The sudden appearance of the golden-haired girl made Artemis and the others stop in their tracks, and her imposing manner and arrogant declaration stunned everyone.
Surrounded by a dozen Imperial Army officers in Schilling military uniforms with steel-like expressions, the beautiful girl with waist-length curly blonde hair and a sky-blue aristocratic dress was particularly eye-catching. Her princess attire, which did not match the iron and blood atmosphere around her, not only did it not make her feel the slightest bit delicate, but it also gave her a strange sense of nobility and inviolability. Everyone was momentarily stunned by Sandora for a moment.
Then I waved at the opposite side.
"Ah Jun!" Sandora immediately responded to the call, directly flew over from ten meters away, and then inconceivably completed a super acceleration from a static state to who knows how many times the speed of sound in such a short period of time. The next second, the two emperors disappeared in front of everyone's eyes in the billowing smoke.
Uh, not only the two emperors, but also a certain little goddess who had been hugging my finger and was innocently implicated. Jingle, who could not let go in time, was directly taken away by us in the sky, exclaiming along the way.
"Sandora, I think my ribs may have been slightly fractured …"
I said honestly after I finally untied the queen who was like an octopus wrapped around me and gave an affectionate kiss of reunion after a long time.
Sandora blinked, and then a faint halo appeared in her eyes as she scanned my chest for a moment.
"There's no problem!" The golden-haired girl patted her lover's chest casually. "It's just a little muscle bruise, it will recover in a while. Your body can withstand meteorites … Let's quickly arrange for the refugees to go home and eat!!"
Me: "…"
Is there really nothing left in your mind other than to quickly finish up and go home and eat?
"This is my … sss … girlfriend …" With the help of Sandora, I slowly returned to Artemis and the others, gasping because of the "slight muscle bruise". "She is the other emperor of the Empire. Although what she said just now was a little stiff, the situation is like that. You don't have to be nervous, this place is much better than the original ghost world …"
"We are fine," Artemis looked at me and Sandora with a strange expression. "But are you sure you are really fine?"
This was not the first time Sandora and Artemis met. As early as the incident in Olympus, the two had contact. Of course, the experience of bringing Artemis to justice was not a happy memory for the two. For Sandora, Artemis' series of violations of the Schilling Ruins certainly did not arouse her goodwill, and in the latter's mind, the seemingly cold "queen" in front could even be classified as a dangerous creature.
But now, it seemed that the situation had changed subtly.
The former hostility had vanished. Knowing Artemis' situation, as the emperor, Sandora naturally would not care about the other's previous "blasphemy". Towards this strong girl, Sandora even gave a few words of praise. Do not underestimate these two words of praise, you should know that for outsiders, it was almost impossible to get a word of praise from such a proud queen. The generals of the Empire even regarded a nod from Sandora as a military medal of honor. As an ordinary human, Artemis could be praised by Sandora as a "tenacious girl", which in fact had given the former a lot of recognition among the Shiring Apostles.
But Artemis herself did not know all this. Although she was no longer hostile to Sandora, the latter's strength and unique cold temperament in their first meeting had clearly left a deep impression on her, and more importantly …
When Artemis was captured, before she was handed over to the Esper Group, Sandora had slightly "warned" the girl who had once dabbled in a large number of Schilling ruins and destroyed a large part of them for "research". Of course, it was not barbaric torture. For Sandora, spiritual punishment was clearly more effective. Although a little psychological deterrence did not cause too much damage to Artemis, it left a serious psychological shadow in the latter towards the "cold and arbitrary" queen in front of her. After Sandora appeared, I could clearly see that Artemis was nervous and even wanted to run away.
And this nervousness suddenly lost its sense of reality after Sandora exposed her weakness in public. Artemis could only look at me and Sandora, who was still hanging sweetly on my neck, with a conflicted expression, constantly guessing how the thinking of the Shiring Apostles and humans should be converted.
In the next few minutes, the ever-changing expressions on Artemis's face never stopped scrolling across the screen.
Even if I did not know what she was thinking, I could tell from the changes in her expression that it was definitely not something good, and I immediately interrupted Artemis's possibly rather rude thoughts with a dry cough. "Ahem … Anyway, the situation in this world has basically been resolved. The building around you now is the core of the world — of course, it is only the surface of the core. There are suitable housing and other living supplies here, and you can adapt here first. There are still many things to adjust between the two worlds, and you will also need about a week to complete the stable transition from information form to physical form, so for the time being, this is still a closed space. But I think it would be nice to enjoy a few days of leisure in such a beautiful place, so please bear with it a little."
At this time, Artemis recovered from her daze. She found that her companions were already looking around with astonished expressions, and Hu Wen and Bell Yin had run off somewhere. Only then did she begin to pay attention to the surrounding environment.
Less than a hundred meters away from us, a huge building system was gradually taking shape amidst the mysterious light.
Its main body was a magnificent pyramid hundreds of meters high. The pyramid had a golden metal shell, and light blue energy flowed like blood along every edge of the pyramid, converging on the diamond-shaped crystals distributed on the four sides of the pyramid and at the apex, causing these crystals to pulsate like a heart. Winding green vines grew out of nowhere, extending along the surface of the pyramid. These vines, which were completely incompatible with machinery, covered the pyramid, but not only did they not cause the slightest sense of disharmony, they were filled with the charm of a perfect combination of technology and mystery. At the same time, these vines also seemed to be a link to several other buildings. Around the pyramid, there were several silver-gray tower-shaped buildings that were hundreds of meters high. They looked like a series of rectangular pieces pieced together, showing a strange shape of narrow at two ends and thick in the middle. Other than the blue light flowing along the edges, these tall metal "towers" did not seem to have any entrances or exits on the surface. Upon careful observation, we found that these metal towers were not built on the ground, but hovered less than a meter away from the ground, and slightly undulated up and down in an imperceptible manner. With each undulation, they would trigger a series of halos in the air, and the flashing of the halos was synchronized with the diamond-shaped crystal pulsation on the pyramid by a second. The vines that spread on the ground extended from the pyramid to the bottom of the silver-gray floating tower, forming a ring of runes.
The vines were still growing. Their growth rate wasn't as fast as Xi Ling's buildings, but in the end, the vines would still cover more than half of the pyramid. I had seen the rendering that Tarver had provided. In a few days, more than eighty percent of the surface of the pyramid would be covered by the green vines. It would look like an ancient ruin that had been buried by time, exuding a sense of history. A brand new building would become a cultural relic in a few days. This was something that even Tarver couldn't avoid — once the vines of the Tree of Life grew, no one could do anything about it.
It was this device that maintained the current appearance of the 'world fragment'. Of course, the crucial World Management Terminal couldn't possibly be exposed to the outside. What we could see was only the periphery of the entire device. That special Schilling mother nest didn't have a mainframe slot. It and the surrounding 'antennas', which were the silver-gray floating towers, formed an information exchange port. The real core device was in the parallel half plane. The stone platform that floated in the astral plane had a set of devices that was exactly the same as this one. However, the vines of the Tree of World there were more luxuriant. The Schilling mainframe, which acted as the core processor, was also placed in the Schilling mother nest, a half plane with a security level of five plus.
Think about it, the shadow city was originally located in an inner world outside of the real world, and the world fragment was mounted under the shadow of the shadow city. That World Management Terminal was also placed in the subordinate half plane of the world fragment … Such a level of security measures …
As expected, it could only be described as a pain in the ass.
But what I really wanted Artemis and the others to pay attention to was actually next to this super 'magnifying antenna', there was a small resident there … Uh, forget it, I admit that compared to the magnificent pyramid next to it that looked like an ancient relic, a large courtyard house really wasn't eye-catching.
"How do you feel about this place?"
My voice interrupted Artemis who was in a daze. She let out a low gasp of surprise and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was me.
"No matter what, a simple thank you is not enough …" Artemis took a deep breath and then bowed deeply to me. "So …"
"O lost maiden, be brave and devote your life to me!"
Liliana floated in the air, holding the tender branch of the Tree of World high in her hand. Behind her, there were thousands of rays of light as she announced loudly.
I would have sent her flying as soon as I took off my shoes!
"It's nothing, and such a special world is a rare and unexpected gain for us." I helped Artemis up. "Then we'll go back first. There will be people here responsible for arranging your temporary living arrangements, and soon the personnel will be here to pick you up."
Although the newly born world had a fairyland-like beauty and many rare and exotic beasts, there weren't many residents and no clear building plans, so there wasn't much that needed to be done. After having Artemis temporarily settle down near the world management terminal, we could finally call it a day and go home.
And for Sandora, the more important thing was: she could finally eat!
You have to know, in order to wait for me to come home, this silly girl had been waiting since morning and hadn't eaten. For a table queen who could include eating in the five-year development plan of the Empire, this was simply a strange event like the little monster changing his profession to save the world, or Ultraman devoting himself to the city management!
But no matter what, even if it was waiting for her lover to come home for dinner, it seemed a bit too much to wait from morning to afternoon, right? What was this girl trying to do?
This question was answered after I was dragged to the dining room by Sandora.
"Clang clang clang! Ah Jun! I made this myself … I thought you would be back in the morning, but because the timeline in the world fragment suddenly shook, the time of the two worlds is not symmetrical, and it has been delayed until now. But it's okay, I reheated it, and the taste hasn't changed at all … "
Sandora hugged my arm with a look of joy on her face, and her sweet voice had a strong sense of asking for credit.
And I was pushed stiffly all the way to the dining table, and then sat down with my joints creaking.
"Boss, I will resurrect you," Liliana solemnly and holily drew a cross on her chest, "In the name of my family's goddess."
Your family's goddess will definitely die if she eats this!
Sandora, I know that you're bored when we're not at home, but you should at least develop something normal. No, even if it's not normal, it's fine if it's just a slightly lighter hobby. The thing on the table, it's really going to kill me if I eat it!
It was a strange food utensil that was shaped like a huge clay pot, but its entire body was made out of a silvery-white alloy. This' Kitchen Helper 3000 'was invented by Bubble when she was bored, and it was said to possess a powerful firepower capable of boiling Supernova Noxite. And what was placed inside was a huge pot of color … That's f * cking changing colors! Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple! Sandora, Sandora, this is obviously an intense chemical reaction, isn't it? The pot was bubbling non-stop, changing colors rapidly, and there were even pieces of black bones of unknown creatures floating in it. Are you sure that this isn't a new type of fuel for our battlecruiser?
With just a single glance, Shallow Shallow and the others ran to the other end of the table in fear. And now, a certain Queen was looking forward to me drinking this thing!
"Ah Jun, give it a try. Even though it doesn't look good, I've tried it, and it's really fine!" It was rare for Sandora to admit that her creation looked terrible, but what's the use of trying it out?! Don't you know that you have the stomach of a man who dips enriched uranium into nitroglycerin and eats it?
"Besides, Bubble told me that in order to conquer a man's body and mind, one must first conquer his stomach! So, this is definitely a work of confidence with extraordinary significance! "
Bubble, who had just sneaked to the side of the dining table and was about to take a seat, suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Do you think that 'complete annihilation' is a form of conquest?
"This … Can I first ask what material it is made of?"
Harboring the last bit of hope in my heart, I asked shakily while holding onto the spoon.
If the main material was still edible, even if the design was a little strange, I would still accept it! In any case, in front of my steel-like stomach, a 'One Pot Seven Step Knockout' was probably nothing more than a stomachache. It could be seen that even though this thing looked frightening, Sandora had put in a lot of effort to make it. I could imagine how hard it must have been for the normally esteemed Queen to hide in the kitchen and spend an entire night preparing breakfast for her lover — yep, I could imagine it just by glancing at the newly installed kitchen door.
"The main ingredient is … pork ribs …"
Oh, looks like it's those black charcoal strips of bone residue.
"Green onions?"
After searching for a long time, I found a pitiful piece of vegetable leaf that was on the verge of becoming a post-modern art piece.
"There are also various spices, everything that can be seen has been added in …"
I can only deduce this from the chemical reactions on the soup's surface, which are constantly changing colors.
"Some foam, which is said to be able to improve the taste … I think it's inert carboxylic acid …"
My movements froze in the midst of searching. It seems that something strange just slipped into the soup?
"There's also a highly active sodium – sodium compound that allows the nutrients in the bones to be released quickly."
"It's used to adjust the sweetness of the soup."
"Finally, there's a non-repulsive compressed helium-3 compound that is full of energy and vitality, and a triazine catalyst that aids in digestion!"
When Sandora's voice fell, the dining room, which was filled with a large family of people, became so silent that even a pin drop could be heard.
"Pandora!"
I beckoned to the other side of the table. Immediately, the little loli, who had an expression of "I'm very calm, I'm very calm" but in reality, wanted to put down her pride after not seeing me for several days, turned into a black wind … er, scuttled over.
The 1.2m lass stood at the side with a happy expression on her face. It was only when I handed her the pot that was giving off a strange green smoke that her happy expression turned into confusion.
"Give it to Tawil. Let her test out the effects of this new fuel for the 6th generation conventional afterburner."
Pandora nodded and then ran out of the dining room like a wisp of smoke with the pot of high-energy fuel in her hands.
"Ugh …" Sandora immediately laid on the table with a wronged expression. "Even Ah Jun did the same."
In other words, it wasn't just one person who reminded you of the strangeness of this thing, right?
Although it wasn't easy for me to avoid exploding from the high-energy fuel that Sandora painstakingly created, I still couldn't bear to see the depressed and disappointed blonde girl. I patted her head lightly and said, "Baby, I appreciate your good intentions, but if you really want to cook, it's better to learn from Anveena …"
As soon as I said that, a certain glimmering ghost's head popped out from the table and said, "But Master, Mistress Sandora did make that thing after asking me about the basic method of stewed pork ribs!"
… Forget it, Sandora, you should continue to study the improvement of fuel.
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