The girl in green waved her hand at Caelus to say goodbye, then stepped into the Xianzhou spatial teleportation device—the Teleportation Screen—transporting herself to the platform where the matrix base of the Zhouhe Array was located.
Mainly, during the process of entering the painting, the girl in green was softly humming a song. Lyrics like 'Worst case scenario, I hang myself' and 'If today's matters can be delayed, delay them' were filled with the heavy flavor of 'letting it rot,' causing the corners of Fu Xuan's mouth to twitch slightly.
Her gaze swept over the Gray-hair, who was watching the fun with an expression of heartache over his friend being dragged by the leader to work overtime. Fu Xuan frowned slightly, suppressed her anger towards Qingque, and stared straight at Caelus.
The Matrix of Prescience Eye at the center of her forehead emitted a faint glow. Inside, profound talismans deconstructed and reassembled along with formulaic calculations, revealing a look of slight astonishment on Fu Xuan's face.
"Heaven over Lake, Treading... You people..."
Fu Xuan looked at Caelus with a very subtle expression, muttering softly to herself, "To be so in sync with Qingque?"
She suspected that the song Qingque was humming had been taught by Caelus!
Fu Xuan's small face darkened a shade.
She had tried every possible method to push work content onto Qingque, wanting her to train and exercise herself more. Just when there was finally a hint of progress, it was extinguished by Caelus's influence!
"Master Diviner, why are you looking at me with those eyes? Do you like me?"
Meeting Fu Xuan's murderous gaze, Caelus's smile was reserved to the point of being somewhat shy. He scratched his head:
"I'm very sorry, you have to get in line. There's still Jingliu ahead of you. Speaking of which, Jing Yuan, why hasn't my bonus arrived yet? I'm still waiting to use the money to save up for a dowry to become Miss Jingliu's dog!"
In the suddenly quiet atmosphere, the smile on Jing Yuan's face stiffened. Fu Xuan stared wide-eyed at Caelus, choked into coughing by this sentence, while the others felt a sense of shock.
Should they lament that this is indeed Caelus?
He really doesn't speak a word of human language!
However, the Express crew had more or less begun to get used to Caelus's mouth running like a train.
"You, you..."
Fu Xuan was rarely this incoherent. No one had ever dared to tease her like this. The shame and anger that had just risen in her heart were washed away by the subsequent massive and bizarre amount of information.
Qingque, leave to prepare for pregnancy?
Jingliu? Isn't that Jing Yuan's master?
Dowry? And what the hell is 'becoming Jingliu's dog'!?
Fu Xuan didn't understand, but she was greatly shocked.
"Caelus, stop joking with Master Fu."
The corner of his eye twitching, Jing Yuan smoothed things over with a smiling face, seizing the opportunity to change the subject.
"Strange things have appeared near the matrix base. My body here is merely a projection; could I ask everyone to help eliminate the Stellaron evil spirits?"
He certainly didn't want to discuss matters regarding Jingliu and Caelus on such an occasion. Jing Yuan had already sent people to track Jingliu's whereabouts, but he hadn't received any news yet.
"Aren't there Cloud Knight guards over there?"
March 7th pointed to the soldiers standing at the entrance.
"Since everyone is already here, we must make the best use of people."
Jing Yuan laughed: "With everyone's valor, I imagine you will be much more efficient than the Cloud Knights."
"No, wait, 'since we're already here' can be used like this?"
Little March was shocked. Just as she was about to continue her retort, she was grabbed by Team Star Rail.
"Ah Qi, what are you saying? Jing Yuan is my big brother/Jingliu's disciple. His business is my business. It's just clearing out some small mobs; a piece of cake."
For the two Gray-hairs to show this attitude, it was obviously because they had received a daily task. The reward wasn't high, only 10 Crystals, but no matter how small the mosquito, it was still meat.
"...The General is truly opportunistic and ruthless when it comes to using people."
Watching Team Star Rail, March 7th, and 'White' Seele go off to help Qingque clear the monsters, even Fu Xuan couldn't help but roast him.
Jing Yuan chuckled, then looked towards the girl in green who was talking and laughing with Caelus:
"Is that little girl Qingque? She certainly looks like a good seed. Master Fu can focus on cultivating her; in the future, she will surely become Master Fu's right-hand man!"
"This Seat does have that intention. Qingque, this child, is naturally intelligent, yet she has absolutely no ambition. She doesn't seek to improve herself all day long; the only thing she pays attention to at work every day is when she can get off work. Truly is..."
Speaking of this, the tiny Fu Xuan sighed with an old and experienced air, her eyes full of disappointment that iron failed to become steel.
Fu Xuan had actually wanted to promote Qingque for a long time, but she couldn't find a suitable reason. The promotion opportunities she actively created were all defended against by Qingque.
Seeing the distress on Fu Xuan's face, Jing Yuan laughed. He rarely saw Master Fu reveal this kind of expression.
Today was the first time Jing Yuan had seriously paid attention to Qingque. He had seen Qingque's file before and was curious why Master Fu would value a lowest-level Diviner so highly.
He didn't know if he didn't look, but upon looking, even Jing Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Qingque's academic file recorded that from enrollment to graduation, across a hundred years of campus study and practice, this little girl's name was invariably followed by the capitalized numeral Sixty.
Not one point more, nor one point less to receive a notified criticism.
Back when Jing Yuan opened the school report card and saw the page filled with that conspicuous number, he understood everything.
To precisely control the score of every subject to the passing mark is even more difficult than getting full marks in every subject!
There were also the comments from the school tutors in the academic file. Under normal circumstances, they would give the word 'Excellent,' but for Qingque alone, those tutors wrote a lot.
It seemed they were quite angered by Qingque's score-controlling behavior, furious at her lack of struggle!
Jing Yuan made no attempt to hide the smile at the corner of his mouth and offered a warm reminder:
"Perhaps Master Fu's method of guidance is incorrect?"
"What is incorrect? As long as This Seat has a moment, I supervise her work, thinking of every method to reverse her unhealthy mindset."
Fu Xuan's tone carried a confusion that she felt was justified.
"I understand this."
A voice like red wine mixed with milk powder, extremely iconic, caused Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan to turn their heads.
"Does Miss Bronya have any advice?" Fu Xuan asked curiously.
There were four people who went to clear the small mobs around the matrix base; Welt and Silver Wing remained here.
"Because Qingque has no pressure. Without pressure, naturally, there is no motivation," Silver Wing said with a faint smile.
"This Seat naturally knows this."
Fu Xuan sometimes stood right over Qingque watching her work; was this pressure not enough?
"It's different. The source of pressure is different, so the reaction people make is naturally different."
Silver Wing raised a finger and wagged it.
"I think Master Diviner can pay more attention to promoting Qingque's emotional life. Pregnancy and childbirth, raising a two-legged gold-swallowing beast, and carrying a mortgage on her back—even the biggest 'salted fish' would be forced to struggle."
"If one child doesn't work, have two. If two don't work, have four, eight..."
Listening to Bronya eloquently speaking about how to create leverage to manipulate workers, Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan exchanged a glance, feeling a slight desire to understand her home planet.
Considering the Stellaron Hunters, the Mara disaster, and other matters of great importance, Qingque ultimately did not continue to hide her clumsiness. With a mournful little sparrow face, she seriously adjusted the three matrix bases.
The Aurumaton Gatekeepers, eroded and tainted by Stellaron energy, were also dismantled by Team Star Rail.
Within the Divination Commission, there were not many Xianzhou people transformed into Mara-struck; most were mechanical creations granted brief life by the Stellaron mutation.
"Master Diviner, the hexagram images are complete. Various instrument indicators of the Matrix of Prescience have all returned to normal."
A little girl, a whole head shorter than even Fu Xuan and Qingque, wearing her hair in buns, reported with a tone that was immature yet seasoned.
"Prepare to activate the array."
Fu Xuan glanced at Jing Yuan and nodded to give the order.
"Yes."
The little girl nodded, turned, and left, brushing past the clearing team returning to the core of the great array.
Caelus looked at the little girl who didn't even reach his waist and patted the shoulder of the girl in green:
"Que-ah, I think you can try reporting the Divination Commission for using child labor. Maybe you can get a holiday."
If one said Qingque and Fu Xuan looked like middle school students graduating from elementary school and preparing to enter high school, then this little girl had the physique of someone from kindergarten to elementary school.
"What are you talking about?"
Qingque couldn't help but laugh: "That is Senior Diviner Huixing, responsible for the daily operation and calculation of the Matrix of Prescience. She is a very reliable adult."
"In other words, she's at an age where she can get married? I have a bold idea."
Stelle rubbed her chin, a light bulb suddenly lighting up above her small head.
"Please, three-year-old kid, put away your bold ideas."
Qingque recalled the receptionist's reaction when she and Caelus went to register at the erotic hotel earlier. "You are the one being preyed upon."
"I know! We can use this move to blackmail. Caelus-cub, when the time comes, the two of us will take turns hitting on her, and the other person will be responsible for being ready to report it at any time. Hehe, 'Miss, you don't want the matter of you dating a three-year-old child to get out, do you?'"
Stelle revealed a sinister and sly smile, using March 7th as an example to demonstrate.
"Can you act like a human? Is this something a three-year-old child would do?"
March 7th couldn't suppress her desire to roast them at all.
"After all, people were just born not long ago~!" The Stellaron spirit pinched her voice to sound cute.
"I think you were just born a beast."
March 7th revealed dead fish eyes.
"Yo, not bad."
Hearing this, Caelus's eyes lit up and he praised: "Ah Qi's roasting skills have grown recently."
"Little Flat... Cough Hehe~!"
Receiving sincere praise, March 7th scratched the back of her head in embarrassment and giggled foolishly. Then, as if realizing something, her face collapsed:
"Isn't it all thanks to you two!"
As she spoke, March 7th saw a team of elite Cloud Knights and Aurumatons escorting a purple-haired beauty walking over from the distance at the platform crossing.
As an archer, Little March's vision was super good. She could see that the current image of Kafka was different from their last meeting.
Clearly, the clothes were still those familiar clothes, but her temperament had undergone a huge transformation.
If the previous Kafka gave a sense of oppression, like a spider queen controlling prey in the dark with webs, making one feel they could not escape her grasp, then the Kafka at this moment was like a big sister who had shed her cold outer shell, revealing a weak and delicate temperament like a willow in the wind.
The deeper the previous impression, the more explosive the gap-moe felt at this moment!
Even March 7th instantly generated a feeling of pity.
"You two, don't get tricked by the mature big sister again..."
Coming back to her senses, March 7th immediately wanted to warn Team Star Rail.
But before she could finish speaking, the two Gray-hairs rushed out.
"Mommy, Mommy! How have you been these past few days? Did the Luofu use torture to extract a confession? Did they starve you? Let me see if my cafeteria has been starved flat?"
Stelle ran towards Kafka with vigorous strides, asking with a look of urgent concern.
"Ah Qi, lend me your camera."
Caelus took the camera from March 7th's waist, preparing to properly record Kafka's makeup-free photo.
March 7th watched the two running over, her small face beginning to distort.
"Waaah..."
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