Li Liang knew very well that if the alliance's goal is the earth, it must not be to save mankind, but for profit.
A "spiritual core mine" is not worth a big fight. Terenza's purpose is more likely to be... goblins. After all, "defending the basic world of carbon-based organisms from being invaded" sounds like a "just counterattack". In this way, A war launched on a pretext can easily be supported by public opinion.
Two "behemoths" confront each other, with humans caught in the middle...
"It's not yet certain whether the alliance's target is the Earth," Bond patted Li Liang's arm. "Although I don't know what happened to your homeland, maybe it's not as bad as you think."
Li Liang's face turned ugly. He thought for a moment and asked, "What's the position of Prince Mass in the Terenza royal family?"
"Prince Mass opposes the rapid expansion of the Alliance and the development of new spiritual core mines. Of course, conservatives like him have always been excluded from the center of power."
Li Liang's heart sank.
Perhaps, Prince Mass not only knew the inside story, but also believed that it would not be an ordinary human being who could come to Makosik at such a moment. This kind of early show of goodwill at no cost is likely to gain a slight advantage in the future division of interests. .
It's another vulgar factional struggle.
At this time, Bond asked: "Do you have a communicator? If there is any new information, I can tell you at any time."
Li Liang smiled bitterly: "No."
"You can buy one, there should be a store here," Bond pressed his round hat with one hand, "Come on, I'll take you there." Li Liang started running up and down without waiting for a reaction.
Li Liang had no choice but to follow behind, squeezing through the dense "crowd", occasionally stepping on the tentacles of some creature or knocking some floating inorganic creature around, causing a mess of screams. Unfortunately, He didn't understand a word.
When he actually started running, he realized that the space seemed to be visually compressed and was actually much larger than it looked. In addition, Bond was shorter and more agile. After a long chase, he finally came to a store. in front of the door.
The shops in this area are all spire townhouses with the same style. They have a small door in front of them and two floor-to-ceiling windows on the left and right. You can vaguely see that the interior area is not large. A line of wedge-shaped characters scrolls around the hut, which looks like a holographic projection. In fact, It's a kind of magic.
"This is it," Bond pushed open the door.
Li Liang was initially confused that the room was so small, like a sentry box, but when he followed Bond across the threshold, he was immediately surprised.
The room is also spherical but is much more spacious than it looks. It is divided into three areas. One area is shelves with weird-looking equipment, one area is like a pet store, with large and small cages stacked together, and another area is like a pet store. The grocery store is piled with mirrors, basins, bottles and cans.
Li Liang came back to his senses and looked along the passage in front of him until he raised his head and found Bond hanging upside down above him, dancing and saying something, and then the creature at the counter placed a box on the counter.
He stepped forward, and the space began to rotate, and the relative positions changed. Soon, Bond's figure moved from above his head to the front, with his back to him.
Walking to Bond's side, the long counter was right in front of him. He looked up again, and the doorway hung upside down above his head.
"This one is too expensive. Let's get another one." Bond stepped on the chair and leaned on the counter. He opened the box, looked at it, and pushed it back.
Only then did Li Liang notice that the creature he was selling looked like a mushroom. The thick cap was covered with colorful lines. The thick stipe seemed to be parasitized by another fungus, with filamentous structures growing sideways. Like thin tentacles.
Upon hearing Bond's request for a replacement, "Mushroom" slowly and methodically took back the box with his tentacles and replaced it with another slightly smaller metal box.
"Well, this one is fine," Bond pushed the box to Li Liang.
Li Liang looked down and saw an in-ear snail-shaped device lying in the box.
"The communication method of the psionic technology faction is still gravitational wave signals," Bond introduced. "This equipment is produced by a company under the alliance. It can not only realize intra-domain communication, but also comes with a universal translation system, and the price is relatively reasonable."
"How many beads?"
"Mushroom" picked up a sign from under the counter with a series of symbols written on it.
"Seventy-five beads," Bond translated helpfully.
"..."
Li Liang spread his hands helplessly and shook his head.
"Don't like it?" Bond asked in surprise.
"Mushroom" obviously understood the meaning of "shaking his head", and slowly took out a wooden box and a cage from under the counter.
"If you know magic or Taoism... both of these are fine." Bond opened the wooden box, which contained an ancient round mirror. "A communicator commonly used by magicians, it can be used within the domain."
However, Li Liang's eyes kept staring at the cage.
In the cage is an insect that looks like a cicada pupa, the size of a palm, red, and squirming.
"Oh, you know magic?" Bond knocked on the cage, "Soul Chrysalis, the communication method favored by magicians."
Li Liang asked in confusion: "How...how to use it?"
"The Suoshan Butterfly is a species native to the spiritual world. There is super-distance perception between a female insect and the eggs it lays. Magicians claim that the Suoshan Butterfly can communicate with the pupae it lays in Yeqira," Bang De sneered and waved his hand, "We think it's just a common quantum entanglement phenomenon." Noticing that Li Liang still looked confused, he hurriedly introduced, "Suoshan Chrysalis can record hundreds of similar pheromone characteristics. You can Use a specific magic to let the Suoshan pupa you raise establish a connection with one of them through the mother's body, and then...haha...my brother, you can talk to the owner of that Suoshan pupa."
Bond obviously found this method of communication quite comical, and laughed while holding his stomach at this point.
"..."
The corners of Li Liang's eyes twitched, but the "mushroom" selling the goods very considerately opened the cage with his tentacles, took out the Suoshan pupa, and stretched it out in front of his eyes.
The fat red bug struggled and swung back and forth, and through the translucent shell, you could still see the insect fluid sloshing inside.
"no thank you."
Decisively refusing, Li Liang turned around and looked around. There were countless cages of various sizes in the store, which contained all kinds of bugs, birds, etc.
It turns out that these are all... "mobile phones".
Bond laughed until he coughed a few times before stopping, clearing his throat and asking: "Do you need to choose again?"
Li Liang shook his head and said calmly: "I don't have that many beads."
"Oh, my brother, there is no need to worry." Bond patted the counter and motioned to the mushroom to take out the original communicator. "This is a gift from the Tifami people." He picked up the mushroom and handed it to him. Communicator on, "It's an honor to be the first contact in your communicator."
Li Liang hesitated for a moment and finally nodded.
"Thanks, Bond."
"As I said, this is a gift, my brother." Bond handed over the communicator. "The number has been saved. It is as easy to operate as a human device for you."
Li Liang put on the snail-shaped communicator, touched the shell lightly, and a small light curtain was projected in front of his eyes. The system automatically configured the device and had simple functions, including translation, text recognition, and instant messaging.
There is only one contact in the address book - Bond (Tiffami), Makosik.
Bond paid for the beads and they walked out of the store together.
"Where are you going? Li Liang."
"Go get my robot first."
"Oh, the pick-up point is in that direction, see? The red area."
"Yeah, I saw it, Bond, thank you."
"The Tifami deny the existence of concrete gods, but we believe in fate," Bond put on his round hat, raised his head and said sincerely, "Nice to meet you, my brother."
"Me too," Li Liang leaned over, stretched out his right hand, and held Bond's hand together.
He then turned towards the pick-up point and quickly disappeared at the end of the street.
Bond stood silently.
After a long time, another Tifami man hurriedly ran from a distance, panting in a Tifami tone: "Finally found you, Master Bond, what are you doing here?"
"Oh," Bond smiled, "Sid, I just gained a human friendship."
"Humanity?"
"Yes, a human who lets the Prince of Mass take the initiative."
"Prince of Mass? Oh my god, who on earth can make the arrogant Key of Terransa take the initiative to show his kindness?"
"He possesses unimaginable power. I have a hunch that it won't be long before his name will be spread throughout the spiritual world." Bond touched two pieces of his mustache. "Guess what I used to win His friendship?”
"Uh..." Sid turned to look at the store and said hesitantly, "Did you give him a communicator?"
"Idiot," Bond knocked Sid on the head, "use my sincerity!"
Sid nodded quickly: "I understand, Master Bond."
Bond walked slowly away, and for a moment he said: "Plus a communicator."
"..."
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Separating from Bond, Li Liang went straight to the "pickup point".
If his guess is correct, Bond should have decided to reveal the legion's movements after seeing Prince Mass actively chatting with him. The authenticity of the news is very high.
Terenza's troops may face two choices after arriving near the spiritual gate leading to the earth. One is to start a war immediately without any explanation, or the other is to continue to lurk and wait for a more appropriate opportunity.
Judging from Siexie's performance, the second possibility is more likely, but the Terranza Legion will not have too much patience.
In any case, there was very little time left for him.
While thinking, he came to the "pick-up point" and used the text translation function of the communicator to find the pick-up counter for the "Pan-intelligent Creation" category.
Lying on the counter is a "caterpillar" with holes on its back. When it curls up and shakes, the smoke emitted from the holes gathers to form a "screen" to display the picture.
Li Liang looked around and saw that behind the counter there was indeed a creature with a head with "gonads".
This time he did not stare at the ball, and soon saw Leah being packaged in a vacuum in the picture displayed by the "Caterpillar".
"This is it, my robot."
A few minutes later, Leah was thrown out by teleportation magic and hit the circular area on the side of the counter.
Getting up from the ground, Liya smiled and said: "Honorable Li Liang, how can I help you?"
"Let's go," Li Liang waved without hesitation, "Let's leave the visitor hall first."
"Oh, okay," Liya quickly followed, looking around, "Aren't you waiting for Mr. Yang?"
"Someone is waiting for me at the entrance of the visitor center," Li Liang said in a hurry.
"Oh? Who is it?"
"A free bodyguard."
