Chapter 1035 Salvage

There are many painful things in the world, but I think one of them must be one, which is suddenly falling asleep while holding your child to sleep - as a responsible and caring father, you don't even dare to move at this time. , because there are only two creatures that are hardest to coax in the world, one is the naughty child, and the other is the naughty child's mother - you see, the naughty child is still ahead of her mother, and if this naughty child does not have a mother, it will be a double naughty child. It’s twice as hard to coax.

Insomnia has really troubled me this night...

Of course, if you want to ask if there is anything more painful in the world than sudden insomnia when holding a child to sleep, then I tell you, there is also: it is when you finally fall asleep, the child in your arms wakes up and is very energetic …

I fell asleep in a daze when the sky was dark. It felt like only a few minutes had passed. The quilt started to stir, and then I heard the mercury lamp whirring in my ears: "Idiot! Get up!" Now! Go downstairs to eat!"

I opened my eyes in a daze and found that it was already bright outside. The doll girl was sitting on my chest with her hair disheveled. Her deep rose-red eyes were shining brightly and she looked full of energy: "Hey, why do you look listless?" of?"

"I had insomnia last night," I yawned. I wasn't mentally exhausted, but I had developed the habit of following a normal human schedule. Suddenly I didn't sleep much all night, and I always felt weird. "Look. You look like you slept well."

"Idiots can have insomnia?" Mercury Lamp jumped out of bed, and then I noticed that she had changed into a new princess dress today. Maybe I bought it when I went out to play yesterday. Needless to say, it was something that was included in a certain Barbie doll's suit. "Okay. Let's eat first. After eating, you can come back and sleep for a while. You can't do it without eating..."

This nagging look really sounds like a precocious daughter trying to teach a lazy dad a lesson. I smacked my lips. But I can't recall what happened last night and I suddenly lost sleep. I only remember that the mercury lamp was telling me what she had seen. Then... I seemed to suddenly hear some inexplicable things, signals from the other side, building a bridge or something. Could it be that my insomnia was due to those auditory hallucinations?

When I went downstairs to eat, I told everyone about my insomnia. The general opinion of the people was: It turns out that even those who are short-sighted sometimes suffer from insomnia. This view was undoubtedly first put forward by Mercury Lamp, and it received enthusiastic responses from many people. This is really a depressing thing. Sandora was the only one who was serious, and she also thought it was quite strange that I would have insomnia: as a void creature. My mind has long mutated to the point where it does not conform to any theoretical model, and the possibility of being disturbed by external factors is zero. In other words, as long as my biological clock decides to sleep, then basically the end of the world will not let me lose sleep for a second. , so my insomnia last night was worthy of study, but she couldn’t find anything: I only remembered that I heard three words in total, and now I’m not sure whether those three words were spoken by the mercury lamp. Or I heard it wrong (the little doll didn’t remember what was said yesterday at all. She said a lot, and one of the biggest characteristics of this guy is that he will never remember what he said before going to bed at night when he got up the next morning). Of course Shandora couldn't analyze anything with such little clues. Qianqian has her own ideas. She thinks this is related to the void cataclysm...

Then no one paid any attention to her. Since the last time when the abyss mutation was linked to the void cataclysm, which caused panic, Qian Qian has become a habit in the past two days. Everything is related to the Void Cataclysm, which makes me nervous.

After breakfast, Lan came to say hello to me and said that she was going back to Yakumo Purple to stay with her for a few days.

"I've been here for a long time, and I'm a little worried about Master Zi." The fox said with a smile, holding two small packages in his hands. He was still wearing the collar he just put on yesterday - it looked particularly conspicuous. "I brought gifts to Murasaki-sama and Reimu-sama, and I sent them with them as well. It's been a lot of trouble for so many days. Thank you very much for taking care of them."

I raised my eyebrows: "Why does it sound like you're gone and never come back?" Don't tell me, it would be a pity if the fox doesn't come back. From now on, the family will be missing a doormat, and I will be missing a warm person. The blanket for feet, Qianqian is missing a fox dog, Little Bubble is missing a stuffed toy, Xiaoqian is missing a fox sister, and a random person in our family is missing a pillow... Well, I suddenly feel that Lan is not afraid. Is it going to be an evacuation?

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but reach out and touch Lan's head. The fox girl's ears suddenly twitched: she thought I was going to touch her ears. "Well, it's been really hard on you these days in our house..."

Lan looked confused, with a question mark almost hitting her head. She didn’t know where my thoughts were jumping to, but continued my previous question: "Of course not, I will be back soon. Now, am I here?" It’s been too long to live here…”

"No, no," I waved my hands quickly, not embarrassed to admit how many impolite things I had thought of just now, "Go and tell Reimu and ask her to take care of those monsters from time to time, especially that drunkard Suixiang. Last time I was there The gold-encrusted rose almost got into a fight with Yang Guo when she was drunk, and even said: "I'll give you a hand!" You know how hurtful this sentence is. Also tell Zi, I don't mind if she is at work She didn't mind sleeping at her duty station, and she didn't even mind her sleeping until she got off work, but it was not appropriate for her to carry Zhang Simmons into the venue during a meeting at the Hub Management Center - although the work was done well. , but can she take the boss’s face into consideration a little bit?”

Lan's expression was very stiff, and his tail was frozen in mid-air: "...Um, okay...ok."

Xiaoxue also came over to say goodbye to Lan Yiyi. After the latter promised to come back in a few days, she smiled widely, then grabbed the fox's tail and rubbed it: "Haha, yes, in the future, I will be with you from childhood to adulthood. You are the nanny of Xiaoqian and I who are staying at home. Sister Fox, please come back soon, and I will teach you how to braid Chinese knots with tails..."

When Lan heard this, he turned around and ran away without saying a word. He was as fast as the rumors said. A yellow light flashed and disappeared...

Qian Qianru stood next to me and bumped my arm with her head: "What do you think Yakumo Purple will do if she sees the collar around Lan's neck?"

"If you see it, you'll see it. Look, there's a bell on Viska's neck." As soon as he finished speaking, Viska next to him shook his head happily, and the bell on his neck jingled. She liked this little toy very much, even though Pandora despised it.

Qian Qian glanced at me cautiously: "But you didn't notice there was a line of words on the collar? It was engraved with 'Chen Jun's family'..."

Me: "...Auntie, why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"Also. The gift she prepared for Zi included a pack of dog biscuits..."

I lay on the table with a stiff face: with the fox's speed and the convenience of space teleportation, I'm afraid she would have met Zi within a minute. At this time, it was too late to do anything. Maybe soon all youkai will know that their new landlord is a monster who keeps a fox fairy girl as a pet dog. By the way, there is also a life-shooting pill in the youkai, so I can think that the whole world knows...

Just when I was starting to figure out whether to kill someone or not, I suddenly saw a small blue figure flashing past the kitchen door from the corner of my eye, and I quickly patted my head: "Cirno!"

The blue figure fell from the air, then ran over and shouted loudly: "I didn't eat the cake secretly, and I didn't knock over the soy sauce bottle in the kitchen. I went to deliver frozen tofu to the kitchen - okay ,What's up?"

Me: "..." Is this guy's lack of heart even more serious than before?

"Where were you yesterday? No one was seen all day long."

As I said that, I picked an ice wing from Cirno's back with ease, stirred it in the orange juice at hand, chilled it and put it back for her. The whole process went so smoothly that the ice fairy didn't even react. come over. Why do I suddenly feel that my sins are particularly serious - after Yakumo Blue, there is another poor guy around me who is regarded as a strange object.

Well. Since the day she came to my house as a refrigerator, this guy has been reduced to a household appliance...

"I went to play with Dajiang! Then...then I asked someone to duel with me, eh? Who did I want to duel with? Why can't I remember..."

Come on, who did this poor kid get into a fight with? He was beaten to the point of losing his memory, right?

Cirno is also considered one of the guests at home. But the sense of presence is really low, mainly because this guy is positioned as an electrical appliance at home, and her main duty is to provide everyone with cold drinks - so since November, she has basically no sense of presence. Moreover, this guy doesn't usually communicate with her family very much. She happily acts as a household appliance at home. During her break, she will rush to Avalon to play with her friends for a long time. She comes and goes as she pleases, even They didn't realize that they were living in someone else's house, and over time half of the people in the house forgot that there was a goblin living in the house. Later, Anweina felt that Ciruno should be given something to do, but it was obviously unrealistic to continue freezing popsicles and serving as an air conditioner (it is emphasized here that Ciruno dared to hold a basin of popsicles on her head even when it was snowing outside) A magical creature who went out to hawk on the streets, and couldn’t sell popsicles for three months without even realizing that winter was coming), so our head maid loaned Cirno to the kitchen and asked her to be responsible for keeping the food fresh and making frozen tofu.

The result is that now we only think of Quan'erjiu when we want to eat frozen tofu.

"This is a gift for you."

I took out a cardboard box from my pocket and handed it to Cirno, "Everyone in my family went out to play yesterday and came back to share the spoils... Well, you were not at home when we distributed the gifts, so I put them away for you first."

"A gift?" Cirno looked at the box in her hand blankly, looking very confused, and then her eyes suddenly brightened, "A gift? For someone else? Someone else has a gift too? Really? Not a lie?"

How much love does this poor child usually lack...

"What is this?" Cirno happily took the paper box. This gift was brought back by her sister. I guess only the careful sister at home would remember that we have such a dull resident. Oh, by the way, Anweina should also be able to remember: every day she cooks, she has to say hello to Ciruno, who is the kitchen freezer.

"Shaving ice machine." I demonstrated the small machine to Cirno. "It can turn large pieces of ice into fine ice flakes. Xiaobubu has modified it for you. Now it uses special energy and can be used without electricity. Used it. Don’t you like to make all kinds of cold drinks? This is better than you..."

Before I finished speaking, Cirno was already fiddling with the portable ice shaver with bright eyes, and she was very happy: "Ah ha, it's such an amazing thing, I want this. It can grind ice cubes... I'll give it a try... …”

Then she conveniently broke off a piece of ice wing from behind and stuffed it into the ice shaver. He gestured and asked me: "Do you want to press the green button?"

Me: "..." Has this unlucky kid been bullied so much that he is used to taking off his ice wings and rubbing ice flowers into them?

After a lot of tinkering, Cirno finally succeeded in making ice flowers that were finer and more uniform than those she had made before, and she was very happy. And I once again had a new understanding of this child's intelligence: This shaved ice machine only has a box for ice cubes and a single button, and she actually studied it for fifteen minutes! How did this guy develop his self-care ability? How many times would she starve herself to death if no one took care of her!

"Cirno likes this gift!" The ice fairy happily held up the shaved ice machine. Running around me, "You are so kind, everyone is a good person..." This is the first time I have seen a good person card with AOE ability.

At this time, I suddenly saw Paopao dragging Little Paopao past me. The former raised his little face and looked arrogant, while the latter was carrying a small schoolbag and was being dragged by his mother in a daze. Ji Shanshan was also followed behind him. That guy was also carrying a schoolbag. I was immediately surprised: "What are you guys doing?"

"Have you never seen a child sent to school?" Paopao rolled his eyes at me, "I am the only one who still remembers this matter. You may have forgotten it a long time ago. I have already completed the procedures and got everything for Little Paopao. Today I will send her to the Imperial Military Academy for classes. Well, Jill is also following her, as a companion."

"Is it okay if I don't go?" Ji Xianxuan glanced at Paopao pitifully, and the latter immediately raised her eyebrows like a landlady in the old society: "Okay, but from now on until Xiaopao graduates, you can only eat Pickle flatbread.”

Only after Bubble reminded me did I finally remember it. There is also the matter of Xiaopaopao's admission to school, and this matter was discussed with me at the beginning. We all know that Little Bubble is a mutated Xiling host. She can super-evolve other imperial equipment, but she herself cannot learn the production skills that a normal Xiling host should have. In addition, perhaps due to the same mutation, Little Paopao's growth direction is abnormally deviated. At more than three years old, she has learned many skills that only fifteen or sixteen-year-olds can master, but in terms of language, she has just learned to call mom and dad. . So Paopao suggested that the child be sent to school. At least being with other children might help her personality mature earlier. At first, we planned to let her go to preschool and play with the children brought by the heroic leaders of the macro world, and we also tried this - but later this attempt failed, because in addition to being better at playing, Little Bubble I didn’t learn anything, and I also used my ability to successfully kidnap seventy or eighty naughty children into missing a whole day during class, which almost caused a panic incident. We realized that we couldn’t let a Xiling host with powerful abilities and a lack of Average kids with self-control mixed together.

So Little Bubble was finally dragged by her mother to the registration office of the Imperial Military Academy... I felt this was even more ridiculous!

This kid can't even speak, so why don't you let her go to the military academy? While working with Niba, learn how to lead an army or how to govern a country from the genius elites of various worlds? Is she really not going to turn the entire military academy upside down?

However, before I could question this, Paopao had already led his daughter and nanny into the portal leading to the Shadow City, and Sandora told me another thing that deserves more attention: "Ajun, deep dive The ship has self-destructed.”

This news immediately ranked at the front of all events and had the highest priority. Sister and Qianqian also knew that this was a big deal, so they stopped what they were doing. Soon, the whole family arrived at the Shadow City, and then teleported directly from the dedicated channel to the edge world where the deep-diving experiment was conducted. When we arrived, Tavel was already waiting. Maybe she hasn't left the testing site in the past few days since the experiment started.

No one has any doubts about the self-destruction of the deep submersible ship. This was originally planned. The deep submersible ships we are manufacturing now are disposable items with various flaws. The chance of returning is zero - fact It does not store the navigation data required for return home at all. In addition to collecting data in the abyss, the value of this prototype ship is also to test how far the deep-submersible ship manufacturing technology currently mastered by the New Empire can go. It is bound to self-destruct, and what we want to know is when.

After completely submerging into the abyss, the deep submersible ship was cut off from the material world. No one knew what happened to it, or even whether it had been destroyed. The only way to confirm the fate of the deep submersible ship was to wait at the abyss. Near the door, wait for the navigation signal of the "drift bottle" to be transmitted from inside. When this signal appears, it can be determined that the deep submersible ship has been completely destroyed, and the time period of the deep submersible ship's destruction can be determined based on the independent voyage log of the "drift bottle".

Five days have passed since the start of the deep dive operation, and just ten minutes ago, the outpost waiting outside the Gate of the Abyss received the first "drift bottle" that successfully surfaced near the Gate of the Abyss. A request for salvage signal. The "drift bottle" is a safety database with an independent engine. Its return speed is faster than the deep-diving speed. According to calculations, the deep-diving ship disintegrated about a day and a half ago. In other words, it was in the abyss environment for a total of It lasted three and a half days.

That's not a very good result, but it's not too bad either - because three and a half days means it successfully crossed the line known as the watershed: the shallow zone of the abyss. (To be continued)