Chapter 198 Interlude Birthday (Part 1)

"Hmm... uh... yawn!"

Mikael got up from the bed in a daze, and emptied all the "inventory" of the night in a daze. The flushing sound of the toilet seemed to come from a very far place, and it passed through the thick fog and drifted into Mikael's ears.

The light outside the window was gray, and Mikael could feel the breath of the early morning without even opening his eyes - thanks to the light sensing system of the underground city, it can simulate the external light sensation at the corresponding time.

Oh yes, the underground city plan of the Fire Moth was finally completed. As Mei said, after she submitted the batch of "evidence" to the coalition government, the latter obviously experienced a long period of turmoil. Even if this turmoil has subsided, facing the almost iron-clad Fire Moth, they can no longer make any moves. On the contrary, in order to fight the collapse, they have to "willingly" pay money.

Therefore, after Mei got the corresponding funds, he directly dug a 500-meter-deep space under the entire New Moth City and the Fire Chaser Moth headquarters. However, this step did not cost much money because it was dug out in an instant by Mikael using the power of space.

Then, the entire ground area was moved underground, and thirty-three layers of special alloy armor plates were installed on the top, which was as solid as a rock.

But Mikael didn't have the heart to sigh about these. Sleepiness faded like a tide, and soon came again. He gradually became a little hazy about the division of time in his mind-what day is today...

One, two, three, four, five...

Mikael counted on his fingers and wrinkled his nose.

"Is it the day off? Ha-yawn! Then sleep a little longer."

Mikael found the bedside by the wall and fell over.

When his consciousness sensed the flow of about five seconds of time -

When he spent a whole year in the dream -

When the second hand of the old-fashioned wall clock turned twice -

Mikael, who had mastered the time inequality, finally opened his eyes again. After a nap, he finally woke up.

He opened the window. The air in March was still a little cold, with a hint of moisture and earthy smell that only existed underground. Two yellow birds fluttered over and landed on the branches of the small tree under his window. Unfortunately, they were not the pair that had been in the golden courtyard.

At the feet of the yellow birds were tender green buds. They were weaving a small nest with dead branches and willow branches brought from nowhere, a nest that belonged to themselves and their offspring.

Mikael stared blankly for a long time, and then raised his eyes slightly and cast them at the green lake in the distance.

Even underground, there was still a gentle breeze coming from afar, rippling the lake water and letting the willows around it fly.

A few willow catkins also floated up under the wind, easily crossing a distance of thousands of meters, and swirled in front of Mikael's window.

Moving forward, you can see that under a blue "sky", there stands an emerald green and clear pyramid - after the headquarters of the Fire Moth sank underground, it finally no longer needs a thick layer of soil as an external shelter.

On the contrary, with the contractor Wei Wei receiving a large amount of capital injection, she spent a lot of money to get the same green crystal as Lu Luye from Mu Continent and covered the entire base.

Even Mei and Mikael were unaware of this matter in advance, so when these materials were placed in front of him, he thought that the logistics procurement department of the United Government had made a mistake, allowing the Fire Moth to pick up a big bargain...

Besides, Wei Wei really has a way of doing things. She only paid for one-third of the amount to evade Mikael on the budget. When the construction project was one-third completed and all the materials were used up, Mikael realized how much money he had invested in these "green broken stones"!

Mikael looked up at the blue sky. This was the consequence of this incident, although it was not visible to the naked eye. The original 88 layers of armor plates were only laid 33 layers due to insufficient budget.

But it was not a big problem. In front of the future Herrscher, there was really not much difference between the 33rd and 88th layers.

"Crackle, crackle--" The roar of chains and gears came from above, and sometimes mixed with the sound of hydraulic power devices pulling. It was the "chain-type" elevator with almost no protection that was transporting external personnel and materials into the underground city.

However, the name "chain-type" was not named because of its transmission method, but because of its shape-a chain hanging from the sky at a 45-degree angle.

Oh, no, according to the soldiers, the full name should be: "Vilvi's Chain".

Notorious.

Mikael shook his head. His brain seemed to be not fixed in the skull. He felt a vague sense of swaying, which made him very uncomfortable.

He closed the bed, washed up briefly, turned right and walked out of the door of Ellie's room, knocking gently.

It was just past eight o'clock! Ellie must not have gotten up at this time!

He knocked on the door confidently, but after waiting for half a minute, there was no movement.

"Huh?"

Logically, there should be a few half-awake mumblings, and then a few "rolling" sounds, which were her legs clamped with the quilt rolling around on the bed, trying to wake herself up.

Sometimes there would be a short scream, followed by a "bang", and Mikael felt that the floor under his feet was shaking. Needless to say, he accidentally rolled to the ground...

But all of this only stayed in his memory. In the real world, it seemed that nothing happened.

"Sorry, Ellie."

Confessing his guilt in his heart, Mikael, with a trace of unexplainable emotions, allowed the power of space to flow like water, and slipped in along the crack of the door little by little. Although he did not actually see it with his own eyes, the world inside was in Mikael's mind. Perception is even more nuanced than seeing.

"A cabinet of all kinds of maid outfits... Hey, why are there so many different sizes? No, this can't be for Mebius..."

"Throwing around... uh... this..."

Mikael touched his slightly hot cheek. He originally wanted to use the power of space to help her sort out the underwear scattered everywhere, but then he thought about it. When Ellie comes back tonight, she will find that these things have been tampered with...

Will you beat him to death?

He will definitely be beaten to death!

Okay, sure, the whole room is empty, even the bed that has been lifted has no warmth at all.

"Hiss...really leaving? She actually got up earlier than me? She didn't even call me!"

Mikael spread his hands towards the door sign and shrugged, as if the owner of the door could see this.

wrong!

Mikael walked around the door twice and scratched his head. Although he knew that Ellie must have something urgent to do before leaving without saying a word, it might also be because she knew that today was a day off and guessed that she would He was snoozing, so he deliberately didn't wake him up.

However, the first thing he saw when he got up was not Ai Li, and he felt somewhat disappointed.

I feel like my luck has been bad for the whole day...

"Forget it, let's go to the base."

Stepping out of the space rift and arriving at the anti-entropy training base, Mikael briefly looked inside, but Ellie was not there.

Although it is a rest day, in the past, everyone did not slack off much, just slept in more.

But now, not to mention Ai Li, not even Sakura is here.

Only the sleepy-eyed Paduo and Ling were still following Hua in the first punch of the day for who knows how many times.

Mikael shrugged and was about to go see what was going on with Mebius, but Hua had already noticed him first and walked towards him.

"Huh? It's rare that you are willing to put down an unfinished set of punches. Is it because you are about to be transferred?"

According to the original idea, those who did not undergo the fusion warrior surgery in Anti-Entropy, such as Hua, Pado and Su, should be transferred to other positions, but in fact it just depends on personal choice. If you really don’t want to go, that’s Mikael. A matter of words.

For example, Pado, Mikael directly and forcefully left her in Anti-Entropy. Su himself chose to join Spacy's experimental team because he met an acquaintance there, the former Chief Fal.

As for Hua...she is a very principled person. Mikael didn't want to interfere with her choice. He thought she was worried about it.

He habitually helped her straighten her bangs, which were wet with sweat and stuck to her forehead. However, he looked past her and glanced at Pado, who was sneaking along the wall to the back door, and he looked hesitant, wondering whether to To report Padu's bell for trying to escape...

Hua shook her head slightly, the amplitude was so small that it was almost undetectable. It even took Mikael a long time to think about it before he could tell that she had indeed shaken her head.

He was stunned, and his fingers naturally picked through the pigtails between his temples, and then sighed, "Actually, it's okay if you don't want to be transferred. The reason why I suppressed not to perform super-transformation surgery on you is, on the one hand, because You are still young, but on the other hand, you want to find a way that suits you better..."

"Mikael, you don't have to hide it from me anymore..."

Hua's body has gradually grown, and the top of his head has reached the height of Mikael's chin, and he no longer needs to raise his head so high.

"I asked Dr. Mebius. According to the model calculations given by Dr. Mebius, Garuda is the only Honkai Beast that I can possibly fuse successfully..."

"!"

Mikael was so excited that he quickly grabbed Hua's right arm and pulled her sleeve up. Sure enough, there were traces of three pinholes on it.

He grabbed his left arm again and did the same thing.

"you……"

"sorry."

Hua said softly.

"Garuda's factor is very strange. Its operation success rate is very high, relatively high, but the recipient does not seem to show much extraordinary ability. The degree of improvement... is probably equivalent to that of an ordinary girl. Become as powerful as Himihu?"

Mikael would never have thought that the girl Mebius was referring to in this conclusion would actually be Hua...

This snake!

"Are there any side effects?"

Hua shook his head.

But Mikael knew that it was because she had only had the surgery for a short time and had not yet felt the heavy side effects...

"Anyway, since you have undergone the fusion warrior surgery, you no longer need to be assigned to the ordinary army."

Mikael's tone left no room for discussion.

"Oh...oh, okay."

Hua seemed dull, but Mikael clearly raised the corners of his lips when he saw her turning around.

"That's right, Hua."

Mikael suddenly stopped her.

She turned around suddenly and saw Mikael's expression of hesitation.

She suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Are you going to ask where Ellie went?"

"Uh...uh, yes."

Hua glanced at Mikael suspiciously, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes:

"Mikael, do you really not know what day it is?"