Qinghai Lake, the hinterland of the Red Sand Mountains, a desert that stretches for dozens of miles and is inaccessible, from a bird's-eye view here, this desert is as desolate as other deserts, no different.

The huge black cigar-shaped ship of the Rumelda Star descended silently from the sky above the desert.

"How's it going over there?" Captain Olsen, who was sitting in the cockpit of the spaceship, asked Nina, who was sitting next to him.

"The specific situation, they have completed the investigation, and the list of materials and equipment required has also been passed over, do you want to take a look," Nina asked, glancing at the computer screen in front of her.

"No need, transfer them a sum of money, let them buy as much as they can, and we'll solve the labor problem," Olsen commanded with a blank face.

Nina nodded, immediately set up a bank account for Roddy, and transferred $100 million.

"Where did you get so much money on Earth?" Roddy asked back, this time using voice communication, and his tone was full of surprise.

Nina looked at the black tower next to her, smiled and replied, "It's just a number, you have a complicated idea." Not enough you can ask for more. ”

Roddy was silent for a few seconds, didn't say anything, and replied in English, "OK!" ", and then ended the communication. Blacktower saluted the imaginary Roddy as an Earth soldier, then turned to Nina and smiled.

Nina glanced at Captain Osen, whose face was like a frozen fish, and didn't say anything. The spacecraft's probe scanned the surface of a bare and featureless desert in front of it, and a circular pattern with strange veins resembling crop circles appeared on Nina's display screen, and Nina reported: "That's right, there is a sign, this is the entrance to the mall marked by the Neandertes, do we want to send a signal to enter?" ”

Eisen raised his hand and signaled.

The Rumelda cigar spaceship, the iron tower generally stands on the desert, and there are three high-beam lights in the middle, which are switching on and off for different lengths of time, and then a graphic is played to the ground, which is the general pattern of Rumelda in the universe.

Within seconds, Nina received a contact signal.

"Let's park the spacecraft on the sixth floor of the Sky Parking Field, the twenty-ninth position in the thirty-eighth district, where there is the mobility spacecraft." Nina reported to Ossen.

"Hmph, trouble," Olsen frowned, motioning for Nina to comply.

"They don't know we can fly down on our own?" Blacktower added from the side.

"They probably think we've evolved to the point where we can't fly," Olsen's words were full of mockery.

"Sail with the flow. Sometimes I wonder if the races in the universe look strange, the civilizations are diverse, and the technology is strong and weak, not to mention, "Nina raised the spaceship to the height required by the Neantthals, and the air mooring was set up in a large cloud that seemed to be stationary, where there were already dozens of alien spaceships of all sizes, round or square, and all kinds of strange shapes suspended in the clouds, "Why is it that the same race, compared with other races, some are far ahead in technology, while some are far behind, Like primitive people? Why isn't there a race where all the technology is fully advanced? ”

"I think it's a scientist's business. A race lacks one or more decisive genius scientists at some important stage of development of science and technology," replied Heta, patting his head, "and over time, these aspects of this race have not developed, and naturally they are weaker than those of the fortunate races. ”

Olsen pointed to a black spaceship shaped like a scorpion in front of the left, and an indicator light flashed behind the spaceship, alerting Nina, and then replied:

"What the Black Tower says is only one aspect. The environment of each planet is different, and the various biological functions of the intelligent species produced by each are very different, the needs are different, and the ideas of various races are different, which directly affects the direction of their respective science and technology.

"For example, the low-end evolution of the eyes of earthlings, if they want to see farther, they need to develop telescope technology, physiology determines psychology, and they have an urgent desire. And the 'little gray men' that earthlings are most familiar with, their eyes have evolved very well, and they can see anything clearly in the dark night without any lighting or night vision equipment, or 'clairvoyance', their telescope technology is not much better than that of earthlings. Nor did they produce a genius to change the direction of technological development. Their history is thousands of years longer than that of humans, but time has not made them more skilled in this area, and they psychologically feel that it does not matter, in fact their telescope technology was bought from the Pleiades. ”

"There are many others who have traveled through space in robes and cloaks," Nina nodded, stopping the ship at the location indicated by the indicator light, activating the levitation mode.

The light then went off and the darts flew away.

A small airship resembling bread flew through the clouds and docked with the exit of the Rumelda's ship.

Nina opened the exit and boarded the Neanderthal welcome airship with Orson and the Black Tower.

"It's comfortable," said Olsen, patting the leather chair that had lost a large patch of paint, and then sat down, not knowing whether to praise or scold.

Nina smiled and didn't say anything, looking out of the window on the side of the airship. The Black Tower sat down with his arms folded, closing his eyes and resting.

The airship closed the barn door, circled in the air, and then flew towards the ground in a spiral flight path, returning to the desert in less than half a minute. A large expanse of the ground slowly rose up, revealing a large black hole, like a toothless bloody mouth.

The airship did not make any attitude adjustments, and smoothly followed its original flight trajectory, and flew into the Neanderthal lair.

After paddling through a circular tunnel that was hundreds of meters long, the airship entered an open, brightly lit underground helipad and stopped at an empty space in the northwest corner without any pause. When Orson and the others were about to disembark, the two Neanderthals were already waiting a few meters away from the airship.

Seeing two Neanderthals, the well-informed Ossen unconsciously "Hmm! With a sigh, Nina and Heita couldn't help but appreciate it.

The two Neanderthals were so special, neither particularly tall nor particularly short, neither particularly fat nor particularly thin, neither fat nor broad-nosed, neither hands, legs, or three heads and six arms, neither hateful nor amiable, neither pimple nor tender flesh, neither strange nor strange: they were two peasant-looking old men dressed in coarse cloth clothes, wearing shabby military galoshes on their feet, and wearing migrant workers' hats.

Ou Sen looked at the two old men from head to toe several times, but he couldn't see any flaws, so he couldn't help but nod his head in approval, and said to Nina and Heita with a side face: "Go back and learn from them, you can see the Neantthals in disguise, tsk!" ”

Blacktower watched from the side without saying a word.

Nina opened her eyes wide and looked at it for a long time, but she didn't see any flaws, and couldn't help but say, "This is an earthling, right?" And it's two Earth Farmers, who used the 'Soul Control Technique', right? ”

The two peasants, each carrying a tray, walked up to the three of them and stood still, nodded respectfully, and said to the three of them in extremely fluent American English: "Welcome to our commercial center, in order to protect the identity and privacy of our guests, and to prevent unnecessary conflicts, please put on an anti-see-through cloak before entering the merchandise display hall." ”

"You Neanderthals?" Nina couldn't help but ask.

The two peasants looked at each other, then turned their faces and nodded together.

"Is this a disguise, or is it a 'soul control technique'?" Nina asked, gesturing at their bodies in surprise.

"Ah," the two peasants looked down at their bodies, and then raised their faces and said in unison, "This is the new camouflage suit PT301, super performance, it is available in the hall, guests can buy it if they like it, this product is on sale, buy two get one free." ”

"Okay, okay, if possible, I'll buy a few back," Nina took a protective suit from the tray, opened it, and it didn't look special, like a pullover raincoat, so she put it on, and found that the protective suit was thin like yarn, and light like it didn't exist.

Ou Sen and Heita also put on protective suits and looked at each other, but indeed they couldn't see any facial or physical features.

"This is the commodity price list, and there is free interstellar information to browse on it," another farmer stepped forward and handed over a glass-like computer board.

Orson took it and nodded, then handed it to Nina.

"Please come with us," the two Neantthals turned and walked towards a gate marked with the words "Elevator in English," the three followed.

"Captain, here's important news," several people entered the elevator, the elevator started, and when it was impossible to feel whether it was going up or down, Nina turned over the computer in her hand and reported to Ossen.

"What?" Olsen asked.

Several people in the elevator turned their heads to look at Nina.

Nina said: "I casually flipped through the interstellar information, casually searched for the relevant information of Rumelda, and found one, and it was big news." ”

"Say," said Ossen.

"His Majesty the Blue Moon's greatest enemy, the 'Black Claw Demon' is missing," Nina said as she looked at the computer.

"Hmph, he is not His Majesty the Blue Moon at all, what's so strange about being missing?" Ou Sen sneered and said, "What is most curious about me is why His Majesty let him live for so long. ”

"Of course, it's not to eradicate the dissidents around you who can't do anything," Heta snorted coldly.

"Don't talk nonsense," Olsen retorted.

The elevator door opened, but the two peasants did not get out of the elevator, but stretched out their hands to the bright hall outside the elevator, signaling that the three-person hall had arrived, please enter.

The three of them got off the elevator, and immediately a shopping guide who looked like an earthling came over to greet him, the image of this nit is still relatively normal, and he is the most ordinary and standard black-haired female shopping guide, the kind that all shopping malls will have.

The hall is thousands of square meters, neatly distributed dozens of display tables, all the goods are displayed in the form of holograms, each hologram is the size of a basketball, guests want to know more, can also be enlarged into a one-to-one hologram. Hundreds of guests, dressed in the same protective suits as the trio, weave from one stand to the other, looking for their favorite items.

The shopping guide introduced Ou Sen one by one in front, and Nina and Heita followed in a position about two meters behind him.

"How?" Blacktower gestured to the glass tablet in Nina's hand.

"It's in," Nina nodded.

"You made up the news just now, right?" Blacktower asked.

"Look at me, that news is true," Nina laughed, "and there will be no delay." ”