"Hello, Mr. Duanmu, I'm sorry to bother you."

"Well, you're welcome, Miss Charlie......... Is there anything you have to do with me this time? ”

"If you're not very busy, how about afternoon tea together?"

"It's okay..............."

Seeing the blonde girl in front of her skillfully take out all kinds of refreshments and sandwiches from the basket, Duanmu Huai was also confused, to be honest, he didn't understand what Xia Li was thinking at all.

After Mary brought her two friends to the trial court for a turn, Xia Li often came to Duanmu Huai again and again, at first Duanmu Huai thought she was asking for help from herself, but this one only came twice in three days with some snacks and tea, saying that it was to thank Duanmu Huai for taking care of Mary.

It's not easy for Duanmu Huai to get rid of her, and it's not a big deal to eat and drink, so he doesn't particularly care about it.

By the way, Ashelica also wants to come to work in the Inquisition, of course, she has little interest in going out on adventures like Mary, Ashelica specializes in mathematics at the master's college, is a genius student in the mathematics department, to be honest, Duanmu Huai is quite welcome to her arrival, although basic science is not of great use on the surface, but in fact it is very possessed. For example, a lot of scientific research needs to use calculation formulas and models, this kind of thing is not understood by ordinary people, although Aselika does not understand the problems in other scientific fields, but if it is just a mathematical calculation formula, she can give you an answer is whether this thing is mathematically feasible.

In fact, now Ashelika and Sydney are in a hot fight, and the overall technological level of Ashelika's world is lower than that of Sydney's world, and many mathematical conjectures are just conjectures in Ashelika's world, but they have become theorems in Sydney's world. After flipping through a few books on the subject, Aselika was almost unable to walk in Sydney's lab.

According to Sydney, Ashelika plans to go to her world to study after the end of this semester......... Well, Duanmu Huai is not against it.

But what about Charlie......... To be honest, Duanmuhuai felt that she was of no special use in the Inquisition, and like Mary, Xia Li was a student of the Faculty of Literature, but she did not major in ancient literature and language studies like Mary, but in Duanmuhuai's philosophy and history, which seemed very useless......... Honestly, will this thing be able to get a job after graduation? I don't have to be a librarian.

It's just that Xia Li seems to know very well, so she never said that she wants to take up a position in the court, but she will often come to see the situation of Ashelika and Mary, and bring some desserts and food to Duanmu Huai by the way.

In Duanmuhuai's opinion, this is not a big deal.

"Please try this, it's a waffle I made myself."

"Hmm......... Tastes good. ”

"If you like it, there is also black tea ......... here"

Duanmu Huai and Ogis sat on the edge of the balcony looking at the scenery below, while enjoying the refreshments brought by Xia Li, but in the shadows behind the pillars of the corridor in the distance, several petite figures were hiding there, secretly observing the scene.

"Well, I think there's something wrong with that Miss Charlie."

Ann frowned, clasped her hands in her arms, and nodded carefully.

"It seems that it is the same as what Gurney said, I suspect that she has a crush on Mr. Knight!"

"Huh? Won't it..............."

Mary's expression was a little complicated, and she was even more unimpressed by Ann's guess.

"I remember that Xia Li didn't like Mr. Duanmu very much before........."

Mary remembered that before coming to the courtroom, she had talked to Xia Li and them several times, and Xia Li's attitude towards Duanmu Huai was also very sharp, looking like she was afraid that she would be deceived.

"But look at her now, if she doesn't have thoughts about Mr. Knight, why would she invite Mr. Knight to afternoon tea?"

An smug began to analyze.

"I know that there are many aristocratic maidens in Manalia who like to approach their lovers in this way, and even the married young ladies like to use it as an excuse to date their lovers! So it's definitely so, yes! Don't you have such a custom there? Generally speaking, if you don't have an idea, you won't have afternoon tea with men! ”

"Uh......... That's right........."

In the face of Ann's questioning, Mary nodded, in her world, generally afternoon tea is for women to communicate and increase affection, for example, Mary used to go to a nearby restaurant for afternoon tea with Xia Li and Asherika in their spare time, and then chat about interesting stories at school.

Of course, this kind of gathering is not for men to join, and it is a gathering between young girls. And when Ashelica and her fiancé Howard have afternoon tea, Charlie and Mary won't join in.

"But Miss Ogis is there, so I think it's fine."

Gu Leiya said with some embarrassment——— Strictly speaking, she is the culprit, who told her to talk about Xia Li's frequent visit to Duanmu Huai when she was drinking tea with Ann, which aroused Ann's interest, and then pulled her and Mary over together.

"That being said, we haven't done anything like inviting Mr. Knight to afternoon tea."

"Huh? Didn't either of you invite Mr. Duanmu to afternoon tea? ”

Hearing Ann's answer, Mary was taken aback, aren't these two Duanmu Huai's fiancées? Generally speaking, fiancés should increase their relationship like this——— at least that's what Ashelica and her fiancé Howard do.

"Do you think Mr. Knight is the kind of person who will enjoy the atmosphere of afternoon tea and then make the girls happy with sweet words?"

"Uh....................."

I have to say that Mary really had nothing to say for Ann's inquiry for a while. In fact, even now, Duanmu Huai is not at all like the kind of afternoon tea participant she imagined, generally speaking, afternoon tea is mainly for chatting and drinking tea, and those desserts are almost only decorations, mainly for exchanging feelings.

But this one really eats afternoon tea as an afternoon meal, watching him have a sandwich in his left hand, a waffle in his right hand, and a cup of black tea............... Mary really had nothing to say.

To be honest, it is very rude and rude to do this kind of thing in this kind of activity, but looking at Xia Li's appearance, she doesn't seem to care, she just smiles like a maid and pours water for Duanmu Huai's tea......... Could it be that Xia Li really likes Mr. Duanmu? No reason? None of them had met a few times, and Mr. Duanmu didn't look like he had any special thoughts on Xia Li.........

Thinking of this, Mary only felt a little bitter in her heart, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

But fortunately, at this time, someone appeared to interrupt this afternoon tea party.

"Ah, Lord Knight!"

Lorena had run in, but there was no beads of sweat on her forehead.

"Miss Lumière, please go to the command room, she seems to have made a discovery! It's about evil gods! ”

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai immediately stuffed the waffle in his hand into his mouth, and then stood up.

"I'll go right away."

Arriving at the command room, Akot, Lumielle, and her partner Eckel had been waiting for a long time, and Duanmu Huai just glanced at it and immediately asked a question.

"What's the situation?"

"That's right, Mr. Inquisitor."

Faced with Duanmu Huai's inquiry, Lumiel quickly gave an answer.

"Just two hours ago, Miss Elliot's reconnaissance fleet discovered an artificial satellite in a fringe galaxy, and we studied the satellite and read its information to the ......... of a human civilization that we have not yet come into contact with."

"Any questions?"

Looking at Lumi'er's complicated expression, Duanmu Huai frowned, and the latter just sighed.

"You'll know when you hear it."

As she spoke, Rumiel took out the terminal and opened the file, and soon, a voice emerged from it.

"Hello, compatriots in the universe, we are a civilization from the beautiful star of the Tacosian system, and we greet all the civilized races who hear the message of this satellite with high respect and friendship, and welcome you to our planet. Beauty is a rich planet, we have a free and noble standard of civilization, and I believe that we will be able to live in peace with you........."

"What the fuck is this stupid?"

After listening to this voice message, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but burst into foul language, no wonder he wanted to scold, it was really too disgusting that people felt disgusting when they heard it. It's as if Lu Zhishen learned the flower fairy to twist and behave, so that Duanmu Huai wanted to punch him to death.

However, Duanmu Huai also understood why Rumi Aier thought that this was related to the evil god, after all, when he heard it, he knew that the owner of this voice was definitely not a normal person.

"There are indeed coordinates and environmental data of the beautiful star in the satellite, and it is preliminarily judged that it should belong to the living environment that humans can adapt to......... But Mr. Inquisitor, are there really civilizations that are stupid enough to take the initiative to launch materials and information belonging to their own civilization into the universe? ”

"Fools are everywhere, idiots are everywhere, what's so strange about that."

In response to Lumi's question, Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes.

"Have you locked the location of the planet?"

"It's locked."

"Very well, I'll go and see the situation for myself, I can't figure out that the planet has become a plaything of obsessed evil."

If you want to say that among the evil gods that Duanmu Huai knows, who would do such a disgusting thing that makes people want to kill it, naturally there is only obsession.

According to the coordinates provided by that satellite, Duanmu Huai and his party soon came to the planet known as the Beautiful Star, however.........

"Everything works."

Lumiel watched carefully, then replied.

"It's clear that the following belong to a relatively backward civilization, and they don't even have the ability to travel beyond their planet to the stars. At least here, I don't see any signs of threat, their electronic level is very fragile, their weapons are relatively low, and they are still gunpowder-type ........."

"That can't be helped."

Hearing Lumiel's answer, Duanmu Huai touched his chin.

"Let's be an invader from outer space."

(End of chapter)