Luo Binhan was not unable to leave the Silence at all. In fact, he could have gone out with proper protection, and not doing so was just to save trouble. Bang Bang and his own personal experience are enough to prove that this place is full of unexpected risks, and all protections are obviously not as safe as staying on the Silence.
Safety, that's more important than anything else, but that doesn't necessarily include a particularly huge pelican. Luo Binhan didn't know why that made sense, but the lack of sense was the biggest attraction of this matter. He felt completely helpless.
"Pelican?" He confirmed to Bang Bang again and again.
"Pelican," said Bang Bang, adding his favorite word, "It's amazing!"
"Do you know Pelican?"
"I checked your biological encyclopedia." Bang Bang said conclusively, "All the characteristics are very consistent! Except for the different body shapes. But this place is quite special, isn't it? I have to say that you really have something. A vast and strange wilderness area.”
Luo Binhan did not intend to correct some of Bangbang's misconceptions about the alliance. He hoped that they could find Upsilon as soon as possible, and then send Bangbang back to his hometown safely, or at least to the policeman safely, and then let the officials handle this diplomatic incident. He didn't hate Bang Bang, but he wasn't very interested in the story of this distant guest. Except for the pelicans. It's just too specific.
That's not to say that Silence has never encountered more animal-like life here. Before Bang Bang appeared, there were several times when ∈ asked to adjust the route in order to "avoid some possible creatures wandering in the vacuum." It is said that they are giant pan-ancient fish that can only be observed by certain subjects. They cruise along the waves of ether, can travel through most physical entities, and usually have carnivorous habits. After listening to this, Luo Binhan solemnly asked whether they would still hide in other people's garages and breathe fire. The answer he got was no. ∈Assure him that these creatures generally cannot be tamed in a specific area, and that breathing fire is unforgivable to a fish.
"But it is indeed possible." He added to Luo Binhan, "A possible fire-breathing dragon swims out of the ether. No one can see it except the lucky ones who happen to be chosen, but the flames it spits out happen to become physical entities. It's entirely possible, just don't lock it in the garage. Have you never seen an animal like this? No one in your hometown suddenly burst into flames while walking on the street?"
Luo Binhan declined to discuss the topic further. He asked ∈ to at least provide the possible appearance of those "ghost fish", so ∈ gave him a few images, which looked like several long transparent plastic bags twisting far away in the void, but ∈ claimed that they were Image analyzed using the ether detection system.
In addition to these "ghost fish", there is another thing that once tried to hit the Silence. Luo Binhan witnessed its image through a virtual image in the bridge room: a swimming insect with a gray-black body and a slender tail like a manta ray. Their bodies are covered with triangular hard shells and slender arthropods, and purple-black gas is ejected from the tangled and chaotic arthropods. They seem to rely on that gas to move slightly in the void, rolling back and forth freely.
At that time, they were landing on a planet whose ground was covered with mold several centimeters thick. All the mold exuded this substance that was identified as highly toxic to Luo Binhan. Even Yaleriga was advised to stay on the ship and observe the situation through the bridge room. Those insects appear continuously from the cracks in the ground. In the virtual image, they are only the size of an eagle, and according to ∈, each one is large enough to fill the bridge room. They flew around the Silence, looking malicious, but when they flew to the bottom of the ship, they seemed to have lost interest and fell back to the ground, drilling into the cracks in the earth.
"Oh, it seems they are demonic insects." Luo Binhan heard ∈ say, "What a big insect ball!"
Luo Binhan please explain more clearly. ∈ said: "Do you remember the little decoration under our boat?"
At first, Luo Binhan didn't know what he was talking about until ∈ directly printed a three-dimensional image. He remembered that he had actually seen a strange pattern carved on the abdomen of Black Swallow several times: a ferocious devil with countless tree-like limbs dancing. Although its location is quite unnoticed, Luo Binhan is no stranger to it. Because when the Silence turned into a pirate ship, that's exactly what their prow looked like.
Luo Binhan had never thought more about the image of this tree-shaped devil before. He felt that it might be some kind of personal expression, like telling others that there was absolutely no good thing on this ship. But now he couldn't help but notice that the shape - specifically the limbs - was somewhat similar to the Dwarf Star guest he had seen in his dream.
"That's a proof of faith." ∈ said, "The embodiment of the devil of the abyss. But when you hang it on a boat, it can scare away many regular creatures, or attract some, depending on their own attributes. But I have never done it Know the rules."
"What on earth is that?" Luo Binhan asked.
But ∈ can’t say more. This image appeared on the Silence earlier than he did. Its ancient and primitive style blends in with the Silence, making it feel like it has been a part of the ship from the moment it was designed. ∈ Some information about this image can only be found from the star network, but like most of the information about second-class civilizations across the stars, tracing the source of its information seems to be an impossible task. But he emphasized that the image was not meant to be used casually, as multiple cases had proven that it would bring serious misfortunes to unauthorized users.
"Do we have it?" Luo Binhan asked.
"I think you have." ∈ said, "Think about what you have been through!"
Luo Binhan admitted that he was right. But at the same time, I also think that it has nothing to do with the decoration on the Silence. If there was anything on the Silence that was responsible for his misfortune, it was undoubtedly Jing Huang and his hair.
It can be said that they got rid of those insect-like "corruptors" without any danger. Afterwards, Luo Binhan went to ask Jing Huang about the tree-shaped devil. After pulling his hair three times, the answer he got was that he didn't know, and the "corruptors" who were said to be capable of destroying large conventional battleship groups failed to leave any deep impression on him. . He only felt that the living creatures in this place were strange and incommunicable.
There was once a creature that broke this rule. But that was not what Luo Binhan saw, but what he heard from Bangbang's mouth. On the way to a certain high-temperature planet, Bang Bang and Jing Huang went out to explore together, while Luo Binhan was lying on the bed, relying on Momolo's light and ∈'s spiritual healing medicine to recover the spirit damaged by nightmares.
Bang Bang and Jing Huang were missing together for sixteen hours. At that time, Luo Binhan was very worried about the mental safety of the foreign guest, but Bangbang seemed to be in good spirits when he came back, and told Luo Binhan the adventure story of him and Jing Huang.
According to Bang Bang's description, under the leadership of Jing Huang, they found a mountain range full of extinct volcanoes. Deep in the extinct volcano with winding paths and dark passages, they found a large pool of mud-like mucus, estimated to cover an area of thousands of square meters. It appears translucent dark green under the fluorescent light of the ore deep underground, and has some semi-liquid nerves and tracheae inside. Some worm-like offspring are constantly splitting from its body, climbing into the crevices of the volcano to reproduce and eat. These "descendants" can eventually grow as tall as humans, with fairly complete body tissues and bones. At that time, they seem to have some strong desire to return to the mother body that gave them birth, and sip the mucus feverishly like an addiction. According to what they observed, this gluttony will last for several minutes to Within half an hour, their bodies will melt and flow into the green pool.
Bangbang observed this scene with fascination for two hours. During this period, Jing Huang disappeared into the maze-like volcanic tunnel, and he was accompanied by Ohot, a luminous bubble that enveloped it, and a few green Mars lying on the surface of the bubble. While he was busy recording this wonderful ecological landscape with Ohot, some extremely beautiful sound came from the quagmire, which was very close to Jing Huang's voice, but it did not form any meaningful words.
Bangbang approached Green Pool with curiosity. He did not forget to keep a certain distance from the unknown substance, but when its shadow just shone on the surface of the pool, the mucus differentiated into huge semi-liquid limbs at an alarming speed. It pulled the entire light bubble into the pool and spent the next half hour trying to digest Bang Bang until Jing Huang pulled the light bubble up from the pool with a gloomy look on his face.
"Do you want to die?" Jing Huang said.
Bang Bang thought it was a warning to him, but it was not him who reacted to these words, but the piece of mucus rich in various native substances. It quickly formed organs and tissues under their gaze, and finally piled up on the surface of the pool in a human form that was very close to the size of Jing Huang.
The creature has a complete set of vocal organs and can communicate with them in a very rational way. It first ensured peaceful coexistence, and then chatted with Jing Huang about the current situation of the planet and the outside world - all of this was actually done in one of the alliance's lingua franca.
It tells that it was born in a closed laboratory, that it was able to travel across the universe when it was at its healthiest, but now it is trapped on this nutrient-poor planet. That makes it face the dual loneliness of body and spirit, but survival is the ultimate meaning of everything. Survival, it thought this way, and asked the two foreign guests, what is the meaning of survival? Why does everything happen? And why does it continue? Its life form is so changeable, can it be said that it is dying and being born all the time?
"Get out of here," Jing Huang said, "Don't gibber. Have you ever seen an idiot with a glowing body? If you don't tell me, I'll kill you."
kill. die. disappear. The creature repeated Jing Huang's threats. It laments that it is the most severe punishment for life. But is that really true? Will that really be more painful than the long and unknown wait? Or in the inevitable cycle of eating and being eaten, everything will eventually become a chaotic unity, so that even the concept of pain itself will lose its meaning?
Bangbang's words were full of surprise and appreciation for this strange life. He listened with joy to the wise and philosophical conversation between the legendary wandering mage Jing Huang and the mysterious life form, and asked Ohot to draft a record for future writing. The conversation lasted for about two hours until Jing Huang, who picked up his right sleeve with his mouth, drove Bang Bang away from the pond. What happened next was beyond Bang Bang's knowledge, but when they left, those extinct volcanoes seemed to be showing signs of erupting again.
Bang Bang doesn't care about this. He has already thought about how to polish and adapt it into a conversational article when he returns to school.
"This is so amazing!" he exclaimed happily, "I don't know what else I'll see next!"
