After arranging everything on the sand table, Bai Yi issued various orders to the corresponding units for execution.
He went to the living area where the security personnel lived, where the person he was looking for was.
Bai Yi is looking for a ghost creature named Ainor, who belongs to a strange race called Ham.
Ham is the closest intelligent biological community to Earth, the origin of mankind, but it is not the first extraterrestrial civilization discovered.
The reason lies in Hamqit's living environment.
This species lives deep in Saturn's atmosphere. They have no specific shape and look like a conscious mass of high-density gas.
Before humans carried out the Saturn deep drilling project, this civilization, which had lasted for tens of thousands of years, had never been disturbed by the outside world.
The Ham people were aware of the existence of human civilization a long time ago. They even conducted reverse engineering research on the wreckage of the Cassini probe that crashed into Saturn in 2017 AD. This reverse engineering gave rise to the aerospace industry of this civilization.
But they never took the initiative to contact humans.
That is why people have never discovered their existence.
The Ham's unique life form allows them to easily obtain nearly unlimited resources from Saturn's violent atmosphere.
This fostered a peaceful and cheerful nature within this civilization, but it also deprived them of the motivation for external expansion and exploration. Throughout the Ham's history, there had never been a single large-scale conflict; all disputes they encountered were resolved at the negotiation table.
Until human civilization entered the light speed era and launched the Saturn deep drilling project, these Saturn natives were still in the chemical propulsion era.
They used hydrogen and methane obtained from Saturn's atmosphere as fuel, mixed with oxygen extracted from meteorite ice to make propellant, in this way they built simple rockets to send astronauts to nearby satellites.
But they did not conduct any scientific research. Instead, they used it as a luxury tourism and entertainment project.
The Ham are also one of the few species in the galaxy capable of surviving directly in outer space. The radiation and vacuum of space are not a fatal threat to them. However, the increased volume due to decompression still accelerates the loss of gas molecules. Therefore, Ham's astronauts need to return to Jupiter periodically to replenish their mass.
Under the guidance of others, Bai Yi went to the activity room on the ground floor of the dormitory building. Because New Mars was a military fortress and had no entertainment facilities, people with nothing to do often stayed here until very late.
Therefore, Bai Yi installed a lot of entertainment and fitness equipment in the activity room, but among all the equipment, the most popular one is a green card table. These security guards from different civilizations on various planets like to gather around the table to play Landlord.
The stakes were a weekly ration of alcohol and cigarettes.
Bai Yi naturally wouldn't intentionally block their supplies, but it was best to avoid things like cigarettes and alcohol. Although cancer caused by these two things had long been conquered, Bai Yi really didn't want to see a group of drunkards smelling of cigarettes appear in his hometown.
When Bai Yi saw Ainol, he was curled up in a transparent pressure vessel. This pressure vessel was placed at the bar, and a blond waiter in uniform was in charge of it.
Because the Ham people were born in the lower atmosphere of Saturn, they can withstand very high pressure. The standard atmospheric pressure environment designed according to the conventional template of Homo sapiens is a bit too thin for them. Although not fatal, they will still feel uncomfortable.
"I guess you are Ms. Ainol." Bai Yi moved closer to the container on the table and looked at the air mass inside curiously.
This is a ball of brown-gray gas with many tiny particles in it, and it looks like a miniature sandstorm.
"Yes." The air mass quickly contracted and expanded twice, and finally condensed into a human shape.
This shape looks almost the same as Bai Yi's appearance. If you ignore the color and the fuzzy gaseous edge, it looks like a miniature version of him.
This is also a characteristic of the Ham people. Since they have no fixed form, they like to imitate the people or things they see.
"Border Guard, what do you want from me?"
Although he looks like a man, his voice is that of a woman.
Bai Yi looked around. The waiter was wiping glasses on the other side of the bar, and the others were betting around the card table.
"I think we can talk."
"What do you want to say?"
Bai Yi shrugged, "Maybe I need to change the environment."
"Okay, I understand."
Ainol patted the glass wall and shouted, "Lilith, let me out."
The blond waiter put down his glass and walked over to open the pressure relief valve for Noel. Noel suddenly turned into a puff of smoke and followed the jet of gas to the outside of the glass container.
She floated in the air, transformed into the form of a young girl, wrapped one arm around Bai Yi's neck, and whispered in his ear, "Let's go, let's talk outside."
Bai Yi felt an itchy neck, but he didn't dare to reach out and scratch it, after all, someone's arm was still wrapped around it.
Ainor was very light, almost weightless as she floated in the air. Therefore, Bai Yi could easily carry her with him when he moved. This was probably one of the advantages of gaseous life.
Leaving the activity room, the two headed straight for the airlock. After a near-violent decompression, they arrived at the near-vacuum surface.
This hemisphere of the fortress spaceship was in darkness, and the light band of the charging armor passed by Bai Yi's feet and sped towards the distant horizon.
Below the horizon, towering engines spewed out dazzling columns of plasma fire. The continuous columns cast a blue glow onto the alloy ground, and photons bounced between the white metals, adding a touch of tranquility to this dark world.
"That's it." Bai Yi paused. He started to speak, but suddenly remembered that he was in a vacuum.
So he thought about it, took out a cardboard telephone from his pocket, and handed one end to Enol.
Yes, it's the kind of telephone that human children play with. Take two disposable cups, cut a hole in the bottom of each, and then string a rope through the holes and tie a knot to connect the two cups.
This was Bai Yi's ultimate secret trick. The two of them could talk directly through a dirt phone in a vacuum. Since sound couldn't travel through a vacuum, there was no need to worry about the content of their conversation being leaked.
When Enor saw Bai Yi handing this thing over, he was obviously stunned.
Bai Yi knew that the other party had recognized the use of this thing, because he saw Ainoer roll his eyes after a brief daze.
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