Xia Chujian received the information, and Seven Lù quickly began to analyze it, then displayed the results on Xia Chujian's visor screen.
[Seven Lù]: Master, the data shows that there is a large mass burial pit six hundred miles to the east.
[Seven Lù]: These toxic gases are produced when the mass burial pit experiences large-scale decay.
Xia Chujian's heart stirred, and she immediately rushed off.
Her mecha was very fast, and the distance of six hundred miles was covered almost in the blink of an eye.
Li Dali was startled by her sudden appearance.
But he quickly composed himself and said, "Captain, something seems wrong ahead, so I didn't go any further."
Xia Chujian said, "You did well! Don't act alone when you're not sure of the situation."
As she spoke, she was already heading up the slope ahead by herself.
When she reached the top of the slope, she saw the scene below.
Her face was expressionless as she stood there, thinking that she had indeed found the right place.
It turned out that the group of Shang People in chaotic battle that she had seen in the base's data reel were all here.
Of course, they were all dead.
Judging by the size of this mass burial ground, there were probably several thousand Shang People corpses.
Seven Lù typed on Xia Chujian's visor screen.
[Seven Lù]: Master, Shang People are different from normal humans. Their mutated bodies release extremely large amounts of toxic gases about a month after death.
In other words, the chaotic battle they had seen had taken place a month ago.
Xia Chujian thought that the base's data reel was quite up-to-date.
She took a deep breath and said to Li Dali, who was slowly walking over, "Burn all of this."
Leaving it out in the open like this not only polluted the environment, but also polluted their minds and vision.
Although she couldn't smell the decaying gases that had risen to the level of "toxic gas," Xia Chujian still felt like throwing up.
At this moment, Li Dali's mecha took off and flew over the slope, seeing the scene on the other side.
Without a word, he raised the mecha's arm and quickly mounted a conventional weapon—a Flame Thrower.
A burst of raging fire immediately spewed out, instantly covering the mass burial pit in front.
This was a fire with added accelerant, and burning Carbon-Based Lifeforms was an instantaneous task.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the air here was purified.
At the same time, there were booming explosions.
Because the hydrogen sulfide content in the air was off the charts, and hydrogen sulfide would explode when it encountered a fire with accelerant.
Xia Chujian and Li Dali were both wearing mecha and standing in the air at a safe distance, so the impact of the ground explosions was nothing to them.
Xia Chujian said with emotion, "Were the Shang People people before? —Were they similar to humans?"
Seven Lù continued to type on her visor screen.
[Seven Lù]: Master, Shang People are mutated humanoids descended from Deep Divers and human hybrids, and are completely different from normal humans. Master, do not try to understand them with human thinking.
Xia Chujian sighed.
After waiting a few more minutes, after the raging fire had cleared the mass burial ground, she descended a short distance.
Li Dali manipulated the mecha's mechanical arm, put away the Flame Thrower, and then flew to Xia Chujian's side.
Two mecha warriors, one tall and one short, stood in mid-air, looking at the surrounding situation.
Despite the great fire and noise just now, the surroundings were quiet, and no animals were frightened into fleeing the wooded area covered by vegetation.
Or perhaps, there were no animals there at all? Not even birds?
Xia Chujian was very puzzled.
She had Seven Lù scan the surrounding five hundred miles and found that there were indeed no common birds often seen in the Beichen Empire.
Li Dali stood beside her, vigilantly watching their surroundings.
"Li team, you continue forward. This is the east, right? I'll continue south."
After Xia Chujian finished speaking, she activated her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha again and flew back in the direction she had come from.
In any case, it was still daytime, and she needed to seize the time to scout south.
This time, she went directly into the forests formed by those mutated marine plants.
Inside, towering trees were everywhere, as well as very tall ferns, with stems that were as thick as large trees.
They were hundreds of meters tall above the water, and they grew so densely that they even blocked the sky above.
Sunlight simply couldn't penetrate.
But when Xia Chujian flew into this dense forest, she didn't feel darkness.
Because the coral trees, ferns, and thick seaweed were all emitting a green glow in the dim forest.
The deeper she went into the forest, the higher the radiation level displayed on her visor screen.
Although the radiation level in the open environment outside was already very high, the radiation level inside the dense forest was several levels higher.
Xia Chujian walked alone inside, as if walking in a dead zone without any living creatures.
Those glowing green lights seemed like phosphorescence in a graveyard.
But Seven Lù secretly told her, "Master, these fluorescent lights are all because the content of radioactive isotopes in these plants is too high, so they can glow..."
Xia Chujian was curious and said, "High content of radioactive isotopes can really glow?"
Seven Lù said, "Really! For example, the ancient treasure 'Night-Shining Pearl' often written about in Star Network's small web novels is actually a large piece of ore with a dense concentration of radioactive isotopes."
Xia Chujian: "..."
"So the Night-Shining Pearl is not a good thing?"
Seven Lù said, "It wasn't for the ancients, but it's not dangerous for today's Gene Evolvers."
Xia Chujian didn't understand, but she was too embarrassed to ask.
Seeing that Xia Chujian didn't ask it, Seven Lù couldn't help but ask, "Master, don't you want to know why?"
Xia Chujian chuckled, "...Then why?"
Seven Lù immediately began to popularize science in a cute way: "That's because the Gene Chain Base of Gene Evolvers has evolved to the point where it is not affected by radioactive elements, so nuclear radiation has no effect on them!"
Hearing this, Xia Chujian's heart stirred: "Seven Lù, do you mean that if Gene Evolvers come here, they are not afraid of the radiation levels here at all?"
Seven Lù said, "Yes, of course they are not afraid. They don't even need to wear Mecha!"
Xia Chujian felt a little uncomfortable and murmured, "But this time, only a very small number of people sent here are Gene Evolvers."
Xia Chujian suddenly remembered the twenty students who came this time.
Only Chu Qingchen, Hui Zhifeng, Zhuo Hanchen, Ji Nabi, and Lü Luyu were Gene Evolvers.
The rest of the students were not Gene Evolvers.
Not to mention the 20,000 Starry Sky Marines, they were all ordinary people.
Because Gene Evolvers could not possibly be in the Starry Sky Marines; they would have been promoted to some high-level department long ago.
Seven Lù stopped talking.
For some reason, a stuffy feeling rose in Xia Chujian's heart.
The mecha's arm swished up, and a long knife emerged from the top of the mecha's arm.
Bang! She swung the knife and knocked down a patch of coral trees here! Sunlight suddenly shone in from above the tilted coral tree.
The glowing green light in the forest faded.
Xia Chujian looked up at the direction of the sunlight and narrowed her eyes.
It was similar to the sunlight in the Beichen Galaxy, but the area it illuminated was very different.
After venting her stuffiness, Xia Chujian continued forward, wanting to see what it was like tens of thousands of miles away.
One myriad li is the farthest network range that her Carp-Class Interstellar Airship's base station can cover.
With the speed of Xia Chujian's Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha, she can fly 60,000 kilometers per minute in space.
But this is within the atmosphere, and it's impossible for her to fly that fast.
If she were that fast, she would have flown out of the atmosphere and into space long ago.
Moreover, she has to collect local natural data, so her speed naturally can't be that fast.
But it won't be too slow either.
She flies through this primeval forest of marine plants at a speed of forty li per minute.
After five hours, she has flown nearly 12,000 li, and is almost at the Equator of Senze Star.
Along the way, she finally saw some of the animals on Senze Star.
Having prepared herself mentally, she knew at a glance that these strange creatures had mutated from marine life.
There were electric eels with four legs, and giant lantern jellyfish resting on Coral Trees.
Each one, in the glowing dark forest, was like a natural lantern.
It's just that the color of these lanterns is also green, which looks creepy.
There were also crabs about the size of a three-meter-tall Mecha, each one crawling out from under the trees, glaring at her.
Xia Chujian almost couldn't help drooling.
If Seven Lù hadn't reminded her that the radiation levels in those crabs were too high, she wouldn't have been able to resist catching a few to take back to the Interstellar Airship for a crab feast.
She likes to eat crabs, but when she was in Mulan City on Guiyuan Star, she disliked the crab shells being too numerous, the edible meat being too little, and them being terribly expensive, so she rarely had the opportunity to eat them.
Looking at these crabs as big as a three-meter-tall Mecha, the meat in those pincers must be plentiful!
But taking another look at the almost transparent shells of the big crabs, she also knew that these crabs were no longer suitable for human consumption.
Maybe Gene Evolvers could eat them without any problems.
Moreover, Xia Chujian felt that exceeding the limit of radioactive element content would definitely affect the taste of the crab meat.
Better not eat them.
Later, when she saw lobsters as big as an antique car, and mantis shrimps that could stand upright and were 1.6 meters tall, she was already able to turn a blind eye.
She just muttered to Seven Lù in her fully enclosed helmet, "Seven Lù, do you think there's a way to breed these mutated seafood? Remove the radioactive elements from their bodies, and retain this mutated size?"
That's walking, large seafood protein, so tempting! Seven Lù said with a serious face, "Master, theoretically, it is possible to carry out generation after generation of screening through genetic engineering to eliminate radioactive elements while retaining the mutated form."
"But no matter how you screen, the meat quality of seafood of this size cannot be as fresh and tender as seafood of normal size."
"So, wanting both is impossible."
Xia Chujian thought about it, and felt that it made sense, but she was still unwilling, and said, "Seven Lù, you said that before the change on this planet, 99% of the area was covered by seawater, right?"
"At that time, there weren't so many radioactive elements here, so the seafood must have been abundant and delicious!"
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 00:05 tonight.
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