"Okay, honey, you can stop. If you continue, you will talk about social reality. Your mother has not really entered the society, and your father has just entered the society and has been working for less than a year. What do they think about reality?
You are far less aware of how cruel it is." Meryl looked at the confused Jane and said. "Looking at your mother, you can tell that you learned about the academic theories derived from future history research in your dream.
, how big of an impact it has on your mother, let’s stop here first.”
Hearing this, Hans nodded to Meryl on the screen, then built a printer and connected it to the notebook, and printed out the two pages on mad cow disease and prions on Wikipedia. "This is mad cow disease and prions.
You can read the detailed information about the virus yourself."
Before Hans could continue, a chirping sound echoed through all the dreams.
"This...sounds like whose stomach is growling?" Following Madoka's guess, everyone looked around to find the person who made the sound.
"No need to guess, I'm hungry." Hans's mouth twitched slightly in embarrassment.
"But didn't you just finish eating?" Jane looked at Hans in surprise, but Hans didn't want to answer and gave her a slap on the back of his head.
"That's because he was hungry for his soul before but now it's his body." Nova's voice suddenly rang out from the crowd. "After sleeping for so long, it's time for you to get up and leave the dreamland. And so are you outsiders,
It’s time for everyone to leave!”
As she spoke, Nova instantly came to Hans and picked up the notebook, then disappeared back into the crowd. "Don't wake yourself up with the feeling of falling. I'll wake you up with music. After you go back, what's going on with Pokémon?"
I will take care of it for you."
"What's going on?" Nova's turbulent actions were really confusing, so Meryl asked in confusion.
"Don't you notice anything wrong? Don't you think something is missing? Who did you enter Hans' dream with?" Nova did not answer directly, but looked around the crowd and asked.
After that, he ignored everyone's comments and walked straight into the Darke's house in the dream world.
Not long after, a bright, lively, light and moving marimba melody resounded throughout the dream, interrupting the low-pitched discussions of the doubtful people and attracting the attention of all the elves. Unknown to the elves,
As he slept, Hans' figure gradually became transparent and disappeared.
After waking up, Hans was stunned as soon as he heard the music. He didn't even notice that Nova was carrying him to everyone. His distracted eyes showed an unbelievable look on his face, which made people see it at a glance.
It seemed that he thought of something unexpected, and murmured to himself in a low voice: "The raindrop flower."
MapleStory...La!?"
"The raindrop flower? Is that the name of this song? What is the maple leaf story?" Meryl took Hans from Nova, "Baby, I didn't quite hear the last word you said.
"
"Yes, that's exactly the name of this song. Maple Story is one of the two most beautiful fairy tale worlds I have ever experienced." Hans said weakly after coming back to his senses.
"Gurgling, gurgling~~" Hans's stomach made a sound again, and Meryl put her doubts to the back of her mind for a moment, "Linglong, please make some milk powder first, and Nova, go get some easy-to-digest snacks."
Linglong and Nova immediately took action after hearing the words. Meryl held Hans and sat on the lawn with her back against the tree in the yard. As soon as she sat down, a dream door appeared directly in front of her.
.
"This is--?" Meryl was about to ask something, but she was startled by Nova, Renault, Tychus, etc. who all appeared in front of the gate in an instant, looking like dream guards facing a powerful enemy.
Nothing could be said.
"What's going on?" John asked a little uneasily.
"I don't know! You'd better stay away!" Reno responded, "This is the first time that the dream gate appears when the commander is awake."
As soon as Renault finished speaking, the door to the dreamland opened, and a short figure wrapped in rags rolled and crawled towards Meryl, but was caught by Nova with quick eyes and hands. The other side of the door
Noisy chasing and yelling came from the side: "He ran through the door, catch that damn mad bastard! I'm going to skin him!"
Renault pulled out the revolver from his waist, walked out of the door and fired several shots before shouting: "Get out! Or you'll die!" The noise outside the door gradually quieted down.
"A child? It seems that he was chased for stealing food." Nova reached out and lifted the rags on the intruder, revealing a young man with messy golden hair and a pair of big sky blue eyes.
With his little head, his hands were trying hard to forcefully stuff two pieces of black bread into his mouth.
"Don't worry, kid, we won't snatch your food." Meryl said to the intruding child in a kind tone, but it failed to stop his actions. Instead, Hans's stomach growled again, which made him listen.
He stopped and turned his eyes to Meryl's arms.
The little guy stopped and thought for a moment. Although hesitant, he resolutely handed a piece of bread stained with his own saliva to Hans's mouth. Everyone was stunned when they saw the little guy's move.
Hans stretched out his hand and squeezed the black bread handed to him, waved his hand towards the other party and said: "Thank you for your kindness, but this thing is too difficult for me who don't even have many teeth to eat."
."
"Oh my God! You're so dirty!" Linglong suddenly appeared next to Hans with two bottles of milk. She saw the strange little guy's dirty hands holding up black bread to feed Hans.
Si, he couldn't help but scream loudly. Then Linglong decisively snapped his fingers and put him on the chair that suddenly appeared in the open space, keeping him away from his little master!
"Don't be too harsh on those who express our good intentions, Linglong. Even if their actions may be questionable, just stop them if you feel they are wrong." Hans's voice made the excited Linglong calm down slightly. "Give him a simple explanation first.
Clean it up."
"Don't move!" Linglong, who followed Hans's order, ordered to the little guy, and snapped her fingers again. A table and a hot towel appeared in front of him, and the towel automatically wiped his dirty face in his hand.
The two pieces of bread and the bottle of milk in Linglong's hand were moved to the table.
Probably because of Linglong's appearance and sudden appearance, the unknown little guy was shocked. He stared at Linglong in stunned silence for a while, not even noticing that the bread in his hand was missing. Linglong took Han from Meryl's hand.
After Si An was placed on the dining chair, he turned to look at the strange little guy who had his face and hands wiped clean, "She seems to be a girl? Oh my God! She has fleas on her body!"
"Don't be so surprised." Hans, who was about to put the bottle spout into his mouth, stopped what he was doing and looked at the pretty face of the little blond girl like everyone else. "She... looks a bit like,
Who is that?"
"If you can't think of it, stop thinking about it." As Nova spoke, she controlled all the fleas on the girl's body to float and fly out of the door of dreams and back to the world where she came from. "You two should eat quickly! Eat.
After Linglong, you go take her to take a bath and apply some medicine."
"Looking at her appearance, I think we should take her for a physical examination now. At least take her blood for the blood test on an empty stomach before eating or drinking..." Jean put down the two pieces of printing paper in his hand and said with a serious face.
After hearing this, Hans immediately opened a new dream door without saying a word, took the girl's hand and floated towards the door together. Upon seeing this, Asami quickly ran behind the two of them, hugged them both, and asked everyone what they had in common.
Doubtful: "Where are you taking her so suddenly?"
"Gideon, that ship that broke into Asgard. The technological level of the medical room on it is probably only a little worse than that of the Star Wars universe." Nova answered for Hans, "And there is 3D on it.
A printer, a universal item manufacturing machine and a strong artificial intelligence are enough to provide the clothes and medicine she needs, as well as issue inspection reports and answer questions."
"Sorry! You entered the ship without permission-" Gideon's voice came from the other side of the door.
"Gideon," Hans interrupted Gideon in a serious tone.
"Hello~ lovely--" Probably because he wanted to get close to Hans, Gideon changed his tone.
"Which one do you prefer between a strong artificial intelligence similar to yours and an intelligent robot?" Hans's question puzzled the artificial intelligence, and Gideon didn't know how to answer it for a while.
After a moment of silence, Gideon's voice sounded again: "I don't know, there seems to be no difference between the two?"
"You will definitely not cooperate with my request. We all know this." Hans' tone gradually slowed down.
"Oh, that's right, you are not authorized by my captain, but if you are willing not to pursue some of the... um... recklessness and mistakes of the members of this ship, I can invite you to visit the ship and help you with it.
Family and companions, unlimited food, drinks, movies, TV shows, video games, and souvenirs~" Accompanied by Gideon's broadcast voice, the large screen in the spaceship facing the door through the dreamland showed the food manufacturing machine creating a
Image of super luxurious ice cream.
"Oh~ This is really~" Nova first said half a sentence with an extremely exaggerated expression of excitement and joy, and then immediately turned into a cold face and said the second half: "Do you think we are idiots!"
Hans raised his free hand to signal Nova to be quiet, "It is Odin who is the God King of this place to hold your members from the Arrowverse accountable for their actions, so as to safeguard my rights and interests.
Responsibility. After all, you are invading Asgard in the Marvel Universe, not my universe.
But for you, Gideon, a spaceship, I ask Odin to extradite you to me as a toy to compensate for being frightened in his land. He will definitely not refuse this small request. After all, he
The interest-free credit lines purchased from me include millions of tons of gold.
Recognize your own identity first! Even the bullshit Time Administration of your universe that you belong to is not qualified to negotiate on an equal footing with Odin, Ancient One, and myself, the overlords of their respective universes!"
"This is the first time I've seen such an arrogant little brat!" A picture of a blonde woman appeared on Gideon's big screen.
"Ava Sharpe." Hans said the woman's name immediately and curled his lips disdainfully.
"You know me!" Ava was shocked!
"I not only know you, I also know information that most people don't know. For example, you are just a clone." Before Hans could finish speaking, Gideon's communication with Ava, the Time Management Bureau, started.
Sudden interruption! It was closed by a blond man who suddenly appeared in the spaceship and walked out of a space-time door!
"Forbid any time and space transmission from our universe to connect to the spacecraft, Gideon, oh, and interrupt all communications," the man finished the order to Gideon, then turned to look at Hans who entered the cockpit, "I want to
We need to talk, my name is--"
"Rip Hunter, Time Lord, Gideon's predecessor." Nova said to signal Rip to stop talking nonsense.
"It's the former Time Lord and the former captain." Rip added. Before Rip could finish his words, Nova teleported behind him and controlled him. "Hey! Hey! I don't have any ill intentions. I myself
I don’t have any special orientation or hobbies! I just want to talk about it!”
"Oh~ but~ you can manually detonate Gideon's engine. This is something even she can't do, right~" Hans' words made Rip's calm expression instantly turn into panic, and he was so shocked that he couldn't do it himself.
The pupils dilated. "I don't want to talk about anything now. Tell her to obey my orders, right now!"
"OK! OK!" Rip promised weakly, "Now he has the final say, and it all depends on his Gideon."
"Prepare a bathroom. Asami, take her to take a bath later. Scan her body and prepare several new sets of clothes for her from the inside out. Then prepare the infirmary and give her a comprehensive physical examination later.
Especially infectious diseases such as hepatitis A and B, cholera, plague and parasites such as roundworms and Toxoplasma gondii, as well as various congenital diseases!" After finishing speaking, Hans let go of the blonde girl's hand, holding both hands.
He reached out to her cheek and stroked her temples, then held her face and said seriously: "First go and wash up with Asami and put on new clothes, then draw blood and then we can have dinner. It won't take long. I
I won’t steal any food while I’m eating with you, I promise!”
The girl was probably confused by a series of changes that were beyond her cognition. She nodded with a confused expression and was led to the bathroom by Asami in an extremely obedient manner.
"Is this love at first sight!?" Jane, who entered the spaceship behind him, had an expression of disbelief. Hans's behavior and attitude towards this strange girl made her feel unbelievable!
"Shit! Darling, this is repaying her kindness! Darling has never been stingy with those who are kind to him!" Meryl rolled her eyes at Jane, "It seems like this little girl is an orphan.
Our family will probably have a new member."
"This is nothing more than generosity to others. Aren't you the ones who spent money to raise me when you brought me home? It's already a lot of money for your grandparents to raise you. Don't bring strangers home casually. They
pension--"
"What qualifications do you have to accuse my dear about money? If the monthly salary of 450￡ is distributed equally to the three people in your family, you will immediately belong to a low-income family. My dear can bring you two various subsidies in a year.
The amount is at least close to ￡2,000. No, London's various subsidy standards are higher. The actual money paid to you every year will probably be more than ￡2,000. Including low-income allowance, housing allowance and other tax exemptions, it is even more
It’s more than 3,000￡! John and I have only spent more than 600￡ on our baby this year. Material consumer goods such as milk powder, clothing and food supplements are all made of the same style used by the royal family. These have never been needed by the two of you.
Didn’t pay even a penny!” Meryl’s sharp words made Jane, who had not yet worked, blush and dare not speak, and Hans was extremely surprised. “KCL graduates with dual master’s degrees in medicine every month
Only 450￡?”
"This is because your father works in a research unit under the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom, so his salary is only one level lower than that of Oxbridge researchers with the same academic qualifications and the same major." Meryl said in a tone of voice.
The disdain also made Rang and Jane the same, but she did not stop there, but continued to add: "If it is in a private research institution, it may be 2-3 levels lower."
"Well..." Hans's expression became thoughtful.
"What's wrong, honey?" Meryl couldn't help but ask when she saw Hans's appearance.
"Perhaps, I should ask Odin to allocate a sum of gold first. It doesn't need to be too much, just 108,000 tons, and then give them both a pension in advance after shipment?" Hans held his own with one hand.
jaw.
"No! No! No!" the Iron Lady behind them shouted nervously! "Little Hans, even if it's 108,000 tons, that's too much! That's gold spot, not futures!"
The average daily delivery volume of international gold futures is probably within this range! It is too troublesome to sell such a large amount of gold reasonably and legally. Even with my resources and contacts, it is difficult to sell it quietly in the short term.
Sell it!"
"The total value of the Hawksney treasure discovered in 1992 is about 125w￡, the Staffordshire treasure discovered in 2009 is worth about 2~3 millionw￡, and the Somerset treasure discovered in 2019 is about 400w￡." I don't know.
When Hans summoned his notebook, he looked up the information on the treasures that had not been unearthed at this moment. "Not only the undiscovered treasures in Britain, but also in all parts of the world, just pick out a few and dig them up, and we can process some of them by the way."
You can also buy a few undeveloped islands, right?"
"Uh... using treasures... and developing uninhabited islands to discover gold mines... this is indeed very easy to operate..." The murmuring Iron Lady began to shine with her eyes!
"Honey, although our family is not as rich as those aristocratic families and business families, we are really not short of money." Meryl was a little helpless, "Even if you want to buy a holiday island with villas and yachts
, my annual pension and your grandfather's salary alone are enough to buy 2 or 3 islands of more than ten acres."
"What!?" Jean stared at his mother in disbelief, "A 10-acre developed private island costs at least ￡40,000. Can you and your father buy 2 or 3 of them a year?"
"It's just pensions and salaries, not counting other incomes. Investment and financial management, dividends from family businesses, and various other services such as honorary deans, honorary posts, and guest professorships in other universities and colleges, as well as royalties from books written, technology
Income such as patent licensing fees.
A few years ago, a new private high school wanted to invite your mother to be an honorary school director. The offer was an annual salary of 50,000 yuan plus a 3% net profit dividend. Your mother did not agree because she disliked the poor teaching quality. Your mother and I were invited.
Going to other schools to give lectures for a day ranges from 5,000 to 20,000 pounds. If you don’t want to go, you can charge a sky-high price of 10 to 200,000 pounds. But even so, those private training groups will occasionally pay a sky-high price to hire your mother to train their teachers. In comparison,
I mean, this is the job where we both make the most money.
Although salary and pension are not insignificant to us, they account for less than 20% of the annual income." John added, "Our annual salary and pension are basically divided into four parts.
For donations, part will be given to the alma mater, part will be given to the orphanage, part will be given to hospitals and medical research institutions, and part will be given to public welfare endangered animal conservation institutions and working animal training and retirement institutions."
"I'm shocked!" Jane looked at John dumbfounded, "But there shouldn't be many professors with your qualifications, right?"
"No, on the contrary, there are very few. Because people with Oxbridge background basically monopolize the civil servants in the cabinet, British universities have to have their own people to speak out in order to win more in terms of financial allocation. Most of the faculty and staff of the school are outstanding.
Even if a person with a sword background is a loser, the school will treat him like a lord.
Therefore, most Oxbridge-educated faculty and staff who are not employed in leading universities, if they are in second- or third-tier universities, will neither hold positions of real power nor be academic experts, nor will they be able to cooperate with companies to win projects.
, that can basically be regarded as just hanging around and waiting to die." Meryl said with a look of disdain, "This is what Baby calls the non-circulation of social levels, one of the manifestations in the teaching profession. We still have
There is a special word to describe it - class solidification.
The difference between John and me and them is that we basically can’t get promoted to the top in terms of teaching positions.”
"To the top? How is it possible!? You obviously have a lot of room for advancement, right?" The Iron Lady looked at Meryl doubtfully, "When you were working at the Ministry of Education and Science 10 years ago, you had many opportunities to switch from teaching positions to
When it came to the civil service, I remember that the permanent secretary at that time highly recognized your ability. If you were to take up the post, I think he would train you as his successor.
John would have been able to serve as the dean of academic affairs at his college a long time ago, right? The Anglican Church has also nominated him many times to become a regional bishop? That is a lucrative job with both fame and fortune."
"The Anglican Church? The regional bishop? The fat minister? Where are these?" Jean and Jane looked at each other.
"As we all know, people think that the Anglican Church is a religious organization. But what is not known is that it is actually a social organization. The Church of Britain owns the most land except the royal family and the old nobles, about hundreds of thousands of acres.
The regional bishop is actually the manager of the regional church, and his main responsibility is to manage these lands and their profits. Religious matters are all incidental." As soon as Hans finished explaining, Asami came back with the little girl who had put on new clothes.