Ed slowly opened his eyes, and he was greeted by an unfamiliar ceiling. There was no noise in the room, and there was nothing in the senses. There was a faint fragrance on the pillow and bedding, he couldn't help taking a deep breath, and his soul felt the long-lost tranquility under the soothing sense of smell.
"I'm going to be sleepy, I'm going to be tired, I'm still a little hungry now, I probably ate a pirated Fruit of Life." He said to himself, grabbing the phone beside his pillow and looking at it, "After sleeping for more than 20 hours, No missed calls and no one left me a message, um…”
Not knowing whether to breathe a sigh of relief or feel lost, Ed, who was in a complicated mood, struggled to get up from the soft bed. Halfway through the clothes, I found a small note left on the bedside table with the words "please call me when you wake up" in beautiful handwriting.
"I won't be rude enough to sneak away, it's really unnecessary." Ed smiled softly, picked up the phone and dialed, "Hello?"
"Ah, Ed, are you awake?" The phone was connected almost immediately, and after more than 20 hours, the reassuring and pleasant voice came again, "I'm shopping outside, wait for me, I'll immediately Go back. The blue toothbrush in the bathroom is yours, and I have a new towel and a change of clothes next to me, so you can use it if you want to take a shower."
"I saw it." The house is really small, and Ed walked to the bathroom before the other party finished speaking, "Thanks."
"You're welcome, by the way, I said hello to CC and they said that you are working on a very troublesome topic and you can't answer the phone for the time being, so don't be sad if you don't miss a call. And you should go back today. Now, they are really worried about you." There was a sudden exclamation from the loudspeaker, "Yeah!"
"What's wrong?!" Ed's heart suddenly hung up, "Where are you?!"
"30% off for the limited-time purchase of pure natural beef!" The voice in the microphone panicked, "A lot of people are rushing, and it will be gone if you don't make a move. Let's go back and talk about it, remember to wait for me."
After speaking, the call was hung up. Ed looked blankly at the busy voice in the microphone, and his mind was a little bit hard to turn around: "So His Royal Highness is... shopping in the supermarket? This is too strange, isn't it?"
He put down his mobile phone speechlessly, froze for a while, and decided to follow the advice and take a shower first. The warm water injected energy into the tired body a little bit, and after taking a bath, I really felt a lot of energy. The room was warm, and Ed came to the kitchen wrapped in a bath towel, poured himself a glass of water and drank it, then opened the refrigerator to find something to eat.
Ed understood that he no longer needed to add calories and nutrients, but the habitual peristalsis of his stomach gave him the illusion of hunger. But if he doesn't eat, he will have the illusion that he is no longer human. In order to maintain the humanity that God knows when it will disappear, he still eats as regularly as possible.
Just as the refrigerator door was opened, there was a sound of opening the door behind him. It should be the owner of the house returning.
"There's nothing." He looked at the empty refrigerator with a bit of depression, and said to the person who came in without looking back, "As the big boss of Anaheim, at least a few boxes of Anaheim brand nutritional supplements must be stocked. Well, the new packaging tastes good and nutritious."
"Nutrition is very important, and the quality of life is equally important. Don't drink nutritional supplements all the time. I knew you were hungry, so I went out to buy ingredients—" The voice stopped abruptly, "Ah... that..."
Ed turned his head, a beautiful girl in a hat and a skirt was looking at him with a blushing face, speechless. Ed looked down at himself, only to feel a surge of heat rushed to his face: "Uh... that... I didn't expect you to be dressed like this... No, I don't mean anything else, I mean... "
"I'm pretending not to be recognized." Lola quickly calmed down, took off her hat and put it on the table as if nothing had happened, then picked up the things she bought and walked to the kitchen, "It's alright, I'm very happy, it means you take me as a Friend, don't be wary of me at all. Are you starving? I'll make something to eat, you go and change first."
"...Oh." Ed nodded calmly and walked back to the bedroom quickly.
Half an hour later, Lola put her hands on her cheeks and smiled as she watched the man in front of her gobble: "It's really nice to see the fruits of my labor being eaten, my craftsmanship is average, and you can only enjoy it when you're very hungry. Such a sense of achievement.”
Ed did not refute, Lola's craftsmanship was indeed average, and it was unnecessary to pretend that it was delicious. They are friends, and there is no need for anyone to bother to please others. This way of getting along makes him feel very relaxed.
"I told CC just now that you must go home tonight, and don't go back to the laboratory later." Roland saw Ed swallow a big mouth, and quickly handed him the water glass, "Your family's The problem is too complicated, and I can't help you as a friend, at most I can only give you a place to escape."
Ed took the water glass and took a sip, patted his chest and tried to swallow the food: "I may have been under too much pressure recently. I'm worried about the destruction of the world when I go out, and I always feel breathless when I go home. At least when I'm with you. , you can have an empty mind without thinking about anything, this is the greatest salvation."
"Don't always carry all the pressure alone, even if the world is to be destroyed, it is not your business alone, I am part of the world." Laura took the empty glass and poured him a glass of water, "I Although I can't help you much, if you need anything, please let me know, and I will try my best to satisfy you."
Ed hesitated for a moment before he finally snorted and ate.
"By the way, there is something I want to discuss with you." Laura suddenly became a little awkward. "Friends should help each other, right? So, um, can you lend me some money?"
"Huh?" Ed raised his head in surprise, and the tableware almost fell to the ground. "You're already so poor?"
"I couldn't help but buy some new clothes after I changed my body recently, and then the natural beef you are eating now spent the last of your money." Lola looked away embarrassedly, "It's expensive even with a discount on natural beef."
"You..." Ed sighed, thinking quickly, only then would he thank himself for having a good mind, "This secret base is the house you've saved for years, since you agree with me in the future Come on, is it reasonable for me to pay the rent every month?"
"You..." Laura also sighed with a smile. She understood all of Ed's subtext. "Since you have paid the rent, you must come here often, otherwise I will not be at ease with the money."
Ed nodded, lowered his head and continued to eat. After the meal was over, Laura pressed Ed back to the seat and took the initiative to clean up the tableware. When it was all over, Lola changed into a clean home dress and sat across from Ed to watch him in a relaxed manner.
"I just thought you had something to tell me. Is there anything you want to talk to me about? It's okay to complain, I'm willing to listen, as long as you can make it easier." Laura smiled shyly, "If I didn't do it on my own, Lovely words."
"I..." Ed took a deep breath, "I hope you make a contingency plan to retreat at any time, if something goes wrong, run immediately."
"Well." Laura looked at him seriously, "Okay, I'll do it."
"The only information is that the air angel blew himself up. I guess the enemy is the original moon-sized ELS. I guess the ELS has boson jumping technology. I guess our odds of winning are almost zero." , "Aeolus is optimistic. He estimates that ELS communicates through brain quantum waves and can use NT to understand each other. I don't agree with his idea at all. The other party is here to grab resources and there is no possibility of reconciliation."
"I trust your judgment."
"MS is meaningless, and ACE is meaningless. In front of a metal-based life with a diameter of 3,000 kilometers, 10,000 Amurokai beasts are just to die. From the beginning, I planned to give up the lives of billions of people and choose to protect myself. , I don't know if the satellite cannon is useful, I just struggle with the last human money to make me feel more comfortable."
"I approve of your choice."
"It is useless to send all the apostles to death, and it is useless to smash all the existing nuclear weapons. I don't believe that mankind has any chance of winning. If the ELS comes before the satellite cannon is repaired, I will bring my wife and children, you and important friends directly. Run away, and after you fix it, you can fire a shot and run. I'm not the savior, I'm not the protagonist of the story, I can't climb the technology comparable to astral-level life forms within a year, I can't save billions of people, I can only escape. "
"I support your decision."
"The technology at hand is all I have. I don't have a world I want to protect. I am a traveler, I am an outsider, and I will not be kidnapped by morality. The life and death of billions of people have nothing to do with me. CC said that I believe I will be able to solve it. Yes, Lux said it would be fine if it was me, An Qi said that I must have a solution if I am so powerful. It's all nonsense, the empty angel was forced to blow himself up and could only delay the time, that is the empty angel! I don't want to either! Everyone, go to hell, but I can't rub the tower and the devil, what can I do?!"
Lola quietly looked at Ed, who was gasping for breath, and held his right hand on the table: "Although I am a little sorry for saying that, Doctor, but you are indeed the most powerful person I have ever met, even more powerful than Dr. Aeolia. You must be right, and if you can't even get to the right conclusion, then neither can anyone else."
"Ro... La?"
"I'm not very attached to the position of the prince. It's good to start from scratch. It may be a little troublesome to convince Diana, but it's not impossible." Laura smiled calmly, "Ed, I don't think we can beat it, we Run away?"
Ed thumped the table hard and bowed his head in pain, his shoulders shaking slightly. Lola got up and walked slowly behind him, hesitated for a moment, then hugged him gently: "You are right."
The room fell into silence, except for a barely audible sob that I didn't know who made it. The person being hugged struggled slightly, but the person holding him did not waver, and continued to hold him firmly.
For a long time, even the sobbing could not be heard.
"Hey, Lola." A hoarse voice came from her arms, "Although it's probably useless, I want to try to fix TurnA."
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The first day of October is the pigeon.
Working overtime for seven days and five days on National Day, isn't this special meow the same as normal work, and I lost last weekend. Since most of the people in the department were on vacation, I and the rest of the people handled the matter, and instead, I was busy.
I really want to tell the leader that I will pay you three times your salary and you will work overtime with me, but I dare not.