Chapter 1,017 Lilina’s Troubles

On the fourth day after the Green Star incident was resolved, I got up very early - the reason was that Mercury Lamp became nervous when she got up early in the morning and flapped around the room. Her wings might be moulting, or so I thought.

Breakfast was very simple, including fried dough sticks, soy milk, and tea eggs. Qian Qian also ordered jam, chili, fermented bean curd, and chilled red wine. She didn't know how she planned to eat it. The person cooking today is Seiko. She is already familiar with various Chinese breakfast recipes. She and Anweina took turns cooking breakfast for the past two days - of course, Sandora's food still needs to be prepared by Anweina herself. The average person really can’t handle the task.

After eating, Saeko packed up and went to Shadow City: to go to school.

Now she is a very ordinary female high school student in the high school of the Imperial Military Academy. She majors in field command, scorpion combat and home economics. She also signed up to participate in the Misaka Harmony Banzai interest group. Her daily life is fulfilling and happy. In the morning, she gives her brother Prepare food with other family members, go to school in the morning to listen to lectures by military officers or heroic spirit teachers, sneak to the military area for lunch at noon, study with the Misaka sisters in the afternoon how to make fusion bombs using common gadgets in the school dormitory, and occasionally follow the school organization Going to a certain macro world for an internship: most of them are some unreliable Misaka Misaka plans. The main classes at the military academy end very early, and most of the time the students can learn with their respective professional instructors. Her professional instructor is An Weina: she goes home in the afternoon and learns how to do housework from the maid. I see that she is busy every day, but she is also very happy. In this family, Saeko is probably the most ordinary one - yes, after counting the previous classes. She is still the most ordinary one, after all, she was thrown into an environment full of extraneous creatures, but she is also the most contented one in my opinion, just like Anweina. I usually live my own small life without any sense of existence. Everything I want is in this big house. Even if you occasionally have whimsical ideas, there will always be a hardworking and cheap brother who will try to satisfy you.

I quite envy her, especially when she is working...

Most of Green Star's equipment has been dismantled, leaving countless empty cabins waiting for reconstruction and a set of core reactors that have been shut down, and there is still a lot of work left behind. Two and a half billion tree elves need a new home, and there are more than 10 million tree elves whose souls are waiting to be reborn. The place I am now is dealing with the second problem: the Garden of Heaven.

The vines cultivated by Lilina have grown vigorously. This huge building, a multi-story hanging garden made of alloys and mysterious ores, can now barely see its original skeleton, with huge vines occupying every inch of sight. Standing under it, what you see in front of you is a high wall with no end in sight, and from a high altitude, you can see a square green tofu block - mosaic looks like mold, this is Lilina's own Exact words. Because of my enthusiastic help in the past two days... it was not helpful. The growth of the Garden of Heaven is a bit beyond expectations. A large number of soldiers are pruning the branches day and night to prevent the nursery from growing so fast that even people cannot enter. Lilina can't do anything about it, no matter what. This is the divine power of the goddess at work, and there is nothing we can do except wait for it to subside on its own: it may take half a month.

I'm pretty weird too. Of course, Ding Dong’s power is not fake. She once made flowers and plants grow from the metal plates of the Imperial Admiral, which was 300 kilometers away. But this time I just used some soup for cooking Ding Dong, and diluted it millions of times. Why did this cause such a big movement? Woolen cloth?

Unfortunately, I planned to secretly take some Dingdang soup, mix it with water, and sell it as melatonin...

The Garden of Heaven has a total of one hundred floors, and each two floors are connected by a transmission beam. It was arrogantly named "Road to Promotion" by Lilina (tentative version at 3:30 yesterday afternoon), and is used as a "nest" purely for cultivating embryos. "There is no too complicated structure here, and the terrain is clear at a glance. Basically, if you hold a compass, you will not end up in a dead end and cannot get out. There are walls made of neat vines in all directions. The height is visually estimated to be more than ten meters - it can accommodate A large number of cultures. Between the vines, you can often see flower buds shrouded in light green light. They are bodies that have not yet completed their growth. Next to each flower bud, there is a small green light spot flying up and down. I approached one of them curiously. The light spot immediately hit my face affectionately a few times, and then landed on my shoulder.

It was a little goblin the size of a palm, with a translucent texture on its body, as if its body was made up of green light. There was a pair of invisible wings on its back - the reason why the shape was invisible was because they were completely two pieces. The long and narrow halo of light fluctuated with the movements of the little goblin, as if it had not yet fully grown.

"Uh...Ding Dong? Mass production of Ding Dong?"

I am no longer surprised by the various mass production phenomena in the Shadow City, and I couldn't help but have such an association.

The little goblin didn't make any sound, but looked around curiously, then fluttered its two halo wings and flew into the vine. Then, the huge flower bud in front of me trembled slightly and continued to grow faster.

"I don't know what this is. It grew out of the flowers and trees of Avalon." With a swishing sound of leaves shaking, Lilina's voice came from the side. She crawled through the vines. Wall, a man dressed as an elf appeared in front of me, "Maybe it was the power of the goddess that projected in Avalon, and this kind of strange little animals were born. Ah, they are just little animals - their intelligence is no better than that of birds." It’s much taller than human beings, and when it was just born, it was completely an erratic light, with no facial features or anything like that.”

"Well, Avalon really has all kinds of strange things." I twitched the corner of my mouth.

"But with them here, the growth of the Vine of Life will be easier to control, and they can also catalyze the embryo," Lilina smiled proudly, "These little fairies are very obedient. As long as they are believers of the Goddess of Life, they will They know how to follow, so I brought many from Avalon and asked them to help take care of the embryos, one for each of them. They didn't eat, drink or rest. Their favorite thing to do every day was to circle around the plants or say hello to strangers. In addition, these little ones can help check the condition of the embryos. They are also good as alarms - the Garden of Heaven is not staffed enough. There are only ten high-ranking priests and about a hundred church knights on each floor to take care of each bud. There is no way to take care of every bud. These little goblins look much more relaxed.”

when saying these words. Lilina's face had a motherly glow that blinded people and dogs. I nodded happily: "Well, now you are the mother of more than 10 million children..."

Lilina: "..."

Loli is very ferocious, but fortunately she is only 1.09 meters tall. I easily took down Lilina, who jumped up. Then I looked at the green world in front of me, which was more or less weird. "Speaking of which, why is that green calyx not there?" Are you pestering me?"

Lilina suddenly became lively: "She? Didn't you just let me fool you into cooperating with the experiment with just a few words? Now she is on the top floor of the Garden of Heaven. She cannot leave there until the first batch of embryos complete a growth cycle, at least I can still have a few days of leisure. Look, boss, this project is big enough! My proud work! Now the souls of the tree elves have been injected into the embryos, but they haven't woken up yet. In these few days Inside. They will slowly get familiar with each other with their new bodies directly in these buds. When the bodies mature, the souls will fully adapt to it, which is definitely better than the dormant cabin!"

I nodded nonchalantly, actually. I always felt that something was wrong, but for a while I couldn't tell what was wrong. After looking at the vines around me for a while, I suddenly remembered something: "That's right. You use the green calyx as the original body of all embryos." …Doesn’t that mean that all the embryos here have the same face?”

"Of course not." Lilina rolled her eyes at me. "The appearance can be adjusted. If you slightly adjust the development environment during the embryonic process, the appearance will be different."

"Oh," I nodded, and then asked uncertainly, "What about... gender?"

The sinister archbishop was stunned for a moment, and then the two of them were silent for a few seconds. Lilina suddenly looked here with tears in her eyes: "Old...Boss, I may have gotten into trouble, right?"

"...I went and turned more than 10 million people into women?!"

Lilina reasoned with me with her fingers: "It's not that serious. According to the gender ratio, there should be more than six million people who have become women... Hey, boss, the boss is impulsive and devilish! What if there are more than six million people among them? I can’t tell for certain individual ones..."

I grabbed the girl's head and knocked it hard, and Lilina immediately pretended to cry for her father and mother. The noise was so loud that it even attracted a few papal knights, church monks, missionaries, church craftsmen, and priests who were patrolling in the distance. However, These people have become accustomed to the scene of their archbishop being beaten up by his parents after getting into trouble. He bowed from a distance and went about his business. Lilina later wrote a letter of guarantee while wiping her tears. Waiting for this A batch of unlucky tree elves were given normal new bodies as soon as they woke up: at least their genders had to be normal.

Looking around at these embryos that are still a few days away from maturity, I know that inside each bud is a girl who is currently thirteen or fourteen years old. When I think about it, the soul of an uncle or an uncle has been injected into it. Immediately, I felt a surge of energy all over my body. Lilina was too destructive. It seemed that my decision to come here to inspect the garden today was correct. Otherwise, it would be troublesome to modify these souls once they were solidified in the body. , when I was walking on the street of Shadow City, I came face to face with a graceful elf girl. She greeted You Qiao with a sweet smile: "Hello, my name is Da Zhuang Tie Gen." This is ridiculous to a normal person. What's more embarrassing is that another elf girl might come from the side, so Comrade Tiegen pointed to the second elf and introduced you: "Hello, this is my dad, he turned into a girl when he woke up... "

...Hmm, it seems pretty cute... Sister-in-law!

After coming out of the Paradise Garden, I looked back at the green building that covered the sky and the sun: "So, will this be used to replace the tree spirit's mother tree from now on?"

From a functional point of view, the current role of the Garden of Heaven is to serve as an embryo culture device for tree elves. Although it currently only has one donor sample and the embryos it can culture lack room for free change and do not meet the requirements of biological evolution, it can Improved, so I asked this question.

Lilina nodded first, then wrinkled her nose: "There is a plan, but there is still a lot of work to be done. I have stripped off the things on the small planet in the center of the Green Star and stored them in the Temple of the World Tree Here, do you want to take a look?"

Temple of the World Tree. Nicknamed Paradise, also known as the Kingdom of God, it is theoretically the place where Dingdang lives, but this three-inch Ding hardly stays in the temple. Most of the time, she likes to sleep in her owner's pocket, or fly around the house to catch mice stupidly. As a result, over time, all the work of taking care of this temple has been put on Lilina's head, so Lilina conveniently threw the dying "Mother Tree" into the temple. At least there, the decline process of the Mother Tree would be suppressed. Speaking of which, I haven't been to this temple for a long time, but I still remember that I need to authenticate myself when entering the temple, and I also remember the method: take out the sleeping Ding Dong. Swing over the trunk of the World Tree, and the door will open.

This is the legendary swiping card with your face.

Lilina watched me skillfully swiping my card with Dingdang, with a very subtle expression on her face: "Boss, I always feel that you have used the goddess as a very strange thing."

"She's not normal to begin with." I shrugged. He stuffed Dingdang into his pocket, and the latter popped up his head in a daze: "Ajun, call Dingdang when you're done eating."

"It always feels like she's been sleeping too much lately," I couldn't help but murmur, "It seems like it's been more than a month. She eats and sleeps every day, which is almost the same habit as Alaya. This shouldn't be the case. Dingdang is usually very active. .”

"Who knows. Maybe it's because she's grown taller." Lilina was making nonsense. At this time, she couldn't see the respect she claimed for the goddess at all. She set the teleportation path. A huge portal lit up in the green hall in front of us, "I put the pile of dying tree vines in the alien space on the upper floor of the temple. You have to enter through the portal."

The entire Temple of the World Tree is located in an inexplicable space. Although it feels like it is located inside the trunk of the World Tree, you definitely don’t think so after entering: looking out from the skylight of the temple, you can see Going to another piece of unusually clear blue sky and white clouds, you can even see small rivers, lakes and even forest landscapes in some parts of the temple. This is like a strange place where the inner space has been greatly extended. I even doubt that it can Put the entire solar system in it. The upper level of the temple that Lilina mentioned is a huge astrology stone platform. This is the most open place in the temple of life. Above it is the unobstructed blue sky and white clouds. The sky is so low that it seems that you can reach it with your hand. Around the huge astrology stone square There are rows of green stone pillars arranged neatly, and the stone pillars are full of reliefs. Most of the reliefs were ordered by Lilina after the temple was built. They include images of races that believe in Dingdang, random miracles, and magic with unknown purposes. Runes, as well as "xx came here for a trip" and "The following content can be replied to." The main significance of carving these stone pillars is that Lilina felt that as a temple, it would be too shabby without something similar to the gods. This was especially true after she saw the Obsidian Palace and the Father Temple of the Bingtis Family in the God Realm. ——Actually, I think this is all nonsense. Take a look at Lin’s temple. It’s a simple stone castle with basically no reliefs except for the outer walls. Of course, this may also be because Lin is too strong, so she simply I won’t make these gadgets at home anymore.

The stripped mother tree was hanging in the air near the platform. After being separated from the "Oasis" planet, Lilina smoothed out the order of these messy vines, spread them out and placed them in the sky, level with the upper platform of the temple. Qi, so looking at it from this angle, those gray-green vines are like a large group of slightly trembling tentacles surrounding the platform...

"Boss, if you don't know how to use metaphors, don't use metaphors."

Lilina suggested sincerely.

"Ahem, is this thing really hopeless?"

I scratched my hair awkwardly and looked at my hand: a twig on the vine floated over and was dangling in my hand. I reached out and touched it lightly. The thing seemed to have a sense and immediately retracted. .

"If it's just too old, it's okay. Even I can bring it back to life." Lilina shook her head in disappointment. "The current situation is that the mother tree has divinity, and it probably fell from another world tree. The branches grow on the earth. You can think that this is another extension of the World Tree, so it cannot accept the power of the goddess Ding Dong: System Conflict."

I understand Lilina’s meaning in my own way: We compare Dingdang’s godhood as the world management god to Android, then this mother tree is a Symbian, and the small programs that come out of Symbian are made into compressed packages and stored in the Android system management Of course there is no problem in the folder, but now what Lilina has to do is to make this Symbian applet run in the Android environment, which is a bit difficult. You can go to McDonald's and order a KFC family bucket or go to the China Unicom lobby to recharge 150xxxxxxxx. The phone bill should give you a good idea of ​​what I mean - it's best to say hello to the hospital before going.

"So after several attempts, I decided to give up on the Resurrection Mother Tree," Lilina said dejectedly, "because we can't find out which goddess of life planted this plant tens of thousands of years ago, even from the records of the gods. After finding the creator of the tree elves, the World Tree of that year will definitely not be found. The tree elves were discovered by the old empire as an independent race, which shows that the goddess of life who created them allowed the tree elves to develop freely after finishing her work. , the ruins of the World Tree should also remain in that world, and a piece of ashes fell with the old empire."

"But without the mother tree, I can't find the life spectrum of the tree elves," Lilina paused and continued, "In other words, without the mother tree, the tree elves I created with the Paradise Garden will always be just clones. Body, even if you put a soul into them, they are not tree elves, they are two races!" (To be continued)