Poseidon in Tomorrow's Ark

"Oh, what are you talking about?" Xiyue glanced at Hong who was still trying to grab his tail behind him. "Last night, Hong suddenly came over and said that he wanted to hold his tail while sleeping. He also said that he hadn't held it for a long time. Last time he changed back, he didn't let him hold it."

"It's not like anyone here doesn't know about it, so it doesn't matter. We can talk about it when someone comes or leaves."

"And you let her hold you all night?" Angelus glanced at Hong, "It's hard to sleep with such a big tail and someone holding you, right?"

"It's actually not that bad. It's just a matter of sleeping on your side all night." Xiyue shrugged. "But it's really not very convenient. But it's okay once or twice."

"Ah, I really envy those races that don't have extra components that affect sleep." Exia touched the halo on his head, "And people like you, Xiyue, who can change their own race."

"This is talent~" Xiyue walked to the sofa, wagging her tail, "If you want to learn, I can't help you~"

"Exia, if you want to have a good sleep, I have something good." Croissant came up to him suddenly, "For example, a completely light-proof eye mask. I can give you one."

"Go to hell." Angel thought Croissant would give something, "It's the same as what I don't have."

Chapter 116: Past, Obsession

"If you are worried about this problem, during the New Year..." Xiyue touched the head of the Angel, "I can give you a small gift that can solve it."

"Really? It's not another eye patch, is it?" Exia looked at Xiyue suspiciously, "I have a lot of eye patches."

As he was speaking, Archangel's eyes swept over the other people. It was obvious that these eye masks of Archangel were sent by Texas and the others. As for the reason.

Penguin Logistics has the habit of giving gifts to each other during festivals, and generally speaking, it doesn’t matter if it’s empty, just some desserts. For croissants, it’s usually just a small gift, or you can buy a croissant that hasn’t been sold at the stall.

Texas usually gives Pocky as a gift, but for Archangel, if people don’t know what to give him except apple pie or other desserts, they will just give him an eye patch. As time goes by, Archangel has more and more eye patches.

"Of course not." Xiyue smiled. How could she possibly give such a thing? "Others will also have a share. As for what it is, we'll talk about it when the time comes."

"Oh, great!" Compared to the others, Croissant was the first to raise his hand and cheer. Let alone anything else, just on Angel's birthday, Xiyue dared to give Angel a pistol, so the gift given during the New Year should not be bad.

Of course, Croissant has no other intentions, she is just a simple money-grubber.

"Well, thank you." Texas bit off the pocky in his mouth, and his expectations for the New Year's gift began to fill up. It was a pity that this gift was not for him alone, and his birthday was still some time away.

"Then I'll trouble Xiyue." Kong agreed generously, "But, can I ask Xiyue to sing a song for us then?"

"This one?" Xiyue looked at Kong and smiled, "If you want to hear it."

"Oh, by the way." Xiyue turned her head and looked at Muerseth and Ghost Shark again, "Will Ghost Shark and Muerseth stay until then?"

"Of course." Ghost Shark nodded. At this time, it was absolutely impossible for anyone to pull her away from Xiyue, not even Skadi.

And of course, is there any doubt as to whether Skadi will pull her away or go along with her?

Muirseth silently calculated the time of her leave. If she wanted to celebrate the New Year, she would still have one month left, but if she wanted to take into account the time to rush back home, it would not be enough. It was not that she could not extend her vacation herself. Anyway, Christen would not say anything to her at that time.

The main problem is that Muirseth is more worried about her plants. She is not worried that there will be any problems with the researchers there. Everyone works there because of their love for plants, and their professionalism is beyond doubt.

The main reason is that in about a month, some plants will be about to bloom. At the same time, a group of plants will be officially withdrawn from the environmental simulation room in a month and prepare to try to migrate to the real external environment.

Muirseth didn't want to miss this process.

"That." Muirseth's tone was full of disappointment. "I may not be able to stay until then. The botanical garden will soon have a new batch of plants to try out. They will be withdrawn from the botanical garden and will be tried out in the environment selected for them."

“I don’t want to miss a moment where they might grow on this land.”

"Is that so?" Xiyue touched Muerseth's head. "Well, in that case, I will give you a small gift when you leave. Remember to open it when the time comes."

"Also remember on the way, don't peek~"

"Woo~" Muerseth rubbed Xiyue's hand, looked at Xiyue who was pretending to be mysterious and smiled, "I will definitely wait with full anticipation until the New Year to open the gift you gave me."

"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing." Xiyue looked at Kong and Croissant, "You two didn't buy any groceries during the few days you were in Longmen, right? There's almost nothing in the refrigerator."

"Eh?" Kong immediately turned his gaze to Croissant, because he had actually been practicing singing in the company those days. The one here was Croissant, but because the company had not assigned any tasks to Kong recently, he came back when he was almost done practicing.

"I brought back the noodles and stuff, but the dishes..." Croissant turned his head to the side, "Anyway, I didn't restock them."

"No, wait a minute." Croissant looked at Xiyue as if he suddenly remembered something, "Didn't we bring back a lot of barbecue last time? Did you eat it all?"

"Do you think you have a small appetite?" Xiyue looked at Croissant with empty eyes, "Yesterday I used the leftover meat filling to make dumplings for you."

"But the dumplings could have lasted a few days, but..." Xiyue turned her eyes to the ghost shark that had turned its head away, "someone unexpectedly came, so we finished eating them last night."

"Okay, I don't mean to blame you." Xiyue looked at the ghost shark who turned his face away and smiled, "It's impossible to eat only dumplings."

"But it is true that there is no food." Xiyue took back the water clone that was walking out of the kitchen, "So I plan to go buy some food now. Does anyone want to come with me?"

"You just want to find someone to help you carry your stuff." Croissant rolled his eyes at Xiyue, "If you go out alone, you can only buy a few days' worth of stuff at most, but if you grab someone to go out with you, Xiyue, you'll have to buy a lot."

"The last time I followed you out, I came back with two bags of things." Croissant looked at the refrigerator again, "Now the refrigerator is empty again. Are you afraid that you won't come back without filling up the refrigerator this time?"

"Because I'm lazy too~" Xiyue smiled, "If the refrigerator is full, if you guys don't have midnight snacks, it will last at least two weeks, and I won't have to go shopping for groceries for two weeks."

"You can stuff it in your clothes, too?" Croissant glanced at Xiyue's clothes. "You can't even stuff two bags in your clothes, right?"

"Think about how much coffee and tea I have in my bag?" Xiyue adjusted her windbreaker. "Besides, if I don't carry something with me when I go shopping, I always feel like something is missing."

"Whatever you say." Croissant collapsed on the sofa, "I don't want to move anyway."

"plus one."

"Take me one."

Because of the cold weather, Sora and Exia were feeling lazy and just lay on the sofa not wanting to move at all.

"..." Texas ate pocky and thought for a while. She wanted to go out with Xiyue, but when Xiyue said she wanted to catch someone to buy groceries, she didn't want to do it anymore.

Because at this time, Xiyue would really buy a lot of things, at least four big bags, and today, in order to fill the refrigerator, I'm afraid the number will increase even more.

However, Texas glanced at the Archangel beside him and said, "You can't blame me if you give up."

"You and I..."

"Xiyue can bring ..."

Texas and Muirseth's voices sounded at the same time, and their stories intertwined in an instant.

Muirseth looked at Texas naturally: "Ah, Miss Texas, do you want to go too?"

"......Yeah." Texas nodded. He bit the pocky in his mouth hard. How come there was a troublemaker?

"Then how about we go together?" Muirseth smiled and looked at Texas. She was not in a hurry anyway, and there was still plenty of time to build a good relationship with Xiyue.

Right now, her relationship with Xiyue has not reached the point where she needs to do anything special. She should take her time and let nature take its course. When the latter's relationship improves, then it is time to really start.

Mulsane didn't mind what place she would be in the ranking. He had been waiting for so long that she no longer cared about this kind of thing, at least for now.

So she doesn't mind whether Texas comes with her when she goes out shopping later. It's fine if Texas comes with her, as long as they get along normally. Of course, if Texas doesn't come with her, that would be the best.

Texas looked at Muirseth, who was smiling naturally. After a moment of silence, he stood up and walked towards the room: "Wait a moment, I'll go change my clothes."

Looking at Texas's leaving back, Muirseth felt another gaze, and lowered his head to find that it was confirmed to be the ghost shark's gaze.

When Ghost Shark saw Muleseth looking at him, he blinked at her with a questioning look in his eyes, as if asking why she didn't bring him along.

Muirseth put on an innocent expression and pointed at Xiyue beside him, indicating that Ghost Shark was a step slow and it was not too late to follow now.

"I'm ready." Texas moved quickly. After returning to the room, he took the clothes from the hanger, put them on and walked out.

Xiyue looked at the people who were ready, nodded and put away her phone: "Then let's go."

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"Come on, that's all, boss."

Xiyue handed the selected pieces of meat to the boss.

"Okay." The boss took the meat and put it on the scale. "I'll give you a lower price, 42, okay?"

"Boss, I don't want two dollars, how about 40 dollars?"

"I've already given you less." The boss packed the meat and handed it to Xiyue, "It can't be any less."

"Okay, okay." Xiyue took out change from her wallet and handed it to the boss. She then took the meat that the boss handed over, turned around and walked out of the meat stall.

Then Xiyue lowered her head and lightly tapped the things in her hand, looked at Dahong, and nodded as the plastic bag was filled with various things.

Later, Xiyue walked to the intersection with satisfaction, carrying her things. Looking at Muirseth and Texas, who were squatting on the roadside with a big plastic bag in each hand, she felt that the plain and simple life was the real thing.

"That's it for today." Xiyue raised the bag in her hand to the two of them, "I bought some meatballs, and we're going to have hotpot tonight."

"Hotpot? It's really cold in winter, we should eat something hot." Muirseth smiled at Xiyue. He picked up the bag beside him with some effort, "But Xiyue, did you buy the ingredients for the clear soup? I can't handle spicy food."

"Don't worry, of course there is." Xiyue looked at Muerseth and smiled, then showed him a bone in the bag. "Let's prepare the bone soup, look at this big bone."

"Isn't it too late to make bone soup now?" Muirseth glanced at the bones in the bag. "Didn't you say to cook it in the evening?"

"There's enough time." Xiyue walked in front with the bag, "From day to night, there's enough time."

Texas frowned as he walked behind. He was not surprised by anything else, but he was just surprised that there seemed to be something wrong with the route he was taking. This route seemed...

Texas looked at Xiyue, then looked down at the bag in his hand, looked around, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Xiyue, this road doesn't seem right."

"There's nothing wrong with that. Just go through it." Xiyue paused for a moment and turned to look at Texas. "What's wrong? Texas?"

"..." Texas looked at Xiyue, "You don't want to find Lapland, do you?"

"Eh~"

Looking at Xiyue who turned her face away, Texas slapped her forehead. She should have noticed it just now, so Texas walked forward and reached out to pinch Xiyue's face.

"My dear Miss Xiyue, why do you always think about this kind of thing?" Texas looked at Xiyue, "I was avoiding her to begin with, and you actually took me to find her?"

"If I hadn't come with you, would you have just brought Lappland to my house?"

"But you can't keep doing this." Xiyue stepped back lightly to avoid Texas's clutches. "Texas, I know you want to escape from your past."

"I am not in any position to judge your past."

"So I don't..."

Xiyue's finger gently touched Texas' lips: "Texas, you escaped from your past, but Lapland is getting deeper and deeper into it."

"..."

"Lappland is obsessed with you." Xiyue touched Texas' head, "Perhaps in your past interactions, you were the only one by her side."

"How do I go find her?"

“………”Texas looked at Xiyue and stood in the middle of the road in silence for a long time. Before she was half-dragged by the emperor to establish Penguin Logistics, and before her family was liquidated, she and Lappland had indeed fought side by side.

As killers, they have challenged lonely souls in the wilderness, escaped from the pursuit of their families, and killed the heads of their families, just to complete the tasks given to them by their families.

They supported each other, grew together, honed each other, protected each other in crisis, and they might have become friends in the end, until that nightmarish reckoning.

She lit the final fire at that moment, igniting the shadow of the family that once bound her. At least now, she was just Texas.

Texas knew that Lapland was looking for her. She knew that Lapland wanted to drag her back to her previous life. What she wanted to see was the original Texas.

They were pulled together in the process. Texas only saw the darkness and bloodiness of Syracuse in Lapland, the dark past that she should have escaped from but had to face.

What did Lapland see in me? When did I become the target of Lapland's pursuit? What was that target? Perhaps only Lapland himself knew.

And at this moment, has she really escaped from the darkness of Syracuse? Texas gently pinched the tip of her right finger, wondering when the contract would come back to her...

Texas closed his eyes and took a breath, thinking that maybe he should really talk to Lappland.

"Where does she live?"

Chapter 117: Unable to Perform Treatment

"If Xiyue and Miss Texas have something to do." Muerseth looked at the two of them with a smile. He should carry his things back at this time. "Then I will go back first."

After all, what happens next is Texas's private matter, so it's better for me not to get involved. Xiyue is the one who arranged it, so it's reasonable for her to get involved. It's better for me to leave first.

"Well, we'll go back soon." Xiyue looked at Muirseth apologetically, "Sorry, Muirseth, I can only let you go back alone first."

"It's okay." Muerseth shook her head. Beside her, the water flowed and a ball of water floated in the air, slowly taking shape. Finally, after a tremor, it turned into another Muerseth.

"Then I'll take the things back first, so that Xiyue and Miss Texas don't have to carry things around." As Muirseth spoke, his manifold walked forward and took the bags from Xiyue and Texas.

"Well, thank you for your help." Xiyue nodded to Muerseth apologetically, and then reminded him with some concern, "Be careful on the road."

"Don't worry~" Muirseth waved his hand at the two of them, "It's getting late, Xiyue, you still have to make lunch later, right?"

"Ah, that's true." Xiyue nodded, then looked at Texas on the side, "Then let's go, this way."

Muirseth sighed as he watched the two people leave: "Today's interaction can only be considered slightly effective. Forget it, let's not get involved in other people's affairs."

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"Is this the place?" Texas looked up at the house in front of him that was obviously renovated from an unfinished building. The damaged areas were almost all simply covered with iron sheets or wood.

Such houses are not uncommon in slums, and many residents live in such houses.

"Yes, it should be on the third floor." Xiyue nodded confidently, then looked up and pointed to a house on the right side of the third floor, "I live there."