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Ever since her fate became intertwined with Sora's, it has become very difficult for Mona to figure out the threads of her own destiny... and now Mona can't even figure out her own destiny. After all, hers is intertwined with many of Sora's, which can be said to be the happiness and sorrow of an astrologer.
In their eyes, astrology and divination are almost the same thing, both of which are restricted by many conditions, and Kong is the biggest variable. Now that Sanyue and Kong’s relationship is gradually getting closer, the means to discern her future trend will become fewer and fewer.
"Just give it a try. It's snowing so heavily and we have nowhere to go—"
Maybe she was simply bored, or maybe she was fooled by the shopping advertisements and a wonderful girlish heart sprouted. In any case, March pestered everyone trapped in the tent to accompany her in this new hobby.
"Let me calculate Sister Eula's?"
"There's really nothing I can do about you."
Eula took a look at the snow outside the tent that had almost turned into a ball and could only sigh.
In the long night, there was no light in the distance. Only the lights between tents and cabins could barely form a line to let people know that their colleagues in the surrounding camps were not killed.
Just by looking through the soft plastic window of the tent and watching the water droplets slowly sliding down after being beaten by snowflakes, Eula could imagine how bad the current climate in Yalilo was for people without the Eye of God.
In such extreme weather, not to mention military training, even the unobstructed roads between urban areas and suburbs have become dangerous.
She could go out and enjoy herself, but when she thought about how everyone was shivering in the house while she was dancing flamenco outside and was caught by a searchlight, it would seem a bit weird.
"Come on, come on, draw one first!"
"Okay, I understand."
According to Pera, the temperature will indeed get colder when the long night comes, but this long-lasting blizzard does not happen every day - after drawing a card from the fan-shaped deck, Eula flipped through it absent-mindedly, only to find that it had a cartoon image of the sun printed on it.
"What does this mean? Is the sky going to clear up?"
"Hmm... the reversed Sun. Wait a minute, I'll check."
In March, he was unprofessional and followed his heart, even using his mobile phone to check card information on the camp’s intranet.
"Well, 'the brightest and hottest time has passed, or there is a temporary cloud'..."
Sanyue then looked out the window blankly and couldn't help but complain: "...Can this be considered an accurate divination?"
"Very accurate nonsense." Eula commented.
"You want to draw two more tickets, Miss Eula?"
"Bah."
The second one is "Death".
Eula felt uncomfortable when she saw this card, not only because the sickle, which should have been drawn scary, was wrapped with a bow, forcibly becoming a girly style, but also because March's face suddenly became very bad.
"Hey, this, this..."
"What's wrong? Is it a bad result?"
"It's not completely bad luck, but two cards of bad luck in a row, this is too..."
Sanyue swallowed hard - she felt a little regretful. If she hadn't been unable to contact Silver Wolf and the others on the surface, how much more relaxing it would have been to play games for a while? Now she was going to make Sister Eula unhappy -
"The last card... wuwu, so scary... is it another unlucky card?"
"Xiao Sanyue, you are clearly telling fortunes for me, why are you shivering?"
Eula took the last one from her with amusement.
"This is... a hermit?"
Sanyue typed quickly to check the information on the card: "'Choosing loneliness is not because of cowardice'... Although it sounds in line with Sister Eula's personality, it doesn't seem to be easy to predict..."
"It doesn't matter. Even if someone draws the worst fortune at the shrine for three consecutive days, they will still have good luck in love. This is something that you can believe in or not."
Throwing the cards back, Eula supported her face with her hand, looking unconcerned.
Although she was a little unhappy, it was just unhappy. She wanted to know more about how Kong and Topa had arranged it, and whether she could go out today to find traces of Valle's experiment -
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have played cards if I had known!" March thought that he had angered Eula, so he quickly put his hands together and bowed madly.
"Haha, how about I help you with divination? Let me make it clear first, I can only do simple card cutting." Eula didn't want to break the group's favorite mentality -
Sanyue was right. I was free anyway. Although this thing was not as good as the Seven Summoning Saints, it was at least a way to kill time.
"Hey, is that okay?"
"Remember to buy me a beer."
"…It shouldn't be against the rules if I invite you to drink, right? As long as Uncle Yang doesn't nag me…"
Sanyue pushed the cards in front of Eula while muttering to herself.
Just as they arranged the cards, a tuft of golden hair and a tuft of white hair poked their heads in from outside the tent.
"Hoo—we're back!" Paimeng was the first to greet Sanyue. His little face looked freezing cold. "It's really not suitable to go out today! According to Jizi's monitoring, the snowstorm will last for three days to a week..."
"I have a heat pad here, would you like one, Paimon?"
"Thank you! Can you please stick it on my belly? I'm having a stitch in the side..."
While March was heating up Paimon, Eula walked over and brushed off the snowflakes on Kong's scarf, saying coquettishly:
"You're back? What happened just now? No one said a word on the public channel?"
"Because the process was very boring, and there's nothing to report to everyone." Kong blew out a breath of white air and tightened his scarf. He would not arouse the suspicion of the Iron Guards if he was moving around in the city, because his hair color was highly consistent with the local race, and his height was similar.
"We delivered the goods to the city and found a group of agents. This batch will soon create a stir in the Bay City market. However, unlike the plan, the heavy snow blockade has increased the transportation costs of the Beloberg agents, and they need to further reduce the price..."
Ying and Topa followed closely behind - she didn't know if it was an illusion, but Eula seemed to see Ying's hair constantly resisting frost with a little lightning, turning the ice crystals into mist. Topa was even more amazing, he condensed a handful of fire elements directly in front of him to keep himself warm.
These two could obviously wear something thicker, but one shows her legs, and the other shows a lot of her chest and legs, and they are not afraid of hypothermia at all.
"It doesn't matter. We still have plenty of reserve funds for initial investment. Boss, even if you are kind-hearted, you don't have to worry about us losing money. We can still make money."
"Remember to keep in touch with those merchants. If any minister intends to participate in smuggling, inform Bronya immediately."
"No problem, boss." Topa was almost about to salute the sky - the way these two people got along looked quite funny, and even lacked the elements that would make Eula alert.
"Eula, we'll act together with Nata in the afternoon. The rest of you stay on standby in the camp. I can't take care of too many people in this weather." After explaining the work, Kong put his arm around Eula's waist and sat back on the same bed with her.
"Are you sure you still want to go out?"
Although she really wanted to go out, Eula still had to maintain a stable appearance.
"I have a strange feeling during these investigations. It's as if someone deliberately blurred the trace of Natasha's brother. The clues are always intermittent, and there is no hidden trick. It's as if a certain line was cut off out of thin air, which makes me a little confused."
He walked straight to the fire and poured each a cup of hot coffee -
The beans were provided by Topa. Although they are not high-end products, they are at least better than Ji Zi's.
"Could it be those drug sellers in the lower district who did this?" Eula took Sora's coffee and helped analyze it:
"Nata said that someone was selling so-called cure-all medicine under the banner of Valle in the lower classes. Although a lot of them were destroyed a few days ago, is it possible that the organization could revive?"
"If they can move Valle's laboratory overnight in temperatures as low as -70 degrees Celsius, we will accept it."
Sora laughed out loud. "The problem is that the power that erased the traces is rather...supernatural. It's either a star core or some weird thing that doesn't want us to get the drug information."
Weird thing?
The only person Eula could think of who fits this subtle statement was Wuwubo...
"During our pioneering journey, we were watched by many people with no good intentions - including Aha."
When Kong saw Ying take a sip of coffee and then looked as if a nail from the cold sky had fallen on her head, he realized his negligence and quickly added a large amount of sugar and milk to her coffee:
"It doesn't matter if Aha makes things difficult for us in such a boring place... As long as He gives us enough energy, everything will be fine."
He raised his hand and glanced at his Command Seal... the red color gradually deepened: "I am worried about other guys, such as... Destruction."
262. I want them all (make fist)
“Why worry about destruction?”
"It's not just the data shared by Swarovski that shows that the Legion's invasion of this planet is everywhere. If the first Great Guardian hadn't begged the Star Core for the cold wave to come, Yalilo would have fallen long ago. Even if Aha helped block a lot of sight, if even a little bit was missed, it would be difficult to deal with."
Sora lowered his arms. "The Legion often uses star cores to accomplish their mission of destruction, but here they suffered the backlash of the star cores... Whether they want to recycle the star cores or continue their unfinished business, the group of people who destroyed them will probably try to contact me."
"…contact you?"
Topa almost dropped her coffee cup - if the crowbar on the table hadn't raised its paw to hold it for her, her plump white legs would have been burned and blistered.
"Don't forget that I still hold the title of 'Great Lord' in Destruction. No one can bear the consequences if I take the blame."
Kong is quite self-deprecating. He knows that the multiple and complex components in himself may cause some changes that even the client cannot predict. When multiple identities overlap, he has to make choices among them.
"...Ah, come to think of it...Is it true that the boss was watched by Nanook? I thought it was just a rumor."
Topa had heard of this news, and the company's top management also knew about it, but when evaluating the cooperation, they thought it was too profitable and chose to ignore it.
Show the true colors of the company.
"I don't know what the so-called 'Duty of the Maharaja' is on the Destruction side, but I have no intention of working for Him."
Sora even made a suggestion that was even more inhumane to Destruction: "In order to reduce trouble... the remnants of the Antimatter Corps are still frozen on the surface of the planet. According to the body structure of those monsters, they may still be alive and well after being frozen for hundreds of years and thawed. Toppa, notify the Iron Guards and your people, remember to smash any frozen virtual soldiers you see in the wild, before we have to clean them up again after the weather warms up."
"...Okay boss."
Topa felt more and more that Kong had the potential to be a deadbeat - but the fact that he dared to take Nanook's benefits without doing any work showed that he did not care about the other party's blessing... Was it because of his good character or because he looked down on this little bit of power?
The Director dare not make any rash judgment.
But her attitude towards empty has changed from "must hold on to the thigh tightly" and "invest to death" at the beginning to become less utilitarian.
For a manager of a strategic investment department, this might be a bit irresponsible, but when Topa thought about how Kong didn't care about gains and losses when he was discussing with the agents who helped with "smuggling" how to quickly support other Iron Guard bases that had not yet expressed their attitudes, he felt that Kong was the same kind of person as himself - someone who could give a lot for "preservation", and this could not be summed up by the cold title of genius.
"Excuse me - Natasha is calling us, Eula, Aying, let's go."
"Do you really not need to take more people out?" Xiao Sanyue stared at Kong eagerly, like a student who wanted the teacher to call on his or her name.
"I can move almost unhindered in the ice and snow, but as for you, Sanyue... the shelter provided by Kaikai can only allow you to move a little longer." Eula advised before Kong.
"But I'm just sitting around in the camp, so I don't have much chance to practice archery."
Seeing that Sora didn't want to take any risks, Sanyue argued, "Sister Jizi said that I should train with Teacher Danheng, but Sora has been taking on all the dangerous tasks lately - it doesn't serve as training at all."
"Recently, things are different than before. The power of the Star God is subtly affecting the situation in Yalilo..."
Looking at Sanyue's expectant eyes, Kong finally softened his heart:
"...It's best if the team size does not exceed six people. I need to make sure that I can transfer all my companions away with two teleports. Let's also call Dan Heng."
"Great—I'll send a message to Teacher Dan Heng right away!"