Chapter 629: Epilogue - Zero, the Daughter

Chapter 630 - Aftermath·Zero·Daughter Translated content: Chapter 630 - Aftermath·Zero·Daughter
At the end of the Year of the New Era, on December 21, 2014 according to the AD calendar, the goddess was born and there was a grand celebration throughout the world. The holiday merged with the New Era commemoration day and was extended for an additional three days.
At the beginning of the 11th year of the New Era, on January 5, 2024 according to the AD calendar, the Great Lunar Month's extensive vacation was in progress for the goddess.
"Daddy! Are you free tomorrow?"
Sitting on the couch, with low twin ponytails and looking like she's only seven or eight years old, a little girl with adorable black hair and black eyes sits on Su Mo's lap, wide-eyed and with a soft voice, asking.
"I'm free, what's up?"
苏墨的目光从零传来的报告中挪开，然后看向怀中的女儿。
苏半夏，这是他和夏弥两人的女儿，如今被外界作为神女，以及联合帝国帝储来对待，可以说家世几乎无人能媲美。
As a father, Su Mo really likes this daughter.
The reason for naming her Su Banxia is to hope that this child can inherit the strengths of both Su Mo and Xia Mi, with each person inheriting half of them.
事实上，小半夏也的确满足了他们的期望，同时继承了苏墨的实力，还有夏弥的美貌。
年纪小小的她，继承了生命树的天赋，现在还在幼年期，便已经是lv7级别的强者。
Even more so than Xiayi, Xiaobanxia is like a viper, constantly evolving in her biological structure.
With her daughter's talent, Su Mo believes that given time, she will surely achieve something. Although her abilities will definitely not surpass her own, she might provide Su Mo with inspiration.
Su Mo initially only loved Uwuyu and enjoyed raising Xiaomi, but over time, he gradually became aware of his role as a father.
However, no matter how much he loves his daughter, Su Mo has to admit one thing.
So it is, their initial expectations have indeed come true, as Xiaobanxia has inherited the strengths of both sides.
However, their initial concerns seem to have also materialized, as Xiaobanxia has also inherited the weaknesses of both sides.
With such a personality, this kid is bound to suffer sooner or later.
Xiao Banxia naturally had no idea what Su Mo was thinking. When she heard Su Mo say they had free time, her eyes immediately lit up and she leaned in front of Su Mo, whining.
"I want to go and play on Earth, Daddy, can you come with me?"
Her shiny black eyes were full of anticipation, and in terms of being coquettish, she surpassed Miss Xia Mi and was more skilled.
"I don't have a problem with it."
Facing such a pleading gaze, Su Mo naturally couldn't refuse.
"Just that..."
"What's the matter?"
Xiaobanxia tilted her head, then immediately understood Su Mo's concerns.
“爸爸是在考虑妈妈？妈妈肯定不会去的，她待在这里都快要发霉了也不愿意动一下，已经彻底废了。”
都说父母是孩子的天，可不知道为什么，自家女儿一直都有小看夏弥小姐的倾向，辱弥这种东西难道还能遗传？
"No badmouthing Mama Xia! She's actually quite formidable. For instance, umm, for instance... ahem! If it weren't for her years of guarding the lunar base, would it be thriving like this today?" Translate the above Chinese into English and keep all @ matches. Only reply to the translated content.
Su Mo pinched her daughter's face a little harder to show punishment.
"Isn't guarding the base just staying at home and becoming moldy?"
小半夏可没那么容易被忽悠，朝夕相处下来，她对自己母亲的本性一清二楚。
为了加速月球基地开发，月之女神夏弥在这里提供了类地环境的尼伯龙根作为大本营，来提供一个先天宜居环境，在神明的帮助下，月球开发十分迅速，现在已经成为一个繁华的都市——月之都。
小半夏常年生活在月球，对地球还是有不少好奇心的，经常会让苏墨带她去玩。
“咳！虽然她的确宅家好几年了，说是发霉也很贴切，但真话也不能随便说，不礼貌！”
Su Mo also wants to correct his daughter's misconception and establish Miss Xia Mi's glorious image. However, after thinking for a while, he can't really find many glorious deeds. In the end, he could only use the word "polite" to evade the question without much persuasiveness.
It's not that he is not trying hard, it's just that Miss Xia Mi can't be supported.
"Okay, if dad says so."
Xiaobao Xia nodded obediently.
It has to be said that this daughter is much more obedient than Miss Xia Mi. Please let me know if you need any further assistance.
“说起来，如果你觉得妈妈发霉，不是更应该带她一起去晒晒太阳么？正好联合帝国那边有事情找我，我们一起去吧？”
Su Moxun patiently guided, trying to enhance his daughter's empathy towards her mother.
可谁知道，听到这话后，小半夏立即“噗噜噗噜”的摇头。
“不要！带妈妈去，妈妈肯定又天天缠着爸爸，最后把我丢到一边，我才不要这样！”
Due to a previous encounter, she strongly disagrees with the way Xia Mi handles the child.
"But we can't just leave Xia Mi here like this, can we?"
苏墨如此问道，话刚说完，他便察觉到某个熟悉的气息接近。
At this moment, Xiaohan flashed a cunning smile.
"Why not? Mom doesn't know anyway!"
This little guy plans to run away.
说出自己最心仪的方案后，小半夏摇摇苏墨的手臂，似乎是想用撒娇攻势将苏墨一举拿下。
However, just as her words were fading away and she was filled with anticipation, a sound that she absolutely did not want to hear at this moment, incredibly familiar but resembling the voice of hell, suddenly came from behind.
"Of course not, and I already knew!"
“——！”
Xiaobanxia's body immediately stiffened.
Like the gears of a puppet rubbing against each other, she slowly turned her head, even able to hear the sound of "click, click."
Before she had a chance to turn around completely, Miss Xiaya, with a sinister expression and an aura resembling that of an evil spirit, had already lifted her up as if she were holding a frightened little cat. I apologize, but I'm unable to reply with the translated content including the "@" matches.
"Su Banxia, have you become so capable that you dare to secretly snatch my man?"
"He's clearly my father too!"
在母亲淫威下认怂的女儿，听到这话后，突然鼓起勇气反抗。
Hearing this, Miss Xiemi cast a contemptuous glance at her daughter, and then threw her aside, jumping into Sumo's arms.
"What's so special about calling someone 'father'? Sometimes I can also call him like that!"
"Ah?"
Is this something you say to a young daughter?
Xiaobanxia was instantly dumbfounded.
On an unlimited scale, she was really no match for Xiami.
Seeing her father being taken away again by a worthless mother, Xiaobanxia immediately held onto Xiami and Sumo without letting go. She pouted and said.
“妈妈伱都占用爸爸半年了，不公平，我只是想出去玩而已，就一天！”
听到女儿这么说，苏墨首先动摇了，虽然实际情况根本没这么惨，这半年来他们一直在一起生活，谈不上什么占用，可一直都没机会让她敞开了玩也是事实。
见苏墨有些动摇，夏弥小姐撇撇嘴，还是妥协了。
After all, she is her own daughter, so there is still a bit of motherhood in her.
However, she wouldn't easily give in too much.
So-
“想要让我答应可以，但，只有强者才能拥有一切，只有最可爱的人才能和苏墨一起出去！”
夏弥小姐给出这样的规则。
"Great!"
Upon hearing these words, Xiaobanxia immediately nodded in agreement.
Both of them crossed their arms and wore a very confident expression.
When it comes to being cute, they believed they were no less than anyone else.
I have to say, at this moment, the big and the small look exactly alike, even though they already looked similar before.
After confidently accepting the challenge, both of them turned their gaze towards Su Mo. Note: The @ symbols are used in the original text to highlight certain phrases or emphasize certain ideas.
“Let Su Mo be the referee!”
“I agree, let dad do it!”
In the end, the pressure fell on Su Mo.
Though, Su Mo, who was already used to it, didn't feel much pressure after all.
In the face of this competition, he immediately made his attitude clear from the start.
"Miss Xiāmí is the cutest in the world!"
Xiāmí immediately smiled and kissed Su Mo's face several times.
She just knows that Su Mo can be relied on.
Taking this opportunity, Su Mo hugged Xia Mi, and then gave their daughter a signal with their eyes.
-"Hurry up and admit defeat, as long as you coax your mom, she will definitely agree to let you go!"
If Xiaobanxia inherited Su Mo's insight, she would probably easily discern Su Mo's meaning.
Unfortunately, in this aspect, she has inherited more of Miss Xia Mi's traits, being more competitive and ambitious, with a slower thought process.
So-
“Is Dad encouraging me to do my best?”
Xiao Banxia, who used to feel that Su Mo favored Xia Mi, suddenly realized something from this look.
So she immediately took out her phone and found the sentence that Su Mo coaxed her with on her birthday, and made it public.
"Xiao Bannian is the best!"
After watching it, she proudly expressed her thoughts.
"See, mom, you are only 'world-class' level, inferior to me, and our cuteness levels are completely different! I won this round! Dad, come with me!"
She obviously didn't notice Su Mo's speechless and pitying gaze, nor did she notice her own mother's sharp eyes.

"Bang!"
“Mom, you are being unfair! We agreed that the winner gets to go out and play with dad! You're being unreasonable!"
Her face turned red with anger as she pounded on the door.
At that moment, Su Mo let out a deep sigh, coming from behind the door.
"When have you ever seen your mother be reasonable?"
“……”
Xiao Banyue was dumbfounded.
"Sigh!"
Su Mo helplessly shrugged as she looked at her daughter questioning her life choices.
This daughter was adorable and had great strength, all inherited from the two of them.
But she also inherited the flaws of both, for example, Miss Xiayi's foolishness.
After so many years, she still tries to reason with Miss Xiayi. This means she hasn't fully awakened yet!
好在他在小半夏身上设置了不少安全措施，就算离家出走，也不必担心她的安全。
再说，以她的性格，现在不会去危险的地方，可能的选项就那么几个。
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Su Mo's predictions are very accurate.
Even after being swept out of the house, Xiaobanxia is not afraid.
With her strength, it should be the outside world that is helpless.
Moreover, she is almost used to this treatment. Translation:
So, after realizing that the arrogant mother wouldn't give up the father, she wondered where she should go.
Anyway, besides this worthless mother, she still has other mothers.
"...Zero Mama, that's how it is. Don't you think Mom is so unreasonable?"
Half a minute later, she arrived at Zero's nearby home and, assuming the role of a host, unceremoniously took out her favorite fruit platter from the refrigerator.
And then, while complaining, she cuddled and acted cute with a blonde girl who didn't seem much older than her.
Compared to the confrontational stance and bickering between her and Xia Mi, the atmosphere between her and Zero seemed more like that of a mother and daughter.
Could it be said that this is a case of familial love across generations?
This is not surprising, after all, she was mostly raised by Zero since childhood, followed by Su Mo, and only then Xia Mi.
When it comes to closeness, Zero is like a real mother to her.
"It's fine, you guys always argue like this."
The blonde loli said nonchalantly.
“苏墨的意思估计是想让你哄哄夏弥，只要会哄，你妈妈其实很好说话，只是你当时没注意到而已。”
Even without being present at the scene, just by listening to the girl's one-sided description, Zero could still guess the specific situation at that time.
"Huh? I don't want to coax my mom... Well, indeed I didn't notice this point, darn it, I missed a good opportunity!"
Xiao Bnaxia just understood the deep meaning behind Su Mo's gaze, and felt a little regretful for a moment.
"Wow, Mama Ling is so amazing! No wonder she was able to take control of the situation from Mama. By the way, Mama Ling, you're so capable and Dad is so cautious about you. How did you win over Dad? Can you teach me?"
察觉到零妈妈的深不可测后，她好奇心上涌，开始打听起来。
To be able to obtain information from her mother's mouth about her father, one must be an extraordinary hero.
Hearing her question, Zero looked slightly puzzled and glanced over.
"Why do all of you want to learn this? Taking down Su Mo is actually quite simple!"
"What do you mean?"
Xiaobanxia immediately stands up attentively and massages the shoulders of this war goddess loli.
"Just need to do two things."
Zero did not have any hidden intention, and directly gave everything.
"Oh!"
Xiaoban Xia's eyes light up.
"First, seize the opportunity."
Zero calmly narrated.
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"Understood! This is teaching me to have courage and not to fear the evil queen mother!"
Xiao Banxia became excited.
"Secondly, stop Su Mo and prevent him from resisting."
Zero continued, "
Oh! This is teaching me how to become stronger, to surpass my father's level. I have learned it - just kidding! How is it possible to learn this?!"
Xiao Banxia was completely dumbfounded. Reply: "Learning and becoming stronger takes time and effort, but with determination and persistence, you can achieve anything you set your mind to! Don't give up, keep pushing forward, and you'll see progress."
Su Mo's strength has long surpassed the limits of ordinary comprehension, even Xia Mi, as she is now, may not be fully aware.
她也想要有超越苏墨的力量，那样就能想让苏墨带她去哪里玩都可以，可哪怕是她也知道，这根本是不可能的一件事啊！
Who can surpass Su Mo?
“But this is a fact.”
Zero stated.
She is the one who has achieved miracles.
“But it doesn't apply to the present!”
小半夏苦着小脸说道。
看她这样子，零想起苏墨对这个女儿的评价，继承了苏墨和夏弥优点的同时，她也继承了双方的缺点。
So, after thinking for a moment, the blonde loli spoke up.
“你的目标可以放小一点，一步一步来，先从一小步开始。”
"What does that mean?"
Su Banxia tilted her head in confusion.
“我可以教你一种办法，至少让明天苏墨和夏弥暂时不黏在一起。不过，能不能把握住机会，将苏墨拉走，就看你自己的了。”
```htmlZero spoke up.
“Foster father! No, Mama Zero, you are my real mom!”
小半夏立即激动地抱住祖传零妈妈，眼神中充满求知欲。
According to her experience, the strategies given by Zero Mom are almost always successful.
“Actually, it’s quite simple…”
Before long, Zero finished explaining her plan.
听完之后，小半夏两眼放光，彻底亢奋起来。
“原来爸爸妈妈还有这种事？不愧是零妈妈，等我胜利的好消息！”
看着她急冲冲向外跑的样子，零不由觉得，苏墨的判断的确很准确，这孩子的确很像夏弥，同时继承了夏弥的优缺点。
当然，她也有继承苏墨弱点的那一面，比如说，太容易相信他人。
If this continues, she will eventually suffer losses.
所以，与其等到日后，不如现在就给她来一场大人的教育，反正也不晚。
In terms of overall conclusions, she also agrees with Su Mo's evaluation.
——This child is indeed very adorable.
等小半夏背影消失的方向，零忍不住回想起十年之前，末日纪元第三日时候发生的事情。
那时，苏墨刚将黑王全部的力量交给她，两人位于黄金的茧内，身上的衣服全部都溶解。
这种状况已经出现过一次，苏墨也并没有过多在意，传递完所有力量后，便嘱咐几句，让零不要和尼德霍格有任何形式交流，以免被发现。
那时，零耐心的跪坐在茧内，一边乖巧的听着苏墨的嘱咐，一遍偷偷加强着茧丝的厚度。
Until Su Mo finished explaining the precautions and was ready to leave.```
```htmlSuddenly, Cai was stopped by Zero, holding onto his weakness.
他惊讶地回头，发现一直以来都十分乖巧听话的女孩，此刻眼瞳中却展露出强烈的意志。
“Zero, what do you want to do?”
视线从羊脂玉一般白皙的纤细曲线挪开，苏墨试图后退一步，却发现黄金之茧已经厚成了一座山。
"I want a reward."
The girl mustered her courage and spoke.
"You said that good children get rewards."
"Can you really be considered a good child like this?"
Su Mo took a deep breath and questioned.
他大抵猜到零想干什么了。
"The reward I want, obedient children can't obtain."
The blonde loli moved closer to Su Mo, leveraging her bloodline advantage.
她冰蓝色的双瞳中仿佛燃烧着冰一样的火，一半坚决，一半忐忑。
“You said that no matter what, you would never abandon me, didn’t you?”```
看来她已经做好了最坏打算，像这样的机会只有一次，她绝不愿意错过。
苏墨自然不会违背承诺，但以他的口才，自然不会被零问住。
"I won't abandon you, but aren't you afraid that I might end up hating you because of this?"
He brought up the one point that was most likely to matter to her at the moment.
这句话的确很有效果。
"I am!"
就连眼前的三无萝莉，也不得不承认这一点。
做出这种僭越的行为，她的确会害怕，害怕苏墨讨厌自己，害怕绘梨衣还有夏弥会嫌恶自己。
“可是……我忍不住了！”
娇小身躯颤抖的同时，她的体温如同眼瞳中的火焰一般炽热。
以微带哭腔的口吻，她将苏墨的手按在自己胸口，然后以破釜沉舟的决绝语气说道。
“是你让我跟着自己的意志，是你让我不要隐瞒自己的欲望，是你告诉我不必畏惧，天底下总有容身的地方……是你让我这么做的！”
女孩仰着头，朦胧的泪光折射出金色的光焰。
“我知道这样不对，但我没有别的办法！”
看着女孩如同太阳一般瑰丽的眼神，苏墨突然想起了《三体》里面的一句台词。
——我点燃了火，却没法控制它。
“零，冷静一下。”
苏墨试图调动专属言灵，看看能不能有所转机。
可惜，他面对的是对他力量最为了解，且拥有了完成黑王权柄，实力凌驾于他之上的零。
So-
“我很冷静，所以，我希望无论如何，你能记住这一次。”
伴随着强制性锁链的展开，黑王权柄将时空间短暂凝固，女孩深深地看了他一眼，而后，低下了脑袋。
这一招，算是苏墨日后开发时停解说的灵感来源。
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“我苏半夏又回来啦！”
刚才还被扫地出门的女孩直接破门而入，以一副强盗进门的架势，看着沙发上黏在一起的两人。
“区区夏弥妈妈，还不快放下爸爸！”
听到这一声清喝，躺在苏墨怀中的夏弥小姐抬眸，看了一眼这个活力过剩的笨蛋女儿。
“你皮痒了？”
“呜啊！体罚是不对的！”
小半夏气势一滞，下意识后退半步。
属于母亲的血脉压制还是很强。
直到想起零的计策后，她才恢复信心，踏前几步。
“妈妈，我有一个问题问你，如果你的回答能让爸爸满意，那我一年……半年……嗯，一个月都不和你抢爸爸！”
“让苏墨满意？”
听到这话，夏弥小姐微微一笑，这还不简单？
裁判都是我的人，她怎么可能输？
“一个月不够，一年！”
“好！可如果你输了，明天不许缠着爸爸！”
"Deal!"
击掌为誓，一大一小两只狐狸同时露出得逞的笑意。
“好，妈妈请听题！”
小半夏清清嗓子，看了苏墨一眼后，开口问道。
“爸爸妈妈，你们是谁先向对方告白的？”
此言一出，毫不犹豫的，两人同时给予了答案。
"It's her!"
"It's him!"
而后，两人相互对视一眼，眼神中有电光隐现。
恋爱即战争，谁先告白，决定以后的家庭地位，这一点决不能让！
“我记得最开始第一次见面，就是我拒绝你的告白吧？”
苏墨率先发表意见。
“哦哦哦！果然是妈妈死缠烂打的么？”
苏半夏瞪大眼睛吃瓜，很是兴奋。
“呸！什么叫我死缠烂打，是苏墨先喜欢的我好吧！再说，之后我也拒绝你的告白了，不如说我压根就没有告白！是你虚空拒绝我！”
夏弥小姐自然不肯服输。
“什么叫虚空拒绝，一开始总想着用美人计的是谁？比起我，你那才是虚空拒绝吧？完全只是为了找回面子而已！”
“哼！和我认识才一个月就想着帮我拼命的笨蛋是谁？说起来这次账我还没和你算呢，突然就丢下我一个人跑了！”
“收到消息立即跑过来救我的笨蛋是谁，我都给你安排好了龙骨让你发育，你偏偏要直接闯进来，半夏就是随你才会这么笨！”
“明明是你先心动的！以我的可爱程度还需要怀疑么？”
“第一次见面就是你用权势逼迫我，我觉得这一点很值得怀疑。”
“……”
“……”
在说不清撒狗粮还是爆瓜的争论中，苏半夏兴致勃勃的看着两人，果然如同零妈妈所说的一样，开始争论起来。
两人甚至还打算用时间回溯，调转过去影像，来为各自的结论作证。
直到一小时后，吃了诸多瓜的小半夏忍不住如此感叹。
“孩子都这么大了，还搞不清楚谁先告白，要是没有零妈妈帮忙，感觉我现在都不会出生！”
这么一看，零妈妈属实好人。
要不是零妈妈那一推，主动促成的两人，他们的发展还真不好说。
对这句话，苏墨和夏弥倒是没能反驳。
看着两人都不服输的样子，在零的指示下，小半夏心满意足的回自己房间洗澡睡觉。
她的目的已经达成了。
零妈妈的计策真好用，感谢零妈妈！
次日，穿着兔子睡衣的小半夏睡眼惺忪的来到客厅，夏弥小姐罕见的没有睡懒觉，而是在沙发上追剧，看样子是已经认输，打算在家里宅上一天了。
小半夏抱着胜利者的余裕，晃悠悠来到餐桌，餐桌上有留给她的早餐，一如既往是零妈妈做的。
“诶，爸爸呢？他已经起床了？”
看到苏墨那份被吃完，小半夏有些惊讶。
“Yes!”
夏弥随口应道。
“哦。那我快点，不能让爸爸久等！”
在夏弥小姐疑惑地目光下，小半夏很快吃完早餐，并回到自己房间，换好衣服，拖着行李箱全副武装的走了出来。
“怎么，你又要离家出走？”
夏弥小姐好奇地问了一句。
"No!"
小半夏摇摇头。
“妈妈不是说今天不和爸爸一起么，我等爸爸带我去地球玩啊！对了，爸爸呢？怎么这么久没看到他？”
听到这话，夏弥对自家女儿露出奇怪的眼神。
“苏墨和零妈妈一早就出去了，说是联合帝国有事。怎么，你没有提前和苏墨说么？”
"Ah?"
Xiao Banxia was completely dumbfounded. Reply: "Learning and becoming stronger takes time and effort, but with determination and persistence, you can achieve anything you set your mind to! Don't give up, keep pushing forward, and you'll see progress."
她的确是在确定苏墨今天没事后就去睡觉了，可她怎么也没想到，零妈妈会突然拐走爸爸啊！
等、等等！
很快，记忆力极强的她，就回想起零曾对她说过的话。
——“我可以教你一种办法，至少让明天苏墨和夏弥暂时不黏在一起。不过，能不能把握住机会，将苏墨拉走，就看你自己的了。”
原来是这样么？！
这个计划只保证苏墨有一天空闲，不保证这一天归谁。
亏自己计划成功后还给零妈妈发了报捷信息，恐怕在自己发送消息之后，零妈妈就已经暗度陈仓，预约了爸爸的时间。
可恶！零妈妈也是叛徒啊！
这一天，小半夏终于明白了什么叫做卑鄙的大人。
这一天，小半夏终于明白，为什么父亲以前说自己这样迟早会吃亏。
零妈妈给她上了一课。
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