The next day, Luo Ye came to retrieve her glutinous rice balls.
It was her first time visiting the Zero One Office, where Lin Yilin was in charge.
However, as soon as she entered, her gaze wasn't fixed on her vomit, but on a collector's edition taboo model displayed on a cabinet!
Her eyes immediately lit up.
She teleported over, but still restrained herself from touching it: “You weren’t lying, it really is assembled, and the assembly…”
She observed the taboo from various angles: “That’s strange, some of the detailed work, though a bit unpolished, is so well done that even I can barely find fault… Illusion, no, Zheng Fan?”
Zheng Fan was still pretending to sleep, transformed into a bat, but when his name was called, he immediately dropped down.
He couldn't help it; in this day and age, no one called him by his name properly, so hearing the perfectly enunciated “Zheng Fan” suddenly felt a bit unfamiliar.
“You’re here already, so early in the morning,” Zheng Fan said, looking back to see Lin Yilin and… why was that woman Hong Yijia here too? She was the noisiest of them all.
Luo Ye, however, ignored all that and eagerly said, “Did you assemble this? Impossible, I don’t feel your passion for taboo; only someone who truly pours their heart into it can assemble it with such skill. The person must be a passionate individual who has been immersed in the taboo series for many years! Bring him out to meet me!”
“It’s not like I haven’t assembled Gundam before, what the hell are you talking about…” Zheng Fan was startled; a madwoman was indeed a madwoman.
“Woof!”
“Hmm?” Luo Ye’s attention was drawn by the sound, and she turned to see a Toast.
Her brain froze for a moment.
Such a perfect Toast, this outline, this line, this elegant fragrance, even with ears, legs, and a tail that a Toast shouldn’t have, it didn’t affect its perfection in the slightest…
Huh?
What was she just thinking!?
Zheng Fan watched from the side, secretly admiring.
If even Luo Ye could be hard-controlled, then Toast’s instant-kill ability was truly not to be underestimated, though unfortunately, it could generally only be used once per person.
“Is this the Phantasms Lin Yilin mentioned you’re raising? It’s quite cute,” Luo Ye said with a smile.
“It’s best not to touch it randomly, it’s a bit shy…” Zheng Fan reminded her.
Though, to be precise, it had a “bite it” curiosity for anything it hadn’t bitten yet, which manifested as habitually biting strangers it encountered.
“Never mind that for now, where’s that model expert? Let me meet him!”
“Woof!” Toast nudged Luo Ye’s leg.
Luo Ye ignored it.
Zheng Fan lowered his head and said, “It’s this one.”
“Ah?”
“I said it’s it, the one you said is full of passion for taboo, truly pours its heart into it, and has been immersed in the taboo series for many years—though specifically, it’s only been about a week—in short, it’s that kind of passionate individual.” Zheng Fan introduced it at lightning speed, finally adding, “You can call it Toast, ‘Perfect’ is its surname; adding it appropriately can make it happy.”
Luo Ye was stunned.
Toast looked up at her: “Woof!”
“How is that possible!” Luo Ye knelt again.
Zheng Fan narrowed his eyes: If only he had known she was so easy to make kneel, he should have let her face this shocking truth sooner; maybe she would have kowtowed to Toast on the spot.
She instinctively reached out and cupped Toast.
“Hey, what did I say…” Zheng Fan lazily reminded her, but of course, it was too late.
Crunch!
Lin Yilin was talking to Hong Yijia when she heard the sound of bones breaking and abruptly turned around, seeing Toast bite off Luo Ye’s hand.
Lin Yilin: ???
Hong Yijia: !!!
“Quick, feed her the cross!” Lin Yilin urgently shouted.
The two rushed to a corner of the office, Lin Yilin pulled in Zheng Fan, who was enjoying the show, and the three of them found a cardboard box, which was where Luo Ye’s Illusion glutinous rice balls were stored.
“Why are there so many!” Hong Yijia wailed.
“Less talk, more searching,” Lin Yilin buried her head in search.
“It’s all Toast’s fault for constantly rummaging; now we can’t find anything.” Zheng Fan leisurely picked and chose.
“Weren’t you the one who usually loved playing with these things the most?” Lin Yilin glanced at him.
Zheng Fan smiled without speaking.
Suddenly, he was nudged, and turned to see Lu Lu Shoes; today’s Lu Lu Shoes were an elegant pair of black high heels with golden heels.
Of course, that wasn’t the point; the point was that the golden cross was inside Lu Lu Shoes.
It brought back Zheng Fan’s memories.
…
“It looks hard, but this cross is actually soft, hey. Come on, Toast, test its elasticity.”
Zheng Fan held one end of the cross, and Toast bit the other end and ran backward, both stretching the cross incredibly long. Finally, reaching its limit, Toast couldn’t hold on anymore and let go.
Because the cross snapped back and almost hit Zheng Fan’s face, Zheng Fan also let go and dodged.
The cross bounced a few times inside the office, and finally… it hit Lu Lu Shoes, who was resting in the corner.
…
“Holy crap, I’m sorry!” Zheng Fan quickly apologized, then pulled the cross out of Lu Lu Shoes, holding it high as if he had caught a Pokémon: “Found it!”
“What are you posing for? Feed it to her,” Lin Yilin pushed him.
“Stop playing, Ye-jie is fading!” Hong Yijia reminded him.
“Don’t rush, it’s not an anime, there’s no fading, that’s too exaggerated,” Zheng Fan said nonchalantly, spreading his hands.
“That’s not fading, that’s excessive blood loss,” Lin Yilin said darkly.
After a chaotic commotion, they finally managed to feed the cross back to her.
Luo Ye suddenly opened her eyes in a daze, a golden light flashing in them. She sat bolt upright like a zombie, pushing away the wailing Hong Yijia.
After a while, she looked at her newly regenerated arm: “…I thought I was going to meet it.”
“The famous Super Freelancer almost got bitten to death by Toast; it’s a pity I didn’t record it on my phone just now,” Zheng Fan said, feigning emotion.
Lin Yilin silently put away her phone.
Zheng Fan glimpsed it.
My Binary Little Sister.
Without thinking much, Zheng Fan went to find Toast, who had run off after biting.
For no other reason than to bring it back to mop the floor.
Although it did well… no, it did something bad, so it naturally needed to take responsibility for the aftermath.
Luo Ye adjusted very quickly; when her hand was bitten off just now, she didn’t even cry out. Her composure at the time was quite remarkable. This kind of injury was indeed a minor matter for her in the past.
Her endurance of pain was top-notch, but unfortunately, her current fragile body made her resilience seem so ridiculous. She almost died silently.
Moving the glutinous rice ball box onto the coffee table, Luo Ye began the arduous process of recovering her Illusion weapons.
It felt like watching a competitive eating challenge video.
A beautiful girl was challenging a whole box of glutinous rice balls. Could she finish them all within the time limit?
Luo Ye’s eating style revealed a hint of indignation.
She had truly never suffered such grievances in this life. Even when she was scared to death in the Black World as a child, wetting herself and getting beaten black and blue by Illusions, it was better than “Cause of death: excessive bleeding from Toast bite”!
She had to quickly eat it all back and get rid of this fragility.
“Eat slowly, don’t choke,” Hong Yijia said kindly, offering her water.
Zheng Fan, meanwhile, was holding Toast and fiddling with it: “You didn’t get an upset stomach, did you? This guy is a Cyborg , and although he doesn’t have Illusion weapons now, who knows what else is in his body. Your head isn’t going to turn pointy, is it?”
“Woof?”
“Since it’s come to this, let’s stuff some desiccant in.”
“Woof!!” Toast struggled violently.
But it was still useless, because after Lin Yilin ate a piece of packaged cake, she heard Zheng Fan’s words and casually handed him the desiccant inside. Binary Little Sister naturally wouldn’t miss out on ridiculing Toast.
Toast and Luo Ye, in the demonic lair known as the Zero One Office, ultimately found it difficult to escape unscathed.