I am a hero of the former civilization.

"Hua has grown up, and it's not appropriate to call him 'Grandmaster Brother' anymore. What's it to you?"

There's a master person near that wooden stake.

Mebius unconsciously bit her finger. She had already realized that this was a subtle infiltration; those past experiences were both an advantage and a disadvantage for the wooden stake.

Why are there thieves everywhere?

"If you don't say anything, I'll go do my work."

"Wait a minute." Möbius called out to Ryan instinctively, then, unsure what to say next, asked sullenly, "When are you leaving Tokyo?"

"Even if I leave, I still have to go to Twilight Street. What, do you really want me to go back? You can try begging me."

“Who would ask you for help? Who do you think you are?” Möbius twirled a strand of hair with his finger and sat up slightly. “Just sitting there is a waste of time. Efficiency is also important. Why compete with a bunch of insects in terms of patience?”

That's such a weak excuse; she's probably forgotten her public persona.

Ryan narrowed his eyes. He was still unclear about Mebius's true purpose, but he knew that she would do what she didn't want him to do.

"Don't interfere with my thoughts, Möbius. The snowstorm has finally stopped here, and I'm planning to have some fun."

"Ryan! You didn't go on vacation!"

“Wrong.” Ryan patted the table lightly and stood up with a smug look on his face. “I’m here on vacation.”

Chapter 205 Unapproachable, Unapproachable

Gululu...

Hua submerged half her head in the water, causing bubbles to rise and fall on the surface. Her fair skin appeared somewhat rosy from soaking for so long.

Everything went smoothly, and I gained the right to call my senior brother by his first name.

The girl gently clenched her fist. She had just sent a message to Carol, who had given it some advice and then sent a thumbs-up emoji.

That's right, I'm good at subtle influence. Sigh, I've seen more than that girl, so why can't I put what I've learned into practice?

Hua was somewhat troubled, feeling that sometimes he thought too little and sometimes he thought too much, so he strained his ears to listen to the sounds outside.

My senior brother should have finished his phone call by now.

She checked repeatedly, then subconsciously frowned. Ryan would talk to that Mebius on the phone every day at this time. Luckily, she had secretly eavesdropped by the door. It was mostly about work, and occasionally the two would exchange sarcastic remarks.

'This is wonderful; I've never experienced a relationship like this before. No wonder Carol proposed the rebellion. But I can't act, and it doesn't suit my personality.'

Hua made the water churn and surge again, her emerald eyes filled with distress. She felt that she had never been rebellious since she was a child, and she couldn't bear to make her senior brother angry.

Forget it, Mebius and I are not the same kind of people. Besides, Miss Alicia can make me feel ashamed of myself, so I'm not afraid of facing her.

Yes, it's definitely a 50/50 chance!

wow-

The girl stood up abruptly, the swirling white mist concealing her beautiful figure. She possessed a youthful vitality, a touch of wooden maturity, and above all, a radiant heroic spirit.

Kehua didn't think so. She dried herself off, wrapped herself in a towel, wiped away the water vapor, looked at herself in the mirror, and slowly raised her eyebrows.

She placed her hands on her chest and squeezed them together to reveal a cleavage, but once she released them, her chest immediately returned to its flat state.

"Why isn't the papaya milk working? Could it be that the fusion surgery solidified my body?"

Seemingly having guessed something, the girl let out a long sigh. She remembered that when she was a child, she was cleaning her senior's room and found a book under his bed. Those embarrassing pictures were still vivid in her mind.

Now, many years later, the only thing that remains clear in my hazy memory is the word 'big'.

As she pondered, Hua silently adjusted the 50/50 split to a 40/60 split. There was no way to fix this fatal flaw, no matter how hard she tried. Lost in thought for a moment, she remembered the menacing Carol.

"Charm, the most important thing is charm. Your style of dress has changed, but it hasn't completely changed yet!"

"What kind of fashion magazines do you read? Do you even have her figure and mature charm? I'm really impressed by your stubbornness. If you can't keep up, then find another track."

"Play to your strengths, yes, go for the innocent, girl-next-door look, you get it? Don't get it? Look at your face, your long legs, why are you so fixated on your chest? They'll cry!"

What she said made some sense, but her attitude was so arrogant that I almost couldn't resist pinching her cheek.

Hua gritted her teeth, picked up her phone and looked at the pictures Carol had sent. Then she got to the bottom line of text, pursed her lips and began to hesitate.

dong dong dong.

At that moment, a sudden knock on the door startled her so much that she trembled.

"Hua, why haven't you come out for two hours? Did you get dizzy from soaking?" Ryan stood at the door, laughing at himself. As long as there was enough Honkai energy, he could throw you into lava without any problem.

slam-la-

The door was pushed open instantly, and Hua lowered her head like a child who had made a mistake: "Sorry, I went too far with Carol just now."

It would be such a waste to drop your phone into the bathtub while you're chatting in the shower.

Just as Ryan was about to lecture her, he saw that Hua was only wrapped in a white bath towel, and water droplets from her gray-blue hair fell right onto her collarbone, then flowed down her delicate collarbone and over her fair skin.

She was very fair-skinned and had a delicate complexion. She possessed a vibrant energy unique to young girls. Her figure was neither voluptuous nor thin. Except for her flat chest, she was well-proportioned in all the right places.

Especially her face, because of the premature fusion surgery, remained at the age of sixteen or seventeen, retaining some childishness. Combined with her body that had not yet fully developed, she was like a perfect JK template, the kind of girl who would wake you up in the morning in anime.

But because of his profession, this naivety is mixed with a dashing and heroic spirit, and there is not a trace of fragility to speak of. Oh, and his taciturn nature adds a touch of purity to his naivety and heroic spirit.

The two stared at each other without saying a word. Hua had no idea that Ryan's eyes were like a scanner, seeing right through him inside and out.

Her face suddenly flushed red, and she shoved Ryan aside with her head down, heading straight back to her room.

"Still so impulsive, sigh, but that's just how young people are." Twenty-one-year-old Ryan sighed deeply, which was normal. His soul age was almost fifty years old, and if you included the time he spent drifting, he was probably a ten-thousand-year-old monster.

Just as he was about to go in for a shower, he heard a 'click' sound. Ryan turned around and saw Hua sticking out half of her little head.

"Senior brother, I heard from Carol that there's a summer festival tomorrow. Would you like to go together?"

His wet hair splashed out, obscuring his face, so Ryan couldn't see anything, but he could hear the tremor and unease in his voice.

"Tomorrow night?" Ryan pondered for a moment, making sure Hua could clearly hear his own heartbeat.

"Sure, I don't have anything else to do anyway."

Her hand clenched into a fist in an instant, and due to excessive force, a large chunk of the door frame was torn off like tofu, but Hua didn't care about that anymore.

"Then wait until I get off work tomorrow!"

He pulled his head back, and Ryan glanced at the wood chips on the ground. He first laughed at Hua's recklessness, saying she was just as naive as any ordinary girl, and then he stopped laughing.

She may be a bit green, but when she gets shy, she can be so charming she could crush someone into a pulp.

Can't be bothered, can't be bothered.

......

"What exactly is Dr. Ryan doing?"

"I don't know, but he has been in contact with Dr. Mei. The encryption level is too high; even the best hackers we found couldn't crack it."

"There's no need to even consider it; they're definitely looking for a way to break the deadlock."

"Fortunately, we made arrangements in advance, destroyed evidence, and lured a large number of people with benefits, so even he would not easily find any flaws."

"Yes, personal strength and power are always in balance."

If the Japanese-style apartment is filled with a youthful and innocent atmosphere, then in the dark room, each 'tombstone' is playing out a game of power struggles.

The oppressive silence was like a religious ceremony. In the dark room, only beams of red light illuminated the black tombstones, making it impossible to distinguish one tombstone from another with the naked eye. One could only see that two more tombstones had been added.

Even with deliberate attempts to conceal it, the voices here weren't particularly fervent, seemingly not much different from those of the Fire Chasing Council.

No one was shouting useless slogans; everyone was talking about very practical issues.

"We can't let that PhD stay any longer; something big always happens wherever he goes."

"Can the command headquarters transfer him away?"

“It’s difficult from a procedural standpoint because he doesn’t have a superior at all. Who would give him the order? Even the commander-in-chief can’t do anything about it.”

"We can't let him stay in Japan and ruin the whole plan and find the clues."

"How do we find him? I actually hope he acts recklessly, so we can use the entire power of the Firemoth to suppress him, and not every one of the people around him dares to betray us."

Another silence fell. Ryan's waiting was utterly undignified, bordering on unreasonable. There was no excuse; the forces they possessed were simply insufficient to kill him, unless—

"Can a Herrscher take action? We can temporarily disable the Far East Branch."

All the tombstones awaited an answer, and after a few seconds, the aged voice finally rang out.

“You underestimate him. Admittedly, he only has two people around him who are useful, but Edwin is not easy to control. And once the Herrscher appears, he will be the enemy of the entire Moth of Flames. He will hold the great cause and mobilize all forces.”

"Besides, even if the combined power of two Herrschers were used to kill him, no one could fill the loopholes left behind. Dr. Mei would seek revenge and gather the remaining forces."

No one dares to say they've taken them all down; the Fire Moth is no toy, it's just that most warriors haven't reached that level yet.

"So we just stand by and watch?"

“No, we can force him to take action and completely cross the line of the Moth of Fire. Power is not something that can be used to kill openly; that is neither elegant nor dignified.” The old voice paused for a moment and then brought up another matter.

"And I feel that his strange behavior now is something he's trying to hide; he might be interested in something else."

"what?"

"Twilight Street, don't rush to refute me. I've already learned that he has the ability to travel across the entire Earth in a short period of time, and this approach is more in line with his style."

Ryan always conceals his whereabouts, so how could he stubbornly waste his time in Japan? They have already grasped Ryan's trump card and quietly found clues from the data terminal.

The matter suddenly became clear: it turned out they were trying to mislead, no wonder there had been no movement. Moreover, having this trump card gave them the upper hand.

"We can't do anything to him within the territory of the Firemoth, but we have a chance outside of it. Everyone knows that the Herrscher is determined to take his life."

"Understood, I will arrange for someone to go to Twilight Street immediately."

This is the best outcome, and no one will feel guilty; they will simply focus their attention on the two tombstones in the corner.

The two 'tombstone' call buttons never lit up, as if they were observing from the shadows. One of them had no information at all, while the other was engraved with 'IX'.

After a few seconds of silence, the call button finally appeared on 'IX's' tombstone, and the person who spoke immediately started with an unrelated topic.

"I want to know, can that person really bring people back to life?"

"Of course it can, just as no matter how much humans struggle, it's futile. You must remember—"

All the tombstones lit up with talk buttons, and all sorts of sounds mingled together, making the room buzz.

"Honkai, omnipotent!"