Chapter 55 Chapter 55 (Updated)
It was already dark. There was not a single star in the deep blue sky, only two artificial moons.
The strange cub sat on a small stool, his body straight, his hands on his knees, facing the door of the repair shop, and staring inside with his eyes wide open. His eyes were large and round, dark red, with upright pupils, looking dull and lifeless.
What a very strange cub.
It is difficult to tell his race just from his human form.
When Ruan Shiqing walked out, he tilted his head slightly and stared at Ruan Shiqing without blinking.
He seemed to like staring at Ruan Shiqing so much. No other things or people around him could attract his attention. Only when Ruan Shiqing appeared would he change slightly.
"Do you want to come in?" Ruan Shiqing squatted in front of him and asked gently.
Although the cub looked very strange, Ruan Shiqing couldn't just lock such a small cub outside the door and ignore it late at night.
So he made an invitation to the other party.
If the other party is willing, he will take him in for one night; if he is not willing, he will not force him. Although the security on B3024 is not good, it should be safe within the range of the protection system.
The strange cub stared at him and made no response to his question.
Ruan Shiqing even suspected that the cub was abandoned because it was unable to communicate.
After all, he had never seen such a strange cub in this area.
He sighed and put the blanket he brought out on the cub: "If you don't want to come in, just sit here. Maybe your relatives will come to find you." He pointed to the door, and afraid that the cub didn't understand, he deliberately slowed down his speech and said: "I won't lock the door. If you are sleepy or scared, you can go to the yard to sleep, okay?"
The cub was half-wrapped in a cream-colored blanket. Its eyes moved slowly, but it still did not respond.
Ruan Shiqing tucked the blanket behind him and then stood up and turned around.
After taking two steps, I heard faint footsteps behind me.
Turning around, he saw the cub, covered in a blanket, following him slowly. A corner of the blanket was dragging on the ground, but he ignored it.
When Ruan Shiqing stopped, he also stopped, and his big eyes looked at him from beginning to end.
My eyes were gray and could see nothing.
It turns out that I can understand what you say.
Let 09 bring the stool in and lock the door. Ruan Shiqing walked to the cub and straightened the crooked blanket for him: "Since you are here, come upstairs with me to rest."
He stood up and took two tentative steps forward. Only when he saw the cub following him did he feel at ease to go upstairs.
Sure enough, the cub followed.
His movements were very slow and slow. Ruan Shiqing did not rush him. After he went upstairs, he took a clean towel to wipe his hands, feet and face. He led him to the empty bedroom and pointed to the bed that 09 had made. "You sleep here tonight. I'll see if I can find your family tomorrow."
The cub stood in the middle of the bedroom and looked at him, not knowing whether he understood or not.
Ruan Shiqing thought about it and went to wash up first. The cub's reaction time was obviously very long. If he came back to check on it after he finished washing up, it might have already gone to bed and fallen asleep.
After washing up, Ruan Shiqing went to see the cub, but found that the cub was not in the bedroom.
Just as I was about to look for it, I caught a glimpse of a small ball in front of my bedroom door.
The cub, wrapped in a cream-colored blanket, sat at the door of his bedroom.
The thin body was curled up in a ball, with his arms around his knees and his head resting on them. His eyes were closed and the thin eyebrows on his forehead drooped down, making him look somewhat pitiful.
"Why are you sleeping here?" Ruan Shiqing went forward to wake him up.
The cub opened his eyes and looked at him without saying a word.
Ruan Shiqing shook his head and laughed. He thought that he would not be able to get the answer from a kid who couldn't speak.
Sitting at his door, probably because he was afraid to sleep alone.
He picked up the kid who was sitting on the ground and placed him on the other side of the big bed: "Then sleep with me tonight."
The cub lay on the bed and looked at him for a while before closing his eyes.
She slept very straight with her hands folded on her abdomen.
Ruan Shiqing glanced at him and fell asleep too.
When I woke up the next day, I found that the cub was still sleeping in the same position as last night. The tentacles on its forehead were drooping softly, rising and falling with its breathing. It seemed that it was sleeping soundly.
Ruan Shiqing got up quietly and went to the bathroom to wash up.
When he came out after tidying up, he saw that the cub who had just fallen asleep had woken up and was standing at the bathroom door looking at him, still wrapped in the small cream-colored blanket.
"Awake so early?" Ruan Shiqing wiped his face before taking him downstairs.
Xiong Yuanyuan and Xiong Fangfang had just opened the door and put up a sign saying they were open for business. When they saw him bringing the cub downstairs, they were still curious: "Should we hang a sign at the door saying we're looking for the cub? But I haven't heard of anyone in this area having such a strange cub."
Although the beast forms of the Bis people are often strange, it is rare to find one as strange as this cub.
"Hang one." Ruan Shiqing nodded, went to the kitchen to get some nutritional supplements, and stuffed a tube into the cub's hand.
The cub followed him closely, holding the nutrient solution.
Ruan Shiqing entered the workshop and opened his smartphone to browse the news. He sat at Ruan Shiqing's feet, wrapped in a small blanket, holding nutritional supplements in his arms, without moving.
Although they seem unable to communicate and are slow to respond, they are actually clingy.
Ruan Shiqing finished reading the news and looked down to see that he was still holding the nutritional supplement.
He took the nutrient solution out of the cub's hand, twisted it open, and fed it to his mouth. Ruan Shiqing opened his mouth and said, "Ah——"
The cub stared at him, opened its mouth for a while, and imitated him in making the "ah" sound.
Its voice is as gentle as that of a human, with a soft aftertaste unique to a cub.
It turns out that it is not impossible to speak.
Ruan Shiqing fed him the nutrient solution. The cub hesitantly took the tube of nutrient solution and drank it up slowly.
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The puppy that was being sought out was left outside for four or five days, but no one came to claim it.
Ruan Shiqing even asked the Xiong brothers to ask around, but they couldn't find out whose cub was missing. Many people even said they had never seen this strange cub before.
Such a unique appearance will definitely leave an impression if you have seen it before.
But after asking around, everyone said they had never seen it.
The little robot circled around the cub, and after watching it for a while, it lowered its voice and asked Ruan Shiqing, "Could it have been abandoned on purpose?"
His tone was a little depressed, and he felt sorry for the cub who was very likely to be abandoned.
When collecting information on the holographic network, he had seen many cubs that were abandoned for various reasons. In order to prevent others from discovering that they had abandoned a cub, people who intentionally abandoned the cub would usually secretly put the cub into a garbage transport ship and let the transport ship transport the cub to any planet.
There is a high possibility that a cub with such a strange appearance and who is very autistic will be abandoned.
Ruan Shiqing had some guesses in his mind these days. He rubbed the cub's head and said, "If no one claims it, then let it stay at home."
There are already four cubs in the family, one more won’t be too many.
Although this cub may seem a little strange at first glance, after spending a few days with it, you will find that it is actually a very easy-going cub.
Most of the time, he was wherever Ruan Shiqing was.
Very clingy and very quiet.
When it was time for dinner, Ruan Shiqing would stuff nutritional supplements into his mouth, and he would eat them obediently. At night, he would lie down on the bed on his own initiative, and after Ruan Shiqing covered him with a quilt, he would close his eyes and fall asleep. Even his breathing was quieter than that of others.
It is a cub with a very low sense of presence and hardly causes any trouble to others.
Ruan Shiqing just let him follow him in and out.
After bringing the cubs into the workshop, Ruan Shiqing did not start working immediately. Instead, he sent a text message to Mr. Rong to inquire about the training status of the cubs.
After being away from home for four or five days, the communicators he prepared for the cubs were not used. When he contacted the cubs for the first time, Mr. Rong told him that the mission needed to be kept confidential, so video communication was not possible.
He wasn't worried about the cubs' safety, but after getting used to the cubs surrounding him, he couldn't help but miss them now that he was suddenly free.
The cubs have not yet learned how to use text to send complicated text messages, so Ruan Shiqing can only chat with the cubs for a while through Mr. Rong's retelling.
However, this text message did not receive an immediate reply. Ruan Shiqing guessed that they should be in training, so he put it aside for the time being and concentrated on his work.
After three days of sailing, Rong Heng and his party arrived at the wormhole near the star Balem.
According to the information Noah obtained, in two days, the transport ships of the Barham Arsenal will leave from here and head to the Barham planet. There are five transport ships this time, carrying 500 laser gun production equipment, 200 laser cannon production equipment, 600 other weapons and equipment production equipment, and the technician robots that must be equipped for the fully automatic production line.
With its complete equipment, it is possible to build a most advanced laser gun and laser cannon production workshop directly on the B3024 star.
These were actually just an inconspicuous transport team under the Barham Arsenal.
The cyan battleship activated its cloaking device and lay quietly in ambush near the migration passage.
Rong Heng, Hector, and Mori were making plans in the war room, with the three cubs listening in.
"The transport ship has sufficient firepower. Various light and heavy laser cannons and ion cannons are basic configurations. We have no advantage in a head-on confrontation," said Hector.
"No need to attack with all your might." Rong Heng counted the firepower on the battleship: "Our main battleship is equipped with fifty fighters, twenty bombers, and two gunboats. Let people drive fighters and bombers to ambush at the migration exit, and use heavy firepower to take the initiative by surprise. The main battleship will cut off communications and block the defense line from the outside. We will cooperate with each other and circle the transport ship in this area, and then we can take it down smoothly." Rong Heng drew a circle near the migration channel.
The firepower of the transport ships is indeed sufficient, but their huge size greatly limits their flexibility. As long as these transport ships are restricted to a limited range, their firepower can be effectively restrained and they can be suffocated to death; if they can't hold back and open fire, fighters and bombers are highly flexible and can completely transfer the damage and let these transport ships attack each other.
"We have a total of 46 people, enough to hold down five transport ships." Mori said, "We can split into two groups and take turns. If we can't win, we can just retreat and let someone else go."
The fighters and bombers on the capital ships were enough for them to consume.
"That's settled then." Rong Heng said, "You guys take the next two days to familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment."
The people Mori brought were all elites he had carefully selected. They didn't know that the mission this time was to rob the transport ship of the Balham Arsenal. They only knew that the "boss" wanted to take them to do something big, and they were all ready to go.
But these people are not trained soldiers after all, so they still need to improve their coordination in advance.
Morrie and Hector agreed and decided on their respective responsibilities.
Mori left first. He wanted to gather all the people he brought with him for a lecture, while Rong Heng and Hector remained in the operations room.
The three cubs looked at the two of them and finally couldn't help asking, "What about us? What should we do?"
The little dragon and the little fox looked on eagerly.
When they first boarded the battleship, the cubs were very excited, but after three days of boring journey, the novelty wore off and they all became listless.
It’s not as fun on a battleship as at home.
I can’t communicate with my dad, and Snowball is not here.
——Not long after boarding the battleship, Snowball was taken away alone for training.
Only the little mermaid who had seen Snowball transform into a human form knew that the person in front of her was Snowball.
But he had promised to keep it a secret for Snowball, so he hasn't told anyone yet.
"You naturally have things to do." Rong Heng knocked on the table and said, "First, tell me what you are most interested in these days?"
"Gun!" The little fox was the first to answer.
"Fighter!" The little dragon cub was the second one.
The little mermaid, unable to speak, reached out her hand and patted the control panel, her blue eyes shining brightly.
In three days, the cubs explored the entire battleship inside and out. The little foxes were fascinated by the laser guns in the warehouse, but because they had not received professional training, Hector refused to let them try them, so in the end the little foxes had to beg for a mini laser gun - the kind without energy.
The little dragon cub can't wait to try out the fighter plane.
The fighter jets parked in the hangar are cool and stunning. Just imagining what it would be like to fly one makes the little dragon excited.
Compared to the two little guys who admire force, the little mermaid is more "quiet". He has no interest in guns and fighter planes, but when he was in the cockpit, he saw Morrie driving the battleship and he became curious.
Driving a battleship in the dark space is a very challenging job.
Rong Heng raised his chin and said to Hector, "Then Heri and Nota will be handed over to you." He looked at the artificial mermaid, raised his eyebrows and said, "Follow me."
Hector made an all-clear.
The three cubs looked at the two people in confusion, not knowing what would happen to them next.