Chapter 1554 A Strange Place

In front of me is a big house, a very big house. I don’t know if land is precious on this unknown planet in this unknown universe, but judging from the surrounding building styles and distribution density, this big house in front of me is The house is obviously a very unique place.

It is surrounded by tall cluster-type buildings. When we came along the way, we also saw residential areas similar to dense residential areas. Moreover, the population of this city is not large at all. All circumstances show that this place is far from a vast land and sparsely populated place. This street doesn't look like it's the location of a villa area, but at the end of the street... there is such a three-story house that is incompatible with the surroundings. Not only is the house very big, it also has a large yard, and there is even a built in the yard. A fountain.

"Brother Jun, I think of my home." Alaya floated in the air, flickering her wings, because she didn't really need to rely on wings to fly, and now she floated completely using anti-gravity, "This house It looks a bit like the one at home!”

"Well," I agreed casually, and then carefully observed the big house in front of me again, "It's just a bit similar, but the difference is still very big. In other words, we may be overthinking it."

Yes, the big house in front of us really reminds Alaya and I of our own home: it is also located in an inner part of the city where land is at a premium, and a building like this has popped up in a place where there should be no houses no matter how you look at it. The large warehouse-like house also has a courtyard, and a fountain is built inexplicably in the yard. The house itself also looks simple and rough. Even though it covers a large area, it always looks like an enlarged small bungalow. These characteristics It is very rare in other places that normal people would not renovate their houses like this. After all, not everyone has a group of imperial engineers to help repair their houses.

But apart from the above similarities, the big house in front of us actually has nothing similar to our home: whether it is the detailed shape of the house, the plants in the courtyard, the size of the fountain or the color of the roof, it is actually very similar to our home. All different.

I can only say that the styles are quite similar. I really didn’t expect to meet local people with similar aesthetics to me in such a baffling world. If this hadn’t confirmed that I didn’t buy real estate elsewhere, I might have been fooled. If acquaintances saw it, they would probably think that this was a palace built by the Xiling royal family in a suburban universe. It is probably unprecedented for a palace to be built like this, right?

A bunch of random thoughts were running through my mind. I didn’t stop walking, but stepped forward to look for the doorbell: Anyway, there is nothing to do at the moment, so just go for a walk. It’s not so easy to find such a "destined" place. Let’s pay a visit to the owner of this place. It just so happens that Alaya and I want to find someone to find out more about this place.

Don't tell me, there is a button on the cement doorpost next to the courtyard door. This is more complete than my own home: Due to various reasons, my doorbell has been abandoned for many years, and now my home has long returned to the stage where guests basically rely on shouting. .

After pressing the button, I vaguely heard some movement in the big room. It seemed that I understood the function of the button correctly. At this time, Alaya flapped his wings and flew into the air. It looked like this idiot wanted to jump over the wall as soon as his head twitched (a common problem among flying species), so I quickly pulled the girl down by her feet. At the same time, the door of the big house opened, and a girl with an ordinary appearance and clothes appeared. A woman came out with an apron tied around her waist: This is really earth-like.

"Are you..." The young woman who looked like a housewife looked at the two people at the door of her house in confusion, and then her eyes fell on Alaya, "Oh, people from the Feather Tribe? You want to buy feather brushes and lotion Come on, hey. Our brand is big enough, and there are always people coming to buy things in the past two days. Come in quickly, come in quickly, I am about to cook, you can tell my husband. "

This young housewife who looked a bit arrogant didn't give anyone a chance to speak. I finished thinking about the matter on my own, and then turned sideways to let Alaya and I enter the courtyard, which made me so embarrassed: I haven't said anything yet, okay...

But it seems that the other party misunderstood Alaya and I as customers who came to buy things. So the owner of this big house is a businessman? The locals on this planet call angels "Feather Tribe". And the young housewife in front of me mistakenly thought that we came here to buy the "Feather Brush" and "Care Solution" specially designed for the Feather Clan... This is a bit interesting, why do I feel like I have arrived in the Shadow City...

The two above-mentioned "daily chemicals" may sound strange, but they are often used by the birdies at home.

But this misunderstanding doesn't seem to be a bad thing. It just so happens that Alaya and I don't know how to approach this family: after all, we came to disturb them rashly. I still regretted it after ringing the doorbell. As for buying things... it's not a big deal. Some local currencies were indeed produced on the road just now, and information about these currencies was also collected by probes located in other areas.

We curiously followed the hostess into this large house that felt inexplicably familiar, and found that the inside of the house was indeed... different from home! Well, what did you expect before?

"You guys sit here first," the hot-tempered young housewife let us two "guests" into the living room, then quickly served drinks and snacks that looked like shortbread, and then walked to the kitchen while talking to The lion from Hedong on the second floor roared, "The damn ghost upstairs! Don't sleep! Guests from the Yu tribe are here to buy things. Hurry down and pick them up!"

The cold sweat on my head is brushing down layer by layer. When I open my eyes, I am in a different world. When I close my eyes, I am my own home. If Bingtis is lucky enough to marry in the future, maybe this is what it will look like. Don't Not to mention, the voice is absolutely the same.

While Alaya and I were curiously studying the strange snacks on the table and the local drinks that tasted strange and had suspicious ingredients, there was a burst of jumping noises from the second floor. Anyway, I didn’t expect anyone to get out of bed. The sound effect was the same as that of an emergency evacuation, and then we saw a tall man with messy hair running down wearing home clothes. This must be the owner of this place. When he saw Alaya and me, he smiled and nodded, then ran to the corner and dragged over a large cardboard box. The first thing I saw was the image of an angel lying on the lawn sunbathing on the box. , with a line of words written in twisting alien characters below, which should be something like an advertisement.

...Sure enough, just like Shadow City, various daily necessities related to winged creatures have become a formal industry. Creatures like angels are indeed rare in other places, but if they live together with ordinary races for a long time, it will actually be that much, especially after Xiling Angels resume mass production. Shadow City’s specialty “sleep feather pillow” is almost sold to Macroworld. Who would be intimidated by the angel’s special feather brush and care solution, right? It was only the first time I saw wild angels outside the Shadow City and the Divine Realm that I felt a little novel.

"Come on, come on, this is a newly launched product. The brush has a massage function and a magnetic therapy function. You can take a look at this." The man in front of me also thought that we were here to buy something, and didn't wait for me While talking to Alaya, he started selling products by himself. He took out something that looked like an extra-large electric toothbrush from the box. Then he took out an extra large bottle of cosmetics and said, "This is the matching care solution. They are all from the same brand. If you buy three bottles of care solution, you can get a feather brush for free. By the way, does this Yu tribe girl like to brush her hair by herself or let others help? ? Seeing that you two are so close, you must be spiritual partners, right? Then you must try this brush, it is very trouble-free..."

Me: "..." I haven't said anything yet. How come both the male host and the hostess are so imaginative?

But it’s a good thing that the other person is so enthusiastic and good at brainstorming. Many topics can unfold naturally without Alaya and I having to think about it. In fact, I really don’t want Alaya, an idiot, to come up with ideas with me. She is one of those magical girls who can land herself in a ditch while walking on flat ground. No matter who she comes up with, she will definitely only come up with tricks to trick her teammates. Unless she is full of despair in this world, who dares to do anything with her that requires action? The work of the brain.

I chatted for a while with the man in front of me who claimed to be a "feather care expert" and "the most honest local daily chemical product agent". I learned more about this peaceful planet like a paradise: this is a planet where two intelligent species live together. On one side are a large number of talented humans, and on the other side are a slightly smaller number of Yu tribes with long lifespans. The relationship between the two parties is harmonious. And they have lived together for thousands of years. Humans are the promoters of technological society, and the Yu tribe are born artists, sociologists and goodwill ambassadors. There seems to have never been any conflict between the two races, even in ancient times recorded tens of thousands of years ago. The two races also supported each other and developed, and to this day they take this "species mixing" phenomenon as a matter of course.

The Yu tribe will also intermarry with humans, but this cross-species love has a special name called "spiritual partner" because the life span of the Yu tribe is very different from that of humans. If they want to intermarry and avoid the pain of widowhood, they need something special. Through a certain "ceremony", the two parties to the marriage can evenly distribute their life spans, so as to truly live and die together. This seems a bit unfair to the longer-lived Yu clan, and seems to be a huge temptation for human beings, but no one has illegally performed spiritual covenant rituals since history began, because it requires both parties to be completely voluntary, and Neither party entering into the contract can perform the ceremony out of selfish motives.

The daily necessities agent in front of me obviously regarded Alaya and I as a young couple. Maybe our words and deeds just fit in with some of the characteristics of the local "spiritual partners"? Anyway, I don’t know what the other party was thinking, but this misunderstanding is obviously embarrassing, although... Although Alaya didn’t seem to react at all, the girl is currently busy trying out the so-called fully automatic multi-functional feather with massage therapy. Brush: Does she really think she is here to buy things?

Or is it that Angel Sister does not deny the idea of ​​"spiritual partners"? This is true, after all, we have been together for five years, and we even have children... You think this is such a shameless life if you take it literally.

Anyway, we finally said our goodbyes and left. When we left, we took several brushes and enough care solution to wash Dingdang seven or eight times. When we got to the road, I was stunned for a long time before I realized: It seems that I am not Going shopping, right?

Turning around to look at the big house that always made people a little concerned, the bright smiles of the two local couples who specialized in "Yu tribe daily necessities" reappeared in my mind when they said goodbye. I shook my head and put away the words I had just been deceived by profiteers. Suspicious items purchased.

"Brother Jun, can you use this to comb your feathers at night?" Alaya watched helplessly as I put the things away (although she also kept a set in her own pocket), and her wings swayed subconsciously, "It feels like This care solution is better than the one I used before.”

"That's a fresh picture. How can it be better than the limited edition cosmetics Bingtis stole from her mother?" I replied smoothly while pinching the angel sister's wings, and at the same time started to get in touch with other probes.

After all, he and Alaya are now "living outside". Although they have nothing to do for the time being, they still need to figure out where they are as soon as possible while Sandora is sleeping. At least comprehensively check the situation of this universe. Of course, if possible, it is best to determine the route from here back to the Empire area. This series of things is obviously not something that can be accomplished on a small planet. So while I was wandering around here with Alaya, I also released more deep space probes. These probes have now been sent to all parts of the universe, and the farthest ones have searched almost tens of billions of light years away.

I haven't checked the situation outside the world barrier for the time being. The functions of ordinary probes are limited, and I can't find much information in the void. I'd better wait until I have recovered to a certain extent or Sandora wakes up before I study the matter of leaving this universe.

The silly cat angel and I found an inconspicuous place, made sure there were no other people around, and then activated the camouflage barrier. Then the two of them went into the temporary living cabin to study a large amount of information coming from hundreds of deep space probes. Well, to be precise, I was studying intelligence, and Alaya continued to study how to polish his feathers... Could this girl have injured her head in the previous battle, and her already low intelligence was damaged again? (Alaya also played in the previous battle.)

According to the images returned by the probe, it can be determined that this universe is quite "prosperous".

The world order is stable, and the distribution of material belts meets the requirements for the birth of complex life. Star-making activities are frequent in space. It is obvious that the entire universe is in a very young state. Tens of thousands of "hot spots" with life have been discovered within a radius of 10 billion light years, but only a few dozen of them have developed to a higher level of civilization that can explore the universe. Although the ratio is not high, in most universes this is already a fairly prosperous situation.

Of course, according to the habits of void creatures, it should be said that this universe has "a relatively large amount of information and is relatively active."

So far, deep space probes have not discovered anything related to the Empire or the Protoss. This shows that this world belongs to the undiscovered "white zone", and no signs of abyssal pollution have been found, indicating that this place is far from the abyssal zone, and that the most advanced civilization in the universe is still in the galactic exploration stage. According to the empire's standards, this is a "prosperous but backward" border world... It seems that there is no need for extensive exchanges for the time being. If there is a local civilization that has contact with the void level, or if you have a comprehensive understanding of the civilization of your own world, you can get in touch with it.

Alaya finally finished fluttering his wings at this time. Lying on my shoulder and looking at the holographic image in front of her, of course she was just joining in the fun: "Brother Monarch, is this world going to become the territory of the empire? Then pack it up and take it away?"

...It can be seen that the Xiling bloodline is the same at heart. Alaya always maintains a heart of opening up the territory for the motherland. You know a cute and cute girl said this solemnly. How much pressure can such things put on people?

However, according to the consistent rules of the empire, discovering a new world does require some "special procedures". First, determine whether there is abyss pollution, then determine the stability of the cosmic structure, then determine the highest level of civilization, and finally pack it up and take it away. This kind of work is very difficult. I have been working as an apostle for countless years. How great is my Daxiling Moving Company... Is this the first time I have completed the great task of expanding the territory and sealing the territory alone since I became the emperor?

The number of deep space probes is limited and it is impossible to track and observe every "information hotspot" where life exists, so my focus is mainly on those civilizations with space navigation capabilities. The nearest civilization is located twenty-two light years away. That planet is not as stable and peaceful as the planet under my feet. It is in a state of war.

The probe captured a set of battle scenes in space. A group of planetary forces using shuttle-shaped space battleships are storming a giant space city in high orbit. The battlefield is extremely fierce. The two warring parties are obviously of the same race. This may be a civil war. .

"The scale of the battle seems to be very large. Is it a serious conflict that will lead to mutual annihilation..." Alaya blinked, and his huge wings almost enveloped me. "It's only more than twenty light years away from here. Maybe when I discovered that there is a livable planet here, and I need to predict whether they will become an offensive civilization. If they want to be included in the empire's territory, they must abide by the imperial code. After all, it already belongs to the category of civilization."

"Isn't it too early to say this?" I curled my lips, and then ordered the probe to shift focus, preparing to observe the surface of the planet. But just as the camera was about to turn to the ground, a blue-white dazzling light suddenly appear on the monitoring screen.

I quickly turned the camera back, only to see that the planetary forces and the Battle Fortress Defense Force that were still fighting had been wiped out. The vast space was littered with debris, and the lonely space city was floating in the distance. Many facilities on the surface had been destroyed by the high temperature. Meltdown: These fiercely fighting armies were destroyed by something.

After searching for a while, the probe captured an image of the attacker: a silver-white starship nearly a hundred kilometers long was hovering at the edge of the battlefield. It was powerful and heavy, but its shape was somewhat weird. It looked like it could fly in one bite. Coffin...Eternal-class Imperial battleship? !

Is there an Imperial Army in this universe? !