Honkai Impact 3rd, Paradise Typewriter isn't for making this kind of game.

"However, this is the first time I've seen a boss use breach of contract penalties to restrict his subordinates' freedom."

"This has certainly broadened my horizons. No wonder they wanted to leave. Unlike me, they can come and go as they please. After all, I never interfere with my employees' private lives and personal space."

stare--

Bronya stared at the raven with a blank expression.

Miss Raven was not to be outdone, and the tension between the two continued to rise, making the atmosphere heavy.

"This is a matter between Bronya and her stupid subordinate. Miss Raven, if you want to interfere with our company's internal decisions, please prepare the gold coins of an entire villa island before you come to discuss this. Stupid subordinate, let's go."

at this time.....

Before she could properly persuade Xia Yuan, Bronya feared that he would succumb to the other party's temptation and leave the studio. Holding Xia Yuan's hand tightly, Bronya prepared to take him away from here.

"But... Duck, I..."

Xia Yuan gazed longingly at Miss Raven outside the carriage, his eyes filled with reluctance.

"Tsk, it seems Ms. Bronya, your subordinates don't seem to want to leave with you."

It's hard to imagine what kind of work environment could make her so unwilling. But it's alright, Ms. Bronya, after this trip to Mount Taixu, remember to visit the bar sometime. I'll have your former subordinate give you a good welcome. Goodbye for now."

Raven entered the carriage and brushed past Bronya.

Bronya naturally understood Raven's implication. The other party's meaning was clear: after returning from Mount Taixu, Xia Yuan would belong to her. But Bronya obviously wouldn't let him succeed.

After the raven left, Bronya quietly followed it alone.

Bronya's intuition, honed from her past as a mercenary, told her that Raven had clearly received some kind of commission...

Moreover, the rewards are generous, and you can even buy out your own foolish subordinates. So, the next step is to investigate Raven's request and prevent him from completing the task.

"Duck...did you forget there's someone with you?"

The forgotten Xia Yuan stood on one side of the carriage, calling out to Bronya, but her figure had already disappeared into the aisle of the carriage along with the raven.

"Well... it seems like I'm all alone again."

Xia Yuan looked at the snow-covered landscape outside the carriage and sighed.

At the same time~

Hearing the commotion, Dr. Einstein came out of the room and quietly approached Xia Yuan from behind, patting him on the shoulder as if in a half-joking manner.

"Whoo~"

"Mr. Xia Yuan, why are you alone in the carriage? Did Bronya abandon you just now?"

"Aiyin... why do you walk so quietly?"

Looking at the beautiful girl with sky-blue curly hair behind him, Xia Yuan clutched his heart and said resentfully.

"If you are unhappy, uncomfortable, wronged, or even abandoned by Bronya, it doesn't matter. Dr. Tesla and I will always be your support. If you can't stand it there, you can come to us."

But Dr. Aiyin seemed to still be on that topic.

"Okay... no! I wasn't abandoned by Bronya. I was the one who wanted to distance myself from you all. After the trip to Mount Taixu, I won't be part of Anti-Entropy anymore, giving Aiin and the others a chance to miss me~"

Xia Yuan crossed his arms and said somewhat arrogantly.

"oh? "

"Mr. Xia Yuan, are you sure you don't want to come over to me and Dr. Tesla's place?"

"If you come, I can transfer all your workload to Dr. Tesla and let her do it. Of course, I'll need you, Mr. Xia Yuan, to accompany me periodically on a few trivial experiments."

"Oh, right~ Pay wages on time."

Ai Yin added one more sentence.

Dr. Ai's offer was undoubtedly tempting to Xia Yuan, but doing so would be exceptionally cruel to Dr. Tesla. He could even hear the red-haired twin-tailed beauty's fur standing on end at that time.

Chapter 152 You Know Too Much~

"Hmm... Ai Yin, let me think about it."

“Yes, Mr. Xia Yuan, why don’t you come to my room and consider it carefully? I’ve found that the room assigned to me is quite large.”

The girl with sky-blue curly hair, her desire to explore ignited, stood to one side of the door and gestured for Xia Yuan to enter.

"Aiyin...isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

Looking at the open door, Xia Yuan had a bad feeling that going in would give him a bad premonition. He needed to find an excuse to decline Dr. Einstein's invitation.

"Um... Aiyin, there are two passengers who need me to come and greet them."

Just as Xia Yuan was saying this to Dr. Ai Yin...

The faint sound of two girls talking could be heard from under the white snow outside the carriage.

"Timido, look, look! That train parked not far from us, isn't that the legendary Crimson Kite Immortal's exclusive train, the Crimson Kite?"

Carol pointed excitedly at the train in front of her and said to Timido beside her.

"Hmm... no matter how you look at it, the former Crimson Iris Immortal wouldn't have had a means of transportation like a train, would he?"

But Carol, standing beside her, stepped on the thick layer of snow that had already covered the ground and ran energetically toward the direction of the train.

Seeing her friend running faster and faster, Timido quickly called out:

"Carol, you...you slow down, don't run so fast, it would be bad if you fell into the snow."

But before Timido could finish speaking, Carol plunged headfirst into the snow.

But the energetic Carol didn't care at all and continued walking towards the carriage with great enthusiasm. She had noticed that there were two people inside the carriage who seemed to be talking about something.

Timido looked at the Taixu Mountain Resort Voucher she had won in a lottery, then at the train covered in snow, and felt it was rather strange that a train was still running in this weather...

Although Timido was somewhat concerned, out of worry for her companion's safety, the girl caught up with Carol as quickly as possible.

When Carol entered the carriage, she paced on the carpet, her feet covered in snowflakes, and swayed slightly.

When she saw Xia Yuan and Dr. Ai Yin on the side, a bright smile, like that of a sunny girl, appeared on her lips, and she happily greeted the two of them.

"Oh, are you also tourists visiting Mount Taixu? It's nice to meet you. My name is Carol."

only.......

Carol accidentally splashed some snowflakes onto Xia Yuan, but the carefree girl didn't notice.

“Mr. Xia Yuan, in a sense, you are like Santa Claus right now.”

Ai Yin, who was beside her, joked.

Looking at the snowflakes covering his body and the white mustache on either side of his mouth, Carol scratched her head sheepishly, then sincerely clasped her hands together and bowed to apologize to Xia Yuan.

"Sorry, sorry, I was in such a rush when I came in..."

thump—

Just then, accompanied by a loud bang, Timido, wearing roller skates, slid into the carriage.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

The girl's breathing was somewhat erratic, and the front of her clothes resembled a winding mountain range that rose and fell with her breath.

“Carol… I told you not to rush, your Mount Taixu ticket is still with me. If you can’t find it, it will cause trouble for the train staff…”

Timido, wearing a white mask, skated her way through the snow, leaving two deep marks in the snow, where the snowflakes had already formed a thin layer of frost.

But when Timido rushed to Carol's side at full speed, intending to use the handrail in the carriage, the girl underestimated her superhuman strength, and the open carriage was involuntarily dented in a large section.

"Well....."

Seeing the deep handprints left on the carriage, Timido panicked, lowered her head nervously, and dared not look at anyone.

Carol covered her forehead; in some ways, her good friend's situation was more serious than her own.

until......

Carol sighed and placed her hand on Timido's shoulder in comfort.

"Sorry...sorry, um...my friend here is a bit strong."

"Hey you two, do you know where the person in charge of this train is? We'll compensate you at the original price, no, double the price! Please don't hand us over to fate, please!"

Carol asked Xia Yuan and Dr. Ai Yin for help in a coquettish tone.

The appearance of the two girls undoubtedly solved Xia Yuan's immediate problem. At this moment, Xia Yuan took out his hat, which belonged to the train conductor, and coughed a few times before saying:

"Ahem... This is me, Timido, long time no see."

Hearing someone call her name, Timido, tense and uneasy, slowly opened her eyes. When she saw the two people in front of her, Timido was stunned.

"Senior Xia Yuan, Senior Ai Yin, how could it be you?!"

"Hey, Timido, is this someone you know?"

This made Carol, who was standing next to her, beam with joy. Great! She hadn't expected that Timido knew the person in charge of this train. This way, she wouldn't have to worry about being caught and taken back to Heaven's Fate. She didn't want to be lectured by her mother with her fists.

But Timido pulled Carol to a corner of the carriage as quickly as possible.

"Timido, why did you pull me to the corner? Why didn't you say hello to your two acquaintances? Don't worry, a friend of a friend is a friend of mine. I won't say anything wrong."

Carol patted her chest and assured him.

"No... Carol, do you remember what I told you before? I was forced to join a mysterious underground organization in Sky City because I stumbled upon something I shouldn't have..."

"I remember, I remember, could it be that those two passengers were...?"

Wait, I remember Timido, you once mentioned that the mastermind behind the mysterious underground organization that secretly manipulates Sky Dome City, and even has deep connections within Destiny, is named Xia something like that?!

Carol suddenly remembered that Timido had called the train conductor "Senior Xia Yuan" earlier...

"Then...then...did I just meet the organization's boss?!"

"Pee pee~"

"Carol, keep your voice down..."

Timido gestured for silence, and Carol quickly covered her mouth with both hands. She wasn't even a member of the organization, yet she had accidentally witnessed her boss's true face; she was completely doomed...

Could I be fed some kind of experimental drug, its composition unknown and secretly developed, by the other party...?

Or will they simply kill them to silence them?

Chapter 153 Two well-behaved girls~

"Hmm... Natimito, what should we do now?"

The girl covered her mouth and made indistinct sounds through her hands.

"Anyway, leave the rest to me... I'll go ask Senior Ai Yin. She should be able to tell us what to do. But at this point, Carol, you might have to join the organization to have any chance of survival."

Carol nodded quickly.

She understands...

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't look at what you shouldn't look at, and pretend you don't know what you shouldn't know."

This is knowledge that the girl learned from comic books.

Often, it's because people know too much that they get silenced.

Xia Yuan stared blankly at the two girls whispering in the corner, who kept glancing in his direction. He couldn't understand what they were talking about...

But Dr. Ai Yin, who was beside them, had already guessed what the two of them were thinking.

"Looks like this train journey isn't so boring after all!"

When Xia Yuan turned around to look at Dr. Ai Yin beside him again, he saw that the other party had put on a black trench coat at some point, and her originally loose sky-blue curly hair was tucked into her hat.

He really wanted to ask Ai Yin why she had suddenly dressed like that.

It's exactly like... like a rational, genius girl transforming into a heartless killer.

Just as Xia Yuan was about to ask, the two girls, Timido and Carol, slowly came to his and Ai Yin's side. He didn't know if it was his imagination, but the two girls seemed a little nervous and obedient.

"That senior Ai-in..."

Before Timido could speak, Aiyin interrupted her with a slightly aloof air.

"Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask. Since we've met by chance, bring your friends to my room."

"Yes...yes, Senior Ai-in!"

"Wow... is this the aura of the members of the mysterious underground organization hidden in Sky City?"