Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 576: Is there no difference between us and the people on earth?

After her mother rejected her overly obvious thoughts, Galene was depressed for a while, but it was only a short period of time, about half an hour. She was essentially an optimistic and cheerful person, otherwise she would not have been able to get along well with her colleagues as a princess. Therefore, she quickly put this failure behind her and continued her job - not her job as a patrol soldier, but her duty as the princess of the Nieride royal family.

She met the guests' request in the morning and took them to the more lively urban area for shopping, so that they could experience the daily life of the city's residents. She also rescued three little girls who were struggling in academic hell, and won their unanimous praise.

By the way, the temporary guardian of this shopping trip is not Countess Nevill, but Miss Olvera, who has to change her nature as a homegirl and go out of the room to conduct field research and find inspiration for the novel she is writing. Although it is doubtful whether this girl who always holds a thick book, has hazy eyes and is half asleep and half awake has the ability to be a guardian, there is no way. The Countess herself claims that she has long been tired of this boring shopping activity, and even "is more torturous than simply wasting time", so she chooses to stay in the Blue Coral Palace to maintain her health; and the fairy sisters and a certain angel lady who are travelers in the hotel are still staying on the sky island and are unwilling to leave, so this task can only be handed over to Olvera.

At least, as both are princesses, she should have a lot to talk about with Galene, right?

It really is.

It’s just that the content of their conversation may have nothing to do with the identity of “princess”.

"Oh...so although the thorn shark and the spiny shark belong to different families under the same order in biological classification, the thorn shark tribe and the spiny shark tribe have no real kinship. The two races only got such names because one race likes to use thorn sharks as mounts, while the other raises spiny sharks as pack animals? Hmm, but there was indeed a war between them because of a similar issue, which was specifically manifested in a debate over which one of the thorn sharks and the spiny shark was stronger in the ecological niche, and then decided to prove it with actual combat...It sounds boring, but also very interesting. It seems that I can briefly mention it as a background to deepen the readers' impression of the deep-sea races..."

"So that's how it is. There are no individual members of the Xuigo tribe. Each member of the Xuigo tribe is an ecological entity composed of at least hundreds of Xuigo jellyfish. When Xuigo jellyfish act alone, they seem to have only instincts but no wisdom or emotions, but they have the ability to connect with each other. After being attracted to a certain number of their own kind, they will spontaneously connect with each other and build a mental network, thereby stimulating self-awareness and being able to use mysterious mental magic to manipulate the cognition of others... What an incredible ability. What would happen if all the Xuigo jellyfish in the ocean connected? Oh, would they return to their original form, that is, the god who split them? In the distant past, the Xuigo god was besieged by the deep-sea race because he could freely control and seize the wisdom of other creatures, and eventually split into hundreds of millions of individuals? Tsk, that sounds really pitiful."

"The Balo fishmen are the stinkiest race in the ocean. The Nova octopus will hardly develop intelligence unless their tentacles are eaten by a thousand-mouthed faceless fish at the same time. There are at least three tribes of the Felemene on the shell of each giant turtle, and the Flame General Yanpana often pollutes the sea water by inducing volcanic eruptions and spewing out large amounts of thick smoke to create favorable conditions for his hunting and fighting... Well, these are all very useful knowledge. Thank you, Miss Galene."

Avella muttered to herself while writing something down in the notebook in her hand. The person she was thanking twitched his lips and smiled bitterly: "That's nothing, but are you sure you don't need a rest, Miss Avella?"

The main reason that prompted her to ask this question was undoubtedly Avra's pair of golden eyes that were always drooping and sleepy. Everyone's first reaction after seeing these eyes was definitely "what beautiful eyes", and the second reaction was "why doesn't this girl go to bed when she is so sleepy?", and Avra's always light steps, lukewarm and confused tone, and lazy and casual attitude just proved the point that "she needs to rest", causing her to make the other person worry whether she was forcing herself to be awake and fall asleep the next second even if she listened to others attentively.

Her companions who had been with her day and night might have long been accustomed to this. Those who had initially advised her to go to bed early, after witnessing with their own eyes that Overa stayed up late to read, copy, write, eat snacks, take a walk... in short, she stayed up late to do all kinds of things but still had no risk of sudden death, became convinced and never said a word to persuade her to go to bed early again. Although almost everyone attributed the reason to "Overa does not need to sleep", only Lingge knew the truth that "Overa cannot sleep".

As an outsider who had only known her for a few days, Galene knew nothing, so she was still at the first step: I hope this pretty girl can have a good rest. Staying up late is very harmful to the body. Even the sea creatures living in the deep sea, whose concept of time is very different from that of people on earth, deeply understand the principle of combining work and rest!
But Ovella didn't understand, or rather, she didn't need to understand. "It doesn't matter, haha~" She yawned openly, rubbed the corners of her eyes, and replied casually: "I'm not sleepy at all, so I don't need to rest."

Only a ghost can believe it!

Galene screamed in her heart, suspecting that the other party was taking her for a fool.

"It's true." Olvera tried to keep her handwriting beautiful while walking and writing, and explained absentmindedly: "I just look sleepy to you. Whether I am actually sleepy or not, haha... only I know. And I am not just here to play with Metien and the others. After all, Nereids is very lively. The buildings, streets and residents here are very unique and worthy of being written into my novel. In Alice's words, my desire to kill... oh no, to create is rising."

"Uh, really?" Kalene laughed awkwardly. She really wanted to say that you were treating everyone around you as material, but weren't the residents, vendors, and customers on this street also looking at you with curious eyes?

To be precise, he was looking at these rare visitors from the earth.

Nereids is the city of mirror elves, but it does not mean that only mirror elves live there. In addition to mirror elves, there are also the aforementioned thorn shark tribe, thorn shark tribe, hygo tribe, baro fishmen, and felem tribe. Basically, Ovira was curious after seeing this busy street called [Nereids City - Central City - Shell Avenue], and asked Galene about it. The latter squeezed out some relevant knowledge from her poor brain inventory to answer her questions, providing her with inspiration and materials for the novel.

But these guests from the ground - if specially marked, they can also be called "the guests from the ground summoned by the Queen" - appeared in Shell Avenue and became a hot topic no less than their curiosity about this underwater city. Therefore, every alien mentioned above has basically cast a hidden or direct gaze on this team, and the stall owners who were lucky enough to be favored by the little girls have already begun to consider with a smile whether to sell their backlog of goods under the name of "the favorite products of the guests from the ground who are personally received by Her Majesty the Queen."

From this we can see that when civilization develops to a certain stage, whether it is aliens or humans, aliens in the deep sea or aliens on land, the way of thinking seems to be no different.

Fortunately, although they were very interested in these visitors from the earth, they did not disturb them too much for Galene's sake. It is worth mentioning that the "for Galene's sake" here does not refer to Galene as the eldest princess, but to the Galene who served as a squad leader in the city defense corps.

Does it sound surprising? But the truth is so bizarre. After all, the City Defense Corps not only undertakes the task of patrolling the areas around the city, but also has the power to close down illegal shops, inspect production safety, and supervise tax accounts.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)