The Doctor Is a Nice Person! Yeah, I Know!

"Doctor... I..."

Although Mobius had invited him sincerely, Ling Xi still wanted to refuse, because... he really just wanted to coast. He had come to the lab solely to cling to the Doctor and secure a Hibernation Pod, never once thinking about becoming a core force in the Pre-Collapse Civilization's fight against the Honkai.

Besides, Ling Xi understood one thing very clearly: once he agreed to Mobius and became her student, then...

He could forget about slacking off for the rest of his life. At the same time, he would become one of the centers of attention, drawing some of the eyes originally focused on Mobius onto himself. And that... was absolutely not the outcome he wanted!

"What is it? Is there another problem?"

However, Mobius had no intention of letting Ling Xi go. To keep him from running away, she had already forced him back into the chair with her body, locking him in place with one hand while gripping his collar with the other in an extremely aggressive posture.

"I... I don't... really want to be the Doctor's student, because..."

Ling Xi forcibly came up with an excuse. "If I became your student, it would feel like we'd grow distant. We wouldn't be as close as we are now."

"Oh..."

Hearing his answer, Mobius's smile grew even wider. "You don't want to grow distant from me? Mmm... Since Ling Xi doesn't want to be my student, then... what do you want to be to me? Come on, be brave and say it out loud."

Ling Xi: "..."

"Doctor, you've used this trick twice already. Do you think I'd still fall for it?"

Ling Xi looked at Mobius with a gloomy expression. Mobius really was amazing, and in this position, he could not only smell her scent, but even... clearly feel those magnificent curves.

But as the saying went, things never happened more than three times. He had already been tricked by the Doctor twice in a row yesterday. How could he possibly fall for it again today?

"Oh..."

Mobius merely leaned down, pressed her lips against Ling Xi's cheek, then stuck out her tongue and gave him a lick. Smirking mischievously, she said, "Ling Xi, I can taste the flavor of lies. You... really don't have anything you want to say to me?"

Ling Xi: "..."

Stay calm, stay calm. Absolutely stay calm!

Bad women only tricked him into starting over. Only Mother Fu truly loved him. He absolutely could not believe a bad woman's words. Absolutely...

"Doctor!"

Suddenly, Klein walked in carrying a huge stack of documents. Looking over them as she walked, she said, "These are the experimental data you asked me to organize yesterday, Doctor. I've finished sorting them out and came to deliver them..."

Then Klein saw what was happening in the lab...

Klein: "..."

If the chance of being silenced two hours ago had only been fifty percent, then now... it had probably risen to eighty percent.

"Ahem, Klein, good work!"

Mobius calmly got off Ling Xi, casually took the documents from Klein's hands, and began flipping through them with an unruffled expression.

"Um... Doctor, I'll get back to work..."

Klein decided that retreating was the wiser choice. With Ling Xi around, the Doctor probably would not do anything to her. But if Ling Xi was gone, then...

"Wait, Klein."

Mobius smiled as she handed the documents back to Klein. "Klein, there are a lot of errors in these documents. So... go organize them again."

"Huh..."

Klein was instantly dumbfounded. Errors? That was impossible. In all her years as the Doctor's assistant, she had never made a single mistake—not even one symbol had ever been wrong!

Unless it was the sort of case where she believed something was correct, but it was actually wrong, like a thought imprint or believing water was highly toxic. Otherwise, there was no way she could make a mistake.

"If I say there are errors, then there are errors..."

Mobius looked at her with a smile. "Could it be... Klein, are you... questioning me?"

Klein: "..."

Ling Xi: "..." Sorry, Senior Sister Klein. I'm the one who got you into this!

"Yes, Doctor..."

Left with no choice, Klein took the documents back from Mobius and silently went to the main hall to revise them. As for how she was supposed to revise them...

She had no idea!

"Doctor, aren't you just bullying an honest person?"

After Klein left, Ling Xi looked at Mobius resentfully. Klein was such an outstanding assistant, working overtime every day and never complaining no matter how hard she worked, yet the Doctor still bullied her like this. That was too much.

"Hmph, I'm not..."

Mobius pursed her lips and snorted. "What, do you want to question me too? Are you the Doctor, or am I the Doctor?"

"Of course you're the Doctor, Mobius... Doc! Tor!"

Ling Xi merely rubbed his forehead. He would not argue with her, but he still wanted to say that when it came to being a tyrant, the Doctor really was experienced.

"Hmph..."

Mobius gave a soft snort. "Fine, fine. Wrong is wrong. Go tell Klein to bring me the documents. Is that good enough now?"

"Huh..."

Ling Xi froze for a moment. Had he... heard that right?

"Hurry up. Do you really want Klein to revise those documents?"

Mobius smiled and urged Ling Xi to go quickly.

"Okay, Doctor!"

Ling Xi hurried out to find Klein. He did not know whether his persuasion had worked, but Klein would finally not have to be bullied anymore. At least... not this time.

"Hmph..."

Watching Ling Xi leave as well, Mobius snorted in slight displeasure. Of course, even if Ling Xi had said nothing, she would never have actually made Klein reorganize the documents. At most, after three minutes, she would have Klein bring them back under the excuse that she urgently needed them, and the matter would be forgotten.

After all, she could not bear to bully Klein. Though a little occasional teasing was still acceptable.

"Sigh..."

After Klein returned to the main hall with the documents, she stared miserably at them, wondering how exactly she was supposed to revise them.

Although Klein knew there was an eighty percent chance that the Doctor was... no, the Doctor was definitely deliberately making things difficult for her, there was nothing she could do. Who told her Mobius was the Doctor?

"Senior Sister Klein."

Just as Klein was agonizing over it, Ling Xi came out of the room and smiled at her. "The Doctor asked you to bring over the organized documents."

"Huh?"

Klein was clearly confused. "But the Doctor just told me to revise them?"

"About that... the Doctor needs them urgently, so she wants you to bring them over first. You can deal with the revisions later."

Ling Xi casually made up an excuse rather than telling Klein the truth directly. Though Klein could probably guess it anyway; after all, she likely understood Mobius better than he did.

"Is that so... Thank you, Ling Xi!"

Sure enough, Klein instantly guessed something. After thanking Ling Xi, she hurried off to find Mobius with the documents.

"Sigh... this really is lively."

Watching Klein's retreating figure, Ling Xi could not help laughing. Although the Doctor occasionally acted inhuman, at least she did not bully Klein too badly.

Doctor Is Such a Nice Person! Yeah, I Know!

After Klein went to deliver the documents to Mobius, Ling Xi sat on the sofa and looked through the materials on Klein's computer, though he could not understand most of them.

About a minute later, Klein walked out of Laboratory Three and saw Ling Xi sitting on the sofa.

"Ling Xi, thank you."

Klein thanked Ling Xi, because she could roughly guess that he had made the Doctor change her mind. Otherwise, given the Doctor's personality, she would have waited at least five minutes before calling for her.

"No need to thank me. The Doctor was just teasing you in the first place."

Ling Xi shook his head. "You've been with the Doctor for so long. You should understand her better than I do."

"I wouldn't put it that way."

Klein shook her head slightly. "The Doctor... is a very good person. But as for understanding her, I don't think I can say that I truly understand her. It would be more accurate to say I comprehend her. And the only person who truly understands the Doctor is probably the Doctor herself."

"Is that so..."

Ling Xi merely rubbed his nose at that answer, but he did not refute it. Indeed, only Mobius herself could know what she was thinking. Besides...

He could not quite put it into words, but he always felt that Mobius's personality was not truly the personality she displayed. There was always... a sense of disconnect.

So Mobius's current actions and personality felt more like the result of compromise after being beaten down by society.

"It's fine. You'll slowly come to understand the Doctor in the future."

Klein smiled at Ling Xi. "The Doctor... really is a very good person. If you stay with her, you won't regret it."

"Um... regretting it probably isn't possible."

Ling Xi knew what Klein meant. Was she not hoping that he would stay? Of course... that was what he wanted too: cling to the right thigh and never forget his original purpose!

It was just that, while he had indeed clung to that thigh, he seemed to have held on a little too tightly. Now Mobius wanted him to become her student...

"It's fine. Just spend more time with her."

Klein nodded in understanding and smiled. "This is the first time the Doctor has cared so much about someone. So obviously, the Doctor really likes you."

"Huh... you... already knew?"

Ling Xi stared at Klein in shock. She had only gone in for a minute. Had Mobius already told Klein about wanting him to become her student?

"Mhm..."

Klein nodded silently. "The Doctor told me last night."

At first, Klein had not been certain what Mobius was thinking, but now she was sure. Her Doctor really liked Ling Xi, so as the Doctor's number-one assistant, she naturally had to help give her a push!

Last night, when the Doctor talked about Ling Xi, she had been incredibly happy. Perhaps... that had been the Doctor's true feelings.

"Um..."

Ling Xi suddenly did not know what to say. So Mobius had planned to take him as a student and told Klein about it as early as last night. But still...

Was he really that outstanding? He was clearly a complete amateur when it came to research, so why had Mobius taken an interest in him?

"Ling Xi, this is the Doctor's first time taking the initiative. That alone shows how much she cares, so..."

Klein stood on tiptoe and patted Ling Xi on the shoulder. "You can really give the Doctor some serious consideration. After all... there isn't much of an age gap between you two, and this sort of thing is very common."

Klein zealously promoted her Doctor. After all, an older woman by three years was worth three bricks of gold—if Ling Xi held onto the Doctor, he would be holding onto 1.3 bricks of gold!

Ling Xi: "..."

It actually seemed to make sense. There were no age requirements between teachers and students anyway, and among any three people, one could be a teacher. Besides, Mobius was probably capable of teaching more than ninety-nine percent of all the old professors in the world.

"I'll have to... think about it."

Of course, even though Klein made a lot of sense, Ling Xi still would not agree rashly. Mobius could absolutely be considered one of the protagonists of the Pre-Collapse Civilization, while his original goal had only been to cling to a powerful thigh and coast happily without drawing too much attention!

But if he became Mobius's student, it would be difficult even if he wanted to avoid attention.

"That's true."

Klein nodded silently and smiled. "After all, this concerns your future, so you really should think it over carefully. But personally, I truly hope you'll stay by the Doctor's side. In the future, we can all work hard together and create something brilliant!"

Ling Xi: "..." Did this concern his future?

Well, yes. Considering how important Doctor Mobius was to the Pre-Collapse Civilization, his choice really did concern the future.

After chatting for a while, the two stopped discussing the matter and began talking about scientific research instead.

"By the way, Klein, are you good with computers?"

Watching Klein use the computer so professionally, Ling Xi suddenly had an idea.

"Mhm, I suppose so."

Klein nodded silently. "Who doing research these days doesn't know how to use a computer? But I didn't major in computer science, so I can only say I'm passable."

"Then do you know how to snatch tickets?"

Ling Xi went straight to the point.