The glasses on Mobius's face reflected the light.
The smile at the corners of her lips was clearly very gentle and ordinary, yet for some reason, it gave people chills.
Levi composed himself. "I'm going to use the bathroom."
With that, he gently moved Mobius's hand off his shoulder and walked firmly toward the outside.
Looking at Elysia, who had let herself loose and was running for her life outside, he understood everything at this moment.
'That Elysia!'
Not only had she done as he said and signed up Kiana and Stelle, she had also signed him up in the process.
Levi felt a toothache coming on.
He had really underestimated Elysia. He never thought she would have this kind of little scheme up her sleeve.
And throughout the entire process of carrying out the plan, she hadn't revealed the slightest flaw.
This acting...
It would be downright unreasonable for her not to compete with Eden for the title of world superstar.
But Eden was a singer, while Elysia was an acting type. They weren't even in the same field, so they probably couldn't compete anyway.
Just as Levi was about to step out of the research institute, he suddenly felt pain at the back of his neck, followed immediately by a cold sensation surging into his body from the painful spot.
Levi's eyes widened. From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Mobius holding a syringe and slowly pushing it in.
Apparently noticing his gaze, Mobius gave him a faint smile.
Thud!
Seeing the strongest among them collapse to the ground with a bang, Kiana and Stelle instantly widened their eyes.
"Mm! Mm!"
"Mm!"
[Kiana: Talk in the chat group!]
With a smelly sock stuffed in her mouth, her words were impossible to understand, and there was also a foul smell inside her mouth.
[Stelle: Holy shit! How about we run?!]
Realizing that they could still communicate through the chat group, Stelle said anxiously.
Levi was someone who knew Mobius, yet she had knocked him down without the slightest hesitation. Wouldn't she skin and pull the muscles off these people who didn't know her at all?!
[Kiana: Run? How are we supposed to run? You run and let me see how it goes!]
As she spoke, she struggled a couple of times. Feeling the rope tighten more and more, she eventually gave up.
That piece of shit Levi had no idea which short video he'd learned this kind of binding technique from. The more she struggled, the tighter it became.
She didn't want to get strangled by the rope before she could even break free.
Stelle moved her body and, after discovering the same problem as Kiana, also gave up struggling.
Then she suddenly thought of something.
[Stelle: Don't you control multiple types of elemental power?]
[Stelle: Hurry up and use your invincible elemental power to think of something!]
[Kiana: You think I don't want to?!]
[I know you're in a hurry, but don't be in such a hurry yet, because I'm even more anxious than you.]
[Kiana: This world isn't Teyvat. The elemental power here is so thin that it's practically nonexistent.]
There might not be any elemental power at all. It's probably just the tiny amount of elemental power remaining inside our bodies that's creating this illusion.
[Kiana: I can't use my powers at all!]
Otherwise, with nothing more than an ordinary hemp rope, how could it possibly restrain me, a great adventurer?
'Don't make me laugh!'
'Even if I'm useless, I'm still not someone an ordinary rope can restrain!'
After seeing Mobius carry the unconscious Levi onto the operating table, then slowly walk toward them, Kiana's heart tightened. She hurriedly asked in the chat group.
[Kiana: Don't you have some damn Path power or something?]
[Kiana: Hurry up and use your invincible Path power to think of something!]
[Stelle: No use.]
The Path of Trailblaze allowed her to adapt to more extreme environments. For example, in the freezing snow of Belobog, she didn't need to put on thick clothes to keep her body temperature normal.
The Path of Preservation allowed her to put a shield on herself and increase her survivability, simply put, it made her harder to beat up.
As for the Path of Destruction... she couldn't use it without the bat.
[Kiana: Then where's your bat?!]
Clang!
Hearing the sound, Mobius turned her head. Kiana and Stelle raised their heads, and all three pairs of eyes looked toward Levi on the operating table at the same time.
On the floor, a baseball bat slowly rolled toward the corner.
"What a strange thing."
Mobius muttered under her breath.
"..."
Kiana fell silent, while Stelle revealed a miserable smile.
[Stelle: Now you know where my bat went, right?]
Damn Levi. The first thing he did after catching her was threaten her into handing over her bat. He was seriously inhuman.
After picking up the bat and putting it aside, Mobius continued slowly approaching the two.
Under the desperate looks on their faces.
She untied the restraints on the two.
"Name."
"..."
Looking at the two standing there with blank, adorable expressions and completely unmoving, Mobius put down the pen in her hand.
A strange look appeared in her eyes beneath her glasses.
'These two aren't idiots, are they?'
Their expressions had been so lively just now. Why were they suddenly standing there in a daze without saying anything?
Tap~ Tap~ Tap~
Mobius knocked on the table with her pen and asked again, "Name."
The two came back to their senses at the sound and gave their names one after another.
"Stelle."
"Kiana."
"Where do you live?"
After writing down their names, Mobius once again asked for their home addresses.
"Uh..."
The two looked at each other, unsure whether they should give their real home addresses or just make up a place name.
"Why are you two dazed again?"
Mobius's brows furrowed tightly beneath her glasses. "Do you need me to examine your brains?"
Hearing this, Stelle and Kiana immediately shook their heads and indicated that this opportunity would be better left to Levi.
"Teyvat."
"The Astral Express."
Listening to the two names that sounded like something out of a fantasy novel and that she had never heard before, Mobius didn't immediately write them down. She quietly stared at the two for a while.
In the end, she recorded the two names on the document.
She casually tossed it onto the table, leaving it for Blanca to organize when she came to work.
Compared with dealing with this complicated and useless information, she cared more about how her research results had turned out.
"Come."
Seeing the things on the palm reaching toward them, Stelle and Kiana looked at each other and both began swallowing nervously.
"I suddenly remembered that I haven't eaten breakfast yet. Can you let me go eat breakfast first?"
Stelle tried to stall for time.
Kiana changed from her previous attitude of arguing with heaven, earth, and thin air, and instead began agreeing with her.
"Yeah, yeah, we just got up too. We haven't had time to eat breakfast."
"You haven't eaten breakfast?"
Mobius hesitated for a moment, then took out two tubes of viscous substance and handed them to the two, signaling for them to drink them.
Just like when Levi had tasted it earlier, both of them made expressions showing how awful it tasted.
"The energy contained in what you just drank is enough to sustain an adult man for two days."
That way, there was no need to worry about their bodies suffering serious damage due to insufficient energy.
"Come and eat."
At this moment, Mobius's smile looked like a devil's smile in the eyes of the two.
Seeing them obediently eat it, Mobius nodded in satisfaction. When she turned around and prepared to deal with Levi, she found that the figure on the operating table had already disappeared.
The bat she had put away had disappeared along with him.
Mobius rubbed the bridge of her nose. "As expected, it doesn't work?"
None of this had come as a surprise to her.
But the experiment was already complete. If he had left, then so be it.
Seeing that the door still showed no movement, while Stelle and Kiana were beginning to stir, Mobius suddenly remembered something.
She silently picked up the documents and began handling Blanca's usual work.
[Ding-dong!]
[Levi: @Elysia, where are you right now? I have a big gift to give you.]