amaotonovel Chapter 237 Us Still Together (1)
Chapter 237 Us Still Together (1)
"Little Alice, could you please get me the developing solution?"
Alicia and Raffarin Lo were spending more and more time with Alice; for them, these were their final moments.
A slender little hand handed the bottle to Alicia, who took the developer and then patted Alice's head.
"When I first learned about developer, I thought it was amazing. It was an unremarkable glass container, but its function and its ingredients were things we could never have imagined before."
"Yes, that's how our industry is. After entering the industrial age, the things at our disposal will be constantly changed by our own hands, and everything will be dominated by science and change."
"Yes, Alice, just like us, no one stands still. Even I have been permanently changed by this power."
From a dethroned queen to a film mogul, investor, art director, and costume designer, Alicia admits she never imagined things would turn out this way.
"Although you have repeatedly emphasized that this is not a great achievement that you could accomplish alone, I still have to say that the key to all of this is actually just you."
Alicia knew very well that she had witnessed Alice working late into the night. She was present when this petite figure was studying theoretical physics with Sains in the laboratory, and when this petite figure was adjusting machinery with the workers in the factory. She used the darkness as a disguise to observe Alice, who worked under the cover of darkness.
She saw Alice with a slightly relaxed smile at the moment the new nation was born, and she saw Alice constantly watching the progress of the battle in the command center.
Of course, who doesn't love Alice? Beneath all that radiance, amidst all the distorted words and the praise and insults, Alice is simply a straightforward, kind, clever, and adorable little girl.
Alicia hung up the photo in her hand, then turned around and picked up Alice.
"Whoa! What are you doing...? Hehehe!"
Alice was caught off guard by the sudden princess carry. Alicia suddenly understood the meaning of the princess carry. Yes, Alice was indeed a little princess to her.
Even she couldn't have imagined that, in the end, this word would actually come from her own mind.
The streets outside were incredibly bustling. The everyday life of De La Leyé was far beyond people's imagination. On those streets, trams creaked and groaned, and the subway roared through the darkness, taking people to all sorts of places and to their destinations.
"Come shopping with me today, Alice."
Alice did not refuse. Even though the work was incredibly demanding, for her, sometimes she could take a little time off on her own, and no one would dare to say anything.
"But what if we show up on the street...?"
Alice asked, but Alicia just smiled, picked up the miniature wand from the drawer, gently cast a spell on Alice, and then pushed Alice in front of the mirror.
"I also learned for the first time that magic is not an echo of the past. Magic is just one of the many laws in our world. The chemical reaction produced by optical refraction and magic is my little research. Alice, my child, now I bestow this little gift upon you."
The vampires, as "perfect magic casters," possess unparalleled magical affinity from birth. Alice mastered this magic effortlessly, the key to which lies in her understanding of the principles of optical refraction.
The essence of magic in this world lies in inscribing natural principles into it. Due to the lack of natural science, ancient magicians conducted all sorts of strange and wonderful research on magic, much like blind people searching for the exit of a maze. In today's scientifically enlightened America, people study magic like people who have seen the light for the first time, wandering around and searching for the exit.
Alice looked at herself in the mirror. The transformation magic had turned the vampire into an ordinary, cute human little girl. Her white hair was replaced by black hair, and her red pupils dimmed, turning a deep red that was almost black.
Turning back, Alicia had changed her hair to flaxen, concealing her vampire appearance.
Alicia handed Alice a white dress. For Alicia, this was what she looked like in her childhood. Long, long ago, during the heyday of the vampire empire, she had worn a dress like this as she wandered through the palace.
Alice neither refused nor complained. She seemed to see the expectation in Alicia's eyes. She drew the curtain, and when she reappeared, she was wearing a white dress.
"How beautiful, little Alice!"
Alicia's praise made Alice's cheeks blush slightly. Alicia prepared a complete outfit for Alice, from patent leather shoes to pure white innerwear, while the combination of a white skirt and bare legs made Alice feel light and airy from the waist down.
Alicia took Alice's hand and climbed into the DeLorean DMC-12. It was a sunny afternoon in De La Leah, with a pleasant warmth in the air, and the tune of "California Dream" filled the car.
"Where are you going?"
Alice asked, closing her legs. For years she had used her work to numb the changes in her gender, but now that they were fully exposed, she was no different from any other shy girl.
"Let's go to Kuanjie Street."
Broadway, another translation of the common language, is located in De La Leah. Here, neon lights flash all night long, people are bustling about, and cinemas and concert halls are constantly flashing from dawn to dusk. Alice, the creator of all this, never went there.
Cars roared into a building on one side, and underground parking lots were becoming increasingly recognized. On the West Coast, cars had become a common household item, and the roaring machines had transformed what was once a luxury into an affordable consumer good. More and more car manufacturers were joining this commercial war, driving down car prices.
The seagull-shaped doors flipped upwards, and in this most prosperous place in the country, at the Classic Cinema, the center of film culture, a screening room awaited them.
Alicia took Alice's hand, asked the front desk for a large bucket of popcorn, and walked toward one of the screening rooms.
The place was deserted, and the large screen waited quietly for them.
"Actually, I've wanted to bring Alice to see a movie for a long time~ I wrote the script myself, organized the filming myself, and of course I want Alice to see it too~"
"Huh, it was actually taken by Mother?"
"Of course, it's dedicated to little Alice~"
The projector flickered, the images changed, and the two simply stayed close together. Alice could feel Alicia's not-so-warm cheek.
Alicia's heart was pounding. She wished time could slow down and that there could be more moments like this. Before she knew it, her hand was grasping Alice's right hand, and her hands were stroking Alice's arm.
Her mind was no longer on the images on the big screen; Alicia had seen them countless times, pouring out her clumsy love and regrets.
She knew Alice couldn't understand these things yet, and she knew that one day Alice would understand, one day.