Hearing Chang Yuan's words, Velvie came to her senses as well.
She immediately used the tools she had prepared from the start to dig out the Herrscher of Void's core.
The moment she got her hands on the core, Velvie's eyes lit up.
"Big V Teacher, don't ride a locomotive this time. Make some useful weapons instead. If we're really out of options later, then you can turn it back into a locomotive."
"Huh? How did you know I was going to ride a locomotive? No, no, has your precognition gotten stronger again?"
Seeing Chang Yuan expose her idea in a single sentence, Velvie was somewhat surprised.
After all, she had already known that Chang Yuan possessed precognition.
So she was not overly shocked by it.
"Good grief, so you really were going to ride a locomotive, weren't you? Think about the Fourth Herrscher, my Big V Teacher.
Its Authority was Ideal Fluid. Without the right means, humanity's current technology simply had nothing capable of hurting her!
So take the Second Herrscher's core and make me a spatial weapon. Don't make some locomotive! Are you planning to ram the Fourth Herrscher to death with a locomotive?"
Chang Yuan's mouth twitched.
Good lord, Velvie, Big V Teacher, you really wanted to keep building your locomotive!
Did you know that in the original story, Dr. Mei banned you from making Divine Keys precisely because you made a locomotive?
"Got it, got it. My locomotive was already finished. All I had to do was install the core, and it would've been usable."
Hearing Chang Yuan say that, Velvie pouted and could only agree in the end.
After all, quite a few of her inspirations now came from Chang Yuan.
So he could be considered half a creator of the Divine Keys.
Seeing that Velvie had given up on her wild idea, Chang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, use a bow as the weapon's prototype. I believe that if Airi had a bow like that, then none of the future Herrschers, aside from a few particularly abnormal ones, should be able to stand against her."
Spatial powers were the most terrifying kind of offensive power. There was simply no way to block them.
Other than the Ninth Herrscher's gravity, the Eleventh Herrscher of Binding, and the Twelfth Herrscher of Corrosion, only the Herrscher of Death could take a few more arrows.
As for the other Herrschers, being hit meant death.
If Airi had obtained a bow-shaped Divine Key made from the Herrscher of Void's core in the original story, humanity's losses might have been reduced by at least half.
Unfortunately, because everyone in the original story knew too little about Honkai, they chose to create a locomotive-type Divine Key to observe parallel worlds and investigate Honkai's true mysteries.
But now that he already knew in advance, there was no need for a locomotive-type Divine Key at all.
"That works too. Give me about a month to study it, and I should be able to make it. It'll definitely be awesome, okay?"
With some initial experience under her belt, Velvie could guarantee that she would finish it within a month.
Unless she was making a large-scale Divine Key, a small weapon like this only needed a month.
"So what exactly did you leave Velvie before we left?"
Airi had actually picked up a lot of key information from their conversation.
But all that key information came from Chang Yuan.
Airi had every reason to suspect that Chang Yuan had left Velvie with something extraordinary when he departed.
Otherwise, why were they talking about Honkai-resistant Serum and Divine Keys the moment they met?
"Hehe, Chang Yuan hasn't told you yet? Then I can't reveal it to you ahead of time."
Upon hearing that, Velvie decided to keep this secret for Chang Yuan. At least until he said it himself, she would not tell anyone.
"Yuan, how many secrets are you still hiding from me?"
"I don't know, but I think there are probably a lot."
Seeing Airi like this, Chang Yuan smiled gently.
"Alright, there's not much time. Velvie, leave quickly. I'll call you next time I need you."
"Fine. I'll be waiting anytime. Goodbye."
With that, Velvie immediately used her little flying backpack to vanish from the area.
As they watched Velvie disappear, the place was soon surrounded by the Flame-Chasing Moth personnel who arrived afterward.
"Who are you? Were you the ones who killed that monster?"
Looking at the Herrscher of Void, which matched the intelligence reports exactly and had died after an arrow pierced its brain, the arriving Flame-Chasing support team members asked in surprise.
That monster had slaughtered an unknown number of their compatriots, yet it had now been dealt with by two unknown people.
"Us? We just joined the Flame-Chasing Moth. Our identities haven't been entered into the database yet, but we were sent here to encircle and suppress the monster."
"I see. Still, having you join the Flame-Chasing Moth is a great blessing for humanity."
Having experienced the feeling of lives fading away around them, they understood just how terrifying the monsters they faced truly were.
So they warmly welcomed powerful people joining the Flame-Chasing Moth.
"Alright, since you successfully eliminated this monster, the credit naturally belongs to the two of you.
But neither of you has been entered into the database yet, so come back with me and register your identities first."
"Okay~."
Airi nodded and smiled.
She was not exactly lying. It was just a little verbal artistry. Joining now still counted as joining, after all.
As for the Herrscher's corpse, other support personnel would naturally handle it.
Seeing them so easily sneak into the Flame-Chasing Moth, Chang Yuan covered his forehead in speechless disbelief.
After registering all their information, Airi and Chang Yuan went to see Dr. Mobius again.
"Dr. Mobius, sorry. We deceived you earlier. We weren't sent by the council to retrieve your badge. We only needed an identity to get in so we could eliminate that monster. Otherwise, the people outside wouldn't let us through."
Airi handed Dr. Mobius's badge back to her and apologized with complete sincerity.
Taking back her badge, Dr. Mobius finally raised her eyes and glanced at Airi.
"I don't care. Surviving was your luck. But you'd best not get too close to me, because I hate people getting close to me."
After leaving those words behind, Dr. Mobius went to prepare her disinfected lab coat.
In a moment, she would personally dissect the second monster.
She hoped that this time, she could obtain some useful information—or something useful—from those monsters.
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