"Master, the Starry Sky Yuan-chu feed on Deep Divers," Seven Lù's childish voice recited haltingly, as if reading from a script.
"Deep Divers are extremely rare in this universe, and used to mainly appear in the sea areas of Senze Star."
Xia Chujian finally managed to tear her gaze away from the shocking picture, composed herself, and asked curiously, "...What are Deep Divers? Are they related to humans?"
Deep Divers sounded like a human occupation.
This Starry Sky Yuan-chu, it doesn't eat people, does it? That wouldn't be good...
Unexpectedly, Seven Lù said, "No, Deep Divers are not human and have no relation to humans at all."
As it spoke, it displayed a picture of a Deep Diver.
It was a hand-drawn picture, not a high-definition optical photograph or video screenshot.
Seven Lù said, "This is a Deep Diver. They are called Deep Divers because they only live on the deep seabed, hence the name given by humans."
"They call themselves Haidagong, and are said to be the favored ones of a certain god."
The creature in the picture was somewhat similar to those Shang People, with dorsal fins.
But its head was like a seahorse's head, with long horns, thick limbs, wings on its back, gray-green scales, a white belly, a very long body, and it was breathing fire.
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue twice. "This thing is too ugly, right? Which god is this? How can the favored ones be so ugly?"
Seven Lù: "..."
It seemed not to have heard Xia Chujian's words and continued, "The Deep Diver Haidagong are creatures that live on the seabed of Senze Star, and their numbers are not large."
"The juvenile form of the Deep Diver Haidagong is two meters tall and can walk upright."
Xia Chujian said, "They don't look very big. The Starry Sky Yuan-chu is so big, how can it eat such small things? Is it even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth?"
Seven Lù said, "The size of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu can change. When they want to hunt, they will shrink their bodies and come to the sea area of Senze Star."
Xia Chujian still found it difficult to understand, so she concentrated on listening to Seven Lù's explanation.
Seven Lù continued, "The Deep Diver Haidagong are brutal and bloodthirsty, and they eat humans. They often come to the coast not only to hunt but also to reproduce."
"They can mate with humans and produce some of their descendants."
"The offspring produced by the mating of Haidagong and Senze Star humans look the same as humans when they are young."
"But the older they get, the more they will show the appearance of Deep Diver Haidagong, and they are not accepted by the human population of Senze Star at all."
"After they grow up to adulthood in human society, they will return to the seabed, away from human society."
"But after the great change occurred, all normal humans were wiped out."
"Only a small portion of the mutated offspring of Haidagong and Senze Star humans survived."
"And the Starry Sky Yuan-chu, because they had no place to reproduce and lay eggs, should have become extinct later."
Seven Lù's childish voice became worried. "The Haidagong were originally immortal, and now they have no natural enemies. I don't know if they have become the overlords of Senze Star."
So what it's really afraid of is the Haidagong, the so-called "Deep Diver" Haidagong race?
Xia Chujian didn't care and said, "Seven Lù, don't worry. Since there is no ocean on Senze Star, I guess these Deep Divers should also be extinct."
Then, she patted her chest and said with lingering fear, "Fortunately, the Starry Sky Yuan-chu are also extinct, otherwise no one would be able to defeat them!"
Seven Lù's childish voice was a little surprised. "Why does Master want to fight the Starry Sky Yuan-chu?"
"The Starry Sky Yuan-chu are very docile and peaceful creatures and are very friendly to humans."
"According to Seven Lù's database records, the Starry Sky Yuan-chu have also rescued Interstellar Spaceships affected by Magnetic Field Storms many times in Space!"
Xia Chujian: "...Seven Lù, they can feed on the brutal and bloodthirsty Haidagong, and you think they are docile and peaceful?"
Seven Lù said very certainly, "Except for the Deep Diver Haidagong, no creature would consider the Starry Sky Yuan-chu an enemy."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She stubbornly said, "Because it's too big and dangerous! If it wants to attack our Beichen Galaxy..."
Seven Lù said, "No, it doesn't want to. It doesn't like living on any planet."
"Senze Star has special seawater and their food, making it suitable for them to breed."
"That's why they occasionally descend into the deep sea areas of Senze Star, and at the same time, before they die, they come to the depths of the Senze Star sea, leave their eggs, and then return to some unknown planet in space to decompose."
"Their reproduction is very difficult."
"The eggs laid in the seawater of Senze Star will be destroyed by the Deep Diver Haidagong."
"Even if they are not destroyed, it will take thousands of years for an egg to survive the larval stage and then return to space."
"In short, after the incident on Senze Star, there have been no more records of Starry Sky Yuan-chu appearing."
"So Seven Lù speculates that the Starry Sky Yuan-chu should be extinct."
"Legend says that when their lifespan is about to end, they will find an unknown planet to die quietly."
"When they die, they will decompose into many rare resources, falling on that planet."
"One Yuan-chu falls, and all things live."
Xia Chujian became more and more interested as she listened: "Where is that unknown planet? Seven Lù, do you have the coordinates?"
Seven Lù said in a childish voice, expressing regret: "Master, Seven Lù doesn't have them. But Seven Lù would really like to have them!"
"Because if we can find that place, maybe Seven Lù can continue to iterate and evolve!"
Xia Chujian yearned for a while, and continued to ask: "The Deep Diver Haidagong can live forever, so what about the Starry Sky Yuan-chu? Can't they? What is their lifespan?"
Seven Lù said: "The Starry Sky Yuan-chu cannot live forever, they can live for about a thousand years."
"So compared to the Deep Diver Haidagong, the lifespan of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu is insignificant."
Xia Chujian thoughtfully said: "Seven Lù, Haidagong can only live forever if they are not eaten by the Starry Sky Yuan-chu, right?"
"Then can Haidagong be killed by humans?"
Seven Lù seemed to be thinking, or performing reasoning calculations.
After a while, Seven Lù said: "Haidagong can be killed by humans, its fatal weakness is in the gills on its cheeks."
"As long as you hit this place, it's basically a one-hit kill."
Xia Chujian felt relieved and said calmly: "Then it's okay. As long as they can be killed, they are not a threat."
"By the way, Seven Lù, there shouldn't be many of these things, right?"
Seven Lù said: "Their numbers used to be very large, to the point where the human population on Senze Star decreased sharply."
"Later, after the Starry Sky Yuan-chu appeared, it was the Haidagong's turn to decrease sharply in number, and it was even rarer for purebred Haidagong to grow from infancy to adulthood."
"Because many were eaten by the Starry Sky Yuan-chu before they grew up."
"That's also why they later went ashore to find humans to mate with."
"The Starry Sky Yuan-chu do not eat the mixed-blood offspring of Haidagong and humans."
"But these mixed-blood offspring do not have a complete Haidagong bloodline inheritance, and even if they return to the seabed, they will not live long."
"However, after the changes on Senze Star more than ten thousand years ago, only these few mutated descendants of Haidagong and humans survived."
"These mutated descendants are the group of people who later called themselves the Shang People, and they basically die before adulthood."
"Of course, their adulthood is different from human adulthood."
"Their adulthood is thirty-five years old, which is when they begin to exhibit the Deep Diver Haidagong appearance."
Xia Chujian inventoried the number of bullets in her Starry Sky Cruiser's inventory and felt it was not a problem.
Her thoughts turned elsewhere, and she said, "Then, could the Longevity Flying Fish on Senze Star be related to the eggs left by the Starry Sky Yuan-chu in the seabed of Senze Star back then?"
Seven Lù said very objectively: "Maybe yes, maybe no."
"If we can get the gene chain data of the Longevity Flying Fish, Seven Lù can compare it."
Xia Chujian pondered and said to Seven Lù, "That's easy. But Seven Lù, shouldn't we scout the way first, like last time?"
She was referring to the time she participated in the search and rescue operation in the Asteroid Belt, when she and Seven Lù first scouted the situation of the Star Pirates and then arranged the follow-up action.
This time, she wanted to act like that again.
But Seven Lù's voice was a little hesitant: "... Master promised Marshal Huo not to act alone anymore. It will endanger Master's life."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She really forgot.
At this time, she had to restrain her impulse to charge forward.
She was a commander, not a foot soldier, and couldn't always resort to this tactic.
Xia Chujian closed her eyes and said, "Thank you, Seven Lù, I was reckless."
Seven Lù's childish voice became cheerful: "It's okay, Master! Master is the most amazing!"
Xia Chujian smiled, pulled down her helmet and switched it to a neck brace, but still wore her goggles, and walked out of the small suite.
Seven Lù also knew at this time that it couldn't continue to use electronically synthesized simulated sounds to talk to Xia Chujian.
If they wanted to communicate, it had to type on her goggle display screen.
Xia Chujian sat back in the Captain's office, pondered for a while, and first called Mao Yonggui and the others over.
She said, "Has everyone rested well? - We have arrived at our destination."
"But before going down, I need someone to go down and scout the basic situation on this planet."
Chu Qingjuan said, "Captain, Chief Instructor Pei has already given us the basic situation. What aspects of the situation does the Captain need to scout?"
This was a reasonable question, and Xia Chujian didn't take offense, but encouraged her, saying, "Good question."
"Chief Instructor Pei has given us the basic situation, but I don't want to stop at one of the four locations that Chief Instructor Pei suggested."
"I want to find a place close to the Longevity Flying Fish and park the Airship there directly. - What do you think?"
Because they were going to a completely new place, it was indeed necessary to scout again.
The four people looked at each other, all with their hands behind their backs, feet slightly apart, standing in front of her, and said in unison: "We obey the Captain's orders!"
Xia Chujian nodded: "Okay, first find someone to take a Small Flying Vehicle down."
"We need to measure the terrain, wind speed, altitude, density of the forest, and air composition of the place we want to dock, and also measure the virus situation."
"This place is completely different from our Beichen Empire, and I'm worried about different viruses."
"I don't know if the vaccines everyone has had will work."
The residents of their Beichen Empire, as long as they weren't Humanoids, would get all kinds of vaccines from birth.
All known viruses that endanger the lives of infants and young children already had corresponding vaccines.
But this place was indeed a blank slate for them.
Sang Yadi then took a step forward, slowly saying word by word: "I... can go... I learned... measurement... and a little... medical care basics."
Xia Chujian quickly looked at Mao Yonggui and Chu Qingjuan.
They both nodded slightly to her, indicating that what Sang Yadi said was true.
Xia Chujian also knew that although Sang Yadi stuttered, she was meticulous and very capable.
If it weren't for the inferiority complex caused by her stutter, which always made her hesitant in assessments, she would actually be the real number one.
Xia Chujian quickly made a decision.
She personally sent Sang Yadi to the Small Flying Vehicle, watching her move various measuring instruments into the cabin.
The fifth floor Hold door slowly slid open, and the Small Combat Aircraft driven by Sang Yadi shot out like an arrow.
Xia Chujian could feel the sudden burst of airflow.
She returned to the Captain's office and, from the monitoring equipment, saw Sang Yadi release drones tied with measuring instruments after rushing into the Senze Star atmosphere.
This way, they could get as close to the ground as possible to measure more detailed and immediate data.
Just as Sang Yadi's drones were released, less than a minute later, the alarm in Xia Chujian's Captain's office started beeping.
Xia Chujian looked over curiously.
What she saw was the Starry Sky Cruiser's Mechanical Intelligence, issuing the alarm based on the various data transmitted by those drones.
Xia Chujian pulled up the data and found that it showed:
"Uranium-235, Plutonium-239, Cesium-135, Iodine-129, Tin-126, concentrations exceeding normal levels by one million times, five hundred thousand times, two thousand five hundred times, three thousand times, and five thousand times respectively."
Xia Chujian frowned. These five isotopes were all highly radioactive elements.
In the atmosphere, soil, and seawater of the Habitable Planets of the Beichen Empire, the content of these radioactive isotopes was so low that it could be ignored.
But why was the content of these five radioactive isotopes so high on this Senze Star?
On Xia Chujian's eyepiece display, Seven Lù's childish graffiti font suddenly appeared.
[Seven Lù]: Master, these five extremely high radioactive isotopes will cause serious Genetic Diseases!
[Seven Lù]: According to the returned detection data, the atmosphere and soil of the entire Senze Star contain these five ultra-high doses of isotopes!
Xia Chujian's expression changed drastically.
This was information that was completely unmentioned in the Military data provided to them by the base!
But this information was what could really kill them!
Why didn't the Military mention this at all? Just looking at the typing was no longer enough to satisfy Xia Chujian's desire for knowledge and curiosity.
She quickly walked into the small suite's washroom, put on a fully enclosed helmet, and began to talk to Seven Lù.
"Serious Genetic Disease?" Xia Chujian thoughtfully recalled the situation in their Beichen Empire, where everyone turned pale at the mention of "Genetic Disease".
"Is it the same disease as the Genetic Disease in our Beichen Empire?"
Seven Lù stopped typing and said directly, "Not exactly the same, but there are similarities."
"The symptoms are similar, but the Genetic Disease in the Beichen Empire has many causes, but none of them are caused by such high levels of radioactive isotopes."
"Therefore, the Genetic Disease in the Beichen Empire is chronically fatal, not as serious, and not as rapidly fatal."
"But on Senze Star, at this dose, people with weaker bodies won't even last a month, let alone ten years."
"And what's even more infuriating is that Seven Lù originally thought that no matter what happened here back then, after more than ten thousand years, even the most powerful things would disappear."
"But if the great changes back then were caused by these five radioactive isotopes, ten thousand years won't do much."
Xia Chujian was puzzled: "...What do you mean? Isn't ten thousand years enough for them to disappear?"
Seven Lù said indignantly, "How could ten thousand years be enough?!"
"The half-life of Uranium-235 is seven hundred million years!"
"The half-life of Plutonium-239 is twenty-four thousand years!"
"The half-life of Tin-126 is one hundred thousand years!"
"The half-life of Cesium-135 is three million years!"
"The half-life of Iodine-129 is one hundred and fifty-seven million years!"
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
Except for Plutonium-239, which had a half-life of twenty-four thousand years, the half-lives of the other four radioactive isotopes were actually measured in units of hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of years! She really couldn't take it lightly.
Xia Chujian frowned tightly: "Then who would dare to go down? Wouldn't they be radiated as soon as they left the Hold?!"
"Genetic Disease is incurable..."
"We should call Sang Yadi back immediately!"
Seven Lù then said, "Second Lieutenant Sang is in the Small Combat Aircraft, so she'll be fine as long as she doesn't go out."
"All Military equipment in the Beichen Empire has radiation protection."
"But Seven Lù doesn't know for the time being to what extent it can protect."
"We still need to test it. It will be quick and won't affect Second Lieutenant Sang's health."
Xia Chujian put away her fully enclosed helmet and came out of the small suite again.
After returning to her Captain's main console, Xia Chujian touched a control device.
This control device could remotely control the drones released by Sang Yadi.
Seven Lù quietly took over and immediately began to calculate what kind of materials were needed to defend against this concentration of nuclear radiation, based on the real-time detected nuclear radiation data.
Ten seconds later, Seven Lù happily began to type.
[Seven Lù]: Master, good news!
[Seven Lù]: Although the nuclear radiation energy on this planet is high, all our models of Flying Vehicles and Mecha can completely defend against it!
[Seven Lù]: This is the progress of technology! The Beichen Empire's technology ten thousand years ago couldn't do this!
[Seven Lù]: As long as our Starry Sky Marines keep their Mecha intact after landing on Senze Star, and absolutely do not expose any part of their bodies outside the Mecha, there will be no problem.
Xia Chujian was relieved, thinking that it was fortunate that she had the foresight to have those Starry Sky Marines learn to use Mecha.
She murmured, "I will issue an order that no one is allowed to take off their Mecha after landing on Senze Star."
"Not even taking off their helmets."
[Seven Lù]: Master, you can give the order, but there will be many who will not obey.
Xia Chujian's eyes rolled, thinking, it doesn't matter, I have a way.
The second update is a super big chapter, including 2100+ Moon Tickets for July.
Surprise! ╰(°▽°)╯
There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
PS: The previous chapter has been replaced, it should be "Senze Star", typed with double pinyin. I accidentally turned them all into "Sangze Star".
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