Chapter 161: No Value
The octopus alien was really unworthy of his "alien" origin, and he had a miserable time during this period. After escaping from the train station, he had not encountered a good time. He finally mastered some basic expressions of earthlings, but he had no money to eat, no ID to stay, and he would accidentally squeeze others on the road because of his invisible body size. If he used a little more force, the fragile earthlings would be severely injured... Then, within three to five minutes of him causing chaos, nearby police would run over with batons raised and shouting. The octopus alien was afraid of being caught and his true identity recognized, so he always ran away in a hurry.
Finally, he found out that there is a kind of people on earth who are always ignored by everyone. No one asks their names or checks their IDs. Sometimes people even give them food and drink. These people are the homeless people on the streets. The octopus alien changed into the appearance of a homeless person and lived a very stable life. Except that he was hungry most of the time, he was very satisfied with this identity.
And today, he was particularly lucky, as he actually met someone who was willing to treat him to a meal and let him eat and drink to his heart's content.
“Pah-pah-pah-pah-pah-pah…”
The octopus alien grabbed a freshly baked hot dog, bit off a third of it in one bite, then moved his cheeks twice, took two more bites and the hot dog disappeared. He threw the paper bag on the ground, took another one from the mobile food truck, and finished the hot dog in less than ten seconds.
There were already 20 or 30 packaging bags on the ground, and he looked like he was still not finished eating. The long-faced young man selling hot dogs stared at him blankly with his mouth open, looking as if he had lost the ability to think.
Rong Yuan sat on a bench with his legs crossed, holding a book in one hand and a cup of hot coffee beside him. He looked as if he was not sitting on the street but in a high-end coffee shop with piano music playing. His eyes were on the book, but he could see every move of the octopus alien.
According to his observations during this period, this octopus alien was surprisingly a simple-minded type with strong limbs, a little stupid, but not a bad guy. At first, he looked like a cold-blooded killer who regarded human life as worthless, but after he realized the harm his unrestrained strength would cause to humans, he became much more cautious in his actions, and began to avoid people as much as possible, and tried not to take action when he was chased.
——If he hadn't discovered that he was such a guy, Rong Yuan wouldn't have come to see him so quickly. It was because he felt that if he continued to observe, this guy might starve himself to death here.
Finally, the last hot dog on the stand disappeared into the homeless man's mouth. He searched eagerly, but found no extra food. He sighed with regret and satisfaction, then touched his stomach and said to Rong Yuan with a smile in poor Nut Language: "Thank you, I'm full!"
Rong Yuan snapped the book shut, put down the half-empty white porcelain cup, and paid the still dazed stall owner. The octopus alien's exaggerated appetite had attracted quite a few onlookers, and he left with this silly guy.
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The weather was very cold, and there was almost no one around the square. There was a thin layer of ice on the surface of the lake, and the damp and cold water vapor made no one want to stay around.
Compared to a closed dark room, Rong Yuan prefers such an open environment when talking. He turned around and saw the alien who had been following him without any suspicion just because he said "Let's go". At this time, he tilted his head stared at a sparrow on the treetop. As he was looking at it, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the sparrow and stuffed it into his mouth.
Rong Yuan asked speechlessly: "Aren't you full?"
"Oh... I forgot." The octopus alien let go of the sparrow in his hand awkwardly. When the bird fluttered away, he couldn't help but stare at its back and licked his lips reluctantly.
Rong Yuan decided to get to the point. He gently stroked the translation mask on his face and said to the octopus alien: "How did you get to this planet?"
"Oh, I'm so unlucky." The octopus alien sighed and said, "The spacecraft first hit a group of ghost devourers, which destroyed the protective layer and detection system. Later, it ran into highly dangerous cosmic rays. I don't know how I landed on this planet. Fortunately, this is a habitable planet. If I accidentally landed on a star, I would be dead... Eh?"
He suddenly felt that something was wrong. After thinking for a while, he suddenly realized the problem. When Rong Yuan asked questions just now, he did not speak the native language of this planet, but the common language on their planet!
"Ah ah...you, you are..." the octopus alien pointed at Rong Yuan and shouted loudly. After stuttering for a while, he jumped up happily, and the ground shook twice. He said with a tongue twister: "You, you are also a monk?"
Rong Yuan neither admitted nor denied it, but said: "I had an accident when I was traveling through the wormhole, and somehow I ended up here. Do you have a map of the route from this planet to Biqiu Star?"
"Yes... but I don't have any now." The octopus alien was so moved that his eyes were filled with tears. He answered every question and looked like he wanted to hug Rong Yuan, but Rong Yuan's calmness made it difficult for him to vent his enthusiasm.
"What's going on?" Rong Yuan didn't care about his feelings and was more concerned about the direction of the route map.
"The star map is on the spaceship." The octopus alien said honestly: "When I fell, the spaceship fell into the sea."
——The common name is star map?
Rong Yuan nodded. He had an accurate record of the latitude and longitude of the octopus alien's landing. The direction and speed of the seawater could also be modeled based on the data. It was not difficult to deduce the landing point of the spacecraft. However, how to use it might require the help of this silly alien.
He said, "I'll find a way to get it out. But how did you get yourself into this state? How long have you not eaten a full meal?"
When talking about this octopus alien, his eyes were filled with tears. He said aggrievedly: "You can't blame me. The natives of this planet are too terrible, violent and stingy. In our place, we will directly help people in need. The people here ask me for the universal currency no matter what they do. They are so weak but so arrogant. I can be beaten to death by accident. It's all trouble... By the way, I didn't realize that you were not a native of the planet before. You disguised yourself so well. You must have been trapped here for a long time, right?"
Looking at his sympathetic eyes, Rong Yuan glared at him and snorted coldly, "Do you think everyone is as stupid as you?"
The octopus alien was not annoyed when he heard this. Instead, he touched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, that's right. My teacher always said that I was too stupid and it would be difficult to find a job after graduation . So I became an interstellar explorer. What about you? What do you do?"
"Same as you." Rong Yuan said.
"Really?" The octopus alien seemed to be more friendly after hearing this. He couldn't help but close the distance between them and said happily: "You look smart. I thought you must be doing a more powerful job! Like spacecraft research and development or something! You look like it!"
"I like adventure. What's the point of developing spacecraft?" Rong Yuan glanced at him and said, "My spacecraft is still here. When I find the star map, do you want to leave with me?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" The octopus alien nodded rapidly and said, "I have wanted to go back for a long time, but there is no way! The environment on this planet is too bad, no one can survive here!"
Rong Yuan, who had lived on this planet for nineteen years, nodded and agreed, "That's true. By the way, do you know what planet this is? I don't think I've seen any relevant records before."
"Haha, you've asked the right person! The information about this planet is encrypted. I only had the opportunity to see the information because I wanted to explore this star region. If it were someone else, they might not know it." The octopus alien said proudly, "This is Earth, but most people call it the Blue Water Planet... Have you heard of the Blue Water Planet?"
Rong Yuan thought about it seriously, shook his head and said, "I seem to have heard of it before, but I'm not sure of the details."
"Of course, this is a planet that is prohibited from development, exploration or tourism according to interstellar law! I heard that the natives of this planet have been trying to send information outward and get in touch with the Interstellar Alliance! It's a pity that they don't know that no matter who gets their information, it must be handed over and destroyed according to regulations. Otherwise, such a weak planet would have been incorporated into the territory of the Peninglang Empire long ago." The octopus alien seemed to have completely forgotten who had just said that this planet was too terrible, and how miserable he was as a hungry vagrant on such a weak planet. He told Rong Yuan everything he knew as if he was showing off.
——Interstellar Law, Interstellar Alliance, Peninlang Empire.
It seems that the social system in the interstellar era is not much different from that on Earth. There are also mutual constraints between different political powers, big and small, in the name of "law". However, the Peninglang Empire seems to be the monarchy closest to Earth. Has it always coveted this planet? And why is Earth protected by interstellar law?
Rong Yuan extracted useful information from the octopus alien's words and memorized it firmly, while coaxing him to say more useful things. He saw that the alien was a bit of a teacher, so he asked sincerely: "Why? Is this planet not worth mining?"
"Well, not entirely. I heard that there are still some rare resources here, but the content is very small and not worth mining specifically. Its biggest feature is that there are a lot of intelligent life forms, far exceeding the capacity of ordinary planets, but this is also useless." The octopus alien said with a sneer.
"It's useless?" Rong Yuan asked, "What do you mean?"
"You just got here and didn't know that the people on this planet are extremely, extremely weak! They are extremely easy to die!" The octopus alien used an exaggerated expression and tone to help express the degree of this "extraordinary". He then further explained to Rong Yuan: "The average lifespan is not even one-fifth of ours, and their load-bearing capacity is only comparable to one-tenth of one of my tentacles. They can't run fast, and their jumping ability is extremely poor. They will die if they don't drink water or eat for a short period of time. They will die if the food they eat doesn't match the carbon-based biological diet. They will die if the air they breathe is not in the correct proportion. They will die if the pressure is too high, if they are hit too hard, if the temperature is too high or too low, they will die quickly if they are exposed to a vacuum or cosmic rays, and they will die in the blink of an eye if they fall into the water. They will die if they don't get enough rest and sleep, and they may die if they are under too much pressure or are in a bad mood..."
He listed dozens of ways that humans died that seemed inconceivable to him, then he took a breath and concluded, "So, this is a creature that is only suitable for living in a specific environment. If any idiot is interested in their huge population and wants to export the Earth natives as labor, he must first build a huge shield to block all harmful rays in the universe, and then create air in the shield with the right proportion, adjust the temperature to a fixed range, provide them with specific food and a large amount of clean water every day, and only allow them to do the easiest work, and rest after working for a short time. He must also create an environment that makes them happy physically and mentally, and there must not be any creatures nearby that are more dangerous than level one. Before that, in order to transport the Earth natives, his spacecraft cannot accelerate too fast, cannot pass through wormholes, and cannot approach planets above level R, otherwise the fragile bodies of the Earth natives will be torn to pieces... If he has the time, he might as well go to Turner Star and buy a few Turner beasts. The labor of a Turner beast is equivalent to that of a hundred Earth natives, and it can adapt to the environment of most habitable planets. The food requirements are also the simplest, as long as there is soil to eat."
Rong Yuan's expression was slightly stiff. He had never thought that in the eyes of the cosmic creatures, the earthlings were such... insignificant creatures. The human beings on earth have always claimed to be the leaders of all things and the crystallization of the highest wisdom of the earth's creatures. But in the eyes of the aliens, they are not even qualified to be coolies?
This matter...to be honest, it is not entirely a bad thing, because there is no use value, so the possibility of "alien colonization" that humans have always worried about is very small. If humans find a planet in space with many cockroaches but no desired mineral resources, they probably will not be interested in invading and colonizing it.
However, as an Earthling, although he felt that there was nothing wrong with what the octopus aliens said, he still argued for the existence value of his kind: "I have had some contact with them and feel that the Earth natives are at least quite smart... Many of their ideas seem very interesting."
——At least he is much smarter than the monk in front of him, right?
"That's right." The octopus alien nodded, and then commented condescendingly: "But unfortunately their lifespan is too short, and their intelligence is also inferior to that of real intelligent species. If they go to the Interstellar Alliance, by the time they have learned the basics, they will basically have reached the end of their lifespan, and they will have no chance to invent anything meaningful. In addition, the cost of training an Earth native is too high, it is not cost-effective."
"If that's the case," Rong Yuan looked into the eyes of the octopus alien and asked slowly, "Why is this planet forbidden to be developed by interstellar law, and even the Peninglang Empire dares not touch it?"
