"I had no reason to deceive anyone here."
Indeed, Ruan Mei had no reason to deceive anyone. Her eyes were focused only on Liu Bai. As long as no one blocked her path or became her target, she did not particularly enjoy tripping people up—at least, not deliberately.
Don't ask about the unintentional kind...
"...Is cultivating an Empress Beetle difficult?"
Fu Hua could already smell despair in the air, but she still asked with a try-it-and-see attitude.
"Yeah, yeah! Doctor! Looking at Senti's figure, Fu Hua should at least have some potential, right?!"
Elysia chimed in from the side. "Come to think of it, have you successfully cultivated an Empress Beetle?"
"I don't know. I'm keeping one at Herta's Space Station... But an experiment I conducted before could be considered successful, though only in the short term."
"Born in the morning, dead by night?"
"Not even that durable."
"...How about we look for the Herrscher of Dominion instead?"
Fu Hua felt a little guilty. It could not even last from dawn to dusk?
"It isn't hard to make them bigger. Aside from that assimilation and self-modification method, the Herrscher of Dominion isn't much different from me in other respects. Making them bigger isn't difficult, but... it can't be maintained. And artificially speeding up her growth won't do much for her either."
Ruan Mei still had a competitive streak when it came to her field of expertise.
"The simplest solution is actually to pad them. I know you don't like that."
Everyone nodded in unison. Technology was technology, but they could not fake it.
"Then I'll walk you through the modification process first."
Ruan Mei waved a hand and drove everyone out.
More than ten minutes later.
"Alright, you can come in now."
"That fast?"
They filed inside amid murmurs, only