Sandora and I stayed here in Tavel for most of the afternoon, and it was almost evening when we had a clear understanding of the progress of several major projects. Anses and Harlan saw that they had nothing to do, so they had already left in advance and went back. I only noticed that the time was approaching meal time when Sandora was hungry, so I also said goodbye and left.
Coming out of Tavel's office, we are confronted with Tavel's mass projections and mass projections and more mass projections: each of these mass projections leads a research group or project office, wandering through all floors of the research center, It can almost be regarded as a landscape in the research institute. Sandora and I kept meeting Tavel wearing various signs all the way out, and kept saying hello to the same face—sometimes saying hello to the same person twice, The other party will also warmly remind you. This feeling is really weird no matter how long it takes to get used to it. In fact, Tavel is not the only one who uses mass projection for multi-threaded work. Senior researchers all have this ability, but the glasses girl is indeed the only one who uses mass projection to such a crazy scale. After I greeted seventeen or eight Tavels in the corridor, I couldn't bear it any longer. I grabbed one of them and made a suggestion: "Tavier, I have been walking from your office for several minutes, and I haven't left yet. Your sight, don't you want to say something?"
Tavel didn't know which number was caught by me suddenly, showing a confused look: "What does your majesty mean?"
"You have to learn to relax once in a while," I persuaded her persuasively, "Even Harlan goes to Sylvia's shop for a meeting when he has time, and Sandora has started watching TV dramas, and you are also developing." For your own personal hobbies, look at the number of your avatars, how many jobs have you undertaken by yourself?"
"Personal hobbies?" Tavel thought for a while, "Oh, yes, my subordinates have recently cultivated personal hobbies, and I often go to relax, but what my subordinates are good at is multi-threaded thinking, so when entertaining Part of the projection is just working."
I originally just mentioned it casually, and wanted to use this topic to persuade Tavel to pay more attention to my body, but I didn't expect this rigid-looking lady with glasses to actually say that she has "personal hobbies". Curious: "What are your hobbies?"
"Sports of people on Earth," the glasses girl smiled gently, "I just noticed not long ago that many confrontational sports invented by people on Earth are very interesting to my subordinates... Would you like to take a look at it? Part of the quality projection of your subordinates is now Let's relax in the open space behind the institute."
I originally wanted to accompany Sandora to go shopping in the food street and then go home, but now I can't suppress my curiosity, and even Sandora next to me looks very interested. Nod: "Take us to see."
Tavel immediately led us through the large central corridor of the institute to an open hall where we could directly see the back square. Sandora and I looked at the square behind the institute, speechless in astonishment.
The square is surrounded by a floating fence, and more than twenty Tavels are wearing red and white sweatshirts, playing football in the open space...
There is a huge holographic image floating above the open space, which simply displays a few numbers, which is the score of the current game. The score is simply thrilling: 1896 to 1897, and in the blink of an eye, the score has become 1897 vs. 1897.
"Your Majesty has reminded you before, let your subordinates pay attention to rest and divert your attention," Tavel (mass projection) said happily behind us, "Your Majesty has only recently realized His Majesty's good intentions, put yourself Part of the threads are freed to process some low-intensity data, and the overall efficiency of the avatar group is indeed improved if the cycle is carried out in this way, and the process error rate has also dropped by about 1%, 'switching mood' is really a magical thing."
Sandora and I: "..."
"Then what, I always feel that you have misunderstood something subtly." The corner of my mouth twitched and looked at Tavel, with thousands of doubts in my heart, but in the end I only choked out a sentence, "Do you know the rules of this football game? "
"Not very clear," Tavel shrugged indifferently, "I only know that the ball should be kicked into the opponent's goal, but this is too difficult for the Apostle of Xiling, so the subordinates added some restrictions. For example, you can’t control it with gravity, you can’t block it with a force field, you can’t use hyperspace transformation, etc. If you rely solely on body coordination, this exercise is quite interesting.”
"How long have you been playing?" Sandora asked with a black line on her head.
Tavel thought for a while: "It's been two days. I was studying basketball before, and I started studying football after the score broke through five figures."
I felt that I couldn't continue on this topic at all, so I hurriedly took Sandora's hand and left the research institute. When we left, the score on the field had just broken through the 1900-1900 mark—I don't think I would have any chance in my life. Way to face up to football.
"Actually, this is not bad," Sandora still sighed, "Tavier thinks this is interesting, as long as it's just for her to change threads, it's nothing if she organizes two hundred shadow clones to put together building blocks—it's better than bubbles all day Soaking in the game is strong."
I thought a little bit about the grand occasion when more than two hundred Tavels made a pile of building blocks, and finally restored the one-to-one Neuschwanstein Castle, and suddenly I felt my brain trembling, and I didn't dare to think about it any more.
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the time of Shadow City and Watch World is synchronized. Recently, I also used the winter style theme package, so when I led Sandora back from foraging in the food street, it was almost completely dark. Yes, we walked hand in hand on the still lively streets of Shadow City, I was holding a bag of snacks that I was going to give to a group of little girls, and Sandora was holding... oh, I don’t have anything anymore , her eating speed is still as fast as ever, I can't even describe it.
I have already said hello to my family before, and I will not go back to eat tonight, so Sandora and I can go shopping in the city for a while. The latter is actually not very interested in shopping. "Going out for food" can be said to be going out The only attraction for Her Majesty the Queen, but I can see that what Sandora enjoys is not shopping, but the leisure time strolling with me: recent work pressure is relatively high, and it is time for the two of us to relax .
Counting from the day when my familiar daily life completely collapsed, more than five years have passed without knowing it, and everything in Shadow City has turned upside down. At the beginning, the deserted and weird mirror city could even remind people of horror movies. Now it has also become the most prosperous "City of God" and "Holy Land" in the void. There are only two things that have not changed here. The first is that Pandora's recruiting advertisements are still everywhere in the city's promotional videos. The second is the strange theme package with the bubble design still hanging in the sky, and no matter what theme package has to be hung with a clock—if you insist on thinking of a city-themed culture for Shadow City, then these two things should be it.
Sandora and I moved away from the downtown area without knowing it, and came to a relatively clean place around the water system around the city. The two sides of this moat are one of the quietest areas in Shadow City after nightfall, because strictly speaking, this place belongs to mermaids. In residential areas, swimming in the moat is treated as trespassing, and it is naturally quiet here. Now it is the beginning of the lights, and the wide and gentle slopes on both sides of the moat are also shrouded in a soft light. The street lights here are all specially made, and the photon generators and magnetic barriers ensure that the lights will only shine on the side of the road and not on the road. River water, this is also what the mermaids living in the water strongly demand: the freshwater mermaids submitted a serious report, complaining about the bad behavior of someone using strong light on their windows in the middle of the night, and the street lights on both sides of the moat were replaced with this It's a high-end product.
There are not many pedestrians on the bank of the moat, half of the passers-by in twos and threes are also couples or young couples who are out to relax, and just when I led Sandora to the next foraging place, a slow and soft voice suddenly came from behind : "Ah—it's Chen, and Sandora—"
I turned my head and saw that it was Sylvia. This silver mole rat was out for a walk on a rare occasion today, and she was accompanied by a person, a girl with short pink hair whom I didn’t know. Wearing a small silver and white metal plate... Needless to say, Xi Ling.
This girl has a new face every time I meet, and now I finally realize how prescient it was for Qianqian to hang a sign around her neck.
"Hey," I said hello to Sylvia, "It's so rare that you even go out after eight o'clock in the evening."
Then I asked Sylvia to react, and turned to chat with Xiling for a while. I haven't seen this "racial consciousness" for a few days. I don't know if her work and life are on the right track. This strange girl who is a little bit out of touch with the real world is the top administrator of the Imperial Data Network. Now Bubble has given many data processing tasks suitable for her to the other party, but Xiling's body is the network, and her work is completely It takes place in cyberspace, so we can often see her hanging around outside, giving the impression that she is very laid-back. Now Xiling is still living with Tavel, and the glasses girl finally met such a once-in-a-lifetime research subject, so she was naturally unwilling to let it go for a moment, and Xiling herself seems to like Tavel quite a lot—she didn’t " "Being studied", but I feel that Tavel is a good senior who takes good care of himself. Sometimes I think that if these two stay together for a longer time, maybe there will be sisters second only to Asida in the empire. The lily group has...
I chatted with Xiling here for a long time, and Sylvia finally came to her senses. She said to me and Sandora with a slow smile: "Good evening—actually, I was sleeping in the store at first—it was Bella. Vera woke up suddenly - then she fell asleep in the middle of the walk - I woke up and found myself around the moat - went on the walk - and met Xiling... "
After listening to her say such a long sentence, I almost fell asleep, you know!
"The symbiotic state between you and Bella Villa is really..." Sandora couldn't help complaining, "So you often wake up and find yourself in some strange place for no reason?"
"Not really—" Sylvia shook her head slowly, "Bella Villa will share her memories—but I rarely come out—so no matter where I go, it feels like a strange place..."
I sighed, feeling that it was too much effort to communicate with Sylvia, and the interval between her two sentences was almost enough for a Japanese man to pick up a girl.
And while Sylvia was slowly introducing us to her and Bella Villa's fit status, Xiling wandered around boredly, and soon found something that interested her: there were some A few low plants that looked out of place with the surrounding bushes looked like weeds. She stepped forward to touch them and raised her head to greet us: "What do you think this is?"
I went over to take a look, and found that the plant looked very familiar, and its leaves were very distinctive. There were two neat rows of small leaves symmetrically arranged on both sides of the main petiole. After searching for the poor botanical knowledge in my stomach, I Finally remembered what it was, and introduced it confidently: "This is a mimosa, a plant on earth, just touch its leaves, and the grass will close up..."
Xi Ling shook the leaf stalk of the plant vigorously while muttering: "But why didn't it move?"
I was stunned for a moment, and after a long time of embarrassment, I giggled and explained: "...Maybe this one has a thicker skin."
"You have a thick skin!" A sharp voice suddenly sounded under our feet, and the "Mimosa" suddenly shook its leaves as if expressing protest, "I am a forest spirit, not a Mimosa. It is easy for me to find a place to sleep. What!"
Xi Ling thought for a while, then suddenly reached out to dig the soil under the plant: "The mimosa is talking!"
I was still surprised on my side, the plant suddenly shook more violently, and then opened Xi Ling's hand with its leaves twice, and got up by itself: "Hey, don't move! How dare you Reckless! Okay, okay, I’ll come out, I know it’s wrong to sleep on public roads and occupy public green spaces, but your city is too big, okay? There are five hundred people from here to the nearest teleportation point. Meters, 500 meters! Do you know what 500 meters is... Hey, someone help me, my roots seem to be entangled with the bushes next to me."
I didn't care about being surprised, and quickly dug this plant out of the soil with Xi Ling, but we were really stunned after it... he or she showed his true face: the plant part of this plant is nothing to be surprised about, In addition to the upper leaves, there are brown root hairs about half a foot long below, and between the leaves and root hairs are swollen rod-shaped stems, but what is surprising is that in addition to the plant parts, it also has The mechanical part extends from its roots and stalks. It is some complex and delicate mechanical feet. Its style is very similar to that of the Tobelu Zerg, with rounded arcs and bionic joint mechanisms.
"Is this also a resident of Shadow City?" I scratched my head in confusion. This is obviously an intelligent creature in front of me. Although it has the appearance of a plant, seeing those mechanical legs, I really don't know whether it should be regarded as half a human being. animal…
In fact, this is not the first time I have been surprised by seeing strange residents in Shadow City. In this capital of all worlds that connects the entire macro world, there are countless strange creatures that come and go every day. The names are arranged, not to mention circling the earth, even if the earth is wound into a ball of twine, it is rich. Therefore, many residents who live in Shadow City are used to this environment. It is not uncommon to get up early and go out to say hello to Shitou Atsuko on the curb. , so when I saw a mimosa plant (although it/she/he firmly denies this) bouncing around in front of my eyes, I was just surprised that I hadn’t heard of such a species entering the Shadow City recently. I feel that its life form is too strange: although it was really taken aback at first.
"I came with the caravan!" The mimosa plant ran briskly on the ground. When it/she/he ran, the roots would roll up to prevent wear and tear on the ground, and at the same time rely on the machinery below I noticed that there is no obvious friction sound when those mechanical feet move, so the bionic power mechanism with lower output but higher efficiency should be used inside. A plant...a herbal race, how to develop of these technologies? How did their civilization start
"Caravan," Sandora nodded, "Well, recently the Void Consortium has been doing a lot of business, and many merchants in the macro world have been attracted here, and even some hidden races that were rarely heard of before have also taken the risk. A lot came out. What race are you from?"
"Lin Jing, I told you about Lin Jing!" Mimosa jumped on the ground, "Are you the urban management? Or the sub-district office? I heard from the guide that these two departments manage the behavior of residents. I occupy the green space and destroy the landscape. The bushes shouldn't be a big deal, right?"
"You don't know who we are?" I talked to a mimosa plant in a very awkward state of mind. I didn't know which part of it/her/him I should look at when I was talking: where is the head and where is the body? .
"I don't know," the mimosa, which calls itself Lin Jing, shook its leaves, "I can't see you, my auxiliary photoreceptor is burnt out, and it won't grow until tomorrow, and now I can only rely on the infrared light from the plant to grow it." Inductively look at the outline. I just came here, and I am not familiar with the place. This city is too big, too big, and you don’t even have a convenient flower bed for the plant race. I searched along this road for a long time. Only the soil under the landscape bushes next to the road can be dug, which is inconvenient, really inconvenient... "
I looked at this chattering "smart plant", and found it quite interesting. The most distinctive feature of Shadow City is this situation: whenever a strange new race appears, a bunch of matching "survival plants" will be produced. "Act", after the mermaid moved in, Shadow City had a saltwater residential area and a freshwater residential area. After a certain robot race moved in, there was an extra charging socket under the convenience terminals in the streets and alleys (this socket is managed by the food supervision department), and Now there is another herbaceous race that needs to be rooted in the soil to sleep... I am thinking that some public green spaces in the city should be opened.
At this time, the mimosa was still complaining: "... unlucky, really unlucky, why did we get into trouble with so many caravans? The ghost ship is gone, the cargo is gone, and I burned out a component, and now I am almost a refugee... "
I suddenly woke up: "Wait, you said you crashed into a ghost ship!?"
(Recently I’m watching Rebirth: Super Battleship—don’t complain about the title of the book. I just read the previous one, and it’s quite interesting. Although the conspiracy-oriented plot and the fast pace of the opening chapter are slightly flawed, knowledge-oriented things can be used in the context of the Internet environment. It is very valuable to write science fiction instead of taking the route of upgrading and practicing. If you are interested, you can read it. Another: as always, there is no responsibility to push the book, don’t blame me for the trouble later, I just read the opening part) RS