"You quickly take her back, change her Mecha, and have the medics there check her over. If it's serious, contact Sang Second Lieutenant and send her back to the Starry Sky Cruiser; they have Medical Cabins there."
Mao Yonggui hurriedly agreed, "I'll take Chu Second Lieutenant away right now."
Her own Mecha was fifteen meters tall, so carrying another fifteen-meter-tall Mecha was no effort at all.
Once Mao Yonggui was far away, Xia Chujian looked at her visor display.
It showed the Mutated Jellyfish Traps in the area.
Right around the Coral Tree where Chu Qingjuan had been hit.
Xia Chujian immediately flew over, her mechanical arm raised, and sprayed six times in a row, burning all six Mutated Jellyfish Traps on the ground to ashes.
After confirming there were no more traps around, Xia Chujian asked Seven Lù, "Those traps just now, weren't dug by the Mutated Jellyfish, right?"
She had examined the Mutated Jellyfish carefully; they had no hands or feet, only tentacles.
Seven Lù said, "No, the traps should have been dug by the Shang People. They can control the Longevity Flying Fish, so they can definitely control the Mutated Jellyfish as well."
Xia Chujian sighed and said, "This kind of atmospheric environment is deadly to ordinary people like us. But these Shang People are living just fine."
Seven Lù said, "That's called survival of the fittest. Master has the Shao Siming Mecha, so you can survive in any environment."
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue. "But it needs Energy Blocks. If my Shao Siming Mecha runs out of Energy Blocks, I'll be useless."
"So today is another day of envying Gene Evolvers!"
Xia Chujian lamented.
Gene Evolvers don't even need to wear Mechas in this harsh environment. She had another reason to envy Gene Evolvers.
Seven Lù said, "Master doesn't need to envy Gene Evolvers. Gene Evolvers also have varying levels of ability. The Shao Siming Mecha can beat every single one of them!"
Xia Chujian's lips twitched. "Seven Lù, you're even better at bragging than I am. By the way, you said a large group of Shang People were coming this way. Where are they?"
Seven Lù said, "...They're too slow, slower than Seven Lù calculated. It might take another twenty minutes for them to get here."
Xia Chujian was curious. "What are they coming for? To check their Mutated Jellyfish Traps and see what prey they've caught?"
Seven Lù said, "Master, anything is possible."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She simply hid on the treetops of those Coral Trees, activated her Mecha's stealth mode, and continued to observe the surroundings.
After she made her Mecha invisible, she felt that making Chu Qingjuan pass out might have been a good idea.
At least if Chu Qingjuan were here, she wouldn't be able to use the Shao Siming Mecha's functions so freely.
She had been a bit harsh on Seven Lù just now.
But she couldn't let Seven Lù make decisions for her without permission.
It was a Mechanical Intelligence, and it couldn't take action without her authorization.
Xia Chujian was lost in thought on top of the Coral Tree, and after waiting a full twenty minutes, she finally saw a large group of Shang People staggering over.
At a glance, there were probably more than two hundred Shang People.
They held crude bows or spears in their hands, were short in stature, and had small Lantern Jellyfish hanging from their waists.
However, they looked slightly more normal than the Shang People she had seen fighting in the videos before.
In other words, they didn't have three heads and six arms or anything like that; at most, their arms were twisted into S-shapes, and their legs were bent into B-shapes.
As for their heads, some were crooked, and some were tilted.
Some had necks that were disproportionately long, while others had no necks at all, with an egg-shaped head sitting directly on their shoulders.
Well, beauty is relative.
When Xia Chujian compared the appearance of these Shang People to the bizarre Shang People in the videos, she felt that they looked pretty good.
And among these Shang People, one of them didn't have a dorsal fin.
He looked almost like a normal human, with only one head, two arms, and two legs.
Moreover, his head wasn't tilted, his arms weren't twisted into an S-shape, and his legs weren't bent into a B-shape, although he did have a severe case of bowlegs.
He wasn't tall, only about one and a half meters.
His facial features looked normal.
However, through the high-definition vision of the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha, Xia Chujian couldn't help but notice that the pupils of this person's eyes involuntarily turned into vertical slits.
This was the only thing that distinguished him from a normal human.
When his pupils weren't vertical slits, he looked like a normal human.
But this person, standing among a group of bizarre Shang People, not only didn't seem out of place, but was also the leader of these Shang People.
He led the group of Shang People to the Coral Tree, looked around, and then began to speak in a clucking manner, like a hen.
Xia Chujian couldn't understand him.
She softly asked Seven Lù, "Seven Lù, can you understand what he's saying?"
She was speaking inside her fully enclosed helmet, so no one outside could hear her.
Seven Lù said, "I can understand. He's still speaking in Ancient Sanghe Language."
As it spoke, it fiddled with some program, and then Xia Chujian's helmet headset had a simultaneous translation system.
Now, she could understand what the person was saying.
She heard him asking the Shang People, "...Where are the traps here? Where are those jellyfish?"
One of the Shang People looked around, poked the ground for a long time with its two S-shaped arms, and said, "They're gone, maybe they crawled away."
The seemingly normal Shang Person seemed to be very angry and roared twice, then said, "Catch more jellyfish in the future! Without jellyfish blocking the way here, those Seed People will run away!"
Then the Shang People said in unison, "Yes, Da Zhao Shi!"
Xia Chujian quietly asked Seven Lù, "...Da Zhao Shi, is that the name of this Shang Person?"
Seven Lù's childish voice had a hint of surprise, saying, "Da Zhao Shi, that name is quite something."
Xia Chujian was puzzled, "What's so special about it?"
Seven Lù said, "Da Zhao Shi was the name of the last ruler who unified Senze Star ten thousand years ago and established the Sanghe Nation."
"It is said that this name, in Senze Star, is the only royal family that has been passed down for ten thousand generations."
Xia Chujian sneered, "...And then what? Didn't the Sanghe Nation perish more than ten thousand years ago?"
Seven Lù said, "Yes, it seems that the Sanghe Nation is gone, but the royal family Da Zhao Shi, which has been passed down for ten thousand generations, actually still has descendants."
Xia Chujian muttered, "Maybe he's just trying to flatter himself, picking up a famous name and putting it on himself."
"Ten thousand generations, what a boast! Who knows how many times the genes in between have been replaced..."
Seven Lù said, "That's also possible. Seven Lù's database has the genetic data of the ancient royal family Da Zhao Shi."
"We can get a strand of hair from this person..."
Xia Chujian said, "This person has no hair."
Indeed, his head was bald, not even a stubble of hair.
Seven Lù's childish voice was puzzled, "...So his mutation is in his hair?"
Xia Chujian said, "If he has already mutated, then even if he is a descendant of Da Zhao Shi, his genes can't be used for a paternity test, right?"
Seven Lù said, "Master is right, he has already mutated, and the gene chains are no longer the same."
Xia Chujian was just saying that, she didn't care at all about what relationship this Shang Person had with the ancient royal family of ten thousand generations.
She just wanted to know what this Da Zhao Shi wanted to do.
She saw this Da Zhao Shi, who looked like a normal person, walking unsteadily with his bowlegs towards the depths of the marine tree forest.
That direction required passing through the Mutated Jellyfish Traps.
Xia Chujian thoughtfully said, "It seems they don't want other Shang People to pass?"
Those traps wouldn't be there to defend against them, would they? They had only just arrived on this planet!
Seven Lù said, "It might also be to guard against the mutated animals here."
Xia Chujian nodded and followed the group of Shang People into the depths of the marine forest.
This direction was north, and she had never been here before. The forest she had visited was to the south, near the Equator.
She already knew that the denser the marine forest, the greater the radiation. She had tested it in the southern forest before.
But here in the northern marine forest, the radiation level was actually an order of magnitude higher than in the southern marine forest.
Seven Lù said, "Master, the radiation level here is so high that even an animal the size of a Longevity Flying Fish would be riddled with holes from the radiation in a short time."
Xia Chujian was also alarmed and said, "These Shang People are fine in this environment. Their bodies are so strong! They can keep up with Gene Evolvers!"
Seven Lù said, "The Shang People are different from Gene Evolvers. They are completely mutated and adapted to a high-intensity nuclear radiation environment."
"But although the Shang People are adapted to this environment, creatures that grow up in this environment generally have very short lifespans. Living to thirty is considered a long life for them."
"Gene Evolvers, on the other hand, undergo Gene Evolution, not mutation. The lifespan of Gene Evolvers has long exceeded the scope of normal humans, and they can live up to three hundred years."
Xia Chujian curled her lips: "Only three hundred years, not as long as the lifespan of a Starry Sky Yuan-chu."
Seven Lù said matter-of-factly, "...But the Starry Sky Yuan-chu is already extinct."
Xia Chujian stopped talking and simply switched her Shao Siming Mecha to the previous close-fitting mode, no longer the three-meter-high black iron-style regular Mecha.
The close-fitting mode was suitable for covert tracking.
She hid behind the group of Shang People and quietly walked into the dense forest for another half an hour.
It wasn't until her Mecha's environmental detector kept sounding a sharp alarm that the Shang People in front stopped.
Of course, the alarm was isolated inside her fully enclosed helmet, and the people outside couldn't hear it at all.
She said to Seven Lù with lingering fear, "...The nuclear radiation level here is too high... Is there a nuclear radiation mine here?"
Seven Lù wondered, "According to the data, even if there is a mine, the nuclear radiation level shouldn't be this high."
"Because the content of native nuclear elements in the ore is actually very low, and it needs to be refined before it can be used."
Xia Chujian was even more curious: "Then under what circumstances would there be such a high level of nuclear radiation?"
Seven Lù said, "...Unless there was once large-scale equipment here that carried out high-radiation isotope refining projects."
Xia Chujian suddenly understood: "So someone was refining nuclear elements with particularly high purity here? - That must have been ten thousand years ago, right?"
Because looking at the primitive state of this planet, it doesn't look like there are any large factories...
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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