Watching the embarrassing Kiana, Lihua desperately suppressed the urge to retort, sighing helplessly. "That company is currently in fully automated unmanned mode; there's no way to change it..."
"Then it wouldn't be impossible for Bronya to go into their database and modify the files..."
"Kiana, you're already a mature Valkyrie. Can you stop acting spoiled like this?"
Elysia silently lifted Kiana from Lihua's embrace and put her aside. "Pay attention to your image, understand?"
Tsk! Finally found a chance to be alone with Lihua, only to be interrupted again... Can't get close to Lihua, how can she get close to Li in the future? Can't get close to Lee, what meaning does her life have left!
Besides, this girl Kiana seemed relatively mature when they first met, but ever since staying with Lihua on Blue Earth for a long time, her intelligence level felt increasingly like a grass slipper's [simple-minded]!
Damn it! Were Mei and Lihua's auras too strong, causing even evolving Pokémon to regress...?
"Lihua is my ancestor! What's wrong with me acting spoiled towards my elder? It's perfectly reasonable, okay!" Facing Elysia's self-serving lecture, Kiana proudly put her hands on her hips.
"Lihua has no children, so strictly speaking, you cannot be considered her descendant..."
"But I'm Lee's descendant! And Lihua is Lee's reincarnation, so rounding up, I'm also Lee's descendant, no problem!"
"..."
Can you not bring up sore subjects? That guy Kevin, what right did he have? Elysia felt her own genes shouldn't be worse than his...
Struggling to calm herself, Elysia just wanted to know why this grass slipper's brain was working so fast now... But looking at Kiana, who had stuck back onto Lihua again, after a brief moment of helplessness, she decisively changed tactics.
If you can't beat them, join them. Since Kiana could act spoiled, why couldn't she? Although she was slightly older than Lihua, no one decreed elders couldn't act spoiled towards juniors...
"Lihua, I want hugs too—"
"Hug your head!"
The next moment, the door burst open again, and a headbutt landed fiercely on Elysia's face before the sound even arrived, instantly engaging her in a brawl. "Is Lady Lihua someone you can hug?! You Previous Era folks should just stay obediently in your little box! Stop coming over here and being annoying!"
Lihua didn't even need to turn her head to know the one rushing in was definitely Eleanor. After all, among the current Schicksal trio, she was the only one who still used such crude language.
Since Eleanor's mission was done, Kallen was likely returning soon too. Plus Kiana and the others, and the scientist trio still acting as wage slaves...
Damn it, my stomach hurts. Thankfully, the Chainsaw Man world incident probably wouldn't require her intervention; otherwise, she truly wouldn't want to live anymore...
...
After confirming everything was still proceeding smoothly on Unit One's side, aside from no major brawls breaking out for now, Li Bei finally let out a breath and decided to rest temporarily.
He had been very busy recently. Now that the situation on Blue Earth had finally stabilized for the time being, he naturally had to start his grand plan of slacking off. As someone whose dream was a peaceful life, the longest period of peace he had experienced so far was when Unit Four was in the dream; this wouldn't do.
"Don't really feel like cooking..."
After some thought, Li Bei decided, for a rare change, to actively go out for a stroll and solve his meal problem along the way. Although theoretically, he could live perfectly well now without consuming any food, since he could eat, why should he deny his mouth?
The so-called necessities of life—clothing, food, shelter, transportation—were important components of a peaceful life. If all these things were abandoned, then only peace would remain; it couldn't be called living anymore.
Although Blue Earth had undergone many huge changes recently, it didn't stop people from needing to live on. Just like the tremors earlier caused quite a stir in the city, but eventually calmed down, restoring normal urban order.
However, walking on the street now, Li Bei felt something subtly strange.
The number of people in peculiar clothing on the street seemed to have increased a lot... As more and more bizarre entities entered Blue Earth, the local people gradually gained different powers. And this reflected in the current reality: one could always see people on the street who looked like they were cosplaying—and the most ridiculous part was, often people couldn't tell if they were real or fake.
But thankfully, the overall order hadn't been disrupted too much. Otto probably deserved some credit for that?
Li Bei scanned the street, eventually choosing a family restaurant at random and walking in. Glancing at the menu, he casually ordered, "Just a hamburger set meal."
"O-Okay! Coming right up..."
"...?"
A flustered female voice sounded, making Li Bei slowly raise a question mark.
He silently looked up and found the waitress standing beside him, smiling awkwardly, looked strangely familiar.
Damn his luck! He seemed to have encountered an old acquaintance right before his eyes.
"Th-That, um, staring at me... Is, is there a problem?"
Li Bei's gaze seemed to make Kobeni uneasy. Her already awkward expression started showing cold sweat, her voice trembling nervously. Li Bei just nonchalantly withdrew his gaze. "Nothing. Just felt you looked somewhat familiar, like a manga character... Hmm, I'll add an extra portion of fries. That's all."
Only after watching Kobeni stumble back towards the other side of the restaurant did Li Bei's expression finally show an indescribable subtlety.
Looking closely, the decor style of this restaurant did seem somewhat familiar... This damned place wasn't from Blue Earth at all!
He turned his head to look out the window. The street scene outside was still Blue Earth's, but this restaurant undoubtedly had the style of the Chainsaw Man world—clearly, this was likely some consequence of that damned world fusion earlier.
A restaurant from 1990s Japan appearing in 21st-century Dragon Country [China] on Blue Earth. Although sounding absurd, Li Bei wasn't particularly surprised. After all, he was already prepared for misfortunes to revolve around him. With his incarnations' worlds approaching Blue Earth, Li Bei wouldn't believe it if someone told him things could remain unrelated to him.
What worried him now was another matter: the appearance of this restaurant was too sudden.
Silent, unnoticed. And with Li Bei's current terrifying detection ability, he actually hadn't sensed it at all, as if this restaurant should have been a part of this world all along.
Now it was a restaurant and Kobeni; the problem wasn't huge. But if someday Makima and Caelus suddenly popped up right in his face, and he didn't even notice, Li Bei felt suffocated just thinking about it...
Lost in thought about life, Li Bei saw a cigarette fall from the pocket of a customer passing by. He casually caught it mid-air and handed it back to its owner. "Your cigarette."
"Thanks," the young man with a small ponytail and black suit took the cigarette, nodding politely in thanks.
Looking at the old acquaintance before him, Li Bei didn't want to say anything anymore.
Why wasn't he surprised at all?