Pre-Collapse Civilization: My Wife is a Snake!
Chapter 35

What Do I Do If I Have Another Wife?

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After reaching the shore, Mobius felt considerably more relaxed. She did not know how to describe it... but being here with Ling Xi gave her an inexplicable sense of security.

"Me too..."

Ling Xi nodded and smiled. "My home is an inland city in Shenzhou, so I rarely had the chance to visit the seaside."

"Really?"

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with curiosity and smiled. "Changkong City isn't far from the sea. You could even call it a coastal city. You'd been in Changkong City for so long and never came to the beach?"

"No."

Ling Xi shook his head. He had been transported here for over two months now. At first, he had been in H City when the Honkai erupted. If he had not been lucky enough to enter the correct password and activate his cheat, he would have been dead long ago!

Afterward, he followed the Flame-Chasing Moths' troops to Changkong City, then spent every day figuring out whether he should escape the city or do something else. Besides, he did not have much money and needed to save it for a plane ticket. He truly had not had the time to visit the beach. After all, Changkong City was practically finished.

"Ling Xi!"

Mobius simply sat down and looked at Ling Xi with a smile. "Do you want to know about my past?"

"I think... I should already know it."

Ling Xi scratched his head. He had certainly looked into Mobius's records. From elementary school until she graduated and became a world-class scholar, there were only two words to describe her: genius!

"Hehe, no, you don't."

Mobius shook her head slightly and smiled. "My childhood... no, perhaps I never had a childhood. The moment I was born, I already possessed self-awareness and the ability to think independently. So I kept thinking—was I truly sent by heaven to change humanity's future? After all, aside from me, I had never heard of anyone else who could think from the moment they were born."

Ling Xi: "..." Based on that, I think it's more likely that you were transported here...

"But later, I discovered that too much of what I did went misunderstood. So I worked on my own and entertained myself, eventually obtaining the knowledge and power I wanted. Then..."

Mobius smiled. "I wanted to change humanity, to change this world. But just as before, almost nothing I did was understood. Even when I did something good, people called it a conspiracy."

Ling Xi: "..." I know that very well.

"Sigh, Ling Xi..."

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with a smile and asked, "Do you think I should continue down my own path, or... abandon my previous ideals and peacefully move forward in the direction they consider correct?"

"Doctor... you already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"

Ling Xi could not quite grasp Mobius's true thoughts at that moment. After all... the original story had never explained Mobius's situation in detail!

Moreover, because of the influence of a butterfly like him, the story had naturally changed. Mobius... might have been affected as well!

Although, with Mobius's willpower, it was basically impossible for her to be influenced!

"Hehe, you're not allowed to give such a slippery answer."

Mobius seemed to see through Ling Xi's thoughts and smiled. "You... must answer me. Because... I will make my final decision based on your answer. So, Ling Xi, tell me... what would you choose?"

"Ling Xi!"

The moment Mobius asked that question, Sirin's voice appeared again. This time, however, she no longer sounded relaxed and cheerful. Instead, she was... extremely serious!

"Ling Xi, this concerns a choice for the future. Once you choose, a corresponding future will appear. Please treat this seriously!"

A: Support Mobius in staying true to herself and declare that you will accompany her all the way. Unlock Imprint ability and randomly obtain one Infinite Imprint! B: Support Mobius in compromising and have her repair her relationship with the upper management. Unlock Imprint ability and randomly obtain one special Self Imprint!

Ling Xi: "???"

Imprints?

Could they be the Flame-Chasing Moths' Imprints from the Elysian Realm?

"In that case, there is only one answer!"

Ling Xi stood up decisively and said with solemn sincerity, "I swear... loyalty to the Doctor!"

"Huh?"

Mobius seemed unable to react for a moment.

"Doctor, I already gave you my answer!"

Ling Xi smiled faintly. "Whether it was at that reception that day or during our conversation the next day, I had already answered your question. If humanity wants to continue down this path, it must choose evolution. So, Doctor, we..."

"Can only proceed according to our own ideas. There is no second choice!"

Ling Xi continued, "We might not know the future, but we can slowly change it. Therefore... evolution truly is humanity's only choice!"

"Hehe, evolution..."

As she listened to Ling Xi's answer, longing flickered in Mobius's eyes. But she also asked, "However, with humanity's current technology, we can wipe out ninety-nine percent of all life on the planet's surface. Under such circumstances, do you think evolution still has meaning?"

"Of course!"

Ling Xi smiled with absolute conviction. "Perhaps in this era, evolution will not bring any change to humanity. Instead, it may bring disasters and doubts. But... once the seed of evolution is planted, it will take root and sprout someday, becoming a towering tree. So the meaning of evolution does not lie solely in the present, but even more in... the future!"

"Compared with the advancement of technology, the pace of evolution may seem so weak, so vulnerable. Perhaps you, with your technology, have already reached the middle game, while I, still unevolved, have only just begun. But..."

Ling Xi took a deep breath, looked at Mobius, and smiled. "You need to understand that we are not... playing the same game of chess!"

"Hehe... hahaha, hahahaha..."

After hearing Ling Xi's answer, Mobius laughed loudly, happily—or perhaps wantonly. "The future, a chess game... that's right, Ling Xi. We truly are playing a new game of chess. As expected, you are... the person I have been waiting for all this time."

At that moment, Mobius completely trusted Ling Xi. Or rather... she completely believed that he was someone walking the same path as her. Otherwise, he could never have said those words just now, because they did not merely express Ling Xi's own thoughts. They expressed the true meaning of evolution!

This was... what she truly believed.

Sure enough, she had not judged the wrong person. She was also fortunate that she had not judged him wrong, because... only then could she carry out the plan she had been considering for days—a plan... belonging only to herself and Ling Xi!

"Ling Xi, since you said that, then..."

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with a wicked smile. "You'll carry out whatever I say from now on, right?"

"Uh... you could put it that way, but... only when it concerns experiments, Doctor!"

Ling Xi agreed, but not entirely.

"Oh? As long as it concerns an experiment, you'll do it?"

Mobius continued looking at Ling Xi with a smile on her face.

"Mm, as long as the Doctor doesn't..."

Ling Xi had wanted to say that it was fine as long as it did not violate the law, ethics, or morality, but... on second thought, how could anything Mobius did in the future possibly not violate those things?

"Mm, as long as it is the Doctor's order!"

In the end, Ling Xi nodded heavily, choosing to believe in this outstanding scientist of the Pre-Collapse Civilization and... to believe in everything she did!

"Is that so? Then... I have an experiment right now."

The smile on Mobius's face became even more obvious as she said to Ling Xi, "Bring your head closer, and I'll tell you... what the experiment is..."

"Sure!"

Ling Xi did not doubt Mobius's words in the slightest. He leaned his head over, and then...

Mobius suddenly grabbed Ling Xi's head with both hands and directly kissed him on the lips...

Ling Xi: "???" Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit... what just happened?

Fortunately, Mobius was a beginner too, so the kiss lasted less than five seconds. After releasing Ling Xi, Mobius continued to look at him with a smile...

"Doctor... what was that...? Didn't you say it was an experiment?"

Ling Xi was utterly bewildered. Had they not agreed it was an experiment? But...

This counted as an experiment? This counted as an experiment? If it did, then... please continue the experiment!

"Don't worry, this is part of the experiment..."

In response to Ling Xi's questioning, Mobius gently pressed a finger against his lips. Then she revealed her purest smile and said, "Now, the first step of the experiment begins. We... are getting married!"

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"First, the first step of the experiment... we are getting married!"

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with a face full of smiles!

"Uh..."

Ling Xi looked at Mobius as though he were saying, Are you fucking kidding me?

What kind of experiment required getting married? This was not Resident Evil. Why was she learning from Alice and doing something like a fake marriage?

"Doctor, stop messing around..."

Ling Xi rubbed his forehead, treating it as a joke from Mobius. After all, how could Mobius possibly have thoughts of marriage? From beginning to end, this girl only cared about her research. How could she have any interest in getting married?

Although there had been rumors in the story that Mobius and Thousand Calamities had an illegitimate child, Ling Xi remembered that it was entirely because Thousand Calamities killed Mobius. After she revived in a juvenile form and was seen by someone, it somehow turned into a rumor.

"Do you think I'm messing around?"

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with an ambiguous smile and said, "By the way, that was my first kiss just now. That statement... is true."

"Uh..."

Ling Xi did not know how to answer that for a moment.

"What? Would marrying me be such an injustice to you?"

Mobius continued looking at Ling Xi and said, "Or do you already have someone you like? For example... that little girl named Seele?"

"No... that's not it. I do like Seele, but... it's more of a concern."

Ling Xi shook his head, denying Mobius's claim. While he did have some thoughts about Seele, that could only wait until later. After all, he had more important matters to handle now, and...

The Honkai disaster in Changkong City had not been resolved yet.

"Ling Xi..."

Mobius gently leaned against Ling Xi's chest and softly asked, "I only want to know... do you... want to be with me?"

"Doctor... are you using this move again?"

Ling Xi had already developed resistance to this trick of Mobius's. He had been teased too many times; it had become a conditioned reflex.

"Hehe, using a move?"

Mobius stared at Ling Xi with a smile, then kissed his lips again...

Ling Xi: "..."

Could Mobius be serious this time?

But that was not right. Since when did Mobius have thoughts like this? Normally, should she not have been completely preoccupied with humanity's path of evolution? Why...

Why was she acting like this now?

Although Ling Xi had countless doubts in his mind, Mobius had already begun her attack. She was extremely inexperienced at this, perhaps even completely clueless, but she still tried hard to convey her feelings—feelings that were absolutely not a joke.

As Mobius took the initiative, Ling Xi gradually came to believe that she was serious this time, and...

Did he have feelings for Mobius? Of course he did!

Her perfect looks, his absolute fondness for her, her outstanding character, and above all, her being an absolute powerhouse...

He had simply never dared to imagine it before. But now...

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