The off-road vehicle traveled westward in a bumpy way, and this time it took a whole day to reach the intended settlement.
In the car, Chu Jungui sat quietly and didn't speak. At this time, Li Ruobai squeezed into his private channel and said, "Why haven't you spoken all day?"
"say what?"
"Anything will do. Otherwise, should I go talk to these savages?"
"You should go talk to them."
"Hey! Do you think I'm a barbarian too?" Li Ruobai seemed to be particularly concerned about this.
"I think if you talk to them more, you will get more information."
Li Ruobai sighed and said, "I can't ask any more questions. I already know the current situation of this planet, and there are many similar precedents."
Chu Jungui was interested and asked: "What's the precedent?"
"After the Great Schism Era, humanity was scattered for a long time. Even in adjacent star fields, they might not know what the other party was doing. At that time, the way humans transmitted information was mostly through the Chen Tower, and messages were transmitted very slowly.
.There are many colonial stars whose technology has stagnated due to lack of communication with the outside world. Just like here."
"Is there still a Chen Tower now?" Chu Jungui asked.
"There should be more in some deep space star fields."
The beginning of the age of human interstellar navigation began with an accident. At that time, humans, the mother planet that had just escaped from the solar system, discovered a natural space channel near the orbit of Pluto. When a spacecraft ventured into the channel, it discovered that there were several people on the other end of the channel.
A strange galaxy a hundred light years away.
In order to locate the position in the vast starry sky, people built a device at both ends of this channel that can continuously transmit positioning signals, named Chen Tower. Since then, as human footprints have spread throughout the star towers, Chen Towers have also been built one after another.
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Over the past hundreds of years, human research on wormholes and space has reached a new level. It has been possible to observe high-dimensional space for positioning through indirect means. Chenta is no longer necessary and is gradually abandoned.
However, many Chen Pagodas had a life cycle of one thousand years when they were first built, so even today, some Chen Pagodas are still emitting positioning signals.
The two briefly chatted for a few words, but Chu Jungui stopped talking again. Li Ruobai couldn't help it and asked, "Why don't you talk?"
"say what?"
"Then you didn't talk all day, what were you thinking about?"
"daze."
Of course Chu Jungui didn't tell the truth. In his free time, most of his computing power was used to compile various loaders. For example, although the compilation of light weapons combat was completed, it still needed to be split into specific weapon categories, such as pistols, assault
Rifles, etc., and then they have to be optimized repeatedly so as not to occupy too many loading spaces.
Without the computing power support of the mastermind of the Business School, the compilation and optimization process was extremely slow. Chu Jungui couldn't wait to spend everything on this, and he had to keep an eye on the surrounding environment. He had no time to chat with Li Ruobai.
Seeing that Chu Jungui remained silent, Li Ruobai still refused to give up and asked, "Do you want to know why we appear in this ghost place?"
"In no mood."
"Why don't you have any curiosity at all?"
"Because we have arrived." Chu Jungui pointed forward.
Li Ruobai was startled, adjusted the eyepiece, and vaguely saw a settlement on the horizon in the distance.
Om turned around and said: "We have arrived. The leader here is a guy named Stonewall, who is quite fierce and cunning. I will try to communicate with them in a while. Just follow me and try not to talk. Also,
Wrap your cloak around you."
Aum pointed at Li Ruobai.
Li Ruobai shrugged and reluctantly wrapped his cloak tightly to cover his armor. This was also the original plan. Chu Jungui and Li Ruobai acted as Aum's followers in order to inquire without causing conflict.
Get the necessary information. The most conspicuous thing about them is their armor, but it is impossible not to wear armor in a strange environment, so the best way is to wrap themselves in a cloak.
Li Ruobai quietly poked Chu Jungui and asked, "Don't you feel uncomfortable? This thing smells so bad!"
"Didn't you turn on the filtration system?" Chu Jungui asked strangely.
"It's open. But, I still feel awkward." Li Ruobai was a little embarrassed.
The armor on their bodies has a filtration system that can keep out various chemical or biological toxins, and eliminating odors is even easier.
Chu Jungui didn't expect that Li Ruobai still had some mysophobia. But now was not the time to discuss this. He jumped off the off-road vehicle and followed Aum. Li Ruobai also got out of the car carrying a backpack.
Several heavily armed hunters walked out of the settlement, looking at the three of them warily.
"I am Orm, the most powerful hunter in the eastern settlement! Now, I come to visit your leader, Stonewall. Tell him that I have some good things to share with him."
A burly hunter appeared, stared at Orm for a while, and said, "I know you. But why did you only bring so few people here?"
"I'm here to trade, not to fight." Om replied.
"Okay, come with me, the boss is waiting."
The three of them entered the settlement and walked towards the largest four-story building in the center. Chu Jungui looked left and right seemingly casually, but in fact he was scanning various buildings.
The buildings in this settlement are almost the same as those in Aum. There are also oxygen supply stations, water houses and cold storages, but there are about a hundred more residents and the houses are better repaired.
"Jun Gui, look to the right." Li Ruobai's voice sounded in the private channel.
Chu Jungui looked to the right and saw a small square at the other end through a path. There was a row of shelves standing on the square, with things wrapped in sacks hanging upside down. They looked like corpses.
Chu Jungui remained calm. After scanning, he found that there were indeed corpses hanging inside.
At this time, the burly hunter led them up to the third floor and came to a very ornately decorated office. A man was sitting behind a desk with his legs propped up on the wall, his back facing the three of them.
Hearing the footsteps, he put down his legs, turned the swivel chair, and turned around.
This was a sinister-looking man with a triangular metal plate embedded in his face. His pale eyes looked at the three of them with caution and cruelty.
He first looked at Chu Jungui and Li Ruobai, and finally his eyes fell on Aum, showed an exaggerated smile, stood up and gave Aum a warm hug, and said: "Oum! My brother, listen to my people.
You brought a good business? You know I like doing business the most."
Aum smiled and said: "Who doesn't know that your favorite thing is hunting and killing?"
Stone Wall shrugged and said, "I also like doing business, and it can also make money."
"Speaking of making money, maybe this is our chance to make a fortune. I found this." Orm threw a metal fragment on the table.
Shi Qiang's pupils suddenly shrank, and his rich experience told him that this was a piece of metal that he had never seen before.
"How to do this business?"
Om said calmly: "Tell me first, have you seen anything falling from the sky recently?"