Just a magical girl who picks up trash

"Hello, although you may already know me, I'll still introduce myself: My name is Yu Huan, you can just call me Xiao Huan!"

Smiling, she looked at the girl who had just opened her eyes from the nutrient chamber and calmly pulled out the memory device from the belt around her waist. She bowed slightly and nodded to the "master" standing in front of her after she walked out of the nutrient chamber. Her tone was calm and respectful as she said, "Master, although you may say she is a stranger, it's not the first time they've met. Although you may say she is familiar, in fact, they haven't had much contact."

"Nice to meet you, Master. You can call me Xia Yu!"

"..."

The first thing you say is "master". I don't know how to respond to this!

34. Message

"Have you heard? Our city lord is back!"

"What? What city lord? Does Tianyu City... still have a city lord?"

"Well, I heard there is, but no one has ever seen it, so I don't know if it's true or not. But recently I heard... it seems that the city lord has returned!"

"I'm back... so what? This doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, right?"

"That... isn't necessarily the case!"

"Huh? What do you say?"

"I heard that the city lord seems to be preparing a team called the Tianyu Army and is about to march towards the outer city!"

"Attack the outer cities? What's the point? Hasn't Tianyu City always been indifferent to the outer cities?"

"Hehe~~ You don't understand this, right? This is called the three major changes a new official makes upon taking office... No, it should be said that the city lord is 'coming out of retirement' and needs to demonstrate his strength and prestige!"

"Tsk~~ You're still showing off your prestige... Although I admit that Tianyu City is indeed quite powerful, especially that Xiu Magia who can actually fight against monsters like Baiyin, but the waters of the outer city... are much deeper than those monsters outside who only know how to 'eat'!"

"That's right. Over the years of development in the outer city, not to mention the scavengers stationed there and the expatriates from various science and technology cities, it's become a hodgepodge of good and bad people. A single move can affect the entire city. That city lord wants to establish his authority... but he's clearly chosen the wrong place!"

"Hey, wait and see the good show!"

"That is……"

……

"...That's basically the situation. The news that the recently returned City Lord of Tianyu City is about to lead the Tianyu Army to clear out the outer city has been known to all the forces inside and outside Tianyu City, and this news..."

After casually slashing open the blue screen in front of him, cutting off the last part of the discussion, Tian Ling casually placed the file board in his hand on the desk in front of him. He looked at the several figures in front of him with solemn or even ugly expressions and expressed his own judgment:

"It seems to have come from the Tianyu Army!"

The smile he had when facing Yu Huan was obviously gone from his serious face. When Tian Ling's gaze gently passed over Hong Gu, who was sitting in the nearest seat, and Cai Xiaoxiao and Cai Xiaohou beside him, he then glanced at the Caesar brothers, and finally set his gaze on Zhao Tian and Heijia.

"..."

At the same time, feeling the gaze coming from the direction of Tianling, an ugly look appeared on the two men's originally resolute faces, which obviously confirmed who the person Tianling was talking about was.

Of course, everyone present understood that the "leak" that Tian Ling mentioned could not have been done by Zhao Tian and Hei Jia. After all, not to mention that the two of them had their own ties to Tianyu City and had sworn allegiance, there was no possibility of betrayal after signing the contract.

However, just because the two of them didn't have it doesn't mean that their subordinates didn't have it either!

In addition to the initial connections of the three Honggu people, the initial expansion of the Tianyu Army was due to the fact that the Caesar brothers came from the Demon King's plane and naturally had no means to recruit people in the main world. Therefore, after a little thought, this matter undoubtedly fell on the newly joined Zhao Tian, ​​Heijia and another military advisor captured from the previous sand bandits: Mingcan!

It has to be said that although he was severely punished by Yu Huan in the beginning, Yu Huan was not a little devil who would ignore everything when he was willful. Since the other party saw through the trap he set so easily, Yu Huan undoubtedly acknowledged the other party's ability and recruited him into the Tianyu Army. At present, he can be regarded as... a military advisor!

Of course, although he is a military advisor, Mingcan joined the group relatively late, and he just rushed over from the Goddess Ruins recently, so he obviously has nothing to do with the current affairs for the time being. Therefore, the main problems faced by everyone now are undoubtedly from Heijia and Zhao Tian.

The Tianyu Army needed to recruit people because it was short of people at the beginning. Although there were certain rules, the original intention of establishing the Tianyu Army was just to give Honggu and others an identity or a kind of "personal guard" relationship. Therefore, the screening of the Tianyu Army was obviously not very strict. It was only after Yu Huan came back that he had the idea of ​​​​raising it.

However, before that, because of the "relative" nature of the relationship with Tianyu City, Honggu and others, who could be said to value or not value recruiting people, did not have anyone they knew to invite, so this matter undoubtedly fell on Heijia and Zhao Tian.

Unlike Honggu, who is just a small scavenger from a marginal village, you have to know that the two of them are members of the top team in the scavenger alliance. Not to mention that each of their team members is basically the best among the scavengers, just talking about their connections and reputation is obviously beyond the reach of Honggu and others.

After becoming one of the "team leaders" of the Tianyu Army, the two of them took on the task of recruiting soldiers without any hesitation. Of course, everyone has selfish motives for this, and Zhao Tian and Heijia are no exception. Therefore, while "recruiting soldiers", the two of them naturally tried their best to focus on their former teammates.

After all, these players are led by the captains of two top teams. They are undoubtedly worthy of recognition in terms of strength and other aspects. More importantly, they have been cooperating for a long time. Now they are organized together and can not only cooperate more tacitly, but the two of them are obviously still able to affirm these people's character and so on!

As for this, the invited team members naturally expressed their understanding and gratitude. At the same time, they would never have any thoughts of betraying Zhao Tian, ​​Heijia or the Tianyu Army. Therefore, the establishment of the army was smooth sailing in the beginning, and the Tianyu Army developed little by little.

However, the same thing still applies... people always have their own selfish desires!

Just like Zhao Tian and Heijia, because they trusted their former teammates, they invited these people to the Tianyu Army. Almost the same, these team members who successfully joined the Tianyu Army were undoubtedly deeply touched after signing the contract and enjoying the benefits brought by Tianyu City. After seeing the strength of Tianyu City, they inevitably had some different ideas.

Of course, this is not a bad idea or an inappropriate ambition or delusion, but it is simpler than that: since the Tianyu Army is short of people, it doesn't matter who they recruit, so why not recommend their relatives and friends and let them contribute to Tianyu City?

In today's world, which is already a doomsday wasteland and is now ravaged by silver, the existence of Tianyu City can be said to be a pure land for those who have lived in it. These scavengers are obviously not grass or orphans, and they all have some relatives, friends, etc.

With this idea in mind, after obtaining the consent of Heijia and Zhao Tian, ​​these people did not hesitate to invite their relatives and friends to join the Tianyu Army in order to expand the military strength of the Tianyu Army.

However, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. If the reason why Zhao Tian and Heijia can unconditionally trust Tianyu City is not only because of the existence of Xia Yu and others, but also because of the contract, then the feelings and trust in their subordinates are also the key points why Heijia and Zhao Tian invite them to join.

As for the team members who were trusted by Zhao Tian and Hei Jia, they obviously had people they could trust. However, because there was no contractual constraint and these team members were not as old-fashioned and experienced as their own captain, these people who were invited to join the Tianyu Army at a later stage naturally had some...inappropriate thoughts!

Of course, apart from those people with wild ideas, there are also some who pretended to join the Tianyu Army, but in fact they were "undercover" who had been bribed by other forces early on, and then relied on the relationship between Zhao Tian and Hei Jia's "family and friends" to join Tianyu City through the back door.

For these people, if the Tianyu Army was really just a "mascot" army as it was established at the beginning, Tianling and others would naturally not care and would not even bother to ask.

However, it is obvious that the situation is completely different now!

The arrival of Yu Huan's clone officially took over everything in the Tianyu Army, and directly issued orders to purge the outer city and formulate rules. It can be said that this is not only the first battle for the Tianyu Army to prove its strength, but also the most important battle. It is also the first battle in which Yu Huan officially appeared in front of the public in Tianyu City.

The former is easy to deal with, but the latter is absolutely a top priority for Tianling, Zeya and the senior officials of Tianyu City who are far away in other places. It is a major event that absolutely does not allow any slackness or negligence.

However, Tian Ling was thinking this way. When Yu Huan decided to let the Tian Yu Army take action, she had even begun to consider whether to upgrade all the equipment of the Tian Yu Army to make it easier for Yu Huan to establish his authority. However, before she could take any action, a sudden change caught her off guard!

Someone leaked the information about clearing the outer city... Well, it doesn't matter. After all, Tian Ling and others didn't think of hiding such big news.

But what really made Tian Ling angry was undoubtedly another thing: Yu Huan's return!

35.Meeting

Although Yu Huan had appeared in and out of the Mercenary Guild before, it was obviously impossible for people to think that this cute and beautiful girl was the owner of Tianyu City. Afterwards, she went directly to the core area of ​​the inner city from the Mercenary Guild's teleportation array. Apart from Tian Ling and others, the only people who knew of her coming were probably a few captains and their followers whom Yu Huan had taken the time to meet.

Although in fact, no one had the intention or need to keep this secret, it still required Yu Huan to show up on her own initiative... But now Yu Huan hasn't shown up yet, and her information has been leaked out... This is undoubtedly a dereliction of duty for Tian Ling and Ze Ya, who are responsible for the intelligence information of the entire Tianyu City, and it is a huge dereliction of duty!

Regarding this, not only did the two of them deeply realize their negligence, but even the other women couldn't help but condemn it. It was not for anything else... it was just because if this matter was leaked by any one of the others, perhaps they would not need to care after they didn't care anymore. However, Yu Huan was obviously completely different.

After learning about this, Tian Ling was undoubtedly very annoyed. Even Zeya's calm expression, which had remained unchanged for thousands of years, obviously became much colder. At that moment, the entire satellite information was fully operational. In just a few minutes, Tian Ling directly found out the "people behind the scenes" who spread rumors and leaked information one by one.

Then, after discovering the identities of these people, Tian Ling certainly would not cause trouble for them. Instead, he gathered all the people of the Tianyu Army here for a meeting, pointed them out on the spot, and directly and simply played the conversations and scenes of these people.

It was only after she finished speaking that Zhao Tian and Hei Jia showed such gloomy expressions... because in the light curtain released by Tian Ling, both of them could clearly see that those people were none other than the members of their team that they had recruited or contacted before.

The good news was that among those who were talking, there were obviously no 'core' members they had personally invited, which meant that the two had not been betrayed by their teammates. However, the bad news was that the only people among these people they could recognize were not difficult to find... They were the "relatives and friends" invited by the teammates they trusted.

To put it bluntly... there was nothing wrong with the person they chose, but the person chosen by the person they trusted... had a problem!

Looking back, it was clear that this incident was inextricably linked to the two captains, hence their gloomy expressions... It wasn't that they were worried about being held accountable. The truth was, if something like this happened within the team, they couldn't escape the blame even if they were dead. After all, their lives had originally been saved by Tianyu City, and they had been entrusted with important tasks since then. Now, something like this had happened...

Regret and anger were not enough to describe the mood of the two people. Their obviously gloomy faces seemed to make the entire conference hall look a little dull at this moment. Neither of them gave an answer to Tian Ling's question. Not only that, even Hong Gu and others on the side obviously had no intention of speaking. They just watched everything in front of them quietly, silently waiting for Tian Ling to continue speaking.

As expected, Tian Ling quickly looked at the two silent people and then sighed and said in a slightly softer tone:

"I don't blame you for this matter. After all, this was an oversight in the original plan!"

At the beginning, they only planned to make the Tianyu Army into a mascot, a retirement army, so naturally there were no rules and regulations. All the members were more like a group of college students living in a dormitory, and their relationship was more like friends than superiors.

In that situation, it wasn't surprising that someone would be so careless. Therefore, after analyzing the cause and effect, Tian Ling naturally couldn't say much. Accountability wasn't the main point of today's meeting; the real focus was actually...

"I won't ask about the responsibility for what happened before. I just want to talk about the future development of the Tianyu Army!"

Even though Yu Huan was back, Tian Ling could have abdicated as the acting city lord. However, Tian Ling was clearly aware of Yu Huan's true nature... He was not a suitable person to be a manager. Therefore, with Yu Huan casually nodding and giving him the "power", she was still managing everything in Tianyu City as the acting city lord, which naturally included the Tianyu Army.

This is different from Yuhuan's attitude after he learned about this matter. He didn't want to blame his own people and didn't think it was a big deal, so he didn't care. It was obvious that neither Tianling nor Zeya had any intention of letting the matter go peacefully as it concerned Yuhuan.

Although Yu Huan's words of "Alright, don't worry about it" were an excuse for Zhao Tian and Hei Jia, Tian Ling naturally couldn't punish them, but if necessary, Tian Ling obviously felt that he still needed to talk to them:

"From now on... at least for the next period of time, the Tianyu Army will clean up the outer city. After the cleansing, they will organize it, divide it, and formulate rules to truly incorporate it into the scope of Tianyu City!"

There was a slight pause in her voice. It was obvious that everyone present was very clear about the outer city cleansing plan that Tian Ling mentioned, so she didn't need to say much on this point. She just mentioned it and then changed the subject:

"Of course, strictly speaking, this isn't a big deal. They're just a bunch of people who were driven like stray dogs by Baiyin and ended up fleeing to the outer city. Seeing no one was watching over them, they started to act tyrannically. It's not a big deal if we want to eliminate them!"

There is no need for the Tianyu Army. Simply sending out a few Xumagias can obviously solve the problem easily.

but……

"My master: Xiao Huan, the Lord of Tianyu City, Yu Huan will also participate in this purge, and will lead the Tianyu Army as your 'captain' in this purge!"

To be honest, Tian Ling obviously doesn't care about the outer city or the Tianyu Army. Although she is also responsible for the development and management of Tianyu City, as an intelligent life and not a human being, her values ​​are obviously decisively different from those of humans. Therefore, for her, a place like the outer city... if it really doesn't work, destroying it is just a matter of wasting some time.

However, Yu Huan's involvement clearly changed the nature of the situation: outsiders could imagine Yu Huan's intention to establish his authority through this battle and thus naturally become the lord of Tianyu City. How could Tian Ling, as a super artificial intelligence, not have calculated this? Precisely because she could calculate this, she immediately and decisively changed her mindset that the outer city could be easily destroyed and instead came up with another idea.

In this battle... the master must win with an overwhelming advantage. Of course, for Yu Huan, this is just a matter of moving his fingers and it is actually not difficult. But the real problem is that it is not just about winning, but also winning beautifully, overwhelmingly, artistically, and gorgeously... In short, it is the master's first appearance, and in Tian Ling's opinion... it must be the best!

In fact, this idea was not only Tianling's. Knowing that Yu Huan wanted to "establish his authority", Zeya, Xiaoya, Yu, Yuyuan and other girls from all over the world immediately raised their hands to express their agreement with Tianling's idea, and told Tianling that all this must be done in a wonderful and meticulous manner, and it must be regarded as the most important event in Tianyu City today.

Tian Ling readily agreed to this and began to formulate a plan.

Well, by the way, Yu Huan, the person involved and the 'protagonist' who was about to appear, actually knew nothing about this plan from beginning to end. In fact, she didn't even think so much about it from the beginning, such as establishing her authority... She was just simply unhappy with the current chaotic environment in the outer city, just like seeing garbage at the door of her own house and couldn't help but want to sweep it away.

There's really no other idea!

"I'll take care of this matter!"

After Tian Ling finished speaking, the entire conference hall fell silent again. However, everyone's eyes were clearly focused on Tian Ling. Zhao Tian was the first to stand up and say so, after clearly understanding the meaning of the other party's words. Then, the black armor beside him also stood up decisively and said to Tian Ling:

"Those people...I will take care of them!"

As for how to solve it... Tian Ling didn't need to ask, and they obviously had no intention of answering. The meeting, which actually lasted less than ten minutes, was adjourned immediately afterwards.

"Om~~~"

The light blue light curtain surrounding them slowly dissipated, signaling the end of the meeting. As the surrounding environment was gradually illuminated by the light from the window, the people who had been sitting there with serious faces seemed to relax and sat down casually in their seats, as if what had happened before had never happened, except for Zhao Tian and Hei Jia, whose faces were obviously a little depressed.

"Where's Xiao Huan? Why isn't she here again?"

Yu Huan was not there before, so all the memories of Tianyu City were basically presided over by Tianling, and everyone had long been accustomed to this. However, now that she has returned, it is obvious that as the lord of a city, Yu Huan should at least come to such meetings, even if he is not the host. This is obviously the basic quality of a qualified city lord.

36. Rumors

However, the fact is that although the imaginary city lord should be like this, unfortunately the real Yu Huan is obviously not interested in these things at all. Therefore, he has no intention of participating at all. Apart from meeting and getting together with Hong Gu and others, he has never shown up again so far.

And today, Cai Xiaohou, one of the two youngest brothers present, obviously couldn't help but ask this question... For the two brothers who first got to know Yuhuan, Yuhuan was undoubtedly the most important family member to them, just like their sister. It can be said that even when Yuhuan was still weak (?), she was always treated as a younger sister by the two brothers.

Unfortunately, after experiencing a series of events, they never saw Yu Huan again. Now it has been several years and they finally met again, but Yu Huan is still mysterious and nowhere to be seen.

As an adult, Honggu was obviously able to suppress his emotions. After all, he knew very well that his adopted 'daughter' was no longer the same in terms of status and strength, and she had her own mission. However, as young brothers, they obviously could not control their longing for her.

"Xiao Huan's words..."

Speaking of Yu Huan, it was obvious that not only the two brothers showed anticipation in their eyes. Hong Gu's eyes also instantly took on a bit of kindness. At the same time, Hei Jia, Zhao Tian and others on the other side also showed curious expressions at this time. Obviously, the two were still very curious about this city lord who they had not met until now.

It was this curious thought that made them look at Tianling at the same time, but they did not notice the fleeting stiffness on Mingcan's face.

To everyone present, perhaps Ye Chen's existence represented "family", "sister", or a mysterious strong man, etc. However, to Mingcan Laishou... he was indeed an absolute devil!

When he thought of his former bandit boss, recalled the scene where he was beaten to the ground by Ye Chen, and looked at the expectant eyes of the people present, Mingcan could only say in his heart: No, I don’t want to see her at all!

Of course, regardless of whether Mingcan wanted to see it or not, Tianling seemed to think about it for a moment and still told him where Yuhuan was currently:

"She's currently in the training grounds. According to the timetable... it should be the training time for Ranger Xia Yu (the Hero) and the newly awakened Shumagia unit San'er (the Kamen Rider Revenant). And it just so happens that Xiao Huan is in charge of their training these past few days!"

As the new guardian who joined the Tianyu City family, 'Xia Yu' is also Xia Miao's twin sister. Obviously, the authority opened to her by Tianyu City is far above that of Hei Jia and others. The other one, San'er, is a rare body among the Xumagia that has awakened emotions. Although Xumagia are basically implanted with emotional devices when they are manufactured, implantation is one thing, but not many can be successfully activated.

Especially since San'er is a member of the combat team, her ability to awaken emotions is undoubtedly a powerful combat force for Tianyu City, so it is naturally impossible to just let it go to waste.

In view of this, after discussion among everyone, it was decided to conduct special training for the two, so that they could use their new powers more skillfully... By the way, this idea was undoubtedly unanimously agreed upon by everyone, and it was even decided to use it as "training" for all new recruits in the future, and to maintain it like this.

Now that such a decision has been made, there is no doubt that the training in this area cannot be done hastily by simply doing some ordinary training. Instead, it requires a careful and detailed plan!

Well, the so-called meticulous and detailed plan is actually very simple: Tianyu City is the bridge connecting various worlds anyway, so it is also very easy to find opponents... It is obviously enough to let them directly compete with magicians, knights, warriors, mercenaries, and even orcs from different worlds to improve their strength. After that, everyone even discussed and planned to directly throw some newcomers into a certain world to complete some tasks.

As the initial participants of this "new training experiment", Xia Yu and San'er undoubtedly represent both humans and Xiu Magia in starting to receive relevant training in this area.

Due to the different situations of the two people, the training they carry out is naturally different: Xia Yu's morning time is study time. At that time, she needs to use Zeya's database link to learn a series of studies that were delayed because she was treated as a slave and a scavenger. Naturally, Xia Yu will not have any resistance to these.

As for San'er, she doesn't need to study because she is already connected to the database. Therefore, while Xia Yu is studying, she is responsible for going to Zeya's database... and constantly updating her own data!

Although it already has emotions, San'er, as an intelligent life form, is ultimately still a machine. If one wants the machine to maintain a certain flow of emotions, San'er itself, as the "core" that carries the emotions, needs to be continuously optimized and strengthened. Otherwise, San'er, as a robot, can only stay where it is, that is, it will never grow up. This is obviously not what Yuhuan and the others want to see.

Apart from the training in the morning, the two of them will practice together in the training ground in the afternoon, and the content of the practice is very simple: actual combat!

At the beginning, according to Xiao Ya's suggestion, the actual combat personnel arranged were all combat-type Xumagia. However, facing the power of the Guardian and San'er, even the newly acquired one was obviously not something that the Xumagia could easily contend with. Therefore, when this point was finally rejected, Zeya suddenly proposed a training method: simulated training ground!

Well, to put it simply, Zeya used his own data space combined with the settings of the game field to create a virtual environment similar to a training ground, and then after a full-scale scan, he directly sent Xia Yu and San'er's consciousness into it, and then Xiao Ya and others on the other side remotely fought against the two through the game field.

Although the strength that Xiao Ya and others, as long-range "players", can display is not full in this situation, it is obviously more than enough to deal with two newcomers.