"What's weird about this?" I still remembered not to mess with other people's things, but it should be okay to flip through a few pages, but after I opened it, I didn't find anything: I didn't recognize the words on it, and they were all crooked.
It's the same as the ghost painting charm.
"Pay attention to the printing quality." Sandora's ball landed on the only printed book. It bounced twice but found that she had no hands at the moment, so she continued to jump around. "Turn back two pages and take a look.
I can’t turn the page…”
Sandora's majestic voice came out of such a cute person's bloody ball of light. Suddenly, my whole body was hit by the bull's-eye. I could only press the soft and warm light ball while muttering: "Can you
Don't be so cute, you are more or less a queen. Even if you temporarily turn into a ball, you still have some grace. I don't believe you can't turn the page!"
"Hey, it would be more troublesome to physically control the spiritual spark. This is a drone specially used to interfere with energy bodies and consciousness, and the one in front of you is still small. How can it have so many functions? Why don't you let it
Let’s embroider the individual fighter planes,” Sandora Ball jumped onto my shoulder with dissatisfaction, while a golden silk thread extended from the surface of the light ball and opened the printed book: She really has this ability, “Besides, I don’t know how.
So cute, why are you paying attention to such a strange place?"
Sandora's tone was serious, even though her image was just a ball. I could still hear her majestic demeanor from her tone. It seemed that Her Majesty the Queen really didn't think there was anything wrong with her current actions. This was considered cute.
The highest level, naturally cute...
"Look here," Sandora pointed at the patterns in the corners of the book pages with golden silk thread, as well as the colored reflective traces hidden under the patterns, "the effect can only be achieved by precise printing on a high-definition printing machine, and these colored reflective
The traces should be related to laser technology, they can also produce special reflections against ultraviolet rays, perhaps a kind of anti-counterfeiting mark."
Only then did I realize that something was wrong. So this book is a high-tech product?
In fact, I don’t blame me for being careless. The main reason is that I have seen a lot of books like this. Although Xiling Apostle cannot use physical printed products unless necessary, after all, I have been used to displaying them here for decades on earth.
The living habits of so many ordinary races in the Shadow City are also displayed there. What's more important is that the Imperial Military Academy has a special system. Xiaodeng and the others have all their unwritten homework at home. I really appreciate this kind of printed matter.
The degree of numbness is not surprising. Seeing an exquisite printed book in this theoretically backward place did not expect anything strange. But Sandora was observant and she immediately discovered the problem.
Already.
"This planet... at least from what we have seen so far, no longer has this kind of precision technology. We are not sure whether those space stations in the sky were made by our ancestors, but in any case, they have nothing to do with high technology now.
Sandora said softly, "This book looks relatively new. It should be a product in recent years. And according to what Ellu's mother read just now, the locals here are no strangers to such finely printed things.
...Arjun, what do you think is going on?"
"Who knows, I don't have a high imagination," I shrugged. "Perhaps their technology has collapsed, and only printing technology has survived? Or there is high technology somewhere else on the planet, and this place we are staying in is actually a
Primitive civilization ecological reserve?”
Sandora was quite surprised: "Your imagination is not low, but it's a pity that it has no reference value."
I scratched my face in embarrassment: "Hi. It's not an important issue anyway. Let's study it slowly. Let's put this aside for now. Are we still unable to contact the Imperial District?"
"Unable to contact, there is weird interference. This interference environment seems to cover the entire universe, and even the world barrier and a large area outside the barrier are abnormal." Sandora's voice suddenly became serious, "I tried to let the empire
The General built some void probes, but they lost contact shortly after leaving the world barrier, and it is not sure whether they were destroyed by something or simply interfered with."
"Well..." I lowered my head and looked at my hands, which instantly became void and then returned to their normal form, "Then don't go out rashly. It's a big deal to seal the entire universe to this extent. We are in a state of half-death right now.
Be careful, I don’t want to win the war with great difficulty only to hang back in the void to read the bar and wait for resurrection because my head is too hot, and your resurrection coins have just been used up.”
"Why do you feel so weird when you say something normal?" Sandora muttered, and then suddenly turned invisible again. At the same time, I heard a sound coming from the direction of the wooden stairs.
As expected, the first person to run down was the naughty child Ellu. The little girl looked particularly happy: "Scholar, scholar! The room is ready! But do you want to eat first? My mother's cooking is delicious!"
"Then excuse me, boss lady." I smiled and nodded to Elu's mother who had just walked down, trying to make myself look like a scholar (although I don't know what the temperament of a scholar on this planet should be).
"Just call me Celine," Ellu's mother nodded politely, then looked at my clothes curiously, "I can't tell whether you are from the north or the south? If you are from the southern principalities, you may eat it.
Not used to the spicy soup here.”
I really wanted to say that I came from above, but I still followed the principle of saying less is better and replied vaguely: "It doesn't matter, I'm not afraid of spicy food, just home-cooked food." As I said that, I took out some scones from my arms.
: "I just happen to have some dry food brought from home, so we can eat it together later. You probably don't have such things here."
Celine bowed slightly, with impeccable etiquette, and then turned and walked towards the kitchen. Ellu waited for her mother to disappear and rushed forward excitedly: "This smells so good! Ellu wants to try it! Why didn't I smell you just now?
Do you have this with you?"
Nonsense, I just put it in my pocket space!
I sat down at the dining table in the main hall and looked curiously at Elu, who was running around with me and looking inexplicably excited: "Why do you look so happy? Is it such a good thing to have someone staying with you?"
"Because the hotel at home is finally going to reopen!" Ellu jumped on the chair next to her. "In the future, this place will be lively again. There will be many adventurers passing by here, and my mother will not be in a daze looking at those books every day.
And... maybe dad will come back too!"
"Dad?" I realized what was going on that I had always felt like something was missing here. "By the way, Ellu, it seems like you and your mother are the only ones here? You two are the only ones in such a big house? Your dad is out.
?”
"Well, mom said that dad is an adventurer. He went to explore far away places and it will take many years to come back." Ellu squirmed restlessly in her chair. "It's not that I don't have a dad, it's just that dad is out.
Dad was a very powerful man. Although he left when he was very young, I still remember that he could swing a very big axe. Others said that he used to be a warrior, very powerful."
It turns out that this is still a family with a story... But when Celine explained to her daughter the question "Where is dad going?" I really felt a sense of reality. My first reaction was that her dad was dead and had "gone far away" these days.
Does "place" mean anything else?
But Ellu still looks carefree, and firmly believes that her father is a heroic adventurer. Sooner or later, he will end his adventure outside and return home. So Ellu is so interested in adventurers because of her.
Is it about dad?
Before I had time to ask too much, Celine's voice came from the direction of the kitchen, and Ellu jumped off the chair and ran to help carry the dishes and bowls. This little girl who looked about ten years old was so cool.
Running around. As if I was used to helping with these household chores, I felt uncomfortable just sitting on a chair waiting for food, so I quickly stepped forward to help, and after a while a table of food was placed on the table.
The ecological environment of this planet is very similar to that of the Earth. Although the food is a bit strange, it is also "common" to the Earth. This was confirmed before in the tavern, so there is no need to worry about eating anything weird.
.
The staple food of local food seems to be a whole piece of soft pasta. When eating, you need to cut it into pieces with a long table knife. The side dishes are various vegetable soups. The color is a bit weird, but the taste is pretty good.
Yes. The scones I brought were made by Anweina. They seemed to fit the local tastes, so they were highly praised by Celine and Ellu. The fact that the little girl bit her three times proved it. Because neither of them are the same.
It was very familiar to me, so I couldn't directly ask about other people's housework. I could only talk about some non-nutritious topics first, looking for any opportunity to ask about the origin of the printed book. At this time, Elu suddenly asked loudly with a happy expression.
He said: "By the way, Mom, there are more and more adventurers now. Do you think Dad will go back to town with them?"
I immediately glanced at Celine secretly, and the expression on the latter's face changed slightly, but she concealed it well, and quickly put on a gentle expression and smiled at Ellu: "Well, I will definitely come back...
...And even if he doesn't come back, he will definitely ask other adventurers to send some letters home, just like before. He is a busy man and is doing very important things outside. As long as Elu grows up well,
This way your dad doesn't have to worry about the house. Come on, eat quickly, the soup is almost cold."
Ellu was very obedient in front of her mother. She immediately buried her head in the soup bowl and began to slurp away at it. But I couldn't help but look at Celine again: this seemingly ordinary married woman was single and had a daughter.
She is a hard-working mother, but her behavior at the dinner table is extremely gentle, delicate and dignified. Although I am not sure what the dining etiquette of aristocrats on this planet is like, ordinary civilians will definitely not cut the dough into thousands of pieces with a knife at equal intervals when eating.
Then dip the vegetable soup in order. No matter which world you go to, only the "nobles" who are well-educated to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder will tirelessly abuse food at the table. Of course, the first family of Xiling is a strange species and will not be considered.
Sandora's ball rolled on the table as expected. No one else could see her, but I could watch her circle around each plate of food, muttering to herself as she circled: "Unhappy..."
Not happy...unhappy..."
"Why is the table a little wobbly?" Celine frowned and looked at the soup bowl, "Ellu, don't shake your legs when eating, and be polite."
I quickly pulled Sandra Ball over and asked her to stay still, then I opened the topic pretending not to care: "By the way. Just now, Ellu said that her father is also an adventurer? Is he out?"
"...Ah, I've been away for a long time. I wonder where in the world I am digging for antiques now." Celine was stunned for a moment, then showed a seemingly normal smile, "Elu was only three or four years old at that time, so she probably can't remember it.
I am too clear about my father’s affairs.”
"I remember! Dad is very powerful," Ellu immediately raised her head to retort, "and dad often sends people back to send messages. He is out killing monsters. I like to read the diary written by dad. In the mountains to the east
There are huge…”
Elu once again talked endlessly about those bizarre heroic deeds, the battle between brave men and dragons, the burning sulfur forest, the treasures buried in ancient cities, etc. These stories sounded so familiar that they just needed to be changed slightly.
The "tour guide" the little girl told me when she was taking me around the town, I thought, where did these stories come from? They were not chivalric novels at all, but were so-called "letters sent back by someone entrusted by my father."
"Eat well. Hurry up and go back to the house to study." Celine finally interrupted her daughter's story like popping beans. Then she smiled sheepishly and said, "I'm sorry. This child likes to make trouble...she
I admire my father very much."
I showed an understanding look: "It's okay, I also have a group of people in my family...well, they are even more troublesome than Elu."
It's not just worry-free! In the first four months, Xiao Deng encouraged Xiao Deng to set off a "big firework", but Shadow City fired three waves of interceptor bombs before blowing it up in outer space. Three months ago, Fox led Xiao Xue
I went back to my "parent's house" to visit relatives, and the entire monster town almost immigrated en masse to live in a Mars shelter. Lilina had a fight with Xiaodeng in the past two months... and now there are still bullet casings in the Yggdrasil Garden that have not been swept away.
In comparison, Ellu, who is just a little whimsical and has deviated common sense in life, is as pure as a piece of paper.
Children eat easily, and Ellu quickly finished the dinner in front of her. She wisely packed away her own dishes, and then scampered back to her room. I was the only one left in the front hall.
and Celine.
Of course, there was also a ball of light that broke free and continued to roll around on the table: Sandora had unknowingly become completely naturally cute.
"Elu's father is really an adventurer?" Now that the topic has been started, I feel less embarrassed when I ask again, "It seems that the child's words are clear and reasonable, but few of her stories are really credible. Yes.
Yes, I just asked casually, it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to say it.”
"There is nothing that cannot be said. Ellu's father is indeed an adventurer, but..." Celine sighed, looking a little sad, "I haven't heard from him for a long time. I... hope he can come back.
"
Sure enough, so the "letters from father" that Ellu received over the years were actually forged by Celine... This is really a touching story, but when I think of Ellu's unconstrained stories and weird world view, I
I still can’t help but want to complain to Celine: Madam, it’s really unfair of you not to write novels!
After all, it involves personal matters of my own family, and it is impossible to tell too much to strangers. Celine only briefly talked about the matter of Ellu's father and did not continue. However, I can still roughly organize a story through these words and my own brainstorming.
Full story:
Ellu's father is indeed an adventurer and was quite famous when he was young. He and Celine also met after an adventure, but that was all before Ellu was born. To be precise, Ellu's father was
After his daughter was born, he gave up his dangerous adventure life.
After their daughter was born, the young couple stayed in this quiet town and used the money they saved from their adventures to buy a large house and open a hotel here. They planned to give their daughter a stable growing environment. The story so far
not bad.
But as many people have already thought, the story that can be told on such an occasion, if the family in it can live peacefully, there will be ghosts: Ellu suffered a strange disease when she was four years old.
.
Celine didn’t go into detail about what happened back then, but even if she told me in one sentence, I could imagine what happened. It was simply that the child’s illness caused the family’s money to be unsustainable, so Ellu’s father regained the money he had when he was taking risks.
equipment, and set out on the road again with a small team passing through the town.
In the first two years, letters and money were sent home. It was with this money that Ellu's illness was cured. But just when Ellu's father learned that his daughter had recovered, he wrote the last letter.
When he happily mentioned that he was already on his way back home... there was no more news.
"Probably I will never come back," Celine breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, life is still going well... Although in the past two years, there have been a lot fewer travelers looking for elves to do business in the town, and even the shop can't open.
But there is another way to survive. Hey, I said a lot of unnecessary things to you."
"No, I should apologize. I seem to have asked questions that I shouldn't have asked." I said awkwardly, and received a free and easy smile from the other party: "It doesn't matter. I have gotten used to it over the years. The first few years were even more difficult than now."
Is Ellu's father alive or dead? It seems that this story has no clear outcome now, but according to Celine... the man who went on an adventure for his daughter did not abandon his wife and son, but after hearing that his daughter had recovered.
I lost my voice on the way home happily, so I don’t need to say more about the outcome.
While I was thinking silently, Celine silently put away the tableware on the table, and then suddenly muttered in a low voice: "May the God of Technology bless Ellu, now I only have her left."