Chapter 014 Mixing rivers and lakes depends on two words
For Wendao, "fear" is not an uncommon experience. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info When he begged for a living on the street with Miya, he was forced by the rich and noble, or bullied by the powerful, and he always met some characters who he couldn't afford to provoke from time to time. So Wendao learned to keep his distance from them very early. However, even the most horizontal guy he had ever encountered before was far from being comparable to the Virtuous Dragon Ji who ruled the star field.
Although he had a pleasant conversation with the dragon queen during the dragon cruise, the fact that the silver dragon easily destroyed the poachers could not have been more clearly illustrated by the difference between the two sides in terms of identity and species. In the trembling recollection, Wendao was sure that his attitude towards Hyunryuji was probably wrong from beginning to end. While looking up to thank the lord for not killing, Wen Dao also repeatedly reminded himself that he must not have the slightest transgression.
If he could see the sadness in Long Ji's eyes, then Wen Dao should be shaken by such thoughts, but assumptions can only be assumptions after all. When Lei Roar later ordered Wen Dao and Ani to inspect the transport ship together, Wen Dao also took advantage of the situation to re-position himself in his new workplace.
He is a retainer hired by Hyunryuhime, and he can faithfully and faithfully complete the tasks he is given.
So, Wen Dao focused his attention on the task he was given for the first time.
The transport ship, abandoned by the poachers, was captured by the towing field of the mocking wind, and directly below the quietly hovering seat ship, several mobile pipes with maneuvering interfaces extended from under the belly of the mocking wind to the transport, and Wendao and Ani followed one of the pipes towards the transport.
The semi-rigid transparent pipes insulate the vacuum and extreme cold, but after all, they can't even simulate gravity, and the two people in a weightless state can only rely on the movable handles on both sides of the pipe to move their bodies. But Ani was clearly used to this way of moving, and she didn't even need to hold the handle and gently kick the pipe wall like a game.
Wen Dao marveled at the light figure of the little maid, but he didn't think he had that kind of skill, so he just honestly held the handle and let the handle drag him forward.
"Humph!"
On the other hand, Ani, who ran to the front early, would turn around and glare at Wen Dao from time to time, accompanied by a very heavy "hum", almost just writing the words "I am very upset with you" on her face.
Wen Dao thought that he didn't offend her in any way, but considering that the other party was a senior in the workplace, he shrugged his shoulders and tried to ignore the performance of the little maid.
One side struggled to express his displeasure, while the other tried to ignore his unhappiness, and the tug-of-war of endurance continued until the two men reached the ship's hatch. Ani, who couldn't bear it anymore, finally turned around and stared straight at Wen Dao.
"You guy, don't be too complacent!"
"Proud?" Wen Dao was quite surprised. It's not so much that he's proud, but he's always been a low-key person, right?
"Lord Yansui has always been very kind to his retainers. Don't throw her tail up in the sky just because she said a few words to you!" Ani warned with a small fist.
"Yes, that's right. Wen Dao nodded hesitantly, but there was a subtle sense of loss in his mood. Although he had known that Hyun Ryu Ji had the cultivation of Corporal Lixian, it was still a little strange that every retainer was so kind to take him on a tour of the territory......
"How is that possible!What the hell do you think Yansui-sama thinks?" Ani refuted Wen Dao loudly, quite emotional. "I've never had such an exceptional treatment like yours before!Even I only have the opportunity to touch my body when I am serving Lord Yanho in the bath, and you guy...... You guy, actually!"
Ani glared at Wen Dao, her face full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
"That's the case......" Wen Dao finally understood where the little maid's displeasure with him came from, and an inexplicable sense of superiority rose in his heart. In order to hide the smile that welled up in his throat, Wen Dao coughed vigorously a few times. "Ahem, in fact, it's nothing, I was just taken by His Highness to swim around the dragon collar, chatted about current affairs, and looked at the stars. ”
Wen Dao said modestly, but the little maid's eyes were even more jealous.
"That's it, you didn't do anything rude to Lord Yansui, did you?"
"Well, it looks like I accidentally asked His Highness if he was married......"
"What? you, you, you...... How dare you ask such a question to Lord Yanho!?" Ani's eyes widened in horror as she looked at Wendao in disbelief. "And then, Your Highness didn't dismantle you on the spot, and didn't burn you to charcoal with a mouthful of dragon breath?"
(If it's charred, I won't be able to vomit here, okay? Can't you think more about world peace if you look good?) Wen Dao silently spat in his heart and shrugged his shoulders at Ani.
"Your Highness has told me that she has not yet accepted any of the dragons' courtship. ”
"What?, Your Highness, Your Highness, even told you this!?"
Ani's voice was an octave out of tune in an instant, as if she was really frightened this time.
"Uh, is that something you can't just say?"
"Woooooo......oooo You guy, damn it!" the little maid glared at Wen Dao with a particularly sad and angry expression, and there was a faint cry in her voice, but the one who was staring at was also quite hurt.
"Anyway, am I so unwelcome?"
"Nonsense. Ani nodded vigorously. "I can't see you coming to Lord Yansui. ”
"Thank you for your advice, and I will definitely keep my distance from His Highness in the future. Wen Dao sighed.
"Really, you promise not to come to Your Highness?"
"Of course. Her Highness has every opportunity, and I dare not disturb her. ”
"That's pretty much it. Ani nodded in satisfaction, satisfied with Wendao's attitude.
"It's almost time to get down to business, right?" Wen Dao reached out and knocked on the hatch of the transport ship, bringing the conversation back to the current mission of the two. "Anyway, how should this thing be opened?"
"We need to break the quantum lock, get out of the way. ”
The little maid pushed Wen Dao away in a rough manner, pulled out a terminal the size of a business card from her sleeve, and then began to work on the information port at the hatch.
"Login authorization, get ...... Sovereign information, mandatory overwriting...... The ingestion is successful and the decoding starts. ”
Ani's fingers fluttered left and right on the virtual keyboard, and a dizzying array of characters appeared on the projection screen. Wen Dao watched in amazement as the six ring-shaped lock posts on the screen were quickly untied one after another, and he couldn't help but look at the little maid with admiration.
is worthy of being a retainer of the sage Ji, even if it looks unreliable, he still has outstanding skills.
As the last ring lock was broken, the bolts at the corners of the hatch popped out, and the internal and external air pressure was balanced by the hissing and fuzzing, and the closed hatch slowly slid open towards the rear.
Behind the hatch is a passage illuminated with dim red lights. Wen Dao squatted at the door of the cabin to cautiously check the situation in the passage, but the little maid rushed in with a bold step.
"Hey, what if there are poachers inside?" Wen Dao greeted Ani in a cold sweat. After all, the other party is a group of outlaws who dare to raise the muzzle of the cannon at the dragon, and if they are cornered, they may come up with some heavy weapons.
"It's long gone, so they don't have the courage to stay. Ani shook the card terminal in her hand.
When she cracked the quantum lock earlier, she had already made out the interior map of the transport ship, and the spherical projection of the interior map clearly showed their location at the moment, as well as the distribution of personnel in the ship. As you can see from the map, except for the red dots representing Wen Dao and others, the rest of the ship is silent and uninhabited.
“…… Well, it just saved us the trouble. ”
Wen Dao shrugged his shoulders and followed Ani. Following the guidance of the ship's interior map, the two soon came to a semi-open cabin. The cabin seems to have been used as the activity room of the transport ship, and several square tables are littered with uneaten roast chicken, half-played cards, and other miscellaneous items. The poachers seemed to have fled in a hurry, and there were even gold nuggets and gems that looked like stakes left next to the cards.
Ani whistled excitedly, picked up the nuggets and gems, looked at them for a moment, and put them in her pocket, the whole process as smooth as a cloud. Wen Dao next to him couldn't help but watch the movements of the little maid blankly, and Ani, who noticed his gaze, jumped up like a cat stepping on her tail.
"What's the matter?
"Although there is no opinion, but ......" Wen Dao pulled the corners of his mouth into an arc, stretched out his right hand towards the little maid, and repeatedly rubbed his big and middle index fingers - this gesture full of local style made the little maid look puzzled, and Wen Dao had to make a clearer appeal.
"What, it's better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, and it's not a good habit to eat alone. ”
"Cut ......"
Ani let out a very unhappy snort, frowning and wrestling for a moment, finally picking out the smallest nugget and throwing it over. Wen Dao stared critically at the gold nugget in his hand, which was smaller than a fingernail.
"What are you doing? I'm telling you, that's a lot. Ani asserted weakly, but seeing that Wen Tao did not mean to withdraw his hand, he struggled for a few seconds before he reluctantly took out a gem slightly larger than a fingernail and threw it to Wen Tao again.
"Don't say it to the thunder, or I'll die with you!" the distressed little maid threatened Wen Dao.
At this time, Wen Dao was looking down and picking up an energy gun that had fallen under the table, and the swarthy body of the gun exuded the beauty of mechanical violence, which made Wen Dao, who had never touched a firearm, tremble with excitement. To the nervous instructions of the little maid, Wen Dao reciprocated with a bright smile.
"Don't worry!
Anyway, the unexpected harvest in the cabin made Wendao and Ani feel quite good. On the way down the elevator to the cargo hold, Ani even took the initiative to talk about poachers.
It turns out that this is not the first time that the Emerald Dragon Collar has caught poachers, in fact, similar poachers pop up almost every year. The independent and self-evolving planet of Grumbel is inhabited by many unique creatures that are not found anywhere else, and these rare animals have always been in short supply on the interstellar black market.
Driven by profits, poachers often use extremely brutal methods to capture them and then seal them in hibernation boxes for storage and trafficking. It was because the cargo hold was filled with illegally poached Rumbell creatures that mocked Wind had to lower his aiming gun when the scumbags used the transport ship as a shield.
"In other words, the cargo hold is full of living creatures?" Fumi-Tao confirmed to Ani. "What kind of creature?"
"Yes...... You don't have long eyes, you can't see for yourself?" Ani rolled her eyes.
Just as the little maid drew the line between friend and foe again, the hatch of the elevator slowly opened.
Outside the hatch is the bottom cargo compartment of the transport ship. The cargo hold is about the size of a basketball hall, but it doesn't seem to be well lit. Rows of criss-crossed dark red lights divide the cargo hold into several dry blocks, each of which is stacked with rectangular cargo boxes. The hibernation boxes are about two meters long, wide, and high, and have translucent resin closures and a breathing lamp that emits a faint white light.
Wen Tao curiously leaned over to the cargo box to take a look. The breathing lamp inside the cargo box slowly intersected between light and dark at a special frequency that induced people to sleep, Wen Dao yawned unconsciously, and then suddenly shook his head in shock, pinching his thighs while turning his attention to the inside of the cargo box.
“…… Horses? No, Pegasus?"
Lying on his stomach in the cargo box was a horse with a pure white body. The horse is nearly two meters long, but unlike the ubiquitous hoof, it has a pair of equally pure white wings on its back. The wings are covered with white feathers, and the blue feathers at the tips of the wings have a metallic luster, looking beautiful and fantastic, almost like a phantom beast that has come out of myths and legends.
"Pegasus, to be exact. Ani said hatefully. "Pegasi are the spirits of Grumbel, and they should be protected by the natives...... Those bastards are getting more and more emboldened. ”
"Pegasus?"
Wen Tao looked back to the cargo hold. I saw that these fantasy creatures, known as the Grumbell elves, were lying sideways in the narrow cargo box in an awkward posture with their limbs curled up, and the beautiful wings behind them were also tied up by several alloy locks as thick as fingers, looking as pitiful and helpless as chickens and ducks waiting to be slaughtered in the vegetable market.
The hibernation device attached to the cargo box is constantly in operation, and the Pegasi in the cabin are forcibly dragged into a deep sleep that is difficult to wake up. But Rao is so, and the tormenting pain still penetrates the boundaries of the nightma, casting painful and weak traces on Pegasus. Even if he didn't need an instrument to check it, Wendao could confirm that these Pegasi wouldn't last long.
Wen Tao looked up blankly at the cargo hold around him, the pile of cargo boxes in front of him alone had the number of nearly twenty horses, and the total number of Pegasi imprisoned in the entire cargo hold was estimated to be more than two thousand!
"Congratulations, there's finally something to do. Ani pushed her elbow against Ding Wendao, her voice full of bad anticipation. "The poachers handed it over to you, but Lord Yansui told me personally. ”