Chapter 93

Jackal was still hesitant. She didn't know what kind of being she, Gray Serpent, and Raven had brought upon themselves when they tried to take a shortcut.

She doesn't know, and doesn't want to know, for the time being.

What troubled and bothered her even more was that MEI was unwilling to save the Lord!

This is what's giving her the biggest headache!

'What should I do?' the Jackal thought, pacing in circles. 'What should I do?!'

Should we go and discuss this with the Gray Serpent and the Raven?

It's clear that neither of these two is particularly intelligent; Raven's actions were simple and brutal. Gray Serpent's aren't much better. If these two knew that Mei was unwilling to rescue the Lord...

It's still unknown what these two people are capable of.

What should we do?!

MEI frightened her, and now that MEI was unwilling to save the Lord, she felt even more helpless. Sending him back to Schicksal was no longer an option.

The saying goes, "It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away." Once you've invited him, it's not so easy to send him back.

Even if she were willing, the other two might not be!

"Jackal?"

Jackal was completely overwhelmed. As the brains of the group, she had never felt so inadequate before. She was still clueless when she heard the last thing she wanted to hear.

"Doctor Mei?"

The Jackal managed a forced, very strained laugh and asked, "How did you find this place?"

"I just asked around and found out," MEI said, leaning against the doorframe. "This is your base; your assistants couldn't possibly not know where your room is, right?"

Yes, that's true, how could that be?!

Jackal doesn't want to see MEI, and he's currently at a loss for what to do.

Now that I realize I forgot to instruct my assistants and researchers not to tell MEI about my whereabouts, it's too late for regrets.

She could only force a smile and ask, "What brings you here?"

"I want to ask you about someone." MEI walked in, casually pulled up a chair, and sat down, saying, "SU."

MEI didn't want to play games with this Jackal; she planned to get straight to the point regarding SU. MEI figured this Jackal might not tell her anything about SU.

But MEI had a way of getting her to talk, and it was entirely voluntary.

"SU?" Jackal frowned upon hearing this and said, "I don't know this person."

"Is it because you don't know me or because you're unwilling?" MEI countered.

"I don't know him." Jackal shook his head and said, "I've only heard Gray Serpent mention this matter, but I don't know the specifics of the situation or about this person, SU."

"He should also be in England," MEI said. "I hope you can help me find him."

Even if you don't know him, you don't necessarily need to know him.

'What does Doctor Mei want to say?' Jackal frowned. She didn't know that MEI had received intelligence that SU was in England and asked her to find SU.

Why should she help Doctor Mei find SU?

"I know what you're thinking." MEI pushed up his glasses and crossed his legs.

She seemed to see right through me and said, "You should be thinking about the question, 'Why should I help you?' Of course, this question is actually quite easy to answer."

"Because I need your help," MEI said. "And so does your lord."

"Although I have little interest in getting your lord out of the Sea of Quantum."

"But SU is also the key to how your lord was brought out of the Sea of Quantum."

Perhaps.

MEI wasn't sure if that was the key, but for now, all she had to do was pretend to be an expert. Since Jackal considered himself an expert, all she needed to do was convincingly portray that.

Anyway, once SU is found, these people won't have to worry about the rest.

The Jackal frowned slightly.

She's a scientist too, and although she doesn't know how amazing MEI is, she feels she's probably no worse than MEI. Well, even if she is worse, it's only by a tiny bit compared to MEI at full power.

It might not be able to compare to the fully awakened MEI, whose past life memories are not yet complete.

I think I can still beat them... right?

Well, okay, I'm not entirely sure.

At least when it comes to the problem of the Sea of Quantum, it seems so.

"You really know a lot about this," Jackal said without much hesitation. "I'm not very familiar with SU. Gray Serpent is probably the only one in the organization who knows SU, and this SU is the one who caused the Lord to fall into the Sea of Quantum."

"What do you want with him?"

"The one who tied the knot must untie it," MEI said. "Since he has a way to send Kevin into the Sea of Quantum."

"Then he'll have a way to get Kevin out."

'Ha~ That's so true,' the Jackal sneered inwardly. It wasn't that she looked down on this Mei. Everyone knew this simple truth, but it was useful, though.

Why would we bother to kidnap you from the Hyperion?

The Lord says you are a researcher he approves of.

Is this all the researchers recognized by His Majesty?

Jackal's fear of Mei had vanished, and he wondered if he had been overthinking things. Mei wasn't actually that scary at all.

Is it only because she might have some connection with the Lord that the Lord approves of her?

That might actually be true.

"If what you say is true," the Jackal said, with a hint of disrespect, "Then we would have done it long ago."

Why wait until now?

'This guy's attitude has changed!' Mei keenly noticed that the Jackal seemed less afraid of her than before. She seemed to be starting to underestimate her.

'No!'

Mei pushed up her glasses. This absolutely wouldn't do! She had to maintain the pressure she had just exerted on the Jackal; otherwise, she would see through her weakness.

Then all the good days that I haven't even had yet will be over.

"Of course you can't do it," MEI said, "But just because you can't do it doesn't mean others can't."

"SU has no reason to help you, no reason to listen to you, but that doesn't mean he won't listen to me."

Every time! Just do it all!

Lie! As long as it can be lied about, it's fine!

Anyway, the Jackal and other organizations don't know anything about me. So I can just make things up. As for encountering SU later, that's another matter.

"Time is precious," MEI said, standing up. "I don't want to waste this precious time on something meaningless."

"But if you can help me find SU, then I think your lord can also return."

"I need to find SU. Once I find SU, I can bring your Lord back along the way."

"If you feel that your small goals cannot be included in my goals."

"Then I don't care."

MEI, not intending to linger, said, "By the way, I just looked at your research. You're researching Gene Fusion, right? You're planning to Gene Fusion of Honkai Beast into a cat?"

"What a boring little trick!"

MEI was speaking in words I didn't understand, but some of the information I could see matched certain things in MEI's memory knowledge base.

It's okay if you don't understand, don't know, or can't comprehend it.

MEI pushed up her glasses.

It just needs to be scary enough.

Chapter 122 Mindset Transformation

Humans are a species that can be unable to understand each other!

Or to be more precise, I can understand you, but I can't go down the same path as you.

The idea of "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is just an ideal state.

The reality is often, "Shut up, we're talking about a gem!"

Not only do I disagree with what you say, I also want you to shut up, and I even want you to physically disappear from this world.

This is the most common scenario in this world, if you disagree with me. Being right is secondary; as long as your fist isn't bigger than mine, then please shut up!

Jackal didn't think his fists were strong enough, and even wanted to shut Mei up.

She could make limited concessions on other matters; she could even accept that only MEI could quickly bring the Lord out. But when it came to her own experiments...

I'm not going to tolerate it anymore.

After considering MEI's fist, the Lord's fist, and the possible special relationship between the Lord and MEI.

Jackal chose to keep quiet for the time being and not become Dr. Zaun.

But...

"Looks like you know a lot!" Jackal with a dark face.

She's a PhD! This is the culmination of her research, one of the best ways to combat the Honkai. It's the culmination of all her hard work! She absolutely does not condone MEI's disregard for her research.

"You seem to know what I'm researching."

MEI definitely knew, and through those simple materials, without even getting to the core information, she already figured out what she was researching.

She really is a woman with some skills.

Because he had some skills, the Jackal, though displeased, chose to put up with it for the time being.

Mei stared at the Jackal with utter indifference, offering no reply and even displaying a mocking glint in her eyes. She seemed intent on provoking the Jackal in every way.

"You are indeed quite capable," Jackal said, leaning against his desk with his arms crossed. "No wonder the Lord thinks highly of you."

"Perhaps in your time, you were the best researcher."

"But in this era."

"Excuse me." Jackal spread her hands, and said with even more confidence and arrogance, "Doctor Mei."

"Times have changed!"

Yes, this is the confidence and strength that Jackal has when facing MEI.

She admitted that she didn't understand much about MEI, and that Her Majesty didn't mention MEI to people like them much. She only knew from very limited information that a doctor named MEI had once gained Her Majesty's approval.

The Lord believed that only MEI could quickly take him away from the Sea of Quantum.

Jackal might admit that a researcher who can gain the Lord's approval might be quite good, but so what? Even if he is one of the best researchers of that era.

It's useless now!

After all, times have changed! The things we study are different now.

In this era, we still have to look to these new generation of researchers!

Seeing the Jackal's current arrogant and overconfident demeanor, MEI adjusted his glasses and said, "I think your experiment hasn't succeeded yet, because there's a set of @#￥! (&)..." in the cat's DNA.

It's like reading a book written in the sky; you can't understand it, but you can still recite it verbatim.

It's best not to say too much; just touch on the subject.

What the Jackal did to the cat was roughly equivalent to preliminary research for a 'Fusion Warrior'. Why is it considered preliminary research? Because the difficulty of Gene Fusion experiments varies among different animals, and can be broadly categorized into the following levels of difficulty.

Fish < Herbivores < Carnivores < Primates < Humans

To put it simply, it's about simple, ordinary, difficult, primates, and humans!

Why single out primates and humans? Because the Gene Fusion of non-primates into primates is an absolute leap forward! The difficulty and challenge are on a completely different level. But with humans, it's on a completely different level altogether.

However, without this preliminary research, there is no way to talk about subsequent research.