CHAPTER XXXVIII
"The red, triangular spaceship is the three-headed man we called that day, they run a chain store, and you can see their ships everywhere."
"That kind of huge green spaceship is a gas station, the price of oil is very expensive, it is not recommended to go to them to refuel, if you see a small black tanker you can go to them, those private gas stations have half the price of oil than the green one!"
"That yellow spaceship is a supermarket! You can ask them to order all kinds of food! ”
Olivia explained to Mugan in great detail the functions of each ship, which are the basic common sense of the interstellar age, but which is exactly what Mugan lacks.
"Interstellar travel is very convenient nowadays, as long as you bring enough money, you don't have to worry about forgetting your luggage and anything like that. The way to determine the development of a planet is simple: it is to look at the number of service ships nearby.
The more lively the planet, the more such service ships there are! There are so few service ships here, which means that this is the countryside. ”
However, Olivia only introduced this time, and will not practice it personally:
"Remember! You only have one music box, and the one that can be sent to the auction house in the big city should not be given away. Olivia told Mugen very strictly, and looked at Mugen and nodded.
Olivia isn't a saver himself, but he can't afford to give away 150 million Ferra dollars or anything like that! (←-← But you've smashed four billion Ferrals in one sitting! )
In short, before making money again, Olivia only ate lollipops and nutrients every day, and he stuffed a lot of nutrients into Mugan, but Mugan, who was used to cooking from snacks, could not get used to the taste of nutrients.
Fortunately, Dad and Uncle made enough preparations before leaving: the grass grew quickly, and the part cut every day was enough for Mugan to meet for a day; In addition to this, the ship's storage room is stuffed with unicorn eggs. This kind of egg is very tasty, can be boiled and fried, although it does not look good (black), but the taste is very good, so that after so many years of eating unicorn eggs, Mugen still likes to eat them.
Seeing that Mugen was eating well, Olivia was not unmoved, but when he thought of the painful diarrhea experience that night, he forced himself to hold back.
"Once we find the owner of the white clouds, we will have something to eat." That's the only belief that sustains Olivia right now.
In Olivia's longing, the home planet of the White Clouds finally appeared before their eyes!
Smoothly broke through the planet's atmosphere, and their spaceship landed smoothly. After several unsuccessful attempts to contact the local port, Olivia was the first to run out of the ship, shivering the moment his feet stepped on the ground.
"Wow! It's snow! Mugan followed closely behind him, and it didn't take long for him to run out, opening his palms and watching the snowflakes gently fall on his palms, Mugan was very excited.
But he soon lost his excitement:
There was more snow here than they had imagined, and the two of them soon became three snowmen trapped in the snow.
"Hello!" Growing up on a relatively hot planet, Mugan was a little overwhelmed. Meng Meng quickly took two coats from her pocket and handed them to Mugen and Olivia respectively.
After putting on his coat, Mugan felt better, and he turned his head to look at Olivia, only to find that Olivia's expression was quite stern now.
"What's wrong?" He couldn't help but speak.
"It's not quite right here......" Olivia's brow furrowed as she looked around, "It's like an abandoned port." It stands to reason that someone should have contacted us the moment we landed, but why hasn't anyone come yet? I can't get in touch with the other party......"
The rules of navigation that Mugen does not know, but Olivia is clear, and there are no number of spaceships that fly in and out of each planet every day, but all spaceships are allowed to sail and land from specific ports, which is a regulation and an important source of revenue for the planet.
The port where they landed now was the port where the White Clouds sailed, and it stands to reason that someone should have come over immediately to inquire about it, but until now they had landed for fifteen minutes, and there was still no one to see.
This situation is very wrong.
Through the snow, Mugan tried to look ahead, and when he vaguely saw the white building hidden behind it by the heavy snow, he pulled Olivia and showed him the building.
"Let's go over and see." Olivia made a decision immediately.
So, this time the engineering machine qì person A went out. The tall man walked in the front, and as he walked, the thick snow was deftly pushed to the sides by his mechanical arm, and Mugen and Olivia followed closely behind him, and not long after they walked, the newly fallen snow soon covered the path they had left.
After about fifteen minutes of hard progress in the snow, they finally stood in front of the building, and the man removed the plaque and wiped it, and when he wiped it clean, the words on it were displayed in front of Mughan.
"Sure enough, this is the office of the Ship Dispatch Center in the port." Olivia Road.
"This is the plaque of the administrative part of the house, and we take it off like this...... Not quite right? Mugan hesitated.
"We were just kind enough to rub the sign for him, and they should be grateful to us." Olivia said eloquently, but after all, it was up to the machine to hang the clean plaque back in its place.
Pushing open the door, they walked in, and then the feeling that something was wrong was even tighter.
"It's so cold in here." Mugan shuddered.
"It's not just cold, it's dark! The lights and heating are not turned on, as for this saving? After complaining, Olivia's gaze immediately turned to the front: "There's a person there!" ”
Following his line of sight, Mugen also saw the man, standing in front of the office window, and the man seemed to be talking to the person inside the window.
I've finally met someone! Mugan and Olivia looked at each other excitedly, and then ran together in the direction of the man.
"Hey! Hello! Olivia patted the man on the shoulder, trying to get his attention. It didn't matter if he slapped it, something terrible happened: the man's head actually fell off!
Olivia was dumbfounded.
Eventually, it was Muganda who ran over and picked up the man's head.
"It's a doll." After a closer look, he showed the head to Olivia.
The hairs on Olivia's back slowly went down.
Cautiously leaning over to Mugan's side, he poked his head to see what Mugen was holding: as Mugen had said, it was indeed a doll, completely different from the exquisite dolls sold in toy stores, and the doll in front of him could only be described as simple, except that the facial features were barely distinguishable from the swarthy metal.
"It's ugly!" Olivia gave a review.
"Don't do that! Let's press it back. Mugun just smiled, and pulled Olivia over to help. Together, the two men reattached the head to its body.
"This doll still has a name." The doll was taller, taller than both Mugan and Olivia, and in order to put her head, Mugan had to lay the doll's body flat, and it was during this process that Mugan noticed the name tag on the doll's chest - Helen Dumbaugh.
"It's a simple machine." Similarly, it was during the installation process that Olivia also noticed the structure of the doll, and he was very familiar with the body structure of the machine, and skillfully reconnected the threads that had just been broken.
With a "click", Olivia re-secured the head.
Clapping his hands, he was about to get up and leave, but at this moment-
"Tomorrow is a good day, Flender's ship will be back, and then we can ask him for news from the newspapers."
The moment the head was fixed, the head actually spoke!!
Olivia sat down.
"It's cold on the ground, Ollie, don't get up." In the end, it was Mugen who pulled him up.
"There's a sounder in there." After re-examining the doll's head structure, Mugen came to his conclusion. Helping the doll up again, he knocked and touched each other for a long time, and the doll made a few more sounds, but it was always just a repetition of the previous sentence.
Over the next few days, they walked through every room in the building, and there was not a single living person, and they found a total of twenty-three dolls, each of which was similar to the one they had first discovered: dressed in human clothes, with a name tag with a different name pinned to its chest, and then each doll had a voice hidden in its skull, and when you touched it, it would open its mouth to talk to you.
They were now in the director's office on the top floor of the building, and the machine doll with the name tag "Director Tom" written on its chest sat in front of them, and the bearded doll with an expressionless face was repeating the phrase over and over again:
"The departure time is just three days away."
"The departure time is just three days away."
"The departure time is just three days away."
It's a weird place—this phrase pops up in the minds of both Mughan and Olivia.
Pushing open the window, Olivia looked down condescendingly, letting the cold snowflakes hit his face, he just looked into the distance, and when he looked back, the snow-white ice was already all over his long eyelashes. But he didn't care, and suddenly said to Mugan:
"You say, will this planet be empty anymore? It's been so long, will the owner of that ghost ship already ......"
He didn't say anything, but his expression said a word.
They were so happy that they forgot the most important thing - time.
There are many ways to extend people's lifespans in this world, but after all, not everyone's lifespan can be extended through technology. Could the owner of Duoduo be one of them?