Chapter 755 Official Business

Cirno and Dingdang were chatting affectionately, but I didn’t go over to eavesdrop on their conversation, because I didn’t think what two guys with a combined IQ of only eighteen had much information, I just watched them compare while talking. The way he was gesticulating seemed to be quite happy.

"That's right, let's do it!"

Cirno's sudden shout brought me back to my senses from the cold wind of minus 15 degrees Celsius. I slapped the snowflakes on my shoulders and looked at the counter curiously, only to find that Cirno was taking out the food from behind the counter. A new popsicle box, while Dingdang jumped to the other end of the long counter, rubbing and rubbing his hands with a slight green glow.

"What are you doing?" I gave Dingdang a sideways glance, "Rubbing stones back to the city?"

Dingdang rubbed his hands and stuck out his tongue at me: "Just watch Ajun! Dingdang is very powerful!"

"Crack, la, la," as soon as Ding Dang finished speaking, there was a slight sound of ice breaking on the counter. A green plant actually broke out of the ice and grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Ding Dang began to happily circle around this empty space. The growing plants flew around, and the latter turned into a small fruit tree in just half a minute: less than two meters tall, integrated into the counter, with half-exposed roots piercing deeply into the ground. Under the ice layer, the upper part of the fruit tree is full of golden fruits, which look a bit like apples - if human figures can be reflected on the surface of normal apples.

Cirno froze an ice knife and came out, happily picking fruits from the small fruit tree, cutting them into thin slices and pouring them into the popsicle box, then pouring in other messy but definitely abnormal ingredients, shaking them three times, The cold breath spread from her hands, quickly turning the contents of the box into ice cubes.

"New product!" Cirno happily took out an ice cream stick with fruit slices inside, "Golden apple ice cream!"

Gold...this is your sister’s golden apple! Ding Dong planted a golden apple tree in such a small shop! Then Cirno used it to freeze popsicles!

I almost carried it in one breath. In the biting cold wind, I looked at the golden apple tree less than two meters high in front of me, and the several dazzling golden apples hanging on it. Finally it came together in one sentence:

Hercules, your sin back then was completely in vain!

Cirno held up the popsicle in her hand and looked over it over and over. The power of the sacred fruit made it always shrouded in a faint golden light curtain, which made the popsicle look as beautiful as a gold bar, naturally magnificent— —even though it’s still a popsicle. Cirno became more and more satisfied as she watched. Obviously she had never made such beautiful popsicles despite her low intelligence. She thought about it for a while and then put a popsicle into my hand: "Hey, thank you for taking in many monsters. Reimu said that you are a friend of Gensokyo... For Dingdang's sake, please do it. Take it well!”

I fearfully took this nine-turn resurrected popsicle that could be upgraded to five levels in a row after one bite. I wondered if I could go back and hang this thing on the door upstairs, and then publicly select heroes from all over the world, let them pass twelve trials and win the prize. After fighting through the twelve Golden Saints to compete with each other, the final reward is a popsicle: no matter how you look at it, this thing is qualified.

After the golden apple ice cream was frozen, Cirno and Dingdang were obviously still not satisfied. They gathered together again and started chatting together, as if they had become partners. I thought about asking my mother-in-law to come over and help. Then the three of them would Two idiots co-operate this cold drink shop. The signboard reads "San 9 Cold Drink Shop", and the advertisement reads: San 9 Cold Drink Shop, powerful enough to cause colds, please look out for the 999 trademark!

Cirno and Dingdang finally discussed a series of results, such as golden apple ice porridge and golden apple cones, and could also cooperate with Sylvia to launch a golden apple pie set meal. Facts have proved that, in a way, Cirno and Dingdang are not stupid, their intelligence is just a little weird. The two 9 people who had fallen into a state of delusion spent more than an hour discussing, experimenting, and practicing to prove to me that this world is really wonderful. The gadget that once allowed Hercules to escape death eventually turned into a table of ice cream and ice cream.

The most important thing is that each of them can be eaten by you to upgrade five levels in a row.

I can't imagine what kind of bloody storm this kind of thing will cause if it really enters the market, let alone what kind of disaster it will cause to that place if it wanders into another world. Two peerless masters meet and fight to the death. Each takes out a peerless elixir and swallows it. As a result, their skills are greatly increased, and they fight until the sky is dark and the earth is dark. This is a classic style. The two sword masters and magic gods were extremely jealous. Before the duel, they each took out their innate treasures and wore them on their bodies. Then their potentials exploded and they strangled each other until the sky fell apart. This was Xiao Bailiu. Two of the best in the world battled on the top of the Forbidden City. After meeting, they each paused for a minute. Each person took out a popsicle and chewed the ice particles on the ground. Then they fought while gasping for breath and shaking the world - this is a typical example. Xi Lingliu.

So I was so distracted by my own imagination that I became confused in the wind.

What made people even more confused was that Cirno announced a few minutes later that this brand-new popsicle was priced at two yuan and a half. I immediately felt that Hercules was really aggrieved when he narrowly escaped death, but then again After all, isn’t the Holy Grail only five dollars a piece?

When I think about it this way, I am delicately balanced again.

After playing with Cirno for a while, mainly watching Ding Dong play for a while, he said goodbye and left. When he left, he was holding a golden apple ice cream in his hand. Its surging life energy even overflowed from the surface, making us feel The nearby landscape trees could not stop rustling, and Dingdang vowed that such a piece of ice cream could cure at least a hundred kinds of diseases, or make a depleted mage full of blood and magic on the spot.

But before I had time to try something new, I met someone face to face.

Two giants at least two and a half meters tall appeared in front of him.

I just met one in the morning, the Atlantis artificial god, Ares. He should have just returned from completing the test at the research institute, and the other was very dramatic: berserker, Uncle B.

Everyone will never forget that Uncle B also has a name called Hercules.

The two giants saluted respectfully. They had met their immediate bosses (Ding Dong and a certain head of state) respectively. Then Uncle B looked at the popsicle in my hand with confusion: "Well, this thing looks familiar."

"You don't want to know what this is," I said delicately.

When Hercules challenged the Twelve Trials, he risked offending the gods to steal the golden apple. That thing was definitely different from what Ding Dong planted with a two-meter-high mini fruit tree, but the problem was that Ding Dong personally gave it to the mini fruit tree. The fruit produced by the fruit tree is called golden apple, which is a bit strange. The words of gods are powerful, and the things they create are even more so. If a god creates something and then personally gives it a name, it will become the truth in the world, and no one can deny the name of that thing.

When Ding Dong named the fruit he planted golden apple, and Hercules became Ding Dang's side hero, something in Uncle B's life was changed - he recognized the contents of the popsicle in front of him.

"This... is a golden apple?"

"Take it and eat it," I sighed and handed the popsicle to the giant in front of me. "Thank you for your hard work back then. This thing is now sold in Ciruno's cold drink shop for two yuan and a half. You have to live with your conscience. From now on It shouldn’t be a problem for her to trick the entire fruit tree.”

Hercules held the popsicle with his chopsticks with two fingers and cried secretly: "Radon, your death is really not worth it!" Then he stuffed the popsicle to Ares next to him: "Give you half to commemorate the memory of our grave." The Age of Mythology.”

Ares was a little dazed, and I looked at the two giants in front of me and felt a little emotional: These two are both mythical figures, but why do they look so messy when they stand together?

While the civilian areas of Shadow City are still enjoying themselves in peaceful daily life, its military part is still operating at high speed and is committed to constantly challenging the limits of militarism.

After a series of preliminary preparations and organizational work were completed, some substantial things were taken out. When the residents of Shadow City woke up one morning a few days later, they habitually looked up at the clock on the sun and discovered that Something new has appeared over their city.

A huge floating facility with a complex structure of steel triple rings. The outermost metal ring has a radius of almost ten kilometers and a width of one kilometer, while the innermost ring is a giant ghost floating blue light stream. Able to "coil", this behemoth floats majestically high above the Shadow City, rotating at a slow speed and orbiting the fortress area in the center of the city. It is silent, but the visual effect is thrilling.

Citizens have speculated about what this is. Many people's opinions tend to be that it is a new type of imperial warship. Some people think that a certain young general has created a new super weapon, while some mysterious people who claim to be insiders insist that it is a new type of imperial warship. These three ring-shaped machines are said to be evidence that onee-sama's era is coming. Some of the newer residents in the city are worried about the sudden appearance of a huge fortress in the sky. They are afraid that this thing will fall and damage the flowers and the hair style that they spent 300 yuan on. However, the veterans who have lived here for more than a year They are not surprised by any weird things appearing in the city. Their only complaint is: this big iron ring just floats on their block, blocking the sun. Although it does not affect the lighting, what will happen to the time in the future?

Look at the sun during the day and the moon at night, accurate to the second. The suspicious theme package added by a certain bubble to the city management system has made many residents develop this habit. They do not have watches at home.

This only resident complaint was resolved within a few minutes: they discovered that a huge projection appeared at the bottom of the floating fortress in the sky, clearly and sharply displaying the current time, so the majority of residents were satisfied: I bet it was an electronic Watch.

That’s weird! !

"The Command Center of the Military Command," I looked at the huge floating facility in the sky and shrugged to Sivis, "I know you built it, but has the Military Command started to operate normally now?"

Sivis is still wearing the meticulous imperial uniform. Since the headquarters composition of Shadow City was fixed, she has not taken a vacation or even changed into other styles of clothes. Faced with my doubts, the admirable female adjutant seemed to have a trace of helplessness on her face, and then replied solemnly: "My Majesty, the Military Command started operations as early as a month ago, and has been in operation for half a year." All work was carried out normally a few months ago, and this command center was only established later. You signed these documents yourself."

I knew you had to have this last sentence.

To be honest, it’s certainly not true that I haven’t read the documents I signed carefully, but after all, my memory is limited, and I’ve been so busy with work recently, so how can I have the time to remember them one by one? Now that Sivis was reminded, he suddenly remembered that he had indeed signed some relevant reports a while ago. In order to comprehensively enhance the strength of the Imperial Servant Army and strengthen the logistics and establishment management of the affiliated armies, we have established an organization called the Military Integration Department, which is directly commanded by the Imperial Command and has military leaders from all over the world as officers. A servant army's establishment department and unified equipment research and development and production system, as well as many complicated things that I can't even understand. In short, it is a servant army that unifies and transforms a miscellaneous army + a militia group. It has become a general-purpose department of the regular army with unified organization and unified equipment.

Such a complex military unit certainly requires a series of dedicated personnel, as well as a place for them to work.

At present, each affiliated world has established relevant units of the Ministry of Military Command, as well as administrative, production, research and development and other facilities related to this comprehensive department. For example, the world of Azeroth has a power armor modification center, and the capital star of the Pan-Galaxy Civilization Community A base for magic amplification and transformation was established, which may sound nondescript but is very necessary. Of course, the highest command center of the Military Command should be established in Shadow City.

At the beginning, the Military Command was just a subordinate department of the Supreme Headquarters, and there were not many matters that needed to be dealt with. However, when the reorganization of the servant armies of all races began, we suddenly discovered that this was an outrageously complex task. There are so many things that need to be integrated, and there are so many projects that need to be developed. It is simply impossible to use the spare power of the Supreme Command to carry out this work: the flesh-and-blood servant soldiers are not plasticine, and you can't just knead them all together and then Carve it out with a unified mold. Apart from anything else, do you know how much effort Qian Qian spent on improving the nail clippers used by the Minotaur - although I think that girl is simply too idle.

In short, in order to make the Military Command more efficient and easier to manage, we have added a special facility to it in Shadow City, which is the current circular floating fortress in the sky. Bubble completed it in a different space a few days ago. It was assembled and tested, and now the fortress appeared to the public for the first time.

It was built quickly, and the name is straightforward. You can call it the Military Command, the Integration Department, the Second Headquarters, the Integrated Command Post, or the Integration Center - it all depends on what Qianqian thinks of that day. which one.

I knew it would be unreliable to ask that girl to name things.

"Now the unification of equipment and supplies for the servant army has been carried out simultaneously. We are preparing to divide the various armies into military types." Sivis looked at the floating facilities in the sky. "While retaining the unique military types of each world, Basically, we can roughly divide them into several combat types, and remix them according to general technology/mystical power, so that it will not be too confusing."

"What is the final plan for equipment?"

"Her Majesty Sandora's plan is to uniformly equip the frontline infantry with power armor. The base plate of the armor is the New Eden Federation Marine power armor improved with the nether energy system. According to the suggestions of several senior veterans of the Civilized Community, we gave up on The armor's psionic shield has been further improved, which in turn has greatly enhanced the strength of their physical armor."

I showed a puzzled look. The nether energy shield is the signature technology of Xiling Apostle. The cost of its shield generator is not much higher than that of interstellar alloy. However, it requires strengthening the physical armor weight of power armor to achieve the same protective performance. Sacrificing more load, this strengthening direction does not seem to be cost-effective.

Sivis saw my confusion and took the initiative to explain: "The technology of the psionic shield generator is more complicated. The frontline technicians or engineers of the subordinate race can't even learn how to change the energy lines for them, let alone wear them. These armors are ordinary infantry. We need to consider the situation where the power armor is penetrated on the battlefield. We can't let soldiers die in vain because they don't know how to replace the shield generator. In comparison, it is easy to replace the armor with a metal plate. Much more. Now the military research departments of all the affiliated worlds have begun to study the new batch of imperial technologies we sent over, but they will not be able to master much in a short period of time. Perhaps the power armor that strengthens the energy shield will not be installed until the next generation. value."

I nodded, thinking that this kind of thing really requires the advice of pedestrians. If you really go to the battlefield and you are killed because your shield is overloaded but you don't know how to change the battery, that will definitely be the most miserable way to die. .

"The integration of daily necessities and supplies is a bit troublesome," Sivis continued. "The servant army has many races and different living conditions. It is basically impossible to prepare unified daily necessities, and considering that more different living supplies may be added in the future, Affiliated race, so it’s better to leave the logistics in this area to them.”

I nodded: "I believe that with the skills of those racial leaders, they will not even be unable to prepare food and clothing for their own army. We will only take care of their equipment."

Sivis nodded, and then mentioned another thing.

Whether to start implementing biochemical enhancement technology on some affiliated worlds.

The carbon-based life-enhancing technology obtained from Atlantis has produced many results. Xiling technicians have collected and integrated some simple technologies that can be learned and mastered by ordinary civilizations. After analysis by the Ministry of Integration, these technologies can at least be applied to the current situation. Fifty percent of the empire's subordinate races.

I had thought of this before when I saw Ares in the research institute, but I didn't expect it to be placed in front of me so quickly.

"There are currently three types of enhancement technologies. The simplest ones are some lifelong potions that are easy to mass-produce. They can be applied to most carbon-based soldiers to enhance their physical strength, recovery speed, reaction ability and thinking ability at a low cost. , any affiliated world can bear the cost of this enhancement. The second level of enhancement comes from the DNA transformation technology accepted by Atlantis civilians. After being simplified, it can be used on those with strong endurance in the servant army, which is better than the first level. The first-level enhancement is more effective, and has a certain chance of strengthening the recipient's spiritual energy. The psychic energy of the two Protos volunteers has been significantly improved. It costs slightly higher and requires the use of psionic equipment, but it is large. There is no problem with area promotion. The third level of enhancement is something we directly analyzed from the artificial gods of Atlantis like Zeus. Genetic modification, mental power modification, and physical modification are carried out at the same time, which can turn ordinary humans into and They are as superhuman as imperial soldiers, and the carbon-based creatures that have undergone this kind of biochemical modification will gain special abilities, such as supernatural powers that can assist in combat and extremely high talents in magic. What is even more potential is that this kind of modification can be passed down to the next generation. Generation after generation, although it will become a little weaker, it can continue to improve the overall quality of our affiliated races. The only problem is that this transformation uses high-purity psionic crystals, which can only be used by a small number of elite soldiers, and there is a 100% The 0.3 test embryos had a rejection reaction - the modification may have the risk of causing disability. Although it can be treated, the process is definitely uncomfortable."

After Sivis finished his report in a formal manner, he added: "The above three modifications are all general technologies prepared for soldiers. There are more advanced technologies in the Atlantis legacy, but the risks are too great."