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Hearing this, Dongfang Kongyu paused for a moment while eating, and then resumed eating as normal.

Yuan Yu also started eating her.

She is not as taboo against meat from live animals as Dongfang Kongqu.Although the fleet has banned vertebrate farming across the board, vertebrates are not slaughtered because they are considered to be in pain, but because the fleet's citizens feel uncomfortable in the small breeding environment and the miserable conditions of slaughtering vertebrates.And those vertebrates used for food have no self-awareness themselves, so although they have perception, they cannot form a consciousness similar to "I am being hurt", because the concept of "I" cannot be formed in their brains.

Yuan Yu herself would never engage in any vertebrate breeding business, but if she was asked to eat some animal meat, she would not find it particularly disgusting because of the above reasons.Of course, the vertebrate farms on many colonized planets do not give livestock enough range, resulting in meat that is not chewy and lacks flavor substances, so the meat obtained is not as good as the animal meat produced by food factories.

She ordered half a cod, raw and served with sesame oil and bean paste.There are also some side dishes that she doesn't know what they are, and the main dish is potato griddles.Yuan Yu ordered exactly the same as her because she didn't know what to order.

Jin Mengyan ordered a lot of things in one go, but each order was very small.His order almost perfectly covers the most expensive ingredients that "Moonlight" can provide, including king crab legs.It’s just that the king crab legs that can be provided here are obviously not as big as the king crab legs produced by the Fleet Food Factory—Yuan Yu likes to eat that stuff at home, as long as you brush the sauce and bake it, even she can make it herself .

Yuan Yu was eating cod and sashimi (Note: "鲙" means sashimi), but Min He was really hard to eat the crystal clear sashimi in front of him.When he ordered the food, he never thought that it was raw, and now he couldn't accept eating raw fish at all, let alone understand that Yuan Yu ate it so naturally.

He had no choice but to eat all the side dishes, leaving the whole cut carp on the plate, and then drank some drinks.

Jin Mengyan next to him looked at his plate strangely: "Don't you eat fish and carp?"

Mint shook his head in disgust, and he said, "It's a waste if you don't eat it, why don't you give it to me?"

Mint hurriedly brought the plate to him, and then watched helplessly as the cute boy picked up a large piece of raw cod meat, dipped it into the sesame oil and bean sauce plate, and then ate it.

He thought it was really disgusting, the eating habits of the top class were really unflattering.It was only later that he learned that the way of eating fresh fish cut into slices has long been in the mother star era.

The top class are very slow eating, and finally finished their main meal, and they still want some desserts and drinks.Perhaps it was because they were full of food, those top class people who were originally taciturn, also started to chat.Especially the men of the A family and the women of the B family, because they usually don't have to work and know a lot of gossip and rumors, they all started to communicate at this time.

Yuan Yu left the table early on the pretext that they were noisy, and pretended to take a walk to the porthole to look at the distribution of stars outside.Surprisingly, the distribution of stars made her feel somewhat familiar. Yuan Yu quickly opened the starry sky map in her wristband, and found that this was the star field called "Silent Sea".

The reason for calling this field of stars the "Sea of ​​Silence" by early human interstellar explorers and curvature drive scientists was originally due to the fact that the field has an unusually large number of faint white dwarfs and very few that really shine brightly. Large celestial bodies in the main sequence.Then those explorers also landed on the planets of those white dwarfs, and found that those planets were full of huge remains of unknown things, which seemed to be left by some extinct civilization.Because they couldn't find anything useful, this star field was abandoned by human explorers. They named it "Silent Sea", thinking that it was completely deserted.

And because there are really no useful celestial bodies in the vicinity, the citizens of the fleet rarely come here.But in the circle of curvature drive scientists and interstellar explorers, there is a legend of a "ghost ship in the silent sea".It is said that the pilot must not leave the curvature drive mode when driving the spaceship through the silent sea, otherwise he may encounter a "ghost ship".No one can say what the ghost ship is, and no one knows its specific route.

Some people who have encountered it say that it is very big, and the radar shows that it is at least [-] kilometers wide; Disappeared, and immediately appeared in another place... But these rumors are somewhat contradictory.No one could tell what kind of ship it was, what it looked like, what powered it, who was driving it—or did it have no driver at all?

Some people say that the ghost ship will attack passing ships, and it will emit strong interference electromagnetic waves. If there is no barrier from the space bubble, the control system of the curvature spacecraft will be in a state of failure, and the curvature drive mode will never be turned on again.But some people say that the ghost ship will not attack other ships, and the other cases of control system failure are only caused by the driver's misoperation due to excessive fear.

Some say ghost ships don't even exist—most Fleet citizens whose jobs have nothing to do with interstellar travel think so, and even many psychologists think they're just hallucinations from star travelers staring at space for too long.Others say that the ghost ship symbolizes the fear in people's hearts, and it is a materialized imagination of fear.However, some people think that the ghost ship is the ghost of the dead civilization on the deserted planets of the Silent Sea. It is a supernatural phenomenon that is still difficult to explain scientifically.

In any case, Yuan Yu thought it was unwise for those planetary people to put the wormhole of the smuggling channel in this star field.For the sake of safety, some things are still "preferable".They probably don't know the legend of the ghost ship in the Tranquility Sea, and seeing that this star field is not far away but there is no fleet of spaceships, they set up a route here to avoid the government's pursuit.

But now, Yuan Yu suddenly had a very bad premonition.There is a rumor that the ghost ship is dedicated to punishing those who have done wrong things. There was indeed a smuggling ship from the planet Geer who ventured out of this star field, and eventually never appeared again.The smuggler's family reported the case to the planetary government, and the planetary government also asked the fleet to help with the investigation.Although the final investigation concluded that there was a disagreement among the smugglers on the ship, and someone deliberately sabotaged the spaceship and caused a serious accident, but there is not enough evidence about how their conflict led to the accident, so many people still believe that the ghost ship punished They let the smuggling ship evaporate out of thin air.

But now, this cruise ship is likely to be carrying smuggled goods, Yuan Yu can only hope that the control room will turn on the curvature drive mode of the spacecraft as soon as possible, and leave this strange and silent sea as soon as possible.