Chapter 518: Who's Coming
Chapter 518: Who's Coming
When I came out of the medical center, I was always a little confused.
The previous scene was so bizarre - please forgive me for using words like "bizarre" to describe a beautiful girl's initiative to kiss, because if the other party is Lin Xue, this process can really only be described as bizarre.
In other words, which tendon of Lin Daxian twitched? Could it be that Miss Lin, who usually has the most trouble with herself, regards complaining about me as her life goal and daily task, and has repeatedly announced that she will have a never-ending class struggle with wood in this life, has been secretly in love with me Chen someone behind her back?
As soon as I thought of this possibility, I felt a tremor all over my body, it was too curious, this possibility was too curious, I would rather believe that the first Yachukas in the world world was killed by Daoist Zeratu than believe that Lin Xue's violent eldest lady had a crush on him
However, if you think about it seriously, it doesn't seem right that I didn't have any joy in my heart at that moment just now, and I really didn't notice it at all before...... Well, I can't think about it anymore, otherwise I'll be hunted for if I let Qianqian know that I'm going to be hunted down.
And after that sudden kiss, Lin Xue herself seemed to be very evasive, no matter how I launched the "King's Gaze" (...... The girl only knew that she was stupid, and she wanted to immediately announce that she had just hit her head and had suffered from amnesia within fifteen minutes, Jesus told us that a woman's heart was like a nail that fell from the Mariana Trench, and everyone who tried to go to the secret was basically drowned in the middle of the road, and God knows what was going on in the mind of Miss Lu Dao.
Anyway, I'm taking advantage of it......
These thoughts were swirling around in my head, and I didn't pay attention to where I went, until I suddenly bumped into a fluttering body, and I was rejuvenated by an exclamation from the other party.
"Ahh
The oncoming girl was directly knocked out of the city by me.
What a familiar scene it was, and what a familiar slow exclamation it had just been.
The guy who can bring a delay sound when he exclaims, I'm afraid that there will be no second person in the entire world.
The girl I knocked to the ground was wearing some kind of shop waiter's light blue skirt uniform, and her long silver hair was thrown to her forehead due to the owner's unbalanced center of gravity, covering a small half of her cheeks. ”
In an instant, my already inflexible head was even slower - it came down, this is good, I can't think of Lin Xue's complicated things at all.
"Uh, sorry, didn't see it...... Didn't get hurt, did you? "Out of politeness, even though the girl in front of me would not break her defense even if she was trampled by 10,000 mammoths, I still cared.
In addition, I really didn't see some slow pants just now......
"Huh?" Sylvia let out an upward tone in confusion, and then lowered her tone, "Oh, so Chen Jun bumped into me just now, it's okay-"
Me: "......"
Do you think this missing eye has been getting worse recently?
At this time, I realized that I had come to a deserted street far away from the central base in the middle of a wandering.
Surrounded by completely empty buildings and empty shop windows, the neighborhood is as lifeless as a haunted alley if there were some shops in the rest of Shadow City.
Vaguely remembered, this should be one of the connection points between Avalon and Shadow City, due to the sensitive location, so when Sives divided the region, it was marked as an SSS-level martial law zone.
"What are you doing here?"
I looked at the silver-haired girl in front of me curiously, there was nothing left in the other party's eyes except for dazed and innocent, could it be that she was lost?
With Gianna's precedent of getting lost and running straight out of the service area, I have no doubt that Sylvia has what it takes to get herself to any corner without help.
"Ah, because this is the entrance to my shop—"
It took three seconds for Sylvia to answer slowly, then leaned slightly and pointed to me at a small façade behind her.
Me: "......"
You're setting up shop in a no-man's land, idiot
"Ah, that's right—I almost forgot about it," Before I could complain, Sylvia showed an expression that suddenly remembered something, clapped her hands, took out a stack of small cards from her body, and took out one and stuffed it into my hand, "I came out to go to the nearby city to distribute cards, you can give Chen Jun one first~~~"
I took the card speechlessly and looked at the big words on it: Welcome to Xiaoxi Candy House.
What a familiar scene, what a familiar card, there is no address and contact number of their own store at all, and they don't even have the main brand, but they have spent a lot of effort to design the lace of the card, and the patterns on it can even be directly printed on the currency for anti-counterfeiting
"If so, would you like to come and sit in the store?"
Sylvia looked at me for a long time and thought I had taken an interest in her shop, and immediately offered to invite her, no doubt that after the bump and the disconnect she had made now, she had forgotten her original plan to advertise.
Anyway, those cards don't help if they go out.
Sylvia's small shop is just around the corner, a very cartoonish candy house dotted with it, as one of the most special residents of Shadow City, Sylvia has a lot of privileges that she is not aware of, one of which is to open a store near this place that is classified as a military restricted area, but the green light of the Shadow City management department can't change the attributes of this stupid business idiot, opening the store in a no-man's land, This guy thinks that his profession is to issue hidden quests for egg pain players, open a shop in the corners of the map, and I don't know why it's a plot NPC that doesn't starve to death but magically sells resurrection stones?
What's more, even if you are a plot NPC, who in Shadow City will come to you to receive the dragon slaying mission at the risk of being beaten into a sieve by the Imperial soldiers
Greeted by Sylvia into her shop, I couldn't help but ask the question as I looked boredly at the colorful candy she had placed on the counter to form various puzzle pieces, and it seemed to me that even the most stupid guy would be a little confused if he hadn't seen anyone pass by in front of the store for two months after it opened, right?
"Ah, speaking of which, there are often little girls of this height who come to buy candy."
Hearing my question, Sylvia, who was helping to make instant coffee, immediately became interested, and said this after gesturing a height for me with her hand around her waist.
"Also, once in a while, a white-haired boy brings a little girl who calls herself Misaka Misaka to buy a small cake, and I made it myself-"
Huh? It turns out that as the upper body of all Misaka, can the final work also be close to this area?
Also, what happened to the "some" little girls that Sylvia mentioned earlier?
"That's how tall it is—" Sylvia explained slowly, now completely forgetting about making me coffee, "Wearing white dresses, they all look exactly the same, and speaking of which, I've seen little girls who look the same as them around Chen Jun - but they look so different from the kid next to you......"
Could it be...... Off-duty Xiling hosts?
Aren't they inindependent and have a sense of independence, do they also have a setting like candy?
As soon as this doubt arose, the bell at the door of the candy house suddenly made a crunch that diverted Sylvia and me.
A few little girls in white dresses pushed the door and walked in, Mu Ran's eyes looked ahead, only the little girl in the lead greeted her: "Excuse me, is Sister Sylvia here?" ”
Sure enough, it is a mass-produced Xiling host
The three clone bubbles walked into the small candy house, and then noticed my presence, and under the control of the program, the three identical little girls immediately bowed slightly to this side, and said in unison: "May you enjoy eternal glory, Your Majesty the Emperor." ”
"Ahh......h What a funny name," Sylvia blinked, then got up and took out three boxes of candy from the counter, "This is the candy you ordered." ”
Seeing Sylvia so accurately identify the three little girls who looked and behaved the same as all the Hiling hosts, I finally confirmed one thing: even if it was a slow half-beat, she still retained her ability to identify as an Apostle of Hiling.
Perhaps, the conjecture that Lin Xue put forward to me just now was not groundless.
"Ahra, what's the problem? Do you not like this packaging? Sylvia's slow voice interrupted my thoughts, and when I looked up, the three Xiling hosts were still standing in place, ignoring the candy in her hand, and instead turned Mu Ran's eyes to me.
"How...... What's up? "I was stared at by three pairs of dull eyes and uncomfortable, usually used to seeing the quirky little bubbles and bubbles of the otaku mania, suddenly faced with three wooden people like the mass production host, the huge sense of disobedience is very unaccustomed.
Well, could it be said that it was because he was suddenly caught by "His Majesty the Emperor" and sneaked out of the barracks to buy candy, so he was very scared and didn't dare to move?
This thought flashed through my mind, but I didn't believe it myself: what kind of joke is that there is no thinking about mass production consoles
But...... In front of me, there are actually three mass-produced hosts who like to eat candy and even sneak out of the barracks to buy candy after work.
And depending on what Sylvia means, there are more than these three hosts who usually come to her small shop to buy candy.
I decided that the three little girls in front of me who were supposed to only know how to follow the procedure were afraid of being punished, and then walked forward with a warm smile and gently tapped the heads of the three little girls one by one: "There's nothing wrong with coming out to buy candy during the break, just be careful not to get tooth decay." ”
In the usual way of talking to Little Bubbles, according to my experience, with the blessing of my own daddy's aura, this pampering lesson will definitely have the effect of favorability +10086.
The effect is very noticeable, and the three little girls in front of ......
There was no change in expression at all.
It's so disappointing, but the mass production host is a mass production host after all, and in the face of such a majestic fatherly pampering, the three little girls still had a wooden expression, but honestly took the gift box in Sylvia's hand, and then bowed neatly to me: "Follow your teachings, Your Majesty the Great Emperor." ”
Then the three little girls left the shop with neat steps, like a person and her two shadows.
Only the LEVEL6 daddy who gradually turned pale in place due to the sudden failure of the invincible father's love light was left.
However, Sylvia, who was usually the slowest and had the worst brain, nodded with a look of understanding: "Ah, these three children are very happy-especially the one who walked in front, she is very, very happy-Chen Jun, it's so good to coax the children......"
I raised my head in surprise, looked at Sylvia's face with a simple smile, and Lin Xue's reminder sounded in my mind again.
“…… I couldn't see Sylvia's future, but my instincts yesterday when her abilities were at their peak inadvertently revealed that that girl would play a very special role in the near future...... Maybe Bellavira is dead, but maybe the soul of a Hiling is reincarnated......"
I never dared to take Lin Xue's reminder to Lin Xue, even if it was not out of her prophecy, but just an intuition, but now it seems that the probability of the so-called Bellavila's reincarnation is very small, and Sylvia has a lot of surprises for me.
What was discovered before, the soul command ability of the Raven Force, what was discovered just now, the ability to identify the Apostle of Xiling that the other party still retained, and the ability to see the weak emotional fluctuations of the mass-produced host at a glance.
It's not like a skill that a mindless eye should master.
"Ahem," I coughed twice in embarrassment, and then said tentatively, "Bellavila, ask you something." ”
"Oh? Is there anything I can do to help? ”
Wait, she promised?
It was just a whimsical temptation, and Sylvia actually agreed directly to my call her "Bella Vera".
But just as I was about to say something, Sylvia said to herself with a confused expression, "By the way, Jun Chen, I called my name wrong just now~~~~"
Well, she just didn't react......
After chatting with Sylvia for a while, naturally she didn't find anything, and Lin Xue's reminder only showed that Sylvia would play a huge role in the near future, and now she was still just a stupid lack of heart.
Before I knew it, it was close to noon, and I felt that my head had gradually turned into a pile of sticky glue in the conversation with Sylvia, and in order to save my poor wisdom at the bottom, I resolutely declined Sylvia's offer to invite me to lunch - a guy who would even tie his own buttons wrong, and the meal he made was estimated to be better than Lin Xue, even if it didn't reach the high-energy fuel level of Sylvia, and I still went back to enjoy Avena's ghost horse meal.
"See you again, then—"
Sylvia dropped me off at the door of the store, said goodbye very politely, and then suddenly muttered in a low voice the moment I turned my head to leave, "Ah, speaking of which, it seems that I was helping Chen Jun make coffee before......"
As soon as I heard this, I ran away, and if I waited for that cup of coffee to be brewed, it is estimated that the next generation of humans would learn to walk upright
After spending a whole morning in the shadow city, in addition to accompanying Lin Xue, I was dragged by Sylvia's extremely slow guy to synchronize the timeline, so that even I felt a little too boring on a day of idleness, and then, at noon, something really happened that made us all feel quite talkative......
A visitor arrived suddenly that none of us expected, but it wasn't a stranger.
Ding Ling - Lin Xue's sworn friend, the eldest lady who can fight with Rin Tosaka in the spirit of taking advantage of a small advantage, it seems that she has been on a mission abroad recently because of the work of the ability group, and she hasn't seen us for a long time, I didn't expect her to come to us suddenly, and she also brought an unusually gorgeous suitcase with her.
Speaking of which, Ding Ling is also an "insider" who knows a little about our situation, so when she was welcomed into the living room, a group of non-humans were still busy with their own things, Ding Dong was still happily drilling hoops, Alaya was spreading her wings and asking her sister to help shape the fluff on the inside of her wings with a hair dryer, Pandora and Viska put all kinds of heavy artillery in the living room, and were competing to see who could disassemble and reassemble them in the shortest time, but because of the shallow nature of being the judges, I guess they had to draw to the ground.
And the only one in the living room who is doing normal things is the dedicated maid Anvina, who is busy cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks after everyone's meal and counting the dishes that Sandora has gnawed, but in fact, this little ghost floating in the air is the culprit who makes Ding Ling's face turn green.
"You have to get used to it," I said to Ding Ling with great understanding in the face of her stunned, "In fact, this is already our most normal daily activity, at least this time Anvina didn't get out of the TV screen. ”
"I ...... I must have made a mistake here," Ding Ling's hoarse voice sounded a little trembling, "At least, can you let that ghost walk on the ground?"
Cut, as a senior cadre of the Abnormal Ability Group, is so afraid of ghosts.
However, seeing that Miss Ding's face was almost to the point of dying at any time, I still beckoned to Anvina, and the little ghost screamed in annoyance, and finally obediently turned into a big crow form and returned to the nest she had built on top of the cabinet in the living room.
……
I said, does this idiot really have a nest for his crow form?
Immediately, Anvina's grievance came from the spiritual connection: "Well, master, the instinct of this form is difficult to avoid. ”
"Well, now you can rest easy—come to us for something?"
Although we know, the relationship between Ding Ling and our gang is limited to ordinary acquaintances, and there is a sense of respect and distance, usually when there is nothing to do, she rarely takes the initiative to come to this mansion with the most exaggerated security level in history, and today she can come to the dungeon task called "Imperial Headquarters" under the huge pressure of Anvina, there must be something important to ask for.
That's what the man's (9) sense tells me.
"Actually, I've picked up a strange 'guy' recently," Ding Ling pondered, seemingly struggling to explain to us the strange facts she had encountered, and then she lifted the big black box beside her, "Even the strange things that the ability team has never encountered before, I suspect that she is from another 'place', and only you can help with this kind of thing......"
Ding Ling said, pushing the heavy-looking box she brought in front of me.
"If you can figure out how this puppet called Mercury Lantern came to Earth......