The Star Scholars who had been working themselves to the bone in the Machine Room for several days were finally coaxed into going to the lounge, temporarily averting the crisis of "an interstellar friend dying suddenly at the construction site." After leaving the Machine Room, Mo Ran first went to inspect the Rift Laboratory's dome repair progress, making sure Black Stone Space Station's "self-healing" could continue operating at maximum efficiency.
Then she dismissed everyone around her and began considering how to report Master Alwin and the others' investigation results as concisely as possible—
While also finding out when the "true Black Stone Space Station expert" mentioned by the True Lord would arrive...
At the same time, Yu Sheng and Eileen were still in the border's Alice Embassy.
He had brought the little doll over firstly to apologize, and secondly because he wanted to see what state a servo robot would be in after contracting shake-to-redirect advertisements.
However, by the time he and Eileen arrived, Miss Marlene had already completed the first round of emergency treatment on Maris. The living doll had successfully shut off her maid's redirect-ad function and greatly improved the latter's "taking a pause after every step" symptom.
Now Maris paused after every two steps.
Yu Sheng pressed down on the little doll's head and apologized to the mistress and maid. The good news was that the little doll was surprisingly cooperative. Usually, she was careless, hyperactive, constantly showing off, and utterly shameless, but she actually knew she was in the wrong this time.
Marlene, however, did not seem to care much.
"It's actually not a big deal." The living doll smiled. "Maris had a bit of this problem to begin with, so I'm more or less used to it."
Yu Sheng glanced to the side. The Clockwork