"My name is Bucho Caiva. Orchid Angel. Tfrondolly, you can call me Brandt, don't get me wrong, let you in, I just want to get a closer look at the ship built by the Ascendant. A human man smiled as he greeted all the team members who had walked into the pressure control field inside the boulder from the Sailing, which sounded like the voice on the airwaves, and his first words made Add, who was wearing a closed suit, not know how to answer.

The strangely named human man was unlike any other human Eddie had seen in Puxing and Chilian.

He was dressed in tattered gray clothes with various patches, and was tall and white-skinned, but he looked thin and weak. He combed his hair upwards very neatly, tied a braided with red rope, had a delicate face, big eyes and a straight nose, smiled when he spoke, and showed two deep dimples when he smiled.

"Welcome to Brant Malcolm's Fun Shop, as you know, we don't often receive exotic guests like you here, and today happens to be our Friendly Reception Day, so since you're here...... Please visit casually pleasantly. He stretched out an arm to the crowd.

Eddie and his teammates listened to him introduce himself and couldn't help but look around.

The cave inside the boulder was not wide, except for where they stood, which was barely open, and the rest of the space was cramped and pitted. With the height of the Barekas, there are places where you have to keep your head down to walk, and judging from the faint scorched black marks on the walls of the cave, the cave was blown up with inferior liquid oxygen bombs, and has been for a long time.

There were rows of iron shelves in the cave, rusty from the long time in the aerobic environment, and there were many unnamed bits and pieces piled up on the shelves, and there was another cave in the deep part of the cave, which was so dark that it was impossible to see what was inside, and Eddie speculated that it might be the place where the boatman named Brant lived and rested.

Lilac flapped her wings and curiously flew to the shelves to pick up a spiral piece of metal, but only glanced at it and threw it back with a pout.

"It's all rubbish." It whispered in Kande over the communicator, and dusted the rust off its palms with a sad face.

"Biqi is three terrs lower, under the pressure of our cave, you probably don't have to wear such clothes." Brandt's eyes were fixed on Eddie and his teammates, and he reached out to touch the airtight armor of the little Kande, but his rude attempt was immediately blocked by Arthur standing nearby.

“…… I'm sorry for my abrupt behavior, but I've never seen a Kander here, and of course, their faithful companions......" He looked Arthur and Fur up and down, and looked at Lilac, who ignored him and Lilac with an angry expression.

"I think every year, many of my compatriots will travel to the 'Andro Sea'." Add spoke the standard language of the Silver Alliance, and although he was wearing a mask, the voice coming from the speakers was the same as usual.

"But they never wanted to stay here, you see, a long-broken communication base, and the company that built it, Yinmeng Communications has been out of business for years, I can't think of anyone who would go to a broken boulder to browse? Far from any cosmic beauty, there is only me, a business-free trader except useless stones. ”

"You say you're a businessman? Who's going to sell stuff in this hellish place? Arthur looked at him with slanted eyes and suspicion in the standard language of the Silver Alliance, in a broken Silver Alliance.

"Can't imagine it, right? The remote savage star field, the poor boat people kids, the ridiculous facts that no one can think of, what other serious customers can there be here? Brandt pursed the corners of his lips and shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"Actually, I have the same thoughts as everyone, but I honestly don't care about it, whether I have a business or no business, I occupy the land I want to occupy, do what I want to do, and life is too short and exhausting, I think that's enough."

"Well, even if you're a merchant, what do you sell? A bunch of rags? Lilac sarcastically.

"A little bit of this, a little bit of that, you know, little bits and pieces, little fights." Brant winked at the fairy man, and Lilac hurriedly flapped her wings and flew aside.

"No further gossip, my dear friends, what kind of trouble have you been in your humble house?" The boatman spread his hands and asked Add in an inquiring tone.

"We have no other purpose than to use this communication base to send a message for help to our Travels Committee in the Frell system." Add gently pressed on the arm control panel to adjust the air configuration in the suit, revealing his little face from the pink soot in the hood.

"Want to use this pedestal? It can't be used for eight lifetimes, there is no energy, and the acetyl-titanium raw material also gives people a fine light. Brant laughed as he looked at Eddie's pink face.

"But we can fix it." Eddie said.

"No, no, you can't fix it." Brandt shook his hands, "Don't you understand?" I won't allow you to fix it, because once you send a rescue signal, not to mention that your people come in rescue boats, large and small, and disturb me, an aborigine, with crowdphobia, this idle pedestal may also have to be reactivated, and where will I live then? I'm not like you, I have such a beautiful golden ship, I'm just such a stone, and I don't intend to lose it. ”

"Can't you go somewhere else? You humans don't have large colonized planets everywhere! Why do you live on a boulder? Arthur said viciously.

"Wrong, big alien, the word 'you humans' is a serious misunderstanding, it's almost insulting, I'm a boat people, how can you compare me to those guys? If you can live on the planet, are you still called a boat people? Big man, maybe your Barrecas bloodline doesn't matter much to you, but I'm proud to be a boat dweller. ”

Arthur listened to this and said nothing, and the same racial pride made him agree with Brandt's protest.

The voice of the surviving suddenly came from the speaker in Arthur's ear, and the Shadowless Man asked his teammates, "Can I kill him now?" As he always excelled at, he was clearly standing incognito beside the boat people, sharpening his sword with the Spirit Ring in hand.

"Don't!" Arthur roared, startling Brant the boatman, who stared at the were-headed man and frowned, looking a little wary of the bulky man who had suddenly become cranky.

"In order to dispel your thoughts, let me tell you the truth, the main parts of the communication base have been dismantled by me, some of them have long been sold, and the remaining worthless ones are still in my shop, but I don't think they can do anything for your maintenance plan." Brandt's words took everyone by surprise, and the original idea was completely ruined.

"What the hell is going on with you? Why do I need to contact rescue? Could it be that they are being chased by boat people? In that case, please leave my shop, for I don't want any conflict with my people. He hurriedly announced.

"It's the Jump Engine, the ship's Jump Engine is failing." Eddie said helplessly.

"I see, why didn't you say it earlier? Take me to your ship. ”

"What's the use of taking you to see it? Even our multi-armed experts can't solve the trouble, you humans can fix it? Arthur was unconvinced.

"Again, I'm not one of those fools born with a golden spoon in the Silver Alliance, they're 'citizens' born with all kinds of convenience benefits, provided that they sacrifice themselves. But I was born in a vacuum and grew up on ships, so repairing and piloting are innate. What you probably don't know is that any boater knows more about a ship than your so-called expert. Brant pursed his lips.

"In fact, it will talk to us and pour out everything to us, and as long as it has ever flown through nothingness, it will definitely make friends with us......" He chattered as he suddenly pulled out a small force field generator from his pocket, flicked a switch, and wrapped himself in a force field, leaving the boulder cave and walking towards the Voyage that was docked on the platform.

Arthur and Lilac glanced at each other, and they both chased each other out at the same time.