Confessing to Mobius

"So I'm thinking about whether to operate on someone else, kill them, and then send them directly to Earth in another world, preventing them from being resurrected in reality, in order to stimulate the will to live of others." This was what Chen Luo was thinking, but he didn't say it out loud.

However, after having this thought, Chen Luo shook his head.

Chen Luo now faces two paths. One is to periodically kill a few volunteers who are not good people to begin with, then throw them into the outer Earth to stimulate the survival instinct of the other volunteers and make them guarantee that they can issue missions every time.

Secondly, it guarantees survival even after a 100% surgical failure. As the saying goes, "When people are well-fed and warm, they think of lustful desires." Since the other party is certain of their resurrection, they will naturally pursue greater power. This ensures that everyone can obtain the quest to become Flame-Chaser.

Both paths have their advantages and disadvantages. The first path is simple, since the only condition to achieve it is for Chen Luo to throw the other party into the outer Earth after he is resurrected.

The second path is to increase one's own combat power, ensuring that every volunteer who is unlucky enough to become a puppet can become Flame-Chaser.

"Sigh..." Thinking of this, Chen Luo suddenly sighed.

"What's wrong?" Kevin asked coldly.

"It's nothing, I just feel a lot of pressure," Chen Luo said with a hint of helplessness.

This is what happens when you have power: as your power increases, you become more indifferent to life and death, which in this case refers to the life and death of others.

Chen Luo doesn't believe in the saying "with great power comes great responsibility," but Chen Luo also doesn't want to become someone inhuman and indifferent to life.

Those two paths seemed to indicate two different directions for the development of puppeteers.

One interpretation is that dolls are simply viewed as lifeless tools without independent consciousness.

One perspective is to view the doll as an independent person, where the doll is merely one of the doll's identities, not its entirety.

"Sigh, whatever, let it be." Unable to think any further, Chen Luo decided to give up.

However, although the option was abandoned, the option itself is still a choice.

Although Chen Luo was indeed prepared to use his puppet as a self-destruct truck at any time, and even prepared many self-destruction techniques.

But Chen Luo rarely interfered with the lives of these puppets.

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 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 Chen Luo 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 the Chiba Academy was speechless.

Chapter 482 Confession to Mobius

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

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

Even in Previous Era, roses still symbolized the intense and passionate emotion of love.

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

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

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

Mobius turned his head and saw Danzhu tugging at Cang Xuan's sleeve.

"Danzhu, you..." Mobius's eyes narrowed slightly.

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

"..." Mobius really didn't know what kind of expression to make when faced with Danzhu, who was Herrscher of the Heart.

"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, Cang Xuan's will to survive is really strong, extremely strong.

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

"Oh, you mean this? I ran into Vill-V 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.

"..." Mobius remained silent.

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

"But junior brother, why did you think of Doctor Mobius the moment you got this flower? Why didn't you think of giving it to me, Cang Xuan, 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." Cang Xuan, who was standing next to Danzhu, tried to pull Danzhu away, but Danzhu didn't seem to want to leave so soon.

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

"Dan! Zhu!" Mobius's eyes grew even colder.

"Oh, the 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 8,000 times. But now it seems that copying the punishment 8,000 times is just a piece of cake for Danzhu.

Chen Luo even suspected that 8,000 times of forced copying would not be enough to fill the mess that Dan Zhu had created.

80,000 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 Mobius 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 Doctor Mobius? Doctor Mobius 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.

"..." Mobius 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, Cang Xuan?" Danzhu said excitedly to Cang Xuan beside her.

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

Cang Xuan 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." Mobius 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!" Mobius said calmly.

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

"No!" Mobius 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 Cang Xuan 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, Mobius 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 Mobius, utterly devoid of any romance.

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

"Um?"

"Although Vill-V 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 Crystal 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.

But in reality? In reality, Chen Luo was heartbroken.

The rose that Vill-V gave to Chen Luo 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 Archive is always a very energy-intensive process.

To ensure that this rose would last forever, Chen Luo used 30 Honkai Crystal.

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

"Wasting 30 Honkai Crystal just for a single rose? That's a bit wasteful," Mobius 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 Mobius 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...?" Mobius looked at the rose in his hand, lost in thought.

"Snap!" Suddenly, Mobius moved.

After becoming Flame-Chaser, Mobius has experienced a significant increase in strength and abilities, even though he hasn't yet Man-made Collapse surgery and cannot activate the Man-made Collapse form.

The sound just now was the sound of Mobius'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, Mobius 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 Mobius's eyes, Chen Luo was momentarily at a loss as to what Mobius was feeling.

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

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, Mobius 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." Mobius 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 Snake actually like this gift?

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

Just like Mobius's comment to Elysia, "You've gained weight," Mobius is truly the oldest example of Tsundere.

Whether it's Mobius's statement, "I never need Human Order," or his later attitude towards the Armed Puppet Klein, which he saw as merely treating an ordinary artificial life form, both confirm this conclusion.

Mobius himself thought that he usually treated the Armed Puppet Klein as if she were an ordinary artificial life form.

As for how it appears to outsiders...

Leaving aside the Memory Mei Biu Si, the real Mobius, during the First Civilization Era, dared to directly break into the Binding Barrier of the Herrscher of Restraint for the sake of the Kero Klein, and almost died there.

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