V2/Chapter 8: Even Light Can Be Surpassed
As Vill-V died, the whole banquet came to an end.
Ato had been picked up by Blanca, Hua and Su also said goodbye and left. Aponia and Eden had not yet had enough, so they went to Eden's residence to continue tasting. After a night of feasting, Pardofelis was already feeling sleepy and fell asleep in a corner. So Ai Yue asked Sakura to take her back. As for Kevin and Dr. Mei, they were most likely the first two to slip away.
Kalpas looted a bunch of desserts and took them home, causing the dessert chefs to have to work overtime to make another batch.
After Elysia left to send Vill-V to rest, only Ai Yue and Mobius were still sober.
"How are you?" Ai Yue looked at Mobius, who was also beginning to feel sleepy, and shook his head. "Since you are not good at drinking, then drink less."
"I'd love to!" Mobius raised her head suddenly, then lowered it again, "Well, I feel dizzy, I'm going to sleep for a day..."
"You're not going to do the experiment anymore?" Ai Yue smiled. "Didn't you just say that you would surpass me sooner or later?"
"I can't surpass you." Mobius hit him without even looking up. "How can a woman like me surpass you..."
Perhaps it was because she was drunk that some words were easier to say - at least Ai Yue found it hard to imagine that Mobius would admit this matter so straightforwardly when she was sober.
But then he heard Mobius continue, "But this is not enough."
Ai Yue was stunned for a moment: "What's not enough?"
"You! You're not fast enough!" Mobius suddenly raised her head and stared at Ai Yue, "Faster! Faster than Honkai, faster than Herrscher! Only by evolving faster than them can we defeat them!"
"It has to be faster..."
She muttered these words, slowly closed her eyes, and fell asleep in Ai Yue's arms.
"Excuse me."
At this moment, Klein's voice suddenly reached his ears, and Ai Yue realized that the other party had come to him without him noticing.
The assistant, whose dark circles had obviously improved, nodded slightly at Ai Yue and said, "I'm here to take Dr. Mobius back."
"Then I'll leave it to you." Ai Yue handed Mobius in his arms to Klein, and finally couldn't help asking: "Klein, you should have heard what Mobius said just now, right? What do you think?"
"Dr. Mobius has actually been very anxious," Klein explained. "She once said that if human civilization continues to develop at this rate, it will be impossible to defeat the Honkai, so for the sake of the future of humanity, she cannot relax at all."
Ai Yue was stunned for a moment and didn't say anything.
"But since you came, Dr. Mobius has basically stopped saying this." Klein held Mobius' waist and smiled at Ai Yue. "Now the doctor is even willing to spend time at this kind of party and drink like this. Maybe it's because she thinks that with you here, she doesn't need to be so anxious."
After saying this, Klein nodded to Ai Yue again, and then she left with Mobius struggling to support her.
'Faster than Honkai?'
Ai Yue replayed what Mobius had just said in his mind and couldn't help but smile.
From the words just now, he vaguely saw the worries hidden in the deepest part of Mobius' heart.
Since the day the Herrscher was born, Honkai did not give humans much breathing space. From the first Herrscher to the last Herrscher, there were not even fifty years in between.
However, the power of the Herrscher has expanded from analyzing human technology and using Honkai energy to imitate it, to mastering almost endless Honkai energy, and being able to easily destroy the entire surface civilization with a wave of its hand.
If such numerical expansion were put into the game, it would be enough to make players curse the planner's family tree from the modern era all the way back to the caveman period. However, the human beings in this world have to face such a desperate future.
Even though there continued to be talented people like Dr. Mei among humans, in the end they were only able to preserve a little bit of the spark of civilization, which barely allowed the new civilization 50,000 years later to have the possibility of "defeating" the Herrscher of the End.
In order to avoid such a result and get a perfect ending in the first week, Ai Yue needs to do much more than what Mobius expects.
'Faster than the Herrscher? No, that would be too boring.'
Ai Yue looked down at his palm and slowly clenched it into a fist: "My evolution speed will exceed the speed of light."
"What's faster than light?"
Elysia's voice suddenly came from behind him, and the pink girl came to Ai Yue curiously: "Ai Yue, you are saying weird things again."
"I just set a small goal for myself." Ai Yue and Elysia pulled a little distance away, and then asked, "Is Vill-V okay?"
"If you're worried, don't force her to drink so much." Elysia shook her head slightly, but blinked mischievously. "But it doesn't matter. Vill-V woke up after leaving here. She said that she had anticipated the outcome of the incident, so she took the medicine in advance."
"Her medicine is useless." Ai Yue waved his hand nonchalantly, "She will be uncomfortable tomorrow."
Prometheus had already established a personality model of Vill-V and was able to analyze the details of the other party based on her every move. Although Vill-V struggled violently when Ai Yue forced her to drink, her eyes did not change much. At that time, Ai Yue knew that this matter was also part of the other party's calculations.
Therefore, the real revenge against Vill-V was to use the act of forcing her to drink to cover up the mental interference.
"Oh, then I have to witness it," Elysia said with a smile, as if she had already decided to go and see Vill-V make a fool of herself tomorrow. "Did you have fun today?"
"That's great. You have to organize this kind of activity." Ai Yue nodded, "So don't do it next time."
"Hey, why is that~" Elysia pouted, and suddenly stared into Ai Yue's eyes, "But you don't seem happy, are you worried about something?"
Ai Yue looked at Elysia calmly, and suddenly said: "Elysia, if, I mean if - if someone wants to make some kind of... uh, transformation of the entire human race for the sake of the future of mankind, what would you do?"
"Are you talking about Dr. Mobius?" Elysia looked at him with some confusion, and then showed a thoughtful expression, "Well, how should I put it? If this kind of transformation is really for the future of mankind, then we can actually give it a try."
"What if the consequences of this transformation are unpredictable and may even lead humanity to destruction?" Ai Yue continued to ask.
"Then at least we tried, right?" Elysia said with a smile, "Doesn't it mean that the future of mankind is bright now?"
Looking at Ai Yue's expression, Elysia continued, "Of course, since this concerns the future of mankind, we must be extremely cautious. If I can help in any way, I will be very happy, okay?"
"I understand." Ai Yue closed his eyes and nodded.
In the darkness, a star is gradually growing bigger and shining with a unique light——
[Pseudo-Herrscher Power: mental plague.]
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