Time in a collapsing world

"That's it, Li, you can enjoy the banquet." Mei asked some more questions, mostly about Li's physical condition.

What can Li say? He could only firmly state that everything was normal, and then left the room as if running away.

"Li? Are you talking about business so quickly?" Alicia's voice came from outside the door.

"Let's go! Alicia, there seems to be something good over there, let's go there!"

"Huh? Why are you so active all of a sudden...?"

When the voices of Li and Alicia outside the door faded away, Kevin, who had been silent, finally spoke up.

"Mei, the permissions for the God Key... have those people agreed to open it up?" He remembered that some old guys almost regarded the God Key as their own heirlooms, and would hardly let anyone touch it.

"Kevin, some things in the current Fire Chaser have changed. For example..." Mei smiled, "The right to speak can be seized by force or other means."

"..." Kevin thought of Sakura and probably understood what Mei meant.

Indeed, times have changed. It would be best if everyone can negotiate peacefully, but if you don’t cooperate, I’m sorry, I’ll kill you~

"Of course, giving the God Key to Li is indeed the result of my discussion with them. Force is just a way for them to sit down and talk." Mei sighed rarely, "Kevin , the fusion warrior plan will be fully launched."

"? Fully enabled...?" Kevin frowned.

"Well, the target is all members of the Fire Chasing Moth, and volunteers may also be recruited from outside."

"..." Kevin was silent. He knew that the success rate of experiments related to the Fusion Warrior Project was very low, and the price of failure was death. If it were implemented on a large scale... he couldn't imagine how many people would die on the experimental platform.

"So I made a bet with them." Mei continued. She lowered her head and glanced at the tablet, which showed the surveillance video of Li Qiang taking out the core of the Herrscher of Death. "If only one fusion warrior can handle the next step, If the Herrscher appears, the implementation of this plan will be delayed."

"Delay?"

"It can only be a delay. After all, we are fighting against the Honkai Impact. Any effective plan cannot be easily abandoned." Mei's thoughts on this point coincided with others in the parliament.

"...Only rely on Li?" Kevin recalled Li's performance when fighting the Herrscher of Death. He really couldn't place too much hope on him, and the burden was too heavy.

"The next Herrscher's power will no longer be [life] and [death]."

Mei also understood what Kevin meant. There was indeed some luck in the victory of this war. If Li hadn't been immune to the Herrscher's power, Li wouldn't have been able to do anything to the Sixth Herrscher with physical strength alone, and wouldn't have been able to get close at all.

"Kevin, didn't I tell you before that the Honkaiju gene fused with Li is Pafanti? But his current abilities don't have any elements related to ice."

Without waiting for Kevin to ask questions, Mei directly expressed her thoughts: "I think his current ability is not brought about by Honkaimon's genes, but his own power. The genes of Emperor-level Honkaimon are nothing but It’s just an accelerator for the awakening of his power.”

"Power?" The words were clear enough, and Kevin quickly glanced around the room.

"Don't worry, there are no cameras or monitors." Mei herself was the old god. "Alicia should know this too. I remember she was looking for the remaining 'blood' of the top five Herrschers a while ago. ?”

Mei called up another surveillance video, which recorded the scene where Alicia and Velvet cooperated to inject the "potion" into Li's body. They would never have thought that their secret base had been discovered long ago, but was not seized, and was even put under surveillance without anyone noticing.

Oh, Velvet must have discovered it, but in order to avoid being reported to her secret base, she had to pretend not to see it. Anyway, for her, there was nothing to see if the surveillance was installed.

"Injecting Herrscher's 'blood' into Li's body... it should be to prepare for the fusion warrior experiment, right? But what is the purpose?" This is what Mei has never understood.

Mei could feel that Alicia's attitude towards Li was very ambiguous. She wanted to promote his awakening of power, but also did not want him to awaken too much, and only controlled it at a middle point.

Otherwise, Mei didn't believe that Li's power would be so useless as he was also a lawyer.

"Part of the bodies of other Herrschers should be of use to Li..." Mei pondered for a while, "Kevin, send me a message and ask them to directly enable Li's access to all the current God Keys tomorrow. The manufacturing of the Key to the Six Gods must also be expedited, and it is up to me to convince those in the council.”

"Okay." Kevin absolutely supported Mei's decision as usual, and was not wary of Li because of his identity. Since Mei chose to believe Li, Kevin also believed in him.

……

"Li, come and sing a song~?"

"Not coming."

"Why? Don't you sing beautifully?"

"That's not the reason..." Li stiffened, and beside him, Alicia was holding one of his arms and leaning against him tightly.

"Alicia, can you sit a little over there? It's a bit hot..."

It's strange why he would react to Alicia's contact at this level. He was obviously as stable as an old dog before.

I always feel like...something's wrong?

"Hey, excuse! Li, you just dislike our captain!"

"That's right! Are you still a man? You won't lose a piece of meat if you let the captain hug you!"

"Eh~ This Li is so mean~"

"So, why are you guys here? Don't you want to play mahjong?" Li looked at the teammates who came over at some unknown time in silence. "Also, if you're drunk, go home as soon as possible. Don't be here." It’s noisy next to me.”

"Wherever Captain Alicia is, we will be there!"

"The outcome of mahjong is no longer important, because Captain Alicia's qualifications for sleeping together have been decided and everyone will take turns to occupy the day!"

"Who said we were drunk! Another bottle of Erguotou! I can still drink it!"

"..." Li stretched out his other free hand and rubbed the center of his brow. These guys were much more drunk and crazy than he thought. "Your Captain Alicia will be taken away by me if she continues like this." ~Even if this is the case, does it not matter?”

"""it does not matter!"""

Several girls said in unison.

"what?"

"Because we are monogamous, so it doesn't matter!"

One husband and one wife, right? Hey guys, have your brains been squeezed out by the overflowing alcohol?

Li calmly glanced at Alicia, who was smiling and watching the show next to her.

"...Then apart from my husband, who is the other wife? Choose one among you?"

"..." As soon as Li finished speaking, these stupid girls all reacted and suddenly looked at their comrades beside them, with blazing flames in their eyes.

"Heh, it seems we have to continue the previous bet..."

"Come on, Mahjong Round Two!"

"Watch me beat you down!"

Several people went to compete in a fierce battle again.

Li picked up the goblet on the table and took a sip of grape juice.

Hmm~ Much easier to fool than Alicia.