Superpowers of Sky City

Chapter 420 Charming mist is a clear water shadow (3)

Gongsun Ce didn't know that he had become two people in the mouth of his girlfriends. At this moment, he was wandering listlessly in the town, bathing in the warm sunshine with his two companions.

There are almost no prosthetics in the small town of Nuowei, and there are few aircraft or holographic billboards, which remind Gongsun Ce of his hometown where he lived when he was a child.There are newsstands on the side of the road here, and the most conspicuous place is the paperback version of the holy scriptures. The adult magazines with exposed covers were mostly wrapped in black plastic bags by the stall owner, and "minors Buying is prohibited".

When Qiluo went to buy an adult magazine, she deliberately used her ability to pretend to be a middle-aged man. She was worried that she would be caught and preached by the conservative-looking old man according to her usual appearance.

"You can't even buy this kind of three-dimensional magazine in Cang~" Qi Luo's eyes sparkled.

"Remember to lend me after reading it." Gongsun Ce said absently, "How is the investigation going?"

Qi Luo said helplessly: "Gongsun Ce, I have just discussed it with Elandia, and the conclusion is that the church has made a response and we don't need to intervene. Are you not listening at all?"

"When did you say that?" Gongsun Ce's eyes were blank, "Didn't we just get out of the car..."

"We have been out of the car for two hours." Dawn Knight said, "Ce, I suggest you go to have lunch, communicate with the locals moderately, see the scenery outside the city, and focus on the real world instead of In the practice of fantasy."

"I'm very focused," Gongsun Ce said.Qi Luo gave him a strong hand to prevent him from crashing into the electric poles on the side of the street.The two ladies had to hold his arms, one on the left and the other on the right, otherwise Gongsun Ce, who was in a trance, might get lost by himself.

But Gongsun Ce did not lie, his spirit was indeed concentrated, concentrated inside his body.Ever since that night, he always felt that he would be scattered into thousands of ashes again, and become countless burning flames.He will be omnipresent and omniscient, like a mass of air that exists.The worst part is that he subconsciously feels that there is nothing wrong with it, so Gongsun Ce always needs to concentrate to calm down this desire to disperse.

Gongsun Ce felt that it only took him about half a second to adjust his state, but when the real reaction came, he was already sitting in a restaurant, and Qi Luo hit him on the head with the menu.

"You, want, eat, what, what!" Qi Luo repeated angrily, her breasts swayed with the slapping movement.

Gongsun Ce's eyes flickered for a while.The aroma of toasted bread, steak, and fried food entered his nose during this process, and the hunger in his stomach made him gradually regain his usual feeling. "Let me see." He took the menu and found that there were unexpectedly many optional items on the menu. In addition to the same fried chicken burger burrito pizza, there were actually fish and chips, beef kidney pie and fried eggs.

"I'd like a special burger with fries and a vanilla milkshake. How about you?"

"I want a sandwich and fried chicken~"

"I haven't had pie in a long time," Elandia said, "but..."

"Let me ask for you."

There was a middle-aged woman with blue hair standing behind the cash register. Gongsun Ce walked over and said hello, "Hey, is your pie here authentic?"

"100% authentic." The woman spoke with a country-country accent, "My mother is from Morton, and she taught me this dish."

Gongsun Ce deduced from her accent and the apron embroidered with the Kingdom Cross that this was not a lie. He paid the bill and helped Ailandia order her favorite salad and black coffee.

There were not many customers in the shop, except for their table, there was only a middle-aged policeman and an old man with a staid temperament. The two men ate their own food at the table, and the policeman listened to the old man complaining.

"One generation is not as good as one generation." The old man cut the burrito angrily, "One generation is not as good as one generation! Without belief, will, wisdom, respect for history and tradition, and without the knowledge and vision to look forward, this is the youth of today. Man. I saw a girl this morning, probably a student, who said that the fog should be sucked out of the ground so that people can live on the ground... I can't believe such rude and arrogant words come out in our peaceful town superior."

"It's okay, think about the youngest son of the Sirilei family." The police officer said in a strong voice, "He got addicted last week and drove a car on a rampage in the town."

"Drugs, the Internet, vulgar music, cheap sensory stimulation. These things have ruined an entire generation." The old man dismissed it, "Last month my grandson went to Smog City to listen to the celebrity concert, and after he came back, he began to support those epileptics. The 'new civilization' of the sick. He's voting for Gaius just because the star likes it. He doesn't even know what he's supporting, he's supporting it for the sake of it."

The police officer munched on the pie and exclaimed: "In this fragile era, people's positions can be easily changed by a song."

"They don't have anything of their own in their minds. They should all look into the fog more often." The old man said disgustedly, "Now they don't even want the fog, stupid children!"

Gongsun Ce's attention was attracted by the discussion between the two, and he said hello: "Good afternoon, gentlemen. I didn't mean to eavesdrop, this place is not big. I always thought that the fog here is harmful to people."

"Hello, young man. Why do you think so?" The old man asked back, "Because it is said so on the computer? The popular science on the radio? Or the introduction in the pamphlet?"

Gongsun Ce scratched his head: "It's all there."

"Ha!" The old man shook his head and laughed, "That's what I just said. Your mind is full of other people's stuff. You think based on the cheap knowledge you acquired in the fragmented time, but you don't know the truth of that knowledge at all. False. It's just that you think they're real."

Qi Luo said unconvinced: "But we just came out of the mist! We all saw the mist with our own eyes, how embarrassing are those evil phantoms."

The old man laughed louder, and the middle-aged policeman couldn't help laughing too.

"Sorry, no malice." The policeman said, "I remember when my lover and I were on our first date, we walked in the fog according to the old tradition, and the magic fog moved... It was really embarrassing, I suffered that day Five slaps."

"Why is there such a strange tradition?" Qi Luoxu said with eyes wide open, "It feels like the fuse of a broken relationship."

"On the contrary, the fog keeps us simple and original. In any era, this is the most precious treasure." After eating the burrito, the old man stood up from the table, "Girl, your judgment is only based on what you see That glance, but the sage told us that what we see may not be true. You can take a few more glances if you have time, the fog is a good thing.”

After finishing their lunch, the two left after saying goodbye, and the waiter brought their lunch to the table.Gongsun Ce found with regret that the pictures of this restaurant were seriously inconsistent with the real thing. The "specialty burger" on the picture was mediocre, but what was actually served on the table were two large pieces of buttered bread embryos and a large plate of torn BBQ meat.

"Boss, are you sure you didn't order the wrong dish?" Gongsun Ce pushed down his glasses.

"This is the local characteristic." The middle-aged woman told him with a smile, "What you see is not always the same as what you get."

Fortunately, the lunches of the other two were not that special. Judging from Elandia's satisfied expression, the beef and kidney pie was indeed genuine.Gongsun Ce felt that he was more at ease after eating wildly for a while. He walked out of the fast food restaurant and fell into deep thought again.

"Shall we go for a walk in the fog again?" Qi Luo offered to propose.

"I think it's very interesting..." Gongsun Ce nodded slowly, "I want to know what I will see."

The Weatherlight was driven away, and they rented a car instead.The paintwork of this car is a beautiful fiery red, and it looks like a burning fire under the blue sky.

Gongsun Ce and Qi Luo sat together in the back seat, feeling the breeze blowing from the window.Elandia stopped the car before she could raise the speed to the top, and a girl in her early teens was standing in the middle of the driveway, gesturing to them for a ride.The girl has colorful hair, is wearing a bright silver bodysuit, and is holding a half-eaten chocolate pie in her hand.

"..."

"..."

She and the three people in the car looked at each other for a while, opened the door, and sat down on the co-pilot.

"I want to listen to music." She said.

Elandia tuned a radio station casually, and the anti-Shinto black metal from Zero Island was playing on the speaker.The alien girl seemed to feel good, shaking her head along with the song of howling ghosts and howling wolves.

"We can give you a ride, but please fasten your seat belt." Elandia ordered.Qi Luo deeply admires this, it’s like standing up and reminding him to please put his phone into airplane mode when a terrorist hijacks the plane on the plane, the person who can do this kind of thing is not only brave More problematic brains than robbers.

The alien girl put on her seat belt obediently, turned her head to look at Gongsun Ce, and let out that strange laugh that seemed familiar.

"That's funny," the girl said, "You're going to be gone."

Gongsun Ce weighed his arms: "I think I'm pretty solid."

"She turned you into a fire. Fire is changeable." The girl raised a cluster of red flames in her hand, watching it disperse into countless sparks, "You became too early. Can you master the selflessness? You Is it fire?"

"I……"

"Ce, you are human." Elandia said first, "Go and see the fog, it will help you."

Gongsun Ce nodded subconsciously. He didn't understand what the girl was talking about, and he fell into that confused state again.The car drove in a weird atmosphere, drove out of the town, and drove into the fog.

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Shi Yuling arrived at the next town on the map, Yuanhu Town after two hours of drag racing.The sign near the town shows that this is the hometown of the "Mist State Women's High School Table Tennis Runner-up", which seems to be trying to add characteristics to the town.

"There are many such towns." Putana told them, "A small town has only a few hundred people, and there are no special features. Many people have a headache because of unemployment or layoffs. I want to go to Tata Star Town. That's the kind of town."

"Are the big cities in this state also like this?" Qin Qianbai asked.

"The biggest city here is called Misty City, which is very close to where I go to school. It is much better than the small towns. At least there are big shopping malls, holographic advertisements, and aircraft stores. We can watch Gaius's speech on the square. "When it comes to politics, Putana is in high spirits, "Have you heard his name?"

Shi Yuling smiled: "He is very famous."

"He is the best politician of this century." Putana said with a proud face, "Unlike those who engage in politics for money and power, he really wants to do something for this land. 'Long-term stagnation has brought the limit of civilization, and the new generation of Usters needs a brand-new civilization', how wonderful to hear this!"

Shi Yu Zero nodded while listening: "It makes sense."

"One of my favorite stars, Ariel is also his supporter. She just came to this small place for a concert last month. It was awesome. We sang together with her." Putana beamed, " She is also a supporter of the movement to drive the smog back to the soil, you see, our ardent deeds are supported by many aspects of the society, and Urstes is not just one voice."

"Is she more famous than Xingli?" Qin Qianbai asked.

"Xingli? She's almost out of date. The idols hyped up by the Internet are incomparable to the powerful ones."

Qin Qianbai disagreed with this very much, and Shi Yuling asked before the debate escalated: "It's meal time, are you hungry?"

Putana insisted on paying for lunch for the three of them, so the huntress parked the car next to a restaurant and asked the little girl to pack a takeaway.

"How can you let high school students pay for it?" Qin Qianbai blamed.

"I brought her here for free, she deserves a treat." Shi Yu Ling shook his sunglasses, "What do you think?"

Qin Qianbai looked at the bus stop by the road, and the advertisement on the stop sign was Gaius Otimis's election campaign.

"Gaius created preconceived notions for people, and his target was those young people who are easily incited." Qin Qianbai said coldly, "He used the church as a symbol of 'backwardness' and raised the banner of righteousness to provoke people Antagonism. He's cultivating an ironclad supporter, which is a bad thing."

Shi Yuling took off his sunglasses and stared at her for half a minute: "Thanks to the great politician, I'm asking that little girl."

"..." Qin Qianbai was speechless for a moment, "She is rebellious and childish, but she is not a bad child. She should have been deceived by that so-called pen pal."

"Oh~ you're smarter than I thought." Shi Yuling said lazily, "Who will come later?"

"Come on, Miss Shigure. I'm not good at communicating with immature children."

"That's for sure, because you are very naive yourself."

When Putana returned with four pies, the two adult women in front were pawing around like cats fighting.

They and Wawu continued on the road after eating the cakes, and Shi Yuling started a new topic after leaving the town: "Speaking of which, what are you going to do? Drive the fog back to the soil?"

"Are you interested in this activity?" Putana said enthusiastically, "This is a new movement worthy of all of us. You know, most of the Mist State is shrouded in fog, and people can only live in the sky .This nasty fog hampers local development a lot, but it can be avoided - as long as the government pays for a few big fog areas that interfere with the water cycle, we can get back to living on the land."

"It doesn't sound like a small project."

"The state government must have this money!" The girl swears as if she has seen the official ledger. "They just don't want to use it. They always let the money go into the pockets of politicians and entrepreneurs, and they don't do anything for the people. So we have to To protest, my pen pal said we have thousands of people in our ranks and it would surprise the state."

Shi Yuling nodded again and again, his tone suddenly changed: "Why is such a big event held in a remote town?"

Putana was stunned: "It's because... I think it's because it's close to many participants..."

"Putana, you just said that many local small towns have only a few hundred residents." Qin Qianbai said, "How hard is your pen pal trying to recruit thousands of people in these conservative towns? What about a progressive person?"

"It's...he might be bragging..." Putana said hesitantly, "maybe there are only a few hundred of us..."

"Let me tell you, there are not even five people." Shi Yuling sneered, "One video, one with medicine, and the remaining three take turns."

"You're so vicious, how can you think like that!" Putana protested excitedly. "This is our progressive activity! As a student, I have to—"

Shi Yuling stopped in the middle of the road, and the fog rushed into the car, making the vision blurred.She took off her sunglasses and turned to look at the girl in the back seat.

"If I were you, I would say that there is never anything I have to do in this world, only things I don't want to do." Shi Yuling smiled, "Let me guess. Your pen pal—probably a The man—invited you to meet five times, but to no avail. This time he said he would cut off contact if he didn’t come again, so you hurried out of the church school to hitchhike all the way to the appointment.”

Putana opened her mouth wide and hesitated for a while before saying, "It's not what you think. It's not just a personal factor, I did it out of a sense of responsibility."

Shi Yuling pulled out a short arrow from his waist and threw it to Qin Qianbai who was beside him.The eldest lady threw the short arrow with a little more force, and the arrow sank into the wet ground, blasting up clumps of silt-like soil.The depths of the arrow craters were a slimy brown, like swamps in a tropical rainforest.

"The land in the Misty State has long been swamped by the fog, and it is difficult to build ordinary houses on the ground." Qin Qianbai said, "Your activities are unrealistic."

Putana stared blankly at the mud puddle, then rushed out of the car to touch the swamp-like land with her own hands, and then touched other land with her own hands.

"How could it be?" Putana was disappointed when she got back to the car, "It's impossible."

"Why? Because your pen pal didn't say that?" Shi Yuling asked back.

"I looked it up online!" Putana said exasperatedly, as if seriously offended.Qin Qianbai is familiar with this kind of emotion. She feels that her wisdom and ability to make independent judgments have been questioned, and she feels that she has been underestimated.

"I believe you have searched on the Internet for a long time." Qin Qianbai said, "But you probably haven't visited the fog yourself, even once."

Putana stopped talking, and sat on the back seat sullenly, wow patting her calf with her paw.The Weatherlight started again, and Shigure Rei whistled leisurely in the mist.

"By the way, braces girl. I remembered another thing. Do you hate the church so much because you have seen their evil deeds, or because you didn't get along with your mother?"

"This has nothing to do with my family!" Putana exasperated. "It's my political views! I'm a coalition, I have public figures I support, I share their views... "

"Or did you accept their point of view?" Shi Yuling said.

"I have really seen priests who look like dogs. A priest was imprisoned for pedophilia in the first half of the year." Putana tried her best to prove her point.

"Such people definitely exist." Qin Qianbai said, "I have also seen other priests. There is an old priest fighting robbers in a bank, and a part-time doctor who often goes to the emergency department for voluntary work and only charges meager money. "

"I..." The female high school student subconsciously wanted to continue arguing, but she found from the calm expression of the girl in the front seat that it was meaningless to argue when she was emotional.So she began to close her eyes and meditate, trying to calm her emotions and persuade others with reason and evidence as in group discussions.

"Don't worry, it's not a debate meeting, there is no time limit for speaking." Shi Yuling held the steering wheel with one hand and adjusted the air conditioner in the car with the other hand. A white daffodil bloomed on the roof of the car, making her words With magic in it. "Think about what you really want."

Qin Qianbai has been observing the girl's condition.At first, Putana was in a daze as if she had just woken up. After meditating in confusion for a long time, her eyes gradually became clearer.She turned on her mobile phone and began to look back at the dense chat records. From this behavior, Qin Qianbai deduced that the girl's "pen pal" was probably a netizen she met on social networking sites, and she gave it a better name.

"...Excuse me." Putana rubbed her head and said, "Can you do it a few more times? I want to... read more."

"Several times are fine, she knows Imperial Kungfu and never gets tired."

Qin Qianbai gave the female driver a hard look: "She knows Zero Island Karate, and is especially good at digging holes."

Putana laughed a few times listening to their bickering.The Weatherlight left the proper road and galloped on the muddy ground. Qin Qianbai threw short arrows in several directions at random, and all the feedback was like a swamp without exception.

"I think only a small part of the land can lay special foundations." Qin Qianbai said, "They are all built into tall mushroom-like houses, just like those small towns."

Putana appeared rather disappointed, curled up in the backseat, her eyes clouded with mist.

"What should I do?" she said helplessly. "I just found out today that I am even more stupid than the children I laughed at."

"Why do you ask me? I'm a magic princess and not your mother." Shi Yuling pouted, "Ask your mother."

"She will laugh at me to death, she will pull my dad and my sister to laugh at me."

"Compared to being yelled at by your 'pen pal' after being cheated on, it sounds like the nightmare of a lifetime." Rei Shigure commented, "Is there anything worse?"

"Yes, in fact, we are human traffickers who abduct and sell lost children. Every day, we transport the girls unconscious to a small backward country in the Nanyang Islands." Qin Qianbai sang along.

"It's scary, how much is the market price per catty over there?"

"About 300 Kerry."

"Prices are really high these days."

The two unscrupulous adult women laughed, and the high school girl in the backseat turned red with anger.

"You're too much!" she said. "Thank you."

"Just laugh at yourself for being lucky if you don't meet a real trafficker."

After another three and 10 minutes of drag racing, they arrived at the next town (near Lake Town). Putana got out of the car, hid in the alley and called her family.Judging from her expression, her conservative religious mother scolded her bloody.After being scolded, she wiped her tears and handed the phone to Shi Yuling, and the female voice on the phone spoke vigorously.

"My silly girl is taken care of by you. Give me a bank card number, the Supreme God will definitely bless you, and as a mortal, I want to express my gratitude as a mother."

"It's not necessary, I was much more stupid than her when I was young." Shi Yuling told her, "It's just a small episode of the self-driving tour."

They put Putana at the door of the small hotel near the lake town, and the female high school student was very confused when they said goodbye.

"What should I believe?" Putana sought their advice, "If my position and ideas are false, should I really be a conservative person like the church school said?"

Qin Qianbai looked at this helpless girl, as if he saw himself when he first went to the capital of the sky.Young people in this period always have a similar melancholic temperament, as if they have fallen into an abyss from which they cannot escape, and their own speculation and ideas are the highest task above all trivial matters.They are good at creating troubles for themselves and confusion for themselves.

Qin Qianbai couldn't help laughing when he thought of the gray-haired boy's preaching.She seriously suggested: "Should we start by learning to think independently?"

Putana was pondering over this sentence, her heart was affirmed, and she felt as if she really understood something.She waved eagerly, wanting to wish them a good trip, but found that the beautiful car had long since gone, leading its equally beautiful passengers into the mist.

(End of this chapter)