"When did you sneak on board?"
Li Liang felt a little guilty. Just now Andrea was dressed in a charming way and brought red wine. It looked like she had arranged a secret meeting with him late at night. With Cain's character, it was rare that he didn't blow up on the spot. At this moment, If you close the door, you will probably go crazy.
However, Cain just snorted, took out a dirty stone from his trouser pocket, and threw it casually into the center of the living room.
Li Liang was stunned for a moment. In Ling's field of vision, an extremely complex magic array was engraved on the inside of the stone, which reminded him of Teemo's magic tent.
Sure enough, after the stone fell to the ground, it rolled around a few times, then squeaked like an effervescent tablet thrown into water. It expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye. In an instant, it was the size of a wine cabinet, but it continued to grow.
"This thing..." Li Liang turned around and saw that Cain's expression was equally astonished.
next moment.
boom!
The expanding magic stone lifted the coffee table and sofa and pushed them to the bulkheads on both sides.
After a heart-wrenching crunching sound, the stone that was just the size of a palm turned into a hemispherical "cave" that almost occupied the entire living room.
"Well, it wasn't this big last time." Cain looked embarrassed and took out a thick hard-cover book from his pocket. "Wait, let me read the instructions..."
Li Liang looked at the messy living room and shook his head: "Where did you buy this thing?"
"That, um, Koko Wonders..." Cain held up the manual and turned the pages.
"Stop scrolling. You should have used it in Qishan last time, right?" Li Liang said helplessly, "I have read in the book that the effect of this kind of 'fool'-style magic item is related to the concentration of the spirit. There is a world tree in the mountain city, and the concentration of spirits is high, but the spirits here are thin, so that's why..."
"Found it!" After some research, Cain raised his head and smiled dryly, "It seems to be the reason you said."
"..."
"Ahem," Cain cleared his throat, said "come in" with a straight face, and went straight into the hole.
Compared with Timo's "Wanderer's Tent" worth millions of spirit beads, the "bunker" in front of him was very crudely made, like an igloo built by Eskimos, but Li Liang found it inexplicably cute.
Shortly ducking into the hole, he was surprised to find that Cain had moved Zhongjing's "home" here intact, including an old sofa, two sets of cabinets with stained paint, and a double bed with a loose mattress. As well as the old-fashioned stereo, the room of less than 60 square meters was packed to the brim.
Passing through a door, there was a room of more than 20 square meters, with a dilapidated convertible jeep parked. Parts and auto repair tools were scattered around, and the air was filled with the smell of engine oil.
After visiting around, Li Liang returned to the bedside.
Cain sat cross-legged on the bed, lowered his head and played with the old rag doll, and said softly: "I had no choice before. I had to be more ruthless than everyone else to survive on the Defiant. No one can believe it, no one can rely on it. During those years as Lord Mayfly, I was never happy even a day, and now, I don’t want to be a general either.”
"Okay," Li Liang went to bed and lay down, holding Cain in his arms and resting his chin on her forehead, "That's not appropriate."
"You like Andrea?"
"Huh? Nothing."
"Sonoya?"
"No."
"Whatever," Cain arched into his arms and closed his eyes.
"Hmm...why are you taking the kid Li?"
"That invisibility cloak needs a spell. I originally wanted to take Oumuamua with me, but Child Li insisted on coming."
"Oh, you weren't discovered?"
"I was discovered by the 'starfish monster' as soon as I got on the boat," Cain snorted, "The cloak can only deceive ordinary people, and Koko is a profiteer."
"Holy Priest Tlipoca is a 'magician' certified by the Ministry of Magic, so of course he can find you."
"……Sleepy."
"Go to sleep," Li Liang kissed Cain's forehead.
The lights were dim, and the two of them hugged each other, fully clothed.
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A dreamless night.
The time on the Nautilus was synchronized with the earth. At nine o'clock in the morning, Li Liang and Cain came to the command bridge and learned that the fleet had arrived at the spiritual gate of the Tower Star Civilization in the early morning.
Commander Li Sen sent a delegation and was currently communicating with the Tata Moro clan, preparing to start a twelve-hour commodity transaction. The main purpose was to show that humans and the Tata Star civilization had formed a friendship, and the symbolic significance was far greater than the reality.
One of the activities is for human representatives to go shopping at the "Samachi gathering place".
It is said that the "Samach Gathering Place" is the largest trading market of the Tower Star Spiritual Gate. Li Liang is very interested, but the event has not started yet, so he decided to visit the Nautilus with Cain first.
This huge mothership is stationed with ship troops, service troops, guards reorganization divisions, etc., with a total number of more than five thousand, as well as the same number of androids, and countless robots.
Breakfast time has not yet ended, and all decks are bustling with activity, especially the hollow hall located between the seventh and eleventh floors. It is the hub of the entire spaceship's activity space and is also an open restaurant. There are groups of officers and soldiers dining, coming and going. Continuously.
The lights here are bright, the air is moist, and soft music is always floating. A column stands in the center of the hall, supporting a four-story high dome. Each floor is retracted layer by layer in an irregular shape, making the entire atrium space look incomparable. open.
Suddenly, Li Liang forgot that he was inside the spaceship at this moment. Instead, he felt like he had entered a large shopping mall from a thousand years ago.
However, the constant stream of "Mr. Li Liang" quickly brought him back to reality. He had no choice but to shake hands with every officer and soldier who raised their hands to him. After a long time, he escaped and found a secluded circular island on the eleventh floor.
"What do you want to eat?" Cain woke up the light screen on the island and flipped through the menu displayed above.
Li Liang went over and found that the breakfast varieties were very rich and unlimited.
"Hmm...Chinese set meal B."
"I want this, light meal set F."
moment.
Two trays slid out from the dining outlet on one side of the island, containing the set meals they selected.
The two chose a table near the guardrail, overlooking the entire hollow hall.
From this angle, Li Liang felt more and more like this place was like a shopping mall, and he and Cain were a dating couple, and they were going to watch a popcorn movie after dinner.
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The spiritual gate of the Tower Star civilization is called "Tara Tsonai", which means "center of the world" in the Tower Star language.
It's a pity that it doesn't live up to its name.
Flying away from the Nautilus on a special service ship, Li Liang discovered through the external images that the people from Ta Xing were as thick-skinned as ever.
Previously, Bond introduced the three most common construction plans for the Spiritual Gate, namely the Toyoku style, the Makosik style, and the Avalon style. Humanity chose the most expensive Makosik style. Once the satellite city is built, it will have sovereignty over the entire outer space. However, the low-civilized Tower Stars can only choose the "low-end version" of the Du Yujing style.
Tarazonai not only presents the original form of the Spiritual Gate - a sphere, but also does not even have a supporting entry and exit space.
All the visiting fleets parked around Tarazonai. The parking location was obviously unplanned. Spaceships of various sizes and sizes were crowded together. The scene was extremely chaotic. The "city" below was a continuous series of colorful shacks. Roads and area divisions are completely indistinguishable.
After the special service ship passed through the dense group of spaceships and landed in the "territory" of the Tata Moro clan, Li Liang walked out of the hatch and looked around, thinking to himself, such a remote and remote place, how dare it be called the "center of the world"?
