Four o'clock alternates nocturnal civilization, and the pipeline staggers across the sky.

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Perhaps due to the different viewing angles, a faint purple hue can be seen from outer space when looking down at the atmosphere, which is a very beautiful dreamy halo, but it is difficult to see from below...... Or rather, it's almost impossible to see this strange color. In the middle of the night, the huge figure of the gas giant covered most of the sky of Yelai Star, eclipsing the starry sky.

In the Yelai culture, the true dazzling star in the distant sky is popularly known as the Golden Sun, while the dim but larger gas giant is vividly called the Blue Sun.

The two distinct suns create four very distinct divisions of time on Yelai: when these two suns appear in the sky at the same time, it is the brightest hour of Yelai, which the Yelai people call the whole day. When the golden sun shines in the sky and the blue sun turns to the far side of the planet, it is still the moment when the light is dazzling, which is called half a day. When this situation is reversed, only the blue sun appears in the sky, and the golden sun is hidden below the horizon or obscured by the blue sun...... That is, the scene that Xinglan sees now is called the middle of the night.

Speaking of which, the remaining situation is obviously easy for everyone to guess, the golden sun and the blue sun have all disappeared on the back side of the planet, and there is only a silent cosmic starry sky in the sky, which is the darkest hour on the Yelai Star called the whole night.

Full-day, half-day, midnight and all-night. These four different time periods do not occur alternately, but change with the change of orbital periods, so that the calendar determined by Yelai Star from the celestial phenomena seems surprisingly complex, and it is quite difficult to remember without relying on a computer, and even most creatures cannot measure it by the general diurnal and nocturnal days, but have to determine their own time period according to the specific situation.

However, this does not make a big difference, anyway, Xinglan only needs to know that it is the middle of the night, and from the perspective of the observed planet's movement, there will be a day-night cycle in a few hours, when the stars will appear from behind the blue giant, and a full day will fall.

Thinking of this, Xinglan accelerated the speed of descent even more, and the huge blue planet in his field of vision finally expanded to the limit, proudly blocking most of the sky, and at this moment, Xinglan finally began to faintly see the shape of the city below.

The faint outlines of buildings and road tracks in the city have begun to emerge from the darkness, and the sky is covered by complex pipes crisscrossing the entire city center with a diameter of tens of kilometers, which are intertwined into hexagonal pipes that span hundreds of meters in the air, almost higher than all the buildings, like a large net firmly blocking the city's airspace.

"The structural material of the pipe looks like it is woven from some kind of high-strength fiber, could it be carbon fiber?" Looking at the network of pipes that stretched over the city from afar, Xinglan noticed that they all seemed to have some kind of pop-up flexible mechanism in between, and these pipe networks seemed to be firmly connected to the city's power supply system...... It is evident that many of the wires are wound around these pipes, connected to large coils facing downward, and judging by the changes in the magnetic field they emit, it is likely that this is some kind of wireless power transmission technology for the inner city of the city.

Without lingering long on the sky's network of pipes, Starland set her sights on the city below, where the above-ground buildings of Nightlight Star clearly had a very unique architectural style, most of them were upright cylindrical...... Rather than the more straightforward box. Several particularly tall buildings can be seen painted with the same wavy blue markings, flickering in the faint background light.

"Are these official government buildings?" Xinglan quickly swept over the huge Yelai text beneath the wavy markers, but she wasn't much interested in the seemingly glorious buildings.

Anyway, no matter which civilization's political strategy, it is basically only internally useful, and the differences in racial forms and cultures often make them useless to other races, not to mention that you can't always rely on diplomatic negotiation methods to communicate with civilizations like the empty saucer...... Negotiations have always been between two people of similar strength.

The city is not silent in the dead of night, in fact, on the contrary, the Nightshades are supposed to be nocturnal creatures, and continuing downward, the noisy and bustling streets confirm that this is the time of the Nightlai. If an ordinary human saw this scene here, he could only see countless blurred figures dangling in the darkness, but this faint light environment was just the right brightness for the Yelai people, and they could see everything clearly without looking dazzling.

Golden...... This is Xinglan's most intuitive feeling about this city.

The vehicles coming and going on the road, the various billboards on the buildings on both sides, and even the small electronic devices held by some Yelai people, many of them have a kind of golden anti-rust coating. After Xinglan curiously probed some of these objects in detail with the signal coden, she was surprised that the surface of these objects was plated with a layer of pure gold, and looking at the appearance of those Yelai people without the slightest care, it can be seen that this thing is not a rare treasure.

"Although gold is indeed a metal with super good corrosion resistance, it can be used to make anti-rust coatings on such a large scale...... Xinglan was a little surprised, and almost couldn't help but want to scan the internal structure of the entire planet, "It's incredible, how rich is the gold deposits of Yelai Star, look at it like this is about the same density as Lanxing's iron ore." ”

A little surprised, but only surprised. Gold is just a decent industrial manufacturing material for Xinglan, and it doesn't have any trade value worth hoarding, and it is only a matter of time before she can create a sea of liquid diamonds using high temperature and pressure.

"It's inefficient to wander around aimlessly, and it's possible to use cyber intrusions to get information, but it's better to talk to a random native." Thinking like this, Xinglan set her sights on some residential areas composed of the same cylindrical high-rise buildings, she didn't plan to find those big people to communicate with, talking to this kind of guy is often easy to get into trouble, but if she wants to find someone who can accept the unknown well, and at the same time not make a big deal. Words of the troublesome Yelai...... It's easier to communicate with the Yelai people in the decisive or juvenile stage, even if the other party goes to the government to complain that they have encountered aliens, at most they will only be regarded as stupid people in the late stage of secondary disease.

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So, in the vast sea of people, a young man who can't tell whether he is lucky or unlucky is targeted by aliens.

As for his name...... Since there are also differences in the pronunciation of the Yelai people and the earthlings, it is too complicated to transliterate them, so since he is the first Yelai person to be called by a name, we will call it "one" by number.

Well, don't worry too much about this kind of detail.

The Yelai people are closer to the habits of nocturnal animals than diurnal animals, so the middle of the night is the time when they are most active...... If it's all night, it's too dark for the Yelai people in the unlit wilderness, but the light in the middle of the night is just right.

As a teenager who should be of school age, Yi did not go to school during the peak time of Yelai people's activities, but stayed alone in his own home. The reason is not so much that I skip class, but because it is the time of the long school vacation.

For the Yelai people, who have some cold-blooded animal characteristics and can even sleep, their individual life expectancy is long, about 300 years, and the school holidays are also long, which is a slow-paced life.

There are also a lot of teenagers like Yi who are at home during the holidays in the residential areas searched by Xinglan, because the Yelai people don't have any concept of spouses, and the parents and offspring are not particularly close, and even basically at this age live separately, at most occasionally communicate and take care of two sentences or something.

But why is Xinglan the only one among so many Yelai teenagers? The reason is very simple, this guy's first impression on Xinglan is too ...... What's that.

The huge blue planet outside the window glass cast a faint light, there was no light in the room, only a glimmer of light leaking in from the window, and the pale-skinned teenager sat in the room, silently peeling apples in the mirror......

Well, since this happened on Yelai Star, of course it wasn't an apple, but it was also some kind of similar fruit, and this weird picture like an urban legend made Xinglan stunned for a while, and then with a prank mentality, he decisively decided to target this guy.

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Yi carefully grasped the knife with four fingers, slowly peeling along the skin of the fruit, trying not to break it, but at this moment, a strange feeling suddenly enveloped his heart, as if someone was staring at him from behind.

This is a high floor, and you can't hear the sound of the bustling street outside, and the cold air outside is poured into the open windows, which makes Yi's heart more and more uneasy.

Rustle rustle...... Rustle rustle......

The sound of something moving on the ground suddenly sounded from behind him, and it appeared so abruptly that he couldn't help but shake his hand and cut off the peel directly, if he remembered correctly, he was the only one in the house now......

didn't have time to put down the fruit in his hand, this seemingly very middle school boy really felt a little scared when he encountered this situation, he cautiously turned his head to look at the ground behind him, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "It turned out to be you little guy." ”

Appearing on the ground was a small fluffy white guy...... That's right, one, it looks like a moving scarf, the little black eyes looked at it for a moment, and then flexibly stretched out its little paws to pull on Yi's trouser leg, which was his pet at home.

"There was a false alarm, I almost thought those weird rumors were true." Gently grabbing the little creature and placing it on his lap, the boy looked at the peel that had been cut off with some trepidation, and smiled self-deprecatingly.

However, the next moment, his smile froze directly on his face, and in the mirror in front of him, an illusory sphere with a strange light was clearly reflected, floating in the air behind him.