Master Pantalone has no crazy plans today

But Sandonie shook his head slightly, and he tried to ask again: "500 billion moras?"

"Not enough." Sandonie still shook his head gently, denying.

"... How much is that?"

"5000 billion moras, this is the first phase of funds needed to develop the 'mechanical prosthesis'."

Pantalone fell silent as he watched Sandogene's funding application.

Well, he knew that technology development is a very expensive thing.

But no one told him that this stuff is so expensive.

Can he get his money back now?

Chapter 22 "Girl" Columbia's Memories

In everyone's perception, Solstice Winter is a country that is frozen by ice and snow all year round.

And that's exactly what it is, this bitter cold land in the far north.

Compared with other countries, it can indeed be called too barren. Such a harsh environment makes it even more difficult for people living here to survive.

Everything stems from the God of Ice.

In the earliest ancient times, the God of Ice used his power to dispel the cold in this bitterly cold land, and protected the ancient humans so that they could continue and survive, and established a kingdom belonging to humans in this area. This is the original the solstice.

She used to be a god who loved people deeply, and she was also the queen of Solstice Winter.

Under the protection of the Queen, the people who had struggled to survive in this world established their kingdoms on this land.

She is happy when people are happy, and she is happy when people are happy.

But don't know when to start.

The queen no longer started to love her lover, but used the deep ice to freeze all her feelings, and buried that fiery love deep in her heart.

No one can understand the grief in the queen's heart, and no one can bear the bitter cold in the queen's heart.

This is precisely because the queen is too gentle.

Because she was too gentle, she had to be cold.

It is precisely because of the protection of her people that she is unwilling to let her people share what she has borne, because the bitter cold in the Queen's heart is beyond the reach of human beings, and only with a burning desire can endure the bitter cold in the Queen's heart.

In the memory of the "girl" Columbia.

The queen is always like this, she always buries everything in her heart alone.

She is not a weak god, she just chooses to bear everything alone.

Columbia, who is a "girl", was one of the first executives to follow the Queen. After the original Fool swears allegiance to the God of Ice, she has been following the Queen.

She knew countless things, and she considered herself one of the people who knew the Empress best.

After a long time, until one day it suddenly became a little different.

A somewhat strange human appeared, that is a talented man with countless fantasies and talents.

As for that man, the "girl" Columbia doesn't actually have much contact with him, and it's just because of the empress's relationship that she observes that strange man.

He has unparalleled talent and ideas, and possesses action and ambition that ordinary people do not have.

He can always seize opportunities that ordinary people can't see and seize them, which makes him quickly accumulate a lot of wealth among the crowd. On the other hand, he is also very good at taking advantage of the weaknesses in people's hearts to seek wealth for himself.

This allowed him to quickly gain a higher social status and begin to grasp wealth and power.

Perhaps it may be because of the experience in the early years.

He has no reverence for the gods, and even borders on apostasy.

In the eyes of "girl" Columbia, that man is a very strange guy.

He is different from any human being he has seen in a long time. He has ideas that others dare not think of, and at the same time, he is more daring to do than others.

He is a rationalist with a hard heart, but he can also make noise like a fanatic, cursing imperfect human beings while believing in the possibility of human beings at the same time.

While treating emotions as impurities, they value the relationships between people more than anyone else.

Although he is a businessman, he has a strong interest in the path of science.

He's conflicted, yet more human than anyone else.

Among them, the man completely relied on his own ability, and climbed step by step with an experience that outsiders could hardly imagine, a high position that ordinary people can only climb to in a lifetime.

Even the "girl" Columbia couldn't understand what kind of thoughts and psychology he was holding to achieve this step.

But even she had to admit that he was indeed a different man.

When there was no one else, he would occasionally say something strange like 'I am not actually from this world, but a traveler from another world'.

When he was about to starve to death, he was picked up from Liyue Port by fellow fools in the area, but in the end he always claimed to be a person from another world.

If there is no accident, then everything will probably continue like this.

Until one day, after the man heard about the Fool, for some reason, he suddenly had the idea of ​​wanting to join it. The reason was simply because he simply thought that this would be the only way to repay the Queen's kindness to him.

What a childish reason to feel speechless.

She still remembered what the man said to her the last time he spoke to her.

"In order to fight against the great cause of heaven's law, sometimes it is necessary to pay a small price."

"In eternity without beginning and end, human beings will live a peaceful and dreamless life, but under the blind spot of the gods, I... still want to try dreaming."

"Who made me a naive ghost who likes to dream."

In the memory of the "girl" Columbia, the man held the moon in the night sky, as if he held the whole world in his hands.

His voice is full of

That was the last time she saw that man.

The man seemed to have made some kind of deal with the queen, and the queen seemed to have changed slightly after that.

And that man suddenly seemed to disappear, as if the person in her memory had never existed.