The news of the hijacking of the starship ax786523 made headlines in major media overnight - the purpose of the Gore Star Pirates was to kidnap hostages in exchange for the imprisoned and tried military advisor Gori, and naturally they would not forget to use news media to put pressure on the government.
Are they the 7,826 innocent passengers on the starship, or the evil and bloody pirates
Everyone knows that they must never compromise in the face of threats. The consequences of setting a bad example are disastrous. Once it happens, countless pirates will follow suit. The military has sacrificed countless soldiers to stabilize the interstellar routes, which are now in jeopardy at any moment.
But on the other side of the scale are thousands of innocent passengers, plus the media that were bought off by the pirates and the marketing accounts that followed suit (yes, the marketing accounts in the interstellar age are still thriving) that fanned the flames and stirred up public sentiment. While the starship hijacking attracted the attention of the entire galaxy, different voices also became a mess.
Even Qi Guang, who didn't have access to the internet on Earth, knew about this.
As soon as the news came out, agent Savi immediately emphasized to Qi Guang again and again that no matter how the audience mentioned it, he should not express his personal opinions. It is better to just do his own live broadcast honestly because no one knows how the matter will develop later.
When watching the live broadcast, the audience would unconsciously go off topic to the starship hijacking incident, and the barrage of comments would become increasingly noisy.
It is precisely because the audience will talk about this while watching the live broadcast that Qi Guang can know the latest developments of the incident every day.
The government mobilized the army.
The starship was besieged by the military.
The government begins negotiations with the pirates.
Qi Guang prefers to trust professionals in unfamiliar areas, whether it is Savi or the interstellar government's judgment of the situation, or the abilities of professional negotiators.
So no matter how noisy the comments were, he never said anything. He just said an extra prayer "I hope everything goes well" every morning when he calculated how many more days he had lived.
So the audience will also follow suit and hope that everything goes well.
But the news from the front is always contrary to expectations.
The negotiations were difficult.
The unscrupulous media revealed that among the passengers there were a young military officer and the youngest son of a wealthy family from Froda Star.
A bunch of losers who can only talk nonsense on Starnet came in to muddy the waters, as if money, power and good looks were the original sins.
The negotiations reached a deadlock.
The situation is tense and ready to explode.
To many people, just three days seemed like three years, and this event that attracted the attention of the entire interstellar space came to an end on the morning of the fourth day.
It happened so suddenly and so quickly that many media outlets didn't even have time to put new headlines on their headlines. They could only scramble to finish their articles while adding elements of blessings and prayers on their homepages.
Qi Guang learned the outcome of the incident while digging the cellar.
--The military launched a surprise attack on the hijacked starship in the early morning of the fourth day, and with the help of internal and external forces, they regained control of the starship and rescued more than 7,000 trapped passengers.
Most of the passengers are in stable condition and can go home after a few days of observation and statement taking in the hospital. A few passengers were seriously injured, such as the young officer Rafa whose military identity was revealed and who is still lying in the emergency room.
The only one missing is a young beast named Heath, the youngest son of the richest man on the planet Froda, and a precious underage atavistic White Feather.
He protected the passengers behind him when the pirate leader Gore was desperate, but was taken hostage by Gore into a life capsule and was swept into a dangerous interstellar storm.
No one knew where the interstellar storm would take people, and the small life capsule was too fragile to be hit by a storm. It was more likely that the capsule would be destroyed and everyone on board would die before the capsule landed.
Whether it was cursing or quarreling, they all stopped at this moment, either actively or passively, and the crowd spontaneously prayed that Heath would be safe.
Qi Guang stopped what he was doing and whispered, "I hope everything goes well."
This was the reaction he should have at this moment.
Qi Guang used reason to correctly determine his reasonable emotional expression in this situation, although his emotional system seemed to have a minor malfunction after the end of the world and only gave him weak to almost non-existent emotional feedback.
It's not that there wasn't any regret or sadness, but the regret and sadness were so superficial that Qi Guang even wondered if he was relying on rational judgment to create the illusion of corresponding emotions.
Qi Guang picked up his newly made shovel and scooped up a shovel of soil.
Maybe something was really wrong with him.
Such thoughts floated through his mind and then dissipated like smoke. Qi Guang repeated the work of digging the cellar and learned a lot of news about the young feather system from the barrage.
The young feathered male (it is said) has a handsome face and a gentle personality, and does not have the common problem of being flashy and showy among feathered males.
The youngest son of the richest man on the planet Froda, his surname was a prominent aristocrat in the feudal era, and his ancestors were the kind that could be included in history textbooks.
He was once the chief of the Federal Military Academy, ranked first in both tactics and actual combat, and was a good fighter as well as a top student.
Because of his atavistic bloodline, his growth period was too long and he is still an underage sub-adult. He is not allowed to drink alcohol according to interstellar law.
The younger the life that meets with misfortune, the more regret and sadness it will arouse among people. Even Qi Guang's emotions fluctuated slightly when he learned that the victim was a minor.
But no matter how earth-shattering the interstellar events were, they were still too far away for him. After all, the cellar was more important.
The corn in the cornfield has grown to the point where it is almost ready to be harvested. If the cellar is not dug now, it will be too late to harvest the corn.
In fact, Shen City’s geographical location in the south is not very suitable for digging cellars to store grain. The climate is humid and the soil is easily waterlogged.
Although Qi Guang tried several places and chose the one with the driest soil to dig the cellar, and found no signs of water seepage after digging almost three meters deep in the humid summer, he still made preparations just in case and built a granary next to the house that he had originally planned to build as a single room for the winter.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. It is safest to store food separately.
Qi Guang has already dug a hole about three meters deep to make a cellar. The next step is to dig several holes one to two meters deep horizontally, compact the soil as much as possible, and dig out space for storing food.
He picked up a large number of shells and conches from the seashore, added sheep bones that had been boiled repeatedly until they had no taste at all, and simmered them together in a pottery kiln all night.
The main component of shells, conchs and bones is calcium. After high-temperature calcination, not very pure calcium oxide can be obtained - the so-called quicklime.
Qi Guang didn't know whether the humidity in the newly dug cellar was too high or whether it contained bacteria and microorganisms, but it would always be a good idea to sprinkle some lime on the cellar to dry and disinfect it before use.
Qi Guang did not waste any of the soil he had dug out with great effort for the cellar, as he used it as raw material for plastering the walls.
It took Qi Guang two weeks to build the frame of the house and the granary with tree trunks and bamboo strips. The frame was fixed with mortise and tenon joints and vine ropes, which were wrapped tightly to make it as strong as possible in case a strong wind blew the house away.
After the frame was built, Qi Guang originally wanted to use adobe bricks to build the house.
The earthen bricks bonded together by repeated hammering of soil are strong and not easy to damage, but the workload of hammering bricks and digging the cellar at the same time is too large, so Qi Guang gave up after trying a few bricks.
With the efficiency of laying one brick every ten minutes, if he wants to finish building the house before the weather gets cold, he doesn't have to do anything else.
Qi Guang could only mix yellow mud with dead grass and paste it directly on the wall. He then pounded and compacted the surface repeatedly to smooth it, pasting layer by layer to build a mud wall that would at least last until next spring.
During the construction of the house, Qi Guang repaid the system loan again, announcing that he had survived on this deserted earth for two months.
In the second month, the progress of work in all aspects was a leap forward, especially in live streaming.
Saiwei is a very capable agent, and the team he formed for him is also very capable. With various publicity efforts, his popularity has grown gratifyingly. The anchor Yuying can already be called a dark horse among the new anchors.
This also allowed Qi Guang to finally achieve a little bit of points freedom, and use the system mall to purchase some non-survival necessities to improve his life.
The system also launches some discount activities at the right time in order to earn some points from Qi Guang, the stingy man.
Even the system couldn't bear to see it and gave Qi Guang a discount. Qi Guang then made up his mind and bought the pure cotton boxer briefs he had been eyeing for a long time.
One pair of underwear was 5% off, two pairs were 10% off. So Qi Guang bought himself an extra pair of underwear to change into, and at night, while knitting, he rebuked himself for being too indulgent.
The points he earned from buying two pairs of panties were enough to earn him a fraction of the points he earned from harvesting. Besides, when it was hot, no one could tell whether he was wearing them or not because of the grass skirt. When it got cold, a pair of cotton panties was no match for wool pants in keeping him warm. He kept thinking all day long, "Is cotton worthy of the sheep he skinned and fleeced?"
Qi Guang looked at the sheepskin mattress hanging out to dry, and then at the wool tangled on the wool stick.
——But, pure cotton underwear is so comfortable.
He refuted himself weakly in his heart.
The pure cotton fabric is just the right amount of softness when it touches the skin, and it also has a snug wrapping feeling that cannot be matched by wool or grass skirts.
Fat is the crystallization of human civilization!
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Qi Guang successfully convinced himself.
At the same time, Heath, who survived the cosmic storm, said he couldn't convince himself to accept reality.
Heath lowered his head to estimate the height between himself and the ground, and tried to flap his wings to fly down.
He was on a tree, barely maintaining his balance to avoid falling. For a winged bird, even a young bird that had just learned to fly would not care about such a short height. However, Heath realized something was wrong the moment he spread his wings.
- Where are his wings? Where are his big, beautiful white wings
Heath twisted his body desperately but all he could see was white fluff. His short and small wings flapped desperately but it only kept him in the air for two seconds so that he wouldn't fall too badly.
After falling to the ground and rolling around covered in mud, Heath looked around dazedly at his current appearance in the small puddle of water after the rain.
A white, round bird with short claws and small wings.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a ball.
Heath looked left and right at the edge of the puddle in disbelief. He shook his tail feathers and the ball followed suit. He flapped his wings twice and the ball also flapped its pitifully small wings. His body was too round and his legs were too short, so he lost balance and fell into the puddle. The white ball reflected in the puddle broke into ripples.
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Heath lay in a puddle. His body was too round and his short legs couldn't touch the ground. He struggled for a long time before he finally got out of the puddle. His snow-white down feathers were wet and stuck to his body and had shrunk.
He shivered and buried his little head in his belly, trying to escape reality.
Yes, Heath did know that the earliest beast species were not like modern beast species that could only reveal partial beast forms, but were beings that could freely transform between beast and human forms.
We also learned from history books that the ancient feather system would spread its wings into the wind every few decades, turning into birds with beautiful feathers that would fly across the starry sky to distant breeding grounds. However, the feather system of Heath, whose official scientific name is Phoenix, flies exceptionally far.
The ancient Phoenix feathered species is the only species in the interstellar world that has been documented to be able to survive in the vacuum of the universe. The birds that still have white feathers in the fossils would travel in groups across the vast sea of stars and reproduce on the satellites of Philor.
So the satellite that orbits Philor is called Phoenix.
Phoenix is an ancient word for humankind. This name is a relic of the war between humankind and beasts.
In the ancient language of the human race, Phoenix means the phoenix born from fire.
Humans named the birds after this name not only because the Phoenix is tenacious and has a long lifespan, but also because according to legend, the oldest Phoenix bird has a second life.
When a phoenix's vitality is about to run out, under special conditions there is a very small possibility that it will shrink into a cub or even shrink directly back into the egg, in this special way preserving itself the last hope of survival.
No one knows what the specific special conditions are, and the possibility is so small that it is almost zero.
In other words, this is a setting that only exists in legends and has no basis to be verified.
Therefore, Heath and his clan have always regarded this setting as a fabricated story made up by their ancestors to gild themselves, and have always used it as a bedtime fairy tale to coax their children.
Who the hell would have thought that this setting is actually true!
And even if Heath knew that the atavistic beasts would inherit the abilities of their ancestors, and knew that this setting was not a lie, he could not have imagined that he would be triggered by this possibility after deciding to die together with the pirates and being caught in an interstellar storm, and turning into a chubby little bird when he landed safely!
Looking at his small wings that could only flap a few centimeters off the ground, and then looking at the wet white ball of fluff in the puddle, Heath looked around at the dense forest and covered his face with his wings in despair.
If you die in an interstellar storm, at least your body will be left behind, and there is a chance that it will be found and sent home in the future.
He died like this in the forest of a strange planet. Even his parents couldn’t recognize that this was their son!
His fate might even be even more miserable, because he was round and looked fleshy, and as soon as he stood up from the puddle, he was slapped back by the flying claws from the sky.
"Meow--"
The cat lowered its head to sniff the bird. The immature bird had tender meat.
Its claws pressed again, very satisfied with the soft and resilient feeling of the flesh.
Let's give a sparrow to the biped today. The meat smells more tender than that of ordinary sparrows, and the biped will definitely like it.