Their commission was suspicious.

At least Black Tower thinks Nguyen Mai should be interested, and that's enough.

"Are you... mistaking me for a warehouse?" Chen Luo's expression was somewhat strange after reading Black Tower's inner monologue.

"Do you care?" Black Tower asked rhetorically.

"I do care about it quite a bit."

"Oh, I hope you don't mind."

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"...Okay, I don't care anymore."

[Ding! Mission complete!]

My lord, this man has truly figured you out.

“…Black Tower, Black Tower, owing too many good deeds is not a good thing,” Chen Luo said patiently.

Although there is a subtle difference between good karma and cause and effect, wouldn't you feel embarrassed if you owe too much?

"Oh... if I die, consider it a sacrifice for the truth."

"It's not as violent as killing you..."

"Take whatever artifacts on the Black Tower space station that interest you. So, can you go play somewhere else now? I need to continue fixing bugs. Your chatting here is disturbing me." Black Tower waved its hand.

"Alright..." Chen Luo said, while casually extracting some fragments from Black Tower's memories, making Black Tower forget about the husky.

“Oh, by the way, you should go and invite Ruan Mei yourself,” Heita added.

"Why? You recommended it, shouldn't you go yourself?"

"Nonsense, I betrayed my teammates, of course I can't go myself," Black Tower said matter-of-factly.

"It seems you do have some self-awareness about your actions. However... as for biology fanatics, with just Möbius, I already can't handle him, Ruan Mei..."

“Then just ask your errand boy, Xing, to do it for you. Oh, by the way, if you can pause a little when calling Ruan Mei’s name, you’ll be more likely to win her favor,” Black Tower said.

"Hmm... Before I look for Ruan...Mei, I'll go check on Latio at the Black Tower Space Station first."

"Who? Does the Black Tower space station have this person? Also, there shouldn't be such a long pause between the names of Ruan Mei and others." Black Tower paused for a moment.

"It's just a person wearing a plaster head hood."

"Hmm... Now that you mention it, I seem to have a vague recollection of it. Oh well, whatever. Just treat the Black Tower Space Station as your home."

"Bye-bye, remember to take your doll-like body to the bar later. Husky, let's go."

Aha glared at Chen Luo once, then slowly disappeared.

In the limited time he has left, the husky decided to find more fun. After all, if he doesn't find fun now, he won't have the chance later...

Oh, there's no need to worry too much.

Because as long as Aha remains interested in the Dimensional Sea, he will continue to wander outside, and there will always be a clone of Aha to find fun for him within the world.

"Okay. I'll deliver it to your house tonight." Black Tower continued busy fixing the bug.

After Chen Luo disappeared from this space, he immediately reappeared in another place.

In that place, I saw a man with a plaster cast on his head.

"Hi, Dr. Zhenli..." Chen Luo greeted.

"Hmm?" The man with the plastered head looked at Chen Luo.

"Interested in making a deal? Before that, I'd like to ask you, are you interested in... becoming a true genius?" Chen Luo smiled kindly.

Chapter 2184 Intercepting the power of the Star God of Wisdom, the thief with the power of command reappears in the world!

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When Chen Luo appeared here, he could see two plaster heads.

One is Ladio, and the other is also Ladio.

But when Chen Luo spoke up and attracted the other party's attention, one of the plaster heads disappeared, and the chessboard in front of both sides gradually disappeared as the plaster head pushed it aside. At the same time, a book fell into the other party's hands.

There was only one plaster head from beginning to end, while the other was another player imagined by the opponent.

But coincidentally, Chen Luo's investigative abilities allowed him to "see" another plaster head.

Similarly, Chen Luo could also see the other person's true face through the plaster head.

This made Chen Luo feel more comfortable, because the plaster head looked really out of place.

"You are..." Chen Luo could see that the other person was frowning.

Veritas Ladio.

A true genius who displayed extraordinary talent from a young age, there are at least eight documentaries about his legendary life and more than a dozen memoirs about him in his hometown.

After obtaining his eighth doctoral degree during his undergraduate studies, he received two vacant Amber Age First Class Honours degrees from First Truth University in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the fields of biology, medicine, natural theology and philosophy, mathematics, physics, and engineering.

Even years later, this remains an unprecedented and unparalleled achievement in the school's history.

A genius who would be considered a perfect genius by most people... but not a member of the genius club.

"Chen Luo, the leader of the Paradise." Ladio quickly came to the answer.

Chen Luo is actually quite famous in the Starry Sky Railway world, at least among the higher-ups.

Putting aside Chen Luo's great achievement of defeating the God of Destruction with a single sword strike, the fact that he is an adventurer in Paradise who is very active throughout the entire galaxy is enough to make the Academy of Knowledge take Chen Luo seriously.

Especially the latter.

Yes, it's the latter.

Compared to Chen Luo's terrifying power, comparable to that of a star god, the Paradise Adventurers, who generally have high levels of education and possess knowledge several times greater than that of ordinary people, are far more attractive to the Erudite Society.

Only a very small minority of members of the Genius Club can truly elevate their status; most people who pursue a life of knowledge tend to join the Knowledge Society.

Chen Luo possesses great strength, but that doesn't mean he has sufficient knowledge.

But those adventurers in the amusement park proved that they did indeed have a unique system of knowledge.

It is said to be terrifying knowledge that, if possessed in its entirety, would be enough to enter the genius club.

For example, even the Void Treasury, an information server robot possessing all the knowledge of that civilization, could become a member of the Genius Club.

Void Treasury: Want my knowledge? Want to join the Genius Club? Go! Go find the adventurers of Paradise and extract enough fragments of knowledge from them!

That's what they say... but nobody actually dares to do it.

After all, the adventurers in the Paradise are impossible to kill, and if you kill them, they can be resurrected. You can't catch them either, as they can teleport instantly. If you mess with one, a whole bunch of them will come to kill you!

Its terror level is comparable to a global locust plague.

The only saving grace is that the other party doesn't seem to have much reproductive ability and is only interested in killing monsters.

Because of the adventurers in the park's formidable nature and their boundless knowledge, Chen Luo's name had already spread throughout the Academy of Knowledge, and Ladio naturally knew Chen Luo.

However, Ladio didn't understand why Chen Luo had approached him.

Ladio had also heard that Chen Luo first made his fortune at the Black Tower Space Station. As one of the representatives of the Interstellar Peace Company, Ladio did indeed have the idea of ​​visiting Chen Luo when he entered the Black Tower Space Station, because Ladio was also curious about the system of knowledge possessed by Chen Luo's Paradise.

But this shouldn't be the kind of occasion in which the two meet.

The other party shouldn't be acting like a devilish salesman, requesting a transaction.

And it's such a strange transaction request.

"This transaction request is strange, but I still want to ask again, do you want to become a true genius? A genius who defies common sense in the eyes of the world?" Chen Luo asked again.

Ladio was indeed a genius, but he did not defy common sense.

The truly illogical person who could be recruited by the genius club would be someone like Stephenson, who created something extraordinary simply by slacking off at his uncle's flower shop.

Something that could drastically change the current situation in the relevant field.

True genius is someone whose story sounds like a fantasy.

"Are you humiliating me?" This was Ladio's first thought, but he quickly dismissed it.

Ladio didn't think that Chen Luo had come to see him specifically for this reason.

“What do you want from me?” Ladio asked.

"Phase Spirit Fire," Chen Luo stated frankly.

"..."

"Don't look so strange. I got permission from the owner of this space station, Black Tower. He just said he gave the Phase Flame to Ruan Mei, who is conducting experiments in the confined compartment, and..."

"And after you found Ruan Mei, you heard her say that the Phase Flame was no longer available? And then you thought that the Phase Flame was actually in my hands?" Ladio, holding a book that looked like it would hurt to hit someone, slowly walked up to Chen Luo.

"No, I knew from the beginning that he was in your hands. Ruan Mei... I haven't had any contact with her yet. But I always feel that dealing with her would be very troublesome."

"Trouble? Indeed, as you said, although she calls herself a hermit, in my opinion, she wants to explore far more than just life. She may be the true genius of the club, the real ambitious one." Ladio felt a sense of shared vision when he saw Chen Luo's evaluation of Ruan Mei.

If it can make even the leader of the amusement park feel troubled, then it must be something extraordinary.

“You’re right, but for me, having ambition might not be a bad thing. What I’m worried about is that after meeting the other person, their desires might be so great that I might be tempted,” Chen Luo said, shaking his head.

To put it simply, Chen Luo was afraid that after the software released the wish, he would be unable to resist the temptation of the raw stones and help her fulfill it.

However, Ruan Mei herself is actually quite crazy, and what she wants to do is probably not simple.

What is the best way to refuse a delegation? It is to make the delegation invisible.

While it's shameful to bury one's head in the sand, it's useful.

In this respect, Nguyen Mai and Mebius are somewhat similar.

One mad scientist is enough.

Creating a Star God, or even making someone else a Star God, is certainly not something Chen Luo is incapable of doing, but he needs to consider the consequences.

"So you came directly to me? What made you conclude that the Phase Flame is in my possession?" Ladio asked.

Ladio knew that it was normal to have different attitudes toward a person, so he did not argue with Chen Luo.

"Although it may sound like an exaggeration, my eyes can see the truth," Chen Luo said.

“While I’d like to say that only a fool would dare to say such a thing, since even the most learned are still constantly seeking knowledge, truth is still truth even when limited. Can I interpret this as the reason why the adventurers in your Paradise are generally so erudite?” Ladio said.

"Not entirely. The reason they appear more erudite is because I require each of them to have at least two doctoral degrees to be involved in larger events. You understand? It's like a ticket to certain amusement parks."

“There’s no need to use such a simple description; I understand,” Ladio said.

Ladio felt that Chen Luo was treating him like a primary school student.

"As long as you can understand it."

"I'm curious, do all adventurers in Paradise have at least two doctoral degrees? What's the basis for that? Why two doctoral degrees and not less or more?" Rarely seeing a normal person, Ladio started talking to Chen Luo.

Normal people are not uncommon, but normal people who can discuss deeper, more hidden matters are rare.

Because such people are often geniuses, and geniuses often have mental problems.

For example, Black Tower, Screw Gum, Ruan Mei...

They often lack empathy for ordinary people and possess their own arrogance and eccentricities.

“The vast majority of adventurers in the park who have completed compulsory education have the knowledge of two doctoral degrees, but the reason I set the price this way is because I only have two doctoral degrees. Getting certified is very troublesome,” Chen Luo said.

"..."

Ladio's silence stemmed partly from his surprise at a group that demanded a doctoral degree based solely on compulsory education, and partly from his astonishment at Chen Luo's strange reasoning.

Is getting certified a lot of trouble?

"Going back to what we were talking about, I said my eyes can see the truth, so I naturally know that the Phase Flame is within you. You will return the Phase Flame to me in 10 seconds. At the same time, I will also fulfill my promise to you: to make you even more of a genius."

“No need,” Ladio immediately refused, then tossed a ball of flame to Chen Luo.

“This was never mine to begin with, so it’s not worth trading with you,” Ladio said quite frankly.

After obtaining the Phase Flame, Chen Luo patted the flame, which then split into three parts.

A phase fire possesses at least the most basic intellectual instincts.

“However, I must remind you of something…” Latio began slowly.

But before he could finish speaking, I saw Chen Luo throw the original phase spirit fire back to himself.