain rational and respect local traditions."

Liu Bei had a look of unbearable expression on his face, he turned his head and said, "Let's leave here as soon as possible."

Guan Yu also seemed less interested, and said, "Go and find Zhang Fei."

A team of sand bug guards ran over and skillfully picked up the corpses of the apes on the ground.One of the sandworm couples who just had a baby picked up a few fragments of the ape's skull, and said with tears in his eyes: "I will keep these bones as a souvenir, and the children will know our Toke in the future."

The sand worm beside it was also wiping tears, watching the city guards carry away the corpse of the ape.

When Xiaozhen and his party left, Xiaozhen heard a lady next to her, who turned her head and said to her ape: "My dear, I will not let this happen to you on the street. You will lie on our backs The most comfortable room at home is waiting for this moment.” The ape is a very beautiful ape, with beautiful golden chestnut hair and a pair of shining eyes, it nodded as if it understood the words of a lady beetle, Leaning obediently in the arms of the lady sandworm.

"Yes, we will never let this kind of thing happen on the street. That's too outrageous." The husband next to the lady worm raised his hand and stroked the hair on the ape's back. "Toco, we will always love you."

Xiao Zhen heard the fiery conscious response of the ape: I love you too.

He turned off all consciousness reception, blocked all information, and followed Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Miss Fei to the building of the Agricultural Products Expo.

Gamal was standing at the door, and there were several large boxes beside her, which were obviously the results of her purchases at the fair.As soon as she saw Xiao Zhen and others, she shouted: "You are here!! I was going to find you!!"

"We are going to leave. Where is Zhang Fei?"

"An accident happened to Zhang Fei!!!" Jia Moer shouted with a strange expression, "Listen to me!"