"Xing, are you awake?"
Half a minute later, with the sound of unlocking, the door that March 7 knocked on slowly opened.
"Wow! Why do you look like you're about to go to a grave?!"
After seeing Xing's appearance, San Yue Qi jumped up in fright. Xing had two thick dark circles under his eyes, his eyeballs were full of bloodshot, his breath was weak from the tip of his nose, and his whole body felt like he would die in the next second.
Xing stared at March Seventh blankly, his eyes lifeless, and his voice without any emotion: "What?"
As soon as Xing opened her mouth, San Yue Qi's scalp suddenly went numb. Her voice was so hoarse that she sounded like a patient suffering from heat stroke. San Yue Qi couldn't help but hold Xing's shoulders and pushed her into the bedroom: "You, you, you better not come out! Just stay in bed! I... I'll go find Uncle Yang! Let him help you see what's going on!"
"Uncle Yang! Uncle Yang! Wake up! Xing seems to be suddenly ill!"
——Half a minute later.
In Xing's bedroom, Walter Yang and Dan Heng, who had rushed over after hearing the news, looked at Xing, who looked refreshed, with strange expressions. They turned their heads at the same time and looked at the dazed face of San Yueqi.
How could she look sick? The two reliable men asked the same question silently with their eyes.
"Uh... why are you suddenly normal again?" San Yue Qi blinked and asked in a daze.
"I've always been normal, right?" Xing tilted his head, as if he was very surprised why March 7 suddenly asked this strange question.
"But didn't you just...didn't you...have black eyes like that?"
"Illusion." Xing said briefly. She stood up from the bed, patted her clothes gently, raised her arms, and tossed her hair casually. "Do you have any reservations next?"
"Uncle Yang said he would take us to Luofu for a stroll... Are you really okay? When I saw you just now, I really thought you were going to collapse in the next second?!"
"What can I do?" Xing put his hands on his hips and held his head high. "Didn't you say we were going to Luofu for a stroll? Then let's go now!"
"I won't go with you." Dan Heng carefully looked at Xing's complexion, and after confirming that he was indeed fine, he relaxed and said softly, "Have fun on your own, and meet up at the inn together in the afternoon."
Hyperion Cafe.
At six o'clock in the morning, the manager opened his eyes as usual in the warmth and softness of the room.
With the time when the door of the shop downstairs was slowly pushed open as the dividing line, this cafe connecting different worlds began its usual business hours.
"Why do I always feel that my days as a store manager are becoming increasingly wrong..."
He stretched out his hand and gently touched the soft thing lying beside him, and a slightly confused moan sounded softly.
The store manager originally expected that working as a store manager in this cafe should be relaxing and enjoyable. Visitors can enjoy a variety of food and drinks from different worlds and time in a warm atmosphere, while he, the store manager, can sit leisurely behind the bar, watching friendly customers come in and enjoy a leisurely retirement life.
In this way, even if he was attacked by his wives in the middle of the night, he would be able to deal with it calmly because he had had enough rest during the day.
As a result, the store had only been open for a few days, and not only did the imagined leisurely life not come at all, but life in the store became more and more chaotic day by day.
From the day before yesterday till now, a total of forty-eight hours, his sleep time has been squeezed to the point where he does not even have half an hour left.
I opened the shop for retirement, but after running the shop for the past two days, why is my life more tiring than running around in the quantum sea? The shop manager fiddled with the soft things beside him with melancholy, and was puzzled in his heart.
Forget it, it's useless to think about it, why not just -
Boom——!!!!!!!!
Suddenly, a loud noise similar to an explosion exploded in the store manager's ears.
The explosion came from the direction of the cafe's door.
The store manager's body suddenly froze.
At the same time, the sounds of several doors opening and shouts filled with caution and vigilance were heard one after another.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Someone suddenly knocked on the door?!" Kiana's voice sounded from afar.
"Calm down, this cafe is not as bad as you think. But that sound... why does it sound like something hit the door?" Guanxing responded with a calm and clear voice, but with a hint of doubt.
"Let's go down and take a look first." Xilin's somewhat alert voice sounded from afar.
Not to mention the people outside the door who were making a commotion, even the vampire queen lying next to the store manager sat up straight after hearing the violent explosion, and her soft body left the store manager's palm in an instant.
"Human?! What happened?"
"..."
The store manager did not respond to Yuexia's words that were filled with caution and suspicion, but instead pulled his arm back weakly and slapped him in the face.
Very good, it seems that his plan to have a good rest for a day has been completely dashed.
Just like that, about ten minutes later.
Hyperion Café, first floor lobby.
A cool girl with horns on her head was leaning against the wall next to the gate with her arms folded across her chest. The tail behind her was twisting flexibly like a creature with independent will.
At a certain moment, she suddenly opened her eye and pulled her hand out from between her arms. A bunch of high-tech keys hung on her fingers.
She shook the key hanging on her fingertips, and then threw it far away in the direction of the second floor staircase:
"Your ship is returned to you."
"I have captured them for you anyway. As for how to deal with these two little devils, that is none of my business."
"You can lock them up or keep them in your store to clean the toilets and take out the trash... Tsk, you decide for yourself."
The store manager appeared from the second floor and took the Hyperion key thrown to him by the cool girl from a distance. He was silent for a moment, then turned his gaze to the center of the hall.
There, there was a pair of sisters, one in pink and the other in blue, who were tied up tightly. They had tears in their eyes and their whole bodies were twisting restlessly. Their mouths were blocked tightly and intermittent "Woo-" and "Woo-" sounds came out.
"..."
Seeing those two unlucky ones… Ah no, judging from what they did, they were not unlucky. At most, they deserved it. Looking at the two sisters who had deserved it and twisted their bodies in various ways to break free, the store manager was silent for a moment and turned his gaze to the door again…
...The door of the cafe was now completely open, and outside were two huge ships. One was the Hyperion, which the store manager was very familiar with, and the other was a ship he had only seen a few times.
Two ships stood against each other in the void of the quantum sea, their heads colliding with each other were covered with cracks and damage... and even faint flames could be seen inside.
Chapter 4: The extremely destructive Arlene sisters (k)
"..."
headache.
When the store manager saw the two ships outside the gate that had obviously been in a traffic accident, he couldn't help but cover his forehead, and his blood pressure began to rise.
“Delta,” the store manager said.
"What?" The girl leaning against the wall opened one eye coolly and answered calmly, but the tail behind her suddenly straightened up.
The store manager pointed expressionlessly at the two sisters who were tied to the ground and shivering. "When you borrowed my Hyperion, your purpose... was probably to snatch your own ship back from these two troublemakers."
"Yeah, so what?"
"Well, could you please explain..." the store manager pointed outside the door and said expressionlessly, "...what use would it be to you to recover a damaged ship?"
"..." Delta was speechless. He closed his eyes guiltily and turned his head to the side. "No, it was useless. It's just that these two little brats were so annoying that I couldn't help but bumped into your Hyperion."
The store manager couldn't help but laugh: "It seems that you really believe in the collision resistance of the Hyperion."
At this moment, he suddenly felt someone pulling his sleeve.
The store manager turned his head subconsciously, only to see Kiana looking out the door and said with a worried look, "Are you not going to take care of these two ships? If you leave them alone, the fire inside will spread quickly, right?"
The two ships were standing against each other, with blazing flames and thick fog rising. Looking at the hulls of the ships from this side, sparks could be seen flashing and splashing inside at various portholes... It seemed that this collision not only smashed the heads of the two ships, but also destroyed various facilities inside in the violent shock caused by the collision.
The store manager didn't show much worry about this. He shook his hands and said indifferently, "Don't worry about it. Hyperion was the power carrier I used to have. Although it has been retired in name, it's not very difficult for me to repair it."
"..."
Delta was visibly relieved when she heard the store manager's statement, but before she could relax, a righteous rebuke suddenly made her body stiffen again.
"but--!"
The store manager's voice was powerful and had an inexplicable magnetism that made everyone in the cafe focus their attention on him.
"——My ability to repair Hyperion is different from your crashing my Hyperion.
He crossed his arms and stared at Delta's face with narrowed eyes: "Do you understand?"
Delta was silent for a moment, then pretended to be calm and said, "...What do you want?"
“Fix it.”
"Huh?" Delta opened his eyes, a trace of obvious panic flashed in his eyes, "You are kidding! How can I repair a ship?"
"They will." The store manager pointed expressionlessly at the sisters who kept twisting their bodies and said lightly.
"These two troublemakers can repair ships?!" Delta showed a stunned expression and said in a tone full of disbelief, "Are you kidding me?"
"Although you may not be able to accept it for a while, this pair of sisters really know how to repair ships, not only the Hyperion, but also yours." The store manager spread his hands, looked up to the sky and sighed, and a melancholy of the past suddenly appeared in his golden eyes. "... After all, if they didn't have some understanding of this kind of trans-dimensional ship, these troublemakers wouldn't be able to drive our ships all over the Quantum Sea, right?"
"..." After hearing the store manager's melancholy voice, Delta fell silent again.
She lowered her eyelids, walked to the sisters who were tied together, and gently kicked her sister's heel, her eyes full of scrutiny: "Hey, is this guy telling the truth?"
“…Wuwuwu——! Wuwu——!!!”
The pink-haired girl with horns on her head had tears in her eyes. She twisted her body desperately and shook her head like a rattle, as if trying to prove her harmlessness and innocence to Delta.
No! Being tied up here and forced to do hard labor or something like that is absolutely unacceptable! ! ! ! !
I don't know how to repair! I don't know anything about ships! Sister Delta! Please spare us! !
Delta stared at the pink-haired girl's innocent face that was filled with earnestness and panic, but his eyes narrowed slightly.
Don't understand ships?
If you don't understand ships, how can you drive my ship like a loach and run around in the quantum ocean?
If you don't understand ships, can you use the guided missiles on my ship to draw those sarcastic emoticons in the quantum sea?
Delta's eyes suddenly became dazed, and her memories from not long ago suddenly came back to her. She still remembered the madness and helplessness she felt when she was driving the Hyperion to hunt down the two troublemakers. It was obvious that she was far superior to them in terms of speed and performance, but these two people's creative ideas and various magical operations made it take the Hyperion four whole days to catch up with them, which should have been caught up within half a day!
If it weren't for the fact that these two troublemakers had become so arrogant after running away for four days that they wanted to mock him in person, Delta wouldn't have been so angry that he would risk his life to use Hyperion to violently intercept the ship that originally belonged to him.
At this moment, Delta suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder gently.
“Just be content…” The store manager had a complicated look on his face. If he had the habit of smoking, he would have taken out a cigarette and lit it for himself. His vision was blurred, and his eyes were focused, as if he had crossed time and space and returned to the distant past. “At least it only took four days to catch this pair of troublemakers. Back then, when my consciousness was scattered all over the world by these two guys, it took me several years just to piece myself back together piece by piece…”
...What the hell?
The two temporary shop assistants present changed their expressions and looked at the sisters with horror.
When my consciousness was scattered all over the world by these two guys, it took me several years just to piece myself back together piece by piece - the amount of information contained in this sentence is so terrifying that Kiana and Raiden Mei think about it carefully.
The store manager squatted down, and with a cry of pain, he ruthlessly peeled off the tape that was stuck on the pink-haired girl's lips.
"You two have been fooling around outside for so long, it's time to stop."
“Nooooooooooooooooooo!! I don’t want to be locked up here and do hard labor!”
The tape had just been removed when a howling sound like a lion's roar suddenly roared out from those tender lips.
"You are abusing child labor! You are abusing it! You are inhumane! I will file a complaint with the Child Protection Association!!!"
"..."
How come this guy is so skilled! ?
Kiana and Raiden Mei's faces were stiff. They looked like a pair of harmless children, about the same age as Bronya. But under their childish appearance and voice, Kiana and Raiden Mei saw a dark shadow at the same time, like a little devil with bared fangs and claws.
Compared with these two Valkyries and temporary shop assistants from the Equivalent World, Xilin and Guanxing, who already knew the Arlene sisters, were much calmer.
In this vast quantum ocean, there are all kinds of strange and bizarre world bubbles, which are from different eras and stages.
In most cases, they are projected from part of the real world. Therefore, there are always some very familiar people appearing in these world bubbles, and they all have an era background that gives people a sense of déjà vu.
But in certain circumstances, there will be some world bubbles that will give rise to all kinds of very suspicious situations that are difficult to describe and explain.
- For example, the weird world bubble where this pair of mischievous sisters live... can switch between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space with ease... and even has a tendency to break the fourth wall.
Even now that the rules of the Quantum Sea have been reshaped, the store manager still feels confused and speechless when he recalls the world bubble where the sisters are located... There are only two elements that make up that world bubble: a cell where the Arlene sisters are imprisoned, and a laboratory with only two experimenters. Before the store manager obtained all the authority over the Quantum Sea, most of the world bubbles in this sea area were included in the observation of that world bubble that was even as big as a building... and even controlled.
Tesla and Dr. Einstein in that laboratory, to some extent, can be said to be the two scientific researchers who are closest to the truth in the myriad worlds. No one else can be compared with them - because they even know that they are actually "characters" created by people in another world, and they also know specifically whether "themselves" at a certain time period are in a Q-version two-dimensional comic or in a realistic 3D game CG...
Although these two doctors did not have the authority to access the Quantum Sea like the store manager, there is no doubt that before the store manager completely controlled the Quantum Sea, these two doctors had the most comprehensive understanding of the Quantum Sea. They marked each world bubble they could observe with a unique mark, and observed the movements of each world bubble at any time. They even developed a space jump device similar to Hyperion that can freely travel through different world bubbles.
With the help of this device, the two doctors carried out large-scale transformation of several surrounding world bubbles, and left different identities and deeds in those world bubbles. In order to obtain more scientific research resources and funds, these two world bubble life forms whose prototypes were Doctor Anti-Entropy also submitted their resumes in the Destiny STORE of a certain world bubble... They can be regarded as the model of contemporary Lu Bu.
However, despite having achieved scientific research results that surpassed all Teslas and Einsteins, since the power they possess is indeed limited, faced with the current situation where the quantum sea will inevitably slowly erode and devour the world bubble, all these two doctors can do is to delay this natural process.
Although this was not their original intention, the fact is that before the store manager rewrote the order of the Quantum Sea, these two doctors can be said to have delayed the process of extinction of countless world bubbles.
The Arlene sisters, who came from such a suspicious world bubble, are certainly not easy to deal with.
