Qin Xiaoxia adjusted his physical condition, moved his rusty limbs left and right, and looked through the summary of intelligence information sent by Cui Ying on the table.
It took him more than half an hour to get a more detailed understanding of the current operation of the association. Just as he was about to leave the office, the door rang "dong dong dong".
"Come in!"
Doudou pushed the door open and ran in.
"Cousin, are you really awake?"
"Nonsense! I have never fallen asleep. If you are asking about the state of the thought body, then I don't have any projected consciousness now."
Doudou said "Oh" and immediately asked another question.
"So do you want to eat?"
This question made Qin Xiaoxia's eyebrows jump, and he asked back with a bit of vigilance.
"Food? What food? Who made it? You?"
Normally, I would go out to Qingzhen to buy my meals, so since this guy asked me this, he must have come up with something new.
Doudou's head shook like a rattle.
"No, no, it's not me. I haven't cooked for a long time since my pickled fish almost poisoned Su Su's student Lilika last time!"
Qin Xiaoxia's eyes and eyebrows twitched twice. This was a lot of information.
As a congenital evolver, Lilika's ability to curse is unique. Su Su feels sorry for her student. In comparison, Hook, Jim and Anthony, three of Blaise's subordinates in Los Angeles, are also Su Su's students, but they are raised like stepmothers.
"So you were taught a lesson by Su Su that time?"
Doudou frowned, as if he had some bad memories. In the entire Dawn Association, Doudou was only afraid of three people. Qin Xiaoxia could only be ranked second. The first was actually Su Su, and the third was Baru, the leader of the Silent Knights. Even Huang Jiutian and Red Banshee were not on the list.
In Doudou's own understanding, Baru is aloof and extremely serious. Even though Doudou has never had a conflict with Baru, he has never dared to try.
Because I always feel like I'll die if Baru hits me casually.
But there is no solution for my older cousin.
But even these two fierce men are ranked behind Su Su on Doudou's fear list. It's not because Su Su is so fierce, but because Su Su had already eaten up Doudou's temperament since she woke up from the witch state, leaving Doudou with nowhere to run wild. The key is that she suddenly burst out with a first-class cooking talent, which really hit Doudou's sore spot.
Now hearing his cousin's teasing, Doudou snorted and returned to the subject.
"That's nothing to say. Cousin, do you want to eat or not?"
"Eat, eat, eat. Anyway, it must be made by Su Su, right?"
Doudou's eyes lit up and he rushed out of the office without saying a word.
In the kitchen, Su Su had already prepared various ingredients, from meat to vegetables, from fruits to snacks, which were densely packed in the not-so-small space.
A while ago, when the mentor was sending the fairies to shave their heads in the wasteland world, he had said that the matter with Pippi had come to an end.
The door of the tutor's office was closed for such a long time, and those outside did not dare to go in and disturb him without permission, so they could not see the tutor even though they were very close to him.
However, Su Su intuitively felt that the tutor would definitely catch up today, after all, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The kitchen had already started marinating some meat and processing some ingredients, and by the way, all the industrial salt, industrial alcohol, and some so-called spices and drugs that were lethal to ordinary people that Doudou got from somewhere were thrown out.
"I don't know why Gou Dandan is fine even though he usually eats the dried fish made by Doudou. He might as well change his name to Phoenix..."
Doudou came back running quickly while talking to himself.
"Su Su!!! Get ready to cook! My cousin is awake! He said that if there are less than 100 dishes, don't call him to eat!"
"What!? 100 dishes? If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tell him that you sold your mentor's child photos!"
Su Su threatened casually without showing any emotion.
"You! You! Aren't you afraid that the photos will be returned?"
"Just give it back, I'm not afraid!"
Su Su added in her mind: "I have already made countless backups!"
Doudou had an expression that said "I misjudged you" on his face, and he shook his head in grief and anger and prepared to leave the kitchen.
"Don't worry, I'm going to prepare all the dishes in the kitchen. Even if there are not 100 dishes, there will be no shortage, and the quantity will be enough!"
“Hohoho~~~” “Chichichichi~~~” “Hohoho~~” “Chichichichi…”
The strange laughter of Doudou and Gou Dandan came from the corridor outside the kitchen and became farther and farther away.
Qin Xiaoxia came down from the office and glanced towards the kitchen. Sister Su was immersed in cooking, with the ties of her white apron tied into a beautiful bow on her back.
The crystal ball was suspended beside her, and faint fluctuations of magic continued to penetrate the kitchen.
Qin Xiaoxia thought about it and decided not to disturb her for the time being.
He walked outside the secret place and saw the Red Banshee frowning as she studied a magic scroll on the river in the sky. Sensing the appearance of Qin Xiaoxia, she nodded towards the bottom.
"How's the summoning technique going?"
Qin Xiaoxia greeted him with a smile.
The Red Banshee glared at him unhappily.
"I said we would do research together, but you just stood there and left everything to me!"
Falling from the water, slowly landing on the ground on tiptoe, the Red Banshee handed the magic pattern scroll in her hand to Qin Xiaoxia.
"Here, for you. The original summoning ritual itself has been reversed, and I have also made some expansion supplements. However, the changes in the sacrifice have not been touched by the real object, especially your strange ideas, so I only added a rough framework and cannot deduce the details."
"Amazing, amazing! You are worthy of being the number one magic array master in Dawn. It's only been one month, and this level is already amazing!"
Qin Xiaoxia took the magic pattern scroll and felt that the magic array in his hand was very heavy.
"We have to prepare for both situations. The expanded version of the ancient ritual will definitely work. As for the sacrificial materials I envisioned, we can try them slowly."
As he spoke, Qin Xiaoxia looked up at the sky. The dark red shadow of the sinking world still existed. At first glance, it seemed that not much had changed, but in fact it was completely different from before.
"After all, this is the place where the world consciousness has died and sunk. Kaslopa can't hold out for much longer."
This is the first Mid-Autumn Festival in the face of the global crisis. For many people who know this festival, its significance of family reunion has never been so obvious.
There is a strange phenomenon in the world today: as long as it is an important and influential festival, people all over the world will follow suit, even if there may not be a holiday, even if that festival is not a local custom.
People seem to relieve anxiety this way.
Due to the preparations before the outbreak of the Dark Tide, a large number of people in the core countries of the World Alliance are together with their families and can enjoy the joy of this moment.
But there are still many people whose relatives and friends are far away from each other. They can either greet each other through the Internet or call through the many military communication equipment set up by the government. The operator on the other end will assign personnel to find the caller's relatives to answer the call.
At least we can wish each other peace.
Since small wireless precision devices such as mobile phones are still subject to interference, miniaturized terminals that can receive quantum satellite communication systems are still in the military deployment stage, and civilian use will have to wait.
Therefore, it is impossible for people to check their social media posts on their mobile phones like before. They can either wait for new quantum devices or wait for the interference to disappear.
Online forums and major portals have experienced a second spring at this time, with active browsing traffic even exceeding the peak period of that year.
But not everyone can enjoy this moment.
Far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the Holy Spirit arrived at the ruins of a town in Texas. Six or seven soldiers, covered in blood, limped away here.
Two of them were unable to move on their own, so two others were responsible for supporting them, and the other three held guns and looked around vigilantly.
Their company was ambushed along the planned route of advance, and the only evolved officer was inexplicably killed by monsters, causing the troops to collapse after only a dozen minutes of fighting.
The town itself is not very big, and it was bombed many times by bombers, causing it to be completely unrecognizable. The taller buildings collapsed, and at most some debris remained.
Plants have begun to take over this place, with thick roots everywhere, vines and saplings that have reached a certain height.
"take a break!"
After finding a solid corner, the leading lieutenant finally gave the order to make repairs.
"Huh~ I didn't expect to survive!"
"Who, who has any water?"
A wounded soldier who was having trouble breathing asked his comrades.
The lieutenant touched his water bottle, took it out and shook it, licked his cracked lips, and handed it to the wounded soldier.
"Drink it, drink two and pass them to others, so that everyone can moisten their throats!"
The Dawn Association's internal analysis believes that it is very disadvantageous for human armies to enter wilderness forests, but even though everyone knows this, the countries of the World Alliance still have to send a considerable number of troops to such areas every day.
This is like taking human life lightly, but not doing so will easily allow monsters to form a large scale.
Human scientists believe that elite troops that have been baptized by war, when equipped with effective weapons, have individual soldier capabilities comparable to those of ordinary monsters.
But this is only a theoretical value after all. The complex environment of the jungle greatly limits the vision, hearing and other perceptions of ordinary human soldiers. Quantum communicators that can receive satellite entangled photons are basically distributed in companies, and the fault tolerance rate of individual soldiers encountering special situations is not high.
Compared with the previous positional defense battles, it can be said that this is the truly brutal battle for the army.
In the corner, the kettle was passed between the soldiers and finally returned to the second lieutenant's hands. He shook it gently and there was probably still room for a few sips of water in it.
After hesitating for a moment, he made a gesture to drink water. As soon as the water touched his lips, he immediately straightened the kettle and covered the lid.
"Check and report the ammunition situation!"
"I have one and a half magazines and one grenade." "Two magazines." "And half a magazine and three packs of C4."
"Yes, there is another magazine!"
…
The situation was not optimistic, so the second lieutenant cheered up and boosted morale.
"F Company has been disbanded, the battalion headquarters should be taking action. The most important thing for us now is to hold on until rescue arrives. This used to be a town, maybe there is some food, or maybe there is still water in some pipes. Let's look for water tanks and stores!"
However, the second lieutenant actually did not hold out hope for this statement, because in this situation, their superiors would most likely think that they had been killed in battle and their bodies were nowhere to be found, and they would be unlikely to send forces specifically to look for them.
The town is full of rubble and there are no rivers. It would be better to hope for fruits in the forest than to find supplies here.
“Boom boom boom…”
Their feet were numb and they could not stand steadily. The sudden slight vibration made several soldiers extremely nervous.
"Hide!! Hide!!"
The lieutenant and another soldier rushed back to the shelter, lowering their voices to tell everyone to calm down.
“Boom…”
There was a loud bang, like a violent thunder, and all the soldiers trembled.
"boom……"
There was another louder sound, and the whole town was shaking. Rubble from the ruins kept falling and dust was rising.
“Woo~~Woo~~Woo…”
Then the smoke and dust grew thicker and thicker, and soon it seemed like a sandstorm, causing several soldiers to huddle in a corner, not daring to move, and staring at the scene in shock.
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