Future Crystal Crown

At night, Qiu bathed the little tree.

This guy ate too much chicken legs and couldn't digest it, making himself stinky.

Qiu tried bath liquid, soap, laundry detergent, washing spirit, collar cleaner, scouring powder... But none of them could wash off the gum liquid secreted by the roots of the young tree. After it dries, it wraps like inferior rubber On the roots of the tree, wherever the little tree goes, it will leave a trace behind it.

"How did you get rid of this thing in the Centaur Valley?" Qiu asked while pouring the toilet cleaner.

"Go out and fight." Xiaoshu said.

"Can you rub off these things in a fight?" Qiu didn't believe it.

"It's not rubbing, it's just breaking the roots. Didn't you see a lot of cripples in the woods?" Xiaoshu said.

"..." Qiu was speechless.In order to wipe their feet clean, they don't even need their legs. The whole universe is probably as proud as a horse.

Holding his breath and rubbing vigorously with a brush, Qiu felt that the little tree's protective cover was a little in the way.Qiu asked him to take off the protective cover, and Xiaoshu was a little reluctant.

"I'm used to it, I don't feel safe without it." Xiaoshu said.

"Does it feel so good to be in handcuffs?" Qiu felt ridiculous. The protective shield was obviously used to restrain Xiaoshu, but Xiaoshu cherished it like a treasure.

"Look at those precious pets, they have circles around their necks. My grandfather said that a tree with an owner is noble. You gave me this beautiful pet. It is a symbol of my identity." Xiaoshu was very proud look.

"How often do you change masters?" Yau asked.

"Then who knows, it depends on the day you die." Xiaoshu said.

"……"mound.

"What's the matter? Did I say something wrong?" Xiaoshu thought for a while. "If you need me, I can grow old with you!"

"Heh," Qiu was amused. "Your life expectancy is more than 1 years, right? I am at most 100 years. How can we grow old together?"

"I will accompany you alive for 100 years first, and then I will accompany you dead for 900 years." Xiaoshu said.

"Really?" Qiu was a little surprised and a little moved. "But I was buried in the grave when I died, how can you accompany me?"

"I will stand in front of your tomb day and night, and I will stand as a landscape, so that everyone who passes by will admire sincerely: Look, what a loyal tree this is, and its feelings transcend time. , transcending space, surpassing everything, this is the greatest friendship in the world." Xiaoshu.

Qiu's nose was a little sour.I didn't expect Xiaoshu to do such a touching thing.

"Are you moved?" Xiaoshu asked Qiu.

"Yeah." Qiu nodded.

"Great, I'll cheat people like this later, and I'll definitely get chicken legs." Xiaoshu said proudly.

"……"mound.

"Hurry up, brush it clean so you can see people." Xiaoshu urged.

Yau dropped the brush.Get up and go outside.

"Why are you going?" Xiaoshu became alert.

"I'm looking for a saw." Qiu pretended to be angry.

"No, I'm just joking, I'm your tree when I live, and I'm your tree when I die. I swear I won't find anyone else!" Xiao Shu threw herself covered in foam and hugged Qiu's leg without letting go.

"Let go," Yau said.

"Don't let go." Xiaoshu said.

"Answer the phone." Qiu smiled.

"Oh." The little tree let go of the hill.

Qiu went to pick up the communicator, and it turned out that the caller was Jack.

"Qiu, I checked what you asked me to find." Jack said.

"Oh? That's great." Qiu quickly picked up a pen and prepared to record.

"There is no record of that mission in all the flight records of that type of airship for 200 years. The ammunition consumption record is completely lost, and it cannot be found out at all." Jack said.

"How could this be?" Qiu was disappointed.

"But I still found something." Jack smiled slyly.

"What is it?" Qiu asked curiously.

"I sifted through the list of captains from that era, and found that two of them were interesting. They were all highly valued and had been doing very important flights, but one day there was a gap in their flight records. Then they were sent to perform extremely threatening missions. In the end they died. Do you think there is something wrong with this?" Jack lowered his voice.

"Have they been cannon fodder?" Qiu understood, this is the legendary killing of donkeys.

"Maybe you can find some clues from them," Jack said.

"Well, what's their name?" Yau asked Jack.

"I sent it to you." Jack said, and a text message came over.

"Thank you." Qiu turned on the communicator and saw the two names.

After finishing talking with Jack, Qiu immediately called Cheryl.He explained the situation in detail again.

Cheryl pouted. "This old guy, I knew he must have a ghost."

"Then continue to investigate. At least we can rest the two cannon fodder pilots in peace," Qiu said.

"Well, leave this to me." Cheryl took care of everything.

"Oh, there is one more thing I can ask you to help with?" Qiu said.

"What's the matter?" Cheryl asked.

"Can you see Doris?" Yau asked Cheryl.

Cheryl's face turned cold.

"Don't mention it, her uncle is simply crazy. You said that in what age, she is still restricted from going out. Even we can't go out to play together. It's so annoying. And her aunt, like a ghost, often suddenly grows up recently. Laugh or cry suddenly. It's scary." Cheryl said unhappily.

"Uh...I want you to tell Doris that brother Fei Li really likes her." Qiu said to Cheryl.

"How do you know?" Cheryl didn't like the two of them at all.

"I know Brother Fei Li, so please do me a favor and tell me, thank you." Qiu said.

"How do you thank me?" Cheryl asked.

Qiu thought about it. "I'll invite you to the institute next time, is that okay?"

"Oh, well, it's a deal." Cheryl happily accepted Qiu's proposal.

***

On the same night, Haines' mansion was very lively.

Guests came and went, and men's voices could be heard from Lieutenant General Haines' living room from time to time.

Doris walked up and down the corridor on the second floor like ants on a hot pan.

Those goddamn guests from nowhere occupy the living room, chattering like crows.What donations, bills, taxes, immigration, those people seem to have endless discussions.

Meroper came out of her room, and when she saw Doris, she came over without a sound.

"Honey, don't poke around here like those uneducated girls, you should go to the room and find something to do."

Doris pouted angrily when she saw Meroper. "Aunt, I don't want to go to the room, I want to go out, I want to go out to meet my friends."

"You want to see Philip, right?" Meroper sneered.

"..." Doris was caught off guard.But she didn't think there was anything wrong with her. The law couldn't even control the matter of mutual love, so why should the parents meddle.

"Auntie, it's Valentine's Day. I want to see him, and he must want to see me. If you're a reasonable person, you should let me out," Doris said.

"Hmph, Valentine's Day, a day of self-deception." Meroper snorted.

It's not that her life has gone through Valentine's Day, but every Valentine's Day is an unbearable memory.

In those years, every time this festival came, her silly brother Dean would prepare gifts early and make an appointment with the woman in the Rand family.He would go out dressed up, and before he went out he would tell Meroper that he was going to see her.

And then all night long, she'd be alone and alone waiting to spend Valentine's Day alone at home.

That was her Valentine's Day, waiting for her lover's day year after year in the depression of secret love, until her brother married someone else, until he would never come back again.

The resentment of waiting to turn black lingered in her heart and made her hate Valentine's Day to death.

"Doris, go back to your room." Meroper shifted her anger onto her niece.

Doris looked at Merope angrily, and finally spit out the words she had been holding back. "Auntie, stop being so self-righteous. You're not always right. It turns out that you're more wrong than anyone else when it comes to relationships."

"What did you say?" Meroper's eyes widened.

"I said that you would never let go of a love that would never respond. In fact, you don't love Uncle Dean at all. What you love is a love that you imagined. You think that your love becomes precious because you torture yourself. You are a lunatic in the eyes of others, the most selfish, pathetic, and stupid woman in the world." Doris finished speaking in one breath, leaving Merope and rushing back to the room.

Meroper stood there in amazement. This was the first time she had heard someone comment on her feelings like this.Doris's words hit her face like hot cannonballs whistling, blowing up her already broken love even more fragmented.

The next morning we had a meeting all morning,

Only in the afternoon did I have time to go to the research institute, and Qiu deliberately remembered to call Xie Lier.

But before he dialed Cheryl's phone number, Cheryl's phone call came first.

"Come out, I have something new here. I'm in the parking lot downstairs." Cheryl said.

"Okay, I'll come right away." Qiu turned off the communicator, turned to Sean and said, "I'm going to the research institute."

"Go." Sean was busy with his own business.

"Are you going to meet a fellow villager? Wait, I'll do a beauty treatment." Xiao Shu swished to the bathroom.

"How long will it take you?" Qiu followed, watching Xiaoshu take off the protective cover, pick up the porcelain glazing wax left by the cleaning staff, and spray it on his body.

Xiaoshu straightened himself up quickly, took a look in the mirror, took out some hand sanitizer and put it on his body as a perfume, then picked up the protective cover and put it on his body neatly like wearing a bulletproof vest.

Qiu watched it fiddle with the protective cover and thought, this is wrong, this thing is used to protect it, if it can be put on and taken off at will, how can it protect it?

"Am I handsome?" Xiao Shu stood in front of the mirror and looked left and right.

"Well, let's go." Qiu thought about quickly talking to Tang Xiuluo about the protective shield.