Standing on the upper platform of the Gnaku, Hao Ren watched the refugees who had just been rescued line up and passed through the inspection gate one by one.
The detection gate was produced and installed by Nolan just two minutes ago. Ganacuri also built a temporary partition wall to ensure that everyone must pass through this gate to enter the resettlement area after boarding the ship. In name, The function of this gate is for "security check" to prevent passengers carrying dangerous goods from mixing into the crowd - such as cultists with twenty red pipes tied to their bodies, but in fact the real function of this gate is life body scanner.
Hao Ren turned his head sideways and looked at the phantom of a human figure displayed on the holographic projection beside him. Below the phantom, there is a progress bar that is jumping. Whenever a passenger passes through the gate, the progress bar will move forward a small space .
This is collecting data on the lives of the Laherians: for the inspectors, when visiting a new planet with intelligent life, collecting the parameters of the local indigenous life forms is the first step in routine.
Hao Ren couldn't help sighing: "After so many years of work...it's not easy to be able to do a normal job..."
"Eighty percent are humans, and there are a few hybrid species, similar to elves," the data terminal floated next to his head, looking at the report and said, "There are only a few hundred people who have been rescued, and they are used to analyze the data of the entire planet. The ethnicity still appears to be too small a sample.”
Hao Ren waved his hand indifferently: "It doesn't matter, it's just the beginning after all. But this 'real Laherien' is quite different from the dream of Laherien we entered back then. There are a lot of worlds in that dream. Bizarre intelligent creatures are crowded together on a planet, but what we have seen here so far are only humans and a few subspecies that are extremely close to humans... It seems that the experience accumulated in Laherion's dream cannot be used here. use."
Liya rolled her eyes: "Is it my fault that I am dreaming?"
"Speaking of which, hundreds of refugees were saved all of a sudden." Lily scratched her hair, her ears dangling on top of her head, "Landlord, isn't this a bit beyond the plan?"
Hao Ren shrugged: "Just get used to it. The life of an inspector is full of randomness. The only way is to let yourself learn to adapt. By the way, you should put your ears and tails away first. This real Laherien doesn't seem to be No werewolves…”
"Tch." Lily grunted dissatisfiedly, but still obediently put away the furry animal ears and big tail.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace is not a special immigrant spaceship, or even a passenger ship—the living quarters on this ship are prepared for a small team with an upper limit of only a few dozen people, and there is nothing redundant from rooms to entertainment facilities. It is obviously unrealistic to arrange a private room for each of the hundreds of refugees who came up.
What's more, it's impossible for Hao Ren to let these people run around on his spaceship.
But since these are already refugees, they naturally don't pay attention to the living environment and quality of life. In fact, for them who just escaped from the guns of pirates and almost died in the cracks of the world, they can live in a safe place. It is already a great fortune to take a breath in the cabin of the boat.
The garage of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace is very large, and there are many empty cabins added by using space expansion technology beside the warehouse. In addition, this ship has also used this ship to transport short-distance passengers several times. The blueprints of various rapid resettlement facilities were recorded in the main engine of the factory. Nolan urgently produced a batch of simple partitions and daily necessities. Coupled with the super high efficiency of the self-discipline machines, when the refugees boarded the ship, there were already Enough simple housing has been built.
When they walked through the gate and walked down the long winding corridor to the end, they saw these simple but neat "dormitories". It was only produced a few minutes ago, and the position I am standing at the moment is only in the warehouse under the silver giant ship.
After observing the refugee boarding process through the one-way transparent polymer window for a while, Vivian ran her fingers around a strand of hair on her chest in a bit of boredom, while tilting her head slightly: "Everyone has already boarded the ship. Shouldn't we ask them to find out what's going on?"
"That Captain Borken is in the first district," Hao Ren nodded. "At first, I thought that an old captain with that style of painting would definitely choose to live and die with his ship when it was about to sink. In the book Isn’t that what you said—I was ready to knock him out and bring him up, but why didn’t he play according to the routine?”
Lily couldn't help giving Hao Ren a blank look: "Who told you that every captain must sink together when the ship sinks to play the game according to the routine?! Like the old man with a white beard, a pipe and a uniform. The captain saw that even if the spaceship was shot twice with a small pistol, he would shout 'this is a trap' and then abandon the ship to escape!"
Hao Ren knocked the husky spirit on the head with a single hand knife: "Don't play games casually—do you think everyone can understand?"
Charlemagne cautiously walked into the room assigned to him. Although he had already left the crumbling airship and stood inside a solid and stable silver-white giant ship, he still did not let down his vigilance at all—rather because he entered In a completely strange and suspicious new place, his vigilance has been greatly improved.
This kind of caution is not all because of the fact that this huge silver ship has neither magic sails nor elemental wakes. The origin of the ship, even the origin of even the most common thing in this ship cannot be seen at all.
The door of the room was automatically closed after people entered. Charlemagne immediately turned around to confirm how the door should be opened, and then began to observe the situation in the room after confirming that it was not locked. He noticed that the room was entirely made of a silver-white metal, and the overall fit was tight, as if it was the result of one-time casting. The texture of the metal itself was by no means as usual, with its luster and hardness. It is very similar to Mithril, but no one in this world is so extravagant to use Mithril to build a house, so it should be a special material that is slightly cheaper but still has excellent performance.
But such excellent technology and excellent materials are used to make such crude things.
From Charlemagne's eyes, of course, it can be easily seen that this room is actually a product of rush work: a square house without any decorative walls. It can be said that apart from windows and doors, this is a room with six walls. It’s just a square box made of metal plates, and the furnishings in the room are extremely simple. Basically, it’s a problem to do anything except sleep in it…
If this kind of room is the result of serious thinking by the designer, it can only be said that the designer has a disastrous aesthetic view and design concept.
A huge silver-white ship of unknown origin suddenly appeared, the strange and unknown way of flying, the incomprehensible style of the ship and the grotesque furnishings, everything was beyond the cognition of His Royal Highness and any situation he had assumed, Now he has to start worrying about some new problems: escaped from the desperate situation of falling into the world rift with the White Pearl, but fell into a new unknown situation, if this big ship really happened to pass by and acted bravely , but if it is the "next link" of those pirate ships, the situation will be very bad.
What's even worse is that Charlemagne is still not sure who is promoting this conspiracy and what it is for.
At this time, there was a soft knocking sound from outside the door.
Charlemagne judged the identity of the outsider from the rhythm of knocking on the door, and after opening the door, he saw Awenna standing in front of him.
She has changed into a clean dress and washed her face, and she has become the graceful Princess Yisu again.
"Evanna, are you okay..." After taking his sister into the room, Charlemagne was about to ask about the other party's situation, but the other party raised a finger to signal silence, and then he saw Aiwenna casually summon a light Blue rune, and sweep this rune across every corner of the room.
Charlemagne frowned: "Is there an eavesdropping?"
"No, just in case," Aiwenna erased the rune, and exhaled lightly. Although her face was always as docile as water, the vigilance and thoughtfulness of this princess was no less than that of the princess. My elder brother, "The situation on this ship is very strange, I can't rest assured."
"It's really weird. I've never seen this kind of airship that can fly without magic sails and elemental power, and everything in it is different from any known kingdom," Charlemagne nodded. head, "What did you find?"
"Unbelievable," Aiwenna said lightly, but there was a gleam of light in her eyes, "I can feel that there is a very powerful surge of energy in this ship, and there is an extremely complicated control system all over here. There is a weak flow of information in every corner, even under every inch of the floor... It is like a living steel giant with blood vessels and nerves all over the body, rather than a simple dead thing pushed up by a few engines and magic hubs. "
Charlemagne's eyes widened because of his sister's description. He didn't feel that the other party was exaggerating, because Awenna had never had the habit of exaggerating, and this sister had an outstanding magical talent since she was a child, and even reached the level of "Elemental Chosen" To a certain extent, she can directly "see" the flow of elements and energy that ordinary mages can only perceive in a state of deep meditation, so her judgment of this ship is probably the most accurate.
"Then can you be sure where this ship came from? From your description, it looks like a 'spirited thing' made by ancient elf craftsmen, or those unearthed by Latun..."
Unexpectedly, Ai Wenna shook her head directly: "I can't see it."
"can not tell?!"
"The structure of this ship is beyond my understanding. I can see part of its energy and information flow, but I can feel that what I see is just the most insignificant part of its huge 'body'. It's like a giant's hair. And it works in a way I've never been in contact with... There's nothing like it in the books of elves or in the knowledge system of wizards."
Charlemagne couldn't help pressing the sword around his waist: "This is troublesome... I even suspect that this ship is the 'follow-up' of those pirate ships. We have not escaped this crisis at all."
Evanna is very smart in magic, and she is not lacking in prudence and vigilance, but she is obviously not as experienced as her old brother in pure conspiracy. She looks confused: "The follow-up to the pirate ship? Is this white ship not Destroy those pirates?"
Charlemagne asked back: "Do you really think that three pirate ships can sink the White Pearl?"
Evanna fell silent thoughtfully.
"Those pirate ships have a rotten shell, and the contents inside are all for military use," Charlemagne said, "and they precisely seized the time when the White Pearl had just passed through the sea of shining clouds and its energy shield was weak. After starting the attack, they have been engaged in long-range artillery battles without any intention of boarding the ship to plunder. This is not the style of pirates at all-pirates rob ships for wealth, but if they don’t board the ship and plunder where will the wealth come from? The White Pearl sank over the world rift, they would get nothing at all, and waste their gold-like burner shells... ”
Ai Wenna woke up: "So those are not pirates?"
"No, they are real pirates, but someone must have hired them to do things that pirates would not do, but outsiders seem to be able to blame pirates, such as sinking a passenger ship over the world rift. Outsiders will not know whether Shen boarded a ship to plunder before," Charlemagne shook his head, "And usually, people who hire pirates don't have any trust in those desperadoes who take money to sell their lives, especially After letting them participate in such a shocking case, they will usually kill these pirates in the follow-up... "
Speaking of this, with Awenna's intelligence, of course, she can think of the follow-up development: "So the ship we are on now..."
"Not sure yet," Charlemagne showed a helpless expression, "If it is a normal warship, I can confirm the clues even if it is a battleship of the Ysu or the Dragon Empire, but it is such a strange ship. …ship, I'm not even sure if it's from any known human kingdom. A ship that just popped out of nowhere and couldn't even be seen by you or me is 'transparent' even if it's sunk head-on The White Pearl doesn't have to worry about being tracked down, so it and the forces behind it don't need to be attacked by pirates... "
"I think we should talk to the owner of this ship," Awenna said.
"I think so too, but the key is in what capacity, what to talk about, and whether the other party is willing to talk." Charlemagne frowned, "If they really have something to do with those pirate ships, then our identities must have been exposed Well, then we are actually prisoners on this ship, if they are really just passing by... then we have to consider continuing to pretend to be ordinary passengers, but ordinary passengers have limited right to speak... "
Aiwenna blinked her eyes and showed a faint smile: "But talking is better than doing nothing, isn't it?"