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Black Swan took a step forward and shielded the angry messenger from Hua Huo's teasing gaze:
"Also, the messenger lady has made an agreement with the doctor. When the contract is completed, she will reveal her true appearance to the doctor. Thank you for your concern. The tavern will not hinder the opposition - this is enough for us to know."
"Oh? I thought the next sentence of dear was: 'After the official discussion, let's talk about the personal grudges of those who used my name?'"
This guy not only provoked the messenger, but also lacked respect for the Black Swan, as if his "escape" and various attempts to run away just now were just to create an atmosphere, and he thought these two rememberers were too boring.
"I guess even if I warned Miss Hanabi, you wouldn't obey?"
The Black Swan showed no sign of being touched by Fireworks, and smiled even more gently and ambiguously. Her eyes seemed as if she was not looking at a noisy child, but at her lover who was throwing a tantrum, which made Fireworks feel a little uncomfortable.
"I think we still have a chance to meet and work together. This small offense should be considered as a bond of fate."
"...You are a very cunning person, quite different from the group of rememberers who came to see me before - maybe we can get along well."
Hanabi's eyes sank, her interest no longer on the two "new friends".
"But sorry, dear. Rather than using Yi Ting as an intermediary, I'd rather wait for a chance to meet Mr. Qianrenzhan in private in the future. Surprises, hehe, he's sure to like surprises."
She pulled at the fox-shaped mask hanging diagonally on her head. "Since you are on his side, please tell him that when Giovanni comes, he will bring his mask with him. What kind of mask is that? It's obviously a hood."
After mumbling to herself without any beginning or end, she, with her face completely covered by a mask, disappeared among the cherry blossom petals and icicles, leaving only a hint of mischievous fragrance.
"...Do you still want to chase me?"
The messenger sneered at the petals that dissipated in the cold air.
"If she didn't want us to find her, she would have withdrawn from the Pillar of Creation long ago."
Black Swan shook his head. "That's enough. She just revealed that another team of 'Rememberers'... were impersonating our incinerators."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure, but the Fool was not fooled. She had no intention of joining in. She might really just be here to watch the 'performance'."
"It's obviously just a transformation that's not even on a planetary level, but it involves so many troublesome guys. Ha... Should I say this is the appeal of the Doctor?"
After the messenger's anger subsided, he also felt a little discouraged: "The fictional historian actually 'translated' the Riddler's riddles for the Doctor to read. Is this considered an internal conflict... What is going on?"
Black Swan wiped his chest, took out the tarot cards, looked at the Hanged Man on the card, and gently tapped his lower lip, his expression a little more serious than before: "They are afraid that the doctor will define them as complete enemies, so they choose to withdraw... But the Arbitrator does not care about his attitude, he only cares about the attitude of their God."
"…Should we prepare for battle?"
"Becoming the party that makes the balance continue to tilt? No, it is enough to protect the doctor. The arbitrator cannot attack the doctor directly, but his companions will be in danger... This information cannot be told to him, he can only understand it on his own."
The Black Swan murmured:
The company, the genius club, the sea patrollers and the tavern, how can you balance such a powerful combination?
She looked at the barren white surface of Everwinter Ridge—
The icicles and spikes submerged in the snow seemed to be reflecting metallic light from the inside.
……
“That guy confessed everything.”
In the West City camp, Heita put her hands on her hips, casually threw aside her hammer that was bigger than her doll, and proudly asked for credit from Kong: "After robbing a group of space merchants, they found the coordinates of Yalilo in the spoils that were given by someone unknown, and marked there was a 'magic pill' given by the pharmacist. The war chief temporarily changed the leap point of the beast group and negotiated a business with the myth believers who led them here-"
It seemed that seeing that Kong had little interest in this kind of borrowing a knife to kill someone, Heita was less pretentious and changed to a more comfortable leaning position, sticking to Kong:
"Sniff, why do you smell like sweet yet stinky sweat? Didn't you take a shower today?"
"...Don't you know that I'm taking people to the Pillar of Creation?"
The corner of Kong's mouth twitched, but he didn't dare to say directly that the sweat was not caused by him.
"But you didn't say you were going to spend the night there with that purple-haired girl...really."
Heita sat down in Kong's arms, not worrying at all that sitting too hard would ruin his happiness for the rest of his life.
"Go on - although this group of Buli people is only a small tribe, they have brought a lot of wealth. One sixth of their main force is on the surface of the planet, and the rest are still watching from the outer edge of the galaxy. In order to get your exact location from the Riddler, their war chief promised to transform Yalilo VI into their pastoral area and support the expansion of Cocolia."
"...Aren't the Buli people's technology and military prowess very powerful? Why do they care about what the Riddler and the locals of Yalilo think?"
"In addition to the Riddler's intelligence source, the train's tracks and the company's tracks were exposed to them by an unknown guy. Now they are still in the stage of testing the truth. When Cocolia met these 'mercenaries', they showed great strength, which even shocked the war leader. They changed their strategy from simple plundering to cooperation."
"...Shocked the capital of the War?" Sora was puzzled.
A native chieftain who cannot fly out of the surface can make the real fleet leader respect his strength... If Cocolia and Star Core showed such strength from the beginning, why would he need to pretend to be cool?
"This is the key information, hehe. You won't forget my long-term research project outside the simulated universe, right? I am an expert in 'stellar core studies' -"
An expert in astrology in every sense of the word.
She even proudly touched Kong's chest with her slender hand, as if to say, you are also my research subject.
"The orbital observation deployed by Jizi cannot accurately measure the specific changes on the surface, but my puppet sensor can. The sensor data scattered to Yalilo shows that the star core is activating, and the local rift activity area in the north is warming up rapidly. Do you know what this means?"
"——Just state the conclusion directly."
Kong responded to Heita with a perfunctory tone, but his hands were not perfunctory at all, and he kept groping at the position that the other party liked him to attack the most.
"It means that we will soon fight the Pawns of Destruction with the interference of external forces. I just don't know if the Fertility People and the Void Pawns will fight first~"
Heita nudged his empty shoulder flesh with his chin, enjoying it very much.
"It's just that the energy that activates the star core is not accumulated naturally—"
"Mr. Sora—I'm sorry to bother you."
Pella was just about to come in from the tent entrance to explain the recent Iron Guard dispatch situation to Kong. When she "accidentally" saw Heita's cat-like posture through a small gap in the curtain that was not closed, her big round glasses reflected the light wildly, and she immediately retreated through the gap, not even giving Kong a chance to call her.
"…I was laughed at by a little girl…"
"I think with your reputation in the local area, they wouldn't find it strange even if you invited their leader as a guest."
Heita laughed maliciously a few times.
"...But compared to these changes that basically have no impact on the overall situation, I am more concerned about why she suggested Bu Liren to use the soldiers of the Seventh Garrison to create parasites... They are clearly a neutral force... Could it be that the Star Core has completely taken over her consciousness and started to go crazy?"
Did Cocolia no longer care about her reputation in the army? Was she planning to fight against the entire Beloberg on her own?
Without entering the state of mental resonance that had occurred accidentally before, Kong had no way of knowing whether the influence of the star core was continuing to deepen.
This operation was more like an attempt to push the Seventh Regiment from neutrality to the opposition, like she had deliberately created this move to benefit her daughter after she regained consciousness. Kong was not sure, but after the reinforcements of the Seventh Regiment who arrived at the scene heard the explanation of the train crew and took back the injured for questioning, they held an emergency meeting to discuss whether Kburg's introduction of these foreign races with werewolf characteristics as mercenaries would cause more serious disasters than the cold wave.
The balance that was originally in the middle began to tilt towards Bronya. Noshiro and the others who had just returned to the camp brought back a liaison officer who was responsible for the contact between the 7th Regiment and the Pera Division. This was no longer just a flirtation. There was no doubt that after weighing the threats from werewolves and his own people, the captain was still more willing to believe in his "fellow tribe."
293. Esta: I am resurrected!
"Perla, are you there?"
As if Pella wasn't strong enough to ruin Black Tower's plan, she was about to run away when Ling Ke suddenly appeared from the side and almost butted into her head:
"The garrison commander of the Seventh Regiment has already negotiated with my brother and is willing to accept Bronya's command. They may ask you to go with their liaison officer to discuss the change of guard."
She took off her woolen hat curiously and looked at her best friend with a stiff face: "...Why do you look like someone stepped on your tail?"
"Don't talk about it here - go back, go back to the house -"
"Hey, aren't we all family here? Why should we avoid...eh."
Lingke's golden little head glanced through the plastic window of the makeshift tent and saw the scene of Heita twisting restlessly in Sora's arms.
"…Uh, okay, well, let's go back to the headquarters. I'm just here to pass on a message for my brother."
"Why didn't Commander Jeppard use the terminal or notify me on the public channel?"
"Maybe you want to find something for me to do..."
After leaving the tent, Ling Ke muttered quietly, "Didn't Brother Kong just date Sister Xier today? They haven't been together for long and he's already got another one?"
"That's his real girlfriend! I heard from Sanyue that even her students fell for her..."
“…Huh?”
Not to mention that Sora had caused Ling Ke a little emotional shock. The two geniuses in the tent who didn't care about the outside world's evaluation certainly couldn't fail to hear the gossip of the girls. Therefore, Heita nudged Sora's chin with his head in annoyance and headache:
"That's all I know for now. I'll have to ask Yi Ting to collect the rest of the information, or you can talk to Luo Si and Ruan Mei about using their intelligence network... Also, there's some bad news. Estelle's thesis has passed."
"Oh... you passed the test? Send it to me?"
"Did you secretly give her some advice? From what I know about her, even if she spent twice as much time observing celestial bodies, she wouldn't be able to come up with such a practical proposition—"
"Really? What did she write?"
"Creating disjointed time storage through controllable artificial starquake technology"
"…What kind of crazy theory is that?" This time it was Esta's thesis topic that shocked Kong.
"I know this is a rather wasteful way of doing things, but don't you think it's a novel and interesting idea?"
Heita pinched her waist, as if she was very proud to be able to teach such a student - of course, her melancholy about Ester escaping from the sea of suffering and coming to grab the seat beside her was independent, concrete, and visual - and in an instant, her face was slumped.
"..."
The corners of Sora's mouth twitched repeatedly.
The Black Tower approved Ester's thesis because her research direction did not overlap with what she was good at, but it was completely nonsense to give the same thesis to Kong for review.
"Well, you can give it to me if you want, but I think using black holes to store and preserve food is much more economical than artificially creating starquakes..."
For once, Kongtou was a little hesitant about reducing the burden on Estelle and could only nod tactfully.
"It's a new direction. Not all civilizations can approach black holes at will."
Heita thought that Kong's scratching his head as if he couldn't bear to see Ester dealing with it was really funny, and his smile became a little mischievous, and his unhappiness about letting his student out of the cage disappeared.
"She will definitely contact you later. Since you are taking your two students to the practical class, why not include Estelle in it? Oh, since you are not satisfied with her thesis, I would like to see if our academic disagreement will bother her."
"This is not an academic disagreement. At best, it's just that different professions are like different mountains... She has said before that she wants to come to Yalilo for vacation, so don't push it too hard on her."
Kong thought of the little rich woman's application for travel, although it was ruthlessly rejected by the Black Tower:
"But there's going to be a war here, does the company headquarters have any objections? No, I have to ask her if she has reconnected with her mother."
"Let's fight. Alan will come with us. They have already gathered all the equipment in the light cone and are eager to try."
"Ok?"
Sora raised a brow, "She assembled the Titan? But where did the advanced AI come from?"
"Go ask it yourself."
Heita hesitated for a while, then jumped off Kong's knees and said, "When I was interrogating Bu Liren, I promised to let him go. What do you think we should do?"