The reason was very simple.
To Moth to Fire's upper echelons, the existence of the Fifth Divine Key, the Stagnation Key, Universal Slumber, had long been an open secret. The Stigmata Project and the Kindling Project were no exception.
Since they knew full well that these plans existed, Moth to Fire's senior bureaucrats naturally understood Dr. Mei's deeper intentions.
In Dr. Mei's eyes, only the hibernation pods powered by the Stagnation Key could safely endure the world-ending disaster of Finality.
It was not as though these senior bureaucrats of Moth to Fire had never set their sights on the hibernation pods.
It was simply that Dr. Mei had sternly warned them through bloody lessons and iron-fisted methods—the hibernation pods were not something they could covet.
For the continuation of human civilization, for victory over Honkai, Dr. Mei was willing to pay any price.
Compared to these bureaucrats, those technicians and
Flame-Chaser Warriors undoubtedly played far more crucial roles on the road to rebuilding human civilization.
Therefore, with hibernation pods in extremely short supply, Dr. Mei naturally reserved their use for those more important people.
Faced with the raised butcher's blades of the Flame-Chaser Warrior forces, the bureaucrats could only submit helplessly.
They were not the former Moth to Fire Council members who had wielded immense influence in the various traditional great powers.
By now, those traditional great powers had long become dust in history.
Under such circumstances, the bureaucrats personally promoted by Dr. Mei had little leverage left when facing the Moth to Fire leader who had once elevated them.
At least until the Flame-Chaser Warrior forces clearly declared their support for them, they could only endure it.
And on the matter of hibernation pod access, the Flame-Chaser Warrior forces' stance was highly consistent with Dr. Mei's.
Only those indispensable