Chapter 753: Bella Villa's Awakening Again

The Shadow City has seen some new changes recently, mainly with more neighborhoods and a lot of new residents.

Of course, Gensokyo's youkai don't stay in Avalon all the time after settling in Avalon, and many lively or curious youkai often come out to play. Qi Lùno has opened a cold drink shop in a prime location in the city, and the source is of course handmade fairy popsicles.

Wenwen applied to join the Time and Space Administration, and after three failed assessments, she finally reluctantly joined the World Patrol Force as a trainee, and is now an honorable military reporter, she is still busy writing her daily newspaper Wenwen every day, unlike before, the speed and credibility of the newspaper have been significantly improved, and the content is much richer—such as the interview after Claude saved the World Realm.

Marisa opened her magic shop in the Blood Elf City, selling some potions or other magic products that she tossed out herself, it is said that the business is surprisingly good, the only regret is that the habit of a black and white hand in hand is still not changed, and the failure rate of committing crimes under the noses of a group of blood elf magisters has reached 100%, and now on average, every five days Reimu or Yakumo Purple has to go to the Silver Moon Security Office to get someone, it is said that Pache also went to visit the second prison in a friendly way during Marisa's imprisonment, However, Marisa's sentence was extended the next day: Patchouli brought her a Blu-ray version of Prison Break.

Alice really went to sign up for the Imperial Academy, and rented an empty house near the school as a practice workshop, it is said that her puppetry and alchemy scores are among the best in the class, but unfortunately her battleship control seems to be unable to pass before the arrival of the next new millennium, I don't know which bastard recommended her to apply for that major.

Hakuri Reimu is still the city manager of Shadow City, and this work was originally forced on the girl's head out of bad taste and asked her to work to pay off her debts, but I didn't expect her to really stick to it. Now Reimu patrols seriously every day, and can often see her large fluttering bow flashing in the neighborhood where youkai are more concentrated. In her own words, it's a lot easier to patrol a place in the world that won't happen than to solve Gensokyo's mutations, and there's an endless amount of employee benefits, which is simply wonderful.

But I suspect she's just that this job of patrolling alone is easier to be lazy, and I'm sure Reimu won't be lazy, and I'd rather hope that Sicaro will give up his bag.

Yakumo Purple has not been very common lately, after the end of the carnival, the workload of the dimensional hub has dropped significantly, and the dimensional diversion points opened in other worlds and the Kepru Star District of this universe have also reduced the intensity of the work in the hub square, and now Yakumo Purple may be busy sleeping every day, and only occasionally when she checks the registration form of the authority personnel, she can still see her name, indicating that the big monster that has entered the hibernation period is still in the state of "working girl".

As mentioned before, Yakumo Blue's coat and hat shop is still open for business, I have been to see it a few times, and I was deeply shocked by the propaganda slogan of that place: pure fur, fake one penalty ten, winter supply, fresh and reliable, fox velvet is sold at 20% off, and those that still grow on the body are not sold - monsters are dignified, and it is forbidden to visit them for moulting.

That line caused my eyes to wander several times in a row, and I looked inquiringly at the big furry tail of a certain fox girl, until I was finally pushed out of the store by a red-faced nine-tailed girl.

It turns out that the phenomenon of self-production and self-sale is very popular among Gensokyo youkai.

Ten minutes ago, I just went to the base in the city center, where I met with Tavel's mass projection, and now her body is personally leading the meticulous dismantling of the last piece of star ring fragments at the Kuiper Belt Base, and from the impact of transmission, it can be seen that the huge star ring fragments have been dismantled into a large area of fragmented machinery floating in space, as if the wind carrying countless sand and stones suddenly stopped the scene, and all kinds of probes flickered with a faint light and shuttled quickly between those fragments, Strive to redraw the structure of the fragment in its intact state, and try to find out who dropped the most special piece of the fragment.

Tavel's report is very optimistic, the power of the dark goddess has cleared many research obstacles for us in advance, and maybe in a few days, Tavel will be able to bring good news to himself.

In addition to meeting Tavel's quality projection, I also met an unexpected person at the base: Ares, the Atlantean warrior.

He has recently been cooperating with the research center for an examination. A research team is analyzing ancient expedition data carried in Atlantean data storage devices, and reverse analysis of Atlanteans is clearly the best way to do it, certainly in a safe and gentle way.

Although the Atlanteans themselves are not dissatisfied with this treatment, and even grateful to Dade for the fact that "the great gods have given them strength", we cannot ignore the twisted and weird synthetic monsters, cyborgs, corpse guards, and Valkyrie and Anubis made of living human spirits, in any case, the old ways that have proven to be full of hidden dangers in the old empire cannot be repeated, even if they are reactivated** We also have to ensure its safety and people's safety.

It's half past nine in the morning, which is already the time for a busy city to run at high speed. Although Shadow City does not have an ordinary business and capital system, the city will still be very bustling at this time of day. There are a thousand strange vehicles and low-flying three-headed mercury lamps on the highway, and the shops on both sides are also entertaining travelers from all walks of life, and the city patrol soldiers walk through the streets along the different patrol routes every day, and Qi Lùno squats at the door and crosses his fingers to calculate his income for the previous day. There's only one quiet place to go: Sylvia's little shop.

Open in the military zone, the store manager is slow and half-beaten, never advertises, and forgets to open the door every once in a while because he doesn't remember, such a store really has no other advantages except quiet.

After a trip to the institute, it was still early and nothing happened, so I walked towards the border of the military zone to see if the person I had been waiting for for the past two days showed up.

In order to ensure the only remaining customer source of a silver-haired mole, Bubbles deliberately opened a door on the military district barrier on the side of the dessert shop, and you can go directly to the store from the small arms research and development factory, but in order to ensure the safety of the military district, Sives had to set up a large number of sentry guns and garrisons near this "exceptional passage" - which fundamentally eliminated the possibility of Sylvia's business prospering.

On weekdays, when the mass production host is handed over, it is common to see little girls walking in pairs on this quiet path, and why those mass-produced bubbles that should have no personality are interested in desserts is still a mí: various tests have shown that there is no personality in the mass production bubbles yet. But let them like it, even if it's just a few vague reflexes, and I've added a stipend to the production bubbles for this: money for candy and pudding.

Pushing open the glass door of the dessert shop, the pleasant wind chimes and the crisp and cheerful greeting rang at the same time, making people stunned: "Welcome!" ”

I looked up in surprise, only to find a silver-haired girl in a clerk's dress looking at me with a bright smile with eight teeth, and behind the girl who looked exactly like Sylvia stood two guys who were dressed exactly the same as each other and tall.

"Ah, it's Your Majesty - today is really a lucky day, you can be entertained to Your Majesty on the third day of work."

"Raven?" I was a little stunned, "What's the number?" ”

"Raven 998 salutes you!" The silver-haired girl in the dress of the Sylvia shop gave a cheerful bow, "If it's you, would you like a cup of coffee?" ”

"Uh, that'......s good," I replied casually, and sat down in my usual window seat, watching the number 998 mass-produced raven rush to prepare coffee for himself, and that clumsy appearance was in stark contrast to the gentle and steady image of the clerk just now: it was clear that a master raven in magic was not necessarily shrewd in other ways.

After a tinkling noise in front of the coffee table, Raven 998 turned his head to look at me apologetically: "That, Your Majesty, is it okay to drink tea?" ”

I nodded, and with a twitching expression watched as 998 continued to plague another set of devices, a few minutes later:

"Your Majesty, what do you think of orange juice?"

"I ...... I'll just drink water," I quickly waved my hand, "If there is anything unpleasant at work, we can talk about it, and if you have any opinions about Sylvia, we will talk to you in person, don't be ...... like this"

Raven 998 glanced at the water dispenser next to him in annoyance, and after thinking about it, he still walked over: "Your Majesty, I'll chat with you." ”

Where the hell did this guy come from! Sylvia, that mechanical idiot will at least use a water cooler, okay!

"I'm usually a soldier, I have centralized logistics, I've never done housework and haven't used these civilian equipment," Raven 998 stroked his hair awkwardly, and the other two ravens pretended to clean up next to him, but they chuckled, "And I've only been here for three days, so I'm not used to it." ”

At this time, I remembered to ask what was going on in front of me, but Raven 998's sentence made me not react for a while: "Because I want to help the mother do something, but the mother doesn't want to do anything except open a store, so the three of us sisters discussed it, so we had to come over to work." ”

I looked at the small shop in the empty dàngdàng, there was not a single customer, theoretically except for a few mass-produced bubbles to buy sugar at noon or one or two Misaka in the afternoon, the store's turnover today stopped here, and three part-time clerks popped up in front of me, what an irreconcilable contradiction between them and Sylvia should be so hard to trouble that silver hairer half a beat slowly - Sylvia has to rely on the Shadow City allowance to eat by herself, okay!

Well, speaking of Sylvia, I haven't seen her since just now, where is it? One of the purposes of my visit this time was to find her...... Well, technically looking for another person inside her.

"You're really looking for the mother, she's resting in the back, we're looking at the store," Raven 998's gaze turned to the small door that led to the back of the store, "Maybe she's about to wake up, she's been sleeping for a long time for the past two days, saying that she wants to communicate with Bella Vera's mother." ”

Just as Raven 998 finished speaking, the small door was suddenly pushed open, Sylvia rubbed her eyes and floated out, and walked straight in front of me: "Morning." Oh, it doesn't seem to be too early. ”

I was stunned by the other person's fluent and natural words, and suddenly reacted: "Bella Vera? Now it's your turn? ”

"Ah, 1 rests, now it's 2. Sylvia said that you went to the god realm, then you might come to me, I have been preparing for the past two days, and by the way, let Sylvia recuperate. The former fallen emperor, who shared a body with Sylvia, yawned, got up to himself and took a few cakes from behind the counter, beckoning to the clerk, "Who's that, it's number 998, right?" Help me make a coffee......"

I rubbed my forehead: "Don't you see that the coffee pot is in half?" ”

Bella Vera was stunned for a moment with the cake, and looked at 998 with a strange expression: "Is there any tea?" ”

Then she saw the teacup in front that had been burned into glass by the arcane flames.

Bellavila bit the cake in her mouth, and her expression in the face of 998 was subtle: "What is your main dissatisfaction with this world?" ”

Raven 998 went to the door with his head in his arms and thought about it.

"It's embarrassing to share a body with Sylvia, and her stupid behavior always causes problems for others, especially me: I can't hide from it. Let Raven do this? It's a shame she figured it out. Bellavira shook her head and handed over a chocolate pudding, "Taste it?" This is made by Sylvia herself, and the girl can barely say that she only has the skill of making desserts. ”

"Don't you think it's a bit inappropriate for you to eat the products your store is selling as half a store manager?"

"Ha, I'll have to eat it myself anyway if I leave it for a while. Sylvia, that idiot, did you have a shop in the military district-let's not talk about this, let's talk about you first, you have been in the Divine Realm for many days, during which the Temple of the Tree of the World Realm suddenly grew around. There are also a lot of technicians in the institute who are busy with something, and even the bubbles don't come here often - it seems that you have experienced a lot of things in the divine realm. ”

It may be that after a long period of deep sleep, she can always make people talk, and Bella Vera doesn't affect her babbling to herself, but compared to a certain supreme dragon god, this king of magical girls is still far behind.

"Huh? Don't trust me? ”

Bella Vera asked suddenly.

"Of course not," I waved my hand, although the situation was very strange at the time, but Bella Vera was indeed in her own camp now, she was the mother of all ravens, and shared body and authority with Sylvia, in this case, I didn't have any need to hide it from her, "I'm just organizing the language—or about the Fallen Apostles." I know that you used to be their high-ranking person, so you probably know something. ”

At the moment, I told the other party what I had experienced in the divine realm, especially the possible ultimate goal of the Fallen Apostle, Bella Villa had told us a lot about this topic at the beginning, but due to the limited time she had to appear each time, and the internal situation of the Fallen Apostle was too complicated, I really didn't get enough information from her.

"Changing the pattern of the Void may be a close answer," Bellawi stretched, his tone a little unconcerned, "Oh, you may not be able to understand what kind of organization the Fallen Apostles are. I told you, there are a lot of contradictions, suspicions, hostilities, and even actions behind the backs of the fallen apostles, and after losing their psychic network and being distorted, everyone is a little neurotic, but in this case, the fallen apostles are still organized and have a common supreme goal - don't you think it's strange? ”

"You're saying that the Fallen Apostles had a supreme leader or something?"

I thought about it for a moment and said uncertainly. The former Apostles of Xiling maintained extreme discipline and stability under the joint rule of one hundred and thirty-five emperors, because all of them had a core goal of "fighting against the abyss and developing the race", and because of this goal, they established an extremely strict permission system, but now that great goal no longer exists, and their permission system may also have problems: authority may still exist, but among the fallen apostles of the same level, the constraints of the permission system may have gotten out of control, That's why Occam was able to sneak up on Bellavila from behind.

In such a situation, the stability and common progress of the race can no longer rely on the self-discipline of the individual apostles, but must appear like the "lower races", a figure who rules everything with absolute skill.

If this is the case, the problem of infighting among the fallen apostles still exists, and they are only carrying out the same goal with their own agendas, even though this goal is indeed the desire of the fallen apostles, and they cannot be made monolithic.

"Supreme Ruler......" Bellavera bowed her head in muttering, "it's similar, but I'm not sure. ”

I was shocked: "Haven't you even seen your immediate boss?" ”

"Probably no one has ever seen him," Bellavila looked me in the eye, "all the fallen apostles call someone something 'that great,' and he speaks directly in our spiritual realm, and we carry out his orders directly, and that's all communication. I've never seen the other person for what they really are, and I can only be sure that it's a real 'person', and a member of the old empire. God knows who exactly got that kind of power after the great tribulation. All the actions of the fallen apostles so far have been carried out under the instructions of the 'great ones', and it can be said that there is no other class among the fallen apostles except him, and all of them are executors, only the strength of the high, and the instinct of the weak to obey the strong. So I don't know exactly what the detailed plan of the whole group of fallen apostles is. For all plans do not belong to us except for the ultimate goal of unity. This cake tastes good, and sure enough, it makes sense to eat it yourself, and I can only know the taste of certain foods from Sylvia's memories......"

"You eat slowly, no one will rob you." I got up and poured a glass of orange juice for Bellavera, trying to calm myself down, "That is...... You don't even know what that guy looks like? I don't even know what the other party's strength is, and then I obediently obey my orders? Are all the fallen apostles m? ”

Bellavila put down the food in her hand, stared into my eyes, and pointed to her head, "We don't really know what that guy's strength is, but at least he can do one thing: cut this off." ”

"Head?"

"The spiritual power of the Apostle of Xiling." RO@。