Chapter 725: It’s Good to Be Idle Sometimes

It's a winter morning, the sun is shining brightly, and it's a rare moment of good weather - in this case, the outside world.

It seemed like it was going to snow outside for the past two days, and it had been gloomy all the time, but God had been holding it in for forty-eight hours and not even a single icy patch came out. Lin Xue's prediction was indeed correct, and the meteorological observatory had once again let the atmosphere trap it.

There is no cold winter in the Shadow City. Every day, all residents vote to select several templates, and then filter them based on the child's mother's "optimal weather solution". The weather is finally artificially created, so most of the time the world inside is The weather is warm and pleasant, and the sun shines brightly. Occasionally, on special days, residents will be notified in advance and snow and rain fall. The purpose is not to balance the ecology, but to reduce the monotony of good weather every day and add a bit of romance. A city shaped by super technology has many wonderful living habits and residents' behaviors that outsiders cannot understand. For example, regarding the weather every day, Shadow City has established many factions, whose members are all residents of Shadow City from all over the world. Population, those who have obtained imperial imperial residence registration as honorary citizens. Because they were idle every day, they began to find something to do, such as forming the "Snow Party", "Rain Party", "Sunny Party" and "Dark Cloud Party", and holding various meetings every day about what the weather would be like the next day. Voting and publicity activities try to gain more public opinion to achieve your own interests. According to statistics, most of the members of the "Snow Party" are Shadow City citizens under the age of 16, such as the Misakas. They like to play in the snow and have a pure romantic sentiment. The members of the "Raining Party" are mainly between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five - they are busy dating and need to create some romance. The "Sunny Day Party" is currently the majority party in the Shadow City Weather Parliament, occupying the vast majority of seats. Its members are from every age group and completely cover all middle-aged and elderly people - because they have old cold legs. The "Dark Cloud Party" is a new party. Most of its members are teenagers. They are deeply poisoned by literary and artistic works, so they pursue a gothic sentiment in the real world, with dark clouds, Gothic churches, evening dresses and dark nights. This makes the people of the Dark Cloud Party She is obsessed with it, but because it occupies too few seats, this party has recently been considering another way to satisfy its ambitions, such as renting a house in the Dark Zone. Sylvanas feels that her spring has come...

Of course, in addition to these main factions, there are many other tendencies in the Weather Council, such as the "Lightning Party" formed by the Misaka Denki Department, the "Typhoon Party" and the "Hail Party" established by the Crow People, and the recently banned "Lightning Party". "2012 Party", the "Pie Party" that was just established two days ago and was secretly supported by Sandora but currently only has Yuyuko as a member, and the "Gold Coin Party" that Reimu Hakurei founded together with Jin Shining, not to mention Lin Zi. When it gets bigger, there are all kinds of birds, and when there are a lot of people, there are also people who want something to fall from the sky. Such wonders can only appear in places like Shadow City.

Nothing major happened in the Shadow City in the past two days. The macro world is peaceful and the virtual space is in order. We initially thought that the fall of Atlantis was driven by the fallen apostles, but according to the intelligence warning from the Space-Time Administration , the movement of the fallen apostles has been dormant for a while. It seems that several consecutive friction failures with us and the recent increasingly strict searches of the gods in the void have made them choose to keep a low profile for the time being, and the fall of Atlantis only The obsession that can be attributed to Visca back then was too serious - this is very embarrassing for a certain cat-eye 1.2 meter, but it is good news for us. The dormancy of the Fallen Apostles means a stable environment, which can quickly carry out various troop reinforcements and scientific research projects that are currently in urgent need of time. The imperial bases hidden in the space folds of the Kuiper Belt have been saturated, and we are establishing new production bases in several extragalactic galaxies. , the Pan-Galaxy Civilization Community has also completed the reorganization of the empire, and has now become a "regular militia" team like the New Eden Federation. Tavel is overcoming some technical difficulties, involving the analysis of the new star ring fragments and the reverse restoration of Asia. The biochemical and superpower technologies preserved by Atlantis, the respectable research madman swore that once these two technologies are transformed into actual power, it will most likely make Qian Qian, Sister, and Lin Xue even more powerful. Go up one floor.

As mentioned before, the research center has studied Qianqian and their powers more than once, and has initially cracked the principle of this magical ability. However, after all, time is still short, and it is very difficult to turn theory into productivity. At present, except for the energy skimmer developed based on my ability, which has entered the practical application stage, and the experimental time avoidance device based on the shallow parsec theory, it can be said that the technicians have made no achievements at all in other application fields. , this has always made Tavel, who never admits defeat in the field of research, very angry. Now Atlantis's technological additions have brought dawn to our researchers: I think that under the terrifying pressure of Huesca, that only shaped The scientific expedition team of the Atlantis civilization has spent their lives studying supernatural powers. They have a relatively deep understanding of this power derived from the spirit and soul, which just fills a large gap in Tavel's research project. Now the latter has begun to dream about when she can develop mass-produced time assault soldiers and cursed warriors, as well as prophet soldiers who predict enemy tactics on the front line. She has even designed military emblems for these three types of soldiers, namely the slippery Covered coffins, clamshell coffins and straight coffins…

Well, of course, those are just the best wishes of a certain coffin-control research maniac. It seems impossible to mass-produce warriors with such heaven-defying superpowers at present. What I expect is some people who have applied special powers. New equipment with high performance, similar to the energy skimmer. Facts have proved that such unreasonable things as supernatural powers will have amazing potential once they are installed into conventional weapons. An energy skimmer can turn all warships that use energy attacks into scrap metal. A time avoidance system can even make sniper cannons Turned into a decoration, I can't imagine how terrible it would be once developed a cursed beacon with a sure-hit seeker with trajectory prediction that can erase the enemy's dodge time and ignore defenses and bring disaster to the target. Toy, Bingtis even pointed out directly that if she had such a thing, she would even dare to smash the glass of her father in the middle of the night - although I think that the female gangster is still capable of smashing her father's glass in the middle of the night even if she does not have such a thing. The strongman of divine glass.

In addition to the new round of scientific research activities launched by Tavel and the accompanying explosions and explosions, another recent change in Shadow City is that there are many more curious monsters wandering around, all of which are immigrants from Gensokyo. new residents.

As compensation for the catastrophic ecological damage caused by Atlantis, we opened the door to Gensokyo and gave them a relatively relaxed entry review condition to ensure that homeless monsters can enter the world. Find accommodation here. At first, I thought that only the residents of Monster Mountain would be moved here. After all, many monsters are just like animals. They are nest-loving guys. They rarely leave their territory unless they have to. But what I didn’t expect was Ava. The environment of Avalon and the magic of Shadow City had an unexpected attraction for them. Not only did all the monsters in Monster Mountain move here, but many monsters living in other places also applied to live in Avalon and Shadow City. The immigration quota I previously assigned to them was filled up.

Of course, Shadow City cannot be 100% open to them. The number of immigrants allowed to come to Gensokyo is limited. Many youkai can only look at the welfare housing in Avalon because they are too late, but we still welcome them. Came here as a tourist for a short stay.

Because they are not considered members of the empire, the monsters cannot obtain an independent administrative area in the Shadow City, and they cannot even obtain independent management rights in the gathering town of Avalon. However, the careless monsters do not care about this at all. What they only value is the novelty of the outside world - the business of Lingmeng and several heroic travel agencies has become unprecedentedly hot as a result, and a certain city manager has almost forgotten what his own job is now.

Because the carnival is over, the work in the Dimensional Hub Square has become much freer. Yakumo Purple has no tasks for the time being, so she cooperates with her own shikigami to open a store in Shadow City. Of course, Yakumo Purple herself is a hands-off shopkeeper, and she usually Sleeping in the back, there are only two salespersons, one is Yakumo Blue and the other is Orange Cat. I went to that shop once, and I still have a mental shadow - it was a clothing, shoe and hat shop, and I couldn't imagine where the fox fur scarves and fox fur hats inside came from.

The next few little things are things at home.

The first is that Busujima Saeko finally finished her family leave and returned home to continue her "maid training". Recently, she is following Anweina to learn how to hide two Uzi submachine guns and twenty-two plasma grenades in Inside the maid outfit, but to be honest, each of us thought this was just a girl’s whim. Although her attitude is very firm, I have recently begun to think about whether it is feasible for her to directly arrange for her to study at the Imperial Military Academy. After all, she is only a middle school student, and it is okay to have a ghost maid at home. Plus an underage maid - Miss Lin has been complaining to me to death lately.

Speaking of which, I seem to have heard someone mention it recently that Busujima finally couldn't restrain her desire for destruction - it may also be that Anweina taught her to use a shovel to launch the eight-sword flash, which inspired the violent gene of this explosive senior sister. Anyway, She began to improve the security of the neighborhood near her home and had serious conflicts with the gangsters nearby. A more credible case was that she went out to buy groceries yesterday afternoon. The next morning, the newspaper reported that several habitual theft offenders were found nearby. I passed out in a trash can near the supermarket. Everyone had gained weight evenly, and someone had poems carved on their backs with sharp objects. I thought of the hairpin on my head missing when I came back from Busu Island, and recently she Studying Chinese classical literature on my own...

I hope she can discover her true self on the road to eradicating violence and becoming a good person. Even if she goes out to fight with people every day, don’t work hard to become the second-best maid in the world. Oh my god, An Weina has recently begun to mutter that "everyone should be "Climbing in and out of the TV set twenty times a minute" was mentioned in the maid course - do you think that is something that a living person can learn?

There is another thing related to Ding Dong. Our great goddess of life finally remembered that she still manages several worlds, so she happily decided to handle an official business. This happened the night before yesterday, but this time the office behavior that was originally worthy of praise seemed This led to undesirable consequences. Dingdang finally came out of the temple crying and locked himself in the cupboard for three hours. When Sandora went to the kitchen to steal something, she almost dipped the small thing in sweet flour sauce and ate it. Later, I asked Lilina about it and I roughly knew the cause and effect - it seemed that a group prayer caused the trouble. A group of students prayed to God in the hope that they would not fail the final exam. Our goddess, who has failed hundreds of times, was extremely distressed by this. But this was not enough to make the cheerful and heartless Dingdang cry like this. What saddened the girl the most was that she racked her brains to guide the praying candidates to complete their exams, and the result was one hundred and thirty-eight. Fully hung.

The goddess who failed one hundred and thirty-eight times in one go and set a new record felt that she had no face to see others.

Finally, it has something to do with Qian Qian: I didn’t expect that the relationship between myself and Qian Qian would break through to the last level in such a deceptive situation - of course, considering Qian Qian’s consistent style, this situation is normal - What I didn't expect was that the spring I expected would be really troubled. The newlyweds both had a honeymoon. Why would Qianqian and I be in such trouble if we wanted to be alone? Mercury Lamp would complain that someone would always move his suitcase around after going to bed at night. Ding Dong had almost chewed my bedside table into a bird's nest. Alaya asked troubledly why the spiritual sea was completely closed at night, but Xiao Qijing didn't respond. But my sister's ambiguous smile is really stressful, and recently I added Lilina, who is even more inefficient. That little girl has to mutter "big pervert" at just the right volume as a preface every time we meet. In the end, I I can only accept my fate... Alas, raising a child before marriage is really a cheating thing for my father. He is really cheating me.

A small park on the outskirts of the city. This is a place I often visit recently. At first, little Paopao got lost occasionally and passed by here when she was looking for her children. However, little Qijing became interested in this place, and now I visit it every now and then. I also spent some leisure time here.

"But it's the twelfth lunar month of winter and we're freezing in the park. I guess we're the only ones here, right?"

I muttered something while leaning on the park bench, looking at the deserted scenery around me.

"Correction, the only one who is freezing here is you, an idiot. I happened to be passing by and saw you getting crazy here, so I came here to pay attention." Lin Xue turned away and said rudely.

It was a coincidence that I met Lin Xue here. This girl hasn't come to my house for dinner in the past two days. I didn't expect to meet her in such a remote place. I happened to have nothing to do, so I sat down and chatted: As the eldest lady said, chatting in a suburban park in the freezing cold wind at -5 degrees below zero would be like sb without a superhuman physique.

"The kid seems to be used to running around outside."

Lin Xue didn't know what she was thinking. After being lost in thought for a while, she lowered her head and looked at the little girl running around the bench and murmured.

Since the first time she bravely came to the outside world, Xiao Qijing's soul strength has continued to grow. Now when she is running outside like this, she looks almost the same as a normal girl, except that her size has shrunk a few times in equal proportions. outside.

The originally translucent body has become substantial. If you don't look closely, you can hardly imagine that such a cute little girl is just an illusion.

"To be honest, I don't know what this child usually thinks about. She will randomly become interested in outside things, so we have to seize these opportunities and let her be exposed to new things." I smiled and stretched out my hand. Xiao Qijing, who was picking up fallen leaves not far away, immediately ran over and stuffed a handful of leaves into my palm: "Hoo ho - leaves!"

In terms of talent in learning to speak, Xiao Qijing is much better than Xiao Bupao, and she can control physical objects with her spirit body in such a short time. Should I say that she really deserves to have inherited the excellent "genes" of Alaya and I?

"Daughter control," Lin Xue muttered, "What if she is interested in the sun?"

I was stunned: "How do you know? I just came back from the corona layer yesterday morning - this girl thought the sun was an egg yolk, so she had to ask me to use egg yolk to make another sun in the sky."

Miss Lin was shocked at that time.

And I suddenly realized something after a few seconds: She doesn't know these things. Could it be that this girl hasn't used her own ability to watch our movements in the past two days?

"Speaking of which, aren't you the God of Peeping?" I coughed twice and muttered, "I thought you were in control of my daily movements."

Unexpectedly, Lin Xue suddenly gritted her teeth and pinched my arm hard: "Hey, what's there to see? Look at you, a big pervert, and Qian Qian... huh?"

The retort I had prepared was suddenly suppressed, and I suddenly scratched my hair in embarrassment and giggled: I almost forgot about this. If anyone is the first to know that I and Qianqian broke through the relationship, it is definitely the person in front of me. The half-fairy girl who is all-seeing and all-knowing, she even knew it earlier than I did. If I think about it seriously, Lin Xue suddenly became depressed during the fireworks show. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what was going on at the time. Now that I think about it, If so, this girl hasn't come to eat for several days in a row. Maybe she is having trouble at home alone.

I am really a slow-responsive guy. Not only did I not feel Lin Xue's friendship at all in the beginning, but have I even forgotten the problems caused by this girl's ability?

"There's no need to apologize or anything like that." Before I could say anything, Lin Xue suddenly came over and buried her head in my chest. "That would make me angry instead. This has all been doomed for a long time. I'm just a little depressed." That’s all.”

"not angry?"

"Hey, I'll twist it!"

"ah--"

"I'm not angry now."

I am not angry when I say this, but I know that the young lady in front of me is definitely not such a generous person. What should I say now? She accepted her fate, but she still planned to settle the score slowly in the future. Considering her long-term trembling behavior in order to reverse her fate, I think it should be the latter.

"Going to have dinner at home tonight?"

"Of course, I suddenly had dinner at home these days, and the cook was frightened, so I'd better go to your place to get some food."

Could it be that hanging around outside all year round finally led to you being kicked out of the family?

I complained like this in my heart. Seeing Lin Xue finally showing his usual naughty smile, I felt relaxed again. I leaned on the bench and gently hugged the girl next to me. I sighed leisurely: "Xian It’s so nice…”

"Yes, it's good to be idle sometimes," Lin Xue laughed, "But wood, we are idle."

"Eh?"

"You have something to do again..."

"No way!"