Song Mingqian's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Stop right here! It's like a campsite! It's a great place!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
She looked at Song Mingqian curiously: "...What is camping?"
"You don't even know what camping is?! It's when a family takes a tent and food, goes hiking, and then finds a designated spot in a campsite to stay, have a barbecue, and stuff like that..."
Song Mingqian slurped and swallowed.
Xia Chujian shrugged: "I don't know, my family was poor, I've never been able to afford such luxuries."
"How is camping a luxury?!" Song Mingqian retorted, but was immediately restrained by Li Fu and Ping Qiong on either side.
Li Fu covered his mouth, and Ping Qiong pinched his thigh hard.
In their team, Xia Chujian's family situation was the worst, and they now understood why.
Song Mingqian was saying that, wasn't he poking at Xia Chujian's sore spot?
How could he say that? Song Mingqian finally came to his senses, embarrassedly grunted twice, and nodded desperately at Li Fu, indicating that he understood.
Li Fu slowly let go.
Song Mingqian said awkwardly, "...That, camping is just a poor man's way of having fun, it has nothing to do with luxury!"
"We're just finding a cave in the mountains and hunting some game to have a good time."
Xia Chujian chuckled and called Song Mingqian by his nickname: "Alright, 'Death-Wish Song', I was just teasing you... I do know what camping is."
She remembered that before going to bed when she was a child, her aunt, who she depended on for survival, would tell her some strange stories.
At that time, her aunt and niece were really poor, so poor that they could only eat two meals a day, breakfast and lunch.
They didn't eat anything for dinner, just drank some water and went to sleep.
The young Xia Chujian remembered the discomfort of her stomach rumbling, which made it difficult for her to sleep, so her aunt would tell her some strange stories.
For example, there was a story called Three Golden Needles, which told the story of a spirited young man named Yang Guo, who made random wishes to a little girl named Guo Xiang, giving her Three Golden Needles as a birthday gift, making the little girl infatuated with him.
Xia Chujian didn't like listening to such stories. What she liked most was her aunt telling her about her own childhood.
For example, her aunt's family was very well-off when she was a child.
She would go on vacation with her family, and they would also go camping together, bringing a delicious thing called "Sausage", and they could also set up a stove and eat "Hot Pot" outside.
The young Xia Chujian listened as if she were listening to a heavenly book, which made her even hungrier, and she was filled with longing for that kind of life.
When she grew up, she searched the Star Network for a long time, but couldn't find what "Sausage" was, and had never seen what "Hot Pot" was.
She went to ask her aunt, but her aunt said she didn't remember...
Now she could earn money to support herself and her aunt, and had a huge sum of 500,000 Beichen Coins in her account.
It was no longer like when she was a child, when they didn't know where their next meal was coming from, and in winter, the aunt and niece could only huddle together for warmth.
But she would rather use all of this to exchange for that healthy aunt who could gently tell her stories.
Even if she still could only eat two meals a day from then on, and still had to huddle in thin blankets and shiver in the winter.
Xia Chujian took a deep breath, suppressed the discomfort in her heart, turned her head to wink at Song Mingqian in the back seat, and said with a smile, "I was just teasing you! You really took it seriously, 'Death-Wish Song'!"
Song Mingqian cried out strangely, "You little Xia Chujian! You tricked me!"
He gnashed his teeth, looking like he was about to jump up and hit someone, which made everyone burst into laughter.
Li Fu laughed so hard that he almost broke his seat belt.
Ping Qiong even grabbed Song Mingqian to prevent him from actually hitting Xia Chujian.
Ye Shijie crossed his arms and closed his eyes to rest, as if he hadn't heard anything, but the slight upturn of his mouth showed that he wasn't as detached as he appeared to be.
Amidst the laughter in the aircraft, Xia Chujian steadily parked the aircraft on an open space by the lake.
On both sides were dense evergreen trees, of unknown species, that remained evergreen even in such cold weather.
They were covered in snow, with unique and distinctive shapes, piece by piece like bonsai sculpted with white jade and jadeite.
The trees were so dense that there was only a thin layer of snow on the ground under the trees, and a little sparse, yellowing withered grass.
The group sat in the aircraft, turned on the built-in lighting system, and activated the automatic scanning system to scan the surrounding ten miles for data. Then, they input the data into the aircraft's super optical brain system for modeling.
Xia Chujian adjusted the automatic scanning system and said regretfully, "It's a pity, the magnetic field here is too strong to connect to the Star Network."
As the name suggests, the Star Network operates via satellites, so it's not just effective for Guiyuan Star. The entire star region where the Beichen Empire is located can connect.
Unless there's magnetic interference.
There's no way around that.
Xia Chujian's aircraft was a combat model, so this situation had long been considered. Therefore, the aircraft was equipped with a supercomputer system as a local host.
If the Star Network can't connect, they can directly use it as a host.
"Everyone, try to connect your smart bracelets to the aircraft's super optical brain system to create a local area network," Ye Shijie said, as he was the first to start debugging his smart bracelet.
He had a quantum optical brain, and so did everyone else, except for Xia Chujian. Therefore, in the team, everyone tacitly never mentioned the quantum optical brain and used smart bracelets to contact each other.
Li Fu, Song Mingqian, Ping Qiong, and Xia Chujian all began debugging their smart bracelets.
The result was that even connecting to the local computer inside the aircraft was unstable.
"Don't bother, it looks hopeless." Song Mingqian clicked his tongue. "The magnetic field here is really strong."
"Our aircraft's surface already has a coating to prevent magnetic interference. With a small controlled nuclear fusion reactor as the power source, the quality of this coating can't be bad."
"But look, we haven't even gone outside yet, and the smart bracelet connection only has one bar."
"Whether we can connect after getting out of the aircraft depends on luck."
Xia Chujian found that this was indeed the case.
The smart bracelet's connection was divided into ten bars.
Ten bars were a full signal, the highest level of connection.
One bar was the lowest level of connection, a typical case of being connected but not fully connected.
Whether they could contact each other really depended on luck.
Xia Chujian stopped trying.
She began to look at the surrounding situation through the virtual display in front of her.
The open space they had chosen was quite suitable, about an acre in size, surrounded by tall trees on three sides and facing a lake on one side, quiet and secluded.
The aircraft was parked right by the lake.
Looking at the lake from close range, the water was a clear, shimmering green, with only a few small pieces of ice floating on the surface.
Considering the temperature here was minus eighty degrees Celsius, there must be something under the lake, otherwise it wouldn't be frozen.
In the middle of the open space stood a small wooden house with a rough style.
It was a true small wooden house in the literal sense.
The outer walls were made of wooden blocks of different sizes nailed together haphazardly. The irregular shapes could really drive someone with OCD crazy.
The wooden blocks must have been old, revealing a brownish-red color with a sense of time on the high-definition virtual display. They also had a natural luster, as if they had been painted with a layer of oil, or like jade that had been polished.
Xia Chujian muttered to herself, "This wooden house really has history. Could it be a cultural relic?"
"Huh? Really? According to the laws of the Empire, all mineral deposits and ownerless cultural relics in the Beichen Empire's star region belong to the Empire, with the royal family taking 30%..." Song Mingqian muttered, but couldn't wait to open the aircraft's semi-transparent top hatch and jump out.
Ping Qiong stood up and said with a smile to Xia Chujian in the front driver's seat, "Chujian, Song Mingqian has occupational disease. Do you know what he majored in at university?"
Xia Chujian calmly pulled down the special glasses on her helmet and said with a smile, "What major? It can't be a 'crazy money-making' major, right? Cai Jie, do you know?"
"If there was such a major, I'd break my head to get in!" Ping Qiong proudly puffed out her chest. "I'll tell you, Song Mingqian majored in archeological appraisal at university!"
"That's so high-end..." Xia Chujian was a little surprised.
Song Mingqian, Ping Qiong, and Xia Chujian shared a common hobby: they all loved money.
But Song Mingqian actually studied such an unpopular major as archeological appraisal at university.
According to the laws of the Beichen Empire, ownerless cultural relics belonged to the Empire, with the royal family taking 30% of the profits. For some special cultural relics, the royal family also had priority.
Therefore, archeology in the Beichen Empire was basically working for the royal family, earning a bit of hard-earned money.
No wonder Song Mingqian wanted to be a hunter.
Xia Chujian never used to talk to her teammates about her own affairs. In return, her teammates didn't tell her about their own affairs either.
It wasn't until now, when she was honest for the first time, that she received the same honesty from her teammates.
It seems that people really do exchange sincerity for sincerity.
She cherishes this friendship very much.
Li Fu stood up from the back seat and said to Xia Chujian, "Let's go down and check out the surroundings first. You stay in the aircraft and be on guard, providing remote support."
Xia Chujian thought for a moment, "Okay, then I'll assemble my Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle first."
Ye Shijie's face darkened as soon as he thought about Xia Chujian's bullet speed, and he said in a muffled voice, "There's basically no one in this place. If there are any, they're just some alien beasts and animals. You're a sniper, so one shot should solve the problem. Don't fire a second shot."
In the end, he was just complaining that Xia Chujian was wasting bullets.
Before Xia Chujian could speak, Li Fu chuckled, secretly gave a thumbs up behind his back, and then jumped out of the aircraft with a whoosh.
A man nearly two meters tall, as thick as a brown bear, was actually so agile! Xia Chujian smiled slightly, dragged out her gun case from under the seat and opened it, while pretending to be casual, she said to Ye Shijie, "Team Lead Ye, don't worry about the bullets, really. I ordered a lot of ammunition reserves this time. Just machine gun bullets alone are two hundred thousand rounds."
"Two hundred thousand rounds?!" Ye Shijie almost couldn't catch his breath.
He clutched his chest and thumped it twice, pointing at Xia Chujian with the other finger, his expression twisted with excitement, but in the end, he didn't say anything, and directly turned around and jumped out.
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