Genshin Impact: Funina's Official Pastry Chef

Chapter 599: Caterpillar and Seymour (Part )

Hearing Chang Ming's words, Seymour raised his head slightly and looked at the white-haired little boy in front of him and fell into a brief silence.

A flash of white light appeared on his head - or more precisely, on the camera, as if it was detecting the object in front of it.

"Assisting unit testing... Testing completed. The subject was found in the existing database: Carter Shelbius, the experimental assistant of designer Alan."

"Correction. The current assisting unit is: Caterpillar, the assistant appointed by Fontaine Regent Chang Ming to assist in the investigation of the "Narcissus Cross Society" incident."

After the mechanical syllables dissipated, Seymour returned to his previous state of normal communication.

"So...it's you..."

There was an indescribable sense of reminiscence in Seymour's mechanical voice, as if he was commemorating something that had happened.

"You are...?"

Caterpila frowned slightly and fell into deep thought as he looked at the mechanical dog in front of him that claimed to know him.

In his limited memory, he did not recognize the guy in front of him.

And Seymour seemed to have anticipated this and shook his little head gently.

"It's normal that you don't recognize me. After all... I was created after something happened to you."

"?"

Hearing Seymour's words, Carterpilla's brows furrowed more and more, as if he had no idea what was going on.

Paimon looked at Caterpilla, then at Seymour beside him, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Huh? So... Seymour knows Caterpillar?"

"Negative. My memory module records the previous "Carter", not the current "Carter Pira". "

"?"

Looking at the mechanical dog in front of him that started to act as a riddle teller, a big question mark appeared on Paimon's little head.

But soon, he pointed the finger at the ancestor of the Riddler here - Chang Ming.

"Chang Ming... Are all you Fontaine people and machines like this? It's as if you want to make it clear all at once what terrible things will happen..."

As Paimon spoke, he glared at Chang Ming with some anger, and then turned his gaze to Seymour.

"Seymour, Seymour, since you said that... does that mean you know something?"

"For example... why did your maker part ways with the core members of the Narcissus Cross Society?"

After hearing Paimon's words, Seymour fell into a long silence again. After a while, he spoke:

"The main reason why my designer, Alan Gildan, parted ways with the Narcissus Cross Society was because of... Mr. Carter's matter."

"Ah?! You mean... Caterpillar, no, is it the problem caused by the previous Caterpillar?!"

Paimon asked back in some confusion.

Seymour nodded slightly, and then said softly:

"Originally, my memory module was not very clear about Mr. Carter's deeds, but after being repaired by the lady named "Xianyun", my memory began to gradually become clearer."

"Mr. Carter is Mr. Alan's experimental assistant, but... he has an incurable disease that even the other two geniuses are helpless to cure."

"until..."

As Seymour spoke, he looked at Caterpillar who was still confused about the situation. After a pause, he spoke:

"Until Mr. Carter fell into a long-term coma due to his advanced illness, the other two core members performed... "Abyss Transformation" on him."

"Abyssalization?! Wait, my brain is a bit confused. Does that mean Rene and Jacob turned Carter into an abyssal creature?!"

Seymour nodded slightly, and then continued:

"Although I don't know exactly what the process was like, the final result is...Mr. Carter's body completely collapsed and turned into an indescribable monster."

"After my designer Mr. Alan learned the news...he completely broke off relations with the two friends he grew up with."

"That's... all I know."

After hearing this, everyone fell into a long silence. The atmosphere in the room dropped to freezing point and no one knew what to say.

Ying and Paimon sighed slightly, as if they finally understood why Chang Ming's opinion of the Narcissus Cross Society was not as strong as they had imagined.

If they were sitting in Chang Ming's position... they would probably be in a similar state as him.

What's more, Chang Ming knows much more information than them, and his current attitude seems more and more reasonable.

Thinking of this, Paimon sighed slightly, then looked at the confused Caterpillar beside him and asked softly:

"Catpila...? Are you okay?"

"...I have no idea."

Caterpillar sighed softly, and for the first time a depressed expression appeared on that young face, and then he murmured subconsciously:

"I have no impression of what you just said. I even think it's a little ridiculous."

"I have never seen Mr. Master and Mr. Emissary experiment on anyone, so... I can't believe this."

Having said that, Carterpila paused for a moment, then slowly raised his head, a hint of desire flashing in his black eyes.

"But I think..."

"As long as we explore the ruins of the Narcissus Cross Society and find the key to the problem, everything will be solved."

"Whether it's my problem... or Mr. Chang Ming's problem."

As he spoke, he looked up at the people in front of him and sighed softly:

"Besides that, I have something else to confess to you all, but I hope that after you know all this... don't tell Lenore."

Hearing this, Ying and Paimon couldn't help but frown. They didn't expect that Caterpila still had reservations at this point.

But Chang Ming seemed to have anticipated Caterpillar's reaction, and nodded slightly on behalf of the silent crowd.

"Everyone has their own secrets, even me."

"Don't worry, Caterpillar. Since you have chosen to trust us, we will not tell anyone the secret you revealed."

Hearing Chang Ming's words, Carterpila was stunned at first, then nodded slightly.

Almost at the same time, a black smoke slowly rose from Carterpila's body, and his body twisted a little bit, and finally... turned into a figure that Ying was extremely familiar with.

"Hichill Ranger?!"