Chapter 293: Upturned Corners of Mouth

"Here comes the ball"

"Bang!"

The volleyball swooped down, brushed the net, and its trajectory changed accordingly.

Hua raised his head, his eyes chasing the rising black shadow, and then met the dazzling sunlight, and the picture in his eyes instantly became clear but sharp.

She stumbled and ran towards the ball's landing point. Because she was too focused on the ball itself, she didn't even hear the noisy footsteps around her.

"Well!"

"Ouch!"

"Ugh!"

Hua, Destobia and Velvet fell to the ground, covering their heads and looking at each other in confusion. Everyone was only paying attention to the volleyball and did not notice the movements of their teammates.

"Pah——"

The volleyball was stuck listlessly in the sand, and it seemed that the three girls had laughed so stupidly that they lost all strength.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh! The Pink Fairies have scored another point! Now it's four to zero!"

"whispering sound!"

Mebius, who was sitting on the high platform next to the net and drinking watermelon juice, smacked his lips and gave a friendly reminder:

"Alicia, your shot just now went out of bounds!"

"..."

"Pfft..."

Listening to the happy noise behind him, Mikael couldn't help but grin. For just a moment, Su and Kevin who were accompanying him extremely doubted whether the laughter just now was an auditory hallucination.

But the fishing rod in his hand still faithfully recorded his smile at that moment. The vibrations were transmitted from Mikael's hands to the fishing rod, and then to the fishing line, and finally rippled in circles on the calm water. of ripples.

As long as it is something that actually happened, the world will definitely leave proof of its existence, and that's probably it.

"By the way, didn't we agree to make a movie? Why are they playing volleyball again?"

Kevin's voice was a little weak, more absent-minded.

"no way."

Mikael shook his head and sighed.

"Perhaps girls' thinking is so out-of-the-box. On the boat, I kept thinking about making movies, but here I changed to-'Wow! What a beautiful sea! What a warm sea breeze! Anyway, the vacation is still long, let's Let’s take a day off first!’, that’s probably it.”

"...Mikael, you understand women."

Kevin admired sincerely.

Regarding this, Su closed his eyes and the old god sipped the wolfberry tea in his thermos cup without comment.

"Hiss Liu - Hiss Liu - Hiss Liu -"

"..."

Kevin rubbed the heavy dark circles under his eyes, hesitated and blushed for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask:

"Su, the wolfberry you gave me before was pretty good, do you still have it?"

Mikael sat upright and glanced slightly from the corner of his eye, just in time to see the corners of Su's mouth twitching slightly.

"No more."

"ah?"

“There may not be any wolfberries anymore.”

"Um?"

Mikael frowned, put down the fishing rod that was not baited at all, and just took a sip of ice-cold orange juice when he heard Su say:

"I went to the logistics department last week and asked. Not only wolfberry, but also many naturally grown and farmed products may be gradually removed from the purchase list in the future."

Mikael looked at the orange juice in his hand. Fortunately, there are various fruits grown in Himihu's field, so it can last for a while...

Thinking of this, he turned his head calmly, just in time to see Himihu sleeping soundly under the umbrella with an empty wine bottle in his hand. After all, her body has been irreversibly damaged, her organs are slowly failing, and she can no longer come into contact with any weapons and armor involving Honkai energy...

If it was just organ failure, Mikael could still use the power of death to help her recover, but she could no longer bear such an input of Honkai energy.

"..."

Mikael's thoughts floated out of his brain and floated in front of Himihu like invisible clouds - he didn't even dare to let his body as a Herrscher get close to Himihu.

"team leader……"

This thought came and went quickly. When Mikael turned around, Su and Kevin were still discussing the topic of wolfberry.

"In the final analysis, wolfberry is not a necessity of life. People will not die if they don't eat wolfberry, but they will definitely die if they don't eat. With this concept, the production department naturally prefers the production of staple foods. Of course, originally, such as wolfberry Growing cash crops is not within the scope of the production department's consideration. It is mostly purchased from retail investors, but where are there any retail investors now? "

"What about...the fruit?"

"First of all, wolfberry is a fruit."

"Well……"

"Currently, the headquarters still has some fruit reserves, mainly from self-cultivated fruit fields in underground cities, but those are definitely not enough to support long-term use. Judging from the current consumption, let alone this year, they will be exhausted this month. ”

"However, compared to the fruits that occupy grain production, the wine brewed directly from grain seems to have more reserves. Just now Hen told me that in the past two years, a pint of brandy needed to be exchanged for four B-grade grain stamps. Now just two B-level food stamps are enough.”

"snort……"

Mikael joined the discussion between the two with a nasal voice of unknown meaning:

"It's simple, because the added value of alcohol in stabilizing your mood exceeds the value of two B-grade standard rations."

"Well……"

Kevin rubbed his eyebrows, looking like he didn't understand:

"Mikael, you might as well speak more clearly."

"Both high-calorie foods and alcohol can bring about false happiness based on indulgence, but the happiness of high-calorie foods can only last for one or two hours, while alcohol can keep the happiness going until the next morning when you sober up. Do you understand what I mean?"

Kevin, who has never drunk alcohol, obviously cannot understand the happiness brought by alcohol... No, to be precise, it is the paralysis effect.

"Compared to keeping everyone alive, it is obviously more important for the entire world to maintain a general stability in order. Because once the order collapses, production will also collapse. Therefore, the expansion of wine production is also a helpless move. Some people may starve to death because of the extra grain consumed in winemaking, but those who do not starve to death can at least work honestly.

"The factory will distribute one-tenth of a pint of wine to every citizen who "voluntarily" participates in the work and does not come late or leave early before the end of the work day. If you do not miss work for a month, you can get a quart for free. This is the means.

"It's a bit cruel to say this, and it's not absolute, but this is what is happening in our world. Or we can also say that if a civilization is heading towards extinction, then abstinence or drinking will inevitably happen."

"Is that so..."

Looking at Kevin who was lost in thought, Mikael shrugged.

The conversation started with a light and relaxed topic, but in the end it always led to heavy and taboo content. Perhaps, this is inevitable in men's conversations.

In normal times, Mikael would not care much about these. In such a depressing and gloomy world, compared to talking about some heavy topics, talking about those light and detached things is more like "destroying the style of painting", right?

But this time is an exception.

Since what Alicia wants is an eternity different from all depression, only recording the moment of happiness and happiness at this moment, what she wants to leave for the future is definitely not everyone's frowning appearance, then Mikael will naturally do as she wishes and will not leave a trace of discordant noise in the memory of this journey.

Although...if someone in the future can really see these recorded happy clips, they may not feel happy, but will feel more sad because of the hope shown by everyone in a hopeless world.

But...maybe someone can really see hope from it?

No one can completely control another person's thoughts and ideas, and using the power of consciousness to reverse it is just a kind of coercion under absolute power, not pure self-consciousness.

So, Mikael cannot decide what people who may see this clip in the future think and think, he can only erase all the inappropriate things in this clip.

So, he turned his head to look at Kevin, laughed twice in a low voice, and suddenly asked:

"Speaking of which, Kevin, didn't you hate wolfberry before? Why did you take the initiative to ask Su for it this time?"

"Uh...cough cough cough! This...I didn't know when I was young, but now I think wolfberry is very fragrant and sweet!"

"Oh? Really?"

Mikael stared at him intently, to be precise, staring at his dark circles.

"Uh... that... that that... that that... that that that..."

Kevin kept moving his lips, dodging his gaze, thinking about how to get around this problem.

But with his knowledge reserve, it was more or less difficult to do this, so he looked to Su for help, although he didn't know if Su could see his eyes clearly without opening his eyes.

It turned out that Su might not be able to see, but as a fusion warrior with mental perception, he could easily capture the emotions of others.

He chuckled twice, but after speaking, he did not immediately help Kevin out, but asked with great concern:

"Kevin, have you been feeling dizzy and black-eyed recently?"

"Uh... yes."

"Ah..."

Mikael and Su sighed together, the latter sipped a sip of wolfberry tea to moisten his mouth, cleared his throat, and then, in Kevin's puzzled eyes, he raised his chin and said softly:

"Kevin, you are young and strong, and your spirit is strong. Dizziness and black-eyed diseases are not suitable for today."

"???"

"Doctors say: Qi and blood deficiency is caused by five kinds of labor and seven kinds of injuries. Liver deficiency causes dizziness and kidney deficiency causes back pain and spermatorrhea."

"So... Su, what do you want to say?"

Compared to Su, who looked calm and calm, and Kevin, who had not yet figured out the situation, Mikael had already turned his face to the side. Although he bit his lips tightly, he still couldn't suppress his lips from grinning to both sides.

"I want to remind you: if you indulge in the pleasure of a bed and forget how to protect yourself, the consequences will be serious."

"Oh, to protect your body! That's why I asked you for wolfberries... Hey, what does "bed entertainment" mean?"

Su shook his head imperceptibly. He smiled mysteriously, sipped his tea gently, and said nothing more, to show that he had accomplished his mission.

Mikael rubbed his face hard, and then he suppressed the corners of his mouth. Kevin turned his eyes to him with confusion.

"Kevin, puchi... Hahahaha!"

"Mikael! You... how funny is that!"

"Hahaha! "衽" means a straw mat, and "衽seat" refers to a bed for sleeping in ancient Shenzhou language... Actually, you don't have to worry about wolfberries. This time, Mei didn't come because of work, which is not a bad thing for you - give your body a good vacation, um, this is probably what Su meant."

"Su!!!"

Kevin jumped off the lounge chair and quickly picked up a handful of sand to throw at Su.

But Su remained calm. He had expected it and didn't even open his eyes. He just whispered:

"Karma Wheel."

But nothing happened.

The sand Kevin threw didn't fall on Su, and Su's Karma Wheel couldn't bounce the attack back to Kevin.

The reason was very simple. Kevin just picked up the sand and before he could make the next move, he felt dizzy and his vision went black. Finally, he staggered and fell to the ground with his chin. The sand only fell to Su's feet.

"Wow!"

The biggest victim of this conflict appeared - Mikael laughed until his abdomen cramped, and then the lounge chair and orange juice fell sideways on the beach.

"Hahahahaha!"

This time, it was Kevin's turn to turn around and laugh at Mikael who couldn't get up quickly from the beach because of the stomach cramp.

The laughter was exaggerated and chattering, just like a heartless child, but soon, a ball of yellow sand got into his lips that were constantly opening and closing because of his laughter.

"Ugh! Pah! Pah! Mikael!!"

"Ah..."

Su smiled bitterly and shook his head. He opened his eyes a little and was determined to stay out of the fun, but suddenly the sand flew over Kevin and splashed at him. Before he could react from the dull feeling of vacation, the sand hit him head and face.

Of course, none of this mattered, and being splashed by sand was not a big deal.

It's just... Su opened his eyes, and the sand and mud floated on the boiling wolfberry tea, just like the grease and dirt floating in a public bath.

"Ah..."

He put the thermos aside, silently put away the "leaf" in the palm of his other hand, and turned to join the melee.

Two fusion warriors against a Herrscher, if the three of them were to fight, this island would probably be silent in an instant.

But no one did that. No, to be more precise, no one used the power that "humans" could not have. Even Su opened his eyes for the first time in a long time, instead of using his mental power to feel everything in the outside world.

They played together, just like big boys of this age should.

Anyone who dared to open his mouth and shout a sentence or two, or couldn't help laughing, would be immediately stuffed with sand.

The girls playing volleyball also stopped their actions, and silently bet on who would win the final victory across the website.

The final result was of course... no one won...

"Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! Let's fight together! A bunch of trash!"

A man with a fire on his head suddenly rushed out from the side, and while making a sharp and piercing laugh, he threw the three trash fish one by one into the distant sea, and soon turned into three small black dots on the horizon.

"Hahahahaha! Who else! Come and fight me..."

"Wow——"

The sea water from nowhere soaked him from head to toe, leaving only a small flame on his silver-white hair that was still stubbornly jumping.

"Who!"

He turned his eyes and saw the woman standing behind him with an apologetic smile in the narrow slit of the mask.

"Aponia! You..."

"Calm down, Qianjie."

Aponia stretched out an index finger, raised it upward, and then chopped it down.

"What, are you teasing a child..."

"Wow——"

Under the guidance of telekinesis, another large amount of sea water poured down from his head, and this time, the small flame on Qianjie's head was also gone.

"Aponia!!!"

…………

With the ebb and flow of the tide, the originally golden beach showed a brown-black color opposite to the sunset. When you step on it, it is wet and warm, which is completely different from the sticky and cold mud.

When Mikael and Kevin crossed the sea on ice and dragged Su, who couldn't swim, back to the island that was once marked as P-21 and is now two twin islands, the setting sun had already fallen halfway into the sea.

A few seabirds whose names could not be told flew diagonally across the sparkling sea, their wings lightly cutting through the sea water and crossing a semicircle. Under the interweaving of light and shadow, it seemed as if capillary phenomena were triggered. The dark white feathers of the seabirds instantly absorbed the golden "ink" on the sea surface, and each of them flashed with dazzling golden light.

The color of the beach quickly changed from golden to red. Ellie stood in front of Hua, Destobia and Vivi, showing them the famous "moves" that she had previously figured out. Eden stood in the shadow of a rock beside him, holding a gorgeous wine glass, and watched with interest.

"Alicea! Give me back my clothes!!"

Mebius, who had stayed up all night yesterday, seemed to have just woken up. She was standing at the bow. Her fluttering green hair was followed by a face that was so red that it seemed to compete with the sunset. She was waving a pink dress in the wind. It was obvious who had done this.

"Abonya! Let me go!!!"

Qianjie stamped his feet angrily, but he could not pull his hands away from Abonya's hands. So he could only bear Abonya's persuasion in a depressed mood. He looked like a horse sleeping standing up.

Gray was painting on the paper, and Blanca was stroking her forehead with a sweet smile. Suddenly, the mother and daughter looked up with a feeling, and saw Kosmo silently supporting the unconscious Hen.

Looking at Himiko again, as expected, the position of her sprawled body had moved slightly, and there were five or six empty bottles at her feet. It was obvious that she was drunk for the second time.

"Hehehe! Paduo, you are already a fusion warrior, why can't you catch up with me?"

Ling took Paduo to run in circles on the beach, and did not forget to turn around and make a face to mock.

"We have always traded fairly, so you should put your things down first!"

"Lululu... You even dared to steal Sister Ellie's favorite brooch! I want to enforce justice and help Sister Ellie get back the stolen goods!"

"What stealing! That's purchasing! How can it be called stealing when it comes to businessmen! You... You stop for a while, I admit defeat, you give me the things... I, I will return them myself, okay?"

"Catch up with me first!"

Ying followed the two girls silently. She was still used to putting her left hand on her waist, but today, there was no sword hanging there.

As if she felt something, she suddenly stopped and turned to look at Mikael, who was standing at the junction of the beach and the waves with his back against the sunset.

At first glance, her expression was still cold and her brows were furrowed.

But Mikael could clearly see the corners of her mouth slightly raised.