It was already dark at this time. There were not a single star in the deep blue night sky, only two artificial moons.
The strange cub sat on a small stool, his body straight, his hands on his knees, facing the door of the repair shop, and looking inside with his eyes open. His eyes were large and round, dark red, with erect pupils, looking dim and spirited.
What a very strange cub.
It is difficult to tell his race just from his human form.
When Ruan Shiqing walked over, he turned his face slightly, and looked straight at Ruan Shiqing with his eyes, blinking frequently.
He seemed to like staring at Ruan Shiqing very much. Other things or people around him could not attract his attention. Only when Ruan Shiqing appeared would he change slightly.
"Do you want to come in?" Ruan Shiqing squatted in front of him and asked in a gentle voice.
Although the cub looked very strange, Ruan Shiqing couldn't lock such a small cub outside the door and leave it alone at night.
So he extended an invitation to the other party.
If the other party is willing, then he will take him in for the night; if he is not willing, he will not force him. Although the security on the planet b3024 is not good, it should still be safe within the scope of the protection system.
The strange cub stared at him and did not respond to his question.
Ruan Shiqing even suspected that the two cubs were abandoned because they could not communicate.
After all, he had been around a lot and had never seen such a strange cub.
He sighed and draped the small blanket he brought over the cub: "If you want to come in, just sit inside. Maybe your relatives will come to find you." He pointed to the door, and slowed down his speech for fear that the cub would understand: "I'll lock the door. If you feel sleepy or scared, you can go to the yard to sleep, okay?"
The cub was half wrapped in a cream-colored blanket. Its eyes moved slowly, but it still didn't respond.
Ruan Shiqing gathered the blanket for him before getting up and turning around.
After taking two steps, I heard faint footsteps behind me.
Turning around, he saw the cub, covered in a blanket, following him slowly. The corner of the blanket dragged on the ground, but he ignored it.
When Ruan Shiqing stopped, he also stopped and looked at him with his eyes from beginning to end.
There was a grayness in his eyes, and nothing was reflected in them.
It turns out that he can understand what I say.
Let 09 bring the stool in and lock the door. Ruan Shiqing walked up to the cub and straightened the crooked blanket for him: "Now that you're in, come upstairs with me to rest."
He stood up and took two tentative steps forward. Only when he saw the cub following him did he feel at ease and go upstairs.
Sure enough, the cub followed.
His movements were very slow and there was a sense of dullness. Ruan Shiqing didn't rush him. After he went upstairs, he took a clean towel to wipe his hands, feet and face. He led him to the empty bedroom and pointed to the bed that 09 had made: "You sleep here tonight. I will find your family tomorrow if I can."
The cub stood in the middle of the bedroom, staring at him, not knowing whether he understood or not.
Ruan Shiqing thought about it and went to wash up first. The reaction time of this cub was obviously very long. By the time he finished washing up and came back, it would probably have gone to bed.
After washing up, Ruan Shiqing went to check on the cub, but found that the cub was not in the bedroom.
Just as he was about to look for it, he caught a glimpse of the small ball in front of his bedroom door.
The cub was wrapped in a small yellow blanket and sat at the door of his bedroom.
The thin body was curled up into a ball, with arms around knees and head resting on them, eyes were closed, and thin tentacles on forehead drooped down, looking somewhat pitiful.
"Why are you sleeping in the bathroom?" Ruan Shiqing went forward to wake him up.
The cub opened its eyes and looked at him, speaking softly.
Ruan Shiqing shook his head in disappointment. This little boy who could talk a lot would probably not know the answer after asking so many questions.
Sitting at his door, I guess he is the only one who dares to sleep alone.
He picked up the kid sitting on the ground and placed him on the other side of the bed: "Then sleep with me tonight."
The cub lay on the bed, staring at him for a while before closing his eyes.
She slept very straight with her hands folded on her abdomen.
Ruan Shiqing glanced at him and fell asleep.
When I woke up the next day, I found that the cub was still sleeping in the same position as last night. The tentacles on its forehead were drooping softly, rising and falling with its breathing. It seemed that it was sleeping soundly.
Ruan Shiqing got up quietly and went to the bathroom to wash up.
When he finished tidying up, he saw that the cub who was sleeping just now had woken up and was standing at the bathroom door looking at him, still wrapped in the small cream-colored blanket.
"Why are you awake so early?" Ruan Shiqing wiped his face before taking him downstairs.
Xiong Yuanyuan and Xiong Fangfang had just opened the door and put up a sign saying they were open for business. When they saw him bringing the cub downstairs, they were still curious: "Do you want to put up a cub advert at the door? I haven't heard of anyone having such a strange cub in the past."
Although the animal forms of the Bis people are often strange, it is rare to see one as strange as this cub.
"Give it a try." Ruan Shiqing nodded, went to the kitchen to get the nutrient solution, and stuffed it into the cub's tube.
The cub followed him closely, holding the nutrient solution.
Ruan Shiqing entered the workshop and turned on the smart brain to browse the news. He sat at Ruan Shiqing's feet, wrapped in a small blanket, holding nutrient supplements in his arms, and moving around.
Although it seems difficult to communicate and slow to respond, they know how to be clingy.
Ruan Shiqing finished browsing the news and looked down, only to see that he was still holding the nutritional supplement.
He took the nutrient solution from the cub's hand, twisted it open, and fed it to his mouth. Ruan Shiqing opened his mouth and said, "Ah—"
The cub stared at him, opened its mouth after a while, and imitated him in making the "ah" sound.
The voice was similar to that of a human, but it was gentle and had the soft aftertaste of a cub.
It turns out that I can't speak.
Ruan Shiqing fed him the nutrient solution. The cub hesitantly held the tube and drank the entire tube slowly.
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The advertisement for the cub was posted outside for four or five days, but no one came to claim it.
Ruan Shiqing even asked the Xiong brothers to ask around, but they couldn't find out whose cub was missing. Many people even said they had never seen such a strange cub before.
Such a special appearance, if you have seen it, you will definitely be impressed.
But after asking around, everyone said they had never seen it.
The little robot circled around the cub for a long while, then lowered its voice and said to Ruan Shiqing: "Could it have been abandoned on purpose?"
His tone was a little depressed, and he felt sorry for the cub that was most likely to be abandoned.
When collecting information on the holographic network, he had seen many cubs abandoned for various reasons. In order to prevent being discovered, people who intentionally abandoned cubs would usually secretly stuff the cubs into garbage transport ships and transport them to any planet.
Such a strange-looking and very reclusive cub is very likely to be abandoned.
Ruan Shiqing had some vague guesses in his mind for a few days. He rubbed the cub's head and said, "If no one claims it, then let it stay at home."
There are four cubs in the family, and the more they grow, the more they like.
Although this cub may seem a little strange at first, after spending a few days with it, you will find that it is actually a very easy-to-care-for cub.
Most of the time, he was wherever Ruan Shiqing was.
Very clingy, but very quiet.
When it was time for dinner, Ruan Shiqing would stuff him with nutritional supplements, and he would eat them obediently. At night, when it was time to go to bed, he would lie down on the bed on his own initiative, and after Ruan Shiqing covered him with a quilt, he would close his eyes and fall asleep. Even his breathing was quieter than others.
It is a cub with a very low sense of presence and almost never causes trouble to others.
Ruan Shiqing just let him follow her.
After bringing the cubs into the workshop, Ruan Shiqing did not start working immediately. Instead, he sent a text message to Mr. Rong, asking about the training progress of the cubs.
After being away from home for four or five days, the communicators he prepared for the cubs were not used. When he contacted the cubs for the first time, Mr. Rong told him that the mission needed to be kept confidential, so video communication was not possible.
He was actually worried about the cubs' safety. After getting used to the cubs surrounding him, he couldn't help but miss them now that he suddenly had some free time.
The cubs had not yet learned how to use text to send complicated text messages, so Ruan Shiqing could only chat with them for a while through Mr. Rong's retelling.
After several text messages, he did not receive a timely reply. Ruan Shiqing guessed that they should be in training, so he put it aside for the time being and concentrated on his work.
After three days of sailing, Rong Hengxing had arrived at the jump wormhole near the star Balem.
According to the intelligence Noah obtained, in two days, the transport ships of the Balham Arsenal will depart from here and head to Balham Planet. There are five transport ships this time, carrying 500 laser gun production equipment, 200 laser cannon production equipment, 600 other weapons and equipment production equipment, and the technician robots that must be equipped for the fully automated production line.
Its equipment is so complete that it can directly build the most advanced laser gun and laser cannon production workshop on the B3024 star.
In fact, these were just a few inconspicuous transport teams under the Barham Arsenal.
The cyan battleship activated its cloaking device and silently ambushed near the jump passage.
Rong Heng, Hector, and Mori were making plans in the war room, with the three cubs listening in.
"The transport ship has sufficient firepower. Various light and heavy laser cannons and ion cannons are basic configurations. We have no advantage in a head-on confrontation," said Hector.
"We must attack with all our might." Rong Heng counted the firepower on the warships: "Our main battleship is equipped with five fighters, two bombers, and two gunboats. Let people drive fighters and bombers to ambush at the jump port, use heavy firepower to take the initiative, and the main battleship will cut off communications from the outside and block the defense line. We will cooperate with each other and circle the transport ships in one place, and then we can take it down smoothly." Rong Heng drew a circle near the jump port.
The transport ships did have sufficient firepower, but their huge size significantly limited their flexibility. As long as the transport ships were confined to a limited area, their firepower could be effectively contained, suffocating them to death; if they held back and fired, the fighters and bombers were highly flexible, and they could completely transfer the damage and let the transport ships attack each other.
"We have a total of 46 people, enough to hold back five transport ships." Mori said: "We can split into two groups and take turns. Anyway, we can retreat after the battle and replace people."
The fighters and bombers on the battleships were more than enough for them.
"Then it's settled." Rong Heng replied, "We'll take people to familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment in the next two days."
The people Mori brought with him were all elite troops he had carefully selected. These people did not know that their mission this time was to rob the transport ship of the Barham Arsenal. They only knew that the "boss" wanted to take them to do something profitable, and they were all ready to go.
But these people are trained soldiers after all, and they still need to improve their cooperation in advance.
Morrie and Hector agreed and decided on their respective division of labor.
Mori left first. He wanted to gather all the people he brought with him and give them a lecture, while Rong Heng and Hector stayed in the war room.
The three cubs looked at the two of them and finally couldn't help asking, "What about us? What are we going to do?"
The little dragon and the little fox looked at them eagerly.
When they first boarded the battleship, the kids were all excited, but after three days of boring journey, the novelty wore off and they all became listless.
It’s not as fun on the battleship as at home.
I can communicate with my father again, and Snowball is still there.
—Not long after boarding the battleship, Snowball was taken away by Du to train.
Only the little mermaid who had seen Snowball transform into a human form knew that the person in front of her was Snowball.
But he had promised to keep it a secret for Snowball, so he hadn't told anyone until now.
"We have things to do." Rong Heng knocked on the table and said, "First, tell me what you are most interested in these days?"
"Gun!" The little fox was the first to answer.
"Fighter!" The little dragon was the second one.
The little mermaid, unable to speak, reached out her hand and patted the control console, her blue eyes shining brightly.
In three days, the cubs explored the entire battleship inside and out. The little foxes were simply fascinated by the laser guns in the warehouse, but because they had not received professional training, Hector was unwilling to let them try, so in the end the little foxes had to beg for a miniature laser gun - the kind without energy.
The little dragon cub was eager to try the fighter jet.
The fighter jets parked in the hangar are cool and stunning. The little dragon cub gets excited just by imagining himself driving one.
Compared to the two little guys who admired force, the little mermaid was more "quiet". He had no interest in guns or fighter jets, but when he was in the cockpit, he became curious when he saw Mori driving the battleship.
Driving a warship in the dark space is a very challenging task.
Rong Heng raised his chin and said to Hector: "Then I'll leave Heli and Nota to you." He pointed at the artificial mermaid and raised his eyebrows: "You follow me."
Hector gestured as if it was all right.
The three cubs looked at the two people ignorantly, and had no idea what they would encounter next.