Chapter 1,597 It’s Really Right Under Your Nose

As soon as Bingtis opened her mouth, I finally understood why she had pulled him out so hard: I have been tortured a lot by the mess of the startup and the imminent catastrophe in the past two days. Maybe this female gangster thinks I need it again. Enlighten me...

It’s not surprising that she thinks so. After all, it’s true that I’ve been feeling a little irritable these days. The repair project on the startup side has not progressed, the home world is not settled, the catastrophe is approaching, and there is not even one expert from the three tribes who can be called Nothing "results" have been produced, everything seems to have come to a standstill. We are standing still, waiting for the catastrophe to hit us bit by bit - who wouldn't be depressed?

And Bingtis would stand up every time I encountered such a situation and become a guide who helped me point out the direction and clear the fog - although I don't want to admit that this female gangster has such a great and upright side, but this is a fact. I have been enlightened by her over the years. Although her temperament is a bit hard to describe, this female gangster has used her rich experience and incomparable wisdom to help me guide me more than once, even though her way of speaking was different every time. She is full of hooliganism, but what she says is always full of weight. Shandora's wisdom is good at fighting, Haran's wisdom is good at strategy, and Belavila's sharpness has long been worn away. The remaining two seniors of our Great Void Clan can only give them a sudden inspiration in extremely rare circumstances. I asked for guidance. Looking at the large group of veterans around me who have lived longer than the history of the universe, it is really only Bingtis who can be called a "good teacher" of mine over the years... It's a pity. He's a gangster.

I was a little touched, but this time I really felt that Sister Bing was a little nervous: "It's okay, my mentality is still good. The current situation is indeed a bit worrying... But didn't Tavel say that there will be a catastrophe no matter what? It will be hundreds of years later, and we have just started repairing the boot end. There will be plenty of time in the future, and it is too early to despair now."

"Well, I've thought about it thoroughly, but it's a pity that it's useless to think about it thoroughly." Sister Bing curled her lips, leaned on the bench very inelegantly, and bent one of her long legs to step directly on the chair, "You two The start-up side of Tian Research is almost stunned."

I scratched my chin in embarrassment: "...Is it that serious? Oh, you pulled me out to enlighten me. I already know, thank you. This is the first time I have made you worry. "

"It's none of my business that you have mental problems." Even after being told the truth, Bingtis still covered it up as harshly as before, "I just want to remind you occasionally. After all, no matter how awesome you are, it will be in the future." So far, I can still use my life experience to crush you. I am not good at those cheesy ways of speaking, and my heart-to-heart, soft and emotional approach also conflicts with me. So my words are so straightforward: you You have to realize that you are not alone..."

"I know, I am a creature of the void, and I am not a human being in the first place - although I always thought I was a human being before."

Bingtis glared over fiercely: "How come you haven't changed your problem for so many years? Can you not interrupt me when I'm talking so seriously? Next time, I will definitely follow you if I can beat you. You are angry!"

Me: "..." I always feel like this elder sister just said something quite unworthy of her, but only now will she point it out.

"You are not alone - here is the quantifier!" Bingtis turned his head. His voice finally slowed down, "Your mentality and words and deeds affect not only you, but also the small circle around you. I know that the difficulties encountered at the startup end are indeed very stressful. Even Sandora and others I spend a lot of time in the research institute - but you shouldn't be suppressed along with it. And you see, even Shandora is not completely devoted to the project. Just now she was discussing with others the combination of tofu and concentrated sulfuric acid. As for the matter, Princess Zhange is still entertaining. You, a half-hearted emperor who does everything diligently and loves the people all day long, act as if you are preparing to die when you follow me. Is it necessary?"

I felt that if I didn't speak, I would be beaten to death by this female gangster, so I had to raise my hands cautiously: "What, don't say it's so serious... I'll admit it when you say I'm half-assed. When have I been so busy that I feel like I'm going to die?" Already?"

"That's because you didn't pay attention," Bingtis snorted, "You still remember what I told you about the royal way before, right? The royal way that suits you is by no means a micromanager, because you don't have that ability yourself - —Your royal line should be the leader. Just keep an optimistic attitude and move forward. Leave the worries to others. You need to have a good attitude, not panic when encountering difficulties, be perseverant, and create a people around you who will never despair. Atmosphere, so that people around you can spread this atmosphere, so that your... Oh, it is our empire now, so that our empire can move forward in this atmosphere. If even you lose confidence, all day long With a frown on your face, do you still expect your people to be high-spirited? The Xiling Apostles are indeed not easily affected by emotions, but they are not short-sighted either. A good environment and optimistic leaders are always of great significance." At the end of the sentence, Bing Bing Thies nodded vigorously again: "To sum up, your kingly path is the mascot route..."

The corner of my eye twitched: "What I said before is very good. If there was no summary sentence at the end, I would have taken out a small notebook and written it down."

"Anyway, it basically means the same thing," Sister Bing waved her hand, "You have started to feel depressed recently. Although the symptoms are very mild and others in the family haven't noticed it yet, I think it is necessary to remind you now, and wait until you are in a complete state of mind. I'm afraid it'll be too late to mention it if you get stuck in it. Don't worry too much about the start-up side, things will always get better, and to be honest, you can't understand those reports... Don't show that expression, you really can't understand, I It’s hard to read, and I’ve long noticed that you only read the title and conclusion every time.”

I either nodded or shook my head, and in the end I could only look up to the sky and laugh twice in embarrassment: "Uh-huh... okay, you win. I'm really a little over-stressed right now, but don't worry, I'll adjust myself in a matter of minutes. It’s not like you don’t know that my nerves are as stable as those made of special materials. But having said that, I didn’t expect you to be quite a sensitive person, so I put a little more effort into my work, and even Sandora and the others didn’t. Discovered. You actually noticed it and even came here to enlighten me... It's quite touching."

"That's right, I am as enchanting as water as a nightingale... How dare you open your mouth and say no, I will give you a hard slap, believe it or not?" Bingtis casually clenched his fist, and directly made an air blast, Then he shook his head and said, "Actually, it's not that I'm sensitive or anything. It's just that I happened to see that little doll girl standing at the door of your study today. She wanted to go in but didn't dare to go in. It's really heartbreaking, okay? - You A great holy father is actually so busy with work that he has alienated his daughter to such an extent. If I can’t see it any more, I’m really blind.”

I felt my face twitching: "Huh? So this is how you judge my recent bad state of mind?"

"What else can we do?" Bingtis frowned, "You don't even care about your daughter. Isn't this serious situation?"

I thought about it and decided to tell the truth: "...Do you know why that girl became like this today?"

Bingtis shook his head, but his expression seemed a little subtle.

"Because she stayed up all night and made trouble last night. Finally, she tied me to the bed with a sheet and put Dingdang in her box - I decided to fine her half a month's pocket money, that's all."

Sister Bing's expression suddenly became very exciting. It was an expression like "I came here to save the world in a hurry, thinking that you had encountered a major setback in life, but you ended up fighting with a naughty child." She opened her mouth and finally choked out two words: "That's it?"

"Of course that's it." I shrugged, "No matter how hard it is, I can't hurt my children. No matter how busy I am at work, when have I ever neglected those naughty children at home? Unless they commit suicide, you see, I usually don't even say a harsh word. I’m willing to say it…”

Sister Bing pumped it in in one breath. The oxygen content of the surrounding air almost dropped a lot: "Hey - you two have been doing this for a long time because of this? That doll girl looked at the study with a look of resentment. I thought you had finally left. It’s the route of ‘the career-oriented father is busy with work and neglects his family, so the child lacks father’s love and enters the rebellious stage early’! I’m so nervous all afternoon!”

"The rebellious phase? That naughty child has been in the rebellious phase since the day she met me. She has a bad temper and will be rebellious for the rest of her life!" I curled my lips, "And where did you get this weird idea? Why do I always sound a little bit It sounds familiar..."

Bingtis slapped the bench sadly: "Please don't say it - I've seen too many public service ads in the past two days, okay?"

I could only laugh and try hard not to let this female gangster get angry and hurt others due to excessive embarrassment, but to be honest, I was quite touched in my heart: misunderstandings are misunderstandings, and Bingtis’s intentions are always true.

"You have a weird smile." Bingtis was usually very carefree. Sometimes she is so sensitive but she doesn't look like a female gangster. As soon as the expression on my face changed, she immediately looked over in confusion.

"It's nothing, just thank you for your concern," I raised the corners of my mouth slightly, "Don't show such an expression. I'm really not in a good mood these two days... Although it's still a little different from what you imagined, but the startup side is better I was really stressed.”

Bingtis lowered his eyes: "Did I cheer you up by accident?"

I just smiled and said nothing, just quietly watching with Bingtis as there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the roadside. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, just when I was about to stand up and greet Sister Bing to go home, the latter suddenly sighed: "Have you seen these pedestrians on the road?"

"Uh, I saw it, what's the problem?"

"It's so good not to know anything. Ignorance is bliss," Bingtis said in a rare emotional tone. Her eyes looked into the distance without focus, as if she could see through the ups and downs of all living beings in the world in an instant, "Look, they are busy. They spend every day busily, immersed in their daily necessities and their short lives. No one knows that something called the Void Cataclysm is slowly approaching all ordered worlds. They have no sense of the end of the world. 'The universe Disillusionment is a concept that is so far away that no one can imagine it in the minds of everyone except the insane. No one knows that the catastrophe will happen in a few hundred years at the latest. The glorious civilization and magnificent history they created are regarded as treasures. Everything, even the entire universe, will be wiped out in a zeroing reaction—if we fail, of course."

I looked at Bingtis in surprise, wondering why she would suddenly mention this. This didn't sound very optimistic and was inconsistent with the heartless style of this female gangster.

"Don't look at me like this, I actually have a very emotional side," Bingtis smiled. "Look at your eyes, don't you think so? Ignorance is bliss, and for most mortals with short lifespans, even if the world ends in a few hundred years, it means nothing to them, but we can't think like this - Whether it’s Star Territory, Huron or Xiling, we are at the top and know a lot of things. We have to bear the responsibilities that come with it. So sometimes we envy them... It’s great not to have to worry about anything. Anyway, there is a group of people. Gods are saving the world in places that I can't see. But I can only think about it occasionally. If my father finds out about this idea of ​​being passive and sabotaging work, he will definitely end up being hung up and beaten for at least three days - you have to take my place. Keep your identity confidential.”

I glanced at Bingtis in surprise, then nodded with a smile: "Okay, okay, I understand. The usually heartless eldest sister will also be negative sometimes, so I will definitely keep it a secret for you. To be honest, I'm a little happy now. , knowing that even a special creature like you can feel depressed, I feel a little more balanced."

"Just to give you balance...forget it, just pretend you didn't hear it," Bingtis waved his hand. "I am not passive, I just express my feelings occasionally. Gods are the most responsible creatures in the world. But you have to allow us to complain a few times after work, right? And you look like a god, Well, the leader of the gods.”

At this time, the sky had completely darkened, and the time spent outside with Bingtis was indeed quite long. I thought that Shandora would go crazy with hunger if I didn't go back (she would try her best to wait for me to come home before serving food), so I reached out to Bingtis: "Let's go, before Shandora leads the troops to catch us." Let’s go home quickly.”

Bingtis grabbed my hand and stood up, and suddenly thought seriously: "Chen, do you think the success rate will be very high if we really want to elope now?"

Me: "..." How does this female gangster's head grow? !

But before I could speak again, an emergency communication from Shadow City echoed in my mind: "Your Majesty! This is the research center, and we have found a replacement for the startup core!"

It was Tavel's voice.

This sudden news left me stunned. Bingtis couldn't help but stretched out his hand and waved it in front of my eyes: "What's the matter? I heard that I'm going to elope with you, are you overjoyed? Damn you, don't take it seriously, Shandora will kill her if she chases her..."

I barely heard what Bingtis was saying, and it took me a while to recover from the shocking news. Then I saw Sister Bing in front of me, and for some reason I picked her up and spun her around three times: " The startup terminal is in place! You are truly my lucky star!"

"Wow, you're crazy -" Bingtis was about to punch him subconsciously, but he realized it halfway and stared at me, "Wait a minute, what did you just say?"

Only then did I realize my twitching behavior, and quickly put this fierce female gangster on the ground. The first thing I did was to keep a distance of more than five meters from her and carefully observe the situation: "Then what...please promise not to first Use cruel weapons such as meteor hammers on me..."

Seeing that Bingtis really had no intention of retaliating, I sneered and leaned forward: "The core of the startup end is in place."

This shocking news made us waste no time and ran back home in a hurry. As soon as we entered the door, I saw Shandora ready and waiting for me. Next to her stood Xiaoxue and Lin Xue. The latter looked at Bingtis and me up and down, and nodded seriously: "Well, these two are back from eloping..."

I stepped forward and flicked the eldest lady on the head: "Don't make trouble."

Xiaoxue was also looking at us, but the naughty kid just wrinkled his nose and made a face, but at least he didn't seek death.

"I also received news from Tavel. I'll have dinner later and go check on the situation first." Sandora waved her hand and opened the portal to Shadow City with a resolute attitude, "Xiao Xue and Lin Xue is also going to follow, and they want to test whether the 'alternative plan' mentioned by Tavel is feasible."

"I'll go over and have a look at the excitement," Bingtis decided without treating herself as an outsider (although she was indeed not an outsider), and she didn't forget to tug at the military uniform she was about to wear, "I don't care. A senior officer, right..."

"Just don't cause trouble." Sandora nodded, and then walked into the portal first.

After the flash of light and shadow in the blink of an eye, we have arrived at the Shadow City Research Center. The teleportation point is not on the "surface" of the research center, but an empty and boundless dark space: this is a certain "translimital laboratory" To expand the space, the coordinates Tavel gave us are directly the laboratory. She has already begun to verify the feasibility of alternatives?

Large buildings serving as experimental facilities are suspended in the boundless dark space. The place we are on is an open alloy platform. The outer layer of the platform is covered with a layer of atmospheric environment, and in front of everyone are rows of activated devices. Data terminal, the frequently refreshed data stream above indicates that a certain test has started. Tavel's real body stood in front of us, with an excited look on his face: "Your Majesty, and all the officers, it seems that the problem at the startup end will be solved soon!"

I rarely see such an undisguised expression of excitement on the face of this steady and calm scientist. It seems that the startup issues in the past few days have put a lot of pressure on her, and now that there has been a sudden development, she can't calm down. Sandora looked up at the situation in the testing ground. She suddenly discovered something, and her expression became subtle: "Um...is this your solution?"

As soon as I looked up, I was immediately stunned: "...It's actually this thing?!"

There is a huge weird thing floating quietly in the test site. It is completely black and has an unattractive appearance. It looks like several half-melted ice cream balls stacked on top of each other. It looks familiar...

Just as Lin Xue said, the solution is right under your nose!

(Aha, I have to go out later, so I updated it in advance. I also added a PS anyway. Please give me a monthly pass.)