Time in a collapsing world

"Dr. Mei, the test results are out."

Inside the base, a researcher in a white coat held a report and said to Mei, who was looking at the situation in the research room through the transparent glass with her arms crossed.

The test only took an hour, which was not a long time, but the time for dinner was delayed. If Mei didn't want to be hungry at night, she could only eat midnight snacks.

But now is not the time to care about this.

Because Mei witnessed the researchers' dissection of the corpse, and inside the corpse, there was a crystal, a crystal that everyone was extremely familiar with.

Mei asked researchers to test the components of the crystal, and now the test results are out, in the report the researcher brought out.

Mei took the report and read it. Some of her conjectures were verified, but some other doubts arose.

This crystal has the same physical properties as the Herrscher Core, but its energy level is far inferior to other Herrscher Cores.

In other words, He is completely incapable of creating a tornado that destroys the world, a sky fire that burns an entire continent, and a giant black hole that swallows everything.

This may be the reason why He could only assassinate himself, an ordinary human being, through sneak attacks, and was defeated so easily before he could succeed, right?

So...after the Ninth Herrscher completed the feat of sinking the Mu Continent, the Tenth Herrscher was simply wiped out?

This thought only appeared in her mind for a few seconds before Mei shook it off.

No, it's unlikely. According to the rule that the previous Herrschers become stronger the later they appear, there must be some difficulty in the existence of this tenth Herrscher.

The core level and own power are not as good as those of normal Herrschers. Does this mean that there are more Tenth Herrschers hidden in human society?

The lack of [Quality] can be supplemented by [Quantity], so it is understandable for Mei to make this conjecture.

But conjectures are just conjectures after all and need to be verified.

Thinking of this, Mei said to the researcher waiting beside her: "Help me call Alicia outside the door. I have something to tell her."

"Okay." The researcher nodded and walked out, then called Alicia in who was bored and dazed outside the door.

After learning that both Mei and Kevin were back, Alicia immediately ran over to find them, but to her surprise, Mei just asked her to wait, as she seemed to have more important things to do.

After seeing the body that Kevin was pushing, Alicia had no choice but to temporarily postpone what she wanted to say, and followed Mei to the research room, but was locked out.

Really, can't you satisfy your curiosity...

Alicia looked at Mei resentfully, and the other party smiled helplessly in her heart, but she said: "Okay, Alicia, a new mission is coming."

"Eh——" Alicia prolonged her tone, with a reluctant expression on her face. She wanted Mei to know that she also had a temper.

"Help me inform each combat team that the Tenth Herrscher may have appeared." Mei knew that Alicia was listening to her, so she continued: "A Tenth Herrscher just attacked Kai and I. Wen took the initiative to commit suicide after being caught by Kevin. According to some signs, it is speculated that there may be more than one Tenth Herrscher, so I need you to increase the intensity of patrols and try to pull them out from the crowd."

Mei thinks that the way the Tenth Herrscher may act is different from the previous Herrschers. None of the previous Herrschers relied on their powerful power to accomplish all kinds of big things, and easily killed a lot of people. How could they choose to do so? A sneak attack in the dark?

Due to the lack of individual power, they should still choose to hide. Even if they are fully awakened, they will not encounter humans head-on. Instead, they will go about their daily lives while waiting for opportunities and waiting for human negligence. Chance.

"The Tenth Herrscher?"

First, she felt a little shocked by the news that Mei said, and then Alicia quickly told the news she had received from Sakura. If the Tenth Herrscher appeared, then the identities of those who attacked Sakura would be It's most likely confirmed.

"...The people in the 'Poison Chrysalis'?"

Mei suddenly frowned. As Alicia said, it is very likely that the Fire Chaser Moth has also been infiltrated a lot.

"Help me locate a person, his number is..." Mei explained through the communicator, but unfortunately, the news she got was that the positioning signal disappeared, and the "Poison Chrysalis" member had destroyed the locator, and Throw away all the electronic equipment on my body.

"Notify each team to assemble, and someone will take them to test the Honkai energy later. If there is no abnormality, the scope of the test will be expanded to the entire Fire Chasing Moth base. Alicia, you and the other fusion warriors will help maintain the Bring some order." Mei ordered, this was also a major cleanup within the Fire Chaser Moth.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Alicia didn't say much and left directly.

Mei calmly looked around at the other people in the room and eliminated them from the suspect list.

If there was a Tenth Herrscher lurking among them, he or they would not be able to hold back at all without any guards around them just now.

……

"Hey, Miss Eden, welcome, welcome, welcome to my [Arsenal]~"

When Velvet saw that her major shareholder had finally arrived, she jumped up from a seat made entirely of gears beneath her and warmly welcomed Eden's arrival.

It's just...why does something look wrong with my major shareholder?

Velvet looked at Eden's reddish cheeks and blurred eyes, then smelled the aroma of wine in the air, and understood.

Taking a drunk person to visit his... also the Fire Chaser's [Arsenal], if Dr. Mei knew about it, his funds for the next month might be reduced to zero again~

Thinking happily, Velvet didn't seem to be worried, because the outside world must have been in chaos. With the appearance of the Tenth Herrscher, Dr. Mei, a busy man, had no time to pay attention to her, a small worker. And even if it's discovered, it's not a big deal. No, the major shareholder is here. Not to mention myself, even the Fire Chasing Moth is sponsored by this beautiful and wealthy lady.

With Miss Eden, will I still be short of funds?

Thinking of this, Weiwei became even more enthusiastic. In order to satisfy the major shareholders, she has made a lot of preparations this time~

"Miss Eden, hello, are you still awake? Let's see what this number is?" Velvet made a sign of "two", and Eden looked at it with blurred eyes and said with a smile: "Velvi Don’t worry, miss, I’m still awake and can keep up with your pace.”

"Really? But your tone is so erratic~"