Soon, the two arrived at another monitoring room.
Carlotta operated the controls for a moment and opened the other protective door on Lucian's side.
Lucian snapped his fingers: "The protective door is open."
Carlotta nodded slightly, but at that exact moment, red lights suddenly began flashing continuously in the monitoring room, and an alarm sounded.
Rover frowned delicately and asked: "What happened?"
Lucian listened strangely to the alarm coming from the terminal: "Were you discovered?"
However, before Carlotta and Rover could answer, the ground beneath their feet suddenly gave way, and both of them fell straight down.
"Lucian—" The sensation of weightlessness made Rover instinctively shout.
Lucian frowned and quickly walked toward the opened protective door. There was no alarm on his side.
He asked in confusion: "The terminal is still connected—what happened?"
Rover looked doubtfully at the scene before her; it somewhat resembled the method the Tethys System had once used to prevent them from going deeper to meet the Shorekeeper.
Sliding down the slope, Carlotta let out a breath of relief: "Good, it didn't trigger the vault's full-domain alarm. It shouldn't alert the enemy."
Rover followed closely behind Carlotta, afraid something might go wrong.
"There's actually such an enormous space beneath the vault? It's truly unbelievable."
Carlotta dodged left and right, evading the mechanisms one by one.
She shook her head: "Inside the vault, there is an artificial Sonoro Sphere used for researching Blazing Brilliance."
"We must have fallen into it."
"But I didn't expect that communications wouldn't be cut off inside this Sonoro Sphere."
Lucian explained: "Rover's and my terminals are special; we can communicate no matter where we are."
Carlotta grew a little interested upon hearing this. After all, the Montelli family had always been researching and promoting private terminals.
She hadn't expected Lucian and Rover's terminals to have this kind of function.
Still, they had to get out of this Sonoro Sphere first.
Fortunately, the mechanisms inside were relatively easy to avoid.
At that moment, a magnetic male voice echoed through the surrounding space:
"...The future of Rinascita... lies in the hands of every individual."
"The Montelli family will ensure that everyone shares in this equally."
"...Ragunna will walk hand-in-hand into the next era."
"Terminals. The terminals we produce... will lead this era."
Rover asked in confusion: "Who is this person? Is he also from the Montelli family?"
Carlotta nodded slightly: "Yes, he is the current head of the Montelli family..."
In addition, he was also Carlotta's grandfather.
Lucian said speechlessly: "What a marketing genius—even inside a Sonoro Sphere he has to run advertisements?"
As he spoke, Lucian quickly dealt with the patrolling Echoes and arrived at an open space.
The large door high up directly ahead was slowly closing, and the voices of Carlotta and Rover could be heard from within.
Lucian followed the sound and looked over. He saw Carlotta rapidly flying toward the door that was about to close, with Rover following closely behind.
Seeing that the door was about to shut completely, Lucian swiftly swung his giant hammer, firmly jamming the closing protective door. This allowed Carlotta and Rover to fly out successfully.
However, because the protective door was very high up, Carlotta lost control of her body and flew straight toward Lucian.
Seeing this, Lucian hurriedly set Phrolova aside, then tried to extend both hands to catch Carlotta.
However, the speed was simply too fast. Just as he put Phrolova down and stood up, Carlotta had already reached him.
Caught off guard, Carlotta's panicked figure grew larger and larger in Lucian's pupils.
The next second, Lucian was knocked flat by Carlotta's full embrace.
Lucian instantly fell to the ground, and at the same time, he felt a sweet, soft sensation on his lips.
When Lucian opened his eyes, he saw Carlotta's soft, delicate body pressing down on him.
At the same time, her beautiful eyes were tightly closed, and her pink lips were pressed firmly against his own.
Carlotta's lips were soft, like cotton candy—melting the moment his tongue touched them.
Her graceful curves clung tightly to Lucian's body, and a pleasant perfume scent filled his nostrils.
At this moment, with warm, fragrant, soft jade in his arms, a wave of excitement surged through Lucian's heart.
Carlotta on top of him was equally aware of what had happened.
That was why she didn't dare open her eyes—her heart was filled with shyness. This was her first kiss!
As the Second Miss of Montelli and also the family's executor, her focus had always been on the family.
But setting aside those identities, she was still just a young girl not much older than a teenager. Of course she had thought about matters between men and women.
She had simply never imagined that her first kiss would be given away in a place like this, in a way like this.
Wasn't this something that only happened in those romance novels?
And yet it had actually happened to her!
Carlotta's face flushed red, her heart overflowing with embarrassment.
Her beautiful eyes quietly opened a slit, and she saw Lucian staring at her with burning intensity.
Feeling the heat beneath her, Carlotta's breathing grew several degrees hotter.
Just as Lucian was about to deepen the taste, Rover's voice pulled him back to reality.
"Lucian—"
The words had barely left her mouth when Rover's delicate body crashed heavily onto Carlotta's back.
Carlotta immediately cried out in pain, her beautiful eyes snapping open, and her pink lips separated from Lucian's.
Lucian smacked his lips in regret, savoring the lingering sweetness in his mouth.
Rover, who was on the very top, got up first, scratched her head, and smiled awkwardly: "Everyone okay?"
Carlotta exhaled a fragrant breath: "Do we look okay to you?"
At this moment, Rover, now standing, also noticed the strange atmosphere between Lucian and Carlotta.
Carlotta's face was flushed, while Lucian wore an expression of regret.
Rover was an extremely perceptive person and immediately sensed something was off.
"You two..."
Seeing that Rover seemed to have noticed something, Carlotta quickly cleared her throat and stood up:
"Is everyone alright?"
Although Lucian was very flirtatious, from his previous behavior, Rover's possessiveness was extremely strong.
Carlotta didn't want to have a conflict with Rover here over an accident.
Lucian, still lying flat on the ground, said with a look of despair: "You're both fine, but I'm not!"
Carlotta's body was petite and slender, so she wasn't heavy—being pressed by her was still bearable.
But Rover was different. Not only was she taller than Carlotta, but she also had prominent curves front and back—she had some weight.
The combined weight of the two made it a little hard for Lucian to bear.
Rover bent down to look at Lucian's expression, somewhat puzzled: "You're not okay?"
"But just now I saw you looking rather regretful?"
"Could it be that..."