On how PhDs become human evil

"Phew~~~ Oh well, I'll be free once I finish this high-frequency weapon. Let's see how Otto makes me work overtime then."

Bai Jie would rather die from overwork!

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The high-frequency weapon was finally completed before dinner. After calling the deliveryman from within the Destiny organization to deliver the weapon to Otto, Bai Jie glanced at the researchers lying all over the equipment department and gave a helpless, bitter smile.

"If you want to do it, you can do it, right? You bunch of idiots... Go get some sleep."

Having simulated the Feather Dust, Bai Jie scattered feathers throughout the equipment department. Under the influence of the Feather Dust, the researchers who had been working tirelessly all day drifted into the beautiful dreamland that Bai Jie had woven for them.

Stretching his back and ignoring the cracking sounds coming from his bones, Bai Jie packed his things and left the equipment department.

Because he found commuting by plane every day too troublesome, Bai Jie had already asked Otto to help him buy a house on the Fate Floating Island. Now that he's married, that house is being used as his new home.

Although Cecilia handled all the furnishings in the house, Bai Jie never really paid attention to them.

Returning home in the glow of the setting sun, Bai Jie immediately smelled the aroma of dinner as he entered, and at the same moment, his brows furrowed.

Doesn't he remember anyone in his family wanting to eat bitter melon?

"Ah, darling, you're back." Cecilia, wearing a white shirt and loungewear, came out of the kitchen. "Dinner will be ready soon. Wait for me in the dining room."

"Honey, you bought bitter melon? And judging from the setup, it looks like you're planning a banquet."

When this was mentioned, Cecilia smiled and said, "I got married to you, so Bishop Otto let me temporarily step down from the front line, which is like semi-retirement. So Kira and the others bought a lot of ingredients and said they wanted to hold a farewell party for me."

"Hey? Where are they?"

“They went out to buy drinks… Don’t look so scared. I told them not to buy alcohol, they probably only bought some drinks.” Cecilia laughed as she looked at Bai Jie’s lingering fear.

Unfortunately, Bai Jie is now genuinely afraid of alcohol, and he doesn't want to get drunk again.

Seeing that Cecilia was still busy in the kitchen, Bai Jie decided not to disturb her, since he would only cause trouble if he went.

Back in his room, Bai Jie glanced at the wedding photo of himself and Cecilia on the bedside table, gave a wry smile, took off his white coat, and lay down on the bed.

"This is really exhausting. If I'm this tired every day, will it shorten my lifespan?"

"He's Cecilia's man, can't he even endure this little bit of hardship?"

"..."

Bai Jie rolled over and looked at the pillow. He hadn't looked closely before, but now he noticed a short, white-haired figure sitting on the pillow.

Needless to say, it's Theresa, the world's shortest woman. She's so short that, plus she wasn't wearing her black nun's habit, her white hair blended perfectly with the pillow!

This is probably an environmental camouflage that even a chameleon can't match.

"Why are you in my and Cecilia's bedroom, Theresa?"

"Because Cecilia is cooking, and Shigure Kira and the others went shopping and haven't come back yet, I came to read some comics for a while."

Theresa, who was lying on the bed, picked up the comic book she had placed on her pillow. It was the super popular comic "Houmu Adventure". The author was a super lazy bum who only released one volume a year. He was a real cancer in the industry. Even Togashi, the old scoundrel, had more conscience than him!

However, there was one thing Bai Jie wasn't sure whether he should say.

Theresa was currently lying face down on the bed, and she had just witnessed something exciting: her two short legs, clad in white stockings, were swaying in mid-air, and because of this swaying, her skirt was gradually being rolled up, which directly resulted in—

Bai Jie: Ah Wei... never mind, Ah Wei's tired. Otto, come out and die for a bit.

P.S.: Update

P.S.: Judging by my pace, it seems I can't finish updating before 11 PM. I have a five-player King of Glory game scheduled for 11:30 PM, and I'm sorry to cancel, but I don't want to cancel on you guys either. What a dilemma...

P.S.: I'm not going to do the usual four-part combo today, I'm just begging for your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. You get recommendation votes every day, right? Just give me two, please don't be stingy!

Section 160, Chapter 21. Cecilia: How about having a child?

Cecilia's farewell party was actually not complicated. It was simply because the members of the Snow Wolf Squad, including Shigure Kira, were reluctant to see Cecilia leave, so they wanted to take this opportunity to spend some more time with her.

Knowing what they were thinking, Bai Jie wisely refrained from disturbing them. Before their dinner party, he heated up a bowl of instant noodles for himself and ate it for dinner. For a researcher like him, instant noodles were a common meal.

As for Cecilia, anticipating that Shigure Kira and the others might ask Bai Jie where he was, Bai Jie told Cecilia that he was still working overtime, while also taking a jab at Otto.

The farewell party lasted until after 10 p.m. After seeing off Shigure Kira, Theresa, and the others, Cecilia tidied up the restaurant, took a shower, and then went to her bedroom on the second floor.

Pushing open the door, to my surprise, Bai Jie was still awake.

Upon seeing Cecilia walk in, Bai Jie put down his personal terminal and asked, "Is the farewell party over? You must be tired."

"Actually, you can join in too. Qiluo and the others aren't as hostile towards you anymore."

"It's so awkward to have a guy like me mixed in with a bunch of girls, okay?" Bai Jie chuckled and shrugged. "Well, now that you're back, I won't hog the bed anymore. You go to sleep, I'll read a bit more on the sofa."

It's hard to believe, but the two of them, who are already married, still sleep in separate beds. They don't seem like newlyweds at all; instead, they seem like teenagers who have fallen into a period of stagnation.

But this isn't surprising, really. The two haven't even been together for two months. At first, they were just bodyguards and bodyguard partners. Forget about dating before marriage, Bai Jie and Cecilia didn't even have any emotional foundation before getting married. It was a whirlwind marriage.

No, it can't be said that there was no emotional foundation. Bai Jie did have feelings for Cecilia, but it was only one-sided. Cecilia still didn't see Bai Jie as a romantic partner. To her, Bai Jie was probably just someone she was protecting under a different identity.

Naturally, two people who aren't even lovers can't sleep in the same bed, but they can't sleep in separate rooms either, so they compromised and slept in separate beds: Cecilia slept on the bed and Bai Jie slept on the sofa.

So why did these two get married?

Bai Jie also asked Cecilia this question, and the answer he received was, "The reason? I'm looking for it too." Rather than saying that Cecilia didn't tell Bai Jie the reason, it's more accurate to say that Cecilia herself didn't understand why she wanted to marry Bai Jie.

Seeing Bai Jie lying on the sofa looking at his personal terminal, Cecilia suddenly stood up and went to the sofa. To Bai Jie's surprise, she lifted his head and placed it on her lap.

(Huh?)

Bai Jie was stunned.

(This soft touch, and this position and angle, could it be...)

Looking up, what Bai Jie saw on his retina was Cecilia's gentle, watery smile: "I always feel that we are a rather unsuccessful couple, and we should really work on improving our relationship."

"So that's why it's a lap pillow," Bai Jie laughed. "You often do that to me in the future too. For a moment, I even thought I had traveled back thirty years."

Whenever Bai Jie takes a nap, or falls asleep from exhaustion, the first thing he sees when he wakes up is Cecilia's face and that familiar lap pillow.

Of course, occasionally it will be Chen and Exusiai, Skadi, and the others.

Thirty years later.

Upon hearing this word from Bai Jie, Cecilia lowered her eyes. Now that she thought about it, the reason she had the idea of ​​marrying Bai Jie was because she heard him talk about what would happen thirty years later.

Thirty years later, she fell in love with Bai Jie, and even though she was rejected by him and forced to go to Europe for four years in a manner equivalent to exile, she still loved him.

Cecilia didn't know why she fell in love with Bai Jie, but she knew there must be a reason for her to do so, a reason that would make her betray her vow to Siegfried and fall in love with Bai Jie instead.

"Bai Jie, what makes a couple qualified?" Cecilia suddenly asked.

Bai Jie paused for a moment while swiping his personal terminal, then said nonchalantly, "How should I know? This is my first marriage. But from my observation, the presence of children is very necessary in a complete marital relationship."

No matter how good the relationship is between a couple, there will always be times when they have disagreements. Arguments, talk of divorce, running away from home... these situations are common in married life. But no matter how fierce the argument is, or even if one of them runs away to another city, they will still reconcile for the sake of their children.

Therefore, Bai Jie believes that the primary definition of a qualified couple is having a child.

"My child... Shall we have one?"

"Cough cough cough! Ouch, that hurts!"

Bai Jie was so shocked by those words that he dropped his personal terminal and it hit his face. The pain made him roll off Cecilia's lap and onto the floor, his hand even hitting the coffee table.

Covering his hands, Bai Jie sat up from the floor and asked, full of doubt, "Why did you suddenly bring this up?"

“Didn’t you say that a married couple must have a child?” Cecilia said earnestly. “Think about it, we’re husband and wife in name only, but since I’ll fall in love with you in the future, we should start cultivating our relationship now. So, to deepen our bond as husband and wife—”

"Stop! Stop! Cecilia, what kind of logic is that? Are you a logic master?"

Bai Jie felt that Cecilia had been acting strangely lately. It was one thing for her to suddenly want to marry him, but why did she suddenly want a child?

"Cecilia, are you out of your mind lately? I feel like your logic has been a bit off lately."

"Really? I think my thinking is very clear."

Clarity my foot! Your thought process is like a game of teleportation, jumping from one idea to another in an instant. This is clearly a sign of a mental illness.

(Wait, did he get sick?)

Bai Jie suddenly realized something crucial.

"Cecilia, don't move. I need to verify a hypothesis."

Holding Cecilia's shoulder, Bai Jie's hand shone with a bright blue light, and feathers of light floated up in his palm. As soon as Cecilia saw these feathers of light, her eyes lost their luster, clearly indicating that she had been controlled by Yu Duchen.

As the key to control consciousness, Feather Dust's true power lies in manipulating brain signals. Creating illusions is merely one application of its abilities. It is also possible to detect whether someone has a mental problem by manipulating brain signals.

(Cecilia must have some mental issues, otherwise she wouldn't have been exhibiting such drastic thought processes lately. I'd like to see who's behind this!)

P.S.: Fourth update of the fifth watch.

P.S.: I feel like I'm sprouting up like a mushroom right now, with all the details that weren't mentioned earlier being frantically added later on.

P.S.: Please give me a recommendation and a monthly pass, I'm begging you, dear readers!

Section 161, paragraph 22: Use your trump card against your trump card.

Within Cecilia's sea of ​​consciousness, Bai Jie's spirit, connected to this place by Feather Dust, appeared here as if jumping from a great height.

Because Cecilia is being controlled by Yu Duchen, she is currently in a state of mental stagnation, and her sea of ​​consciousness is completely calm and undisturbed.

And it was because of this that Bai Jie was able to see the troublemaker who had caused Cecilia's mental confusion at the first opportunity.

The other person seemed to have no intention of hiding anything, just standing there openly, as if to say, "Come on, I'm waiting for you here."

With his hands in his pockets, Bai Jie smiled and walked towards the man: "Alright, the jokes and farces end here. Could you please explain your reasons, Mr. Troublemaker?"

"Oh ho, so you've finally found this place? I've been waiting for you for so long." The man said, a hint of enigmatic amusement in his voice, as if he were someone who had been waiting for a long time and had finally met the person he was looking for. "Although, as originally planned, it would have been a while before you realized it."

"Well, so many strange things have happened lately, and I've vaguely sensed that something's not right, but the joy of marrying Cecilia made me forget about it for a moment. What, did my arrival at this time disrupt your plans, Shi?"

Upon hearing Bai Jie's voice, the man turned around, revealing himself to be Tsukasa Kadoya, dressed in a black suit and a magenta shirt.

Of course, this should only be a remnant of his consciousness.