The Absolutely Rational Choice May Be the Most Terrifying! / Little Sirin Awakens, a Belated Reward!

"Klein, how about we... make a bet?"

Seeing that Klein dared to doubt him and Ling Xi, Mobius decided to teach this guy a lesson and let him know the dangers of society!

"Sorry, Doctor, I don't gamble!"

However, how could Klein, who knew Mobius's tactics all too well, possibly agree?

"Come on, Klein."

Mobius hugged Klein tightly and said in a coquettish tone, "It's not a special bet. If you lose, you just have to cooperate with me in an experiment. It's just an experiment, isn't it?

"Is it just an experiment?"

Klein nodded thoughtfully and said, "Alright then, what does the Doctor want to bet on?"

"It's very simple."

Mobius blinked and laughed, "Right now, neither of us will contact Ling Xi. We'll wait for headquarters to go to Ling Xi first. If Ling Xi agrees to help, then I'll consider it a loss; otherwise, you'll consider it a loss. How about that?"

"Okay, I agree."

Klein didn't ask any questions and readily agreed, treating it as just playing along with the Doctor. Before Ling Xi came to the lab, the Doctor would play pranks on him almost every few days, of course...

It was just a little prank!

"Beep beep..."

Klein had barely finished speaking when Mobius's phone rang. She quickly took it out and saw it was a message from Ling Xi...

"Ha ha!"

Upon seeing Ling Xi's message, Mobius immediately burst out laughing, saying happily, "Klein, you lost..."

"Huh?"

Klein clearly bewildered. No, he had only agreed for less than five seconds and he had already lost?

"Hehe, you won't believe me, just look..."

Mobius gave a soft hum and handed his phone to Klein with a smile. "Klein, this is a text message that Ling Xi just sent."

"Ling Xi ..."

Upon hearing the name, Klein seemed to pause for a moment, then silently glanced at Mobius's text message: "Doctor, Flame-Chasing Moths just came to me hoping I'd deal with Shesha. However, I know Doctor 're unhappy about something, so, Doctor, I'll completely follow your instructions. By the way, are you going home tonight, Doctor? I can pick you up!"

"Heh, how about it, Klein? Are you convinced or not?"

As Klein slowly finished reading the text message, Mobius's smile deepened. He was truly his own guinea pig; there was no way he would betray him.

"I've lost, Doctor..."

Seeing this, Klein could only smile and shrug, readily admitting defeat, since he had never intended to win in the first place.

"So, Doctor, what kind of experiment do you need my cooperation with?"

Since he lost, he had to accept the punishment. Klein didn't have the habit of renege on his debts, especially... his Doctor.

"Hehe, let's not rush that. Let's deal with Shesha's matter first."

Mobius continued to smile as he looked at Klein. What excellent lab rats, what excellent experimental material! Of course, the most important thing right now was Shesha. Although he had verbally said he didn't need samples,...

Of course you want it!

However, compared to last night, the roles of offense and defense have reversed between myself and headquarters now!

They ignored me last night, but now... come and beg me! I'm waiting for you to come and beg me!

In short, Mobius is very happy right now, not only because he beat Klein, but also because of Ling Xi's attitude, and even more so because... Ling Xi is his!

It's still the headquarters of the Flame-Chasing Moths, still the same group of people...

However, the atmosphere was clearly more oppressive than before, especially after receiving Ling Xi's reply...

I can't make that decision myself; you should talk to my Doctor!

This one sentence completely revealed Ling Xi's attitude: Ling Xi is Mobius's man!

In fact, they couldn't understand why Ling Xi, with her abilities, needed to listen to Mobius so much.

"Tell me, what should we do now?"

At this point, the speaker was no longer willing to speak; the more excited he had been in his speech yesterday, the more depressed he felt now...

"Who exactly rejected Mobius last night? Making such a stupid choice just to vent their anger, it's really stupid!"

"Hmph, don't forget, when this decision was made last night, everyone agreed on it!"

"Would we have agreed if someone hadn't brought it up?"

"So you agree!"

Here it comes, the classic infighting of "The Flame-Chasing Moths." After all, the councilors come from different regions and represent different interests. It would be strange if they could unite.

However, during times of glory, all sorts of brilliance overshadow these problems, but once they fall from grace, all sorts of problems will emerge.

"Alright... stop talking."

Finally, the speaker stepped in to end the debate, rubbing his temples and sighing as he said, "If you all want to remain in this position, you should think carefully about how to get Mobius to agree to this!"

Chapter 202: The most terrifying choice may be one that is absolutely rational!

"Doctor, Seele, welcome home."

That evening, Mobius drove back and picked up Seele as well. Ling Xi immediately came over to help carry her things.

"You know about what happened last night?"

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with a smile and asked her a question.

"Um."

Ling Xi obviously knew that Mobius was referring to that matter, and immediately nodded, smiling, "Anyway, I'll listen to the Doctor on this matter."

"Hmph, well done!"

Mobius patted Ling Xi on the shoulder, then led her into the living room, laughing, "But even so, we can't jump to conclusions. After all, our previous assessment of Shesha was wrong. Shesa is an intelligent Honkai Beast capable of regeneration. We can't act rashly, otherwise..."

At this point, Mobius spread his hands and smiled helplessly, "You should have seen the lessons of the past."

"No, Doctor, I think it's for me..."

Ling Xi thought for a moment and replied with a smile, "As long as we can use the power of the Herrscher Core, eliminating Shesha should be easy. I mean completely eliminating her. After all, Shesha was resurrected from a corpse by shedding her skin, so... as long as we eliminate Shesha's corpse as well, then there will naturally be no problem with resurrection."

"I told you, don't use the power of the Herrscher..."

Mobius's expression changed slightly, and he said seriously, "With humanity's current capabilities, it is sufficient to eliminate Shesha. Although there will be some costs, however... whether from a personal perspective or from the perspective of humanity as a whole, sacrificing some insignificant people to preserve you as the last fighting force is the wisest choice."

"Forehead..."

Ling Xi seemed to want to say something, but couldn't refute it; indeed...

Although it would come at a great cost for the Previous Era humans to eliminate Shesha, the cost would be negligible for humanity as a whole. From the perspective of humanity as a whole, sacrificing ordinary people to preserve our strength is indeed more in the interest of humanity as a whole!

Of course, this refers to absolute rationality that only considers absolute interests and completely excludes morality and emotion!

However, this kind of rationality can sometimes be quite frightening!

"I agree..."

Elysia appeared suddenly and laughed, "Since Ling Xi will have a price to pay for using that power, my suggestion is to hand Shesha over to the Flame-Chasing Moths. After all, didn't we apply to launch an attack before, but were rejected?"

"The price... Elysia, you..."

Mobius frowned slightly. Did this girl know something too? Hadn't he warned Ling Xi not to tell anyone about this?

"Um... Doctor, she guessed it, that's why I..."

Seeing Mobius's expression, Ling Xi felt a little embarrassed. After all... although Elysia mainly relied on guessing, he had also revealed the word "cost," which allowed Elysia to guess the general idea.

Mobius: "..." Well, based on his understanding of Elysia, this girl might actually have guessed it, after all...

She had a general idea of what was going on with the Honkai Beast in Changkong City back then.

"Elysia ..."

Mobius looked at Elysia with a hint of helplessness, as if he wanted to say something.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about this."

Elysia smiled slightly and said, "After all, this is Ling Xi's secret. If some people with ill intentions find out, who knows what trouble they might cause."

"That's true..."

Mobius did not deny Elysia's words, after all, the main reason he asked Ling Xi to keep it a secret was actually this!

Ling Xi's absolute strength is undoubtedly the current ceiling for humanity. It is precisely because of this that I am able to obtain sufficient resources and power to conduct research without any constraints. But if the people of the Flame-Chasing Moths learn that Ling Xi's power is limited, then...

Who knows what they'll be up to this time? Maybe...

They would deliberately ignore disasters that they could handle in order to deplete Ling Xi's power!

Therefore, this matter must be kept secret!

"Then... Doctor, what about Shesha's problem?"

Ling Xi still asked about Shesha.

"I told you, you don't need to worry about this."

Mobius retorted decisively, saying, "Let the Flame-Chasing Moths take care of it. In short, we will never do anything that is harmful to your health."

"But if that happens, once the Flame-Chasing Moths completely defeats Shesha, the Doctor probably won't be able to get the samples, right? After all, we're already at headquarters..."

Ling Xi stopped there, as the implication was already clear.

"If I can't get it, I can't get it!"

However, Mobius just smiled and shrugged, "Although a unique Honkai Beast sample is quite precious, wouldn't it be a huge loss to harm your body for a so-called Honkai Beast? We won't do a losing deal."

"Forehead..."

Ling Xi didn't know how to refute for a moment, and then said, "Then I don't need the power of the Herrscher, that should be okay, right?"

"Can you destroy Shesha without the power of Herrscher?"

Mobius looked at Ling Xi with suspicion. It wasn't that she didn't trust Ling Xi, but rather because... Shesha's power was simply a bit outrageous. Plus, she herself knew roughly what Ling Xi's strength was—without using the Herrscher Core, he was probably about the same as an S-rank member of the Poisoned Pupae —but...

Wasn't the previous raid targeting S-class members with Poisoned Pupae? And what happened? It ended in a crushing defeat!

"This..."

Ling Xi hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, but if I get the Flame-Chasing Moths's forces to cooperate with me in the battle, then I should be able to eliminate Shesha without the power of the Herrscher. Then I can just leave the task of destroying Shesha's body to the Flame-Chasing Moths."

"Never mind then."

Mobius reiterated his refusal. "We... will absolutely not do anything that we are not absolutely certain of!"

"Uh-huh..."

Elysia nodded in agreement and laughed, "So, you'd better stay home."

Ling Xi "..."

Perhaps I shouldn't have told the Doctor that using the Herrscher Core would come at a price, um...

But it seems to be useless. After all, when he woke up, Mobius had already given him a full-body checkup and knew that the Honkai Energy erosion level in his body had reached 20%, so...

If I hadn't admitted it back then, it might have created a rift between me and Mobius.

However, the feeling of having power but not being able to use it at will is really unpleasant!

Of course, I wasn't upset with Mobius and Elysia, but rather with the limitations imposed on the Herrscher Core. However, this also shows how great Old Yang was in the manga. His body was already in such a state, yet he still fearlessly used the Core of Reason.

However, if I dared to do that, the outcome would be...

Chapter 203: Little Sirin Awakens, a Belated Reward!

At nine o'clock at night, Ling Xi did not go back to her room, but instead hid on the roof to look at the stars...

Well, of course, I didn't hide on the roof because I was afraid of the Doctor, but to contemplate life!

"The moon doesn't seem to have gotten any bigger..."