Su Xin picked it up, took two breaths, and glanced at the scientific research interface again.
As she expected, the experience points gained from killing a [Black Shadow] were not enough to fill the progress bar from zero. It seemed that she would have to find another chance to "encounter"
"Well...call it a day and go home."
[Enterprise] looked at Su Xin's frail body, thought for a moment and asked her: "Are you...really a human? I don't think there is any research that can transform the human body into this state."
"Well... of course I'm a human. This is not without cost. I'll probably have to sleep for a long time after I get back. Remember to cover for me."
"...Can."
"That's good. As for the commotion just now... just say that you encountered it while wandering around and solved it, while I... was picking fruits on the island and didn't know anything."
[Enterprise] helpless, "...Okay."
"Eh? Are you smiling? I don't think I've ever seen you smile before. It's quite rare."
[Enterprise] quickly restrained his expression, and refuted secretly in his heart with a straight face, "Shouldn't you be the one who is strange? You are like the "savior" that humans often fantasize about..."
"...Hey, when will you be willing to give it to me..."
"Oh, didn't I tell you that my injury hasn't healed yet? I can't even move. How can I fulfill my promise?"
Little Helena pouted, not very satisfied. "We clearly agreed last time that if I take you out, you can give me the [Favorability Monitor]..."
"I didn't say I won't give it to you, but you have to let me go back home to get it, right?" The observer leaned against the wall helplessly, "Who would carry that thing with them, right?"
"......All right."
Little Helena quietly gathered up the burnt firewood, ran outside and dug a hole to bury it, so that the dust would not fly everywhere.
When she finished tidying up and turned around, she saw that the Siren was resting comfortably with its eyes closed. This made her very angry, and she immediately threw a piece of dogtail grass in.
"...Drink? What are you doing—A-choo! No no no—A-choo!"
Little Helena squatted far away with a look of disgust on her face, but her hands did not stop moving, and she kept sweeping the observer's nose with the furry tip.
"Shouldn't you let me take a good rest? Otherwise, when will you get the things?!"
The observer's tearful words of persuasion made little Helena come to her senses. She angrily withdrew her magical powers and sat opposite him, sulking.
For children, there is no such thing as good or evil. What is good to her is good, and what is bad to her is evil. Even if the observer does not like to coax children, he has to communicate patiently for the sake of that human being.
"You want the [Favorability Monitor] to see how much your sister likes you, right?"
"...So what?" Little Helena admitted with a grunt.
The observer got an idea and planned to get information from the child. "So what kind of affection do you want to find out? Family affection? Friendship? Or...?"
"......(京°V°)!?"
"Oh... I see." The observer pretended to be profound and paused for a long time before continuing: "That's good. I think you two are a good match."
"Eh?! Um... guess, guess you can talk..." Little Helena hugged her knees and buried her face, leaving only a pair of watery eyes exposed.
This kind of conversation is really meaningless, but it is very effective. The observer continued to induce: "Well...your sister has something that can heal injuries. Can you lend it to me? When I am healed, I can go back and get it for you~"
Little Helena hesitated for a moment and shook her head obediently, "No, that's my sister's secret. She's so smart, there must be a reason why she doesn't let you use it."
The observer was almost pissed off when she heard this, but the little guy in front of her was her only source of information, so she had to be patient and change the subject.
"How about...tell me about her? Just tell me the story, right? I can help you analyze it."
"... Just you?"
The observer blushed, "What's wrong with me?! I've been in love several times, okay? I have a lot of emotional experience!"
"Several times?! Wow... He's only a little older than me..." Little Helena stared in amazement.
The observer, who had been single since birth, was so angry that he felt like his wounds were about to burst open. "Are you going to tell me or not?"
"I...just tell you! My sister...she is a very good and gentle person..."
Chapter 700 Fading
After Su Xin came back, she found that little Helena looked at the observers strangely, but her attitude seemed much friendlier.
But she didn't plan to delve into it. Even children have their own secrets. As a big sister, she didn't need to always ask questions.
Compared to this, she was more concerned about when Enterprise's injuries would heal. After all, the living conditions in the courtyard were better than those in the cave.
Moreover, after Enterprise recovers, she wants it to take her to find another wild monster so as to complete the development of Frederick the Great's hull.
As for the observer... considering that the other party also has the ability to cross the border at a fixed point, Su Xin did not plan to let [Enterprise] send the other party back, lest he be found alive and kicking in the blink of an eye.
She thought it would be better to leave the Observer to [Enterprise] as a roommate. After all, there was no shortage of food. It would be safer to keep the Observer for a while until she retired and then let the Observer go free.
The observer who got some information doesn't know his fate yet and is trying to guess Su Xin's identity.
She extracted a lot of useful things from a bunch of rainbow farts.
For example, this human being may be in poor health but very good at fighting, or every time the [Enterprise] person is unwell, this human being will also be weak for a period of time.
It sounds like a nurse in the game, consuming mana to heal teammates. Weakness probably means... the mana bar is exhausted? It can't be that she urgently needs to replenish her mana, right?
Su Xin had no idea about the observers’ wild guesses. After a battle, she returned to the cave, said hello, and passed out under the pretext of taking a “nap”.
He slept until the evening when he was woken up by little Helena. The pain in his limbs was so severe that he felt as if everything in his body had been drained out, with only his skin and flesh moving.
The overly serious side effects made Su Xin feel helpless. While she was reopening her KanColle form, she decided to ask Enterprise for help next time and she would only be responsible for finishing off the enemy.
Dinner was still fish soup. After all, it was simple to make and the taste wasn’t particularly bad. Besides, Su Xin never had the problem of getting sick of the soup. She was very easy to feed.
"Hmm... put the dishes in the basin? I'm going to take a shower and I can clean up while I'm there."
This happened several times, and little Helena didn't insist. After the metal basin cooled down, she let Su Xin carry it out of the cave and watched her leave in the afterglow of the sun.
"Well... I wanted to take a picture of my sister..." Little Helena felt quite regretful about this.
The observer asked curiously, "From what you said before, the human named Jiang Jue should have a cell phone. Haven't you ever taken a photo together?"
"My sister doesn't like taking pictures, so she has never taken any..."
"You are so stupid. You could have borrowed it and secretly taken photos yourself. You can't even sneak into her room in the middle of the night to take photos of her sleeping face. How dare you say you like her?!"
Little Helena glared at her, took out the foxtail grass, and instantly subdued the Siren ship in front of Enterprise's puzzled gaze.
"Hmph, you better lie down!"
"...call."
This body doesn't have the modified cat's eyes, so it can't use night vision. Fortunately, the sunset is late, and I can still see the road clearly in the orange-red sunlight.
The road leading to the pond had been cleared long ago and was safe to walk on. After a while, Su Xin arrived at the pond with a basin in her hand.
Because this water is for drinking and there are fish in it, every time Su Xin takes a bath, she will draw out the water and take it to the bushes not far away to wash herself.
Today is the same. She will first wash the basin, which is not very oily, with pool water, and then use it as a container for water.
Just as she squatted down and prepared to scoop water with a basin, she caught a glimpse of her hair of different color in the afterglow of the setting sun.
There is a white spot there.
For a moment, Su Xin thought she had seen it wrong, so she threw away the small basin, moved closer to the water surface, and looked carefully at the calm surface of the pool.
Unfortunately, even in the slightly dim environment, the white hair at the temples is still conspicuous.
Because her hair was not easy to dry without a hair dryer, she had not tied her hair up in the past few days, letting her long hair like dead grass hang down on her body. She did not expect to see the white hair underneath when she was preparing to take a shower today.
She has used the ship suit form many times in the past six months, and her hair has never turned gray, which means that the white hair appeared only after she came here.
"...So, I did lose something?"
Su Xin looked indifferent. She reluctantly pulled a strand of hair and looked at it. "...Is it 'time' or 'life'?"
She already knew the ending and had been waiting for it all the time, but for the first time she got a glimpse of the future.
"So... this is how I died..." Su Xin threw away the hair that had turned one-fifth white from the bottom, "It seems that I didn't escape the 80% probability that the observer mentioned."
After discovering the trend, Su Xin became more observant.
She saw that her nails were no longer shiny, discovered the fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and her skinny body was more fragile than before. The changes were subtle and imperceptible, but irreversible.
Even though she was mentally prepared, Su Xin was still not as calm as she thought when facing the approaching death.
This time, she took longer to shower. When the sun set over the mountains and the afterglow faded, she returned to the cave with the basin and smiled at the worried little Helena.
"I'm back. Look, it's clean, huh?"
Little Helena took the basin and put it aside without even looking at it. She heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that Su Xin, with her long hair still wet, looked normal.
"Really, sister, why don't you dry your hair a little..." Little Helena took out her dry towel, "Let me help you? Otherwise, you will have to wait for a long time before you can go to bed..."
"No."
Su Xin touched the stunned little Helena and said, "I want to go out for a walk and get some fresh air to dry off."
Little Helena blinked her eyes and was about to express her willingness to go for a walk with her sister when she heard the other party order [Enterprise].
"Enterprise, will you come with me for a walk? Nana needs to keep an eye on the Observer at home, okay? But don't learn bad things from her, okay?"
"Hey! What do you mean by being a bad boy? Even if you saved me, you can't be so sarcastic, right?!" The observer retorted angrily, and little Helena responded with confusion.
Seeing this, Su Xin smiled soothingly and took [Enterprise] out of the cave and strolled towards the beach. The wind was stronger there and their voices would not be heard by others.
The moon was already there before the sun set, and now it has surpassed the stars and taken on the responsibility of lighting up the world.
Su Xin took off her shoes and walked barefoot on the sand at the ebb and flow of the tide. The TV drama scenes that once made her feel cliché became a way to maintain her mood.
"Enterprise." She chuckled, and sighed in the sudden solemn look of the ship girl behind her, "I'm going to die...
"Maybe half a month? Or a month? I don't know, but it will be soon."
"I ask you to speed up and complete our transaction. At that time, I will also fulfill my promise."
"Besides that, I hope... you can do me a favor."
[Enterprise] Looking at the woman who turned around in front of him, her wet long hair was stuck together by the sea breeze, without any sense of lightness, but it still overshadowed the stars and the moon in the night sky.
"Help me...let's perform a closing scene together."
Chapter 701 Long time no see?
"Susu hasn't woken up for a whole day..."
Yixian sat on the bedside, raised his hand and gently stroked the girl's forehead, which was full and smooth, and still warm. "...before, she would only sleep for eight or nine hours."
Tiancheng stayed in Yixian's room these days except for sleeping at night. It was a bit troublesome to go back and forth, but she did not say that she wanted to stay.
She still didn't think she had helped much, and that Commander Su had let go of his grudges and treated her as before.
Moreover, she has been coming here frequently. If she stays overnight, the other ship girls in the port will notice something unusual, including Eugen who is recording data for the official.
So Tiancheng had to keep her temper, come at the usual time, and leave not a minute late.
But Akagi didn't consider as much as she did. He came earlier and later every day, and left later and later every day. Last night, he didn't even want to leave, and only went back to the room angrily after she scolded him.
The title of sister is still useful, but I don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
"...Are you listening?" Yixian turned his head and looked over. "If we don't think of a solution, we won't be able to hide it from others."
Yes, he hadn’t been seen for three meals in a row. Even if he had made an excuse of “feeling unwell”, there would still be people who were suspicious. It was just that no one questioned him because of Yixian’s credibility.
"...In terms of credibility, we can only rely on Yixian..." Tiancheng smiled bitterly and comforted him softly: "She has grown up and knows what's going on."
Yixian frowned and was silent for a moment, then sighed, "...In fact, I really don't want to agree with your point of view. Last time we agreed to go there once a week, but it seems that she still goes there every day."
The young commander's behavior was indeed not very authentic. Tiancheng did not express his intention to help her, but just waved at Yixian and said, "It's time to feed the milk. Give your position to Beifa."
"...You are really calm." Yixian stood up with a cold face, not knowing whether it was a compliment or sarcasm.
Beifa, holding a bowl of warm milk, took over Yixian's position, lifted the sleeping little commander into his arms, scooped a little milk with a stirring spoon the size of a bean, and fed it into the little commander's mouth.
"Commander, it's time to eat, eh? Be good, swallow..."
A very small amount of milk slid down her throat, naturally triggering Su Xin's swallowing action while she was sleeping, so she didn't choke and was fed smoothly.
This is a job that requires a lot of patience. In order to ensure that Su Xiaozhi would not choke, it takes about an hour to feed him a whole bowl of milk using a stirring spoon in small amounts and multiple times.
The spoon cannot be inserted too deep, otherwise it will induce retching, nor can it be inserted too shallowly, otherwise the milk will accumulate under the tongue, and if too much milk accumulates, it will flow into the trachea.
Yixian and Tiancheng did not have the stable technique of the maids, and Dido was prone to tears, so the task of feeding was given to Befa and Sheffield.
As for Akagi...
