"Since you say so, then I don't know what to do if I refuse again. But when I think about it, I remember that I don't even know what a round wheat looks like. Rika Fujimaru changed the subject a little stiffly, "I came to the agricultural planet, but I only saw bare fields and huge piles of straw...... Or the timing I chose was unlucky. ”

Aelrita, who grew up in the fields, apparently did not understand the appeal of the "endless wheat waves", which she thought was aesthetically fatigued, to outsiders, and her tone was a little inexplicable: "But this is a harvest celebration that has never been held before, and I want to say, there is no better time than this." ”

Sevita, who was in the audience, did not comment on this topic well. He was an Astarte, once part of the Midnight Lords' Legion, who was supposed to spend his life in the company of guns, war, blood, and fear. Everything that surrounds him in peace and happiness should not have anything more than "passing by" him. Even if he had been in exile for ten years, he had stood in the crowd of people in the midst of the celebration, and his overly outstanding height and scarred face still made him look out of place.

This "out of place" makes him very conspicuous in the crowd, and there are always some curious or fearful estimating glances floating around him. As the commander of the Midnight Lord's company, Sevita had been somewhat accustomed to being the center of attention in the crowd, but the situation still irritated him.

Unfortunately, the two girls who dragged him out (only Sevita herself thought so) were oblivious to this, and only cared about huddle together and mutter, leaving him alone and embarrassed.

After a short period of thought, Rika Fujimaru agreed with Aelita's point of view: "...... Indeed, the first time always has a special commemorative significance. However, if this harvest festival becomes a regular festival, it will definitely become bigger and bigger in the future. ”

"I don't think there's a plan for that yet, but I'll lend you a good word." Aelita said gleefully.

Perhaps most people who struggle with the endless repetitive heavy lifting of work are pessimistic, but Aelita generally doesn't turn down an opportunity to imagine a beautiful future. The maiden folded her hands and prayed with her head bowed: "The Emperor of God, if the Governor de Ville wants to make the harvest celebration a festival, I hope it will be once per farming period." ”

At present, there is nothing important to do, and Lixiang is happy to follow this light-hearted topic to diverge her thinking: "If it can be held once a year, maybe it can be made into a special project to develop a little tourism." Jaystar's harvest season is pretty much the end of the year, right? ”

"Huh? Isn't it? Alita looked at Rika with some blankness, "The harvest season changes every year." ”

Ritsuka also began to be at a loss because of this sentence: "Huh? But, however, does the growth cycle of the crop, the round wheat, vary from year to year? ”

"How is that possible? The round barley is fixed for five months to mature, sowing twice and harvesting twice for a whole tillage cycle, and then fallow for a period of time to adjust the land, and by the way let the climate not be suitable. "I've heard that other agricultural worlds have techniques to circumvent the effects of the weather and allow food to grow all year round, but Jaystar is not liked by the Mechists, so he rarely gets support in this area, so he can only sow seeds according to phenology." Since you have to follow phenology, of course, you can't start working at the same time every year. ”

Rika Fujimaru froze in place, desperately trying to figure out what Aelita was talking about, but unfortunately the result was unsatisfactory, and she only succeeded in making her express the four big words "I don't understand" clearly on her face with a simple expression.

"Wait a minute, let me start all over again...... Didn't Jestal use the Terra Standard Calendar? Twelve months in a year, almost thirty days in a month, twenty-four hours a day......"

After watching what he thought was the "pampered eldest lady" look bewildered for a while, Sevita explained compassionately: "That's true when you say the official calendar, but that's because Jaystar's rotation cycle is very similar to Terra's, about twenty-four hours and seven seconds for one rotation, so the original pioneers simply moved the Terra standard calendar without much thought, and then it has been maintained as a tradition until now - but in fact, Jestal's orbital cycle is about 405 days per week, and if you simply use the Terra Standard Calendar to guide the farming hours, there is no phenology corresponding. ”

This is indeed the case, but it still takes a little time for people to understand the facts. Fujimaru Rika held her head in place and thought for about three minutes before smoothing out the logic of the whole thing, and then raised her eyes and asked blankly, "Isn't this troublesome?" Is this an agricultural planet that feeds on the sky? Didn't the local governor ever have the intention of reforming and creating a local calendar? ”

Accustomed to all this, Sevita shrugged her shoulders indifferently, saying that the imperial ruling class was basically the virtue of this conservative who refused to reform. Instead, Aelita happily raised her hand, saying that because the calendar and phenology did not match, the government of each farming planet would issue a manual to guide the workers on how to work: the manual would combine the actual seasonal phenology on Jaystar with the dates of the standard Terra calendar, so as to arrange a suitable schedule for the cultivation cycle.

"I'll count this 'farming calendar' too!" Alita pinched her waist and proudly showed off, "...... Although it is not as fast as Jacob. ”

Rika Fujimaru sighed.

"Why can't you think of comparing your brains with him?" She folded her arms and said to Aelita.

Sevita raised an eyebrow at this.

Although it is true that ordinary people want to compete with Superman who has undergone transformation surgery to compete for brain computing power, it is indeed an act of self-inflicted humiliation when she has nothing to do, but she also has to mention this point when she knows that Sevita is in a state of incognito and disarming and returning to the field, if she has to over-interpret it, it is not that she can't taste a hint of threat from it.

If there is only one sentence, it can also be regarded as Fujimaru Rika's accidental loss of words for a while, but the next sentence she said was even more outrageous logically: "If you really want to compare something with him, it is better to fight with him - you will definitely win." ”

"Huh?" The dazed expression turned back to Aelita's face, "How is it possible, Richika, just to say that the physique Jacob is the biggest one I know—"

"Of course it looks like that, but in reality? The factors that affect the outcome of a fight are not only the basic qualities of physique, strength, and so on. Fujimaru Rika abruptly began to talk serious nonsense, "If you confront him head-on, of course you can't win, but in fact? Jacob will not be able to do anything to him, and I reckon he will be worse off seeing you hurt than asking him to stab himself. If you do the math, you're already 'winning on the sidelines'! ”

It was arguably true, but Sevita was sure she would never admit it.

Rika Fujimaru managed to make these words a joke, and Aelita obviously giggled as if they were a joke. But Sevita felt a strong sense of disobedience—whether it was inherited from the ability of his genetic father, or if he had a talent for it himself, and his senses rarely went wrong—a strong sense of disobedience.

Rika Fujimaru slowly winked at him.

Sevita and this girl who still have a lot of mysteries on her body have only known each other for less than a day, and they are not familiar at all, let alone have any tacit understanding. But he somehow succeeded in reading the message from that little hint like a blessed heart—a simple directive that was not contrary to his own intentions.

So he also nodded slowly: "Indeed." 'If you see Aelita hurt, you might as well slash me.' ”

"Wow-" Aelita turned her head in surprise, "Jacob, that's not like what you'd say. ”

"Hey, compared to how he talks, Aelita, Aleta," Rika reached out and poked the other man's arm, "I remember, you said you were going to treat me to a round wheat, and you shouldn't forget it when we meet next time." ”

Being poked like this, Aelita turned her head a little inexplicably: "Huh? Why do you say this all of a sudden, Richika you want to-"

It was Rika Fujimaru who cut off her sentence with a slam push. The force of her small body was much greater than Aelita had expected, and even though she looked taller and stronger than Richika, she fell backwards unsuspectingly by the push, and the impact and surprise were so strong that she almost bit her tongue.

She instinctively tried to stagger backwards to keep her balance, but it was too late, it only added to the speed of her unbalance—but she didn't fall, because Jacob was guarding right behind the direction she fell. The man's broad palm grasped one of her shoulders like a pincer at the last moment, and used his body to stop her downward trend.

In this emergency situation, Aelita's first reaction after being "rescued" was not to breathe a sigh of relief, but to panic behind her shoulder that she was not caught. But before she could react, Jacob's other free hand covered the lower half of her face.

She was confused and wanted to ask, only to find that she couldn't make any sound, and even had trouble breathing. By this time, the hand that had been grasping her shoulder had been released, and Jacob wrapped his arms around her waist with great skill, and before she could struggle, he picked her up from the ground like a grain sack, and appeared in the dark alley by the side of the road in a whirlwind.

Aelita had no idea what was happening, as Jacob sped off at a speed that even humans could barely reach with their bare hands, away from the land of right and wrong.

The girl, who had not received any relevant training, was quickly unconscious under the torture of such speed, bumps, and poor breathing. The only clue she could get from the scene was that after they turned to melt into the shadows, the cheer of celebration behind them suddenly turned into screams of horror in a matter of seconds.

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During the three minutes that Rika Fujimaru seemed to have a headache and pondered, she didn't think about Jaystar's calendar. She figured it out as soon as Sevita explained it.

In fact, for three minutes, she paused for a moment to pretend to think, only because Conrad Coetzes sent her a communication through the words of the Contractual Connection:

+ Those spirits. +

+ Why is it so sudden? Scared me. +

+ I'm sure the spirits have nothing to do with the things on this planet. They're just coming for you, the big red guy - by the way, one of them has run away and is heading for you, and it's expected to find you in six minutes. +

Coetze's tone of voice in stating the sentence was rather straightforward, and it took Rika Fujimaru to restrain her sighing rereading.

+…… The Eldar portal shouldn't be open near a city, and I don't think you'd make the low-level mistake of letting the enemy run away. What do you want to do? +

+ Make the most of it. +

He said these sentences like a naughty child, as if he could dismember a nearby beetle at will just for his own pleasure, and there was a kind of innocent malice hidden in his cheerful tone.

+ What results can you find among the civilian population? If there is a problem in the imperial world, the most efficient way is to investigate from the top down. You thought it might be a surprise to show up in front of the Governor of the planet for no reason, but now I'm going to give you a living excuse - don't waste it. +

+…… Conrad, this is downtown! I still have fellow travelers by my side! Do you realize how much collateral damage this can cause?! +

+ What does it matter? After all, we are pressed for time, and a little collateral damage is not unacceptable. In the Empire, you have to get used to this trade-off. +

+…… Maybe you like to do it, but I have my own way of doing things. We'll have to come back to that later. Also, don't think I can't see that you're deliberately pushing me into this kind of problem! +

Rika Fujimaru pursed her lips, trying her best not to let the anger appear on her face.

+ Look, no one in the city will have an accident because of this today! +