Luo Binhan has now accumulated rich experience and skills in asking questions. If this strong desire for knowledge could be transmitted back to high school intact, he must have been side by side with Zhou Yu in college.
He started with the first question: "Is that place dangerous?"
"Usually not," Yaleriga said.
Luo Binhan believed that this sentence meant that Jing Huang had not smashed the owner's private property there, and in addition, it meant that there was no guarantee.
"Why are we going sightseeing?" he asked the second one.
"We need some information. There are travelers from outside the world active on that route, and we may be able to find useful clues."
So Luo Binhan traced the origin and asked the most essential question: "Why railway?"
"...That may be the creator's personal preference."
The problem was complicated, and Yaleriga was busy studying abstract maps, so she had to leave the important task of teaching common sense to Momolo.
"Mr. Luo, the location we are currently in is an unowned area outside the alliance's boundary star layer. The approximate location is between the Dream World and the Old Galaxy Front."
Momolo pulled out a blackboard-like light screen from the air, and carefully painted a strip of light on the left side. On the right side, for some reason, he drew a strange creature with a cat head, a dog tail, and rabbit lop ears. Then he put a five-pointed star between the two, indicating that this was the approximate coordinates of the Silence.
Luo Binhan looked at the rabbit-eared dog and cat and wondered: "What is this thing? It doesn't look like anything at all?"
"This is the Stone Heart Incubator." Momolo introduced. "They are the intellectual side ruling civilization in the dream world. They used a pseudo-wishing machine structure to achieve ether manipulation, and then reached the second level of infinity. They were once the tenth A strong candidate for the month.”
Now Luo Binhan is still a little vague about the political structure of this universe, but he generally knows what "October" means. He still vaguely remembered that Momoluo mentioned this matter when he introduced the Lotus Tree Star Earth Jedi.
"So they didn't get promoted in the end? Negotiations with the alliance broke down?"
Momolo shook his head.
"They encountered a 'moonfall'. Although the root cause is that they took the lead in adopting unethical technical methods against the trap zone civilization, it is indeed a pity, Mr. Luo. If it were not for the backlash caused by the loopholes in the technical framework, The Dream Realm should have joined the alliance as an independent zone long ago, and would not be reduced to a high-risk zone for free-for-all battles like it is now."
This was probably not a pleasant conversation, so they quickly skipped the topic and continued to focus on the rest of the Silence's journey. According to Momolo, there is a relatively stable continuous star layer between the dream world and the old galactic front, commonly known as the 'wild zone'. Due to the extraordinary stability of the laws of physics, this area managed to avoid the flames of war and became a path for peaceful exchanges between the Outland and the Alliance. It is said that the first explorers from Chonghong Township and Never Island arrived here, opened up a space city based on stellar power, and quietly focused on their own research projects.
This method of circumventing the review regulations of the alliance or the dream world in disguise, while avoiding various unpredictable risks in the outside world, soon attracted more people who wanted to live in seclusion. Systems surrounding fixed tunneling points are widely used, and a former Central City researcher developed a low-cost interstellar railway system out of interest after settling in, allowing residents of different areas to occasionally meet in series, or go to Stealing food and minerals from the outside world. This practice was purely for private entertainment at first, until several private shipping companies discovered the hidden profits and jointly sued them to court.
A protracted legal battle has triggered countless fierce debates in "Xunqu", "Jingwei" and other mainstream publications around the world, regarding territorial law, personal law, jurisdiction disputes between the alliance and the fantasy world, as well as the extent of patents and franchises. It has applicability under different physical rules. Until the developer of the deep space railway system passed away for some reason, the relevant issues had not yet reached a widely recognized conclusion. In the end, a series of turbulence caused by Stoneheart Incubator Moonfall forced the Alliance to temporarily freeze the review of this incident, leaving it to wait until the dream world finally established a stable ruling regime before moving forward.
All these disputes about law and power have not yet come to an end, but in the borderland far away from the central city signal, the deep space train has a carefully designed running route, which is enough to capture enough energy matter in the gaseous nebula belt along the way. Still wandering around minding his own business. When its creator disappeared forever in a void storm caused by a fleeing Witch-King, his former friends took on maintenance and expansion duties, anonymously replicating multiple additional trains, and the Civilian Ship Company exploded like a quasar. The cycle of journey continues with fierce warning letters.
For security reasons, the alliance allows it to hire domestic security agencies to provide services. However, this railway system is so old and inefficient that it is completely unsuitable for profit transportation or military use. The insurance of the civilian shipping company Such enterprises refuse to provide personal safety insurance and routine security inspections. Therefore, the transportation system is always in a state of neither legal protection nor strong organizational control. It was destroyed several times due to its obvious fragility, and was repeatedly rebuilt and donated anonymously due to its completely public blueprint design.
No travel agency within the alliance has obtained a license to go here: however, there are countless secret paths in the star sea, and travelers full of adventure can always find ways to find railway stations leading to exotic stars. They often carry various dangerous items whose origins are unclear, with desires and motives that must never be stated publicly, and then try every possible means to lie during routine questioning by train inspectors.
"What's the purpose of the trip?" asked the man with a translator hanging on his head.
Luo Binhan and Ma Lin looked at each other, and then said in unison: "Sightseeing!"
Their reasons may not stand up to the test, but the legal resident status of the alliance applied for by the Holy Rong Crystal Envoy and the foreign immigration status forged by ∈ also passed the security company's database verification, so they both easily passed the security check. After them, the security door rang three times in succession. Luo Binhan quietly turned around and took a glance, just in time to see Jing Huang passing through the security gate, and the passenger's name was clearly written on the light screen in front of him: Ji Huaishi.
"...Is this your nickname?" he asked Jing Huang quietly.
"It's none of your business." Jing Huang said.
Luo Binhan had no choice but to put the cage containing Fina in the corner, and then looked around the entire carriage with Marin sitting opposite.
This was not the iron train running on the ground as he imagined, but it was also far from an orthodox high-tech spaceship. Seen from a distance, this deep space train easily reminds Luo Binhan of a chubby yellow caterpillar. The outer shell is not made of hard metal, but a soft material that is more like plastic. This carnival toy-like image once made Luo Binhan suspect that he was in the wrong place.
In comparison, the interior of the car made him feel more familiar. Whether it was the solid cold metal floor or the crowded and simple four-person carriage, everything reminded him of his childhood - the time when he returned to his hometown for the New Year before he became rich.
"Can this thing really fly?" he asked doubtfully, "and also travel across galaxies?"
Marin didn't seem to be counting either. Momolo explained that the external protection of the train is completed by a magnetic field shield device, while the parts involving ultra-long-distance movement mainly rely on artificial hyperspace tunnels. As long as the construction is clever enough, these technologies are not so strict on materials.
"This is a very low-cost design." Momolo said. "It is said that the designer originally wanted to rely on steam or coal as energy, and then achieve star-level crossing while crossing space... But that is still the case It was too complicated, and I guess it didn’t work out in the end.”
Luo Binhan had no idea about the difficulty gap between "crossing the star layer" and "crossing the galaxy", so he just asked: "Why do you have to use alcohol coal? Is this really more cost-effective?"
Momolo began to calculate thoughtfully, while Marin began to roll his eyes.
"Don't you know a little bit about that kind of people?" he said. "Don't give them any complicated reasons for their ideas. Cost, benefit, practicality... They talk about these nonsense, but what they think in their head is 'I just want to see if this can fly'! Do you think the thing under our buttocks is for practicality? No, this thing is probably a fantasy product that a guy drew in class during his childhood, and was laughed at by the teacher after he discovered it. It took a whole school year, and then the guy cried and swore he had to build it. I guarantee the real answer is even dumber than this."
Then they heard a whistle and the caterpillar train levitated from the station. The jets on the sides of its bottom had been ignited, and it soon left the rocky planet with blue-grey soil and headed towards the deep blue moonless starry sky.
