[In response to this, you let out a faint smile. ]
[On the one hand, it’s because you wanted to hear Alicia’s answer in person, and on the other hand, it’s because you’ll be useful next.]
[You used Alicia's answer to say that since she loves the good and the bad of human beings, she naturally condones their occurrence. In this case, the magical operation of the Fire Moth's top management is not surprising, so why should she complain to you? ]
[After that, you performed a smooth combo of serving tea and seeing off the guests. ]
office.
Lu Mian and Alicia sat across the table from each other. He picked up the teacup and took a sip, with a gentle smile on his face:
"Ellie, do you have any questions?"
Hearing this, Alicia, who knew that she would be sent away by pleasure if she didn't say anything, smiled and pointed to the side with her white index finger, "Yes, yes, yes, who is the woman squatting in front of the money tree with the same long pink hair as me?"
Lu Mian looked in the direction the girl pointed, and saw Ying squatting with her graceful figure, supporting her face with her hands, looking at a money tree, and the two seemed to be in harmony.
Ying really listened to Lu Mian's advice and tried to stop taking care of the money trees day and night.
But within two days, when she had nothing to do and could only watch her sister play games, she understood the meaning of Padu's explanation.
It's really unsettling to hold this money.
So she picked up her job again. Although she didn't have to take care of the money tree day and night like before, it was enough to pass most of her time.
Lu Mian quietly admired Ying's good figure for a while, then turned his gaze back to Alicia:
"Oh, that's Ying, a highly skilled security guard who is currently guarding our company's important assets. By the way, she's one of my girlfriends."
Highly skilled security personnel guarding the company's important assets?
Alicia tilted her head slightly, and her fluffy and soft pink hair drew a cute and playful arc in the air.
Isn't it too free for a company to send security personnel to guard the money tree and treat it as an important property?
But when she thought about her former boss's previous "high-end business war" operations, Alicia was surprisingly not surprised.
It was not until this moment that she carefully recalled the second half of Lu Mian's sentence, which was so lightly mentioned that it was easily overlooked.
The expression on the girl's pretty face froze a little, "Mian, you just said that the girl named 'Ying' is yours, what?"
“I said she was one of my girlfriends.” Lu Mian said in a calm tone, as if he was stating a trivial matter.
Except for Wei Liwei, almost all the women in this company have had relationships with him.
Paddo kissed him, and Sakura even had some fun with him and went to bed with him, so confirming their relationship was indeed a trivial matter.
It would be better to say that the relationship had already been established before it was confirmed. It would be surprising if the relationship was not confirmed at this point, right?
Lu Mian's bland and uneventful statement fell firmly on the ears of Alicia, who was still somewhat unwilling to believe the reality, and it was like a bolt from the blue.
Girlfriend, or one?!
She felt that something that she thought no one could take away was lost. She subconsciously raised her arms to her chest and said in a trembling voice:
"Is this really okay? If it were me, I would definitely not be willing to share this kind of feeling with others. Do they really want to?"
Stop it. If you were half as selfish as you say you are, you would have taken me down long ago.
Lu Mian thought so, but he said something else, "You are you, and they are them.
"I've had open conversations with them, and they've all been happy to walk me through it as far as we can see."
The words were completely blocked for Alicia, whose eyes trembled, and after a long while she could only utter one sentence:
"Then why didn't you tell me?"
After hearing this, Lu Mian glanced at Alicia, his eyes were deep and full of indescribable meaning.
Then, he imitated Alicia's expression and said:
"Why didn't you ask me?"
This is not a marriage, is there any need to tell everyone thousands of miles away?
He has a beautiful girlfriend with a nice personality, but he wants to let the whole world know about it. How shameless! He is such a person.
Lu Mian is not that kind of person, quite the contrary, because of certain experiences in his childhood, he wishes he could hide Paduo and Ying forever so that no outsider can find them.
Not to mention looking at it, even talking about it is not allowed.
After hearing what Lu Mian said with a deliberately controlled expression and voice, Alicia realized that she was losing control of her emotions and had said something inappropriate.
She pursed her lips, lowered her eyes, and said nothing more.
Seeing this, Lu Mian slowly shook his head, took a sip of the slightly cold strong tea, and cleared his throat, "Ying, come and see Miss Alicia off."
Less than a second after the words fell from her mouth, before Alicia could react, Sakura, who was guarding the money tree and had inadvertently listened to the conversation between the two for a long time, took off and instantly appeared next to Alicia.
She grabbed Alicia's collar with one hand and her other hand around her knee, then she carried her downstairs.
It was not difficult to tell from her clean and neat movements that she really wanted Alicia to leave.
Ying herself also had something to say. She was getting along well with her boss and Paddo. They didn't eat hotpot or sing, but suddenly a pink fairy popped out and tried to destroy their relationship with words.
How can a goblin like you have the right to object?
[Alicea was happily escorted away by Sakura. Before leaving, she looked back at you and asked if it was possible for you to go back to the past.]
[You didn't answer anything, and even looked down at the teacup in front of you with a bored expression.]
[Until Alicia left completely, you didn't even look at her again.]
[You stare at the tea in the cup quietly. The amber tea soup is completely still, like a perfect mirror.]
【You look at yourself in the mirror and examine yourself. 】
[Alicea still doesn't understand. ]
[The reason why things between you two have become what they are now is never because one of you has changed. ]
[On the contrary, it is precisely because the two of you have not changed that everything has become what it is now. ]
[Back then, Alicia would travel around the world because of an idea; you will just stay where you are and make games that interest you. ]
[Now, Alicia has people to love and the world to save; you just want to protect everything you care about, live your own life, protect the world, and wait for your plan to come true. ]
[She can be the evening breeze that blows the lazy stars across the bay, the gorgeous and fragrant flowers, the romantic poems in the world, and she always corresponds to all the beautiful things in the world. ]
【And you will only be a silent tree. 】
[Of course you can get along with each other, and it won’t be awkward to appear in the same world or the same scenery, but you can never hug each other. ]
[Unless one of you two is willing to change, a beautiful change will always make people feel pity, at least you will feel extremely pity. ]
[As for you, what tree would wield a carving knife on itself and carve itself beyond recognition? ]
[Time cannot be stopped. You and Alicia can only move forward and cannot go back to the past.]
[There is no need to go back to the past, because none of you has changed. ]
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[Humanity is terrified by the Herrscher of the Wind's dying counterattack. They truly regard the Collapse as the enemy of human civilization and a hurdle that must be overcome in order to survive.]
[So they went crazy trying to upgrade their technology.]
[We have to fight against the collapse because we are afraid, and we have to improve technology because we have to fight against the collapse. 】
[There is nothing wrong with this, but a hidden condition that only you know makes it all unreasonable. ]
[Just like a race, humans use advanced technology to speed up, and the strength of the collapse will also increase and surpass humans. 】
[If humans blindly pursue technological advancement, they will only lead to greater destruction in the end, and the only losers will be humans themselves. ]
[But this is an unavoidable vicious cycle. After all, the strength of the Honkai becomes stronger as technology advances. As the strength of the Honkai becomes stronger, humans become more afraid of the Honkai and so they advance technology even more frantically...]
[This goes on and on.]
[People will get tired and die, and there will be limits that they can never reach, but collapse will never happen. ]
【The only losers in the race will be humans. 】
[You actually expect someone to discover the subtle relationship between the technological level of human civilization and the intensity of Honkai by themselves. ]
[In that case, everything will still be in time. ]
[However, no one has been able to make a reasonable and well-founded guess so far.]
【Time is also fate. 】
[You yourself did not have any special emotions because of this. You just paid attention to the technological level of human civilization while smilingly studying the game concepts contained in your body with Wei Wei and developing games by the way.]
[As time goes by, the technological level of mankind becomes higher and higher, and the research between you and Weiwei becomes more and more in-depth. ]
[On an ordinary and dull day, you achieved your first and most important success. ]
research room.
In the dimly lit laboratory, the "god" in charge of the concept of games and the genius girl overlooking the stars looked at each other in silence.
The dim light from the measuring instrument screen illuminated the faces of the two people and lit up their eyes.
Wei Erwei wanted to say something to persuade Lu Mian. After all, neither of them could predict what would happen next.
But when she saw Lu Mian's face and the unwavering expression on it, she forgot everything and only remembered to reach out and gently pinch the other's sleeve.
No matter what, I will be with you, accompany you to reap the fruits of victory, and also accompany you to face...failure.
The girl's feelings cannot be conveyed through words or such a simple action.
Lu Mian thought that the other party was just worried about the success or failure of this experiment. His expression softened again and again. He reached out and tied up the strand of hair beside his ear. "It's okay. This experiment is not very in-depth. Even if it fails, it won't have much impact on us."
After saying this, he didn't hesitate any longer and spread out his right palm - a slightly disordered stream of information suddenly appeared on it.
This stream of information is a manifestation of the concept of "game" hidden in Lu Mian's body, which is reflected into the real world due to the rapid development of mechanical calculations and Wei Erwei's genius.
With the despair of destroying everything and the hope of saving everything in his hands, Lu Mian held his breath and concentrated, grasping the flow of information tightly in his palms.
Instantly, boundless and brilliant divine light emanated from the hand that held the information flow and covered him.
In this divine light, his perspective became extremely broad and his sight became extremely grand.
As far as the eye can see, there are the top of the tower, the bottom of hell, the ruins of gods, the remains of the dead, and those game worlds that have become connected to the world.
At the end of everything, Lu Mian saw the "tree" whose branches and leaves turned into all things and the vast and boundless "sea".
The moment he saw the two of them with his own eyes, it was as if tangible information and images crashed into his eyes.
Under such a wash, everything seemed to become meaningless.
[Although you usurp the title of "God", you are still a human being in the final analysis. What you have mastered so far is only a small part of your own concepts.]
[How can you withstand the scouring of trees and the sea? 】
[The Supreme Beings have no independent consciousness. After sensing that you are the "third pole" who can look at them in the same light, they will even subconsciously give you gifts.]
[But you can't afford this gift. ]
[Under the simultaneous washing of the trees and the sea, your own existence and memes are repeatedly disrupted. ]
[Your eyelids become heavier, your vision becomes dim, and you are about to be forced to break away from this supreme posture.]
[And at this moment, a soft touch with a refreshing fragrance rushed straight into your sensory nerves. ]
【Ah, it’s Weiwei. 】
[With her mortal body, she crossed the boundless divine light and hugged you tightly. ]
[She didn't know what consequences this would bring to herself, but she still did it.]
【How crazy...】
[Thinking of this, you look at Wei Wei who is holding you with your eyes that see through everything.]
You saw love—love that is limitless, love that is warm and familiar, love that is never wrong.
Chapter 17 Dear Great Inventor (Two in One)
[You looked at Weiwei with your supreme divinity, but you only saw love.]
[Love that warms you to the point of wanting to melt, love that gives you the courage to stand up and keep moving forward, love that allows you to do anything you want.]
[Time may be like a circle of exquisite closed loop that seems to be created by nature, containing everything. 】
