Their commission was suspicious.

"Oh, the original name should be Golden Garden."

"Oh, so that's what it is. I knew it, Ellie, you..."

"Shh..." Just as Danzhu was about to say something, Alicia suddenly bent down and made a shushing gesture to the two of them.

"There are some things we still need to keep from little Lolo right now. After all, the grudge of being stuffed in a sack is irreconcilable!" Alicia clenched her fists angrily.

"..." Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu exchanged a glance and nodded to each other.

"We're very happy to see Chen Luo get his comeuppance," Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu said decisively.

After all, Cangxuan and Danzhu had a deep-seated grudge involving 7000 times of forced copying, and were sworn enemies.

7000 times? How dare you, you demon?

“7000 times? What 7000 times?” Alicia was stunned for a moment.

"Here it is." Danzhu patted the laboratory safety manual that had already been copied down next to her.

"Laboratory safety rules?" Alicia picked up a copy of the rules and glanced at it.

"That's right. That devil Chen Luo used to help us copy the lab safety rules when we were assistants in the Möbius lab. But we only found out today that we were the ones copying those rules, and Chen Luo was just a copy-carrying machine. I even said I owed him hundreds of meals back then!" Danzhu said angrily.

"Let me reiterate, I'm helping you, not us. I haven't had to copy the text many times in total," Cangxuan interrupted Danzhu.

Cangxuan is a child with a strong will to survive, so basically most of Chen Luo's punishment copying was done for Danzhu.

But now it takes two people to pay off the debt.

"Don't be so formal. By the way, Cangxuan, how many times have you copied it? I've already written it 28 times."

“Seventeen times,” Cang Xuan said.

"So little? Cang Xuan, are you slacking off?"

"Don't use the word 'lazy.' You have no idea how tiring it was for me to imitate your handwriting while also writing a lot of words," Cang Xuan decisively denied.

"That's exactly the kind of thing you'd do." Alicia walked to the bar, looked Chen Luo up and down, and clicked her tongue in amazement.

"I never write the punishments myself; I'm just a copyist," Chen Luo said.

"Well, you're really something, awesome! So, does that mean you also accomplished some things about me using this method? You have to give back everything you gained in the past for the future?" Alicia felt she had discovered a key point.

"No, absolutely not," Chen Luo assured him with absolute certainty.

"Such a definite guarantee? I'm quite impressed with you now." Alicia nodded slightly.

"Because we're not familiar with each other yet, I haven't received any wishes from you. But don't worry, once we get to know each other better, I'll definitely give you a wish. To prevent the river of time from being cut off, and to prevent the destruction of the world, I will definitely strive to complete the historical missions that have already taken place," Chen Luo said passionately.

"I'm not happy at all." Alicia raised her little fist again.

"And it's really unfair to link doing such a rough thing to a girl to the world," Alicia said, dissatisfied.

"Alright, stop complaining. This is called 'what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.'"

"The cost of reversing cause and effect and time is something neither of us can bear," Chen Luo said seriously.

"So what you mean by cause and effect and time is putting a cute, helpless girl in a sack?"

"Alicia, haven't you heard of it? Putting a girl in a sack and taking her away is the most affectionate confession."

"I've never heard of that before. But I accept your confession."

"Ugh?"

"I like Xiao Luoluo..."

"!!!"

"...and everyone else too."

"..."

"Hahaha, Xiao Luo, what's with that disappointed look on your face? It's hilarious!"

Seeing Chen Luo's expression—like that of a straight man who finally fell for a girl, bravely pursued her, and after two and a half years successfully got her to accept his confession, only to be told by her that she was a man—Alicia laughed.

Today's game is about victory or defeat!

Alicia wins big.

"jingle!"

"Huh? What are you two doing here? Did Chen Luo change his mind? Is he willing to bring you into the bar?" When Mebius walked into the bar, he was somewhat surprised to see Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu sitting at the table copying something.

"Dr. Möbius? Wait, which Dr. Möbius are you?" Cangxuan and Danzhu were both surprised when they saw Möbius.

Dr. Mebius with this loli-like figure...

"Hmm? So that's how it is. To live for 5 years with the heart of a mere mortal... Chen Luo, what methods did you use this time?" Möbius looked at Chen Luo.

"They were just lucky, and also quite gluttonous. That's why they had a special chance to be resurrected. So even though 50,000 years have passed, they're still only in their early twenties," Chen Luo said.

"I don't understand, but never mind." Snake waved his hand.

Chen Luo didn't hide much about the strange things about him from Möbius, but there were so many strange things that Möbius hadn't been able to study them successfully even once.

Mebius has already tanked.

"Dr. Mebius from 5 years in the future?" Cang Xuan said with a complicated expression.

"That makes sense. Since it seems that Luo only copied the lab safety rules 100 times himself, and left everything else to us in the present, then in the past timeline, Luo must have only been in the lab for a short time, right?"

"If that's the case, then Dr. Mebius in the past must have also been an adult."

The relationship between Mebius and Cangxuan is a little complicated.

Cang Xuan had worked under Mebius for so long that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they had a good relationship. However, Mebius's bottom line was too low, to the point that Cang Xuan couldn't stand it.

This is not referring to Möbius's moral bottom line, but rather the bottom line he set when conducting experiments.

So in the late game, when humanity was almost finished, Cangxuan had a fight with Mebius and then left Mebius's laboratory with his sister Danzhu to prepare for the implementation of the Fire Seed Project.

Although they had some differences in their research philosophies, their relationship was ultimately similar to that of a teacher and student.

Therefore, the relationship won't be bad.

"Don't mention that person to me," Mebius scoffed.

"..." Cang Xuan found the relationship between Mebius and Mebius strange.

"What are you doing? Coming to a bar specifically to copy...copy the lab safety rules?" After picking up a document at random and glancing at it, Möbius immediately knew what it was.

"What else can I do? Pay off my debts, of course." Cang Xuan sighed.

"Oh, I remember now, it's those 8000 repetitions of the laboratory safety rules, right?" Möbius suddenly realized.

"8000 times?" Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, and Chen Luo were all stunned.

"Can't remember the exact number of repetitions? It was initially set at 7000 repetitions, but the problem is that after the punishment of 7000 repetitions, you two were still making mistakes. So we had to continue punishing you. Perhaps you two don't know because you've never written anything yourselves before, but my memory is not bad. After all, that huge pile of scrap paper almost filled the storage room," Möbius said with a light laugh.

For Cangxuan and Danzhu, since they don't have to write it themselves, why should they remember it?

As for Chen Luo, he had never experienced these things, so how would he know exactly how many times?

"Senior Sister Cangxuan, Senior Sister Danzhu, shouldn't we revise our contract?" Chen Luo suddenly appeared behind Cangxuan and Danzhu, gently placing his hand on their shoulders.

"Gulp, just kill both of us!"

Cangxuan and Danzhu are truly exhausted and fed up with love now.

Dr. Mebius and Chen Luo... what kind of devils are they?

"Cangxuan, how about we sell ourselves?" Danzhu suggested.

"What are you thinking? We're not worth that much," Cang Xuan retorted.

"..."

Chapter 460 [Xuanyuan Sword] (Ultimate Commemorative Edition)

"Sigh, Alo, aren't you being too cruel to Cangxuan and Danzhu?" Alicia said with some emotion.

"Don't worry, just consider it their tuition fee. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again. Since they chose to be lazy at the beginning, they have to bear the consequences later. I'm teaching them what it means that there's no such thing as a free lunch," Chen Luo said, waving his hand.

"I have a feeling that what you said makes me think of something not so good. You wouldn't have set some kind of trap for me, would you?" After hearing Chen Luo's words, Alicia began to think.

Let me think about which of the contracts I signed in the past might have problems? No, there are too many contracts, I can't possibly sort them out all at once.

Let me think about it carefully...

Seeing Alicia deep in thought, Chen Luo immediately sensed something was wrong.

Although Chen Luo has never wronged Alicia before, he's unsure if he might in the future, or rather, he's very likely to do so. Therefore, he can't let her continue thinking about it. Otherwise, given Alicia's personality, she'll definitely retaliate, right?

"Alice, I like you," Chen Luo suddenly said.

"Ding-a-ling!" The sound of wind chimes drifted through the bar.

The adult Möbius, who had just pushed open the door, stopped in his tracks.

Alice, who was pondering whether Chen Luo had somehow tricked her, looked at Chen Luo with disbelief.

While idly checking the lab safety rules copied by Danzhu and Zangxuan for any errors, Möbius almost crushed the copying paper in his hand. Cangxuan and Danzhu, however, didn't have time to feel sorry for him and immediately perked up their ears.

Shen He, who was sitting in the corner talking to Ye Lan, or rather listening to Ye Lan, felt a slight stirring in his heart and looked at Chen Luo from the corner.

Only the Herald of Knowledge, who was engrossed in the Book of Azure Mystery, slightly pursed his lips.

"Oh no!!! You, you..." Alice panicked at Chen Luo's sudden confession.

"...and everyone else too."

"..." After a moment of silence, Alicia lowered her eyes, but when she raised her head, she instantly punched Chen Luo in the face.

Although they couldn't hurt each other in the bar, Chen Luo could vaguely sense just how much force was attached to that punch.

The topic shifting plan was a resounding success!

This is what Chen Luo was thinking after taking a punch.

As for getting punched, it won't hurt in a bar anyway.

"Dear Ellie, why are you so angry? I just repeated what you said." After Ellie's fist was removed from Chen Luo's face, Chen Luo showed an innocent expression.

Then Alicia's fist made intimate contact with Chen Luo again.

Chen Luo's words only made Alicia angrier.

What guy would treat confessing his love like a joke?

Mebius, who was standing at the door, walked in as if nothing had happened.

Kaguya Houraisan, who was sitting at the bar expecting to watch the show, looked disappointed.

“You didn’t copy it carefully just now, so I tore it up for you. You’re welcome,” Möbius said casually.

"No, Doctor!" Danzhu screamed in agony.

The atmosphere in the bar, which had seemed to have undergone some kind of dramatic change, returned to normal after Chen Luo's explanation.

"Hmm? What happened?" Fu Hua, who arrived late, sensed the lingering somber atmosphere and couldn't help but ask.

"It's just a scheme from a straight-laced guy, don't worry about it," the Herrscher of Knowledge said lazily.

"Oh, Ellie, I've already apologized, what else do you want?"

"If an apology is enough, what's the point of having the Flame-Chasing Moth? You'd better copy 'Alicia is the cutest in the world' 100 times!"

"Uh, no, that sounds too complicated."

"...You bastard!"

"jingle!"

"Hmm... I feel like I've come at the wrong time, Canned Food, how about we come back later?" Pato, who had excitedly stepped into the bar, instinctively felt a strange sensation.

Meow?

“You agree, right? Let’s go now!” Pado nodded.

"Pado, come here quickly! I got paid today, so I can give you your salary now." Chen Luo's eyes lit up the moment he saw Pado.

I'm sorry, Paddy.