Lu Chen and Ai Li came to the back cabin.
He first stuffed the female locust meat roll into the armored belly compartment.
Then, he and Ellie squeezed into the armored cockpit.
As a result, after squeezing for a long time, the two of them couldn't squeeze in.
After all, Lu Chen's treasure-picking armor has limited space and takes priority over the treasure-loading capacity. The driving space is very cramped, and he never thought of bringing his teammates with him at the beginning of the design.
Now, the cockpit was too crowded, and Lu Chen suddenly didn't want to take Ai Li off the ship to explore, so he asked her:
"Ellie, do you know why I took you to explore the earth's crust cave?"
Ai Li gently pushed the slender silver frame, and Lu Chen's majestic figure was reflected in her ice blue eyes.
Her petite body stood upright, her delicate little face with a hint of baby fat was unsmiling, and she answered seriously:
"It's to find the shadowless whale, try to control it, and try to catch it alive!"
Lu Chen asked again:
"What if we can't be captured alive?"
Ai Li hesitated for a moment and then quickly said:
"Then kill it, I will do it!"
Lu Chen smiled and touched Aili's head.
"All of the above are wrong answers. It is extremely dangerous for you to leave the spacecraft for the first time. You must obey my orders."
"Yes, Captain!"
Lu Chen thought about it and decided to take Aili with him.
He held Ellie in his arms from behind in advance, then squeezed into the cockpit and sat down.
It was equivalent to Ellie treating his body as a chair.
There is no other position that allows two people to squeeze into the cramped cockpit.
Ellie felt a little uncomfortable sitting on three legs, moving her butt left and right, trying to find the most comfortable position.
Lu Chen was confused and quickly stopped her.
"As long as you don't move around, there will be a comfortable position everywhere. If you move around, neither of us will feel comfortable."
"Yes, Captain!"
Of course Ai Li understood what Lu Chen meant. She was just surprised that the captain would react to her in a human body.
Impossible. According to her observations over the past few days, the captain could not be a normal man.
"You are a beast master and a mage master, and I am a spiritual weapon master. We are both great interstellar adventurers. This physiological reaction can be easily overcome."
Lu Chen quickly calmed down and buckled his seat belt, tightly binding the two of them in the cramped cockpit.
"Set off!"
The treasure-picking armor immediately left the cabin and stepped onto the crust of the foggy star.
The gravity at the Earth's core is twice the rated gravity of the spacecraft.
The road dust felt a bit heavy and more crowded.
Ai Li frowned slightly, her body seemed to be filled with lead and was firmly pinned to Lu Chen, making her look uncomfortable.
"It seems that we must make a quick decision."
Lu Chen drove the armor and quickly entered the canyon cave guided by the old white whale without hesitation.
"Don't be nervous, this is my third cave exploration since I went to sea."
The armor enters through the mouth, which is very narrow at first, and then passes through the armor. After traveling for dozens of miles, it suddenly becomes clear.
Lu Chen immediately turned on the wide area searchlight.
This is a huge cave, one hundred meters high and more than three hundred meters wide. The layout is very similar to the inner cabin of a spacecraft.
The four walls seem to have traces of artificial ax chiseling, but the technique appears extremely rough and immature.
There is a complex square area on the front, which is a bit like the screen and control panel of a spaceship.
Below the area, there is also a stone stack built of stone that looks like humanoid armor.
Lu Chen always felt like he had seen this style before somewhere.
The positioning on the scavenging panel showed that the target was nearby, covering his own positioning.
Armor radar, no response.
Lu Chen looked up at the cave dome.
Nothing.
Ellie reminded:
"Captain, the Shadowless Whale is here."
"Right here...where is the direction?"
"It's everywhere."
Lu Chen closed his eyes and activated his resonance consciousness, trying to sense the specific location of the Shadowless Whale.
Before sensing the location, he sensed an old aura and a forty-level spiritual pressure reaction.
Although there was no warning, Lu Chen still felt a little hairy on his body, his hairs stood on end, and his spine felt chilly.
Obviously, the other party took the initiative to invite him to enter the cave. If he had evil intentions, he would have done it long ago.
After much hesitation, Lu Chen gave up the idea of fishing or catching, and offered the mother locust meat roll with his honest hands.
"Senior, I went to the mother locust planet to kill the mother locust just to see you and ask senior to show up."
The words just fell!
A sad whale roar echoed through the cave...
Lu Chen covered his ears, feeling his scalp numb, and his heart was deeply affected by this time-traveling sadness.
Only then did he suddenly realize that an extremely old beluga whale, shaped like a dead tree, was surrounding him.
"It turned out that there were target bodies everywhere, so much so that my location was covered on the treasure map."
Lu Chen looked carefully.
Ordinary beluga whales are slender, similar to blue whales, but softer, with long white baleen trailing from their lower jaws.
And this shadowless whale is closer to the shape of a snake...or to be more precise, closer to the shape of a Chinese dragon.
But it has completely mutated.
All of the whale's baleen fell off, and the wrinkled, old skin covered with sarcoma wrapped the twisted bones.
Within its body, a white whale core shone brightly, illuminating the old and huge whale body extremely clearly.
All around, countless birds and shellfish that Lu Chen had never seen before were gnawing at his crater-like body.
A pair of deep eyes that relied on some slim hope to maintain the last glimmer of vitality, staring closely at the tragic death of the female locust meat roll, showing a trace of the sadness of a thousand years of failure.
It seemed to use up its last strength to swallow and digest the female locust body.
Lu Chen’s item identification also gives identification information:
[A female beluga whale that was highly mutated due to close-range nuclear radiation when she was a child. She has a level 40 cultivation level. The mutated whale elixir in her body can absorb all light, sound waves, electromagnetic waves and spiritual consciousness, and cover the entire whale body. She is very good at invisibility. . 】
Lu Chen understood instantly.
The so-called shadowless whale is one of the beluga whale seedlings on Alexei's spaceship!
A thousand years ago, the spacecraft crashed into the mother locust nest. After Alexei stabbed the nuclear bomb with his sword to prevent it from exploding, they were exposed to high concentrations of nuclear radiation and mutated.
It was mutation that allowed this beluga whale to gain invisibility and become a shadowless whale!
They say that poor people rely on mutation, but I didn't expect that spiritual beasts are the same.
Her age has exceeded the limit of level 40 orcs, and she may be staying here just to see Alexei one last time.
To have such feelings, it is obvious that Alex not only saved these beluga seedlings, but also raised them with difficulty during the days when he was captured by the mother locust and suffered from mutation.
Most likely, she has been raising them to adulthood on the Mother Locust Planet before sending them to the Mist Sea Star to breed...
Here’s another bunch of Alexey’s kids!
Lu Chen finally understood.
Why do beluga whales hate interstellar locusts? Because it was interstellar locusts that lured the spacecraft into crashing, causing a series of subsequent tragedies.
Likewise, beluga whales hate humans.
It was a fellow human who betrayed Alexei!
At this point, capturing the Shadowless Whale alive has become an impossible task.
All Lu Chen can do is fulfill her long-cherished wish and send her on her last journey...
Then, take away her whale pill.
There is no doubt that Whale Pill is the real target treasure.
Thinking like this, Lu Chen opened the light screen of his bracelet.
Zoom in to play video footage of Alexei from the ship's log.
The old shadowless whale stared quietly at the light screen, staring at the insect man who saved her life and raised the mutated her.
In the twisted, ugly and old eyes, crystal tears shed...
At the same time, her memory also returned to the cave a thousand years ago.
Ai Li tried her best to read the memory fragments she revealed and conveyed them to Lu Chen in the simplest human language.
The story is almost the same as what Lu Chen speculated.
After the nuclear radiation in the cave was leaked, half of the beluga whales died on the spot or within the next year.
The rest have varying degrees of variation.
In order to protect and raise more than thirty mutated beluga whales, Alex was forced to surrender to the mother locust.
But this peaceful life only lasted a few years.
In the end, the conflict between Alexei and the offspring of the mother locust and the mutated beluga gradually deepened. Alexei was forced to send the young beluga whales to Fog Star, and then he could only resign himself to his fate.
Fortunately, under the leadership of the Shadowless Whale Kevir, these beluga whales defeated the strong and quickly occupied the top of the fog star's food chain.
"Her name is Kweir."
However, since then, the Shadowless Whale has never seen Alexei again.
Until now, in the light curtain opened by Lu Chen, I reunited with my old friend.
After the last tears drained from his eyes, the body of the Shadowless Whale suddenly collapsed.
In the ruins of the collapsed body, he slowly closed his tired eyes.
When a whale falls, everything comes alive!
In the joyful feast of birds and shells, a radiant whale pill slowly fell on the palm of the armor.
The light and shadow of Alexei are reflected in the whale elixir.
The gray bones settled down, and the crystal-clear fine cortex slowly rose from the gaps in the canyon...
Facing such a tragic and magnificent thousand-year-old funeral, Lu Chen and Ai Li could not help but feel sad.
Looking at the beetle insect man in the video who has been looked down upon and ridiculed but never betrayed humanity.
Alexei is a good person... This is Lu Chen's only evaluation of him.
However, Lu Chen was more concerned about the whale pill in his hand.
Without the flexible fishing and thrilling captures, he is still himself, a simple treasure hunter.
Generally speaking, when a spiritual beast dies, the beast elixir will break down and dissipate.
But for some reason, the Shadowless Whale died, but the Whale Pill remained intact.
Could it be due to the mutation caused by nuclear radiation?
Fukushima is ecstatic.
Lu Chen looked carefully at the whale pill in the armored palm. It was nearly one meter in diameter and weighed about a thousand kilograms. It was like an absolute reflector, shining with crystal white light.
Lu Chen slowly penetrated into the bead with his own spiritual power.
Sudden!
The shell of the Whale Pill instantly cracked and turned into crystal dust, floating upwards, seeping into the dome, and moving up among the earth and rocks.
However, the strange thing is that there is still a heavy weight in the armored palm.
The identification information of the item is instantly given:
[Shadowless Whale Pearl, the core of mutated whale elixir, is non-toxic and can absorb all light, sound waves, electromagnetic waves and spiritual consciousness, and cover the physical body covered by its spiritual power to achieve global invisibility. 】
That’s okay!
Lu Chen immediately sent the Shadowless Whale Pearl to the cockpit and touched it with his own hands.
It's the size of a table tennis ball, weighs about a kilogram, and has a cool, smooth surface.
It is invisible to the naked eye, radar and spiritual consciousness.
The question now is, how to get this thing out?
The Leonin illegally went deep into the Sea of Fog to fish. When it went out, it would definitely be intercepted by a cruiser from the Anglers Alliance and the entire ship would be searched.
Even putting it in a storage bag is not safe...
"This Shadowless Whale Bead is a treasure. The question is how do we take it out? In addition to the Anglers' Alliance, there are many adventure groups staring at us. Although the Shadowless Whale Bead is invisible, it can be touched and cannot be avoided. The cruiser is investigating!”
Lu Chen was a little worried.
Suddenly, Ellie makes a bold suggestion.
"Why didn't the captain swallow this shadowless bead?"
"ha?"
Lu Chen thought he heard something wrong.
"I'm only at the twentieth level of cultivation. Will there be problems if I forcefully swallow the forty-level whale beads?"
Ai Li said seriously:
"The whale bead is not a whale elixir. The captain even dared to drink sister Gloria's demonic blood. There will definitely be no problem if he swallows this shadowless whale bead."
Lu Chen thought about it seriously.
Swallowing one kilogram of whale beads has little effect on your weight.
The Shadowless Whale Bead can also isolate spiritual consciousness and radar. Others can't touch the belly... Who can find it?
"The whale beads are not poisonous. It just depends on whether there is any rejection reaction. If I really can't eat them, I can only carry them around."
Ai Li rarely relaxed and said with a smile:
"Captain, don't worry, you are already a body that resonates with all things. Your body can accommodate all things in the world, including small whale beads."
Lu Chen stared at her harmless little face.
"You better not be kidding!"
Saying this, Lu Chen held the whale bead in his hand, gritted his teeth, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Tasteless, cold, smooth, heavy...
As a result, it got stuck in the throat and couldn't go down.
Even, it is almost embedded in the throat meat.
This is a good thing, at least there is no rejection reaction.
I just didn’t know how to get it into my stomach for a while!
Lu Chen's surging spiritual power and inner energy could only spurt the power outward, but it was difficult to draw it inward.
"Oops, if I continue, I'll have to choke myself to death here."
Ellie was also a little panicked.
"Try adding some lube!"
Having no other choice, Lu Chen quickly ran out of the cockpit and opened a barrel of spare spiritual oil hanging in the storage compartment.
Pinch your nose and drink it down.
As a result, the whale beads fit perfectly into the throat, and the spiritual oil could not be poured into the stomach.
Lu Chen could only use the palm of his hand to gather the power of resonance, raised his head and palmed down towards his mouth.
Snapped--
Under the impact of the resonance and the lubrication of the spiritual oil, he swallowed the whale beads into his stomach.
Lu Chen held back his breath.
Angrily, she pinched both sides of Ai Li's face with both hands.
"You little idiot, you almost killed me!"
Ai Li said seriously:
"Isn't it more painful for a woman to give birth than this?"
"That's true."
Lu Chen couldn't refute.
Now that the whale beads are in his stomach, things will be easier to handle.
He immediately used his strength to transport the whale beads and sink them towards the Dantian.
Under the double escort of spiritual veins and inner breath, the Shadowless Whale Pearl quickly slid into the dantian and merged into the sea of qi.
Lu Chen felt okay and didn't feel any pain. He just felt like his body was being filled with a foreign object.
He immediately gathered his spiritual power, seeped into the whale bead, and used the power of resonance and fusion, trying to completely integrate his Dantian with it and eliminate the feeling of a foreign body separating humans and beasts.
Just for a moment——
Lu Chen's mind buzzed!
He felt the pain of the Shadowless Whale being tortured by mutations for a thousand years and the deep longing for his old friend, the obsession to reunite his body and not fall apart.
If Lu Chen had not seen Alexei's experience, he would never have been able to experience this emotion, and he would not have been able to empathize with it and completely integrate the whale beads into the sea of qi.
What's more, he helped the Shadowless Whale to avenge himself, killed the mother locust, the monster that had tortured Alexei for many years, and allowed the Shadowless Whale to reunite with Alexei in the void in the light curtain. He took the initiative to offer him whale beads.
The effect of today is the cause of the past.
Lu Chen couldn't help but sigh.
at the same time!
In Ellie's eyes, he lost the signal on both the radar and the thermal imager of the treasure-hunting armor.
He disappeared.
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14,000 is done on the first day, and the next chapter will be waiting for tomorrow morning!
(End of chapter)
