Xia Chujian Xia Chujian looked at Tula's skin, thought for a moment, and fired a Black Silver Bullet, dissolving Tula's carbon-based body, which was mainly protein.
She looked around Tula's Ice Room and found an ice cabinet containing several large and small, ornate cloaks, as well as helmets and masks.
Xia Chujian thought these cloaks looked quite nice. She didn't know what material they were made of, but they seemed to be quite waterproof. She casually pulled out a cloak identical to the one Tula was wearing, then packed up the rest and carried them on her back.
Xia Chujian stopped concealing herself. Instead, she donned the Moss-Green Cloak with Dark Gold Trim that she had taken from Tula's wardrobe, along with the helmet and mask, and swaggered out.
Tula's body was already very tall, at least two heads taller than all the Haidagong here.
Therefore, when Xia Chujian walked out like this, none of the Haidagong suspected her.
They all stepped aside and bowed respectfully.
Xia Chujian didn't even bat an eye, using Tula's synthesized voice to say, "Where are Tima and Keli?"
The Haidagong in the hall bowed and said, "They are still searching, Lord Tula, please be patient."
Xia Chujian snorted, "If Tima and Keli don't show up, you will take Keli's place and lead the team to the surface!"
The Haidagong was overjoyed and knelt on the ground with a thud, almost kissing Xia Chujian's feet.
Xia Chujian quickly retreated, preventing the Haidagong from touching her leg.
As soon as she was touched, she would be exposed.
At this moment, A Yuan on her left shoulder was extremely greedy, facing so many Haidagong.
If it weren't for the fact that it was too small and had almost eaten itself to death by consuming Tula earlier, it would have rushed out of the cloak by now.
Xia Chujian noticed this and felt that she couldn't let A Yuan be so "willful". She had to get Seven Lù to put a bridle on it as well.
Maintaining Tula's bad-tempered demeanor, she stopped talking and strode forward.
The Haidagong who had led her earlier followed beside her, eagerly saying, "Lord Tula, where are you going? I can accompany you."
Xia Chujian's heart stirred, and she stopped and said a word: "...Longevity Flying Fish."
She didn't know where the Longevity Flying Fish were at all, so she didn't say the whole thing, letting the Haidagong fill in the blanks.
The Haidagong didn't know she was an imposter and thought she was deliberately not saying the whole thing to test him. He quickly pointed in a direction and said, "The Longevity Flying Fish are in the Ice Cave over here."
"Lord Tula, there aren't many Longevity Flying Fish left. Are we really going to trade them with Beichen?"
As he spoke, he was already leading the way.
Xia Chujian followed behind him, and said sternly, "Since there aren't many left anyway, are we supposed to keep them to breed?!"
The Haidagong leading the way said awkwardly, "Breeding isn't impossible... it's just that their gestation period is too long."
"Five thousand years, and they're still in the juvenile stage. I don't know when they'll grow into adults."
Xia Chujian didn't know how the Longevity Flying Fish came to be, so she remained silent, putting on an unhappy expression.
The Haidagong didn't dare to look up at her either, and soon led her to the entrance of an Ice Cave.
At the entrance of the cave, there was a black iron gate, exactly like the one in front of the Ice Room where the Starry Sky Yuan-chu eggs were stored, and the same face-scanning smart lock.
The Haidagong scanned his face to open the iron gate and led Xia Chujian in.
Xia Chujian raised her eyes and took a look, and her heart was even more shocked than when she saw the three ten-meter-tall Starry Sky Yuan-chu eggs earlier.
The Ice Cave in front of her was even larger than all the Ice Caves, Ice Rooms, and Ice Cellars she had seen before.
Looking at it, she couldn't see the edge at all.
And in this Ice Cave, there were silver-white cages placed side by side.
Xia Chujian estimated that there were about thirty such giant metal cages.
She didn't know what kind of metal they were made of, but each one was a hundred meters long, and sixty meters high and wide, a very giant metal cage.
Most of the metal cages were empty, but three of them contained a Longevity Flying Fish! They leisurely swam slowly in the huge cages, but the cages were not much bigger than their bodies. However, they seemed to be used to such cramped environments and did not feel any discomfort.
Seven Lù quickly scanned with its radar and quietly typed a line on Xia Chujian's eyepiece display.
[Seven Lù]: There are thirty metal cages here, all made of Special Metal Cang Yi mixed with Alligator Dragon skin material, which is extremely hard.
Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes, thinking, could it be that there used to be thirty Longevity Flying Fish, but now there are only three left? It's really slow to only breed thirty Longevity Flying Fish in ten thousand years.
Xia Chujian pondered, but remained silent, only staring intently at the three cages holding the Longevity Flying Fish.
The Haidagong who had brought her in was even more clueless as to what she was thinking, and bowed even lower.
It said softly, "Lord Tula, when will these three Longevity Flying Fish be released?"
Only then did Xia Chujian glance at it sideways, and said in a cold voice, "There are only three? Aren't there any more?"
The Haidagong, who was bowing almost ninety degrees, said in an even more humble tone: "Lord Tula, we don't have any more Starry Sky Yuan-chu eggs to hatch..."
Xia Chujian's heart was shaken.
These Longevity Flying Fish were actually hatched from the giant eggs of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu?!
But why do they look like this?
Why don't they look like A Yuan?
Why can't they switch to other forms?
If they were like A Yuan, they would have switched to a very small form and run away...
Xia Chujian really didn't think that cages with such sparse bars could hold the Starry Sky Yuan-chu's cubs.
So these Longevity Flying Fish shouldn't be Starry Sky Yuan-chu...
Even though they were hatched from the giant eggs of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu.
Xia Chujian frowned and said in a disgusted tone, "Haven't you found a way to hatch real Starry Sky Yuan-chu?"
The Haidagong, who was bowing, was shocked and looked up, saying, "Lord Tula! Absolutely not!"
"If we hatch authentic Starry Sky Yuan-chu, we Haidagong will die without a burial place!"
Xia Chujian thought, when you make humans die without a burial place, you're not so hesitant...
She rebuked with a cold face, "How can the Starry Sky Yuan-chu be compared to this kind of degenerate Longevity Flying Fish?!"
"Humph! A bunch of ignorant idiots!"
The Haidagong didn't understand the meaning of "idiots", but it understood the meaning of morons.
It was even more embarrassed, and bowed to Xia Chujian, flattering her: "Lord Tula is wise and brilliant, the most intelligent leader of our Haidagong in ten thousand years."
"Our Haidagong will surely usher in unprecedented glory under the leadership of Lord Tula!"
Xia Chujian snorted with satisfaction and said, "Alright, stop with the flattery."
She looked up at the Longevity Flying Fish that was leisurely blowing bubbles.
What are the benefits of this thing? Why did the Beichen Military spend so much effort and pay such a high price to get it?
Xia Chujian maintained a aloof posture and asked in a deep voice, "Have you confirmed how many Longevity Flying Fish the people from the Beichen Military want?"
The Haidagong hurriedly said, "Lord Tula, of course they want as many as possible."
"When Saintess Tifa traded with them before, she lied to them, saying that there were as many Longevity Flying Fish as they wanted, otherwise they wouldn't have taken the bait..."
Xia Chujian snorted softly, knowing that Tifa was the female Haidagong she had killed on the sea before.
She not only killed Tifa, but also her sister Tima.
She didn't know if they had any other siblings, but if they did, she wouldn't mind reuniting their family neatly.
Xia Chujian slandered in her heart, and changed her method of probing.
She asked, "The Beichen people must have their uses for so many Longevity Flying Fish, we can't interfere."
"Whether it's good or bad, it has nothing to do with us."
The Haidagong was overjoyed when it heard this, and said, "Lord Tula is right!"
"These Beichen people think they've found a great bargain!"
"But they don't know that these Longevity Flying Fish are hatched from the undeveloped eggs of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu after they have mutated, and they don't have any of the characteristics of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu!"
Xia Chujian's voice carried a sinister smile: "You seem to know a lot about the characteristics of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu..."
The Haidagong hurriedly bowed and said, "I dare not, I dare not, Lord Tula is too kind."
"I only have a smattering of knowledge."
Even as it said it only had a smattering of knowledge, it couldn't help but show off.
It couldn't wait to say, "The Starry Sky Yuan-chu was the overlord of the starry sky ten thousand years ago. Which country in the Beichen Galaxy would dare to disrespect it?!"
"It is said that the Starry Sky Yuan-chu can also transform into a human, improve the bloodline of a human family, and increase the chances of Gene Evolution!"
Xia Chujian's eyebrows twitched.
Could this be the reason why someone in the Beichen Military was determined to get the Longevity Flying Fish?
Did they think the Longevity Flying Fish was a descendant of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu from ten thousand years ago? Even if it was a mutated descendant, it could still increase the rate of Gene Evolution? If that was the reason, she could understand it, and even wanted to… try to see if she could achieve Gene Evolution…
Of course, she was just thinking about it.
The little chubby bird on her left shoulder, whose belly was bulging like a small round drum from eating, didn't seem that powerful at all…
Xia Chujian was silent.
That Haidagong glanced at her and lowered his voice, "But this thing is a slow poison for us Haidagong."
"The Longevity Flying Fish is like the unhatched eggs of the Starry Sky Yuan-chu to us Haidagong."
"If we don't eat it, we will starve to death."
"If we eat it, our food range expands, but we can no longer live forever."
"Your subordinate can understand Lord Tula's feelings."
"Lord Tula, I am also ninety-eight years old…"
Only one year younger than Tula?
Almost at the limit of one hundred years?
Xia Chujian snorted coldly in her heart, but on the surface, she still maintained a fierce appearance, and said coldly, "Yes, we had no choice but to do it for the survival of the clan."
"Now that we have more choices, we naturally have to make better preparations."
She raised her chin towards the iron gate and said, "Go and prepare. Take a thousand elites and set off in thirty minutes to show those Shang People how powerful we are at sea!"
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