Honkai Impact: My Married life with Kiana

Chapter 165: Old Yang

"This is..." Bronya slowly took in the scene in front of her.

It should be a very dark corridor. There is only a little light in a dimly lit room at the other end of the corridor.

"Where are you sending me?" Bronya frowned slightly.

Looking at the somewhat depressing environment around her, she instinctively slowed down her pace and slowly walked towards the only lighted room on the other side of the corridor.

In the silent and empty corridor, with every step Bronya took, she could hear a faint echo...

It was as if there was something behind her, following her steps and chasing after her...

As the Herrscher of Truth, Bronya certainly understood this principle that even elementary school students understood, but faced with this strange and depressing environment, she instinctively quickened her pace.

This also caused the footsteps coming from behind her, which seemed to be another person, to become faster...

When Bronya walked completely to the room that was similar to a small laboratory, she reached out and knocked on the door nervously: "Excuse me? Is anyone there?"

...No one responded in the room, but the door was not locked...

Looking back at the dark corridor again, Bronya finally mustered up her courage and pushed the door open.

What she saw was a very ordinary spacious and bright laboratory... and across from the laboratory lay a figure that Bronya looked very familiar with...

"Is that Mr. Welt?" Bronya called out tentatively at the back.

The back of the person lying there seemed to be asleep, and suddenly someone called him, and his body seemed to move a few times in a half-asleep and half-awake state?

"Who is it? Our laboratory generally does not receive guests without an appointment." The same familiar voice also contained fatigue and deep sleepiness.

He sat up slowly and saw the figure swaying there as if he was fighting against the remaining sleepiness for the last time...

The first thing he did when he was called was to shake his arms, which were numb from sleeping, and then he instinctively squinted his eyes and looked for his glasses on the table in the laboratory.

"Eh? Is Mr. Welt in this world really nearsighted?" Although Bronya didn't say much, she still tilted her head instinctively.

She once heard Dr. Tesla mention in her own world that Mr. Welt in that world was not really nearsighted, but he just felt that wearing glasses was cool, so he chose to wear a pair of plain glasses without any degree.

It seems that there is still a slight difference between the two worlds. Mr. Welt in this world is not only nearsighted but also very short-sighted...

"Who are you?" Old Yang in this world finally found his own eyes...

After putting on the glasses, he looked back carefully and saw the grown-up Bronya there... He felt that the person dressed like the head of the company that invested in his laboratory looked very similar in temperament...

'Could it be that my crime of defrauding experimental funds has been exposed?' Old Yang in this world couldn't help but have a "terrible" thought flashing through his mind.

'No... Why does this lady in front of me look so familiar? Have I seen her somewhere before?' Although Bronya a few years ago and Big Duck now look similar...

But... well... in terms of some physical details, the difference is really too big... they are simply two different people!

Bronya also looked at Dr. Welt in front of her. His messy hair might not have been taken care of for a long time.

Maybe because he had been working in the lab for a long time, Old Yang's face was pale and haggard. Even the white lab coat he was wearing was sprinkled with liquids of unknown colors.

Moreover, the liquid had dried up, leaving ugly marks on the white coat.

The whole person looked very decadent, and it wouldn't feel out of place if he changed into ragged clothes and cosplayed as a beggar on the street...

After thinking for a long time, Old Yang finally got a glimpse of something on that familiar face: "Who are you? Bronya's..."

Bronya was about to say hello...

"...mother, right? I have to say, ma'am, you've taken really good care of yourself... You can't tell at all that you have a daughter that old..." Old Yang said in a tone that he thought was a compliment.

Bronya was about to say hello to the chief, but she froze in her tracks: "Mother? Do I look that old?"

She looked down at her whole body in confusion...

Well, although her vision is mostly blocked by the front armor on her chest, no matter how you look at it, she looks like a young girl in her twenties, right?

And looking up at Mr. Welt's serious expression, she was sure that he was not joking... and even if he was joking, this joke was too much!

You know, she came to see the captain! If the captain heard such rumors... the captain, who now has no memory, misunderstood that she is really old! What should she do then!

Bronya acted very dignified and smiled very gently: "Mr. Welt, you really know how to joke... I am Bronya..."

"No way?" Old Yang pushed his glasses up in shock. "I just saw that little girl a few years ago. She looked like a primary school student who hadn't started to develop yet…"

"How long has it been? How did it develop into this state?"

Veins like the Chinese character "井" kept popping up on Bronya's smooth white forehead... but on the surface, she still maintained a dignified smile...

"Just discussing girls' development so recklessly!" Bronya said this with a hint of gnashing of teeth.

"Isn't it impolite to do this? Mr. Welt... Do you believe me? I'll tell Dr. Tesla?"

"Oh... I was indeed not very polite..." The slow-reacting Old Yang finally realized the impoliteness in his words and apologized hurriedly...

"But how does this matter have something to do with Tesla?" Old Yang in this world was very confused about the second half of Bronya's sentence.

Tesla? In Old Yang's impression of this world, there are hot-tempered colleagues who support him in doing this and that and jump up and down at any time...

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