Oh no, I have become a character in the card pool?

Chapter 23 A monster that has lived for thousands of years may also be a fool

"I said, although the matter of relocating the old people in the town has come to an end."

"But there is still the follow-up city defense, and we need to determine the core location of this "erosion collapse"."

"Due to the lack of manpower, we can only explore the surrounding map step by step, as well as the refresh distribution of the demon entities."

Lin Xuan paused with a helpless tone.

He spread his hands and tried to explain as if bargaining, "So, even though I seem to be idle, I am actually quite busy, understand?"

"Ah."

The girl with long light blue hair and fox ears nodded calmly, and the white rope hanging on her long hair to hold her braids fell softly.

Without looking back, those light golden eyes that seemed to be out of this world were still looking at the empty sky.

Her voice was light and graceful. “So, move a little more to the right, and don’t stop your hand.”

".Yes, yes."

Lin Xuan shrugged as if giving up.

Then, he continued to pick up the wooden comb in his hand that he had taken out from the storage space in the garrison base. It was so old that he didn't know how old it was.

His left hand held the tail behind the girl, while his right hand followed the direction of the light blue hair.

The movements were steady yet delicate, like gently treating gorgeous silk, letting the flowing curves pass silently.

Storage space - this is a technology that existed in the [Battle Era].

If we want to talk about the principle, it is "he" who is the protagonist of the game who puts it forward.

Just like the cultivation chamber for summoning contract spirits, it is the spatial data detected by human instruments when time and space are eroded by broken time.

Assisted by special means, a fixed space can be frozen and influenced.

The attribute of the summoning chamber is resonance, which awakens the souls sleeping on the earth and allows them to take on flesh.

Storage space is the opposite, freezing the time inside this space. The disadvantage is that it can only store dead objects, and living things cannot enter it.

This technology also played a huge role on the front line back then.

It has greatly solved the problem of material logistics.

Saved at least hundreds of millions of lives.

If it were a stable era before war, it would not be surprising even if Lin Xuan was awarded several Nobel Prizes and was titled the "Father of xxx Technology" to pretend to be a legendary scientist.

But that's it.
In Lin Xuan's opinion, the purpose of these background settings is very simple.

Which mobile game really takes Newton’s coffin seriously?
If those pretty girls in the card pool weren't wearing flimsy and gorgeous clothes that exposed a lot of their fair skin, and a bunch of decorations that looked useless except for being pretty.

Instead, he wore a thick dark green military uniform that wrapped up the lines of his body, and only exposed a little skin, which was a fascination for otakus. Everyone had to carry large and small bags of luggage when they moved positions.

——So how do you plan to sell the cards for this mobile game to players?

Wouldn't it be that as soon as it goes online, the community will be pessimistic, the revenue will plummet, the politically correct reposts and likes will be made, and the whole process will collapse and be sold out at the speed of light?
Therefore, we can only say that the plot of the mobile game was indeed carefully crafted.

These essential business elements were integrated into the plot in a reasonable way, so that Lin Xuan, who was playing at the time, did not notice any sense of incongruity.

Okay. Let’s get back to the topic.

Earlier, after confirming that Xingjian Jingli was willing to lend a hand, Lin Xuan immediately gathered everyone in the town and expressed his demand that they must relocate their position.

After all, the location of the town is too isolated.

Even the veterans of each company can somehow dig out one or two pieces of equipment from their own basements.

What’s even more bizarre is that although they are antiques discarded decades ago, they are still in such good condition that they can be used just by wiping them.

Even professional collectors would be dumbfounded.

A museum exhibition of "Battle Era Armaments Grand Prize" can be held on the spot.

But under the wave after wave of refresh attacks from the demonic entities.
Even though their will is inexhaustible, they are still somewhat lacking in physical strength.

This is the physical proof that time has passed.

Moreover, if the number of dead demons and ghosts is too large, Lin Xuan cannot estimate whether some local "weird rules" will appear.

That's the real big trouble.

Originally, Lin Xuan thought that his request would be met with some opposition.

Considering that these elderly people are the survivors who have not yet evacuated the E-026 area, they will probably feel homesick for their homeland and will probably not easily give up the environment where they have lived for decades.

But what was unexpected was that when Lin Xuan sent out the assembly instructions, the elderly people who arrived at the location had already packed their bags.

Good guy.

Is this the professional quality of the retired military corps?
Thanks to this, the chores of the transfer were completely completed two days ago.

In this way, as long as we rely on the city defense of the garrison base and the energy supplies provided, it will be no problem to hold on until the support from the Linye City branch arrives.

but.

Lin Xuan’s goal does not stop there.

After confirming the physical condition of the elderly, instructing the patrol intervals, and asking him to be informed of important data such as ether density on a regular basis.

Lin Xuan was thinking about his next "plan".

Without a moment's rest, busy preparations continued.

——Until the fox-eared priestess brought this wooden comb taken out from the warehouse space and found him when he was busy planning.

"The condition of your tail"

Lin Xuan was halfway through combing the hair when he couldn't help but reach out and run his hand across the tail, running his fingertips through the silky soft and fluffy hair.

This is a very special feeling.

Even though she looks like a fox demon, the so-called contracted spirit is not that simple, let alone a girl who is at the top level.

This tail is clearly a part of the body, but it feels like flowing water, like ice crystals that can calm people's minds.

As long as you touch it, you can feel your mind being reflected.

No matter how chaotic your thoughts are, they will return to peace.

But this was not what Lin Xuan wanted to say. He raised his eyes with a strange look and asked, "Jingli, how long have you not taken care of your hair?"

He was not surprised that the fox-eared girl handed him a comb.

After all, this was part of the "favorability personal event" in the mobile game - one of the "daily tasks".

Qi Ling is not just a spirit.

Their souls come from broken time and space, and pure ether constructs their new bodies, which is equivalent to the fusion of two worlds.

Even humans will get sick if they move to a new place due to unfamiliar climate and water.

Naturally, these contracted spirits from other worlds are no exception.

Indeed, because they were all heroes and possessed extremely strong individual qualities, most diseases could not bother them.

But it seems like the ether conduction circuit is not smooth. The food I eat every day is not to my taste. I can't continue my previous hobbies, etc.
In a practical sense, it will affect the combat capabilities of these spirits.

——This was the content of the daily tasks that Lin Xuan had to pay attention to at all times in the game.

As a spirit envoy.

Cook, paint, sculpt, compose music, pick out nice clothes, use dialogue for psychological therapy, and appreciate swordplay when you don't understand it.
To ensure that the girls can always maintain the best mental state when fighting.

As an old father, he is really worried.

Tired, so tired.

Although in this process, "Qiling Poems" may have taken into account the player's fatigue, with a sincere and amazing cut-scene CG
And they are all Live2D with beautiful painting style.

Taking into account various scenes, the body curves and costume changes are all designed to feast the eyes to the extent that players will not give up the game.

But Lin Xuan said that he had long been unable to fall in love with the difficulty of those levels.

Want to be funny? Sorry, I'm just an emotionless level-clearing machine. Does this CG add any attribute bonus? But——

Let's put it this way.

When Xing Jian Jingli came over with a wooden comb and asked him to tidy up his hair with a calm expression.

Lin Xuan just showed a helpless smile, immediately put down what he was busy with, and picked up the comb as usual.

This is a little fox with no desires or demands.

There are etheric circuits hidden in her hair, and every time she uses a skill it becomes tangled, but she doesn't bother to comb it herself.

Maybe when she was still alive, even when the circuit remained disordered.

It is easy to defeat the opponent.

However, Lin Xuan, her former spirit bond master, was able to help her calm those restless circuits by combing her hair.

She would refuse coldly at first.

And later, the fox-eared girl sat on the steps of the shrine, looking up at the sky, and the black-haired boy sat quietly beside her and combed her hair.

The wind blows by.

No need for any extra words to embellish.

This period of quiet and ordinary time became the norm for the two of them when they were together.

"No, look at how messy your circuit is!" Lin Xuan ran the comb across it, as if he had innate knowledge and could accurately clear the blocked ether even without seeing it with the naked eye.

His eyes were wide open and he looked a little crazy.

Said: "Fuck, I was wondering how you could clear the mana with just three teleports."

"Have you never sorted out the state of your circuits or combed your hair in the past hundred years?"

Normally.

If a bonded spirit and a bonded spirit master make a covenant, then the ether will instinctively eliminate negative states as it flows through the bodies of both.

If it is an ownerless spirit, it will need some special materials to adjust it.

It’s not that the battle damage can’t be repaired.

but.

Whether you find someone to contract with you or comb your hair yourself.

A certain fox-eared girl actually chose not to do any of them?

If you see this kind of character in the game adding a bunch of attribute-reducing debuffs to himself, it will take a lot of effort to clear them.

He couldn't even imagine how severe the cerebral hemorrhage would be.

wrong--!
This is not even a game, it is a reality where life-threatening situations may occur at any time.

Does this guy rely on how powerful he is to not tidy up his body even once?
"no need."

Xing Jian Jingli still didn't turn her head, but when the needle tip of the wooden comb brushed across her tail, her fox ears would sway slightly and imperceptibly.

Her voice is still so plain and ethereal.

"I wouldn't let anyone touch my body if it wasn't you."

"As for the demonic power needed for the battle, according to the content of my cooperation with the current alliance, it can only be used when they ask me to attack from the depths of the [Demon Netherworld]."

"Only when surrounded by a large number of Yellow Springs demons and dragged into a territory with special rules will there be a slight stagnation."

"But this situation has never happened once in all these years."

"So, even if I don't care. Uh-huh!?"

The girl's crystal blue fox ears moved, and her voice couldn't help but rise and distort slightly.

It's a light sweetness that contrasts with the ethereal voice.

It was as if he was stimulated by something and had to force himself to stop talking in order to suppress the sound coming out of his throat.

"You still dare to refute?" Lin Xuan didn't notice the girl's interrupted voice and some strange panting.

He was a little angry at the other party's twisted logic. He sneered and used the comb in his hand directly to the weak point that he originally intended to slowly dredge.

Just press against the trembling and resisting tail and comb it straight down!

A hint of snow-white at the tip of the crystal blue tail.

This stroke made his hair stand up uncontrollably, as if he had received a painful bone massage.

Then, as if numb and exhausted, it slowly fell between the boy's five fingers.

Lin Xuan is usually easy to talk to, but there was a hint of anger in his words.

"You mean, if I don't come back alive, you'll really be prepared to spend your whole life without readjusting yourself?"

His dark eyes stared at the fox-eared girl's back as she didn't turn her head back.

Apart from her enormous demonic power, she looked just like an ordinary girl, with a fragile and delicate body.

He said in a serious tone: "Before you become a contracted spirit with me, you are first a great monster who needs to ensure your own life."

"You are willing to watch your own strength weaken for an ordinary human like me. Even if you tell me this, will I be happy?"

This is too outrageous.

If he hadn't traveled through time, this would be equivalent to the girl slowly letting her life slip away.

How would Lin Xuan view this? Would a love suicide that lasted for two or three hundred years or even more than a thousand years be considered a romantic thing?
This is simply a stupid thing to do!
He was furious, really furious. Even if he used all his strength he couldn't beat the fox, but that didn't stop him from calling her stupid.

Just when Lin Xuan was so angry that he wanted to say something more.

Caught off guard.

Xing Jian Jingli turned sideways and looked at him.

The girl's delicate face was as calm as ever, but the previous stimulation left a slight blush on her cheeks.

The cold light golden eyes seemed to turn as soft as caramel at this moment.

She said calmly: "But, you are back, aren't you?"

As if it were a matter of course.

Lin Xuan looked at Xing Jian Jingli whose expression suddenly changed and in an instant she looked like an ordinary girl.

I couldn't help but get stuck on the words I wanted to say.

Could it be that this is why being a beautiful girl allows you to do whatever you want?

No, his heart belongs to gunpowder and iron, and he can't be conquered by the beauty of the second dimension!

Just when Lin Xuan was a little stunned and was having a psychological struggle with himself.

A comb hit him on the head mercilessly.

"Don't talk, just keep combing your hair."

Xing Jian Jingli turned his gaze back to the falling words, looking indifferently at the night sky.

"Your previous efficiency was really too slow. You were just wasting your energy in vain."

"After you help me comb my tail, I will take a photo for you and show you a map of the area."

Her words were always plain yet contained sharp thorns that reflected the truth, even to Lin Xuanshi.

Just like everything that happened before.

They are just ripples caused by the wind blowing across the water, like an illusion, fleeting.
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Therefore, it is important to read on and be sure to scroll down to the last page after finishing reading.

This is related to the order of the editor's recommendations, so I can put it on the shelves earlier!
——And once it’s on the shelves, we can increase the update volume_(:3」∠)_.

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