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“E-L-Y-S-I-A!!!”
An angry face appeared from the communicator, with green markings confirming her identity.
It was Dr. Mobius, who was at the Fire Moth base.
“Hmm~ Contacting me so urgently, did you miss me?”
The pink girl responded with a giggle and teased:
“Look at that furious expression, who made our Dr. Mobius so upset?”
“Cut the crap, you should know very well what you’ve done!”
“The Fire Moth branch in the Oceania region has been blaring alarms non-stop, and even headquarters received reports of high Honkai energy reactions moving at extreme speed around Oceania’s coastal waters. This has to be your doing!”
Mobius spoke through gritted teeth.
After learning about 【Elysia】 itinerary and true identity, the first person she thought of when receiving the alarm from Oceania was 【Elysia】.
A certain someone felt somewhat guilty after learning the situation, his gaze becoming evasive.
“Ahaha… what are you talking about?”
“I knew it was you!”
The fire in the snake’s eyes seemed almost ready to materialize, and in response—
The girl in the swimsuit chose to play dumb to the very end:
“Elysia doesn’t know anything.”
— This was actually why he hadn’t considered using the Spirit of Origin initially.
Although when there were no flights available, the Spirit of Origin was an excellent means of transportation, even faster than ordinary aircraft.
But the Spirit of Origin was essentially a Honkai Beast.
As the companion Honkai Beast of the Herrscher of Origin, the Spirit of Origin was extremely powerful — at least Emperor-class level. If fighting in its home turf, the Origin Space, its strength could even surge to Judgment-class.
A Honkai Beast of this level would cause disasters just by appearing in the world.
Jiang Qiao’s act of riding the Spirit of Origin around was, in the eyes of Fire Moth branches everywhere, equivalent to an unknown Emperor-class Honkai Beast roaming at high speed. The terror this brought was not much less than the appearance of a Herrscher.
The reason he hadn’t been discovered before was because the places he frequented were basically areas where major Honkai eruptions had occurred. In such situations, with the cover of the major Honkai eruptions, although still very conspicuous, there was at least some protection.
But doing this in non-Honkai eruption areas…
“What exactly are you trying to do?”
Mobius was somewhat displeased. She had been in the middle of an experiment when she received the alarm, and this annoying woman had created such a mess in such a short time.
The girl sighed:
“Alright… it was my fault, but this was unavoidable.”
He was helpless too.
Who told The Cocoon to be so troublesome, wanting to play some tricks with him.
In this situation, there was no way to continue leisurely taking a luxury cruise.
Under the premise that Imaginary authority couldn’t be used, the fastest means of transportation was having the Spirit of Origin give him a ride, right?
“I also suffered great losses.”
Recalling his luxury cruise ship, 【Elysia】 muttered quietly.
— Although Herrschers also possessed the ability to fly, the Herrscher of Origin couldn’t do so due to its special nature.
It wasn’t that it couldn’t be done, but that it shouldn’t be done.
If he flew by himself, he wouldn’t be able to maintain the characteristic of the Herrscher of Origin being no different from ordinary people.
In that case, what Fire Moth would see now wouldn’t be — an Emperor-class Honkai Beast’s Honkai energy reaction moving at high speed, but a Herrscher’s Honkai energy reaction moving at high speed.
“Forget about that for now… Mobius, The Cocoon might have implemented new measures.”
The pink girl sitting on the reef set aside those meaningless matters and spoke to Mobius on the other end of the communicator with some gravity.
The latter’s angry expression eased, replaced by solemnity.
Although she found this woman very annoying, Mobius also knew that 【Elysia】, apart from liking to mess around with trivial matters, would be absolutely serious when it came to important business.
Like using the Spirit of Origin for transportation — knowing what kind of consequences this would cause and still doing it could only mean that in 【Elysia’s】 judgment, there was a necessity worth taking such risks.
“Next time you do something like this, if possible, please give us advance notice.”
Dr. MEI joined the communication channel.
This was a dedicated encrypted communication channel that Vill-V had specially configured for them using some resources. The difficulty of eavesdropping — if you could defeat the combined efforts of Big V and Dr. MEI, feel free to eavesdrop all you want.
Her tone carried some fatigue and helplessness.
“Fortunately Vill-V acted quickly, otherwise there would have been some trouble.”
“Don’t worry, I didn’t leave any traces.”
Sitting on the reef’s edge, the pink girl in swimwear showed a confident smile.
He had already considered such things, so even though he took the reckless action of using the Spirit of Origin as transportation, he didn’t choose “flight” but maintained an underwater travel method throughout.
With seawater as cover, even satellite reconnaissance couldn’t discover the “sea elf” racing fish beneath the sea surface.
Even the good-tempered Dr. MEI was somewhat annoyed. “If it weren’t like this, we wouldn’t be able to chat like this now.”
If the image of 【Elysia】 riding an Emperor-class Honkai Beast had been captured by satellites, the result probably wouldn’t be much better than having a Herrscher’s identity exposed. Everyone close to Jiang Qiao would have to undergo questioning.
“Ehehe… By the way, Dr. MEI, have you investigated the abnormal climate conditions in New Zealand?”
Lightly tapping her head with her pink fist, the winking pink girl stuck out her tongue trying to get away with being cute, but the next moment she returned to her smile and inquired about something that concerned her.
Because he wasn’t very good at such matters and the discovery was quite hasty, he currently knew nothing about New Zealand’s situation.
But after confirming that The Cocoon was behind this, Jiang Qiao naturally wouldn’t continue groping in the dark and consulted Dr. MEI instead.
“I haven’t paid much attention to it. You know how busy I am here.”
Dr. MEI spoke with some resentment.
Research work wasn’t a leisurely profession to begin with, especially for a genius like her who was busy from dawn to dusk.
Not to mention that to satisfy 【Elysia】 needs, she also had to concern herself with and prepare other matters, which made the current Dr. MEI twice as busy as before, and would only get busier in the future.
The only good news might be… that as a Herrscher, she didn’t need to worry about dying from overwork, and her energy was more abundant than ordinary people. But this wasn’t good news at all, damn it!
“I’ll investigate when I have time later, but if you’re in a hurry, you can check out the 4th Research Department of the Oceania Fire Moth branch. You should find quite a lot there.”
“— By the way, because of the commotion you caused, headquarters has already dispatched the 9th Squad to New Zealand to investigate the details.”