Their commission was suspicious.

However, because disciplining prisoners and cultivating himself occupied most of Chen Luo's time, it took him so long to carve an exquisite mask.

"Ha, I touched it." Just as Chen Luo and Qian Jie were pushing and shoving the mask, Chen Luo's hand reached directly towards Qian Jie's head.

"Click".

"Oh dear, my hand is broken."

Master Qian is a man of his word.

Standing to the side, watching Chen Luo's unusually shaped arm after Qian Jie released his grip, Aponia could only sigh to herself.

The only consolation is that Chen Luo only suffered a dislocated bone, not a fracture.

A little bone realignment later will do the trick.

This has happened so many times in the past month that it's become unsurprising.

"..."

"..."

While Aponia remained silent and made no move, Chen Luo and Qian Jie were staring at each other in bewilderment.

On one hand, he wanted to touch Qianjie's head, but after touching it for only a second, Chen Luo lost his hand.

On the other hand, despite all precautions, Qianjie still managed to touch her head for a second.

Chen Luo was truly innocent; he only wanted to pat Qian Jie's head.

Although Qianjie remembered that Chen Luo had indeed touched his head several times, this was Chen Luo's first truly authentic experience.

To lose an arm just to touch Qianjie's head, Chen Luo felt it was somewhat worthwhile... well, not really.

Oh well, a small loss isn't a big deal.

Meanwhile, Qian Jie, who had been patted on the head by Chen Luo for a second, seemed to be completely unaffected.

After taking the graduation gift from Chen Luo, Qian Jie glared at Chen Luo and went straight back to her room.

Qianjie is different from the villains imprisoned in the Deepest Place. Qianjie was only imprisoned in the Deepest Place because he was too threatening, and he did not cause any large-scale harm to civilians.

Or, in a sense, Thousand Calamities was also a hero who destroyed the Fifth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Ice.

Qian Jie doesn't need Chen Luo to awaken her conscience, nor is it necessary for her to do so.

Even if Qianjie's head is touched, it won't elicit any special reaction from those evil people.

But the head pat still works after all.

For example... when Qianjie returned to his cell, he took the opportunity to snatch the graduation gift he was entitled to from Chen Luo.

Qianjie would become quieter after Chen Luo patted his head every time.

[I was just about to enjoy the tranquility of Qian Jie alone. Perhaps I shouldn't disturb him.]

The effects of a head pat are quite complex; in most cases, it puts the person into a state of sage-like clarity, making them both lucid and foolish. This perfectly matches the original name of the ability—the more you pat someone's head, the sillier they become.

But its essential effect is to grant peace to the recipient, and at the same time, to dispel curses from the other person, whether mental or physical. It's just that physical curses require touching the head for a long time.

On the other hand, a gentle head pat can also allow the other person's soul to evolve, causing their nature to return to purity. Specifically, brief contact can temporarily awaken the conscience of villains.

For Qianjie, a head pat might simply be a way to grant the other person a moment of peace.

Qian Jie did not resent the fact that his spirit was being gradually eroded by anger and killing intent.

But the peace and quiet that one "occasionally" has to enjoy because of Chen Luo's "sneak attack" is also a helpless situation, isn't it?

"Let's go." After watching Qian Jie return to his cell, Chen Luo packed up Qian Jie's graduation dinner and said to Aponia.

Food should not be wasted.

This is the first lesson Chen Luo teaches Qian Jie.

Chen Luo felt somewhat embarrassed to lead the way in violating the rules.

……

"I, Chen Luo, am finally back!" When Chen Luo reappeared in front of everyone, it was already business hours.

8 pm.

"What have you been doing? It took you so long!" Yukari Yakumo couldn't help but ask.

Although Yukari Yakumo didn't know when Chen Luo left, the fact that he arrived at the bar right at 8 o'clock meant that this matter was quite important.

"I experienced a plot jump. Don't be fooled by the fact that I only disappeared for an afternoon; actually, a month has passed in another world. Of course, none of that matters." Chen Luo waved his hand.

The timeline for Chen Luo's storyline jump was not 30 days, but 29 days.

Tomorrow is the day Su arrives at the Moth of Fire, so Chen Luo naturally needs to make some preparations.

At the same time, it should also be in line with the timeline of the pre-civilization and the spiritual world.

Of course, most importantly...

"Did you miss me?" Chen Luo sent a message to Mebius.

To everyone except those from the previous civilization, Chen Luo simply meant that he had disappeared for a few hours.

But for Möbius alone, it had been a month since he had last seen Chen Luo.

Klein?

She was happy with her milk tea.

“???” The message that suddenly appeared on his communicator through the group network caught Möbius off guard.

"Aren't you supposed to be back tomorrow?"

"Oh, so you remember exactly which day it was? Were you counting down the days? I'm so happy."

"If you have nothing to say, you can bite your lighter."

"...What I meant was, if you don't have anything else to do, just come find me at the bar."

In the deepest realms, apart from Aponia and Qianjie, no one would dare to disturb Chen Luo.

Qian Jie is currently withdrawn and has no interest in going to find Chen Luo.

Aponia, on the other hand, had already become accustomed to Chen Luo being suddenly replaced by a strangely fated puppet.

Aponia lived two doors down from Chen Luo in the Firemoth dormitory and occasionally noticed fluctuations in Chen Luo's fate.

Chen Luo actually quite liked the deepest place; it was full of talented people who spoke very pleasantly...

His methods of self-punishment, in particular, are refreshing.

After informing Mebius, Chen Luo looked at the upcoming opening hours and immediately summoned the Oath of Judah, placing it in the manager's position.

As for Chen Luo? There are indeed some urgent matters to attend to right now.

For example, something very "simple"... the voting for the mascot.

Since the Herrscher of Knowledge and the others seemed to still be busy with the quest for the Book of Salin 2.0, and given that their tempers might become even more irritable due to the tedious nature of the quest, Chen Luo chose to avoid them.

Chen Luo, who was in the bar, disappeared instantly. When he reappeared, he was in a huge body of water.

Originally, it was a swamp of poisonous creatures.

While using his flight ability to float one meter above the water's surface, Chen Luo mechanically baited the hook, cast the fishing rod, and then opened the voting panel for the Abyss Passage.

"Roar!" A tremendous roar resounded.

Suddenly, a huge shark leaped out of the water and viciously bit Chen Luo.

"Snap!" A giant hand made of silk threads grabbed the shark, and the silk threads slowly turned into countless threads, binding it tightly.

"Hmm, dinner's ready. But why do sharks roar?"

Perhaps because this area of ​​the sea had been quiet for a long time, the sounds here attracted more and more marine predators to approach.

"Snap!" Chen Luo snapped his fingers lightly.

A massive bolt of lightning struck down from the sky and cleaved into the vast sea.

As we all know, water conducts electricity.

All around Chen Luo were various strange fish floating belly up on the surface of the sea.

"Is this how the power of the Herrscher of Thunder should be used? But speaking of which, if we're having a seafood set meal at the bar tonight, I wonder if Grandpa Zhongli will turn around and leave..."

At this moment, after a day of competition, the results of the voting on the voting panel slowly emerged before Chen Luo.

Our beloved Bishop Otto, with a huge advantage, became the prospective mascot of the Adventurers' Guild.

The most popular character, well-deserved.

In fact, Otto's high number of votes was entirely due to the contrast with his peers.

"Splash!" Chen Luo's fishing rod stirred.

Chen Luo looked down and realized that it was actually the bait that was moving around.

"Qiubi, stop moving around, or you'll scare away the fish we're trying to catch," Chen Luo complained to Qiubi, who was thrashing about in the sea.

What other bait could be more resource-efficient than Kyubey, who can revive after death?

"Forget about Kyubey, so are you really planning to make Otto Apocalypse's image a puppet for the Adventurers' Guild?"

Chen Luo looked up at the sky, but the six black dots that appeared in the sky were no longer the same as when he was in the spiritual energy plane.

【? ? ?】

Inside the abyss passage, Chen Luo looked up and saw the will of the abyss passage itself.

"It's not impossible, but as many people have worried, when Otto is chosen to be in charge of issuing missions, they might be hesitant to accept them. That is a problem."

Fame has its advantages, but Otto's reputation often oscillates between that of a great inventor and a schemer.

"Then what should we do?"

"You're the planner, why are you asking me? But I, the graphic designer, can offer you another option." As Chen Luo spoke, he suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

A light green figure appeared beside Chen Luo and was then caught by the magic carpet that appeared.

"Look, Catherine!"

"You created the Catherine doll?"

"No, I stole the Catherine doll from Teyvat!"

When Chen Luo wanted Catherine, the butterfly doll that had been hiding under Catherine's skirt in Mondstadt used a special device developed by Chen Luo specifically for dolls to instantly render Catherine powerless and then bring her into the doll world.

Now Chen Luo has brought it up again.

"Give it back! That would cause a diplomatic conflict!"

"Huh? Oh. Don't panic, don't panic, I just want to copy it. I can just use what's already there. But the original Catherine seems to be a bit low-level." Chen Luo said as he placed the lifeless Catherine into the sea.

Immediately afterwards, three Catherines appeared on the sea, but they still had lifeless eyes.

"Smack!" Suddenly, the golden-haired Catherine raised her arm and slammed a chop to Chen Luo's head.

"it hurts!"

"This knife strike was done for me after I worked overtime for three days!" Catherine, whose eyes had been vacant, now looked at Chen Luo with resentment in her eyes.

Chapter 1149 Isamara: I'm asking you, what is the (Orca Suit) made of?!

In the instant he was hit, Chen Luo had already imagined a long, melodramatic love story of nearly a million words.

For example, he might be the puppeteer who created Catherine, and after completing the mission of identifying the Honkai consciousness in the Honkai world, he might become an executor of the Fatui.

Chen Luo had even thought of a name for his and Catherine's child... Little Twelve!

But when Chen Luo saw the bubble cloud above Catherine's head, his face instantly turned innocent.

Stop overthinking, this is the consciousness of the Abyss Passage. A deus ex machina is coming to beat you up.

Although Chen Luo was very curious about how the Abyss Passage had stolen Catherine's account, he wondered why the Abyss Passage's consciousness couldn't steal an account even if the Little Lucky Grass King could.

"Let's be reasonable..."

Chen Luo had only uttered three words when he suddenly noticed that the golden Catherine doll in front of him had once again lost its sparkle.

Reasoning with me? Sorry, I'm not listening!