Chapter 176 Set Sail
A month passed quickly, the black chess pieces went abroad, and the white chess pieces were basically in a healthy state of development. Although the marshmallows were no longer snapped up by people after the increase in production, the sales were still hot. Rong Yuan's expectation of everyone having at least one marshmallow was just around the corner. Whenever various natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred in a certain place, it was the time for Rong Yuan to gain a lot of merit.
Recently, the continental plates seem to want to relax their muscles and bones, and the shaking is more frequent, but there are no more earth-shattering earthquakes like before. The seismograph is still accurately and punctually proving its existence value. Sugar Country has used the prediction information of the seismograph to be able to get along with both sides and be very proud of itself in the international arena recently. The first batch of clinical trials of drugs for the treatment of AIDS were all successful. A patient who had a rejection reaction gradually recovered after adjusting the drug. Rong Yuan's remote research institute has entered the vision of many people. The recruitment of volunteers for the second batch of clinical trials is also underway. Compared with the last time when it was almost coaxing and trying to get 12 patients, this time more than 15,000 , and this is only the data within Sugar Country.
Sugar Country has made great progress in the development of space and aerospace industry recently, and this is largely due to the research on the data of the End of the Moon City. Rong Yuan originally felt that the Earth's defense capability against other planets was too weak, and he was not confident in the ability of the scientists of Sugar Country, and he also planned to find a way to intervene in the research of the End of the Moon City. However, the facts proved that he underestimated the wisdom of the top smart people on Earth. If they only got a few words from the moon people, they might not understand what they meant. But after getting a large amount of literature and data from the End of the Moon City, if they still knew nothing about its writing and grammar, then it can only be said that the scientific community of the entire Sugar Country is a group of people who have gained a reputation for nothing.
After translating the text, the remaining work is to understand and recreate a large amount of technical information. Although the energy systems of the two are different, and the magnetite mainly used by the Yueqiu people is a mineral that no longer exists on Earth, the technologies are the same. Even if many of the inventions can no longer be realized, they still bring great inspiration and guidance to the people on Earth.
As for his understanding of the stone, there was no progress, and the faint music never became clearer. Rong Yuan once thought that being in a remote place would help him understand the secrets contained in the stone, such as the seaside, the mountains or the ice field, but the final result told him that it was useless.
Rong Yuan took stock of all the things on hand, and after confirming that there would be no chaos even if he left for a year or two and that there would not be much benefit in staying, he finally decided to set sail.
Before leaving, he secretly returned to the institute to rest for two days, chose to exchange the items needed for this trip in the mall, and re-arranged the work with Noah. Noah begged and begged to go out with him to "relax", but Rong Yuan had a lot of things to tell him, so he naturally couldn't agree. Noah begged and begged in vain, and finally copied his program into a small USB flash drive for Rong Yuan to take away, claiming that this was his clone, and he would experience this trip with Rong Yuan on his behalf - according to what he said, it was an "interesting trip", and all the data could be transferred to it after returning, which was no different from him going there himself.
Finally, it’s time to take the star map and go find the octopus alien Paco.
But this guy couldn't even be a homeless person, and once again got himself into a mysterious predicament. When Rong Yuan found it, it was huddled pitifully in the cell of the detention center. It didn't even dare to move. Firstly, it was afraid that too frequent contact would destroy its transformation effect. After all, there was no place to charge it in the cell, let alone a maintenance station. Secondly, it was also worried that it would accidentally kill the fragile human. Even though it still didn't understand what the human was chattering about all day, it knew that the consequences of killing a human would definitely not be good.
Rong Yuan couldn't understand how the police of this country caught him. When they arrested this alien, did they notice that his skin was soft and sticky all over?
However, Paco's merits did not change much. The last time I saw him, it was 107, and this time it became 93. The difference was not big, so he must not have done anything bad. Rong Yuan was too lazy to care about the reason. He used drugs to knock out everyone in the detention center, and then woke up Paco. The two of them almost swaggered away from this place.
"Oh, luckily you came to save me. The people on this planet are really strange and fierce." Paco kept talking. He was still a little scared and shook his head as he spoke, as if he remembered something terrible.
Rong Yuan looked at him with a strange look in his eyes, because Noa was grinning evilly in the earphone beside his ear, and goaded him: "Rong Yuan, Rong Yuan, show him a hundred ways to cook octopus! Let him see a chef cooking a live octopus!"
Rong Yuan tapped the switch on his headphones to turn off Noah's weird laughter, and casually chatted with Octopus... no, with Paco about the scenery of their hometown, and the two of them took a car to the suburbs.
It was already late in the evening, the clouds looked like fire, and tender green new buds had just sprouted from the crops in the vast and flat wheat fields. The fragile green was like a layer of misty gauze covering the gray-brown soil, spreading softly and endlessly.
The light of the setting sun shone on Rong Yuan's face, making his light-colored pupils seem to sparkle. His cold face was reflected with a faint red, adding a bit of blood color and warmth.
Rong Yuan turned around and asked, "Are you ready?"
“Bhikkhu, as my witness, I dream of leaving this barbaric planet,” Paco said impatiently.
"Let's go," Rong Yuan said, and walked forward first. Paco followed without hesitation. After walking another ten meters or so, he saw a subtle distortion in the air in front of him. He became more and more excited, and couldn't help but pat the ground with his tentacles.
Paco was not puzzled as to why Rong Yuan's spaceship could not be seen by the naked eye. In the space age, optical invisibility was one of the most basic functions of most spaceships. It could avoid many dangers during space travel, especially when traveling to some low-level planets with a low level of civilization.
A few seconds later, the two of them seemed to melt and disappear into the air. A few minutes later, the wheat seedlings fell over, the air swirled, and a strange wind sounded low. Then, a sonic boom suddenly sounded in the air, and a pale white mist appeared above the ground, pointing diagonally towards the sky, and soon disappeared with the flow of air.
In the wheat fields, some geometric shapes that were both regular and mysterious appeared. A few days later, these shapes appeared in the news, leaving the indigenous people of the earth with new fantasies about "crop circles" and "aliens".
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As soon as he entered the spaceship, Paco could not wait to remove the optical mimicry. Rong Yuan watched it transform from a bearded, ragged tramp into a hideous monster, and finally understood why this guy, who was obviously not very intelligent, had been hiding among the earthlings for so long without being exposed.
The octopus made full use of its mollusk characteristics and twisted its body into incredible angles. Some of its tentacles were tangled together, some were tied to its head, some were tied into knots, and the most pitiful one was twisted like a twist. In the end, it succeeded in twisting its body shape to be almost the same as the human it transformed into. With such a huge body, it was finally compressed to less than one-tenth of its original size, and it lasted for such a long time. It is easy to imagine how painful it must be.
The octopus released its tentacles one by one, and couldn't help but groan in pain. In many places, you could hear unpleasant friction sounds and "crackling" sounds like bones being broken. Although this alien looks like an octopus, it is not exactly the same as the octopus in the ocean on Earth. At least it sounds like there are still a few bones in his body.
The route and navigation system had already been set in the spacecraft. Rong Yuan was more curious about the changes in the octopus than the process of leaving the earth, which he had seen many times. He stared at it for a while before going forward to help. Paco finally got himself back to his original state. He lay on the ground and panted weakly for a while before he reluctantly said, "Thank you. Is there a water tank on the spacecraft? I think I need to rest for a while."
Rong Yuan said, "Yes, follow me."
Probably, when the spaceship was first designed, various situations were taken into consideration. Many rooms in the spaceship have different functions. When not needed, they can be used as warehouses or lounges. When needed, they can meet the needs of many different races. There is an ecological fish tank near the cafeteria, which is large enough for even a Paco to fit in easily.
As soon as Paco saw the ecological fish tank, he rushed over and almost hurriedly squeezed himself in. He stretched his tentacles, sighed with satisfaction, and said, "Your spaceship is really nice. I have only heard of such spaceships before. You are really rich."
"Not bad." Rong Yuan said. The Yu Shuttle cannot pass through black holes, and its speed is not fast enough for space travel. This spaceship is the most expensive item he has ever redeemed. He has accumulated more than five million merits in more than a month, and this spaceship cost nearly half of it.
You get what you pay for, and this principle is most fair in Merit Mall.
Paco said weakly: "I'm sorry, I think I need to hibernate for a while, I think..." Before it finished the rest of the words, its eyes closed, and its tentacles tapped around the ecological fish tank. Suddenly, thin silver metal plates emerged from all around and wrapped the entire fish tank. Before it was completely closed, Rong Yuan saw some milky white liquid spraying out of the fish tank and merging into the water, and the octopus's appearance was completely invisible.
Rong Yuan raised his eyebrows. He himself didn’t even know what this function was.
The spacecraft does not require any operation to sail, and there are also hibernation chambers in the lounge for carbon-based mammals such as humans. However, Rong Yuan was not interested in it. He walked to the window of the observation room and watched the earth moving away from him at an increasingly faster speed. The complete darkness and the twinkling stars came into his eyes.
