[Xuanyuan Sword] (Ultimate Commemorative Edition)
Yelan actually regretted provoking Chen Luo. The key issue was that she didn't get any information and almost got herself into trouble. Then Chen Luo prepared a long-term problem for her.
After spending two minutes absorbing Shenhe's killing intent for the day, Chen Luo asked Yelan to help Shenhe learn about the essentials of surviving in Liyue Harbor.
Just as Chen Luo opened the ancient book that Shenhe had brought, the wind chimes rang again.
"Jingle!"
"Oh my, isn't this Cang Xuan and Danzhu? Long time no see, long time no see."
"Huh? Elysia?" Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu, who were eating at the bar while frantically copying the laboratory safety rules a hundred times, were surprised to see Elysia.
"That's right. But... does everyone in your Mei Biu Si Laboratory know that Alo is a time traveler? Have you all been to the bar?" Elysia pondered.
Does that mean the people at the Mei Biu Si Laboratory can do whatever they want?
"Oh, you've misunderstood. We are Cang Xuan and Danzhu from 50,000 years in the future."
Cang Xuan and Danzhu weren't stupid either; they could understand Elysia's unspoken meaning and knew that she saw them as Cang Xuan and Danzhu from the First Civilization Era.
"Huh? Can ordinary humans live for 50,000 years? Although it may not be as long as 50,000 years, it should be more than 5,000 years since the cryo-chamber was activated, right?" Elysia was surprised.
Do humans have such a long lifespan?
"The situation is a bit complicated. In short, I was only awakened in one cryo-chamber a few years ago when I entered another cryo-chamber, and I've been there ever since." After thinking for a moment, Danzhu gave a relatively easy-to-understand explanation of the current situation.
"But what's wrong with you, Elysia?" Cang Xuan looked at Elysia, hesitant to speak.
"I am also Elysia from 50,000 years in the future."
"How is that possible?" Cang Xuan was somewhat incredulous.
"Oh, Elysian Realm," Elysia reminded her.
"Uh... Elysian Realm ..." Cang Xuan fell into thought upon hearing this somewhat unfamiliar term.
"Oh, the original name should be Golden Garden."
"Oh, so that's what it is. I knew it, Aili, you..."
"Shh..." Just as Danzhu was about to say something, Elysia suddenly bent down and made a shushing gesture to the two of them.
"There are some things we still need to keep from Little Luoluo right now. After all, the grudge of being stuffed in a sack is irreconcilable!" Elysia 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, Cang Xuan and Danzhu had a deep-seated grudge involving 7,000 times of forced copying, and were sworn enemies.
7000 times? How dare you, you demon?
"7000 times? What 7000 times?" Elysia 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?" Elysia 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 Mei Biu Si Laboratory. 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," Cang Xuan interrupted Danzhu.
Cang Xuan 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, Cang Xuan, 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." Elysia 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?" Elysia 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." Elysia 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." Elysia raised her little fist again.
"And it's really unfair to link doing such a rough thing to a girl to the world," Elysia 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?"
"Elysia, 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."
"Well?"
"I like Little 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— Elysia laughed.
Today's game is about victory or defeat!
Elysia 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 Mobius walked into the bar, he was somewhat surprised to see Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu sitting at the table copying something.
"Doctor Mobius? Wait, which Doctor Mobius are you?" Cang Xuan and Danzhu were both surprised when they saw Mobius.
Doctor Mobius with this loli-like figure...
"Hmm? So that's how it is. To live for 50,000 years with the heart of a mere mortal... Chen Luo, what methods did you use this time?" Mobius 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 Snake waved his hand.
Chen Luo didn't hide much about the strange things about him from Mobius, but there were so many strange things that Mobius hadn't been able to study them successfully even once.
Mobius has already tanked.
"Doctor Mobius from 50,000 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 Doctor Mobius in the past must have also been an adult."
The relationship between Mobius and Cang Xuan is a little complicated.
Cang Xuan had worked under Mobius for so long that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they had a good relationship. However, Mobius's bottom line was too low, to the point that Cang Xuan couldn't stand it.
This is not referring to Mobius's moral bottom line, but rather the bottom line Mobius set when conducting experiments.
So in the late game, when humanity was almost finished, Cang Xuan had a fight with Mobius and then left Mei Biu Si Laboratory with his sister Danzhu to prepare for the implementation of the 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," Mobius scoffed.
"..." Cang Xuan found the relationship between Mobius and Mobius 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, Mobius 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 8,000 repetitions of the laboratory safety rules, right?" Mobius suddenly realized.
"8,000 times?" Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, and Chen Luo were all stunned.
"Can't remember the exact number of repetitions? It was initially set at 7,000 repetitions, but the problem is that after the punishment of 7,000 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," Mobius said with a light laugh.
For Cang Xuan 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 Cang Xuan, Senior Sister Danzhu, shouldn't we revise our contract?" Chen Luo suddenly appeared behind Cang Xuan and Danzhu, gently placing his hand on their shoulders.
"Gulp, just kill both of us!"
Cang Xuan and Danzhu are truly exhausted and fed up with love now.
Doctor Mobius and Chen Luo... what kind of devils are they?
"Cang Xuan, 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 Cang Xuan and Danzhu?" Elysia 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, Elysia 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 Elysia deep in thought, Chen Luo immediately sensed something was wrong.
Although Chen Luo has never wronged Elysia before, Chen Luo'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 Elysia's personality, she'll definitely retaliate, right?
"Elysia, I like you," Chen Luo suddenly said.
"Ding-a-ling!" The sound of wind chimes drifted through the bar.
The Adult Body Mobius, who had just pushed open the door, stopped in his tracks.
Elysia, 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, Mobius almost crushed the copying paper in his hand. Cang Xuan and Danzhu, however, didn't have time to feel sorry for him and immediately perked up their ears.
Shenhe, who was sitting in the corner talking to Yelan, or rather listening to Yelan, felt a slight stirring in his heart and looked at Chen Luo from the corner.
Only the Herrscher of Knowledge, who was engrossed in the Book of Cang Xuan, slightly pursed his lips.
"Oh no!!! You, you..." Elysia panicked at Chen Luo's sudden confession.
"... and everyone else too."
"..." After a moment of silence, Elysia lowered her eyes, but when Elysia 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 huge 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 Aili, why are you so angry? I just repeated what you said." After Elysia's fist was removed from Chen Luo's face, Chen Luo showed an innocent expression.
Then Elysia's fist made intimate contact with Chen Luo again.
Chen Luo's words only made Elysia angrier.