“…” When the old lady heard the answer, she fell silent. Obviously, she was speechless about this answer, but in the end she said nothing.
"Xiao Xi, go check on your aunt." His daughter's safety was obviously more important than his curiosity about this strange man.
Moreover, Ruan Xi's attitude towards this man is obviously more trusting than the people in her family. Regardless of his identity, at least he should not want to harm their family.
"Well, grandma, please sit in the living room and rest for a while." Speaking of business, Ruan Xi did not delay any longer. He put other things aside in an instant, walked quickly into the medical room, and closed the door of the medical room casually, blocking all the sights that wanted to explore.
Outside the medical room, there was a sudden silence. No one dared to speak since the old lady didn't speak. But they also didn't dare to leave. They could only find a corner to stay quietly. The old lady didn't even want to care about Ma Hao for the time being, so she just had him tied up and locked up.
In the medical room, He Ziqian, who seemed to be quieter than anyone else, took the initiative to speak first.
"Is there some special magnetic field around this planet? Or is there some special device on this planet that blocks signals?" He Ziqian went straight to the point, but Ruan Xi looked bewildered. "Huh?"
He didn't quite understand what magnetic field and equipment were. This guy could even repair such a large mecha. He must be used to playing with machines. It definitely didn't match his aura!
"...You don't understand?" He Ziqian carefully observed Ruan Xi's expression. The confusion and bewilderment between his eyebrows showed no signs of disguise at all. It was absolutely true and could not be more real.
"I don't understand. Please be more straightforward." The only thing this doctor can handle is medical equipment. Everything else is out of the question. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt!
"..." This time, it was He Ziqian's turn to be silent. After a long time, he found his voice again and automatically realized how to speak "straightforwardly".
"You must know what the Star Network is, right?" He Ziqian asked cautiously, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Ruan Xi was even a bit of expectation. For the residents of the interstellar age, the Star Network exists in every corner like air. How could there be someone who doesn't understand it?
However, there really was such a person who didn't understand in front of He Ziqian.
"Star Network?" Still confused and bewildered, Ruan Xi only glanced at him quickly and continued to busy herself with examining her aunt.
The functions of home medical equipment are limited, and he is not very familiar with using them, so he simply takes the pulse. As he does so, his brows furrow more and more.
The person who poisoned Ruan Huaqing was really afraid that he would not die. The double poisoning of neurotoxin and blood toxin could take Ruan Huaqing's life in minutes. If he had not quickly fed Ruan Huaqing some extract from the leaves of the Tree of Life, he would probably have died by now.
Ruan Xi was so focused on the work at hand that she almost forgot about He Ziqian's existence. Naturally, she couldn't see his furrowed brow and the growing doubt in his eyes.
Normally, the Star Network should cover every corner of the Silver Empire. Why couldn't this ball connect to the Star Network? After Ruan Xi left the forest, He Ziqian tried to contact his subordinates, only to discover that he couldn't connect to the Star Network. His personal terminal only had stand-alone functionality.
Otherwise, he would not have walked out of the mountains to look for Ruan Xi, and happened to see a good show.
"You don't know what the Star Network is? Then you must know about personal terminals, right?" He Ziqian glanced at the personal terminal on Ruan Xi's wrist meaningfully, and then received a look from Ruan Xi as if he was an idiot.
He Ziqian: “…” This kid deserves a beating.
"Of course I know. I'm quite good at using it. It can be used for positioning and searching for information." There is no problem using it as a locator and a learning machine.
Ruan Xi naturally would not tell He Ziqian the rest of the words. At this time, he had also completed the pulse diagnosis of Ruan Huaqing. After he finished speaking, he turned around and was about to walk out of the medical room. The old lady was still waiting for the results outside!
"Wait! In the Yinyu Empire, every citizen's personal terminal should be able to connect to the star network, and all planets should be within the coverage of the star network. The situation here is not normal, do you understand?" He Ziqian did not want to stay on this planet for long. He still had very important tasks to perform, but the problem was that his mecha was severely damaged during the fall. Without external assistance, it would be impossible to repair it to support space travel, which meant that he was trapped on this planet.
"Abnormal? I think it's quite normal." Ruan Xi is a mechanical waste. He can adapt to this kind of "isolated" environment very well and doesn't feel that there is anything wrong at all.
Not only him, but everyone on this planet thinks this is normal.
The only person who felt something was wrong was the outsider He Ziqian.
But Ruan Xi also felt that He Ziqian was not the kind of person who spoke without thinking, and he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart.
"Is it really abnormal? But we have internet here..." Otherwise, how could he use his personal terminal to check information, locate, and make calls?
"This is my impression at the moment. Do you... have any contact with people outside? There must be business transactions, right? Don't people here go out to study? Or travel?" He Ziqian continued to ask questions, but the results he got made him feel more and more uncertain.
There really is no internet here!
"Yes, there are farms everywhere here, and we mainly produce agricultural products. Other things have to be purchased from outside, right?" Ruan Xi said not very confidently. He searched the original owner's memory and finally found some useful information.
"Yes, every three months, there will be merchant ships coming to our planet to trade. We all barter with fixed merchant ships. It seems that before the end of this transaction, the list of items for the next transaction is agreed upon, and when the next merchant ship arrives, we can trade directly." Ruan Xi finished the information he searched in his mind and unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he is not a family member, otherwise he would be exposed.
"Barter? Why not use currency? This way of trading is too old-fashioned..." He Ziqian could only use "old" to describe it, because he had only seen relevant information in an ancient history book.
Ruan Xi had been observing He Ziqian silently, and the doubts in his heart were growing like a snowball. Although he didn't understand mechanics, he was not an idiot in life. The world he lived in in his previous life had already eliminated the barter trading method, so how come the interstellar era was revived again?
Or is it that this planet is more retro?
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