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Chapter 4196: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (14)

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Tim sprained his ankle during the emergency landing. So Miles and Arkham Knight stayed behind to help him with treatment. Peter went to check the situation of the spaceship. Dick and Jason followed behind him.

"What's going on with the robots you mentioned?"

"Are you sure your spaceship didn't fall down by accident?"

"I don't know, when entering the orbit, it suddenly reminded me that the autopilot failed, so I could only perform a manual landing. But I really haven't flown this thing before. The landing site wasn't very good. It fell down when it was still a few hundred meters from the ground."

"You guys are really lucky," Peter exclaimed, and then saw the spaceship that had plunged into the swamp from afar. Then Peter exclaimed again: "This spaceship is also lucky."

"Isn't it because the quality is good?"

Peter shook his head without explaining further. Fortunately, the spaceship had crashed head-first. He had checked before boarding the ship; the cockpit at the head of this model of spaceship is the sturdiest. If it had fallen sideways, the spaceship might not have been so intact.

They walked all the way to the vicinity of the spaceship. Peter looked left and right, not seeing anything. Then he shot two spider silks, stood at the tail of the spaceship, stood firmly with his feet, and pulled hard with his arms. The spaceship was pulled flat directly and lay on the swamp.

"My God," Dick exclaimed.

Peter's face didn't get any better; he boarded the spaceship directly, came to the cockpit, and began to check the flight log of the spaceship. After just a few glances, he understood: the spaceship was subjected to electromagnetic interference.

Dick sighed and said: "My manual driving technique is too bad, otherwise it wouldn't have been like this."

Peter looked back at him and found that Dick in this universe was relatively young and might not have become Nightwing yet. Jason and Tim were also not very old, and could even be said to be children. Batman in this universe was really at ease sending them over.

"I know what you want to say," Jason said, standing behind with his arms crossed, "Batman didn't agree to let us come, but he couldn't stand our soft and hard tactics. After all, how could we not participate in the summer camp of the Robin of the multiverse?"

Peter sighed, he also came from this age, so he didn't say much about this topic, just said: "Actually, it was your manual driving technique that saved your lives."

"What do you mean?"

"The spaceship's signal was interfered with, so the autopilot couldn't be used. And the route you took for manual landing was too random, and didn't land in the range they expected. When we rushed over, they should have been looking for you all over the planet."

The two suddenly felt a chill on their backs, looked at each other and said: "Why did they attack us?"

"Someone doesn't want humans to develop the Milky Way, so of course they will find ways to do something. In order to carry out the project in Crux, the defense of the Nine Realms is not as tight as before, giving them an opportunity to mix in."

"That is to say, when they were interfering, they thought we would fall in one direction, but we fell to another place through manual driving. Just when they rushed over to find us, you came and saved us?"

"Pretty much. But I don't think they were specifically targeting you, maybe they just had arrangements on this planet, but they hadn't had time to implement them, and you broke in. Speaking of which, why did you enter this planet?"

"Mission requirements," Jason said. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that if you see a celestial body with special conditions, you should go over to check and record data. This planet just happens to be in the middle of the gravitational field of two stars, we think it's quite special, so we wanted to come over and see."

Peter nodded and said: "Then your only problem is that you didn't find a superhuman to form a team. I'll go ask if there is any free Spider-Man or mutant, and let him come over to pick you up."

Jason curled his lips, looking not very willing, but didn't express opposition. Peter could understand: they were young, and it was not easy to come out to play, so they didn't want to bring outsiders, thinking they could handle it by themselves.

It seems that the situation in their universe should be good, these three children haven't experienced the beatings of society, and treated this as a game challenge. But now they should have learned their lesson—a spaceship crash is no joke, even if it's fine in the end, the process is scary enough.

Soon, Polaris and the others also brought Tim over. As soon as Tim came over, he started cursing: "I said it long ago, we need superhumans!! You two just don't listen!!! When the spaceship was falling, you two were the ones who screamed the loudest!!!"

The two were a bit embarrassed, but Miles spoke in time, interrupting what Tim was about to say. He said: "If they choose to set up interference devices on this planet, it means there must be something unique here."

"This planet is sandwiched between two stars, but it is miraculously not captured by either side. The magnetic field here is very chaotic, and it can be called a spaceship graveyard," Polaris said. "Our small spaceship can sail normally here because the spaceship brand that Dr. Schiller pitted... I mean, chose, is quite high-end, and it is the latest top-of-the-line model, so it has such strong anti-interference ability. A slightly backward spaceship can't fly in at all."

"They probably think that the spaceships produced by humans can't fly here at all," Peter said. "But this is also a fact. If we adopt the method of drone exploration, the drone will automatically avoid places where the magnetic field is too chaotic, and it is impossible to explore here. In this way, you have made a contribution."

The faces of the Robin trio looked a little better. Tim found a stone and sat down again, then said: "When you find a cockroach in the house, I'm afraid the house is full of cockroaches. The people on this planet hadn't had time to arrange anything before they were discovered by us. But on other planets, they might have already succeeded."

"What on earth do they want to do?" Polaris frowned and said.

"This place is not suitable for a long stay," Peter said. "You go to the spaceship first, and we will go to the planet next to it to talk. Miles, help me move the corpses of those robots and the interference devices they set up to our spaceship, I want to study them."

Miles nodded, and then went to move things. The Robin trio also went to restart the spaceship. The two small spaceships flew to a place slightly further away in Scorpius and landed on a desolate dark planet.

During the driving process, Peter simply checked the corpses of the robots and the instruments. When the spaceship landed, he said: "That signal interference machine has high power, and the normal operating state can cover the surface of the planet like just now. But at the same time, I found that this machine also has another mode, which is the concentrated interference mode."

"Concentrated interference?"

"You can understand it as modifying a shotgun into a sniper rifle, which can output violent electromagnetic attacks towards one point."

"Who is he going to snipe?"

Peter shook his head. Of course he knew it was aimed at humans, but he didn't know exactly what it was aimed at. After all, since they already felt that human spaceships couldn't fly over, it shouldn't be attacking spaceships. Then what is it attacking?

With no clue for the time being, Peter and the others decided to continue the investigation. Soon, two Spider-Men called by Peter in the group chat rushed over. One of them was the original Spider-Man, who was also very young and had common topics with these young people. The other was Spider-Man 2099, who was more mature and could ensure the safety of this team.

The original Spider-Man was a chatterbox and a happy fruit, and soon got familiar with them. Watching the group board the ship and set off, Peter sighed and said: "I'm afraid the doctor had already anticipated the current situation, otherwise he wouldn't have gone against the public opinion to use human exploration."

"Facts have proved that he is right," Polaris said. "Although drones are convenient, their limitations are too great, not as flexible as humans. Fortunately, there are these helpers from the world next door, if it were us, we might not have bumped into it."

"Let's go, next we need to focus on checking some places where the magnetic field is chaotic."

At this time, Schiller and Pikachu were on the planet closest to the portal in Centaurus, planning the construction location of the tavern.

"We should indeed build a tavern first, otherwise there is no place to live while working here," Loki said. "There is a good engineering team on the dwarf side, and they happen to have no work recently. I will let them come over to take a look. As long as you give them some Vibranium, their work efficiency is amazing."

The Grandmaster also nodded. Although he was very interested in building a luxury casino, he didn't want to sleep in the wilderness. But this planet was indeed quite barren, and he couldn't even survive in the wild. Without buildings, they would have to return to Earth to sleep.

"Then start construction as soon as possible," Pikachu said. "The design drawings are ready-made, but they need to be slightly expanded, and more rooms should be added on the second floor. It's just that it's difficult to recruit personnel so quickly..."

Pikachu looked at Schiller, and Schiller also looked at him, the two staring at each other. Schiller said: "Why are you looking at me? I can't do the work of a tavern."

"Then you go recruit employees," Pikachu said.

"They have all been sent out by me to explore the Milky Way, where can I recruit people? No matter what, I have to wait until the exploration activity is over."

"Then you can only top it up," Pikachu said.

"Then what are you doing?"

"Please, do you think the shop is so easy to open? I need to brew beer, fill barrels, clean up, open the door to welcome guests..."

"Sounds like you did it all by yourself."

"Please, we also need a bartender and a chef. But considering that not many people should come recently, you can serve as both positions."

"My God, don't you know I'm very busy?"

"Then you tell me what you are busy with."

"Uh... forget it, it's very troublesome to explain. I'll reluctantly help you deal with it for a while. When those young people come back, they will rush to work here."

After several people decided, they went back to prepare separately. Pikachu went back to Earth to purchase brewing raw materials, and by the way, had to buy some finished beer. Schiller had to go buy some ingredients for cooking, although he already had a lot, he had to buy some fresh ones.

Loki went to find the dwarf engineering team. His efficiency was the highest, those dwarves jumped high when they heard there was Vibranium and could drink for free. Although Asgardians also like to drink, and their brewing technology is quite good, and drinking culture is prevalent in the Nine Realms, and dwarves don't lack alcohol to drink usually, but dwarves are willing to try any kind of alcohol—they have been coveting human alcohol for a long time.

The dwarf's construction method is different from humans and mages, it looks very primitive: first set up scaffolding, and then stack bricks on top. But in fact, the efficiency is terrifying, those bricks seem to have eyes, and they stack themselves neatly.

Moreover, they also have advanced hoisting technology, and it is not limited to ground hoisting, but can fly in the sky to hoist, and they are quite rigorous in engineering, and the parts are tightly fitted. Not long after, on the barren land, a huge tavern rose from the ground.

The first floor is a spacious hall, with dozens of tables scattered around, and a super large circular bar. Behind the bar are two large spiral staircases. There are many guest rooms on the second floor, which is like a maze. The third floor is a private reception room, which is not yet in use.

Behind the stairs is the kitchen, with a passage directly connected to the bar, and doors on both sides of the passage to send meals out. There is a gorgeous crystal chandelier on the top of the bar. And because it is a dwarf product, all the pipelines and decorations are metal, combined with the medieval tavern style set by Pikachu, it looks very steampunk.

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