Daystar, bridge.
The four crew members sat around the square table, everyone's expressions were gloomy and uncertain. Captain Gongsun sat in a backlit position. He held up his chin with the fingers of his hands intertwined, and his eyes slowly swept across the room, stopping on everyone's faces in turn.
"I want to confirm something for everyone." Gongsun Ce's voice trembled slightly, "There are only four people in this room: me, Ling, Qiluo, and Alandia... and a giant salamander... in total. Five living beings, right?”
"No problem." Rei Shigure nodded slowly, "It's really just the five of us."
Rei Shigure was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, Alandia was flipping through her notebook opposite her, Qiluo was playing a game, and Wawu was crawling around near the door. Counting him who had not moved yet, the room was full of people. There are definitely only five life forms in it. However, something that goes against common sense is happening right now, in the present continuous tense...
"So..." Gongsun Ce swallowed, "The guy who has been hitting my chin with his head since 0.5 seconds ago... who is it?!"
"It's me, it's me." Qin Qianbai said.
At this moment, everyone present noticed the abnormality. In the arms of Gongsun Ce, who deliberately bowed his body in order to preside over the meeting and acted like a leader... there was actually a girl in green clothes and black hair sitting in his arms! She raised her face slightly and even put on an expression that was so proud that it made people angry!
"Found it, get on!" Gongsun Ce instantly crossed his hands in an "X" shape, locking the girl in his arms like a seat belt. "We succeeded!" Shigurei leaped up from his seat and grabbed Qin Qianbai's neck with a tricky technique. This grasp obviously took no less than half a year of hard work, and it was a pet grappling technique developed by carrying Wawu's suspected neck area all year round. But the two of them joined forces to attack, but they only caught the air. The girl who was there a second ago disappeared without a trace. Shigurei's claw hit Gongsun Ce's chest, causing a cry of pain: "I'm sorry, you scratched the wrong person." Got it!"
"It makes no sense..." Shigurei was puzzled and reached out to scratch Gongsun Ce's body, "Where is it hidden? Here? Here?"
"No matter what, I won't hide it in Mr. Gongsun's T-shirt!"
Alandia silently typed X's one after another on her notebook. Qiluo cautiously touched her surroundings and announced dejectedly: "The fourth Qin Qianbai capture operation failed..."
"Look, look, this is a triumphant expression. You can't catch me with just A Ce."
When he said this, Qin Qianbai was lying on Qiluo's lap, blowing into her belly. The pink-haired girl grabbed it without any suspense. She grabbed the pillow on the sofa and screamed: "I've had enough! Think of a way to catch Qin Qianbai~~!"
Why did things develop to this point?
Let’s start from an hour ago…
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An hour ago, the bridge.
The residence at No. 91 Dawson Street could not accommodate the five crew members, not to mention that it was Orianna's home, so everyone still lived on the Morning Star after returning to the Kingdom. According to the plan, they will stay in the royal capital temporarily for about two weeks, until the ceremony of handing over the authority of the group leader is officially completed, and then take the Dawn Knight to Cangdu for a short vacation.
At the moment, no one has any intention of discussing holiday plans. Just looking at the four people with uncertain expressions and Captain Gongsun, who rests his chin with his hands, one can tell that a tense and serious meeting is about to begin. Gongsun Ce's spectacle lenses reflected an unknown light, and he said in a deep voice, "Let me tell you, have you... encountered anything strange recently?"
Everyone nodded unanimously.
"I have recently encountered a series of events that can be described as unbelievable." Gongsun Ce said, "To be specific...when we all had afternoon tea and chatted together yesterday, everyone was there. But when I came back When God came, the eldest lady disappeared. The tea in her cup was even steaming, but her whole person was missing..."
Gongsun Ce paused and spoke with difficulty: "I felt very strange and tried hard to find her, but there was no sign of her in every inch of space nearby. In desperation, I used telekinesis to search..."
"Would it be more effective to make a phone call at this time..." Qiluo said.
Gongsun Ce waved vigorously: "That's not the point! The point is, I successfully found the eldest lady. She actually, she actually..."
Gongsun Ce trembled and took off his glasses, and it took a lot of effort to squeeze out the last sentence: "She actually flew a kite for her own entertainment on the outskirts of the royal capital! I looked at her cheerful back running on the grass and felt like My whole body is pale, why ah ah!”
"Although it is a very strange thing, is it necessary to say it in a tone of telling a ghost story?" Qiluo sweated.
Rei Shigure and Alandia nodded silently, their frightened states clearly showing that they felt the same way. Rei Shigure looked gloomy: "I encountered something even stranger here. It was at 8:30 in the morning. I went into the kitchen after breakfast and found that the dishes and chopsticks were not washed... But today, the little girl is in charge of housework. ! That guy is never lazy! I felt strange so I went to look for her. At that time, the little girl was standing in the corner pretending to be a lamp..."
"It sounds more unusual to pretend to be a desk lamp than to do something as simple as not washing the dishes," Qiluo said.
"I wouldn't be surprised if that girl from Denpa said she was a toaster one day." Rei Shigure waved, "The point is! Do you know how she answered me?"
Rei Shigure stood in the corner, clasped his hands together and raised them above his head, imitating the appearance of the desk lamp Xiaoqian at that time. She raised her angle of view 45°, and her voice was ethereal and hollow: "Those bowls haven't realized that they have been washed."
"What kind of excuse is this for the new generation to be lazy? Will it become lazy after breaking through the final realm?!" Gongsun Ce was shocked.
"That's what I said, and when I returned to the kitchen..." Rei Shigure swallowed, "Those bowls actually... became clean! It's like they were clean in the first place!!"
Gongsun Ce clasped his hands tightly and trembled: "Why is it so scary...!"
"You can't understand it at all! There's a sense of fear in seeing supernatural events in life!" Shigure Rei strongly agreed.
Qiluoxu looked at the two frightened family members, thinking that telling Jihuisi and Huanyuezun that they were upset because of a few bowls might turn into a better supernatural story. She turned her eyes to the Dawn Knight for help, her eyes full of sincere prayer. Come forward, Alandia! You are the only light of wisdom that can maintain a normal atmosphere in this house full of idiots!
Alandia nodded. She stood up and wrote on the whiteboard: "The first case was characterized by 'the body disappears and moves over a long distance', and the second case is 'difficult to confirm the state of the object'..."
"Appeared! The rigid science girl who carefully summarized the principles in the supernatural story appeared!" Qiluo held her head.
"We need more samples to analyze this phenomenon." Alandia turned to look at Qiluo, "Miss Qiluo, what about you?"
The other two people looked over together, with similar solemnity and seriousness in their eyes. Qiluo secretly exclaimed that something was wrong. They obviously wanted to drag her into this weird atmosphere! The current scene is like a midnight summer Hyakumonogatari (ghost story gathering). The first two people have finished telling their stories and the baton has been handed over to the third person - but the third person is an idol lady who is harmless to humans and animals. She has nothing at all. An experience worth sharing. I just want to get out of this awkward seat and play games!
"Do I also have to participate in this session?" Qiluo opened her mouth, "Can I give up this precious quota of 'Qin Qianbai's Strange Tales' to Alandia..."
"Qiluo, you can't leave us alone!" Gongsun Ce burst into tears, "If you, who are equally elusive, have no clue, there will be nothing we can do!"
"This has nothing to do with personal ability..." Qiluo said bravely: "As for me, that... can be regarded as having encountered strange things."
"When was that?" Gongsun Ce asked with concern.
Qiluo's expression was subtle: "How should I say...'today'? When I came to the bridge today, there was no one in the room, so I turned on the TV to watch animations, and while watching, I chatted with Qin Qianbai on my phone. Complaints...but, halfway through the conversation, I suddenly discovered a wonderful fact."
Qiluo's face paled a little in cooperation: "The voice that has been chatting with me is not actually coming from the mobile phone... that voice comes from my ear...
I always thought I was sitting on the sofa, but I misunderstood...I actually...I actually..."
Gongsun Ce and Shi Yuling swallowed their foam together, and Qiluo took a deep breath: "I've always been sitting on Qin Qianbai's lap!"
"Ah——!" "Ah——!"
The terrifying atmosphere in the room reached its peak at this moment, Gongsun Ce and Shigurei screamed like little girls at the same time!
"Ah——!" Qiluo covered her mouth with her hands and screamed together! Then he threw the pillow beside him out!
"I really screamed! What's so scary about this kind of thing!" Qiluo didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"It's so scary, isn't it?" Shigure Rei had goosebumps all over his body. "It feels completely different from the invisibility of information life forms. It's like a ghost traveling through the world. When I think about how many times I have walked past her in the past few days, I feel... She turned a blind eye and felt creepy.”
Gongsun Ce suddenly fell silent after screaming. His eyes changed rapidly and his voice trembled slightly.
"Hey, Qiluo." Gongsun Ce's voice was low, "You just said that... happened today? Specifically, what time was it?"
Qiluo returned to the unmotivated state at the beginning of the meeting: "Ah, how should I put it... That actually happened 12 minutes and 23 seconds ago, which means..."
"That is to say?"
Qiluo slowly tilted her body to the side, revealing someone's little black head that had been resting on her shoulder.
"It happened one minute before the meeting started." Qin Qianbai under Qiluo said.
"aieeeeee——!" "It appeared——!"
Gongsun Ce and Shigurei jumped up at the same time like cats seeing cucumbers! Hugging tightly in the air and screaming! Qiluo silently watched them fall back on their seats, and there was no expression on her face when she spoke: "It turns out that there really are idiots who talk about ghost stories in front of the monster monsters in reality..."
"Grrrr." Qin Qianbai rubbed Qiluo's chest and made a strange sound of approval.
"Stop it, Qiluo! Your emotionless explanation makes the reality even more terrifying!" Gongsun Ce screamed, "And what is that terrifying sound effect? Did you turn into a monster without us knowing, Miss?" !”
"I feel like this will be very interesting," Qin Qianbai said. "After breaking through the final realm, life has become more colorful. I can eavesdrop on others when they secretly say bad things about me."
"It's because you are in an abnormal state that you have this meeting!" Rei Shigure pointed at her across the table, "What on earth is that state called omnipotent selflessness? Is it an enhanced version of Kirara?!"
"Well……"
Qin Qianbai gestured in the air: "Selflessness means temporarily leaving the world. At this time, since 'I' does not exist, others cannot observe 'I'."
"This morning's bowl also had the effect of 'selflessness'?" Alandia was very interested.
"No, that is the 'Wanfa'." Qin Qianbai explained, "The so-called 'Wanfa' is a superposition of mixed possibilities. Before I or others complete the observation, the interfered object will be in an unknown state. Inside the black box. That’s why the dishes are washed but not washed.”
"Ah, that's it, so strong, so strong, as expected of Qin Qianbai." Qiluo read, "Then the last question is, from the time after washing the dishes this morning until just now, where and what was Qin Qianbai, who was completely missing, doing? Woolen cloth?"
The eldest lady blinked: "In the Blue Wave State."
"……Why?"
She faced everyone's gaze and showed her mobile phone with a natural look on her face: "I wanted to see the gathering place of Wowoo, so I went to the Northern Continent for a morning. I saw a very big dark blue Wowoo, very cute."
The photo on the phone screen shows a dark blue ocean, with a black-haired girl standing barefoot on the water. She zoomed out extremely far to frame the amazing creatures as huge as small islands in the sea.
Gongsun Ce's eyes twitched: "Alone? This morning? How did you get there?"
"Stepping on the sea." Qin Qianbai said, her temperament is as leisurely and content as a fairy traveling on earth. It is meaningless to think about the logic of the actions of gods. They are erratic and omnipresent. When you want to cross the sea, you can naturally walk through the water. When you want to see the clouds, the mountains will probably automatically become shorter for climbing.
"That's it, I see. Stepping on the sea, you are worthy of being the eldest lady, she is really powerful..." Gongsun Ce slapped the table, "You are a fool for thinking I would say this! He said it in an incomprehensible way without saying anything. What are you doing by running out of the boat and then running back with a natural look on your face? What kind of trouble did you make when you suddenly ran out to fly a kite? "
Qin Qianbai tilted his head: "Because I wanted to go..."
"That's it. What I want to say is your indifferent attitude!" Gongsun Ce went crazy, "Don't you think you've been a little strange lately, little Qin Qianbai? Generally speaking, we don't do it before 'thinking' and 'doing' There is a very important 'thinking' process, but you seem to have completely forgotten that you still have a brain recently, and you are about to become an invertebrate monster that relies solely on reflex nerves!"
"right."
"That's right! I'm telling you that you will throw yourself away at any time now!"
Qin Qianbai closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then raised his thumb with an extremely confident attitude.
"It doesn't matter, Ace. This is the way I should survive after entering the final realm!"
"This girl is addicted to the side effects and can't help herself." Rei Shigure geared up, "Young brat, Alandia, come with me and tie this girl up for a few days so that she can completely recover from the monster state—— ?”
At this moment, Shigurei suddenly raised his head, and an index finger was hooked under her chin. The girl who raised her hand to challenge raised one leg and sat on Shigurei's lap as if she had teleported.
"Humph~" Qin Qianbai raised his head triumphantly, "You guys now can't restrain me when I step into the final realm."
Shigure Rei slapped him: "Put your paw down before you speak like an idiot."
Qiluo sighed and sat back on the real sofa, thinking that your smug face was so superb that it made people angry! But is there really anything to be proud of when you lose yourself at any time? What are you proud of? And what's going on with this sudden act of becoming a domineering president? The whole set of performance art is so funny that even Shigure Rei, who has a bad temper, has nothing to say. This kind of motivating method even Gongsun Ce...
Gongsun Ce stood up with a grin: "You really dare to say that, little girl!"
I really fell for her stupid performance! And he also used the pronoun "little girl", so he was obviously angry!
Gongsun Ce raised his right hand and pointed it at the girl across the table with an awe-inspiring manner as if he was pointing out evidence: "Listen Qin Qianbai, you can do whatever you want to my girlfriend until today! It's 3:35 pm, before 6 o'clock I will definitely catch you!"
"Are you so angry here? Gongsun Ce, are you jealous of your own girl now?!" Qiluo was shocked.
"Hmph, how dare you say that, Ah Ce." Qin Qianbai stood on the table with his back to Gongsun Ce, and raised a hand to cover his face, "If he can't do it, Ah Ce will have to bear the burden. There was a wooden sign that said 'I am an incompetent husband who cannot control my wife', and he ran naked around the boat three times wearing only his underwear."
"I'm afraid of you!" Gongsun Ce sneered, "And if I succeed, you will wear your combat uniform and recreate the miracle of the overalls for me, and no matter how hard I rub you, you won't be able to fight back!"
"It's a deal."
"Start now!"
Qin Qianbai disappeared from the bridge like an illusion, and Gongsun Ce sat back on the sofa with a sneer on his face. Alandia glanced around the room and asked for the other two people: "Ce, what is your restraint plan?"
The smile on Gongsun Ce's face slowly faded. He looked at the three of them one by one, his tone almost pleading:
"——Please everyone give me a helping hand!"
"It turns out you had no idea at all and just followed the atmosphere and started doing it!" Qiluo held her head and screamed, "Ah, I won't do it! Once Gongsun Ce makes a fool of himself, I, the only person with common sense, can't care less about it. I don’t want to complain anymore——!”
