Chapter 417 New Year

"Ding-ling-ling——"

"Hello, who is this... Oh, Mobius, what's up?"

"It seems I need to remind you that after today, it will be a new year again."

This reminder is not without any effect. For example, if it weren't for Mobius' words, Mikael would have almost forgotten that it has been almost two months since the incident with Thunder Dragon Horse.

But being useful doesn't mean being able to tolerate it. Mikael held the phone, his eyebrows full of the hostility that comes with just getting up.

"So? Is this the reason why you called me early in the morning to disturb my sleep?"

"Hehe, don't you dislike sleeping?"

"... When did I say that?"

The voice on the other end of the receiver just sneered and didn't reply. Mikael recalled carefully that he seemed to have said such words, but that was a long, long time ago, because he felt that people were too confused when they just woke up, and they couldn't concentrate on anything at all, which greatly reduced the efficiency of task execution...

And, if he remembered correctly, he couldn't fall asleep at one time. The reason why he can do it now is because of someone's wishful thinking.

But regardless of all that… Mikael’s eyes slowly closed, his vision gradually fell into darkness, then slowly opened, slowly regaining light.

“Hmm?”

With each breath, he seemed to be more awake, so awake that he finally realized that something was wrong—he touched his side, which was empty, and even the sheets under the quilt were cold. He looked at the big “Mobius” character on the call interface on the phone screen, but he still didn’t understand the situation.

"What? Are you thinking now - hey? Why isn't Mobius by my side? Hey? Why did Mobius call me?"

"..."

"First of all, you'd better check the time now. Forget it, I'll tell you directly, it's already past 11:30 in the afternoon, if you don't get up, Meiyi's lunch will be ready. Oh, right! You must also want to ask why your alarm clock didn't ring, right? Hehe! It's because I pity you for working day and night recently, so I secretly turned off the alarm clock for you. How about it, did you sleep well this time?"

There was a hint of ridicule in Mobius' tone, as if he was asking for credit. But the most noticeable thing was the very familiar way of speaking, but it didn't belong to her.

"Mobius, do you like to imitate her so much?"

"Ahem! Well, I'm too lazy to joke with you."

Mebius noticed that Mikael was not in a good mood, so she naturally would not touch this bad luck. She quickly turned the topic back on track:

"I just said that I am in the ME building now. You have a good eye for people. I used to think that Cocolia was a clown, but I didn't expect that she had some tricks. In less than a month and a half, the relationship that Raiden Ryoma had been building for more than ten years was almost destroyed - at least on the surface."

"Oh? So what you mean is that you got up early in the morning just to take the initiative to check on her and then report to me about Cocolia's work performance?"

Mikael rolled on the bed, touched the warm quilt with his hand reluctantly, and finally sat up with gritted teeth.

"Heh - yawn! I'm not that free... We are working overtime together, and if you are tired, I am tired too..."

Mobius emphasized the word "overtime" vaguely. Mikael's Adam's apple rolled hard, and he stopped the urge to curse.

"Then you should come back early and take a nap in the afternoon."

"Tsk! Do you think everyone is the same as you?"

Neither Mikael nor Mobius rely on sleep, but although sleep cannot bring too many changes to their bodies, it can give their tense consciousness a little rest.

However, Mobius did not appreciate it.

Mikael could not figure out what she was thinking, and he had no intention or obligation to figure it out. So he made his tone stiff again.

"So, what happened? Kokolia called you over?"

"Ahem!"

Mobius cleared his throat. Mikael did not think she was a person who would be more careful in her words, but her current attitude, although not to the point of talking about other things, was obviously hiding something.

"Forget it, why don't you let Cocolia come and talk to you herself... Um... Things are a bit complicated, and it's hard to explain them in a few words over the phone. How about I bring her to the villa?"

"..."

"Hello? Mikael? Are you still listening?"

"Ah bah - I'm brushing my teeth!"

Hearing that the sound of washing up on the other side of the receiver didn't seem fake, Mobius covered the phone's receiving hole, breathed a sigh of relief, and then made an "OK" gesture to Cocolia across the table.

"She still has a lot of things to deal with here, so why don't I just wait here for her to finish her get off work and bring her back?"

"Gululululu... Ah bah - you can do it yourself."

"Okay, that's it, hang up first!"

Mobius pressed the red button on the screen without hesitation, and after a short busy tone, she threw the phone on the table without much care.

"Thank you..."

Cocolia gently put down the pen in her right hand, and used her left thumb and index finger to twist a corner of a document, rubbing it gently, making a rustling sound.

"Don't thank me, I know nothing. You deceived me with sweet words and got the opportunity to go there. Even if I made a mistake, it was just a mistake. Do you understand?"

"I understand!"

Unlike her former arrogance, Cocolia is now very well-behaved in front of Mebius. It's not the first time she has heard of the name World Snake. She has also tried to investigate this organization before, but the more she investigates, the more she feels that they seem to be everywhere. Not to mention the relatively scattered organizational structure of Anti-Entropy, even old organizations like Tianming and Taixu are full of traces of World Snake's erosion.

She doesn't know whether the archbishop of Tianming and the master of Shenzhou know about this. If she says she doesn't know, it's definitely impossible, but if she knows but doesn't take any countermeasures, it's also unreasonable.

There is only one explanation: there is another hidden story behind this.

What hidden story? Judging from the information that Cocolia can access at present, she can't sort out a clue at all.

But she had just arrived in the Far East two months ago and would never have thought that her fledgling team would hit the iron plate of World Snake...

What she didn't expect was that World Snake would actually extend an olive branch to her personally. Yes, it was a strange thing. World Snake seemed to look down on the relationship she had previously built and the ME Club she had just taken over, and was only interested in her personally.

Cocolia didn't know what she had in her that was worthy of World Snake's attention, but when her own life and the lives of the children she adopted were in the hands of the other party, she had no choice.

Of course, changing her allegiance did not have any psychological burden for her. Whether it was Anti-Entropy, Destiny, or World Snake, there was not much difference to her. The word loyalty had ceased to exist in her world as early as the moment she was framed and imprisoned by her compatriots fifteen years ago.

Whether it was the name of Anti-Entropy before or the control of World Snake now, it was just a stopgap measure.

If she had to say what she was still loyal to, it was and could only be the abstract concept of human beings itself.

However, it must be the human civilization she leads.

Thinking of this, her eyes narrowed, just like what she had seen in the snowfields of her hometown, no matter what kind of beast, before launching an attack, it would crouch down and narrow its eyes, and she was also like this...

She thought so, but unexpectedly caught a glimpse of green.

"What are you thinking about?"

Mebius comfortably put all the weight of his upper body on the back of the chair, but his fingers painted with green nail polish stretched out in front of Cocolia and tapped the table gently.

"No... I'm not thinking about anything. It's just... I haven't seen Seele and Bronya for almost two months. When I think about tonight... especially such an important day, I'm a little excited."

"Tsk!"

Mebius sneered, even though he was mentally prepared, the undisguised disdain still made Cocolia's whole body tremble.

"I say, you are quite contradictory."

"Ah..."

"Your mind is full of conspiracies... No, saying this is an insult to the word conspiracy. Haha... It's ironic that even someone like me can't think of a word to describe you... Anyway, you are a woman with a mind full of all kinds of cruel means, but you are so concerned about a group of children who have no blood relationship with you. It's really eye-opening."

Cocolia opened her mouth in vain. She wanted to explain something, but she hadn't even thought of her "self-defense" yet.

"Speaking of this, it's even funnier."

Mebius stood up unyieldingly and picked up a document at her hand and opened it.

"Tsk! You say you care about them, but you've even planned to use them for experiments."

"Bronya and Seele are now being taken care of by Master Mikael, so they won't be in this experiment."

Cocolia's explanation was weak and powerless. Mebius smiled, turned the document to the last page, and pointed his finger at the blank signature stamp.

"Tsk tsk tsk! I thought this plan had been approved by you and was ready to be implemented."

"Such an important experiment must be reported to you and Master Mikael before a decision can be made."

Cocolia laughed twice, but if you look closely enough, you can see that her smile was actually forced out by the twitching of the corners of her mouth.

"Oh, so that's it."

Mebius suddenly used his fingers to pull out the staples used for binding, and then threw the entire document into the shredder.

"Then on behalf of World Snake, I reject this meaningless experiment. Do you have any objection?"

"Of course... no."

Cocolia stared blankly at the pile of shredded paper spit into the trash can by the shredder, and suddenly felt that her old employer Anti-Entropy still had an advantage that neither Destiny nor World Snake had - freedom and future.

Because they had no time to take care of the various branches outside the American headquarters, although Anti-Entropy could provide the least help, it could give Cocolia, who was once a bare executive, the greatest freedom of action. It was precisely because of this freedom that she could seek the future she wanted - such as killing Thunder Dragon Horse and annexing the Anti-Entropy Far East Branch.

And now, Mobius used that pile of snow-white shredded paper to tell her: Sorry, these are not available at World Snake.

"Well, there are some things that are not suitable for keeping until now and in the future, so you should throw them away as soon as possible. Ah, by the way... you'd better deal with the remaining files quickly."

"What's the emergency?"

"No, I just think you'd better go and leave early so as not to disturb our dinner."

…………

"Ahhh! Uncle Mikael, you finally got up! Just three minutes later, you can successfully break my record... Ouch!"

Looking at Kiana, who was holding her forehead and glaring at him in front of the steps, Michael grinned. He then looked at the wall clock on the wall beside him. The time displayed on the wall clock was eleven thirty-four.

"First of all, don't call me uncle. Secondly, uh... your stay-in-bed record only ends at 11:37? I thought it would last until one or two o'clock in the afternoon, at least it should be more than twelve o'clock... You are Didn’t you remember it wrong?”

"No, idiot Kiana remembers it right, because in idiot Kiana's world, eating and sleeping are equally important. Staying in bed has cost her breakfast. If she can't get up before twelve o'clock, she won't even have lunch. Losing all the opportunities is an intolerable situation according to idiot Kiana’s values.”

Bronya was helping Mei carry small plates with vegetables one after another from the kitchen to the dining table. Lunch started at this point, which was a bit early, so naturally Bronya fished for fish——

Refers to when Kiana stopped Mikael at the stairs, she walked behind Kiana expressionlessly with empty hands. With that look, even if the next second she took out a stick from behind and hit Kiana on the back of the head. , even Mikael wouldn’t be surprised.

"Ahem!"

Kiana put her hands on her hips and cleared her throat, imitating Mikael's tone and said:

"First of all! I don't call idiot Kiana... Oh, yeah, yeah!"

She wanted to learn the whole set. She originally wanted to use her index finger to hit Bronya's forehead a little harder like Mikael, but as a mercenary, the latter reacted much faster than her. Her eyes were in a trance, and her finger Then she was held in Bronya's hand.

"Ahhhh! It hurts, it hurts! Be merciful! Be merciful, Bronya! I didn't mean it!"

“Ah—Sister Bronya!”

Another exclamation came, and Bronya and Mikael looked at the same place——

At the dining table, Xi'er suppressed her smile and straightened the cup that had been knocked over on the table.

"snort!"

Bronya pouted at Kiana and walked back to Xi'er, swinging two silver drill bits.

"What happened?"

"It's nothing... I almost knocked over the cup accidentally... I'm sorry, Sister Bronya..."

"ah……"

Bronya sighed and patted Xi'er's head gently.

"I thought it was a big deal. It doesn't matter, anyway... the cup doesn't belong to us anyway."

"Ah? Our... home...?"

When Bronya didn't notice, Xi'er turned her head to the side, but she only saw the back of Mikael getting rid of Kiana's entanglement and hurriedly walked into the kitchen.