I really only stop

"what."

Lu Xi scratched his head in embarrassment, showing a simple and honest smile:

"Perhaps, it's because the day I registered as an adventurer happened to abduct a Holy Empress."

"Roll the ball."

Chapter 411 Countercurrent and Clear Sky

In the early morning, the morning sun has just risen from below the horizon, with a little crystal dew slowly passing across the blades of grass, dripping silently on the roots of the plants.

Such a quiet and beautiful morning was broken by a snicker from someone's room:

"Hey, hey hey..."

"...Hey, the smirking Lu Xi over there."

The Q version of Miss Cat who was intoxicated by the beautiful scenery outside the window raised her eyebrows, and looked at Lu Xi who was half lying on the bed and staring at the adventurer card:

"Gu Ke finally happened to [wake up] in the morning, can't you make Gu more intoxicated for a while?"

"What is there to see outside the window in the morning? Come and see the gold coin balance in my account."

Lifting Miss Maomao from the side of the bed to his lap, Lu Xi slightly showed off and handed his adventurer card to her eyes:

"One day, this is just the income from opening Sky City to the public for one day! Originally, I thought that most of the income came from Osiris selling materials to the guild. I didn't expect that the ratio of adventurers exchanging gold coins for BP is so high!"

According to Lu Xi's initial vision, the main profit targets of the Trial Tower are still the guild and the empire.Adventurers generate energy through trials, Osiris produces these energy as materials, and Lu Xi finally sells these materials to the guild—in this way, a stable and sustainable win-win channel is established.

However, after the calculation of the trial tower's first day of operation was completed, the results were far beyond his imagination.

After quickly getting familiar with the BP system with its own fool-style novice tutorial, the enthusiasm of adventurers for buying is unprecedentedly high.They didn't even wait for them to slowly go to the tower to collect BP, so they took out a lot of gold coins and smashed them down.Although it may be just one meal or two drinks to be distributed to an individual, there are so many people who can't stand it.

BP can not only exchange materials in the BP system, but all bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues in Osiris use BP settlement.After the ten thousand years of silence was broken by Lu Xi, the new financial order of Osiris was also re-established by Lu Xi in such a simple way.

Knowing that Osiris has ushered in such a gratifying change, Nova is not to mention how happy she is.She even suggested cryptically, "There was a research that combined human beings and alchemy life ten thousand years ago and enjoyed real joy. If you are willing, Commander, Nova is very willing to give it to you???".

To be honest, when he heard such information, Lu Xi's first reaction was [How wonderful it would be if the same technology existed on Earth], and the well-understood system also popped up a message [Ultimate Mission: Bring the precious technology of Sky City Osiris back to Earth, for the benefit of gentlemen who only like paper figurines, and reward you with the task of growing grass that you choose.

However, Lu Xi intuitively felt that Nova's purpose was not as simple as she said.

Under the strong pressure of using the authority of the commander, Nova finally obediently admitted the ambition of "in fact, the center can collect the ?? you produced, and try to cultivate a new generation of Osiris citizens".

After all, this crumb AI is still anxious to urge me to have a baby.

Thinking of this, Lu Xi shook his head dumbfounded, but Miss Cat on his lap stood up vigorously, and turned to look at him seriously with big eyes:

"Laughing Luxi Xiyo, as the former absolute leader of one side, I just want to tell you that money is just a tool for [domination]. As for whether you become the ruler or the dominated, it depends on you personal will."

"Don't worry, I'm not the kind of money fan who values ​​money more than anything else."

Hearing the warning and concern hidden in the obscure words of Miss Cat, Lu Xi smiled slightly, stretched out his fingers and pinched her cheek:

“However, it’s true [counting money brings happiness]. Even knowing that you have enough money to spend, you will still feel happy when you get new income—this is the magic of money.”

"...Hmph, looking at you, you don't look like the kind of rotten wood whose eyes are blinded by desire and longing."

Seeing that Lu Xi's eyes hadn't changed a bit compared to before, Miss Cat seemed to let out a sigh of relief, then used her magic power to support her body, and floated to the window sill unsteadily:

"Then you can continue to immerse yourself in the joy of gaining wealth, just don't let out that kind of laughter that destroys the atmosphere and disturb the lonely early morning."

"My Pikachu has suddenly changed from a stubborn character to a literary character. As a trainer, I am very pleased."

Looking at the wagging tail of Miss Maomao who was facing away from him with a smile, Lu Xi asked as if suddenly remembering:

"By the way, Selena, about how many years ago did you live in the era?"

"Huh? Why do you suddenly ask this?"

She moved her ears in confusion, and Miss Maomao turned her head and thought for a while:

"The days of struggling between life and death are too vague, and I just want to count the days in the solitary space of returning to this shore. From the feeling point of view, it is possible for at least a few hundred years, and as many as a thousand years."

"You have resisted for so long between life and death..."

The first time I heard Miss Cat talk about this experience, Lu Xi couldn't help asking:

"What does that feel like?"

"Feeling? To be honest, Gu Lian didn't know whether that experience was an illusion or not."

Apparently recalling something, there was an inexplicable light in Miss Cat's amber eyes:

"Dead spirits, undead spirits, undead spirits... all the undead spirits with different faces in front of Gu's eyes are all undead spirits with different faces but moving in the same direction. Among the countless undead spirits moving in the same direction, only one person is gritting his teeth and persisting, and keeps dialing. Get past those who are in front of you, and try to take a step in the direction of coming back."

"To be honest, it was definitely the biggest and most difficult rebellion that Gu initiated. Not only were endless dead spirits standing in front of Gu, but there was also a kind of [pressure] that Gu couldn't explain clearly. Life and death, This is the foundation of the operation of history, and Gu, who wants to use magic to reverse all this, will naturally be under unspeakable pressure and obstruction."

"Effortlessly push away a dead spirit, and immediately it will be led by more dead spirits behind it to the [other shore] for several steps. There is an unbearable silence all around. In that environment, it is easy to make people I completely forgot about my life, ideals, and pursuits. I was on the verge of giving up several times, but fortunately, I survived at the last moment."

Go upstream, use the demon nature as a boat, and go against the flow of life.From this point of view, the great achievements made by this cat lady who is always jokingly called Pikachu by herself are simply unprecedented.Just the courage to endure loneliness and grit his teeth towards the goal is enough to be admirable.

Disposition, tolerance, persistence, ideals... As a leader, Selena lacks almost everything.If she hadn't happened to meet Nana, the master of weirdness who restrained her, the radiance of the black sun would eventually shine on the earth.

"...Unfortunately, now I have raised this guy as a cute house cat who likes to be scratched and belly rubbed the most."

With an inaudible mutter, before Miss Cat realized that something was wrong, Lu Xi hurriedly asked the question she wanted to ask at the beginning:

"Then do you know any stories about [Glorious Age] or the Floating Kingdom?"

"Gu is not a historian, how could he know these things?"

Although she couldn't hear what Lu Xi was muttering just now, Miss Maomao still intuitively felt that it was not a good thing.She turned around proudly, only leaving Lu Xi with a dangling tail:

"Compared to that, you'd better go downstairs to have breakfast. Gu Zai saw that Miss Nana got up early to prepare breakfast before dawn."

"Since that day, Nana has become more and more confident in cooking."

With a sigh of relief, Lu Xi put on his clothes and rolled up his sleeves forcefully:

"Okay! I'll go out again today, and show her the skill of [Soaked Eggs]!"

"..."

Secretly watching the back of Lu Xi thumping down the stairs, Miss Maomao blinked her eyes, and turned her gaze to the vibrant scenery outside the window again.

After experiencing life and death, did Gu's mentality change?Or after following Lu Xi for so long, Gu was gradually infected by some of his characteristics?

I always feel that the sky now...is so beautiful.

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Volume [-] Tombstone, The Past, The Fire of Wrath

Chapter 412

"Well, I want to go to the guild to find some tasks to do, do you want to exercise?"

After staring at Celica eating an egg honestly, Lu Xi turned around and said to the girls:

"It won't be too difficult to accept, mainly to help more people and have more welfare tasks."

"Oh! Here we go again!"

While screaming exaggeratedly, Celica secretly exchanged her full milk glass with the milk glass that Miss Saintess almost drank:

"Weakoxi's [Suddenly Good Man] mode once a month! Remember that last month, I helped drive away the troublesome monsters in the next town? After working hard all day, I only got 30 small silver coins, and even the carriages that came and went Not enough money, uh, puff, puff~"

"What is a sudden good person? In my bones, I am such a person who is willing to make contributions to the people."

Hearing this, Lu Xi rolled her eyes at the smiling Zarika:

"Also, although the town doesn't give much rewards, don't they give a lot of farm food and local specialties? Obviously you are the one who eats the most, but now you come here to point out, you really deserve to be Zerika .”

There are not many large adventurer cities like Rhine City.In some small towns that don't even have an adventurer's guild, residents often try their best to solve problems by themselves. Only when they really can't think of a way will they ask the nearest adventurer's guild for help.

Generally speaking, ordinary adventurers would naturally not accept this type of entrustment because of low rewards and high travel costs.Generally, the guild sends public officials to the entrusted place to resolve the incident, and all expenses are borne by the guild, which is the so-called 'commonweal task'.

However, this situation in Rhine City was completely changed by Lu Xi.

Everyone, take a good look at the characteristics of this type of task.Events that allow residents to ask the guild for help usually affect a large area and affect a large number of people-isn't this exactly for me who want to do good deeds for nothing?

The moment he knew that the guild still had such a mission, Lu Xi pounced on it like a wolf.These public welfare tasks that no one is willing to touch are simply priceless to him. As long as he does one vote, he can enjoy at least a month of leisurely leisurely.

Later, after getting acquainted with the requirements of the task that Lu Xi wanted to do, and being deeply moved by his kind and noble heart, the OL lady at the front desk would even take the initiative to intercept this type of task for Lu Xi, and made a special trip to bring condolences Ask him politely and admiringly if he wants to pick up the product.

'A gentle and powerful adventurer like you is very rare. As a member of the Adventurer's Guild, I will definitely support you on your journey as an adventurer! '——This is the speech from the front office lady who was moved to tears by the excellent adventurer Lu Xi who worked hard.

By the way, after hearing about this incident, a certain pink hair also started to have a crooked mind, and wanted to gain favor with Miss OL by accepting public welfare tasks like Lu Xi—unfortunately, the pink hair is rational and The reliable teammates stopped him in time at the last moment, and stopped him from being stupid with the extremely realistic reason of "falling in love is important, but we also have to eat".

In addition to Lu Xi who has a house and a city, and a real rich woman who can provide a one-stop service for raising and warming the bed at any time, I am afraid that the entire novice city will not be able to find a second person who does not ask for compensation and focuses on public welfare tasks every day. adventurer.

After all, there is a saying that goes well, doing charity is also to test the wallet.

"No matter how many times I ask, my answer is always the same."

Naturally taking over the topic, Yuxia showed a gentle smile at Lu Xi:

"I will fully support everything you do, because it is undoubtedly [correct]. Originally, I wanted to pay you a high salary instead of the townspeople, but it's a pity that Lu Xi refused to accept it no matter what. .”

As a saint, Yuxia naturally supports Lu Xi's [once a month good person mode].

As Yuxia said, because she couldn't bear to see Lu Xi only get a little reward after working for so long, she would always try to reward him after the task-such as secretly stuffing the pillow under the pillow. Gold coins were like slipping a small gold card into his pocket quietly.

It's a pity that these condolences will be returned by Lu Xi in the end.After repeatedly feeding money to no avail, Miss Saintess could only accept Lu Xi's exchange plan of "I will definitely not accept the money, just give me a knee pillow".

Lu Xi must have considered my mood, so he proposed such a plan more like a "reward" than a "requirement".

He doesn't want his well-intentioned actions to be tainted by money, and he doesn't want to live up to my desire to do something for him—what I believe to be "correct" is such gentleness and nobility.

Unknowingly, Yuxia was fascinated by staring at Lu Xi's face.

【Dangerous】.

Feeling that [Beast's Intuition] in the skill list trembled again, Lu Xi scanned the surrounding reflexively, but found nothing abnormal.

Everything is normal except Yushia staring at me while eating.

Subconsciously looking at Miss Saintess gracefully cutting off a piece of dessert, staring at herself while eating it contentedly, for some reason, Lu Xi had a strange illusion that he was her dessert.

Well, my lady saint is gentle and healing.I didn't touch her right, so what danger could I have.

Seriously recalling his words and deeds in the morning, Lu Xi, who didn't find anything wrong, temporarily treated [dangerous] as an illusion, and turned to look at Nana:

"Where's Nana? Are you going?"

"Well, I want to go too!"

Nana nodded vigorously, her eyes full of anticipation:

"I never imagined that I could be so popular! It was a great feeling to be cheered by the crowd, and when I said goodbye at the end, someone said to me 'must come to play next time'!"

In the last monster crusade in the public welfare mission, except for Lu Xi who killed most of the red wolves with flashes in a flash, the rest of the finishing work was done by Nana's puppets.For this reason, the soft girl was treated and applauded as a hero.

Not only did he talk to strangers after a long absence, but all he got was kind encouragement—I remember that Nana was so happy that she was about to cry.

"Very well, then this time the team is also dispatched together."

Stuffing the last bite of bread into his mouth, Lu Xi picked up the plate and got up:

"I heard that the situation in the town where we are seeking help is very urgent. We should leave before noon at the latest—and Zelika, you must finish drinking the milk before leaving the dining table."

"Huh? What is Ruoweixi talking about? I've already - eh?! When did the milk come back?!"

Looking at the refilled milk glass in disbelief, the expression on Celica's face was as if she had hit a ghost in broad daylight:

"Replenish what has already been exhausted... Could this cup be the legendary Holy Grail!?"

"No, it's just a simple milk glass."

Yuxia smiled and held Celica who was about to slip away:

"Wasting is [incorrect] behavior compared to talking about the type of cup."

Although she knew that the situation was over, Celica still tried to make a final struggle:

"I, I really finished drinking just now! It's definitely the new milk that Ruoyouxi secretly added to it—"

"Okay, darling, drink up."