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Mei didn't care. "It would be best if we could put it into use the next time the Herrscher appears. After all, the pressure on the battlefield is too great right now. Even if the intensity of the Honkai will increase after this technology is put into use, we still need to put it into use as soon as possible - there's no turning back once the arrow is released."

"...I know."

Mobius nodded.

Even without technological advancements, the intensity of the Honkai is gradually increasing—otherwise, given the devastation inflicted on civilizations by previous Honkai events, the intensity of the Honkai should have decreased!

If you don't pursue technological advancement, you'll die anyway; if you do, you might survive. So what are you waiting for if you don't pursue technological advancement?

"I'll go first," Mobius said immediately. "I've been wanting to try operating on myself for a long time. With Liu Bai here, I shouldn't die immediately."

"... I do hope you can cherish your life." Liu Bai sighed. His dying protection had never been triggered before, and Liu Bai was actually... quite unsure of himself.

"Then we can only stop valuing other people's lives." Mobius glanced at Liu Bai.

The impression that she enjoys conducting human experiments stems mainly from her years of research on Honkai disease, which forced her to operate on Honkai disease —a situation she couldn't avoid. In truth, she was saving lives at the time, but unfortunately, the Previous Era was a complete disaster in this regard.

Hmm, even Liu Bai is a bit stumped by this sinkhole.

Humans in the Previous Era had lower resistance to Honkai than those in the current civilization. The relatively mature anti- Honkai drugs in the Previous Era. Simply increasing the dosage was a matter of whether it would kill or save lives.

Although Liu Bai could obtain a Previous Era version of the anti -Honkai serum from Jackal and Mei, it was not feasible—one thousand patient corpses for one vial of the serum.

Liu Bai's assessment of this was "get lost"—okay, he might criticize, but it's true that we can't do without it.

Liu Bai reluctantly retrieved the technology from the modern civilization. After seeing it, Mobius had only one thought: How could he have been thinking of jumping into such a bottomless pit back then?

However, Mobius only complained and didn't have any regrets. He continued to work on the Fusion Warrior technology while trying to optimize it. However, the Fusion Warrior Project has already shipped out its initial batches, but Mobius's improvement project has not yet shipped out.

"Alright, I'll take a look then. I do know a little about this."

When Liu Bai and Otto were simulating, they had some of Mobius's biotechnology. Apart from having a strong "Mobius flavor," it was perfectly adequate.

"And there's also Prometheus, which doesn't exist. I have an idea here that you can try out later."

Liu Bai has prepared all the technologies that the Previous Era will need in the future. He just needs to throw them out without thinking when the time is right.

... Although the "timing" of the previous Previous Era can no longer be aligned with the original timeline.

"Okay." Mei nodded. She had gotten used to Liu Bai's tendency to throw away his skills, and even had some slightly skeptical guesses about him.

After that topic was over, Mei immediately asked another question, "Speaking of that newcomer you mentioned before who was related to the Fifth Honkai Outbreak..."

"This..." Liu Bai pondered for a moment, "Hmm... where should I begin..."

"Mr. Kalpas! Come out for dinner!"

Qianjie, who was staring blankly out the window, thought for a Kalpas after hearing the voice calling his name, and then lowered his head again.

It wasn't that wisp of "air," but that pink-haired woman.

After matching the voice with the person, Kalpas continued to stare blankly.

Boring.

I want to do something.

After staring blankly for a long time, Kalpas felt bored for the first time.

Knock knock knock!

"Mr. Kalpas? Are you there?"

It's so noisy...

But Qianjie's intuition told Kalpas if he didn't respond, the woman outside would probably keep arguing.

"...exist."

"It's time to eat."

"I see."

Kalpas's reply was as cold and indifferent as ever.

Upon hearing Kalpas's reply, Sakura, who was outside the door, wore a helpless expression.

After you finished answering, at least do something... The room remained quiet, and there wasn't even a thought of opening the door...

Sakura felt that Kalpas might have some kind of mental illness—yes, "This child."

Given the sense of déjà vu that Kalpas and Liu Bai had created this morning, Ying automatically categorized Kalpas as a "child".

Of course, Sakura only thought it to herself; she wasn't foolish enough to say it aloud—although she felt that Kalpas might not react to it.

(Only the head of the household can effectively communicate with this child...)

Sakura thought with a wry smile.

"What's wrong?" Liu Bai's voice suddenly rang in Ying's ear.

"You're back, Master?" Sakura looked surprised and delighted. "Kalpas... cough, Mr. Kalpas doesn't want to come out."

"Thank goodness, I almost blurted out what was on my mind..." Sakura was a little scared.

"Huh? Let me see?"

Liu Bai slowly floated into the room, and then saw Kalpas sitting in a chair, lost in thought.

"Kalpas, why aren't you going out to eat?"

"..." Kalpas hearing Liu Bai's voice, Qian Jie silently stood up and coldly pushed open the door.

"Whoa—!"

Kalpas startled Ying, who was contemplating her relationship with her father.

However, Kalpas ignored Ying and walked towards the lounge with a cold expression.

"... Husband, what's going on?"

Watching Kalpas walk away, Ying looked completely bewildered.

"...have no idea."

Liu Bai was also quite confused, "But going to eat is a good thing, let's go with them."

"Okay." Sakura nodded and followed.

"Um, a newcomer?" At the dining table, Vil-V looked at Kalpas with great curiosity. "My name is Vil-V."

"... Kalpas."

"Hmm... he really does have a cold face the whole time, is he expressionless?" Vil-V was not intimidated by Kalpas's cold and dangerous aura at all.

"..."

Kalpas's intuition told him that "expressionless" was not a good thing, but since this person meant no harm, Kalpas was too lazy to pay attention to this strange woman.

... He didn't really want to fight here.

"Never mind, come visit me at the lab sometime." Vil-V shrugged, seemingly unconcerned by Kalpas's indifference.

—This time, Kalpas raised his head slightly.

He sensed a slight malice in those words, but he refrained from retaliating.

But then, Vil-V took a small item out of her fanny pack.

"Oh, by the way, this is a gift for us, Dr. Vil-V's latest invention! A super alloy knife!"

"... They just haphazardly pressed some scrap material with a machine." Pardo, who had watched the whole process from the perspective of Vil-V, subconsciously complained—and was then glared at by Vil-V.

However, Kalpas took the knife from Vil-V with unusual initiative, then looked thoughtful for a moment before saying, "... Thank you."

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Looking at the strange woman in front of him and the hard knife in her hand, Kalpas realized what he could do.

"Oh, isn't that quite polite?"

Vil-V never expected that this guy would thank her.

"Well, as long as you like it—by the way, where's Sakura?"

"Here it is."

Sakura led Liu Bai through the door.

"Phew... It seems alright, no conflict has occurred."

Sakura was still quite worried about Vil-V, after all, she could be quite reckless at times.

"What do you take me for? I specifically picked out the gift that she would like." Vil-V puffed out her chest.

"You... forget it. Even if it wasn't just a lucky break, you should still thank Pardo."

Having been together for so many years, Sakura knew exactly what kind of person Vil-V was.

"Tsk, you should trust my intuition as a scientist." Vil-V was quite indignant at Sakura's behavior of attributing the success to luck.

However, she didn't dwell on it too much—after all, Pardo's incredible luck was indeed too mystical.

"Alright, alright, we only need you to start lunch." Vil-V called out to Sakura, then looked at Liu Bai, "And isn't our boss supposed to be having lunch at someone else's house?"

Vil-V's tone was slightly resentful.

"Please at least change 'lunch' to 'overnight' before using this resentful tone." Liu Bai was completely unmoved by Vil-V's current dramatic act.

The longer they spent together, the bolder they became in their speech, and Liu Bai got used to it.

After Sakura took her seat, everyone started eating.

Kalpas seemed somewhat uncomfortable in this dining environment—when everyone started eating, Kalpas's aloof demeanor became noticeably stronger.

Hmm... I've never eaten with anyone like this before.

"Oh, right, I found the Poison Cocoon you asked me to find."

"Vil-V spoke while picking up some food," she said.

There are no rules like "don't talk while eating" at ELM's dining table, since chatting at the table can effectively enhance relationships.

Eating together is one of the most effective ways to strengthen relationships in daily life.

"Found it? So fast?"

As Liu Bai answered, he picked up his chopsticks and put some vegetables on Qian Jie's plate, who had been eating Kalpas white rice.

Kalpas stared blankly at the food in his bowl for a moment, then opened his mouth as if to say something, but then noticed that Liu Bai was chatting with Vil-V, and he couldn't find a time to interrupt.

"Ah... because of Pardo ..." Vil-V put a piece of meat on Pardo as a compliment. "I intercepted an unencrypted communication within the Moth Chasers to Fire, and the content was very different from normal communication—it's like everyone is talking about big-breasted beauties, and then someone says 'I like flat-chested ones,' which is obviously an anomaly."

Vil-V's wonderful metaphor...

The women present subconsciously glanced at her chest... well, even Ling, that girl, was somewhat well-endowed.

"Ahem, let's stop with the useless analogies. Vil-V, can you pinpoint the location?"

"Of course you can. Even if it's just a small part exposed, exposing that part in front of me is no different from showing your underwear completely."

Vil-V wore a confident expression.

"I'll send you the location after we finish eating. Are you going to wipe them out?"

"Hmm... I'd rather call it 'recruiting' or 'appeasement'."

"Bullshit, their assassination organization is even more righteous than ours, okay?" Vil-V scoffed at Liu Bai's statement.

"Anyway, they didn't put up a sign like 'Moth Chasers to Fire Poison Cocoon Office' at the door."

Liu Bai looked completely indifferent.

"You hack into the Poison Cocoon's base, and then I'll take Sakura there. All the problems will be solved."

"...I'll go too." Kalpas moment of silence, looking at the ever-growing amount of food in his bowl and not knowing where to start.

"Oh... to be honest, I think Brother Kalpas might be more reliable than Ying in a fight."

Vil-V nudged Sakura beside her teasingly.

"After all, Brother Kalpas has a face that looks like he can't do anything but kill people."