Their commission was suspicious.

"Of course, I'm the one safeguarding the Imaginary Number Tree. The Imaginary Number is still small; once it grows up, I'll return these primordial essences that I've been safeguarding to it."

"Heh." Chen Luo sneered.

Leaving aside whether the Imaginary Tree is small or not, since this Honkai world is probably not a beginner world, the age of the world consciousness is definitely older than the Imaginary Tree, because it has gone through more than one cycle.

But Chen Luo was tired of hearing this kind of talk about world consciousness. It was just like his mother saying she would keep his New Year's money safe – completely unbelievable!

"If I bypassed you as the middleman and directly gave the Imaginary Tree 11 strands of Root Aura, would you be angry?"

"Why would I be angry? It's not like you'd be devastated if you accidentally missed out on 10 Primogems."

"meeting."

"..."

"Don't you have over 8 rough stones?"

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with me being sad about missing out on 10 Primogems?"

"..."

"Fine, I understand your attitude. If you give me more, I'll take it; if you don't, I won't force you... Is that about right?"

"Not only that, if you pay me protection money, I'll guarantee you'll successfully hang the World Bubble, and you won't fail."

"No need, I have confidence in myself. If I fail, I can always come to you again. You won't refuse me anyway."

"That's right. But you'll need four strands then."

"...I won't choose a fully managed service. Instead, I'll try my best to help Durandal re-establish his world bubble using my own strength, which will also serve as a test of my abilities. But can't you ask for something other than the Origin Aura?"

Ten strands of primordial energy were still a huge sum of money for Chen Luo, roughly equivalent to 200 raw stones.

When it comes to spending money, Chen Luo won't be polite, but he also won't be extravagant.

"Anything else... I don't even need the source aura, just give me some raw stones, provided you give them to me willingly. I don't ask for much, just..."

"Alright, that's enough. I refuse."

"I haven't said how much I want yet."

"I refuse."

"I only need 20 Primogems."

"I refuse."

15 raw gems.

"This isn't about the quantity of raw stones."

"10 Primogems, is 10 Primogems alright? Didn't you want over 8 Primogems?"

"I! Refuse!"

Chen Luo certainly didn't lack those raw stones, but when he heard the World Consciousness demand that he willingly give the raw stones to it, he felt that the World Consciousness wanted to harm him.

There are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me!

Chapter 1660 Möbius, Strict with Himself

"...Why are you looking at me like that? What kind of look is that?" Mebius finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Mebius was pleased that Chen Luo still remembered her as his girlfriend and spent time with her in the lab at least every day, but he didn't like the look in Chen Luo's eyes.

It wasn't the look of someone seeing something dirty; rather, it was very subtle, so subtle that it made Mebius inexplicably a little angry.

"Ah, it's nothing, you can continue." Chen Luo shook his head.

Then he continued to look at Mebius with the same gaze he had just used.

Although Möbius was eager to know whether Chen Luo's eyes were harder or his own fingers were harder, he ignored Chen Luo and continued with his experiment.

Chen Luo was actually helpless; he couldn't help looking at Möbius with that kind of gaze, and he couldn't explain it either.

Chen Luo couldn't possibly tell Mebius that when his true form entered the Durandal inheritance trial, he originally wanted to use official business as an excuse to distance himself from Durandal, but ended up being practically forced onto Durandal by Mebius, could he?

The more Chen Luo thought about this scene, the stranger it seemed.

Strict with oneself, right?

Chen Luo knew that the two Mebius were different.

Moreover, Chen Luo understood why Mebius did what he did during the inheritance trial; it was merely out of final pity for the dying. But Chen Luo couldn't help feeling that it was really strange.

……

"boom!"

Ultimately, Chen Luo was expelled from the laboratory by Mebius.

In Mebius's words, Chen Luo could go anywhere, just not look at him like that in the lab.

Even Mebius wanted to punch someone after seeing that, which shows that Chen Luo's gaze was indeed unsettling.

Since the problem couldn't be solved, the person who created it was dealt with, so Chen Luo was thrown out.

"Ha, you ignored me when we met within 15 days, but now you can't even reach me after 15 days! Next time I'll just jump a month into the future, let's see what you do then!"

That being said, Chen Luo dared not actually do it.

One reason was that there was a commission with a time jump of no more than 15 days, and another reason was that Chen Luo couldn't bear to make Mebius wait that long.

Everyone else is afraid of Mebius, but Chen Luo only feels sorry for Mebius.

Next time you try to manipulate her, you'd better say it to her face.

Chen Luo felt that Mebius was like a spoiled parent who only came back once in a long while his child was away at university. He would take good care of the child for the first two days, but then find fault with everything the next two days.

It's as if even breathing at home is a sin.

Chen Luo only glanced at Mebius a few more times, and he got thrown out like that.

"I can help you get Möbius, do you need it? Just one Primogem."

"Why did you come again?"

Chen Luo originally wanted to escape the world consciousness of this world, so he quickly said goodbye to Li Sushang, Durandal Otto and others and left the Honkai Impact 3 world.

Otherwise, Chen Luo would have to chat with Su for a while longer and ask Su if he had any suggestions for dealing with the Su from the previous civilization.

As it turned out, this world consciousness actually managed to trace its origins back to the previous civilization.

Chen Luo knew that time was meaningless to the world consciousness. Even Gaia and Alaya, those two mortal enemies, could possess this ability, let alone the world consciousness.

But this is a matter of attitude.

"Stop trying to persuade me. I said I won't give it to you, and that's final. Why would you want my raw stone?" Chen Luo was genuinely puzzled.

As far as Chen Luo is concerned, I can exchange the Origin Aura for the Origin Stone, because this thing cannot be exchanged back for the Origin Stone, but I cannot directly ask for my Origin Stone.

It wasn't that the raw stone was particularly precious, but rather that Chen Luo had some self-awareness about his own uniqueness.

What does the world's consciousness need my raw gem for?

"Don't overthink it, I just want to collect it."

"real or fake?"

"Otherwise, what would I want from you? Would I want to use you as a proxy and then suffer emotional distress?"

"I was just about to ask you this: aren't you looking down on me? I'm your proxy, so why should I get paid to go to work?"

"Because if I make you my proxy, then you'll be acting on my will. Your constant mischief in the other world will easily drag me into diplomatic conflicts."

"..."

This was the first time Chen Luo had ever heard of such a claim.

"You really can't analyze my talent using raw gems or something?"

"Your paranoia is getting a bit too far. If your talent were really that easy to analyze, would it still be called an EX-level talent?"

"If you're still worried, you can consult other trustworthy world consciousnesses. Ask them how feasible this behavior is."

"But don't I also get Primogems after completing the identity mission? You guys issued the mission, so can't you keep a little bit of the Primogems for yourself?"

"..."

We dare to do that, don't we?

"Leaving aside the feasibility of your idea... if the raw stones weren't obtained from you, it would be meaningless."

"If you want, I can even gather wishes from all over the world to create another shower of raw gems, but those gems (wishes) haven't resonated; they're dull and lifeless. Just looking at them feels unlucky."

Water, after being consecrated, becomes holy water. While both share the same origin, their values ​​are worlds apart.

"But in the world you govern, there is a place called Teyvat, and on Teyvat there is a country called Mondstadt. Near Mondstadt, there is a village called Springvale, where there is a shady merchant who sells water as holy water."

"Shut up."

"Oh."

So, are you going to sell or not?

"Could we actually try a different trading method?"

"for example?"

"I'll give you 20 Primogems. Send me the coordinates of the real world or world bubble that is rich in the main material for Honkai Antibody Vaccine."

"...I have guests at my house, goodbye."

"Hey, don't go!"

The roles have reversed, and now Chen Luo needs the World Consciousness more, but the World Consciousness has left quite decisively.

"Sigh, I still prefer the more aloof world consciousness of the Honkai world." Chen Luo shook his head.

Before today, Chen Luo had exchanged no more than five sentences with the world's consciousness. The most recent sentence was telling Chen Luo not to go crazy in this world with the puppet.

Although Chen Luo was somewhat disappointed by the failure of this transaction, he was not too surprised.

This clearly shows that the world consciousness's pleasure-seeking nature ultimately triumphed over the world consciousness's collecting addiction.

They even gave up the raw stones just for fun.

perhaps……

Otherwise, Chen Luo really couldn't think of a reason to explain why the world consciousness was unwilling to reveal this coordinate to him.

What other reason could there be besides wanting to have fun?

Surely that world hasn't existed yet?

That's fine too. If the world consciousness gave Chen Luo a real world coordinate system that would only emerge in ten or twenty years, Chen Luo really wouldn't know how to deal with it.

Fortunately, Chen Luo wasn't in a hurry. After collecting the rare materials from the Honkai Impact 3rd world, he could always go to the Honkai Impact 3rd Starry Sky Railway World to take a look.

The material in the world of locomotives definitely exists, but we don't know how much there is.

"Doctor, why were you kicked out?" Hua, who was in the lab office area, was somewhat surprised.

Normally, Chen Luo would stay in the lab for a while whenever he accompanied Dr. Möbius, but he came out exceptionally quickly today.

"He must have angered the Doctor and been kicked out. That's how henpecked husbands are," said Danzhu, who was playing Seven Sages Summoning with Cangxuan.

"How can you two, at your age, manage to summon the Seven Saints? Shouldn't you be contributing to humanity's great cause of resisting the Honkai? How dare you slack off!" Chen Luo, exposed, pointed at Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu.

"My enormous Möbius Biological Laboratory is only occupied by Möbius? You two are slacking off like this. Be careful, or Möbius might kick you both out of the lab, or use you two as experimental animals!"

The Möbius laboratory was structured such that 80% of the experimental results were achieved by Möbius alone, while the remaining 30% were achieved by Klein.

What? An extra 10%? That must be because Cangxuan and Danzhu dragged us down! They made it -10%!

Cangxuan and Danzhu are quite capable; they were even specifically praised by Möbius as highly promising researchers, second only to Möbius himself in potential...

Although Mebius also used this assessment on Blanca, it shows that Cangxuan and Danzhu are actually quite formidable.

Otherwise, neither of them would have been able to enter the Möbius Laboratory.

But a staff member who doesn't work overtime isn't a good staff member!

Because Chongxin and Danzhu never work overtime, they are considered relatively inexperienced in the Möbius Lab.

“How can you say that? We’ve been working hard, but it’s almost time to leave. There are only 5 minutes left before we go home. What if an experiment takes 10 minutes? Wouldn’t that be a waste of 5 minutes of overtime? And we don’t even get overtime pay for those 5 minutes of overtime.” Danzhu’s words were reasonable and convincing.