At this moment, an inappropriate voice suddenly sounded in the hall. "But didn't the store manager help us solve the problem of Yalilo VI's star core?" Sanyueqi, who had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the two, said subconsciously, "If it weren't for the weapon that the store manager gave to Xing, we wouldn't be able to solve the problem of this planet so easily." “……”This time, it was the young store manager who was speechless. He first glared at March 7 from a distance for trying to sabotage him, took a deep breath, and put a gentle and polite smile on his face again. "First of all - the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire is my private property. My gift of the weapon to Xing was a personal act, not on behalf of the manager of this store." "Secondly, with the strength of the three of you, even without the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire, it shouldn't be difficult to solve the problems on this planet." The young store manager scanned the faces of the three pioneers in turn, revealing an intriguing expression. "As far as the result is concerned, I just gave you a weapon. It's you three who are the heroes who saved this planet from beginning to end." "There shouldn't be anyone in this world who would call the owner of a tool store a hero, am I right?" Silence spread silently.
Sanyueqi actually didn't know the specific situation of Raiden Mei, but from the conversation between the store manager and Walter Yang, she could vaguely feel that the girl seemed to be in a very bad situation. Given her personality, it is impossible for her to turn a blind eye to a girl in crisis: "What? If you don't want to help, then don't help. If you don't want to help her, then let us help her." She turned her chair around and patted Raiden Mei's shoulder: "Hey! Wake up!" "..." no answer. A long, steady breath came from the bowl. "Oh my god, this child is sleeping so soundly..." Sanyueqi held Raiden Mei's shoulders and shook her upper body, "Hey, wake up!" "..." Still no answer. A hint of worry flashed across March Seven's eyes. "Why won't he wake up? Manager, what did you feed this child? It can't be some bad stuff like a knockout drug!" "Our store operates legally, and all ingredients are strictly subject to market supervision at the place of source," the young store manager said calmly. Anyway, no one in the Quantum Sea would check whether the Quantum Collapse Beast could be eaten, so this sentence was not considered a lie, he muttered quietly in his heart. "Then why does she look unconscious?" San Yue Qi asked persistently. Suddenly, Walter Yang seemed to notice something. "Hmm?" He left the bar and walked behind Raiden Mei, narrowed his eyes, and looked at the girl's body carefully. "Is this... a trace of Yu Duchen?" "Yu Duchen?" San Yue Qi asked, "What is that?" "A prop that can interfere with consciousness." Walter Yang said concisely.
"Interfering with consciousness? Isn't that the same as a knockout drug?!" San Yue Qi suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the store manager indignantly, "Manager! You said you didn't give this child a knockout drug!" "Wait, March, don't say anything yet." Before the young store manager could respond to March Seven's accusation, Walter Yang raised his hand and interrupted March Seven's words. "This feeling is the same as what happened to Kiana back then..." Walter Yang turned his face and looked towards the bar with a strange expression: "Manager, are you using Yu Duchen's ability to suppress the Conquest Gem in Mei's body?" The store manager, who was exposed by Walter Yang at once, opened his eyes wide: "You...how can you slander someone's innocence like this?" Walter Yang adjusted his glasses, the lenses of which reflected the light of wisdom: "What do you mean innocent? I saw with my own eyes that you controlled the Herrscher core of this child very well, and he couldn't move at all." The young store manager's face flushed, and veins popped out on his forehead. "I just don't want her to lose control in my store! Self-protection! Can self-protection be considered helping others?" Then came some difficult to understand words, such as "I don't care about this guy's Herrscher Core", "I'm retired, don't expect me to work overtime", and "I don't care whether other worlds live or die". The coffee shop was suddenly filled with a happy atmosphere. "In other words, the child's problem has actually been solved by the store manager?" March 7 tilted his head and looked at the only person involved in the team, Walter Yang, with an inquiring look. "It's hard to say that it's completely solved. There's one thing the store manager said that's actually true." Walter Yang shook her head. She looked at the motionless Raiden Mei and sighed softly, "The problem this child encountered can only be completely solved by herself." "But no matter what, the store manager's help has indeed alleviated the severe situation faced by this child." "I can feel that Mei is relieved now. In addition to helping her suppress the Conquest Gem, the store manager Yu Duchen should have also calmed her down a little. Am I right?" “…” The young store manager twitched his lips and looked away silently. "That is to say, even though the store manager said he was unwilling to help her, he has actually helped the child a lot in secret, right?" San Yueqi's expression suddenly became inexplicably kind, "Store manager, you are a very nice person." "..." The young store manager rolled his eyes expressionlessly. He turned around and lifted the curtain of the kitchen. "Rita, can I scold them?" "No." An elegant voice with a suppressed smile came from the kitchen, "You are the manager of this store after all, you can't just attack customers with words." Chapter 10: The Missing Herrscher Body The cold winter wind carried the thick smoke from the exhaust pipes, and the heavy roar of car engines echoed on the highway outside Changkong City. In Changkong City, a building wrapped in black iron-colored glass curtain walls stands out among the densely populated buildings. On the top of the building is a string of words with a very sci-fi design sense - Massive Electric. In the science and technology park downstairs in the building, the tightly closed automatic gate slowly opened in front of an old Ulyanovsk military jeep with a Russian military license plate hanging on the rear of the jeep. The vehicle stopped in front of the building. On each side of the glass door stood a man in a suit wearing sunglasses. One of them approached the jeep after seeing it parked at the door. He opened the door and bowed slightly with an extremely respectful attitude: "Welcome, Ms. Cocolia." A pair of high-top military boots stepped firmly on the steps in front of the building's gate, and the not-so-slender calves showed a powerful beauty. A middle-aged woman in a military green coat got out of the car. She had a beautiful face, but her eyes were completely inconsistent with it, like a female general who had been fighting on the battlefield for many years. Without even looking at the man in a suit who opened the car door for her, she walked briskly into the VIP elevator of the ME Building. After the former ME company president, Ryoma Raiden, was imprisoned for economic fraud, the industry that originally belonged to Anti-Entropy naturally needed to be taken over by other executors of Anti-Entropy. When the leader disappeared, Cocolia relied on her extraordinary experience in internal fighting and the iron-blooded skills honed in the army to quickly take over most of the power of Anti-Entropy. Therefore, after Ryoma Raiden was framed and imprisoned, the control of ME company naturally fell into her hands without any surprise. Although Cocolia understands political struggles, she does not have much economic acumen, so the ME company's industry itself does not mean much to her. She just wanted to use the ME Company's superior position in Changkong City to achieve all-round control over this city - or rather, a certain target in this city. The elevator brought Cocolia to the conference room on the top floor of the ME building. After taking over the ME company's assets, Cocolia had already completely laid off all the company employees who originally belonged to Raiden Ryoma, and only her people were left in the building. The anti-entropy researcher and her direct subordinates sat in a circle around the round table in the conference room. An operating panel was floating in front of everyone, and opposite was a huge projection screen suspended in the air.
For some reason, after seeing Cocolia walk into the conference room, everyone present had a hint of guilt in their eyes. Cocolia walked to an empty seat and sat down. She did not make any useless opening remarks, but asked the question she was most concerned about: "How is the condition of the Herrscher's body?" "There are no signs of losing control yet." The person who answered this question was a researcher in a white coat. He clicked a few times on the operation panel in front of him, and the huge screen suspended in the air immediately displayed all of Raiden Mei's recent movements and her various physical parameters: "However, the mental state of the body has fluctuated greatly recently. According to our calculations, if the mental fluctuations of the body continue to increase, the conquest gem in her body will most likely generate the Herrscher's will from the Honkai." “How long will this process take?” "This……" The researcher was suddenly speechless. Although the Conquest Gem implanted in Raiden Mei's body had almost confirmed the Third Herrscher's body, as long as Raiden Mei's emotions completely collapsed, he was almost certain that she would be watched by the Honkai. However, even researchers like them who had studied the Honkai for a long time could not calculate the specific time when the Honkai would interfere with the qualified ones. Cocolia's expression turned cold. She didn't understand research, so she didn't have the knowledge to express her opinion on matters involving her professional field. But as an executor of anti-entropy, she still had some basic knowledge about Honkai: "Since we can't control the specific time when the Honkai Herrscher's body is deployed for interference, is there any way to actively allow her to be born as a Herrscher?" "Theoretically, yes, but..." "Just what?" "According to Anti-Entropy's records of the Second Herrscher, the reason why the Second Herrscher was born was because her body was injected with an excessive amount of Honkai energy solvent by Destiny. After her body passively absorbed Honkai energy with an energy level exceeding the threshold, the Herrscher core spontaneously formed in her body." The researcher wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "According to the precedent of the birth of the Second Herrscher, if the body has been locked by the Conqueror Gem, as long as the body is injected with the Honkai energy solvent equivalent to the birth of the Second Herrscher, there is a high possibility that the body will be forcibly born into a new Herrscher." "A large amount of Honkai energy solvent..." Cocolia repeated the researcher's words and couldn't help but feel a little headache. Silence spread silently in the conference room. Although Cocolia has actually taken control of most of the power of Anti-Entropy, the only item that is not included is scientific research expenditure. The reason was very simple - the other two executors standing on the opposite side of her were none other than Anti-Entropy, and they might even be the two greatest scientific researchers of this era. If she wanted to use other resources of Anti-Entropy, it would be easy, but with only scientific research projects, it would be difficult for even her to carry out the projects on her own without going through the two doctors. In particular, the Honkai energy solvent is extremely dangerous and is even strictly restricted as a top-level dangerous good in the Anti-Entropy Covenant Act. "Or, there is another possibility." At this moment, the researcher suddenly broke the deep silence. "In the surrounding environment of the elemental body, artificially inducing a sufficiently high intensity of the collapse phenomenon should be able to achieve a similar effect." "Honkai is something that can spread rapidly in the environment and expand wantonly. As long as humans are infected by Honkai and become dead soldiers, then the dead soldiers will spontaneously attack other humans and assimilate the attacked humans." "As long as a small amount of Honkai energy solvent is placed in different locations in Changkong City, then this chain reaction can be used to trigger a Honkai event large enough to exceed the threshold, and the elemental bodies immersed in the Honkai will also be forced to become Lawsmen." "But, if we do this——" The researcher closed his mouth halfway through his words and turned his gaze towards Cocolia. "A city of living people, in exchange for a Herrscher?" A bone-chilling chill flashed across Kokolia's eyes. She sneered, "If the birth of each Herrscher only required a city as the price, then this world would never be destroyed by the Honkai Impact." She, Cocolia, accepted the deal. "How long will it take to set up the Houkai energy solvent in Changkong City?"
"Including planning and action, the total time should only take one month." "One month? It's settled then. You will artificially give birth to the Third Herrscher for me in one month, and my people will personally handle the recovery of the Third Herrscher." Based on the cases of the leader and the second Herrscher, after a Herrscher is born, there is usually a vacuum period in which he or she adapts to the power he or she has just obtained. As long as she could retrieve and control the Herrscher as soon as he arrived, she would have enough time to study his living body and take a solid step in humanity's journey to defeat the Honkai -- Cocolia was so sure of this. With a clear goal in mind, Cocolia's expression relaxed slightly. "By the way, isn't today a day off? Our people should still be monitoring the body lady who is enjoying her holiday peacefully, right?" "this--" As soon as the words fell, everyone in the conference room, except Cocolia, broke out in a sweat. "Hmm?" Cocolia's expression turned stern. "Don't tell me that there was any accident with the body. Before our experiment is completed, her life belongs only to me and not to anyone else." "Accident... There wasn't any accident." The researcher raised the sleeve of his white coat and wiped the cold sweat that was pouring out of his forehead. "It's... that..." Bang! Kokolia slammed a gun onto the conference table. The researcher's eyes twitched. He closed his eyes, stiffened his neck, and said in despair, "According to the reports from the monitors, the Herrscher's Body...seems to have disappeared right under their noses." The air in the conference room suddenly froze. Chapter 11 When the touch system is re-implemented Compared to the ME Club meeting room where the atmosphere was so heavy that one wondered if a heinous murder had occurred, in the Hyperion Café, the instigator of this situation, it was clear that no one could empathize with or care about the fucked-up emotions in the hearts of the people in the other world. "In short, I'd like to ask the store manager to take care of this child for the time being." After eating and drinking to their heart's content in a comfortable and peaceful atmosphere, Walter Yang gave instructions to the young store manager who rolled his eyes with a kind smile like an elder. "Hmph, you got away with nothing, but you pushed all the troubles onto me." The store manager said with a sour face, "Aren't you an acquaintance of this girl? Go and solve the problem yourself! Besides, it's your men who caused this girl to become like this. As the leader of the alliance, shouldn't you feel ashamed and angry about the current situation where people in this organization don't listen to you at all?" "Shame and anger... a little bit." Walter Yang scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "It's okay for me to follow this child to the other world, but aren't you the one who forbids us from interfering with other timelines at will, the store manager?" "You just do what I say? Do you listen to me so much?" The young store manager turned his body to the side and stretched out his hand to Mei Raiden, who was now lying on the table after the bowl covering her head was finally removed. "Then I'll let you go now. What do you mean by messing up the world line and timeline? This matter has nothing to do with me. Go, it's time for you, the almighty Ruler of Reason, to take the stage! Teach your insignificant subordinates a lesson! Cocolia doesn't listen? Then give her a heavy blow!" "Why do I suddenly hear a very familiar name..." March 7th muttered in a low voice while standing at the door. "Well, I still think what the store manager said just now is right." Walter Yang laughed awkwardly, "It would be terrible if I interfered too wantonly with the past that no longer belonged to me. If there were any serious consequences that were difficult to reverse, wouldn't it?" "So you want me to interfere with your past? What kind of perverse logic is that?" "I've seen the manager's methods, and I believe he will solve these problems perfectly." Walter Yang nodded seriously, "After all, your coffee shop is the singularity that connects different times and worlds. Since you have opened a shop on the singularity where different worlds intersect, you should also be prepared to interfere with other worlds to a certain extent, right?" "Where does this unprovoked trust come from..." The young store manager let out a long breath, lowered his head, and felt completely powerless. Suddenly, he felt someone touching his chest. "F** (Shenzhou swear word)——!" The young store manager stepped back like lightning. He raised his head and was about to curse, but suddenly he froze in place. Xing's expression was as calm and dignified as ever, but her posture -
——The posture of raising the arm in the air looked like the palm was covering someone’s chest. After being stunned for a long while, the young store manager hugged his chest and vented the anger that should have been expressed in words half a minute ago: "You, you, you - what are you doing all of a sudden? Don't think that you can molest men just because you are a woman!" In fact, not only him, but also the other members of the train crew showed dumbfounded expressions. A surge of black air came from the kitchen. A slender arm lifted the kitchen curtain and a beautiful maid with a smile on her face walked out of the kitchen. "Dear customer, this is a proper coffee shop. Please forgive me for clarifying that the manager of this shop does not provide any special services to the public."
