It's Been So Long Since I Was Alone with the Doctor... / Gods Can Deceive the World!

Eden waved lazily, then turned and went back to his room.

"Ugh... Damn it, where did I go wrong?"

In the laboratory, Mobius was still angry about the failed experiment, and he snorted, "Klein, where's the bubble wrap? Bring me two sheets!"

Klein "..."

Klein shook his head helplessly, but still skillfully took the bubble wrap, after all, this was his Doctor's daily way of relieving stress!

After taking the bubble wrap, Mobius immediately began to de-stress, while occasionally muttering words like "bastard," "vixen," and "liar"...

"Doctor, is it because of Ling Xi?"

Hearing his Doctor's complaints, Klein also asked what was going on...

"Ha?"

Mobius was taken aback for a moment, then immediately denied it, "What does Guan Ling Xi have to do with this? I'm just feeling annoyed because the experiment didn't go well."

"Oh... Doctor, you've read it aloud."

Klein shrugged and muttered helplessly, "Bastard, vixen, liar, um... apart from the middle words which describe Elysia or Sakura, I think the other words are all referring to Ling Xi, right?"

"Hmph, you're such a chatterbox!"

Mobius snorted and said, "Anyway, this has nothing to do with Ling Xi, so you don't need to overthink it. By the way, Klein, haven't you been working too little lately?"

Klein "..."

"Ahem, Doctor, I'm going back to work..."

Klein simply chose to run away; he couldn't afford to mess with them...

"Hateful..."

Seeing Klein leave the lab, Mobius continued to vent his anger over the bubble wrap. Strange... he hadn't been that angry with Ling Xi before, but...

Why am I getting angrier and angrier after returning to the lab? Especially after the experiment failed, I'm almost having an emotional breakdown...

"Hmm? Ling..."

At the lab entrance, Klein saw Ling Xi and immediately tried to speak, but Ling Xi with her finger...

"Um..."

Then, Klein understood what Ling Xi meant, nodded obediently, and didn't make a sound!

So, Ling Xi quietly slipped in, intending to suddenly appear behind Mobius and give her a surprise... well, a shock!

Meanwhile, Mobius continued to pop bubble wrap and grumble incessantly...

"It's all that guy's fault, it's all his fault! I'm going to use the Hypervariable Factor to chemically castrate him! You always like to flirt, you always like to find me sisters, you ignore me, you make me angry..."

Ling Xi: "???"

Chapter 457: It's been so long since I've had time alone with the Doctor...

Mobius continued to complain while popping bubble wrap, and at the same time...

Standing behind Mobius, Ling Xi looked at the obviously angry Doctor and listened to what the Doctor had just said, and at this moment she was trembling slightly...

"Hmm? Is that Klein?"

Sensing someone behind him, Mobius turned around to look at the other person, and well...

Mobius "..."

Ling Xi "..."

At this moment, both of them fell silent, and the scene became quite awkward...

"You heard what I just said?"

In the end, it was Mobius who broke the silence first.

"Would you believe me if I said I didn't hear you?"

Ling Xi looked at Mobius speechlessly. Although she knew that her Doctor was probably just saying it in anger, Ling Xi still felt a little panicked when she thought about her Doctor's abilities.

"Whatever you want..."

Mobius turned around and snorted, "Anyway, I'm just annoyed by the failure of the experiment, and I was just saying it in anger."

"Um... okay, Doctor, it's up to you."

Anyone with a sound mind could see why Mobius was angry, but what could Ling Xi say? Should she confront the Doctor directly?

"Then what are you doing here?"

Mobius said with a displeased look, "Aren't you going to be with Elysia or Eden right now? What are you doing here? Let me make this clear, I have experiments to do, I don't have time to mess around with you."

Ling Xi: "..." She said she wasn't angry because of me...

"Hehe, of course I'm here to accompany the Doctor in his experiments."

Ling Xi gently opened her arms and hugged Mobius from behind, laughing, "Although my knowledge level is a little lower than the Doctor's, I can still be an assistant. Besides, when I first came to the Doctor's lab, my job was to be the Doctor's assistant."

"Tch, you?"

Mobius didn't resist Ling Xi's hug, but chuckled mischievously, "I remember, I didn't value your work ability at all. The main reason I recruited you into the lab was to use you as a test subject. Your main job was to be studied..."

"How dare you say that?"

Ling Xi pursed her lips and snorted, "I trusted the Doctor so much back then, but Doctor kept tricking me. If I weren't kind-hearted, I would have run away long ago."

"Heh, you trusted me back then?"

Mobius could only chuckle and say, "If you trusted me, you wouldn't have waited until recently to tell me the whole truth. Even when you told me about Changkong City, it was only after we were officially married."

"That's normal, after all, this matter is too complicated, and I'm afraid that if I say too much, I'll give myself away."

Ling Xi also spread her hands, "But in the end, didn't I still tell the Doctor the whole truth?"

"Cut..."

Mobius merely pursed his lips at this. If he and Elysia hadn't gone to force him to abdicate that day, this guy might still be keeping it from him now!

"Alright, if there's nothing else, you can go back now. I'm going to conduct a new experiment."

Mobius stretched and laughed, "Although we failed once, experiments are never smooth sailing. Let's just consider it as gaining experience."

"Didn't I say I was going to help the Doctor with his research?"

Ling Xi didn't plan to leave tonight because... she hadn't spent much time alone with Mobius in ages, and as for staying up all night researching together, she'd probably only done that five or six times with Mobius, and...

The most recent instance seems to have been during the Mu Continent, which was apparently sometime before the birth of the Fifth Herrscher. And now...

Two years have passed, and the next one will be the Twelfth Herrscher!

"OK..."

Seeing that Ling Xi was determined, Mobius did not refuse again and asked, "So, Ling Xi, how much do you know about the Imaginary Tree?"

"This..."

Ling Xi thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, I don't know much about it. I only know that the Imaginary Tree is the pillar of all parallel worlds, and all parallel worlds are leaves on the tree!"

"Is the Will of Honkai the same as the Imaginary Tree?"

Mobius asked again.

"That's impossible."

Ling Xi gently shook her head and said, "The Imaginary Tree is the foundation of everything, possessing absolute power and dominance over the Tree World. The Will of Honkai is more like a filtering mechanism, eliminating unqualified parallel worlds and retaining only those that meet expectations, but..."

"To this day, we have not found a single world that has defeated the Honkai!"

This is also a rather frustrating aspect for Ling Xi. After all, in the story, Brother Su observed for a full 50,000 years, witnessing the rise and fall of countless parallel worlds, but he couldn't find even one world that could defeat the Honkai!

"Of course, the Will of Honkai is not omnipotent. It is more like an entity working for the Tree, and it has many limitations. It cannot directly intervene in the development of the world. Even when faced with a world that it deems hopeless, it can only create Honkai and send out Herrscher Apostles to destroy humanity, for example..."

"If the Will of Honkai could directly interfere with those wasteland worlds in parallel universes, I think those substandard worlds would have been destroyed long ago!"

This is also one of Ling Xi's guesses. Although Honkai is omnipotent, whether it is the Previous Era or the post-civilization, all it can do is send out apostles, because it is bound by the rules of the tree and cannot directly intervene in the world!

"Is that so..."

Mobius nodded thoughtfully. What Ling Xi said was almost identical to what Mebius had guessed. And because Ling Xi knew some of the plot, the clues she provided were naturally quite credible!

"Ling Xi!"

Thinking of this, Mobius said again, "Since the Will of Honkai is not the tree's true form, if we bypass the Will of Honkai and directly contact the Imaginary Tree, could we try to obtain some of the tree's power?"

"The power of the tree?"

Ling Xi was stunned for a moment. The power of the Imaginary Tree, this thing...

"Doctor, on this side of the tree, the Imaginary Tree is an absolutely supreme being. The tree's power can change everything on it at will, return to a certain point in time, modify certain events, bring the dead back to life, and so on. Doctor, this is..."

Ling Xi said earnestly, "The power of God!"

"That's right, in a sense, this is the power of God!"

Mobius nodded slightly and calmly said, "The power of the gods... We do not covet all power. We... only want the power to defeat the Honkai, or rather... the power to defeat the Honkai in our world!"

Chapter 458: God can deceive the world!

Hearing Mobius's words, Ling Xi stared in disbelief at her Doctor, who had defeated... the Honkai?

Um, speaking of which, why are people from Previous Era always so stubborn?

Even though he already knew that the probability of defeating the Herrscher of Finality was almost zero, why did the Doctor still insist on trying?

Although Ling Xi knew very well that Mobius would inevitably choose to do this given his personality, but...

"Doctor, how confident are you?"

Ling Xi asked silently.

"As for the chance..."

Mobius smiled slightly and said, "With our current level of technology, it's practically zero, but we still have time, don't we? We don't know how long the Twelfth Herrscher's bell can buy us any time, and the Thirteenth Herrscher should also be able to buy us some time, at least..."

Mobius smiled and said, "There should still be about six months before the Finality comes. In these six months, there is still a lot we can do."

"But Doctor, don't forget, the faster civilization and technology develop, the faster the Honkai will come!"

Ling Xi reminded us, "If we come into contact with too many things, then the Finality may come in the next second!"

"There's nothing we can do about it!"

Mobius stated directly, "Now is the best opportunity for humanity. Humanity's core elites are all here, and we can focus on tackling the Imaginary Tree together. Perhaps... even in the future you mentioned, there won't be such a good opportunity again."

"After all, even in the future, humanity will still face the Honkai. And in the future you're talking about, the speed of technological development can't keep up with the speed of the Honkai. I think in the end... without the so-called protagonist's halo, then it will definitely be destined for destruction!"

"This..."

Ling Xi seemed to want to refute, but couldn't find a reason to. If the Honkai world was a game, then according to the game's formula, humanity would most likely be able to defeat the Honkai in the end; otherwise...

If the Honkai world, as his Doctor once said, is merely a branch of a parallel universe, including his original world, which was also just a parallel universe, then...

The future is really hard to predict!

Besides, given Mihoyo's style, even in the game world, the ending might not necessarily be a victory for humanity; it could also be... the ending of Honkai Impact 2!

Ugh, being transported to the Mihoyo universe is just awful!

"Ling Xi ..."

Seeing that Ling Xi seemed to be wavering as well, Mobius continued with a smile, "Now is the best opportunity for us humans to completely defeat the Honkai. We have power, knowledge, time, and even the ability to know the future. Such an opportunity is probably a once-in-a-lifetime chance for any civilization in any parallel world, so..."

Finally, Mobius smiled at Ling Xi and said with utmost seriousness, "Having finally had such an opportunity, how could we... be content to merely linger on? Moreover, if we eliminate the Honkai..."

"Whoosh..."

Mobius took a deep breath and smiled, "Even if our civilization disappears, it can be considered a gift left to the next civilization."

Hearing Mobius's words, Ling Xi knew that her Doctor was determined to fight against the Honkai.

Although Ling Xi thought this was unnecessary, because regardless of whether they fought against the Honkai, he and the people around him could travel to the future through the Project Fireseed, and then rebuild on the foundation of the previous Previous Era, and suppress the development of the civilization, just like Otto did!

In that case, the possibility of defeating the Honkai in the future might be higher, if...