the days before i bought the galaxy

After disabling the full manual mute mode, Warren took a short nap until the Rays landed again.

The big screen showed the red and yellow sand dunes on the Old Tavern Planet, which made Warren feel a little kind, and he returned to the territory of the earthlings.He pressed a button to switch on the radio outside the ship.

"How long are you going to stay outside?"

"Until I receive your next order."

Blue's answer made Warren's temples thump.

No no no, don't be overwhelmed by these inherent procedures, he doesn't want to be angry with you at all.In fact, there is no module of anger in the robot's thinking at all.Don't care what he said, you are the real commander on the Xiaguang.The robot outside, no matter how stubborn he may be, has been unsuccessful in keeping you from participating in the operation.In fact, if it weren't for you, he would have been dismantled into a bunch of parts by the crocodile.

Warren reminded himself over and over again.

"Lan, you can come in, this is an order." Warren decided to pour himself a cup of iced coffee to cool down the fire.

"Warren, are you angry? Angry with me?" A minute later, Lan reappeared outside the control cabin.He looked a little bad, after all, he had just experienced a space flight while wearing a protective shield. "I will not report you to the Federation because of your behavior just now. I am also very grateful that you saved me, although it is dangerous to do so."

"I thought robots didn't care about their own lives!" Warren whispered.

"My cost is as high as 50 Galaxy Shields. I don't think you are willing to lose such a large amount of money." Lan smiled, "Don't be angry with me! Warren, I don't want you to be angry with me."

"Haha, I'm really flattered that you expressed this idea." Warren said slightly mockingly, he lowered his head and took a sip of coffee, "The result of the active algorithm?"

"Yes, my information tells me that actively asking for forgiveness is the best way to keep people on Earth from getting angry."

"But you still don't know where you went wrong, do you?" Warren looked up, looking away from his coffee cup.He noticed the dazed expression on Lan's face. "Can you come a little closer?"

The robot immediately took a few steps closer and stood beside the captain's seat.

"I should have punched you." Warren put down his coffee cup, turned his chair and raised his fist at his robot, "but I know that as a mature commander, I shouldn't just punish my subordinates who didn't make mistakes .On the contrary, you deserve to be commended for your excellent performance on this mission. Yes, commended. But I can't do it. Blue, I understand your position. I know you are not a natural person, nor do you have the natural person rights. From a certain point of view, the existence of robots is to sacrifice. I understand all these. But as Warren Slim, it is not Warren, the commander of the Rays, but spending time with you Warren, who has lived for thirteen earth years, I am really annoyed by your behavior. You should be more ruthless, and completely dispel my stupid idea of ​​wanting to go deep alone! It seems that I should punch myself even more! Of course, I won't really do such a stupid thing. Lan, I think I may be a little messed up. I mean, I probably can't bear the pain of losing you, so please keep my spirit when you calculate the loss from now on. Losses are also taken into account, don't say that you can just recreate a random one, like this." Warren stared at his robot with burning eyes.

"oh, I understand now."

Warren exhaled. "So, the result is that there is neither reward nor punishment, and you have completed this mission for nothing." He adjusted the chair back to the original direction, "Show me the information you have obtained, and explain it when necessary. "

"Ok."

Lan quickly returned to his seat, plugging the white connection wire behind his ear into the port.The information stored in his body is of higher quality than the one he sends back, which is why he directly calls the internal memory.

Soon, an image appeared on the screen.The scene follows right after Warren last saw Blue enter the Colosseum.The airship dragging the flesh beetle stopped in the middle of the inner and outer walls, and Lan took advantage of the opportunity to hide in the shadows.

The visibility in this place is very low.Warren guessed that the crocodiles probably had their own way to tell the direction, otherwise their airship would have hit the wall head-on.He heard a few hurried conversations. The crocodiles spoke faster than the people on Earth, and their voices were mixed with many strange guttural sounds.

About half a minute later, the airship started up again, and entered the inner wall through another door opening.Lan used the same method as last time to hide under the flesh beetle and sneak in. This time he carefully avoided the special magnetic field.In the next shot, Lan has come to the center of the arena.

"My God, what's that?" Warren asked, pointing to the huge black shadow in the frame.The light inside the arena was better than outside, but it was still foggy.

"A Clarke star." Lan replied, "All the data show that this is an out-and-out Clarke star. As for why his size is so huge, there is not enough data to analyze it. But according to Charlie, this It should be their leader. Look at the red scales around his neck."

"But Charlie said that their leader is only 'a little taller' than ordinary crocodiles!" Warren looked at this outrageously huge Clarke star with incredible eyes.He lay on the ground like a real giant crocodile, with a body length of 30 meters.

"I also think this situation is against the rules. Under normal circumstances, the leader of the Clarke Germans should not be so big." Lan stated.

"What are they doing? Is that our meat beetle? They gave all their food to the chief?" Warren frowned.

On the screen, the five Clark Germans who were originally sitting on the airship were struggling to drag a long string of meat beetles to their leader.The food was swept away by the giant crocodile almost instantly.As he shook his gigantic head, bits of food fell from between his teeth, and a flesh beetle that was still alive seemed to be stuck between his two teeth, and he had to slam it with his cheek Hit the ground a few times to shake the flesh beetle down.

"This guy doesn't look very healthy..." Warren smiled maliciously.

"The leader's vital indicators are very low, but strangely, his metabolism is very strong. It's like an old man who is rejuvenating, and he may even be in the process of rejuvenating."

"I see!" Warren's eyes widened. "They are using feeding to prolong the life of the leader!"

"This inference is very likely to be true." Lan nodded after analyzing for a while.

"But why?" Warren said to himself, "isn't it the first day that crocodiles travel through the universe, they suddenly occupy a planet, they don't allow anyone to go in or out of it, and then suddenly all of a sudden they age collectively. What is the reason for this..."

"I think everything is related to what I saw next. By the way, their leader is very sharp." Lan pointed to the giant crocodile in the picture, "He almost spotted me. But I still Successfully avoided him and entered the back area."

In the picture, Lan suddenly retreated to the wall, stuck there for a while, and then began to move slowly along the wall.He walked around the leader of the Clarke Germans and walked towards the other side of the arena.The ground in the arena suddenly became uneven, as if someone had dug a lot of holes on the ground with a huge shovel.Blue managed to get to the edge of a pit.

"It's eggs! These alligators are laying eggs!" Warren exclaimed in surprise.He saw clearly what was in the pit, it was densely packed with white oval eggs, and there were thousands of them in each pit.

"Lan, can you calculate roughly how many eggs there are?"

"The total number of these eggs is probably around 300 million."

"Damn it! If all these crocodiles hatch, it will be a disaster! They will eat everything alive on the surrounding planet! What about the incubation period? The growth period? Blue, tell me how long it will take to develop into That situation!"

"On this point, there is not enough data, so we can't analyze it for the time being. However, the signs of life of these eggs are very weak, and they just barely meet the survival standard. It seems that the people of Clarke don't intend to hatch them immediately."

"Huh? So what do these crocodiles want to do? Are they just here to lay eggs while on vacation?"

"I also filmed a scene where the Clarke are mating, do you want to see it? I think that explains their collective aging."

"Of course! Show it to me!"

Lan quickly switched the screen to another pothole filled with water.The pit was only half full. Thousands of white eggs lay quietly on one side of the pit, and the not-too-turbid water just covered more than half of them.Two Clarkdians were lying on the edge of the pit, one pressing on the other.

"Lan, what is this?" Warren frowned suspiciously, and he saw some blurry parts on the high-definition screen.

"I added a mosaic on it, according to the United... ahem... minors should not watch such a scene."

Warren rubbed between his eyebrows weakly with his index and middle fingers: "Lan, it's just two crocodiles mating."

"Clark's Germans belong to intelligent life." Lan insisted.

"Damn it! Do you think I'm going to be badly influenced by watching this?"

Lan pursed her lips, and the expression on her face was clearly very sure of this.

"Okay, okay!" Warren held up his hands in surrender. "Mosaicing. I'm not interested in certain parts of crocodiles anyway."

"I can show you again when you turn 21." Lan seemed to express his compromise.

"No, no, I'm really...not interested in this...!"

Lan frowned: "..."

Warren: "I mean sex to alligators, not all of them!"

Blue: "Oh."

In any case, after the discussion between Warren and Lan, the part that needs to be mosaic finally came to an end.The Clarke star who was lying on top got up from his female companion and slowly walked aside.

Warren didn't understand at all what it meant to mosaic the clarkdians, who didn't even know what clothes were, only when they were mating.He glanced at Lan, and decided to keep this complaint in his heart.After all, as a mature spaceship commander, he shouldn't be picky about his subordinates' thinking if interests don't conflict.

The Clarkde star who was still lying on the spot crawled for a short distance to the center of the pit.After half a minute, she starts laying eggs.It took more than 200 births before it stopped, climbed back to the edge of the pit, stood up, and left with the support of the male Clarke.

"Their vitality has dropped by 90% compared to before mating," Lan explained.

"You mean, crocodiles age rapidly because of laying eggs?" Warren was a little puzzled by this conclusion.He had never heard of any reptiles that died of rapid aging due to reproduction, but there were many examples among insects.

"Yeah." Lan nodded, "At present, it seems that this is the only possibility."

"These crocodiles! They make their chief a fat man, and they kill themselves. Oh! What an interesting custom! Blue, let's go!"

"Where to go?"

"The old tavern. I think I have a way to get rid of these crocodiles." Warren said confidently.