He came from the bell tonight

Chapter 38 Greedy Wolf

No one knew him except that letters of confession and gifts were often piled up in Suling in Imperial College.Taking a step back, as a humanoid weapon, Suling was originally a "transparent person" in society, an asset registered under Xiao Huaiyan's name, and anything he got would first be approved by the owner.

The parcel addressed to Suling in front of him seemed particularly suspicious.

"For safety's sake, I'll open it." Xiao Huaiyan stretched out his hand towards him.

When Su Ling handed it to him, Xiao Huaiyan's face darkened the moment he let go.

"what happened?"

Under Su Ling's suspicious gaze, Xiao Huaiyan lifted the package with both hands with difficulty: "...it's okay."

Then it hit the ground with a "boom", and the branches and birds scattered.

Xiao Huaiyan pulled out a short dagger, and cut open the paper box, revealing a metal cube with a smooth silver surface without flaws or flaws.

In terms of size, this thing is at most the size of a football.But the weight is the same as solid lead.

Xiao Huaiyan suddenly became vigilant: "It can't be a bomb."

"No." Su Ling denied.He didn't smell anything unusual.

Su Ling pushed away Xiao Huaiyan's blocking hand, and lightly pressed the top of the cube. With a little force, a crack spread from the center of the top surface like a tendril, and broke into small pieces.

Inside is another cube.

This smaller cube is not very heavy, relatively speaking, it is more delicate, and it can be called perfect—as if there is such a natural object in the world, it is abrupt and self-consistent.

Su Ling poked at the cube placed on the bar, and Xiao Huaiyan pulled the curtains tightly from the corner of his eye, searching the terminal with a tense expression.Ever since he saw this guy, he has always had this look.

However, Su Ling did not know where the cube touched, the edges and corners of the silver glossy surface suddenly lit up, and the silver covering five sides unfolded silently, revealing a black cylinder.Under the illumination of the light, Su Ling's eyes were reflected on the pitch-black surface.

According to Xiao Huaiyan, this cube is called the Laplace body, also known as the wise man body, which is based on a concept called "Laplace demon" in the ancient history of the old star.That is, a person who can calculate all the past and future, and all possibilities are definite causes and effects.

Although this determinism has been questioned since ancient times, some scientists in the Star Age are still obsessed with finding out this simple formula that can predict all futures, and claim that they have already constructed half of this formula.Naturally, this behavior has been widely questioned.

About 60 or [-] years ago, a group of scientists created the Laplace body for ironic purposes—that is, an intelligent AI in entertainment mode, used for interaction, and can be used as a kind of intelligent divination.

"...I didn't write the sender, otherwise I wouldn't ask you," Xiao Huaiyan spoke impatiently to the other end of the terminal, "The material of the outer shell is the same as the chair base of Liberty Ship."

The other side laughed: "The material is the same, you go to the manufacturer, why, I still have to feed food into your mouth?"

Xiao Huaiyan hung up directly.In less than three seconds, the other party pressed it back.After hearing a few words, he gradually frowned.

After 2 minutes, Xiao Huaiyan ended the call, and when he heard the voice from the Laplace body, he was startled suddenly.

"After the iris verification, you are indeed Suling. Then please confirm that the surroundings are safe and you are the only one?" The voice was thick and cheerful, with a sense of humor hidden after vicissitudes.

Su Ling looked at Xiao Huaiyan, but did not answer.

"Oh, I almost forgot, Huai Yan must be there, right?"

"Well, I'm here, uncle."

Xiao Huaiyan came to the bar counter at some point and leaned lazily.He stared at the little blue figure that emerged from the black column, and Chao Suling explained: "This is something stored in a small shipping company in Sirius Nine in the name of Xiao Shiyue, a comrade-in-arms who died for many years. The handover procedure is here. It was activated after the identity was cancelled, and it was originally sent directly to the Liberty Ship according to the registration, and then it arrived here."

After all, Xiao Shiyue's identity is sensitive. No matter how confidential the delivery system is, or how high the deposit is, it is impossible to completely prevent the loss of items.It is safest to change the identity that has not been cancelled, add several layers of transshipment, and finally pass through the name of Liberty Ship.

But in fact, that comrade-in-arms was an unknown person in a remote galaxy, with no relatives or reasons, and only Xiao Shiyue participated in handling his funeral.I only told Xiao Huaiyan about this person.

So when Liberty Ship mentioned this name, Xiao Huaiyan was almost 100% sure that it was Xiao Shiyue's own behavior.

The Liberty Ship has also verified that the asteroid in the remote galaxy conducted an investigation two days after Xiao Shiyue's death, and canceled all unknown accounts for more than 100 years.Coincidentally, that asteroid happened to be under Xiao Shiyue's direct management.The local chief was suppressed after a small rebellion. Since then, he has surrendered to Xiao Huaiyan, and even respected him. After hearing of his death, he even held a whole-star mourning and held a vodka banquet for several days.

in other words--

"This is something that cannot be obtained by others," Su Ling said.

"It doesn't matter if you get it, after all, this thing has your iris authentication, although I don't know when he got it, maybe it started from the time of Sirius Nine. Destroy the program," Xiao Huaiyan thought for a moment, "but using this method, even activating the program on the condition of death, shows that the existence of this thing cannot be known at all."

Otherwise, according to Xiao Shiyue's character, he would have sent two teams with laser guns to escort him to the door.

The little blue man took off his top hat——Xiao Shiyue even designed himself an image of a magician, and said in his young voice: "Huai Yan, you are really smart, similar to your father, and much smarter than me." Well, a little less."

Xiao Huaiyan was too lazy to talk nonsense with him: "The voice is simulated so realistically, what exactly do you want to say?"

"NO, you shouldn't ask this, son. This Laplace body was given to Su Ling. To be precise, it was given to Su Ling by me and Qiu Ci."

Su Ling asked: "You and her, both recognize me?"

"Yes, and no. That question cannot be answered."

"Then what are you going to give me?"

The blue villain smiled "hehe": "This question is beyond the scope of what I can answer at present. Friendly reminder, you need a reader."

"Reader?" Su Ling repeated.

Xiao Huaiyan poured two glasses of water and gave them to Su Ling: "Sometimes, some symbolic encrypted information will be put into the program. For example, this guy in front of me may be a terminal. Therefore, to distinguish the transmitted information, a specific Reader."

After he finished speaking, he was stunned for a second, and then slightly curled his lips: "I know which one he likes."

It's a pity that during the next three to ten minutes of searching, all large and small, formal and informal reader production companies told them that the 10-year-old reader that Xiao Shiyue liked had been completely destroyed. Eliminate, there is almost no such thing on the market at present.

Xiao Huaiyan thought for a while, and asked for the blueprint.

"If it doesn't work, I can also build one. It's not difficult," he glanced at Su Ling, and called out the holographic workbench, "It just needs some parts."

Su Ling followed Xiao Huaiyan to the supermarket on the edge of District N on foot, and picked up some necessary things in the hardware district.But Xiao Huaiyan actually bought a lot of parts, even beyond the scope of the drawings, and some special ones can only be customized from the alliance network.

When passing by the cuboid vending machine for adult products this time, Xiao Huaiyan sincerely told Su Ling not to touch it, but Su Ling looked at the crowd in line and asked strangely: "What are they used for?"

Xiao Huaiyan was silent for a while, not knowing how to explain it, and decided to let Su Ling take a physiology and hygiene course another day.

On the way back, Xiao Huaiyan was talking to Su Ling about the "Humanoid Weapons Protection Law" proposed by the military department, and before he could say a few words, he heard movement from a re-examination dormitory passing by.

It seems to be a window sill.However, the half-opened window was covered by dense branches, and one could barely see a person bumping into it with their backs facing each other.

Immediately afterwards, a ball of waste paper was thrown out from there, and it happened to land at Su Ling's feet.

Su Ling only took one look and recognized it: "It's the pattern of a vending machine."

He saw it last time.

Xiao Huaiyan hesitated for a moment, then let out a lazy "hmm".

Su Ling stood still, and suddenly frowned: "They are fighting."

Before he finished speaking, he was going to "persuade a fight".

At such a critical juncture, it may be too late to politely ring the doorbell, and it is faster to climb up directly from the window——

Xiao Huaiyan quickly grabbed him.

"It's not what you think," Xiao Huaiyan carefully chose his words, "That's what people in love would do."

The smoky purple eyes are full of confusion: "Do people who love each other fight?"

"They're not fighting." As soon as Xiao Huaiyan finished speaking, sweet groans, groans and water stains came out from the window sill.

Su Ling was inexplicably pushed away by Xiao Huaiyan, and looked back at the house number, which seemed to be No. 73.

The melted butter stained the cod pieces, and a sweet smell came out of the frying pan, filling the room.

Xiao Huaiyan turned around and placed an order at the terminal for the last set of parts of the reader—the customized version, which would take a week to arrive.

After he finished these, he turned his head and glanced at Su Ling who was observing the orange cat's family outside the window, feeling a little tangled in his heart.

Su Ling couldn't even see this, so how could he explain the hickey on his neck a few months ago?

Could it be that he was wrong.

……impossible.

But at least, he should not have encountered a liar with bad conduct, and they should have never had such a thing happen.

Thinking of this, he felt better.He turned on the terminal and reported to Suling a lecture on physical hygiene next month.

At two o'clock in the morning, Su Ling suddenly opened his eyes and woke up from the dream.

He sat up, feeling his cheeks burning hot and his forehead slightly sweating.

He just had a very strange dream.After returning from Xiao Shiyue's funeral, he has been dreaming constantly, always dreaming about things that never happened, and he was always very sad in the dream.

And just now, he dreamed that something very excessive happened between him and Xiao Huaiyan.The mess all over the place, the swaying moonlight, the intertwined shadows, and the uncontrollable voice.It was a little similar to what he heard today.

He calmed down for a while, put on his clothes, and turned out from the window sill on the second floor.

Not long after, he reached the clock tower.

The towering bell tower stands quietly in the night. From the top of the tower, one can see the silent Imperial College and the looming mountains not far away.Fog lingers at the end of the plain.

Su Ling raised his head slightly, staring at the blue chip in the center of the huge dial, like a flawless gem.

As if driven by something, he walked slowly in that direction, raised his hand, but remembered at the moment of touching——

"I came from the bell."

Just when Su Ling was hesitating, the piercing siren pierced the night sky and resounded over the Imperial College.

In the direction of the ruin-like gate, a mass of black thing slowly moved its huge body, stretching out countless tentacles.The slime slipped from the translucent top, and the grass blades were instantly burnt and turned into ashes when they were stained.

Behind that thing, densely packed smaller ones followed, rustling, coming from all directions, engulfing the light spots that passed by.