Their commission was suspicious.

Unless the other party makes a request.

Many of the puppets who became Chen Luo's puppets were unaware of this and continued to live their own lives.

Chen Luo was born to be the second type of puppeteer.

Although this type of puppeteer may sometimes be less efficient and slower to develop than the first type, the fact that this school of puppeteers still exists means that the lost efficiency and development speed will be made up for in another way.

For example... having many wives.

Of course, it could also be a daughter.

What? Why not the son?

Have you ever seen a male doll inside a doll?

Chen Luo was inexperienced, so he had never seen it before.

"Now that I've said all this, can't you at least offer me some comfort?" Chen Luo suddenly turned to Kevin and said.

"...Keep going. You can only get through pressure on your own. And sometimes pressure can spur you to become better," Kevin said after a moment of silence.

"It's amazing that you managed to win Mei over with your smooth talk," Chen Luo exclaimed.

"..." The former prince of Chiba Academy was speechless.

Chapter 482 Confession to Möbius

"Here you go." Chen Luo handed the bright red rose in his hand to the bewildered Möbius.

"Huh?" Mebius was completely bewildered, because he couldn't figure out why Chen Luo would suddenly give him roses.

Even in pre-civilization times, roses still symbolized the intense and passionate emotion of love.

Mebius didn't quite understand why Chen Luo suddenly sent him roses.

Of course, Mebius didn't know much about this and almost never cared.

"Wow, Cangxuan, did you see that?" Just as Möbius was quietly looking at the rose Chen Luo handed him, a gasp of surprise rang out from nearby.

Mebius turned his head and saw Danzhu tugging at Cangxuan's sleeve.

“Danzhu, you…” Mebius’s eyes narrowed slightly.

"Doctor, stop talking. The lab safety guidelines will be delivered 100 times tomorrow morning." Before Möbius could finish speaking, Danju said to Möbius with an indifferent expression.

Since it's not like she's writing it herself, but just handing it over to Chen Luo, Danzhu is willing to bear any cost, as long as she can see the current situation more clearly.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

Chen Luo didn't even have to ask if he needed help before he received the request.

"..." Mebius really didn't know what kind of expression to make when faced with Danzhu, who was so self-conscious that it was heartbreaking.

"So, junior brother, what exactly does that rose in your hand mean?" Danzhu, who had no clue what was going on, blinked.

Cang Xuan, whose sleeve was being tugged by Dan Zhu, looked like he wanted to find an excuse to slip away immediately.

In a sense, Cangxuan's will to survive is really strong, extremely strong.

Although Möbius didn't speak, it was clear that he was still somewhat curious about the answer to the question.

"Oh, you mean this? I ran into Vervier when I went to Dr. Mei's lab earlier. She insisted on having me perform a magic trick for her, and then this flower appeared out of nowhere," Chen Luo said.

“…” Mebius remained silent.

"Sigh, such a plain entrance?" Danzhu was somewhat disappointed.

"But junior brother, why did you think of Dr. Möbius the moment you got this flower? Why didn't you think of giving it to me, Cangxuan, or Senior Sister Klein? Is there a special reason? Tell me." It was clear that Danzhu was unwilling to give up the hard-won melon so easily.

"Danzhu, stop talking. We should go. We still have an experiment to do." Cangxuan, who was standing next to Danzhu, tried to pull Danzhu away, but Danzhu didn't seem to want to leave so soon.

Clearly, Cangxuan had a strong will to survive, but even more clearly, Danzhu's gossipy nature was stronger than Cangxuan's.

“Dan! Zhu!” Mebius’s eyes grew even colder.

"Oh, Doctor, you don't need to say anything. You two continue, I'll add another 100 times as punishment." Danzhu waved her hand.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"!!!" Chen Luo, who was listening nearby, was dumbfounded.

Goodness, Chen Luo used to doubt how Danzhu managed to copy the punishment 8000 times. But now it seems that copying the punishment 8000 times is just a piece of cake for Danzhu.

Chen Luo even suspected that 8000 times of forced copying wouldn't be enough to fill the mess Dan Zhu had created.

8 times is about right.

What is a warrior? This is what a warrior is.

To be honest, given the way the other party is courting death, it's truly remarkable that they haven't been ruined by Mebius by the time the First Civilization Era ended.

Moreover, Danzhu now is truly not thinking about Danzhu's future at all.

"Why give it to Dr. Möbius? Dr. Möbius has done me such a great favor, why should I give it to her? Isn't that obvious?" Chen Luo retorted.

"Uh, is it that simple?" Danzhu asked, somewhat disappointed.

“…” Mebius remained silent, but the other’s eyes were slightly lowered.

"Of course it's not that simple."

"Huh? I knew things wouldn't be that simple, right, Cangxuan?" Danzhu said excitedly to Cangxuan beside her.

"Let's go, we really should go." Cang Xuan was almost in tears.

Cangxuan truly couldn't understand why Danzhu was so brave; who gave her that courage?

"Cang Xuan, tomorrow hand in the 100 copies of the punishment to my desk." Möbius said coldly, uttering the first words Chen Luo spoke after taking out the roses.

"!!!" Cang Xuan was shocked, and at the same time, he felt like crying.

What happened to me? What did I do? Why am I being punished by copying lines?

"Klein".

"Here!" Klein appeared out of nowhere.

"Take them both to do the experiment, now! Immediately! Right now!" Möbius said calmly.

"Oh, no, Doctor, can't we do the experiment later?"

“No!” Mebius said coldly.

"Senior Sister Klein, I don't want to do the experiment." Although Danzhu was very reluctant to part with the big melon in front of her, she couldn't withstand the strength of Cangxuan and Klein alone.

With Cang Xuan and Klein pulling desperately, they finally managed to drag Dan Zhu away.

After the few people who were in the way left, Mebius finally took the rose that Chen Luo had been holding up.

“A rose without roots will wither and fade in time, won’t it?” said Möbius, utterly devoid of any romance.

"Don't worry, it definitely won't happen," Chen Luo assured him.

"Ok?"

“Although Velvet used real roses, the roses she gave me are not the ones you have. The rose in your hand is a rose that I perfectly replicated with 30 Honkai Crystals and specially enhanced. Although it has no other use besides being somewhat fragrant and never fading, I think it’s not bad to add some new color to the laboratory,” Chen Luo said, pretending to be nonchalant.

In reality? In reality, Chen Luo was heartbroken.

The rose that Velvet gave to Chen Luo was thrown into his backpack as the first gift she had ever given him. If it were just to reproduce a rose, it wouldn't even require a Honkai Crystal. However, special enhancement of items in the Void Treasury is always a very energy-intensive process.

To ensure that this rose would last forever, Chen Luo used 30 Collapse Crystals.

They also used magic from Elena's world to treat it.

"Wasting 30 Honkai Crystals just for a single rose? That's a bit wasteful," Möbius said, judging solely from a cost-effectiveness perspective.

"There's no need to waste this. Just consider it a return gift for that scalpel of yours. In other words... a gift to increase your affinity. Oh, a gift to increase affinity is a special gift given after the bond has reached a certain level," Chen Luo said dismissively.

To avoid giving Mebius the impression that Chen Luo was quantifying the other person's level of affection, Chen Luo used the word "to a certain extent".

"A return gift...?" Möbius looked at the rose in his hand, lost in thought.

"Snap!" Suddenly, Mebius moved.

After becoming a Fusion Warrior, Mebius has experienced a significant increase in strength and abilities, even though he hasn't yet undergone the artificial collapse surgery and cannot activate the artificial collapse form.

The sound just now was the sound of Mebius's palm hitting the wall behind Chen Luo.

"So you mean you think our relationship has only reached that [certain level]?" Looking at Chen Luo, who was pressed against the wall and dared not move, Möbius braced one hand against the wall behind Chen Luo and gently held the rose with its thorns in the other.

Roses are beautiful, yet dangerous.

"Uh..." Looking at the non-prescription glasses reflecting light in front of Möbius's eyes, Chen Luo was momentarily at a loss as to what Möbius was feeling.

Chen Luo, who doesn't usually activate his Herrscher of Consciousness abilities, could only sense a little bit of... excitement from the other party through his Herrscher of Consciousness instincts.

At least, it's certain that the other party's mood isn't as calm as it appears on the surface.

"Let me go! Let me go! I need to see the doctor! I've done so much for the lab, I've shed blood for the lab, you can't treat me like this! Let me see him, just one more time!"

Upon hearing this sound, Mebius instantly withdrew his hand and stood up straight again from his previous tilted position.

A second later, Danzhu could be seen clinging to the door frame of the laboratory and struggling to peek out.

"You bled for the lab because of your operational errors!" But soon, Danzhu, who had just poked her head out, was pulled back by a hand.

"Waaah..." In the end, Chen Luo could only hear faint sobs from Danzhu.

"I'll accept this rose. Don't waste so much money making such useless things again." Möbius pushed up his glasses, turned around and walked towards his lounge, leaving behind only these words.

"Emmm..." Chen Luo, still pressed against the wall, dared not move.

So the question is, does the snake actually like this gift?

"Sigh, Snake is really too arrogant." Chen Luo finally breathed a sigh of relief after watching Mebius walk into his lounge.

Just like Mebius's comment to Alicia, "You've gained weight," Mebius is truly the oldest example of a tsundere.

Whether it's Mebius's statement, "I never need anyone to understand me," or his later attitude towards the armed doll Klein, which he saw as merely treating an ordinary artificial life form, both confirm this conclusion.

Mebius himself thought that he usually treated the armed doll Klein as if she were an ordinary artificial life form.

As for how it appears to outsiders...

Leaving aside the memory version of Mebius, the real Mebius, during the First Civilization Era, dared to directly break into the binding barrier of the Herrscher of Binding for the sake of the little cutie Klein, and almost died there.

The end result was that Möbius thought he had fooled everyone, but in the end he couldn't even fool himself.

So... Snake is really that arrogant.

"Although I am a very incompetent law-abiding person, I at least know that Möbius's evaluation of the rose as 'useless thing' is definitely not the truth."

Chen Luo, this imposter Herrscher of Knowledge, could at least tell that Mebius seemed to genuinely like that rose.

What? You're asking what the true Lawgivers of Knowledge are doing right now?

Hmm... I'm sleeping.

Before noon, it was the time for Shi Bao to sleep on the Tree of Imaginary Numbers in Chen Luo's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Still sleeping? How can you sleep at your age?" Chen Luo sighed as he looked at the Herrscher of Knowledge, who was fast asleep on the tree trunk.

"You might as well learn from Himeko. She woke up one morning to find herself at odds with the entire class. Tsk tsk."

After Mebius entered the laboratory, Chen Luo finally managed to find a place to rest.

It must be said that although Mebius looks gentle and weak, his aura can be truly imposing at times.

Chen Luo is no match for him. He can't cultivate the kind of awe-inspiring presence that Möbius possesses; he can only overwhelm people with his sheer aura.

"Let me see what kind of ice-type item Kevin gave me?" After glancing at his watch and finding that he still had plenty of time, Chen Luo looked at the gift box in his backpack.

Chen Luo has been rarely encountering random rewards in recent missions, probably because the newbie protection period has ended.

Although Kevin's reward this time was only limited to random ice-type items, Chen Luo still had some expectations.

Chen Luo already has 8 random rewards, and he just needs to collect 10 to do a 10-pull.

"I wonder what kind of items these ice-type items give? Speaking of which, is Frostmourne considered an ice-type item? Or is it considered an undead-type item?"

"And what about that Demon God Manifestation - Essence of Demons? What was its owner's name again? Wasn't it an ice-type item?"

"At worst, we can get the power of the Ice Pig, which can be shared with the puppets in the group network to make a few low-end versions of Kevin."