Chapter Ninety-Five: The Jade Bird
Eventually, the movement of the small cube slowed down, and the two spheres were becoming firmer, and the chaotic stripes were gradually becoming horizontal and vertical.
The black stripes on the lunar surface became lighter and lighter, and finally disappeared completely; Almost at the same time, the scattered cubes disappeared, each fusing into a separate sphere.
At this time, two bright moons appeared in the sky, one on the left and one on the right, slowly intertwining with each other, as if they were dancing a set of strange dances.
Just as the guests were focusing on the two moons in the sky, the jade finches on the table opened their eyes again, revealing their jet-black eyes, which chirped crisply and fluttered their wings.
The largest one had changed color, shimmering with a metallic sheen and layers of feathers; It leaped as hard as it could, taking the lead into the air, and the rest followed suit.
As the jade birds fly higher and higher, their size is also increasing rapidly, and soon they all become giant birds dozens of meters long, under the illumination of the two rounds of bright moon, the whole body reflects a golden brown light, obviously at this time they are no longer jade birds, but iron birds made of hardware.
Giant birds soar high in the sky, accompanied by the "quack" chirping, and the hazy halo produced by the bright moon becomes their best background.
King Kerman turned his head to look at his beloved concubine, and Drolina was also looking at it, her face full of joy and satisfaction, for it was exactly what her hometown looked like, and the sky was full of sacred birds flying around.
After a while, everyone was a little tired, and the big birds all slowly landed, and at the same time gradually became smaller, and when they fell back on the table, they had reverted to the appearance of jade birds, as beautiful and cute as before.
In the midst of everyone's praise, the jade finches were carefully put away into the box one by one.
Soon more than two years passed, and King Kerman rarely took care of state affairs, and most of his mind was devoted to his concubine, trying to please Zolina by all means.
Early in the morning, the chamberlain of the harem knocked on the door and invited King Kerman to the council chamber.
King Kerman was now immersed in the gentle countryside and had not yet gotten up.
The reckless visit of the chamberlain was so displeasing to Kerman that he was about to lose his temper when there was a cacophony of voices outside, both the sound of hurried footsteps and the voice of whispered conversation.
King Kerman had no choice but to dress up and go outside the door, where all the important ministers had arrived and were saluting him.
"You people—really!" Kerman sighed helplessly and innocently, and had to obediently follow the ministers to the council chamber.
"Tell me, you have something to do, you have to get me here early in the morning, and you won't even get a good night's sleep," said King Kerman, yawning again and again, as if he had not yet woken up from a nap.
Barak, the chief star officer in charge of planetary affairs, said: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, there has been a strange incident in our triangular galaxy recently, and many of our stars have disappeared. ”
"I thought something big had happened, the stars were gone, and it was worth making a fuss, we have so many stars, what are you afraid of if you throw a few." King Kerman was now fully awake, and he said as he rubbed his face with his hands.
"But there are so many that fifty or sixty thousand stars have disappeared."
King Kerman almost jumped up, "What, fifty or sixty thousand!" Lose so much, why didn't you say it earlier? ”
Chief Star Officer Barak muttered quietly, "I wanted to say it earlier, but can I see you!" ”
"Less nonsense," King Kerman became, the more he thought about it, "hurry up and find out, what caused the loss of the stars, oh my God, tens of thousands are missing—how many tens of thousands can I have!" ”
Foreign Minister Hanktai whispered, "Your Majesty, I will say something, don't be angry, there is a rumor among the people that the loss of the star has something to do with your concubine Zhuolina. ”
"What!" Kerman was furious, "Where did you hear this, go and arrest all the rumors." ”
The ministers persuaded one after another, "Your Majesty, you don't need to be angry, this is just a rumor, and it can't be true!" ”
After some arguing and discussion, the meeting finally ended.
Kerman huffed back to the back, and Zolina approached him and asked him why he was angry, and Kerman explained what had just happened.
Zhuolina smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you can't blame those ministers for this, they are all well-intentioned, for the country, for you." ”
Kerman said with great emotion: "Concubine Ai is really magnanimous, those citizens who spread rumors are too hateful, and I have to punish them well when I catch them." ”
Zhuolina said: "Your Majesty doesn't have to blame those small people, they don't know what's going on, so they are suspicious, let's find a way to get those stars back, won't the rumors be self-defeating!" ”
"That's right, Aifei, you are really smart, tell me quickly, how can you get back the lost star?"
"Use the jade bird from our hometown! Let them fly high in the air and search slowly, I think sooner or later one day they will be found. ”
"Good way! Look at my foolish brain, how did I forget the jade bird. King Kerman was overjoyed.
In the future, every night, as long as the moon hangs in the sky, the jade bird will fly into the air, some fly to the extremely high sky, and some will circle around Wanbao City.
The southern region of the triangular galaxy, here is a dense area of stars, customarily called the southern triangular star field, I don't know when, in the center of the southern vortex, there is a magic eye, the periphery of this magic eye is two dark red halos up and down, and the center is a super black hole.
The stars near the black hole, along with the planets attached to it, are the meal on the plate of the Magic Eye, and every day dozens of stars are pulled by the strong gravitational pull of the Magic Eye, spinning and falling into the black hole.
As the stars disappear, the MONOCULUS grows day by day, and its gravitational control is gradually extending to all directions, and now the MONOCULUS is still in the development stage, and needs more stars to continuously provide it with nutrients.
Some of the iron birds that flew out of the moonlight did not actually look for the lost stars, some of them flew into the air, identified and marked the interstellar position coordinates of the relevant stars, and then provided the coordinate information to the MONOCULUS, so that the MONOCULUS could independently select the planetary targets that could be swallowed.
The other part of the bird flies to all corners of Wanbao City, and at each key point, they leave behind an information node sphere, a colorless and transparent ball the size of a grain of rice, but it can send and receive interstellar photon chain information.
On this day, Oita came to the palace in the name of repairing the jade bird, and King Kerman was busy with state affairs elsewhere.
He saluted Zolina and carefully stood aside.
"Oita, how's the matter with the MONOCULUS?" Zolina asked.
"Your Highness Princess, please rest assured that everything is as you command, just—" Oita stumbled.
"Did something go wrong? If you have something to say, just say it," Zhuolina was a little angry.
Oita was even more scared, "Since most of the stars here are old and have limited energy, the speed of development of the Demon Eye is a bit slow. ”
"The plan cannot be postponed, it must be carried out as it was; We can wait, but the 'Ten Thousand Saints Star Venerable' of the Immortal Empire can't wait, and if you delay the big thing, you will have to weigh the consequences yourself." ”
"Yes, yes, Your Highness Princess, I know, I will let the Iron Bird do its best to find a star with plenty of energy." Oita said.
Zhuolina asked again, "So, how is the marking work of Wanbao City progressing?" ”
"The work is going well here, and it will be done in another month."
"Alright," Zolina's face finally showed some joy, "then set the final time at the beginning of next month." ”
"Yes, yes, Your Highness Princess, no problem, we will definitely succeed!" Oitanono snapped, then stepped back.