Elysia's Little Trick for Bringing Everyone Closer

"Dr. Mobius... seems to be the same as always." Liu Bai managed to change the subject successfully. When talking about her best friend, Elysia looked thoughtful. "I always feel like the doctor is doing something shady behind the scenes. But Liu Bai, you know, the doctor doesn't let me into the lab."

Is Mobius really that unreliable?

It's one thing for professionals like Mei to have noticed, but now even Elysia has noticed... It's only thanks to Elysia's ability to keep her mouth shut, despite her impulsive nature.

(It's because the Doctor smells so strongly of Shesha...)

While Liu Bai was deep in thought, Elysia was also scratching her head.

Shesha was killed by her own hand. Shesa was Companion Honkai Beast of the Third Herrscher, which was extremely rare. She had a deep impression of her in many ways, so she could not hide the fact that Mobius was conducting research on Shesha.

However, since there were no signs of Honkai infection on Mobius's body, Elysia had no intention of stopping him—she was more concerned about how cruel and inhumane Mobius must have done to Shesha's corpse to have such a strong smell on it.

Incidentally, what Elysia perceives as "smell" is actually Honkai Energy, not something she actually smells.

But then again, Elysia felt a sense of guilt for having opened Pandora's box, and her intuition told her that Mobius might actually come up with something extraordinary.

"Thank goodness for Liu Bai's help; I can finally visit Dr. Mobius's laboratory after all this time!"

"Ah... I think it's actually quite right of Mobius not to let you into the lab."

Elysia is a woman of her word; she never makes a move unless she's told not to. What's truly dangerous is the endless stream of ideas that come to her mind.

In other words, bringing Elysia into the lab means you don't have to worry about her messing with the equipment; you just have to put up with Elysia endless stream of "interesting" ideas that seem meaningless to professionals.

What Mobius hated most were ideas that were meaningless or even absurd.

"I think you could actually visit Einstein's lab; she certainly wouldn't dislike you."

The Einstein of this era might be even more eccentric than the Einstein of modern civilization—after all, that tuft of red hair on his head didn't come to life.

Okay, it was just a joke.

"It's because I cleared Dr. Einstein's lab that I want to enter Mobius's lab!" Elysia's eyes blazed with a burning desire for challenge.

Wow, so you're collecting achievements?

Liu Bai managed to follow Elysia's thought process—although it seemed he never lost her at all.

"Then you can take your time to think about it."

"Such a decisive rejection of a beautiful girl's request, Liu Bai, you really are a terrible male lead."

Elysia stretched and mumbled, half complaining and half being coquettish.

"Forget it, getting into Mobius's lab on your own is what's truly challenging!"

"Do you mean being sent in as experimental material?"

"Don't talk about such scary things! Dear Liu Bai!" Elysia had absolutely no interest in being experimental subjects. "I don't want to be Mobius's guinea pig."

"I actually think Mobius was probably gentler and more patient with mice than with you."

Liu Bai calmly stated a fact that left Elysia speechless.

"I'm ignoring you! If you keep saying that, I really won't talk to you anymore!"

Liu Bai shrugged. "Then I'll go back and keep Mei company. I think Mei's mentality is a bit shattered."

"Yes, I understand. After all, accepting a teacher's wife requires some mental preparation." Elysia nodded.

"...Why don't you just say this to Mei directly?" Liu Bai pointed to the cabin.

"Haha~~—No way!"

The idea of her becoming Liu Bai's wife was just a joke. As long as Liu Bai didn't deny it, Elysia had already achieved her goal. To actually do it... sorry, Elysia felt that she hadn't lost her mind.

Seeing that Elysia had no intention of getting up, Liu Bai couldn't help but smile, then teleported back to Mei's side.

But as soon as Liu Bai returned to the cabin, he saw Mei feeding the cat?

Mei was playing on her phone while feeding the cat-like girl next to her.

"Pardo?" Liu Bai stared in astonishment at Pardo, who was being fed snacks by Mei. "When did you come up here?"

"Before takeoff," Pardo said matter-of-factly. "I just instinctively sneaked in to see if there was anything fun on Sister Elysia's spaceship, and then we took off..."

"What do you mean by sneaking in subconsciously..." Liu Bai complained.

However, it's true that Pardo and Aili get along quite well, so it's normal for her to want to come up here.

"... But why didn't anyone tell me you came up?"

"It's probably because Pardo usually sleeps in at this time, right?" Mei said quietly.

It's perfectly normal not to see Pardo outside at this time of day. It's impossible for anyone to be suspicious. Maybe the people from ELM won't even realize Pardo is missing until tomorrow.

"It wasn't sleeping in! It was taking a nap after waking up!"

"Anyway, it doesn't matter." Liu Bai tapped Pardo's head. "Forget it, going on a long trip is good. Also, Mei, stop feeding her. Do you really treat Pardo like a pet?"

"I don't think Pardo would care about such a thing."

"Uh-huh."

"What the hell?!"

"Attention passengers, please fasten your seatbelts. The Super Invincible Beautiful Girl Flight has arrived at its destination~~" Elysia's energetic voice came over the loudspeaker.

"That guy's even noisier than when he was flying the plane back in the day!" Mei, who had been startled awake from her nap, pushed up her glasses with some annoyance. "And this flight seems a bit slow..."

"Because it's self-driving."

Liu Bai felt that autonomous driving was definitely better than letting Elysia drive herself—at least relatively speaking, that was the case.

Anyway, Liu Bai is a ghost, so even if you, Elysia, do a 3600-degree spin, you can't possibly make this ghost dizzy.

"Alright, go down. It's been a long time since I've seen the Moth Chasers to Fire, and it's also been a long time since I've seen some other people in my mind."

"For example, the senior sister, or Kevin?"

Mei unbuckled her seatbelt.

"Don't worry, I've called them all over. Hmm... they should arrive before us. There's also a surprise."

"...Su?"

Liu Bai was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized what was happening.

Seeing Liu Bai's quick reaction, Mei couldn't help but feel a little helpless. Her teacher was too clever, leaving her, as the disciple, with no way to prepare any surprises.

"Where was it found?"

"I used a clumsy method. I asked my senior sister to use her connections in the military to carefully check the list of survivors in Su's city and surrounding cities. It took a lot of effort to find him. That guy actually managed to infiltrate the frontline medical team as a temporary worker."

The detailed investigation sounds simple, but the actual relationships that need to be coordinated are not limited to the rescue team. If it weren't for his senior sister being a star captain now, it wouldn't be so easy to find them. Even Mobius would probably have a hard time mobilizing these relationships.

"I only came up with a stupid idea; in reality, it was all thanks to my senior sister's influence."

Although Mei felt that her senior sister's wifely aura was a bit intimidating, compared to Elysia, who was forever seventeen and a perfect beauty, and Eden, who was forever twenty, golden and radiant and also had the aura of a wife, her senior sister was nothing.

After all, her senior sister's figure is a major flaw, and her temperament can't make up for it.

That said, she occasionally managed to sense something akin to "empress dowager" emanating from Eden, which was truly bizarre...

Therefore, given the overwhelming external threats, Mei felt she should try to unite with her senior sister.

Pardo acted the fastest. After the new map was opened, it seemed like Pardo from the Dusk Alley era was a limited-time rerun. She immediately got off the airship, while Liu Bai and Mei went down slowly.

"Um... where is this girl from?"

Kevin, with Sue by his side, looked at Pardofelis running down from the spaceship with a puzzled expression.

Who is this? I don't recognize him.

"If I were you, I wouldn't comment on the women around our teacher." Sue shook off Kevin's shoulder.

This dog never learns its lesson, Su thought he should stay away from the husky—after all, he wasn't as resilient as Kevin Ran; he was just a weak intern doctor.

But then again, Su glanced at her best friend whom she hadn't seen in a long time. They hadn't been in contact for less than a year, but this guy... well, it should be said that both of them looked inexplicably weathered.

Fortunately, this guy is still the same old rascal; he doesn't think before he speaks.

"Ah, senior sister is coming down, teacher... oh, I see her."

Only after Liu Bai signed the contracts with the two boys and Hua did these people see Liu Bai.

"Seriously, I can see the teacher? Wow, I thought teachers were the kind of frivolous middle-aged people."

Upon hearing Kevin's reflections, Sue silently distanced herself from Kevin.

"Kevin." Hua tapped Kevin on the back of the head.

"Ahem, um, I meant the teachers are pretty good now." Kevin changed his tune after being prompted.

Su covered her face upon hearing this. Did you think the point was your evaluation?

"... I would prefer that you don't comment, Kevin." Hua looked at his junior brother with a helpless expression.

My junior brother has brains, but not many; he's completely an intuitionist.

While I can understand your excitement at seeing your teacher for the first time, what are you trying to do by commenting on your teacher's appearance as a student?

"Speaking of which, my senior sister doesn't seem to have changed much."

Su glanced at her senior sister and sighed to Kevin.

Although he knew that his senior sister was a good person, they weren't that close, so he instinctively struck up a conversation with his best friend.

Kevin sighed as well, "Of course, that cold-faced woman—"

"Is this the first time our entire sect has gathered together?"

Sue held Kevin down and interrupted.

"...Yes." Hua glanced at the two of them, nodded slowly, and then looked at Pardo who had run over. "By the way, who is this..."

"My name is Pardofelis." Pardo seemed completely unafraid of strangers.

"I'm Sue, and this idiot is Kevin. Nice to meet you."

Su decided to shut Kevin up. "Think before you speak, you bastard! At least don't say bad things in front of people! You know our senior sister likes to bully us!"

After simply greeting Pardo, Su looked at Mei and Liu Bai, who had just come down.

"Teacher, senior sister, it's been a long time."

"Long time no see, Su." Mei nodded to her junior brother whom she hadn't seen in a long time, then glanced at the two of them. "You two are still so close."

"Yes, yes, that's because I'm his senior."

Hua felt something was off about the performance of these three people.

Is there some distance between my junior sister and the junior brothers?

"Long time no see, Hua."

"Long time no see, Teacher Liu." Hua nodded to Liu Bai, who looked at Hua with considerable satisfaction.

Although he treats all his students equally, Hua is probably the one with the highest satisfaction rate.

No doubt about it, their personality is just like mine, and they're honest and easygoing.

How have you been lately?

"It was alright, I guess," Hua replied after a moment's thought. "It was mostly cleaning work. Compared to me, Kevin was actually more tired. He went with Captain Himiko to take charge of the refugee stability work in Australia."

The changes in this timeline are quite obvious. Hua became the captain of another squad early on, while Kevin was relegated to the Fifth Squad to take over Hua's position as vice-captain.

Kevin regrets it now.

Back then, Liu Bai gave him two choices: to be Hua's vice-captain or to be Himiko's vice-captain. Kevin was afraid that Hua was a martial arts version of Mei, so he didn't go. But later he found out that his senior sister was a very good-tempered old woman, and he almost regretted it to the core.

"You guys finally get together, so stop talking about work all the time."

Elysia, dressed in her pilot's uniform, bounced and skipped down.

"Let's talk about something more interesting, like a banquet or a barbecue."

Chapter 380 Elysia's Little Tricks to Get Closer

"Can."

To everyone's surprise, Mei was the first to agree with this, saying that the mental stress she was experiencing at ELM needed to be relieved somewhere.