Chapter 437-438(1/2)
[Chapter 437, clue]
It was already three o'clock in the morning, and it was difficult to wake up teammates in the middle of the night. Yu Hanjiang fainted in the afternoon when he remembered Xiao Lou and didn't even eat dinner. He turned around and found some food from the suitcase brought by Shao Qingge.
He couldn't ask the waiter to deliver the meal, so he simply cooked a bowl of noodles for Xiaolou and added a poached egg.
A moment later, Yu Hanjiang came to the bedroom with a bowl of steaming noodles and turned around and called Xiao Lou: "Come here to eat something, you haven't even eaten supper, you must be hungry, right?"
Xiao Lou's mind was full of messy memories, and he completely forgot about "hunger".
After smelling the fragrance of noodles, his stomach started to scream in response to the situation. The "gulu" sound was particularly clear in the quiet bedroom. Xiao Lou rubbed his stomach and coughed lightly, "Cough, I've been sleeping for 12 hours and I'm really hungry."
Yu Hanjiang raised his lips lightly and handed him the chopsticks: "Eat."
Xiao Lou sat at the table and quickly took off a bowl of noodles. After eating the food, he warmed up his whole body. He had always been accustomed to living alone, but now he found that he felt really good to be taken care of.
Xiao Lou smiled at Yu Hanjiang and said, "Thank you, the noodles are delicious."
While packing the lunch box, Yu Hanjiang raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "Do you still need to be polite to me?"
Xiao Lou wiped his mouth clean and asked: "Did Brother Jiu remember more clues? Is there anything else about the people who saved them on the Zerg planet besides singing?"
Yu Hanjiang shook his head: "Brother Jiu lost too much blood when he was rescued and was confused. Even the song was so loud that he thought he had hallucinations and heard the sound of heaven. As for everything else, he didn't see anything, and he had no memory of what happened after being rescued."
Xiao Lou thought to himself: "In other words, there is only the clue of 'song' at present. My sister told us that the fishermen could hear the singing at the sea, which is just a legend?...You should rest first, and we will investigate together tomorrow."
Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Okay, you go and take a shower, and sleep for a while."
Xiao Lou's clothes were soaked in sweat, and he was really uncomfortable to wear. He simply took a shower, changed into his pajamas and lay down on the bed.
In a daze, he dreamed of the scenes of the five-year-old locked in the same room with countless copy children. The same faces kept waving by before his eyes. Behind the dream, the faces of the children gradually became what he is now.
Countless faces with various expressions, either smiles, indifference, mockery, hatred, jealousy... Countless "self" swayed in front of his eyes, Xiao Lou curled up and fell into a strange nightmare. Yu Hanjiang found that his whole body was chilling, so he reached out and hugged Xiao Lou gently into his arms, patting his back gently as if he was comforting a child.
The warmth from Yu Hanjiang made Xiao Lou gradually calm down.
He stretched out his hand, hugged Yu Hanjiang tightly as if he was catching a life-saving straw, and fell asleep.
When he woke up the next day, Xiao Lou found that his face was pressed against the man's strong chest, and his hands were holding the other person's waist tightly, leaning against Yu Hanjiang's arms in a "reliance on the other person".
Xiao Lou's ears couldn't help but feel hot, and he quickly broke out of the man's arms, and coughed dryly: "I had a nightmare last night, dreaming that many identical selves were shaking in front of me."
Yu Hanjiang held Xiao Lou's hand and said, "I know. That's why I hugged you and slept, wanting you to have a good rest."
Facing his soft gaze, Xiao Lou felt warm and bent his mouth and said, "It's just a nightmare. Let's go, it's time to set off."
The two walked out of the bedroom, and the teammates in the restaurant had gathered together. When they saw Xiao Lou, Ye Qi hurried over and asked, "Professor Xiao, are you awake? Are you in good health? You suddenly fainted yesterday afternoon and scared me."
Xiao Lou said: "It doesn't matter. I fainted because I had a very bad headache. I just remembered what happened when I was five years old."
When the four of them heard this, they immediately walked to Xiaolou curiously.
Lu Jiuchuan took the lead in asking: "What did you remember?"
Xiao Lou looked serious and whispered: "Our speculation is right. Your Majesty copied so many princes and was indeed raising a pot. The 100 five-year-old children were locked in the same room by Your Majesty to compete. The best ones survived. In the end, including me, four survived. Suppose I was No. 1, the very obedient Xiao Lou that Hanjiang saw in His Majesty's palace was No. 2, and the one who looked like the prince at the birthday party was No. 3, and there was No. 4, which we have never seen before."
Lu Jiuchuan looked angry: "In other words, the other 97 copied children have been artificially destroyed? This Majesty is sick!"
Ye Qi complained: "This Majesty's way of cultivating his heirs is really weird..."
Xiao Lou said: "Xiao Lou No. 4 has no clue yet. It may be hidden by His Majesty, or it may have escaped from the Luoke Empire. Let's go to find the invisible person who can sing, maybe they know some clues."
The teammates all agreed.
Yu Hanjiang said: "The entire blue planet's sea area exceeds 50%, and the range is too wide. It's better for us to find a means of transportation."
Shao Qingge thought for a while and said, "I'll buy a hover car."
Since the other four people secretly fled to the Blue Empire and could not be discovered, only Shao Qingge and Ye Qi came to travel openly, so Shao Qingge came forward and bought a large hover car that could ride up to 10 people.
This car is similar to a "floating house" and the interior is very luxurious.
In the future, the mainstream transportation tool in the world's cities will be floating vehicles. Air traffic is developed and there will be no "traffic jams". Moreover, floating vehicles will be automatically navigation and autonomous driving, and there is no need to consider the driver's license issue.
Shao Qingge drove back to the hotel and picked up the four of Xiaolou and followed the navigation to the nearest beach.
The beaches here are as beautiful as Sun City. The white beaches are as clean as reflective. The sand is delicate and soft. Many tourists are playing barefoot on the beach, and many people are playing entertainment such as sea airships.
Shao Qingge and Ye Qi inquired along the way: "Have you heard that invisible people can sing?"
The tourist looked confused: "I haven't heard of it!"
Ye Qi also asked some innocent children: "Have your parents told you that disobedient children will be caught and eaten by invisible people who sing in the middle of the night?" The children looked at Ye Qi like a fool: "Hahaha, big brother, do you think I am three years old? Only a three-year-old child believes this kind of story!"
Ye Qi: "..."
The two of them were inquiring by the beach for a whole morning, but they found nothing.
Everyone knows that this is just a legend, just like the fairy tale of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". If you pull someone on the side of the road and ask "Have you ever seen Snow White?", others will definitely think you are sick.
Even the child thinks Ye Qi is sick - this kind of story is believed only by a three-year-old child, but he doesn't believe it at the age of five.
After returning to the hover car, Ye Qi hugged his head with a headache: "No one has seen an invisible person who can sing with his own eyes, and no one has heard the song with his own ears... Is this legend reliable?"
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "Check it out in a different place."
Lu Jiuchuan leaned against his seat and folded his legs and analyzed: "The legend is not groundless. I think there must be something in the ocean. However, humans live on land and do not know enough about the mysterious ocean... It is useless to ask for tourist attractions, so why not find fishermen who make a living by fishing."
Xiao Lou also agreed with this idea: "Look for fishermen, they are the ones who know the best about the sea."
This is the beach closest to the hotel. Shao Qingge drove the hover car here. After hearing Xiaolou's words, Shao Qingge modified the navigation and drove the hover car to the area where the fishermen lived.
Ye Qi found the oldest man in the fishing village and asked: "Old man, have you ever heard of the legend of invisible people?"
The old man basked in the sun and said with a smile: "Who is? My ears are not very good."
Ye Qi approached his ears, amplified the volume and shouted: "Invisible people from the ocean! We are from other places. I heard that people sing here every night. If you are curious, come and have a look!"
The old man narrowed his eyes and said, "Sing? Oh, Lao Zhang's daughter next door likes singing the most."
Ye Qi looked helpless.
After inquiring about the fishing village, there was no gain. Ye Qi returned to the hover car and said frustratedly: "No one here has heard the singing with his own ears. They all say it is a rumor left by ancestors for generations."
The clues are too vague, and the seas of the entire planet are so vast and beyond imagination, so it is too difficult to investigate.
But what Jiu Ge said is right. Since the legend has been passed down for so many years, it should not be groundless. Someone must have heard it with his own ears. However, who was the one who heard the song for the first time and where did he hear it? There has been no trace of it in the past so many years.
Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "It seems that we can only wait until it's dark and try our luck, and wander around the sea to see if we can meet invisible people who can sing?"
But the sea area is so big that it will take several hours to circle the planet even if they drive Chu Huaying's starship. Moreover, the speed of the hover car is far less than that of the starship. If they drive the hover car around the planet, they may not be able to circle the planet for three days.
Take a chance? It is indeed possible that good luck will hit you.
But what if you can't hit it? Wouldn't it be a waste of time?
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou suddenly said, "I have a way."
Teammates looked back at him.
Xiao Lou took out a card, and his expression was helpless: "I can only invite Di Renjie."
Everyone: "………………”
I almost forgot that among the strange character cards Xiao Lou drew, there was another magic card that he had never used before: Di Renjie.
Lord Di specifically deals with this "confused" situation. Using Di Renjie's skills, the red secret room can directly find a clue, and the square secret room can eliminate an incorrect maze route or untie a mechanism. Now it is a comprehensive secret room, and it is the most convenient to use Di Renjie to find clues. Unfortunately, this card is a limited skill, and can only be used once per secret room.
When Ye Qi heard Di Renjie, he couldn't help but excitedly said, "We have never seen Professor Xiao's card. Why don't we ask Di Renjie out when it gets dark?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "Okay, let's talk about it when there is no one in the early morning."
Shao Qingge parked the hover car in the largest fisherman's village on the blue planet, waiting for darkness.
Since the legend of invisible people singing was passed down by fishermen, it must be that the ancestors of the fishermen encountered this incident when they went out to sea one time, so the probability of finding clues near the fishing village is the greatest.
The sky gradually became dark, and the lights in the fishing village went out one after another. When all the fishermen went to bed, it was only at 1 a.m. that Xiao Lou summoned Di Renjie.
The young version of Di Renjie dressed in ancient official uniforms, holding a fan in his hand, shaking it while thinking.
Xiaolou used his skill - Detective.
Di Renjie muttered: "Well, let me think about it..."
Then, under the curious onlookers of his teammates, Di Renjie stretched out his hand and pointed to the distance.
A soft light appeared on the sea in the distance, which must be where the clue was.
Xiao Lou's eyes lit up, he put away Di Renjie and said, "Everyone, take action."
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[Chapter 438, Mysterious Seas]
Shao Qingge drove the hover car toward the direction of the light.
It was already late at night, the entire sea area was quiet and windless, and the street lights around the coastline were getting farther and farther away from them.
It was pitch black around. The sky above my head was full of stars, and the stars were projected on the sea, as if countless diamonds were sprinkled on the sea.
Shao Qingge's levitation car floated in the air, getting closer and closer to the bright position.
Suddenly, a hurricane blew around, and the teammates felt a powerful force coming, and their whole bodies suddenly leaned back. Yu Hanjiang hurriedly hugged Xiao Lou's waist: "Be careful!"
Ye Qi was sitting on the sofa. As the hover car was blown over by a hurricane, he rolled to the rear of the vehicle like a ball. Then he heard a loud "boom" sound from his ears, and the hover car fell directly into the sea!
To be continued...