The eye of heaven overlooks the passage of time, and the starry night looks up at the light and turns the moon pupil.

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The calm ocean is always fascinating, and the endless blue scene is easy to forget when it falls into a rage, and even those creatures who live in the ocean will always take advantage of this calm moment to surface to breathe and feel the light and warmth of the sun shining on the world.

What they don't know, however, is that experience is not everything, and life is always full of surprises, such as today...... In fact, this is not a suitable time to come up and breathe.

Only the most keen-eyed animals could see the small black dots that slowly appeared in the distant sky, but none of them knew how bad it was going to be, and only a few of them dodged with the mindset of the seabirds.

By the time they really felt the strange oppression from the sky and wanted to dodge, it was already too late.

Huge containers, which have glided through the atmosphere for many hours, with a diameter of tens of meters and a length of hundreds of meters, are driven by huge parachutes that cover the sky and the sun, and the parachute ropes woven with high-strength carbon fiber firmly support these behemoths splashing down in the ocean...... The waves caused by each giant container falling into the sea seem to be no less than a huge sound whale rolling back and forth on the surface of the sea, and the raging waves can even shoot some smaller marine animals alive.

In fact, the volume of these containers is really not very large, although it looks spectacular, but compared to the underwater city they will build, the size of these containers can be said to be nothing compared to the underwater city they will build.

Several large propellers adjust their direction on different surfaces, but the main way for these solid containers is to sink naturally, and the parachute lines are automatically cut after falling into the sea, leaving only these huge mechanical containers moving with the ocean current towards their destination. Several smaller, gyro-like rotary-wing robots were ejected before they hit the sea, and they nimbly began to collect the huge parachutes left on the surface of the sea...... These things that may affect the ecological environment need to be recycled uniformly, rather than being left to be left in this naturally developing world.

Eventually, the giant containers will sink all the way to the seabed, and a batch of underwater machinery will be released to mine veins on the seabed using these materials for construction.

The original cornerstone has been laid, and this huge undersea city, which may last for thousands of years and shocks countless people, has quietly begun to grow at this moment.

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After roughly solving the problem of container landing, Xinglan shifted the focus of the subject's consciousness back again, leaving only the subconscious mind to continue to pay attention to the progress of the project over there, which would not have much impact.

Above the ocean where the Holy City was about to be built, the sun was at its most dazzling, but in this dense forest of the Southern Yuan Continent, it was a dark night that was silent.

"Hmm......" Leaning lazily on the trunk of the tree, Xinglan played with a leaf picked from the side between her fingers, looking up at the starry gorgeous canopy, no matter how many times you look at this cosmic picture, you will never get tired of looking at it, "Compared to what I saw at first, it has really changed a lot......"

The passage of hundreds of millions of years is enough to completely reorganize all the constellations in the sky, and Xinglan subconsciously turned out the starry sky he saw when he walked along the coast at the end of the creation of the starry period, and the distribution of stars in the sky is not at all like what he sees on the same planet...... The only constant is the huge eyes of the galaxy's core and the edges of the two galaxies, looking down on the vast land as indifferently as it did back then, and these hundreds of millions of years are not enough time to change the entire appearance of a galaxy.

The sky and the earth have changed synchronously over a long period of time, and even if there is no clear memory, Xinglan still feels that everything that has happened in the past so many years is like a dream, which makes her feel a little strange, and she has come to this point before she knows it.

What do you need to do to prepare for spending the night in an uninhabited forest in the middle of nowhere?

The average person may answer that you need to prepare food and water, then find dead branches and various plants to build a temporary shelter for yourself, and finally try to build a bonfire next to it, the red flame will not only be able to grill food, provide warmth and lighting, but also scare away some ferocious beasts.

However, for the Moon Prayers, spending the night in the forest, they don't need a bonfire, they don't need shelter, they just need to bring food and climb to a relatively high tree to sleep against the trunk, and the habit deeply engraved in their genes makes them not worry about accidentally falling in the middle of the night, the whole process is as simple as Xinglan expected.

So even though it was completely dark when Xinglan and Yumo rushed back, it didn't cause much trouble. Yun Mo was left alone, even spraining one of her feet, but her unscathed figure and the two dead beasts on the ground next to her proved that this girl was not a weak person to be messed with. Xinglan shook her head as she put down her food, stopping her from handing back the high-carbon steel dagger...... The blood stains on it were noticeably a little deeper.

There wasn't much nonsense between the people at that time, Yun Mo took the leaf of the empty dill, cut a part of the surface with a dagger, and smeared the juice oozing from it on his feet, this herb worked quickly, and when they quickly finished the fruit for dinner, Yun Mo was already able to climb the trees on his own strength and prepare to spend the night.

Of course, Xinglan didn't eat, she firmly refused the fruits handed by Yumo, and although the other party didn't continue to force it, her eyes became more and more strange when she looked at her.

Hawkers, whatever, this kind of misunderstanding is not once or twice anyway.

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"Perhaps, it would be nice to just look at the night view like this." It had been a long time since they had returned, and after hastily solving the problem of food, they decided to spend the night together in the canopy, but Xinglan didn't need to sleep, and when Xijie fell asleep, she just sat on the branch and watched the starry sky silently.

Even if she kept her current position and stared at the sky in a daze all night, she wouldn't feel bored, in fact, she was going to do it.

"It's already so late, don't you rest? Or can't you sleep at all? ”

The voice came from the canopy next to it, and even though their voices were almost identical, Xinglan immediately recognized the owner of the voice from the tone, turned her head to look, and sure enough, she saw Yunmo lying on her side on the branch next to her, a pair of eyes that flashed slightly at night wide, staring at her interestingly.

"Didn't you rest too? The wounded should be well recuperated, right? Xing Lan replied with a chuckle, compared to Yumo, Yunmo, as an older sister, didn't have much communication with her, and she could clearly feel it...... Although she was more polite verbally, Yunmo was not as sincere as Yumo, although it was not big, but she still seemed to be a little wary of her.

"It looks like a very young kid." Yun Mo's gaze swept keenly across Xinglan, and the pupils in her eyes ...... It's almost completely a full moon, and at first glance it looks like a complete circle.

Xinglan knew that even if the forest was dark now, with just that faint light of the stars and moon, the other party could see her as clearly as day. This is what she realized on the way back with Yumo, the Moon Prayer people don't need to carry torches to walk through the night like the primitive people on the earth, their night vision is beyond imagination, and the animals with such a high perception of light are pure nocturnal creatures, and they dare not come out during the day...... Intense light can make their eyes unusually painful.

"Why, do you care about the fact that I can't sleep?" Xing Lan said this, but she still stared at Yun Mo's pupils tightly, making the other party feel uncomfortable for a while, and couldn't help but look away.

"yes, I kind of care." Yunmo sighed softly, "You can't sleep?" Or do you not need to sleep at all? You've barely seen a Moon Prayer before, or you wouldn't be so curious about the shape of your eyes. ”

"Maybe it's not just curiosity~" Xinglan looked up at the clear sky again, but some of the signals had quietly spread to the other party's head, she already had some guesses, and now she couldn't wait to confirm them through actual scanning.

As I have said before, the deformation of the pupils of the Moon Prayer is not uniform, which means that they cannot follow the regular change of the menstrual cycle like the Kalachakra, but there must be some kind of inducement from the outside world that constantly prompts the shape of the pupils to change.

After a period of observation, Xinglan basically affirmed the true face of this external inducement: light.

At first, I didn't notice a noticeable change in the shape of my pupils after spending a long time with them, but as night fell, the pupils of the Moon Prayer dilated rapidly, and if all this was adjusted according to the brightness of the light, then everything made sense.

The Moon-Prayer Person's eyeball is essentially a deformation component, and its deformation ability far exceeds the subtle deformation of the lens of an ordinary animal. Whenever the outside light becomes stronger, the crescent of the pupil shrinks to reduce the entry of light, and when the light becomes darker, it dilates the pupil to receive more outside light and ensure a good field of vision.

Ordinary animals adapt to both light and dark environments through the replacement of rods and cones, but the deformed pupils of the Moon Man can do the same thing, and it adapts to changes in light much faster than ordinary cell changes.

Xinglan didn't know why their pupils were crescent-shaped rather than simply enlarged and reduced, perhaps because of some unclear function, or maybe because of ...... Evolution does not always produce the most perfect work, just like the retinal inversion of mammals and the wisdom teeth of earthlings, it is only constantly modified from the original, and occasionally it is left with permanent flaws.

What should I do if the image seen by the crescent-shaped pupil is distorted...... Just as the image of the aperture is reversed and the image of the eyes coincides, the brain of a supercomputer will always take care of it automatically.

After getting the data from the signal to confirm the speculation, Xinglan laughed, and leaned back against the tree trunk under Yumo's somewhat inexplicable gaze: "Since we can't sleep, then let's just come and chat." ”