Chapter 349 Big Loss
"I can't accept it!" Liu Xingquan said forcefully, "This is so weird!"
"What's wrong with you aliens!!" Ren Anzhi shouted.
Xiao Zhen poked her head out from the white mist and asked, "Why are you guys so excited all of a sudden?"
"How can the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang not be men?"
"I can't accept this either!! They are obviously three strong men!"
Mr. Cat turned to Xiao Zhen and said, "The absence of the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang has dealt them a great mental blow."
"oh."
"Look, you said three brothers. The word 'brother' refers to men." Ren Anzhi said with difficulty, "They are men, right?"
Xiao Zhen said, “No.”
"What!!" Ren Anzhi shouted, "Guan Yu has a beard!"
"Who says non-males can't grow beards? Female goats also have beards."
"..." Ren Anzhi and Liu Xingquan shut up.
Xiao Zhen looked at them and laughed, "What are those expressions on your faces? Ah, hold your breath."
"ah?"
A huge warm bubble fell from the sky, and when it touched the spider web, it bounced and exploded into countless small bubbles, which jumped and spun, rubbing against the bodies of the bathers. Amid constant exclamations and laughter, the large and small bubbles gathered into a pool. Now this bathroom finally felt a bit like a bath on Earth.
Ren Anzhi was caught off guard and choked on his saliva. He poked his head out of the bubble. At this time, Captain Ban also floated to the surface of the water. Cat Cat Mushi took out a pair of sunglasses from somewhere and put them on the kitten's head, lying on the feathers on Captain Ban's back with an expression of enjoyment.
Ren Anzhi was surprised and asked: "Why can chickens swim?!"
Captain Madara sneered, "Haha, stereotyped Lola Homo sapiens cognition. Just like whether Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are men, you should think outside the box."
Ren Anzhi shut his mouth again.
"It's like this, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei are all Gnus people." Xiao Zhen also emerged from the bubble, his black hair was wet, and his face was red from the heat. "As individuals, Gnus people don't have reproductive structures. So they are not men in the sense of Earth."
"Without reproductive structure?" Liu Xingquan asked, "Then she is not a woman?"
"Neither male nor female." Xiao Zhen nodded, "That's why the bathroom automatically separated them."
"What does this mean? How do they reproduce?"
"There are many species in the galaxy that are similar to Laura's Homo sapiens, which reproduce sexually from both parents, that is, the parents are of two different sexes and reproduce offspring. In addition, there are also three-parent or even more lineage reproduction. The Gnus are different from all these situations."
"..." Liu Xingquan blinked and quickly searched his common sense, "Mitosis?"
"no."
"Wait a minute, how did the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang come here?"
"There is a kind of biological quagmire in the forest of the Gnus' home planet." Xiao Zhen said, "This biological quagmire is called the Holy Mother in Gnus semantics. They come from this quagmire."
"What?" Ren Anzhi asked in surprise, "You mean they grew out of the swamp?"
"The swamp will constantly generate new Gnus under certain conditions. After they emerge from the swamp, they develop consciousness and gather in groups, forming villages and building cities. These individuals themselves have no reproductive power. But judging from their appearance, it's not wrong to call them macho men in the tone of a sapien."
Ren Anzhi murmured, "This sounds too unscientific."
"That's the truth."
Liu Xingquan said: "It's really weird and totally inconsistent with the theory of evolution. It's like a human-making project in a gaming factory."
"Your statement is very interesting." Xiao Zhen said, "Indeed, some scholars have speculated this way. The origin of the life of the Gnus has always been a mystery with many different opinions. Some people have suspected that the Gnus may have originated from a more ancient civilization that genetically engineered their lives for a certain purpose." He flicked a bubble with his finger, "In any case, the origin of the Gnus is older than that of Homo sapiens, and their historical heritage is far beyond your imagination. This speculation cannot be said in front of them, it will anger them."
Liu Xingquan nodded, still looking incredulous.
Ren Anzhi looked at Xiaozhen and suddenly asked, "Xiaozhen, why do you know so much?"
Xiao Zhen remained calm. He hugged the cat who was licking his fur and said, "Mr. Cat told me all this."
"You're too wet!" Mr. Cat said with disgust.
"You should get wet too!" Xiao Zhen pressed Mr. Cat into a bubble. "Come to think of it, why did you bring us here to take a shower? There's obviously a bathroom on the boat."
"You must wash off the smell on your body before interacting with the locals," said Mr. Cat. "The locals use scent pheromones to communicate. Our own smell will interfere with communication and may even cause trouble. The bathhouses here are special and can wash off most of the smell on your body."
“I see.”
Mr. Cat jumped out of the bubble and silently leaped onto the platform next to the bathhouse. He shook his fur, turned around and said, "One more thing, except for our informants, it's best for all of you to have less contact with the locals."
"Hmm? What's wrong?"
“The situation here is unstable.”
"Ah, is there some kind of factional dispute here too?!"
"Factional struggles are an eternal existence in the galaxy," said Mr. Cat. "You heard it before you came here. The queen here just gave birth to a little princess."
"Yes."
"The queen has more than one princess. There is another princess above this little princess. The father of the eldest princess is another Bazalu."
Liu Xingquan asked: "Bazaru?"
"Bazaru represents the palace, which is the room owned by the queen's partner of noble status. You can think of this title as a prince. The fathers of the two princesses are male insect princes representing different factions. The queen naturally likes the newer one, the father of the little princess. She prefers to make the newly born little princess the future heir."
"Ah." Liu Xingquan's mind suddenly popped up an image of an old minister shouting out a classic line, "Deposing the eldest and enthroning the youngest, this is going to shake the foundation of the country."
"You should all understand by now."
"I can basically imagine the situation here." The content summaries of several domestic dramas flashed through Liu Xingquan's mind.
"Remember, we're only here to gather intel . Keep your contact with the locals to a minimum."
"I get it. Just don't get involved in the battle between the princess and the king for the throne. Don't worry, we will just be quiet passers-by." Xiao Zhen dived into the bubble again.
After they finished their contented bath, everyone's face was steamed red and their body felt light. The white-robed servants brought them several boxes of ointment. Opening the lid , they found a white, odorless, semi-solidified gel-like substance. Under Mr. Cat's instruction, they dried their bodies and applied the ointment on their bodies, so as to hide the original body odor and avoid communication problems with the locals.
When they walked out of the bathhouse, Ms. Fei and the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang were already waiting for them at the door.
The meeting with the intelligence informant was scheduled in a quiet box in a local garden hotel.
The informant is a local who wears a watch-like device on his forelimbs, which can translate the smell he emits into a language that Xiaozhen and his group can understand.
Its appearance is reminiscent of crawling insects on Earth, with a polished shell, green eyes, and two front limbs crossed in front of it, a gesture of politeness and submissiveness.
"Ah, it's my honor to meet the adults of the Eye of Supervision..." The translated voice had a "shukoko shukoko" noise, but it was barely understandable.
Mr. Cat interrupted it rudely and told it to get straight to the point and stop talking nonsense.
The informant twisted uncomfortably in his seat. "This news may be a humiliation to all the distinguished guests."
"Hurry up and tell me."
"There is a master who knows the whereabouts of the bounty hunter, but the master once owed him a favor." The informant twisted his body, "You see, this is not easy to deal with."
"How much do you want?" Mr. Cat asked bluntly.
"We Xiyiqi people believe that kindness is better than any money." The informant looked at the sun in the sky outside the window. "You see, kindness is like the sun, so bright and brilliant. Well, these are the original words of that gentleman."
"How much is it?"
"Look at the sunlight..."
Bang!
Mr. Cat slapped the table with his paw. The room suddenly became silent. Xiao Zhen was just sitting nearby and watching, but a chill rose from the bottom of his heart. He stared at the informant in front of him and said in a gentle and calm tone: "Tell me, what does it want?"
The informant twisted his forelimbs even tighter. "Tomorrow will eventually set, and the sunlight will eventually fade. In fact, there is something that can replace this favor."
"What is it?"
The informant pressed the data pad in front of him hesitantly, and a three-dimensional image appeared in front of everyone.
"This is what that lord wants."
Xiao Zhen stared at the holographic image in front of him, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "How could it be this!!"
There was a familiar bottle of beverage spinning in the picture, with a line of big words on it: "It's really extraordinary, a real special drink!"
The informant continued, "This is the most sought-after mysterious drink among collectors in the only treasure that the legendary Cha Keduo wanted to taste before his death. Some people also say that this is also the favorite drink of the great and noble Lord Mansfield."
Mr. Cat said coldly: "Speak to the point."
"This drink was made by an unknown craftsman. At the time, there were only a few hundred bottles circulating on the market. A collector marked this batch of genuine special drinks to prevent counterfeiting. This bottle is the only genuine one on the market and will be auctioned soon." The informant shook his mouthparts and announced in a solemn manner, "Its starting price is 3 million credits."
"I've suffered a huge loss!!" Xiao Zhen shouted in grief and anger.
