Future Shennong Space

When night fell, the whole of Brooklyn was shrouded in a hazy mist.

When Ji Mingxiao and the others returned to the quiet hotel, it was just in time for dinner.

Dinner is paella with local characteristics. The seafood part is very fresh, and the taste of the sea is particularly strong. Prawns, fish, scallops, chicken, oysters, onions, peas, every bite is a surprise.Xiao helped him add salt and black pepper, and also drizzled some lemon juice, and the taste immediately added another level.

The wine that goes with the meal is a kind of sweet wine, which turns transparent golden yellow when poured into a glass, and has a mellow and unique taste.After the meal, there is also a dessert made of butter and stewed fruit pieces. The surface is topped with ice cream and cream, and the taste cannot be more delicate and beautiful.

It is said that the boss himself did all of these, and in the restaurant, Ji Mingxiao also met the boss nicknamed Madman.This time he didn't wear a nightgown, dark trousers and a white shirt, looking very refined.His hair is dark chestnut, and his face is also very handsome, which doesn't seem to have anything to do with his nickname.

He sat at the door with the same dessert in front of him.He seemed to be a little absent-minded, staring at something on the table seriously, frowning somewhat melancholy.

He kept that look from the moment they entered the restaurant until they finished eating.

As they were leaving, the man was picking something up from the table.Ji Mingxiao glanced at it casually, and immediately opened his eyes wide in surprise.

It was an electronic photo frame, on which a person's photos were scrolling in a slide show.With his current eyesight, he could clearly see the appearance of the person in the photo, and it turned out to be a person he was very familiar with.

Noticing his gaze, Xiao put his hands on his shoulders and drew him to his side, then put his fingers to his lips to silence him.

Ji Mingxiao nodded knowingly, and the two of them kept this posture and went out of the restaurant directly.

After returning to their room, Ji Mingxiao let out a long breath as soon as Xiao indicated that he could speak, and asked the words he had kept in his mouth: "Does that person know Wei?"

Xiao nodded, "He used to be Wei's colleague."

Ji Mingxiao took a beat to react.

"Pirates?" he asked in a low voice.

"He's also a pirate leader." Xiao said, "One of the biggest pirate gangs on the Dark Sand Planet has been on the federal wanted list for a long time. The pirates on the entire Dark Sand Planet know that he and Wei are at odds. The two are deadly enemies. As long as If you go out and meet someone, there will definitely be a conflict."

"If that's the case," Ji Mingxiao asked suspiciously, "Why is he looking at Wei's photo? And that expression doesn't look like looking at his deadly enemy."

"He likes Wei." Xiao replied directly, "Almost all the pirates on Dark Sand Planet know about it."

Ji Mingxiao was surprised.

"But isn't this contradictory?" He still didn't understand, "I like it, but at the same time I don't know how to deal with it?"

"You have to know," Xiao shrugged, "there are always some people who deliberately provoke others in order to attract others' attention."

Ji Mingxiao had some black lines: "Are they still primary school students?"

He thought of the man he met in the restaurant just now. He looked very young, and he was handsome and gentle. No matter how he looked at it, he couldn't connect with the vicious interstellar pirate in his impression.But thinking of Wei's appearance as a noble son, it seems that there is no way to equate him with pirates.

Pirates these days are so individual...

"Then we will still live in his territory?" Ji Mingxiao thought of another question, "Won't he tell Wei?"

"No." Xiao explained, "At the beginning, he may have deliberately opposed him to attract Wei's attention, but he thought carefully that his subordinates didn't know it, so they went too far when conflicts occurred. As a result, Wei really Some people regarded him as a deadly enemy, and for a while, they almost got into trouble."

"Although he helped Wei twice later, and the relationship between the two sides has eased a lot, Wei is tired of him. Even if he wants to tell Wei, Wei may not be willing to talk to him. Moreover, it doesn't matter if he does. "

Ji Mingxiao silently lit the wax for the pirate leader in his heart.Even though he didn't spend much time with him, he knew how narrow-minded Wei was, and he was a type of vindictive person. He was trying to attract Wei's attention in this way.

but……

"He's not a pirate anymore?" Ji Mingxiao asked.

"After Wei stopped being a pirate, he also announced his retirement and opened a shop here." Xiao said, "This is Wei's mother's favorite place, and Wei often comes here."

He paused for a while, and added: "It is said that he is retiring, but he is still in charge of many things, and the matter of our going to the trade fair will also fall on him."

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The trade fair they were going to support bartering, and that was all Ji Mingxiao could help.

The small laboratory in his space stores some of the things he made before.When inquiring about the situation of the trade fair, he also found out that the medicines for the treatment and prevention of genetic defects are very popular in Anshaxing, and they are very popular in many auctions.

The federation has just begun to popularize these drugs, but the scope of popularization does not include the dark sand star, the pirate's residence.Moreover, many drug federations themselves are very nervous, and the control of drugs is very strict. It is difficult to get drugs here by smuggling.

In his space, there are quite a few such medicines that he made himself, because the materials in the space are used, and the effect is much better than the medicines produced by the Federation.When he was studying at the beginning, he made a lot of space materials in the space laboratory, and originally planned to keep them for Xiao to use, and now he can just use them to exchange for some needed materials at the trade fair.

In addition, he has one more thing in his hand.When studying ancient books at the Academy of Sciences on Capital Star, he found a lot of useful materials, and this thing was made based on those materials.

"It can restore youth without the sequelae of cell repair surgery." Ji Mingxiao introduced, "The most important thing is not only to restore the appearance, but also to restore the body function to the best state."

Cell repair has the effect of keeping people youthful, but this technology is completely overdrawn on the human body, just like plastic surgery in the 21st century, there will be many sequelae.

At the beginning, he just wanted to make something suitable for Mrs. Sterling, which could keep her young and healthy, but after finishing it, he realized that the effect of this thing was so good that it was a bit against heaven.He lied that he made this unintentionally when he was experimenting with mental power, and took it for a test purposely, and the result even made Professor Sharp very excited.

"This thing will make everyone crazy." Professor Sharp commented, "But only you can do it yourself, and its success is random. It will consume too many resources to determine the specific ingredients and methods."

This thing is really difficult to make in reality, because the materials used are all old medicinal materials in the space. When making it, he also added a lot of green light spots with mental power, so in the test report he The difficulty of the experiment was intentionally increased.

"We have to focus on solving the problem at hand first." Professor Sharp said to him, "Let's put this thing away first, and study it later, and it's best not to report it."

There are actually similar things in Interstellar, but they are very rare, and the supply is often in short supply in auctions and black market transactions. Many people are willing to pay a very high price to get this kind of thing.

"I have three copies of this kind of thing." Ji Mingxiao opened a sealed preservation box, and white mist came out of the box. Among the cryopreservatives, the transparent liquid in the three medicine tubes was faintly light blue. .

"The most critical question now is how to ensure that we won't get into trouble because of these things." He handed the box to Xiao.

Xiao looked at the contents of the box, then looked up at Ji Mingxiao, then closed the lid and locked it again.

"This is not a problem, but this thing..." He hesitated.

"This thing may be hard to come by for others." Ji Mingxiao said, "For me, it's just a matter of consuming materials and mental energy, and I can do it again."

Xiao smiled, without saying anything, leaned forward and kissed him on the mouth.

"Thank you," he said.

Ji Mingxiao kissed back, "You're welcome."

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The next day, the weather was completely clear.Early in the morning, sunlight flooded the entire bed through the window, waking Ji Mingxiao from his deep sleep.

He squinted and pulled a pillow over his face, blocking the bright light.After a while, he rubbed himself under the pillow, then sat up.

Xiao went out early and drew the curtains before leaving.

When Ji Mingxiao was in a drowsy sleep, he heard something in his ear.

The specialty here is a kind of stone crab, which tastes very delicious and is a rare delicacy.In the morning, the fishing boat will come back from the sea, loaded with fresh stone crabs...

Ji Mingxiao woke up completely, fresh stone crabs=high-quality ingredients--the instinct of foodie began to move around.

When Xiao came back at noon, he was greeted with a large table of crab meat feast: steamed crab, salt-baked crab, braised crab in oil, spicy crab, crab with orange and his favorite crab roe bun.

What surprised him the most was that in just one morning, Ji Mingxiao had already become acquainted with the former pirate leader.The two of them were sitting together in the restaurant, chatting while waiting for him to come back, it seemed quite speculative.

Xiao stopped when he entered the restaurant.

"Hey, Xiao." Ji Mingxiao saw him greet happily, "Adi helped me get two stone crabs today, they are too big, their legs are more than two meters wide, and there is so much crab meat in them , the taste is also very good. Adi taught me a lot of local recipes, and his craftsmanship is really good."

Adi?What the hell is this?

Xiao looked at the gentle young man, who nodded to him very reservedly and politely. "I also learned a lot from Benny today and benefited a lot."

Benny?Xiao was taken aback for a moment before realizing that this was Ji Mingxiao's pseudonym.

So in the short period of time he's been away, these two have gotten to know each other well enough to start using each other's nicknames?