Seven rings float in the air. They are equally spaced apart, and as the height decreases, the diameter becomes larger and larger, and the whole area is like a semicircular cover covering the entire area. At this time, Luo Binhan and the others were just at the edge, and could see the desolate and exposed rocky ground outside the ring.
Luo Binhan glanced back again. The door they came out of has disappeared, leaving only a warehouse-like alloy building. It was a boxy matchbox shape without any features or decorations, except for a series of numbers mixed with alien letters above the closed main door. Such buildings were everywhere before, behind, and to the left and right of them, neatly arranged toward the center of the ring.
This scene made Luo Binhan a little confused. When he saw the ring in the sky, he almost thought it was some kind of magical secret realm, and was a little worried about Mi Gula's safety, but the surrounding scene looked more like the outer harbor of Mencheng.
"What is that in the sky?" he asked Marin.
"Did you really dig it out after resurrecting from your ancestral grave in the countryside?" Marin said, "That's the air system. We have to rely on that to maintain oxygen content, otherwise how can we survive on this damn dwarf planet? What? By the way, if you don’t know magic, or haven’t made any mechanical modifications, I suggest you don’t pant for breath - the air composition standard here is biased toward pan-squamates, and if we stay too long, we may lose oxygen. Poisoned.”
Luo Binhan didn't feel anything unusual for the time being, and Mi Gula was relatively adaptable. They immediately moved towards the center of the ring - according to the information provided by Marin, that was the "main entrance" of the exchange. As long as they passed through the crystal lake there, Able to return to the Naga Pond of the Lotus Tree Star.
"So where is this place?" Luo Binhan asked as he walked.
"A dwarf planet - but don't ask me which one, if I knew I'd be damn near dead."
Malinophorus looked around as he answered. At this time, he had changed out of his strange clothes and put on a relatively normal and simple dark robe, and wrapped his head with a cloth. In Luo Binhan's eyes, he looked like a strange mixture of a medieval peasant woman and an ascetic monk.
He himself and Mi Gula did not cross-dress. On the one hand, it was because of lack of materials, and on the other hand, it was not necessary. As long as Soma Shasthiya hasn't figured out the relationship between Jing Huang and them, then they can swagger around.
Luo Binhan also felt a little uneasy in his heart. He thought that Jing Huang was hunting down the person he was looking for in the Gate City, so why did he have to deal with a half-lizard demon gang leader? Could it be that "pretty face" is Eden's goal? But Marin also said that Somashastya was mad and was looking for Jing Huang everywhere. This was not like the coward described by Jing Huang.
They walked for more than twenty minutes and finally got rid of those neat and monotonous matchbox houses. What caught his eye was not the shops that Luo Binhan had imagined, but vertical signboards that were taller than a person. When Luo Binhan came closer, he discovered that the signs were actually electronic displays.
He immediately remembered the "Nebula Corolla" that had guided them to the Lotus Tree Star, and he couldn't help but hesitate in his steps. Mi Gula had no psychological burden. She approached a display screen out of curiosity and touched it lightly with her finger.
The screen lit up. Fortunately, there was no chatterbox popping up on it, but just a list of items with prices. The interface with white background and blue characters directly reminded Luo Binhan of Migula's farm warehouse.
He took a quick glance at it and saw that the list was full of weird things. For example, "Phlogiston Rheometer", "Field Theory Area Gravity Correction Calculator", "Antimatter Capture Box", "Aether Shield Working Primordial" and other incomprehensible items.
Their prices are also extremely weird. Some are just simple numbers with some special symbols at the end, which seem to represent a specific currency, while some products have "A White Tower Standard Apprenticeship Agreement" written on them. Or "three grams of pure sheet". Among them, the "Aether Shielder Work Primordial" actually requires "four White Tower standard apprenticeship agreements" or "a panconventional fifty-year unpaid laborer that can give original life enhanced resilience."
Luo Binhan guessed that this was some kind of barter (or human trafficking) mechanism, and wanted to know how this kind of transaction should be implemented. However, the opportunity was not available at the moment, so he had to take a few quick glances and quickly walk away.
He found that Marin was also looking at a list on a certain display screen, but the interface style was quite different from the one Mi Gula clicked on. When he carefully identified the contents, he found that it seemed to be a food list: rat stew, horse white seed paste, green beetle cake, filarial fermented wine...
There are illustrations next to some of the dishes. Luo Binhan glanced at a few of them, and then decided on the spot not to delve deeper into the matter.
"Go quickly, don't wait any longer." He urged Marin.
Malinovras moved on with a look of regret on his face. Luo Binhan was nonchalant on the surface, but in his heart he seriously questioned the taste of the interstellar diners - besides, this was something that needed to be bought on the black market.
They walked through the rows of display screens, and as they went deeper, they began to see more foreign visitors. Luo Binhan was a little nervous at first, worried that the three of them looked too suspicious, but soon discovered that the guests here were actually dressed suspiciously. Either they cover themselves tightly with cloth or plastic, or they simply hide in a halo, shadow, or cloud. In comparison, Luo Binhan and Mi Gula can be called aboveboard.
This is in serious conflict with Robin Han's expected situation. He originally thought he was going to sneak through the noisy, lively, and possibly acid rain underground city, but as a result, everything around him was in order, and there was no unnecessary noise. Only when they passed a certain guest who was covered in gray mist, Luo Binhan heard a strange and wet popping sound.
He took a sneak peek and found a long beard covered with fine lines protruding from the gray fog, slapping softly on the screen. But the long beard doesn't seem to work very well. Every time it hits three or four items in a row, the screen is always flickering.
Ma Lin pulled Luo Binhan. "Don't look around," he warned in a low voice, "that must be a fucking ancient law."
"How do you know?" Luo Binhan also asked in a low voice.
"Look at how stupid that thing is to operate the display screen." Marin said, "Only Ancient Laws can't understand this thing, okay? In fact, they were going to install a stereoscopic imaging system here. Order the artificial intelligence service, but firstly it conflicts with the ventilation system, and secondly there are always new ones who don't understand the rules. If you let a shadow suddenly jump in front of them, they might scream and destroy the whole place. The area turned into a magma pool - this was the reason for the last major renovation of Mencheng Outer Harbor. Later, they had to dismantle the stereoscopic projections and replace them all with old-fashioned passive displays. At least they still looked like crystal balls. of."
This refreshed Luo Binhan's understanding. He has already adapted to Jing Huang, whose maximum grip strength of the robotic arm is eight thousand jun, and Yaleriga, a happy-learning wise man. He has never thought that there are existences with more old-school lifestyles.
They sneakily but smoothly passed through the large display screen. During the process, they occasionally met a few guests who were not hiding their heads and tail. After looking at each other for a few times, they went their separate ways.
Finally they came to the center of the circle above their heads. That area is obviously different from other places.
A forest of sparkling crystals.
The sky above the exchange takes on a night-time look, illuminated by entire luminous panels installed under the floor. In this moderately bright environment, only the crystal forest was brilliant and dazzling. Each of its crystals is filled with light threads, flowing to the bottom like leaf veins. The ground is also the same kind of translucent crystalline material that flickers in and out of light under the trickle of light.
Looking past the criss-crossing crystal branches, Luo Binhan could faintly see some kind of light and shadow rippling deep in the forest. That must be the Crystal Lake that Marin was talking about.
He wanted to pull Mi Gula over immediately, but he didn't dare to take a step away. Directly facing him, sitting on a crystal branch about five meters high, was a young man with black hair. His appearance was somewhere between a young man and a teenager, and he was laughing cheerfully at the bottom.
"Haha, please don't be so excited, okay..."
He lowered his head and spoke to the soles of his feet, where two strong and strange lizard-headed creatures lay. They were nearly two meters tall, covered in scales, and roughly the size of three Luo Binhans. They were all lying on the ground howling, their bent and broken limbs struggling and twitching.
"Actually, I didn't mean it," the young man sitting on the crystal tree said, scratching his head. "You guys are so fierce and it's easy to scare me. I just wanted to say something..."
He stood up on the branch that was only as thick as a pencil, opened his arms with a smile, and loudly announced to the world:
"I wanted to go to work honestly today - but I accidentally got lost!"
