There are many painful things in the world, but I think one of them is when you suddenly fall asleep while holding your child. As a responsible and caring father, you don't even dare to move. There are only two kinds of creatures in the world that are the most difficult to appease. One is the naughty child, and the other is the naughty child's mother. Look, the naughty child is ranked higher than the mother, and if the naughty child doesn't have a mother, then it will be twice as difficult to appease.
This night of insomnia has tormented me …
Of course, if you want to ask if there is anything in the world more painful than insomnia while holding a child to sleep, then let me tell you, there is. It is when you finally fall asleep, and the child in your arms wakes up and is very energetic …
I only fell asleep in a daze when the sky began to brighten. It felt like only a few minutes had passed before my bed began to toss and turn. Then, I heard Quicksilver Lamp's loud shout, "Idiot! Get up! Let's go downstairs and eat! "
I opened my eyes in a daze and saw that it was already bright outside. The doll girl was sitting on my chest with her hair draped over her shoulders. Her deep rose-red eyes were shining, and she looked energetic. "Hey, why do you look so tired?"
"I couldn't sleep last night." I yawned. I wasn't too tired mentally, but I had already developed the habit of living according to a normal human's schedule. It felt weird to suddenly not sleep for a night. "Looks like you slept well."
"Even an idiot can have insomnia?" Mercury Lamp's body slanted and she jumped off the bed. Only then did I notice that she had changed into a new princess dress. She might have bought it yesterday when she went out to play. Needless to say, it was something from a Barbie doll set. "Okay, let's eat first. After eating, come back and sleep for a while. You can't go without eating …"
His nagging look was really like a precocious daughter lecturing a lazy father. I smacked my lips, but I couldn't remember why I suddenly had insomnia last night. I only remembered that Mercury Lamp was telling me what she had seen and heard, and then … I suddenly heard something strange. The other side, the signal, the bridge, and so on. Could it be that my insomnia was because of those words?
When I went downstairs to eat, I casually told everyone about my insomnia. The general view was: So even an idiot can have insomnia. Without a doubt, the Mercury Lamp was the first to rashly propose this idea, and it received enthusiastic responses from many people. This was truly a depressing matter. Sandora was the only one who was serious. She also felt that my insomnia was quite strange. As a Void Creature, my mind had long mutated to the point where it didn't conform to any theoretical model. The possibility of it being affected by external factors was zero. In other words, as long as my biological clock decided to sleep, basically, even the end of the world wouldn't be able to make me lose sleep for a second. Hence, my insomnia last night was worth investigating, but she couldn't find anything. I could only remember that I heard three words in a daze, and I couldn't tell if those three words were Mercury Lamp's or my own mishearing. (The little puppet didn't even remember what she said yesterday. She rambled on and on, and one of her biggest characteristics was that she would never remember what she said before she went to sleep.) With just these few clues, of course, Sandora couldn't find anything. Shallow Shallow, on the other hand, had her own thoughts. She felt that it was related to the Void Cataclysm …
After that, everyone ignored her. Ever since Qian Qian linked the Abyssal Mutation to the void cataclysm, it had become a habit for her to link everything to the void cataclysm. She was very paranoid.
After breakfast, Blue came to greet me. She said that she would be returning to stay with Eight Cloud Purple for a few days.
"I've been here for a long time. I'm a little worried about Lord Purple," Fox said with a smile. Fox said with a smile as he carried two small parcels in his hands. He was still wearing the collar that he had worn yesterday — it was especially eye-catching. "I've brought gifts for Lord Zi and Lord Ling Meng. I'll bring them along as well. I've troubled you for so many days. Thank you for taking care of me. "
I raised my eyebrows. "Why does it sound like she's not coming back?" Now that you mention it, it would be quite a pity if Foxy didn't come back. Our house would lose an insole, I would lose a blanket to warm my feet, Qian Qian would lose a foxy dog, Bubble would lose a plush toy, Xiaoqian would lose a big sister fox, and every single person in our house would lose a pillow … Wait, I suddenly felt like Blue Specter had gone to take refuge, right?
Thinking about this, I couldn't help but rub Blue's head. Fox's ears quivered. She thought I was going to rub her ears. "Ugh, it's been hard on you for the past few days …"
Blue's face was filled with confusion. She didn't know where my thoughts had jumped to. Instead, she continued my previous question, "Of course not. I will be back soon. Sigh, have I been staying here for too long … "
"No, no," I hastily waved my hand. I was too embarrassed to admit that I had thought of many impolite things. "Go and talk to Ling Meng. Tell her to occasionally control those monsters, especially that drunkard Cui Xiang. Last time at the Gilded Rose, she got drunk and almost got into a fight with Yang Guo. She even said, 'I'll fight you with only one hand.' Do you know how hurtful that sentence was? Also, tell Purple that I don't mind her sleeping during working hours. I don't mind her sleeping on duty. I don't even mind her sleeping until she gets off work. However, it's not appropriate for her to carry a Simmons when she's having a meeting at the hub. Although she's done her job well, can she care about her boss's face? "
Blue's expression was stiff. Her tail froze in the air. "Ugh, okay."
Xiaoxue also came over to bid farewell to Blue. She smiled after Blue promised to come back in a few days. Then, she grabbed Fox's tail and rubbed it. "Haha, that's right. In the future, I'll be with you from a young age. You'll be staying at home for a long time. You'll be our nanny. Sister Fox, come back soon. I'll teach you how to weave a China knot with your tail … "
Hearing that, Blue turned around and ran without another word. She was as fast as the rumors said. With a flash of yellow light, she disappeared …
Shallow Shallow stuck to my side and bumped her head against my arm. "What do you think Hachi Yunzi will do if she sees the collar on Blue's neck?"
"If she sees it, then so be it. Look, Visca has a bell on her neck." As soon as I said that, Visca immediately shook her head happily. The bell on her neck rang Jingle. She really liked this little toy, even though Pandora looked down on her.
Shallow Shallow looked at me carefully. "But didn't you see the line of words on the collar? It's engraved with 'Chen Jun's Family' … "
"… Aunty, why didn't you say so earlier?!"
"Also, she prepared a bag of dog biscuits as a gift for Purple …"
My face stiffened as I leaned on the table. With Fox's speed and the convenience of teleportation, she would have encountered Purple within a minute. By then, it would be too late to do anything. Perhaps, all the monsters would know that their new landlord was a weird uncle who kept a fox maiden as a pet dog. Oh right, there was also the word "Hitomiyama" in monsters, so I assumed that the whole world knew about it …
Just as I was contemplating whether or not to silence her, I suddenly saw a small blue figure flash past the kitchen door from the corner of my eye. I quickly slapped my head. "Elune!"
The blue figure fell from the sky and ran over, shouting, "I didn't steal the cake. I didn't knock over the soy sauce bottle in the kitchen. I went to deliver the frozen tofu to the kitchen. Alright, what's the matter?"
I: "…" Is this guy's stupidity even worse than before?
"Where did you go yesterday? I didn't see you for the whole day. "
As I said that, I casually plucked an ice wing from Elune's back. I stirred it in the orange juice beside my hand, chilled it, and put it back on her. The entire process was so smooth that the ice fairy didn't even have time to react. Why did I suddenly feel like I had committed a grave sin? After Rhododendron Spp., there was another pitiful person who was treated as a strange object by my side.
Well, since the day she came to my house to be a refrigerator, she had been reduced to an electrical appliance …
"I went to play with Dao-chan! Then … then she looked for someone to duel with. Huh? Who did she duel with? Why can't I remember … "
Damn, who did this pitiful child fight with? Did she lose her memory?
Elune was also one of the guests in our house, but her presence was really low. The main reason was that she was an electrical appliance in our house. Her main duty was to provide cold drinks for everyone. Thus, ever since November, she basically had no presence at all. Furthermore, she didn't interact much with the rest of the family. She happily played the role of an electrical appliance in the house. When she was resting, she would run to Avalon to play with her friends for half a day. She would come and go without a care in the world. She didn't even realize that she was living in someone else's house. As time went by, half of the family forgot that there was a fairy living in the house. Later, Anveena felt that she should give Elune something to do. However, it was clearly unrealistic to continue freezing popsicles and acting as an air conditioner. (It must be emphasized that Elune was a magical creature who dared to carry a basin of popsicles on her head and peddle her wares on the streets even when it was snowing heavily. She wouldn't even realize that winter had arrived if she couldn't sell her popsicles for a month.) Thus, our head maid borrowed Elune to the kitchen and made her responsible for keeping food fresh and making frozen tofu.
As a result, we would only think of Circle Nine when we wanted to eat frozen tofu.
"This is a gift for you."
I took out a paper box from my dimensional pocket and handed it to Elune. "Everyone in the family went out to play yesterday and came back to split the loot … Uh, you weren't home when the gift was split, so I put it away for you."
"A gift?" Elune stared blankly at the box in her hands, looking confused. Then, her eyes suddenly lit up. "A gift? For me? She has a gift too? Really? You're not lying? "
Just how much love does this poor child usually lack …
"What's this?" Elune accepted the paper box happily. This gift was brought back by my sister. I reckon that only the attentive sister would remember that we had such a dumb guest. Oh right, Anveena should also remember. She had to greet Elune every day when she was cooking. The latter was the kitchen freezer.
"An ice shaver." I demonstrated the small machine to Elune. "It can turn large chunks of ice into fine ice flakes. Little Bubble modified it for you. Now, it uses a special energy source and can be used without electricity. Don't you like to make all kinds of cold drinks? This is better than you … "
Before I could finish, Elune's eyes lit up as she fiddled with the portable ice shaver. She was overjoyed. "Aha, what an amazing thing. I want this. It can grind ice … Let me try … "
Then, she broke off a piece of ice from behind her and stuffed it into the ice shaver. She gestured and asked me, "Should I press this green button?"
I was speechless. Has this unlucky child been bullied so much that she's used to breaking off her ice wings to make ice flakes?
After fiddling with it for a while, Elune finally succeeded in making ice flakes that were finer and more uniform than anything she had ever made before. She was overjoyed, and I gained a new understanding of this child's intelligence. The ice shaver only had a box for ice cubes and a single button. She actually spent fifteen minutes studying it! How did she train her ability to take care of herself? How many times would she starve herself if no one took care of her?
"Elune likes this gift!" The Ice Fairy happily raised the ice shaver and ran around me. "You're so nice. Everyone is a good person …" This was the first time I saw a good person card with an AOE ability.
At that moment, I suddenly saw Bubble and Little Bubble walk past me. The former had an insufferably arrogant expression, while the latter was carrying a small backpack. She was being dragged by her mother in a daze. Behind them was Ji Shanshan, who was also carrying a backpack. I was instantly surprised. "What are you guys doing?"
"Haven't you seen sending a child to school before?" Bubble rolled her eyes at me. "I'm the only one who remembers this. I'm afraid you've forgotten about it. I've already helped Little Bubble settle all the paperwork. Today, I'm sending her to the Imperial Army's Military Academy for lessons. Yeah, Jill is coming along as well. She can be considered a study companion. "
"Can I not go?" Ji Shanshan looked at Bubble pitifully. The latter instantly raised her eyebrows like a landlady in the old society. "Sure, but until Little Bubble graduates, you can only eat salted vegetables and pancakes."
With Bubble's reminder, I remembered that there was still the matter of Little Bubble going to school. Furthermore, this was something that I had discussed with her back then. We all knew that Little Bubble was a mutated Schilling Host. She was able to cause other equipment in the Empire to evolve, but she was unable to learn the production skills that a normal Schilling Host should have. In addition, it might be due to her mutation that Little Bubble's growth direction was abnormally deviated. At the age of three, she had already learned many skills that only fifteen- or sixteen-year-old children could master. However, in terms of language, she had only just learned how to call her father and mother. Thus, Bubble suggested to send this child to school. At the very least, being with other children might help her mature earlier. At first, we planned to send her to preschool to play with the children brought by the heroic leaders in the macro world. We also tried to do so. However, this attempt failed because Little Bubble didn't learn anything other than being able to play better. Furthermore, she used her ability to successfully trick seventy or eighty naughty children into missing an entire day of school. This almost caused a panic. We realized that we couldn't let a powerful Schilling Host mix with ordinary children who lacked self-control.
Thus, Little Bubble was dragged by her mother to the registration area of the Imperial Army Military Academy … I felt that this was even more ridiculous!
This child doesn't even know how to speak, and you want her to attend classes in the military academy? Playing with mud while learning the art of leading troops or ruling a country from the elite geniuses of various worlds? Is she really not going to turn the entire military academy upside down?
However, before I could voice my doubts, Bubble had already led her daughter and the nanny into the teleportation portal to the City of Shadows. Sandora then informed me of another matter that was even more noteworthy. "Ah Jun, the submersible ship has self-destructed."
This piece of news was immediately placed at the top of my list of matters, giving it the highest priority. Big Sis and Shallow Shallow also knew that this was an important matter, so they stopped whatever they were doing. Soon, the entire family arrived at the City of Shadows. Then, we directly teleported to the border world where the submersible ship experiments were being conducted. When we arrived, Tawil was already waiting for us. Perhaps, she hadn't left the experimental site since the beginning of the experiments.
Regarding the self-destruction of the submersible ship, nobody expressed any doubts. This was originally planned. The submersible ship that we were currently creating was a single-use item with all sorts of flaws. The probability of returning to the surface was zero. In fact, it didn't even have the necessary navigation data to return to the surface. Apart from collecting data from the Chaos Abyss, this prototype also had another function, which was to test the progress of the New Empire's current technology in creating submersible ships. It would definitely self-destruct, and what we wanted to know was when it would self-destruct.
After completely submerging into the Chaos Abyss, the submersible ship would lose contact with the physical world. Nobody knew what had happened to it, and nobody even knew if it had already been destroyed. To confirm the fate of the submersible ship, the only way was to wait near the Gate of the Chaos Abyss and wait for the navigation signal from the 'Floating Bottle'. Only when this signal appeared would we be able to confirm that the submersible ship had been completely destroyed. Then, we would be able to determine the time of destruction based on the independent navigation log of the 'Floating Bottle'.
Five days had passed since the start of the submersible ship operation. Just ten minutes ago, the outpost waiting outside the Gate of the Chaos Abyss received a rescue signal from the first 'Floating Bottle' that had successfully floated to the Gate of the Chaos Abyss. The 'Floating Bottle' was a safety database with an independent engine. Its return speed was slightly faster than the submersible ship's speed. According to calculations, the submersible ship had disintegrated about a day and a half ago. In other words, it had survived in the Chaos Abyss for a total of three and a half days.
This wasn't a very good result, but it wasn't too bad either. Because three and a half days meant that it had successfully crossed the boundary known as the watershed: the shallow layer of the Chaos Abyss.
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