Chapter 688 A Gift

The room was filled with tinkling noises, and it finally became quiet after five consecutive sounds of heavy objects colliding.

I felt the mercury lamp in my arms arched my body, and the soft little body stretched out a little head from underneath: "Stupid human being! Why are you hugging me all of a sudden!"

His voice was filled with half anger and half happiness. It seemed that his subconscious action just now had successfully gained a lot of favorability points. If before, he had given the other party a bear hug without his consent: This little girl would have been long gone. A carotid steel teeth penetrating blow came over.

"Hey - you guys are really cruel," I let go of the soft little body under my arm with a little embarrassment. As soon as I raised my hand, I felt a throbbing on my back. Although I was not injured, the box of the Rose Girls The horns are really hard enough. If an average person received such a beating, they would probably need hospice care at this time. "Especially you! Emerald Star Stone! Have you ever aimed at someone's tailbone and hit it?! Don't act stupid, yours I’ve already put a label on the box!”

"Anyway, the mercury lamp said that you can't be killed!"

The doll girl with red and green eyes gave up her disguise, pushed open her box and spoke confidently.

The culprit next to him immediately got under the quilt: "I'm sleeping!"

We suddenly felt that we might have over-trained him. Do you think the good chairman has turned into such a troublesome and troublesome girl?

I waved my hand and asked a group of doll girls who were up late at night to put their respective packaging boxes and charging sockets in the corner. I looked seriously at the circle of little heads around me. The mercury lamp next to me was still embedded in my quilt. He exposed the upper half of his face and looked at me arrogantly.

"Tell me, what's going on? You stayed up in the middle of the night, and even Zhenhong joined in the fun. You must be in trouble, right?"

Sure enough, as I finished speaking, a circle of little heads turned their faces or lowered their heads, looking embarrassed, while the mercury lamp continued to get back into the quilt to show that it was asleep.

"Ahem, actually...it's Sister Shuiyin Deng who has something wrong, but she's too embarrassed to say it."

After a long time, everyone remained silent. Cang Xingshi, the only conscientious member of the Rose Maidens, finally decided to step forward. The troubled doll girl looked at the big bulge on the quilt: "She has something to give you."

"Huh?" I blinked in confusion and stretched out my hand to pull the mercury lamp out of the quilt. At that time, everyone heard a "click" in their ears. I continued to pull out without changing my expression, but the mercury lamp bit my hand and was dragged out. , I definitely learned this trick from Dingdang!

Seeing that the mercury lamp, which is usually mature and steady, even a bit like a queen, even did such an off-line thing unconsciously, I can see some clues: tonight the little lamp seems to be particularly lively and in a good mood. What's weird, not only leading his sisters to be naughty, but also uncharacteristically taking the initiative to act coquettish and cute with me (although the method is a bit unique), this is definitely not the usual character of this arrogant guy. Based on the experience of getting along with her, there is only one possibility for the abnormal behavior of Mercury Lamp: she is very nervous and excited, and as a result, her behavior is a little out of control.

Yes, this experience is another victory for dad.

"Girl, do you have something for me?"

I gently waved my hand and watched the mercury lamp swaying in the air twice following my movements. As the other rose girls looked at my powerful sister acting cute with horrified expressions, I asked in a funny way.

This girl doesn't even know what she is doing. With the deepening of the training... ahem, the education, she is becoming more and more childish?

"Pfft~~", the doll girl finally realized that she couldn't speak at all like this, so she finally let go of her mouth, and then turned her head deliberately with a great look: "Humph, I just found something interesting while shopping. I bought it. Come back... to open your eyes! Usually you buy me gifts, but today it’s even!"

Okay, okay, I've switched into tsundere mode again, why are you going to go berserk tonight, Mercury Lamp... Um? ! Gift! ?

I was just halfway through the sigh in my heart when I finally realized what the mercury lamp meant. How dare this arrogant and unceremonious doll actually buy myself a gift today?

After I confirmed the news, I was immediately shocked. Then I reached out and pinched Cuixingshi's little face and pinched it hard.

"Wow! It hurts!" the little doll shouted immediately.

"Okay, I'm not dreaming. Girl, did you buy me a gift?" With an overjoyed expression, I ignored Cuixingshi's punches and kicks, which were almost like massages, while I stuck the mercury lamp under my arm and followed He lifted the other person up to his eyes like a child, and there was nothing but surprise in his heart - after all, my daughter has grown up and is sensible.

"Put me down! Put me down! You idiot! Idiot! Fool!"

The silver-haired Goth girl who had always been very resistant to "lifting high" immediately squirmed and protested loudly. The half-missed little tiger teeth shone coldly in the moonlight, but to be honest, this kind of protest did not only give people a "Wow, this Apart from impressions like "You're so cute", there is no threat at all.

Zhenhong and the others were all dumbfounded at this time. As a generation that thrived in the shadow of the mercury lamp, when had these little dolls seen the mercury lamp, which always showed a cold and collapsing image, showing such a side? They had seen too many earth-shaking changes in the mercury lamp in the past few days, but the truly unbelievable behavior was when they were with a certain head of state.

The father and daughter played happily (?) for a while, and I finally put the doll girl down and looked at the other person's big purple eyes with hope: "What good thing is this? Take it out and let me see it?"

The mercury lamp was obviously a little embarrassed, but after the distracting slapstick just now, the little guy just glared at me, then jumped to the ground with a thud, and his mouth was about to be transformed by a bunch of "parents". The big boxes of the multi-functional mobile sea view house are churning around: a space storage device has recently been installed in it.

"That's it! Accept it respectfully with 120,000 gratitude!"

Holding up a one-foot-square box wrapped in wrapping paper, the doll girl said proudly.

Even though the other person's tone was rude, I still took over this packaging box with great surprise and excitement. It was a one-foot-square box wrapped in beautiful colored cellophane. Although the color was bright, it was of unprecedented significance. But the crooked ribbon knot on it was obviously made by a pair of clumsy little hands that were not very skilled. Rose Girl's hands were too small, which not only made it difficult for her to learn to write, but also made it difficult to tie a package.

It took a lot of effort to untie the dead knot of the mercury lamp without damaging the packaging. I silently looked at... another box inside the box.

Okay, I get it, let me read that sentiment again.

It still took a lot of effort to untie the tight knot on the outside of the smaller box inside, and I began to feel sad about the third box.

Well, in order to live up to that circle of bright eyes, I continue to work hard.

The fourth box, which was so painful that it exploded, suddenly came into view.

"Hmph, keep on unpacking, at the innermost place!" After unpacking the unknown number of boxes, the mercury lamp noticed that I stopped what I was doing, and immediately gave me a rude look, snorted coldly and said, "I want to But it’s too small, and it won’t look good if you don’t wrap it in a few layers!”

I thought about it silently and decided to tell the other person the details: "This is the last box. Look - it's empty."

Mercury lamp: "..."

"Girl, actually...you forgot to put something in it."

I looked up at the ceiling and cried silently.

"Eh~?~! Impossible! You idiot must have made a mistake. You must have broken it!"

Xiao Deng was stunned for a long time, then suddenly burst out with a panicked cry, his face flushed, and then he suddenly lay on the bed, rummaging through a pile of messy wrapping paper and boxes, "No...no...still... No! Stupid human! Where on earth did you put that thing!"

Before I had time to explain, Chuberry's voice suddenly rang: "It's in the box! You really forgot to put it in!"

I followed the sound, and sure enough, at some point, Chuberry slipped in front of the mercury lamp box and dug out something small that should have been in the packaging box.

"But... damn it! It's so hard to make such a big decision... Stupid human being! You quickly make yourself amnesia, I want to repackage it again!"

Give me some more reliable advice, stupid girl!

I have never seen such confusion with mercury lamps. I suddenly had a serious feeling of being killed by cuteness, but now is definitely not the time to dwell on this topic: mercury lamps are dangerous, you need to be careful when teasing, and you should be careful when teasing the rose girl. Overdoing it can trigger an arterial attack.

"Let me see what this is."

Ignoring the desperate obstruction of a certain little doll that had been in constant trouble since the night, I took over the obedient young berry that should have been wrapped up in thousands of packages but was actually left behind by its clumsy owner. Gifts outside.

It turned out to be a small... compass?

I looked at the pocket watch-sized thing in my hand in surprise. This delicate copper gadget looked just like a compass. It had a brass-colored spring cover with a crystal case underneath. The cover was engraved with precise patterns, and the pattern consisted of Several symbols indicate that this is an alchemical product, but when I carefully observed the pointer under the crystal shell, I suddenly found that it was pointing to the northwest corner...

After changing its position several times, this unfortunate thing still pointed unswervingly at the northwest corner.

"Haha, do you think this is a compass?"

The mercury lamp burst out with a proud laugh. He seemed extremely happy that the head of a super-civilized empire was frightened by a gadget created by alchemy. Then the little guy ran two steps on the bed and came to the other side of me. , “Look now!”

Looking down, the "compass" changed direction and now pointed to the northeast corner: the location of the mercury lamp.

The mercury lamp jumped up and down on the bed, and the weird alchemical compass in my hand also changed directions everywhere. In the end, I had to stop the Rose Girl who was already interested in playing: "Okay, okay! If you keep jumping, I will throw up. You should spit out the needles!"

This is a historic moment. From now on, this wonderful gadget in my hand will be officially named a pointer: only corresponding to mercury lamps.

"Where did you get it from?"

I asked curiously as I turned the gadget in my hand curiously and watched the pointer on it pointing consistently in the direction of the mercury lamp.

"An alchemist who runs a stall at the night market." Mercury Lamp climbed along my arm to his own special seat. "He has an unlucky face, but he didn't expect such a good thing."

"By the way, why is he studying this thing?"

I said casually while fiddling with the small gift from the mercury lamp in my hand.

"The alchemist claims to be a 'magic' inventor, who specializes in using alchemy to create novel mechanical equipment. He invented this kind of thing to find treasures, but there is one problem that has always troubled the inventor: for the compass to work , you must first find the treasure, and then 'record' the coordinates of the treasure on the compass, and this recording is one-time..."

I think I understand why that girl, as a senior intellectual, came to Shadow City to set up a street stall out of desperation.

"Actually, we bought a lot of things." Cuixingshi also became interested. He ran back to his box and started unpacking things. He looked like he was going to turn this evening into a treasure appraisal meeting. After a while, in the With the help of a group of rose girls, my bed was filled with strange alchemy gadgets.

“Solar lights that require light to glow, alarm clocks that require the user to manually press a button to sound, water-saving laundry tubs that clean clothes without using water – but require two liters of priceless magic water each time they are started. It's a magical 'full' potion that makes you feel less hungry immediately after you eat it, but the side effects are severe diarrhea and vomiting five minutes later. It can charge ordinary glass into a magic accumulator that turns into a magic crystal. Well, at the same time Consuming the energy of two magic crystals, the most novel thing is an alchemy platform that can print text. The way to use it is like this: place a blank piece of paper on the left side of the platform, and then use a piece of paper on the right side. When you write with a Mithril pen weighing one kilogram, the platform will automatically transfer the text to the white paper on the left..."

Pointing to a bunch of strange things on the bed, Zhen Hong introduced them to me one by one without changing his expression.

"That alchemist is a talent."

I nodded sweatily.

"He is indeed a talent. It is said that he used different names to deplete the treasury of three kingdoms in succession. He was only discovered when he started to consume the fourth one. From that day on, the alchemist was known as the Artifact of Nation Destruction."

Zhenhong said halfway, and Canary on the other side took over: "But the alchemist was not executed. Now he is a strategic weapon. The king who successfully captured the alchemist announced to the entire continent who dares to invade. If you send the 'Trickster Alchemist' to your own country, it is said that the king also promised not to use the alchemist first unless he was invaded..."

Well, now that you've gotten to this point, unknown alchemist classmate xxx, you can be considered a winner in life.

Under the moonlight, looking at the pile of painful inventions in front of me, any one of which might be carrying the blood and tears of a kingdom, I sighed silently for a long time. Such a weirdo has the courage to live. You said that I am only responsible for saving the world. What's the reason for the heavy burden here, right?

At this moment, the mercury lamp suddenly knocked on my head. Because I successfully gave the gift, the little doll has now returned to its usual calmness and arrogance, but when she spoke, her voice seemed to be a little nervous. : "Hey, stupid human, you haven't thanked me yet!"

It became clear at once: a certain arrogant chairman was asking for praise and other comments.

"Thanks."

In a very solemn tone, I put the "treasure hunter" in my hand back into my pocket, held the mercury lamp from my shoulder to my face, and said seriously.

"Ah! Why are you so serious all of a sudden? It's so disgusting!"

"Ahem, it's rare for me to be serious for a moment," I coughed twice awkwardly, and put the little doll girl on my chest and rubbed the other person's head vigorously, "I like this gift very much, okay? "

"Hey, you're just an idiot. I really thought someone was expecting your evaluation!" Mercury Lamp shook his head to avoid my big hand and said arrogantly.

"Okay, okay, I'm a fool. If you're not a fool, can you explain why this compass will record your information?" I suddenly thought of something, so I asked casually: The compass given to me by the mercury lamp has and only The function of recording "treasure hunting spots" was once used, but this girl used it to record her own information. What does this mean? Never lose yourself?

"I just tested it when I bought it," the mercury lamp turned his head and muttered, then flew to the corner and got into his mobile sea view box, "I want to sleep! No rolling on the bed! No! You have something bothering you, do you know?"

"Yes Yes Yes--"

Just like dealing with a naughty daughter, I responded perfunctorily to the other party, only to be scolded angrily: "Idiot! Just say 'yes' once!"

With a "bang", the box was slammed shut, leaving me and a bunch of rose girls staring at each other.

"You're an amazing guy."

After a long silence, Zhenhong only left this comment.

"And he said it from a pervert."

Cuixingshi pinched my waist with one hand and pointed at my nose with the other. He leaned his upper body over and said seriously, "But that's not to say he's a bad human being."

Being commented like this inexplicably, I felt a little confused as Monk Zhang Er, but fortunately the remaining dolls were all in the well-behaved category. Cang Xingshi, Canary and Young Berry said good night to themselves. Then we each packed up the treasures we purchased and went back to the boxes to sleep, leaving me with a silly smile on my face, having fun alone in the dark.

A gift, a gift of a mercury lamp. Although that stupid girl used an even stupider way to resolve her nervousness tonight, I have truly received this gift.

In every sense, my own...education plan was a great success.