A Senator Plotting Rebellion? Blow Up a Few of Them Like Fireworks-Airi's Strange Encounter

When Chang Yuan saw that it was Velvie calling him, he answered immediately.

"What's wrong, Big V Teacher? Is something the matter?"

"I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"Come on, Big V Teacher, why are you doing this too?"

Hearing that Velvie was still in the mood to joke with him, he knew the bad news probably was not too serious.

So he complained in his usual tone.

"Alright, alright, I'll get straight to the point. The good news is that after Mebius and I discussed and improved things together, the success rate of the Fusion Warrior surgery has now reached 20%."

"And that's based on ordinary people. If it's an experienced fighter who has also been injected with Honkai-resistant Serum, the odds are expected to increase severalfold."

"In other words, the Fusion Warrior surgery is now in its most perfect state."

"However, the bad news is that those senators don't seem to be behaving themselves either. They seem to be spreading word everywhere that two doctors within the Flame-Chasing Moth are conducting human experiments. It looks like they want to use the public to get rid of us."

In one breath, Velvie laid out both the good news and the bad news.

"Not behaving themselves? Then blow up a few of them, and they'll behave. As for human experiments, isn't that the truth? You can submit the list of participants and let those people see that they all volunteered."

"They made sacrifices for the survival of civilization, for the safety of the world, and to protect it. They are heroes."

"Alright, then I'll go blow up a few of them. But when are you coming back for the surgery? As Honkai activity gradually increases, it seems your combat strength needs improving."

Hearing that, Chang Yuan fell into brief thought.

Then he looked at Airi.

"Airi, the Fusion Warrior surgery is already infinitely close to perfect. Do you want to go back with me and undergo it?"

"Sure. We'll definitely become stronger then, and any future Herrschers will be nothing to fear."

Airi gladly nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Chang Yuan continued to Velvie, "Tomorrow, then. I'll have to trouble you to find the Honkai Beast DNA best suited for us first."

"No problem. Leave it to me."

After that, the two chatted about everyday matters like friends before finally hanging up.

"Whew, Airi, we're going back for the surgery tomorrow. How do you feel?"

"Nothing much. Since you're asking me to go back with you for the surgery, Velvie's success rate must already be high enough that you no longer have to worry about safety. So I'm not afraid."

Just as Chang Yuan understood her, Airi understood Chang Yuan as well.

If something could not be guaranteed safe, he would never ask her to come along unless she had brought it up first.

Otherwise, Chang Yuan would hide it from her whenever he could.

"How should I put it? I'm a little scared. After all, it isn't a one-hundred-percent success rate."

Compared to the one-in-something chance from the original story, or even lower, reaching over 40% now was already absurdly high.

This was also thanks to Velvie taking up biology now, rather than displaying her talents solely in machinery as she had in the original story.

After all, an all-around genius like Velvie should learn more things rather than specializing in only one field.

"I just wonder whether this will trigger a butterfly effect."

Thinking of the Herrscher of Binding from the original story, many people had guessed that it was a Herrscher from a higher-dimensional civilization specifically designed to eliminate Fusion Warriors.

Only after the Fusion Warriors had been reduced to a certain extent could that Herrscher be eliminated.

If that was really the case, then the one-in-five chance he had created for becoming a Fusion Warrior might make things even more brutal in the future.

The Herrscher of Binding might also become stronger than in the original story, and even the other Herrschers might be enhanced.

After all, the Cocoon of Finality was not an inanimate object. It had a will of its own.

"Hehe, I'm here, aren't I? Girls who smile are never unlucky, and you won't be unlucky either when you're with me. When the time comes, let's see which of us comes out successfully."

Seeing Chang Yuan's anxiety, Airi playfully blinked and boasted with a smile.

With Airi easing the mood, Chang Yuan's tense feelings relaxed considerably.

Forget it. They would deal with it when the time came. He was not good at thinking, and he had already told most of what he knew to the few people best at it.

If even they could not solve the problem then, they could only pile up a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to bury the Herrscher, just as in the original story.

Time passed bit by bit until they had both fallen asleep.

At that moment, as though she had received some kind of summons, Airi suddenly opened her eyes.

She looked at Chang Yuan, who was still sleeping on the other side, but did not wake him.

Instead, she quietly moved aside her blanket and got up.

To avoid disturbing Chang Yuan, Airi leaped straight out of the window.

Then she followed that guidance into a dense forest.

Within that forest, Airi finally arrived at the place that had been drawing her in.

There, Airi saw a massive pink-and-white ray.

The ray seemed to have been waiting for Airi's arrival for a long time.

It promptly shook off a small piece of hard shell from its body, then vanished into an unknown space right before her eyes.

But Airi found it rather baffling.

It had drawn her here just to give her a small piece of hard shell?

"That aura belonged to a Honkai Beast? But why didn't it attack me or go destroy the city?"

Airi was deeply puzzled by this.

The Honkai Beasts she had encountered before, whether mindless or intelligent, even Judgment-class Honkai Beasts, had only ever sought to destroy civilization.

And the Honkai Beast she had just seen felt no less formidable than a Herrscher's accompanying Honkai Beast.

That was precisely why Airi found it so confusing.

But she did not dwell on it any further. As long as it did not destroy civilization, that was enough.

Picking up the piece of hard shell from the ground, Airi tucked it into her pocket.

Then she ran back and went to sleep, while Chang Yuan never woke up throughout the entire time.

For some reason, that made Airi relax a little.

The older she grew, the more she discovered how mysterious her past self had become, and what she had experienced tonight was just as mysterious.

But she did not dare tell Chang Yuan about those mysteries.

The next day, after checking out of the hotel suite, Chang Yuan and Airi took a Flame-Chasing Moth private plane back to headquarters.

As soon as they returned to headquarters, Chang Yuan went to find Velvie.