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After dinner, it was Sakura who was in charge of the housework today. She cleared the dishes and washed them in the sink, finishing the housework in just over ten minutes, then went upstairs with her schoolbag on her back.
The box of egg tarts was still beside the seat. Fujitaka shook his head, reached out to pick up the box, and prepared to take it to Sakura's room.
He didn't like desserts, that was the truth, but his daughter was particularly fond of these little snacks. It was enough for Xiaoying to think of him, this thought was better than anything else, and it was enough for him to enjoy.
But at this moment, the food box, which was only half-covered, was accidentally opened. Fujitaka stopped walking, no, he even stopped breathing.
Dream color-egg tart?
The food box did not contain the strawberry tart he was most familiar with, but instead had the aroma of apples. But there was no mistake, this shape and this egg tart base were what he was most familiar with.
Fujitaka picked up an egg tart, carefully put it to his mouth as if it were a fragile treasure and took a bite.
Taste is the shortest memory. Sometimes after eating something, you forget the taste in a blink of an eye when you think about it. But sometimes, a certain taste can make people recall fragments of memories from many years ago.
Fujitaka doesn't like egg tarts.
It's just that his favorite thing happens to be egg tarts. There's nothing wrong with the taste.
Under the wild cherry blossoms in spring, beside the busy train station, or even in the quiet library where eating and drinking are prohibited. I still remember the librarian's rolling eyes, but he didn't point it out because he was a professor at the school. He and she are always together.
The sweet taste at that time now tastes sour when I think back on it.
[The night is filled with hearing, the wind hits the banana leaves and the rain hits the pots, the dream is hard to find]
I think of the haiku I learned when I was studying classical Chinese in school. The ancients recited them, and only those who have experienced them can understand the flavor of them.
Eat every last bit of crumbs in your hand carefully.
Fujitaka knew that this egg tart could not have been made by Nadeshiko. He clearly understood that Nadeshiko had been gone for seven years, and this was a fact that no one could change.
I still remember that the recipe of this egg tart seemed to be learned by Nadeshiko from a student at a pastry school. The name of the young pastry chef of the Dream Strawberry Egg Tart seemed to be Mei, who was still an intern who had not yet graduated.
After just a chance encounter, she and Nadeshiko quickly became friends, and she even told Nadeshiko the recipe she had created with great difficulty.
So is it that kid?
After so many years, the little girl named Amano Ichi has graduated and become an amazing pastry chef, right? Sakura said that the egg tarts were brought from her friend's house, the friend who lived in the castle manor. For Fujitaka, it was another world that he could not reach and had no intention of reaching.
So, the little girl became a pastry chef at the castle? That's a good job.
Today, many years later, I can still taste this egg tart. I have to say it is a wonderful fate.
However, the Mengse Egg Tart is still the same egg tart, with the same recipe and taste, so familiar that it makes people heartbroken, but it’s a pity that it is not her.
"Nadeshiko, Sakura has grown up. It would be great if you could see her with your own eyes..."
No matter how much emotion I have, there is only an empty living room and lifeless photo frames.
Chapter 98: TAC Visits
TAC team, Beidou is returning to headquarters after completing air patrol.
"Captain, we have completed the patrol along the scheduled route. Everything is normal and there is nothing special." Beidou saluted Captain Long with two fingers in the TAC salute.
"Thank you for your hard work. You are back just in time. Come and take a look at this."
It was already late at night, and it was time for rest, but the members of the TAC team gathered in the command room, looking through some blueprints. Even Dr. Kiji was there, and these blueprints must have been brought by the doctor.
Everyone was pointing and talking about the information, discussing it heatedly, and it seemed like they had endless opinions to express.
"I don't understand this." Beidou grumbled, but also moved to the conference table. As he said, he really couldn't understand it. It was a pile of design drawings with dazzling formulas and graphics.
Beidou is certainly not illiterate. In fact, although he used to be a baker and delivery driver, he also went to college, which was a high level of education in that era. As for why a college student would bake bread, that is another story.
In the command room of the base headquarters, except for Dr. Kizuki and Yoshimura (PhD in Biology), no one can surpass him in academic qualifications. Everyone's academic qualifications are similar. The captain and Noriko are also college students. Yamanaka and Konno are both undergraduates of the Missile Engineering College. After graduation, they joined the Defense Force and were transferred to the TAC team.
As for Nan Xizi, she probably had the lowest education, graduating from a medical school and working as a nurse. She and Beidou were both promoted by the captain to join the TAC team because of their outstanding performance in saving lives. Otherwise, with their resumes, they would not be qualified to participate in the training selection of the reserve team.
Therefore, Beidou dared to assert that although these people seemed to be watching the conference table very seriously and expressed some opinions from time to time, they must not understand anything just like himself. The so-called opinions were just empty words and clichés.
So what did the captain ask him to see?
The Emperor's New Clothes? No one is the first to admit that they are stupid people who don't understand?
Of course, Beidou would not admit that he was a fool, so he pretended to appreciate it and praised the exquisite design on the drawing.
"Okay, let me explain it to you." Dr. Kiji couldn't bear to look at it any longer. "This is the design drawing of the unmanned operating system."
"Unmanned? Like an unmanned aircraft?" Captain Long asked. As expected, he hadn't understood it at all before. He didn't even know what the blueprint was.
"Yes, but not just airplanes. There are also tanks, rocket vehicles, underground vehicles, ships, etc. This system can be applied to most weapons equipped with electronic instruments."
It was because the Defense Force and TAC had suffered heavy losses and sacrifices in the face of the Ultra Beasts, especially Baraba. Weapons can be rebuilt, but the loss of people is irreparable, and the destruction of families is irreparable. Therefore, the Defense Forces reconsidered the design plan of the unmanned operating system.
This plan was actually proposed during the Kot Team era, and it was put into design and development. When aliens transform and use monsters, they only lose resources, while every loss on Earth is flesh and blood, which is obviously unfair.
Baraba's attack resulted in the sacrifice of the entire Tokyo defense force branch, from soldiers to staff officers, and even the supreme commander. This touched the nerves of the top leaders, who could no longer tolerate such a situation.
After that war, the Defense Forces Headquarters allocated a large sum of money in the form of a director's order, and human resources and various resources were given the green light. The plan was re-launched and required to produce results in the shortest possible time.
It has been six years since the project was launched. With the initial accumulation and the defense forces overcoming difficulties with the attitude of a military order after the director issued the order, the design broke through the final window paper in just over a month and had a preliminary sample.
These drawings are the so-called freshly-released 1.0 versions.
"Although the most advanced pilots are irreplaceable, such as the members of the TAC team. But with this, ordinary defense soldiers will no longer have to go to the front line. There will no longer be an exaggerated list of casualties after each battle."
Regardless of whether the first half of Dr. Kiji's words were meant to please others, it was still quite useful, such as Yamanaka. Of course, Konno and Yoshimura were no exception. They also believed that the most advanced technology could not be replaced by machines.
However, it would be a good thing if it could reduce the sacrifice of the grassroots soldiers. No one would object.
“So, is this system ready for use?”
"That's the problem!" Mu Kaji suddenly said in a stern tone.
"There are two ways to use this system. The simplest one is of course remote signal operation. Just like remote-controlled airplanes, we mastered that technology more than ten years ago, even before the invasion of monsters and aliens on Earth, so there is no need to elaborate."
"But we must also consider that in many cases the enemy will be able to cut off battlefield signals. Sadly, all of our enemies are technologically superior to us. A civilization with interstellar colonization technology cannot be unaware of the means of shielding electronic signals. After all, it does not require any technical skills and we can do it ourselves."
If the universe is likened to a game, the humans on Earth can be regarded as the newly registered rookies, with no level, no equipment, and being marked as red by the entire server. It can be said that it is the hell mode at the beginning - if it were not for the help of the Kingdom of Light, who is also a big boss, the account would have been deleted on the first day of registration.
There is no need to rely on luck. The technology that humans can master can undoubtedly be assumed to have been mastered by other players.
"So what we have to consider is how to enable these fighters and warships to fight on their own without external signals. We need a more flexible algorithm."
"So, what do we need to do now? Help the research department develop research on this algorithm?" Captain Long asked puzzled. Dr. Mukaji had excitedly brought these drawings more than ten minutes ago, which also confused him.
He was not bragging. From him, the team leader, to Beidou, Yamanaka, Konno and other subordinates, absolutely no one could understand these drawings, let alone participate in the research.
No, Beidou and Nan might be able to. After all, for some unspeakable reason, Long guessed that they might be able to master certain scientific and technological capabilities that far surpass those of humans, and perhaps they could have high hopes for them.
But now it seems that he was just overthinking. Compared with Mu Kaji, they have one more university degree than the illiterate.
Beidou is not a cunning person. One look at his expression and you will know that he has no idea at all, just like you do.
"Of course not. No matter how fantastic my idea is, I will not let the TAC team's operations department participate in the research department's development tasks." Mu Kaji looked at Captain Long strangely, not understanding why he had such a strange idea.
The soldiers on the front line and the military's scientific research department are two unrelated departments.
"It's just that since we have achieved some results, I would like to ask for your suggestions. After all, this unmanned operating system may have to fight alongside you in the future. Your suggestions based on practical considerations may also be inspiring for our subsequent research and development."
It turned out to be just a suggestion, Beidou breathed a sigh of relief, and then he found that everyone in the command room breathed a sigh of relief.
What else can't you say when making suggestions without putting them into practice?
The muzzle must be thick! The missile must have a large equivalent! The tolerance to extreme environments must be strong!
Although all of this sounded like nonsense to Beidou, Dr. Kiji really wrote down every item carefully, as if he really had considered it. In the end, Beidou himself couldn't help but express his opinions.
[Any suggestions for unmanned systems? ]
Beidou silently asked Ace in his heart, for the Kingdom of Light, the problems that plagued the entire human civilization were probably at the level of kindergarten common sense - if the Kingdom of Light had kindergartens.
Beidou did not get any answer. It was expected, but also a little disappointing. Ultraman would not really intervene in the development of human technology. Perhaps in their opinion, this would be a case of forcing things to grow. All directions of human civilization development must be explored by ourselves.
However, if there is an Ultraman who is willing to provide direct assistance to humans, Beidou can only think of one!
Because Sakura and Tomoyo fell ill one after another, director Asaka's filming progress was delayed a bit, but fortunately, filming can finally be resumed this week.
This week's shoot took place at a shrine.
Ling also discovered that she seemed to have a special affinity with the shrine recently.
In the previous episode, Sakura's class changed its math teacher. The new substitute teacher is a beautiful young female teacher named Kanzuki Utaho. While serving as a teacher, she is also a shrine maiden of Tsukimine Shrine, a family business that can't be abandoned.
The script is expected to be filmed for 70 episodes. Of course, if the ratings are not good, it is possible that it will be cut off halfway. Fortunately, the ratings of "Magical Girl Sakura" are unexpectedly popular. Now that nearly half of the filming has been completed, not to mention the cut, in fact, many sponsors have come to negotiate for investment in the second part.
But Asaka has not yet made up her mind whether there will be a second part. Not having a script is just a small problem. As long as the scriptwriter's hairline is sacrificed, there will be as many of them as you want. For example, if the Clow Cards malfunction, the Moon Cards and Star Cards will appear and mess around in Tokyo. For love and justice, you have to collect them again. The same formula and the same taste, each card water episode is a new work.
But in Asaka's mind, this magical girl series is her masterpiece, and everything that should be explained at the end was explained clearly, without any deliberate foreshadowing, and any more foreshadowing would be just a lame ending.
In his opinion, even if the original crew started a new project, it would be better than continuing to shoot the same plot stiffly.
However, when a brand becomes a big IP, whether or not to end the film, and how to end it, may not be decided by the director himself. Only capital has the final say.
The only thing that made Asaka feel lucky was that two girls, Tomoyo Daidoji and Reiya Oshima, came to the shooting site early even though they had no shooting plans today.
Speaking of capital, the two companies behind them are rare in Tokyo. As long as they can hold on to these two big thighs and are willing to give them a feather as a token of support, other sponsors can only be regarded as small waves.
[The story is finished! No more follow-up! ]
[This is not what I said. This is what Daidoji Group and Oshima Group said. The two young ladies don't want to act anymore. Do you have any objections?] - Look how domineering this sentence is.
"That guy...Matsumoto!"
"Yes!" Hearing the director's call, assistant Matsumoto hurried over.
"Can't you see how hot the weather is? Go buy some cold drinks and use the crew's funds. Hurry and send them to Daidoji and Ms. Oshima!"
"Okay, huh?" After hearing the first half of the sentence, Assistant Matsumoto thought that he was preparing ice drinks for the actors, but he didn't expect that it was for two people who came to visit the set without any performance tasks.
"What? You don't understand what I'm saying?" Asaka raised her voice.
This guy who has no vision will most likely be an assistant all his life.
Ratings are strange and often unpredictable. At the same time, there were TV series with many celebrities and big names, but a magical girl show for children suddenly became the champion of the ratings this quarter.
Even the main characters are newcomers with no acting experience, and there are no celebrities involved - if we talk about celebrities, the girl who joined halfway to play Teacher Guanyue may be slightly famous, but she has only taken a few commercials and played a few supporting roles, and is the type who hovers between second and third lines.
Yes, the actor who plays Guanyue did not use his real name, because the script had already decided on the Tsukimine Shrine, which echoed the name "Guanyue". In the later stage, the character of "Judge Yue" would be introduced. At first, even the Sun Seal Beast recognized the wrong person.
Therefore, it is not convenient to change the name of Guanyue. Director Qianxiang's habit of always letting actors use their real names can only be broken.
Today's photoshoot is all about Sakura and Mizuki. In the story, Sakura Kinomoto wakes up early in the morning, takes a walk before school, passes by Tsukimine Shrine, and cleans the shrine with teacher Mizuki.
It is a very monotonous thing to describe it with words, such as encountering each other while walking and cleaning together, but it is not boring when filmed, which shows the director's skill. Of course, Sakura's cuteness and Mizuki's beauty are also the main factors that attract people. Mizuki, who has a beautiful face and wears a shrine maiden costume, has a different style even when sweeping the floor.
If it were two rough guys chattering away, they would have forced the audience to change the channel long ago.