Chapter Seventy-Eight: A Chance Encounter
After paying the fee, Li Jinyi and Fei Qi took the transparent passage elevator to the corresponding floating island.
Outside the high-speed elevator, the passing islands look different, each floating island represents an independent alien ecosystem.
"Mr. Feige, I have two questions. Lai Jinyi turned his gaze to the middle-aged man in the blue uniform.
Fei Qi bowed slightly, motioning for Li Jinyi to continue.
"First of all, I want to ask, why is the information in Star Park only available to a small number of people?"
After Li Jinyi finished speaking, he saw Feiqi smile clearly, as if he guessed that he would ask.
"There are two reasons for this, first, extraterrestrial materials are not just needed by other people, and this place is dispensable for them. ”
"Moreover, and the main reason, is that the Star Alliance is worried that after the full opening of the interstellar park, there will be a lot of curious people coming, and a large number of buyers will pour in, so that we cannot control the whereabouts of every alien creature, and if they are allowed to flow into the natural environment alive, it may trigger biological invasion and pose a threat to the earth's ecology. ”
Fei Qi glanced at Li Jinyi, and after finding that the other party was listening very carefully, he explained in more detail:
"This is different from the mutated creatures induced by the Void Pollution, although the mutated creatures are highly aggressive, they have lost their reproductive function and cannot exist for a long time, but those alien creatures are healthy, and the adaptability is stronger than one another, after entering the earth's environment, it is easy to occupy the mountain as the king and suppress the living space of other native species. You know, A-971 Mirror Earth is just a temporary residence for humans, and they will eventually be teleported back to the Earth of the main universe, which means that after we clear all the Void Envelopes, we must restore the Earth to its pre-Void Invasion appearance, and the invasion of alien animals and plants into the natural environment will greatly increase the difficulty of restoration. ”
"I see. Li Jinyi nodded again and again in a sudden realization.
"What about the other question?" asked Feige.
"Cloud Peak Star Island is suspended in the air by the energy of the genesis engine, and I want to know what kind of power does such a huge floating archipelago as Star Park rely on to achieve levitation? electric energy, nuclear energy, or solar energy?" said Lai.
Feige pointed to the colorful diamond-shaped boulders on the edge of the floating island, and said, "It's all thanks to those 'floating stones', they are treasures brought by alien allies who have recently arrived on Earth, and they are the latest product of the combination of magic and technology, I don't know the specific mechanism, only that it will soon be used in the manufacture of spaceships and exoskeleton armor." ”
"That's really good news. Li Jinyi said with a smile.
As we talked, the ship's speed slowed down and it came to an independent floating island inhabited by dark foxes.
Before leaving the elevator, Fei Qi specially instructed: "Be vigilant, this is not a zoo, many creatures have strong intent to attack, you signed the relevant agreement when activating the permission before, you should know that if you are accidentally injured inside, we are not responsible." ”
"Understood. The corners of Lai's mouth rose, and he replied nervously and expectantly.
Stepping out of the elevator and through two closed gates, they stepped into a curly, tough blue-purple meadow, surrounded by stout trees with fiery red leaves, and on the branches, a flock of zebra-like birds aimed their butts at them and spewed out the filth inside them.
Li Jinyi hurriedly cast a magic shield to resist, blocking a disgusting white feces at any time, but he could still smell the disgusting fishy smell of the thing.
The living environment of aliens is really worrying, Li Jinyi secretly complained, and couldn't help retching a few times.
Feige looked at him like this and quipped: "This is still a light taste, don't you know, on Floating Island 23, there is a humanoid creature that lives by eating feces, and every time I see their backs when eating, I feel my vest numb inexplicably." ”
Li Jinyi frowned when he heard this, restrained his thoughts of associating the picture, and sighed sincerely: "Your work is really hard, in all senses. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a green shadow flash in the bushes in front of him, and the green shadow was slender, like having four legs and a long tail.
"Is that the one we were looking for?" asked Fei Qi immediately.
"No, it's some kind of jungle lizard, they secrete saliva that is super neurotoxic and makes people stop breathing and their hearts stop beating within three minutes. Feige replied with a serious face.
Li Jinyi swallowed his saliva when he heard this, and subconsciously looked around and under his feet.
The two then crossed a stream paved with reddish-brown pebbles to a hidden cave.
"As far as I know, there is a nest of dark fox living in this cave, and all we need to do is put some jerky at the entrance of the cave to lure them out, and then use the Starlight Gun to kill one of them. Feige whispered.
Ahh
Half a minute later, there was no movement at the entrance of the cave, but there was a chill behind him, Li Jinyi had to distract himself and look back, it didn't matter if he didn't look, he saw that there was a poisonous lizard lying on his stomach behind him that only spit out letters frequently, and he was so frightened that he almost screamed.
His heart was beating violently, and he quickly summoned the soul of the heart, and the poisonous lizard felt the pressure of the magic sword and ran away.
Li Jinyi breathed a sigh of relief, stuck his double swords on the ground to sentry, and turned around to continue to squat to guard his prey.
After another ten seconds, a dark purple fox head poked out of the hole in front of it, its nose twitched slightly, looked left and right, and quickly locked on the location of the jerky.
The dark fox slowly walked out of the cave, vigilant of the surrounding environment, and Li Jinyi found that the alien fox's form looked not much different from that of the earth fox, but it was slightly larger and had a darker coat.
The fox approached the bait step by step, Li Jinyi raised the star gun in his hand, aimed at the head of the prey, and was about to pull the trigger, when he saw the fox suddenly turn around and look at the entrance of the cave, and follow its gaze, four or five fox cubs were lying at the mouth of the hole, waiting for it.
The fox was the mother of a litter of little creatures still waiting to be fed.
Li Jinyi sighed lightly, put down the gun, turned to look at Fei Qi and said, "Let's look elsewhere." ”
Feige understood what he was thinking, and nodded silently.
After the she-fox had taken the jerky back to the burrow, the two stood up and walked deeper into the floating island.
When passing by a hill that is not too high, Li Jinyi heard the sound of people humming a small song in the ravine on the side.
"Is this the anthropomorphic sound of some alien animal?" Lai Jinyi judged based on his experience watching horror movies, and asked Feiqi in a low voice.
Feige shook his head: "There are indeed quite a few alien animals that can simulate human voices, but there is no such thing as this island, and the song should come from some hunter like us." ”
Hearing Feiqi say this, Li Jinyi began to feel that the voice was a little familiar, as if it came from an old man who had often met in the past, but had not been in touch for a while recently.
Curious, Li Jinyi walked to the side of the road and looked down.
I saw a man with long hair, wearing a leather jacket, jeans, and hiking boots sitting next to a pile of trophies, happily sipping a glass of wine and shaking his shoulders.
"Master!" Li Jinyi greeted in surprise and excitement.
The man shook the wine glass in his hand when he heard the sound, spilling starry droplets, and he turned his head slightly to squint.
"It's really you, I thought I was hallucinating, what a coincidence, what a coincidence, what a coincidence? Come down and let Master see if there are any missing arms and legs. Xu Xiao raised his wine glass and beckoned to Li Jinyi.
"Hello Deputy Alliance Master, my name is Fei Qi, and I am in charge of guiding your apprentice to enter the Star Park for the first time. Before descending into the ravine, Feige introduced himself.
Xu Xiao nodded and said to him, "You go back, don't bother you, I'll take him next." ”
Fei Qi bowed slightly, said goodbye to Li Jinyi, and turned to leave the ravine.
Li Jinyi went down to the bottom of the ditch and answered Xu Xiao's previous question: "I came here to find magic materials, but I didn't expect to meet you here." ”
"Oh, Shibei should be impressed, you still have studied magic, what materials do you need?" Xu Xiao said, placing the wine glass on a flat stone beside him, and pointed to his trophies.
Li Jinyi repeated his needs, Xu Xiao got up and rummaged through the pile of loot, and said to the apprentice behind him:
"There are only dark fox on this island, and I will accompany you to find the other two on other islands later. ”
After saying that, he picked up a dark ghost fox that had no wounds on its body, but was dead, Xu Xiao condensed the qi blade in his hand, cut off the fox's tail cleanly, and threw it back to his apprentice.
Li Jinyi took the long tail, hurriedly thanked him, and asked, "Master, have you finished collecting the materials you need?" I can help you. ”
"Almost, you help me pack up these prey, and when I'm done with this wine, I'll take you to the Steelbeetle and the Rock Executor. Xu Xiao commanded.
Li Jinyi nodded, took the bag handed to him by his master, and pocketed the pile of loot one by one.