Chapter 157 The Rat's Tombstone

This is a special room.

From the four walls to the ceiling and then to the floor, the whole "Liuhe" is pitch black, and even the gaps between the walls cannot be seen clearly.

No, is there really a gap?

Bored, Mei began to think about the geometric structure of this room - perhaps this room is ten or a hundred times larger than imagined, so that the gaps between the walls cannot be seen; or perhaps this room is simply a hemisphere.

But no matter what the geometric structure is, one thing is beyond doubt - pitch black.

But then again, Mei who appeared here is not a physical entity, but just a projection.

Mei looked at her white hands, and when she raised her head again, a long metal plaque as tall as a person appeared in front of her. The long plaque was grayish white. No matter how Mei looked at it, it looked like a tombstone. The only difference might be that there was no portrait on it, and the series of bright red characters did not write the date of birth and death.

【SEELE】

【.01】

Then one after another, such "tombstones" appeared clockwise with Mei as the center, and the numbers extended from [.01] to [.13], finally forming a closed loop.

"Oh my! Isn't this Dr. Mei!"

As soon as [.12] opened his mouth, his highly recognizable and light voice exposed his identity - Lezren.

But Mei was not surprised. Such meetings had been held no less than ten times in the previous year and a half. From [.01] to [.13], Mei knew the identities of everyone. It was nothing more than eleven senior secretariat officials of the coalition government, plus Lezren and Vashak, but they wanted to make it so mysterious.

"Ahem!"

[.01] cleared his throat and said:

"Now that everyone is here, I declare that the 12th evaluation meeting of the Fusion Warrior Program Control Agency SEELE has officially begun. As the initiator of this meeting... Dr. Mei, please state your proposal."

Silence began to spread for three seconds. These three seconds were just enough for Mei to cross her hands in front of her lips and under her nose, so her voice became dull: "I think you should have known what I was going to say. Yes, you have heard my proposal eleven times - I I hope SEELE will approve my super-mutation fusion surgery of the Pavanti factor on Kevin, the captain of the first team of the Fire Moth. "

"Then you should also understand very well! We can't possibly agree to your proposal!"

"It's better not to do an operation with a success rate of less than 8%!"

"Humanity is far from being at the end of its rope!"

"Dr. Mei, every time you make a proposal, it's only for Kevin. We have reason to believe that you are abusing your power for personal gain!"

Mei is already familiar with such accusations, and even knows them by heart.

At first she would get angry, but later she became numb and didn't refute at all, letting these old men chatter on and on with some self-contradictory and idiotic words.

But this time, she doesn't plan to give in - it's been a year and a half, it's been a full year and a half!

There was more than half a year between the second collapse and the third collapse, and half a year between the third collapse and the fourth collapse. Now it has been a year and a half since the fourth collapse. Every day of delay increases the possibility of collapse.

Facing the fifth collapse, is it possible for humans to win?

Mei doesn't think so.

The memory of the fourth collapse seems like yesterday. Only when she keeps recalling it, she feels more and more powerless.

Although it was only deployed in an emergency situation at that time, Mei thought about many different optimization plans again, but without exception, there is no plan that allows humans to kill the Herrscher with their own strength and technology...

No, it's not rigorous to say that. If humans are willing to mobilize on a large scale...

Mei felt creepy when she thought of that scene, so she was unwilling, unable, and dared not to give in again.

"Humanity has not reached the end of its rope yet?" Mei tilted her head. "Have you ever seen a Herrscher? Have you ever fought against a Herrscher on the front line? Have you ever seen the traces of destruction caused by a Herrscher in Irkune, Canghai City, Changkong City, and Tiankong City? Just by sitting in the office and imagining, you can come to the conclusion that 'humanity has not reached the end of its rope'. Excuse me, yes, it is true that humanity has not reached the end of its rope, but that is not because of humanity's own ability, but because there is a Herrscher who should have destroyed humanity standing in front of humanity!"

"You...you...without the First Herrscher, do we have no way to deal with Honkai at all? Where are our aerospace battleships? Where are our mecha troops? Vashak, Lezren!"

After being rebuked by Mei, [.06] angrily called for reinforcements.

【0.13】Still indifferent, after a long while, Vashak's hoarse voice came out: "Excuse me, everyone, I just went to the bathroom, what happened?"

As for Lezren, he just coughed twice to show that he was listening, and then there was no response.

"Cough cough cough! Dr. Mei, maybe you misunderstood a little."

【.08】Silently covered for his teammates, "We are not prejudiced against the Fusion Warrior Project itself. If this project was not recognized from the beginning, SEELE would not have been born. The problem now is, Dr. Mei, according to the model you submitted, Captain Kevin's surgery success rate is less than 8%, which is rounded to almost impossible.

"So what Minister Tarot means is that we humans are not at the end of our rope yet. We can continue to upgrade our technology until the success rate of surgery reaches 50%, 80% or even 100%. Then we After all, the person you submitted for surgery, Captain Kevin, is also an excellent soldier. He was promoted from an ordinary soldier to the leader of the first team in just two years. We should not let such a talent die on the operating table. .

"And, if I remember correctly, Captain Kevin is also your boyfriend, right? You don't want him to die on the operating table, right, Dr. Mei?"

Mei pushed up her glasses, her tone was calm, like a ruthless repeater:

"First of all, I don't bother you with my personal issues with Kevin. Kevin fully agrees with my decision, and he himself is willing to go to the operating table..."

"But we all know Kevin never turns down a request of yours, Dr. May!"

The words were suddenly interrupted, and Mei was stunned for two seconds, but did not respond. He just continued what he had interrupted before and said: "The success rate of eight percent is already very high. After all, so far, the Fire Chaser has A total of 683,207 moth experiments were conducted on in vivo subjects, of which only one survived There are 302 people, and these 302 people are all fused with the genes of lower-level Honkai Beasts. Their actual combat capabilities are not much better than those of fully armored warriors. It can even be said that they are far inferior to warriors - after all After these people are truly released from their shackles, they want to kill their own kind more than Honkai."

"But in the end, these data are all your words! We can't judge whether the model and probability you submitted are true..."

"Okay, Minister Tarot! Just say less if it doesn't make sense!"

【.01】 finally spoke, and he stopped the dispute with just one sentence, but Mei, who had long been accustomed to this, did not feel any joy in her heart.

"Okay Dr. Mei, if you have no other questions, please leave first. SEELE still needs to discuss your proposal further, and we will give you an answer by then."

Mei had long expected such a result, but it was only then that this adult girl inadvertently revealed her disappointment that could not be concealed.

But she did not leave the meeting directly. Instead, she raised her head stubbornly and faced the pale tombstone. "Secretary-General Kiir, I have one last question."

"Please tell me."

"If the fifth collapse comes tomorrow, how can we humans resist it?"

The person who responded to her was still Minister Tarot of the Ministry of Armed Forces: "We have aerial battleships, we have mecha troops, we..."

"The Fourth Honken has already proven that these are useless."

"At worst, we still have silver bullets!"

"Excuse me, how many bullets do you expect to kill one Herrscher? Ten? Or a hundred? We don't yet know how powerful the fifth Herrscher is, let alone evaluate the lethality of the silver bullets to the Herrscher's body. Take ten thousand steps back Say, if it is really useful, how can the damage caused be restored? The silver bullet has always been the way to die together! But what do we want to lose with Honkai? Our losses are real..."

"Crack!"

Before Mei could finish her words, she was forcibly kicked out of the group chat.

"It's boring."

Vasak snorted and logged off.

"Hmph, Lezren, are all of you Fire Chasing Moths so domineering now! Do some people think that without you, humanity can't fight against Honkai!"

"No way! In fact, many of what Dr. Mei said is correct. For example - if Honkai breaks out tomorrow, then with the current armed forces of mankind, without considering the intervention of the First Herrscher, our Conventional combat forces have no way to fight against the Herrscher."

"So you support May too?"

"No, no, no! Minister Tarot, we are all old acquaintances, so there is no need to be pretentious in front of me, right? The reason why you are really opposed to Dr. Mei's super-transformation surgery on Kevin is that you are opposed to Dr. Mei's super-transformation surgery on Kevin. I think there is only one reason for the surgery - you don't trust Kevin, a man who is not one of his own becomes the first fusion warrior.

"you!"

"Be bold!"

"Arrogant!"

"Secretary-General, we must teach the fire-chasing moth how to behave!"

"Let's just dissolve it! Our coalition government itself is not unarmed!"

Lezren smiled softly, and the smile was full of ridicule - not for these people, no, not only for these people.

"Ah - let me think about it, you don't even trust your own people, right? Just think about it, those experimental subjects are just fused with low-level Honkaimon and can rival warriors who have been trained for many years, then if the fusion continues What kind of power does the Imperial Level Honkai Beast have? If this power is in Mei’s hands, no, if this power is in the hands of others, no one here can sleep well, hahaha!”

"Lezren, you..."

"But you are afraid of death and dare not accept the current super-changing surgery, so you are putting it off again and again, hoping that the success rate of the surgery can reach 100% - not even 99.9%! By then , you will become the first batch of fusion warriors... Hahahaha!"

"Lezren! What about you? You have the same idea. Otherwise, you could have approved Mei's plan from the beginning. Your Lichtenstein family can fully afford the investment, right? Why come to us to form SEELE..."

"No, you won't understand me. Goodbye!"

Lezren unplugged the network cable.

"Hmph! Fire Moth! What kind of talents are they!"

"Kil, what are you still hesitating about? It's time to suppress this group of people!"

"What's the situation with Lezren and Vashak? We were counting on them to help us control the Fire Moth.

"They don't really think that without them, humans will..."

"Ahem!"

[.01] coughed twice and replied lightly:

"Let's talk about it later. The fifth collapse is coming."

After that, the projection of [.01]'s long card disappeared.

…………

"Heh, that's all. "

Vassago slumped in his chair, inexplicably bored, bored with everything.

Honkai, humans... hehe...

Suddenly, an encrypted message came on the screen in front of him. He clicked it and scanned it, then fell into deep thought.

"If I remember correctly, as the commander of the Fire Moth, I can skip all procedures and directly mobilize troops of less than five people, right?"

He muttered to himself and suddenly rang the electronic bell on the table.

"Leader."

"Let Captain Himiko come to me."