Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 1700: Chapter 277: It’s Not Always the Moth That Rushes Toward Fire

Aesces shut up.

He suddenly realized that as the party invaded by Triton, the so-called settling for the next best choice, he actually had nothing to be happy about... So why did he feel that Triton was somewhat pitiable?

Hmm... Then he couldn’t help but go seek Hill to discuss the issue.

After all, being of the Earth Deity System, Hill understood some ideas that even he hadn’t fully figured out himself.

Watching Aesces leave with the words ’Find a place for me to lay down the mineral veins once you’re done with the statistics’, ’Snow Cloud Peak’ silently lay down on the sofa.

’Qiuqiu’, who usually wasn’t very polite in talking to him, didn’t dare make a sound at this moment.

Her time following the Old Dog wasn’t short... long enough for a girl to go from familiarity to admiration, from understanding to giving up, even beginning to sympathize with some stubborn companions who refused to give up... yet she’d never seen Snow Cloud Peak this despondent before.

Even when those spoiled brats smashed their family to bits with money, Snow Cloud Peak could still smile and face them, cheer on the family members always by their side, leading them in merciless retaliation.

How to put it... Old Dog even cursed with a smile.

Yet there was a day someone, an NPC no less, could torment him to this extent, Qiuqiu simply couldn’t believe it.

Sure enough, once you fall into a fixed logical loop, not even the smartest mind can resolve the intelligence problem!

It’s a bit pitiable, but also, why does it make one want to laugh?

Qiuqiu pressed her lips, steadily staring at the mineral vein resized in equal proportion, resolutely refusing to turn back, repeatedly using the tablet for calculations... Dammit, that bastard William, it’s one thing not giving them calculators for basic arithmetic, but why not for percentage calculations too!

Does the Space-Time Company have some political mission, specifically for solidifying the mathematical knowledge of gamers?

All of them in the Magic Cult... They were seasoned veterans years ago!

Qiuqiu calculated until her head was exploding, she really wanted to ask the Old Dog if they could go ask Wenjian to pull some people.

In university, especially in foundational academics, such calculations should be a breeze, right?

Although everyone had a calculator, Qiuqiu vaguely recalled that during mathematics major exams, they weren’t allowed.

Qiuqiu glanced from the corner of her eye at Snow Old Dog on the sofa covering his face with both hands, silently, quietly turned to look at the concerned face of ’Susu’.

Those few people they brought along, also with beehive-like hair, similarly looked over.

For so long now, apart from Snow Old Dog himself, everyone in the Magic Cult understood the girl’s intentions, and were deeply shocked by her perseverance.

Someone like Qiuqiu who took a year to completely give up was already a rarity; someone like Susu, persisting to this level, left those who used to bet on how many years Snow Cloud Peak would stay single, along with predictions of marriage duration before divorce, feeling a bit dazed... Recently, some even stretched the divorce bet to two years!

In decades, truly... it’s the first time such a prolonged marriage duration has appeared!

The illusion Qiuqiu once had was because she hadn’t followed the Old Dog previously, as an ordinary family member she mostly saw the confident, strategizing side of him.

Such naive and carefree girls, Magic Cult folks have seen plenty... Anyway, as long as you stick around Old Dog, sooner or later you’ll understand what life’s ups and downs mean.

Qiuqiu even managed to make a small number lose their bets!

While Susu had already made the results of the same bet within the Magic Cult become a safe bet for the house, even seemingly giving a 20-year-long bet a potential conclusion.

After all, the prerequisite for seeing the result of that divorce bet is Snow Old Dog walking into the marriage hall with some warrior... Whether male or female...

The original bookmaker who set up this bet has cried knowing nothing many times over these years!

The Game Coin they used for bets back in the day has vanished, yet his gambling game is still not initiated... For this, he even had to convert various bets into interstellar forum coins upon leaving the game!

Though others didn’t lose money, he lost quite a bit in fees.

Luckily, as they transitioned from game to game, more and more newcomers joined this bet... And this post continued to rank high in views in the gaming community, with tens of thousands of reads every day, allowing him to gradually recover the losses.

Susu pressed her lips, she of course understood why these people were looking at her.

Years of family companionship, she understood further that these people weren’t pushing the dreadful responsibility of calming the Old Dog’s anger onto her.

Rather, she must assert her presence at this moment.

’Snow Cloud Peak’, someone so oblivious to emotions, must be tenderly and persistently honed: only when he has emotional fluctuations will he feel you are a person in existence.

Otherwise, his attitude toward anyone is the same... Either a comrade, an acquaintance, a stranger, or an exploitable stranger, and of course, the worst is an enemy.

Susu never confessed like those women who chased Old Dog and easily won him over, because of this... In Old Dog’s eyes, these ladies are just familiar people.

No matter how good they are to him, it’s rare to even reach the level of comrades.

He never had that kind of mindset.

Susu wasn’t by Old Dog’s side for the glory of being the Alliance Hierarch’s wife, nor for his rather decent wealth.

She could only slowly, bit by bit, walk into Old Dog’s heart.

Even if, decades later, this seemingly destined bachelor realizes he can’t do without Susu, it would be her greatest triumph.

But it’s difficult too.

No one knows if Susu will be the one to open Old Dog’s eyes.

Love is indeed bitter; sometimes, in her dreams, Susu sees Old Dog leading another woman into the wedding hall, sweetly embracing under everyone’s blessings.

Yet when she wakes from midnight dreams, her tears remind her that she can’t give up.

Though it’s bittersweet, she can still taste the sweetness she can’t abandon... It’s her uncontrollable love.

Everything she does, Susu clearly understands, is for herself and not something Snow Old Dog owes her.

She’s fighting for her own love, and Old Dog has no obligation to cooperate.

Thus, even if the people from the Magic Cult think she’s like a moth flying into flames, Susu can ignore their sympathetic and puzzled looks as long as they are willing to help and remain silent before Snow Cloud Peak.

After all, only she knows and understands how good and wonderful he is. She will always remember that resilient figure descending from above, using his body to shield her family.

And that youthful face, regret and anger interwoven for thinking he arrived a step too late.

And the resolute choice not to heed the surrender advises from the battleship in the sky, opting to fire instead of shouting ’surrender without death’ to those galactic bandits.

She knows he will certainly face punishment for skipping the necessary procedures, but his face speaks of no regrets.

If she can truly win his love, she will bathe in the fire and be reborn, not as a moth, but as the most blissful butterfly!

Susu glanced at her companions with difficult expressions, casually walked to the side of Snow Cloud Peak still resting: ”Old Dog, is this vein just for you... or does Proud Sky Alliance also have it?”

Snow Cloud Peak lowered his arm: ”What nonsense are you talking about? I’m not planning to leave it in Cain Valley.

Such benefits, if all taken by us, wouldn’t the sacrifices we made earlier be pointless?”

”So what we need to keep confidential is just the content of the vein, not the vein itself?” Susu asked with a troubled face, ”Then having Wenjian’s people to do the statistics should be fine?

They probably won’t spread it, at most they’ll say the mine is huge.”

Snow Cloud Peak silently sat up, then silently glanced at the family members confused around the virtual shrinking mine in mid-air.

”Can’t figure this out? Aren’t you all from Academy Star?” Although he doesn’t usually handle these trivial matters, he’s very clear about the background of his family members.

”Graduating ten years, if you didn’t return elementary school knowledge to the teacher, you probably became a professional teacher.” Susu pursed her lips... She suddenly realized that for someone like Old Dog from a military academy, what they learned must be put to use.

So Snow Cloud Peak, despite knowing many people’s math isn’t great, logically thinks that calling in these key college science students shouldn’t result in failing to even calculate percentages.

Unfortunately, a family like the Magic Cult that works hard when required, but habitually slacks off daily, it’s really hard to attract fresh graduates to join.

Black Rose is more appealing than them.

Snow Cloud Peak, though not known for his temper, truly understands not to force others to do things beyond their capability.

Typically, he’d be mad enough to scold if he could do it but didn’t bother.

So he contemplated for a few seconds, then nodded directly: ”I’ll contact Young Master. See which school’s people he thinks suitable, and you’ll reach out.”

Susu tidied her long hair ends and gently smiled: ”It’s probably Technical University, unless there’s special needs. Usually, Young Master directly excludes those two schools that prefer to play oppositional.

I have a friend who is the president at Technical University, if there’s news from Young Master, I can contact them immediately.”

Snow Cloud Peak glanced at her approvingly... He certainly understood Susu’s meaning. If ’Young Master’ doesn’t choose people from Technical University, Susu would have to convey her name there.

Very good, she’s a smart girl.