My ghost maid and I said goodbye to the twin sisters from the poorest household in Shadow City - the latter had already fallen back into the eternal world of two - and then wandered aimlessly.
Anweina held a large handful of white flowers, white roses, white lilies, and a few white camellias in her hands. The girl's pale face had an almost eerie beauty hidden by these equally pale bouquets. From the side, Looking at it, it looked like an ancient oil painting hanging in a medieval castle, with three parts gloomy, three parts demonic, and four parts beautiful. She held such a large bouquet in her chest, floating in the distance. She was more than ten centimeters above the ground, following me, looking very happy. I even heard her humming a light tune. After listening carefully for a long time, I finally determined that it was an accelerated version of Requiem. song.
Me: "..." Walking around with a weird ghost next to me is such a wonderful feeling.
"Anweina, aren't you afraid of going out?" I glanced at the ghost maid next to me. The ghost girl holding the bouquet immediately turned back and smiled: extremely supernatural beauty, "Why are you not afraid today? I thought you had finished shopping. The flowers will come home soon."
"Even so..." The ghost maid lowered her head and sniffed the bouquet in her hand, floating up and down happily, "But today is a special day, so it's okay to go out for a walk. And if the master is around... she will be braver. .”
"A special day...?" When I mentioned this topic, my face became weird again. I would never forget why the little ghost next to me was so happy today. Today is her death anniversary, and she decided to come out. Celebrate it... celebrate it...
"I said, is it really okay to regard today as a good day?" I looked at Anweina dumbfounded. I always felt that what I said now was quite impolite and even irritating to the other person: even though the expression on the other person's face was completely He didn't care, "What, it's a death anniversary. It's not a good thing anyway."
"It did feel like this when I was alive," Anweina smiled sweetly, chatting with me about such a weird topic, "but now I have forgotten what it felt like to be alive. It seemed like a very distant world. I roughly know what it looks like, but it has nothing to do with me. So I don’t care much about what I thought about when I was alive. I feel very happy now. Having people around me who are worth protecting and worrying about is the happiest thing in the world. No longer cold, no longer hungry, no longer afraid. There are masters and many little masters, all living with me like a family. There are many things to do every day, and there are many interesting things happening, so I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being a ghost. Except that my body is a little different from when I was alive. It seems like it’s pretty good now…”
Having said this, the ghost maid spun around in a circle, and the light on her body became brighter: "So I want to commemorate my new life. Master, thank you for always being by my side, and thank you for giving Anweina a home."
I laughed. As a living person, I will probably never be able to empathize with the life of this ghost girl, but her bright smile still makes me happy. I reached out and touched Anweina's head - it was cold and cold.
This intimate gesture expressed praise, and the ghost girl immediately jumped up with joy: "Haha, I feel so happy now, as if I have been saved..."
Me: "..." Can't this girl use some adjectives that a living person can accept?!
Walking from the back of the business district to the end is an unplanned standby area. A large piece of wasteland is abandoned here, and there is almost no human habitation nearby. This is our final destination. The road was led by Anweina. It looks like
Although she was finally willing to go out for once, she still didn't want to get too close to the crowd. This little ghost kept taking the less traveled route along the way. After walking for nearly an hour in such a bustling and lively Shadow City, we only met seven people in total...
…
"It's fine here," Anweina sniffed the bouquet in her hand, "Actually, it's the same anywhere, and I don't have a grave."
Me: "..." What on earth did I do today!?
There were no pedestrians on the edge of the wasteland. There were only two children playing in the mud. They looked like children from the elves of which world. When the two children saw us, they immediately came over curiously. The older child looked up at An.
The flower in Wei Na's hand: "Sister, are you dating this brother? Why are you holding white flowers in your hand?"
Anweina's face suddenly turned red, and she explained in a panic: "No...it's not like that, I came to visit my own grave..."
Then the two elven children were scared away... I found a big rock and sat down, silently drawing circles.
Anweina looked at the sky, then placed the bouquet on the ground, carefully adjusting the direction of the bouquet, which seemed to be quite particular. Then she took out a small book from her pocket and pressed it solemnly on the flower branch.
He put his hands together and prayed silently. He prayed to himself, wishing him peace and happiness in the world after death, and finally recited a requiem in silence...
...After the memorial ceremony, which was a combination of Chinese and Western styles with a touch of another world, the ghost girl flew over lightly: "Master, okay... Well, isn't it strange?"
I looked at the little ghost’s face dumbfounded. She seemed a little embarrassed herself, and her fingers were still twisting the maid’s apron subconsciously, but I finally patted her head: “Next year, remember not to go out alone.
Yes, I will accompany you."
Anweina showed a surprised expression, and then nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
Sigh... I couldn't help but sigh in my heart. This was really a situation that was beyond evaluation. I thought about it and found that this didn't seem to be the first time that the little ghost had done weird things. Think about it, she was in the basement.
The supernatural kingdom she established, think about the time she spent more than half a year learning to lay eggs from the crows in the yard, think about how she insisted on listening to various sutras and mantras to save herself every day, and think about how she even went out to buy some on the anniversary of her death.
After celebrating with a bunch of flowers, it is said that she also developed the habit of sneaking out on the night of Qingming Festival to watch people burning paper money... After thinking so much, I finally couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, thinking that after a long time, I found out that there was something hidden next to me.
Looking at such a curious girl, this seemingly well-behaved little ghost... the weird things she usually does are actually so high-powered, gosh!
"Master?" The ghost maid tilted her head and looked over, "Your face looks very strange."
I adjusted my expression and tried to look like it was nothing serious: "Ahem, it's nothing - let's go home."
As soon as she got home, Anweina threw herself back into the housework that she would never finish, and she would never get tired of doing it. She hummed a requiem and ran to the kitchen. I walked around the first floor and saw the little girl.
Deng is watching TV, and Little Bubble is practicing rubbing the information terminal: it has piled up more than half a meter high behind him. Little Crow is feeding her little Crow with cabbage leaves, and the other little ones are also busy doing their own thing.
, but Cyndia could not be seen, and the eldest lady who should have been waiting in the living room to prepare a meal was not there at this time, so she became curious and shouted in the direction of the kitchen: "Sister, where is Cyndia?"
?Lin Xue didn’t come today?”
"They went out for a walk." My sister leaned out of the kitchen wearing an apron. "Lin Xue took Xiaoxue and Cindia with her, saying she wanted to see the world of people on earth. Cindia wanted to see it.
What delicious food is there in this world?"
Oh, she was still a foodie. I remember that Cyndia was deceived by Xiaoxue from Father God with the temptation of a meal.
At this moment, there was a sound coming from the direction of the entrance. It sounded like the eldest lady was coming back with the children. Sure enough, a little girl ran into the living room a moment later. She was here to have a meal.
Princess of the Gods. This girl was holding a plastic bag that was almost half her size. As soon as she ran in, she started shouting at the top of her lungs: "Everyone, come here! Auntie bought a lot of delicious food!"
Then all the little ones in the room immediately rushed up and rushed towards the snack bag in Cyndia's hand like hungry dogs.
Lin Xuezhuo pulled on her slippers and bag, and dragged Xiaoxue in with an unhappy look on her face: "I have told you several times that I want to call you sister!"
"Okay. Our family is already confused enough, so why don't you just make it more confusing?" I glanced sideways at the eldest lady, and then
Seeing Xiaoxue pouting, "Uh, what's wrong with this girl? Aren't they usually happy when they go out?"
"The snacks were snatched by Cindia." The eldest lady pointed to the group of naughty children who were crowding together to grab snacks. Xiaoxue immediately curled her lips and said: "Don't kiss your daughter when you have outsiders. Why is this so common?
!”
When the eldest lady and I heard this, we immediately couldn't laugh or cry. We looked at each other in confusion. After Xiaoxue finally couldn't help but rush to the pile of naughty children to grab snacks, I touched the eldest lady's arm and said, "You said that if you really take care of children, it's all
Is it such a head-scratching situation?”
The eldest lady rolled her eyes: "Ask me, how would I know! I'm still keeping my integrity, okay? Wait a minute, isn't this our biological daughter?"
"I'm mainly curious, are all children like this?"
The eldest lady thought about it seriously this time, and then nodded: "Don't tell me, I remember that I was quite naughty when I was a child, and my dad said that I didn't look like a girl at all.
She started saving the world, punishing rape and eradicating evil when she was five or six years old? It seems that this girl has inherited this characteristic of my eldest lady."
"Actually, when I was a child, I almost took up the vase route of playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting." Xiaoxue somehow heard her parents talking about her here, and suddenly came over with a tired smile, holding a dollar in her hand.
A pack of dry noodles, full of the taste of edible essence, "My mother taught me to play the piano when I was a child, and I practiced it for more than three years... Ah! I finally got a set! This card is my first time
See you!"
I turned my head and looked at the big naughty child who was leaning on my shoulder. She was holding a small greasy card in her hand, and I remembered that I had not had this expression since I was eight and a half years old.
Suddenly, he became curious about his daughter's future growth process: "You also learned music, chess, calligraphy and painting? How did you develop such virtue later?"
Xiaoxue tilted her head and glanced at Lin Xue: "My mother can play Hotel California and it will sound like a California guest house. What do you think?"
I:"……"
The eldest lady finally couldn't bear it any longer and became furious. She took out a pan from her pocket and chased Xiaoxue around the room: "Stop! You naughty kid, stop here, do you hear me? I'll be with your dad as soon as possible.
Find a cram school for you! I asked you to start tutoring before you were born, I don’t believe I can’t train you! I asked you to stop and hear me!!”
There was a flurry of excitement in the living room, with the eldest lady’s roar and the giggling voices of naughty children running around. Cyndia held spicy dried fish soaked in soybeans and essence in her mouth, and rolled her big eyes: "Uncle
The house is really lively.”
"I really hope these guys can be quiet for a while." I felt my head was as big as a bucket, and then I felt my head sinking slightly, and a "chirp" sound came from the top of my head, and then a little crow came.
Following its ears, shoulders, sleeves, and arms, it rolled and crawled down like an acrobatic. This ten-centimetre-tall mini Medivh looked around dizzy, then jumped up and knocked on my breast pocket.
It wasn't until Ding Dong poked his head out of his pocket and happily flew out with the little crow that I understood what this little Medivh was here for: she came to play with Ding Dong.
As her owner, I am worth about the same as a residential building...
It was dinner time, and I guessed that someone was about to show up. Sure enough, almost as soon as I had this idea, a twisted translucent vortex appeared in the air not far away. Then Sandora's figure emerged from
Emerged from the vortex.
Early in the morning, she went to Shadow City with me, but the intermediate research department seemed to have some technical progress to report on the deep-submersible ship. I didn’t understand, so I withdrew early - and then accidentally entered by myself.
The flower shop and the matter of visiting Anweina's grave. Compared with her half bucket of water, Shandora is obviously a more dedicated and professional leader. I didn't expect that she has been delayed in Shadow City until this time - of course even if she is delayed
At this point, her spirit of never missing a meal is worth complaining about.
"Arjun, I'm hungry!" Sure enough, this was the first thing Sandora said when she showed up. I pointed in the direction of the kitchen, indicating that my sister and Anweina were still busy. The other party nodded, took a long breath and threw herself in
On the sand, he looked a little tired.
"What happened to the deep-diving vessel again?"
I asked casually, and I was almost used to asking this question: The deep dive project should be the most difficult project that the New Empire has encountered since its establishment, with many twists and turns. Every tiny progress means that the research team has to deal with countless problems day and night.
It is a charge with technical difficulties. You must know that "Deep Diving" in the old empire in its heyday was a large project that required the joint promotion of many regions. For the imperial scientists at that time, it was a high-precision project, not to mention for
Now we. Tavel and her research team have nothing but an incomplete blueprint of the deep-diving vessel and a rough goal. They don't even count crossing the river by feeling for the stones - there are no stones in this river.
nothing.
"The next prototype ship will leave the starport in about two weeks. I plan to conduct a deep dive in a month," Sandora rubbed her brows and closed her eyes. "This deep dive needs to be replaced with a more stable one.
The Gate of the Abyss, and I plan to build it into a stable, reusable deep dive port, just like the Gate of the Abyss you saw in the wreckage of that world."
I was stunned: "Oh, isn't this going well?"
"What troubles me is another thing. The fallen apostles may have long-term navigation technology in the shallow depths of the abyss," Sandora shook her head. "In addition, they may also have mastered the detection method of using the gate of the abyss to collect information."
"Using the Gate of the Abyss...what is the method?"
"In the last ambush battle," Shandora opened her eyes and focused on me, "I have been thinking about which link went wrong. The matter of your meeting with Father God is top secret and cannot be leaked before departure.
It is impossible for the intelligence system of the fallen apostles to detect such depth, but every move of the fleet seems to be completely in their eyes... It seems that they have been following your fleet since you left the wreckage of the world, and then prepared
Determined the course of the imperial fleet and organized the ambush. Judging from the fleet mobilized by the enemy and subsequent support, it seemed that the preparation time for this ambush was not very sufficient. Considering the concentration of the imperial fleet, they should be
The moment you left the wreckage of the world, you learned about the movement of the imperial fleet, and then spent about two hours gathering the fleet at the border and preparing for the battlefield."
"You mean, our whereabouts were exposed when the world was in ruins..." When I heard this topic, I also became serious.
"It's just a guess. Either there are tracking or monitoring devices of the fallen apostles in the wreckage of the world, or... they 'saw' your fleet through the ancient abyss gate. Personally, I prefer the latter, because if
They have the ability and have already set up their own facilities in the wreckage of the world, so there is no reason to leave you the en-166 samples and the old empire deep dive port there. The fallen apostles themselves would have taken the things away long ago. If they had
It makes sense to 'see' everything through the gate of the abyss. Because at that time, God the Father had led the army of gods to station near the wreckage of the world, and God the Father personally scanned the wreckage of the world, so that the fallen apostles could see the abyss.
The Gate and the relics of the old empire didn't dare to show up and act rashly, so they simply waited for you to take away the things and intercepted them halfway, hoping to enjoy the gains - from this aspect, they were half successful."
What Shandora said made sense, and I began to face this problem squarely: "In other words... the fallen apostles' technology in the abyss has gradually matured, and now they can use the abyss gates in various places as their own monitors...
Hiss, this is a surveillance network of unprecedented scale! Could it be that they want to monitor the entire void? That thing in the abyss is everywhere!"
"It shouldn't be to this extent yet," Sandora continued to shake her head. "Such a monitoring network must require some infrastructure similar to base stations to provide services such as data transfer and enhancement, so the radiation range will not be very far. Fallen Apostle
There is definitely no doubt within the country, but outside the country... probably the data offset within a 'quadrant unit' belongs to the monitored area. This is what I guessed based on the strength of the signal relay station during void communication. The strength of the abyss base station will not
Larger than the Void Relay Station—this is Tavel’s opinion.”