Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 266 Yu Lai
"First, it's true that Yulai County's terrain is mainly plains and hills, but the next point, 'there are above-average tourism resources', is pure nonsense. Is there anything worth seeing in that shabby place? The only slightly famous Baique Tower was reduced to ash by a naval cannon during the Seven Land War."

"After the Seven Lands War ended, during the reconstruction, the person in charge took kickbacks from the construction company. In less than three years, the New White Sparrow Tower collapsed again, and many people were sent to jail. As a result, no one was willing to take over the mess, and it was just a pile of ruins overgrown with grass."

Song Shi slid through the document and pointed to another one: "- Due to the lack of local fiscal revenue and its marginalized location, Yulai's infrastructure level is relatively backward."

"What do you mean by 'relatively backward'? Relatively backward is considered average there. In places a little further away from Yulai, you can even see things built during the Seven Lands War! Those houses are filled with an excessive number of poor people who are about to overflow. They are patched up and held up without collapsing. The roads nearby are repaired every year, but they are broken every year. I seriously suspect that the person in charge of the Urban Construction Bureau is working with the construction team to ensure that both sides get a stable income from the government."

".Hmm." Lapis Lazuli said nothing.

"The welfare security system is perfect - 'perfect'?" Song Shi sneered repeatedly: "It's really too perfect! The summary reports for fooling the public are getting better and better every year! The welfare homes below are getting worse and worse every year! The legal missing and death indicators are steadily increasing every year! It's just to make it easier for those above to provide free toys!"

"Because of its long history, the level of food is relatively high—" Song Shi seemed to want to say something else, but after a pause, he changed his words: "Okay, I can barely agree with this. Yu Lai's cooking skills are pretty good."

But the next moment, the young man was heartbroken again: "After the introduction of the white maggot breeding technology developed by Pure White Biology, the government vigorously promoted it in order to reduce agricultural costs, forcing most people to eat maggots, causing this area to fall into decline!"

"There is also this point, 'Yulai is always among the top 100 counties', but is it possible? The Pan-Eastern Continental Federation only has more than 100 counties in total!"

"Please wait a moment, Song Shi." Amid the other party's fierce words, Lapis Lazuli finally spoke.

The surface of the omnic's body flickered and then disappeared, as if it was considering something. After a brief pause, its voice was steady and a little low: "Is the situation of the Pan-Eastern Continental Federation... so bad?"

Song Shi glanced at Lapis Lazuli.

The young man tilted his head slightly, and after a long while, he asked curiously: "What else?"

"Otherwise?" Lapis Lazuli seemed stunned for a moment.

"The archives of the Enlightened Ones, and the data you collected while roaming the Internet as a Depth 4 demon, even if most of the details are wrong, there should be no major mistakes in the overall content. Lapis Lazuli, don't tell me you haven't seen those things - you omnics can refresh data much faster than us humans."

There was an undisguised weirdness in Song Shi's tone.

"And now that you have read those materials, why do you still have unrealistic fantasies about the Pan-Eastern Continental Union? Do you think it is a spotless and happy home? In this world, apart from the living environment in Eden, which can be considered pretty good, how can there be a so-called paradise?"

"The birth of the Pan-Eastern Continental Union was essentially an alliance formed by a group of forces during the Seven Lands War in order to protect themselves and seek benefits. Even though it is now collectively called the [Pan-Continental Union], and there is also the 'Nine Counties Council', which is nominally the highest governing body in the entire territory, but in essence, those past forces simply changed their positions and shells, and internally they still continued their past traditions and ruled the counties under their command."

Song Shi sneered and counted on his fingers: "Oh, the 'Eastern Continent Republic' is all private land of those noble families. They literally hold the power of heaven as their mouth. The charlatans of the 'Four Brilliant Heavens' will give you a big hand at any time."

"For the sake of so-called academic research, what would the 'Council of Knowledge' not dare to do? The 'Northern Thunder Defense Front' is a little better, but in the final analysis, they only want to pursue military power and don't care about anything else, so they have no interest in exploiting us, and they just maintain the situation."

"And the rest, are they just standing out from the crowd and out of place?"

"If it weren't for the Vampsta Empire standing by and watching them closely, they would have fought each other to death long ago! Even now, the number of troops on both sides has not necessarily decreased much, but there is no open large-scale war."

"Yulai. Yulai." Song Shi leaned back slightly, leaning on the sofa, looking at the ceiling, his pupils seemed to reflect something: "Those so-called 'the sun and the shadows flow, and the clear water reflects' the old scenery of Yulai, now except in history books and the backyards of those aristocratic manors, where can we still see it?"

The young man shook his head: "Yulai is such a place."

At this moment, the other party was clearly speaking in a straightforward manner, but in Lapis Lazuli's senses, it felt an inexplicable emotional representation. The result of the analysis showed that it was "nostalgia"?
"Yeah." Song Shi suddenly sat up straight and looked back at Lapis Lazuli. His expression had returned to normal. "In the last battle of Yaoxing III, as far as I know, the East Land Republic also contributed, and the Fifth Ring was killed. If that's the case, we may have a chance to cooperate in the future."

He said briskly, "Everyone...has accounts to settle."

Unexpectedly, Lapis Lazuli didn't react much.

"We will definitely take revenge." The omnic just said calmly. It paused for a moment and suddenly asked another question: "Song Shi, 'Destined Death', does it leave any impression on you?"

Song Shi answered simply: "No."

"After I was promoted that day, I have no memory of 'destined death' at all." He paused for a moment and added, "Well, I can't say I have no memory of it at all."

Song Shi extended his index finger and tapped his heart: "I don't know why, inexplicably, I felt very angry at the time. Maybe this is the remaining trace of 'destined death'?"

"correct."

Song Shi changed to a more comfortable position: "I almost forgot to ask, why did you suddenly fly back?"

The Sun Celebration came to an end with the "Bordeaux Crash" incident, but the subsequent impact will obviously not end there.

In addition to the full preparations for a battle of iron and fire between Enlightenment and the company, from the streets to office buildings, from private domain traffic to public network communities, the relevant discussions still maintain the top popularity, fermenting wildly, setting off waves of carnival, and attracting countless people to enjoy themselves.

——In the action team that day, [Lapis Lazuli], with its identity as an intelligent machine, could be said to have received less attention than only "Nandou" Song Shi.

To emerge.

It was quite popular for a while.

In addition to this apparent popularity, Lapis Lazuli officially appeared in the vision of ordinary members of the Enlightened, showing its presence without any concealment, and gradually began to contact other intelligent machines, paving the way for taking the leadership of the intelligent machine group in the future.

The affairs were quite tedious, which caused Lapis Lazuli to stay with the Enlightener. Apart from the occasional emergency calls online, he hadn't seen him in real life for several days.

"I came out to get some fresh air and bring you some news." Lapis Lazuli said briefly.

"Oh?" Song Shi looked up.

"Chakoro asked me to inform you that the altar has been set up. The nearest 'auspicious day' is tomorrow at 5 pm. Are you ready? Do you want to choose tomorrow or later?"

Song Shi laughed.

He jumped up.

"you still need to ask?"

(End of this chapter)