Late at night, the small campsite that originally had only tents has now turned into a brightly lit county town.
Lu Cheng suffered from insomnia that night. The reason for his insomnia was not the powerful recovery power brought by the Holy Crystal, but simply because he could not fall asleep.
I have received too many side quests recently, such as the training mission for the two Mei brothers and sisters, the follow-up handling of the princess of Yuannan, the situation in Yuannan, and so on.
Lu Cheng is not a workaholic. There are still many things in this world waiting for Lu Cheng to explore. His enthusiasm has not faded, but maintaining high enthusiasm for a long time will still make Lu Cheng feel tired.
In order to relieve this fatigue, Lu Cheng chose to have a midnight snack alone.
There are no restaurants or street vendors in the Special Zone City. Everyone in the Special Zone City eats in the cafeteria, whether they are "refugees" living outside the Special Zone City or researchers and soldiers working in the Special Zone City.
Lu Cheng walked along the cement path to the cafeteria, which was still emitting some light.
It was now one o'clock in the morning. The food in the cafeteria was available 24 hours a day, but when Lu Cheng arrived at the cafeteria that could accommodate thousands of people, there was only one person sitting alone at the dining table.
But she alone had the energy of fifty people.
"You don't need to care about me." Lu Cheng sat in front of Elena with a tray and glanced at the pile of plates on the table.
When Elena noticed Lu Cheng walked into the cafeteria, the first thing she did was to wipe the oil stains from the corners of her mouth with a napkin, and put down the chopsticks in her hand.
But no matter how reserved the Queen of Skare wanted to be, the empty plate beside her still exposed what she had done before.
"Your binge eating symptoms haven't subsided yet?"
Lu Cheng's midnight snack was a bowl of yam and pork ribs soup, which was much healthier than barbecue and other midnight snacks. In contrast, Elena almost cleared half of the food on the cafeteria buffet.
"No, I asked several doctors, and they all said I was normal." Elena didn't know where to put the chopsticks in her hand. Finally, Lu Cheng picked up a piece of pork ribs and put it in her bowl, and Elena was willing to pick up the chopsticks again.
"Your weight hasn't increased in a week, but your appetite has increased tenfold. Could it be that everything you eat is being fed to those scales?"
Lu Cheng looked at Elena now, and carefully calculated that it had been almost a year since Lu Cheng met the queen in Crescent Moon Town.
During this year, the only thing that changed about Elena was the clothes she wore.
Elena's daily clothing is completely from Earth style. By the way, she is wearing a hooded long-sleeved shirt with the Lay's potato chips logo today.
There is no significant change in other aspects, either in appearance or personality.
On the other hand, Nancy has lived in the camp for a year and has been seriously considering a weight loss plan, while Elena's figure is really enviable.
"It's possible that the scales have grown in number again."
As Elena spoke, she stopped eating chopsticks and pulled up the long sleeve on her left hand. The skin of her left hand was still fair and flawless, but soon red scales covered Elena's arm.
The scales seemed to be attached to Elena's arm, and with the various intricate patterns on the scales, in Lu Cheng's eyes, Elena's left arm was like a work of art.
"Have you heard any strange sounds in your daily life?" When Lu Cheng was returning to the camp, he peeled off a small piece of scale from Elena's arm and took it to Dr. Ji Chuan for testing.
The test results were exactly as Lu Cheng had imagined, and they were very similar to the scales dropped from the dragons of the Pure Sect.
Therefore, Elena's symptom can be called dragonization.
Since Lucheng has not yet contacted the Church of Purity, it is impossible to determine whether Elena's dragon transformation symptoms are good or bad.
The reason why Lu Cheng was not so worried was that... Elena's control over these scales was really free. Basically, she could make them disappear or appear at will.
"Strange noise?"
"Like anger, hatred, the kind of feeling that makes you lose your mind?"
This is what Lu Cheng is most worried about. The dragon blood of the Pure Sect can turn humans into lizardmen. At first, Lu Cheng suspected whether Elena was the same as those who drank the dragon blood, but Elena did not show any addiction to dragon blood.
"Does being hungry all the time count?" Elena finally showed a worried expression when she said this: "Recently, I have been working three jobs to pay for food, and I don't have much time to go to class."
"Elena, let me remind you that you are the queen of Skarre. Although I don't encourage you to abuse your power, you don't have to rely on moving bricks on the construction site to support yourself..."
"Can't the food here only be exchanged for meal tickets?" Elena's answer left Lu Cheng speechless.
If you think about it carefully, it seems to be true. The food in the cafeteria can only be exchanged for meal tickets. Skarre's currency is not circulated in the Special Zone City. Elena also uses energy coins to buy a car, but the auntie in the cafeteria doesn't know what energy coins are.
"This was indeed my negligence." Lu Cheng said.
"It's okay. There are many jobs I can do in the Special Zone City." Elena paused for a moment when she said this, then she raised her eyes and secretly glanced at Lu Cheng and said, "Are you free recently?"
"I don't have the final say on my free time. I may be on a mission at any time, but I should be relatively free recently."
Of course Lu Cheng could guess what the girl was thinking, but at this time what Lu Cheng should do was not to expose her, but to follow her words and give her the answer she wanted.
"Well... I want to go back to the Skare Royal City to see my sister, and spend some time in the newly built royal city."
"You want me to accompany you?" If Lu Cheng remembered correctly, Elena would return to the royal city of Scarre every once in a while.
Now the road between the Special Zone City and the Royal City has been paved, and it only takes about ten to twenty minutes to drive back and forth.
"Yeah." Elena nodded her little head quickly.
"I also have some things I need to deal with in the Royal City, but I'll give myself a break for now. By the way, I'll let you learn what the planning of a modern city should be like."
Lu Cheng has a lot of things to do now, but they can actually only be considered side quests, the kind that Lu Cheng can ask his colleagues to complete. For example, the magic research of the Secret Society is still under the full charge of Dr. Ji Chuan.
In essence, Lu Cheng is more interested in managing interpersonal relationships.
"What about tomorrow?" Elena seemed a little impatient.
"If you're not sleepy, it's okay to go there tonight," Lu Cheng said.