"Is such a grand display really necessary? I said I would cooperate with you all."
Surrounded by Cloud Knights and Aurumatons in the center, the bare-faced Kafka looked just like a weak sheep stared down by wolfhounds, yet her tone remained relaxed, wearing a smile.
The Cloud Knights remained unmoved by Kafka's words, each one resembling an emotionless Aurumaton.
Kafka's power was suppressed by mantra cords, but the words lightly spat from those red lips seemed as if they could still bewitch the heart; the best way to face her was to not engage in conversation at all.
Receiving no response, Kafka didn't mind in the least. A smile played at the corners of her mouth, and just as she opened it to say something...
A familiar figure rushed over, looking a bit like a child who had finally waited for their mother to get off work on an empty stomach, and also like a high-energy Husky that had finally found a target to match wits and courage with.
At Jing Yuan's signal, the Cloud Knights and Aurumatons did not stop the Gray-hair from approaching Kafka.
Kafka knew she would meet the gray-haired girl here again; this was a scene written in Elio's script.
Stelle came up with a string of concerns that made the smile at the corners of Kafka's mouth rise slightly. It was as if water droplets had fallen into the lake of her heart, rippling with warm affection.
Until she heard the last sentence: "Let me see if my cafeteria has been starved flat?"
That ripple instantly froze with a crack and vanished.
Looking at the gray-haired girl burying her small face in her chest and rubbing back and forth, Kafka was speechless, her emotions somewhat complex.
Why on earth did the child grow up crooked like this?
"Come, look here, look here!"
Feeling the warmth on his face akin to nuzzling a large steamed bun fresh out of the steamer, and with the scent of roses and milk flooding his nose, Caelus felt the 'facial cleanser' sensation shared by Stelle via empathy, and beckoned the two to look his way.
Ka-cha! Ka-cha!
The shutter sound rang out incessantly. Caelus used the photography and composition techniques taught by March 7th to capture snapshots of the bare-faced Kafka.
"Eggplant!"
The impact brought by the contrast was significant; Mommy Kafka was just too wonderful!
Stelle breathed a sigh of relief after checking that her favorite 'cafeteria' hadn't been starved small by the Xianzhou. Otherwise, she would definitely have to demand emotional damage fees and milk powder money from Jing Yuan!
The solemn atmosphere of interrogating a major wanted criminal was instantly shattered by the actions of these two.
"You two, pay attention! Do not have excessive intimate contact with the criminal!"
Fu Xuan's small face turned black; she couldn't tolerate it anymore.
She knew the relationship between Team Star Rail and Kafka was not shallow, but in front of herself and Jing Yuan, couldn't they act a little bit?
Even the poor acting skills from back at Stargazer Navalia would have been better!
Jing Yuan, on the other hand, was unbothered by Team Star Rail's actions. He slightly restrained his smile, turned his head, and spoke solemnly:
"I will trouble Master Fu with what comes next."
"Leave it to This Seat."
Fu Xuan nodded with dignity and commanded the Cloud Knights: "Place her at the center of the matrix!"
The three great matrix bases of the Matrix of Prescience cycled once more as constant as ever. Everything was ready; the interrogation could begin at any time.
"Setting up this formation must be quite troublesome, isn't it?"
Kafka obediently arrived at the matrix center under the escort of the Cloud Knights. She glanced at the surrounding matrix bases with deep meaning and said helplessly:
"I could have saved you some effort, you know."
"Matters having reached this stage, there is no need for you to say such things."
Towards this notorious wanted criminal, Fu Xuan showed no pleasant expression at all.
"The Divination Commission has plenty of ways to dig out the complete truth of the matter from you, far more than what can be spoken in words."
The results of the divination are destined to be correct; the margin of error under massive data calculation wouldn't even exceed one in ten million.
"Then, please witness my destiny, Master Diviner."
Kafka chuckled lightly.
The Cloud Knights quickly withdrew, leaving only Kafka, Fu Xuan, and Team Star Rail near the matrix center.
"Those located at the matrix center will suffer some slight collateral effects during This Seat's interrogation. You two, move a bit farther away... Hmm? Why are you suddenly looking at This Seat with those eyes?"
Fu Xuan warned the two Gray-hairs, whose heads were huddled together muttering, to leave. However, she discovered that Team Star Rail was looking at her with a gaze that made her uncomfortable—to be precise, looking at her legs.
"Aiya, it's nothing, it's nothing."
Stelle waved her hand casually and smiled with charming naivety: "I just feel that the silk stockings Master Diviner is wearing today are really nice. Where did you buy them? I'll go buy two pairs later."
As she spoke, her eyes were thievingly staring at Fu Xuan's white silk pantyhose.
She didn't expect a 'Silk Stockings Chest' to spawn directly on someone's face.
She had to think of a way to get her hands on it!
This is how it should be. If Bronya and Pela's black silk is the soul of Belobog, then the soul of the Luofu is Fu Xuan's white silk. Why should there be Black Silk Chests but no White Silk Chests?
Caelus suspected there was a bug in the System, and now it had finally refreshed.
"???"
Question marks filled the heads of everyone present. At the moment immediately preceding the interrogation of a grave criminal, why did you suddenly bring up white silk pantyhose?
"This Seat will inform you of the shop later. Now, come out quickly!"
Fu Xuan forcefully suppressed the urge to kick someone, her face full of black lines.
"Okay."
Caelus walked out of the matrix center readily, starting to ponder how to swap Fu Xuan's white silk over to himself.
However, Stelle, who was bouncing along behind him, suddenly stopped in place, motionless.
"Stelle, what's wrong?"
Noticing that Stelle's expression had suddenly become dull and blank yet cute, March 7th asked worriedly. She hadn't been bewitched by Kafka, had she?
"I'm fine."
Hachi-Stelle's expression became exceptionally serious. "But... heroes do not flee from battle!"
The Stellaron spirit stood with hands clasped behind her back, turning her back to the masses, her voice like splitting bamboo:
"Do it, Master Diviner. My life is about to reach its terminus, and you shall become the Demon King of the new world!"
"...What kind of madness are you spouting now? Is that how 'fleeing from battle' is used? And what the hell are 'terminus' and 'Demon King'?"
March 7th transformed into a roasting machine gun.
Fu Xuan and Welt felt waves of exhaustion and mental strain. This time, even Jing Yuan couldn't hold back his reaction.
"Stelle, stop messing around. Come out quickly."
Old Yang, representing the generation of parents, spoke up.
"But, Uncle Yang, I received a mission! Staying inside the array to complete the interrogation gives 10 Stellar Jades!" Stelle squatted down, wrapping her arms around her knees, looking pitiful.
"...?"
Jing Yuan and Fu Xuan could understand every single word of this sentence, but strung together, they couldn't understand it at all.
[A mission? Why don't I have one? Damn you, Aha. System, look at her!]
Caelus roasted in his heart while speaking up for Stelle. A Stellar Jade mission wasn't like a Chest; since he couldn't get it anyway, he definitely had to help Stelle get it.
"Master Diviner! Will Stelle staying near the matrix center affect your interrogation?"
The strange pronunciation caused a tick mark to pop up on the forehead of Fu Xuan, who was holding her head to suppress her soaring blood pressure. As if smashing a cracked pot, she replied chillingly:
"It will not."
"Then what did you mean just now by 'suffering collateral effects'?"
"When the Matrix of Prescience is in operation, her thoughts and connections to worldly causality will be presented before This Seat's eyes."
In other words, 'collateral effects' referred to the exposure of privacy.
"It's fine. My heart is open and magnanimous. My admiration for the Master Diviner is like the surging river, flowing endlessly..."
Stelle slapped a rainbow fart [flattery] onto her.
Although it was indeed possible that Fu Xuan might see some unspeakable images, she had long since completed her molting rebirth. Integrity? How could that be more important than Stellar Jade?
"Fine. If you want to stay there, then stay there."
Fu Xuan let out a sigh, no longer paying mind to the Gray-hair with a pit in her brain, and adjusted her state of mind to its peak condition.
"Activate the array!"
Fu Xuan formed hand seals. The spirited white silk ribbons at her cuffs wound past her arms to flutter behind her, her movements as graceful as a fairy dancing.
In the turn of a hand, countless profound talismans were arranged by Fu Xuan's hands and fully injected into the Matrix of Prescience.
In an instant, the Matrix of Prescience rose like a fierce beast. Distinct array formations overlapped and interlocked, shifting stars and changing positions.
They transformed into specks of starlight winding around Kafka, clustering around her as her feet left the ground, gradually floating into the air.
Kafka raised a smile of unclear meaning. Fu Xuan's pink-purple radiance flashed in her bright eyes; the whole person looked extremely enchanting.
Old Yang, March, 'White' Seele, and Duck-Duck all watched the wondrous spectacle of the Matrix of Prescience activating with novelty.
Fu Xuan pinched a seal, placing it virtually before the purple mirror at her chest. The Matrix of Prescience Eye between her brows stared at Kafka, following causality, space, and time to pry into the information spreading out from her.
Because Stelle was within the range of the matrix center, despite being at the relative edge, information also emerged from her body, gathering into Fu Xuan's mind via the Matrix of Prescience.
[Hehehe~ White silk pantyhose~ White silk pantyhose~!]
A voice like a drooling, demented child rang out. Fu Xuan's eyebrows raised slightly.
What kind of nonsense was Stelle thinking about?
Normally speaking, even if Stelle was in the matrix center, she wouldn't affect the interrogation. It was like a sheet of white paper; if there was a pattern in the center of the paper, once you focused your attention, you could subconsciously ignore a black dot separate from the surroundings on the paper's surface.
But the premise was that the black dot remained just a black dot, staying there obediently.
But now.
Fu Xuan was merely in the process of passively receiving information when her scattered attention noticed the black dot jumping up; naturally, it affected her focus.
Through the Matrix of Prescience, Fu Xuan learned the fact that Team Star Rail was essentially 'one person,' and then saw the scene of the two engaging in intense 'meat combat' on the bed at night.
Understanding the concept of 'self-top and self-bottom' for the first time, Fu Xuan was greatly shocked!
Furthermore, Stelle's inner voice, as well as the subconscious connected from her to Caelus, drifted into Fu Xuan's mind in increasing amounts.
[Hehe, these jade feet wrapped in cloud-patterned white silk... forget about taking a bite, just taking a sniff would prolong one's life~!]
Not caring about this interrogation, after taking a few photos of the bare-faced Mommy Kafka, Caelus was pondering how to obtain the White Silk Stockings Chest.
Brother Xun once said: Upon seeing short sleeves, one immediately thinks of white arms, and immediately thinks of the naked body... Human imagination can only make such a leap at this level.
Staring at the white silk pantyhose for a long time, Caelus naturally began to imagine the visuals inside.
[It's simply a superb folk instrument! I imagine it must produce an intoxicating sound amidst the friction of fingers!]
Stelle, influenced by the subconscious, was likewise going crazy.
[Therefore, let the Master Diviner stuff those small white silk feet into my mouth! I want to be Miss Fu Xuan's dog!]
How can these two guys think of such shameless things!
The inner voices of the two Gray-hairs caused Fu Xuan's small face to instantly turn red then white, white then red. Her calves, wrapped in white silk pantyhose, also rubbed together slightly uneasily, seemingly wanting to flee from Caelus's line of sight.
But she couldn't!
She couldn't be influenced by the two of them regarding the interrogation of Kafka!
[Fu Xuan has a pair of small white silk feet, and I just happen to have a mouth and a flexible tongue. How can there be such a coincidence in the world?]
Crack!
Crack!
Don't think about it, Fu Xuan. What's important now is the Stellaron Hunter!
Fu Xuan forced herself to concentrate her main attention on matters related to Kafka and the Stellaron.
Observation result: The Stellaron Hunters have no relation to the Stellaron disaster. Kafka came to the Xianzhou solely to connect the Astral Express with the Xianzhou!
So that one day in the future, when the Express is in need, the Xianzhou can provide assistance!
This truth was already explosive enough, hard to believe!
If at this moment, another sound came through—
[Hehe, Master Diviner's small white silk feet... soft, fragrant, sweet~!]
Just this?
Just this?
Just for this?
The Stellaron Hunters went in such a big circle just to make the Xianzhou owe a favor to these Gray-hairs whose brains are filled with these things?
Connecting the causality before and after, in Fu Xuan's eyes, it looked like: A group of Abundance abominations descended from the sky and razed an entire Grotto-Heaven, solely for the purpose of stealing her white silk pantyhose.
Magical.
Absurd.
The operation of the Matrix of Prescience stopped abruptly, and the various anomalies shattered with a loud crash.
Fu Xuan finally couldn't hold it back anymore!
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