Chapter 92
People who travel in space for the first time are often fascinated by the scenery outside the window: the brilliant starry sky, countless stars. Without the refraction of the atmosphere, the stars in space are much smaller than they appear on the ground, and they do not twinkle and sparkle like the blink of an eye. But the endless stars themselves are an incomparable beauty, like undulating mountains and surging rivers and seas. If you are lucky enough to get close to a nebula, the scenery is even more spectacular.
However, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it will not be appreciated after looking at it for a long time. Moreover, such beautiful scenery seems to be within reach, but it is actually thousands or tens of thousands of light years away endless darkness. When the spacecraft is sailing on a busy route, it will occasionally cross paths with some ships, and the two sides will exchange signals with each other. When they are close, you can even see the passengers in the opposite spacecraft waving and smiling at this side through the glass porthole. But such times are rare, because the speed of the spacecraft is often very fast, and even if they "meet", they are actually just a flash of a hundred kilometers away. When the spacecraft leaves the passage and enters the dark star field that the Interstellar Alliance has never touched, such scenes can no longer be seen.
Mu Xiaohu lay by the window bored. The windows of the spacecraft were made of a special glass, which was much stronger than ordinary alloys and could block cosmic rays and ultraviolet damage, but correspondingly, the number of stars that could be seen was also reduced a lot. The scenery in space was not as magnificent as that seen in some ornamental spacecraft, and it was often dark. He had no interest in the dark scenery, but he didn't want to go to the game room to have fun, because there, he would probably meet an unpleasant person.
After the incident on Princess Star, he drove the spaceship to pick up Rong Yuan, but found that standing next to him were a young man he had just met not long ago and the butler who looked like a fox even without smiling.
It is said that not long after the Princess Star was pacified, Lor Dumont and his subordinates also landed on the planet. They should have followed some clues to this place and showed up after the situation calmed down. Lor once wanted to talk to his father, Duke Dumont, who had faked his death. General Leopold agreed because Duke Dumont was only controlled by Princess Tanada. However, he did not expect that Duke Dumont had just broken free from his restraints and did not even look at his son. He stared at Rong Yuan with resentment and shouted, "Your Highness the Princess is with Xinghe!" Then he shot himself.
The weapon that Duke Dumont carried was very powerful, almost shattering half of his body. Lor was standing in front of the Duke, and the exploding flesh and blood sprayed all over him. The young man stood there stiffly, completely unable to accept the change in front of him.
Fortunately, Lor was mentally strong and such a change did not destroy his will. Afterwards, he learned from General Leopold what happened to his father. He also knew that his father committed suicide because he knew that he could not avenge Princess Tanada with his own ability, so he chose to follow her. Landia also has some myths and legends about the afterlife. It is said that two people who died not long apart can still reunite in the underworld.
After a long silence, Lor asked his subordinates to collect Duke Dumont's body and put it into a freezer. Together with many other dead people on the Princess Star, they boarded a one-no-return ship and sailed towards the sun.
This is the custom of the Landians. Most of their planet is covered with ice, and the ground is extremely hard. As the seasons and temperature change, the ice in some places will melt. So although there is no shortage of land on the Imperial Star, there is no large area suitable for cemeteries. Therefore, since entering the interstellar era, their custom of burying the dead has become to send them into the stars to give them eternal warmth and rest. If you want to remember your deceased relatives and friends, just pray silently to the sun. The sunlight on the Imperial Star is not strong, and it will not cause any harm to your eyes even if you look directly at it for a while.
Then, Lore handed over the family affairs to a few loyal subordinates, and he and the butler named Semillian were going to leave the empire on the Flying Flame. When Leopold tried to keep him, he said, "The royal family fooled my Dumont family to this point. I am now filled with hatred and anger. Although reason tells me that all this has nothing to do with Her Majesty the Queen, it is still difficult for me to be loyal to her. I want to leave the empire and travel to other star systems for a while. Perhaps the broadening of my horizons will broaden my mind as well. Then, I will come back again."
At this point, Leopold could not say anything more. He could only take care of him as much as possible within his authority. Before Lor left, Leopold gave him his space button, which was a deluxe limited edition space button sold by Aurora Space Company. It could hold a lot of things. Mu Xiaohu was very envious, because no matter where he went, he had to carry a big and heavy backpack, and he couldn't carry much luggage.
The above information was not told to him by Rong Yuan or Alpha, as they had no interest in gossiping about others; and Luo Er himself certainly would not take the initiative to reveal his scar to him. Mu Xiaohu knew all this because he subconsciously asked Luo Er when he saw him. His question had nothing to do with the secrets of the empire, so Lan Cao was happy to tell him the answer.
He also knew that the reason why Luo Er boarded the Feiyan was actually the suggestion of the guy named Semillian beside him. Although the two of them carried a lot of "scrapped and obsolete" weapons with them, it would be safer to follow Rong Yuan. Moreover, although Luo Er decided to leave the empire, he didn't have anywhere he wanted to go. When Rong Yuan said that the spaceship was about to enter the dark area , they had no intention of getting off the ship.
This made Mu Xiaohu very depressed.
Of course, he was not the kind of person without sympathy. Luo Er was younger than him and had just lost his father. Mu Xiaohu wanted to take care of him at first. But he didn't expect that Luo Er's tongue was like poison, and he was furious with just a few words. In this case, Mu Xiaohu felt that he had resisted beating up the annoying kid, which was the most restrained performance since he was born. In order to avoid him accidentally committing the mistake of "bullying the weak", Mu Xiaohu decided to turn a blind eye. Wherever Luo Er was, he would stay away.
Mu Xiaohu didn't understand that it was the subtle sympathy in his expression that angered the proud and sensitive Luo Er. Luo Er was in an extremely dark and depressed mood at the moment, and it was only because of his strong self-control and tenacious will that he didn't do anything too extreme. The verbal dispute with Mu Xiaohu could only be said to be a way for him to vent his emotions.
After entering the dark star field, Lancao's communication was cut off, and even the star network could not be accessed. Bored, Mu Xiaohu decided to go find Rong Yuan and Wandou. However, when he saw Rong Yuan in the cab, he subconsciously held his breath and did not dare to disturb him.
Rong Yuan stood in front of the window with a normal expression, but those eyes... those eyes staring at the scene outside the window were so focused, so shocked, and condensed with many emotions that he could not understand, as if he had seen the most breathtaking scenery in the world, and as if he was communicating silently with some great existence, tasting all the joys and sorrows in an instant.
But... there's nothing outside the window!
Mu Xiaohu looked carefully outside the window in front of Rong Yuan again. It was still pitch black. Only a few dim stars could be seen in the distance, but they soon disappeared.
He didn't understand why Rong Yuan was so obsessed with such a view that he didn't even notice his arrival. You know, with Rong Yuan's alertness and perception, such a situation has never happened before. However, Mu Xiaohu didn't rashly run over to disturb Rong Yuan's current state. He just quietly withdrew and closed the door considerately.
[Maybe he remembered something from the past?]
Mu Xiaohu thought to himself.
[People like Xiaoyuan must have many ups and downs and thrilling stories, right? I wonder when I can be like him and become a senior who can make people feel very reliable and great with his eyes? ]
Only Pea knows that the scenery Rong Yuan sees is different from that seen by anyone else.
A long time ago, he exchanged a product called "Sky Eye" from the Merit Mall. It was actually a pair of invisible lenses. Its function was to display the merits of intelligent creatures within the field of vision in a digital form. Rong Yuan exchanged it in order to more easily identify those who had committed heinous crimes from the crowd, so that he could gain a large amount of merit in a short period of time.
But as time went by, Rong Yuan gradually felt that the effectiveness of the Heavenly Eye was very limited. The merit value it displayed was calculated based on the surplus of good and evil deeds people had done. If they did more good deeds, it would be a positive value; if they did more bad deeds, it would be a negative value. Perhaps just a thought difference would turn positive merit into negative merit. This pair of "Heavenly Eyes" could not really distinguish between good and evil.
Later, Rong Yuan upgraded his Sky Eye. After the upgrade, the values representing merit disappeared, and instead, he could see the light of the souls of intelligent creatures. The color represented good and evil, and the brightness represented the strength and potential of the individual. The color of the soul was not transmitted by light, so no matter how dark the environment was, he could see the clusters of light. Within a certain range, even if there were obstructions such as walls and rocks, his vision could not be blocked, so it also played a role in reconnaissance.
And now, at Wandou's suggestion, Rong Yuan carried out the third upgrade of Sky Eye.
It is said that when Rong Yuan exchanged for the Heavenly Eye, the merit required was only 150,000.
However, when upgrading for the first time, the merits required were 15 million, which increased by a hundred times.
And this time after the upgrade, the merit became 1.5 billion.
Rong Yuan's merit value has gone from being extremely poor to having over 10 billion in assets now, thanks to the contributions of Princess Tanada and her many subordinates. I don't know how many evil things they have done that angered the gods and the people, but even if we don't count the fractions, they have actually provided Rong Yuan with 20.3 billion and 50 million merits. If not for this, Rong Yuan would not have been able to complete the upgrade of the Sky Eye this time.
The dark universe seemed to be suddenly unveiled with a curtain blocking the view, and brilliant light burst out, like ribbons, like silk, like an endless rushing river, and like clouds floating in the wind, more beautiful than the rainbow, more gorgeous than the aurora, with no one knowing where it came from or where it ended. The sky outside the window was painted into an extremely casual and romantic painting by a pair of invisible magical hands, and was changing all the time .
"Is this... cosmic rays?" Rong Yuan said softly.
"Yes." Perhaps because he was a spirit, after Rong Yuan upgraded his Sky Eye, Pea could also see what he saw. The little guy stood by the window, also attracted by the ever-changing scenery outside the window. He stared at it intently, but did not forget to answer Rong Yuan's questions.
Rong Yuan pondered for a moment and said, "After this upgrade, I can see electromagnetic waves... and particle flows?"
"No." Pea turned around, looked at him, and said, "To be precise, it's energy."
