Their commission was suspicious.

[A laboratory assistant in Möbius's lab, later becoming a PhD, highly skilled in fusion surgery]

These are the three most important pieces of information.

Moreover, it doesn't even mention that Chen Luo can guarantee that others won't die if their fusion surgery fails.

In short, Chen Luo was like a transparent person in the previous civilization.

There are two possibilities: one is that Chen Luo is truly transparent, and the other is that Chen Luo tampered with the Void Archives, or intentionally prevented certain information from being uploaded.

The real mastermind.

The entire First Civilization Era was like a puppet show, and Chen Luo was the puppeteer behind the stage, manipulating the puppets with threads called "Fate".

Although he occasionally makes an appearance on stage to satisfy his own desire to perform, most of the time he returns behind the scenes, working diligently to weave stories without affecting the audience's viewing experience, out of professional ethics as a puppeteer.

"We're here, Chen Luo, what are you grinning about?" Kiana waved her hand in front of Chen Luo.

Kiana didn't know when it started, but she noticed that Chen Luo was sitting next to her, seemingly lost in thought, not even hearing her, Mei, and Chen Luo talking.

"Ah, oh. It's nothing." Chen Luo felt a sudden realization, and then he was pulled back to reality.

Although he realized that he might have just fallen into some kind of strange fantasy, Chen Luo's intuition seemed to be telling him that the corner he saw in that seemingly distant memory might be one of the true uses of the puppeteer.

Is this considered an epiphany?

Chapter 442 The Women Who Drained Chen Luo Dry

"From the moment humanity acquired civilization, Honkai has always been a constant companion. It is thanks to those warriors bearing holy marks that people have hope."

"Legend has it that in ancient China, there once lived a hero named Ji Lin, who wielded a golden sword and single-handedly resisted the erosion of chaos. In the end, he sacrificed himself to seal the monstrous beasts that threatened humanity in the Nine Netherworlds. From then on, both the Holy Mark and the Golden Sword vanished into legend."

"Until 5000 years later, in order to obtain Ji Lin's sacred mark, four people came to this deep sea to search for that lost legend..."

"Ugh, Chen Luo, you're so annoying! What are you narrating? And even if you're going to say something, don't use the Valkyrie-only channel!" Kiana, who was enjoying the underwater scenery, said angrily after Chen Luo's commentary ruined the atmosphere.

"Idiot Kiana, I'm doing this to give you guys a buff. Besides, this is a play you all created; how can it function without a proper narrator?"

Chen Luo sat in the captain's seat of the Hyperion, with his legs propped up on the control panel, watching the perspective of the four people through the monitor mounted on the Valkyrie armor.

"It feels a bit strange, but never mind. But why don't you come down with me, A-Luo?" Although she sometimes argues with Chen Luo, Kiana has never doubted his reliability.

"What are you thinking? Kiana, I'm a support and logistics personnel. Asking me to fight is a bit too much for me, isn't it? How can an ordinary person with small arms and legs like me compare to you Valkyries?"

“Besides, you have Valkyrie armor and Schicksal’s high-tech protective masks for underwater diving, which I don’t. And the deeper the water, the higher the pressure on the human body, which I can’t withstand,” Chen Luo said through a dedicated channel.

"I always feel like you're deliberately slacking off," Bronya said calmly.

“But my explanation just now undoubtedly gave you a basic understanding of the Nine Netherworlds, didn’t it? Although Ji Zi may have learned a lot while researching, you may not have,” Chen Luo said.

"Don't worry about that, Luo. Major Himeko gave each of us a combat file before she came, which contains all this basic information," Mei replied to Chen Luo as she swam in the sea, relying on her Valkyrie armor and Protector mask.

"I don't know if you and Bronya saw it, but Kiana definitely didn't," Chen Luo said confidently.

"Uh, hehe... but the reason I didn't watch is because you insisted on playing games with me, right?"

"You haven't learned much history, but you've certainly improved at being stubborn," Chen Luo sighed.

"But didn't you say that as long as I play that game, you can grant me one wish? It's a wish, who can resist that?" Kiana felt a little innocent.

It wasn't that Kiana was too playful, but rather that Chen Luo gave her far too much.

"Huh? What wish? How come I don't know? What were you two doing hiding this from me?" Raiden Mei was taken aback.

"Ahem, it's just a little bit of fun while playing games, don't worry about it."

"Never mind, I'll ask you about it more carefully later, Major Himeko. We detected a strong Honkai energy reaction in this cave." Raiden Mei said while talking and diligently carrying out her work.

“The location, shape, and information provided by the intelligence department are consistent. Bronya calculates that there is a 34.2% chance that this is the Netherworld,” Bronya said as the support member of the combat team.

Among Himeko, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya, Bronya's combat strength is probably the highest after Himeko. Her intelligence gathering ability is even better than Himeko's, which is also due to Bronya's early experiences.

“Okay, let’s go in.” Himeko nodded.

"Hey Theresa, to be honest, your Valkyries' armor is really amazing. You can see their incredibly graceful figures underwater, and Mei has such a great figure."

"Chen Luo! What are you looking at!" Upon hearing this, Raiden Mei instinctively hugged herself tighter, her face instantly turning red.

Although carrying out missions underwater is normal, it doesn't seem normal after Chen Luo said it that way.

"Huh? The channel was on? Oh, sorry, I forgot to turn it off. But Mei, you can't blame me, I saw it from Kiana's perspective." Chen Luo immediately shifted the blame.

Kiana!

"I'm sorry, I was wrong!" Kiana apologized decisively, then mentally marked Chen Luo wrong.

"Kiana's figure is also very good, or rather, apart from Bronya's figure, the Valkyries all have very good figures." Because Mei's gaze had turned to Kiana just now, Chen Luo was able to see Kiana's whole body through Mei's eyes.

"Thank you so much for the compliment!" Kiana said, sounding annoyed.

“Bronya will remember your words,” Bronya said coldly.

"The Sea of ​​Quanta..." Chen Luo hesitated, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"But Bronya forgave you because you treated her to ice cream yesterday."

"Thank you for your forgiveness. But Bronya, you have really great potential, so you should stay confident."

8 > 50000, this is Bronya's unique growth formula.

"Don't use Himeko's captain privileges to do these weird things!" Theresa tapped Chen Yaoluo on the head.

"I've asked you to stay here temporarily to observe their situation so that you can support them in an emergency, not so that you can express your opinions about their bodies."

"Okay, okay. By the way, does Hyperion hire male employees? What do you think of me?"

"Sorry, we're not hiring. There are no male staff members on the entire Hyperion."

"Waaaaah, this is sexism!"

"What are you thinking? Isn't it because men are generally less adaptable to Honkai energy than women? And the Hyperion warships mostly operate in areas rich in Honkai energy, so for their safety, they don't recruit male employees."

“However, St. Freya Academy does have engineers responsible for the post-incident maintenance of the Hyperion warship. There are indeed men among the engineers, but I don’t think you are qualified for the position,” Theresa said, arms crossed.

"Besides that, I can offer you another job now: deck cleaner. Do you want it?"

"..." Chen Luo fell into deep thought.

"Alo, is it enough to just place the things you gave us in the cave? Don't we need to go any deeper?" Mei's voice suddenly interrupted Chen Luo through the communication channel.

“Yes, yes, just throw them in the cave, or find a wall and put them next to it. Didn’t we give you 12? Throw a few when you first enter the cave, and a few more as you go deeper into the cave.” Chen Luo said quickly, seeing that the important matter had come up.

"Chen Luo, what exactly did you give to Himeko and the others?" Theresa asked, somewhat puzzled.

Just as Himeko and the others were about to set off, Chen Luo suddenly gave them 12 transparent blue crystals. Four for each person, saying that they should place some of these within the Nine Netherworld during their exploration.

“That’s called crystal,” Chen Luo corrected.

"What's the use?"

"Hmm... glowing?" Chen Luo tentatively suggested a possible function.

"If you don't want to talk about it, just say so. How could you come up with such a ridiculous excuse?" Theresa said with a dark face.

Even Theresa couldn't fool such a lame excuse.

"Okay, I don't want to talk about it."

"..." Theresa, who was choked for a moment, suddenly wanted to lift up her 100-plus kilogram Judas and give Chen Luo an epiphany.

However, considering that Chen Luo has never harmed anyone, I'll trust him this once.

Moreover, the bar's regular customers all know that if Chen Luo is entrusted with a task, he will be even more proactive than the original owner.

Although Theresa didn't know if Chen Luo had accepted the commission, Theresa had a strange intuition.

A fool's intuition.

"I didn't expect the space inside the cave to be so big after passing through that opening." After casually tossing a piece of blue crystal from her body onto the ground, Kiana began to look around.

"The concentration of Honkai energy in the cave is quite high, this place is very likely the Nine Netherworld." Although Chen Luo is there as a support staff member, whether this place is the Nine Netherworld is still debatable, after all, it was 5 years ago.

"Let me reiterate the mission: your task is to investigate whether this cave is indeed the legendary Nine Netherworld. If it is, you must search for the Xuanyuan Sword and the Sacred Mark that may have been lost in the Nine Netherworld. I don't need to explain that further, right?" Theresa's voice came through the channel.

“And Fu Hua and I will serve as your advisors and logistical support for this operation,” Chen Luo said.

The main force consists of an A-rank Valkyrie who is about to be corrupted by Honkai energy and three Valkyries who are not yet B-rank Valkyries.

The logistical support consists of an unknown traveler and a fusion warrior from a previous civilization who has lived for over 5 years. This setup is very reasonable, extremely reasonable.

Just as the four Valkyries threw the crystals into the cave and began to explore its depths, the four crystals they had thrown down slowly began to emit a faint light in the dark cave. The next moment, a tiny line suddenly extended from the top of the crystal-like object.

Immediately afterwards, countless threads began to be pulled out of the crystal. As those fine threads instantly took root in the ground, the volume of the crystal also slowly decreased.

This blue crystal wasn't actually crystal; it was something made up of countless pale blue threads wrapped around it.

The crystal, which appeared to be only half the size of a fist, slowly shrank and disappeared after the threads were pulled at an extremely fast speed for several minutes. This shows just how many threads were contained in that tiny crystal, and just how fine those threads were.

These threads, which detached from the crystal, instantly took root downwards into the cave, and the hard cave rocks were unable to stop these threads that could transform into spirits.

The target of the silk thread was also clear: the sealed Chi You.

As for how much effort Chen Luo put into these 12 crystals...

It's not entirely wrong for Chen Luo to call himself a support character right now; he's like a spider whose web has been drained.

In a sense, the crystals on Mei and the others were all of Chen Luo's remaining stock, and they had been completely drained.

There really aren't any left.

These tiny 12 crystals are enough to weave a giant net that covers an entire continent.

Don't panic, just let Chen Luo rest for a while.

Besides, even without spider silk, spiders still have venomous fangs.

Moreover, spider silk is originally used to capture prey, but ultimately, it is venom that is used to kill the prey.

"How come there are anti-entropy tactical mechs here?" Kiana, who was exploring deeper into the cave, saw the wreckage piled up by the roadside.

After entering the cave for a while, there was no water at all.

"Of course, it's because Anti-Entropy is also searching for the Xuanyuan Sword and the Sacred Mark," Chen Luo said.

"Whether it's Destiny or Anti-Entropy, they both have spies from the other side, so it's normal that the other side knows about this mission, since it was issued by headquarters."

Headquarters means a lot of people, and a lot of people means a lot of eyes and ears.

Although Chen Luo controls the vast majority of the anti-entropy mechs, as well as Cocolia and Welt, he is not the one who communicates with them or provides them with information.

Since turning them into dolls, Chen Luo has almost never interfered with any of their decisions or their careers.

The puppets also have their own lives. Chen Luo only needs the puppets to be able to teleport over unconditionally when he needs them to kill his enemies. He doesn't care about anything else.

Cocolia doesn't need to constantly inform Chen Luo about what she's doing.

As for whether Chen Luo had any prior knowledge of this matter...

Putting aside the plot, Chen Luo had actually sensed a cute little thing nearby a long time ago.

Xingmar, whose dollification level is exactly 50%, is a time manipulator who is neither too much nor too little.

"I never expected Anti-Entropy to appear, Major Himeko. What should we do now? Should we retreat for safety's sake, or continue the mission to prevent these things from falling into Anti-Entropy's hands?" Mei asked.

"Well, let's continue with the mission. If we really encounter any danger, we can just escape into a bar," Himeko said after thinking for a moment.

If there are no other ways to escape, Himeko will definitely retreat first, since there are only 4 Valkyries coming down now.

But with a bar as a place to escape the battle, the problem isn't so big.

"My bar is for entertaining guests, not for refugees. But never mind," Chen Luo protested a couple of times before giving up on correcting him.

I think everyone who has ever witnessed a bar entrance would have this thought, right?

With the most effective means of escape available, Kiana and her companions began to move forward along the passage.

Logically, an environment with such abundant Honkai energy should produce Honkai Beasts, but we haven't seen any along the way.

But looking at the wreckage of those anti-entropy tactical mechs nearby, one can imagine a major battle.

Perhaps the other party did explore before Himeko and the others arrived, but after suffering heavy injuries, they unexpectedly opened a passage for Himeko and the others.

Until Himeko and the others arrived at a door.

There are no more tactical mech wreckage left here.