Chapter 302: Cotton Candy Carbon (2)

Watching this pixie's clumsy performance, Xia Yao secretly found it amusing.

Although she couldn't tell why this creature seemed a bit flustered, but... it really was a cute little fool who was easy to trick.

As the heiress of the Yanxia Group, Xia Yao was no naive, sweet young lady.

After all, she had grown up surrounded by all kinds of business negotiations. Her IQ, emotional intelligence, and even her acting skills were all top-notch.

In front of a certain blockhead who was too different from normal people, her entire skill set often had nowhere to be used and could only be reduced to making snarky comments, but that didn't mean she couldn't toy with this kind of fool in the palm of her hand.

Xia Yao looked into its eyes and deliberately put on a displeased expression, then observed the other party's ears instantly stiffening, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

, Which family's cartoon did this mascot escape from?

At first, she really had been intimidated by the carefully crafted atmosphere and the sudden words, even thinking the other party could read minds. But after these past ten-plus days of interaction, she had already used conversational tactics to feel out this creature's background inside and out.

As long as this creature's skill level wasn't so high that its acting could fool even itself at the atmospheric level, then she could be certain... this was just a pixie, common in magical girl works, whose mind wasn't really that mature.

At most, it was a bit wicked, had no moral integrity, and liked to deceive people.

In cartoons, it could hoodwink adorable cute girls, but in reality, if it didn't get tricked out of its underpants by a scheming beauty like herself, that would already be an achievement.

Xia Yao looked at it and deliberately sighed, revealing a very troubled expression: "Ah, but I've heard there's no such thing as a free lunch in this world. You give me power, but what exactly are you after?"

"If you don't make things clear, I won't feel secure about this. This contract... I think we should just forget it."

This was the first time in these past few days that Xia Yao had made a clear refusal in front of it.

"Wait mian!"

Cotton Candy Carbon indeed panicked instantly.

The airs it had just put on collapsed in an instant. It quickly flew in front of Xia Yao and hurriedly explained:

"Of course I have something to gain mian! As long as you can destroy demons and demon-people, you'll get stronger and stronger, and then I can also collect magic power from it to advance mian! I can become a big shot mian!"

It looked like it was about to cry: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse mian! This is a win-win, one hundred percent win-win mian!"

"Is that so... sounds really dangerous."

"It's not dangerous, if you can't win you can run mian! Only if you kick the bucket is there truly nothing left mian!"

Xia Yao looked at its pleading gaze and deliberately put on a thinking expression, her mind turning.

Defeat bad people, absorb magic power?

Honestly...

Cotton Candy Carbon having designs on her was something she could completely accept.

After all, the free things were the most expensive.

She wasn't afraid of the other party having ulterior motives. What she feared was the other party appearing to want nothing, when in reality it was eyeing everything you had.

Then...

Only the most critical question remained.

In the next moment, Xia Yao deliberately leaned in a bit closer. Those beautiful black eyes stared directly at the little purple pixie, carrying a trace of pressure, and she said word by word:

"Can I become as strong as that magical girl who appeared that night?"

"!!"

Cotton Candy Carbon immediately became evasive and stammered.

"That... actually... her power is a bit special mian, it belongs to that kind of... mm, exception among exceptions mian..."

It guiltily poked its fingers together, not even daring to raise its head, and said pitifully: "She's too amazing mian..."

Although its conscience had long been discarded together with its moral integrity, this question was the exception.

Compared to that magical girl who was strong to the point of defying the heavens... Xia Yao might dare to think it, but it wouldn't dare to agree!

That was a chosen magical girl! Completely different in concept from an artificial one!

And that magical girl was also an anomaly among anomalies even among the chosen!

It was merely a mid-tier dangerous species, and it wasn't good at fighting at all.

That old grandpa called Uncle An, after transforming with a belt and a memory device, could punch it flying with a single blow.

Xia Yao looked at its honest appearance, not even daring to lie, and couldn't help but burst out laughing with a "pfft." She reached out a finger and flicked its furry forehead, adopting a lecturing tone with a hint of turning the tables:

"Fool."

"With that attitude of yours, it's obvious at a glance you're not cut out for business."

Xia Yao suddenly turned serious: "At times like this, whether you can do it or not, in order to close the deal with the client, you have to straighten your back and swear to me with absolute certainty that there's no problem, understand?"

Cotton Candy Carbon clutched its forehead, its big watery eyes staring blankly at the young woman before it whose words carried an inexplicable persuasiveness.

"Is... is that so mian?"

Xia Yao didn't pay it any more attention. Carrying that stack of scavenged discs, she walked out of the room, deliberately leaving the door open and the lights on, as if declaring her presence.

Cotton Candy Carbon, looking somewhat dispirited, followed her, once again entering stealth mode.

"Alright, Uncle An, let's go home."

Uncle An saw the smile on her face, and the corners of his mouth also curved up slightly.

"Yes."

The car steadily drove toward the city center.

Two hours later, the black-haired girl returned to the cold, quiet high-rise apartment where she lived alone.

Taking off her shoes and casually placing the things on the living room coffee table, Xia Yao walked to the window and looked at the bustling scenery outside, then suddenly spoke again.

"Cotton Candy Carbon."

"Hm? I'm here mian!"

Xia Yao turned around and looked at the pixie that had been following behind her like a little tail the whole time.

"I've thought it through."

"?!"

Cotton Candy Carbon's gaze instantly turned sharp.

Thought it through?

"I can agree to you."

"Really mian!!!"

Cotton Candy Carbon was so moved it was almost about to shed tears, the fox tail behind it wagging into a propeller.

Finally got it done mian!

With this contract as a guarantee, I won't have to live in constant fear anymore mian!

This world is really so dangerous and strange mian!

However, Xia Yao's next words instantly froze the smile on its face, like the whisper of a demon.

"But..."

"Before signing the contract, you must find a piece of paper and list out every single clause of the contract, the rights and obligations of both parties, the possible risks, and the liability for breach of contract, one by one, for me to review."

"Once I find any contradiction or concealment, then you can forget about it for the rest of your life."

Cotton Candy Carbon stood frozen in midair with its mouth wide open, its eyes starting to spin in circles: "Ah? Mian..."

Xia Yao raised an eyebrow, her tone matter-of-fact with a domineering client's aura: "Legal clauses, contracts, and agreements, these kinds of things must absolutely never be signed blindly with your eyes closed. Don't the pixies from your place not even understand this basic bit of business common sense?"

Looking at the confused purple pixie, Xia Yao revealed a trace of a sly smile.

However, in the next moment, within that smile surfaced an indescribable determination and resolve.

Ever since that night when she witnessed with her own eyes the transcendental world hidden behind the everyday, she had understood.

, Since the transcendental exists, and Uncle An, her brother, and her father all seemed to have always had contact with it.

Then... was her mother's mysterious passing back then really just a simple accident?

If she could become a magical girl wielding powerful strength, would she then be qualified to investigate those truths that everyone was unwilling to tell her, buried deep in the shadows?

Still, small animals have it comfortable.