Hua Xi wondered what they were chatting about.
She didn't think too much about it. She sat by the table and started eating. She scraped the plate with a small plastic spoon, drawing many lines on the half-frozen food.
It was unclear whether it was because the food tasted good that day or for some other reason, but she was in a good mood. She hummed a song while eating. Cold Cicada flew up from between Jing Jiu's eyebrows and flew around the small room, leading the mosquitoes to make a pleasant melody, as if they were playing music and dancing for her.
Having finished eating, Hua Xi was about to go out with the food plate in her hand.
Jing Jiu didn't quite understand what she meant. "There are robots," he said slowly.
In fact, there were robots or automatic devices on the battleship to take care of the food and return the food plate; there was no need for him to do it himself. It was well known that the space inside the battleship was very large, and it was difficult for them to go back and forth from the living area number four where they were.
"I'll go and watch a cartoon on the way," said Hua Xi.
Jing Jiu said while pointing to the light screen on the wall, "There's one here too."
Hua Xi pouted and said, "It's boring to watch it alone."
Jing Jiu didn't think too much about it, but he thought it was unsafe to let his younger sister go out alone. "I'll go with you," he said.
Hua Xi said, "You don't even know the difference between a space knight and a man in the armor …"
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The reason adults didn't want to play with the children was because they thought the games played by the children were boring.
The reason children didn't want to play with the adults was because they thought the adults were boring.
Hua Xi preferred watching the cartoon with the other children, because they could argue and sympathize with each other; it was much more lively. As such, she declined the invitation extended by Jing Jiu even though she was suffering from her illness. She left the room and went to the children's entertainment area with the best location and the best lighting in the living area. She started watching the latest episode of the cartoon with the children she was familiar with.
After a long while, a child suddenly screamed while covering his mouth adorably while looking at the outside of the transparent wall.
Hua Xi and the other children were startled. They turned around to look at the outside of the wall and saw a … battleship traveling in the living area!
It was of course not a real battleship, but a three-dimensional image.
In the next moment, many monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter "crawled" out from the corners of the wall, causing countless screams in the living area.
More battleships descended from the sky and fired at the monsters. Laser cannons and nuclear bombs exploded, forming fireballs that flashed from time to time.
The living area was filled with cries of surprise. Many adults were like the children, leaning on the transparent wall and watching the virtual battle outside. They were extremely excited. It was similar to the scene when they were looking at the Tianjie Transport Port, the plate, and the Golden Buddha chasing after the plate.
It was only then that many people realized that the scene they had just seen might have been fake. It was a trick that the government had put up because they were worried that the evacuating people would be bored.
As expected, the official of the battleship announced in the system broadcast that the simulated scenes of these battleships pursuing the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter were the latest game to be released by the White Company; and what they had seen at the Transportation Port on the Heavenly Street was the advertisement for the large-scale interactive game "The Path Toward Heaven" by the Twirling Rain Company.
Laughter rang out in the living area. The middle-aged men who thought they had seen through everything smiled appropriately and began to explain to their wives and children when and why they had seen through it.
The government of the Federation of the Milky Way seemed to care a great deal about the mental health of the evacuating people. They were worried that they would be bored, so they announced many measures. In addition to the usual operations like the gaming compartment and the stereoscopic theater, the battleship had also set up many interest classes, which were explained by the officers and soldiers on the battleship. The qualified members of the evacuating populace were also invited to participate in the activities. In the end, the battleship introduced many contests, and indicated that the winners would receive generous prizes.
Hearing this, Hua Xi's eyes beamed. She lowered her head and started reading the words on the bracelet. Her eyes grew brighter and brighter. In the end, she gave up watching the cartoon and ran back to her room. She pushed open the door forcefully and yelled, "Big Brother, Big Brother, are you going to participate in the interest classes?"
Jing Jiu sat on the bed by the window, holding the Snow Girl in his bosom. The Snow Girl's small round hand was pressed against the center of his brows. It seemed that she was treating a patient.
Hearing Hua Xi's voice, Jing Jiu opened his eyes and shook his head to indicate that it was not necessary.
He had taken various interest classes in the Administrative Center of Foggy City for a year. After he won the prize, he had lost interest in them.
Hua Xi asked while tilting her head, "What about the contests? There are a lot of prizes! "
With the help of the Snow Girl, Jing Jiu felt a bit better, but he was still a bit sleepy and not interested in them.
Hua Xi ran to the front of the bed and said earnestly while looking into his eyes, "There are many kinds of contests, including your favorite game, Space Army Chess!"
Jing Jiu thought about it carefully and was sure that his favorite game should be Gomoku in a Row. As for Space Army Chess … it was more like the most painful memory.
It was then that the broadcasting system in the room suddenly made a sound, asking all the populace to pay attention.
"Look, look, it's going to be announced …" Hua Xi said happily.
What came out of the system had nothing to do with the interest classes or the contests.
"The standard time is 11 o 'clock tomorrow. Our battleship will enter the Jia Lei Passage. Everybody, please get ready to watch the scenery and get ready to pass through."
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The Jia Lei Passage was a famous space passage in the Federation of the Milky Way.
It was impossible to observe in the warped hole, and the spacecrafts were not sure of their displacement, so they had no concept of speed. As such, it was impossible to determine the length of the passage.
According to the scientists, the twisted space passage had no length in the first place.
The standard to distinguish the space passages was the length of the passage.
The Jia Lei Passage was the passage from the Scorpion Tail Nebula to the Main Nebula, and it was the passage that took the longest time to get through. That was why the battleship informed the evacuating populace not to forget to watch the scenery and take pictures the next day. As for the preparation for passing through the passage, it was to remind the populace that there was no network in the space passage, so they had no way to contact the outside world. As such, they should quit the game in advance or download the 3D movie.
As far as Jing Jiu and the Snow Girl were concerned, this passage was meaningless, at least not until tomorrow.
Tomorrow would come soon.
For some reason, the Snow Girl jumped into Hua Xi's bosom, and Cold Cicada landed on her head. This meant that Jing Jiu would participate in the contest.
Jing Jiu had a bad memory, but he still recalled the bad memory of being pounded on his chest by the Snow Girl with her small fists after he lost to the little fatty in the contest.
Guided by the lights of the battleship, the tens of thousands of evacuating populace managed to maintain their biological clocks. It was seven o 'clock in the morning, the standard time of the Federation. Soft and low-pitched music was playing in the living quarters, and steam was coming out from the rear ports of the self-heating beverage machines. The cleaning robots had just finished their last task and retreated to the passage under the cabinets. The floor was as smooth and clean as a mirror. A few drunk people were lying in a corner in the distance; they must have been out for a whole night. The battleship would provide everyone with a limited amount of hard liquor according to the number of their bracelets, but it was not a problem for these drunkards. After all, it was not difficult to borrow someone's bracelet and ask for a cup of liquor.
Hua Xi held the Snow Girl in her arms and held Jing Jiu's hand. They came to the second row of the dining area and found her favorite food. Then, she took him to pour two cups of protein drinks and started eating with relish at the table. Perhaps it was because she didn't have to cook for herself, the little girl was very enthusiastic about eating.
As they were eating, some populace who had gotten up early came to the dining area. Some of them greeted them in a friendly manner, asking them which district they were from and why they hadn't seen them on the planet before. It was well known that there were only tens of thousands of inhabitants on the planet that had just been developed, and the interpersonal relationships there were much closer than in other places.
Jing Jiu didn't explain it to them, and Hua Xi didn't explain it either. As such, the conversation couldn't continue.
In fact, this was the first time the two of them had appeared in front of the people and the surveillance equipment.
A pair of brother and sister holding a snow-white doll was a conspicuous combination, especially after the invasion of the Sea of Dark Matter on the Full Moon Planet. Yet, they couldn't be seen on the surveillance equipment, as if they had vanished into thin air. It was quite amazing. And if they wanted to, nobody could even see them.
After killing the nine Dark Ones and getting in touch with the Dark Region, the Snow Girl seemed to have absorbed some new rules and comprehended some new magic. Yet, why did she choose to come out and take a walk today when she hid in the underground sewer and didn't want to be discovered by the central computer? One had to know that this was a risk.
After breakfast, they didn't go back to their room. There were many more populace like them; it was because they had to enter the Gray Passage at eleven o 'clock, and there was not much time in between, so it was unnecessary for them to go back and forth. It was probably for this reason that the activities began at nine o 'clock in advance. The sound of music could be vaguely heard in the distance, and the sound of the skateboards rubbing against the high-strength glass could be heard in a transparent isolation room high above. The cheerful atmosphere in the living area grew stronger.
Jing Jiu and Hua Xi carried the Snow Girl to the concert hall at an angle of one hundred and seventy degrees and listened to the musical for a while. Then, they followed the crowd to the public stage on the seventh floor. Standing on the periphery of the crowd, they watched the populace and the soldiers performing various kinds of performances.
Some were performing acrobatics, some were singing, some were playing musical instruments, and there was even a civilian who insisted on sparring with the warship's officers in terms of martial arts cultivation. However, he was hit in the nose the moment they met and was carried to the infirmary.
Hua Xi asked Jing Jiu if he wanted to play the piano, but he shook his head. Suddenly, there was a hubbub from somewhere. It turned out to be a puzzle game on the card table. After half an hour of intense competition, the winner had finally been decided. Hua Xi was even more interested. She pulled the corner of Jing Jiu's clothes and squeezed to the side, looking around curiously. Suddenly, she saw something and said with bright eyes, "Brother, it's your favorite game, Space Army Chess!"
There were three chairs on the platform near the French window. Hundreds of three-dimensional light carved chess pieces were suspended in the air on the platform in Silence. A middle-aged man with no hair sat in the chair in Silence. From the discussions of the people, the brother and sister knew that this bald man was the chief engineer of the preliminary planet development. It was said that he was a top student from Planet Tianpu's Northwest University China. He had just won five contestants in a row, and he actually felt lonely as a master.
It was just a game to kill time, so there was no need to worry about how many credits he would lose. Moreover, humans always had a high opinion of their own intelligence, so the master engineer did not feel lonely for too long. Soon, the next opponent came. Then, without any accident, the man was defeated in a very short time.
"It seems that he is very formidable," Jing Jiu exclaimed while recalling the playing style of the master engineer earnestly.
Though he said so, he had no intention of going up to the platform, because he didn't want to be lectured by the Snow Girl if he lost.
It was then that Hua Xi suddenly uttered "Ouch!" and said while covering her neck with her hands, "It seems that I was bitten by a mosquito."
The level of science and technology in the Federation of the Milky Way was quite high, so was the biology. Many planets hadn't completely eradicated the cockroaches, but the mosquitoes had already been eradicated. She grew up in a well-known family on the Stargate Base, so she had no idea what mosquitoes were. She had only been bitten twice since she arrived on the Full Moon Planet.
The Snow Girl lifted her head to take a look at her, and then pulled back her line of sight. She continued to look at the dark universe over her shoulder.
Jing Jiu suddenly walked up to the platform and sat in front of the engineer. He picked up an Engineering Mecha and moved one step.
Along with his movement, the huge chess pieces formed by the light rays in the sky also moved one step, attracting the attention of many people and causing a lot of discussions.
Hua Xi exclaimed in surprise and squeezed to the front of the crowd while holding the Snow Girl in her arms. Looking at Jing Jiu with a nonchalant expression on his face, her bright eyes full of pride.
As the chess game progressed, the people grew more and more surprised; it was because Jing Jiu didn't seem to be in a disadvantageous position in front of the engineer. The discussions in the field had gradually died down.
It was then that the broadcast in the battleship rang out again, reminding the populace that the passage of Gray Ray was just ahead and that they would enter it in ten minutes.
The information passages on the battleship were closed one by one. The grayish-black planks fell off like scales, blocking the windows in a little while.
The people were in no mood to watch the game or the concert; they came to the windows in tandem, looking at the universe ahead.
The passage of Gray Ray was already vaguely visible, looking like a patch of faint nebula, but it was much closer. There was a dark and gloomy speck in the patch of light and fog. This was why the scientists in the Federation of the Milky Way had guessed that the so-called warped hole was a special black hole. As the warped hole was observed and utilized, this conjecture was no longer possible. Over the years, the scientific circle suspected that the warped hole was the Sea of Dark Matter …
Leaning against the windows, the populace looked at the scene in the distance. Many complicated emotions welled up in their hearts, and they couldn't stop exclaiming softly.
If Jing Jiu could see the entrance to the passage of Gray Ray, he would recall the scene when he looked at the Abyss through the glass in the deepest part of the Fiend Prison many years ago. Yet, he was staring at the Go board at the moment.
The engineer had left for the moment and went to the window, but Jing Jiu was still pondering while staring at the Go board. The situation on his Go board was not so good; in other words, it was the most difficult and dangerous moment. As a result, the engineer could leave so easily; but if he made a slight mistake in his next move, he would lose the entire game.
The passage of Gray Ray was like a hole leading to the Abyss.
On the other side of the hole was the boundless dark universe like the Abyss.
More than two hundred battleships were parked in the universe in Silence. The main laser cannons, the electromagnetic ring cannons and the powerful plasma firing platforms had all reached out from the battleships and aimed at the exit of the passage.
In the command battleship in the front, Chen Ya stood by the window expressionlessly, and the two devil fairies in black stood behind him in silence.
In other parts of the universe, more battleships and more immortals were on their way here.
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