章 212: Chapter 212: Mobius: Now You Belong to Me (Assistant)

"Hello, how are you, Dr. Mobius."

"I'm not okay."

When Nozomi returned to the laboratory to report back, Mobius didn't even turn her head. She just looked at the instrument in front of her and recorded some data.

"…What's wrong, Doctor? Is there anything I can help you with?"

Nozomi looked at Blanca beside him and saw that she shrugged helplessly, signaling that she could not help. He could only take the initiative to step forward and ask while habitually picking up the materials around her. At the same time, he quickly read the contents while cleaning up to understand the latest situation in the laboratory.

"No."

Mobius' tone was calm.

"…Dr. Mobius, it's not good for your health to keep things to yourself. I don't want the health I helped you to improve to be ruined because of some unnecessary misunderstandings."

After taking a quick look at Mobius's condition and seeing that she had reached the last part of the data she was recording, Nozomi was silent for a while. Only after she stopped writing did he speak.

"If you are angry about my lateness, then I apologize."

"No, you are not late; on the contrary, you are on time."

After finishing the first stage of data recording, Mobius raised her head and handed the recorded data to Blanca beside her while speaking expressionlessly.

"I don't mean to complain about you. After all, you have always behaved well."

"…Okay, Dr. Mobius, I apologize for not keeping my promise to come back earlier."

Looking at Blanca's slightly teasing expression, Nozomi knocked his head in distress and then said.

"I know you suddenly had something to do and went to watch your girlfriend's performance."

"…No, it's not."

Nozomi was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly.

"She's not my girlfriend."

"Not yet, at least?"

"Ha... Dr. Mobius, are you a little too sensitive about this issue? Are you so worried about Senior Blanca and Hen's matter?"

"Heh... I was just wondering if I've delayed you. You have such a great talent for music; maybe you could have a better career in the music industry than following me?"

When Blanca was mentioned, Mobius became annoyed, and even her tone of voice changed.

Originally, Blanca's kidnapping had made Mobius very unhappy. But Nozomi was even better. Not only did he ask for leave when she wanted to officially make Nozomi her assistant, but he also "fooled around" with other girls after running away...

If it were just that, it would be fine, but he actually performed so well that even Mobius herself listened to his performance patiently under the starry night... Mobius didn't say anything about it, but why did someone record it and upload it to the Internet?

How come the intimate interaction with the girl named Eden was recorded again?

'Tsk... he promised to come back early, but in the end, he still came back late... And it was because of something like this...'

'Really, one by one, they are all confused by love and dazzled by the opposite sex... and it just happens to happen at the same time!'

No matter how good Mobius' mood was, it would turn bad at this moment.

"Dr. Mobius... If I really wanted to develop in that direction, I would have debuted long ago instead of studying in school. I would not come here just for research."

Nozomi paused for a moment before speaking.

"Besides, after seeing what Honkai is, I think... a researcher, a doctor, a warrior can be more helpful to the cause of fighting Honkai than an artist."

"…Haha, that sounds nice."

After a moment of silence, Mobius slowly spoke.

"But you've passed."

"But you are wrong about one thing... Artists can also play their roles, and they are not as bad as you said."

"I know, it's just relative."

Nozomi nodded.

"In addition, artists, or famous artists, have a unique advantage..."

"Um?"

Nozomi looked at Mobius with some surprise, because he heard a little bit of... unwillingness in her tone.

"…They have money."

Mobius leaned down, as if trying to hide her unhappy expression, opened the drawer, and rummaged through the messy documents for the thing she had prepared earlier, speaking with a hint of resentment.

"…Dr. Mobius, have you received another penalty notice?"

Nozomi was silent for a while before slowly asking.

"...Little guy, sometimes being too sharp-minded isn't very pleasing to others."

"No? I've only been gone for a short time? Sister Blanca, you too, why don't you keep an eye on the doctor?!"

"Junior brother, you know, if the doctor really wants to do something, I can't stop her..."

"Humph, it's just that those mediocre people don't understand my experiment..."

"But why does the penalty ticket say that you, Doctor, kidnapped people to participate in experiments without permission?"

"…Damn it, where did you find this from?!"

"I found it in the third drawer from the second cabinet on your right... Dr. Mobius, I have to remind you that no matter how urgent the situation is, it is better to get their consent when recruiting experimental subjects."

Nozomi looked at the penalty notice in his hand and said helplessly.

"Otherwise, the Fire Moth will cut the lab's budget..."

"Humph, it doesn't matter. As long as we show them results and achievements, they will shut up themselves."

Mobius snorted coldly and didn't care about what Nozomi said.

However, this is indeed the case because, at present, in terms of research on Honkai, "Fire Moth" really can't find someone who has done more in-depth research than Mobius and who can produce results the fastest. Therefore, no matter how reluctant "Fire Moth" is, they will still allocate funds to the laboratory.

At most... they would cut the funding on paper and use the funds to threaten Mobius, as a verbal warning, telling her that they could no longer accept a certain behavior of hers and asked her to stop immediately or to signal her not to go too far in doing something.

And Mobius would also stop and give them some face... This is something that both parties understand tacitly.

"Besides, little guy... you know that if you want someone to sign up to be my experimental subject, it would be better to kill them directly... In this case, how could anyone come?"

Mobius shrugged and covered half of her face with the document bag in her hand, leaving only a pair of slightly dangerous eyes.

"For this reason, I have no choice but to use some special means. Otherwise, my experiment will not be able to proceed. There will be no results. Then they will find an excuse to really cut our funding, and then we will fall into a vicious cycle... That will be the worst situation~"

"Or can you think of a better solution, little one?"

"...Well, I'll go negotiate with them later."

Nozomi rubbed his brows and thought for a while before saying this.

"Oh? You're really brave, little guy~"

Mobius narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Are you planning to kidnap those people on my behalf?"

"Doctor, please don't use words like 'abduction' which are so offensive and misunderstood... Really, don't you think about how your reputation has become so bad?"

Nozomi felt a headache about the way Mobius spoke.

"Anyway, leave this matter to me first... Doctor, you can guarantee that the experimenters can survive, right?"

"…I can't guarantee that everyone will survive."

When talking about this, Mobius put away her previous casual look and spoke seriously.

"Because experiments are always accompanied by danger, but I will do my best to ensure the survival of the experimenters... every time."

"But if there are special changes during the experiment, and they are changes that can advance the progress of the research, right?"

"That's right~ You know me very well, little guy~"

"sigh..."

"Okay, little guy, while you're back, I also have some good news to tell you~"

Mobius stood up and put the wrapped document in her hand into Nozomi's hand.

"Open it and see?"

"..."

Nozomi silently opened it, took out the documents and some other things inside, looked at the shining [Graduation Certificate] and the congratulatory letters from the principal and tutor, and fell silent for a while.

"PhD..."

Nozomi put down what he was holding, and his tone was somewhat tired and helpless.

"Hush - little guy, no need to thank me. You won't have to run back to school to register anymore."

Mobius placed her finger lightly on her lips, signaling Nozomi not to say anything more, and then reached out and gently tapped his chest.

"After all, from now on... you are mine."

"I hope you can add the word [assistant], Doctor."

"Hehe~ Then, come on, little guy, help me record the data, Blanca, prepare the materials for the experiment."

"Okay, Doctor." x2

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[You returned to Mobius's laboratory, and under her leadership, you officially started some research on Honkai belonging to "Fire Moth." In addition, you also need to process Mobius's experimental data, take care of her daily routine, and supervise her daily exercise... It's not easy to improve her condition; you can't let her waste it.]

[And you also have to take care of your daily life. Besides daily exercise and vocal practice, you have to adjust your schedule according to Mobius's situation. You also need to stay in touch with Eden and Sakura from time to time to help connect the two sides...]

[It must be said that Eden is really amazing. After gaining popularity on the Internet, she unexpectedly received many invitations to perform. She agreed and soon earned a lot of fame for herself. She then registered her own company, which can be regarded as avoiding the recurrence of disagreements with the agency.]

[However, during this process, did Eden's family secretly help? There should be some, but not much.]

[Anyway, after a lot of hard work, Eden's career as a singer was on the right track, and you took the opportunity to contact Yin and introduced her to Eden... When the two met, Yin also contacted you and teased you during the communication.]

[, Eden is very satisfied with Sakura. Sakura has a great figure, and when paired with the clothes designed by Eden, it can be said that she has a unique beauty... Sakura has been on the cover of three magazines so far. It can be said that Sakura is now quite famous.]

[In addition, Sakura's martial arts skills are not bad either, so while serving as Eden's exclusive women's clothing model, she is also responsible for being Eden's bodyguard.]

[And because of Sakura's success, Yin also made a lot of money, which made those who had doubts about Yin's decision admire her and let Yin vent her anger... At the same time, Yin was also glad that her and Li's "intuition" was not wrong.]

[At the same time, you also need to run back and forth between the laboratory and the engineering department, as you have a project to research with Vill-V.]

[Of course, your main purpose of going to the Engineering Department is to comply with the requests of others and restrict Vill-V... Vill-V has really become the top leader there now.]

[Only Vill-V can handle those outrageous designs, and those weird designs are unexpectedly useful, so "Fire Moth" is willing to tilt power and funds towards Vill-V.]

[Those in the engineering department also admired Vill-V for her incredible hands-on and design abilities, and were willing to work under her.]

[But... sometimes Vill-V's designs are too outrageous, and she often uses the funds to come up with even more outrageous designs, such as energy lightsabers or environmental transformation machines, or even amphibious warships... and so on.]

[In short, in order to prevent Vill-V's imagination from going too far, the people in the engineering department are begging you to go over there and take care of Vill-V, so that she can come up with some relatively reasonable designs to deal with the "Fire Moth" first.]

[Uh... yes, actually, the people in the engineering department are not very opposed to Vill-V's imaginative designs, although sometimes from their own point of view, Vill-V's designs are simply impossible to realize.]

[However, after seeing that Vill-V was able to complete her own design, their pride was aroused, and they began to try to complete Vill-V's design with their own understanding. In the process of research, they also developed a lot of things themselves, which made them quite excited.]

[As for the purpose of asking you to take care of Vill-V... it's mainly because they know that if they don't come up with some designs that satisfy the "Fire Moth," their funding will be cut, and then they won't be able to do those unnecessary things.]

[There is no way; this is the gap between ideal and reality... They have to consider the funding of the department.]

[And you and Vill-V also advanced your research rapidly under such circumstances. With the research data on Honkai provided by Mobius and the joint efforts of everyone in the Engineering Department, you successfully completed a new generation of... experimental products.]

[There is no other way. Nano-level materials are still too troublesome. If you want to continue to advance, you have to keep working hard.]

[However, the new generation of test products has solved the problem of Honkai energy corroding weapon materials to a certain extent, extending the life of the originally designed Honkai energy weapons from the state of "being scrapped after a few uses" to "half a year."]

[To put it simply, under normal operation and without continuous high-intensity combat, this new weapon can be used by soldiers for half a year.]

[This is already very good data.]

[At the same time, the "Second Great Eruption" broke out.]

[It seems that it is time to test your research results.]