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Although they wanted to be polite, Tomoyo and Ling were indeed a little thirsty.
"Black tea will do."
Alice widened her eyes in surprise. "So there really is such a thing as a 'young lady who loves black tea'. I thought black tea was a prop that only appeared in movies and was thrown away after filming!"
Ling also felt as if she had heard some rude words.
"Sorry, I don't have any black tea here. By the way, I don't have any coffee, milk, juice, etc. I only have Dr. Pepper."
"Dr...what?"
"You don't even know about Dr. Pepper, do you? It's a gift from God to mankind. God created the world because he drank Dr. Pepper, so he could rest on the seventh day. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to muster up the energy to create the world, and it might have taken 12 days!"
There are twelve days in a week, which means there is a weekend every twelve days. How terrible is that?
“Is this a joke?”
"No," Alice said seriously, not joking at all, "This is true. This is recorded in God's Notebook."
"God's notebook?"
"Ha, that's a pretty good way of saying it, isn't it? Being irresponsible to a certain extent becomes humor. As for me, I always feel that everything we have done and will do in the future has actually been recorded in God's notebook."
Just like what she saw through these cold surveillance images, everything that happened was recorded in a more concrete way in the notebook.
Tomoyo looked at Reiya, as if asking her if she had such a notebook.
Ling certainly didn't.
"Excuse me, please get me a can of Dr. Pepper. Also, if you want to drink, I can buy you some. After all, we are friends. As a thank you for helping me deliver the syllabus and notes. But only one can per person."
This friend is only worth a can of drink, which seems a bit cheap. Tomoyo thought so, but she didn't say it out loud.
Ling felt the same way, but if Dr. Pepper was really something as important as the source of the gods' creation of the world in Alice's eyes, it would be very generous of her to be willing to share a can.
I opened the refrigerator and it was completely filled with nothing but some kind of bottled drink, apparently Dr. Pepper.
Reiya and Tomoyo each took a can and handed one to Alice.
"Please enjoy the gift of the gods. This moment is the moment of ultimate bliss!"
Ling almost thought that what they were holding was something that would land them in jail if they took it.
But in fact, it is just an ordinary drink, cherry-flavored soda.
Gulp gulp——ha!!!
Alice showed an expression of satisfaction and enjoyment.
Unable to help herself, Tomoyo took out her cell phone and took a picture.
"What is that? A camera?" Alice didn't mind being photographed, she was just curious about the instrument she had never seen before.
"Mobile phones also have the function of taking photos and recording videos."
"Huh? That's really convenient." Alice is very interested in all electronic products, especially those she has never seen before.
She took the phone from Tomoyo, looked at it carefully, and then noticed the icons on the touch screen.
Telephone, camera, video recorder, photo album, easy to understand.
"What is this? Fate?"
She saw the only icon she couldn't understand.
“That’s a game.”
"game?"
Alice said, without waiting for further questions, and clicked on the icon.
When a neet homebody meets video games, a certain chemical change occurs.
"This is awesome! It's a genius idea to make a game like this with code!"
Compared to the first time Chise tried it out, the game has been updated. In addition to the map being updated to Ryudo Temple, the characters now have voice-overs.
"This thing called a mobile phone is simply the best game console." Alice exclaimed.
"That's not right. Mobile phones are not as superficial as game consoles. They can also be chat tools, virtual communities, forums, navigation, shopping, etc. Based on the Internet, they have many functions."
As Lingya talked, Alice's eyes became brighter and brighter. Her attitude towards mobile phones changed from interest at the beginning to a pilgrimage.
"The Internet, genius, no, it's God's idea!"
"Do you think it can be achieved?" Lingye asked knowingly.
"Of course!" Theoretically this is not a difficult task, it just requires huge amounts of money and a complete technical team.
But Alice was no fool, she immediately understood Lingye's intention.
"what do you want to do?"
"Hehe." Ling also smiled cunningly, "I have enough funds, but not enough technical accumulation. These are not difficult for Alice, right?"
"You want a neet to work for you?" Alice said incredulously, "A neet won't work! If he works, he loses."
Neet doesn't mean he can't do anything, nor does he want to do nothing.
It's just that they are stipulated that if they work, they lose.
"Who stipulated it?"
Alice gave an answer that was both unexpected and expected.
"God's Notebook."
They are not less capable than others, and it’s not that they didn’t want to work hard at first, but there is always unreasonable malice in this world, which makes all their efforts come to naught.
Being excluded and discriminated against.
To the point where they feel like they have lost out by going to work or school, losing out to the rules God has written in his notebook.
The last, small resistance, this is the neet tribe.
"But, a neet without the Internet is incomplete, right? Being able to search the entire world without leaving home, isn't that what a neet is?"
Search the entire world without leaving your home?
"You don't have to go out of your way to meet up. You can chat with people you don't know. If you're unhappy, you can just argue or post insults. Anyway, the other party can't crawl over the Internet. Immerse yourself in your own world, whether it's anime, comics, or games. You can be free in that world. Isn't this what neet is?"
"Lingye..." Alice was so surprised that she was stunned. "Are you a god?"
"No, I'm just your classmate. You are the god, Alice. Become the gospel of the neet tribe, the Messiah!"
It was like the speech of a cult leader, but Ling just wanted to get online earlier.
Most of the employees in her company had no idea what programming was and had to start from scratch. It was rare to find such a proficient computer genius.
Yes, "God's Notebook" has indeed recorded that Alice belongs to Oshima Company!
Chapter 269 Recruitment
On the way home, Ling suddenly remembered that Alice lived alone.
This is a conclusion that can be drawn without careful observation.
In that room filled with computers, there was no trace of other people's lives, and there was not even room for others to intervene. It was completely a private territory belonging to one person.
Alice's claim that her father, a high-ranking member of the Defense Force, was missing was just a lie.
In battles with monsters and aliens, the term "missing in battle" is actually no different from being killed in action. It is normal to not find a body after being crushed by a 10,000-ton monster.
So, when did she start living alone in a room like that?
"I think I made a mistake. Alice probably doesn't skip classes because she hates school."
On the way back, Ling suddenly said to herself. It was getting dark, and I saw Butler Ye's car parked at the entrance of the park not far away, which was full of tents. The black luxury car was out of place in the environment.
It was as if a foreign object had entered by mistake. Jianye was a little nervous, but he was relieved when he saw Lingye. Lingye waved to him.
"The homeroom teacher at school is really a jerk. He actually let the students come to such a place." Jianye complained. This is a famous slum in Tokyo. This is his eldest daughter. If it were any other elementary school girl, no, even an adult woman, coming here alone would inevitably be in danger.
"Maybe the teacher didn't expect Alice to live in Mitani District." Chishi said.
This is true. As a teacher in an aristocratic school, I certainly would not have thought that any students in my class would live in such a place.
As students who only went to school once a year and had never even had a home visit, the head teacher probably didn't even look at Alice's home address carefully and just gave it to them at random.
What's more, all the students in the class have a butler or driver with them, so there is no such thing as them going anywhere alone.
That is to say, Reiya and Chise are the most courageous.
Alice only goes to school once a year in order to keep her student status.
Reiya now thinks back that the school agreed to this not because of Alice's family's power. Because even for Reiya, the Oshima family is considered a top-tier wealthy family, and the school would not make an exception for this.
Absence is absence. Education is sacred and will not bend to the will of ordinary dignitaries. The only thing that can make the school relax is an administrative order from formal official channels.
Earlier, when Lingye asked Alice about her source of income, the girl seemed very casual.
"You don't think that neet can't make money, do you? Money is something that can be earned by writing some small programs and selling them when needed."
Computers were only available to the military, not to mention being popular among the public, and even many people had never heard of them. So Ling had roughly guessed what this so-called "app" was. Maybe the TAC team's base also had Alice's "app".
The white coats and laboratories when she was a child, so she was different from birth.
It’s not that Alice doesn’t want to go to school, but her life is different from that of ordinary people. She is special.
Whether it's superpowers or something else, they are more talented than geniuses in some fields, so they experience things that others can't imagine.
Fortunately, Alice herself does not reject this kind of life.
It is a blessing for a person to find a lifestyle that suits him or her. Whether you are a neet or a stay-at-home mom, the opinions and views of others are not important. As long as you think you are happy, that's all.
At least, Alice agreed to what Lingye asked.
Because she was attracted by the "Internet" described by Lingye.
Although we cannot yet see the true appearance of the Internet more intuitively, just imagining it in our minds is enough to make us yearn for it.
It was a world tailor-made for Neet.
Alice will not leave her cottage, but software design and programming do not require her to leave at all. The castle built by computers is the most suitable place to work.
"Tomoyo, I have a feeling that the things I mentioned before, such as chat tools and social forums, will appear soon."
It may even be earlier than the mobile phone is available on the market.