May you be happy and prosperous

15 minute later.

No. 45, Block B, Senior Garden Community, downtown G, inside the restaurant.

The dark-haired young man is sitting upright, looking tensely at Shakya, who is calmly eating creme brulee at the dining table as he slowly places a mouthful of pudding with a frozen silver dessert spoon. In his mouth, he swallowed quietly, and when he put the spoon back into the tray that held the pudding vase, the metal and ceramic collided with each other, making a nice crisp sound.

"I don't know whether I should be angry at you for beating me on the head at will, or more angry at you for taking my snacks at will while I am losing my memory and have no autonomy."

Sha Gaya's voice was deep, and he stretched out his hand calmly, without looking at it, and took the black tea handed over from the hand of the landlady beside him to relieve tiredness, picked up the teacup, and took a small sip gracefully.

"...You don't like sweets, don't you?" Lu Twelve murmured in a low voice, "Now you're complaining about me skipping your snacks?"

"Because you took advantage of the situation and coaxed me to touch sweets without my ability to judge - since I have touched it, what difference does it make if I eat more or less?" Shakya said lightly, "But this is Your characteristics are despicable, and you like to take advantage of the situation."

When Lu Twelve heard this, he quickly sat up straight: "Why did I mean me?"

"Ever since I had a sense of self-judgment, I have never dared to touch my body with malice. The last time I was spanked by my mother on the back of my hand was when I was three or four years old, and it has been hundreds of years since then. It’s been such a long time.” Shakya finally raised his head, and gave the first straight eye to the black-haired young man who had been rewarded for more than ten minutes, “And you, despicable and shameless, while I wiped you -"

"Okay, okay, stop, stop, I apologize!" Facing the strange gaze cast by Sabak and JAY, the black-haired young man waved his hands almost as if his butt was on fire, "I shouldn't have sneaked up on you, I'm despicable, I Shameless, sorry—”

"How many gold coins is the apology worth?" Sha Gaya seemed to be carelessly blowing the tea foam floating on the water in the teacup, then raised his eyelids, and glanced at the anxious black-haired young man not far away, After thinking for a while, he said, "Next Wednesday, take me to the Eudemons recycle bin mission."

Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect the topic to suddenly jump back to the original point. After pondering for a long time, he finally realized that everything he said before was just nonsense and foreshadowing. This is what the man really wants to express. : He was bargaining with him, using "You despicable sneak attack on me" as a threat.

At this moment, Lu Twelve regretted so much that he wanted someone to chop off his hand. He frowned and said, "You don't have an ID card, how can you share the task with me?"

Shakya said without thinking: "I can turn into a phantom beast and follow you."

The appearance of Eudemons?Thinking about the new image of the man in front of him, Lu Twelve shook his head almost without thinking: "You were too big when you became a phantom beast, and your claws are thicker than the waist of an ordinary phantom beast in the phantom beast recycling bin... so scary If the image of you appears in there, you will scare those poor espers in the recycling bin."

As soon as Lu Twelve's words fell, he suddenly felt a strange silence around him. He raised his head suddenly and realized that the blond man was staring at him with a surprised expression while sitting on the other side of the dining table. Own.

Lu Twelve: "...?"

what's the situation?

After a while, he heard the man ask back in an unbelievable tone: "You just said that I turned into a phantom beast... how about it?"

Lu Twelve: "..."

Under the silent gaze of the black-haired young man, a strange light flashed through the beautiful golden pupils of Shakya, and he put the black tea cup in his hand back on the dining table with some force—— The tea inside splashed out and dropped a few drops of tea stains on the pure white tablecloth. The man stood up, as if he wanted to turn around and leave, but after he had just taken a few steps outside, he stopped abruptly and turned around. Looking over at Lu Twelve, he said almost word by word: "If human aesthetic taste stays at this stage, then I have to say, it seems that you should improve your appreciation level."

After the man finished speaking, he strode away without looking back.

Lu Twelve: "..."

He never expected that all human beings would lie down with him because of his cheap mouth for a while. Thinking about it, he was really a little embarrassed.

……

three days later.

This day is the day when Lu Twelve went to the Phantom Beast Recycling Station to perform a mission—the only good thing he got in exchange for a certain bawdy remark three days ago was: Sha Gaya never pestered him again and asked him to take him to the Phantom Beast Recycling Station with him. The beast recycle bin has performed its task.

Uh, to be precise, in fact, not only did Sharjaye not pester Lu Twelve to take him out to do missions, Lu Twelve has been suffering from the Cold War treatment by his own Eudemons for the past three days ——Because of a certain man who is narrow-minded and holds grudges, he has always had a nose for Lu Twelve these days. No matter what shabby reasons Lu Twelve finds to take the initiative to talk to him, he will either send out a simple sentence from his nasal cavity. monosyllables, or pop out an equally short word as an answer.

In the past three days, the longest sentence he said to Lu Twelve was last night: return the quilt to me.

With just these four words, Lu Twelve was so happy that it greatly exceeded the average sentence length of the previous two days, so much so that he even forgot why he secretly stole the man's quilt and put it under his buttocks.

At this moment.

With his eyes not very honest, he glanced at the dining table, Lu Twelve stuffed his lunch into his backpack, sorted out the contents of the backpack, and confirmed that the Gamma R solution thinner had been secretly stuffed into his backpack safely, Lu Twelve Twelve sat down as if he was relieved, and put on his shoes. During the process of putting on his shoes, the speed of tying his shoes was deliberately slowed down. Casually said: "Brother Cai, then I'm going to do the task?"

The man who was sitting at the table and wanted to have breakfast said "hmm" without looking up.

I dragged the newly delivered newspaper today and looked at it. The golden pupils were quickly covered by the headline "The Eastern European Continent strongly condemns the use of gamma elements in the Middle Ancient Continent to produce weapons of mass destruction." , seemed to hook the corners of his lips with interest, and the man began to read the newspaper in his hand seriously.

Seeing that he was sitting firmly at the table, Lu Twelve seemed to have no intention of standing up at all, and suddenly felt extremely painful and said, "Are you really not going with me? I thought about it, but it is also true if you must follow me." OK……"

Before Lu Twelve could finish his words, he was interrupted by a crisp "no" from the person at the table. Just as he showed an expression of internal injury because of such a word, Shajiaye calmly and calmly took the The newspaper turned over a page and quickly browsed through it. After confirming that today's newspaper did not seem to have anything of interest to him other than the headlines on the front page, he added again in a perfectly dual-purpose way——

"I'm ugly."

Lu Twelve: "..."

How careful should this guy be?

Lu Twelve's chest heaved violently, expressing his shock at Sharjah Yeqi's narrow-mindedness—of course, he just dared to slander him in his heart, because it is not difficult for him to imagine that if he claimed that the man "appears scary" and then If you make a "never mind" comment, then today when he comes back from his mission last night, he will most likely receive the news that his Eudemons have run away from home——Shajiaye is no longer rich, but now, he can speak for himself An adult male who speaks and asks "where is the toilet".

To make matters worse, this guy still has his own money - although the amount is not very high, it is definitely enough for him to fly from the Middle Ages to the Eastern European continent by plane - because today's planes use new types of fuel, they consume very little fuel, as 500 The air transportation of years ago has become one of the "most outdated means of transportation" in this era. The speed is slow and the rest space for passengers is narrow, which makes it necessary for people with some financial means to travel long distances. At that time, they would choose ships with fast speed and more comfortable rest space as the main means of transportation. The original airlines in the world either diverted or closed down, and the few remaining ones were also forced to switch to the low-cost airline operation route. Now, The price of an air ticket between continents is roughly equivalent to the starting price of taking a taxi in several central cities.

This means that even the poorest homeless can afford a plane ticket after a day's odd jobs.

No matter how bad it is, this guy Sharjaya can still fly—even if he didn't want to run so far and just found a cat in the deep mountains and old forests, it would definitely be enough for Lu Twelve.

Thinking of this, at this moment, the black-haired young man decided not to provoke the blond man any longer. He put on his shoes and put on his bag obediently. Lu Twelve stood up and was about to go out—after walking a few steps, he seemed a little unwilling Turning around: "Brother Cai, I'm leaving?"

Shakya brought the steaming goat's milk and was sending it to his lips. Hearing this, his long and thick eyelashes trembled slightly: "Yes."

Lu Twelve said cautiously again: "Say something else anyway?"

This time, he saw Sha Gaya raised his eyelids from the edge of the cup, glanced at him indifferently, and said lightly, "Goodbye."

Lu Twelve: "..."

The black-haired young man put the bag on his back viciously, kicked and walked away from the house. However, what he didn't know was that after he slammed the door hard for 2 minutes, the man who had been sitting at the dining table seemed not to move. The blond man in the pit suddenly made another move - he put down the goat milk cup in his hand without haste, turned his head, and looked at the subordinate who was holding the cup and drank the goat milk in one gulp: "Why are you still here?"

Hearing this, the middle-aged man with an inch-shaved head and an expressionless face, who would appear vicious, had a stunned expression on his face. He turned his head and looked at him lazily at this moment. The distinguished man: "Huh?"

Sha Gaya propped his chin with one hand, and said casually: "Aren't you going to see the phantom beast recycling bin?"

Sabac was even more puzzled—what kind of Eudemons recycling bin did he go to?Shaking his head, he was about to say no, but at this moment, he was interrupted by Sha Gaya again, and he heard the man say in a calm manner: "Anyway, I have lived in that place for hundreds of years, and now you have been away for such a long time. Don’t you want to see what the place looks like when it’s rebuilt? I can give you special approval for a one-day price.”

"..."

In no mood.

"By the way, look at that blind human being. What stupid thing is he trying to do with the Gamma R Shih Tzu solution?"

"..." Oh, that's it, I should have said it earlier - after going around in such a big circle, I even brought up such a terrible reason as "homesickness", but the focus of the whole conversation was all on the last sentence "Go and see that human being" "Up here?The expression on Sabak's face changed from blank at first to clear now, he put down the empty cup in his hand, nodded and stood up, "I'll go and see—"

Shakya looked up at Sabak.

Seeing the calm eyes of the former, Sabak swallowed the name that came to his mouth, paused, and said, "Go and see what the Eudemons Recycle Bin looks like now."

Shakya nodded with satisfaction, and said blankly: "Go."

So while JAY watched the entire process silently, about 10 minutes after Lu Twelve left, without his knowledge, his bodyguard followed him and set off at the same time.

……

It is called the maglev light rail, returning to the Eudemons recycling station, and returning to this land again. It must be impossible to say that Lu Twelve has no idea at the moment—after all, this place was operated by the previous government. The unit has become a piece of ruins and scorched earth, more or less inseparable from him.

In fact, during the period when Lu Twelve ran to Gamma A star to shine and heat, the reconstruction of the Eudemons recycling station has been going on-mostly because the damage area is relatively large, so even if the government sent a large number of Manpower and material resources have now been restored and the two areas can maintain normal daily operations. On the earth, the traces of burning on this land still exist. It is such a fire that burns this place and the inside The phantom beasts struggling on the verge of life were burned up.

Lu Twelve took a few deep breaths to sort out his mood, temporarily put aside the uneasiness and guilt in his heart, and entered the Eudemons Recycle Bin. Then he greeted his today's greeter. Lu Twelve stood still, feeling that it was just right. The mental construction that was easy to do well collapsed in an instant, and he said very unsteadily: "Why are you not dead yet?"

Dirty white coat, tattered shirt, big trousers and flip flops, Dr. Edward still looked like he couldn’t lift his spirits, he raised his eyelids and looked at the black-haired young man in front of him from behind his glasses, smiling. He smiled and said, "Hey, it's you again, it's destined—but don't worry, I don't want to see you either... I have a colleague working nearby today, and I happened to come over to see the progress of the reconstruction work here. Everyone here is busy as hell, so I, the only idler, was sent to pick up another idler."

While still talking, he grinned and raised his chin towards Lu Twelve, meaning: Hello, idler.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Sure enough, dogs can't spit out ivory.

same as me.

After the two had a not-so-friendly meeting and greeting, Dr. Edward took the lead and walked to the Eudemons Recycling Bin one after the other—he still had some impressions of the previous structure here, so he walked towards the two Weier buildings. When the Phantom Beast C area and Phantom Beast B area were completed, he was surprised to find that the pattern of the entire Phantom Beast recycling bin had changed: for example, at this moment, the location of the new Phantom Beast Area C was where the staff cafeteria used to be .

The new building is much grander than before - the color of the pale, depressed main building has changed, the entire eaves have turned into a beautiful glazed tile blue, and the roof covering the entire Eudemons C area , is the latest anti-riot glass developed at present, through this glass, sunlight can directly shine into the entire C area, ensuring sufficient sunlight.

Dr. Edward came to a certain building, quickly entered a string of passwords, and then pressed a button on the opened control panel—accompanied by a mechanical sound, the entire anti-riot glass slowly opened from both sides, accompanied by fresh As the air poured in, Lu Twelve could vaguely smell the fur of phantom beasts, and at the same time heard the sporadic cries of phantom beasts from Area C.

It sounded like it was slightly more alive than the ones he had seen before.

"The government has always wanted to rebuild the Eudemons Recycling Station, but because of the huge project, it has been procrastinating." Although it seemed reluctant at the end, Dr. Edward still dutifully introduced, "This time the unexpected The attack turned the entire Eudemons recycling bin into ruins, and I don’t know who did it, but they made decisions for those procrastinators—”

Lu Twelve turned his head and looked at Dr. Edward expressionlessly: "What are you looking at me for? They say I don't know anything about that attack."

Dr. Edward didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, he shrugged: "This reconstruction took a lot of manpower and material resources to achieve this result, because it was an accidental loss, the Central Military Department did not approve the reconstruction subsidy, and the entire reconstruction plan was completed. It's all done by the G City Military Department's own pocket—except for some donations from those private shareholders, the G City Military Department itself spent a huge amount of 1000 million gold coins."

Lu Twelve: "Oh?"

"Where do you think the money came from?" Dr. Edward stuffed his hands into his pockets.

Lu Twelve: "I don't know."

"It was saved from the gaps between the teeth of us researchers." Dr. Edward narrowed his eyes slightly, looking extremely unhappy, "A bottle of diluent needs to be used twice, and the total is only 30ML. I have never done this in my life. Too poor—"

Lu Twelve: "It deserves it."

Dr. Edward: "..."

While Lu Twelve was gloating, suddenly a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to be just gloating and accidentally missed some important information. He turned his head and stared at Dr. Edward for a while. Afterwards, he blinked and said, "You mentioned a private shareholder just now? What is that—I thought the Eudemons Recycle Bin had always been owned by the government's military department."

"It used to be, but it's different now, because the military department of G City is stingier and poorer than we imagined." Edward turned his head, and when he looked at the pair of shining black pupils beside him, he was slightly taken aback , "Most of those who participate in the shares of the Eudemons Recycle Bin do it as a charity - you also know that it is impossible for this thing to bring you even half of the income other than money, can someone Adopting the phantom beast is already Amitabha's business... What, are you thinking carefully?"

Lu Twelve touched his chin thoughtfully.

"Don't think about it, where did you get so much money?" Dr. Edward ruthlessly shattered his fantasy, "You defeated the Gamma body on Gamma A star, the thousands of gold coins rewarded by the military department are not enough Gritted—”

Lu Twelve was taken aback, turned his head, and looked at the man in the white coat next to him with strange eyes. The latter paused suddenly, as if realizing what he said, and suddenly closed his mouth... just annoyed about why he said something. When the mouth was so fast, but at this moment, he saw the expression on Lu Twelve's face change from surprise to disgust: "You followed me from the earth all the way to Gamma A star? Abnormal or abnormal..."

"..." The expression on Dr. Edward's face paused, and then his tense muscles quickly relaxed. He cleared his throat, straightened his white coat, and said with a natural expression, "Who is following you? Those things about Ma Xing have been spread for a long time - in the few days before you came back, your stupid face was very popular on the news network - "

"Please don't mention it."

Dr. Edward shrugged, and at this time they had arrived at the entrance of the main building in another area. Lu Twelve looked and found several high-end cars parked here - one of the black luxury cars looked very familiar, this kind of There are not many models of cars in G City, because it seems that if you want to buy them all, you have to have a certain social status. Lu Twelve mostly sees them in magazines, but in reality... Black hair The young man couldn't help but glanced twice, no matter how he looked at it, he seemed to have seen this car somewhere before, and at this moment, Dr. Edward chattered in his ear——

"Your task today is to put a fixed label on the cages of all the newly arrived phantom beasts - any phantom beast staff with a little brain and recognition will not mistake flying phantom beasts and ground phantom beasts difference, the rest of the work is..."

Before Edward finished speaking, he saw the black-haired young man beside him showing a surprised expression, pointing to the luxury car parked at the gate: "The Wu family is here too?"

"At the general meeting of shareholders, most of the families with awakened phantom beasts awakened in the Middle Ages participated in this 'charity', and recently the Wu family ran away an awakened phantom beast, and that awakened phantom beast also attacked human beings. In public, their reputation seems to have declined, and they must do something to restore their social image, so the Wu family is the one with the largest share among all shareholders—it has to be said, they really are not short of money, compared to Scientists who have to divide a bottle of 30ML diluent into two uses..."

Lu Twelve: "..."

Edward: "Did you hear what I told you about the mission?"

Lu Twelve shook his head, and before Edward broke out, he took out his ID card again: "It's written on it, you don't need to say it again."

Edward closed his mouth, and sent Lu Twelve to the location. After completing the handover with the staff on site, he seemed to be a little impatient to leave the black-haired young man.

Lu Twelve's working area today is in the new Phantom Beast Area B, which, like Area C, is only a place for ordinary abandoned Eudemons—it seems that the reconstruction of the area as an experimental area is more difficult than imagined. Twelve entered the mission site under the guidance of the staff. He was surprised to find that the environment of the new Eudemons recycling bin was indeed many times better than before. The dirty and messy environment was gone, replaced by a clean and tidy modern After separating the cages, when Lu Twelve walked into Area B, he heard that the surrounding Eudemons seemed to be commotioning.

"They seem to like you quite a bit." After the staff handed over the tags to be hung to Lu Twelve, they smiled at him, then turned and left.

So at this moment, only Lu Shier is left in the entire Eudemons B area.

He looked here and there, and approached a cage of phantom beasts that was closest to him—at first, the creature in the cage seemed to curl up in a dark corner with some fear. After looking at it for a while, it slowly crawled out—it was a land combat phantom that looked like a rabbit, with a furry body, only the ears were completely metalized, and a pair of red like pomegranate eyes cautiously Looking at Lu Twelve intently, just as Lu Twelve was wondering how such a cute phantom beast would be abandoned, he suddenly saw that the long metal ears of this phantom beast in the shape of a rabbit seemed to have been broken violently. The traces of the wound, the wound, seems to be still ticking out, scalding the solution that does not look like the blood of the phantom beast...

Lu Twelve thought of Chao Yun that Shakya had said before, and heard that Chao Yun hated his own metalization - after thinking about it, he suddenly understood: It turns out that it is not just some female phantom beasts who don't want to be metalized. Beasts themselves, even humans...

"What are you doing? If this is the case, wouldn't it be enough to raise an ordinary rabbit?"

Lu Twelve cautiously stretched out his hand, and touched the small head of the phantom beast through the cage. The latter raised his head, and put the furry head on Lu Twelve's fingers meekly—the injured animal His ears were hanging aside, seeming to be twitching subconsciously...

After being stroked by Lu Twelve, the strange thing is that its eyes lit up, and although its ears were still drooping, they did not drip unknown liquid like before...

Strange, is this a phantom beast that was just sent over?

Lu Twelve withdrew his hand, and when the phantom beast seemed to be a little dissatisfied and pressed its head against the edge of the cage, and seemed to want to continue to comfort, the black-haired young man looked around, and then put his body on his back as if he had made up his mind. Putting down his backpack, he took out the dilute Gamma R solution in the bag, took out a cotton swab, carefully dipped it in the pink liquid, put it into the cage, and approached the phantom in the shape of a rabbit. At the ear on the beast's hand...

The phantom beast seemed to be instinctively afraid of such things, and it let out a "ga" exclamation and retreated abruptly—fortunately, Lu Twelve quickly stuffed the Gamma R solution back into the bag, and quickly caught it After touching it, while trying to calm the struggling phantom beast in a low voice, he wiped the phantom beast's ear with his face stained with dilute Gamma R solution——

When the Gamma R solution touched the wound, white smoke and the sound of "Ziz" immediately appeared, and the phantom beast made a painful sound, and its struggling movements became more and more serious. Lu Twelve almost wanted to grab Can't help it——At this time, he thought vaguely that the gamma R solution touched the back of Shakya's hand before, it was actually very painful, but he didn't say it...

Lu Twelve looked at the phantom beast struggling in pain in his hands at this time, and was a little dazed. Just as he was wondering whether he was doing something wrong, suddenly, he heard the door being opened from behind him. Voice, followed by a low, male voice that seemed to contain a hint of surprise sounded behind him: "What are you doing?"

Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously let go of his hand. The rabbit-like phantom beast was free and ran back to the dark place in the cage. Lu Twelve turned his head and saw standing at the entrance at this moment. A tall man with handsome eyebrows and burning eyes, wearing a straight black suit with one hand in his pocket, his thin lips tightly pursed, was looking at the black-haired young man not far away with cold eyes.