Their commission was suspicious.

"Are you... pregnant?"

"Yes, yours has been three months." Xing nodded frankly.

"...Can't you be serious for once?"

"You started being inappropriate. But it's disgusting, that's for sure. In that simulated universe, I was almost sick of fighting the locust plague, and now you're telling me I have to fight bugs... I hope those damn bugs can split apart?" Xing said with a look of disgust.

Because the main body star was enjoying a pleasant trip on the immortal ship and occasionally dealing with the problem of escaping the sun, there was no time to test the simulated universe. Therefore, the important task of testing the new model of the global locust plague fell on the star's shoulders.

God knows how many times Xing fought that damned global locust plague in just a few days.

Xing almost threw up.

The global locust plague truly lives up to its reputation as a terrifying crisis that once swept across the entire universe...

The speed and number of other insects that those insects reproduced were as fast as if they were free.

"How did you know that the bug would split, and that it would split into two as soon as you hit it?"

"What? One hit splits one into two? Then you'll have to equip me with a Mirror Stream or a Two-Life Moon Lord, otherwise I can't play this game." Xing shook his head frantically.

"Don't panic... You still have the rice cooker I gave you, right? You don't need to hit it, just seal it away. Don't worry, the difficulty you face isn't this breeding envoy at all," Chen Luo comforted Xing.

"That's good... Wait, do you mean I'll face other difficulties? I'm still a baby, not even a month old. You want me to do something so dangerous? How can I handle that? That's too cruel!" Xing said angrily.

"I'll give you 100 merit points."

"Okay, Lolo. I knew you were the best to me."

"His initial arrogance followed by his obsequiousness is laughable."

"Hey, our relationship... I've watched you grow up." Xing patted Chen Luo on the shoulder.

"...The Chinese language is indeed profound and extensive," Chen Luo remarked.

"By the way, you still haven't told me what the difficulties are."

"You're about to embark on the second event in the simulated universe, Gold and Machinery. If the Universal Locust Plague records the fall of the Star God, then Gold and Machinery records how the Star God of Wisdom watched Emperor Rupert go from death to life and back again. Anyway... good luck! The simulated universe is an unavoidable part of your journey!" Chen Luo encouraged Xing.

“…Emperor Rupert, oh, you mean the twenty-seventh seat in the Genius Club, the one who is all flesh and blood, yet whose mechanical powers have ascended to godhood?” Xing remembered the character.

"We have the machinery, but what about the gold?"

"The gold refers to the borderline trade wars caused by the company's colonial expansion and monopoly..." Chen Luo said.

“Expansion? Monopoly? These don’t sound like good words…” Xing frowned.

"The company was never a good thing to begin with, so what good words can you expect to be used to describe it?" Chen Luole said, then rubbed Xing's head.

"To be honest, it's quite ironic that the Interstellar Peace Corporation has become the largest security force in the entire galaxy. You can't deny that the Interstellar Peace Corporation's trade activities have made many planets live a good life, but you also can't deny that there aren't many good people among the top executives of the Interstellar Peace Corporation."

As for the Star God of Preservation, even if he knew what the Interstellar Peace Company had done, he was too lazy to pay attention to the Interstellar Peace Company and instead focused on repairing his wall.

"What about Void Treasury?" Xing thought of Void Treasury, who held a high position within the Interstellar Peace Corporation.

"It is not a person."

“That makes sense. But why are you telling me this?” Xing tilted her head.

"The reason I'm telling you all this is so you can be wary when dealing with the Interstellar Peace Corporation. After all, this trip to Pinocchio... the Interstellar Peace Corporation's envoy is an unavoidable part of it." Chen Luo couldn't help but scratch Xing's hair again.

"...You should have said that to my main body, not to me. Do you think I don't know that the Interstellar Peace Corporation has ulterior motives towards Pinocchio?" Xing muttered under his breath.

Silver Star is already preparing to smash the gold dust with a club, what's the point of telling her this?

For this reason, the silver star even wrote down some tips about the main body in the memo.

The only pity is that I can't take action myself...

Xing still remembers the crisp sound when the club struck Sand Gold's head...

It sounds great.

A pleasant sound is a good start.

"Ding-a-ling!" The wind chimes rang out.

A person whom Star didn't know very well walked into the bar.

"Chen Luo, Chen Luo, newbie! Hurry up and try to get on his good side!" Xing said, tugging at Chen Luo's sleeve.

As a regular at the bar, I naturally know how much a newcomer can elevate its status...

Okay, it's not that big.

It simply depends on how unique the other party's world is.

Of course, even if the other person's world isn't particularly unique, bars aren't necessarily unwelcoming. Having more friends means having more options; you never know when you might need them.

"Newcomer my foot! Her name is Yvette. She's my... first doll. Haven't you seen her before?" Chen Luo was rather speechless.

They just don't show up at bars very often, so why do you keep pointing at them and calling them a newbie when you see them?

"Hmm... I don't remember. Wasn't your first doll Suigintou?" Hoshi scratched his head.

"The first doll I made by hand was indeed Suigintou, but besides making dolls, don't I also transform into dolls?" Chen Luo explained.

“…” Yvette stood there quietly watching Xing and Chen Luo discuss whether she was the first puppet, completely disregarding the fact that she was right next to them.

[Actually, Hoshino had seen Yvette before, but there were just too many blonde beauties in the bar, and since the two hadn't interacted, he simply forgot.]

The user-friendly plugin came out and said something fair.

Of course, Yvette's screen time is indeed very limited, that's a fact...

This is unavoidable. Yvette's main focus is on the spiritual plane where Chen Luo is located. In addition, Yvette herself is quite resistant to using her River God abilities to create her golden and silver forms in daily life. Chen Luo also cannot keep Yvette by his side. Therefore, it is not surprising that the people in the bar, especially the customers who entered the bar later, gradually forgot about Yvette.

"Are you done talking?" Yvette asked slowly.

"Oh, we're done talking. Hello." The silver star nodded and moved to the side.

At least in the future where the Silver Star exists, the original Star and Yvette do not have much interaction, so the Silver Star has no memory of communicating with Yvette.

This means that Yvette might leave again soon and won't be back at the bar for a long time.

"It's not that Yvette doesn't come to bars, it's just that you two are always in the basement, how could you possibly meet?" Chen Luo complained.

The basement level of the bar is for people who don't drink... those who don't drink should go to the children's table.

"Here you go." Yvette flipped her hand and returned a mercury-silver mirror to Chen Luo.

"Ninety percent of the leaders of all the survivor settlements protected by the giant stone pillars in the Dark Bullet World have been replaced with clones," Yvette reported.

This is why Yvette rarely comes to a bar.

Yvette rarely comes to bars unless she has something important to do.

As a fellow adventurer from Paradise and a local power in the Spirit Realm, Yvette is often busy managing the adventurers in the Abyss Passage and assigning them suitable tasks.

I'm just a regular tool.

However, Yvette seems quite satisfied with the job.

Yvette's mission this time is to take Chen Luo's Divine Mirror to the dark world of bullets, use the Divine Mirror to copy all the leaders of the surviving cities, and then switch them out.

This was also to verify the advice Chen Luo received from the stargazer—don't always focus on quality, but also pay attention to quantity occasionally. Although ordinary people in a world without magic produce fewer elements of lies than the strong, they produce more.

Over time, the accumulated elements of lies will amount to a considerable sum.

However, Chen Luo had a bottom line when he asked Yvette to carry out this plan... The bottom line was not to touch those leaders who were not officially recognized.

For example, the Holy Emperor escaped the turmoil of the substitution of the crown prince.

Unfortunately, there are very few leaders like this who haven't been officially recognized as criminals.

Chen Luo didn't think that what he did was morally wrong.

After all, a red name means that the other party is not innocent, just like the empire's minister Ernest.

Those in positions of power should fulfill their responsibilities. It is undeniable that some of these ruthless individuals can indeed make the survivors' lives better, but the clones can do it even better.

As the old saying goes... if you don't do it, there are plenty of clones who will.

What the original can do, the copy can also do; what the original cannot do, the copy can do through "self-restraint".

Why not allow it to be copied?

Moreover, it can also provide Chen Luo with a lot of elements for lying.

As for those red-named leaders themselves... they weren't thrown into the Gastrea horde by Yvette and devoured, nor were they turned into puppets... Chen Luo doesn't accept just any trash.

"Besides the pitch-black world of bullets, the Garden of Eden you requested to be built in the zombie world is also under construction. It should be completed in a few days," Yvette reported meticulously.

Those red-named leaders who were taken away from the dark world of bullets were sent to Eden for labor reform and to help build Eden.

Although the adventurers in the park have no shortage of labor, making them suffer can bring them joy.

“However, Esdeath has encountered some problems…” Yvette said.

"As expected." Chen Luo wasn't surprised.

"After Esdeath's clone was created, it refused to return to the empire that was still in the process of building up and where it was impossible to fight a war without using weapons. Instead, it challenged the original Esdeath after it came out... Whoever wins will be the real Esdeath."

"...It suits Esdeath's style very well." Chen Luo nodded.

“So I canceled the copy, but kept the copy record of Esdeath,” Yvette said.

Upon hearing Yvette's words, Chen Luo glanced at the Divine Mirror in his hand and then lightly snapped his fingers.

The domain of the Divine Mirror instantly expanded, but the mercury that extended out did not cover the entire bar; it only covered a circle with a radius of about two meters.

Esdeath's clone was instantly pulled from the miniature lake of mercury by some force and stood in front of Chen Luo.

Esdeath's size is not enough for the Ancient Mirror of Illumination to fully expand its domain.

"...My dear brother, you're not planning to send me back to that boring empire again, are you?"

After Esdeath's clone lost its mercury color, it slowly walked up to Chen Luo, its somewhat cold hand stroking Chen Luo's cheek, then running its fingers through Chen Luo's hair, a somewhat dangerous smile on its face.

Although Esdeath already knew that Chen Luo's cousin was merely a background character created by the world, it didn't stop her from happily bringing this background character into reality.

"If you don't agree, then we'll have to find another Esdeath. But I must warn you, the next copy made from Esdeath's original body might not be you..." Chen Luo said to Esdeath in front of him with a friendly reminder.

The reason the other party retains the memory before the copy was canceled is because the Ancient Mirror of Illumination preserved this record.

If the record is deleted, the next one to appear will be a new copy of Esdeath.

Esdeath remained fearless.

“I’ve said it before, the current empire is too boring. At least give me a grand war before I’ll be willing to go back, right?” Esdeath’s clone shook her head.

"Then you'd better think it through. The next Esdeath I summon might have much lower requirements. Although there's not much to fight against those border tribes you've already terrified of, it's still better than having nothing to fight, right?"

"..."

“My dear Esdeath, if you won’t do it, there are plenty of Esdeath clones who will.” Chen Luo reached out and helped Esdeath straighten the white military cap on her head.

"Tch, you really don't give me any face at all. But you should at least agree to let Akame and the others stretch their muscles, right?" Esdeath was unwilling, but she chose to endure it.

"Deal. The door's over there. The little emperor will arrange a position for you," Chen Luo said, pointing to the door to Bar Number 2 that had suddenly opened behind Esdeath.

Incidentally, the young emperor currently sitting on the throne is also a clone.

However, the other party took the initiative to request the replacement of the clone, because he himself did not seem to want to be the emperor.

As a reward for providing Chen Luo with a large number of elements of lies, the other party received 10000 Paradise Coins, and then began to spend them in the group network, seemingly... planning to explore the Dimensional Sea.

He kept saying things like, "The world is so big, I want to go see it."

But Chen Luo felt that the other party just didn't want to work, and the reasons they came up with were quite elaborate.

“…Chen Luo.” Xing suddenly patted Chen Luo on the shoulder as he watched Esdeath leave.

"What?"

"Let's discuss something..."

"explain."

"I don't want to work hard anymore," Xing said pitifully to Chen Luo.

"What a coincidence, I don't want to work hard anymore either."

"You can take care of me."

"..." Xing's words silenced Chen Luogan.

Do you know what you're saying?