The Witch's Taste

In the living room, Xia Zili ended her conversation with Yuki Izumo and frowned slightly.

There is a mysterious force approaching Aegelaos. Is it suspected to be the Bakht family's means of destroying the star?

What is the point of Bakht doing this? After all, the gospel plan has completely failed, and even if they die together, it will only hurt both sides.

However, the thinking of the elven nobles is different from that of the capital plutocrats. The latter are purely profit-seeking, while the former pay more attention to the so-called face and dignity.In addition, Bakht does have a criminal record. It is not impossible to say that he is unwilling to fail and would rather die together...

Ok?

Wait, a mysterious force approaching from space?

Suddenly thinking of a certain possibility, Xia Zili immediately jumped up and flew straight to the second floor, leaving a tiny hole in the floor when she stepped on it.

The moment he opened the bedroom door and saw the scene inside, the half-elf's blue eyes seemed to have lost their highlights...

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The next day, at 12 noon.

Chen Ziang woke up slowly from his deep sleep, feeling pain everywhere in his body, as if he had been rubbed to pieces.

...What happened last night?

He opened his eyes with difficulty and saw splatters of blood and flesh everywhere on the walls and ceiling, as if an extremely brutal fight and killing had taken place here last night.

fight...

Chen Ziang suddenly became excited, and most of his sleepiness immediately dissipated, and he quickly got up.

Eh?

Only then did he realize that the bed beneath him had collapsed.

Holding on to the collapsed bed frame and standing up with difficulty, Chen Ziang saw Tsukigomi Suzuna sitting on the bay window, with only a blanket covering her whole body, hugging her knees and falling into a sluggish state.

"Suzuna, are you... okay?" Chen Ziang asked worriedly.

Although there was blood and flesh everywhere in the room, Suzuna seemed to have no traces of injury. Her limbs and head were all where they should be, and there was no dirt on the blanket she was wearing. She should be fine.

"...Hehe, hehehe." Tsukimiya Suzuna made a sound that sounded like something was broken, and murmured with tears streaming down her face, "I'm a waste, I'm a waste... I can't beat you, I can't compete with you, From now on, I can only eat secretly when no one is around and live a relatively failed life..."

Chen Ziang: ……………

No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like everything is okay!Wait, where is Zili?

Xia Zili walked out of the bathroom, wiping her wet hair with a towel, her eyes full of numbness - although there were no signs of injury on her body, she seemed mentally exhausted.

"You're awake." She said in a low voice, her voice completely hoarse. "I can't work with you today. I'm so tired... I have to sleep well all day to recover..."

"What happened last night?" Chen Ziang asked in shock, "What happened to your voice? What happened to Suzuna?"

"Ah, it's okay." Xia Zili staggered to the dressing table like a zombie, tremblingly picked up the hair dryer and started to dry her hair, "She is the same as me, she just needs a good rest."

So what happened!Chen Ziang shouted silently in his heart.

Why do both of them look like they have been severely ravaged by the big boss until they are left withered and exhausted!

331. Chapter 330 It’s better for you to fight

"So, what happened?" Chen Ziang was puzzled.

Xia Qingyu sat on the chair opposite and drank tea without saying a word.

"Judging from the situation in the bedroom, there should have been a fight." Chen Ziang said thoughtfully, "But none of them were injured... No, as a witch, it is very simple to heal physical injuries, only mental ones You can’t pretend if you’re damaged.”

"Instead of such aimless association and reasoning, why don't you try to dig into your pathetic memory and think of things you have forgotten?" Xia Qingyu said leisurely.

"It's just because I can't remember that I can only make inferences based on clues." Chen Ziang sighed, "I just remember that I couldn't sleep last night, and I was so sleepy in the end..."

His voice paused for a moment and suddenly said:

"Things that I can't remember, there seems to be a possibility that I suddenly remembered them after a while, right?"

"Yes."

"Then I can only hope that my memory will recover as soon as possible." Chen Ziang decided to get into work first and not delve into what happened last night.

The edited video material has been sent to Starship. Professionals will handle it a second time without modifying the narrative content. The dubbing and commentator is also in place. She is the former ace female host of Ping An News TV. .

All the energy supplies are in place, and now only the immigration review work and the equipment delivery of the Barr Group are left.

The former is currently in charge of Song Mingyuan's team of civil servants. These people are all veterans of administrative work and are best at understanding the spirit of their superiors, conveying their instructions, executing their orders, and taking the responsibility away from themselves...

In short, although the documents for immigration requests are flying in like snowflakes, with an efficient and manpower-rich civil service team, the work can be progressed steadily.

The equipment delivery of Barr Group was originally expected to take more than a month, but this morning it suddenly changed its tune and said that it would be "completed within a week."

According to Starfleet executives, the speculation is that "an unknown mysterious signal was detected yesterday" and they suspect that the Bakht Group will launch a counterattack in the near future, so they are eager to fulfill their previous promises and vigorously win over the Starfleet humans.

In view of the fact that they helped prevent the gospel plan before, the transaction price of food cell factory equipment has dropped to cabbage price, which is undoubtedly the real "good news" for the starship humans who have little foreign exchange.

It is a pity that the Barr Group has never relented in terms of maintenance. Obviously, they must hold the technical lifeblood of this area in their hands.

There was the thumping sound of slippers hitting the ground behind him. Chen Ziang turned around and saw Tsukinomiya Suzuna coming down from the second floor.

After a whole morning's rest, her mental state seemed much better, although she still looked listless overall.After noticing Chen Ziang's gaze, this guy actually looked away.

Hey, sweet girl’s character is almost gone!Where is your vitality?

"What work do you have today?" Tsukimiya Suzuna sat down on the sofa.

"No." Chen Ziang replied, "It's all done. Within a week, we can set off and leave Aegelaos."

"Oh." Tsukimiya Suzuna looked up at the ceiling and murmured, with an "I have no strength" look on her face.

"Speaking of this, it's time to consider the next route." Chen Ziang pondered, "Among the many star regions in the Federation, the human population has a particularly high proportion. In addition to Aegelaos, there are..."

"Hercules, Garcia Sector." Xia Qingyu said aloud.

"Yes." Chen Ziang said thoughtfully, "When we stop in the federal star area, we not only want to supply supplies, but also take away as many human residents in the federation as possible, so the next stop is in Hercules."

"After the second replenishment is completed, we will make a long-distance jump to Ophiuchus for the third replenishment."

"In the end, I jumped from Ophiuchus to Scorpio. At the same time, I left the territory of the Federation and entered the edge constellation that will not be affected by the war... What is wrong with you?"

Next to her, Suzuna Tsukimiya seemed to be entangled in some dark and gloomy atmosphere, while Xia Qingyu, sitting opposite, although her expression was normal, remained in this posture and did not move for a long time.

"Senior." I don't know how much time passed before Tsukimiya Suzuna said in a trembling voice, "I don't want to go to Garcia."

"Why?" Chen Ziang was a little confused.

"Previous life." Suzuna was silent for a while again, closed her eyes and said, "There were bad memories there."

"Uh..." Chen Ziang looked at her expression of "I can't breathe", then looked at Xia Qingyu's silent state, and asked tentatively:

"So I died in the Garcia sector in my previous life?"

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Since everyone was secretive about his death in his previous life, Chen Ziang's original guess was that he should have died in the Aegelaos sector.

Because as Tsukimiya Suzuna said, after the destruction of Gao Tianyuan, he and Xia Zili lived in Aegelaos for several years...

But since the cause of death is still unclear, it is not impossible that something happened in the middle that caused him to have to leave Egilaos, go to Garcia and die.

After scratching his head for a while, Chen Ziang tried to break the atmosphere again and said with a smile:

"However, with your help in this life, I won't make the same mistakes again, right?"

No one spoke.

The atmosphere in the living room was still silent, and neither girl moved, so that Chen Ziang became uncontrollably nervous:

"Hey, even if you are really not sure, at least say something nice to coax you!"

"It's okay, senior." Suzuna Tsukimiya finally came to her senses, hugged his arm, and said seriously, "I won't let you die this time, please don't worry."

Although her voice was not loud, it was full of firmness and unshakable meaning, so Chen Ziang also breathed a sigh of relief - before he could recover, the sound of footsteps coming downstairs could be heard behind him again.

"Of course." Xia Zili's voice came coldly, "You have already been reborn. If you can't even save people, it's better to withdraw from the competition as soon as possible."

"Are you right, Suzuna-chan?"

Xiao Suzuna?Chen Ziang was a little stunned, but felt his arms being held tighter.

"Of course, Sister Zili." Tsukimiya Suzuna said with a smile, "Those who failed to learn the lessons of the past life should get out of here."

When did the relationship between the two of them become so good that they could call each other "Suzuna-chan" and "Sister Murasaki"?

Recalling it carefully, it seems that when they first met, they did address each other so affectionately.But later on, probably because the relationship became familiar, "Then I won't pretend anymore", and it gradually turned into a direct relationship.

Why has it suddenly returned to the original "illusion of intimacy" now?This kind of sudden change without any reason is really uneasy. It always feels like a vision of an impending natural disaster...

Chen Ziang suppressed his worries and tried to change the subject:

"It suddenly occurred to me that we are leaving next, what should we do with this house?"

"Of course I'll keep it/sell it," Xia Zili and Tsukinomiya Suzuna said in unison.

Immediately afterwards, the two men looked at each other fiercely.

"Xiao Suinai." Xia Zili said expressionlessly, "This is my and my husband's house. It has unique commemorative significance and cannot be sold easily."

"Sister Purple." Suzuna Tsukimiya said equally indifferently, "You don't want the house where you and your husband lived to be vacant for many years and finally occupied by homeless people for parties, right?"

"But if I sell it, won't it be occupied by someone else?"

"Everything belongs to others, at least the principal can be recovered..."

"In that case, why not just sell it to me!"

Seeing the two of them fighting again, Chen Ziang finally breathed a sigh of relief:

This is much more normal.

332. Chapter 331 Very Good Golden Fleet

On Thursday, everyone left Aegelaos and returned to the Forever starship.

Compared to the last time I left, the starship today has undergone major changes.

The largest space in the center of the ship's interior has been opened up into a commercial area, with more than 2 shops currently operating here.

The left and right wings of the business area are occupied by industrial production areas - most of the materials used in production are recycled and reprocessed from shipboard garbage.

At first glance, it seems that self-sufficiency and self-circulation have been achieved, but in fact there are still many goods that cannot be produced, and the average living standard of residents is far from that of the original Jibei City. It can only be said that compared with the initial "everything" It all depends on rationing”, which has been greatly improved.

"The currency system we are using now is a very complex rationing point system." Standing at the entrance of Starship Bank, Tianshangyuan Hehua explained, "Based on the importance of the work of each position at the social level, everyone can receive To a certain 'rationing point', it serves as the currency of starship society."

"However, what is different from the traditional monetary economy is that when a buyer uses ration points to purchase goods or services, the ration points are not transferred from the buyer to the seller, but are deducted from the bank account."

"The ration points that sellers can get are not obtained directly from buyers, but are distributed by the central bank every day based on the 'importance' of their work itself."

"Rationing points are not allowed to trade with each other and are only allowed to make advances to the central bank. Each batch of rationing points has a time limit and will be cleared if it is not used up and expires. Therefore, there is no concept of deposits. Everyone will generally use the rationing points before expiration. Light."

Chen Ziang didn't know much about finance, but he knew that the system design of this "rationing point" should be based on the empire's contribution point system, which was essentially a relatively advanced planned economy.

In today's starship human society, where the economic system is extremely fragile, adopting a planned economy can be regarded as adapting to local conditions. The problem with planned economies is that they tend to be rigid and rigid.To give the most direct example, the importance of jobs, that is, how many ration points are issued to each type of work, how to measure it specifically?On the other hand, if it is left to the capital economy, the capitalists themselves will handle the optimization and find an optimal solution that is consistent with the market.

"I'm not sure about this. It seems to be determined by the central artificial intelligence carried by the starship." Tianshangyuan Hehua replied, "The ration points for all types of work are changing every day. There is probably a very complex calculation program behind it. Bar."

Chen Ziang thought about it.

The central artificial intelligence carried by the starship, if he remembered correctly, should have been built by Xia Qingyu's team of military information engineers.

In other words, using this imperial-like planned economy should be Xia Qingyu's intention.

Is it to facilitate the integration of starship humans into the empire in the future?

If you can choose one of the two, being able to integrate into the human empire is certainly more suitable than being a facilitator in the fringe star region. After all, the Milky Way is occupied by a federation that is hostile to humans. It is completely different to have the support of Big Brother on the human side and not.

The only problem is that the empire seems unwilling to accept starship humans at present... Originally, they looked down on the quality of the humans from Takamagahara, but now that there are humans from Aegiraos, it seems that the composition of the ethnic group is becoming more and more complex, and it is becoming less and less easy to be accepted. .

After briefly inspecting the commercial and industrial areas, Chen Ziang came to the living area.

The total area of ​​the living area is almost the same as the previous two areas combined. The security force is relatively stronger, and there are military troops stationed around it. If there is any unrest, it can be easily suppressed internally.

As for sporadic weird incidents, the fifth department of the Intelligence Bureau is still responsible. Now it is Lao Lu who has taken over Xia Qingyu's ministerial position.

Lu Yunfeng probably didn't expect that due to the successive promotions of his immediate superiors, he would now be promoted to a minister, and his promotion speed was as fast as a rocket.