Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 547 Sewer Folk Acoustician

"Is your horn okay?" Qiaoqiao Tianyi asked.

Allerica dropped her hand stroking the horn.

"Nothing," she said, "I just got used to it. There's no touch there."

"Do you find it unsettling here? Because it's too dark? I'm not used to places like this where there are no stars."

That was certainly not Yale Liga's real problem.In fact, she didn't feel the darkness of the environment, not because the horns and hair of her companions shimmered from time to time.After going deep into the chasm, she has been using the infrared vision device, and then converted the color vision through spectral analysis, and then presented the daytime environment and hundreds of millions of hues that tetrachromats can see under continuous light sources.She also did not implant this malfunction-prone image synthesis device in her body, but covered the surface of the eyeball like a film, and then covered it with protective clothing to avoid sound waves-she also had no need for sound insulation protection during the long journey. The clothing has been deeply researched, and now it has been transformed into a light and convenient one.For the ears she has additional sound wave filtering and communication components, plus her old sub-skin augmentation material, enough to support her activities in this sound of destruction for hundreds of hours.

Of course, she also made the same modification for Qiaoqiao Tianyi.However, the latter are not used to wearing devices on the eyes.Spaceship experts also said that, as a native bichromatic creature, she often felt dizzy when experiencing tetrachromatic vision.Trichromatic vision is the limit she can accept.

"Doesn't seeing so many colors at once make it difficult for you to walk?" she asked Allerica. "There's so much visual information to process, they give me a headache!"

"But I heard that you are also called Rainbow Country."

"Yes. Of course we are different from our primitive ancestors. Most of the Winged Ones have trichromatic vision. Maybe it's just that I don't like colors that much. I met one among the students. Her natural five-color vision made her temper Weird, hyperactive, and always laughing at other people's drawings."

"She saw information that you didn't recognize when you were coloring."

"I know, I know. But we don't need to rely on color vision that much."

Allerica knew she was telling the truth.Even without any equipment, Qiaoqiao Tianyi's night vision is still sharp, as if her own light is enough to allow her to walk freely.She can also see to the sides and behind at the same time, and catch tiny creatures that move very fast.

Instead of returning to the boat, they sat in the dark among the trees, watching one tram after another appear and pass by.Through the bright windows, they could see biological activity in every car.But they are no longer in a hurry now.The scattered probes did most of the work for them, helping them understand what was going on in the land.Now they know that there are settlements, villages, and even cities here.

On the electric railway track they were looking at, the bright lights of the town dispelled the darkness, the boilers spewed fire at the sound of people's orders, and the machines in the factory were all connected to a main line board, and the line board itself went straight to the ground.There is also agriculture here, but the species that can survive in the saline-alkaline soil are quite limited and seem to be difficult to import, so the residents use them more as fodder to cultivate a kind of cloven-toed ungulate.They did not learn the animal's name because the probe failed to pick up any language.If the inhabitants of this place do have an audible language, it is undoubtedly seldom spoken.

At the place closest to the edge of the world, the signals from the detectors are more mixed, but they bring many meaningful pictures: there are many statues standing on the edge of the cliff that goes down vertically.They all have striking ears in appearance. After comparing with the residents, they found that the engravings were generally realistic, but the expressions of the statues made them curious—they were all haggard and dull, as if they were not interested in living. Lost all interest.This solemnity can also be seen in the local residents, but it is far less painful than the one depicted in the statue.

They discussed it, thinking that it might be a religious expression, like the folks near Never Isle who portrayed all the gods in a state of carnival.Or maybe it has some kind of political meaning, but it's hard for them to explain why the ruler of this place wants to make his monument look like this.

By the time the fifth train passed by, they had collected a lot of information on this land, enough to let them know what there was probably in this place, and what things needed their further research.But what they were really looking for, whether it was the white paper boat or the thorns, also did not leave any obvious traces in this world.

They waited a while longer in the dark until the last probe finished exploring.During this time, somehow they all became silent.

"This is really a long journey." Qiaoqiao Tianyi said.

"Maybe it's not over yet."

"Yes. But we've explored farther than anyone - I mean, from outside -. I think we've found enough to write a manuscript for the White Tower. You want to do this something?"

Yale Liga shook her head without answering.At this moment, she was not thinking of writing a book or royalties, but of the former owner of the Silence.They have been separated for thousands of hours, which is enough time for two people who have never met before to forget each other completely.Besides, she didn't live on a sunny little planet full of grass and dew, but she was on the lookout for unknown dangers at every moment of exploration: some kind of beast unique to this place, deadly natural geological traps, of course. And the missing killer.She reminded herself of this mortal enemy all the time so as not to repeat her previous mistakes.

But is it really worth it?she began to ask herself.Sinking through this fatally resonant chasm of invincibility, chasing a goal without trace, without knowing when you will succeed, or at least find any hope of success.A more worrisome possibility is that they got it wrong from the start - Joan never actually went down, but went to some other area at the top of the chasm.During these thousands of hours, he had completed his revenge on the enemy, and then floated to an unknown place in the void, while she and Qiaoqiao Tianyi were wasting their time in the sewers of this world.

It wasn't a smart choice, and if she was really sober and rational, she should turn around now and take a free boat to Purple Arrow Three to find Lombard.She knew that Lombard would bring her much comfort, using his tender care and medical skill to make her forget the pain of the journey.The choice cost nothing, because she had never signed a written contract with anyone, yet she still sat in the dark.Wait for a train to pass on the tracks at the bottom of one of the deepest sewers in the universe.No, she knew she hadn't made a wrong choice all the way down.Babies sent to Gate City undoubtedly come from the depths of the chasm.

"What are you thinking, Yalai?" Qiaoqiao Tianyi said, "I think you seem to be in a daze."

"I'm thinking about their fertility," Yareriga replied.

"Birth?"

"Yes. They have a small population, it's not like they can discard as many babies every month. And those babies are very similar, and their adults look very different."

"They all look the same to me."

Yale Liga smiled slightly.She could discern differences in appearance within races almost as well as people of her own race.Even if it is the black cat guards of the Durand people who are always neat and tidy, she can find the most handsome one in ten seconds.

When the last detector sent a message, Yale Liga stood up from the ground.Her fingers brushed over the place where the horns made up, and then reached into her waist pocket and squeezed.She felt a long, thin chain.

"Hopefully their religion doesn't have horned devils," she said.

"What? So what?"

"I don't want to frighten anyone to death," said Yareriga, "while kissing me."

The blessing didn't help.After the Silence dropped from the sky and stopped the sixth passing train, all the passengers who were forced out of the car looked shocked and terrified.They looked at the two strange creatures they had never seen before, with expressions on their faces as if they had fallen into a nightmare.But they didn't run, and they didn't scream either.In such a world full of endless noise, they kept quiet even in the face of death threats.

Allerica scanned and picked among these crowds.She saw that one of them was very tall, with elongated cheeks, thin body and strong limbs, looking at her with a deep and burning gaze.She hooked her fingers at the other party.

All passengers who were in close proximity to the person dispersed uncomfortably.The chosen person stood there for a while, until Yale Liga pointed her scimitar far away.He slowly crossed the crowd and came to Yale Liga.Allerica tried to comfort him with a few words, but he seemed to hold on, and—she realized that her voice might not be heard by this person at all.He didn't have a receiving module in his ear.

"That's it," she said to herself, and kissed the man on the lips.Qiaoqiao Tianyi was frightened by her and screamed.

"What--hey! Now's not the time!"

Yareriga finally remembered this mistake.She still hasn't explained her bloodline to Qiaoqiao Tianyi.But that must be postponed.She closed her eyes and felt herself falling into a piece of warm and moist sea water.The waves have passed her head, bringing many strange memories.When she went deep into the darker bottom, many pictures unfolded before her eyes.She knew the name, origin and hobbies of the man in front of her, and how he once climbed the cliff at the edge of the world to install and fix those statues.This is just shallow communication.For this civilization, she only grasped a very fragmentary knowledge.

However, that was her biggest victory in these thousands of hours.In these scattered memories, she saw the eternal dark sky of this world.There are no twinkling stars or turbulent aether, and astronomy here has changed little since ancient times. No wonder the person she was kissing was so impressed by a bolide that had streaked across the sky many years ago.

(End of this chapter)