Snow Maker

The laboratory doors opened, and Milim poked her little head inside, looking around.

Her first impression was cleanliness. All kinds of experimental instruments and workbenches had been arranged with impeccable order, making the entire place look exceptionally comfortable.

Then she saw Vegapunk sitting atop a massive computer, endlessly tapping away at the keyboard as streams of data completely incomprehensible to Milim flashed across the screen.

Milim did not choose to disturb Vegapunk. Instead, she walked into the laboratory and headed toward the area where he kept his experimental creations.

Milim opened the door to the storage room for experimental creations. Compared to the neatness outside, this place seemed much messier. This was where Vegapunk stored all the completed products of his experiments.

As Vegapunk put it, "These are already fully completed experimental products, so there's no need to keep paying attention to them."

But ever since Milim had discovered this place, she came here every few days to hunt for treasures. Vegapunk was always making things he considered useless, but which Milim found incredibly fun.

Milim rummaged through box after box of experimental creations. At last, her gaze settled on a toy with a screen that looked like a Game Console.

After fiddling with it for a while, Milim quickly found the switch. The moment she turned it on, a colorful game screen appeared.

She had never expected to find a Game Console here. Milim was tremendously excited. In her previous life, she had been an otaku girl who loved all kinds of games and anime.

She had thought she would never get to play video games again in this life, but just when all hope seemed lost, a new path had opened up. Vegapunk, you really are a genius among geniuses.

Even as she marveled inwardly, her hands did not stop moving.

Drawing on her experience with Game Consoles from her previous life, Milim quickly figured out how to play the game.

To her surprise, it was actually a game similar to Gold Miner. At that moment, Milim became utterly immersed in the virtual world.

Who knew how much time had passed before Vegapunk suddenly appeared beside Milim.

"Milim, so you like playing with this thing."

Only then did Milim snap out of her immersion in the virtual world. She looked up at Vegapunk. "You finally finished your work."

"That's right. The experiment's progress has reached a bottleneck now. What remains can only be achieved through continuous experimentation." Vegapunk's expression was calm, and he did not seem troubled by the experimental bottleneck.

Experiments reaching a bottleneck was the most normal thing in the world. No matter how gifted one was, there were many things talent alone could not solve. In the end, one could only rely on massive amounts of data to derive the correct answer.

"In that case, Vegapunk, do you have any other Game Consoles like this?" A smile appeared on Milim's face as she held the bear-shaped Game Console in front of Vegapunk and waved it around.

"I invented that before when I had nothing to do and wanted something to pass the time. I didn't really make many other games." Vegapunk shook his head as he looked at the Game Console. With his intelligence, he could rapidly clear any kind of game.

Even if he found it fun at first, he would grow tired of it within a few hours. That was why Vegapunk had not made many games.

"Ah..." Milim drooped in disappointment, but then she suddenly realized that the person capable of making games was right beside her. Her eyes instantly lit up.

Milim gazed at Vegapunk with sparkling, hopeful eyes!

Feeling uncomfortable under that shining gaze, Vegapunk turned his head away somewhat awkwardly. "All right, all right. Just tell me what kind of game you want, and I'll make it for you later."

"Vegapunk, you're the best." Milim bared her teeth in a grin and gave him a thumbs-up.

Vegapunk wore an indulgent expression, as though looking at his own little sister, and spoke gently. "So, what kind of game do you want to play?"

"You wouldn't understand if I explained it, so I'll draw it for you." Milim casually found a notebook, grabbed a pencil, and began sketching away.

"You can play this game for a lifetime." It did not take long for Milim to finish the drawing with her swift hands.

She handed the notebook to Vegapunk. He took it, then raised his eyes after looking at it. "A world made up of blocks? You can continuously assemble and craft tools, and there are all sorts of strange features."

"It does look pretty good." After examining the drawings in the notebook, Vegapunk looked up at Milim with a smile. "What a surprise. You have this kind of imagination too."

"Hehe!"

"So, what is this game called?"

Milim planted her hands on her hips with immense pride. "This game is called My World."

"In that case, I understand it all. When I have some spare time, I'll make the game." Vegapunk nodded, then put the notebook into a drawer and locked it.

He then walked to the experimental bench and took out something that looked like a rubber ball.

"Now it's time to test my new invention."

Vegapunk solemnly raised the ball in his hand. "This is my new invention, the Snow Maker. It can turn a rainy day into a snowy day."

"Wow, that's amazing." Milim enthusiastically clapped and cheered.

Vegapunk nodded in satisfaction. "All the experimental data has now reached optimal levels. Now comes the final practical test!"

"It just so happens that it's going to rain tonight, so I'll leave it to you to send this Snow Maker into the sky." Vegapunk handed the Snow Maker to Milim.

Milim accepted it with great solemnity. "I never thought you could really change the weather, Vegapunk."

Vegapunk shook his head and gave a bitter laugh. "Heh! This hardly counts as changing the weather. It merely converts the existing moisture into snow."

"Like the snow-spraying machine I gave you before, it also creates snow by absorbing moisture from its surroundings."

"So that's how it works. That's great! I'll go tell Lingling right away, and then we can have a snowball fight together." Hugging the Snow Maker excitedly, Milim ran toward Charlotte Lingling's office.

Vegapunk did not stop her. He simply stayed where he was, quietly tidying up the experimental creations Milim had left scattered everywhere.

Charlotte Lingling stretched lazily. With Ruka's help, today's work had been completed ahead of schedule, so she could rest early as well.

She wondered what Milim was doing right now. She was probably wandering around somewhere again.

Just as she was thinking about Milim, Milim arrived at the door and shoved it open with a fierce push.

Holding a ball in her hands, Milim charged straight toward Charlotte Lingling.

"Lingling, this is Vegapunk's new invention—the Snow Maker. With this, even Spring Island can have snow. When the time comes, let's go have a snowball fight together."

"Oh!" Lingling reached out and took the ball, examining it carefully. She couldn't sense anything special about it. Perhaps that was technology.

Lingling handed the Snow Maker back to Milim. "My work happens to be finished now. If we can really see snow, then I definitely have to go take a look!"

"Yay!"

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