Blue Star

"Why don't you know how to hide from the rain?"

Gu Li manipulated the magnetic field barrier to block the rain above Iris's head, and then found it funny.Mermaids live in the sea all year round, and the most exposed to water every day is water. To Iris, being in the rain is just like human beings on land.

But even so, he still couldn't help blaming himself for leaving a fish that didn't understand anything alone in a completely strange place.

"Gu Li." Iris smiled when he saw him, and when he saw him raise his hand to help block the rain, he imitated his posture and reached out to cover his head.

"You don't need to protect me from the rain, you can't get me wet."

Gu Li glanced at the stall owner who had set up the stall before, and put away the goods. Bella took Iris's arm and said, "Let's go back. It won't be too late to give when we meet in the market."

"Gu Li." Iris stood still, looking up at the sky with low pressure clouds.

The rainstorm turned into a drizzle within 1 minute, and then turned from a drizzle to a torrential rain in a blink of an eye.After a short pause, it suddenly began to snow again.

Gu Li frowned, suddenly a piece of ice the size of a fingernail fell from the sky and hit the outside of his magnetic field defense layer.

Hail in the spring is normal, although he has only seen it once in all these years when he was young.But it was the first time for April to be snowed in the Minggu Continent.

The temperature did not reach the freezing point, snow and hail appeared at the same time, and it was accompanied by heavy fog. No matter how you look at it, this climate feels abnormal.

Looking back at the towering Goddess Pillar, the thick clouds have been coiled to the middle, and the roar of thunder can be heard from time to time in the cloudy clouds.

Lightning flashed, and it slashed towards a nearby floating transport ship.The hull was torn apart, and the materials wrapped in oilcloth were scattered from the air. Even the fluorite surrounded by the magnetic field lost control, and was smashed into pieces along with the broken hull.

Fortunately, the thunder and lightning stopped after only two or three strikes, and the overall loss was only one material transport ship.Lightning will destroy the crystal ore magnetic field, which is always a bad sign.

The whole town needs to rely on the magnetic field to block monsters. If the magnetic field is destroyed, monsters will rush into the town without any scruples and start hunting.

"Iris, follow me."

The towns are divided into five circles. The fifth town they are currently in is the area closest to the sea, and usually there are more patrolling troops.If there are more people going to sea, some merchants will come to this market to set up stalls.

Entering the fourth town is not so rigorous.The area is zoned for cultivation and most of the food is grown here.Looking around, you can see a large area of ​​cultivation bases, from where livestock and food are put on transport ships and sent to various urban areas.

The adjacent third town is all kinds of large machinery workshops.Food, crystal ore, and clothing are all produced in this area, and it is also the place where the largest number of humans live.

The second town close to the center is the Keerqi tribe where Gu Li lived, where the elders in charge of research and all kinds of troops lived.

And the most central Goddess Pillar area is called the first town, and it can also be called the mining area.Although it is called a town, there are very few people living in it, and most of them are dwarf miners who dig.All the ores in the continent come from here, and it is also the main source of magnetic fields.

After entering the second town, Gu Li was the first to board the railcar controlled by Fluorite.Iris was not used to the benches in the rail car, and seemed a little restless after closing the door.His hands were not very honest, and he curiously touched the various decorations in the compartment.

There are railcars controlled by fluorite in all major towns, and the speed of travel will vary according to the strength of the magnetic field emitted. Most of the time, they move at a constant speed, but it will be different if there are wizards.

Gu Li turned the ring and reminded: "Iris, hold on tight."

The track at the bottom of the carriage is assisted by two pieces of fluorite every half a meter apart, and under the operation of the magnetic field, it advances along the track like a shuttle's sharp arrow.

The various scenery outside the window became blurred, but within a few minutes, they arrived at Elder Daoporing's laboratory.

Iris seemed to be a little motion sick, and his steps were stilted after getting out of the car, and his face was ugly.

Gu Li found it interesting. He remembered that a few years ago he took a tank of ornamental fish on a rail car.After getting out of the car, those ornamental fish were as dizzy as Iris is now.

It seems that his witchcraft still needs to be improved, it's better to control it more slowly next time.

bang——

There was no time to ask, but suddenly there was an explosion sound from the laboratory behind Iris.The entire wooden house shook, the glass windows were blown all over the floor, and black smoke billowed out from the vents everywhere.

An old man in a white robe, covered in black ore powder, rushed out of the laboratory coughing.

Daoporing coughed so hard that his throat was hoarse. Seeing someone at the door, he hurriedly put on the mechanical glasses that were crooked on his face, and waved to Gu Li: "Hurry up, my book is still on the table."

Gu Li shook his head helplessly, and hurried into the lab covering his mouth and nose to help save the books.

This laboratory has already lost count of the number of explosions, anyway, the glass windows have to be replaced every half a month.

Elder Dao Porling raised his hand and waved his face, looked at the rescued notebooks and said with a smile, "Fortunately, you came back in time."

Gu Li put down his books, "You should say, luckily it's raining."

He manipulated the magnetic field and used rain to extinguish the flames in the laboratory.But the thick smoke could not be dispersed for the time being, and the three of them could only stand outside in the rain for a while.

It was only then that Dao Porling noticed that Gu Li had brought back a boy.He took out the magnifying glass from the pocket of his robe, and looked at Iris' front, back, left, and right sides.

Iris is taller, and Dauporing standing beside him can't even reach the man's chest.

Daoporing stared at the magnifying glass in his right eye, and when he looked up, he happened to meet Iris who was also curious and approached him.Fair and smooth skin, there are faintly small transparent scales on the neck.

"Wow!"

Daoporing took a few steps back in shock, put away the magnifying glass, pointed at Iris and asked, "What! Gu Li, why did you bring the infected person here?"

"It's not an infected person, it's a mermaid." Gu Li manipulated the ring to protect the two from the rain.

Dao Porling almost dropped his jaw in shock and stuttered, "Human, human, mermaid?" He hurriedly checked to see if there was anyone around, and lowered his voice, "Did you really bring the mermaid back?"

"Yes, I thought it was just a fairy tale before I went to Bermuda River." Gu Li pulled up the sleeve covering Iris's arm, exposing the fish fin that loomed behind his elbow, and said: "But now I feel that those from the library Not all fairy tale books found are fantasies."

Elder Daoporing picked up the magnifying glass again and approached Iris's arm, while looking at it, he said: "Your brother already knew about Zhong Huaide, and the families of the victims reported to the patriarch collectively yesterday for an explanation.

He went to the restricted area of ​​Bermudachuan without approval, and almost killed a talented wizard.It is reasonable to accept the guilt of Zhong Huaide and his party, but considering that these people are already dead, they were suppressed. "

Since going ashore, Iris has seen a lot of people walking on two legs, but it was the first time for an old man with gray hair and beard like Dauporin.

He curiously grabbed Dao Porling's white beard, but he didn't exert much strength in his hand, and was almost pulled off.

"Hey, let go! It hurts, it hurts..." Dao Porling wailed.

Gu Li smiled and pulled Iris's hand back, and responded to what he said just now: "With my brother's temper, even if it's not my fault, I will definitely punish me."

Daoporing put away the magnifying glass, and said in a reproachful tone, "It's good that you know! The wizard who was the escort didn't stop them from going to the restricted area, so the punishment will definitely not be less."

He touched his chin and looked at Iris thinking, "It looks like an infected person no matter what, are you sure this kid is a mermaid?"

"I'm sure, I've seen him turn into a mermaid with my own eyes." Gu Li said again: "One more thing, I found a human being infected by marine life on Zhong Huaide's boat."

Daoporing was surprised: "You mean, the source of infection has spread to marine life?"

"Ah."

"This is terrible, I have to inform your brother immediately! Before you, three batches of seafood have been delivered to various areas of the town. Oh, that's right."

Dao Porling flipped through the pile of books rescued by Gu Li for a while, and suddenly took out a book about plants and handed it to him.

"Look at this, the archaeological team tried their best to find it from the surrounding ruins."

Gu Li took the book, wiped off the black crystal ore powder on it with his sleeve, and flipped through it carefully.

This is a notebook that records various types of plants. In addition to text and hand-drawn illustrations, there are several crushed plant specimens mixed in the last two pages.

These hand-painted plants are marked with their names and time, and most of them look very familiar, but there are also many that he has never seen before.What surprised him was that the last time the note was signed was 200 years earlier than Minggu Continent's known.

"This is a note from 15 and [-] years ago. It was found at the bottom of the destroyed library. Because the archaeological army encountered a surprise attack by monsters, they had to interrupt the archaeology and temporarily bring back this note."

After Elder Daoporing finished his explanation, he turned around and went to the laboratory to find a needle and alcohol for drawing blood.

Gu Li picked up the plant specimen in the book, frowned and said, "I seem to have seen this plant somewhere." He compared the text records in his notes, and saw the name of this plant in the interlayer where he found the specimen just now. .

"corn?"

The appearance of the corn recorded in the notes is completely different from the corn eaten by humans today.The corn in the drawing has fewer seeds and a hard shell, and the seeds stacked in a single row don't look like something that can be eaten.

In the drawing, the name of corn is drawn with an arrow, recording another name, teosinte.The plant specimens included in the notes are the leaves of teosinte.

"A few years ago, I went to the outskirts with my brother, and I seemed to have seen this kind of plant in the jungle outside the ruins, but I never knew it was called teosinte."

Gu Li couldn't help but wonder, "Why is teosinte equated with the corn we eat?"

"I'm also curious, so I studied these two plants while you were away." Daoporing took out the needle and alcohol.

"There is a gene in both the corn we eat and the teosinte that, on the teosinte, makes its fruit encased in hard lemurs, but alone on the corn makes it shellless. And soft."

Gu Li thought that the corn they ate were all in the form of small shells and half-wrapped, which seemed to be different from the two kinds mentioned by Dao Porling.

"I know what you want to ask. You think the two kinds of corn I'm talking about are different from the corn you eat now." Daoporing answered for him.

Gu Li seemed to have thought of something, "Shouldn't it? Combination?"

"Does it sound like an infection? Combining two things with similar genes into a brand new product." Dauporin continued: "However, the source of our infection has not yet been found from plants, so we can Eliminate the suspicion of this combination of grains."

The existence of corn existed as early as when Minggu Continent was first built.At that time, many technologies were immature, and it was not until I found this notebook that I realized that the current food is a combination.That is, conjugates have been developed long before their known history.

So is it possible that the infection that humans are facing now is also the result of an outbreak due to the failure of a combination experiment?

However, looking at the entire Ming Ancient Continent, no mature research institute has been found so far.Even Daoporin's laboratory was built ten years ago for the research and development of suppression crystal powder.

Besides, what surprised him the most were the other plants in the notes.Many of them were marked with the year hundreds of millions of years ago, and some even wrote words like extinction.

Interestingly, he seemed to have seen some of the ancient plants marked extinct in the notes in the surrounding jungle.

"Hey, don't move. I'll draw a tube of blood to make sure it doesn't hurt."

Daoporing took the needle and pulled Iris' wrist and tried to tempt him, but Iris was unwilling to cooperate, and even wanted to attack Daoporing dangerously.

Gu Li closed the notebook and stuffed it into his clothes, and hurriedly stood between the two of them and explained: "He is not familiar with our human world yet, so don't move the needle if you come up."

Dao Porling disdained his behavior of protecting the baby, "Don't use the needle to touch you? How can I know if the mermaid can suppress the infection if I don't draw a tube of blood for research."

This makes sense.He brought Iris to the laboratory, not because he wanted to know whether the mermaid could suppress the infection.

He looked back at Iris with some helplessness, and Iris put away the sword just now, as if he was a little aggrieved.

"Gu Li."

Gu Li took the needle in Porling's hand and comforted him: "Don't let others touch you, can I do it?"

Iris frowned at him, and after hesitating for a while, stretched out his arm to him.

Dao Porling stood aside and watched Gu Li draw blood, and said with emotion: "It's really a fish!"

Even if an infected human becomes a monster, the blood will always remain bright red.But at this moment, the blood drawn out of the needle tube is dark blue, darker than the blue blood of horseshoe crabs.

Iris got a tube of blood drawn and didn't look very well. Gu Li handed the blood sample to Daoporing and comforted him: "Look, it will be fine soon."

"Not good." Iris objected suddenly.

Gu Li thought it was funny, Iris learned to speak quickly, but still behaved like a child.

At this moment, the smoke in the laboratory receded, and Gu Li helped to move the rescued books back.

Dauporin put the blood on the messy workbench for research, and the black crystal mines that had been blown up before were scattered everywhere.

Gu Li picked up a broken scrap and wanted to hand it to Iris to play with.But the strange thing is that when Iris's skin came into contact with the crystal ore, those tiny scales suddenly faded away.

"How could this be?"

Black crystal ore is an important material for making suppression crystal powder. Why does it help mermaids become humans when they are close to Iris?

"Wow!" Dao Porling turned around in surprise and said, "Release him quickly, this is not a mermaid, he is also an infected creature!"

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Yu Ling:

The height of the three people, Iris 193cm, Gu Li 182cm, Dao Porling Elder 150cm

Gu Li has already forgotten why the mermaid went ashore with him. In the next chapter, Iris is going to be in heat (*/ω＼*)

There are many arguments about the origin of corn. The story uses hybridization to describe it, so there is no need to study it carefully.