Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 115
Chapter 115: Would you like to touch it~ Dr. Mobius?
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— Completely unaware of the strange brainstorming session between those two girls 50,000 years later, the pink-haired girl withdrew her attention from the chat group and gently pushed open the door, entering Vill-V’s workshop.
This place seemed to have become their secret meeting spot.
However, unlike before, as soon as she entered, the girl felt a snake-like gaze upon her.
Understanding the situation, 【Elysia】 raised her head and looked at the figure sitting by the table, staring at her with a gaze that was playful yet complex, mixed with a few traces of burning intensity… in short, as complex as a pie chart.
“Oh my~ What a coincidence, I didn’t expect Dr. Mobius to be here too?”
“But to focus on a beautiful girl with such a gaze, my heart is beating thump-thump~ Would you like to try touching it?”
The pink-haired girl raised her arm wrapped in the Flame-Chaser uniform sleeves, her slender five fingers gently pressing against her reasonably standard assets for a girl her age, applying slight pressure with her index finger to create a subtle curved indentation, while her lovely face wore a sweet smile characteristic of Elysia.
The snake-like woman, Mobius, had a mocking curve at the corner of her mouth — as she always did — and spoke:
“Hehe~ I’m certainly interested in touching it… but rather than touching, I’d actually prefer to open it up and take a look. I wonder at what frequency does the heart of a living Herrscher beat? This is something I couldn’t observe at all from the 2nd Herrscher’s remains.”
“Hmm… that’s certainly the kind of thinking Dr. Mobius would have, but from the perspective of appreciating beautiful girls, such words are quite terrifying~ Never mind about me, but please don’t say such things to other girls, it would frighten them~”
Without showing the slightest trace of fear or panic, the completely composed girl maintained her smile, though her tone carried a hint of helplessness.
“Heh~ Even if cut open, it would heal anyway, and even if removed, a new one would grow back~ As long as there’s sufficient Honkai Energy, a Herrscher’s body is just that convenient, isn’t it?”
— Just like this conversation, it was obvious that Mobius already knew everything.
And Jiang Qiao had no intention of hiding his identity either, since there was only one possibility for her to know about this — Mobius had already made contact with Vill-V and MEI, becoming a member of this small world-saving group.
Otherwise, those two wouldn’t have passed their screening so easily.
This was quite good actually. He had originally planned to completely win over Mobius after the Third Eruption, so their actions had saved him quite a bit of effort.
…Of course, while winning her over was one thing, the friendly daily interactions between 【Elysia】 and Mobius certainly wouldn’t end just like that.
After all, he wasn’t the type to abandon someone after conquering them and immediately seek the next new love.
Dr. Mobius would be looking forward to it too, wouldn’t she?
“Alright, let’s not discuss such topics anymore. I didn’t call you here for this kind of thing.”
A voice full of rationality rang through the air. Looking up, it was Dr. MEI wearing research attire and glasses.
She actively interrupted this topic. Though she didn’t particularly mind, but as someone who had also become a Herrscher, listening to such talk still gave her goosebumps.
“The Third Eruption has been concluded by researchers to have officially ended.”
The girl lightly pushed off the ground with her boot-clad shapely legs and sat on the workbench, her considerable weight causing the table to creak slightly, though the others paid no attention.
Taking this opportunity, the pink-haired girl picked out a screw that had been poking her bottom from under her black shorts and flicked it away, then spoke:
“Has the core been dealt with?”
Although the greatest crisis of the Third Eruption had been resolved invisibly from the very beginning, how to handle the 3rd Herrscher’s core required careful consideration.
Despite humanity’s limited understanding of Honkai, even if a major Honkai eruption occurred without a Herrscher being born, it would be difficult to see the problems within, but this would still create certain doubts, and keeping the Herrscher core in hand served no purpose.
An unprocessed Herrscher core was like an open large-scale Honkai energy furnace, extremely conspicuous under Fire Moth’s Honkai energy detection equipment.
While there were ways to deal with it if absolutely necessary, Jiang Qiao saw no real meaning in it.
“Hehe~ With me, Vill-V, taking action, how could there be any exposure?”
Miss Magician’s somewhat boastful voice rang out as she smiled playfully under the three’s gazes:
“I made it become Fire Moth’s spoils of war from the Third Eruption through a rather reasonable method.”
“Because of this, both MEI and I gained quite a bit of credit.”
“Regarding obtaining the 3rd Herrscher’s core, I think the higher-ups should be quite happy, right~ Dr. Mobius?”
Faced with Vill-V’s teasing, Mobius snorted lightly, her tone carrying a hint of mockery:
“Hmph~ Those people’s expressions were like children who found candy, completely unaware that what they picked up was a piece of bait tied with a string. I truly feel sorry for them.”
The higher-ups had high hopes for the Herrscher core, fantasizing about finding eternal life and the power belonging to Herrschers from it. Even if completely unusable, being able to obtain such a treasure was enough to make them happy like children for a long time.
But everything was just as Mobius said — this candy that Vill-V threw out even had a string attached to it.
For the still-living 3rd Herrscher, MEI, something like a Herrscher core was utterly meaningless.
Even if it ended up in the hands of the higher-ups, as long as she needed it, she could make that thing reconcentrate within her own body.
It was just that for “ordinary people,” possessing a Herrscher core was somewhat too conspicuous.
Even so, thinking about how Fire Moth’s higher-ups might later try to play some underhanded tricks, only to find their target was MEI, the 3rd Herrscher… tsk tsk, the scene was too beautiful to imagine.
“Although the Third Eruption has ended, this war against Honkai is far from over. Next, we must prepare for the possibly erupting Fourth Eruption.”
“So—”
“Elysia, are your preparations ready?”
In response to the three’s gazes, the pink-haired girl’s lips curved into a slight arc, her confident and light words ringing through the air.
“Of course?”
With that lightly snapped finger.
— Within the slightly opened void of imaginary space, a massive metal machine could be vaguely seen.