Jing Huang disappeared immediately after getting off the boat. Luo Binhan was led by Momoluo and left the platform from a pod-like elevator to the land. He looked back and found that the Silence parked at a high place was now an off-white ship.
"Ah, Mr. Luo, that is color-changing paint. Because we have to keep a low profile in legal cities." Momolo said.
They walked towards the landscape path together. Luo Binhan began to get nervous, realizing that this was the first time in his life that he was walking in an alien city. The blue sky and white clouds are similar to his hometown, and the buildings are colorful, and few of them are regular rectangular parallelepipeds. They prefer a rounded, egg-like outline. Some are shrouded in a strange halo outside the building. Momolo told Luo Binhan that it was a greenhouse cover, used to maintain or exclude certain specific components in the air, or to ensure a specific outdoor temperature. Usually set up for certain alien flowers or patients.
"Patient?" Luo Binhan said. He felt that the word appeared in an alien world with a strange sense of disharmony, but no one said that there would be no cancer in aliens.
Momolo nodded seriously. His expression was even a little sad: "Very much."
Luo Binhan was surprised by his sadness, so he subconsciously dropped the topic. It didn't seem out of the blue because everything on the street was a new topic for him.
The floor tiles of this city's streets seem to be made of cobblestone-shaped glass blocks. They are uneven and slightly warm when stepped on, and they seem to be purely designed for walking. Because all lanes are in the air.
"Pedestrians are not allowed to fly directly on the airway here." Momolo said, "Mr. Luo also needs to be careful not to take off casually."
Luo Binhan didn't understand what he meant at first, until he saw two people with things like bird wings on their waists holding wooden skewers and walking over talking and laughing. He quietly pointed out the two people to Momolo.
"Do you also want to eat fried spiders?" Momolo asked.
In fact, Luo Binhan just wanted to ask if those wings could really fly. He knew that the skeletal structure of ordinary humans would not allow them to fly with wings alone.
But Momolo seemed particularly excited. He patted Luo Binhan's shoulders with both hands and said, "I'll treat you to a meal! This must be what humans call a date!"
"What?" Luo Binhan said. Before he could react, he watched Momolo run away happily. The speed was indeed beyond ordinary, and he disappeared around the corner in just one breath.
Luo Binhan realized that he was left alone in an alien city.
He was too frightened to move. Pedestrians were constantly shuttling around. Some of them were green, some had snake legs and one eye, and some simply didn't look human at all. Luo Binhan couldn't help but feel anxious when they passed by, but in fact nothing happened. They didn't seem to notice Luo Binhan's existence at all.
At this time, someone patted him gently from behind. He turned around and found a girl with blue hair standing behind him - her gender was determined based on her body shape, but there were several thin tendrils on her chin, so Luo Binhan did not dare to make a conclusion.
She spoke. The voice he spoke was thin and soft, and the language was unfamiliar, but it was within the range that Luo Binhan could understand most of it.
"Are you here for sightseeing?" she asked, "Is this your first time going to sea?"
Luo Binhan nodded warily. He didn't know if casual conversation with strangers on an alien planet was normal.
"Why are you shaking your head up and down?" the girl asked, nodding imitatingly.
Now Luo Binhan discovered that nodding was not a universal action. He could only think hard about how to say the alien language that Yaleriga had poured into his head.
"Yes, I am," he said stumblingly.
The girl giggled: "The body language between different races can easily cause misunderstandings, but novices are like this. Come with me."
She ran a few steps to the side. Luo Binhan didn't want to leave the spot, but the girl didn't run far away. She just waved to him from the edge of the landscape path a few meters away. Luo Binhan hesitated for a few seconds and then followed.
"Look," she said, "this is where you're going to go."
The water before them was a deep, jewel-like blue, very similar to the seascape of his homeland. He recalled that his old science teacher had explained in class why sea water was blue, but he didn't remember much.
"Doesn't it look good?" said the girl next to him. "My grandmother said that the sea water is so blue because the sea has memory. It remembers the color of the sky."
Luo Binhan was quite pleased to hear this. It seems that civil science, pseudoscience and literary youth are the common hobbies of people in the universe. Looking far into the distance, he could faintly see the shadows of birds flying on the boundary line between sea and sky.
At this time the girl asked curiously: "What are you looking at?"
"The long road." Luo Binhan replied deeply.
The girl stared at him without knowing why. "Your channel is down there," she said, "and across the way is the zoo."
Luo Binhan didn't understand what she meant at first. He lowered his head in the direction of the girl's finger and looked at the bottom of the landscape path.
He saw huge "holes".
It was a huge cave that was active under the water, stirring slightly as if it were alive. It released blazing light and heat in the depths, and orange-red gas like flames rolled endlessly inside.
"...undersea volcano?"
Undersea volcanoes erupt, sometimes even exploding, sending billowing plumes of smoke and fire into shallow waters.
But the sight before him was not. The huge, burning hole was neither cooled and solidified by the huge sea water, nor did it create a vortex on the water surface due to the inflow. It just rolled quietly under the water like a phantom, like a dream.
Luo Binhan was stunned. The girl laughed again beside him.
"That's the door to the sea." She said, "You are indeed new here."
Luo Binhan looked at her blankly, and this time he noticed more details. Her dark blue hair looked very stiff, like insect whiskers, her milky white skin had small and dense spots, and her face was narrower than normal, making her pupils appear particularly large.
This girl inexplicably reminded him of stick insects. But that wasn't a scary association. On the contrary, he thought the other person was strangely good-looking. In particular, there is a transparent film on the surface of her eyeballs, which shows a colorful sheen like fish scales in the sun.
Luo Binhan wanted to ask her name, but then Momolo came back. He handed a wooden skewer to Luo Binhan, then looked at the blue-haired girl curiously: "Mr. Luo?"
The blue-haired girl stared at them, covering her mouth and giggling, making both of them confused.
"You are so strange," she said. "My name is Migula. Who are you?"
Momolo smiled cheerfully and said, "My name is Romo."
Luo Binhan was stunned for a moment, and then said: "My name is Luo Bin."
"Are you brothers?" Mi Gula asked.
"No." "Exactly."
Luo Binhan glanced at the energetic Momoluo angrily, and finally changed his words: "They are distant relatives, almost like strangers."
Not knowing what was so funny about this answer, Mi Gula started giggling again. She quickly pointed to the sea and said: "I watch the boats coming in and out of here every day. I quickly know which boats are veterans and which are first timers, but I never see what they really look like on the sea. Driving on the waves It must be fun, right?”
"Yes," Momolo said, "It's very spectacular! Have you never been there?"
"I can't get close to the Yolu District." Migu La said. She pulled down her high-collared dress to reveal the metal ring around her neck. It is not simply worn on the neck, but is deeply embedded in the skin.
Luo Binhan didn't know what it meant, but Momoluo let out a surprised sound. "I'm sorry, Ms. Migula," he apologized hastily.
Migula didn't seem to care. She opened her mouth to say something, but then the sky suddenly turned dark.
Luo Binhan raised his head. He saw a ship hanging in the sky. It was not a spaceship, but one with masts, anchors and sails, just like the wooden sailing ships used by medieval navigators.
"WTF……"
The iron hook hanging on the sailboat suddenly became loose. The ship fell straight and heavily toward the sea with its head downwards, causing a wave of waves to rise into the sky. Pedestrians around were applauding and amazed.
Luo Binhan looked down. Violent waves rippled on the water, and the twisted fire hole was still beating in the water, like a huge heart.
The ship disappeared into thin air.
