Jing Huang looked up at the sky.
The sky, the empty and infinite outer space, is described in this way in the universe of reason, and the sky on this tideland sea looks dark and smooth, like a huge mirror. It looks very low, and in fact it is. If you flap your wings and fly high, you can touch the smooth and cold surface within ten minutes. It is the real "canopy". If you forcefully cross it, there will still be an endless sea of fire behind the mirror. If you explore upward toward the sea of fire, you will eventually return to the starting point. This star layer is so amazingly small in the sky.
However, what is very interesting is that there are still stars on the almost thin sky. They flow freely on the surface of the sky, swimming and moving quickly like living creatures. Jing Huang observed them for a long time and gradually understood that they were chasing the spiritual undercurrent in the phlogiston wave. But is that some kind of mission or is it a game? He thought about this matter for a long time and still couldn't figure it out.
At this time, several pieces of starlight were twinkling and floating down from the surface of the sky. They slowly expand as they land, turning into jellyfish-like transparent bubbles of light that spin and dance around their bodies with their slender tentacles.
They came to the bow of the ship and hung around him in groups, watching and watching.
"How beautiful." One of them exclaimed, "You are so beautiful."
"You are more brilliant than fire," said another.
"More brilliant than the stars." A follow-up added.
"Like fire burned by dreams." "Like stars made by fire." "Like dreams woven by stars."
"Climb for me." Jing Huang said expressionlessly.
He jumped up and punched and kicked, driving away all the star jellyfish that were swirling around him. This scene left Luo Binhan on the side stunned.
After finishing catching the jellyfish, Jing Huang sat back on the bow of the boat, picked up his tea bowl and stared at the sky in a daze. Next to him were a small red clay pottery stove and a clay pot, with a charcoal fire burning underneath, and tea leaves, fried rice, dried fruits, and red beans tumbling in the pot. Those were the ones that Yaleriga moved next to him three days ago.
Luo Binhan had never thought about this issue before, but at this moment, when he found that Jing Huang had been sitting in the same position at the bow of the boat for three days, he finally began to suspect that this kid didn't need to go to the toilet at all.
At this time Yaleriga walked up to him. In her hand she held a jar the size of a Go box, stuffed with a mixture of tea leaves and other tea soup ingredients.
"Are you okay?" she asked Luo Binhan.
"It's okay." Luo Binhan said. He actually didn't know what Yaleriga was asking about, but he didn't want to talk too much with her. The woman's eyes reminded Luo Binhan of some wild animals, and he became upset when she looked at him.
Yaleriga stared at him for a while, and then said: "You are looking at the captain."
"Yes," Luo Binhan said, "I saw him beating the elf when I went out."
Yareliga turned a deaf ear. She concluded to herself: "You are friends."
Luo Binhan didn't object to this, although it seemed a bit strange to say it from the mouth of a woman with goat's horns.
Yaleriga turned her head and stared at Jing Huang's back. After two or three seconds, she reached out and put the jar filled with tea soup ingredients into Luo Binhan's hand.
"He is very lonely now." Yaleriga said, "If you want, you can stay with him for a while."
Luo Binhan didn't object to this, although he felt it was undesirable to get close to a person who would beat an elf who praised him. "Why don't you go by yourself?" he asked a little strangely.
Yaleriga fiddled with the thin metal chain on the corner. "You, people," she said briefly, "He likes people."
"He prefers to hit people." Luo Binhan corrected. But in the end he carried the jar of sundries over.
He sat down as he placed the jar next to the stove. Jing Huang glanced at him with waning interest, expressing neither objection nor welcome, but continued to stare at the sky in a daze. Luo Binhan glanced at the clay pot on the stove and found that the water in it seemed to be endless, but there were very few ingredients left.
"Hey, is it time to add this thing?" he asked Jing Huang.
Jing Huang hummed casually, his attitude ambiguous. So Luo Binhan checked the contents of the jar - dried fruits, fried rice, green tea leaves, and salt grains. Everything seemed to be no different from the things he was familiar with. Although he had never "eaten" tea in such a weird way, he boldly took a spoonful and put it into the jar.
A complex aroma mixed into the water vapor. It smelled of the bitterness of tea leaves and the sweetness of dried fruits, which immediately reminded Luo Binhan of his hometown. The smell was even a bit familiar. For a while, Luo Binhan seemed to smell it often from Zhou Yu. However, Zhou Yu was a severe coffee addict, and Luo Binhan couldn't remember when he started drinking tea.
The tea soup quickly boiled away. Jing Huang filled his own tea bowl. Luo Binhan found a few empty cups beside the stove, which was obviously Yaleriga's premeditation. He generously picked up a bowl for himself to enjoy. The taste of the tea soup was very strong, salty and sweet mixed together. After taking a few sips, he began to feel hot and sweat all over.
"The way you drink tea is quite unique." Luo Binhan stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat, "What kind of tea is this? Longjing? It tastes very sweet."
"Fish tongue." Jing Huang said.
"Never heard of it. Where did it come from?"
Jing Huang glanced at him. "This is tea grown on the island." He said, "When there is heavy rain and high tide, sea fish will fly to the island and lick the ripe tea seeds on the trees. After licking the fruits, the saliva they left behind will be absorbed by the tree, and the next year The new leaves in spring are picked and roasted to make tea.”
"So what we drink is fish saliva." Luo Binhan said.
"You don't have to drink it if you feel disgusted."
Luo Binhan was not afraid of this. He held the bowl and drank a few more sips, and then said calmly: "I have to tell you the story of Zhou Yu and cat poop coffee."
He was just talking about how civets defecate when Momolo arrived.
"What are Mr. Luo talking about?" he asked with curiosity on his face.
Luo Binhan said solemnly: "Have a bowel movement."
Momolo looked confused. "Isn't that a very taboo subject for Homo sapiens?" he said cautiously.
Luo Binhan didn't know what the taboo on this topic was, but he judged from the other party's behavior that this kid probably didn't use the toilet. This reminded him of another thing.
"What happens to the feces in the spacecraft toilet? Is it thrown into the universe?" he asked. Although this is similar to the principle of trains and railways, it always seems particularly perverted to spill your own excrement into space.
Momolo thought for a while.
"I think it's a circulatory system." He said seriously. "The feces is fermented and added to the miniature reserve farm. The urine should be added to the circulatory system together with other wastewater."
“It’s quite environmentally friendly.”
"Exactly, because casually discarding excrement in outer space will be regarded as barbaric behavior. To be honest, Mr. Luo, I don't like that kind of behavior. If it is the excrement of small creatures, I will always feel it when flying in space. If you’re not careful, you’ll hit me. Even though it’s not intentional, it’s really distressing.”
Luo Binhan nodded in agreement: "It sounds almost like stepping on dog poop."
"Can you guys stop talking about this while having tea?" Jing Huang said sadly. Luo Binhan, who originally wanted to continue the discussion, had to shut up, and Momolo also lowered his head in shame.
"Exactly. You should be pure of heart when drinking tea." He said solemnly, "Then let me tell you ten short stories about Master Sanglian! One of them is about a butcher in ancient times..."
Jing Huang put down the tea bowl without saying a word, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to hit someone. Just before he took action, there was sudden lightning and thunder in the sky, and silver thunder shot randomly. They turned around in surprise and found a black hole-like hole in the sky.
A warship-like spaceship emerged from the hole. It has a sharp streamline shape, looks like a big triangle, and is so majestic that it looks like a suspended island in the sky.
The spaceship drilled a hole, and then a loud and solemn sound came from above.
"To all residents of the new world, we are the Holy Kingdom Navy fleet from the original universe. There is no need to be afraid! Today will be a new starting point in history, and today will be the enlightenment era of civilization. We will bring true wisdom and civilization!"
