Their commission was suspicious.

Could it be because of the time I called the other person older?

How stingy!

Chapter 439 Paddo Phyllis and the Cat Teaser

"jingle!"

"Boss! Waaaaah, boss, I've missed you so much!"

After the wind chimes rang, this time the guest gave Chen Luo a big surprise.

The girl, as agile as a cat, pounced on Chen Luo behind the bar.

Then Chen Luo tackled him and threw him to the ground.

"Ouch! Uh... it doesn't hurt?" The girl, who had actually been thrown to the ground, was puzzled when she realized it didn't hurt.

"Boss, what are you doing?" The girl turned to look at Chen Luo, her face full of dissatisfaction.

“…” Raven’s eyes sharpened upon hearing the girl’s words.

So, you're saying you weren't thinking of firing me?

Now even the employees are coming to us.

Looking at the other person, Raven felt quite awkward.

"Honestly, if you saw a stranger suddenly hug you, what would you do? Why are you asking me?" Chen Luo said, hands on his hips.

Chen Luo is feeling this way right now.

"Wow, really? So heartless? I'm Pado, Pado Phyllis. Boss, what's wrong with you? Have you lost your memory?" The scantily clad girl pointed to herself, then looked at Chen Luo with some concern.

Padrephilis, the Moth of Fire, is one of the Thirteen Heroes.

Kevin once said that every hero has the ability to kill a Herrscher in one fell swoop.

Except for Paddo.

The proprietress of the "Paradise of the Past" shop, the last of the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire, with the inscription "Empty Dream". She claims to be the weakest of the heroes, and usually slacks off and never participates in missions.

Indeed, he was the weakest of the heroes.

At first glance, you might think she's just being modest when she claims to be weak, but once you see her being chased by a tank-class Honkai Beast, you'll realize she really is weak.

A carefree girl like a cat, she is also a shrewd businesswoman. As the owner of a shop in the Land of Rebirth, she enjoys collecting all kinds of glittering gold coins and gems, or extremely rare items.

However, the other party's luck was absolutely unmatched by anyone in the entire pre-civilization.

After "voluntarily" undergoing fusion surgery for a special reason, he was fortunate enough to become a fusion warrior.

As a result, she also gained heterochromatic eyes, cat ears, and a cat tail that is now gently swaying behind her.

"Alice, since you brought her here, didn't you explain anything to her?" Chen Luo turned his head and looked at Alice, who was standing at the entrance of the bar.

"Oh dear, wasn't this to surprise you? Besides, Paddo woke up from who-knows-where and was so excited to hear you were there that she immediately clung to me and asked me to bring her. So don't blame me for not explaining this clearly," Alicia said with a rather self-righteous air.

"If it's not your fault, is it mine?"

"Sister Aili and Boss, stop arguing! What's going on?" Pado, who was standing next to Chen Luo, waved her hand and quickly interrupted the blame game between Chen Luo and Ailisia.

"Here's the thing. Your current boss isn't the boss you know. Your boss has the ability to travel between two civilizations. In other words, the Chen Luo you're talking about hasn't met your Chen Luo yet."

"Uh, I don't quite understand." Pado personally felt that Alicia's words were a little difficult to understand.

"Alicia means that I can travel through time. I have already traveled to the past, but I haven't met you yet. Of course, you can also think of it as you traveling to the past and meeting me before I met you."

"Oh, so you mean you haven't actually met me yet, right, boss?" Pado's eyes lit up instantly.

"That's roughly the idea."

"Ahem, let me introduce myself. My name is Padofilis, and I'm your most beloved employee, boss. For me, you even went so far as to hand over all the money you earned from the Firemoth to me to manage." Padofilis coughed twice and then said solemnly.

"..." Upon hearing this, the raven narrowed its eyes slightly.

"!!!" Just as Pado was about to instill in Chen Luo how to better provide benefits to his employees, she suddenly tensed up, then did a beautiful somersault and "flew" out of the bar, then nervously looked around.

"There's a murderous aura!"

"...Paddo, don't try to raise your salary on your own initiative. You need to understand one thing: destiny cannot be changed. Everything is predetermined. What you have experienced is what I will do in the future."

"In other words..." After suddenly sensing the disappearance of that faint killing intent, Padofelis was instantly drawn to Chen Luo's words.

Killing intent and murderous aura are not quite the same.

Sometimes your mom sees you not eating properly and staying up late every day, so she wants to give you a good beating with a rolling pin and meat. That's called "killing intent".

But murderous intent only arises when the other party wants to kill you.

"In other words, it's impossible for me to get a raise, it's impossible for me to get a raise in my entire life." Chen Luo shattered Pado's fantasy.

"Hmm..." Pado suddenly looked a little disappointed, and even her ears and tail drooped limply.

What's the point of looking forward to a life where you can't get a raise?

"Meow..." The chubby kitten that Alicia had been holding in her arms suddenly jumped up and landed steadily on Padophilus's head.

"Don't try to comfort me, Canned Food. A life without a raise is just too terrible."

"..." Looking at Pado, who seemed to be very obsessed with getting a raise, Chen Luo couldn't help but sigh.

Was the salary I paid the other party really that little in the past?

"Ring ring ring!" A series of bells rang out, and Pado was instantly drawn to the sound. Then, Pado saw an extremely evil creature.

"!!! Boss, didn't you say you'd never seen me before? Are you the boss from the past? Why would you have something like this?" Pado said, somewhat startled, as she lunged at Chen Luo.

"Although they say no, their actions are surprisingly honest," Chen Luo remarked, waving a cat toy around.

"I told you, boss, stop teasing me with that cat toy! I really don't like it!" Paddy cried as she kept grabbing at the moving cat toy.

The canned food sitting on Pado's head also seemed to be very interested in the cat toy.

"Heh." Chen Luo sneered at Pado, who was all talk and no action.

Okay, whether Pado likes the cat toy or not is another matter, but she definitely can't resist this cat toy.

It's a random item after all, and most cats can't resist it, including Padofelis.

"Alo, um... could you lend me this cat toy?" Alicia blinked longingly.

Alicia had wanted this cat toy for a long time. Alicia had tried to use the cat toy to tease Paddo before, but Paddo was somewhat interested but not completely interested, and would always run away quickly after seeing the cat toy.

Only Chen Luo's cat toy could make Pado immediately come running whenever it was moved.

Unfortunately, despite paying a high price, Alicia couldn't get Chen Luo to lend her the cat toy.

"You couldn't borrow it before, so why do you think you can now?" Chen Luo glanced at Alicia and then continued to tease the cat.

Yes, two cats.

Chen Luo wasn't stupid. Since Alicia wanted the cat toy so much, it meant that Chen Luo had never lent it to her before.

"Ugh... I even forgave you for putting a sack over my head! You stingy guy," Alicia said, puffing out her cheeks.

"Ah, speaking of which, you reminded me. If I remember correctly, you're coming to be my bodyguard in a couple of days. Once we get to know each other better, I can start putting a sack on you," Chen Luo suddenly said.

While it's not impossible to use a trap now, the key issue is that Chen Luo and Alicia aren't familiar with each other. Chen Luo's current persona is that of a weak and helpless researcher. If he's not familiar with Alicia, and she punches him right after he tries to trap her, Chen Luo will either expose his identity or be beaten to his knees and cough up blood on the spot.

"..." Hearing Chen Luo's words, Alicia became even angrier, as if she had thought of something.

"Boss, stop teasing me with that cat toy! Oh, right, I just remembered, you left me a letter saying I could use it to get back the wages you owe me for all these years. Put the cat toy away, I'll go get it for you right now."

"Huh? Believe?" Chen Luo was stunned for a moment after hearing Pado's words. In that moment of Chen Luo's stunned silence, Pado grabbed the cat toy that had stopped moving.

"Hehe." Pado chuckled as she caught the cat toy, but then quickly came to her senses.

“Yes, it’s a letter. I can give the letter to you, boss, but you have to pay back the 50,000 yuan in wages you’ve owed me for over 50 years,” Pado emphasized, holding a cat toy in one hand.

"...5 yuan in wages? Why don't you just rob someone?" Chen Luo blurted out instantly.

"Just like you said, boss, there's no way to make money faster than taking wages."

When did I say that?

“The future!” Padofelis declared confidently.

Because Pado knew that Chen Luo didn't know about the future, she could make things up however she wanted.

"Oh, right, boss, you can't renege on your debt. We signed a contract, and you said I could collect the back wages from all these years based on the contract. The price is that I have to give you the letter you gave me the first time I see you. You wait here, I'll go get the letter for you right now." After giving the now-still-shaking cat toy one last reluctant look, Pado quickly pushed the bar door open again.

Not long after, Padofilis pushed the door open and entered again.

As soon as Padofilis entered, she saw Chang Wei... Chen Luo was teasing Alicia with a cat toy.

Alicia is unaffected by the cat toy, but she wants to get the cat toy and then use it to tease Paddo.

This creates a vicious cycle.

"Oh, you're here?" Upon seeing Pado return, Chen Luo immediately put the cat toy into his backpack.

"Here it comes." Pado said, while clutching the letter in her arms and slapping the paper, made of some unknown material, onto the bar.

Show the contract to Chen Luo first, and let Chen Luo decide whether or not to make up for the overdue wages.

Then we can talk about the letter.

That's 5 years' worth of wages! What an enormous sum of money!

It's suffocating to even think about it.

Chen Luo gently picked up the contract and then confirmed that it was indeed torn from the Book of Contracts.

This is a genuine contract, a just contract.

The above content is indeed as Pado said. Chen Luo's last task for Pado in the previous civilization was to keep this letter safe and give it to Chen Luo the next time they met. As a reward for Pado fulfilling her duty, Chen Luo would pay Pado her salary every month as usual.

It's probably similar to paid leave or something like that.

The salary Chen Luo paid to Pado was one-quarter of his monthly salary at the Fire Chaser Moth.

Regardless of whether Chen Luo's salary increases or decreases, this standard will not change.

The salaries of researchers working on the Fire Moth project are quite high, especially after Chen Luo acquired the technology to ensure that people wouldn't die even after a failed surgery, which significantly increased his salary.

Although it couldn't compare to Mebius's salary, it strangely surpassed that of Cangxuan and Danzhu.

Even based on Chen Luo's current salary level, 5 yuan a year is an astronomical sum.

“Pado, this is indeed the contract I signed, so I will naturally abide by it.” Looking at the contract, Chen Luo sighed.

"Really?" Pado looked at Chen Luo with some surprise.

Although Chen Luo had only ever fooled Pado in the past and had never had any disputes over wages, Pado was already considering cutting Chen Luo's pay.

After all, a salary of 5 yuan a year is indeed a bit difficult for people.

But what Chen Luo said did surprise Pado somewhat.

After all, if she paid in full, Paddo would instantly become the second richest person in the entire Paradise of the Past, after Eden.

As for when he will become the richest person?

If we're talking about salary levels, then overdrafting 8 years in advance would probably be about right.

“Um, we also have a contract, Alo, have you forgotten?” Alicia suddenly raised her hand.

"Oh, what kind of contract do we have?" Chen Luo glanced at Alicia.

"That's right, as long as I forgive you for putting the sack on me, you'll give me the cat toy," Alicia said after thinking for a moment.

Alicia had never realized that Chen Luo was such a person who kept his promises. In that case, perhaps this was a good starting point.

As for contracts... why not just forge one based on Pado's contract?

You could try contacting Virvi for help with this.

"Oh, really? As long as you produce the contract, I will absolutely comply." Chen Luo said, flicking the contract as he spoke.

The contract belonging to Pado instantly began to move without any wind, and Chen Luo's Book of Contracts also appeared.

After flipping through sixty or seventy pages, the contract slowly floated up and was inserted into the Book of Contracts.

"Uh, okay, I was just kidding."