Seven Lù said, "Master is right. There probably was large-scale equipment here for refining high-purity nuclear elements before the major changes on Senze Star."
"Later, when the major changes happened here, this equipment was damaged, and the refined nuclear elements inside were completely exposed to the natural environment, resulting in such a high level of nuclear radiation."
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue. "Maybe this major change is related to the equipment in this place..."
"Could it be that the equipment was damaged first, and nuclear radiation exposed to the seawater and atmosphere, which caused the entire Senze Star to mutate?"
Seven Lù was silent for a while.
After several minutes, its childlike voice said with slight surprise, "Master is so prescient!"
"Seven Lù just used the original data in the database and the nuclear radiation levels here to calculate, and deducing from the results, it's very likely that this place is the real cause of the major changes!"
"No wonder Seven Lù's database only said that this major change was not a natural disaster, but man-made!"
"Such large nuclear equipment was damaged, and high-purity nuclear radiation was all exposed to the seawater and atmosphere, which led to the environmental mutation of the entire Senze Star!"
"The first to die were normal humans. Only a small portion of the Deep Divers Haidagong and the mixed-blood descendants of humans mutated and survived."
"Then the entire environment mutated, and marine plants and animals completely disfigured this planet!"
Xia Chujian was just guessing.
After listening to Seven Lù's analysis, she smiled and said, "Seven Lù, this is just your speculation, don't take it as the truth."
"Actually, it's been so long, and Senze Star has become like this, it's too late to say anything."
"Let's see what these Shang People are doing here."
As Xia Chujian spoke, she noticed that the Shang People in front had stopped.
From her perspective, the Shang People seemed to be standing in a circle.
Except for the Shang Person who called himself "Da Zhao Shi", the other Shang People took out the Lantern Jellyfish from their waists and held them in their hands as lighting.
She couldn't see what was in the middle of the circle they were surrounding.
Curious, Xia Chujian quietly ascended into the air, leaping to the half-body of a pink-blue, jewel-like Coral Tree.
She saw that the place the Shang People were surrounding was a deep pit.
Xia Chujian took a few more steps forward, standing closer to the deep pit at the half-body of a pink Coral Tree.
This time, she saw what was in the deep pit.
Xia Chujian's face changed drastically.
Under the illumination of the Lantern Jellyfish held by the Shang People, Xia Chujian saw that the deep pit was full of women!
And they looked like normal humans, not the strange shapes of the Shang People.
What surprised Xia Chujian even more was that the clothes on these women looked very familiar.
They seemed to be the Combat Suits of the Beichen Empire Interstellar Fleet!
But they were all torn to pieces, unable to cover their bodies at all...
What's going on?! Xia Chujian was shocked.
Interstellar Fleet Combat Suits?! Are they the Starry Sky Marines who came with them this time?! Or higher-level pilots and officers?! Before, she listened to Seven Lù's advice and had everyone change into Combat Suits, and she also took out the Combat Suit from the backpack Kang Shanxing prepared for her.
Roughly speaking, these Combat Suits looked the same to her, just different colors.
For example, the Combat Suits of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet were sea-blue camouflage, with black belts and black military boots.
The Combat Suits of the Fifth Interstellar Fleet were starry sky camouflage, with blue belts and blue military boots.
But the Combat Suits on these women in the deep pit, which were only left in strips, seemed to be desert camouflage with light yellow belts.
They had no shoes on their feet.
Xia Chujian muttered, "...Which Interstellar Fleet is this from? Are they Marines or pilots?"
Seven Lù said, "Master, according to Seven Lù's image recognition, these are Starry Sky Marines from the First Interstellar Fleet. The Combat Suits of the Marines are different from those of pilots and higher-ranking officers."
Xia Chujian didn't understand these things, but she believed Seven Lù's words and immediately said, "The First Interstellar Fleet? Did they come from the Starry Sky Cruiser D499?"
"Could it be that in Chu Qingchen's team, some Starry Sky Marines have already been captured?"
"No, it can't be this fast!"
After saying that, she quickly frowned and overturned her own guess.
Xia Chujian was the first to arrive. The thousand Starry Sky Marines she brought herself were still in that Carp-Class Airship and hadn't come out yet. Where would captured Starry Sky Marines come from?
And the other three Starry Sky Cruisers had only just arrived at this planet, parked at the Equator of Senze Star, tens of thousands of miles away from here.
She had just been to that place, and those three Starry Sky Cruisers had just released the Interstellar Airships.
Even if their combat power wasn't great, they couldn't have been captured so quickly and transported by the Shang People to a place tens of thousands of miles away.
But then again, the technology of the Shang People here was so backward, the kind where they could fight a national war with sticks. Even the lowest-level Starry Sky Marines couldn't be captured...
As long as those Starry Sky Marines put on their Mecha, they would be invincible! Fighting those Shang People would be like playing a game! They could wipe out the Shang People in minutes. How could they allow themselves to be captured? Even without Mecha, even with Military Exoskeletons, these Shang People were no match.
Xia Chujian thought, feeling even more incredulous.
Worried it was a trap, she continued to hide silently in a Coral Tree, carefully watching this scene.
To see more clearly, she descended from halfway up the Coral Tree, which was four to five hundred meters tall.
The Mecha started silently, floating above the group of Shang People.
Standing there, Xia Chujian could not only clearly see the actions of these Shang People, but also see the deep pit below the Mecha.
Looking again, Xia Chujian's pupils shook.
She never expected that the misery of these people was even worse than those ordinary women harmed by the Star Pirates!
Their bodies were in very strange positions, and the clothes on their bodies were barely covering anything.
They were sprawled in the deep pit in disarray.
Everyone had a look of utter despair, numbly looking at the sky outside the pit.
Xia Chujian quickly scanned them.
According to the data provided by Seven Lù, there were three hundred and twenty-one women here.
Everyone's physical condition was very bad.
Some people seemed to have no bones, as soft as a pile of mud.
Xia Chujian was puzzled. Were these people injured? Or sick? Just then, the Shang person who called himself "Da Zhao Shi" took a step forward and began to speak, looking at the women in the deep pit.
He cackled and said, "Zhong Tiao, go down and check the physical condition of these women."
"Bring up the women who have passed the test of the Sanghe God."
"Their bodies should be able to give birth to healthy children."
A male Shang person with a tilted head jumped into the deep pit, rummaging through the women.
He would open their mouths to check their teeth, and then pull open their legs to check their reproductive systems.
Finally, he picked seven women and cackled a few words to the Da Zhao Shi above the pit.
This Shang person named Zhong Tiao also spoke in Ancient Sanghe Language.
He said to the Da Zhao Shi, "King, these seven women still have teeth, and their childbearing organs are not damaged. They can give birth to healthy children."
Xia Chujian's face immediately darkened.
Were these Shang People treating the women in the deep pit like livestock?! Even checking their teeth!
Then, a group of Shang People who appeared to be female jumped into the deep pit and carried out the seven women who looked to be in slightly better condition.
Then these female Shang People waved their crooked arms around these women, shaking their heads to the sky like they were having a seizure.
Their bodies also swayed, seemingly with some kind of rhythm.
Seven Lù displayed several lines of text on Xia Chujian's visor screen.
[Seven Lù]: Master, they are performing the Hundred Sons Thousand Grandsons Dance. It is a fertility dance from the time when the Sanghe Nation people sacrificed to the gods ten thousand years ago, to ask the gods to bless their descendants.
Xia Chujian immediately understood.
These Shang People had captured this group of Starry Sky Marines from the Beichen Empire at some point, and they planned to use them to improve their offspring? She spat in her heart, thinking, these beasts, still want to last for generations? Shouldn't they be cut off from having descendants?! At this moment, the Da Zhao Shi walked over with bowlegs, bowed to the women lying on the ground unable to move, and continued to speak.
This time, Seven Lù said in surprise: "He's speaking Beichen language now! He can speak Beichen language!"
It turned off the simultaneous translation system in Xia Chujian's Mecha headset, and Xia Chujian could directly hear the person calling himself "Da Zhao Shi" speaking through the helmet microphone.
She only heard him say to the seven women lying on the ground, unable to move, in broken Beichen language: "Hello, we are very sincere in wanting to have children with you."
"Don't resent us, it was your superiors who sold you to us Shang People."
"We Shang People paid the price, and you must also abide by the principles of commercial integrity and fulfill the promises your superiors made to us."
"We Shang People don't accept just any humans."
"Leaving you here for a month has already changed your bodies."
"You are the chosen ones selected by the Sanghe Great God, you will definitely be able to give us healthy children."
"Resistance is useless, can you even pick up a weapon now?"
The women lying on the ground, unable to move, suddenly widened their eyes, each with an unbelievable expression, as if they had heard the most absurd lie.
One woman even propped herself up to sit, coldly saying one word: "...Get out!"
She glared at these Shang People, but unfortunately, their bodies were severely ravaged by nuclear radiation, and they couldn't even move.
Da Zhao Shi looked confident, smiling as he said: "It's useless for you to run away."
"Do I need to lie to you?"
"The radiation on Senze Star is unbearable for ordinary people of your Beichen Empire."
"It's a pity your superiors didn't give you equipment that could protect against nuclear radiation, causing you to lose your combat ability from the radiation."
"Your superiors took our Longevity Flying Fish, and the price was leaving you to us."
"Alright, we have informed you of all the circumstances, now we will collect our reward."
Then he took a step back and waved his hand: "You guys come over, have children with them now."
A group of male Shang People beside him immediately threw away the Lantern Jellyfish they were carrying, and with a howl, pounced on the seven women, about to commit violence.
Xia Chujian couldn't bear it any longer, coldly saying: "Let me help you! - If all the Shang People are dead, they won't be thinking about carrying on the family line!"
This is the first update. The second update is at 1 PM.
PS: To explain, the distance Seven Lù detected before was only 500 li, and no people were detected within 500 li. Now it is already beyond 500 li, and it is one of the directions in which the four of them actively explored from the southeast, northwest, and the traces of the Shang People were only discovered beyond 500 li, which is not contradictory.
These are all details, how can the subsequent plot be advanced without writing clearly? However, interstellar novels are indeed a niche genre. Those who like this category will enjoy reading it, while those who are not familiar with this category may find it inexplicable. (^▽^)
I hope that after reading this book, more people will fall in love with the interstellar genre. I especially like this genre, but there are too few good long interstellar novels, so I decided to produce my own food.
This is also my first time writing this genre. If you have any good suggestions, you can mention them, and I will consider them. But Mou Han has a bit of Seven Lù's personality, admitting mistakes is quick, but whether to change it is up to fate. O(∩_∩)O haha~
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