Lu Ning walked out of the spaceship. At this time, several team members who were resting not far away turned to look over.
"Hello." The unidentified person said to Lu Ning, "I think we can communicate."
"Did you just talk?" Lu Ning glanced at the four team members next to him.
"It would be good for us to understand a little bit about daily conversations." Longmai said, "He is not low in intelligence, but not so hostile. He even agreed to provide us with some samples for testing. I think Yang Hao will be happy to see this. .”
"In that case, how should we call you?" Lu Ning focused on that person, "If you already understand some of our language, then please choose a name for yourself."
The man nodded, thought for a moment and then said, "You can call me Tai."
"Okay, Ty, can you tell us why you were at the Rangers' place?"
"It's hard to describe. Someone should have released me. It was an unintentional move, and I'm very grateful. But I don't know the way out, and there are no instructions for using it. I read books, but I don't have pronunciation. I create my own pronunciation, but there is still no use. illustrate."
"Do you have a sense of time?"
"I have the concept of using some fixed period as a yardstick, and I can count it." Tai nodded.
"So how long have you been awake?"
"According to your unit, it's fifteen years, August, thirteen days and twenty-two hours. Time is always moving forward, and minutes and seconds shouldn't mean much to you."
This time point basically coincides with the loss of contact with the advance team at that time.
"Do you know how to control the instruments in the Rangers?" Lu Ning asked again.
"I need to study, but the Rangers don't leave school supplies. I don't try because of the danger," Tai said.
"Are those things dangerous even to you?"
"I can feel the vitality, ferocious, and difficult to control. I can deal with one, two. Multiple, I will die." Tai shook his head slightly, "I know you are afraid, and I am the same. Even if my life is not extraordinary, I will be afraid."
"Is there any extraordinary life?" Longmai asked.
"Extraordinary life does not exist. The mortal world accommodates the mundane and does not allow it to exist."
Everyone was silent.
"I will send you to a place next, and the people there should know how to arrange you. Do you have any opinions on this?" Lu Ning asked him after a while.
"Okay, I want to understand this world." Tai nodded.
During the return flight, everyone was silent except for some necessary exchanges. They covered Tai's eyes. Although they knew that the effect of this would not be very great, they still did it. Lu Ning did not return to the outpost first, but crossed the equator and flew to a position given to her by NE-002.
The location of Outpost 4.
According to NE-002, the first five outposts were all carefully selected locations, except for No. 1, which was missing; Outpost No. 2 is located in the deep sea and is home to huge marine resources. Outpost No. 3 stands on the highest mountain of Phantom Star and has a weather monitoring system known as the "Eye of the Planet". Outpost 4 is located near the equator, rooted deep underground, and its lowermost end has penetrated into the mantle. It is an outpost for detecting geological changes on the entire planet. Outpost 5 is located at the poles. It not only conducts extreme conditions experiments, but also changes the planet's magnetic field through pole interference.
Of course, the Natural Evolution will not let go of this seemingly very important point. No. 3 has been retrieved by DU-001, while No. 4 belongs to two teams with less eye-catching numbers, NE-011 and NE- 015 Reconstruction.
The terrain was flat, and there was even an apron. After the landing craft landed here, four or five people quickly walked out of the outpost. The camouflage here is like a crater, and you wouldn't think it was a building.
"Greetings to you, Comrade DU-003." The person numbered NE-011 saluted Lu Ning. It seemed that he was either the captain or the deputy.
"Hello." Lu Ning took Tai off the spaceship. Tai was still looking around curiously. After the blindfold was removed, he had been looking at the world curiously.
"Is this the target who needs to be temporarily managed?" NE-015, who was holding his arms next to him, said with interest, "I heard that he is very intelligent?"
"I can understand what you are saying." Tai smiled at the two of them, "I want to live here next, right?"
"As you can see." Lu Ning sighed silently, "Mr. Tai... learned our language through our conversation during the short voyage. Although he is not yet proficient, there is no problem in talking. . NE-002 must have told you some relevant matters, so I don’t need to repeat them. If you have any other questions, please ask them quickly.”
"Okay!" NE-011 said loudly, "So, what kind of food does Mr. Tai need on a daily basis? What is his living environment like? Does he have any special physiological needs?"
Lu Ning couldn't answer, but Tai took the initiative to speak: "I can adapt to and digest most organic matter. Please maintain the ambient temperature between minus 50 degrees and 120 degrees. It can be dry or humid. Please provide me with some Something to read to relieve boredom. I have no breeding needs or special diseases. Please rest assured that I will try not to add to your troubles."
Tai's language has become more and more pure, and his polite attitude and his rather aesthetic body structure make it impossible to dislike him.
This guy……
Lu Ning looked at him again, and then said to those people: "Just in case, we'd better record the emergency communication. We all know the importance of Tai, and we will only let him live here temporarily."
"Okay." NE-011 nodded solemnly, "Everything follows the rules and procedures! Mr. Tai! We will protect your rights here! In accordance with alliance laws..."
"Okay, okay." NE-015 patted him on the shoulder, "There's no need to organize it into such a set of things, just take good care of him. I'll send the communication to the captain now."
Soon, Lu Ning received two communication signals. She recorded these on her terminal, saluted, and turned around to walk back to the spacecraft.
"Miss, we should meet again in the future." Tai said in a cheerful voice from behind, "I look forward to meeting you again."
"..." Lu Ning didn't answer, walked back to the spacecraft and sat in his seat.
"What's wrong, captain? Did the handover go smoothly?" Spades asked.
"It's okay, but that Tai saw my gender."
Despite the thick space suit, the opaque helmet, and the electronic sound that made it difficult to distinguish, Tai could still tell her gender. Does this mean he has some special observation methods?
"You are worried." Tiemei said.
"Everyone can see it. There are too many doubts about Tai to make people worry. His high intelligence is enough to make him equal to those monsters that only exist in people's imagination. We can't even judge his kindness. And evil." Lu Ning started the spacecraft.
"It is our instinct to be in awe of the unknown, otherwise the Alliance would not be so cautious in exploring extraterrestrials." After Dragon Vein said this, the spacecraft officially took off and returned to the outpost.
The night has arrived, and Tianmuyi has come to the sky again, but this time it is pitch black. The current location of the spacecraft is exactly at the position of a lunar eclipse, if the huge auxiliary star can be regarded as the moon.
Of course, lunar eclipses and solar eclipses are uncommon sights on many planets, because there is not a huge size difference between the Phantom Star and Tianmu Yi. In fact, they happen quite often. People in the interstellar era have long been away from such celestial phenomena. He was too excited, so when Lu Ning found that the surrounding light was very dark, he turned on the auxiliary navigation system, then let the screen display the actual projection of the sky, and casually enjoyed the scene of the huge lunar eclipse.
"Oh! It's a lunar eclipse." Tiemei seemed to be in a better mood, "My home planet has no satellites, so I can only find such scenes on the Internet."
"You may not be able to see planets with satellites." Clarinet said quietly, "I have been to a planet where the sky is always covered with sand and dust. People must wear protective clothing with filters, even at home. Even so. , the average life span of people there is only forty years, and most of them die from diseases such as pneumoconiosis. Not to mention the lunar eclipse, the moon cannot be seen, even if there are seventeen satellites around it."
"So miserable?" Spades has gradually developed a way of speaking like quartz recorder that destroys the atmosphere.
Lu Ning thought for a while and probably understood something. Sure enough, the recorder continued to speak.
"Mining planets, do you understand? They are basically used for mining, but it is impossible for the Alliance to build automatic mining stations on every planet, and those private companies cannot afford the money. The most important thing is that someone needs these The jobs exist.”
"Alas..." Tie Mei sighed, obviously knowing something about the inside story.
"Who would need it?" On the contrary, Spades was a little confused, "Those companies? Because they are cheap?"
"It's the people who live on the mining planet." Recorder said, "They need jobs. The cost of living on the mining planet is extremely low. A set of C-level protective suits can be used for ten years if you are a little stingy. That is the biggest consumption in their lives. . There is no cost to live in. You can live well in a cave dwelling. These people have no skills and know that this may be it for the rest of their lives. Although mining is considered a cheap labor force, the wage level is actually not low. Even if they can only work for twenty years, With the money I have saved over the past twenty years, I can send one of my children to a medium-sized planet for education.”
"It sounds like a gamble." Spades said, "Swapping your own health for the future of the next generation? Wouldn't it be better to start a career on your own if you are in that mood?"
"Because they can't do it." Recorder sneered, "Their lives are painful. They live in pain as long as they live, but they still have to live like this because they don't want to die. Therefore, this kind of fantasy can shorten the pain and give themselves a comfort. Only the profession has the soil for survival."
"I...can't understand this kind of person." Spades was stunned for a moment, "If life really comes to despair, I will take the initiative to end it."
"They can't understand why you can choose death so simply." Recorder leaned on the chair, "Of course it's difficult for people to understand each other."
"This topic ends here." Lu Ning cut off the conversation at the right time, "You'd better pay more attention to your surroundings. It doesn't mean that the spacecraft has a complete detection device, so you don't need to be vigilant."
Spades hurriedly said: "Don't let your words delay the work of your eyes, right? Captain, look, I can even see the small bright spots on the surface of the auxiliary star. You can notice such details."
"Small bright spot?" Lu Ning raised an eyebrow, "Now during the lunar eclipse, the light of the stars cannot shine on Tianmu No. 1. Where did the small bright spot come from? Tianmu No. 1 itself is not a luminous star."
"Captain, I saw it too." Longmai said while passing a screenshot to Lu Ning, with a bright spot circled in red.
Compared to the entire Tianmu 1, this bright spot is really very small, and can even be regarded as a small residual imaging error in the screen. But since Dragon Vein said that this was a bright spot, there was obviously a definite basis.
"It does not always exist. According to the video records I called before, the bright spot appears for one minute and twelve seconds each time, then disappears for five minutes, and then appears again, and the cycle occurs. The relative position on the auxiliary star is the same Yes, it is not a screen display problem, and it can penetrate the clouds and fog of phantom stars. It must be a strong condensed light source, and it is most likely not natural light."
"The five-minute interval..." Lu Ning looked at the image on the screen and said slowly, "The interval between the military's emergency contact signals is this length."
She zoomed in on the image and also zoomed in on the live camera settings, tracking the area. The bright spots have disappeared, but according to Dragon Vein, they should appear again soon.
Sure enough, after waiting for a few minutes, the bright spots appeared again. In the enlarged image, it appears to be a shape that is rapidly changing shape.
"It's an artificial product." She nodded and exported a piece of data from the terminal. It was a coded text version used by the former military department about sixty years ago. This thing has been updated countless times. This time it is stored in the terminal because of the special task.
The encoding and decoding program started to operate, performing image recognition based on barely discernible bright spots, and then slowly derived meaningful sentences.
[We are in the Third Eye, and we are watching you. Return and inform the alliance that the advance team has been destroyed, there are unknown dangers in the Phantom Star, and it is not suitable to immigrate, so do not come back. 】
This text appeared on everyone's screen. After a moment of silence, Lu Ning spoke.
"It looks like we finally found the location of the missing Outpost 1."
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Outpost No. 10, where Mo Ningyan is located, has been completely transformed. It is even difficult to find the prototype of the outpost.
There are nearly twenty people coming in and out of this place. Similar to Lu Ning, some scattered remnants have also been gathered here and are busy issuing instructions to the robots.
Underground, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth floors have been completely transformed into a huge integrated factory. Mo Ningyan is walking in the middle of this factory. Beside her are some metal pipes that have the same appearance as those in the Ranger ruins. , neatly arranged, but without that kind of translucent metal technique.
The number arranged on this layer alone is close to a thousand.
Mo Ningyan's legion will be born here.
