Today's lunch was very rich and delicious due to the appearance of Kana. Even Jialani, who claims to have a good taste, praised Kana with satisfaction and made a request to hire her to become a full-time maid for him. Of course.

She was just talking, because she knew very well what kind of existence Karna was, so she could only use this excuse to try to establish a good relationship with Karna, a unique earth elf.

Almost everyone was satisfied with this lunch, except for Volmtorre and Erica. The former had to turn into a human form again because she was robbed of her tribute by the white wolf Hertes.

He had no appetite for food because of the pain that still lingered on his butt.

After lunch, everyone still did not disperse but continued to stay here to discuss some things, because Adrian rushed over with Chris's letter. Although he did not get a sumptuous lunch made by the earth elves,

He did enjoy a special dessert after the meal: an ice cream cone from Diana's magical space.

Of course, Adrian was not the only one who came to eat today. The magician Thea from the Council of Sages also rushed over carrying large and small bags as a salute. It is said that the magician was asked to do so at Diana's request.

The young lady came over and practiced with her to prevent her from being too autistic due to certain things. Erica had no objection to this, and she didn't dare to have any objection. Anyway, one more person would not have any impact on her.

, it’s just that it will be a little crowded during the journey.

However, considering that she will leave for Trikla tomorrow morning, Diana proposed to add another vehicle for passenger travel. After all, the number of members scheduled to travel with her has exceeded the standard passenger limit of the GAZ. Although in fact

It can still accommodate so many people, but it will be very crowded inside, which will aggravate the fatigue of the journey. Mariaburg is not very far from Trikla, but the road between them is not as good as the previous road that ran from north to south.

It's so smooth. Although there are a few highway sections in the middle, there are more roads that have not been completed and dirt roads. For this reason, if everyone is squeezed into one car, the journey will be very difficult.

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Erica strongly agreed with the addition of vehicles, but they had some subtle differences on which car to add, because Diana wanted to drive a JEEP, but Erica strongly recommended that she drive a Hummer M1151.

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Erica's reason is of course safety first, so this modified Hummer is very powerful in terms of maneuverability and armament. Therefore, Erica has heard that the wilderness in the northern part of the principality is not peaceful, although

Compared to the south, there are not many wild monsters that appear in groups, but the banditry problem is somewhat active. After all, the north of the principality is close to the Borderlands. Although it is blocked by city gates and passes, there are still many overseas bandit organizations sneaking into the principality.

Robbery, coupled with this war, caused most of the principality's armed forces to be transferred to the central region, so the security problem in the northern region has been particularly serious recently.

Diana sneered at this. She didn't care about the threat of human bandits at all, so she wanted a more comfortable means of transportation. For this reason, she did not hesitate to use some kind of threats to coerce Erica's verbal permission. After all, these things nominally belonged to Erica.

Damn it, every vehicle has Severna's brand on it. Although this does not prevent forced driving, Diana is not willing to leave any bad impression on Severna, especially some of Erica's

question.

Anyway, Erica really couldn't defeat Diana. In addition, Diana was a little dissatisfied with her random words just now, so after a little struggle, Erica could only give in obediently, so during lunch

Afterwards, Diana put the Jeep Wrangler in the courtyard of the mansion without any scruples and began to prepare for the trip.

At this time, Erica returned to the bedroom with nothing to do and continued to prepare weapons, but this time Puffy did not follow her, because Liz took her out shopping again, and even called it a shopping trip.

Supplies, and also received a lot of funds from Diana. Aurora continued to take care of the little princess-like Serenir in the mansion, but because the little guy became like an ordinary child at the moment, she could warm him after the meal.

She felt sleepy under the sunshine, so Aurora specially got a deck chair and parasol in the backyard and took her to take a nap with her. Ruby was so bored that she ran to Erica's bedroom to play, it seemed

Now that Galeni and Wilford, who were still pestering her, were having a secret meeting with Adrian in a room downstairs, Ruby became idle and had nothing to do, so she ran to Ai.

Here is Rika.

Erica had a vague feeling that Ruby came to her with some purpose, because Erica had been quietly observing Ruby's whereabouts while maintaining the weapon. This guy had been pretending to be casual.

Passing by her backpack, she rolled around on the bed and took the opportunity to peek inside the backpack placed beside the bed. However, every time Erica looked up at her, she continued to roll around in a hurry and covered up what she had just done.

Behavior.

Ruby's purpose is not that difficult to guess, because the backpack is used by Erica to store personal belongings, or in other words, her and Diana's belongings, and most of them are clothes and toiletries.

The only thing that interested Ruby was probably the mobile phone she had put inside.

Ruby actually doesn't like electronic products very much. This may have something to do with her elf origin. Those electronic products produced on earth are really unfamiliar to her, so she rarely saw Ruby at home.

She can use electrical appliances and furniture at home, except of course kitchen utensils such as refrigerators and microwave ovens. However, Erica feels that the reason why Ruby is interested in mobile phones may have something to do with the video about dogs that Puffy saw earlier.

This is the only reason Erica can think of for the connection. After all, the only time Ruby used the TV at home was to watch a movie about animals, but she seemed to have a bad opinion of that movie.

"Are you looking for this?" Erica took out her phone from her pocket and waved it at the little guy rolling on the bed.

It was obvious that Ruby reacted subconsciously when she saw Erica's cell phone, but then she wrapped herself around the sheets and rolled aside, pretending not to be interested. Erica was only understanding about this.

With a smile, she wiped off the detergent and gun oil on her hands and took her mobile phone to the bedside. Anyway, Erica felt that she had enough time today, so the maintenance of the weapon could be done later, so she might as well just come.

He went to bed and hugged Ruby, turned on his phone and played her some animal videos stored in his phone.

Although Ruby is very interested in this kind of videos, unfortunately Erica is not a person who likes to play with mobile phones and shoot videos, so the things stored in her mobile phone are also very rare, which arouses Ruby a little.

dissatisfied.

"This dog looks so stupid. It's so happy to be chained all the time..." Ruby lay in Erica's arms and looked up and asked: "Are there no others? Are there any other animals in that world?"

Is it recorded?"

"I really don't have them here anymore, but I think there should be a lot of this kind of videos on the Internet..." Erica said casually browsing the storage directory on her phone.

"Net?" Ruby continued to look at Erica in confusion.

"It's...i..." Erica hesitated at a loss, because she didn't know much about the Internet, so she didn't know how to explain to Ruby what this product of human information technology was.

What is.

When Erica was confused, she looked at the icons at the top of the phone screen. The shell-shaped ripple symbol did not light up, and the same was true for the signal sign on the side, so this phone probably couldn't even make a call at the moment.

After going out, Erica subconsciously dug out the communication records, browsed them and sighed.

"How about I just ask Severna to get me a network this time..."

Erica subconsciously turned to the phone number of an arms dealer she had contacted a few months ago, and then she remembered that she had ordered a batch of new goods from the other party before she went to Ukraine last time, but because she later

She died, so she subconsciously forgot about it. Although she didn't buy many things, it was still the thing she wanted most after all, and she had already paid for it. If it was wasted, then Ellie would

Ka probably won't be able to sleep at night.

In addition to this, Erica also saw the phone numbers of some acquaintances in the address book. Although most of them were former mercenary companions, there were also some guys with good connections among them. Erica was not sure whether she was there or not.

Was he already reported dead over there? After all, although he was indeed dead at the time, his body was brought back to life by Severna, so Erica didn't know how to deal with the aftermath of that incident.

"Erica..."

Ruby shook Erica who was a little distracted, and her big watery eyes kept looking at her longingly, so Erica couldn't bear to ruin her expectations, but in fact Erica really couldn't bear it at this moment.

She knew there was something else that could attract Ruby in this phone that she had barely used. But while Erica was randomly looking at the app icons on the phone screen, she suddenly noticed a picture.

red bird icon.

"Hey, Ruby, do you like playing games?" Erica said, opening this mobile game that she had never touched before and showing it to Ruby.

This game came with Erica when she bought her mobile phone. Although she had never played it herself, she had seen how others had played it, so at the beginning Erica’s operation was stiff and clumsy in the first level.

It took a lot of time. But fortunately, the graphics and music of this game attracted Ruby's attention inexplicably, and the little guy kept watching Erica's repeated failures, and finally anxiously grabbed the

I started playing by myself through my mobile phone.

However, although Ruby said she was very powerful, in practice she was not much better than Erica. So after clearing a few levels, she encountered a bottleneck and she was very devoted but stubborn and kept trying.

Erica just hugged Ruby and lay on the bed, enjoying this moment of relaxation. It seemed that the spring sunshine at noon today was too strong, in the cheerful BGM accompanying the game and Ruby's childish murmurs.

Gradually fell into sleep.

In the dream, Erica seemed to have returned to the earth where she was alive. Of course, what she experienced was not a memory of the past, but an assumption that she had returned home from Ukraine alive.

Erica's seriously injured body left the war-torn area under the cover of some special channels. After simply recovering from the trauma, she dragged her tired body back to her residence in Pula.

After returning home, Erica pushed the door and entered the musty-smelling living room. Since she had not cleaned the room before leaving, the uneaten box of Neapolitan pizza in the living room had turned into a musty-smelling living room.

It was a sight that was hard to look at. Fortunately, the apartment was well sealed, so these spoiled delicacies did not attract those things flying around. But when Erica walked to the refrigerator to find some food

When I was eating, I was shocked to find that everything in the refrigerator had become similar to that box of pizza. It seemed that I had been away for too long, so I owed the electricity bill in the apartment, which caused the food stored in the refrigerator to be scrapped.

Erica had no choice but to take out a can of warm beer and sit down on the sofa piled with changes of clothes.

Raising her stinging right hand and waving the dust flying in the sky, Erica bit the beer cap with her teeth angrily. Then she looked unhappily at her left arm, which was still hung with a plaster and bandage.

He poured all the bad-tasting beer into his mouth in one go.

After putting the empty wine bottle aside, Erica lay on the sofa numbly, enjoying the emptiness of silence, although there were still pedestrians talking and laughing on the street across the window.

There are also unknown sounds of street performers playing traditional bagpipes, and you can even vaguely hear the sound of waves hitting the breakwater on the distant coast. However, these sounds full of life are quite far away from Erica at the moment.

It's like being filled with an indescribable feeling of loneliness on the other side of the distant horizon.

In an instant, Erica recalled the people she knew in the past, the nuns in the monastery, the sisters who were also orphans, the companions and bosses of the mercenary company, and even the noise of the roaring guns and the enemy's full of energy on the battlefield.

The curse of hatred. Whether it is beautiful or painful memories, they are all in Erica's heart at this moment, but the more memories she has, the more Erica feels an indescribable impatience.

Her own mood became more and more impetuous, and she slowly closed her eyes under this entanglement.

"I thought... I was used to being alone..."

"That is impossible."

A familiar voice suddenly sounded in Erica's ears, and at the same time, the pungent musty smell in the air turned into a delicious and mellow aroma, and Erica even heard the cheerful sound of carbonated drinks.

Subconsciously opening her eyes, Erica found that she had appeared in the familiar room again. At this time, Erica discovered that the living room she visited last time was actually the living room in her home in Pula. Of course, among them

The layout and decoration are very different, so Erica never noticed it the first few times.

There was a large plate of rich fried chicken nuggets on the table in front of Erica. Judging from the oily stains on it, it looked like it had just been taken out of the frying pan. There was also some oil on the side of the fried chicken nuggets.

There was a large glass of Coke with ice cubes on it, but the difference was that the cup that held the Coke was not Erica's common glass, but a silverware that looked like a vase. Of course, the workmanship
To be continued...