I lifted my head and stared blankly at the scene outside the window.
Everything was normal, as though nothing had happened.
But I was sure that I had seen something wrong. Even though it was just for a moment, there was definitely something flashing … It was hard to describe what had happened. If I had to describe it, it was like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. The scenery outside the window had instantly become fragmented, the light was twisted, and the details were blurry. It was as though I was looking at something through an uneven piece of glass.
Just now, the scene outside the glass window had become so strange … If I was on a spaceship, I could say that it was a hyperspace jump, so the optical distortion was triggered. But now I was sitting in a tea room on Earth. I could only wonder if I was hallucinating. Could it be that I have been overworked recently? Even with my physique, I was about to have a nervous breakdown?
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Xue was chatting with her brother. She noticed my strange behavior and asked curiously, "Is there a beautiful lady doing backflips outside?"
I said, "… Why do you have to add a bunch of strange verbs after 'beautiful lady'?"
"You've seen too many beautiful ladies. How could you be like this without some extra visual impact?" The missy rolled her eyes. "Xiao Feng, you said that a Chinese werewolf went missing in Europe … I remember that China doesn't produce werewolves."
Lin Feng didn't reply to Lin Xue. He was also looking outside the window in a daze. "Sis, I think I saw the glass shatter for a moment … It looks normal now."
The little crow, who was counting the glass beads on the table, raised his hand. "I saw it too! I saw it too! The window shattered! Ga! "
Lin Xue blinked in confusion. She carefully studied the window closest to her but didn't find anything strange. Then, she looked at the two people at the table who hadn't spoken. Sally and Lord Fox Deity shook their heads at the same time. "I didn't notice!"
"Are you guys teaming up to tease me?" Lin Xue pouted and narrowed her eyes. "Let me see what's going on. Don't blame me if you guys want to play this kind of silly joke … Eh, why did it really shatter just now?"
"Yeah, I thought I was hallucinating." I grinned. Then, I was stunned. "Wait, this isn't right …"
Most of the people here weren't ordinary people. Sally was the only 'normal person' who knew all kinds of secrets. Every day, we had to deal with all kinds of strange things. Lin Feng was especially sensitive to such things. He first looked around to make sure that no one in the tea room looked strange. Then, he said to us in a low voice, "Except for Sally and this … Fox Deity, who didn't notice it earlier, we all know that there was a 'blur' outside the window. Brother Chen, can you tell us what you saw?"
I told her exactly what I had seen, and the raven gave her a jumbled description of what she had seen. Silly Bird used all sorts of words, but in the main I was sure that she had seen the same thing as I had seen. It was a confused scene outside.
"We can rule out hallucinations," Lin Feng nodded professionally. "Everyone saw the same scene, so we can confirm that something happened outside the tea house. I think it was similar to a momentary illusion, but it seems that no one else here saw it … Sis, do you know what's going on?"
Lin Xue opened her mouth. But before she could speak, I felt something moving on my chest. Jingle carefully peeked her head out from the edge of my pocket. She whispered, "Erm … Jingle has something to report …"
I instantly had an ominous feeling. When Jingle continued, my premonition came true. "The World Tree seemed to have issued a warning …"
Hearing Dingdang's words, everyone present broke out in a cold sweat (except for Silly Bird, who was still counting the glass beads in her hands). Even the stupid fox showed a nervous expression. Although the fox's personality was a little problematic, it was still very sensible.
I quickly patted my pocket and asked Jingle to retract her head. Then, I opened the public channel and pulled Lin Feng and Sally into the channel. "Don't tell anyone … The World Tree issued a warning? What's going on? "
"It's just a normal system error. There was a 'ding' and the operating system issued a warning. Then, everything was fine."
I looked at the window at a forty-five-degree angle. I couldn't imagine what a 'ding' from the World Tree would look like. So, I tossed the question aside. "So, it just called the police? Then, nothing happened? The World Tree is a life-threatening thing … "
Jingle's tone was indifferent. "It's normal. The World Tree issues an alarm at least once a week and restarts once a month. The data at the bottom of the world has a certain tolerance for errors. As long as it doesn't exceed the threshold, it's considered operating normally. It allows such an alarm. Jingle has already asked the World Tree to check itself. The system is in good condition. The alarm was due to a stable overflow of the universe's information, but it has been fixed. "
In the end, she added, "Actually, Jingle didn't tell you when the World Tree issued a mild alarm because it was a daily occurrence. It's just that you said you saw something strange just now, and the World Tree happened to call the police. That's why Jingle mentioned it."
After listening to Jingle's explanation, I was slightly relieved. Although the little one was usually a mess in many aspects, she was still quite competent when it came to the role of 'God' … Anyway, there hadn't been any major problems so far. Since she said it was just a small malfunction, it should be a small malfunction. However, Lin Feng and Sally's expressions changed. Lin Feng looked at my pocket anxiously. "Brother Chen, if I remember correctly, this should be the current Main God of this world … Why do I suddenly feel pessimistic about life?"
I smiled awkwardly. I had no idea how to take this bullet for Jingle. Let alone Lin Feng, I had also given up hope in this world when I first saw the World Tree's blue screen …
"You said that the World Tree usually has an alarm." Lin Xue pondered for a while and asked Jingle through the mental link, "Then why didn't we notice anything unusual in the world before? Why did we see it this time?"
"There's an error in the malfunction compensation. The World Tree has the ability to automatically cover and offset all kinds of malfunctions. Usually, when something happens in the universe, it will immediately cover up the abnormal phenomenon. It's the same this time. So, the ordinary people here didn't see anything strange. However, the 'malfunction compensation' sometimes can't fool observers like Ah Jun, who have a strong sense of information interference. So, he saw a distortion outside the window. The others were very close to Ah Jun, and everything around him was the 'true vision zone'. So, all of you saw the abnormal phenomenon. But in the end, it's still a matter of probability. When the original operating system fixes the malfunction, even Father God can't react in time. It's done in an instant, "Jingle explained as she reached out her little hand from my pocket." Ah Jun, Jingle wants to have some snacks! "
Lin Xue and I often listened to the group of deities discussing such high-level issues, so we were already used to it. However, Lin Feng and Sally rarely came into contact with such things. Both of them looked as if they were listening to a heavenly book. Lin Feng pondered for a long time and finally concluded, "So, Brother Chen is basically equivalent to a true vision, right? When he stands here, his field of vision opens up … "
I glanced at him in silence. Then, I pinched a small piece of dessert and fed it to Jingle in my pocket. Then, I tilted my head and whispered to Lin Xue, "Your brother's mouth is quite similar to yours."
At this moment, a table of guests not far from us stood up and left. This guest had brought a child with him. The child glanced over and suddenly shouted in surprise, "Daddy, Mommy! That uncle is feeding his pocket with biscuits! "
"Silly child, don't shout. Don't look over there."
I was speechless.
After that table of guests left, Lin Xue's face turned red. She struggled to bend over and hold back her laughter. In the end, she kicked me under the table and said, "That's why I said you shouldn't spoil Jingle too much. She has at least two hundred cubic meters of desserts in her portable space, and she keeps asking for food from you. Sooner or later, you'll turn her into a rice worm."
Before I could speak, Jingle reached out her little hand from her pocket again. "Ah Jun! Give me another piece! Jingle woke up early and didn't eat enough! "
Thus, I continued to stuff biscuits into my pocket expressionlessly. While imagining my image in other people's eyes, I explained, "If I don't feed it, this little thing will bite through your clothes. Do you know that?"
Lin Feng and Sally were very interested to see how I was feeding a small animal that was hiding in my pocket in public. Of course, they could tell that I was already very familiar with this, and I believed that this kind of scene was something that they would not see anywhere else. Sally smiled and looked at my pocket expectantly. "That … Can I feed it?"
Before I could say anything, Lin Xue couldn't help but knock on the table. "Please don't. It's already eye-catching enough that he's feeding his own pocket. If you feed it from the side, it'll attract the attention of the medical staff …"
At this moment, a cell phone suddenly rang and interrupted our conversation. It was Lin Feng's call.
Lin Feng took out his phone and picked up the call. I turned my head and muttered to Lin Xue, "It's rare to see a young man above the age of twenty using Pleasant Goat's theme song as his ringtone. He's really childish."
Lin Feng took out his hand and waved at me. Then, he quickly talked to the person on the other side of the phone. I didn't hear what the person on the other side of the phone said. I only saw Lin Feng nodding and agreeing. After he hung up, Sally asked curiously, "You're working again?"
"The 'unit' is looking for me. They said that there's a problem with the observation point," Lin Feng said vaguely. "It's okay. I don't need to go far. It's just in the city. I'll go there and take a look. I should be back in the afternoon."
"Why didn't anyone call me?" Lin Xue took out her phone in annoyance. "I'm the one in charge of this area. It seems like the higher-ups have forgotten about me."
"You usually disappear half the time. The old man already thinks that you're a girl who got married and can't be taken back," Lin Feng said as he stood up to pay the bill at the cashier. "Sally and I will leave first. I need to go to the 'unit' to check on the situation. If there's nothing else, maybe I can go back and take a nap. You guys continue chatting. Brother Chen, there's something I'm not sure if I should say … "
I saw his hesitant expression and became curious. "Say, there's no outsider here."
Lin Feng pointed at the little crow next to him. "Didn't you notice that she's been squatting on the chair since the beginning?"
"… Silly bird, get down!"
After Lin Feng and Sally left, Lin Xue and I teamed up to educate the little crow. The bird had been in human form for a long time, and she received education from her family almost every day. However, she still had a few bad habits that couldn't be cured. When she ate, she didn't use chopsticks and just ate with her beak. She squatted on the chair and ate. She used her feet to scratch her face (this was also a bad habit of the Fox Immortal). She picked up a bunch of broken stones after going out to ask for credit. Oh, now she even went to the roof to crow … The good news was that she didn't hatch eggs anymore. The bad news was that she still made a mess of her bed. She tore the bedding into the shape of a bird's nest and tore it up.
The more I thought about it, the more complicated it became. In the end, Lin Xue and I stopped our education at the same time. We realized one thing: With the little crow's bad habits, this bird couldn't be saved …
Noticing that the adults had quieted down, the little crow immediately revealed a happy expression. She continued to pick up her precious glass beads on the table. She didn't seem to realize that she had done something wrong. The worst thing was that she squatted on the chair again …
"I think," Lin Xue looked around, "we should leave as soon as possible. In the future, when we go out with these two clowns, unless we're in the Shadow City, we should stay away from public places."
I sighed and patted the Fox Immortal, who was lying on the table and drooling. I prepared to take the clowns for a walk around the artificial lake before going home. Before we left, the boss of the teahouse personally came out to send us off. He was a man from the Northeast. He looked generous and kind. When he came out to send us off, he specifically reminded us, "The pressure of going to school is a bit too much. It's normal for children to be a bit rebellious. I also have a younger sister. When she's under a lot of pressure, she would purposely make a scene … Lastly, the couple didn't pay your bill. Four sets of snacks, two pots of tea, and a few types of fruits.
Lin Xue's murderous aura immediately rose, "When we get back, I'll hang that kid up and beat him up! And this time, he'll definitely hang his head down! "
Looking at Lin Xue's expression, I had a thought in my heart: My sister is still the best. When I was young, she never hung me up when I was beaten up …
We played outside for a whole day. It was just as we had planned at the beginning: to temporarily put all the messy and annoying matters behind us and completely relax for once. But from what I saw, the ones who had the most fun today were the two birds and beasts that came to join in on the fun. Fox was still okay, she usually went out to play by herself, but the little crow was a relatively clingy fellow. She preferred to go out with her family and wander around, which was something that she hadn't been able to do for a long time.
When we returned home, we were faced with a house full of resentment … Yeah, that was to be expected.
Anyway, the moment I pushed open the door and entered the house, a small black shadow pounced on me. The little fellow that pounced on me was like an agile monkey. He circled around my neck and sat steadily on my shoulder. He began to pull my head, "Why didn't you bring me along! Why didn't you bring me along! Why didn't you bring me along! "
I didn't know how she trained her eloquence back in the day. If a normal person were to say these three sentences in a row, they would have to think for a long time, but this little doll could just open her mouth and say it.
I skillfully blocked the little fellow on my shoulder and carried her to the living room. Then, I poured out all the little things that I bought today and distributed them: Pandora and Visca's candy and "History of the World War", Little Bubble's crystal beads and luminous toys, Shallow Shallow's large furry bear, a new set of kitchenware for my older sister, a collection of twenty years of classic horror movies for Anveena — she could watch it as a lifestyle movie. I also bought a new hairpin and a small bag of fertilizer for Liliana, so that she could sprinkle some on her head when she basks in the sun. But it seemed that she didn't really like the second gift …
Let's not talk about other people's things for now. In short, in order to buy gifts for everyone in the family, Lin Xue and I walked around the entire old city. From this, it could be seen that having so many strange creatures in the family was a troublesome matter. The daily necessities each of them needed were enough to span the entire human civilization. If it wasn't for Lin Xue dragging me, I would have gone to buy two strings of paper money for An Weina...
"Hey, where are our things?" While a group of young and old ladies were happily fighting over the gifts, Icetis suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "Don't tell me you don't have them. When I go crazy, I …"
I casually poured out a large pile of things from my dimensional pocket and piled them on the coffee table. "Divide them among yourselves."
To be honest, when I was buying things for the five Protoss cops, I had to rack my brain a little because I really didn't know what these deities, who could split the heavens and earth, would lack. After thinking about it, I understood. They didn't lack anything, but they still went shopping every day. This proved that this group of empty gods had far more spiritual needs than material needs. In other words, they were purely idle, so you could just give them something to divert their attention …
So Bryndis and Monina got a brush to brush their wings, Lin got a fire-breathing dragon model (I bought it for 30 RMB at the toy store. There was a better dragon model there, but I didn't dare to buy it because the content of the model was about a warrior slaying a dragon), and Elson got a big box of pewter …
"Why are the things I got so strange?" Elson was holding a big box out of the blue. "And it even says Lunan 4S Franchise Store … Is this for cars?"
Monina knocked on Elson's chest. "Brother, this is for you to polish the armor … You wear it like a tin can at home. Your body is almost turning into armor."
"Where's Uncle Kenser?" I looked at the bustling 'scene of dividing the loot' and suddenly noticed that someone was missing. I asked curiously.
"There's a problem with the world he manages," Icetis answered. "He went back to clean up the mess for his believers."
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