In fact, according to the habits of ordinary people, if someone travels thousands of miles to find someone, after you pick them up from the station, there should be a process of picking up the wind and cleaning up the dust. It is reasonable to let the guests who came from afar rest for a day and a half. After all, there is such a saying: Traveling thousands of miles, the journey is exhausting. Traveling abroad is always a laborious task. So my first plan was to let Anulili rest for a while, but the other party said that she was not tired at all, and she didn't even realize that she had run away God knows how many "thousands of mountains and rivers". From the world where she lives to Shadow City, the distance can no longer be measured by simple distance. It can be said that this is a journey that can be frightening in numbers, but in fact Anu Lili runs this distance plus The time that was delayed by going to the station was only 22 minutes in total... The teleportation technology of the empire has changed a lot of things based on common sense. I think it is simply arguable for me to arrange the day's accommodation for a girl who has only been out of the house for 20 minutes. One of the worst things I have ever done.
Since there is no need to rest, it is natural to lead Anu Lili around directly. Anyway, it is not time for meal—my daily life has always been divided by meal time, which is better than a schedule. Maybe I am Influenced by Sandora—now that we have just left the Dimensional Hub Square, Anulili is still immersed in the magnificent buildings here, so I decided to plan the sightseeing route first and then help her pull it out.
And at this moment, without my noticing, Anu Lili chatted with small vendors that can be seen everywhere near the hub square. This was my mistake, especially when I noticed Anu Lili Who is it, I feel that this is my mistake...
Anulili stopped in front of a small stall with a face full of curiosity. The stall owner was a rather burly middle-aged man. It is not surprising that he has a burly figure. What is strange is that the other party is wearing a black suit that is obviously specially made and enlarged. The burly vendors who look like soldiers, and the vendors who wear suits as if they are going to attend the United Nations conference, such vivid and various outfits that don’t match, you can’t find a second one in Shadow City.
Anulili was fiddling with the things on the stall, which were some shiny ornaments: girls are indeed naturally interested in these things. The middle-aged man who set up the stall seized the opportunity to sell his own things. His righteous face seemed to be shining with justice. It made people feel that if you didn't believe his sales, it would be against your conscience: "The little girl has good eyesight." Ah, this is an amulet made of mantle crystals on the planet Tuha-3. It was specially opened by the priest of the temple. It is a rare treasure in the entire macro world. The original price is 68,000. I will give you a discount of 3.5 yuan and take it away. , don't miss this opportunity..."
As it turns out, it's even more against your conscience to believe his salesmanship.
At this point in time, Sikaro really doesn't have any tasks, but it doesn't mean that he can push his small stall into the commercial restricted area, and it doesn't mean that he can fool around with the things produced by the Fifth Glass Factory. An inexperienced girl. Of course, whether the priests in the temple usually undertake the consecration business or not, we have to talk about it separately—anyway, my reaction now is to slap that guy on the shoulder: "Hey!"
I think I reacted fast enough, but the old bastard still rushed out as swiftly as ever, and the strong wind swept across half of the square, and then a team wearing red hoops rushed out from the intersection around the dimensional hub square, chasing after him. With that elegant and strong black figure disappearing at the end of the avenue. My raised right hand froze in the air, then I turned my head and smiled awkwardly at my sister.
"You will never be able to catch a pure agile MT with full intelligence." Facing the smiling eyes of my sister, I explained to myself this way. It will definitely be followed by a sentence: "Wood, are you really more intelligent?"
After more than four years of hanging out, I have already become familiar with that girl's temperament.
Then I heard my sister say with a smile: "Ah Jun, are you really more intelligent?"
Me: "..." This world is cruel sometimes, well, I admit that my talent points are mostly bullshit.
"That was just now..." Anulili was still holding a small teardrop-shaped amulet in her hand: it was produced by the Fifth Glass Factory, and it was said to come from the mantle. She doesn't know the local customs on the Shadow City side, and now she is very puzzled , "I haven't paid yet... Ah, by the way, I don't have any currency from your side either."
"It's okay, the imperial military system doesn't use currency in circulation, and the currency system of the macro world has nothing to do with you for the time being... Well, the point is not this, anyway, you don't care about the guy just now, I know him well, just leave it to me, this little guy The gadget is a gift for you."
Anulili nodded with a vague understanding, Quan regarded this as a special custom of Shadow City. Then we led her to the direction of the World Tree Temple. If there are any places in Shadow City that are the most spectacular, there are two in total. One is the huge ring structure in the sky of the city, the headquarters of the Military Control Department. This solemn and huge metal ring is a symbol of the new empire's servant army system, but It belongs to the military area, so it is obviously not suitable for leading Anulili to visit. The other one is the World Tree Temple. Although from the outside it looks like just a tree, it is a tree with a trunk whose radius can be measured in kilometers... at this size, anything is spectacular.
And more importantly, the avenue from the Dimensional Hub Square to the World Tree Temple will pass through the most prosperous area of Shadow City. Not only is the street view good, but there are also many wonderful items from various worlds, and it passes through several settlements of different races . This means that we will be able to let Anu Lili see what is coming from all nations, what is the capital of all worlds, and what is coming from the south. The coming Ultraman looks like a master ball...
Leaving the Dimensional Hub Square and walking away from the military area, the scene along the way will become more and more prosperous: Although the Hub Square can be called crowded, it is next to the fort after all, so it is impossible to be as lively as the commercial area of. Anu Lili followed closely behind me and my elder sister like a small animal that came outside for the first time. Now that this capable and mature girl came to a place that made her feel at a loss, she also showed such a helpless look. appearance. But this will not dispel her curiosity. After getting used to this new environment, Anulili began to ask my sister and me about the strange things we saw along the way. In fact, to be honest, I don't know many things in Shadow City...God knows what kind of things they came from which world and which race brought them over, so I can only pick up the things I know and introduce them to her.
"I've never seen such a place..." Anulili watched in amazement as a group of short races with light blue skin ran past her eyes, she took a half step back carefully to avoid being hit, "So Prosperous... so big... so many different races living together. You don't even know how many races there are here, do you?"
"Well, indeed, the scale of the macro world is too large," I scratched my head, "The racial composition of Shadow City changes every day, and sometimes a world sends only two or three people to Shadow City, and they may stay here. I will go back in less than a day, so you can see new faces here every day, only one-third of the city’s population is permanent, and the rest are floating population.”
Anulili still doesn't know much about the macro world, so I briefly introduced to her the unprecedented civilian network established by the new empire. In a system with a large population, she didn't close her mouth for a long time, and then looked around in disbelief: "God... How big is the empire?"
"It's bigger than any kind of behemoth you can imagine," I said proudly, because I witnessed everything in front of me and built it up bit by bit, "Even the capital world is more than you can see It's so simple, the shadow city you see, and even the planet above the shadow city, are just a 'block' in the capital world. Outside of this space, there are Avalon and the Celestial City, as well as a city called As the original planet of the mother continent, every place is bigger than Shadow City. These are the blocks of the capital world. I will take you to Avalon later, and I will take them there every time I have guests. The most beautiful place I've ever seen."
Anulili seems to have almost forgotten the purpose of coming here (in fact, she really doesn't know what she is doing here), and she has been completely attracted by this place that can be described as a miracle. A huge cross-world civilization like an empire, its capital is full of places that ordinary people find inconceivable or even incomprehensible. Many people have lived in Shadow City for three or four years, but they have not fully understood this city yet: the speed of its development Even faster than you know it.
"I feel like a primitive person entering a civilized society for the first time," Anulili said suddenly a little frustrated, while mentioning her well-chosen, but still somewhat worn-out long dress: I guess it was during the war. In the future world, it is impossible for a "leader" like her to find better clothes. She has always been wearing a uniform, but today she has changed into a long skirt. Obviously, she also attaches great importance to this visit to the capital of the empire to "see the world" experience, "I don't understand anything, and I will be shocked by everything I see."
She is just an ordinary girl who is only seventeen or eighteen years old.
I patted Anulili on the shoulder. For some reason, I admired this girl inexplicably. Perhaps the only explanation is that I saw in her the shadow of my sister back then: strong and immature, carrying a heavy burden. The burden, but she gritted her teeth and persisted to the end. Under the mature and tough appearance, she was still an ordinary girl deep in her heart, and she also hoped to live an ordinary and safe life. This is so similar to my sister back then, but I was Ignorant and ignorant, I calmly enjoy the safe life my sister brought me. Until today, I don't realize how much burden this is for a teenage child.
"Do you feel like a local girl?" I smiled and said to Anu Lili, "I still feel a little uneasy because I come from a backward civilization? Don't worry, no one here cares about this. You see, there are a lot of macro worlds here. Visitors from countless civilizations, not all civilizations are so civilized and prosperous. Here, no one cares about the origin of the people passing by, and no one cares whether your mother clan has already occupied your own universe. Here Not only Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but also the empire is an insurmountable peak. Under this premise, all other races will not fight here: even if they may use their brains in other places, but in the shadow City, every race is indeed equal."
"... a very strange way of 'equality'." Anu Lili is very smart, so after a little thought, she said with a strange smile.
"It's really a strange 'equality'," my sister nodded unhurriedly. "Many visitors from other races will fight when they first come to Shadow City. They may even have feuds and so on, but how to say Well—when they found that what they had been fighting for for more than ten generations was worth no more than two steamed buns, they couldn't fight anymore. And the sense of superiority of certain races was also treated like this Get rid of it, when they first came, they felt that they were more civilized and advanced than those "primitive races" in the macro world, but they didn't realize until they stayed for a few days that everyone was primitive. Lithium-making tools have risen to the level of Neolithic ... how can this be superior?"
In a place where a billboard falls and hits ten people, nine of them may have saved the world, and the remaining one may be an imperial soldier. No one can be awesome, that's the reason. It is true that this is not true equality of all beings, unity and friendship, but that ideal state is unlikely to appear. Shadow City maintains a peaceful environment based on tacit understanding and collective compromise. This is already theoretical The best model ever.
At this moment, we heard a deep sound of "rumbling" coming from the street not far away, as if something heavy was rolling over, this sound gave me a sense of sight, and very Soon, this sense of sight was confirmed: a huge metal ball was rolling out from the corner of the street ahead, rushing straight in our direction.
I thought it was Fina, the retired little queen, pushing Biberu out for a walk with a cold again, but...
I took a look when the big ball came out just now, and there was no one behind him.
And the big ball was rumbling as loudly as he was rolling: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Ahead..."
"boom!"
This huge metal ball touched a part of the barrier on the road. You know the building materials of Shadow City. Things like the barrier are made of crazy warships and gold, so the barrier didn't move at all. The metal ball weighing a ton flew up, and in a series of bangs, he smashed a row of big holes in the road, and finally stopped in front of my sister and me: the reason why he barely stopped was because I subconsciously kicked him to stop.
"...This is..." Anu Lili had been frightened from just now, and only then asked in shock, while belatedly jumping to the side several times. It is impossible for normal people to be calm when they see a metal ball bigger than themselves rushing towards them, and her reaction now is quite normal.
"Um, an old friend..." I stepped forward and tapped the smooth mirror-like shell of the metal ball, "Biberu, are you okay?"
The metal ball gave a muffled answer, and the voice sounded a little out of tune: "It's generally okay, Your Majesty, can you help me turn it over, my head and feet are now..."
I hurriedly pushed Biberu's body with my sister and turned around on the spot. After tossing for a long time, I found the two words "上" and "前" marked on the other person's body. Those two words must be Fina's handwriting, but Biberu rolled all the way, and the words were almost worn away.
"Huh... It feels so good to be right here, I'm already a little dizzy, and the third balance hub is a little nauseous," Biberu's body shook slightly, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, for letting you see such a gaffe... I should It's a stupid mistake to stay at home and go shopping... "
"Are you catching a cold again?" I squinted at this round iron ball prime minister. I don't know if it's the possession of the gods or what's going on. He usually works in the civilized community, and he only comes to see him three days a month. His own retired queen, but basically every time he has something to do in these three days. For example, a cold, fever, indigestion, etc. According to the current situation that he can't float, he should have a cold.
"I went to the orbital station to blow fresh plasma wind last night. It's a little bit of a problem now," Biberu said awkwardly, and then floated up wobbly, maintaining a height of half a meter for a few seconds before landing with a bang , "Actually, I can still fly, but it's very unstable, and I've been dizzy just now..."
At this time, I finally saw Fina running out of the corner of the street in front of me. Since she abdicated from the position of queen, she has lived a leisurely life in the capital of the empire with peace of mind, enjoying the treatment of retired officers. Look at that The appearance of running over in a hurry, I can no longer see the lifeless and stiff feeling she had when she was sitting on the Iron Throne.
"Finally caught up with you, Biberu," Fina was delighted to see her prime minister parked by the side of the road, patted her chest reassuringly, and then greeted us, "Hello, friend, we meet again!"
Then we learned that Biberu was indeed with Fina when he went out, but Fina left to buy drinks in the middle: she didn't pay attention and parked Biberu on a slope.
Then there was no more, Biberu rolled for several minutes, and it just stopped.
"Friend, this is?"
Fina noticed Anu Lili who was following us. She was very curious about the latter's unfamiliar clothes and the most common expression on the face of people who came to Shadow City for the first time. introduce.
Anu Lili was very surprised when she heard that the girl in front of her who looked a little dull and not very stable turned out to be an abdicated queen.
"Visiting guests..." Fina thought for a while, and suddenly invited Anu Lili, "Then come to Monument Square to have a look." RS