Their commission was suspicious.

"By the way, in order to ensure you can resolve this matter 100%, I will seal this part of your memory. Bringing this up too early or too late will affect the final outcome."

"According to the instructions of the Book of Akasha, my arrival may alter your fate and cause the August that should have ended to repeat itself. This is indeed my fault."

A disruptor of fate... Chen Luo was aware of this.

"So as compensation, you're welcome to come to the bar after the endless August ends, and drinks will be free," Chen Luo said generously.

Although it wasn't originally free.

After seeing the four people off from the bar, Chen Luo notified them and then blocked them until the end of August.

They probably won't be able to come to the bar during this time.

Chen Luo wasn't a very patient person, so he skipped their time altogether.

After disconnecting from that world and the bar, the bar will receive a notification that the mission is complete in just one minute.

"That Ah Xu is really lame. How can a student not do his summer homework? A life without finishing summer homework on the last day is not a complete life," Chen Luo said with a sigh.

Even if Chen Luo were to take the lead, he probably wouldn't realize that the endless loops around the world were actually caused by not doing homework, but that didn't stop him from making sarcastic remarks from the sidelines.

[These words sound righteous and awe-inspiring, but masters, have you considered something?]

"What is it?"

Today is August 31st, and in an hour it will be September 1st... You haven't done your homework yet.

"Damn it, I didn't do my homework either... Oh, why am I panicking? I had Yunxia do my homework." Chen Luo remembered what had happened at the beginning of summer vacation.

【If that's what you think, then I have to tell you some sad news. The man in black who came to your house to collect your homework was actually from the church. For some reason, the church promised Yunxia they would help you finish your homework, but they didn't keep that promise. In other words…】

"That is to say..."

Not only did you not finish your homework, you even lost your notebook!

"Church, I...!" Chen Luo couldn't hold back his shock upon hearing the devastating news.

Although Chen Luo is now an S-level talent, he spent dozens of times longer as a student than as a talent.

It's also a subconscious reaction to hurl insults at certain groups because of homework problems.

[Ding! Mission complete]

Raw Stone +3106

This is good news, but it doesn't completely put Chen Luo at ease.

Damn church! They go back on their word and break their promises!

Seeing that there was only one hour left until September 1st, Chen Luo couldn't help but look at the "Endless August" trial card.

[Hey, seriously? You wouldn't use this card for something so trivial, would you? Calm down, a simple hint would have solved this.]

"But... this August is the one that wronged me first!"

【…】

"But you're right, it's not that bad, so..."

【so?】

"How much do you think I'd be worth if I sold myself?" Chen Luo asked, pointing to himself.

Worthless!

"..."

[Ahem, I mean, priceless!]

"Then... let's give it a try. Let me test the capacity of the world's consciousness!" Chen Luo made up his mind.

Let's also see if the world consciousness of our own world holds grudges.

Chapter 1418 The Abyss Passage Consciousness Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome

"How can you sleep? At your age, how can you even sleep?"

"Sleep with your ass, wake up and party! Party until dawn! We don't care if it's dawn or not, we're not going home anyway. Sleep with your ass, wake up and party! The party never ends! Life is so short, enjoy it while you can..."

"...Chen Luo, you bastard, wake up! I only have 15 minutes of vacation left, so wake up now so I can yell at you for a bit, then I'm leaving... Why aren't you awake yet?"

"Wake up, Chen Luo! You're going to be late for school!"

"Ugh, so annoying! Who's yelling like that? I better not catch her, or I'll twist her head off." Even with the blanket covering his ears, Chen Luo couldn't escape the ear-piercing sound.

Chen Luo suddenly realized that sometimes hearing too much isn't a good thing.

"Hmm..." Because Chen Luo's movements were too vigorous, the Herrscher of Knowledge, who had been sleeping with Chen Luo all night, rubbed against Chen Luo's arm in annoyance.

After waking up sleepily, the Herrscher of Consciousness, dressed in pajamas, yawned and slipped directly into Chen Luo's sea of ​​consciousness.

I'm so annoying.

Nobody's bothering you, we didn't hear a sound. What nonsense are you spouting?

However, when the Lawbringer of Knowledge entered Chen Luo's sea of ​​consciousness, he actually heard a voice that spoke at an extremely fast pace, like a shrew cursing in the street.

The Lawbringer of Knowledge suddenly awoke from the bed of that small boat in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Suddenly, I heard a voice in my mind's eye.

"You little bastard, Twelve, why did you wake me up so early? If you don't have a reason, believe me, I'll twist your head off!" While the Herrscher of Consciousness was staring wide-eyed in her sea of ​​consciousness, unable to fall asleep because of Twelve's ear-piercing voice, Chen Luo finally couldn't help but sit up in bed.

Chen Luo shouldn't have turned on the listening switch, otherwise he wouldn't have been woken up so early in the morning.

Chen Luo usually turns off his listening function because once he activates it, he can hear a great many things: the sound of ants rubbing against the ground, the flow of groundwater hundreds of meters below, and the constant heartbeat of the people around him...

However, sometimes turning off listening completely can lead to mistakes, so Chen Luo left his listening privileges, which granted him access to the world, on. He didn't turn them off when he went to sleep last night... and then he was woken up by that damned consciousness from the Abyss Passage.

The reason why the Herrscher of Consciousness couldn't hear anything at first, but could hear the voice after hiding in the sea of ​​consciousness, is probably because only by entering the sea of ​​consciousness can the Herrscher of Consciousness share its listening experience.

"Are you sick?" This was Chen Luo's final accusation against Xiao Shier.

"You have the nerve to say that to me? You bastard, you've been stringing me along, haven't you? Do you know how I spent yesterday?"

"What do you mean, how did you get through it? Didn't I not twist your neck yesterday? Have you developed some weird habits?" Chen Luo scratched his head.

"It's because you didn't twist my neck even once yesterday, from morning till just now. Even after work, when I could finally go home to rest, I was still anxious, afraid that you would twist my neck again while I was sleeping! I couldn't stand it anymore, so I took a day off to see what was going on."

The consciousness of the abyss passage huffed and puffed.

"..." Chen Luo looked up at the sky with a somewhat dazed expression.

"Is this why you stayed up so early this morning and deliberately woke me up by yelling at me? Look at the time! It's only 6:00! 6:00! Even chickens don't get up this early!"

"Also, I'm warning you, don't speak into my mind again. I can tolerate you bothering me, but can you please stop bothering Xiao Shi?"

"Oh my, you've become a doting husband, haven't you? Yesterday, when you weren't twisting my neck and making me so worried, why didn't you think of me at all?"

"Little Twelve"

*Click!*

"Chen Luo, you bastard, you actually twisted my neck!"

"...If I don't twist your neck, you'll still scold me; if I do twist your neck, you'll still scold me. So why not twist it if it's free?"

Chen Luo realized that, although only a few days had passed, the consciousness of the Abyss Passage had developed Stockholm Syndrome from his actions…

Although it's not that serious, twisting my neck every day has definitely become a habit.

I'll twist its neck early on, as a way of reminding it not to be on edge all day. If I don't twist it, it won't be able to sleep at night and will keep thinking about it... When will Chen Luo twist its neck?

"Speaking of which, do you still need to sleep?" Unable to fall back asleep after being woken up, Chen Luo got up and dressed.

"Why aren't you using it? Even though I'm not human, you can't make something like artificial intelligence run non-stop. What if the CPU burns out?"

The consciousness of the Abyss Passage is neither human nor artificial intelligence, but if one had to choose a similar description, it would have to be the latter.

"So, do you really stop all activity when you sleep?"

"The world's consciousness has indeed created a special place of slumber so that we can work and rest better. There, we can achieve rest more quickly."

"How many hours of rest do you usually get?" Chen Luo asked curiously.

Chen Luo opened the room door, gently nudged the pink-furred fox sleeping by the door with his foot, and then walked towards the bathroom.

Last night, after Chen Luo closed the door, the little fox frantically scratched at the door, trying to get in, but Chen Luo simply put on earplugs and chose not to listen.

Just kidding, you don't turn into a pink fox for me to pet during the day, and you want to get into my bed at night?

Am I, Chen Luo, such a casual person?

As for that earplug... it turns out that the earplug was useless against the sounds that could trigger the consciousness of the abyss passage to listen.

Realizing that Chen Luo, the heartless man, had pushed open the door and found himself pitifully lying in front of it, without even offering a hug or comfort, the little fox gave Chen Luo the middle finger and then wagged its tail as it walked back to its den.

A fox that can't act isn't a good fox.

"It took about four hours."

"Oh, I was asking how long you rest each day."

"Four hours. Didn't I tell you?"

"...Sorry, I thought this was working hours. Isn't this even worse than 996?" Chen Luo was slightly surprised.

"996 is nothing! We can even work 007. After working continuously for hundreds of years, we can take a break and continue working. But I've heard that recently the world's consciousness has started to rationally arrange work, giving people four hours of rest each day. Apparently, this is to prevent situations where someone works for hundreds of years, then sleeps for hundreds of years, and then a major event happens that they can't react to, leading to the destruction of the entire world."

"I always feel that the story behind this regulation is more intriguing."

"I think so too, oh wait, I came here to yell at you. But it seems like 15 minutes is almost up... I need to go back to work."

"Well... good morning. Let's keep working hard in this new day, see you tomorrow."

"...See you tomorrow." As he left, the consciousness of the abyss passage seemed to find Chen Luo's calm yet friendly attitude very strange and uncomfortable.

"Has Little Twelve left?" Chen Luo asked casually.

[He's gone.]

"Little Twelve, baby, please turn your head!"

"Crack!"

"You think you can just leave after offending travelers? Ha." Chen Luo sneered and squeezed toothpaste onto his toothbrush.

No one stipulated that this skill could only be used on the same person once in a short period of time, and Chen Luo never said that he would only twist her neck once a day.

Chen Luo felt that it was good for Xiao Shier to stretch her neck and move her shoulders after working for so long.

Yesterday, just an hour before the long August was about to end and September was about to begin, Chen Luo realized that not only had he not finished his homework, but he couldn't even find his homework notebook. Ultimately, however, he still didn't choose to use the endless August trial card.

Using this trial card for such a childish reason is really silly.

Although the longer Chen Luo can develop, the more advantageous it will be for him, he hasn't encountered any insurmountable difficulties at the moment.

Although the start of school was indeed a little annoying for Chen Luo, it wasn't to the point of needing to use such a special prop.

Chen Luo's final choice was... to sell his body to the world's consciousness.

Yes, you read that right, it's about selling your body to the world's consciousness.

In the dead of night, although Chen Luo did know where his homework was through the Book of Akasha, he couldn't laugh when he learned that the person who was supposed to help him with his homework had been arrested and thrown into the Inquisition.

That jerk was also a procrastinator. He thought he could finish writing in the last few days anyway, so he might as well write it in the last few days and copy other people's work.

Before he could finish copying the assignment, Yvette had already dragged him to the Inquisition.

Chen Luo couldn't comment on this outcome, so he chose to apply for an identity mission.

The identity task is to find a passerby who has already finished their summer homework and left it by Chen Luo on the roadside.

Of course, Chen Luo could have solved this kind of problem using the Void Treasury, but this time, it was a test of the world's consciousness by Chen Luo.

Chen Luo wanted to test the world consciousness's attitude towards him; that was his main purpose.

After all, Chen Luo had said in front of his parents that he was going to teach the World Consciousness a lesson.

Anyway, with such a simple identity, he'd only be worth around 100 Originium Stones at most. If he were to be held a grudge and given an extremely difficult task, Chen Luo could simply choose to give up.

Losing 100 raw stones is better than Chen Luo having to do identity tasks for others, only to suddenly be retaliated against by the world consciousness, right?

However, the result of the trial was neither good nor bad.

The world consciousness didn't intend to completely destroy Chen Luo, but it also didn't intend to let him off the hook.