At least I hope that when he can't bear the pressure anymore, he can choose to give up on himself or find ways to protect himself other than harming others.
Of course, maybe he is stronger than I thought... But no matter what, a child without an adult to rely on is really pitiful, isn't it? "
"Um."
Theresa sighed.
She felt... that after becoming Yang Hao's wife, she still didn't seem to be a qualified partner.
But at least it's like what Lalumia said...
It’s not too late to change now.
Chapter 7: The girls' alert level has been raised - a little trick with the light - 8K
After confirming the next task, Theresa accompanied Lalumia around the Purple Palace.
Lalumia's "omniscience" is limited - although she can accurately know everyone's name, she cannot accurately know everyone's experience every minute.
Her omniscience has its limitations, so she needs to move around more to gain more information and use it as a basis for preparing for future work.
The most typical case is that Lalumia still doesn't know the entire layout of the Purple Palace.
She seemed to confuse her room with Theresa's sometimes, and she almost made a big mistake last night when she was going to bed...
In order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, and to make Lalumia familiar with her new home, Theresa decided to become a guide and lead her around in person.
"Hmm... This is the structure here? I was wondering why it was different from what I remembered... So it hasn't been repaired yet?"
Lalumia looked at the passage leading to the other side of the courtyard in front of her, and Theresa just sighed and shook her head in response to her sigh:
"Of course. This palace was damaged when it was underground, and the reconstruction work has not been completed yet... Compared to this, "Light" -"
"Call me Lalumia - my child, at least not in front of outsiders. I don't want people to suddenly worship me, okay?"
Lalumia gently covered Theresa's lips, smiled and nodded, asking her to be quiet.
In response to Lalumia's instructions, Theresa simply nodded in approval and continued to walk around the Purple Palace with the deity who looked almost exactly like herself.
Because it was still morning working hours, they did not encounter anyone else on the road except for some servants or guards who were cleaning the yard and doing gardening work.
They walked around the inside of the Purple Palace and then around the outside.
Seeing people looking at her with disapproving eyes, Lalumia put on a hood to hide her face, avoiding discussion or criticism, and also making Basilisa shrug her shoulders:
"You don't have to do this, Light... Lalumia."
"But this is to avoid chaos, okay? Human hearts are the most stable and the most easily confused. In order to avoid trouble, this is necessary."
Lalumia smiled and said, "Besides, I don't want to cause you any trouble in the future, my child. If I sneak out to play and get caught, you will get into trouble because of me, okay?"
"Then please stay in the Purple Palace, okay?"
"Impossible."
Lalumia rejected Theresa's proposal. Under Theresa's twitching gaze, she carefully observed everything in the Purple Palace. After looking up at the coast where the floating island of Eden was located thoughtfully, the kind god asked a strange question:
"Teresa? Have you noticed that there's someone 'watching us' here from time to time?"
She gestured at the air around her, as if there were countless cameras watching her. She said in a somewhat strange tone, "And the people watching us seem to be watching more than just us?"
"Who knows? But I have tried my best to keep the Purple Palace confidential... If it is a certain god who is observing us, there is nothing I can do."
"But the other party is not a god... Although he has no ill intentions. However..."
"but?"
Looking at Theresa's distressed look with her head tilted, Lalumia finally put the question of "the other party cares more about Yang Hao" aside for the time being.
After all, as Lalumia said, the abnormal life form that was spying on the Purple Palace didn't really care about their existence, nor did it care about the secrets within the Purple Palace, let alone her current identity.
That sight is now constantly looking at Yang Hao who is far away in the office...
It was an unusual look, and it gave Lalumia the feeling that a child who did not know how to love was looking at another person with eyes filled with curiosity and love.
Although the child might not know why he did this, Lalumia understood it very well - naturally, she had no intention of ruining the other person's unrequited love.
But then again, I wonder what Theresa would think when she finds out about this
The kind-hearted deity was distressed, but in the end she could only sigh: children can handle their own affairs, there is really no need for her to worry about them all the time.
And so, after walking several more laps.
Feeling a little tired, they planned to go back to Theresa's office to check on the situation of Yang Hao and others, but they didn't expect to run into Nalugia and Natalia on the way back.
Natalia was holding little Anna's hand with a melancholy look on her face, while little Anna had a puffed face as if she was angry about something. Naluga, who was following behind them, was rubbing her eyes in confusion, obviously not having recovered from the research work that she had done all night last night.
Theresa greeted them, and the three of them stopped and looked at Theresa.
After a while, Theresa squatted down and looked at the half of little Anna's face that was timidly hiding behind Natalia. She smiled bitterly and sighed: Why does this child like to hide from me so much
"Your Majesty... this..."
Natalia seemed to want to explain something, but after seeing Theresa stand up and wave her hand, she could only temporarily suppress the explanation that she had rehearsed countless times in her mind.
"Compared to this... did something happen between you and Anna?"
"Nothing... It's just that Anna wants to find His Majesty Yang Hao, but His Majesty Yang Hao is at work now, so..."
"I see… "
The women were talking about Anna, while on the other side, after rubbing her eyes for the third time, Naluga's mind was still full of the body of the "angel" that she had studied all night yesterday.
She had come up with a lot of results and couldn't wait to show them to Yang Hao -
But Yang Hao was busy now, and he was really too tired, so Nalujia had to put her little idea aside for the time being.
(I really hope there won’t be any more competitors coming…)
The head of the Ling tribe yawned and thought to herself. But at this moment, she suddenly noticed the woman who was rescued from the church yesterday. She seemed to be right in front of her now
The chief of the Ling tribe didn't know the other person's identity at the time... But now it seems that the other person is more important than he thought? And if I remember correctly, she looks exactly like Theresa...
Naluga looked at the woman in the hood and monastic robes curiously. When the woman noticed her gaze, she just smiled and nodded in greeting.
Who are you
Naluga looked at the other party curiously. At this moment, Theresa coughed twice and introduced the identity of the nun behind her to Natalia and Anna who were also curious:
"Um... She is... Lalumia. If nothing unexpected happens, she will assist us with administrative work. We can consider her as your future colleague... right?"
Her Majesty Barcelissa seemed a little uncertain when she said this. Naluga and Natalia became even more curious about Lalumia: They knew about the current administrative dilemma of the United Nations, and they also knew that the current troubles were not a big deal that could be solved by one or two ordinary officials...
But now, Theresa actually said that this Lalumia will become their colleague
And judging from Teresa's behavior, Lalumia seems to be someone who needs to be treated with great caution? Does that mean she is very capable
Nalujia tilted her head, then bowed to Lalumia: "Hello... I'm Nalujia."
Simple and easy to understand self-introduction - Anna and Natalia also chose to follow suit.
And just after they each reported their names out of curiosity, Miss Lalumia smiled and said, if you keep hiding it like this, the red apple that is within your reach might be stolen by the wild wolf outside the fence, right
Theresa and Anna were confused by Lalumia's metaphor, but Natalia and Naluga's hearts skipped a beat because of each other's metaphor: How did she know what they were thinking? !
Whether it was Naluga or Natalia... They all felt that their own concerns were likely to have become a semi-public fact in the Purple Palace.
But no matter what, it is impossible for a person who has just joined to know their thoughts and aspirations, their distressed yet longing thoughts, right
And now... Miss Lalumia, who had just joined, not only knew clearly what each of them was thinking.
You even know about the existence of that... that Elena? !
Natalia and Naluga looked at each other obscurely, and after finding that each other's eyes were filled with tension, they swallowed their saliva at the same time...
It just so happens that since Yang Hao is still working, Theresa naturally won’t go back to disturb them.
She suggested that everyone go sit in the lounge for a while. But when she ordered the maid who happened to be passing by to lead the way, she did not notice the nervousness of Naluga and Natalia, nor did she realize the cunning flash in Lalumia's eyes.
…
Meanwhile, in Theresa's office.
After Yang Hao and Fen processed batch after batch of documents, they received news that representatives from Eden and Isgard requested a meeting - but his two countries did not come together, they just happened to meet each other.
Strictly speaking, the time of the actual talks was not repeated. Miss Black Dragonia hoped to meet him later to deal with the previous "promise", and Elena from the Kingdom of Eden said that she would come over in person in the afternoon to discuss some scientific research and technological progress with Yang Hao, and also planned to open the production line of the Kingdom of Eden to trade with the United Nations.
Yang Hao was happy at first.
But he soon saw the problem with Eden's request...
That is, why did Elena happen to propose to trade resources with production lines when the United Nations needed production lines to obtain products
Although there is a "coincidence" factor, for Yang Hao now, Elena's proposal at this moment is undoubtedly like a shark smelling blood in the sea and intends to swallow him up...
"How did she know about our current predicament?" Yang Hao thought about it over and over again but couldn't come up with a conclusion.
"Although it is true that if the Kingdom of Eden takes the initiative to propose a deal, it will help us minimize our losses in the transaction... But her initiative to "give gifts" always gives me a bad feeling..."
"Yeah, why is that?" Finn shrugged. "Maybe that little girl with no feelings is planning to develop an unexpected relationship with you... What do you think?"
"I think she just treats me as a friend." Yang Hao curled his lips, "She said that herself."
"I always feel that this is more like your imagination."
"Nonsense! But now let's stop arguing... Let's talk about this matter..."
The two put aside the request of the Ishgard Black Dragon for the time being - after all, Nia's matter was very easy to deal with, and at most they could just give more discounts and verbal favors and it would be done. So in terms of priority, Nia's matter could be put last.
However, the Kingdom of Eden's unprovoked courtesy made the two Majesties feel alert.
There is no other reason. In transactions between countries, few rational individuals would be stupid enough to really provide favors to a country for free. The examples of Bayer Zans and Caparia are ultimately a minority among the minority.
In other words, Elena really had something in mind for the United Nations—but the question was, what exactly did she want? Yang Hao couldn't come up with an answer.
After all, the current United Nations can theoretically only provide two things to the Kingdom of Eden.
First, ordinary resources that do not contain magic. Ordinary iron ore, ordinary wood, ordinary soil—
These things may not be valuable in the continent of Elucia, but for the Kingdom of Eden, where magical materials are everywhere in the country, these conventional basic resources are priceless treasures in their eyes.
To put it in a more popular way, the Kingdom of Eden is the owner of a printing factory who lives in the printing factory but has no food, and the United Nations is a farmer who lives in a farmland with food everywhere but no money. Both sides have their own needs, and if both parties are willing, it would seem normal for the Kingdom of Eden to spend millions of dollars to buy ten carrots.
But the transaction between ordinary resources was a done deal, and there was no need for Elena to be so attentive just to get a few extra tons of resources... So, their goal was actually the second one
Second, population - to be more precise, male immigration.
The Kingdom of Eden is also a country where the population has stopped growing. And compared to the United Nations, the population problem of the Kingdom of Eden is more serious.
Among their actual population of more than 10,000, only 400 women are capable of reproduction, and Elena, a synthetic doll that was born entirely from machines, is a product that only appears once every few hundred years.
In other words, if the Kingdom of Eden wants to increase its population and expand its national strength, they must rely on the male population of other countries to reproduce...
Whether it is simply surrogacy or paid reproduction, for the Kingdom of Eden, it is not as practical as directly allowing men to immigrate to their own country.
But the problem of men and women in the United Kingdom is also extremely serious. No matter how good his relationship with Elena is, Yang Hao will never agree to move his people to live in Eden...
So... is Elena planning to use this transaction as a breakthrough
This made Yang Hao feel a little troubled... After all, he really needed the products, everything from the artificial reactors to the production lines of the Kingdom of Eden... But now, she was planning to use immigration for trade? Hiss...
Yang Hao fell into deep thought.
And it was at this time that Finn said that Elena’s goal should not be immigration, but something else.
"After all, Yang Hao, don't forget... In addition to looking for us, the Kingdom of Eden can also look for the Khutot Khanate in the north, the male soldiers of the Isgard Colonial Army in the south, and even if they really can't find anyone, they can look for the Roman Empire..."
Fen moved her buttocks and jumped off Yang Hao's thighs. She sat down on the desk, raised her legs and gently lifted the report book in Yang Hao's hand with her boots:
"Even if we exclude the Roman Empire, we can find three countries to supplement the male population at least. Given Elena's "efficient" personality, she will not choose male immigration as the target of her operation this time...
I personally think that what Elena wants is something deeper - but as for what it is, perhaps we can only react to it when the time comes."
Finn's explanation is also very reasonable.
After all, if the Kingdom of Eden is determined to find partners for its last 400 seed women, they actually have plenty of places to look.
The lack of men in the United Nations does not mean that the colonial armies of the Khutot Khanate and Isugard also lack men.
If Eden is really at a dead end, they still have two other countries to choose from...
Under such circumstances, it would be impossible for Elena to target the male immigrant population after she took the initiative to propose production line trade.
She probably needed something else. Apart from the less than one in a thousand possibility that she just wanted to chat with friends, Yang Hao speculated that what Elena needed was probably the technology from Earth in his mind, as well as some precious resources...
For example, the Sirens - as immigrants from Isgard, they must be an extremely rare and scarce human resource in the continent of Elucia.