Chapter 8
Mia looked at Rong Yuan in doubt. It must be said that Rong Yuan's complacent look could easily be misunderstood. Fortunately, Mia was not an ordinary girl. After the initial moment of shock, she blinked and gradually came to her senses from panic and doubt.
From a rational point of view, Rong Yuan could not be in the same group as the person who kidnapped her. The reason is simple. If this person wanted to do something to her, he could have done it when she was unconscious before, and there was no need to wait until now.
Seeing the girl calm down in a short time, Rong Yuan showed some appreciation. He nodded without saying anything, but his calm and kind look made Mia feel more trusting and at ease.
I don’t know why, it was only the second time they met and they didn’t know each other that much, but Mia felt that as long as this person was there, no one could hurt her.
"Fei Yan Team?"
Black Wind carried the leaf on his back and continued on his way to find the small stone. However, perhaps because they had something to lean on, they felt more relaxed. After listening to what old Miles said, Black Wind repeated the term and vaguely felt that the title sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
After all, the Milky Way is so big, with so many different races and planets, and there are naturally as many teams with various names as the sands of the galaxy. If you enter any name and search on the Starnet, you will definitely find thousands of search results, ranging from student clubs to interstellar pirates.
"Ah, are you talking about that one?" Someone in the team shouted, "That one... the eight-man and eight-woman idol group that Starlight Company launched a while ago, the one that sang "Tears at the End of the Century"?"
Everyone looked at him, including old Miles, with a look of "What the hell are you talking about" written on his face, as if he was some kind of creature from another dimension.
The man felt a little embarrassed by being stared at. He rubbed his head and said, "Hey? Haven't you heard of it? It's quite famous!"
"have no idea."
“Never heard of it.”
“Not interested.”
Many people said that chasing stars is not a popular hobby among them.
Old Miles shook his head and said, "Kallen, even if they are famous, don't forget that you were not even born when I arrived at Prison Star. So how could I have heard of a new idol group?"
"That's right." Kalen smiled foolishly and said, "Old Miles, don't keep us in suspense. Just tell me what the Feiyan Team is and who that person is?"
"Turn left at this fork."
Da Yu interrupted, and everyone turned to the left mine tunnel. Old Miles paused, as if he was recalling or organizing his words. After a while, he said, "You know, when I was young, I once ventured into the star field outside the empire."
Everyone nodded. The Landia Empire has more than 3,000 star systems, and the number of planets inhabited by intelligent creatures is about twice that. But most people will never leave the planet where they were born. Many residents of remote planets don't even know which countries exist outside the Landia Empire. People like old Miles who ventured outside the empire are even rarer. Therefore, that experience is the thing that old Miles is most proud of. In his spare time, they have heard him brag about it many times, but most of the time it sounds like endless bragging.
In fact, the reason why young Miles went out to explore was neither romantic nor brave. He just went with the caravan to a plantation planet to purchase food. Unfortunately, he was involved in the Empire's war against star pirates. Their spaceship was hijacked by the pirates and they were taken to the star field outside the Empire in the chaos. After suffering a lot, he returned to the Empire with great difficulty. The various experiences during this period can be regarded as ups and downs, twists and turns.
"There are not many peaceful places like the Landia Empire in the outer space. Most star regions are in a long period of chaos. The number of mercenaries and pirates is greater than that of regular troops, so there are many famous mercenary groups." Miles spoke slowly, with a hint of fear and terror. "That time, most of us were taken to the Serpent Eagle Nebula Belt in the chaotic star region by pirates, and were sold to a pharmaceutical company called Kayul as test subjects for human experiments. It was at that time that I met the Feiyan Team..."
Old Miles squinted his eyes, his legs seemed to move spontaneously in the dark mine tunnel, but his thoughts were floating up and down, as if he had returned to that day more than one hundred and fifty years ago.
——The mermaid on the opposite side is crying.
In the transparent nutrition cabin, Miles, who was just in his early thirties, was vaguely aware of this. His brain was groggy as if he had just woken up from a hangover, and his limbs were soft and weak under the effect of anesthesia, and he could hardly feel anything.
He blinked hard, and his blurry vision gradually came into focus, and he finally saw the mermaid in the nutrition cabin opposite, who was as beautiful as if she had walked out of a painting.
It is a magical race, with human-like upper bodies but fish scales and gills, and a complete fish tail in the lower body. Mermaids' tears do not contain a lot of water, but some kind of complex liquid, which will quickly solidify into milky white beads when exposed to air. Such beads can be sold at a good price to some collectors. However, sometimes, mermaids' tears solidify before they completely fall from their faces, which is embarrassing. In addition, a slightly corrosive liquid is needed to remove solid tears from the face, and using too much will disfigure the face, so mermaids generally do not like to cry.
The mermaid opposite was crying so hard, gasping for breath, with tears streaming down her face and she had no time to wipe them away. However, the liquid in the nutrient tank seemed to prevent her tears from condensing. Miles only saw the nutrient solution around her eyes quickly become turbid, and then the milky color gradually spread, causing the transparency of the mermaid's nutrient tank to be less transparent than that of others.
Miles was somewhat impressed with himself for still being able to think of these messed up things at this time. He didn't know if it was because he had encountered too many bad things since leaving home, but at this time he didn't feel that scared at all, and his senses were so numb that he even surprised himself.
But obviously not everyone has the same long nerves and long reflex arc as him. In the nutrition cabins he saw, there were all kinds of creatures, some desperately slapping the cabin walls, some crying, some angrily cursing, and more were groaning in pain. However, these nutrition cabins had excellent soundproofing, so he didn't hear any sound at all. If he could hear anything... it must be a noisy, desperate symphony of hell, right?
Not wanting to have his relatively peaceful mood ruined by the distorted and ugly bodies and hideous faces that had become distorted in the experiment, Miles once again fixed his gaze on the mermaid's pretty face and began to daydream.
There was nothing else he could do except stare blankly. The drug injected into the nutrition chamber made it impossible for these experimental subjects to even commit suicide.
Next door, the green monster in the nutrition cabin suddenly struggled violently, and a large number of bubbles bubbled up . With a "whoosh", blood spurted out of the guy's body, and in the blink of an eye, the nutrition cabin was dyed red, and nothing could be seen clearly. After a few seconds, the bright red liquid turned dark purple, but there was no ripple.
Miles turned his sight and soon saw a guy in protective clothing running over and operating the nutrition chamber. A set of blades extended from the top of the nutrition chamber - a bit like the blades in a household blender - Miles thought. Then he saw that the blades really stirred the contents of the nutrition chamber into a can of paste like blending juice, and then flowed out through a wrist-thick tube under the bottom of the chamber. After that, it was rinsed, disinfected, and filled with new nutrient solution. After a while, a little girl from Tarta with her eyes closed was sent over and put into the nutrition chamber. Various tubes were also connected to her. When the staff member left, everything was as if nothing had happened.
This scene stimulated many experimental subjects to struggle more violently after a brief silence.
——It will be my turn soon.
Miles thought.
Prior to this, Miles had been injected with strange drugs twice, and he also wrote down the order of each experiment. At the same time, from what he observed, the mortality rate in the first experiment was about 30%, and the second time it rose to 80%. By the third experiment... So far, he has not seen anyone survive for more than two hours.
Sure enough, not long after, two experimenters in white clothes came over, injected some light pink medicine into the syringe connected to the nutrition cabin, and manipulated the needle to slowly probe into his spine.
Miles didn't struggle.
For someone like him who is neither smart nor strong, nor has any special skills, he is very lucky to be alive today. Perhaps this is the moment when he finally reaches the end.
He thought desperately, closed his eyes, and felt the sharp needle piercing the skin on his back. At this moment, the needle suddenly stopped, the lights in the room suddenly went out, all the machines stopped running one by one, and a shrill alarm sounded throughout the experimental area.
——What happened?
Miles opened his eyes and saw the experimental area shrouded in the green light of the emergency indicator light. Several experimenters were running around like headless flies, and the experimental subjects were as confused as he was.
"boom!"
There was a loud bang, the ground bounced and shook a few times, the experimenters fell down, and the nutrient capsule cracked and cracked, and the sticky nutrient solution flowed out.
Miles suddenly found that he could hear voices.
"Run, it's Team Feiyan!"
"Oh my god! Oh my god! That demon has found us!"
"How did they find this place? Didn't they say they were wiped out in the Scimitar Nebula area a few days ago?"
"Why haven't you sent those damned guys to hell yet?"
"Take that information with you too!"
"The data hasn't been downloaded yet!"
"What about the experimental subjects?"
"I can't care less, let's go!"
"Don't dawdle, just take the most important things!"
Miles blinked, not quite understanding what the experimenters were arguing about. His hands and feet seemed to have regained some strength, and he pulled a tube out of his body with difficulty. Next to him, some of the stronger experiment subjects violently slapped the nutrition compartment wall, and crisp cracking sounds came from all directions.
"boom--"
There was another loud bang, and the door suddenly blew open, and bright light and heat poured in from outside. At the same time, they could hear explosions, screams, and fighting coming from outside. The roar of gunfire brought them hope of survival.
Miles squinted and looked towards the entrance.
Amid the billowing smoke and dust, a group of people walked in. Some were tall, some were short, some were fat, and some were thin. Fire was burning behind them, blurring the faces of several of them, but the fearless aura on their bodies was even more vivid.
At this moment, Miles was filled with anxiety - ah, this is the devil that those guys are afraid of...
