"Wait!"
Seele hurriedly stood up and followed him to the door.
"Hm? Is there anything else?"
Ling Xi naturally stopped as well and turned back to look at Seele curiously...
"Um... well, thank you..."
At this moment, Seele no longer wanted to face Ling Xi with that haughty attitude of hers. After all... she could tell that Ling Xi genuinely cared about her.
"Hehe, why are you thanking me? We're close."
Ling Xi reached out and patted Seele's head, smiling. "All right, Seele, get some rest. You have class this afternoon..."
Seele: "..." No, did this guy really have nothing he wanted to say to her?
"Ling Xi... um..."
Seele looked at Ling Xi with a bright smile. "Can you bend down? I want to pat your head too."
"Uh..."
Ling Xi instinctively leaned back, because he felt like Seele wanted to hit him with a Judas... Wait, had he revealed something?
Fortunately, Seele did not have a Judas, so...
"Sure, Seele."
Ling Xi relaxed and lowered his head. Then...
"Mm..."
Seele directly wrapped her arms around Ling Xi's head, rose onto her tiptoes, and gently bit his ear...
Ling Xi: "???"
"Seele..."
Ling Xi was instantly dumbfounded. What... was that supposed to be?
"Hmph, idiot!"
Her face bright red, Seele fiercely smacked Ling Xi on the head!
"Ah..."
Bang!
Along with Ling Xi's cry, the dormitory door slammed shut...
Ling Xi: "..."
What exactly... was going on?
"Seele!"
Ling Xi hurriedly knocked on the door, intending to speak with Seele a little longer. At the very least... he had to ask what she meant, otherwise...
But Seele had no intention of speaking, nor did she respond.
Ling Xi: "..."
The ten minutes were nearly up, and if he kept knocking on the door here, he would definitely draw the attention of the surrounding dorms. That would be even more troublesome.
"Seele, I'm leaving first. Call me!"
With no other choice, Ling Xi could only temporarily give up on seeing Seele again as time ran out. They could talk over the phone.
"Phew..."
Hearing Ling Xi's retreating footsteps, Seele finally breathed a sigh of relief. She sat against the door, covering her burning red face with both hands. What... had she just done?
She had clearly only wanted to rub against him a little, but... in the end, she had decided to bite him instead. That way... he probably had not noticed, right?
Yeah... he definitely had not!
"Phew..."
Seele took a deep breath. This time...
Once Ling Xi came back, that guy should understand what she wanted to say, right? After all...
She could not wait any longer. She had to get Ling Xi away from that dangerous Mobius as soon as possible. Mm... Mobius was dangerous in every sense of the word!
Still, she did not need to worry too much. Compared to Mobius, Ling Xi's relationship with her was definitely closer. Mobius was just a coworker, after all. Hehe...
All right, she should sleep for a while. She still had class this afternoon...
That afternoon, Ling Xi arrived at Mobius's Lab Three and was immediately greeted by Mobius's kindly gaze.
"Ling Xi..."
Mobius walked up to Ling Xi with a smile and asked, "About last night... no third person knows, right?"
"Uh..."
Ling Xi froze as the scene of last night's Snake Shedding involuntarily surfaced in his mind...
And... why had he stopped her yesterday? Would it not have been fine to let Doctor keep shedding? Damn it...
He regretted it. In short, he regretted it deeply now.
"Ahem, don't worry, Doctor. In this world, only the two of us know."
But now was not the time to think about that. He needed to deal with Doctor first, especially... Doctor as she was now.
"Oh..."
Mobius nodded thoughtfully and smiled. "Then, as long as I silence you, no one will ever know about this?"
Ling Xi: "..."
"Haha, all right, all right. I'm just teasing you."
Seeing Ling Xi's speechless expression, Mobius happily pounced on him and giggled. "The plane tickets have been bought. We'll leave for Mu Continent tomorrow. Is there anything you need to prepare?"
"Prepare..."
Ling Xi thought about it for a moment, then shook his head. "I probably don't need to prepare anything. One change of clothes will be enough."
"Is that so... then all right."
Mobius thought so too. This time, they were only attending a symposium, so there was indeed no need to bring too many things. A change of clothes, a toiletry bag, the necessary documents and materials, notebooks, and so on.
In short, two suitcases should be enough.
"Sniff... sniff..."
Suddenly, Ling Xi seemed to hear a familiar sound. Was Doctor...
Ling Xi: "?!"
Ling Xi immediately seemed to remember something and hurriedly tried to slip away from Mobius. However...
"Ling Xi..."
Mobius had already released Ling Xi, though she still wore that kind smile. "You seem to have a girl's scent on you again. And... it's your junior's."
"Doctor, actually, Seele, she..."
Ling Xi still tried to explain. Yesterday it had been Elysia, and today it was Seele. Combined with seeing Doctor's Snake Shedding last night, his situation... was very dangerous.
"Forget it. I don't want to hear it..."
Mobius shook her head, stretched lazily, and yawned. "Handle Seele's matter however you want. It's not like you would give her up even if I told you to..."
"Doctor, that's not what I mean."
Ling Xi felt that Mobius might have misunderstood something and hurriedly tried to explain.
"No, I understand what you mean."
Mobius smiled faintly. "The Third Honkai... you don't want her to stay in Changkong City, do you?"
"Huh?"
With Mobius saying that, Ling Xi did not know how to respond.
"Hehe, so..."
Mobius gently embraced Ling Xi, kissed him on the cheek, and smiled. "Before the Third Honkai arrives, either you do it or I do it. In any case, we should trick her into... ahem, recruit her into the laboratory first. Then, even if we take her along when we evacuate, it will make sense."
"Mm, I... understand. Thank you, Doctor."
Ling Xi instantly understood what Doctor meant. Sure enough, no one understood a child better than a father, and no one understood him better than his wife!
"Hmph, we're family. What are you thanking me for, idiot..."
Mobius irritably smacked Ling Xi on the head. Always saying thank you made them seem distant.
"Ow..."
Ling Xi: "..."
All Ling Xi could do was rub his head resentfully. Seriously... why was it always a smack on the head? Did they all have some kind of problem?
"Hehe, all right, all right. My mistake..."
However, Mobius hugged Ling Xi again and smiled. "Ling Xi, once we return from this conference on Mu Continent, let's get married..."
"Uh... okay."
Ling Xi really wanted to tell Doctor not to casually raise a death flag, but after thinking about it, he figured there should not be any problem. They were only attending a conference, not going to war.
Besides, Doctor would not be attending the conference alone this time. He... would be going with her!
So Ling Xi decisively agreed.
"Hehe... good..."
Mobius happily hugged Ling Xi. As long as she married Ling Xi, or finished what needed to be done, then... a mere Seele could go play somewhere else.
Buy a House? Darling, on Mu Continent!
The next day, the flight carrying the two of them landed at the capital airport of Mu Continent.
"Mmm, it's been a long time since I came here."
After getting off the plane, Mobius lazily stretched her body. Looking at the familiar airport, she felt a trace of nostalgia.
"Doctor, where are we going next?"
Ling Xi followed from behind. Looking at the continent he was setting foot on for the first time both before and after his transmigration, he felt rather sentimental as well.
After all, in the era of the new civilization, Mu Continent no longer existed. As for why...
That question should be answered by the Herrscher of Rock!
After consulting the records, Ling Xi learned that Mu Continent covered a full 35 million square kilometers. Second only to Asia, it was the world's second-largest continent, with a total area equivalent to three and a half Europes. And most terrifying of all...
Mu Continent possessed the most advanced technology in the world, while nearly eighty percent of outstanding scientists either came from Mu Continent or had graduated there.
That was precisely why both the United Nations headquarters and the Flame-Chasing Moths headquarters had been established on Mu Continent, a place at the pinnacle of global civilization. It was also why this symposium was being held on Mu Continent.
"We'll go to the hotel we booked first. Rest today, or go out and look around. The conference officially begins tomorrow and is scheduled to last three days."
Mobius had already arranged the itinerary. Of course, Klein had actually arranged everything in advance back at home, since it was part of her duties as an assistant.
"Mm, okay."
Naturally, Ling Xi had no objections. Smiling, he said, "Then, Doctor, go wait at the exit first. I'll get our luggage."
"Mm, go on, go on."
Mobius nodded, having no objections to that either...
Before long, the two arrived at the hotel they had booked, and Ling Xi finally experienced what technological living truly meant.
Smart parking, smart entrances, one-click automated check-in, smart butlers, robotic attendants, and more—it took the phrase technology changes life to the absolute extreme.
To use an inappropriate comparison, Changkong City was like an ordinary early twenty-first-century society, while the capital of Mu Continent was basically like life in the late twenty-first century, bordering on the twenty-second century.
To Ling Xi, it felt a bit like 2077. Of course, he only meant the atmosphere; as for public safety, it was even better than in the great country where he had lived before transmigrating.
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