Liu Bai and Elysia's Wavelengths

"Because I suddenly thought of..." Liu Bai's lips twitched slightly, "But what surprised me even more was that you were able to pick up on that joke."

"Because I've been really free these past few days." Jackal sighed, then glanced at the pigeons that had landed back on the ground to peck at breadcrumbs. "But to be fair, these pigeons from Schicksal are really big... Would you like some pigeon soup, sir?"

"You can cook?"

"No, but I can take it to the kitchen and have the chef do it for me."

Have some decency! Use pigeons to catch the creatures belonging to Schicksal and let Schicksal's cook dispose of them...

"If you want some, I'll ask the cafeteria to change the menu tonight. It's not good to grab it in front of everyone." Liu Bai looked at the plump pigeons on the ground and suddenly felt that pigeons of this size did look quite appetizing.

"So what you're concerned about is the negative impact?"

Raven couldn't help but complain that she never expected her boss and the Jackal to think in sync.

At this moment, Jackal waved his hand. "Just kidding. But boss, you really don't have much resistance to food. If you have the chance, you could try seeing a psychologist?"

"Me, a psychologist?"

Liu Bai had provided psychological counseling to many people, but this was the first time someone had suggested he see a doctor.

"Ah, it's probably because you've been a ghost for so long that you generally don't refuse food offered to you, right?"

"Do you take me for some random kid? I don't eat food from strangers."

"Then if he's not a stranger?" Jackal suddenly said. "A couple of days ago, someone asked me for a powerful sleeping potion."

Jackal's words caused Liu Bai to fall silent. After a long while, he slowly spoke, "... Who?"

"I'm sorry, I promised to keep it a secret for her. Even if something happens, I don't want to incur the wrath of my future mistress because of this."

Although the Jackal said he was refusing, his tone was as if he was telling Liu Bai, "If you ask me a couple more questions, I'll pretend I can't refuse and tell you."

"... Mei or Rita? No, it should be Mei."

After a moment's thought, Liu Bai identified the possible culprit.

"Only Mei and Rita have the motivation and ability to do this, but Rita has been very cautious lately, so it's only Mei is left."

After all, drugging someone is definitely not something that can be done in public. Anyone who wants to do it must be someone who is confident in their culinary skills and can win favor by making some high-quality pastries and snacks.

This narrows the scope down to the "Three Chefs," and as everyone knows, Fu Hua is an honest girl, so she's excluded.

The remaining Rita and Mei are easily recognizable.

"... Actually, it's Miss Susang."

Seeing that Liu Bai had guessed wrong, Jackal could only helplessly correct her. After all, if the blame fell on an innocent person, she would also have to take the fall.

"...ah?"

Upon hearing this name Liu Bai immediately expressed his confusion.

You didn't say the wrong name, did you?

"That's right, it really is Miss Susang." Jackal spread his hands helplessly. "As for Miss Mei ... you know, when Miss Mei is with you, she tends to tie herself up."

... That's true.

Mei didn't start playing with ropes to tie up others, but to tie up herself. Her aggressiveness in love isn't as strong as it seems. Even in her Herrscher form, she's just changed from a Yamato Nadeshiko to a "strong Yamato Nadeshiko"—of course, others don't get this treatment.

"So you're saying that kid deserved a beating, right?"

Liu Bai couldn't help but sigh.

Susang, what did you do? Aren't you afraid your mother will beat you?

Liu Bai couldn't understand Susang Chang's thought process at all.

Unlike the others who are basically free from parental control, Susang is still under parental supervision.

Of the three— Su Mei, Ling Shuang, and Su Yi—only Qin Suyi is gentle and mild-mannered; the other two are tough as nails.

Even Qin Suyi's gentle nature is only because she hasn't reached the point where she needs to be tough.

Bypassing your mother and causing trouble beyond your authority, you've ended up with something as trivial as drugging your master and betraying your ancestors. You really... really can't think straight.

In reality, for Susang, as long as one of her three mothers gets to eat meat, Susang will get to eat meat too. But... well, Li Sushang is clearly trying to get ahead of everyone else, to start eating before the elders do.

"If you don't discipline someone for three days, they'll be climbing on the roof and tearing off the tiles... Well, looks like I've got something to do tonight."

"Auntie! I'm back! I brought Seele with me to play!"

As dusk fell, Li Sushang excitedly led her friends home.

Although Li Sushang is young, due to her excessive development, she is not very able to integrate into the group of lolis in Schicksal.

In larger groups of girls, or rather, in groups of older women like Mei, Rita, and Bianca, Li Sushang felt out of place because she was too short.

After searching around, Li Sushang ended up hanging out with Seele had a similar body type to her.

"Hello, Sister Su, Sister Ling Shuang Su Mei, Sister Ling Shuang, Sister Seele, I apologize for disturbing you."

Seele timidly entered the room.

There's a slight generational difference in how they address each other, but that's Schicksal... or rather, it's a unique characteristic of Liu Bai, since nobody wants to be called "Auntie."

But then again, Seele felt like something was off.

"Susang brought her friends over to play today. Su Yi, go wash some fruit for Seele."

Su Mei gave Seele a kind smile.

Sigh. Why isn't Susang as well-behaved as Xiao Seele? Maybe I didn't discipline her enough back then.

"And Susang, you sit down too. You've been playing all day, don't stand. Tonight, your aunt will make you bamboo shoot and chicken breast."

"No, no! Susang has already eaten at the cafeteria! The cafeteria has pigeon soup that Grandmaster ordered tonight!"

Li Sushang was clearly having a lot of fun; even after sitting down, she couldn't stop talking.

"If the cafeteria hadn't made so few, Susang would have brought a few portions for her mothers!"

"It's enough that Susang has this sentiment, but tonight's meal is also a token of our mothers' affection, so Susang should eat something."

"Then... then I'll try harder—"

Before Li Sushang could finish speaking, she noticed Seele tugging at her clothes.

"Um, Seele, do you need to use the restroom? All the restrooms in the dorm are in the same location, it's over there."

"I... this..."

(Alright, alright, let go of your desire to help others and respect their fate.)

Dark Seele was watching the drama unfold in her mind, not wanting it to get any worse.

(This idiot is definitely going to get a beating. My advice is to ignore him. He'll probably get beaten up because he reached out to his brother.)

(After all, Sister Susang is Seele's friend...)

"Seele, come here and have some fruit."

Qin Suyi patted Seele's shoulder, a gentle expression on her face.

"Sister in plain clothes will show you how to carve apples!"

Ahh...

Li Sushang finally realized something belatedly.

How could her stepmother, who was so good to her, be ignoring her at this moment?

Wait, this familiar feeling...

The initial excitement of making new friends quickly faded, and Li Sushang began to experience leg cramps.

Although in terms of actual combat strength, even if they were both at the Sword God level, Li Sushang could easily defeat 1.5 Su Mei, the problem is that this is her own mother... a suppression in the food chain.

Oh no, my auntie is really angry.

"Um... Susang didn't break anything today, nor did she go out to cause trouble..."

"But I heard from Grandmaster that you went to find sleeping pills?" Su Mei's kind smile slowly faded.

With a bang, Cheng Lingshuang coldly slammed the door shut from behind.

"This... that... I, I actually wanted to go give... yes, give to that Rita guy—ah—!"

Seele trembled as she listened to the screams coming from behind her at the table.

"You flatter me, Seele. But don't worry, that girl is tough. If she were really beaten badly, would she still be able to scream so loudly?"

Qin Suyi shook her head and sighed.

"Come on~ look at the little butterfly your sister in plain clothes carved, isn't it pretty~"

Chapter 378 Liu Bai and Aili's Brainwaves

"Completed! The Second Divine Key!"

In the Previous Era, after the First Divine Key was completed, it took Vil-V and Liu Bai a full six months to completely complete the Second Divine Key.

After all, the amount of work involved in building such a super-large locomotive is quite large, and there are relatively few engineering personnel here. The person with the most practical experience in engineering is Vil-V. The others, even Mei, are now purely technical personnel and are not good at this kind of rough work.

"Come on, let's sound the horn to celebrate!" Sitting in the driver's seat Vil-V was eager to try it out.

"Let's not disturb the neighbors."

Mei remained calm as always and stopped Vil-V.

By the way, after working with Vil-V for more than half a year, Mei felt that this person might have something wrong with her brain... well, she did have something wrong with her brain. Her teacher once mentioned to her that Vil-V had multiple personalities.

... Although Mei is not very perceptive of the differences between personalities.

Of course, that wasn't the problem she was referring to; rather, she found that Vil-V had a bit of a restless hand.

When creating the Imaginary Archive, perhaps because its overall Imaginary Archive was too simple, Vil-V didn't have time to fully express herself. But this time, when creating the Second Divine Key...

Okay, so it's a locomotive. It's a bit rough around the edges, but the Second Divine Key is positioned as an exploration vehicle, so at least the image matches. But can you explain why you added a horn function to it?

Although this thing does have very low power consumption, there's still a strange sense of unease about it.

Moreover, their own teacher didn't say anything, but seemed to agree with everything.

Has no one considered the low-probability event that an operator might accidentally sound the horn in some location, attracting the enemy?

Mei felt that she and Vil-V were not quite the same kind of scientists. Although Vervi was very professional in her work, she seemed to be more driven by interest.

After going around in circles, is it still Mobius who I have the most in common with?

"Fine, I won't press it then."

Vil-V shrugged, then glanced at Mei. "By the way, you're leaving? So suddenly?"

"Yes, I don't think I'm needed at all here. You, Vil-V, can handle all the problems—including funding."

"Hey, let's get this straight. I won't work Moth Chasers to Fire you don't approve the payment! To put it bluntly, you need to give me something, or I'll panic if you don't give me anything!"

Although Eden is very profitable, Vil-V is sensible when it comes to funding. If you don't provide funding, what if I do halfway through my research and you accuse me of conducting unauthorized research on dangerous projects?

"Then I'll trouble Dr. Vil-V to expedite your research on the Third Divine Key. Once I return to the Moth Chasers to Fire, I'll try my best to persuade those people."

Mei's tone was indifferent. Compared to Mobius, who was completely unwilling to get involved in those struggles, Mei was... somewhat interested?

After all, in Mei's opinion, those guys were indeed a bit of a nuisance. Their intermittent bouts of incompetence or shrewdness were quite frightening. Although she was still young, Mei felt that she didn't need to endure such stimulation.

"Tsk, don't worry, it's just making weapons, that's my forte." Vil-V clicked her tongue.

It's better to stay put and do research, without worrying about all that nonsense.

However, Mei then looked at Liu Bai and asked, "Doctor, would you like to come back to the Moth Chasers to Fire with me?"

"You're trying to poach my employees before you leave?" Vil-V asked, pulling out a wrench with a displeased expression.

"... Let me arrange the Third Divine Key before I go." Liu Bai reached out and pressed Vil-V back down.

Mei hasn't given up on training yet. It's one thing for you to bully those who just work in offices, but if you threaten Mei, do you really think Mei won't beat you up?

Although Liu Bai felt that the possibility of Mei directly pulling out Stun Gun for technological suppression was far higher than engaging in a direct fight.

"It'll only take a day or two. Why don't you wait a couple more days? There's no rush, is there?"

"No rush, we'll have Elysia pick us up. You know her, she's become obsessed with flying planes lately, and she was the one who picked us up back then."