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Although becoming a girl is a bit awkward, if you consider it as a 'price', Kosmo thinks he can probably accept it.
Besides... the girl's feeling doesn't seem bad either?
Recalling everything that had just happened after the transformation, Amo subconsciously thought this, but then immediately slapped himself on the face—No, how could he have such thoughts of betraying his younger brother?! Cheer up, Amo, you're a boy!
With a lingering, reluctant gaze fixed on the transformation bracelet, Kosmo left the laboratory.
Meanwhile, 'Alicia,' who had been looking amused, regained her composure, looked at MEI, and asked:
"What happened?"
He knew that MEI, with her personality, wouldn't care about a mere Herrscher Core. Given her efficient nature, if she could achieve results quickly, MEI could drag him directly to the Herrscher Core's storage location.
But MEI made Kosmo leave—okay, Jiang Qiao could understand that MEI didn't trust Kosmo yet, but there must be some other reasons behind it.
“You must have seen the data, right? The first Great Honkai outbreak occurred in Berlin, Northern Europe.” MEI adjusted his glasses and said slowly, “Therefore, the core of the First Herrscher has always been kept in the Fifth Research Department in Europe.”
The initial Moths of Flame were established by multiple countries and affiliated with an organization under the United Nations.
To combat the Honkai, the Firemoth has established branch bases and research institutes around the world.
While there is a need to share the burden and conduct research, as mentioned before, there is also a political element involved.
Because of various demands, countries cannot feel comfortable allowing organizations like the Moth of Fire, which wield violence, to act arbitrarily within their borders.
The relationship between the Firemoth headquarters and its various branches, which arose under this background, is actually more like that between Destiny and Destiny North America in later generations—nominally one family, but their power is separated to some extent. At most, they share research results with each other, and you have to help me when I suffer and can't bear it anymore.
Through the efforts of the third and fourth Honkai, with the assistance of Mebius, a veteran of the Firemoth, and Velvet, MEI was able to become the official leader of the Firemoth. At the same time, because the Firemoth headquarters was originally located on the Mu Continent, the center of the world, she gradually consolidated her control over the Firemoth branches in the Asia-Pacific and Pacific regions.
But... Europe is special.
If the pre-civilization had two cores, the largest of them was Mu, and the slightly smaller one was Europe.
As a result, the factions within the Moth of Fire were divided into two.
For example, Mebius, who was once a well-known scientist on the Mu Continent, belonged to this faction on the Mu Continent. As a founding member, she actually had a lot of influence in this faction, even though many people in this faction disliked this colleague who didn't understand interpersonal relationships.
As for the European faction...
To put it more bluntly—the main force behind the assassination of Dr. MEI by the higher-ups of the Firemoth was probably from that faction.
No one wants to hand over something as precious as the Herrscher Core.
After all, everyone has witnessed the power of the Herrschers.
Mu Dalu is alright. Dr. MEI, who comes from the Far East, is originally from this lineage, and his father is also a famous researcher in this field. Möbius, an elder of the Chasing Fire Clan, who introduced her, also thinks highly of this genius. So even if Mu Dalu opposes MEI, it is impossible for them to kill their own people.
But Europe doesn't care about you.
We're not from the same faction. How can you, a newcomer who's only been in the organization for a short time, devise a plan to transfer our core Herrschers?
The second, third, and fourth Herrschers were alright, since they were taken care of by the Fire Chaser Headquarters of Mu Continent. The core of the first Herrscher was from Europe, you know.
This resistance only eased slightly after the collapse and fall of Europe, and the severe damage to the Fifth Research Department of the European faction.
However, the fact that the First Key of God was completed at the end of the previous civilization tells us that even after Europe fell, the people there did not stop their underhanded tactics.
In today's context, there's no need to elaborate. MEI said softly:
"The Fifth Research Department... is very resistant."
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In fact, not long after joining the Third Honkai Impact 3rd, MEI had been arguing with the Fifth Research Department. Unfortunately, her influence was still very small at that time. Not to mention the European faction, even the higher-ups of the Mu Continent faction themselves did not think much of this rising star. It was not until after the Fourth Honkai Impact 3rd, with the help of Velvet and Mebius, that MEI's influence in the Mu Continent faction rose sharply.
But no matter how fast she moves, the European factions are far away and beyond the reach of the central government, making it difficult for MEI to take action against them. Especially now, as the leading figure in the Mu Continent faction and the de facto leader of the Fire Moth, she needs to handle and compromise on numerous matters in the Asia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and the developing North America. In addition, she is also a researcher, and even as the official head of the Fire Moth, she cannot simply abandon the field of scientific research. All these factors combined have made MEI like a spinning top, with a mountain of things to deal with, leaving her with no time or energy to deal with the European factions.
“The idea of ‘global connectivity’ was actually partly intended to solve the problems with the European factions as well.” MEI took a sip of tea and sighed.
Before 'Global Connection', her attitude towards Europe was actually that she would deal with those people after she finished dealing with things on the Mu Continent and in the Asia-Pacific region.
After this plan was announced, MEI paid even less attention to those people.
—In the neighboring Honkai Impact 2, although the Avalon system tells outsiders that it integrates computing power and fights the Honkai more efficiently, in reality, this plan is the 'ultimate dictatorship device' designed by Dr. MEI, who is tired of human conflicts. Its original intention is to manipulate human thoughts and make all those discordant voices disappear.
Although their 'global connection' won't be as brutal as the Avalon system due to Jiang Qiao's concerns and other personal considerations—would MEI, with its 'absolute rationality' and pursuit of the most efficient methods, really adopt the same approach as ordinary people out of 'humanitarian' considerations when dealing with such annoying heretics?
Even MEI herself doesn't believe this.
She's just waiting to take away those annoying heretics in one go, to save herself the trouble.
"In that case...should we just put this matter on hold for now?" 'Alicia' raised an eyebrow, unsure of herself.
Although Jiang Qiao was very interested in mass-producing the 'transformation bracelet' and turning the Fire Moth into a 'twin-tailed pretty girl training organization', she did not want to disrupt MEI's plans because of this interest.
After all, he basically left all the internal matters to MEI and the others to handle, at most occasionally helping out.
“No, I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble you to go to the Fifth Research Department next.” MEI said quite seriously.
Perhaps in Alicia's eyes, the transformation bracelet is just a fun toy and not worth affecting the overall situation.
But for the current Fire-Chasing Moth, this is no trivial matter.
"Faced with the ever-increasing scale of Honkai worldwide, in order to better resist Honkai, the Moth Chaser must improve the combat effectiveness of its rank-and-file soldiers."
Originally, the 'Key of God Project' and the 'Fusion Warrior Project' were supposed to fill this gap.
Now that these two plans have been shelved or even rejected to some extent, the original pit for the Fire Moth is now empty.
MEI intended to use simplified and modified Stigmata for a different genetic engineering project than the 'Fusion Warrior', but the transformation bracelet that Jiang Qiao brought undoubtedly brought new changes to the situation.
The twin-tailed warriors created by the [Transformation Bracelet] have many characteristics such as high basic requirements and high editability. Later technologies can be directly replaced and produced with slight modifications. As for the consideration of cutting-edge combat power, this is obviously not a concern at all - do you even know what a product of idealism is?
It can be said that, apart from the somewhat 'significant' side effects, the [Transformation Bracelet] is practically a perfect solution.
Compared to the life-or-death Fusion Warrior Project—so what if you're a pretty girl? Besides, maybe we can try to optimize it later, and who knows, it might even save my little brother.
Now, the only remaining question is 'how to manufacture it'.
The key lies in the core of 'the law of reason'.
Going to the modern civilization to get ducks is one option, but—
Do you remember that time we went to Twilight Street?
"Well, what happened?"
Suddenly mentioning Dusk Street, 'Alicia' raised an eyebrow.
Twilight Street is located in Eastern Europe. Although it is some distance from the Fifth Research Department, which is located in Western Europe, it is indeed in Europe as well.
In fact, MEI had already made some contact with the European faction on that occasion.
The sanatorium on Huanghun Street was mainly supported by the Fifth Research Department.
MEI said calmly:
"Actually, I was planning to send Sakura over there to investigate after that, but I put it aside for the time being because I didn't want to alert them."
“Since you need the core of the Herrscher of Reason now, why not help investigate the situation over there as well? Don’t worry, you just need to confuse the other side, and I will have Sakura act in the shadows.”
'Hero of Fire Chaser' Alicia—undoubtedly, this is an extremely intimidating name for those within the Fire Chaser Moth—if 'she' were to go to the Fifth Research Department, then in order to deal with this Hero of Fire Chaser, the Fifth Research Department would inevitably engage in some underhanded tactics... At that time, Sakura would surely be able to achieve considerable results.
Although the original plan was to settle scores later, since there is a need now, the plan naturally has to be changed.
It's not like I'm the one doing the work!
Mei harbored some resentment when she sent 'Alice'.
I have so much work to do, and all I do when I open my eyes is work overtime, work overtime, and more work. It's all because of you that I've been given this project. And now you've given me this "transformation bracelet" project—okay, I admit it's a good project.
But if you're still going to come up with projects on a whim and put pressure on everyone, isn't that a bit inappropriate?
The four Fire-Chasing Maidens share joys and sorrows, and face hardships together!
Looking at Mei, whose veins seemed to be faintly visible, staring intently at her, the girl chuckled and nodded:
"No problem, but—I need to bring someone with me."
...
Pado has been living a very happy life lately.
Since following 'Alicia' to the Fire Moth, and in order to solicit personal opinions—not knowing exactly what kind of person this girl named Padofelis was, but only because of 'Alicia's' friendly attitude, and after making certain academic considerations, MEI placed her in the Fire Moth's logistics department.
Of course, she didn't do anything like forcibly placing Pado in a position like the head of logistics. After all, given Phyllis's education... well, you can't say she has none at all. Just the fact that she can read shows that Pado is very hardworking. This poor educational background means that even if MEI wanted to let Maomao, an ally from the same faction, share the power within the organization, it wouldn't be possible.
That would be harmful to both oneself and others—even Pado herself wouldn't want to do that.
In her words.
With my meager abilities, how could I possibly be fit for a leadership position? If I were to actually do that kind of work, I might even inconvenience others. Hehe, Sister Mei, if you really want to take care of me... could you perhaps assign me a less demanding, safer support role for Sister Aili's sake? Don't worry! Even if the pay is lower, or even if I don't need a salary, as long as I can eat three meals a day and enjoy a nice afternoon nap, that's enough!
This girl from Twilight Street knows how to be content—as long as you don't set your goals too high, you're easily satisfied, right?
Contentment equals happiness.
In other words, this is my own happiness.
And so, Phyllis became a warehouse manager, or what is commonly known as a warehouse keeper.
Every day, all I have to do is hand over the resources to the person I'm handing over the work to and fill out some very simple reports.