Chapter 272: Desert Orchard

"Isn't the Sandcarb Beast very powerful! Why is it extinct? Xiao Qiao looked puzzled.

"Lion and tiger are powerful, aren't they?"

"Awesome—"

"There aren't many lions and tigers left." Big Joe chuckled.

"But the sandcarapaces are different, they hide in the sand, they are difficult to find, it is not easy to hunt, there are so easy extinctions."

"It has been hunted by humans for thousands of years, and no matter how powerful the race is, it can't bear it."

"Why hunt them?" Liu Xiaofei asked suddenly.

"There is a layer of armor on the sand-armored beast, which is very strong, in the early days of interstellar exploration, the metal armor made by humans is not as good as the sand-armored beast, so many human mecha pilots want to hunt the sand-armored beast, hoping to obtain their armor as the armor of the mecha, and later the human metallurgy is more and more developed, and the armor of the sand-armored beast is gradually eliminated. However, there are still some bored people who hunt sandcarbs for fun. ”

"Oh-" Liu Xiaofei frowned, bowed his head and said nothing.

"The sand armor is big?" Liu Fei asked, and faintly, he smelled a hint of danger. Most animals that have been hunted by humans for a long time will have an almost instinctive hatred and hostility towards humans.

"It's huge, around two tons."

"Hmm."

Liu Fei nodded, the weight of two tons was not a threat to the mecha.

"Liu Fei, don't despise the sand armor beasts, although they are not very large, they are very fast, and their sense of hearing is very sensitive, plus they can quickly travel through the desert underground, the threat to humans is still huge. More than 100 travelers are devoured by the Sandcarbs every year, and it is said that it is precisely because of the inability to prevent the Sandcarpaces from harming humans that the depression of Kaba Star has been caused-"

"Didn't you say extinct?" Little Joe asked.

"It's just that it's close to extinction, in fact, there are still a small number of sandcarbs active in the desert area of Kabastar, and I believe that in other places, the number of sandcarbs is actually not small."

"Sand carapaces are carnivores?" Liu Fei asked.

"It's not." Big Joe shook his head.

"Then why are they attacking humans?"

"The living habits of the sand carapace are actually a bit like rabbits, they have a very sensitive sense of hearing, and they are very fast, but their body size and living environment are different. The main diet of the sand carapace is desert thorns and desert fruits, and a sand carapace has a range of at least fifty kilometers, and although they are vegetarians, they also occasionally eat small animals to supplement their nutrition - of course, this predation is more of an accident than a deliberate act, and scientists have come to the conclusion through hundreds of years of observation. ”

"In other words, sandcarbs don't deliberately attack humans, but if they encounter delicious humans, they will also attack prey?" Liu Fei's frowning brows stretched. According to his experience, most vegetarian animals will actively avoid humans, let alone the extremely sensitive Sand Armor.

Even if they encounter the sand armor, before humans get close to the sand armor, the sand armor must have already fled, and there is no chance attack at all.

"Yes."

The shuttle boat takes off.

The tour guide began to introduce the customs of Kaba Star, and his words were very humorous and sensational, and he was very good at adjusting the atmosphere.

Liu Fei listened very carefully, which was a habit he had maintained for a long time. He found that in addition to focusing on the desert orchard, the tour guide was more often about the training base of XE Security Company, and between his words, he was full of pride.

The tour guide also introduced the sand carapace, but only a few times, telling the passengers not to run away when they encounter the sand carapace, because the sand carapace has no eyes, and completely relies on hearing to make judgments and attacks, as long as it is absolutely quiet, it is difficult for the sand carapace to cause harm to humans.

Among them, the tour guide introduced the most is a small handicraft ancient city built in an orchard, that place has a history of hundreds of years, described by the tour guide as a paradise for women to shop, in addition to having cheap jewelry, there are many small handicrafts with collectible value and commemorative significance, most of which are made of high-density fruit wood kernels.

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The interest of the tourists along the way was very high, especially some female tourists were even more excited under the instigation of the tour guide, and kept screaming.

The three-hour voyage arrived quickly, and there were already ten luxurious hovercars waiting in the interstellar port on the ground.

Ten hovercars roar through a city.

The city is not big, it took half an hour to cross the city. However, this small city is very bustling, bustling with people, and everyone has a happy smile on their faces.

"It's a happy city." Da Qiao, who looked out the window, exclaimed.

"yes, they're smiling so well - you see, they're all friendly, they're all smiling at us." Joe opened the window and waved out.

Liu Fei stared at the window, his brows furrowed, the smiles of those men on the street made him feel very strange, but for a while, he couldn't understand what was strange.

"Do you need to be so happy?" Liu Xiaofei suddenly said without a head.

Do you need to be so happy?

Suddenly, Liu Fei's heart jumped. Yes, do you need to be so happy? It can be clearly seen that most of the smiles of those people on the streets and alleys are made by the sight of hovercars.

After Liu Xiaofei mentioned it, those happy smiles suddenly gave an extremely weird feeling.

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"We passed through the marble archway, and we entered the desert orchard, and you can take a closer look, the granite gate is more than five hundred years old—"

Just when Liu Fei was thinking that something was wrong, the tour guide's voice interrupted Liu Fei's thinking.

Probably in order to give passengers a better viewing angle, the hovering car hovered in the air and was horizontal, so that passengers on the side of the window could see the marble archway more clearly.

Sure enough!

The torii is two crossed columns, like the shape of a pyramid, with a height of more than 100 meters, and the whole body is yellow marble, with some hard lines, simple and bright.

At this time, there are still at least a few kilometers away from the torii, but the torii gives people an extremely majestic feeling.

After a short stay, the convoy passed through the middle of the archway, at close range, more and more felt the majesty and height of the archway, and the marble was weathered and corroded out of the mottled atmosphere to give people a simple atmosphere, the simple two marble pillars, filled with a strong sense of historical heaviness -

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Entering the orchard, people began to get excited.

At this time, the height of the hovercar is less than 20 meters above the ground, and the ground is an endless fruit tree, and the yellow and clear fruits are hanging all over the branches, which is mouth-watering.

"We've entered the desert orchard, and you can see that the fruit trees here don't have any irrigation tools, and these fruit trees are actually no different from naturally growing fruit trees except for the cultivation of seedlings at the seedling stage. In addition to the fact that there is no irrigation, there is no pesticide - if you look closely, the shape of the fruit trees is naturally grown, and no one prunes the branches—"

"Is it so easy for desert plants to survive?" Little Joe exclaimed as he asked his own question.

"Hehe, the question asked by this beauty is very good. In fact, it is very difficult to cultivate plants in the desert on which planet, but this is no longer a problem in Kaba, because the plant scientists of Kaba not only cultivated some drought-tolerant and heat-tolerant fruit trees, but also innovated a new irrigation method - atomized irrigation! ”

"What is atomized irrigation?" Liu Fei asked with interest.

"During the day, the temperature is hot and the light hours are long, so the fruit is sweet and delicious. However, at night on Kaba, the atmosphere will be much lowered, the water vapor will not be so easily dispersed, and we will use an advanced science and technology to make the desert orchard shrouded in dense fog. And most of the desert fruit trees are able to absorb water through their branches and leaves—"

In the interaction between tourists and guides, the convoy is already in the middle of an endless orchard.

"Why haven't we landed yet?"

Looking at the dense orchard that could not be seen at a glance, Liu Fei suddenly felt a little inappropriate. If you are just picking fruit freely, there is no need to go deep into the orchard, after all, there are many fruit trees that can be picked near the marble archway.