Chapter Twenty-Five: The New Year

“…… Yesterday, the Privy Cavalry said at a regular press briefing that they will release a batch of newly translated materials on prehistoric civilizations in the near future, which may involve important information such as the origin of prehistoric civilizations, but when a reporter asked whether technologies such as high-efficiency soilless cultivation and artificial photosynthesis would be made public, the Privy Cavalry still did not give a positive answer, and some civil society groups advocating the disclosure of prehistoric civilization technology criticized this behavior on social networking sites. ”

-- The Alliance Times

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"Welcome back, I checked your account just now, the Secret Service has transferred a total of 10 million universal coins from two hundred and forty-seven accounts, congratulations on your official promotion to multi-millionaire, boss!"

Jiesi naturally greeted Ling Yu who walked into the door, and then skillfully put on her asbestos gloves and turned around and walked into the kitchen on the first floor.

Before Ling Yu could react, Jiesi had already brought out a huge baking tray from the kitchen, and the girl placed the baking tray on a brand new table—yes, it was a European-style dining table with a completely different style of painting on the place of the coffee table that had been smashed before!

"My original dish, Icelandic lamb shank pizza."

"Wait!"

Ling Yu took a step back and stretched out his left hand to stop Jiesi, and the black-haired young man raised his hand and scratched his head, "Can you explain to me what happened?" ”

"What the hell is going on?" Jiesi stared at Ling Yu with big blue eyes and an expression more innocent than an angel, "You gave me the key to the house." ”

"I didn't ask this," Ling Yu raised his hand and rubbed his temples - there were so many questions he wanted to ask that he didn't know how to speak, and after a pause, he decided to follow the timeline, "Is everything done over there for the Knights?" Shun lì? ”

"Anyway, I explained, the report was submitted, and the procedures and inspections that should be done have been completed." Jesse shrugged her shoulders with an indifferent expression.

“…… Don't sue me, the Knights' Order's higher-ups really believe your ......," Ling Yu was referring to the story that Jiesi had fabricated that the "hollow" in her left eye was the culprit of the two being teleported.

"Love to believe in it, don't believe in it." It was not easy to hear foul language from Jesse's mouth, but the girl in blue quickly explained, "I have one-thirty-second Slavic blood. ”

"Okay, I won't bother with your bloodline" Ling Yu stretched out his hand and pressed it, "This...... Icelandic Pizza Lamb ......"

"It's Icelandic lamb shank pizza."

"Anyway," Ling Yu felt powerless from Jessy's inexplicable persistence, and he patted his head, "What's going on with this thing?" ”

"I'm going to have dinner in the evening, what's the problem?"

"That's right, but ......" Ling Yu cleared his throat and wanted to retort, but suddenly he didn't know what to say - it seemed that there was nothing unusual about Jiesi's behavior from the beginning.

Ling Yu suddenly didn't understand why she had such a strange reaction - Jess wanted to continue living with him was also predetermined, and cooking a meal was not a big deal.

"Hmm-" Ling Yu, who thought of this, suddenly blushed slightly, and the older unmarried young man who was a little embarrassed paused, "Well, I'm just not used to it, because I've always been alone." ”

"It's okay, you're not alone from today." Jesse smiled naturally, which relieved the awkward atmosphere a little, "Come, sit down." ”

"Hmm-" Ling Yu could only nod stiffly, having dinner alone with a beautiful strange woman was a new topic for Ling Yu, and he wasn't even noticing Jeunse's somewhat ** words when he was still thinking about how he would react.

"That...... It doesn't seem like it's my knife," Finally, as Jiesi began to divide the pizza with her gloves on, Ling Yu suddenly realized that the cutlery in front of her - or rather, with difficulty, found a topic, "and...... It seems that you don't need a knife or fork to eat pizza. ”

"Ah, it's just a habitual arrangement," Jiesi placed a pizza covered with diced roast lamb shank in front of Ling Yu, "As for the table knife, I came from the Knights, and besides, there is this." ”

Jesse bent down and took out a bottle of red wine from a corner of the table, Ling Yu didn't drink much red wine and couldn't recognize the value of the wine - but he could tell with his toes how cheap the wine that came out of the Knights could be?

"Are you really a knight?" At this time, the embarrassment in Ling Yu's heart had been washed away by the sweat, "What about the knightly code in my impression?" ”

"Wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha has left it in his heart, and you have a saying in the East." Jesse was ashamed to open the wine with a corkscrew, while spreading fallacies, "I believe that God will not care about my little 'borrowing' for the sake of my contribution to world peace." ”

“…… It's rare that you will mention the ...... of God" Ling Yu shook his head helplessly, deciding not to continue with this meaningless topic, he used a knife with the Knights' logo to cut open a piece of pizza and stuffed it into his mouth - he didn't like pizza, but he didn't reject it.

"Speaking of which, I'll cook you Chinese food next time." After a few minutes of silence, Ling Yu reopened the topic.

"Yes, yes," the foodie girl replied, folding a triangular piece of pizza in half and stuffing it whole into her mouth, puffing out her cheeks without grace - at this table, the country boy from City 47 and the noble princess from the Order seemed to have switched identities, at least in terms of appearance.

With a wry smile, Ling Yu also put down the silver knife in his hand, picked up the pizza, and put it in his mouth.

"Speaking of which, boss, you're a multimillionaire now, do you have any plans?"

"I have this money, and in a short period of time, our lives will not change much."

"I don't care, you can just take care of the food anyway."

"Seriously, aren't you really the fake chief knight? The princess of the Knights? ”

"Then you'll treat me as Cinderella from Sea City 48."

“…… No. 48 is a well-known rich area......"

“……”

"By the way, you haven't explained the ...... of this table"

"Hehe, you don't know the boss, it turns out that the owner of the furniture store is a believer in the cavalry, and this table didn't cost a dime! Praise me, praise me! ”

“…… Pay the money tomorrow. ”

In the end, Ling Yu was once again completely defeated by the girl in front of her who had cheese sticking to the corners of her mouth, "This is the boss's order." ”

***

Three days later, on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

The twenty-sixth New Year in his life did not have too many accidents, unlike the previous Christmas that made the No. 47 Sea City almost a silent city, half of the city was boiling for the Lunar New Year in the East, fireworks and parades combined with extravagant artificial snow, this familiar atmosphere made Ling Yu rarely maintain a good mood.

In his memory, when he was very young, his parents would go with him to the street to buy New Year's goods, clean the house together, and prepare Chinese New Year's Eve meals...... Of course, this qiē is a long time ago.

Slowly, Ling Yu became the kind of person who likes to be quiet, so since he came to Rimria, he has never joined the noisy atmosphere, but this does not mean that he does not attach importance to this festival, but for him, just watching those fireworks with a strictly defined blasting height bloom in the limited sky on the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is enough to make him happy for a long time.

Ling Yu is such an easily satisfied person.

Of course, this New Year is different from the dozen or so in the past - although the Spring Festival does not have any special meaning for Jesse from Iceland, she still happily bought a lot of ingredients and came back, looking forward to the "Chinese food" that Ling Yu promised her. Unfortunately, Ling Yu himself was too unconfident in his cooking skills, so he could only input the recipe into garlic as usual, and the machine qì people completed this Chinese New Year's Eve meal.

It seems that for the chief knight lady, a qiē non-everyday thing can arouse her great interest, and the two of them enjoyed the fireworks while playing a snowball fight on the empty street, but the snowball thrown by TF subconsciously at a speed of nearly 100 kilometers per hour easily reimbursed the window on the first floor of Ling Yu's house, so that the two of them could only obediently climb up to the roof to enjoy the fireworks released by the artificial river in the distance.

At three o'clock in the morning, the two went back to their rooms to sleep.

For this result, even Ling Yu, who had the emotional nerves as thick as the main guns of a battleship, felt a little anticlimactic, but the problem was that he only reacted the next morning, so he could only comfort himself.

Only Logan's kind would make all the holidays a festival.

Of course, not having too much does not mean not being at all, at least one thing can be called an absolute accident.

That is, when the next day, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ling Yu woke up and found that the lines on his left hand, which should have been black, had changed color.

The faint blue light of the tattoo was filled with the smell of the inferior fluorescent tattoo on the street that was one hundred and twenty universal coins at a time, so Ling Yu did not hesitate to cover this strange pattern with a glove that did not match the outfit.

It stands to reason that Ling Yu should have told this change as soon as possible, but Ling Yu hesitated a little - maybe it was just a temporary change? The young man decided to wait another day, of course, more thoughts may be a kind of hope that he will wake up tomorrow morning, and this broken pattern has turned into a black fluke psychology again.

However, at half past four in the morning on the second day of the Lunar New Year, before dawn, the cruel truth made Ling Yu lose his sleepiness.

It was easy to struggle until half past eight, estimating that Jiesi had already gotten up and washed, Ling Yu finally made up his mind, he got up from the bed, finished washing in the basement, watched the garlic start to destroy his quilt into a five-pointed star, and then walked out of the door.

It's rare that Jiesi, who usually gets up at six o'clock, hasn't even come out of the room yet, Ling Yu hesitated for a moment, looked at the discolored lines on his left hand, and knocked lightly on the door.

"Jeunse? Are you up? ”

"Oh, it's okay, come in, boss."

Ling Yu pushed open the door, but was taken aback—the second-floor bedroom that originally belonged to him and was later given to Jiesi had now turned into a huge number of rooms, with all kinds of electronic devices he knew or didn't know stacked in the room, and dense numbers of lines covered the floor and ceiling.

"Ah, boss, I'm sorry, I should have sorted it out."

In the center of the dense network of equipment and cables, Ling Yu found two familiar things - one was the blue-clad mechanical girl, and the other was his former computer, which of course had now been disemboweled.

"I think I need an explanation."

Ling Yu frowned slightly, not only because his computer had been disemboweled, but also because Ling Yu recognized some devices, which were common tools on the black market to crack and read confidential information.

"I want an explanation too." Jess smiled wryly and shook her head, "Where is the chip we exchanged our lives for?" ”

"I don't understand." Ling Yu shook his head, "What do you mean?" ”

"Do you remember when we climbed up the river?" Jiesi took a few steps towards Ling Yu, took off the glove in her right hand, and a small hologram was projected between the left fingers of the mechanical arm, "I scanned this chip at that time, including all the information inside. ”

“…… Okay, that's not my chip anyway" Ling Yu was obviously not very satisfied with Jiesi's self-assertion, but at that time, the two really couldn't say that they trusted each other, not to mention that it didn't hurt Ling Yu, "But you can complete this job in an instant, your mechanical arm is really strong." ”

"That's not a 'prehistoric civilization' chip, but a 'prehistoric civilization technology manufacturing' chip, simply put, human knockoffs, it's not very difficult to completely copy."

Jesse shrugged, turned off the hologram in her right hand, put her gloves back on, and folded her hands to her chest, frowning.

"The difficulty is that the encryption of the chip itself has to take time to crack, and I don't want the Knights to know about this, so there is no way to take advantage of the super technology on the Order's side."

"I have a bad premonition," Ling Yu raised his hand and scratched his head, his hair that had just been combed was messy again, "Don't sue me, we were involved in something." ”

"Unfortunately, exactly, boss." It's a pity that Jiesi, who smiled bitterly, didn't give Ling Yu the answer he wanted.