"What race is that humanoid creature with four eyes and four nostrils on its head?"
On the way to the "luxury" safe house that Xie Yuan called, Xili asked a passing Batarian while walking. The white rat boy next to him was still following Xili's tremblingly. Footsteps.
"This is the Batarian, a race adjacent to our current human government." Xie Yuan explained briefly, "However, the relationship between the two parties is not very good, both officially and privately. In the past, there was a border dispute, and now it is envy. I am jealous and hate that we humans have entered the Citadel Council class - but the relationship here is actually not that bad, as long as you are not too weak."
"Huh?!" Xili was disappointed when she heard this, "I never thought that even if human beings reach such a vast starry sky, we are still having conflicts with other races over issues such as border disputes and vanity."
"Ah, what's more! This situation is not bad anymore - at least the relationship between us and the Batarians cannot be said to be incompatible with each other. It can only be said that it is a state where chickens and dogs croak together, and we will never interact with each other until we die."
Xie Yuan, who was dissatisfied with this, simply told Shiri about the situation in another world: "If we were in the 30k universe, it would be completely different from here. If other aliens don't treat us like monkeys, we are used for fun and fun. ; If we don't treat us like pigs, we will be eaten alive. The Emperor, the supreme leader of mankind in that universe, is preparing to carry out a great expedition to occupy the entire galaxy, vowing to destroy all aliens that are not human beings - that would be sad. !”
"Ah! Another invasion and destruction, so sad!"
When Ciri heard this, she instinctively felt a sense of disgust - her hometown, the Kingdom of Cintra, was destroyed by the Nilfgaard Empire. At a young age, she experienced the pain of breaking up her family and subjugating her country, and she was quite concerned about this. Feeling bad.
What makes her feel particularly sad and ironic is that the culprit who destroyed the Kingdom of Sintra is her biological father.
After hearing Xie Yuan's speechless reversing behavior in another universe, look here again... Well, it is indeed much better.
"So, what about those people whose heads look like bird crests, but I feel like they have a layer of bone plates attached to their faces?" Shiri asked, pointing to the Turian patrol mercenary wearing a blue Qingyang uniform. road.
"That's the Turians, another of our neighbor races, and also the first target of our conflict-"
Xie Yuan stretched out a finger to stop what Xili wanted to ask: "I will tell you the reason for the conflict later. Although this history is not too long, it is very complicated. All you need to know now is that our relationship is not too bad. And there are many aspects where cooperation is enough.”
"Okay!" Xili also felt that it was quite dangerous to talk freely on the road. After all, before she had walked only a few dozen steps, she felt hundreds of curious, cunning, lustful and malicious eyes around her.
However, after seeing the giant single-barreled machine gun that Xie Yuan was carrying when he went out, he immediately averted his eyes - as expected, as long as he was strong enough, he could get through here unimpeded.
Of course, we still need to ask about the understanding of non-human races: "Who is that race that has a graceful walking posture, blue skin all over its body, and looks similar to us except for the crown on its head?"
"Those are the Asari, the first race in the universe to take the lead in establishing the great fusion of the Milky Way."
Xie Yuan knew who Xili was talking about without looking at the person. This race is very easy to recognize: "A group is all female race, well, a race that dominates the entire galaxy through strong military strength and soft culture of singing and dancing. Hobbies Peaceful, but dangerous - humans will never forget the Asari's mediation when they almost started a full-scale war with the Turians, and their subsequent invitation to join the Citadel Council to accelerate our technological development. But in the past ten years, , it is worth noting that human beings themselves are losing their unique cultural characteristics, and are beginning to tend to worship foreign things such as Asari culture."
"ah!
! "Xili couldn't help but hold her head, "Why do we seem to have unclear good or bad relationships with each race and areas where we need to be wary of each other? "
"Because we don't want to be vassals of other races!"
Xie Yuan shrugged: "What I didn't tell you is that there are other races, such as the Wallers, the Drakes, or the Quarians and Hanar who have no competitive ability. They have nothing to do with humans. Bad—because they can't afford to offend a race that can stand on equal footing with turians, asari, and salarians."
"Hmm..." Ciri could only nodded with some understanding, and then she suddenly heard a new word: "Salarian? What race is this? Can I see it here?"
"Here! Five hundred meters away from the ten o'clock direction, that one is the Salarian."
Xie Yuan casually pointed out to her a scene of a dispute between a Salarian businessman and a krogan security guard. It was probably due to the recessive nature of the gene phagocytosis, and it was mainly caused by the Salarian businessman's desperate attempt to withhold money. .
"Wow!" Shirley couldn't help but sigh: "Looks like a frog, but so big and strong?! No wonder he can occupy one of the four total seats in your so-called parliamentary seats."
"What?!" Xie Yuan was so amused that he didn't know how to explain it, so he could only let Ciri point with his finger, "The one with a slender figure like a salamander is a Salarian. The huge one is a kind of creature called Cloro." The race of the Roots—it is a lost race.”
"ah!
"Ciri didn't know how many times she was surprised. She didn't even know how to complain, "Such a little guy is one of the four giants of the Citadel Council? "
"Despite their small size...in fact, their life span is very short, no more than 50 years old at most, and the average life span is about 35-40 years old,"
Xie Yuan looked at Ciri who was looking more and more surprised and went straight to the topic, "But the problem is that they have a fast metabolism, so they move quickly and think quickly - in terms of technological potential and secret war combat capabilities, the Salarians also have Very strong."
"Hey, but it seems like the Salarian you are talking about is being bullied by the Krogan?" Xili pulled the sleeve of Xie Yuan's cloak, "Aren't we going to take care of it?"
"Ciri, remember, this is my first advice for you to walk on Omega."
Xie Yuan immediately turned around and looked at Xili: "In other cities, you can mind your own business - not only do I not object to it, but I also encourage it. But here, you'd better not mind it. If you must mind it, , you must intervene in the people and things here with an attitude that can kill both parties - otherwise it will only lead to the more miserable you are here."
"Why do you want to help with the attitude of killing both parties?" Xili was dumbfounded.
"Not to mention whether you can defeat the krogan, even if you help, the salarian on the other side may not be grateful to you. It's okay if he doesn't like what you have on you, but if he does, It is very likely that they will trick you and leave you with nothing. Because there are basically no good people in Omega - real good people will not come here, especially for business - because this is the city of sin, so come What is being traded is definitely not something good - it may be contraband, forbidden weapons or people..."
"That's what you said..." Shiri paused and replied, "Why don't you settle here too? Then you are not a good person either."
"First of all, I am not a pure good person as defined in the current form - I admire pure good people, but I really cannot be such a person."
"Secondly," Xie Yuan helplessly turned his hand around, "Omega is not only a city of sin, but also because the people here have rich backgrounds and are mixed with dragons and snakes, so they can get a lot of things that are not available through informal channels. intelligence resources. So this is also an underground intelligence trading center, and a lot of information must be constantly circulated here - many organizations have to send important personnel to station here in order to obtain a lot of high-priced information that cannot be obtained elsewhere. Among these people That includes me.”
As he spoke, Xie Yuan gently pointed at the restrained Salarian man: "And the second reason why I don't want you to contact them is because I seriously suspect that this Salarian businessman didn't give enough money to cause trouble. It’s a contradiction. In addition, the Krogan race had an almost genocidal hatred with the Salarians before, so we really shouldn’t interfere with their affairs here.”
"Hate of genocide?" Hearing this word, Xili felt like the hairs on her hair stood up.
"Let me tell you this," Xie Yuan chose to keep the story short. "The Salarians drove the krogan to extinction. Although a krogan woman can give birth to thousands of oviparous fetuses at one time, thousands of years ago, the salarians A virus introduced by Rui Ren increased the survival rate of the fetus..."
Xie Yuan looked at Xili who was asking for answers and spat out a cruel statistic, "Less than one thousandth."
"hiss!
! "Xili couldn't help but take a breath. She is a person who is extremely good at empathy. Thinking that a race that can regenerate would actually watch the fetuses die every year, she subconsciously shuddered, "Why? ! "
But seeing Xie Yuan's mouth shape, she guessed what he was going to say: "This matter is very complicated!
"
She and Xie Yuan said this sentence in unison.
"This matter is indeed very complicated. Although it is very inhumane, there has been no chance of relief in recent years - two years ago, we even destroyed an organization and individual who specifically wanted to make an antidote, although it was because of this organization and individual Bad intentions."
Xie Yuan spread his hands and explained to Xili helplessly.
Ciri was speechless, turning her head to look at the still "petite" Salarian trembling under the pull of Krogan. However, after actual observation, it was found that the trembling Salarians actually acted fearless, while the Krogans who took the initiative to get angry were actually jealous...
"Let's go!" Xili suddenly lost interest. The curiosity of having just arrived in the new world was suddenly completely wiped out by the complexity of society. "Let's go quickly."
Xie Yuan could only wave his hand and lead Xili all the way to the station. Seeing Xie Yuan constantly tinkering with the dial on a table, Xili waited patiently...
"Huh--" Soon a strange vehicle roared from the sky automatically, and then landed very quietly and accurately at Xie Yuan's feet. The door opened automatically with a "buzz" sound.
"Huh? Why is there no one?" Xili looked at the empty driving seat, then looked at Xie Yuan, "Is this the so-called intelligent autonomous driving?"
She had also heard of this kind of thing when she was in Night City, but in her impression, these puppets seemed to have their own consciousness.
"It's virtual intelligence. There's no real intelligence here. This autonomous taxi can drive itself, but,"
Xie Yuan stepped into the car in one step, and then heard a "winter" sound. The automatic taxi suddenly connected with the ground with this kick. "I prefer manual driving."
Xili looked at the car under Xie Yuan's feet with an expression of surprise and worry, fearing that the car would be damaged by his foot, and then looked around... Fortunately, there were still busy pedestrians, and they didn't seem to care about the situation.
Fortunately, after sensing the ground, the anti-gravity suspension device of the autonomous taxi continued to increase lift and floated.
Xie Yuan then unloaded the giant single-barreled cannon, placed it in the back seat, and then sat his body completely into the taxi - as expected, the taxi almost touched the ground again.
"Oh my God, Yuan!" Xili also followed Xie Yuan's example and got into the car. But she subconsciously sat in the back seat, on the other side from Xie Yuan, and then pulled the single-barreled cannon over in an effort to achieve a weight balance, and then asked Xie Yuan who closed the car door, "You are only one meter tall." You are eight tall and your body looks very slim. How come you are so heavy? Do you know how much you weigh?"
"Buzz!" Xie Yuan immediately changed the hover mode to the forward mode, then pulled the accelerator lever to slowly lift the hover taxi into the air. Then he answered to Ciri, "I weigh 320 kilograms myself."
"Eh?!" Xili was stunned when she heard this: "Did you undergo a prosthetic transformation surgery?"
Ciri heard that Rogge had a large number of implanted prosthetics. These prostheses seemed to be specially manufactured artificial enhanced organs that could improve agility, reaction ability and strength.
But Xie Yuan shook his head and rejected it: "I am the most averse to implanting a large number of prosthetics. I have almost no prosthetics on my body now."
"Then...you drank a magic potion...uh, or something like a drug that can increase muscle mass?" Xili came up with a guess.
"The side effects of that thing are too great, and there is no way to control the body." Xie Yuan continued to object.
"What exactly is going on?" Xili gave up guessing.
"It just depends on exercise and eating." Xie Yuan didn't hide it.
"Is it that simple?" Xili looked unbelieving.
"It's true. After your yoga ability reaches a certain level, you can completely control your body."
Xie Yuan turned the steering wheel and turned around: "Then when eating, he began to use his willpower to control his stomach to crazily digest all the nutrients in the food, and then he controlled every muscle bundle and fascia on his body. Each bone absorbs these nutrients - and then when you are hungry, you continue to eat, then continue to absorb through exercise, continue to eat, then continue to absorb through exercise... the cycle starts over and over, and it grows into what it is now."
"Then it should turn into a big old one?!" Xili frowned listening to this training and blurted out directly.
"Then you have to rely on willpower to continue to shrink inward!" Xie Yuan smiled bluntly.
"Can it be done?" Ciri expressed doubt.
But Xie Yuan just turned around again and replied: "Didn't you realize that I was two heads taller than you when I first got up, but now I'm only one head taller than you?"
"What?! Wait a minute -" Shirley recalled it immediately, and then her face suddenly changed, "Really?! How could you do that?"
"Bone Shrinking Technique!" Xie Yuan immediately turned the steering wheel in frustration.
"Hey!" Xili realized it now, "Why do you always make U-turns?"
"Because someone is following us," Xie Yuan replied while adjusting the direction without looking back, "He is a very skilled tracker, and I can't get rid of him... It's probably because this car has been embedded with a tracking feedback signal. program."
"What?!" Xili immediately looked outside - "Ah!
"I was so frightened that I shrank back into my seat.
"Why are we at such a high place?" Xili exclaimed.
"Didn't you see that this car originally came from the sky?"
Xie Yuan looked at Xili who was yelling and scolded angrily, but he still pulled down the lever and started the dive mode: "But thanks to you, I thought of a way to get rid of the pursuer smoothly. .”
"What method?" Xili didn't know why.
Xie Yuan handed her a piece of paper directly: "Remember the decoration of this place and help me teleport there."
Hearing this, Xili saw the content of the paper, which turned out to be the interior decoration of a luxurious building. She immediately memorized it, and then felt it in her heart, and she already had a general direction.
"Okay!" Xili nodded.
"Then come!" Xie Yuan immediately hovered over a platform in the edge space, then asked Xiri to jump over, then restored the driving mode to automatic driving, and then randomly set an address.
Then he jumped and kicked the shuttle taxi away. The taxi automatically returned to action mode and continued flying.
Then there was a flash of white light, and with a "swipe", Xili's hand holding Xie Yuan's hand disappeared immediately.
When the following shuttle arrived at the last abnormal stop, they saw nothing around them. They could only shake their heads and immediately followed the departing taxi.
"Swipe!" With a flash of white light, Xili immediately pulled Xie Yuan into a living room.
Xili staggered when she landed, but Xie Yuan only took a step and stopped.
After standing firm, Xili looked at the surrounding decorations and asked doubtfully: "What is this place?"
"This is my home."
"Crunch!" There was a sudden sound of the sleeve being pulled up. Shiri looked back and saw that a capable woman with short hair, wearing a red shirt and black hip-covering trousers, picked up a small black pistol and pointed it at herself.
Xili immediately raised her hands in a French military salute: "Don't shoot, I can explain..."
But Xie Yuan quickly revealed it: "Okay! This is the new teammate I met in other cities, Xilia - one of my own. And Ada, even if you get a ninja dart, What does it mean to get a ppk pistol?"
"You! You don't even have any surprises."
Ada shook her head helplessly, looked at Ciri who was like a frightened rabbit, and silently recorded her mental state at this time.
In order to prevent the joke from turning into tragedy, she quickly fired diagonally upward: "Pop!"
As a result, Xili was surprised to find that this turned out to be a bouquet of colorful flowers...
"Welcome to Omega."
Ada came over and patted Shirley on the shoulder, and said to her kindly: "I am Ada. Seeing your sad face, no matter how tragic the conspiracy this fool tells you, you must remember..."
She stared into Shiri's eyes: "You are different here, so take a good bath, um... I have to criticize him, and then let him take you around here - you will have a new appreciation for this place. Fascinated."
For some reason, Shiri suddenly felt a sense of pleasure. She immediately looked at Ada and nodded:
"Um!
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