New World Serpent Headquarters, Underground Base.
While Kevin was training the other "Kevin", on the other side, a remote virtual meeting led by Mei was taking place in a secret room.
On this side of the headquarters were: Mei, Alicia, Velvie, and—
And those who felt uncomfortable attending in person, but intended to participate and could only attend through remote virtual projection, were: Mebius, Spassi, Hen, and—
Among the group, there's no need for much introduction for the former.
Let's just talk about the latter three.
Spassi, in the original historical timeline of the current era, was Sue's guide and the leader of the Fifth Research Institute of the Fire Moth. He played a key role during the outbreak of the "Eighth Honkai Impact" and significantly delayed the actions of the Law of Consciousness at the cost of his life.
Mark, father of Graciel and captain of Cosmo, participated in many battles against Herrschers in the future of the original timeline and ultimately died heroically at the end of the "Ninth Collapse".
Einstein, originally from Mu Dalu, is a future prominent scientist who developed "armed doll technology" and "quantum sea portal technology".
During the explosion of the "Ninth Collapse" in the original historical timeline, she activated the latter's molding product and transferred the remaining cities of the Mu continent into the Quantum Sea before the massive "black hole-like" entity created by the Ninth Herrscher could devour everything. The sea became a bubble world and lasted tens of thousands of years.
And she herself, filled with many regrets, died alone.
Eventually, half a century after the "Ninth Collapse" broke out, as the last human survivor, she slept within the bubble world.
In short, those who can currently participate in this remote virtual conference are the elites of the current era.
And those futures related to them—Mei had told Gray Serpent to reveal some of them.
Of course, there are some things that not even Gray Serpent knew the full picture of.
Like: The fate of Dr. Einstein.
At this stage, the Dr. Einstein of this era only knows that the Mu continent was destroyed in the original timeline and sank into the Quantum Sea.
She doesn't even know whether her "great transfer plan" succeeded.
It is based on this that—
"Dr. Einstein, how is your progress over there?"
Mei sat in the lead position, glancing sideways at the virtual projection.
One thing to be said—
Although the Dr. Einstein of this era also had slightly curly blue hair, she was different from the "Chicken Nest Head" Einstein of Anti-Entropy more than 50,000 years later, but she had a streak of red hair at her forehead.
Only. . . . . Before the time travel, there were jokes like these:
"Since the final chapter of San Bengzi says that human civilization on Earth is 'the same group' constantly rebooted by the 'Cocoon of the End', then which version is Chicken Nest Einstein, and which is the pre-civilization Dr. Einstein? And what about Dr. Lobster (Tesla)?"
"Could it be that the red streak of hair turned into sperm?"
Ahem\~
Well, no more jokes.
Right now—
"Thanks to Mr. Gray Serpent's information, the armed doll technology has entered the testing phase."
"Although it will soon meet all practical conditions, I personally still don't want to treat those children as mere martial tools. . . . . ."
"Dr. Einstein."
Mei interrupted her further words: "You also know the situation in the 'future,' and we are absolutely not allowed to be naive now."
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It must be said—Mei truly is a super genius.
And the evaluation of this super genius spans far more than just scientific research.
One must understand that the current Mei is not the Dr. Mei from the original future historical trajectory, nor is she the final leader of the Fire Chasers.
She is merely—
Originally, at this period, she should have been diving into the ocean of knowledge, swimming carefree.
Then, shortly after, Utopia suffers a third collapse, and she joins Fire Moth, embarking on a path that most people can't comprehend, to save the current human civilization on Earth.
But just as she quickly rose to the top after joining Fire Moth in the original timeline— even securing resources from the powerful Camebio and Vilvio... this alone is enough to foresee her abilities in other fields, which cannot be underestimated.
And so—
In recent months, Mei has completely transformed.
Knowing "future information," she evolved from a normal seventeen-year-old girl into an absolutely rational "Dr. Mei" several years ahead of schedule.
She has taken the initiative to hide her sensual and romantic side.
Only because, as she knows, no one can afford to be naive when sitting in that position.
Today, it is also under this premise that—
"I understand."
In the virtual remote conference room, Dr. Einstein, under Mei's gaze, had no choice but to drop the topic of "whether armed dolls should have human rights."
Then—
"Quantum Sea Portal. . . . . Although I can build it, the materials required for this period cannot be gathered at this stage."
"Especially some of the basic materials are far too special and currently unavailable in the world."
Dr. Einstein reported honestly.
In fact, special materials like "Soul Steel" are things that may be extractable in the future by further analyzing the corpse of a Herrscher and the tissue of high-level Honkai Beasts.
However, the corpses of the First Herrscher and Second Herrscher were extremely tightly sealed by Fire Moth.
As for the body tissue of high-level Honkai Beasts—
And excluding the two previous routes, the only remaining option is — moon landing.
Obviously, this is also not something the nascent New World Serpent can consider at this stage.
After all, not to mention whether a spacecraft for moon landing can be built or how to solve the enormous funding issue, a space base can't be built just by saying so. . . . . Not every country in the world is blind. With a project that massive, wouldn't thousands of tons of flying monkeys be seen by others?
There's no doubt that many things are unclear nowadays, so initiating a conflict is definitely not advisable.
In this way, with the key materials still missing, naturally, methods for acquiring things like "Soul Steel" cannot be brought up.
"I understand."
Mei nodded and looked at the other person. "Gray Serpent, report your operations."
"Yes."
The one currently participating in this remote virtual conference is the ontology of Gray Serpent.
Gray Serpent has self-propagated over the past few months, right after Kevin abandoned him on the internet in the current era.
Today, through the numerous factories affiliated with and managed by the New World Serpent Organization, he has created no fewer than two thousand individuals of the same species with mechanical bodies.
Just as they once operated in secrecy during the era of the current civilization, the Gray Serpents communicate in real-time via the "Gray Serpent Network" and are responsible for the intelligence department of the New World Serpent Organization.
In daily life, aside from recruiting global talents, developing offline forces, and cultivating new effective units, the Gray Serpents are also responsible for "express delivery" between different internal members and compiling major global events to report the information needed by New World Serpent in detail.
Like now—
"In the past few months, a force calling itself the 'Honkai God Cult' has suddenly emerged in Europe, Africa, South America, and South Asia."
The red electronic eye of Gray Serpent gleamed with a dim, sinister light.
Using that raspy, synthesized electronic tone, he said word by word: "Based on the intelligence currently in my hands, it is inferred that the leader behind this force is very likely to be the Archbishop of Destiny, who is also the 'Adventist of the Misfortune' —"
"Otto Apokalis!"