Today's weather was great. It was already midsummer, and the bright sunlight made people feel lazy. Although the heat was unavoidable, there was no one in the First Family who cared about the temperature. For a group of people who could walk on the surface of a star, the temperature had nothing to do with the sunny weather. Under such good weather, it was a good choice to come out and bask in the sun.
It seemed that even the spirits were no exception.
"Huh? That's Anveena, right? What's she doing there? "
Icetis suddenly pointed at a big tree in the courtyard and exclaimed in surprise. I curiously looked in the direction of the voice and saw a floating spirit hanging on the tree. Her slightly translucent body emitted a soft white halo under the sunlight, like a dancing white ball of fire.
From all aspects, this spirit that could bask in the midsummer sun was amazing.
"When did a nest of crows appear in the courtyard?"
I took a closer look and suddenly realized that Anveena wasn't just hanging on the tree to bask in the sun. She seemed to be lying on a branch to observe the things in front of her. In front of her, there was a nest made of rough branches. In the nest, two big black crows were looking at each other.
Bryndis also discovered the crow's nest. She thought for a moment, and then suddenly said leisurely, "I think she may really be learning how to lay eggs …"
I sadly realized that it might be true. Recently, Anveena seemed to be really interested in laying eggs. Thus, the corner of my mouth twitched and I said, "I say, was it a mistake to let her fuse with a crow? Now it seems that the fusion was too much. "
"It's okay. She won't really become a bird anyway." Brendis leaned on the balcony railing and looked at the little specter maid who was lying in front of the crow's nest and observing attentively. His blood-red eyes were shining, "But maybe she can really lay an egg. After all, her crow form is the real deal."
I was speechless.
"Ah Jun, Ah Jun, so you're here!"
Just as Icetis and I were discussing whether or not Anveena could lay eggs, Shallow Shallow's cheerful voice suddenly came from behind me. Before I could turn my head, I felt a soft and warm body pressing against my back. Shallow Shallow hugged my neck from behind and rubbed against me. She was as intimate as a kitten, just like when we were young. Even now, this girl had not changed her girl-next-door habits. "What are you looking at?"
"Anveena really seems to be learning how to lay eggs from crows."
Before I said anything, Icetis already pointed at the little ghost that was hanging on a tree branch and observing the crows, "She even brought the teacher home."
"Wow, really?" Qian Qian was shocked, and then she happily leaned on the railing side by side with Bryndis. After observing excitedly for a few seconds, she suddenly turned her head and said, "It seems to be true! There are eggs in the crow's nest! "
I realized that I would be speechless a lot of times today. "…"
However, Shallow Shallow obviously had something else to say. "Ah Jun, Ah Jun, what do you think a crow's egg tastes like?"
This time, even Icetis and I were speechless. "…"
"I think it might be a good thing if Anveena really learns how to lay eggs." Shallow Shallow gestured to us excitedly. "I know how to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes! We don't have to buy eggs anymore! "
"Stop, stop!" I broke out in cold sweat. "This topic is too heavy. We already produce and sell quite a lot of our own food."
Just as I finished my sentence, the balcony door was pushed open again. Rhododendron Spp., who was a little dazed from the sun, rubbed her eyes and walked over. "Did any of you see Little Bubble? She took away the scarf that I had just knitted when I was sleeping. That was for Lord Zi … "
At that moment, I felt that sooner or later, this huge mansion would become an enclosed ecosystem. The head's family would probably reach an unprecedented state of self-sufficiency — self-sufficiency in every sense of the word.
I helped Fox find Little Bubble and took back the golden and fluffy scarf. Then, I sighed. Such a peaceful daily life was one of life's greatest pleasures. I leaned on the sofa in the living room and started to study a sample that I had obtained from the ruined world. It was an inconspicuous piece of metal. I had collected it from the wreckage of battleships that could be seen everywhere on the ruined planet before it had collapsed. It was originally a fragment of the spaceship's armor. There was nothing special about it. The only thing that caught my attention was the golden ring symbol on it.
Back then, the Imperial Army that had fought against Visca had a golden ring symbol. However, we didn't know who this symbol belonged to. We searched through the database and almost all the apostles' memory cores, but there was no record of this symbol. It was obvious that the Emperor that the army belonged to didn't have any connection with the Pandora's Heavy Armored Army or Sandora's Revenge Army.
Just who did it belong to?
I had fought against the Fallen Apostles before. I had even seen their fleet. I had a faint impression of this symbol. However, now that I thought about it, I might have remembered wrongly.
"Stupid human! I want to eat ice cream! "
I suddenly felt a weight on my shoulder. A small and soft body took the opportunity to land on me. Mercury Lamp shouted as she pulled at my hair in boredom. Little Bubble also followed me. She mumbled something that no one could understand. However, there was one word that I understood. It was "ice cream."
It wasn't easy. My Little Bubble had learned another new word!
"Children shouldn't eat so many cold drinks. Be careful not to get a stomachache."
Since I was immersed in my memories, I casually replied. Then, I raised my head to look at the two little girls. Only then did I suddenly realize that these two little girls didn't seem to have the physiologically necessary conditions to get a stomachache. Not to mention Little Bubble's physique, even a puppet like Mercury Lamp could get a stomachache?
Thus, I could only helplessly get up to prepare some cold drinks for the little ancestor.
I couldn't even remember how many times the fridge in my house had been replaced. The first one was accidentally poking a hole in the fridge while Lin was sweeping the floor. The last one had suffered the same fate. In fact, there was even one that was smashed into the wall. A certain idiot Dragon God was practically a natural-born God of Destruction. With her clumsy nature and limitless monstrous strength, her actions were a disaster for any kind of daily necessities. Fortunately, she usually hung out with those who weren't part of the norm, so she wouldn't harm the weak, ordinary people. Otherwise, just the daily medical expenses alone would be enough for her to sell herself to pay off her debts.
However, this new refrigerator should be more durable. After all, there was an extremely powerful chiller in this large cabinet with double doors. In theory, no matter how much damage it suffered, it shouldn't die.
"Eleanor, two ice creams. One yogurt flavor and one strawberry flavor."
I opened the refrigerator door and spoke into the chilly air.
After a series of clanking sounds, two small hands reached out from the refrigerator. One of them was holding an ice cream tray, while the other was gesturing for money. Then, a crisp voice sounded. "⑨ Yuan!"
"You only recognize this number, right?! The iced fruit platter is ⑨ Yuan, the iced mineral water is ⑨ Yuan, and the two ice creams are still ⑨ Yuan! " My eyebrows twitched slightly as I looked at the little girl who was standing in the refrigerator and extending her hand out to me for money. I said in exasperation.
"⑨ Yuan!" Eleanor extended her hand relentlessly because she was certain that there was only one person in this scary family who was easy to talk to. If it was Icetis who came to get the cold drinks, would this guy dare to … Alright, maybe this idiot would really dare to ask Icetis for money, because she was an idiot.
That's right, this was the new refrigerator that our family had just changed three days ago. It was a new invention that transcended the century and had a subversive working principle. It had a thick and grand double-door structure, a spacious freezer/freezer dual-function room, and its power consumption reached an unbelievable "zero". Furthermore, it was extremely easy to transport, assemble, and maintain. Basically, a master carpenter could make one in less than half a day. Furthermore, this new concept refrigerator also had a high level of intelligence … Yes, it had a certain level of intelligent automatic processing function. As long as there were sufficient raw materials, it could automatically process all kinds of cold drinks or frozen platters that you needed. In addition, this refrigerator also had a Eleanor type ⑨ super-strong refrigeration core. When the door was open, it wouldn't affect the refrigeration environment inside the refrigerator. Furthermore, when you were bored, you could also open the refrigerator to tease the refrigerator inside for fun, or chat with the latter to relieve your boredom. After all, the refrigerator used in this refrigerator looked quite cute. Although it had low intelligence, it was suitable for idle chatting that didn't require any intelligence …
This wasn't the first or second time that Eleanor had slept in the refrigerator. In fact, she was living there now. This double-door refrigerator was specially modified for this silly fairy to live comfortably. The compressor, condenser, and all partitions were removed to provide enough living space. Eleanor slept there every day, and the family was a little used to the life of a fairy sleeping in the refrigerator when they opened the door.
As for why Quan 'er Jiu was living there, that was a long story.
There was a group of little fellows at home, from Little Bubble to Mercury Lamp, and even Visca and Pandora, all of them had an inconceivable love for cold drinks and desserts (Ji Shanshan, that good-for-nothing, was also one of them). Liliana even openly declared that her life was made up of two parts, one with crispy skin, and the other without crispy skin. In any case, that lass' life had always been made up of very strange things, so we just pretended not to hear it.
Raising a group of little fellows who loved to eat desserts and cold drinks, it was natural to provide them with a stable source of snacks. Thus, Quan 'er Jiu, who opened a shop in the City of Shadows, became the ideal spendthrift. Firstly, this fellow was very stupid. After I told her that she could make ice cream on the spot for our family to earn enough for the monthly rent of the shop, this silly ice fairy didn't even bother to clear the account. She was full of the idea that she had gotten a great bargain, so she started to provide an unlimited supply of cold drinks to our family. She even used the shop as the refrigerator at home, charging nine yuan for everything regardless of the type. Secondly …
In any case, the first condition was enough. This fellow was really stupid.
Anyway, I saw that Elune was quite comfortable being the refrigerator at home. Other than her poor arithmetic, her skills in making all kinds of cold drinks were top-notch. Furthermore, we didn't intend to bully this fellow. Her working hours added up to eight hours a day, and after work, she could run around and play. Furthermore, her work was to make her favorite frozen things. Although she couldn't freeze frogs, frozen fruits seemed to be quite interesting to Elune.
"Ah, it's time to rest." I glanced at the clock in the living room and realized that it was already time for Elune to rest. Fairies were restless, and it was very difficult for her to stay in one place for eight consecutive hours. That was why we let Elune stay in the refrigerator for a while before she could go out to play. It was also reasonable to protect this idiot and strive for sustainable development. When Elune heard that it was time to get off work, she immediately revealed a look of liberation and recklessly jumped out of the refrigerator. However, before she could run away, I caught her.
The fairy girl was stunned for a moment before she reacted. Then, she took off the six ice wings on her back and placed them in the refrigerator. She said to me cheerfully, "Freeze whatever you want to eat! I'm going to look for someone to fight! "
After saying that, Elune disappeared without a trace. Actually, I really wanted to remind her that without the ice wings, looking for someone to fight in the City of Shadows, where experts were as common as clouds, was basically courting death. However, it seemed like it was already too late … Forget it, I'll wait for her to revive in the refrigerator and immediately start working. Anyway, this place had become her fixed revival point.
"That idiot left?"
Liliana swaggered open the refrigerator door in front of me. After discovering that there was no one inside, she muttered to herself. Then, she took out one of the ice wings that Elune left behind and began to make shaved ice.
Although I had already said it once, I still wanted to say it now. It seemed like this family had evolved to a very strange and self-sufficient state …
"Let me try it, let me try it!"
Although I ridiculed her, I was actually quite curious about the taste of Elune's ice wings. Seeing how excited Liliana was to make shaved ice out of the ice wings that Idiot 9 had left behind to cool down the refrigerator, I couldn't help but want to try it.
In the end, I was greatly disappointed after tasting a mouthful. What? I had such high expectations, but in the end, it was just an ordinary ice cube?
"What did you think? Could Elune be strawberry-flavored?" Liliana chewed on the crushed ice and rolled her eyes at me. "But Boss, what if Elune finds out that one of her ice wings is missing when she returns?"
I thought for a moment. "Fairies can regenerate their bodies. At most, she can just grow another one. We'll just trick her into having one less from the start. With that idiot's IQ, she'll most likely believe us."
"… Then, I'll eat another one."
Just as the two of us were splitting up the pitiful fairy's wings, Sandora's voice suddenly sounded in our spiritual connection, interrupting our evil and cruel actions.
"Ah Jun, I'm in the Shadow City. Come over for a moment."
"What's wrong?" Hearing the urgency in Sandora's voice, I instantly became serious.
"Do you still remember the abandoned battleship that we snatched from the ruined world? Tawil found something. "
"I'm going over now!" I quickly replied as I jumped up, scaring Liliana so much that she almost fell into the refrigerator. "Liliana, don't eat too much. Leave some for cooling. There's still watermelon frozen in the refrigerator … I'm going to the Shadow City!"
A moment later, I had already teleported to the Shadow Fortress. Following the coordinates that Sandora had left for me, I directly arrived at the fourth experimental base of the research center.
Just like all the large battleship wreckages, the two battleship wreckages that we snatched from the ruined world were also placed on the disassembly platform for analysis. When I rushed over, they were quietly floating in the dark sky. Surprisingly, they didn't seem to have changed at all. The outer armor was still intact, and there were no signs of disintegration on the surface. They were placed there untouched. The two huge battleship wreckages floated silently, exactly the same as when I had first seen them.
There wasn't a single worker in the disassembly space, not even a single autonomous robot that should have been busy working on the wreckages. There were only two people waiting for me in this vast, dark space. One was Sandora, and the other was Tawil's projection. The bespectacled girl had a lot of work to do. It seemed that I hadn't seen her in person for a long time. Recently, she had been using her projection to run around outside.
"What's going on? Didn't they say that they had results from the analysis? "
I looked at the spaceship wreckage that didn't seem to have decomposed at all and asked in confusion.
Sandora pointed at Tawil and said, "It's not the result. It's the secret of this wreckage."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Tawil's projection nodded. With a slight tremble, she projected a two-meter-tall holographic image for us. The image was the scanned image of the two fragments. It was obvious that even though Tawil hadn't scanned the spaceship yet, he had already grasped its basic structure.
"This is a research ship, at least in theory."
The bespectacled lady said confidently.
"A research ship?" I was stunned. I never expected that the battleship that the Imperial Army and the Fallen Apostle had fought so fiercely to seize wasn't some superweapon from the old Empire era, but rather a scientific research ship.
"I have never seen a research ship with this kind of structure." Tawil lowered his head slightly and said as he pondered, "So it took me some time to identify its structure. This starship doesn't have any weapons, but it has an unusually powerful shield system and armor. Moreover, there are void effect generators evenly distributed on the armor, ensuring that the starship can wrap itself in the void for a short period of time. These various designs show that its former owner attached great importance to the starship's defensive capabilities. It was specially used to carry out missions in extremely dangerous places. "
"Extremely dangerous places?" My eyebrows twitched involuntarily, as though I had vaguely thought of something. "What kind of extremely dangerous place?"
Extremely dangerous, extremely dangerous. What kind of environment could make a starship built by the Empire give up all its weapons just to ensure its own survival? As I asked Tawil this question, I was also thinking quickly. A space crack? A dimensional storm? A broken world barrier? Or the void?
No, these places aren't considered extremely dangerous. Even the void, which is the limit of a normal civilization, shouldn't be described as extremely dangerous. Even though it has unparalleled power, the Shiring Apostles have long mastered the rules of survival in the void. Hence, the void isn't an extremely dangerous place for them.
Then … that place might not be as powerful as the void, but it has a more simple and deadly environment.
"The abyss," Sandora said in a low voice. Then, she lifted her head and looked me in the eye. "This starship once sailed in the abyss. It might even be returning from the gate of the abyss."
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