Their commission was suspicious.

Or perhaps it's not that the oddball trioctahedron is too powerful, but rather that the river god's abilities are too strong.

But regardless, Hai Si has now been nurtured.

Moreover, this was the first time Chen Luo had learned the race name of the Hai Si in front of him.

It's uncertain whether this is a unique code name for this Haisi or a branch of the Haisi race.

However, Chen Luo didn't think the name sounded very good.

“Although it’s hard to treat you like a pet, the name Butcher doesn’t sound very friendly.” Chen Luo began to think about a new name for the highly promising Hai Si in front of him.

“Aaaaaa——”

"How about I just call you Little A? Hmm, that sounds good. Little A, judging from your condition, we should probably put you back on the Terra continent. After all, the Doll Collection Vault isn't as easy to devour as the Sea Child. I'm just worried about your safety..." Chen Luo hesitated.

Although Little A just transformed into a colossal creature tens of meters tall, in reality... Chen Luo could knock it down with a single punch.

This description isn't meant to highlight Chen Luo's strength, but rather to say that while "Little A" seemed impressive, he was actually quite weak.

It's really all show and no substance.

Although it was many times stronger than the initial intensity, its actual combat power was truly underwhelming.

Chen Luo suspected that the three unorthodox trioctahedral formulas had completely pointed Hai Si towards the expansion and growth of his powers.

If you use the three irregular trioctahedrons as evolution materials, others can use the three irregular trioctahedrons to break through their level from 0 to the second job advancement.

Little A, on the other hand, directly raised his growth ceiling to the level of the third rank, but his strength was not even at the level of the first rank.

"Fortunately, perhaps because you were affected by the metamorphosis ability throughout, or perhaps because of Hai Si's own abilities, your survival ability is quite strong." After hesitating for a moment, Chen Luo gathered the healing power of the metamorphosis ability that he could use into a ball of light and then threw it all into Xiao A's body.

"Alright, go have some fun. If you die, you can just go back to the doll collection." Chen Luo said to Little A in front of him.

"Oh, by the way, if you encounter humans like me in your world, try to avoid them."

Chen Luo gave this instruction for one reason: as a human being, he couldn't control what Xiao A did before, but he could control what Xiao A would do afterward.

Moreover, the most efficient way for the Butcher to evolve is by consuming the Sealings.

Furthermore, generally speaking, the humans that Hai Si encounters are most likely not to be benevolent.

Although the Butcher can now transform into a gigantic monster, its combat strength is not actually very strong.

What if you run into a deep-sea hunter? You'd get cleaved in two with one blow, wouldn't you?

……

"Hmm, perhaps you'll never see the Deepsea Hunter again..."

Chen Luo never intended to judge the quality of a world or its lifespan, but he could easily sense the impending apocalypse from the scene before him.

Chen Luo has achieved the status of a savior and a savior. The savior's achievement is something that only those who do not give up hope in the end times can possess.

Chen Luo naturally sensed the apocalyptic atmosphere surrounding this world.

Very thick.

Very thick.

"Damn, this shouldn't be the same world as Ling's, right? A parallel world? Quantum entanglement?" Chen Luo said, looking at the extremely gloomy and oppressive gray sky.

Although Chen Luo hadn't been to Ling's world much, he knew from Ling that their world was quite normal. After all, if it were to reach the point of the apocalypse, Ling wouldn't have the mind to go to bars and drink every day.

When in doubt, consult quantum mechanics. When explanations fail, consider parallel universes.

In short, parallel lines are the key.

"Alright, I'm not worried about you anymore. Focus on developing your character. Remember, if you encounter anyone, always quietly retreat behind the other members of the Hai Si and let them go first. Then you can pick up their corpses and devour them." Chen Luo patted the Butcher's head and said.

Faced with this near-apocalyptic world, Chen Luo didn't have any good way to save it, because he was just a traveler.

If Chen Luo wanted to save a pre-civilization, it would take him several months or even a year to gather a massive amount of faith power.

Moreover, if this world follows the Hai Si's doomsday timeline, then perhaps saving the world will depend on Xiao A.

If, as the ability descriptions suggest, Little A has become the embodiment of the will of the masses, then ending this apocalypse will be relatively simple. This is because, in the countless years leading up to the Sea Siege's world-ending event, the Sea Siege had no intention of invading the land.

This is why Kal'tsit later told Skadi: You have no idea how stupid you've been.

However, this was originally the fault of the Deep Sea Church.

Once the direction of the large group can be controlled, ending Hai Si's contempt will be relatively easy. Therefore, the focus now is not Chen Luo, but Xiao A.

But if this isn't the Hai Si apocalypse timeline, but some other situation affecting the end of the world, then... Chen Luo really has no way to deal with it.

Chen Luo wouldn't mind doing something like saving the world, but he really doesn't have the ability to do it.

How can we save the world? By sacrificing our lives?

"Aaaaaaaa!"

After receiving Chen Luo's order, the Butcher let out a slightly ethereal voice before leaping off the reef and into the sea.

Chen Luo returned to the bar, closed the door, and began to use his spiritual power to ignite the Soul Lamp, eliminating the influence left by the Butcher.

Putting everything else aside, after consuming three folk remedies, the Butcher's ability to mentally corrupt became even stronger.

"Next time, after he comes back from his free-range period, let's strip away his mental pollution so it won't be such a headache to watch," Chen Luo sighed helplessly.

……

This morning was unusually short.

Because Su Yuan's master, Ye Yunshang, specifically stated that she would not eat breakfast this morning, Chen Luo didn't need to make breakfast. He could simply have all the puppets come to the bar to eat.

Well, since he hadn't slept well all morning, Chen Luo sent Ye Yunshang a text message after cleaning up the mental pollution left by the Butcher.

It wasn't Chen Luo who contacted Ye Yunshang in his own name, but in the name of the River God.

Chen Luo left Ye Yunshang a cell phone that he had turned into a doll, so it's normal that Chen Luo can contact Ye Yunshang now.

"Did you wake me up so early in the morning just for this trivial matter?" Ye Yunshang, who looked haggard and had dark circles under her eyes, glared at Chen Luo with resentment, her face still wet from washing.

"Don't say that. Just tell me if this matter is important or not. This is something that an immortal from the Celestial Realm specifically instructed me to do," Chen Luo said earnestly.

"Ugh, this doesn't sound like official business at all, it's clearly a personal matter! You want us to select cultural products suitable for the Immortal Realm, that appeal to five demographic groups: children, teenagers, young adults, middle-aged people, and the elderly... It sounds like such a hassle," Ye Yunshang complained.

"The most crucial point is that there's no benefit to be gained. And it doesn't sound like official business at all. It's hard to imagine that the Heavenly Emperor would seriously discuss the physical and mental health of the celestial youth with you about this matter." Although Ye Yunshang was a little tired, her mind had become much clearer.

Sigh, I shouldn't have stayed up until 4 a.m., and then the River God woke me up at 7 a.m.

Braving the wind, Ye Yunshang arrived at an artificial river in the villa area and summoned the river god. The wind blew and Ye Yunshang felt much more energetic.

Ye Yunshang found it hard to imagine whether she would be able to fall asleep in a little while.

"You don't understand. The reason why the immortals help the human world is because they come from the same lineage and each has its own lineage and descendants. However, they have no absolute obligation to provide assistance."

"Think about it, why should they have to help the human realm? Nobody owes anyone anything. They received aid from the immortal realm, so they should at least consider giving back."

"So is this a business matter or a personal matter?" Ye Yunshang asked irritably.

Anyone who has only slept for three hours and is then woken up will be in a bad mood.

"Private matters..." Chen Luo muttered softly.

"...Alright, alright, I know. I'll talk to them about it later. Couldn't you have picked a more normal time? I won't refuse you because you specially asked for a bunch of swordsmanship books for my apprentice, but why did you have to pick such an inauspicious time?" Although Ye Yunshang agreed to Chen Luo's request, she still harbored deep resentment.

“But it’s already 7 o’clock, the sun has already risen,” Chen Luo said.

It's already 7 o'clock, and I haven't slept much at all. How can you sleep so soundly?

I feel resentful.

“Okay, actually the main reason is because you were supposed to distribute the items today, right? So of course I had to let you know in advance. Otherwise, if you didn’t mention it in the meeting this morning, it would be too much trouble to have to attend another meeting separately,” Chen Luo said.

This is the real truth.

Chen Luo wouldn't wake Ye Yunshang just because he felt resentful.

“But the meeting with the relevant departments is in the afternoon, in the afternoon!” Ye Yunshang emphasized.

"Hmm? The early bird catches the worm, so why are you holding a meeting in the afternoon?"

"I couldn't get up. I was prepared to sleep at 4 a.m. and wake up at noon, so I deliberately postponed this meeting to the afternoon, and even told my apprentice not to wake me up for breakfast. But you still woke me up." Ye Yunshang's resentment deepened as she spoke of this.

"..."

Ah, so that's why you don't eat breakfast.

Why didn't you say so earlier?

"Okay, are you alright now? If you're alright, I'm going back to sleep. Goodbye." Ye Yunshang waved her hand and walked home, yawning to herself.

"Sigh, what's the point of asking those old men to pick out cultural products? They can only pick things that middle-aged and elderly people like. For what young people and teenagers like, you should ask the young people. Later… I'll give this task to Xiao Luoluo. He's young, he should know what young people like. What do children like? Should we put out a poll online?" Ye Yunshang muttered to herself, somewhat troubled, as she left.

"..." Hearing Ye Yunshang talking to herself, Chen Luo stood quietly in place, remaining silent.

Wait, why is the task back to me?

I just passed the task to you, and now you want to pass it back to me?

Wouldn't I have wasted my time entrusting you with this task?

Emmm...

Although Chen Luo really wanted to stop Ye Yunshang right now and warn her not to exploit underage labor, he thought about how she almost guessed his true identity last time, so he gave up the idea.

"Someone's looking for me?" Chen Luo suddenly felt that the spider-shaped doll he had placed in his dormitory in the previous civilization had been triggered, and he immediately became alert.

Chen Luo instantly appeared on the third floor of the bar, then lay down on the bed. After glancing at the sleeping face of the Herrscher of Knowledge who was sleeping next to him, he closed his eyes.

The next moment, the Herald of Knowledge flipped over and hugged Chen Luo, who had just closed his eyes.

Sensing the Herrscher of Consciousness's actions, Chen Luo suppressed the urge to open his eyes and temporarily uploaded his consciousness to his alternate account.

At the same time, "Chen Luo," who was fast asleep in the former civilized dormitory, opened his eyes.

This is Chen Luo's other pseudonym—the ordinary Chen Luo.

This alternate account, from any perspective, is just an ordinary person with a slightly higher degree of Honkai energy adaptation, and it really doesn't have any special abilities, while still being made of flesh and blood.

Why does Chen Luo have this body?

Don't forget, what was the original crown of the Type-Moon world, the puppeteer Aozaki Touko, best at?

Aozaki Touko's greatest skill and achievement is her ability to create dolls that are exactly the same as herself.

This transcends the absolute law left over from the golden age of medieval magic in the Moon World: "Even if you create a doll that surpasses humanity, you cannot create something that is the same as a human."

It's important to know that, due to the mysterious fading of technology, even the most advanced automaton technology can't surpass the ancient artifacts left over from hundreds of years ago.

That's why Aozaki Touko is known as the Grand Doll Maker.

Chen Luo, who possessed the skill of a Grand Puppeteer, naturally also learned this technique.

The reason this body was left in the Fire Moth's dormitory was to prepare for the current situation.

Because there were always some of Chen Luo's puppets that noticed the person coming, but Chen Luo himself didn't have time to send his main body back to the dormitory immediately.

Chen Luo opened his eyes and then turned his head away.

“I’m going to call,” Chen Luo said.

"Go ahead and scream, even if you scream until your throat is hoarse, no one will come to save you." The newcomer sat casually on the edge of Chen Luo's bed, looking at Chen Luo who had just woken up.

"Help... um." Chen Luo had barely uttered a word when the person covered his mouth.

The newcomer seemed somewhat flustered by Chen Luo's decisive action, completely losing his composure from before.

"Don't actually call for help. I won't hurt you. If you attract Hua's attention, it will be hard to explain."

Chen Luo glared at the newcomer and then removed her hand from his mouth.

"So, Ellie, what are you doing in my dorm at this hour?" Chen Luo asked, propping himself up against the headboard.

"Of course I came to wake you up, you heartless bastard. I thought of you so early, and you were thinking of calling for help," Alicia said, looking somewhat sad.

"Hua... um." Chen Luo had only managed to utter one word when his mouth was covered again.

"Alright, alright, I'm here to discuss things with you about Aponia. If Hua had been called here, she would have been nagged a bit more."

Someone like Alicia, who is loved by everyone but also a little mischievous, is most afraid of encountering extremely honest people, because these honest people are really serious when they are doing their jobs.

There is absolutely no room for jokes.

For example, Hua.

They're very easy to fool.