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Whether it was coincidence or miHoYo’s ancestral fatalism, MEI’s home and the cooking girl’s home 50,000 years later couldn’t be said to be completely identical, but at least the similarity rate was as high as 85%.
This made Jiang Qiao very suspicious, could MEI’s electromagnetic physicist father possibly be the Previous Era’s Ryoma?
Electromagnetic physics, combined with the plasma shadowshow that Ryoma secretly built by embezzling public funds in later generations… the connection between these was really hard to say.
Fortunately, from MEI’s mouth, he didn’t get news that her father was imprisoned for strange reasons.
Of course, the other party was indeed not at home.
As a world-famous electromagnetic physicist, MEI’s father was either immersed in the laboratory or flying around the world to attend symposiums, so there was often only MEI alone at home.
“Want a bowl of instant noodles?”
MEI, who had brought Jiang Qiao back home, wasn’t in a hurry to understand the information, but instead took two boxes of instant noodles from the kitchen and gestured to Jiang Qiao.
“Eh? Inviting a cute girl like me back home, then treating her to instant noodles… MEI, you can’t learn from Dr. Mobius.”
“Uh… it does seem somewhat inappropriate?”
Usually when MEI was alone, she didn’t feel anything about it. Focused on her studies, she had low pursuits when it came to appetite, either settling things outside or casually dealing with convenient, frozen meals at home. Only after seeing that face full of dissatisfaction and annoyance did MEI nod somewhat uncertainly.
“Then I’ll cook personally?”
“Good… wait!”
Originally, Jiang Qiao was still thinking of laughing and tasting Dr. MEI’s cooking skills. After all, as the reincarnation of the cooking girl, MEI should at least have some culinary genes, right? But he instantly remembered his Elysia’s complaints to him.
If he remembered correctly, not only was the cooking girl’s early culinary level extremely poor, but Dr. MEI’s cooking level was disaster-class! It was said that even Kevin, who had already become a fusion warrior, couldn’t handle it!
“…Forget it, forget it, let me cook personally.”
Pressing down on MEI who wanted to get up and go to the kitchen, the pink girl who didn’t want to experience what kind of taste the dark cuisine that could knock down fusion warriors was like, took over this task with some helplessness.
Obviously being invited to someone else’s home, but instead becoming the one who had to cookม what kind of situation was this…
Forget it, just think of it as a whim to cook once.
Even though she wasn’t very good at it…
Coming to the kitchen of MEI’s house, the pink girl who found the apron placed in the wall cabinet skillfully tied it around her waist, then arranged her bound hair to make it more suitable for cooking.
“This is the first time cooking with a girl’s body.”
Squeezing her slender palms, Jiang Qiao, who was sighing like this, opened MEI’s refrigerator. What immediately caught his eye was a pile of frozen emergency foods, and as for ingredients… he could barely find some to use.
About 10 minutes later.
The dinner plate was brought to MEI’s desk, where she had been bored during this time and had started looking up literature and continuing to write papers.
Home-style dishes full of Shenzhou style were quite novel for MEI, who was born and raised in the Far East region and wasn’t particular about food.
But—
“Very delicious!”
This was the evaluation MEI gave.
Originally, she was just slightly curious about 【Elysia】 cooking, but to be honest, MEI was actually just prepared to casually deal with this dish and be done with it.
Rather than enjoying the meal, she was more willing to learn about what would happen next from Jiang Qiao.
However, because Jiang Qiao’s culinary skills were unexpectedly exquisite.
Just-right heat control, exquisite knife work, and meticulous seasoning combinations that could be called perversely detailed.
It could only be said that this meal was the most satisfying one MEI had eaten in recent yearsม she could eat two bowls!
To this, 【Elysia】 just sat across the table, smiling as she watched Dr. MEI, supporting her cheek with her hand, looking exactly like a wife watching her husband.
Of course, don’t misunderstandม he was just thinking about what to do next.
— What lay before them, the most pressing issue was the Third Eruption of the previous civilization.
Unlike the Third Eruption 50,000 years later that was basically limited to Nagazora City, the previous civilization’s eruption affected almost the entire Southeast Asian region, with confirmed disaster areas including Nagazora City, Canghai City, and Arc City.
Compared to the previous civilization’s eruption, the one 50,000 years later might be an exaggeration to call child’s play, but it was definitely far inferior to this one.
Moreover, the methods for solving these two eruptions were also different.
These two eruptions had the distinction of being naturally and artificially induced.
Compared to the latter, the former would have higher intensity and poorer controllability.
Fire Moth couldn’t detect it, but as the Herrscher of Origin, Jiang Qiao could vaguely sense that The cocoon was accumulating imaginary internal energy in the dark side.
Only when that imaginary internal energy, which couldn’t be detected by normal means, accumulated to a certain level would this eruption sweeping across all of Southeast Asia break out.
While thinking, Jiang Qiao slowly told MEI about the information regarding Honkai, Fire Moth, and other intelligence suitable for MEI’s current knowledge level.
“…”
MEI fell into a long silence.
Although she had already made certain preparations, being still an ordinary person at this time, after being implanted with intelligence about Honkai, Fire Moth, and many other things, she still fell into deep shock and confusion.
The hidden side of the world was actually like this, and Nagazora City beneath her feet was actually so crisis-ridden.
At this moment, MEI’s mood became incredibly heavy.
Still immature, she couldn’t think of what she could possibly do in such a war.
After taking the water cup Jiang Qiao handed her and taking a big gulp to moisten her dry throat, she asked in a low voice:
“What do you need me to do?”
No further invitation was needed.
Dr. MEI, who harbored great intentions, after knowing these secrets and understanding that she would definitely embark on the path of fighting against Honkai in the future, made her choice instantly at this moment, just like her original self.
Although she knew very little about this girl named Elysia in front of her, she subconsciously felt that perhaps the other party already had a plan.
In that case, she only needed to unconditionally assist the other party and satisfy the other party’s desires.
Of course, she might also have her own considerations afterward.
But for the current MEI, she wanted to try placing the possibility of saving the world on this girl who claimed to be from the future.
“Very good~ As expected of MEI, talking with smart people really saves a lot of trouble~”
The pink girl clapped her hands together very satisfactorily, but became extremely serious the next moment:
“Then, I’ll speak directly.”
“— MEI, I need you to join Fire Moth, and then seize control of Fire Moth’s discourse power in the shortest time possible!”