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He knew it wasn't that simple. But even if he didn't go to Izumo, this place would be fine. After all, the meat in the pot was his.

Gekkomine Shrine is a branch of the Izumo Taisha Shrine lineage and they are all one.

"Well, Hinata! Hinata! Look, the Kagura Palace Master has been here for a long time, but he doesn't even know how to invite people in! Go and pour a cup of tea. What about the hospitality?"

"Don't bother."

Kagura looked calm. Most clergymen nowadays behaved like this and she was used to it.

She stepped over the torii gate. The Oshima Miko was not in the shrine. Kagura didn't know whether to feel disappointed or relieved.

Of course, Ling was in school at this time. Even though she was a miko, she was not a full-time miko like Kagura.

For primary school students, going to school is the top priority.

After school, Chiyo was called to the teacher's office. Ling went with her because they always went home together.

"Here are the teaching syllabus and supplementary exercises for this semester. I'd like to trouble you...to deliver them to Shionji-san." The head teacher originally said "you", but when he saw Lingye coming along on his own initiative, he changed his words to "you guys".

"Is it for Shionji-san?" Tomoyo was a little surprised. It was not that she was unwilling to run errands, but she felt that such a task was a bit abrupt.

Yuuko Shionji, the girl who called herself Alice, never came to school again after that day.

I only go to school one day in a semester. Neet disease is really terrible.

But she and Ling were neither study committee members nor class monitors. Why did the head teacher let them go?

Although Lingye could definitely be a study committee member with her grades, she was lazy and didn't have the ambition to do so. She would avoid being a class committee member if possible.

"Eh? But aren't you and Shionji friends?"

Friends? Are they already friends?

"You see, Shionji never spoke to anyone except you two when he was in school."

Is that true?

It seemed so. They even addressed each other by their first names instead of their last names.

Alice

If not friends, then what?

Chishio didn't care and was happy to do something for her classmates.

Surprisingly, Alice lived in Mitani, a place whose name could not be found on later maps of Tokyo.

Because this is a slum, a place that Tokyo doesn't want to acknowledge. If Ling remembers correctly, in the 1980s and 1990s, the zoning here was abolished, split into several parts, and incorporated into other administrative districts.

Nowadays, this place is still a mixed bag, an area that all Tokyo residents dislike.

Lingya and Tomoyo were both surprised. They could hardly imagine Alice living in such a place. After all, the tuition fees for enrolling in an aristocratic school like Tomoeda Elementary School were not cheap.

However, some people like to live in a mansion, while for some people, where they live has nothing to do with whether their family is rich or poor.

The two walked through a park where poor people set up tents. The so-called park had become a dormitory area.

A lonely tent would make people feel pity for the homeless, but when they are connected together like this, it becomes more lively and becomes a label of some kind of "style culture".

After walking through the park for a few more minutes, and searching for a long time even with the address, Reiya and Tomoyo finally found the house number on the address.

It was a multi-storey building, a combination of commercial and residential areas. Compared to the real slums nearby, the surrounding buildings were much cleaner and didn't look very old.

It was probably some developer who suddenly wanted to buy at a bargain price. After all, Mitani district is well-known and the land price is really cheap. Compared with other places in Tokyo, it is almost free if you round it up.

If you build a house, you won't lose money as long as you rent it out. I don't know whether I will make a profit or a loss in the end.

The building with the address written on it has a ramen restaurant on the ground floor, with the words "Hanamaru Ramen" written on it. The sign looks Japanese, but the menu hanging outside says barbecued pork ramen and beef ramen, which makes it feel like Chinese ramen.

Alice's home is on the third floor.

"308, this is the right place, right?"

That should be correct, because apart from this family, all other houses on the same floor are empty, and many are not even renovated.

Obviously the developer's investment failed, and most of the houses here have not been sold or even rented.

The bottom-fishing failed. Ling also wanted to laugh. Her family was also in the real estate business, so it was inevitable that she would feel a little gloating over such a colleague.

Rich people won't buy here, and poor people can't afford it. It's obvious that the investment can't be successful!

But when she saw the sales and rental advertisements hanging on the wall at the stairs, she couldn't laugh anymore.

Because it says Big Island real estate.

"Lingya, this is your house!"

Okay, Chise, no need to remind her, thank you.

However, the two of them quickly put the matter behind them. After all, it was a bargain-priced investment, just like buying a ten-dollar lottery ticket on the street. If you don't win, that's it.

I knocked on the door, but no one came to open it. However, a voice came from inside the house, "Come in, the door is not locked."

The door is not locked? Living in such a chaotic place like Sangu District is not safe, so why not lock the door?

Ling also turned the doorknob and found it was unlocked. The entrance was undoubtedly the entrance hall, and then there was a long and narrow corridor.

When Lingye looked at the end of the corridor, she was surprised and thought she was hallucinating.

Because this is something that should never appear in this era and this place. She didn't see it at the TAC headquarters, but she didn't expect to see it here.

Computer hosts and monitors hanging all over the walls!

Even in the 21st century, this room is full of high-tech atmosphere. The room is very cold, that is the cold air from the air conditioner. It is running at full power and making a buzzing sound.

“This is a computer.”

Alice said, misunderstanding the reason for Lingye's surprise.

"Computers... But why, are there already such hosts and servers?"

"Oh, so you're an insider." Alice said. Her temperament was obviously different from the previous few days at school.

She was a timid little girl before, but now, in this room, she became a wise man who was able to plan and strategize.

"That's right. After all, he is the head of the Oshima family. It's not surprising that he knows something."

"The technology in this world is not as simple as ordinary people understand. There is a huge gap between civilian technology and the military. It is so huge that it is abnormal."

"Is this military technology?" Tomoyo asked curiously.

"Yes, but it is still obsolete technology. These are electronic computers, but the military's scientific research department has long since replaced them with quantum computers, which have theoretically infinite computing power."

“These are just discarded goods.”

Alice said this with a look of pride, because this was her castle.

Chapter 268 God's Notebook

Shionji Yuko

Alice

This classmate, who had been absent from classes for many years and whom they had only met once, brought great surprise to Reiya and Tomoyo.

Entering Alice's house, the two even thought they had entered a secret military base. Compared to the TAC base they visited a while ago, this place felt more like a frontier base.

The computer racks against the wall extended all the way up to the ceiling, and the monitor screens filled almost all the space in the room, even directly above the head.

This is a room filled with a foreign object called a computer. There is no room for any other furniture except a bed. So there are no cabinets or desks to be seen here.

The only thing that could be called a desk was a computer desk made of planks on the bed. On it was a laptop computer that was even more advanced than before. The only thing that indicated that this was a little girl's room was the dozen or so stuffed toys of various sizes on the bed.

At some point, Ling even wondered if the girl in front of her had also traveled from some future era and brought these computers with her.

But not.

"Are you surprised? This is the real technology of humans in this era. No, the real military technology is far more than this. It's just that they haven't opened it to the public."

Ling also believed this because she knew how magical the TAC team's technology was.

Including but not limited to: star destroyers, superluminal flying missiles, technology to travel through the dark universe and other dimensions, annihilation energy weapons, all of these have already been achieved. Compared with these, what are a few computers?

It's only 1973, Ling reminded herself. Is this technological explosion too abnormal?

"Is it because of the aliens' technology?"

"You think it's alien technology?" Alice asked back, "Do you really think these technologies were developed in seven years?"

Is not it?

"You know, seven years ago, before the monsters first visited Earth, we already had Team Kurt."

This reminded Ling, and indeed, even without the invasion of monsters and aliens, before the initial intersection of the crossroads, this place was very different from the history she knew when she lived on Earth in the past.

In 1966, the first generation came to Earth chasing Bermuda, which was the beginning of everything. But before that, humans already had an organization like the "Kote Team" and had technology far beyond the same period of the Earth in Lingye's memory.

The histories of the two worlds were different from the very beginning.

Of course, making irresponsible comments on history is a kind of arrogance. Whether something happens or not is a probability and is unpredictable.

But if it was military technology, how did Alice get it? Ling didn't ask, but Alice obviously knew what she wanted to ask.

"Because my father is a high-ranking official in the defense forces."

Alice gave a very easy-to-understand reason.

"But he disappeared three years ago."

The screens on the wall displayed densely packed surveillance images, with hundreds of windows. A normal person would get dizzy just staring at them for a while, let alone studying the content.

But Alice wouldn't do that. All the images could be imprinted in her mind almost at the same time and analyzed clearly by her.

“I can know a lot about my surroundings even without leaving the house.”

Here, she is like the king, knowing everything around her.

"Is it really possible to do this?" Tomoyo was amazed. "It's like a super power."

"Yes, this is a superpower." Alice admitted, "I have been able to do this since I was three years old. So many people in white clothes have studied me. I still remember that I lived in a very strange room during that time. Well, it wasn't a terrible experiment, although it was a bit painful to draw blood at the beginning. Other than that, I was just asked to learn something."

Perhaps because her father was a high-ranking military official, the experiment ended quickly and did not cause her any sequelae.

She even missed the feeling at that time, and she gradually understood her true self, and understood what she could do and how she was different from others.

She is still just an ordinary human being, but she has a few more strange abilities than others.

"By the way, it's a rare occasion to have guests at my house, and I haven't entertained you yet. Would you like something to drink?"