"Uh..." Molly responded to Richard's words, continuously wondering what he meant by "giving this world a completely new beginning" and the "World Peace" he had mentioned earlier.
After a few seconds of speculation, the fifth Richard beside her looked at the calculation sheets on the desk as though he had found an idea. He reached out and slapped the table hard, producing a crisp smack.
Molly jumped and instinctively looked over.
The fifth Richard seemed to sense her gaze. He smiled apologetically, hastily drew a few strokes on the calculation paper with a goose feather quill, then walked over to the fourth Richard.
He took the "walnut" that the fourth Richard had crushed into powder with an instrument, collected several potion bottles from the second Richard standing before the cabinet, then strode to the third Richard and dumped everything into a beaker.
After stirring it, the fifth Richard picked up the beaker and walked away. He went to the left side of the first Richard, who had been busy in front of a huge pile of instruments in the corner from the very beginning, poured the liquid into an apparatus, and helped adjust several levers.
"Bzzzz—"
The apparatus began to hum. After humming for a minute, it dripped half a glass tube of brown liquid from its end, containing faint red specks.
Holding the glass tube of liquid, the fifth Richard walked over to the sixth Richard who had been speaking with Molly. The sixth Richard glanced at it, nodded in satisfaction, and smiled.
In an instant, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Richards all smiled at once. They approached the sixth Richard and merged into his body one after another—six people became one.
The sight was truly too bizarre, and Molly could not help widening her eyes.
"Phew—"