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Chapter 17

Big V Teacher Discovers the Truth of the World and Challenges the World's Strongest Faction

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"Enough, enough. They can't catch up anymore. Put me down, this is so embarrassing!"

If he were the one carrying Airi in a princess carry, he might have been more than willing.

But he was the one being carried, and all he felt was embarrassment.

He was a proud seven-foot-tall man, yet here he was being carried like this by a girl—a girl four years younger than him. It was truly humiliating.

"Not yet. I can still hear their footsteps chasing after us~."

Even while carrying Chang Yuan, a grown man, Airi did not feel tired in the slightest.

So she had no intention of putting him down.

"Ahhh, whatever. Just run properly, then."

Chang Yuan lowered his head as hard as he could. He truly did not want anyone to see him.

Embarrassing. So damn embarrassing. Being carried in a princess carry by a girl—if that girl had not been Airi, he might have wanted to kill himself.

"Ah, Chang Yuan, don't touch there."

Feeling that contact against her chest, Airi could not help crying out.

Only then did Chang Yuan realize that he seemed to have touched something he really should not have.

He immediately turned his head away.

"Hmph~. You bad guy, did you do that on purpose to tease me?"

"By heaven and earth, absolutely not! I just felt embarrassed being carried like this, so I wanted to lower my head. I really didn't mean to touch anything."

"Tch, who knows? Once we shake those guys off, I'll settle the score with you."

With a soft hum, Airi immediately relied on her extraordinary hearing to perfectly avoid everyone trying to surround her.

Only after ducking into an alley did Airi finally stop.

"Okay, there definitely isn't anyone here."

Click!

"Uh, what a coincidence."

The moment the door opened, Velvie saw the two people she had met that morning.

For a moment, the atmosphere became incredibly awkward.

Airi also awkwardly turned her head away.

She had just confidently declared that no one was here, only for this door to open the very next second.

"I came out to take out the trash. This is my temporary base. Do you want to come in?"

As early as noon, Velvie had already disposed of the other two items, exchanging them for an equivalent amount of research materials, which she had placed in this temporary laboratory.

"Then we'll trouble you."

Chang Yuan and Airi immediately entered without standing on ceremony.

After all, they could be considered half-accomplices by now.

Seeing the two of them actually walk in without the slightest hesitation, Velvie's lips twitched.

These two really were not afraid that she might be a bad person. If she had been, she could have gone outside, locked the door behind them, and reported them. They would have been finished.

Shaking her head, Velvie threw away the experimental scraps and immediately returned to the room, locking all ten locks on the inside as well.

"By the way, why are you two running around in the middle of the night? Aren't you going to find somewhere to rest?"

Taking out a homemade electric kettle, Velvie filled it with water, which boiled instantly in three seconds.

Afterward, she made milk tea for Airi and Chang Yuan.

"Ooh, amazing. You boiled water in three seconds."

Airi, who had watched the entire process, was somewhat astonished.

Hearing praise from an outsider, Velvie proudly puffed out her impressive assets and rubbed beneath her nose.

"This is just a little toy. You haven't even seen what I'm truly capable of yet. Wait here, I'll bring it out for you."

With that, Velvie set down the kettle that could boil water in three seconds and ran into the basement.

When she appeared again, she was holding seven or eight small spheres and a device resembling a computer.

"Hehe, watch closely."

As she spoke, Velvie tossed all the spheres into the air.

At that instant, the little spheres seemed to possess buoyancy, floating in midair.

"And then, this."

Turning on the computer-like device, Velvie typed who knew what onto the keyboard.

In the end, eight different feeds appeared on the computer screen.

"This is a computer I made myself. Its performance is countless times better than anything on the market, and these little spheres can monitor in three hundred and sixty degrees while floating in the air.

They only consume solar energy, which means that as long as there is light, they will never run out of power.

Of course, that isn't the important part. If it were just that, the scientists on Mu Continent could build them too, given enough time.

The important thing is that they have this ability as well."

At that point, Velvie pressed a button. In an instant, the eight little spheres changed with the terrain like chameleons until they finally became transparent.

"This is the invisibility technology I developed. It can evade every known form of detection, including electromagnetic-wave radar and everything else. I call it Peeping—cough, cough—Reconnaissance Eye 0019."

"...Awesome."

Other than those two words, Chang Yuan could not find anything else to describe Velvie.

A genius among geniuses. A monster among monsters.

She had even arrogantly claimed that as long as she wanted to, she could do anything.

And she truly had the ability to make it happen. If she had only had enough time, there might have been more than a dozen Moonlight Thrones facing the Herrscher of Finality later on.

In that case, they might not necessarily have been able to defeat the Herrscher of Finality, but they definitely could have bought humanity more time. Velvie herself might even have lived into the next era.

If a genius like Velvie had survived into the next era, Chang Yuan truly could not imagine what the Finality of that era could use to fight her. Its life?

With fifty thousand years of time, he did not even dare imagine what Velvie might invent. World-peace missiles? Planet-destroying warships?

"Oh, right, right. Let me tell you, I discovered that this world isn't simple."

"...What do you mean?"

Chang Yuan raised an eyebrow upon hearing Velvie say that.

As expected of Velvie. Before Honkai had even fully revealed itself, she had already discovered traces of it in advance.

"I discovered that there is some unknown energy mixed into the air now. This energy is highly corrosive, but I don't know where it comes from.

At the same time, I used these Reconnaissance Eye 0019s to discover a mysterious organization. The emblem they wear resembles a silver moth flying toward flames.

This organization seems to know what this corrosive energy is."

"..."

Big V Teacher was freaking amazing.

The original story had mentioned that Big V Teacher had once single-handedly hacked into the Flame-Chasing Moth's system.

But who would have thought that at the same age, some people were in middle school, some gifted people were in college, while some monsters among monsters were already taking on the strongest faction in this world.

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