Unlocking Flame-Chasing Moth's Must-Farm Dungeon, Easily Taking Control of the Petty Higher-Ups

Hearing how far ahead Chang Yuan had thought, Airi could not help but fall into deep thought over the issue as well.

Obviously, Airi did not know what she should do after defeating Honkai in the future either.

"Who cares? We can decide when the time comes, can't we?"

Since she could not figure it out, Airi simply stopped thinking about it and tossed the question to her future self.

"Hehe, so that's your choice? What a coincidence. Mine too."

But could there really be a future?

Although the original plot had never mentioned whether higher civilizations would personally intervene in this assimilation, no one could guarantee that they would not.

For now, all they could do was take things one step at a time. If the butterfly effect he caused really led the civilization behind the Cocoon of Finality to act in person, then they could just raise their hands and surrender.

The Cocoon of Finality alone was already more than the Pre-Civilization could handle. The civilization that had created it was even more so.

"That's exactly why there's no point thinking about this stuff. Come on, come on. I heard a new ice cream shop opened in South City. I want to try it, so come with me."

"Sure. Let's go."

Since the global Honkai situation was not yet severe, there were not Honkai outbreaks almost every moment like there would be later on.

For now, they could still cherish the present.

A few days later...

"Mebius, I heard your research has made a major breakthrough, which is why you called us here. So what is this breakthrough? What kind of major breakthrough requires us to come in person?"

At the round table, one shifty-eyed councilor asked. A square patch of black beard sat right beneath his nose.

Clearly, he was a councilor from the Far East.

Mebius was in no hurry at all upon hearing this.

"We extracted a special factor from the bodies of Honkai Beasts. I attempted to study it, and in the end neutralized its side effects before injecting it into a human body."

Mebius stopped there.

And that gave these councilors the chance—or rather, the opening—they needed to make a scene.

"Mebius, you've got some nerve! You actually dared to conduct human experiments!"

One sanctimonious councilor slapped the round table, rose to his feet, and shouted the accusation.

But in truth, he merely wanted to squeeze more benefits out of Mebius.

With one person taking the lead, the other councilors seemed to have had some switch flipped, and they all began condemning Mebius.

As time passed, the councilors grew thirsty and picked up their cups to drink.

Only after seeing that every single councilor had drunk the water, with none left out, did Mebius put away her initial fake smile.

"You idiots, I never conducted human experiments. At least, not yet. I only used that as an excuse to gather all of you here."

"Wait, Mebius, what do you mean by that?"

One councilor noticed something off in Mebius's tone and immediately began to panic.

But Mebius gave no answer. Instead, the meeting room doors opened.

Two figures slowly entered through them: Velvie, with her two-toned fluffy hair, and Chang Yuan, the protagonist.

Clap, clap, clap—!

"Hello, you parasites. The mastermind you've been looking for is here."

Chang Yuan clapped as he entered the meeting room with a smile.

At that moment, he looked exactly like a villain from one of those hot-blooded anime series.

"You're the vice-captain of the First Squad. What are you trying to do? Rebel?"

Chang Yuan paid no attention whatsoever to this yapping.

Instead, he found a seat at the head of the table and sat down.

Then he interlaced his fingers and rested them beneath his nose.

"Parasites, was that cup of water tasty?"

"What do you mean? Don't tell me you poisoned the water? Do you know that if we die, not only will Flame-Chasing Moth face dissolution, but all of you will be wanted across every continent?"

Hearing Chang Yuan's words, many of the imaginative councilors immediately guessed what he intended to do. Afraid of death, they began threatening him in turn.

"No, no, no. Naturally, I know killing you would cause turmoil in this world, so I did not poison you."

Once they heard Chang Yuan say there was no poison, the expressions of all the councilors improved considerably.

But before they could celebrate for long, Chang Yuan's next words dragged them straight into the abyss.

"You merely swallowed some explosive nanobots that will stick to your stomachs.

Oh, right. Do not try to remove them. If they receive outside stimulation, they can explode very easily."

Chang Yuan's tone was extremely calm as he said this, as though he did not care about their lives in the slightest.

And he truly did not care whether they lived or died. But they could not die yet.

At the very least, he had to finish dividing up all their authority first. Otherwise, before Honkai could throw human society into turmoil, their deaths would do it first.

"Mebius! Don't you intend to give us an explanation?!"

Betrayal. This was naked betrayal. Every councilor glared viciously at Mebius.

But Mebius did not care, since her relationship with these councilors had only ever been one of cooperation.

More importantly, she detested these councilors as well. They were always cutting her funding, even though the things they did behind the scenes were far more evil than anything she had done.

Yet they still dared to sanctimoniously accuse her of being inhumane and use that excuse to strip away her funding.

They wanted her to achieve the greatest results with the least amount of money.

"What does this have to do with me? I'm a victim too. He tricked me."

Mebius filed her nails with a nail file as she looked them over, her tone utterly calm.

But the councilors were not idiots. With how relaxed she looked now, there was no way she had nothing to do with this.

"So what exactly do you want?"

The older people became, the more they feared death—especially these high-ranking parasites.

The reason they funded Mebius was because they had recognized her talent in biology.

They hoped Mebius would quickly produce research results that could grant people immortality.

And cutting her funding was merely because they did not want to invest too much money in her.

After all, they had already poured a considerable portion of their fortunes into researching this result. Every bit they cut was enough to create a new richest man outside.

"Nothing much. I merely want to ask you all to slowly relinquish your authority—to the person beside me and to Dr. Mobius."

"Impossible!"

The moment Chang Yuan finished speaking, every councilor rejected it in unison.

Chang Yuan was not surprised. They had already tasted the poison called power; making them give it up was simply impossible.