I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

"Ahhh!"

After completing the final steps in the bathroom and rinsing his body with cold water, Cheng Rang sneezed suddenly.

Rubbing his body that didn't feel cold, the instigator of all this was muttering to himself with some doubts.

"Strange, can I still catch a cold with my constitution?"

——Say it unconsciously.

Chapter 36 Fragile and Tiny Happiness

"Let me ask you... how many gods are there?"

In the last game of chess, Rick lost another disastrous defeat because of his mentality fluctuations, and this time he entered the second game.

He leaned his hand on his cheek unhappily while dropping the chess pieces.

Huby stared at the chessboard and replied: "...Theoretically, it is infinite...proportional to the number of concepts...but most...'Active conditions' do not hold."

This pointless answer and Shuby's chess move made Rick frown.

It was just another key move that caused Rick's carefully conceived situation to collapse. He sighed, then thought about the next strategy, and continued the game.

"The so-called gods basically include the [God of War] or the [God of the Forest], right?"

But what they do is the same thing, it's just war.

Rick added this in his mind, while Shubi nodded lightly: "...The former is Artosh...the creator of the Flügel...the latter is Kaynas...Sen Creator of the Essence."

But Rick cut Hubie off.

The conversation and the response of the chess moves, the chess moves that were rethought out were immediately broken again, at this moment Rick suddenly remembered.

No matter how many times you challenge, no matter how perfect a move you think you make—the feeling that your opponent is above you.

When I was a child, in the depths of the darkness, I saw that boy with a smug smile that I could never beat——

"Let me ask you—is there a God of Games?"

Rick just thought about it.Even if it exists, it doesn't matter, but Shubi still replied seriously: "Yes... But, the essence has not been confirmed... It is speculated that the activation conditions are not established...."

I don't know the details, but that's about it.

The god species is a concept. Since the concept of games exists, then the god of games must also exist.

It's just that the presence or absence of the active condition - the essence, will determine whether it actually exists.

"Simply put... at least it doesn't mean right now—"

".....CheckMate...."

Checkmate, for another defeat in a short time, Rick couldn't help sighing, he stood up from the ground.

"I've wanted to tell you a long time ago that you don't have to speak in that tone even when it's just the two of us."

"...Well, it seems...the thinking and vocal center can no longer change...the appearance."

"Eh~ Can you say it in words that humans can understand?"

"...can't go back to the way it was...."

It's really ambiguous.After saying this fixed line, Rick and Hubie walked out of the room together after a wry smile.

Looking at the settlement while walking, the atmosphere here has been greatly improved from before.

In the distance, the black-haired man in a robe who looked like he had just come out of the shower was smiling and waving at him.

"Oh~ Rick, are you busy today too?"

"No, because of Hei Yu's relationship before, I have completed some follow-up tasks. I have nothing to do recently, but I will be busy in the future."

"So are you playing chess with Hubie again? I think she will pester you to play whenever she has free time." Cheng Rang came to the two of them, "Hubby, you also beat Rick well today.

lost? "

"...When Cheng was away, until just now... a total of 6 wins and 0 losses."

Rick felt a little embarrassed and covered his cheeks, while Cheng Rang smiled and rubbed Hubie's hair.

"It's amazing, Shuby can beat Rick every time~"

"I will definitely win next time! Don't say such sarcastic remarks!" Rick immediately retorted.

But looking at the two people interacting around him, he admitted that since he met Cheng Rang and Shubi, the means he can take have greatly increased.

She obviously didn't ask Shubi, but she took the initiative to help with the calculation and design.Thanks to her help, the accuracy of measurement and detection has improved.Crohn's telescopes improved even more, and dairy farmers, who were otherwise inefficient, improved slightly.

Therefore, the need to go out to investigate has been drastically reduced, and there is room for food storage—so they can survive the black rain without any danger.

Thanks to Cheng Rang's help to the people in the settlement and his cheerful personality, his popularity almost surpasses his own, and many construction tasks that would consume a lot of manpower can also be quickly completed by him.

Not to mention the water crisis this time, without Cheng Rang's sacrifice this time, there might be problems if he persists.

And then obviously - the smiles in the settlement increased.

"Hey Rick! Do you want to have a leisurely fried rice with your wife today!" A passing resident teased Rick with a smile, and also greeted Cheng Rang: "Cheng, welcome back! You are recovering how?"

This time Cheng Rang's secret going out, Rick and Crolon both told everyone that he was temporarily unwell and was resting in the room.

"Oh, I'm very strong. It's only been a day, and I've been resurrected with full blood!" Cheng Rang raised his arm to the man and patted his bulging biceps.

"I said she wasn't my wife, bald man. Look at your binoculars for the rest of your life."

Compared with this conversation, Rick's reaction seems to be a bit more than when Cheng Rang first came to the settlement.

Before, he would just keep silent, and then accept all the pointers behind him.

"Xiaoxiu~Cheng! Thank you so much last time, thank you for being able to play with the children! You must come here as a guest when you have time!"

"Well, definitely!"

"....You're welcome...."

Now as long as they stay in the settlement, they can live in peace without being threatened by the fear of death.

But for Rick, this scene was not very happy.

——Because he knows very well that this is just a temporary peace, the calm before the storm.

As long as the guys who claim to be gods on the high ground make an [unconscious] movement, this moment of peace will disappear like dust.

Forgetting that is a fact, and living in a moment of stability, that may also be happiness.

But that happiness will disappear.It could be tomorrow, it could be today—it could be now.

Did they give them too much hope? A painful expression appeared on Rick's face.But what to do otherwise?

Pretending to see no despair, believing that this place is safe, and living until the end of the battle that will come one day?

At least he couldn't, Rick thought.

"Hey, boss! Don't keep hugging your wife, I'm fixing a water leak, come and help me!"

"—Hmph, if you want to ask for a fight, just say it. If you want the power of 'fist', I can give you a helping hand no matter how much it is!"

With a stiff smile, Rick rolled up his sleeves and walked in the direction of the sound.

Hubie, who was left behind, stood in place, as if the soles of his feet had taken root, waiting motionlessly for Rick to come back.

Cheng Rang, who was accompanying him, glanced at the two of them, and Rick's painful expression on the current scene just now was clearly captured.

Even though the current settlement has gradually improved, Rick still has a very thorough understanding of the current situation.

That would not...no.

It is the back that cannot take steps towards hope.

Always felt too lonely.

Chapter 37 Miss Croon, Please Respect Yourself

"Hugh~~bi~~chan~~~!"

Suddenly being embraced by someone, Shubi looked back silently, only to see Ke Long standing there with a smile on his face.

"What interesting things are you two talking about?"

"Anyone can see it. I just came to say hello. If you want to find Rick, he has just been called away to help - over there." Cheng Rang pulled the towel around his neck and told Ke Long pointed to the direction where Rick was called away.

"Didn't Hubie go with Rick?"

"... Rick didn't say... asked me to follow..."

"Ugh! Shubi-chan, don't worry about that useless husband, marry me!? Leave this~so lovely and pitiful wife aside, forget about that stupid husband~?" Ke Long screamed With a sound, he hugged Shubi's petite body and rubbed her face back and forth.

"Hey, there are still many single men in the settlement, don't grab resources!" Cheng Rang made complaints at the right time.

"...Rick, not stupid..."

"That's why it is right to deny the issue of husband and wife and marriage first!"

Seeing Hubi pouting slightly, Ke Long narrowed his eyes and ignored Cheng Rang's complaints, and asked: "Hubi-chan, as a sister, I feel a little embarrassed to ask this.

... "

"...Rick said, 'She's the self-proclaimed older sister, ignore her'...."

"Ahaha~ I'm going to give him a good reward later - but let's put this matter aside!"

Kelong coughed dryly as if he was going to be cute, and then asked directly: "Which part of Rick is Shubi-chan attracted to?"

"....absorb?"

"Really, I'm just asking you why you 'like' him~ Don't ask questions knowingly~!"

This situation made Shubi silent all of a sudden, and her expression became dull. She didn't know how to answer, and she subconsciously turned her gaze to Cheng Rang, who was looking tense.

Come on, here we go again...

Of course Cheng Rang could see that Shubi was looking at what he wanted to ask—what does it mean to like?

I couldn't explain this kind of thing to Shubi in front of Crone, not to mention that although several months had passed, she obviously had no way to form the most complicated emotion analysis among human beings.

So Cheng Rang could only shake his head slightly, indicating that he was helpless.

After getting no help from anyone who might be able to answer the question, suddenly - Hubie realized he was nervous.

She didn't know why this happened, but she thought she was used to pretending to be a human being.

But at this moment, behind Ke Long's cheerful attitude, it felt like he was testing something.

Shubi thought carefully, and said that he could hardly analyze the "heart".

Therefore, the feeling of "like" has not yet been analyzed, and it cannot be defined, so——

"I have no idea....."

Hubby decided to answer honestly: "I'm interested in Rick's...heart...feelings...."

Hubby's memory center flashes back to the day he first met Rick.

Seeing the emotion in the depths of Rick's eyes—the kind of thinking that shouldn't have occurred in the Ex-Machina at that time.

The thing that caused her to be disconnected on the grounds of "connection body damage crisis-level logic error".

"...Uh~hmm! So that's how it is!"

Seeming to have understood something, Kelong easily defined it.

"Simply put, it's love at first sight, right?!"

Cheng Rang pressed his forehead silently behind Ke Long, and now he told her that he couldn't understand it...or rather, he couldn't understand it at all.

As Cheng Rang expected, Shubi opened his eyes wide and froze.

And Crone is still speculating on his own: "Hmm~ Rick is not particularly handsome, but he has such a personality at first glance, if you see through Rick's 'sincerity' and fall in love with him. ..."

".....Love?"

"Well, then I can trust my brother to you!"

"..."

It was love at first sight, and the number of concepts that had to be analyzed increased, and Hubby felt a burst of exhaustion.