Teresa won't starve

After folding the cloak and putting it aside, Xier glanced at Bronya who was still sleeping (pretending to be asleep), and then quietly opened the door and went out.

It wasn't until Seele's walking sound faded away that Bronya got out of the blanket.

Looking at another set of clothes on the table, after sitting by the bed for a while, she took the initiative to pick up the only thing she could wear, and put the light purple hooded trench coat, grape-colored tights, white Putting on the shorts and pantyhose of the same grape color, he adjusted his appearance in front of the mirror.

Seems a little too cute...

Bronya didn't like this look very much. If she could choose by herself, she would prefer the one she wore before, at least that would be relatively more plain.

But as said before - if there is a choice.

Bronya resigned to her fate without any resistance, and even tied her messy hair into the familiar double-drill hairstyle instead of the single-turbo style that Teresa gave her before. (Note)

After putting on the cotton shoes of the same color as the windbreaker, he stayed for a while, pretending that he had just woken up, and walked out of the room that originally belonged to Natasha but was temporarily requisitioned by her and Xier.

As a result, he bumped into Cocolia as soon as he went out.

Just as she was about to turn around and walk away, she heard Cocolia nodding her head and saying, "I just met, and I still need to explain something to you."

......

After Xi'er came out, she went straight back to her room without thinking too much.

It's a pity that I didn't see Teresa there, only a blond girl sitting on the bed combing her hair.

Certainly not Nina, who was suddenly forgotten.

"Xier?" Seeing that Xier came in without knocking, Natasha didn't blame her at all. After all, this was Xier's room: "Are you here to find Teresa?"

"That's not true, Xier is here to find Sister Natasha."

Feeling the sudden pressure on the shoes, Xier lowered her head and saw a group of purple fur balls.

He bent down and reached out to pick up the little fur ball, which looked scary but couldn't hide the cuteness of the cat itself. He rubbed it next to his face and handed it to Natasha.

As a result, when Natasha was about to take it, the little cat still showed some displeasure.

Of course, this does not change the final result.

"Still saying no, do you think I'm stupid?" Natasha, regardless of whether the little purple cat is willing or not, caught it and forcibly stroked the cat for a while, then sighed helplessly: "It still likes you more, every time Do you want to hide from me - am I that scary?"

"Ha ha."

Xier smiled politely but still embarrassed (as if something was wrong), and didn't answer.

Because if you really want to talk about it, this cat seems to be quite annoying to Teresa, so that even if Teresa thinks about it one day, she will be unable to find this cat for no reason.

Only Xier can often see this cat who grew up with her.

It seems that just like what Natasha said, this cat likes Seele very much.

"By the way, are you going to find Teresa? She is weeding in the shed, and it should be almost finished by now. Before she goes to other places, you can go there now."

"Oh well!"

Hearing Natasha's words, Xi'er didn't want to delay too much, so she was about to walk out the door.

"Seele—"

"Ok?"

Seele looked back at Natasha.

But Natasha just shook her head: "No, it's nothing, let's go."

"???"

Xier stood there and tilted her head, not understanding what she was doing.But she didn't think too much, and went out to find Teresa directly.

547 "Am I abnormal?"

Due to the remote and cold location of the orphanage, it is not conducive to transportation, and its own resources are still very scarce. Even the needs of daily life can only be supplemented by non-major purchases once a year.

This has led to the fact that most of the time, the children just eat canned food that makes people feel sick.

Only occasionally, when food was scarce, Teresa would rely on her immature hunting skills to catch some small animals that grew in the woods instead of meat, which was barely enough to feed her children.

But even so, the meat problem is barely solved, and the vegetarian food is still a huge loophole.

So I planned to open up an extra room, using fluorescent lamps and greenhouses experimentally to grow some crops that do not require a high growth environment, such as potatoes and the like.

Of course, there are also vegetables like bean sprouts that don't even need light.

However, if you want the bean sprouts to grow well, you still have to change the water frequently-the more important thing is that Teresa doesn't like to eat bean sprouts.

This also led to mung bean sprouts that can be harvested almost once a week, but often rot before they grow. (Note)

Cocolia's hairline was much higher because of this headache.

......

Xi'er walked around one corner after another, walked through a door and entered the vegetable greenhouse. Relying on her height advantage, she soon saw Theresa squatting next to the flower pot.

Just as Teresa raised her head as she walked quickly, she saw Xier dressed in Little Red Riding Hood—although the most important red cloak was missing.

That dress was made when Teresa was idle and bored. She didn't expect that Natasha would take it out for Xier to wear one day, and she didn't expect Xier to wear it quite well.

Teresa thought Natasha would be the first to put it on...

After watching for a while, Teresa withdrew her attention and continued to do her own farm work, without any intention of saying hello to Xier.

Seele was very puzzled by this attitude.

After standing still and thinking for a while, Xier, who still couldn't think of the answer, squatted down and did the same thing as Teresa—pulling weeds with her bare hands.

In the end, only two were pulled out, and when the third one was about to be pulled out, Teresa grabbed her wrist all of a sudden.

Although Teresa didn't pinch it very hard, it just got stuck on the protrusion of the wrist bone. The huge force made Xier unable to stretch out her hand no matter how hard she tried.

"I don't need you, I will do it myself."

Teresa clearly knows how hurtful it is to pull weeds with bare hands.

She did this by herself only because she had a good physique, recovered quickly, and her nerves were slow, and she could hardly feel anything, so it seemed so indifferent.

But Hill is different.

Xier will hurt and get hurt!

Xi'er didn't think much of it, she just saw Teresa doing this, and wanted to do the same thing.

However, with Teresa's stop, Xi'er persisted for a while and had to give up.

But after Teresa let go, he grabbed Teresa's hand instead, relying on Teresa's fear of hurting her, she didn't dare to pull back her hand too hard, and carefully wiped the palm of Teresa's hand. The plaster on it reveals the flawless white palm underneath, and even the palm lines are much less than ordinary people's.

Anyone who sees such a palm for the first time will have an illusion of 'this is not a human hand', because it is too...

"Have you seen enough?"

"Oh."

Xier instinctively let go of her hand, and then saw Teresa started weeding again, so she quickly reached out and grabbed it again: "Sister Teresa, don't, don't do this, it will hurt!"

"Will not."

"It will hurt!"

"Will not."

"Why are you always like this, always so careless about yourself?"

Seele has never been able to understand this matter.

Girls should be very self-loving, even if they hate careful people, it is a kind of twisted narcissism, not really not caring at all-otherwise, why would they hate them?

But Teresa happened to be neither of the two, and she always gave people the impression that "it doesn't matter".

Even Natasha often has an indifferent attitude of "a patient like me, it's good to live until now", but in essence, Xier feels that it is completely different.

Different, different...Why are sister Teresa and Seele different?

"No, I care."

It's just that the place I care about is a bit special——

Because I care about pain and fear pain, that’s why my senses in this area are very dull; because I’m afraid of getting hurt and dying, that’s why I was so desperate to become a fusion fighter at the beginning, and why I was depressed for so long after dying once. There is also a psychological shadow.

She obviously cares about it too, okay?

"No."

"what?"

When Teresa reacted, she was hugged by Xier from the front; and they were still clinging to each other without leaving a gap, which made Teresa feel very uncomfortable and wanted to push her away.

But here I heard Xi'er's voice resting her head on her shoulder: "Xi'er don't do this! What Xi'er wants is a normal sister Teresa!"

548 "Confession"

"What's wrong with me?"

Teresa looked at the dust remaining on her palms, and simply activated her ability to clean it up, and then used her clean little hands to pat the back of Xi'er who was wearing new clothes: "Okay, you do this to me I can hardly breathe."

Of course, this is a lie.

In fact, Teresa can continue to survive even if she is thrown into space.

But at least it sounded like a human saying to Xier.

"Well, I see."

Although it was quite comfortable to hold, Xier let go of her with a little reluctance.

Teresa, who was let go, saw the remaining weeds that hadn't been dealt with, and wanted to get rid of them in one go, but Xier was watching from the side, so she could only put them away for the time being. hand.

Although it is also possible to make a pair of gloves temporarily, it is completely superfluous, and Teresa doesn't want to waste that little Honkai energy, so she might as well save it for the next time, or someone else to do it.

After putting the flowerpots back in place one by one, Teresa stood up and pulled Seele up as well.

He also asked her, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Sister Teresa is saying strange things again. What time is it time to eat?"

"Aren't I afraid that you will be hungry?"

Speaking of which, since Xier and Bronya were brought back yesterday, these two people have been sleeping until this morning, and they didn't even eat dinner last night.

Is it normal to be hungry?

It's just that Xi'er, who has almost no sense of hunger, doesn't think so: "Xie'er is not a pig!"

"...But I think pigs are cute too." (Note)

"Sister Teresa, you hate it!"

......

Basement three.

Wearing only a military overcoat, it can be said that Cocolia is naked in comparison. Wearing a gas mask on his face and isolation gloves on his hands at this time, it can be said that he is exposed to the air. Bronya, who was partially protected, watched the large engine operating on the loading instrument not far away.

It can be vaguely seen from the gap in the engine that what is used inside is a kind of purple energy.

It's just that this kind of energy is not thermal energy, and it won't make Bronya, who is fully armed at this time, feel stuffy, but it doesn't mean that she will feel comfortable—on the contrary, the things inside are stimulating her intuition, making her I really want to turn around and run away.

But the shoulders held by Cocolia left her nowhere to escape.

The experience of the last challenge still impressed Bronya deeply, and she also understood that she was far from her opponent.

Even after a few weeks of nonsense training with Teresa, it did make her improve, but in essence, she didn't improve much.

At least not to bridge the gap.

And this is the limit of what she can achieve.

So, after forcing herself to calm down, realizing that Cocolia wasn't malicious—if she had, she should have done it long ago—Bronya asked, "What is this?"

"Is this?" Cocolia looked at the 'old-style' engine in front of her, which made an unpleasant noise even at the lowest power, and a trace of expectation, disappointment, determination, self-blame and indescribable complexity flashed in her eyes. There is also an inaudible taste in the tone: "A workmanship is extremely poor, unstable, easy to damage, has been eliminated, and it is sold at a very expensive price. I also spent a lot of effort to get it. furnace."

"Honkai Furnace? What is that?"

Bronya cleverly ignored the long list of 'prefixes' in front of her, and asked directly about the key points.

"Well, how should I put it? Do you know about Honkai?"