Ch57.1 - Coming To Seek Death (Part One)

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After getting the same answers every time he asked, Cui Hu finally reluctantly confirmed that his little cousin really sowed manually without any scientific or technological assistance. Thinking for a while, he figured that if his little cousin could alter the K921 in a place where birds wouldn’t even fly over to take a dump, why couldn’t it be possible? He felt his little cousin could be even more accurate in sowing.

The most terrifying thing was that his little cousin mainly concentrated on agriculture. If it was reversed and he was focused more on weapons, he could probably use the garbage here to construct a terrifying army.

Cui Hu was also suspicious of his cat. How could a cat act so much like a human? The cat couldn’t be a robot cat he built, right? He wanted to touch it, but it was as if the cat was possessed by a monkey, and it sprinted away from him.

After Cui QiChao was done making arrangements for the sorghum, he began to think about finding salt. Since he wasn’t sure how far he would have to drive out to find salt, it was unrealistic to think about taking a drive with his scooter to find it. He had to use Cui Hu’s aircraft. 

Cui Hu’s aircraft used a new type of nuclear fusion fuel, which was able to support long-distance navigation. When he initially arrived at the unmanned planet, more than half of it had already been exhausted. It was reasonable to say that if the aircraft was only used for agriculture, it could last for several years.

However, if he wanted to search for salt substances repeatedly in a larger area, he may have to use detection instruments on the aircraft, and the consumption of fuel would become higher.

Cui QiChao sat on the ground, his back against the aircraft, staring at the stars whose names he did not know.

Cui Hu slowly shifted over. “Little cousin, are you still thinking about running away? It’s very hard to sow seeds these days. I’ll advise you to find a small planet to live in seclusion. I’ll help you find someone to enslave and I will also give you the aircraft, as long as you let your brother go…”

“Elder cousin, I won’t leave here.” Cui QiChao said firmly. If he left here, where else could he find such a large open space to farm? Was Cui Hu kidding?

He stood up and began to pick up waste for the next day.

Cui Hu’s tears almost rolled down his face. As soon as he saw Cui QiChao scavenging, he wanted to cry. It couldn’t be that his little cousin was trying to make some agricultural equipment again, right? At this point, he could see that his little cousin wasn’t farming just to survive.

In fact, Cui QiChao just mainly picked up some garbage and raw materials for composting. But his secondary reason was to make an Achette collector to install on Cui Hu’s aircraft, and design the automatic mode to raise the aircraft to outer space, where it would collect, extract, and convert antimatter to cause a chemical reaction and generate a large amount of energy for the aircraft. 

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After listening to Cui QiChao, Cui Hu couldn’t close his mouth. “…Why doesn’t the HJJ company just invite you to take charge of their company? No, little cousin, why don’t you start a business! I’ll help you with it!”

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“Hey, wait, didn’t you say that your collector couldn’t hide its signals?” Cui Hu suddenly thought of something and asked, “There must be a very obvious signal divergence for this scale of acquisition of antimatter. So you’ll be easily found. Are you not afraid…”

Cui Hu paused and said numbly in realization, “Oh, you’re not afraid.”

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Cui QiChao took the cat out to find salt and continued to leave Cui Hu in the space station to take care of crops. This time, he was prepared to go out for a long time and repeatedly told Cui Hu to turn on the lights on time for artificial lighting, fish feeding, water irrigation, fertilizer mixing and so on… 

For the first few tasks he had to do, it would be an easy feat. Cui Hu was so old yet he had never stirred fertilizer… no, he hadn’t even been exposed to fertilizer. After piling the manure for a long time, the smell could even penetrate the whole galaxy. Cui Hu wanted to die when he smelled it, not to mention having to stir.

Cui QiChao looked at Cui Hu with the eyes of “If you can’t even mix manure, what do I want you for?”…

Cui Hu admitted that the meaning behind Cui QiChao’s look was imagined by him, but it still caused him to shudder, and he couldn’t understand why his little cousin was looking at him that way.

在abo的社会模式中，alpha天生就是领导者，而beta和omega，尤其是omega，很容易就会在alpha面前臣服。就像大自然中，狼群会臣服头狼。 

In the A/B/O society, alphas were natural leaders, while betas and omegas, especially omegas, would easily succumb to alphas. Just like in nature, wolves surrender to their lead wolf.

But once his little cousin glared at him, he couldn’t help but want to obey him, and the look in his eyes reflected his feebleness. After he snapped out of his stupor, his waist straightened, but the sensation of fear he felt moments ago was clear in his mind and could not be faked.

什么原理，他小堂弟不会是个双性人，集alpha和omega于一体吧？

What’s the principle behind his little cousin being so strong? His little cousin couldn’t be an intersex, with both alpha and omega genders, could he? 

Cui Hu thought about it. After all, he really hasn’t met an omega like Cui QiChao before in his life. His ability in making machines could also be said to be a rare talent, but what the hell was with his leader-like temperament?

All in all, Cui Hu dared not resist when Cui QiChao stared hard at him. He honestly stayed at the space station and sent messages to the aircraft every other time to report his situation.

Cui QiChao took the space station to the center and searched around. Using the detection instruments on the aircraft, about five days later, he successfully detected the existence of salt. He found a liquid mineral with a salt content of more than 5%—a brine and salt lake.

Now that it was the rainy season here, the lake was rich in minerals and was quite blue. It was surrounded by a white salt belt, and even the mud was full of salt. 

Cui QiChao landed the aircraft on the lakeside. As soon as he got out of the hatch, he could smell the dense salt in the air. XiaoBai’s nose twitched and it sneezed, “Ah choo!”

Cui QiChao loaded some water and put it on the aircraft to analyze the composition in detail. There were many crystals formed after drying the lake water. This kind of salt is crude salt, Cui QiChao could take it back and purify it to get edible salt.

After the analysis results were confirmed to be correct, Cui QiChao began to harvest those crystals.

There was no trace of prior mining in this salt lake. He couldn’t harvest much, given the large land area of the lake. When he finished collecting the coarse salt, it was estimated that the first part of the land where he collected the salt from would form salt crystals again later. 

These crude salts were corrosive, so Cui QiChao wrapped his skin with a cloth to shield himself from exposure before he began to collect them. He didn’t stop until he filled the entire aircraft space. He worked tirelessly for two days and ended up with a good harvest.

On the way back, Cui QiChao saw the communication signal flashing. It should be someone trying to contact Cui Hu. Of course, he ignored it.

On the other hand, Cui Hu worked hard and received a letter from his family. It seemed that his family had tried to contact him, but didn’t get a reply. They finally began to have doubts, so they sent a letter to Cui QiChao to confirm whether he had anything to do with it, and said they would send two more people over.

The Cui family did not doubt at all that Cui Hu would be kidnapped. In their imagination, either Cui Hu was in danger alone or Cui Hu had met danger along with Cui QiChao… 

No, the danger came from my little cousin! Why only 2 people! It would be better to send 200!

Cui Hu grabbed the display screen and wanted to shake it, having a mental breakdown in his mind. The space station was built to imprison people—under normal circumstances, it could only receive information from home, and if one wanted to send a letter to their home, one could only send specific information. For example: I surrender, I want to go back and get married. But this required the password only Cui QiChao knew.

Cui Hu was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks. Finally, he held the display screen and showed a peaceful smile. Forget it, the worst case is that two more people will come and share the farm work he has on hand.

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After Cui QiChao came back, he stopped the aircraft to check the soil moisture and compost before entering the space station. “Elder cousin, what are you doing, sitting on the ground?”

“…I just received a message from our family. They’re afraid we’re in danger, so they will send someone over again.” Cui Hu thought that since their family contacted the both of them, his little cousin must have also received the news. There’s no need to hide it from him.

Sure enough, Cui QiChao said, “Oh, I received it on the way back.” Only his message didn’t say that they would send someone else here.

Then, as Cui Hu thought about how his little cousin would react—Cui QiChao didn’t care about it at all, but said, “Elder cousin, Square, Round, Pythagoras, accompany me to move some salt. I brought some coarse salt back.” 

Cui Hu smiled sadly, thinking that he was now on the same social hierarchy level as Square, Round and Pythagoras.

XiaoBai: “Meow.”

Cui QiChao seemed to understand it and said, “You’ve been busy all day. Stay here and rest.”

Cui Hu thought again and felt that the treatment he received was worse than a cat. 

XiaoBai jumped to Square’s head. It insisted on going, since it felt that it’s much better than Cui Hu, the fool. When Cui Hu did some work, he always complained. In those years when XiaoBai was herding pigs and ducks, did it say anything?

——In the case of boredom, and now that he had a competitor, XiaoBai wanted to show off his talents even more.

The three robots were shouting internally: We are not your home robots. We can’t help you work and drag the salt away!

The purification process was not laborious. Make an electric furnace, use the heat to melt the crude salts, cool them down and crystallize them, separate impurities, and refine them into edible salt. At the end, the yield was quite high, and nearly 60 kg of refined salt was prepared. 

Cui Hu didn’t know how to alter K921 weapons, but now he knew the principles of purifying salt… As he bagged the salt, he thought in his heart that if he stayed here for a long time, his survival rate in the wild would definitely improve.

Cui QiChao was slightly satisfied: “Elder cousin can’t sow, but you are rather meticulous in doing this work.”

“I’m flattered.” Cui Hu reacted after he felt complacent. What’s there to be proud of?