Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

Feixiao seemed to sense Jingyuan's helplessness, and flipped down from the roof to stand in front of Jingyuan.

"Is that Jiang Jiu a friend or foe?"

"I don't know, but for now, I don't think there's any hostility."

Fei Xiao pondered for a moment and exclaimed, "With such a complex composition, how come there's no hostility? Putting aside nothingness and destruction, I've never heard of any genius in the Genius Club caring about a future that has nothing to do with them."

"Sigh... isn't the Void Path supposed to be free of messengers? Why is this one...?"

......

Before Jiang Jiu pushed the door open, he paused for two seconds with his hand on the doorknob.

The next moment, the door to his temporary residence opened from the inside.

Jiang Jiu: "..."

Hei Ta slightly curled his lips and stood at the door looking at Jiang Jiu: "If you don't come in, I'll close the door."

"Enter......"

Jiang Jiu went inside and placed the things he had bought on the table. Looking at the two uninvited guests, he sighed helplessly.

How did you find this place?

Jiang Jiu looked at Hei Ta, who was sitting very naturally in the chair in his room and even poured himself a cup of tea.

He glanced at Ruan Mei, who was standing quietly by the window, her gaze fixed on the pastries he had just bought, looking thoughtful, and was speechless for a moment.

"Isn't it easy to find you?" Hei Ta raised his chin. "I'll just hack your phone a little and I'll know."

"Fine then." Jiang Jiu gave up.

"I thought you would go directly to Hua to talk. I heard they threw a welcome banquet for Ruan Mei."

Black Tower put down his teacup and said matter-of-factly, "Didn't you ask me to help make the contact? I've brought the person to you, so of course I should hand them over to you. As for the rest of the Immortal Ship..."

She shrugged.

"What does this have to do with me? It's not like I asked them to entertain us."

Upon hearing this, Ruan Mei shifted her gaze from the pastries to Jiang Jiu.

Her eyes were calm, filled with a pure curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.

That gaze didn't seem to be looking at a person, but rather at a somewhat precious experimental sample.

That gaze reminded Jiang Jiu of the previous timeline.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Ruan Mei," she said, her voice cool and clear.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Jiang Jiu."

Ruan Mei walked from the window to Jiang Jiu's side, looked at him for two seconds, and then unexpectedly reached out her hand.

...I missed my chance.

Jiang Jiu stepped aside to avoid Ruan Mei's probing, and laughed, "Although I have long heard of Ms. Ruan Mei's reputation, is it a little impolite to treat a colleague as an experimental subject on our first meeting?"

Nguyen Mai thought for two seconds and then nodded.

"It was indeed my oversight. This is my work habit: to activate my senses through certain touches, allowing details about life to flood my mind."

Jiang Jiu felt like he'd heard this explanation somewhere before.

"It's no problem. These pastries and snacks are for you, please don't be shy."

Black Tower, arms crossed, calmly said, "It was prepared for her, wasn't it? You had no idea I was coming."

"...You did this on purpose?"

Black Tower raised an eyebrow: "You can't guess?"

Jiang Jiu thought for a moment.

Are they so close that if someone asks another person for help, the person asking them to come and help is obligated to do so...?

All we did was take a ride on the train together and then stay at her space station to do some experiments.

Jiang Jiu couldn't figure it out.

Well, you can't analyze a genius's thought process using the same methods as an ordinary person. Whatever.

"Who would guess? How could we possibly guess what the famous Black Tower lady is thinking?"

"Stop being so glib," Black Tower said.

"Alright, are you going to eat or not? This is the result of me wandering around the market all morning. It would be a waste not to eat it."

"eat."

Nguyen Mai walked to the table, stretched out her slender fingers, picked up a fork, and put a piece of dessert into her mouth.

With the thought that "why not eat it if it's free," Black Tower also gave it a try.

I must say, the taste is really good.

“Actually, I’m very curious,” Ruan Mei suddenly said.

"What are you curious about?" Jiang Jiu asked.

"The gift of knowledge, the entanglement of nothingness, the elevation of destruction... You walk on three paths at the same time, yet there is no cognitive collapse."

She thought for a moment and said seriously.

"That's strange. Have you ever encountered equilibrium before?"

"It's not important. If you don't want to rest, let's study the reproductive remains."

Hearing Jiang Jiu openly change the subject, Ruan Mei paused for two seconds and did not steer the conversation back to Jiang Jiu.

I'll ask Black Tower for a report later.

"The Black Tower says you have concerns about the remains of the breeding and need my opinion. Can you tell me what the Immortal Ship intends to do?"

"Oh, it's like this..."

After listening to Jiang Jiu's account, Ruan Mei gained a better understanding of the purpose of the fairy boat.

Why do you attach so much importance to this?

"Isn't it obvious? What else, besides a global locust plague, could be related to reproduction?"

Ruan Mei thought for a moment and asked curiously, "Do you think that just a portion of the remains of the Star God could trigger a second global locust plague?"

"Can't I?"

Is it possible?

"Yes, you can."

Jiang Jiu blinked and smiled, "You'll know what's going on when you go back and see for yourself. I've talked about this too many times these past few days, and I'm getting tired of repeating it."

“Yes, that’s fine,” Nguyen Mai agreed.

Ruan Mei took another bite of pastry, thought for a moment, and then asked, "You mean you're not going?"

Jiang Jiu hummed in agreement.

"Just go and take a look. I trust you. It doesn't matter if there's a way or not. The reproductive remains themselves won't be taken out; at most, we'll use them to create some experimental subjects..."

Jiang Jiu felt that what was being said was somewhat outrageous.

The remains of the Star God thus became something that could be studied at will.

That's really... outrageous.

Having eaten most of it, out of interest, Ruan Mei directly notified Marshal Xianzhou and went to the experimental area on her own.

Hei Ta slowly sipped his tea.

"So what do you plan to do now?"

Chapter 86 The Unsolvable Game of Salvation

"sleep."

Jiang Jiu answered sincerely.

Black Tower: "...Hmm?"

She almost laughed in anger: "I, the Great Black Tower, Genius Club #83, personally came all the way here to deliver someone to you, and you just want to get rid of me with sleeping?"

Hei Ta put down his teacup, his beautiful eyes filled with obvious displeasure and a hint of...unclear dissatisfaction?

“Jiang Jiu, have you forgotten that this place is the territory of the Immortal Ship? The things you’ve gotten involved in are more troublesome than you think. The thing that Ruan Mei is working on over there is the thing that you said could trigger a second global locust plague.”

"In this situation, you're telling me you want to sleep?"

Jiang Jiu was a little stunned by her barrage of questions. He blinked and said innocently, "Otherwise what? I've done everything I was supposed to do."

“I’ve brought the people here, and I’ve repeatedly emphasized the risks. Ruan Mei will oversee the specific technical issues. Whether it works or not is just a matter of a word.”

He shrugged, his tone sincere but tinged with weariness.

"I'd rather get a good night's sleep and then think of a way to solve this problem if Nguyen Mai's final assessment is unsatisfactory."

Black Tower crossed his arms.

Do you think there's a high chance it will pass?

"Not big."

"You didn't even send us? Are you giving us the answers before you've even asked the questions?"

“Even a small success rate is still a success rate.” Jiang Jiu looked into Hei Ta’s eyes and suddenly smiled. “It seems like you were the one who told me that.”

Hei Ta thought for a few seconds, but couldn't recall when he had said those words to him.

But this guy's words and actions were always inexplicable, and she couldn't be bothered to dwell on it.

"What if you fail? What will you do?"

If Nguyen Mai still feels that the situation is not entirely under control after completing her research, what would you do?

To stop it? Or...?