Their commission was suspicious.

Seeing Chen Luo's expression, Mei knew that Chen Luo really didn't intend to pay for the prize money himself.

"Speaking of which, are you taking Number 17 to the Mu Continent this time?" Dr. Mei suddenly asked.

Why are you suddenly asking this?

"I'm just curious about the maximum distance that Number 17 and her backup unit can maintain for real-time intelligence sharing," Dr. May said.

Dr. Mei had conducted similar experiments before, having the No. 17 unit assist her in her own experiments, while another backup unit followed Chen Luo inside the Fire Moth.

The Firemoth is a large base, so normally, the communication distance between Android 17 and her backup unit should not be underestimated. However, Android 17 has never experienced a single delay in information sharing so far.

“I’m not entirely sure how far it is, but we can give it a try. If all goes well, it’s just across an ocean, and instant communication shouldn’t be a problem,” Chen Luo said.

"...So what exactly did you add to Number 17?" Dr. May asked again, from the bottom of her heart.

"No, nothing was added," Chen Luo stammered.

"Let's conduct an experiment. You'll take the spare unit, Number 17, with you. During this time, Number 17 will act as your assistant, helping you with matters related to the seminar. You also happen to need a clerk," Dr. Mei said.

A mature business trip team should have at least these people: a leader who slacks off, a subordinate who drags the team down, a bodyguard who isn't very bright but can fight, and a shrewd, capable, and rational assistant.

“I want to hear the real reason. My intuition tells me that Dr. Mei, you don’t seem to be telling the whole truth,” Chen Luo said.

Dr. Mei adjusted his glasses.

"I'm more worried about you, as a medical doctor and mechanical engineering doctor dispatched by the Firemoth headquarters, going crazy in front of the armed puppets than about having no one to help you record the text," Dr. Mei said bluntly.

As for how likely this is to happen... see the daily scenes of Chen Luo going crazy in Dr. Mei's office for details.

This time, Chen Luo went to Mu Continent on behalf of the Fire Moth, so Chen Luo's image is also the image of the Fire Moth headquarters.

It's unlikely that Hua will be in charge of Chen Luo; Mei, however, knows Hua all too well.

Although Hua could usually make Chen Luo very obedient, as long as Chen Luo persisted for even a moment... just a moment, Hua would immediately give in and then become an accomplice to evil!

Needless to say, Pado is a fusion warrior trained by Chen Luo, and she is also a good friend of Chen Luo.

So if we're talking about reliable numbers, the 17th is definitely the one.

Alicia... Dr. Mei also considered it, but Dr. Mei felt that if Chen Luo and Alicia went to Mu Continent together, the person who would go crazy in front of the armed puppet would change from Chen Luo alone to both Chen Luo and Alicia.

This is absolutely the worst-case scenario.

"Hmph, Number 17, you're mine for the next two weeks!" Chen Luo said, leaning his forearm against Number 7's shoulder.

"Also, regarding Number 17's experiences over the past two weeks, I will have Number 17 compile a voice recording and then pass it on to Dr. Mebius. So I advise you to be more discreet," Mei said coldly.

“…Mei, you’ve changed. Mei, do you know that there’s an old saying in China: ‘If you doubt someone, don’t use them; if you use someone, don’t doubt them’? I think that since you’ve appointed me as your representative for diplomatic activities, you shouldn’t doubt me.”

"..." Dr. Mei watched quietly, and Chen Luo remained silent.

"Fine." Chen Luo could only painfully accept this reality.

"Sigh." Seeing Chen Luo's appearance and the disgusted look on Number 17's face, Dr. Mei felt that she had been sighing more and more frequently lately.

Mei knew Chen Luo definitely wouldn't do anything, but Chen Luo's remarks were just too worrying.

However, given that Chen Luo had poured no less effort into Number 17 than she had herself, Dr. Mei could only accept the fact that Chen Luo had done something during the creation of Number 17 that made Number 17 far superior to other Prometheus models in terms of emotional development.

As an extreme romantic, May was extremely interested in giving Number 17 emotions similar to those of humans.

Yes, May was an extreme romantic.

"Let's go, number 17, you're mine starting today!" Although he kept agreeing with Dr. Mei, Chen Luo still easily revealed his true colors.

"Your departure time is tomorrow, so come back tomorrow." Mei's words directly drove away Chen Luo, who was eager to join number 17.

After receiving Dr. Mei's orders, Number 17 summoned his giant hand, grabbed Chen Luo by the collar, and threw him out of Dr. Mei's office.

"You're going on a long trip tomorrow, are you feeling nervous?" After Chen Luo left, Dr. Mei walked up to Number 17 and helped Number 17 straighten his clothes.

"Dr. Mei, I am a research-oriented auxiliary robot, so I don't feel nervous."

"Hmm, let me think... Since we're going on a trip, we'll definitely need to prepare some clothes. I'll ask Ellie for some suggestions. By the way, Number 17, would you be willing to go on a trip with Chen Luo in your main body? After all, opportunities to go to Mu Continent are rare. How about we give Chen Luo a surprise tomorrow?" Without responding to Number 17's objection, Dr. Mei continued talking to herself.

“Dr. Mei, actually…”

"Hey, number 17, do you also think pink clothes look good?"

"No, I didn't say that..."

"Then it's settled!"

"..."

For a moment, Prometheus 17 felt that Chen Luo's madness in front of him was better than Dr. Mei's excessive concern.

Chapter 1713 Aponia: Beginning Prayer!

"What...what's going on? A murder scene?" Chen Luo took a step back as he looked at Padofelis lying in the hallway.

"Pado, my Pado, you died so tragically!" Chen Luo threw himself on Pado's body, heartbroken.

"Doctor...actually..." Hua Gang, who was standing next to him, was about to say something when Chen Luo, who had already stood up again, interrupted him.

“Alright, that’s enough. I understand what you mean. But even though Pado is weak, she’s still our friend. I’m determined to get to the bottom of this. So, as eyewitnesses, Aponia and Qianjie, what do you two have to say?” Chen Luo pushed up his glasses, which had appeared out of nowhere, and looked at Aponia and Qianjie, who were positioned on either side of the dormitory corridor, sandwiching Chen Luo and Pado between them.

"Boring." Qian Jie glanced coldly at Chen Luo, then opened his dormitory door and went inside.

That's right, Qianjie also arrived at this Demon Floor.

Originally, because of Mebius, this floor for researchers was not occupied by many people.

Because researchers' dormitories are often better than those of ordinary soldiers, and there are many more dormitories available for them to choose from. Because they can choose freely, over time that floor becomes deserted.

Logically speaking, neither Pado, as a fusion warrior, nor Qianjie, as a war criminal, should have come to this researchers' floor. However, Pado's luck was too good, causing the original soldiers' barracks to be demolished, while the new barracks had not yet been built.

So Paddo came to this infamous devil floor.

Pado wasn't the first outsider to move into this devil's floor; the first was Hua, and the second was Aponia.

Chen Luo? Chen Luo is a legitimate researcher.

Given Pado's luck, she shouldn't have been so unlucky as to faint on the spot in the stairwell. But Chen Luo caught Pado's good fortune off guard—he pulled Qian Jie out of the deepest abyss today.

Today wasn't the day for the Fire Moth to recruit members, so since Pado was sent to the Demon Floor because she had nowhere to stay, Qianjie was naturally also sent to the Demon Floor. Moreover, it was Chen Luo who asked Hua to help Qianjie with the procedures.

So when Pado finished packing her luggage and happily planned to go to the house next door to play with Hua, she ran into Aponia as soon as she turned left after leaving the house.

The mere sight of Aponia Paddo sent shivers down my spine!

Paddo and Aponia are old acquaintances. When Paddo was a thief, he once tried to sneak through the gate of the sanatorium where Aponia lived, intending to let the children locked inside go out and play freely. However, he was caught on the spot by Aponia.

However, when Aponia met Paddo, she simply smiled at Paddo.

When Pado realized that she hadn't been a righteous thief anymore, she breathed a sigh of relief.

After a somewhat nervous farewell to Aponia, I immediately turned and ran, only to see a muscular, masked figure standing behind me, almost bumping into him.

Pado glanced at the murderous Qianjie, then at Aponia, whose expression was compassionate yet equally oppressive, and fainted.

"Is she... alright?" After seeing Qianjie leave, Aponia looked at Pado, who was being pinched by Chen Luo to try to wake her but was unresponsive.

"It's nothing, she was probably just startled." Chen Luo shook his head, then bit Pado's tail, and Pado instantly opened her eyes.

It seems that stepping on a cat's tail is more likely to wake it up than pinching its philtrum.

This is an instinct ingrained in a cat's genes!

Chen Luo used this reason to comfort himself and not to be violent towards Pado, who bit his arm as soon as she woke up.

Oh well, I guess I'll just pretend I got scratched by a cat.

It's perfectly normal for a cat to get its fur standing on end and scratch the culprit after its tail has been stepped on.

So it's normal that Chen Luo bit Pado's tail, waking her up, and then Pado saw that Chen Luo was still biting her tail and bit Chen Luo's hand instead.

"Let go, let go," Chen Luo said while biting Pado's tail.

"Your husband..." Paddo stammered, her words slurred because she was biting Chen Luo's hand.

What Pado probably meant was that you should relax first.

"Is it so hard to let go?" Chen Luo released his grip on Pado's tail, and Pado, after snatching his own tail back, also released his grip on Chen Luo's hand.

Pado rubbed her tail, her eyes brimming with tears.

My poor tail! It was just being gently stroked by Alicia a moment ago, and now Chen Luo has bitten it so badly its fur is standing on end.

“Speaking of which, I just had a nightmare. I dreamt that I was surrounded by two people, Aponia in front of me and Thousand Calamities behind me… Sigh, I’ve already left Twilight Street, so why would I have such a strange dream?” Pado said as she stood up.

"Is there a possibility..." Chen Luo suddenly said.

What's possible?

"Look behind you." Chen Luo pointed behind Pado.

Pado looked in that direction and then saw Aponia, who seemed somewhat concerned.

"!!!"

"What are you doing here?" Pado exclaimed in surprise.

Was I not dreaming just now?

Pado immediately looked in the opposite direction, and only after seeing that there was no Qianjie in the opposite direction did Pado breathe a sigh of relief.

"A Thousand Tribulations." Chen Luo glanced at Pado, a thought flashing through his mind, and called out.

"What are you doing?" Qian Jie pushed open the dormitory door and walked out, looking at Chen Luo impatiently.

"It's nothing, you just wanted to ask if you wanted to go out for dinner tonight to celebrate your emergence from the Deepest Place."

"Not interested."

"You cook."

"...I'm even less interested now!" Qianjie roared at Chen Luo.

Okay, okay, so that's why you pulled me out of the deepest abyss, right?

Want me to cook for you?

If you were a decent human being, you wouldn't be so averse to anything related to people!

"Don't say that. With your excellent cooking skills, wouldn't it be a waste not to use them? Besides, you can make your favorite barbecue," Chen Luo said.

In the deepest place, Qianjie's favorite type of food is barbecue, not because barbecue doesn't require much skill, but because Qianjie seems to really like fire.

"...None of your business?"

"Alright, alright, if you don't want to eat dinner, then you don't have to eat dinner. We can always find a suitable time for you to cook later. But Qianjie, don't forget to pick up your adjutant this afternoon."

“I don’t need that kind of thing,” Qianjie refused.

"...You don't even know where the cafeteria is, how dare you say you don't need an adjutant? You don't actually think that the Fire Moth was willing to release you from the deepest place just so you could stay in the dormitory forever, do you? And even if you want to fight, you need to know where there are fights to fight. You certainly don't want to deal with these things, so of course you need an adjutant to help you manage them." Chen Luo reasoned with him and appealed to his emotions.

Then Qianjie's heart was moved.

"Hmph!" But Qianjie's way of expressing his feelings might be a little different from others; Qianjie simply slammed the door shut.

"Hua, take Qianjie to the logistics department this afternoon to help him get an adjutant. If no one takes him there, I suspect he might start a fight within the Fire Moths because he can't find the way," Chen Luo instructed.

"Understood." Hua nodded.

Qianjie needs an adjutant. This adjutant is not only to assist Qianjie in fighting, but more importantly, to serve as a means for higher-ups to monitor Qianjie.

The Thousand Calamities are released from the deepest depths, so it is reasonable that they are being monitored.

It would be illogical to let Qianjie roam freely without any worries.

However, being Qianjie's adjutant might not be a good job.

If Chen Luo remembered correctly, Qian Jie's adjutant, Imer, was the most "ideal" adjutant that Qian Jie found after wasting more than 20 adjutants.

Qianjie is indeed a formidable fighter, but he takes a lot of effort from his adjutant.

"Why, why are my two neighbors Aponia and Thousand Calamities?!" the cat sighed!

"Hmm?" Qianjie pushed open the door again.

Who's calling me?

“Him.” Pado pointed instantly at Chen Luo.

"...Since you're not going to eat dinner, are you going to eat lunch? It's a little past noon now, but the cafeteria should still have food." Chen Luo glared at Pado and asked.