How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 14 Daily chat is not water, it is moon tradition

For Alita, every day should be new.

This sounds like nonsense, but you have to consider that she lives on an underdeveloped agricultural planet like Jestal.

Her significance here is to become a cog that maintains the empire's huge production equipment, which requires her to face the same repetitive work day after day, looking at the continuous cycle of round wheat from sowing to maturity, and then converting these similar things. The agricultural products are harvested and put into storage, allowing the land to complete a cycle.

In days like this, not everyone has the energy to live every day as a "new day."Most people just repeat a certain period of their past life in a continuous cycle of work.

For Alita, the repeated cycle always made her feel a sense of guilt that her time was wasted.Therefore, she will look for something fresh as much as possible in the boring and arduous work.When she was young, she saw clouds of different shapes in the sky, weeds with different shapes from round wheat on the roadside fields, and the illusory rainbow projected near the atomizer nozzle; as she grew up, the freshness came from the huge empire. The complex internal mechanism of the production machine - of course, she only followed others to peek whenever she had the chance, and could not really understand the mysteries, but it was still dazzling enough for a young girl who lacked education.

She once fantasized about some ridiculous things, such as being suddenly selected by the sages of the Mechanicus one day and gaining the qualification to learn those esoteric knowledge.She also knew that it was almost impossible, but who could condemn a little girl for fantasizing about the future?
But Jestal is too remote and barren, and even the people of the Mechanicus are slack in maintaining the production tools here. At least in the seven years when Alita still had those ridiculous fantasies, before meeting the Mechanicus. There are only a handful of times to heal those suspended machine spirits.Nothing miraculous happened in these three glimpses.

Then Jacob showed up.This foreigner with a mysterious origin is not only "new" to the entire Jestal, but he also has almost omniscient knowledge for a little girl in the agricultural world.So naturally, he was attracted to Alita, who was always hungry for something new.

In the past ten years, Alita has become accustomed to getting the freshness she needs from knowledge: she has learned to read and write Low Gothic, learned basic mathematical operations, understood some basic physical and astronomical phenomena, and can even Use this to calculate the calendar and calculate the approximate arrangements for the next farming period before the planetary government issues the latest version of the farming season guidance manual.In the Fourth Agricultural Production Planning Area, she is undoubtedly one of the top scholars, but she still feels that it is not enough - interest is the best teacher, and she still pesters Jacob every day, trying to learn something new from him s things.

Of course, Jacob often expressed that he was extremely bored. Fortunately, during the harvest celebration, this group of people came to the freight station on the edge of the First City from the Fourth District, which they almost never left.Aelita was so happy that everything she saw was new in the past few days, and she also gave her teacher a holiday.She didn't realize this, but Old Hank laughed at her: You finally let Jacob rest for a few days.

When she heard this, Aelita was indeed a little angry, but she turned around and threw away Old Hank's comments: There were too many new things, especially after entering the first city, what she saw were things she had never seen before. She was overwhelmed by the things she had seen.She had to be busy matching what she saw with the stories she had heard from the radio communications one by one, and she had no time to pay attention to the old man who only knew how to use all kinds of strange things to tinker with the "Amasec Premium Private Brew" - she I really can’t figure out what’s so good about something that can almost burn through the stomach.

The transported grain has already been packed into warehouses and handed over to the tax men for inspection and shipment.Their work in the freight station is actually over, but thanks to Governor De Vere's magnanimity, they can still stay here during the celebration instead of rushing to work in the next farming period.

This makes Alita very happy.She wakes up almost every morning and takes the earliest bus to run around the city, only to come back when it gets dark.Therefore, when Old Hank slowly moved himself to the outdoor square at three o'clock in the morning and wanted to bask in the sun, he found Alita's figure nearby, which was a big surprise to him.

But in a flash, Hank Sr. understood why this was happening: Alita was talking to a girl who was obviously from "outside."
-
"I thought you two just met for the first time this morning." Jacob, or Sevita, crossed his arms and looked down at Alita dissatisfied, "It's noon now, and you said you wanted to go with her You went to the city and said you would stay up all night. Aren't you afraid that she will sell you out?"

Aelita put her hands on her hips and defended her new friend angrily: "How could it be! We have been chatting all morning, and I am sure that Ritsuka is a good person! A good person like you!"

"Then I think your definition of 'good guy' should be reconsidered." Saiweita said mockingly.

The person he was talking to obviously didn't understand the true meaning.

"Don't you just think that everyone might be a threat!" The girl with short straw-colored hair and a few freckles on her face grabbed Fujimaru Ritsuka aggressively and lifted her up before the latter could react to what was about to happen. "But look at Ritsuka, she's so small and so light. Even if she wants to do bad things, how can she beat us?"

——Using the metric system of the second millennium of humanity that Fujimaru Ritsuka is more accustomed to, she thinks she is actually not short.She is 150 centimeters tall, which is around the average height for teenage girls in the country where she was born.It’s just that this has been humanity’s No. 40 for a thousand years. In such a long time, it is natural for human genes to undergo slight changes:
So even though Alita grew up on an underdeveloped agricultural planet with very scarce food rations, even if she didn't get enough nutrition and had to do heavy labor since she was a child, even if her living conditions were definitely not as good as those from a middle-class background and was Fujimaru Ritsuka, who has been "reasonably" trained by many heroic spirits, has grown to a height of nearly 17 centimeters in her 180 years old, and can easily lift Ritsuka, who weighs more than [-] kilograms with her body and equipment, above her head. .

Never underestimate the load-carrying strength of a girl who often does farm work.This is true even if the mainstream farming method in this era is large-scale mechanized operations.

"...Well, Alita." Fujimaru Ritsuka said dryly in mid-air, "Although I am very grateful to you for speaking for me, I will really be angry if you continue like this. Also, Jacob Really? Do you think I can’t see that you are suppressing a smile? "

So Savita no longer forced himself to hold back his laughter - he laughed wildly at Alita's confused question "Why are you angry? Are you just a little girl?"

The imperial envoy who could confidently believe that he and a primarch were colleagues, and who was escorted by the Imperial Guard when performing his mission, was suddenly lifted into the air by an ordinary peasant girl without any defense on a remote planet.For Sevatar, this may be the funniest thing he has seen in the last 100 years.Even if he would be executed on some random charges later, he would definitely have a good laugh now.

The good news is that Fujimaru Ritsuka does not seem to think that because of this, they are lawless (in the empire, "law" here often refers to "the face of superiors") and can be sentenced; bad News is, she begins to rage in mid-air with impotence.The violent struggle made Aelita no longer able to hold her stably, so she was put back on the ground by her new friend whom she had just met this morning, and then she was pulled into his arms:
"You are my little one." Alita put her chin on the top of Fujimaru Ritsuka's head and said with satisfaction, "You are so cute, little one."

"I won't be happy if you praise me for being cute." Li Xiang protested loudly, but she couldn't say any more words of condemnation because of this.

Sevatar was still laughing.Maybe it's because he doesn't laugh very often, and this function is rarely used, which makes his laugh sound like a broken bellows leaking air.Normally, Tachibana would have laughed at him for this, but now, she just curiously rolled up Alita's sleeves that had been thrown up messily due to the action just now, exposing her left forearm to the air. Li: "What's wrong with you here?" "Huh? Ah, this." Aelita glanced at her arm, then casually let go of the hand around Ritsuka, and pulled the sleeves down from bottom to top. Pushing it up, the skin was revealed to be gray and blue, and the texture became abnormal, like a large piece of irregular shiny scales. "This is 'blue-gray syndrome', a disease caused by long-term exposure to Jess Chronic endemic diseases caused by Taal’s specially formulated pesticides are normal here.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka stared at the piece of diseased skin with a thoughtful expression: "...Is that so? Didn't the doctors here think of a solution?"

"Well... when this disease started to become popular almost ten years ago, Governor De Vere ordered a reward to find a doctor who could cure it." Alita recalled with all her strength, after all, she was still a seven-year-old girl ten years ago. I really can’t remember some details, “And then… and then…”

"Then the local barefoot doctors were helpless. The 'blue-gray syndrome' itself only caused some changes in the surface properties of the skin and had no visible impact on the body's functions and lifespan, so the matter was dismissed." Savita, who had finally laughed enough, added, "Jestal is not the kind of planet with abundant resources. Governor Todwell is a great blessing. The upper-level bureaucrats here are generally interested in things other than improving the production efficiency of the entire world. They don't care much, and they don't have the kind of nobles who spend a lot of money just to look good, so 'blue-gray syndrome' is still an 'incurable disease'."

"...Is this really good? This disease is a chronic disease, right? It's possible that ten years is nothing for a chronic disease. Isn't it possible that it develops silently to an advanced stage and then suddenly becomes fatal? Are you suffering from a chronic disease?”

Alita was stunned for a moment. The girl with limited knowledge and obvious scientific bias had obviously never considered such a possibility before.However, Savita answered Fujimaru Ritsuka's question easily: "This disease seems to have always been there, but it has become more popular in the past ten years. I don't know the pathological causes and causes of 'Blue Gray Syndrome' The mechanism of the disease, but——”

He paused and decided to gain some moral credibility for himself because the management of this planet had indeed done practical things: "——But everyone knows that Raj Hastings, Chief Agricultural Technology Officer of Jestal He is also a severe patient with blue-gray syndrome. His medical history may be... 30 to [-] years? I don't know. Anyway, you can see him in the live broadcast of his speech at the end of every year. The symptoms of 'blue-gray syndrome' are very obvious. If this disease really exists If there is any danger, whether it is out of concern for life or duty, an elite like him will not remain indifferent to it for so long."

"..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka did not refute further, but seemed to still have doubts.Aelita hugged her carefree: "It's okay, don't worry about it. Speaking of long-term patients, Old Hank has had this disease for a long time. He said it has been more than forty years, but now Aren’t they just as lively and lively?”

As she spoke, she pointed to an old man who looked to be between 80 and 50 years old and was basking in the sun at the edge of the square. Considering that most civilians in the agricultural world did not have the conditions to accept life extension technology, this old man may actually be only [-] or [-] years old.The freight station on the outskirts of the First City was sunny today and the temperature was mild. The old man, whose exposed skin had almost all turned into a shiny blue-gray texture, was leaning comfortably on a pile of straw and falling asleep.

"Well..." Fujimaru Ritsuka showed a slightly subtle expression, "I think this level of... lesions... you need to see a doctor at some point, right?"

"It's a pity, Miss, that civilians in such a remote place really don't have that kind of conditions." Savita's tone already had a bit of unpleasant irony, "What's more, even in the most stringent conditions in the empire, According to the definition, this is not a serious matter. Old Hank only has about 80.00% of his skin turned blue-gray, and it is not even a mutation."

"...But look at his right hand..."

"Right hand?" Alita tilted her head and glanced in the direction of old Hank, then suddenly remembered something and said, "Ah, you said his right hand only has four fingers, right? That's because he was young. The little finger and a small part of the palm were sucked into the machine and cut off. Later, the fracture healed and was covered by the skin of 'blue-gray syndrome' so that no scar could be seen. This made it appear that his hand had only been damaged from the beginning. All four fingers are the same.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka seemed very hesitant: "...So in your opinion, there are no other problems with that hand except that it only has four fingers and the proportions, right?"

She asked after Alita's words, but her eyes turned to Sevita.This made the latter inexplicably glance at Old Hank's right hand again, and then he could use Astartes' vision to guarantee that this was indeed the case.

After receiving "No problem?" from two people in unison, Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded slowly: "...I understand."

She turned her attention to Old Hank's right hand again and asked: "Let me confirm again, this 'blue-gray syndrome' is a chronic disease caused by long-term contact with local pesticides, right?"

In Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes, Old Hank's right hand has turned into a structure similar to a bird's claw - and it is normal for a bird's claw to have only four "fingers".

　Notes:
　　1.其实30K到40K理论上来讲帝国语言至少在语音上是有讹变的，也有摄政短篇小说提到摄政醒来之后其实听不懂自己鹅子在说什么只能猜个大概，但大家也不是来看30K赛维塔掉出亚空间和40K的7岁小女孩鸡同鸭讲的，所以语言问题被我吃了（而且将会持续吃下去）。

　　2. I copied Tohsaka Rin’s figure data for Gudazi, while Devil Muscle Rin (you can’t say she doesn’t have muscles without exercising, right) was only 17kg (eyes closed) when she was 47 years old.All problems are caused by mushrooms.Liren, you really have no idea about height and weight (close your eyes).

　　3. I wanted to write about shopping at the same time, but I also wanted to push forward the plot. The two were fighting, but in the end the plot won out (close your eyes).I really need a plot thread that doesn’t have to be used to quarrel, bully the bat (?), play with the corn (??), persecute the can (???), swimsuit back (????), but my bat Mental illness must be treated first, corn must be peeled first, and canned food must be released first...(eyes closed)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)