When the Tide Level stabilized, Xi Yujin felt exhausted, as if he had been riding a pendulum for 24 hours.
"We are now entering the 'level channel'. Passengers can move along the gravity button. In order to maintain civilization and safety, please wear level 2 protective clothing when leaving the cabin. This ship will not be responsible for any accidents caused by leaving the cabin without following the gravity button trajectory." The leading ship issued such a notice.
Now, this earthy yellow planetary spaceship is moving forward at high speed. The side of it that is moving forward is starting the engine, and the back is pulling many spaceships in the form of fluid. There are thin white lines connecting each spaceship to maintain the relative distance between them. At this time, the spaceships have maintained a relatively static state with the pilot ship, that is, the "level channel". This journey is a bit long, and passengers who don't want to stay in the cabin can go out and move around moderately.
Xi Yujin took a break and prepared to pack up the prizes from the essay contest. Gano had been acting a little strange since he knew the truth about the vest, and was taking care of the weapons. He asked Xi Yujin if he needed his help to split open all the packaging, but Xi Yujin quickly refused:
“The essence of opening a blind box is to open it yourself!”
Ganuo nodded as if he understood. In addition to taking care of the weapons, he also watched Xi Yujin unpack the packaging, as if he was infected by the joy.
Although Xi Yujin's own hardness was enough to tear the packaging with his bare hands, that would be too ungraceful. So he scooped up the nearby Asteroid No. 2 and used the sharp edge of the asteroid to perfectly cut along the seam line.
The first one is the furniture gift package from Feiya Chamber of Commerce.
"Hammock! Feather lamp! Creative table and chair set! Fake dune view windows!"
There are many empty rooms on the Chaoping, with few furnitures. Even the lounge for Xi Yujin and Ganuo only has simple beds and a set of tables and chairs. Xi Yujin decorated their rooms according to his own wishes, and then decorated other rooms in the functional area more beautifully. Now the Chaoping finally has a sense of "future technology".
The second one is the technology gift package from Feiya Chamber of Commerce.
Xi Yujin found something of great interest in it, matte mineral paint.
After applying it, it can cover the original color of the ore without damaging the ore, and is usually used to smuggle resources. Xi Yujin tried it on himself, and the brilliance of the diamond was perfectly covered. He breathed a sigh of relief, and now he didn't have to worry about being too prominent among the creatures in the universe.
Moreover, he can change his hair color when he dresses up in the future, just be careful not to let it come into contact with water, which will add another boost to his vest undertaking.
Xi Yujin painted his exposed skin with a layer of paint and dyed his hair silver-white. He looked at himself in the mirror, and after removing the mineral texture of his skin, he looked more like himself in his previous life.
"It's still a two-dimensional version of a human. Ganuo, what do you think of me? I shouldn't be as...attractive as before?" Xi Yujin asked.
Gano just turned the corner and met Xi Yujin who was admiring the wall. He stared at him in a daze, seemingly unable to speak.
After a while, he looked away and said, "It looks better..."
Xi Yujin narrowed his eyes and smiled, thinking that the aliens' aesthetic taste changed every day.
He continued to look through the prizes of the Flying Duck Chamber of Commerce and found one that was marked as a special prize. He carefully opened it and found that it was a duck down jacket of different colors!
The tag above reads:
"This is the most authentic Flying Duck down jacket, made from the down feathers from the necks of 23,333 ducks with excellent character and learning at their coming-of-age ceremony. It is a precious luxury item that can be called a physical book! This down jacket is compact and light to carry. It is extremely cold-resistant, scratch-resistant, and radiation-resistant. It is the perfect choice for outdoor adventure clothing!"
The style of the duck down jacket is a bit like the patchwork jacket on Earth, but the thin circuit on it is definitely not something that Earth technology can have. Xi Yujin used himself to cut the clothes, and sure enough, there was no tear, so he put them on. Space adventures require special clothing!
He also found a camouflage earring. As long as he used his mental power to open it, a mosaic would appear to cover the user's face. No matter from which angle he looked, he could not see the user's true face.
"Yes... Interstellar Age is all about experiencing these technologies..."
Experiencing the tools of the future personally, Xi Yujin was immersed in a very simple happiness.
He changed the style of the mosaic into a black bar, just wide enough to cover his eyes, and then admired himself in the mirror. He really looked like an outlaw!
Xi Yujin continued to modify the style. Now, different emojis can be displayed in the black bar according to his mood. Finally, there is no sense of déjà vu of "Today's Statement", but the concentration of the second dimension has greatly increased. For the sake of disguise, there is no other way.
Ganuo had been watching from the side, feeling somewhat puzzled, but considering that they were from the Blue Planet, it was normal.
The gift pack from Feiya Chamber of Commerce has been unpacked. It is very practical and has greatly improved the comfort level inside the Chaoping.
Xi Yujin then unpacked the package from the Materialism Library.
The largest one is a sightseeing dual-purpose spacecraft, the size of two double-decker buses, with four walls that can become transparent, allowing passengers to safely view the scenery in space and on the ground. The Chaoping is a mining ship and has no landing function. With this sightseeing boat, Xi Yujin can not only land freely, but also have a short-distance means of transportation on the ground.
"The reading club is so generous, is there something I don't know about?" Xi Yujin's eyes lit up, and he touched the boat in disbelief, changing its name to "Wanghaihao". It was placed in the left warehouse of Chaoping together with the black box.
The Materialistic Reading Club also gave away a foldable electronic library, with the reminder that it should be used in open areas.
Xi Yujin took it to the right warehouse for use.
When he pressed the button, the entire warehouse was filled with virtual bookshelves!
"Welcome to our friends at the Materialistic Book Club. We are willing to share our knowledge base with you." A voice prompted, "If you are used to reading physical books, you can wear gloves to improve your simulation level."
When Xi Yujin put on the hollow gloves and touched the virtual bookshelf, he felt the same texture as touching a real book. The slightly rough pages slipped across his fingertips, and different printed words twisted as the pages were folded.
"Wow... I don't understand it at all..."
The semicircular towering bookshelves surrounded Xi Yujin layer by layer. Looking up, the bookshelves almost touched the ceiling. Xi Yujin thought about it and took the spiral escalator donated by the Feiya Chamber of Commerce, so that he could feel more comfortable when reading.
The Materialistic Reading Club was in a tight financial situation, so they gave away a lot of things for the time being. Some of the things were probably given by the members of the reading club themselves, such as the frozen seafood meal, which was said to be a specialty of the members' hometowns.
Xi Yujin looked at the seafood in the ice, and when he thought of the huge coral polyps and starfish, he suddenly found it difficult to eat.
"What will the Glitter Empire send?"
Xi Yujin opened the last package and found out it was an ore cutting machine!
Could it be the execution rack of the Flash Tribe?
After reading the manual, I realized that it was a tool for making physical books. If Xi Yujin planned to publish his own book, he could use it to produce a small number of books.
As for the other things... they were different kinds of mineral cups and mineral plants. If you ignore the texture of the lower part of the plant, the upper part is no different from the green plants on Earth.
Xi Yujin took a bite of the ore cup and put everything in place. Now the left warehouse of the Chaoping is filled with black boxes and the Wanghai, and the right warehouse is the Materialistic Sharing Library. The rooms on the five floors of the functional area are all decorated pleasingly, and green plants are placed in the corridors.
"This is the kind of space travel life I want..." Xi Yujin lay on the furry sofa, not wanting to get up.
There was a sound of dripping water outside the cabin of the Tide Level.
Ganuo said: "Please rest assured, it was other passengers who were using the gravity button to move and were just passing by our spaceship."
Xi Yujin: "I feel at ease when Ganuo is here!" He has seen how Ganuo would take him to escape from the center of the earth.
The change in Ganuo's expression is now a little more obvious.
"Oh, it's time to update." Xi Yujin thought there were still several series to go, but when he turned on his optical computer, he found that he could not connect to the star network of the Pangshi galaxy. He looked it up and found that the planetary giant wheel was in an unobservable state when moving at high speed, commonly known as disconnection.
Therefore, the most common reason for novelists in this universe to stop writing is that they are about to make a big leap. Some novelists never land after they make a leap. Readers kindly call these novelists who stop writing "black holes."
He just wants to be a meteorite spirit and doesn't want to add the title of black hole writer!
I will update it when he is online! Save it now!
But the time spent on saving drafts is too boring, so let’s first take a look at what fun there is to do on the pilot ship.
Each pilot ship is equipped with a black box, and passengers can chat through this local area network during the journey.
The LAN was very lively, and the languages were more diverse. Fortunately, Ganuo was an omnipotent translator. Xi Yujin asked him if he had ever been on a pilot ship, and Ganuo replied that it was his first time. Ganuo came to the edge of the universe from the wormhole after leaving the Zerg territory, and he didn't have much travel experience. They were all novices in space travel.
"In this case, it is necessary to write a travel log..." Xi Yujin imagined the life of a couple traveling together, "It would also be nice to write a 'Blue Star People's Guide to Hitchhiking in the Universe'."
Ganuo felt that Xi Yujin always had a very active curiosity. Although he didn't understand, the time they spent traveling together was a hundred times more profound than the time they spent in the Zerg.
They browsed the ship's network together.
There are recruitment columns, transaction columns, and temporary chat room columns.
The interface of the temporary chat room is like a large penguin colony. In order to maintain order during the journey and avoid encounters with hostile creatures, the temporary chat room will screenshot the official website pages of all races on this journey. Blue Star is prominently listed.
But it's not very rigorous, at least you can't see the Zerg. Xi Yujin didn't report Ganuo when he bought the ticket. He has realized that the machine race and the Zerg are unusual races in the universe and need to be treated with caution.
Xi Yujin looked through the fancy pages of other races and felt deeply that his own Blue Star official website was too simple...
In the future, he will encounter more difficult races, and he must make up for all his shortcomings as much as possible.
After making a comparison, he discovered a fatal flaw in the Blue Star official website: there was no friendly diplomatic race!
This thing is like a friendship link. You can be friendly on the surface to build friendship, but you can't do without it. In this universe, no civilization is isolated.
Originally, Xi Yujin wanted to have friendly diplomacy with the Shining Empire, but after the underground palace was exposed, it seems that friendly relations can no longer be possible...
"Gano, I'm going to perform my duties as a Blue Star diplomat." Xi Yujin turned on his camouflage earrings, "I'm going to this Peace Hall to look for a target for 'book diplomacy'."
"I will go with you." Gano saluted with one hand. He knew that it was inconvenient for the Zerg to meet people, so he wrapped the floating armor with cloth and put on a thick scarf and hood. The two of them looked like two humans, followed by a sheet ghost.
The passage created by the gravity button was as thrilling as a tightrope. Xi Yujin walked to the outer wall of the next ship and greeted the passengers inside awkwardly, indicating that he was just passing by. The passengers inside raised their glasses and laughed.
They moved slowly to the Peace Hall.
The hall door opened, and two creatures with two hands and two feet came in, followed by a floating ghost, probably their pet. The creatures in the hall glanced at them and did not stay for too long. The hall was very quiet, and the creatures were reluctant to communicate, just observing. Because this is the place for official negotiations on behalf of the race. Some creatures came here just to be on duty, while others came here for some purpose.
A common form of space diplomacy is book diplomacy.
That is, novelists from both races write books for each other to promote friendship. Each race's central government has this kind of diplomatic writer, but because of their status restrictions, they cannot create freely and can only write essays on assigned topics, so not many novelists are willing to do it. In the long run, cultural diplomacy is naturally more about form than content, and few races expect novels on diplomatic topics.
Xi Yujin wanted to increase the number of diplomatic partners for Blue Star through book diplomacy. He needed someone who was a little more plastic, just greeting them on holidays, and had better have good character, so as not to be dragged down by the mess of the other race.
He had already learned in the temporary chat room which races had lower diplomatic thresholds for books, and now he came to the lobby to try his luck. Gano was also upgraded from a guard to a simultaneous interpreter.
The first species found resembled the ghosts in the game Pac-Man.
After it knew the purpose of the visit, it immediately complained: "We really need book diplomacy! We even want to import some, but unfortunately not many races can write this kind of text."
Xi Yujin was greatly encouraged: "We Blue Star people have many diplomatic talents, maybe we can have an official novelist who is good at this."
"You Blue Planet are so lucky." The ghost said, "It is well known that our race has four genders. Three of them are unique to the newborn period. One is the adult gender. The reproduction of our race has always been like this. The newborns of three different genders reproduce and overlap, and finally the three consciousnesses and bodies merge into one, and they officially become adults. But recently, the excellent newborns are increasingly unwilling to merge. Their self-awareness is too strong, and it is difficult for us to deal with it!"
Xi Yujin thought the answer sounded familiar: "What a rare way of reproduction..."
The ghost said: "So we hope to have something that stimulates the mind, promotes reproductive reactions, is necessary for other races during maturity, and has more postures and routines."
Xi Yujin was silent for a moment: "Our diplomats can only write slime."
Ghost: "That's a shame."
After Xi Yujin fled quickly, he leaned against the wall and thought, his next vest should be of the opposite sex, otherwise what if the aliens think that the gender relationship on Earth is also this strange? This universe is too difficult to understand!
The second race found resembled aging children.
"Our ancestors loved to make stone tablets." The other party said, "During the period of 'civilization contact', we will place 1:4:9 stone tablets in various galaxies to inspire the minds of different races. When their technology is advanced enough to discover the stone tablets, we will colonize them, oh no, to make civilization contact with them. Don't leave yet!"
It grabbed Xi Yujin who was turning to leave and said, "That was our ancestor. There were many such things from the 'isolated planet' period to the 'civilization contact' period. The diplomatic novel we want is about network hacking. At that time, one of our slates was infected with a virus..."
Xi Yujin refused diplomacy. It was obviously not in line with the values of Blue Star to talk about his colonial history openly. Then he couldn't help but ponder, didn't he travel to a new universe, but to a book?
The third race they found was very tiny. They were so small that they could not be seen, so Xi Yujin could only communicate with them using a walkie-talkie.
"Our species has three stars. Fortunately, we are small enough to survive by dehydration. The type of novel we want is a fairy tale, which our species loves to hear. It would be best if there is some anti-fraud content, because we just encountered a telecommunications fraud 400 light years away...Huh? Why did you run away?"
"This race is very dangerous." Xi Yujin threw the intercom after hearing the first sentence. He said to Ganuo, "Why don't any normal races have diplomatic relations with us on Blue Star?"
Gano looked at the diplomatic list in the book and said, "The next race may have a higher success rate. The data shows that they are very friendly, but the number of their diplomatic races is only in the single digits. Maybe there is something fishy."
Xi Yujin came to the fourth race that could practice book diplomacy.
It was about ten meters tall, like a pile of mud with many limp tentacles, and looked like it had just emerged from the mud. After Xi Yujin greeted him in a friendly manner, the other party said slowly:
"Book diplomacy? We're very willing to do that, but... could you please come over to our visual side and communicate?"
Xi Yujin walked half a circle around the mud tentacle.
“That’s our breathing surface.”
Xi Yujin walked another half circle.
“That’s our vomit noodles.”
Xi Yujin hesitated: "But I see you are the same from 360 degrees."
"What?" The mud tentacles trembled. "You are not hallucinating? What a strong mental power! My dear friend, please take three steps to your left that are equal to the width of your shoulders. This is our visual plane."
Xi Yujin finally saw the front of the mud tentacles. Some of the tentacles were particularly long. When they turned over, many big, rolling eyeballs were revealed.
Xi Yujin tried to smile politely.
"Please take a seat, our distinguished guest." The mud monster used its tentacles to pull two chairs. The handles that its tentacles touched were all corroded, which was why it did not move easily. Its voice was old and affectionate: "Please forgive me for being so out of control. After all, our race has always been troubled by mental confusion, so we have been constantly evolving. Although the mental confusion has been alleviated a little, our words will aggravate the mental confusion of other races. Now, other races will experience severe hallucinations, nausea and fear when they look at us."
Xi Yujin felt that he was fine and looked at Ganuo.
Gano shook his head slightly: "My race is not mentally confused."
Are Zerg so magical?
That’s right, Gano’s reaction to a lot of texts is “no feeling”.
"Am I willing to be honest with you about our situation and sincerely conduct book diplomacy with you?" The mud monster raised its tentacles and asked, "Please rest assured that our race is pacifist. The war is over. What we need now is peace."
"Of course we are willing. We on Blue Star are happy to maintain friendly relations with peaceful races and jointly maintain the peace of the universe." Xi Yujin said, "Please tell us the conditions of the diplomatic book you need."
"It's a bit embarrassing to say this..."
The mud monster rubbed the tentacles in front of it, blinked its big eyes desperately, and Xi Yujin's smile became even kinder.
"The diplomatic book we want is about how other creatures see us. The evolution of our species should be recorded in history. Even if we are feared, we want to record all these negative characteristics. But the species that see hallucinations are unwilling to write books with us..."
This race met Xi Yujin's requirements 100%. He didn't want to let it go, so he started to promote it: "We have a lot of talented people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Blue Star, including..." He hadn't thought of a name yet, "the official novelist group represented by Yujin."
"But you see we look normal, wouldn't that be too much for you?" the Mud Monster said blushingly.
"How could that be? All living things share the same fear of the unknown." Xi Yujin tried his best to deceive him, "I believe in the ability of us novelists. We can build a bridge of friendship with books."
"Great!" asked the Mud Monster. "May I ask what you want from the diplomatic books?"
Xi Yujin was stuck for a moment.
He had a very mysterious feeling that creatures from another civilization were writing books for his own civilization!
He said slowly: "We hope that the content of the novel will be related to the period of 'civilization contact'."
In the annals of the universe, the isolated planet period is the history of the development of single-planet life. When they make technological breakthroughs and come into contact with intelligent life in another galaxy, it is called "civilization contact."
It also has another nickname, called "violent colonization."
There are about five periods in the recognized history of the universe: "Isolated Planet", "Violent Colonization after Civilization Contact", "Dune Universe", then "Trans-Space War", and now "Peaceful Interstellar".
Xi Yujin thought that since he wouldn't be able to see the day of communication with aliens on Earth, and even if he did, it probably wouldn't be a good thing, so it would be okay to read some history books in the interstellar era.
He and the Mud Monster formally exchanged diplomatic book requests.
The important thing after the temporary establishment of diplomatic relations was to decide on the official translations for both sides. The tentative translation of the mud monster was "The Wandering Sea Blue Star". The translation given by Xi Yujin was "Kturt", which was not only a transliteration, but also a nickname for a certain Old One, because this race really looked alike. Both sides explained the origins of the translations and were very satisfied.
Xi Yujin paused at the column for appointed diplomats, as he hadn't thought of a new pen name.
Gano was watching from the side, wondering if Jinnuo was going to split into a new personality on the spot?
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