Qiao Yingying thought so too, and the unease that had risen in her heart immediately subsided.
Unbeknownst to them, both Qiao Mei and Ao Cang already had their own plans.
When Qiao Mei woke up again, she heard the rather noisy sound of pattering rain.
I opened my eyes and looked around the dimly lit room. I had slept for so long that I was momentarily disoriented and didn't know what time it was.
It wasn't until she heard Ao Cang's hoarse voice telling her that it was now the second night after she fell into a deep sleep that her memories slowly returned, and she remembered what had happened before.
Ignoring the heaviness and stiffness in her body, she asked Ao Cang with concern how he was doing.
"Does anything still feel uncomfortable? Is that all the interstellar currency I can lend you for offerings? Is there no other way?"
When Ao Cang saw that the first thing she did after waking up was to ask about his condition, he was deeply moved and his affection for her grew even stronger.
"I feel fine now. You gave me five million interstellar coins in one go, so even the most serious injuries on my body are almost healed. Don't overthink it."
"How are you feeling? If you're still tired, take a nap. Once you've had a good rest and are feeling refreshed, I'll take you to the place we agreed on before."
"The place we agreed on?" Qiao Mei had almost forgotten about it. With Ao Cang's help, she sat up and, feeling less tired, looked up at him. "Shall we go now? I feel fine."
Her complexion was much rosier than before, and she definitely looked much better.
Ao Cang glanced at the light rain still falling outside and nodded: "Okay, then use your computer bracelet to navigate to this place later."
Qiao Mei glanced at the light brain bracelet he showed her and found that he had located an ocean very close to a garbage planet. She was a little puzzled: "Are you taking me there to deliver something to me?"
"I guess so, you'll see when you get there."
Ao Cang didn't elaborate on the details, but his golden eyes flashed, clearly indicating that he was hiding something from Qiao Mei.
The ocean was called Jin Guangyang, and it stretched across the planets Garbage Star and Orchid Star. The part of the ocean closer to Garbage Star had a high radiation level, and Qiao Mei thought that Ao Cang wouldn't take her to that ocean.
But to her surprise, the place he took her to was that very sea area!
"Cangcang, did we go to the wrong place?" Qiao Mei looked at the sea area that was almost surrounded by dust. She already felt a little uncomfortable even before she got close.
Not only was my head spinning, but I was also having some difficulty breathing.
Ao Cang noticed her unusual behavior and shared some of his divine power with her, creating a pale golden protective shield around them.
With the protective shield in place, the discomfort quickly disappeared.
Qiao Mei could also see Jin Guangyang, which was filled with all kinds of garbage and unidentified objects, and asked Ao Cang curiously, "Why did you have to come to this ocean?"
"Did you live here before?"
But that can't be right, the environment here looks so terrible, the fish probably can't survive.
Looking at Jin Guangyang, who was almost unrecognizable from his former self, Ao Cang gave Qiao Mei an affirmative answer.
"Indeed, we lived here, but back then it wasn't so bad. At that time, the garbage planet wasn't called the garbage planet, but the clean water planet. The cleanest lakes and water sources in the entire interstellar space were here."
This event was not recorded in detail in the original book, and this was the first time Qiao Mei had heard that the original garbage planet was called the Pure Water Planet.
After staring at the now almost entirely gray and white garbage planet shrouded in a vast aura of death for a while, he asked in bewilderment, "Then why did it become a garbage planet in the future?"
Ao Cang sighed and looked in the direction she was looking: "Because the purification ability here is very strong, all the garbage from across the interstellar space has been discharged here one after another."
"At first, Jing Shui Xing could handle it, but as the amount of emissions increased, Jing Shui Xing gradually became unbalanced, and the surrounding Jin Guang Yang was also gradually polluted. Later, it could no longer be used by normal humans, and most people evacuated from here. After that, it became a place to dispose of interstellar waste people."
Interstellar Waste refers to citizens who failed to obtain a sacred beast companion and were unable to contribute to the interstellar community.
Qiao Mei sighed and said "Oh," then asked him, "Was your previous weakness related to this?"
Even if one loses the offerings of the world, one should not be so weak that one looks almost as if one is dead.
Unless, it's because he previously used divine power to help the Pure Water Star?
"Yes, there are still many of my followers on the former Pure Water Star, and of course I can't just sit idly by." When he mentioned the past, there was sorrow and despair in Ao Cang's eyes.
"But there was just too much polluting waste. I tried my best, but I couldn't stop the disaster from happening to the Pure Water Star. In the end, I only helped Jin Guangyang purify half of the polluted water. It has been about two hundred years since then."
Two hundred years is enough time for all his followers to die.
Qiao Mei didn't ask him how difficult that period was, and she stopped bringing up those painful memories. Instead, she got to the point.
"So where are you taking me now? Is there something you've forgotten here?"
"Well, I guess so. I never thought I'd need it one day, but now that I have you, An'an, it's time to bring it out."
At this point, Ao Cang brought Qiao Mei to a stop in the air above the western sea area of Jin Guangyang, and then used his divine power to brush away the marine debris still floating on the water.
After doing all that, he led Qiao Mei into the stinking seawater.
The closer the seawater is to the surface, the stronger the odor.
But as you go deeper into the sea, the odor gradually disappears, replaced by large areas of clean water, though with less light.
Qiao Mei couldn't see what was going on deeper inside, so she could only hold onto Ao Cang's body tightly and follow him deeper into the depths.
Almost half an hour later, when she felt so quiet that she could hear a pin drop and the seawater temperature had dropped to the point that she felt a little cold, she finally saw a glimmer of light.
It was a huge coral reef in the water.
A natural nest has formed on the coral stone, and inside the nest is a large number of broken gold and blue fragments.
As Ao Cang approached, the fragments emitted an increasingly bright, eerie blue light, as if they had come alive.
Ao Cang led her to a stop on the coral stone and let her reach out to touch one of the fragments.
He, on the other hand, was using his divine power to piece these fragments together.
Qiao Mei did not immediately do as Ao Cang said, but instead asked him cautiously what these things were.
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