Poseidon in Tomorrow's Ark

"Oh, by the way, Exia." Croissant on the other end of the phone seemed to suddenly remember something, "I forgot, happy birthday to you~"

"Oh, yeah, Exia's birthday has passed." Sora at the side also remembered Exia's birthday belatedly, it seems to be December 12th, "Happy birthday to you too."

"But I guess you should be quite happy." Kong said with a teasing voice, "Even if you don't say it, I can guess that day. Xiyue has indulged you a lot, right? Did you enjoy the cake?"

"It's more than just a delicious meal!" Angelo sat up suddenly and almost knocked over the coffee cup in Xiyue's hand. "You also gave me a valuable gift. I'll show it to you when you get here~"

"So mysterious." Kong grumbled a few times, then shouted, "Okay, we'll drive over tomorrow."

Chapter 99: During the Party - Everyone

"Let's stop here today." Xiyue touched Jessica's head and closed the book in her hand, "It's already five o'clock."

"Okay, got it." Jessica nodded obediently. Looking at the book filled with notes, she couldn't help but wonder whether it was necessary for her to do this.

After all, the whole book is really full of key points, without any water. In other words, there are too many things to memorize! There is almost no need to mark the things to remember and the key points to memorize, because they all need to be remembered and they are all key points.

Looking at the dazed Jessica, Xiyue understood what she was thinking and touched Jessica's head with a smile.

"Don't be nervous, take it slow." Xiyue had a smile on his face. It was the same when he first came to Terra and was possessed by the system.

She was thrown directly into a space where books were piled up to the sky. The system even required her to learn all the books in it, memorize them all, and master them proficiently.

To be honest, Xiyue was stunned at that time when she looked at the books piled up to the sky. She didn't know how long it took her to master them. She was officially sent to Terra by the system.

"Let me see the bullet you recently carved."

"Yeah." Jessica nodded and took out a brand new pistol from her waist. This was something Jessica asked her housekeeper to get for her a few days ago.

The day after Jessica called to play with the pistol, Thor Industries sent a dedicated messenger to Rhodes Island as quickly as possible to deliver it to Jessica.

In order to distinguish this pistol from her original one, Jessica specially changed the color of it to white for distinction.

Jessica unloaded the magazine skillfully and took out two magazines of two different colors, one blue and one red, from her bag.

Jessica ejected the bullets from the three magazines one by one. Each bullet had intricate patterns engraved on it.

Xiyue glanced at the bullets on the table and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, it seems that your practice these days has not been in vain. You have basically learned how to carve the three types of healing bullets, Red Scar, Clear Water, and Cut Healing, completely."

"As for some minor flaws, I think you should understand that now we can only rely on experience and time to slowly smooth them out."

"Yeah." Jessica nodded frequently with a little excitement on her face. After the past few nights, constant practice in the dream world and practice in the real world, she was finally able to carve these three seals skillfully and completely.

At least the entire bullet will not be scrapped due to some minor mistakes, and the production rate can reach at least 90%.

As for some minor flaws such as the thickness of the lines, they can only be gradually smoothed out with time and experience as Xiyue said.

"There are red marks that can stop bleeding, Zhan Yu that can heal wounds, and Qing Shui's shield." Xiyue looked at the three types of bullets on the table, "What's next? Should we go offensive? Or continue to go in the direction of treatment?"

"Or become a generalist on the battlefield and choose support? Or function?"

Jessica looked at the bullets on the table and thought for a while: "As a mercenary, I need to have a certain ability to protect myself. I want to learn about attack engraving next."

"Well, I have the idea, but what about the goal?"

Jessica took out a small notebook from her bag. It contained some related reviews that she, Franka, and Razer had done after Xiyue gave him some bullets last time.

Jessica looked at the records above and thought for a while: "Well, flame, shattering, and... and mist of this function."

"Well, in that case~" Xiyue nodded after listening to Jessica's words, then raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, "These will be your classwork."

"I hope you can hand me your work after three classes and before the fourth class at the latest~"

"Ming, I understand, teacher."

"Yeah." Xiyue patted Jessica's head, "I'm looking forward to your performance."

"But just relax for a few days. This is the New Year's Eve, which only comes once a year."

At this moment, the door was pushed open and the slightly cheerful voice of the Archangel was heard.

"Hey, Xiyue, we are back. How is the teaching of our little disciple going?" The Angel of Power slid directly into the room from the door and leaned over to look at Xiyu and Jessica in the room.

"Excuse me, Xiyue~" Kong also followed in, "Did I disturb your teaching, Xiyue?"

"No, we were just about to finish." Xiyue turned and looked at Kong, "Good afternoon, Kong."

"Hello, Miss Kong." After Jessica packed her things, she turned around and looked at Kong. "Um, good afternoon."

"Ah hello."

"Hey, I calculated the time accurately~" Croissant at the side laughed and followed Texas in, "We just arrived, we can have dinner just now~"

"According to my understanding of Xiyue, it should be just after 5:30 now..." Croissant sniffed and realized where he was. No, why was there no fragrance around?

"What a pity, Croissant, you made a wrong calculation~" Angel turned his head and looked at Croissant, "Xiyue has been busy teaching his disciples recently, and our dinner time has been forced to extend to six o'clock~"

"Ah." Croissant looked at Xiyue and Jessica who had just come out of the room and scratched his head, "Good afternoon~"

"Good afternoon." Xiyue smiled and greeted Croissant, "Since you are all hungry, I will go and cook now."

As Kong watched Xiyue enter the kitchen, he suddenly remembered something and looked at the Angel next to him: "By the way, you said mysteriously last time that Xiyue gave you a big gift, what was it?"

"Hehe~" Angelus laughed and pulled out the revolver from the gun bag on his waist, "It's this treasure~"

"Look at this silver-white metallic paint job, clean and hard, with an angular shape." Exia gently stroked the revolver in his hand, "Perfect and reliable five-round cylinder, with incomparable power~"

"Is there any better guardian gun in the world than her~"

"Sure enough!" Texas' eyes narrowed immediately after hearing what the Angel of Power said. Ever since he suspected that there was something fishy going on with this guy, Texas had asked the people of the Sakota tribe on Rhodes Island for advice.

The term "guardian gun" has a very special meaning for Sakta, and this term generally only appears on two types of firearms owned by Sakta.

The first one is the first gun awarded to the Sakotas by the Lateran officials after they have completed all the shooting tests. It can be considered a symbol of protecting their lives. This is the first and possibly the only guardian gun owned by the Sakotas.

As for the special meaning of the second gun, it could only come from the fact that the Sakotas received guns sent by others. As mentioned before, the gun has a very special meaning to the Sakotas.

Giving money to Sakota to buy a gun and directly giving Sakota a gun, even though the actual prices between the two are very different, the meanings contained therein are completely different for the Sakotas.

I want to protect your life. This is the meaning of the second guardian gun. It only comes from others and is also the most important response of the Sakotas to this gift.

This means that after receiving the gun, Sakota is willing to let you protect her life, and the gun you gave her will serve as a second guarantee of her life.

And now that Exia has openly said that the gun Xiyue gave him is the second Guardian Gun...

Texas looked at Archangel with gradually cold eyes. Archangel, who was stared at like that, also looked at Texas as if he sensed something.

Looking at Texas' gaze, Angel understood what he had just said. Texas had discovered his problem and he felt like he was exposed.

—————Rhode Island·Accommodation Area·Elite Operators——————

"WHO~~" Huang dragged out the word and pushed the wall hard while sitting in the wheelchair. The wheelchair gained power and moved forward all the way. Then the chair slowly stopped and faintly surpassed ACE who was sitting on another chair.

Huang lowered his head and carefully compared the position of his chair with that of ACE next to him. After confirming that his chair was indeed a little further away, the excitement on his face couldn't be more obvious.

"Hey, I'm first this time~"

ACE glanced at Huang standing next to him, then raised his hand and pointed at Scout and Logod who were still at the starting point: "Our champion and runner-up haven't made a move yet. Why are you so happy, little cat? It's not a good habit to open champagne at halftime."

"It doesn't matter at all~" Huang sat steadily on the chair, with his hands on his hips looking at ACE, "I'm not competing with these two. I'm far better than you, and that's enough~"

ACE paused in taking out a cigarette from his pocket, and looked at Huang beside him in silence: "Okay, okay, if you feel happy, then it's up to you."

Scout looked at Logod provocatively, "You first, or me first?"

"Whatever." Logos took a drag on his cigarette and shrugged at Scout. "If you need more time to adjust, I'll do it."

"Hey, I'll go first." Scout took a look at the direction his chair could move and pushed hard against the wall. The chair slid across the long corridor in an instant.

Finally, under the gazes of ACE and Huang, Scout's chair gradually drifted away, and finally stopped after it had far surpassed them.

"I thought I was going to fall." Scout breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had stopped steadily. He did feel that his chair was about to fall over, but fortunately, he finally stopped steadily.

Seeing that only his logos were left on the contestants, he took another puff of his cigarette, put it out, and threw it into the trash can beside him.

Finally, he adjusted the direction, aimed at the position, and glared hard. In one go, the chair slid down the corridor at an extremely fast speed. The log仞os sitting on it was like an elegant swan dancer, sitting on the chair and slowly floating away into the distance.

Finally, under ACE's gaze of "as expected" and Huang's gaze of "as it should be", he quickly surpassed the two of them and slowly approached as Scout waved his hands in fear.

However, it was obvious that Scout's repeated waving of his hands did not have any blocking effect. Finally, Logos slowly floated past Scout's slightly dangerous gaze and stopped steadily at a distance.

"Ha!" Logos stood up and looked at the three people in front of him with contempt, "Not challenging at all~"

"Well, I've gotten used to it." ACE picked up the chair and walked towards the lounge. "But it looks like Scoot is still not doing well~"

"You're talking too much." Scout picked up the chair with a little displeasure, then looked at Logos beside him and said, "Are you sure you didn't cheat with magic?"

"Do we still need to use magic to deal with this kind of thing?" Logos picked up the stool with an elegant posture that made it completely unexpected that he was just playing a game like round chair sliding, which was a small game that only children would play.

"Well, is the competition over?" Machinist, who was sitting on the sofa, looked at the four people who came in with chairs. "From Scout's expression, I can probably guess the ranking. No need to tell me."

"Oh, by the way." Machinist looked at Huang, "I fixed your chainsaw extension module for you. Don't use so much force."

"The funds are limited, so it's hard to repair it."

"Oh, thank you~" Huang stood up and walked towards the workbench after hearing that. Sure enough, he saw his chainsaw extension module on the table. He picked it up happily and put it in his cabinet.

Huang did not go for a check-up because there was no need. She had great confidence in the Mechinist's craftsmanship. Even the portable pacemaker she wore for a long time was maintained by the Mechinist.

"Speaking of funding." ACE raised his head and looked at everyone, "What do you think about tomorrow's party?"

"Amiya asked us to come up with some entertainment activities or something. Do you have any good ideas?"

"I think the round chair skating competition is a good idea!" Huang at the side raised his hand first, "It's very interesting, isn't it?"

"That's right. It won't cost too much." ACE nodded. "Is this the only one?"

"I can perform some illusion magic." Logos thought for a moment and then said, "Something simpler."

Huang on the side thought about it, and suddenly a good idea came to his mind: "Aaa, I have another one. I can take someone to jump off the bridge and experience free fall without an umbrella!"

"........."

ACE looked at Huang speechlessly and said decisively: "Reject this proposal. You can't even walk out of this door, let alone be seen by Amiya."

"That's not the case." Huang scratched his face awkwardly after being rejected instantly. "I can guarantee your safety. At most you'll be frightened!"

ACE continued to shake his head with an indifferent look on his face: "It's easy to cause problems, veto, next one!"

Chapter 100: During the Party - Undercurrent

—————Rhode Island·Accommodation Area·Penguin Logistics——————

Exiah had a smile on her face as she looked past Sora and Croissant and looked at Texas who had an indifferent expression.

Since he had been discovered anyway, Archangel simply stopped pretending and looked at Texas' smile with a hint of pleasure.

"…………" Texas looked at the smile on Angelica's face, and her expression became even colder. She couldn't keep this best friend anymore. If this guy hadn't let it slip, she might have been suspicious for a while.

Kong looked at the silver revolver in Angel's hand with some surprise. She knew very well that she could not afford it with Angel's savings, especially at this time. In other words, this revolver was really given by Xiyue!

Kong looked at the pistol and didn't know what to say for a moment. He turned around and was about to ask Texas, but saw a murderous look on Texas' face: "Um... what's wrong, Senior Texas?"

"No, nothing." Texas took a deep breath, thinking whether to kill that angel guy directly? This girlfriend can't get along!

"..." Sora looked at Texas's face and felt a chill down his spine for some reason. He turned around and looked at the Exia who was waiting for his smile.

Looking at the smile on Angel's face at this time, Na Kong could even taste a hint of provocation.

"Exia, something has happened." Sora quickly understood why the atmosphere between the two had become like this. "It's too obvious, Miss Exia."

"Wait, if Angel and Texas-senpai, are mutually..." Kong's eyes began to wander unconsciously, drifting to the side, where Yuzuki was cooking in the kitchen and had no idea what was happening in the hall.

"Ugh..." Just before the thoughts in Sora's mind started to run wild, Sora stopped them by force, "How could you think like that? Are you going to let Texas down?"

"Hmm?" Croissant stroked his chin, looking at the pistol in the hand of the Angel, and was amazed. Just as he turned his eyes away from the pistol, he found that the atmosphere around him seemed to be slightly wrong.

Croissant looked left and right, at the indifferent Texas and then at the smiling Exiah, while Sora next to him had a somewhat conflicted expression?

"What's going on?" Croissant looked at the three people and scratched his head in confusion. "Why do I feel like something happened just now that I didn't know about? Why do I feel like I don't fit in?"

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"Well, what's wrong?" Xiyue came out with a bowl of food in water, looking at the hall that seemed to be in deathly silence, feeling a little confused.

"Um, Teacher Xiyue..." Jessica, who was sitting on the sofa, raised her hand weakly, "Um, I have something else to do, can I leave first?"

"Huh?" Xiyue looked at Jessica in confusion, "I've already prepared the meal, so you have to finish eating before you leave, anyway?"

"Hmm..." Jessica looked around hesitantly. Although she didn't know what happened, her intuition told her that it would be better to leave. However, Teacher Xiyue had worked hard to prepare the meal...

"Okay, okay!" Jessica shrank her neck, turned around and sat at the dining table.

"It's really strange, what did this kid do?" Xiyue put all the dishes on the table and looked at the others, "Why are you still sitting there? Do you want me to call you? Come up and eat."

"Oh, great, time to eat!" Mingtian immediately sat up from the sofa. When he left, he gave a look to Texas who still had a cold face, and pointed his hand quietly at Jessica who was fidgeting.

"..." Texas sighed. As best friends for many years, she of course understood what Angelica meant. That meant that they should fight later and not scare the other person's child.