Chapter 458 You Must Be Very Tired

"You...sigh..."

Mikael sighed silently, and plucked the furry cat ears with his fingers very skillfully, then moved down to the ends of his hair, and gently rolled the soft hair with his index finger.

"How stupid, how can you remember it so clearly?"

Mikael's voice was trembling, and the muscles in his chest and lungs were numb and twitching, but Pado probably didn't notice it. She smiled and got into Mikael's arms, and then explained with pride:

"We are saving silver coins! We put a silver coin into the clay pot every day! Every time we put a silver coin in, we draw a mark on the clay pot... What is that mark called... Right! Ah Hua taught me, saying It’s an ancient Chinese character, and it’s very useful for counting!”

"Fool, what are you doing saving so much money here..."

"Hey, brother Mikael, don't you understand this? Those bosses who come here for trials, if you directly give them props and engrave them, they will be afraid of what you will do. So, let's do it I bought a lot of shiny silver coins with cat paw prints to trade with them! In this way, they believe the engravings we gave them. Boss Mikael, do you think they are stupid?”

"It's really stupid."

Mikael chuckled, but it didn't last long before she put Pado down. He first flicked Pado's forehead with his index finger, and then rubbed Ling's head.

"You two..."

The initial excitement faded away, and Paduo and Ling finally remembered what they had done before.

Where is this place? The central processing hub for the entire Purana.

And what is Ling's mission? Guard the Twelfth God's Key as the central hub and maintain the normal operation of the Twelfth God's Key.

Although this task is as simple as visiting the library, being caught using the library computer to play games seems a bit excessive, right?

What's more, this is a central processing hub that is much more serious than the library!

Mikael deliberately dragged out the end of his words for a long time. Seeing the uneasy looks of the two girls, he couldn't help but finally laughed again:

"Okay, I'm not that scary. Just remember to turn on the lights next time you two play. Why, playing games with the lights off is more exciting, right? Can you bear it with your dark eyes?"

Upon hearing what Mikael said, the breath that Pado and Ling took deeply into their lungs finally came out.

The smile quickly returned to his face, and the two carefree girls quickly started to talk about what happened in the Paradise over the past five hundred years or even more than fifty thousand years. Interesting facts.

"Hey! Brother Mikael, do you know? Sister Destobia had a quarrel with Ah Mo some time ago. You didn't see the look in Ah Mo's eyes at that time. It's really aggrieved! But he didn't say anything from the beginning to the end. Talk back..."

"Brother Mikael, you would never have imagined that such a gentle person like Sister Nia would actually quarrel with Uncle Hen and Sister Blanca over little Gratius's education..."

Mikael smiled hypocritically, letting more and more meaningless words and meaningless stories pour into his ears, and then his smile became more obvious.

He didn't say anything, just listened quietly. It wasn't until the two girls got tired of talking and went to find water that he finally spoke again.

"Pado, Ling, I'm sorry, I can only stay with you for so long this time."

The room suddenly became too quiet. Paduo and Ling may have expected this from the beginning, so they spoke very quickly before, not just to say more words in a shorter time. ?

And now the act of stopping to pour water, isn't it sensible to stop at the right place?

"sorry."

Mikael said the same useless words and slowly stood up.

"Ling, I want to check the operation records of the Paradise of the Past."

"Ah...ah? Okay, I'll do it..."

"No."

Mikael sat directly in front of Ling's computer. He didn't even do any operations, he just put his index finger in front of the computer's USB interface. After a burst of dim blue light, the first knuckle of his index finger turned into a connector, which fit into the interface.

Mikael closed his eyes. After a second, he retracted his fingers that had returned to their original shape and stood up from the seat.

Looking at Ling who was staring at her instep and her red ears, the corners of Mikael's mouth twitched slightly.

"Uh...hehehe, I really didn't expect you, Ling, to like this... uh, I didn't mean it, I didn't see anything!"

"Uh... Boss Mikael, what are you talking about to Ling?"

Pado's innocent question became the straw that broke the camel's back. Ling directly covered her ears and squatted down. Mikael even dodged and returned directly to the Paradise Hall.

"call--"

He leaned heavily on the soft sofa, and then couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, feeling quite relieved that his child had grown up.

After calming down again, he began to look through the records of the operation of the Twelfth God's Key.

In one second, even his brain couldn't browse too much information, let alone what he had to face for five hundred years?

So he actually only did the "extraction" step just now. The specific browsing and sorting of information will start from now on.

As for Ling's browsing history, it was just an accident, just like you are going to a room to get something, but you can never control what you will see when you open the door.

The smile on Mikael's lips slowly dissipated, and he began to read each record carefully.

The power of the Ruler of Reason originally requires the brain to work at a high speed, and coupled with the "dataization" changes brought about by the erosion of power, he processes information at an unusually fast speed.

"In the past five hundred years, the one who has been in and out of Paradise the most frequently is Wei Wei? Yes, for her, a world that cannot be "innovated" is too monotonous. Was the last time she went out half a year ago?"

The reason why I looked at Wei Wei's records first is that she goes in and out of Paradise the most frequently, and secondly, because, when she was with Ling, she mentioned that the game she played was brought back by Wei Wei from outside, wasn't it?

Unfortunately, after briefly putting Wei Wei on the "suspect list", Mikael quickly crossed her out.

Wei Wei went in and out of Paradise many times, and mainly concentrated in recent years. After all, the older era is not very attractive to people like her who are constantly innovating - if it is another completely different civilization, it would be fine, but it is just a small difference, more like the product of the original civilization after the reset, she should not be interested.

Although the Paradise file does not show where Vivi has been, Mikael can see the time she entered and exited the Paradise several times, including the time she stayed outside. He only needs to compare and it is not difficult to find that nothing special seems to have happened during the time when Vivi left the Paradise. To be precise, there should be nothing that makes Mikael feel guilty.

The time she stayed in the outside world also varies, which is in line with her style.

Of course, this is just a preliminary screening. For specific situations, he can also directly read the memory of Vivi's memory, but he plans to complete the preliminary screening first.

The next step is to check the records of Ying's entry and exit of the Paradise. As long as he can find the time when she left the Paradise for the last time, he can roughly determine what stimulated her to make the current decision, but...

"How is it possible!"

Mikael's upper body, which was leaning on the sofa, tensed instantly. He looked at the entry and exit records in the form of data in his mind.

It was blank, just like his thoughts at the moment.

Five hundred years ago, Ying did not return to the Paradise at all!

Mikael felt that he could not stay in this paradise for a moment.

Whether Sakura returned to the paradise of the past five hundred years ago was not that important in itself, at least it was far from enough to shake Mikael's mind.

However, these situations were confirmed by Mikael from Mebius later.

What does this mean?

In fact, there is no need to think about it, but Mikael had an impulse of "not wanting to go deeper" at that moment.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Mebius himself was deceived in some way, but there is also a possibility that Mikael cannot deny-Mebius, after all... did not betray him, but betrayed him.

"Heh..."

Mikael sneered, he closed his eyes, and the whole person was extremely tired.

He slowly leaned against the sofa, supporting his head with his hands, as if not lying down completely was his last stubbornness.

Although he kept saying... No, it seems that he really didn't say this. But he always believed that as long as the choice made by Yingjie was made by his own will, he would accept it. Whether they chose to be enemies or friends, he would face the new relationship between them with the utmost seriousness.

And... he never wanted Yingjie to just stay in the paradise, indulge in everything in the past, and then quietly wait for all the endings to come.

However, when he really found that one Yingjie after another had betrayed him and chose a path that was diametrically opposed to him.

Recalling the time he had spent together as comrades, how could he not have any inner fluctuations?

What's more, Mobius has a more special meaning in Mikael's heart.

Sometimes Mikael himself couldn't help but think, if Alicia had survived at the moment of the end, and it was she who gave her life, would he still have come to this point now?

Or to put it in a more simple way: Alicia's weight in his heart is at least equal to the whole world, so what about Mobius's weight?

The answer is-Mikael can't give a definite answer.

Not being able to give a definite answer actually means a lot.

From a certain perspective, this means that Mobius does not have this weight in his heart. But if you change the perspective, it also means that Mikael really has the possibility of doing the same thing for her as he did for Alicia.

And this possibility is not too small, otherwise he would not be so hesitant that he cannot give a definite answer.

But now, even she has to stand on the opposite side of him... Then Mikael feels that his entire 50,000 years of life are really a complete failure...

No! He suddenly woke up.

He just habitually thinks about the so-called "worst possibility", he is such a pessimistic person. But from the beginning, didn't he also give another explanation-Mobius has neither the power of consciousness nor the power of erosion. It is not that difficult to deceive her and create an illusion that Sakura has indeed returned to the paradise, right?

In fact, just go directly to Mobius to confirm it. In front of him, no one can lie.

Perhaps he should check Mei, or even her… However, he couldn’t read the operation records of the Paradise of the Past for the time being, so he would wait until he confirmed the situation of Mebius.

But... even though he was at the headquarters of the World Serpent after he left the Paradise of the Past, the physical distance between him and Mebius was not far, but he felt tired for a moment and just wanted to rest for a while on the sofa where Ellie had once lain.

He didn't have much time. He had only one day agreed with Otto. He had to return to St. Freya Academy before the sun rose tomorrow, and then continue to move forward the time that could no longer be turned back, step by step.

But it was tiring, really tiring.

It was not easy for him to come here once.

Let's rest for a while.

The last stubbornness disappeared, and he let go of the hand that was supporting his head.

His head rested on something soft, but the elasticity was obviously not what a sofa should have.

"Hehe..."

He chuckled.

A pair of somewhat cold hands gently covered his eyes, and he cooperated to close them, allowing her fingers to massage from the eye sockets to the temples on both sides.

"Are you feeling better?"

"Yes. Thank you, Alicia."

"Oh? You guessed it so easily? I should have covered your eyes first and asked: Guess who I am?"

"I can't be wrong."

"Humph! You dare not guess wrong either!"

Although he closed his eyes, Mikael could feel that Ali seemed to be waving her fist in front of him.

He tried to purse his lips, but finally, he laughed from the bottom of his heart.

But the laughter was not all about relief, but also about helplessness and sadness suppressed in it.

What on earth had he done in the past 50,000 years?

Regret? There was never a moment when he didn't regret it.

He also thought of another ending. He accepted Alicia's sacrifice, and then controlled all the Honkai energy as the end, so the world was saved.

But is there any need to save such a world?

Mikael never thought that a world without Alicia was meaningless, especially after seeing what another self did. It was not entirely Alicia who drove him to make that decision, but that the world had long been destroyed, and he just filled the last pile of soil.

But he still regretted it. Regret it if you want to. People cannot control themselves from regretting everything they have done in the past. As long as a choice has more than one possibility, humans cannot control themselves to imagine another possibility.

Forcing oneself not to think about it, forcing oneself to tell oneself "no regrets", this attitude has never been mature or strong.

In Mikael's eyes, it's just... regret? Of course I regret it. But so what. Although he regretted it in his heart, he would still step on the time that could no longer be reversed step by step.

However, such maturity and strength were broken by just one sentence from Alicia:

"It must be very tiring to do something you don't like"

His breathing suddenly became heavy for a moment, and Mikael wanted to say "not tired", but he knew he couldn't deceive Alicia.

"Don't leave in a hurry this time. Rest a little longer by my side. I haven't seen you for so long..."

"I'm sorry, I have to leave soon."

"I know, I won't force you to stay, but there must be a lot of time before you leave, right? Rest well here."

"I... I still have things to do..."

"Well... then, rest for an hour, relax, empty your mind, don't think about anything, and have a good sleep with my pillow, how about it?"

Without waiting for Mikael to refuse again, she blocked Mikael's mouth with her lips.

After a while, she raised her head slightly, leaned close to Mikael's ear, and said softly:

"I will wake you up in an hour. Don't refuse! I will be angry!"

"Well."

Mikael really couldn't refuse. He turned over, rested his head on Alicia's thigh, buried his face in front of her lower abdomen, and put his hands around her waist.

As he breathed, the fragrance that belonged to Alicia flowed into his nose, like a wave hitting his consciousness, making him not sleepy due to fatigue, but extremely energetic and clear-headed.

And...

restless.

So, his hands climbed up uncontrollably.

"Eh? You... you... don't stay here!"

Mikael thought the words sounded familiar.