The pale winter sun penetrates the thin clouds above the city, adding a faint glow to the wet streets.
This is the beautiful weather that the capital Backlund has not seen in many years——
Thanks to yesterday's storm, which was comparable to a typhoon landing in coastal areas, the thick dust haze that has always shrouded the city has been almost swept away, and even the blue sky is faintly visible.
Of course, this couldn't last long.
It won't be long, maybe tomorrow, when many polluting factories will work together to restore the atmospheric environment to its old state.
It can be said that the air quality in Backlund today may be the best day in many years.
However, it is a pity that the number of citizens who are willing to go out today and relax and breathe calmly may be the fewest in recent years.
This is all because of yesterday's "big haze".
With a sneer——
A four-wheeled carriage drove over a puddle in the street, splashing up muddy water with shards of ice.
In the carriage, Liya, who was wearing a black and white maid uniform, sat quietly, with a small black leather suitcase on her legs together, holding the edge of the suitcase with both hands.
"Are you curious about the contents of the box?" Valeera's gaze shifted from the sky outside the car window to Liya in the seat opposite, with a smile on her lips, "Hold it carefully, you will know soon. "
After her confession, she felt that her mood was much clearer, just like the weather outside the window.
She has figured it out——
Valeera understood that the fundamental reason for her previous confusion and frustration was still the mismatch between vision and ability.
It can be said that because she knows the "plot" of the original work, Valeera's vision in some aspects even exceeds that of individual true gods... This leads her to unconsciously adopt a bit of the god's perspective when considering some issues, completely ignoring herself. Weak in ability, and therefore fall into an endless cycle of self-blame and self-doubt.
The huge leap from ideal to reality requires strong strength as support.
"Um."
Liya pursed her lips and smiled, making a soft nasal noise.
Although she didn't know what was in the suitcase, she vaguely felt that after coming out of St. Samuel's Church, the look in her young lady's eyes seemed to have changed a little, a good change.
The suitcase contains mainly extraordinary materials.
After talking with Archbishop St. Anthony, Valeera thought about the promotion of Dunn and Habib, so she took advantage of the situation and applied for one set of materials and formulas from Sequence 9 to Sequence 5 of the "Sleepless One" path.
She planned to help Habi prepare the potion tonight——
The reason why it is not done immediately after returning is because the "Sleepless One" is in better condition at night and is more conducive to promotion.
New Year's Eve is getting closer and closer, but the frequent banquets have temporarily stopped -
Everyone is ready for the New Year party.
After nearly a whole month of social dancing, Backlund's big and small dignitaries have reached a tacit understanding and know exactly which circle party they will attend.
Of course, Valeera attended the one held by the Queen and witnessed Audrey's coming-of-age ceremony as a friend.
8pm, 67 Williams Street.
Valeera and Liya took Habi into the chemistry laboratory on the third floor of the house.
In order to keep Habibi in the best promotion condition as possible, Valeera also specially arranged for someone to walk him a few times in the afternoon, and also appropriately reduced the portion of his feeding at night.
Liya quickly completed the preparation of the "Midnight Poet" potion.
After confirming that there was no problem, Valeera patted Habi's dog's head, explained a few words through "Psychic Connection", and then fed the potion.
The entire promotion process lasted several minutes.
During this period, Hubby had been lying quietly on the ground, with no obvious external changes. When it propped up its forelimbs again and turned to a sitting position, Valeera and Liya, who had remained quiet, breathed a sigh of relief.
"Aww-wow..." Habi suddenly howled.
The little spiritual fluctuations dispersed, and Valeela was fine, but Liya was affected, and she shouted with a little excitement, "Woohoo..."
Valeela slapped the dog on the head:
"stop!"
It’s not that she didn’t expect such a scene——
After all, that was a husky, and he was promoted to the "Midnight Poet"... However, Valeela did not expect to appear so quickly, nor did she expect that Liya would be affected, so she shouted after him.
Leah reacted before Happy's howl was interrupted.
She covered her lips, stood aside and blinked, her face a little red.
"Can you speak human language?"
Hearing the master's instructions, Habi waggled his tail, opened his mouth, and after subconsciously making another "woof" sound, he made intermittent jerky sounds:
"Human... human language... ugh..."
This... Valeela was speechless for a moment.
She didn't know whether she should praise Habib, so she forced herself to hold her forehead and turned her head, just in time to meet Liya's gaze that turned at the same time.
December 31, morning.
Valeela finally saw the official report on the casualties of the "Great Smog" incident in the newspaper:
"...According to preliminary statistics, a total of nearly 20,000 people died directly in that great smog, and the subsequent spread of the plague took away nearly 20,000 people, including many young children and strong young men and women..."
Although this data actually includes the missing people who were taken to build the Black Emperor's tomb, by comparing the numbers in the "plot" of the original work, Valeela can still roughly judge her impact on the "Great Smog" incident— —
Judging from the number of subsequent plagues, her intervention roughly halved the casualties.
Valeela will not be happy about this achievement... Of course, after getting out of the corner of self-blame and self-doubt, she has been able to accept the reality with a correct attitude and relatively calmly.
Anyway, she did her best.
In the last two days at the end of the year, Daley and Klein contacted Valeela once each, using different methods.
In the "Mirror Call", after Klein briefly told his experience in distress, he explained his plan to go to sea, and hoped that Valeela could help hold the shares of his "Bicycle Company" on his behalf.
Valeela's answer was simple, "Interview."
Before the "Great Smog" incident happened, she had a sudden idea. She had given up on it, but then she picked it up again——
She planned to give Klein a surprise before he went to sea.
Dai Li contacted Valeera through her messenger, mainly to provide a reference plan for the task of "repairing the identity flaw" and to ask Valeela's personal opinion.
After several discussions, the plan was finalized and implemented.
December 31, evening.
In the hall of the New Year's party, Audrey walked up to the high platform at the front step by step with an elegant and bright smile, stood next to the Queen, and welcomed her coming-of-age ceremony amidst the light, shadow and sound of fireworks.
Valeera stood in the crowd in the audience, and together with others, sent her sincere blessings.
This is an extremely lively New Year's Eve... However, Valeera is not used to it and doesn't like it very much.
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I have completed the puzzle of one chapter from the fragmentary text, and I feel that the last part is a bit stretched...
In addition, this time I really feel that my coding situation is starting to improve.
come yet?
Tathagata.
