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

Chapter 16 Generally, the Eldar cannot pass through

"Since you said that, it would be shameful for me to refuse any more. But when I mention it, I remember that I don't even know what round wheat looks like." Fujimaru Ritsuka changed the topic a little stiffly, "Obviously I came to agriculture. Planet, but I only saw bare fields and huge piles of straw... I chose the wrong time."

Alita, who grew up in the farmland, obviously does not understand the appeal of the "endless waves of wheat" to outsiders, which she considers an aesthetically tired sight. Her tone is a bit baffling: "But this has never been held before. Harvest celebration, if you ask me, there is no more coincidental time than this."

Savita, who was observing, did not feel comfortable commenting on this topic.He is an Astartes who once belonged to the Night Lords Legion. He was supposed to be associated with guns, war, blood and fear for the rest of his life.Everything that is peaceful and perfect around him should not have any connection with him more than "passing by".Even if fate played a trick on him, he accidentally stood in the crowd of people at the celebration after ten years of self-exile. His height and fierce face with scars that were too outstanding in the ordinary world still made him look out of place.

This kind of "out of place" makes him very conspicuous among the crowd, and there will always be some appraising glances of curiosity or fear floating around him.As the First Captain of the Night Lords, Sevatar was used to being the center of attention to some extent, but this situation still made him feel irritated.

It's a pity that the two girls who dragged him out (only Sevita thought so) were unaware of this and just talked together, leaving him alone and embarrassed.

After a brief thought, Fujimaru Ritsuka agreed with Alita's point of view: "...Indeed, the first time always has a special commemorative significance. However, if this harvest celebration becomes a fixed festival, it will definitely become more and more popular in the future. Let’s make it bigger.”

"There seems to be no plan in this regard at the moment, but I'd like to lend you some good advice." Alita said happily.

Perhaps most people who struggle with endless repetitive arduous work are pessimistic, but Aelita generally does not refuse an opportunity to have a bright future.The girl clasped her hands together and nodded her head in prayer: "His Majesty God, if Governor De Vere wants to fix the harvest celebration as a festival, I hope it will be once every farming season."

There is nothing important at the moment, and Ritsuka is happy to follow this relaxed topic and spread his thoughts endlessly: "If it can be held once a year, maybe it can be made into a special project to develop a bit of tourism. Jestal's gains The season is almost right now every year, right?”

"Huh? No?" Aelita looked at Ritsuka in confusion, "The harvest season changes every year."

Ritsuka also became confused because of these words: "Huh? But, but, isn't the growth cycle of the crop - round wheat different every year?"

"How is that possible? Round wheat matures in a fixed period of five months, sowing twice and harvesting twice counts as a whole farming cycle, and then it is left fallow for a period of time to adjust the land, and by the way, it allows for periods when the climate is not suitable." Aelita flexed her fingers. Calculating it, "I heard that other agricultural worlds have technology to circumvent the influence of weather and allow food to grow year-round. However, Jestal is not liked by the Mechanicus and rarely receives support in this area. He can only follow the phenology. Sowing. Since we have to follow the phenology, of course it is impossible to start work at the same time every year."

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood there blankly, trying desperately to use her brain to figure out what Alita was saying. Unfortunately, the result was not satisfactory. She only succeeded in getting her to express "I don't understand" with a simple expression on her face. Big letters.

"Wait a minute, let me start from the beginning again... Doesn't Jestal use the Terran standard calendar? There are twelve months in a year, almost 30 days in a month, and 24 hours in a day..."

After watching what he thought was the confused look of "the pampered eldest lady from Terra" for a while, Savita compassionately explained: "That's true according to the official calendar, but it's because of Jestal The rotation period of the Earth is very similar to that of Terra, which is about 24 hours and seven seconds, so the original pioneers simply moved the Terra standard calendar over without much thought, and it has been maintained as a tradition until now - but In fact, the revolution period of Jestal is about [-] days per week, so if you simply use the Terra standard calendar to guide agricultural times, the phenology cannot correspond."

The fact is indeed such a fact, but it still takes some time for people to understand the facts.Fujimaru Ritsuka held his head and thought for about 3 minutes before smoothing out the logic of the whole thing. Then he raised his eyes and asked blankly: "Isn't this troublesome? This is an agricultural planet that depends on the sky for food? The local governor just Was there never any intention of changing the system and creating a local calendar?"

Savita, who had become accustomed to all this, shrugged indifferently, saying that the empire's ruling class was basically a conservative who refused to reform.However, Aelita raised her hand happily and said that because the calendar and phenology did not match up, the planetary government issued a farming time instruction manual during each farming period to guide workers on how to work: the instruction manual listed Jestal on Actual seasonal phenology was combined with dates from the Terran Standard Calendar to create an appropriate schedule for farming cycles.

"I can also calculate this 'Farming Calendar'!" Aelita pinched her waist and showed off proudly, "...although I can't calculate it as fast as Jacob."

Fujimaru Rika sighed.

"Why can't you think of competing with him?" She crossed her arms and said to Aelita.

Sevatar raised his eyebrows.

Although it is indeed an act of humiliation for ordinary people to compete with a superman who has undergone transformation surgery, but she still wanted to mention this when she knew that Savita was in the state of being incognito and returning to work. If If you have to over-interpret it, you can't taste a hint of threat in it.

If this is the only sentence, it can be regarded as Fujimaru Ritsuka's inadvertent slip of the tongue, but the sentence she uttered next is even more outrageous logically: "If you really want to compete with him, you might as well compete with him." ——You will definitely win." "Ah?" The blank expression turned back to Alita's face, "How is it possible, Ritsuka, in terms of physique, Jacob is the biggest person I know—— "

"Of course it seems like this, but in reality? The factors that affect the outcome of a fight are not just physical fitness, strength, and other basic qualities." Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly began to talk nonsense seriously, "If you confront him head-on Of course you can't win, but in reality? Jacob will definitely not be willing to hit you hard. I guess it would be more uncomfortable for him to see you injured than to ask him to chop himself. After all this calculation, you have already won Off the court'!"

This was arguably true, but Savita was certain that he would never admit it.

Fujimaru Ritsuka managed to make these words sound like a joke, and Alita obviously took it as a joke and giggled.But Seveta secretly felt a strong sense of disobedience - I don't know if this was the ability inherited from his genetic father, or if he had this talent himself, as his feelings were rarely wrong.

Fujimaru Ritsuka slowly blinked one eye at him.

Savita and this girl, who still has many mysteries about her, have only known each other for less than a day. They are not familiar at all, let alone have any tacit understanding.But somehow, like a blessed soul, he succeeded in deciphering the message from that hint - a simple instruction that was not contrary to his own intentions.

So he nodded slowly: "Indeed. 'If you see Alita injured, you might as well chop me.'"

"Wow -" Aelita turned her head in surprise, "Jacob, this is not something you would say."

"Hey, how can I talk to him, Aelita, Aelita," Ritsuka reached out and poked the other person's arm, "I remember, you said you wanted to treat me to a round oatmeal, wait until the next time we meet. Don’t forget it.”

After being poked like this, Aelita turned back inexplicably: "Huh? Why do you say this all of a sudden? Ritsuka, you want to——"

What cut off her sentence was a sharp push from Fujimaru Ritsuka.The force erupted from her thin and small body was much greater than Alita thought. Even though she looked taller and stronger than Ritsuka, she still fell backward due to this push without any defense. Go, the strong shock and surprise made her almost bite her tongue.

She instinctively tried to stagger backwards to maintain her balance, but it was too late, which only aggravated her imbalance - but she did not fall, because Jacob was guarding behind the direction in which she fell.The man's broad palm grasped one of her shoulders like an iron pincer at the critical moment, and used his body to stop her downward tendency.

In this emergency situation, Alita's first reaction after being "rescued" was not to breathe a sigh of relief, but to feel panicked by something behind her shoulder that was not caught.But before she could react, Jacob's other free hand tightly covered the lower half of her face.

She was confused and wanted to ask, only to realize that she couldn't make any sound and even had difficulty breathing.At this time, the hand that originally held her shoulder had loosened its grip. Jacob used a very skillful technique to wrap his arms around her waist, and before she had time to struggle, he lifted her off the ground like a grain bag. He got up, and after a while he appeared in a dark alley on the side of the road.

Alita had no idea what was going on, because Jacob immediately ran away at a speed that humans could barely reach with bare hands, far away from that place of right and wrong.

The girl, who had not received any relevant training, soon lost consciousness due to the speed, bumps and difficulty in breathing.The only clue she got from the discovery scene was that after they turned and melted into the shadows, the cheers of celebration behind them suddenly turned into screams of terror in a matter of seconds.
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During the three minutes when Fujimaru Ritsuka seemed to have a headache and was meditating, she was not thinking about Jestal's calendar.She immediately thought about that issue after Savita explained it.

In fact, during those three minutes, she temporarily stopped and pretended to think, just because Konrad Coates sent her a message through the contract link:

+Those Eldar. +
+Why so suddenly?Scared me. +
+I can confirm that those Eldar have nothing to do with things on this planet.They are just here for you, a popular person - by the way, one of them ran away and is heading towards you. He is expected to find you in 6 minutes. +
Koz's tone when stating this sentence was quite reasonable, and Fujimaru Ritsuka had to work very hard to restrain himself from sighing and rereading.

+...The Eldar Webway Gate should not be opened near a city, and I don't think you will make such a stupid mistake as letting the enemy escape.What do you want to do? +
+Just make the best use of everything. +
He spoke these sentences like a naughty child, as if he could dismember a beetle caught nearby just for his own pleasure. There was a kind of innocent malice hidden in his cheerful tone.

+What results can you find among civilians?If there is any problem in the empire world, top-down investigation is the most efficient way.Before, you thought that appearing in front of the planetary governor for no reason might alert the snake, but now I have sent you a living excuse - don't waste it. +
+...Conrad, this is downtown!There are fellow travelers with me!Do you realize how much collateral damage this will cause? ! +
+What does it matter?After all, we are pressed for time, and a little collateral damage is not unacceptable.In the Empire, you have to get used to this trade-off. +
+... Maybe you like to do it this way, but I have my own way of doing things.We'll have to talk about this later.Also, don’t think that I can’t see that you are deliberately pushing me into this kind of problem! +
Fujimaru Ritsuka pursed her lips tightly and tried her best not to let the angry look appear on her face.

+Look, no one in the city will get into trouble because of this today! +
(End of this chapter)