Collapse City: Opening with the Production of an Anime Honkai

"Powdered sugar?!"

Danzhu, who had worked in Mobius's lab for two or three years, didn't even know the bottle contained powdered sugar.

"Hmph." Mobius turned her head away.

Chapter 54: The Return of Griseo's Family

After forcibly giving Klein a vacation, Mobius personally supervised Yaqing as he drove Klein back to the company's dormitory area.

Mobius was indeed the kind of capitalist who deserved to be hanged from a lamppost, but it couldn't be denied that the benefits and treatment she gave Klein, Cangxuan, and Danzhu were the highest in World Serpent, with a salary nearly three times that of Kevin, the corporate slave.

It was already past nine in the evening when they returned to the courtyard. Yaqing and Mobius carefully and stealthily pushed open the courtyard gate, like thieves. Seeing the living room was pitch black, the two seemed relieved.

"Bang."

With a bang, the lights in the living room instantly lit up, and everyone in the courtyard popped out from behind the sofa, firing confetti cannons at the two of them, even Kevin and Mei were among them.

"Welcome back!" Elysia's sweet voice also held a hint of joy.

Yaqing and Mobius were directly dumbfounded, looking at the scene before them. Their CPUs started spinning wildly. Even with their IQ of 160, they couldn't guess what Elysia and the others were up to.

"Huh?"

Seeing that it was Yaqing and Mobius who had entered, Elysia was instantly stunned.

Yaqing silently removed the red confetti from his face, looked at everyone in front of him, and after a long silence, said, "It's only been a few hours, there's no need to be so excited, right?"

"Uh..." Kevin and Mei exchanged glances. They were done for. They had forgotten about Yaqing and Mobius. Neither of the lovebirds remembered, and they thought they wouldn't be back tonight.

"So, who were you planning to welcome?" Mobius removed the streamer from her hair.

"Uh..." Sakura awkwardly pointed behind the two of them.

Mobius turned her head.

At the entrance of the courtyard, a woman with a gentle smile looked at Mobius. She wore a white dress and exuded a gentle temperament, with shoulder-length light blue hair, and embraced Mobius.

"Doctor, we're back from our trip to North America."

"Blanca!" A hint of surprise flashed in Mobius's beautiful eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

"Brother Yaqing." Little Griseo ran out from behind Blanca and opened her arms to Yaqing.

No one could refuse Little Griseo's request for a hug, at least Yaqing couldn't. Picking up Little Griseo, Yaqing smiled and said, "Little Griseo, it's been so long, did you miss your brother?"

"I did~" Little Griseo rubbed her face against Yaqing's cheek.

"Little Griseo, did you miss Sister Mobius?" Hearing Griseo call Yaqing brother, Mobius also came over, automatically changing the title of aunt to sister.

"I missed you too, Grandma Mobius." Little Griseo's voice was sweet, and her smile was very healing.

But Mobius's smile gradually disappeared, and her beautiful eyes looked at a certain pink elf with murderous intent.

The culprit didn't dare to look at the victim's eyes, whistling, pretending not to know, and tiptoed closer, pinching Little Griseo's chubby little face.

"Umm, Sister Elysia..."

"That's not right, you should call me Elysia Younger Sister~?" Elysia was extremely serious, seemingly not feeling how shocking her words were.

"Elysia Younger Sister..."

Mobius slapped Elysia's hand away and said, "Don't teach Little Griseo bad things."

Elysia retracted her hand, looking at the slightly red back of her fair hand, and pouted.

Kevin and Kalpas helped Hen bring the luggage into the courtyard. Hen slumped on the sofa, tilted his head, and said, "I'm so tired, anyone, please, get me a can of cola."

Sakura opened the refrigerator, took out a can of cola, and placed it on the coffee table.

Hen took the cola, pulled open the tab, took a big gulp, and couldn't help but exclaim, "I'm alive again."

Yaqing held Little Griseo, not knowing why he had a natural affinity for children. Whether it was the children in Aponia's orphanage, or Griseo and Ling, including Little Knowledge, who was already twenty years old, they were all very close to him.

Unlike Hen, who was exhausted, Blanca was still in good spirits, taking out the souvenirs she had bought for everyone from the large suitcase one by one and placing them on the coffee table.

"This is the clothes I specially bought for the Doctor, green dinosaur pajamas, very cute, right?" Blanca took out the unopened clothes and handed them to Mobius.

The air suddenly became quiet.

Because Yaqing had the same dinosaur pajamas and wore them around the courtyard all day, everyone knew that Yaqing had a pair of dinosaur pajamas. Now Blanca had specially given Mobius the same pajamas, which meant...

"What's wrong?" Blanca looked at everyone who was holding back their laughter with a blank expression.

"Nothing, I, like, it, very, much." Mobius accepted the gift with a forced smile, and stepped on Yaqing hard where others couldn't see.

Little Griseo looked puzzled, not understanding why Grandma Mobius would suddenly step on Brother Yaqing.

"This is a gift for Mei, a necklace bought in Paris." Blanca took out a small red box.

"I like it very much, Sister Blanca." Mei accepted the gift.

"This is for Kevin..."

Blanca distributed the gifts to everyone one by one. Since Eden was on a global tour, she could only make a video call and let Elysia accept the gift on her behalf, while Aponia had not yet returned to the courtyard.

"The last gift is for Yaqing." Blanca said with a smile.

"So there's one for me too. I thought Sister Blanca had forgotten about me since I hadn't been back for so long," Yaqing joked.

"How could this be?" Blanca chided, taking out the carefully wrapped gift and saying with a smile, "This is a picture frame I bought in Paris. I heard it's a work of art, and this painting was personally painted by Little Griseo."

The canvas unfolded, and the copper-gold wooden frame exuded an ancient aura at first glance. However, what was even more eye-catching was the oil painting within the frame. It depicted a man sitting and reading a book, with warm sunlight shining on him through the window. Combined with the fruit on the table, there was nothing to fault in terms of color or composition.

"So beautiful," Sakura couldn't help but exclaim.

"Little Griseo actually painted this all by herself?" Ling couldn't believe it was Little Griseo's masterpiece, because Little Griseo would be entering junior high school next year. She could already imagine her big sister using Little Griseo as an example to educate her.

"Is that Yaqing in the painting...?" Kevin said uncertainly.

"Brother Yaqing, does it look like me?" Little Griseo, who had already left Yaqing's embrace, looked up and asked innocently.

Yaqing's fingers gently caressed the texture of the oil painting, and his thoughts were instantly drawn back to more than a decade ago. At that time, his sister would always take out photos of their father and mother, and one of them was extremely similar to this painting.

His sister told him that their father didn't like taking pictures, so this only photo she secretly took became the only remaining photo of their father in the world. Yaqing could only look at the photo, but he had no memory of it.

His sister told him that this was their father, but why didn't he have any memory of him?

It turned out that he had never met his father.

Therefore, only when he and his sister depended on each other in their childhood did she tightly hold onto that family photo without him.

"Dad said that when his younger brother or sister was born, they would take another family photo, but why couldn't Dad do it..."

He didn't understand why his sister was crying, but he knew that the person in the photo was his relative, his father.

"Brother Yaqing..."

Griseo's voice brought him back to his senses. Looking at the worried expressions on everyone's faces, he realized that tears had already welled up in the corners of his eyes.

"Yaqing, are you alright?" Su said with concern.

"I'm fine." Yaqing smiled, brushed away the tears, and rubbed Little Griseo's soft hair. "Little Griseo, I'm just touched. I really like this gift. I will definitely hang it on my bedside and admire it day and night."

Yaqing carefully picked up the picture frame, as if afraid of damaging it in the slightest.

Watching Yaqing's departing figure, Little Griseo's mood fell. She could naturally feel the change in Yaqing's mood.

"Did I do something wrong?"

"Little Griseo, you didn't do anything wrong. Yaqing, he... must have been reminded of someone when he looked at this painting," Mobius crouched down and comforted Griseo softly.

"Yaqing is a little off," Kevin said, no longer teasing, but very seriously. "He cried. I've never seen him shed tears, not even when he broke his arm during the school sports meet."

"Kevin, this is different from that time." As a doctor, Su had seen too many partings of life and death, and he saw Yaqing's sadness. He patted Kevin on the shoulder and said, "That time it was physical pain, this time it's psychological."

"Who of you will go and comfort him?" Mei said.

"I don't know how to comfort people." Kalpas refused first, turned around and prepared to leave, but stopped and said without looking back, "Hmph, I suddenly want to make desserts. If you want, send them to him."

"Kalpas is really gentle~?" Elysia said.

"Hmph." Kalpas didn't refute, or rather, disdained to refute.

"Then let the expert take the stage."

"Let the fairy lady go and comfort him."

Vill-V and Elysia spoke at the same time.

But no one noticed that Mobius had already disappeared from the living room.

Chapter 55: Tipsy Snake

Mobius came to the outside of Yaqing's bedroom door, knocked on the door, and pushed it open, only to see Yaqing standing on the bed, planning to hang the oil painting on the wall above the headboard.

Mobius leaned against the door and said, "You're really planning to hang it on the wall? I thought you were just making Little Griseo happy. It seems you really like this painting."

After slightly fixing the picture frame, Yaqing jumped off the bed, patted the non-existent dust on his hands, and said, "Sister Blanca is back. Why don't you stay in the living room to catch up and come here?"

Mobius walked into the room, skillfully sat on Yaqing's favorite gaming chair, and said leisurely, "I don't like crowds."

"Senior, from this point of view, we are the same kind of people." Yaqing took out a bottle of wine from the glass cabinet, unopened, and then took out a wine glass from somewhere.

The purple-red wine liquid kept shaking in the wine glass.

"When did you become so elegant? You even have a glass of wine before bed." Mobius looked at Yaqing strangely. She remembered that although the cabinet was a refrigerator, it seemed to always store snacks and cola.

"I got used to it, developed in Northern Europe. President Otto always supervised my etiquette learning. I don't want to either, lest those old oranges find any points to attack me." Yaqing was never afraid of the board of directors, but a group of mosquitoes buzzing around him would also be very annoying.

"Sounds like the competition within Destiny is very serious?"

"How should I explain it to you?" Yaqing put the wine on the table and took out two more wine glasses and some small wine glasses.

"To give you an example, this bottle of wine is President Otto, who has absolute leadership within the Destiny Foundation. He can pour the wine representing power into the glass at will." Yaqing poured the wine into the wine glass.

"And these three wine glasses are the Kaslana family, the Schariac family, and Theresa Apocalypse, who occupy a large share in Destiny. The wine poured in is also more than these small wine glasses."

"These small wine glasses are the board of directors. A single glass of wine is small, but when they unite, they may take away the wine in the wine glasses."

"Got it?"

Yaqing vividly explained the internal struggles of Destiny.

"So, the board of directors is eyeing you? Is there no one from the Schariac family helping you?" Mobius curiously picked up the wine, poured a glass for herself, smelled the fragrance of the grapes, took a sip, but was choked.

"Cough cough cough..."

Yaqing handed over a tissue and said, "Those old guys from the Schariac family hate me enough. They think I stole my parents' assets. Why would they help me?"

What Yaqing could only treat as a beverage, had already turned Mobius' cheeks red after just one sip.

"Ha, already drunk?" Yaqing couldn't help but laugh, watching Mobius, who already had a snot bubble, and silently took a picture with his phone.

"Senior Mobius? Senior?" Yaqing shook Mobius' body, but the already sleeping Mobius just curled up in the gaming chair and turned over.

"Don't bother me..." The drunken, sleeping Mobius was completely different from when she was awake. Her muttering made her look as cute as the girl next door.

"You'll catch a cold sleeping here." Yaqing whispered softly, as if coaxing a child.

"I don't want to..." Mobius turned her head away, her cheeks flushed, her smile innocent, and opened her arms. "Hug."

"Senior, men and women shouldn't touch hands." Yaqing refused.

Upon hearing Yaqing's refusal, the tipsy Mobius actually looked at Yaqing with a grievance, giving off a feeling that if you didn't hug her, she would cry.

"I must have been out of my mind to take out the wine. If I let you touch another drop next time, I'll... forget it." Yaqing hooked Mobius' legs and picked her up in a princess carry.

The drunken Mobius no longer had her usual stubbornness, and couldn't wait to shrink into Yaqing's arms.

Yaqing didn't notice that the bedroom door had been pushed open a crack at some point.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze."

"Oh my, let me see."

"I didn't expect Dr. Mobius to be so cute when she's drunk~ It would be even better if she wore the little dress I gave her~"

"Sister, don't squeeze me!"