Living with a magical girl, but a weirdo cadre

　Indeed, translators are cheap, and once you buy one, you won't have to worry about similar problems anymore...

　But Cong Yu could understand why the people in this village had never bought it... it was simply a matter of habit.

　"Oh, I found it... the Lun.hui clan... They used to live in the old house in the south, where four Lunhui clans lived."

　"Later... oh..."

　The village chief said this, then showed a regretful and apologetic expression: "More than sixty years ago... they were all wiped out by the 'calamity'."

　Xiao Cui: "..."

　Cong Yu: "..."

　What? ! ! !

　-

　"..."

　"They're back."

　"There's no mistake," said a long-eared tribeswoman who had her face hidden in a cloak, her whole body trembling slightly.

　"They've come back after all... right there, right there... barring any unforeseen circumstances..."

　“I’ve already thrown ‘them’ away, so why…why come back…why?”

　As she asked this question, the long-eared woman sat on the tiled steps in front of a jewelry store.

　Many of the aliens passing by would glance at her curiously for a couple of seconds, and then move on...

　In this era, Blue Planet is very busy.

　Nobody had time to care about a nobody like him.

　The bustling crowds of passersby only made the woman with pointed ears appear even more forlorn.

　However, the person didn't seem to care...

　The pointed-eared woman simply gazed silently at the equally lonely stars in the sky... there were only lonely stars left.

　Long ago, she vaguely remembered that no matter where she was at night, she could always see a sky full of stars when she looked up.

　"..."

　“Once… I abandoned ‘them’… I thought I had successfully woken up… I thought I had reconciled with myself and cast aside the nightmare.”

　"..."

　"Now... I realize I was wrong."

　"..."

　"This time, I will embrace 'calamity'."

　Chapter 1019 The Scumbag

　Sixty years ago (cosmic year), Blue Planet completed its first manned spaceflight and subsequently encountered the Star Alliance's mining ship.

　After a surprising "fourth kind of contact"...

　Blue Star joined the Star Alliance, and their star system was also moved to the vicinity of the Star Alliance, becoming a member of the Star Alliance's territory.

　Then, around that time...

　Calamity has struck.

　The calamity registered under the name "Lin Zhongyi" suddenly erupted within the Blue Blue Star.

　The Blue Planet people, who had never heard of anything like "calamity," completely failed to react appropriately...

　In an instant, the population of Blue Star was drastically reduced due to the outbreak of the calamity and the slaughter by those small creatures called "Forest Wings".

　But then, in less than a year, the calamity suddenly disappeared... vanished without a trace.

　It was around that time that Blue Planet, which should have been just a minor, insignificant planet by the roadside, came into the Star Alliance's view.

　However, after investigating for some time, Star Alliance was unable to find out why the calamity had disappeared on its own.

　And so it ended...

　However, having gained exposure, Blue Star began to rapidly integrate with the Interstellar Institute.

　From that time on, a new chapter began in the history of Blue Star.

　To sum it up in words, that's it.

　"..."

　"Lin Zhongyi... Eh Duo."

　Xiao Cui muttered to herself, having returned empty-handed from the train ride, looking at the little sprite bouncing around on the table: "It must be a little sprite..."

　It's a little elf! It's a little elf!

　It's definitely a little elf, no doubt about it.

　Thinking this, Cong Yu sighed and drove the Jormungandr train back: "Yeah... this is troublesome. I don't know where to find the Reincarnation Clan."

　As Cong Yu spoke, she looked at the little elves who showed no shame whatsoever and were laughing and joking on the table.

　Oh my god, he's still laughing here...

　You're the ones who caused this, do you even realize it?

　With a sigh, Cong Yu gazed at these small creatures that looked cute, and were indeed quite cute, but were incredibly destructive.

　Extinction spells, no matter how cute they may seem, are ultimately very dangerous.

　However, the little elves are at least cute.

　[Source Darkness Apophis: ...]

　[Source Darkness Apophis: What are you doing? Ouch...]

　Amidst the wails of Source Darkness Apophis, Cong Yu was somewhat speechless, and could guarantee that she hadn't been secretly criticizing him in her mind just now.

　It's hard to say what happened before, but Cong Yu wasn't actually slandering Yuan An Apophis just now... he was actually criticizing Cronus Thorns.

　[Source Darkness Apophis: Hehe, I won!]

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　People always chase after the impossible.

　.

　Or rather, it seems that all intelligent life always tries to do things that it cannot do itself.

　This applies whether it's going to the sky or diving into the sea.

　Unable to fly high, they created flying machines; unable to travel to other planets, they created spaceships and rockets.

　Because they couldn't go underwater, they started researching, from "diving masks and snorkels" to "oxygen tanks," from "diving chambers" to (submarines).

　And that is precisely why intelligent life is so great.

　And clearly, even in this interstellar age...

　Even now, when some "technologies" are so similar to "magic" that people can hardly understand... there are still people who pursue real magic.

　As is widely known, aliens do not possess magic.

　Just like the vast majority of people on Earth in the past.

　So what they are pursuing is something that is different from the "technique" but they want to replicate the "technique".

　In the parlance of the Li people, this is "the art of non-arts".

　In universal language, it is usually called—

　"Miyi" and (Miyi's creations)

　By using specific words, combined with specific actions, and offering specific things, a predetermined effect is achieved.

　Summarize based on experience, and record after trying.

　The "non-technique" achieved in this way is what many people aspiring to this goal pursue, and they have indeed made some progress in research.

　Well-intentioned, malicious, searching for someone, fortune telling, harming someone, murdering someone, cursing someone, benefiting future generations.

　That's quite a lot of variety, isn't it?

　The organization that collects these "secret rituals" and profits from them by earning credits is called—

　【Scumbag】

　Actually, a long time ago, when they were just collecting secret rituals, they called themselves "Guardians of Secrets".

　Later, they discovered that the organization was running out of food and had to start using secret methods to eat, otherwise everyone would starve to death.

　So they started jokingly calling themselves "leakers".

　Later, perhaps because "leaker" sounded too offensive, he used a homophone and jokingly called himself "scumbag".

　"The Scumbags" is already considered a rather special mercenary organization... basically a mercenary organization with some superpowers.

　There are things that other mercenary organizations can do, but they can't.

　Of course, there are also commissions that only they can do, but which other mercenary organizations find difficult or unfamiliar with...

　Of course, the price for "Xiemiren" is also a little higher.

　It's roughly 1.15 times the fee charged by other mercenary organizations...

　That's right, it's not much more, we need to make a living!

　"Hello, what is the request?"

　The member of "Scumbags" looked at the woman in front of him who was hiding her face... He didn't really care.

　If they're all coming to find a jerk, they're probably not good people either.

　To the man's question, the woman who had made the request lowered her voice and took out a bottle: "Find...where on this planet does the species represented by the owner of these wings belong?"

　In response, the "scumbag" member, who wore black-rimmed glasses and was somewhat thin, looked at the bottle handed to him by the client.

　It's a glass bottle with tiny, transparent wings.

　It appears to be made from some kind of insect material...

　"This……"

　The member of the Mimi people hesitated for a moment before continuing, "If it's an insect, it might be... okay, I'll give it a try, as long as you pay."

　With that, "Scumbag" put away the glass bottle, thinking that if the other person wanted to know the species of insect, perhaps they should go to a museum...

　With that in mind, the scumbag grabbed the terminal and took down the other party's contact information: "By the way..."

　"If we fail to complete your request, we can only refund half of the fee... This is how it works for similar requests; you pay only if you accept this arrangement."

　The woman, who was concealing her figure, paid without hesitation in response to what the other party said: "Okay... Also, those aren't bugs."

　As she said this, the woman stared at the wings in the bottle she had handed to the other person.

　"That's something that can save this planet..."

　"I will kill all the intruders."

　"Everything... will return to its starting point."

　Chapter 1020 Past and Future...The Bottom of the Abyss

　lun.hui? ethnic group.

　Lun.hui? Clan, where are you, Reincarnation Clan...?

　Cong Yu was thinking this, feeling a little sentimental, when at that moment Xiao Cui seemed to have noticed something: "Hey? Brother Cong Yu, look!"

　In response to Xiao Cui's words, Cong Yu looked out the window towards the area below the Jormungandr train—there was a hospital ship there.

　I had seen the medical ship Cong Yu before...

　After that warp jump, Aria was extremely dizzy, and Cong Yu's shipborne AI, the [Luxury Lightweight Glory 123123 Generation, MAX Deluxe Special Supreme Edition Large Spaceship], was also preparing to contact the medical ship.

　However, Aria ultimately refused the medical services, perhaps because she didn't want to use Cong Yu and the others' money.

　Judging from the direction the hospital ship is heading, it seems to be heading towards that village... Are the people there injured?