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Although they were intelligent enough to have some sense of it, they were completely unaware that the previous 'Alice' was actually the man in front of them who was 'quite relatable'.
After all—no matter how you look at 'Alicia', it's clear that you can't label 'her' as a 'man'.
“Hmm~ It’s really impossible to tell.” Another 'victim of Jiang Qiao’s love in the laboratory also appeared. Wilvi moved closer to Jiang Qiao and looked at her with great surprise and admiration—the voluptuous figure in leather was so close to Jiang Qiao.
Mei's indifferent and helpless voice rang in Jiang Qiao's ears, who was surrounded by Mebius and Vervière:
"Although I can understand your actions, let's put this matter aside for now. There are more important things to deal with."
"Hmph~ This matter won't just end here after all."
Mebius was not an unreasonable person. She grunted twice and stared at Jiang Qiao as she spoke.
—Actually, she didn't have any problem with Jiang Qiao keeping this from them. Even if they did have some intimate contact that was too inappropriate for a man and a woman during this time, Möbius was by no means the type to care about common sense.
What truly angered her was that she hadn't realized—that Mebius, who was incredibly proud of his own intelligence, hadn't discovered that the 'Alicia' beside him was actually a man... This was a rather terrible sense of frustration for Snake.
Therefore, she needed to get her revenge—from Jiang Qiao!
Jiang Qiao, who didn't seem to care, simply smiled.
Then, he looked at MEI, where a huge display screen showed strings of data and a 'device' that looked extremely unusual.
Meanwhile, on a sphere modeled after the entire planet, patches of bright red were visible.
“Currently, the core of the ‘Herrscher of Domination’ has spread globally—most of humanity in the world has become its vessel.” MEI spoke slowly, quite seriously: “In the months since the Herrscher of Domination was discovered, the number of new violent incidents worldwide has increased by 98% compared to the past few decades.”
"Many countries have experienced political turmoil and division as a result, and many countries in Eastern Europe have even fallen into a state of anarchy and disorder." Her voice was filled with a deep headache.
In this scenario, the losses caused by humanity itself could be even greater than those of the previous four major cataclysms. After all, when it comes to harming their own kind, the human race can be described in one sentence: "We're experts at this!"
Compared to the original 'Old Herrscher of Domination', the current 'New Herrscher of Domination' is more difficult to control and more dangerous. After all, the Old Herrscher of Domination only caused humanity to lose 'trust' and fall apart amidst mutual suspicion. However, while the New Herrscher of Domination does not attack 'human hearts' in the same way as the Old Herrscher of Domination,' its effect of 'amplifying the dark side of people' and giving them the ability to 'commit violence' is not much worse than that of the Old Herrscher of Domination.
When people start doing bad things, they can be far more unrestrained than 'anti-human elements hiding among the people'.
Furthermore, given the already severe wealth gap in most parts of the world, the emergence of the new Herrscher of Domination is nothing short of terrifying for regions with low levels of education—with crime rates soaring, almost everywhere is vying to become a model of criminal activity.
Jiang Qiao casually manipulated the virtual sphere.
One message after another came into view... On the Eurasian continent, the South Asian region has completely collapsed... To be honest, that place could hardly be called orderly; it was a 'showpiece' forcibly stitched together, with such a low standard that even wild animals would avoid it. It's not surprising that it collapsed.
Then came Eastern Europe, Western Europe... Jiang Qiao immediately spotted words like 'severe inflation,' '500,000 marks of bread,' and 'atonement scrolls'... Hmm, the old aristocratic forces there, under the influence of the new Herrscher of Domination, have completely lost their bottom line and are beginning to revive the glory of medieval Dracula... Wait, it seems they never had such things in the first place.
The central region of North America was also affected to some extent, but because the new headquarters of the Firemoth was located there, it was barely manageable under the violent measures taken to maintain stability.
The only slightly better places are the Mu Continent, the Shenzhou region, and the Far East... My index finger paused, looking at words like 'major earthquake' and 'private Marseille'... Well, politicians in the Far East are also vying for first place in 'when humanoid stars shine'.
Well, so the whole world has descended into chaos while I was away.
Looking at the information gathered by those fire-chasing moths, Jiang Qiaoren felt a little numb.
“Thanks to the Laws of Domination, the Moths of Fire are now not only responsible for handling the collapse within the borders of various countries, but also need to be involved in some ‘security management’ to a certain extent.” MEI looked at the bright red expanse and sighed.
This is why she is so busy, because the functions of the Fire Moth have begun to expand. In anarchic countries, the Fire Moth even has to play the role of 'police' to some extent.
While it's a good thing in terms of power, it's also a bad thing in some ways... A large team is hard to manage.
What's the situation inside the Fire-Chasing Moth?
“That’s alright.” MEI smiled slightly as she spoke.
Although the organization of the Moth of Fire has been largely controlled, even with high quality and careful selection, there are bound to be many problems, especially those high-ranking members who are already rather incompetent.
However, the appearance of Aponia curbed the internal turmoil to some extent. At the same time, because they seized control of the Firemoth very early on, most of the high-ranking members of the Firemoth have become puppets who are unable to interfere in the internal affairs of the organization under some swift and decisive measures. The only problem is the outside world.
Because the Moth of Flames is a special department under the United Nations—an organization jointly established by multiple countries—it is still subject to certain constraints in countries where the political systems are still relatively well-established.
"In short, you should have all seen those situations. We must resolve the threat posed by the Herrscher of Domination as soon as possible, otherwise the order of humanity itself will be on the verge of collapse... There are already signs of war between various countries."
MEI was quite somber.
Previously, due to the Honkai, all countries had exercised restraint and were preparing military equipment to deal with the Honkai in their own ways—but if the Herrscher of Domination continues to do this, these military equipment for dealing with the Honkai will probably soon be used against humanity itself.
Especially those stockpiled nuclear forces... Under the influence of the Herald of Domination, it's a pipe dream to expect humanity to remain rational.
Therefore, they must accelerate the progress of the 'Avalon Project', otherwise humanity could self-destruct before the arrival of the Herrscher of the End is even necessary.
"...It's absolutely hideous."
Looking at the feedback images, Mebius bit her lip, her eyes full of 'mockery' and 'sarcasm'—for Snake, who had a rather terrible childhood, she was the kind of person who most rejected 'the ugly side of humanity', and the appearance of the Herrscher of Domination was simply 'mocking' Mebius—look, the kind of people you hate, now they are all them!
Unfortunately, despite his immense anger and 'hatred,' Mebius was helpless in dealing with the current situation. After all, scientific research is not something that can be achieved overnight. Even with the data provided by his future self, Mebius's ongoing research into 'analyzing the Herrscher of Domination and using it to complete the evolution of humanity' was still making little progress.
...However, she now has some breakthroughs.
Mebius's iridescent snake eyes slowly fell on Jiang Qiao beside him, and a hint of longing appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Jiang Qiao, who was deep in thought, asked the question that concerned her:
"How is Project Avalon progressing?"
"The majority of the organization opposes this plan," MEI said calmly—which is not surprising, after all, how could humans possibly want to be 'constrained' by something like this?
This is only within the organization, with various departments opposing it. If other countries knew about the Firemoth's plan, they could probably send troops to directly occupy the Firemoth and shut it down. Even the entire human society would be thrown into turmoil because of this—after all, it's just too 'unfree'.
The Law of Domination wouldn't want to see something like this born, would it?
"but--"
MEI paused for a moment, then looked at Vervi, who gave a confident smile:
"The manufacturing of the components is basically complete."
Although Velvi didn't particularly like the Avalon plan and even opposed it to some extent, the previous civilization didn't really have much room for 'willfulness'—Jiang Qiao had already provided them with enough help, but if 'humans were fighting to die,' then there was nothing Jiang Qiao could do.
Or rather, he didn't want to take the most extreme measures for this.
For Jiang Qiao, once she had done everything she was supposed to do, the outcome was already predetermined.
But if the process goes too badly... that's probably not what Alicia wants to see, right?
"However, what progress have you made in terms of the AI used to control Project Avalon, MEI?" Velvi frowned slightly. Her forte was mechanics and engineering—as long as the requirements were given, Velvi was confident that she could manufacture any device. With MEI's generous funding, the results in this area were quite impressive.
But besides the core device, the most important part of Project Avalon is the 'centralized AI control'.
Because 'Central Link' will connect the consciousness of nearly 10 billion people worldwide, their emotions, their thoughts, their love and hate will eventually converge into the central control AI. Only in this way can 'Central Link' achieve the envisioned 'complete control', and only then can the rules of Aponia be applied and covered on a large scale through this channel.
The most suitable candidate was originally Himeko – if she, as the Herrscher of Corruption, were to be the core, the security of the entire 'Global Link' would increase exponentially. However, Himeko herself has certain problems, and... Sakura would absolutely not agree to this.
If they don't want to fall out with Sakura, they can't force Himeko to be the central control AI. But if they really fall out... whether they dare to use Himeko as the central control AI is still a question—for safety and trust reasons, MEI has excluded Himeko.
Because AI is MEI's area of expertise, the design and creation of AI are also centrally managed by MEI.
This is an extremely time-consuming project.
“I created Prometheus, but I’m not entirely sure if Prometheus is capable of undertaking this task,” MEI sighed.
The premature emergence of Prometheus, besides sharing the workload, was actually intended to serve as the central control AI. However, whether such an AI could bear the will of nearly 10 billion people was uncertain, even for a genius like MEI.
"Fortunately, there are people from the Mu Continent involved in this plan, and it seems that there has been more suitable progress."
"Who?"
"Yssring Leavtruth"
Upon hearing the name, Möbius, who felt it sounded somewhat familiar, pondered for a moment and then exclaimed, "This name... oh, I remember now, it's the daughter of the Leviathans, isn't it?"
Mebius was a renowned scientist on the continent of Mu. Although he was a bit eccentric, he was quite familiar with researchers in various fields of the scientific community on the continent of Mu—after all, there might be a time when they needed each other's research results.
"Is it very famous?" Jiang Qiao asked curiously, hearing the unfamiliar English name.
"Ah."
The Leviathans were both outstanding researchers, specializing in fields such as ergonomics, quantum mechanics, population genetics, and artificial intelligence cognition.
It can be said that they are the top scholars in Mu Continent who are researching artificial intelligence.
In this respect, even the exceptionally talented MEI can only feel inferior – after all, MEI's previous focus was not on artificial intelligence, but on quantum mechanics, and she was actually a half-baked novice.
“It’s a pity those two died in an accident many years ago, otherwise I was planning to invite them to join the Fire Moth.” Möbius said with regret, “Since she is the daughter of those two men, she must have some extraordinary abilities.”
“Iserline is currently at the old headquarters on the Mu Continent. I originally planned to go and see it in person, but unfortunately things are just too tight and busy.”
"so?"
MEI said calmly:
"Since you're here, why don't you go to Mu Continent? It would be best to bring her and her research results back to headquarters."
"What happened?"
"There has been some unrest on the Mu Continent recently, and I'm worried that something might go wrong."
"Where's Sakura?"
Logically speaking, Sakura should be the most suitable person to be this kind of guard.
MEI Low Channel:
"She is currently still tracking down the Church of Apocalypse in Eastern Europe, and then she needs to clear some... obstacles."
Her words were very cryptic—but Jiang Qiao already understood what the so-called obstacle was.
It's not surprising. As the ruthless and taciturn top enforcer of the small group, Sakura works almost year-round, with orders overflowing every day and of excellent quality. So far, there hasn't been a single negative review.
"Besides, it would be safer for you to go."