Vega. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
"You're late." Lutrecenbra glanced at the woman who appeared at the door, a woman in a work suit, "Lily." He gave us an explanation of his identity, "As my secretary, you shouldn't be late."
"I'm sorry." Lily's expression remained normal as she handed over the document in her hand, "This is the alien review you requested for this month. It's nothing special. It's just that the alien aspect of the newly born soul is a little special, so I marked it."
Lutresembra took the file and flipped through it quickly. He didn't seem to have much patience. He didn't have the content of the file, so he went straight to Lily's mark, "The number of earthbinders is increasing." He frowned and glanced Lily, was asking for an explanation, "Why did the number of earthbinders grow?" and the question, more correctly put in Vega, in the land of the west, "Why did they exist in this world long enough for Their numbers accumulate.”
Earth-bound spirit. We all know the regular Earthbinder 'path'. Just disappear; those who are belonging enter another world, heaven or hell; those who find their own way to survive become something else.
This is a place where the living space allows the Earthbinder to choose the future, and the west, the Vega City here, is not such a tolerant place. There is no need to reiterate the social classification 'system' in the West.
"The church is hiring a large number of earthbinders." Lily turned the page for Lutresembra. Obviously, the answer to the question was the last page of the document. But Lily did not complain about her leader's impatience and took her duties as a secretary seriously. "Including the state where Vega is located, more than half of the states in the west are covered."
"The church is studying the trial (Constantine and Seth) that manipulates belief attribution." Lutresembula still only read the conclusion. He looked like he was thinking, then closed the document, "I understand." He lowered his head and did the work that a mayor should do, and no longer looked at his secretary to give the order, "Go back to your desk, the phone won't work." Pick it up yourself.”
Oh, answer the phone~ This is the job of a secretary, there's nothing wrong with it.
Lily nodded, turned around, and prepared to leave. After taking two steps, he came back and said, "Thank you."
"Don't thank me, you are late, your salary will still be deducted." Lutresembula was saying what a leader should say to an employee who made a mistake. Tantrums and accusations? It's not necessary, it's just a matter of deducting money. Isn’t that true~
"I know that." There was a smile on Lily's face. She reached up and took out a small metal bottle from her pocket and placed it on the mayor's desk. "You saved my life this morning."
Root's eyes stayed on the metal vial for a moment, and then moved to Lily. Without saying anything, he put down his work and picked up the metal bottle that Lily had put down. He felt the lack of weight when he started to hold it, and said, "You used my blood."
"Yes. So I can still stand here and serve you."
Root's face was...cold, "That's why you were late." It was impossible to guess the follow-up questions.
"No." The answer was crisp and clear, in line with the standards of a secretary. "It is to remind my daughter's teachers that she may mention the topic of 'death' a lot today, so it took some time."
Speaking of when did everyone 'learn' to die, as a person who hopes for a better world, I hope this 'learning' happens late enough.
Root was not satisfied with this answer because it was too distracting. "You have a daughter?"
"Adopted daughter, don't you remember, she was adopted last year."
Root's look said it all, "Oh, how old."
"4 years old." Lily looked at Root's changing expression, "I sincerely hope that I don't have to contribute my daughter to you as food. This is a perk that comes with this job as the mayor's secretary." These words... were a bit scary.
I don’t know if you remember that when Zach first came to Vega, he had a small discussion about food with Root. We can know that the promotion of 'Virgin's Blood' was led by Lesembra, for the reason that the senses of eating will not be disturbed by inexplicable information when eating.
4 years old seems to be more worthy of being respected than a virgin.
Root looked at Lily and said, "Did you misunderstand something? You are not working for me." Notice, the metaphorical content of this sentence is a bit 'philosophical', "You exist for me, you are my slave." "The role you play in this world is to serve your master, me." The 'philosophy' part, "And this era calls your existence a secretary. That's all, your role does not have any benefits." .”
Lily maintained her emotional stability, "I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing."
Root also returned to his job as mayor. "Spring is about to begin, and hospitals in the urban area are coordinating flu vaccine injections. Citizens under the age of 10 can get free injections when accompanied by their parents." As I just said, the mayor's Work, "Your daughter?"
"I got the injection yesterday."
"Tsk. This ruins the flavor of the entire season." Try to keep up with Lutresembula's thinking, hey.
"Thank you." The thank you from Lily seemed to be sincere.
"Don't thank me, thank Giovanni (Nick Giovanni. Industry.), they are the ones who make today's human beings so fragile." So we need various additives to maintain health? Well, there seems to be nothing wrong with this logic.
Lily lowered her head, turned around and prepared to leave again.
"Wait." Root suddenly put down his work as mayor, leaned back on the office chair, and focused his eyes on the empty metal bottle on the desk again, "Who is it?"
"Two men, humans. I don't recognize them."
"Human?" Root's face showed confusion.
"They used a net of silver thorns to restrict my movement, and then used salt water (ghouls are afraid of salt water, and they first rescued James in Ravenchi). It felt like they had done their homework and knew what they were going to kill."
"hunter?"
"No." Lily shook her head, "They didn't take my daughter away. It doesn't feel like a hunter."
Hunter style. Remember when we described this kind of civil armed group, we said that the reason that supported their 'career' was based on hatred. The hatred of aliens destroying human life.
Well, killing the mother, uh, adopting the stepmother and leaving a 4-year-old girl with no ability to survive does not fit the characteristics of a hunter. Can you turn a corner? This is what ruined the life of a four-year-old girl.
Root looked at Lily, "You mean this is murder against you."
"It feels like, yes." Lily nodded, "Thank you, they failed."
Root looked away, seemingly thinking.
This thought took a long time. Lily waited for a while, but did not get the instruction from the 'master', so she turned around and prepared to leave to implement the reason for her existence.
"Did you call the police?" Root spoke again, a question, although there was no tone.
"No." Lily turned around and shook her head, "I don't think the police will care about this kind of incident." Apart from the mayor, she is probably the mayor's secretary who knows the city best.
"You are saying." Root stood up, and the tone of his voice became confusing, "The mayor's secretary was assassinated, and our city's law enforcement officers will not care about this kind of thing?" Root said At the desk, he looked at Lily as if this was a serious question...
Sorry, sarcastic, but this is a serious question. Root looked at Lily and said, "Cancel my entire schedule today and pick up Chief Vega for me."
"Yes, Mayor."
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I would love to continue to show you what happened in the mayor's office in the city of Vega. After all, it is very interesting to analyze the strange atmosphere of Western society and mock the definition of interpersonal relationships in modern society~
However, the real protagonist of this book and story, Zach, is in danger and passively trapped in a repetitive period of time waiting for rescue. For humanitarian reasons, we need to care for him.
So, let’s get back to Patton. Not really Barton, just a certain place at a certain time.
"How many times have we repeated this?!" James felt like he was about to collapse.
"I didn't count." Louise frowned and held down James, because in this cycle of time, they are not the only 'creatures', there are at least half a hundred Barton citizens, all in such a In the loop, fill out the ballot for future mayor. James' collapse was a very puzzling behavior in the eyes of these citizens who just kept repeating time.
"24 times." Someone counted, but Murphy, expressionless, said, "Multiply by the time when each time starts and ends, we have been trapped here for two hours."
"It's only been two hours." Benjamin confirmed and looked at Zach, "I'm hungry."
"You're not hungry." Zach said without expression, "You're just bored."
Everyone is bored. reason
"Do we really have to stand in this range?" Murphy asked. What range? The range of soul self-destruction, remember, we saw it in night classes at Back Bay Community College. This range is super small...
Normally, Zach wouldn't answer Murphy's words. But this was not normal. Zach felt the eyes focused on him, "Yes." After looking at anyone casually, James was fine. He felt that if someone would do something inexplicable and crazy first, it would be James. , "I must stay within the range of my soul's self-destruction."
The last sound of this sentence just appeared. Finely divided objects began to radiate in the pink mist...
"25." Murphy reported the number.
All surrounding 'creatures', those citizens, reset back to their original positions. The self-destructor who had witnessed disintegration and dispersion 25 times had also recovered completely. He was standing in front of the table next to Zack and the others, swinging a pen without ink.
Everyone has adapted to this time reset, well, except James. Zach continued his explanation, "The last time I was trapped in a time loop like this, I was on a moving bus. I was replaying the time before I blew myself up."
"So your position has moved." Murphy answered.
Zach was still looking at James, "Because the person who self-destructed was moving. The end of the time loop and the reset happened when I died, and when the self-destruction finally appeared normally. Just like before."
As expected of Louise, she jumped in before Murphy answered, "Is there any reset of the time loop?"
"Yes." Zach was very satisfied with Louise's answer, as he no longer had to stare at James's ferocious face, "When Papa 'rescued' me at midnight..." Everyone knows the meaning of quotation marks, "Bus At that time. I saw the self-destruction happening from the outside of the self-destruction of the soul. The time was not reset. Papa Midnight, me, and the God of the Republic were trapped in a Barton City that was only half simulated."
"half?"
"Regionally. Barton's things and people are there in the simulated world, but they are not real." Zach looked around at the citizens who were just constantly resetting, "And the boundaries of that world, the ones that cross the boundaries People or objects completely disappeared from my perception, Papa Midnight and the God of the Republic." (Associating the relationship between players and NPCs...)
"You said it before." It was actually Benjamin. "Papa used the incomplete world exploration information at midnight." Benjamin glanced at Murphy, "Should we do the same thing, explore." What he meant was obvious. .
Sure enough, Murphy, the woman who had leaked information except being 'interrogated' by Louise after coming to Grande, looked thoughtful. It should be easy to understand that she has been saying to Louise 'this is information I will not give now', she is waiting for something to happen in Barton.
"Of course." Zach was mocking, and his tone could be heard to be too high, for fear that Benjamin would really understand it wrong, "Then you will advance the time, and you will never be able to go back to the time period when the self-destruction occurred, which is where we are now. time period.”
Ah. James picked up, "Then Walter, who travels through the world by time points, won't be able to find us!!"
Zach raised his chin at Benjamin, 'Look, he understands'.
Benjamin made a final self-respect, "Walter found you."
Zach was not going to leave room for Benjamin, "But no one, including Walt himself, knows how he found me, right." We know that it was 'Colt's' victim Lip, the nightmare, who gave Walt Provided time, "Are you willing to take the risk?"
No one spoke, the answer was obvious, no one wanted to risk it.
So, wait. I believe in the shady story of the Barton Police Department and their ability to cover up vicious incidents... We know very well, don't we? The suicide case has been ended long ago in the official statement. At this moment, what happened on the first day of the mayoral voting, haha, incident , will not exist.
Another reset occurred in the pink mist and scattered fragments of radiation.
"26." A woman who was deliberately ignored completed the count, and then she disappeared.
"Hey." Zach shook his head.
"What did she do?!" The most excited person was naturally James.
"Exploration." Zach shook his head. "Obviously after my explanation, she came to the conclusion that it is safe to explore before the time is reset. As long as she is before the next reset occurs."
Benjamin glanced at the direction Murphy disappeared and said, "I should follow her."
Zach looked at Benjamin, speechless, "Promise me, at least wait until she verifies that this conclusion is correct before going, okay?"
Benjamin's mouth twitched and he looked at Zach, "I don't like your attitude."
"It's such a shame we're stuck here."
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