Chapter 207 Master-Servant Relationship

A lot of people came to Youxi's 20-square-meter single room today.

Xing Min was the closest, so he came the earliest. After she asked Yinyin to go back and inform her parents, he came directly. While the others were not here yet, Youxi began to put things into the single-door refrigerator in the room.

Most of the various meats in her Xingwu warehouse were quick-frozen. When she took them out, she thawed them instantly, removed the packaging boxes, and neatly arranged them on the plate.

Xiyuan and Jian Shou would definitely come, and with Yinyin's family of three, there would be seven people. Xiyuan was responsible for asking Hei Mu and Yan Shang. If they came too, there would be nine people. She had to prepare more things.

M12 took two portions of 1000g of ox eye, top ribs and spare ribs, six portions totaling 12 jin, which was enough.

She took three boxes of lamb spare ribs, two boxes of lamb skewers, two boxes of sliced ​​pork belly, and three boxes of chicken wings. Other seafood was rarely seen in the fort, so she didn't take any.

Then she took some vegetables suitable for slicing and roasting: large eggplant, zucchini, chicken leg mushroom, potato, shiitake mushroom... She

also took some leeks and enoki mushrooms. She also took some lettuce and garlic heads, which tasted better with pork belly. She also took some. Various barbecue dips and barbecue sauces were also indispensable.

She put all the meats in the refrigerator and put the vegetables in the sink in the bathroom, ready to be processed later. As soon as the things were put in place, other people came one by one.

Yinyin's family came the fastest. Apparently the little girl couldn't wait any longer. After she went back, she explained the situation and hurried over with her parents, along with food and drinks.

Yinyin's mother was afraid that the vegetable rice she had made previously would not be enough for nine people, so she brought pots, rice, vegetables and meat with her, thinking of cooking more. However, she was shocked by the amount of meat and vegetables prepared by Youxi. There

was no need to cook the vegetable rice again. The vegetables she had made previously might not be eaten, so she took the initiative to wash and slice the vegetables and do various preparations.

Yinyin's father, at Xingmin's suggestion, opened the camping tables and chairs and assembled them simply. Then Xiyuan came. He brought a lot of fruits, all of which were common fruits that could be produced inside the fortress, such as apples and oranges.

As soon as You Xi saw the amount of fruit, she knew that he had spent a lot of time working, and he should have also used the purchase quota of the other three people.

"Hei Mu and Yan Shang will both come over. Yan Shang has finished work and is on his way. He will meet Jian Shou first and go to the supermarket to buy some wine and drinks. Hei Mu will come over after he finishes preparing some meals in the evening. It will probably be a little late. He asked us to eat first, but remember to save some space. He will bring cakes and desserts." "

Okay." You Xi was placing various snacks on another table. When she saw him turning around to look at her, she took a bag of chocolate beans and handed it to him, pointing in the direction of Yin Yin, "She wants to play chess. I don't have time for now. You go and accompany her."

In You Xi's eyes, Xi Yuan and Yin Yin are actually of the same age.

After all, in terms of growth time after birth, Yinyin is still a few years older than Xiyuan.

Xiyuan: ...

He reluctantly took the chocolate beans and walked towards Yinyin who was sitting in the corner, looking back at Youxi every few steps. But she was talking to Xingmin beside her and didn't pay any attention to him at all.

He sat down by the wall reluctantly, but decided to listen to Youxi and help "comfort" the child.

I don't know if the absent-minded expression on his face was too obvious - after all, no one would hide it in front of a child. Just when he turned around and looked at Youxi for the third time while holding the chess piece, a soft and tender voice floated into his ears faintly.

"I advise you not to think too much. The fact that she lets you come over to play with me shows that in her heart, you and I are on the same level."

"..." Xiyuan turned around and met Yinyin's dark eyes.

The latter tilted her head at him: "Give up, Youxi won't like you."

Xiyuan: ...

More than half an hour later, Jian Shou and Yan Shang came over carrying several boxes of wine and drinks. Today is New Year's Eve, and almost all people with extra working hours in their access control bracelets went to the supermarket to buy some.

No matter what the world has become, fortunately they are still alive. Although the family around them is not as complete as in previous years, it is also a very beautiful thing to be able to gather with the family and friends who are still there and sit down to have a New Year's Eve dinner.

Let's put aside the pain and troubles for the time being. Perhaps after this year is over, the disaster will disappear along with the old year. Tomorrow is a new year, and I hope there will be a brand new beginning.

I hope this broken planet can hold on. Although there are too many wars, chaos and casualties in the disaster, there are also humans who have not given up hope and are trying to persevere and fight.

They prayed that everything will be fine starting from tomorrow.

When the second plate of barbecue was gone in seconds, Hei Mu rushed over. He brought several large boxes of cakes and desserts, all of which were made by him, bringing sweet warmth to today's New Year's Eve dinner.

Nine people sat around a low camping table, and they tacitly did not talk about the disaster, but only talked about food and beautiful and happy things.

Xiyuan flipped the lamb skewers on the baking tray while looking at Youxi, Hei Mu and the other three.

This was the first meal the five of them had eaten together recently. He hoped that everyone would still be together during the Chinese New Year next year. Even if Hei Mu and the others no longer had a master-servant relationship with You Xi, he hoped that everyone could live close to each other, work together to fight the disaster, and live well together.

**

After the New Year's Eve dinner that day, You Xi took advantage of the others cleaning up and went to Xing Min's room next door. She went to Jian Shou, Hei Mu and Yan Shang to talk about the "injury-free device".

In her opinion, the seven disasters would become more and more difficult to deal with as time went on. She and Xing Min had already discussed that if the situation was not right and they could not stay on the ground, they would take out the high-altitude airship and rise directly to the air, and hide in a small space for the rest of the mission.

Firstly, it can avoid many disasters. Secondly, the high-altitude airship with a maximum capacity of 12 people is actually not very large. Even if the airship's sturdy shell, air filtration device, and defense device are all destroyed, both Youxi's ice shield and Xingming's energy shield can protect it.

The third point is, of course, the most important one.

The giant fortress they are in now can actually be disassembled and launched.

When it was originally designed, each cylindrical building was a building that could be launched independently. Of course, there are still many technical problems, fuel problems, load-bearing problems, and connection problems with other cylindrical areas after launch have not been solved.

But the simulated launch experiment has been successful, and it is estimated that the actual launch experiment will be carried out after the new year.

Once the fortress is successfully lifted from the ground into the air, the airship can be moored outside the fortress, forming a completely independent space with both a retreat route.

In order to go smoothly at that time, a lot of work must be done in advance.

For example, the placement of their four servants.

Taking out the "injury-free device" and signing the Freemen's Agreement with the authorities is a very important matter for them. Now that the human population has been drastically reduced and many servants have rebelled, the official position on servants has long changed.

Each servant has his own specific abilities, especially technical and armed servants, who are in short supply and are scarce talents.

Because of this, after the investigation of the incident reported by the parents last time, it was the parents who were punished in the end. The bracelet level dropped sharply, and the couple was directly downgraded from the original double room to a large room with forty people.

For the officials, a fight caused by a small quarrel between the couple is still a small matter, but provoking the relationship between natural persons and servants must be severely punished.

Of the three people in the family, only the daughter stayed behind. However, the family was forced to separate, and the daughter's future life was not easy. She was completely implicated by her parents.

It was because of the official attitude that Youxi brought up the old matter again.

Hei Mu was silent for a long time, and Youxi did not urge him. After asking, he waited patiently.

After a long time, he slowly opened his mouth and asked, "Will she come back?"

This question was not surprising, but because of the recent estrangement from the other party, she had actually expected it.

She even felt that among the four people, Hei Mu was the first one to feel it. After all, he had been with "Youxi" the longest and took care of her life. How could he not have any guesses?

"Yes - after I finish what I need to do and leave."

"Thank you, then there is no need to cancel it. I will wait for her to come back."

You Xi looked into the other party's deep and calm eyes, as if for the first time seeing through the other party's polite and old-fashioned persistence: "Don't worry, she will be the same as before, and stronger than before."

The same as before, because the mechanical consciousness of this body will not be damaged at all because of her visit.

Stronger than before, because except for the space and the materials in the space, all her abilities will be inherited by this body.

Jian Shou was very direct. After listening to her question, he looked at her and said, "You are not her."

This is an affirmative sentence, not a question.

You Xi did not hide it: "Yes, I am not her, but she is a part of me. And don't worry, she will come back, stronger than before."

The other party sighed, as if he had put down the long-standing doubts in his heart: "It's okay, it's all the same to me. My ability can no longer help you, please cancel the master-servant relationship. The army will recruit servants after the new year. I want to go to a place that is more suitable for me and do something for this planet."

"Okay."

Yan Shang was the most silent one, and he still didn't dare to look her in the eye.

You Xi's memory is too good. Even before coming to this world, the memory belonging to the mechanical consciousness of this body will automatically appear as long as it sees a specific person...

Among these four servants, Yan Shang is the only one who has had a relationship with this body, and this is also the reason why she always subconsciously avoids the other party.

It is really... too embarrassing.

After a while, Yan Shang finally spoke: "Have you asked Xiyuan about this question?"

Youxi:

"I know you didn't ask him, and I also know the reason why you asked whether the master-slave relationship should be dissolved..."

It's funny, when he realized his feelings for the other party, he also realized something else at the same time. Because of this, when he found out that this her was not "her", he slowly began to have a hopeless and desperate inferiority.

Because he understood the reason why the other party alienated him, among the four people, the one she would never fall in love with was him.

These days, he avoided her because he didn't want to hear questions like today.

"If this is what you wish, if it will make you feel more relaxed, I am willing to end the master-slave relationship."

"..." You Xi raised his forehead to remind him, "That...she will come back, stronger than now, exactly the same as before..."

"That doesn't make any sense to me..." Yan Shang finally looked at her, with an almost tragic smile on her face, "Thank you, I am willing to end the master-slave relationship with you."

You Xi looked at the other party, wanting to say something, but in the end said nothing.

Three of the four servants guessed it.

After You Xi returned to his room, he pulled over Xi Yuan who was packing things, and asked him in a low voice: "Do you know it too?"

"What?"

"You don't know?"

"What are you talking about, You Xi, are you playing a puzzle?" He lowered his head curiously and looked at her left and right.

"Forget it..." She shouldn't have expected too much from a middle school boy.

On the first day of the new year, Youxi took Jian Shou and Yan Shang out of the "injury-free device" and signed the Freemen's Agreement.

From now on, both of them are freemen like natural persons, with completely independent lives.

**

The subsequent impact of the volcanic eruption on the entire planet is gradually becoming stronger.

The volcanic dust covering the atmosphere has spread to every corner of the world, like a huge isolation shield, isolating the ground and the sky.

The temperature continues to drop, acid rain falls, earthquakes occur frequently, and the entire crust is extremely unstable. Later, almost every day, the people in the fort could feel the ground shaking, as if there was an unknown giant beast lurking under their feet.

The giant beast was still sleeping at this moment, and once it woke up, it would set off a monstrous disaster.

The fort's physical launch experiment was carried out three times, failed twice, and only succeeded once.

Every day, a large number of refugees came to the fort, a paradise in the eyes of the world, by plane, high-altitude airship, low-altitude hovercraft, jeep, armored vehicle... and even walked in protective clothing, and went through untold hardships to reach the fort, a paradise in the eyes of the world.

The situation outside has become very bad, because there are no resources in the outside world. Except for those large-scale shelters that have ecosystems, can be self-sufficient, and meet the needs of water production and protection production, other small shelters, even if they survive the volcanic eruption, can hardly escape the fate of destruction...

With the influx of a large number of people, the resources inside the fortress have also begun to be tight.

Xing Min has given up the room next door and moved to Youxi to live with her, but they are already the best group of accommodation in the fortress.

Jian Shou and his four people and Yin Yin's family gave up one of the three double rooms at the beginning. Jian Shou moved in with Hei Mu Yanshang, and Xi Yuan lived with Yin Yin's family.

Later, another room was vacated, and Yinyin and Xiyuan came to Youxi. Yinyin's parents lived with Jian Shou, Hei Mu and Yanshang.

The fortress, which was originally well-safe, now has many gray areas and dark corners. For a little bit of resources, any transaction can be staged and any accident can happen.