On how PhDs become human evil

"Orb, Jugglus Juggler... these two best buddies, I think they should just get together."

"Who wants to be with this guy?!" ×2

As soon as Fujimaru Ritsuka finished speaking, two voices of rebuttal rang out from the side. When everyone looked up, they saw that Gai Kurenai and Jugglus Juggler had somehow appeared in the passageway next to them.

Looking at Fujimaru Ritsuka with a dark expression, Kai said, "The first thing I heard when I arrived was you badmouthing me, Fujimaru. Are you cursing me?"

"How can you call it a curse? You and Jugglus are such good friends, I'm just wishing your friendship will last forever." Fujimaru Ritsuka declared that she was an officially certified benevolent person.

"You have a good relationship with Kai?" Jugglus sneered. "Don't get the relationship wrong, Fujimaru. My relationship with him is terrible. It's just a temporary truce."

Looks like the two just finished playing games; they definitely have a good relationship.

"Cough cough!"

After coughing twice to make his presence known, Sai Tu Zi said, "Now that everyone's here, Fujimaru, you should tell us what kind of opponent you need us to help you deal with."

Upon hearing this, Kai, Mirai, and Riku Asakura immediately became serious. They had all been called by Ritsuka Fujimaru to assist in the operation, but they still did not know who the enemy was.

"Hmmmm, Zero, I think you should be familiar with him, after all, you've been utterly crushed by him before."

"Nonsense! How could I possibly get beaten up—wait!"

Halfway through his conversation, Zero suddenly realized who the enemy Fujimaru Ritsuka was referring to was. After all, there was only one person who had utterly defeated him and who also knew Fujimaru Ritsuka.

A smile played on his lips as Zero clinked his fists: "Finally, I've run into you again! Let's see how I deal with you this time, Bai Jie!"

Section 433, page 16: I'm on the recommendation list again.

"Thump!"

Early in the morning, a muffled thud suddenly rang out from a house in Vienna. The door was then forcibly broken open from the inside, and a white-haired man with an afro fled the house in a disheveled state, shouting behind him as he ran: "Fafner, you unfilial son! You even hit your own father! I entrusted my own daughter to you!"

"Siegfried, you old bastard, you're spouting nonsense! I haven't acknowledged you as my father for a long time!"

Bai Jie stormed out of his house, wielding a Heavenly Fire Greatsword, and charged toward Siegfried with murderous intent.

"And how did you get back? Didn't I throw you away to Anti-Entropy?"

A week ago, after dealing with the issue of the imaginary space, Bai Jie brought Himeko and Siegfried back to the real world. Upon seeing the return of the three, especially after seeing Himeko's safe return, Kiana, Theresa, Mei, and Bronya were overjoyed and burst into tears of happiness.

However, the group was not so friendly towards Siegfried.

To Kiana, Siegfried was a bastard father who had been missing for a long time, and she had even made up her mind to beat him up the next time they met.

To Theresa, Siegfried was a scumbag who betrayed her best friend. Although she knew he had his reasons, Theresa didn't want to speak well of him. Moreover, with Bai Jie adding fuel to the fire, Theresa even felt like beating Siegfried up.

As for Raiden Mei and Bronya, they were quite unfamiliar with Siegfried, but since Kiana, Theresa, and Bai Jie all gave Siegfried a cold shoulder, they automatically categorized him as one of the unpopular people.

And so, the dignified knight of destiny, the former head of the Kaslana family, was left aside like an abandoned stray dog. Later, Bai Jie even threw him to Anti-Entropy with the idea of ​​"out of sight, out of mind," since his good buddy Raiden Ryoma was there and he wouldn't be lonely.

However, just a few tens of minutes after Bai Jie woke up in bed and was about to go to the kitchen to make breakfast for his dear sister and wife, he found Siegfried sitting on the sofa downstairs, drinking tea in a very proper manner.

"Hey, Fafnir, I'm back again."

Seeing Siegfried say those words with such a shameless and brazen expression, Bai Jie's good mood immediately collapsed, and without thinking, he drew his Heavenly Fire Judgment and slashed at him.

"You white-haired bastard, come here and take your beating!"

"I don't want to be cut down by the Heavenly Fire Judgment! Besides, aren't you white-haired too?!"

"Yours is white-haired, mine is white-furred!"

"They don't even treat me like a human being? What kind of wild animal am I?"

Siegfried understood Bai Jie's extremely unfriendly attitude towards him, after all, he, as his father, really felt sorry for him. But if possible, Siegfried still hoped to get along well with Bai Jie.

After chasing them all the way to the front of the Golden Cathedral, Siegfried leaned against a broken wall and gasped for breath. Although he was now a Herrscher, he still felt exhausted after running through most of Vienna, especially mentally.

Seeing the man carrying the Skyfire Greatsword walking towards him, Siegfried gave a wry smile: "Hey, Fafnir, if you're going to cut me down, at least let me finish what I have to say, okay? I have a message from Anti-Entropy that I'm supposed to deliver to you."

"A message?"

Bai Jie frowned.

"Is there no internet connection on Anti-Entropy's end? Why don't they send me an email if there's any news? Why do I have to ask you to deliver a message?"

"This is just in case, what if the message gets intercepted during delivery?" Siegfried shrugged. "Getting back to the point, yesterday afternoon, Dr. Einstein of Anti-Entropy observed an irregular energy fluctuation in Europe."

"Irregular energy fluctuations? I didn't sense them."

"According to Einstein, this energy fluctuation appeared in the form of light, specifically in the form of sunlight being slightly brighter and more intense than usual, which you obviously couldn't feel."

Bai Jie's perception ability is mainly for changes in emotions and magic. Although some modifications could make him able to sense more subtle changes, who would bother to pay attention to changes in the brightness of light?

"In addition, although it has not yet been reported, yesterday afternoon, the temperature in the Naples area of ​​Italy suddenly rose by five degrees Celsius for a period of time, accompanied by a minor earthquake."

"Ok?"

The sudden temperature rise is easy to understand; it's probably due to the sudden increase in sunlight. The increased light energy leads to an increase in heat energy, although it's certainly unusual for the entire city of Naples to suddenly rise by five degrees Celsius.

As for the minor earthquake, the only thing Bai Jie could think of was an underwater earthquake. After all, Naples is a coastal city connected to the Atlantic Ocean, and Bai Jie's previous burst of annihilating white light had caused significant changes to the marine environment around the world.

Is that all?

"Oh, there's another thing, I don't know if it's suspicious or not, but there's been a slight surge in online discussions about you this week."

"Investigating me?"

Nodding, Siegfried said, "The person who discovered it was also Dr. Einstein—or rather, her robot assistant. Starting last Tuesday, a mysterious person began investigating your whereabouts online. Anti-Entropy tried to counter-track you, but the other party escaped."

(Even Anti-Entropy can't find the other side... Has the Will of Honkai made its move again? Or has a new force appeared somewhere?)

Although he had already defeated more than a dozen Herrschers, Bai Jie did not believe that the Honkai Will would stop there. After all, Herrschers were just pawns. The real trouble was the Herrscher of the End and the Honkai Will itself. The former was the strongest Herrscher capable of destroying the surface of the earth, while the latter was a god who ruled the entire world.

Bai Jie isn't afraid of the Herrscher of the End. No matter how strong she is, she can only destroy the surface of the earth, which Bai Jie can do as well. But Bai Jie is worried that the Honkai Will will add some buffs to the Herrscher of the End, such as attacks with built-in silence, slowing, or disarming effects. Even Bai Jie would be annoyed to death by that.

"Okay, I've received the intelligence. Please pass it on to Anti-Entropy and thank them for their help."

"You're welcome."

"Now that you've finished reporting the intelligence, stick your head out and get beaten."

Siegfried's smile froze instantly, while Bai Jie, still smiling, raised the Heavenly Fire Greatsword, pressing the scorching blade against Siegfried's forehead, making him shudder.

Swallowing hard, Siegfried tried to struggle: "Fafner, please don't kill me! I'm still your father-in-law, after all."

Nodding easily, Bai Jie laughed and said, "Don't worry, even if you die, I'll give you an automatic resurrection aura, so don't worry about dying."

"Are you a demon?!"

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Section 434, Chapter 17: Rhodes Island is Coming Soon

Located between the sunflower field and Eientei is Rhodes Island, Gensokyo's largest high-tech research and development company.

Because of its long-standing partnerships with Kappa Heavy Industries and Eientei, Rhodes Island has reached an astonishing level in technology—especially medical technology. Even if you bring a person who has just died into Rhodes Island's medical room, at most three days later, that person will be carried out in a half-dead state.

While it's not a complete resurrection, it's at least a partial recovery. Bringing your health from zero to one is practically like having half a resurrection item.

Besides such excellent medical technology, Rhodes Island's science and technology have also undergone tremendous changes since it first arrived in Gensokyo. When Bai Jie returned, he had already built a Gundam powered by Originium energy.

Now, two years have passed since Bai Jie left. Compared to before, Rhodes Island has not only not expanded, but has shrunk considerably. Even the Gundams are gone, and all that can be seen is an Ark.

This does not mean that Rhodes Island is being targeted within Gensokyo. Although Yakumo Yukari strongly rejected the proposal to connect the Human Village to the Internet and accelerate the technological development of Gensokyo, Rhodes Island has continued to develop steadily over the past two years, just as before. The reason why it is smaller now is simply because if it continued to expand, it might take up the area of ​​the Sunflower Field. Considering the friendly relations between the neighbors, Rhodes Island dismantled all the expanded parts and moved them all to the Celestial Realm.

Just like the headquarters of Destiny.

Surprisingly, there was no opposition to Rhodes Island's relocation within Gensokyo. Some of the Celestials in the heavens even expressed their warm welcome, as the heavens were incredibly boring, and Rhodes Island's arrival would be a welcome relief.

Rhodes Island also upheld the fine tradition passed down from Whitebeard. Lappland, Ifrit, Indra, and other active members... I mean, the diplomatic ambassadors immediately went to have a cordial exchange with the Celestials, who gratefully ceded a large piece of land to Rhodes Island.

Reimu Hakurei, the city management officer of Gensokyo, remarked that Rhodes Island is truly adept at diplomacy.

Medical technology that can bring the dead back to life and technological technology that has expanded to the heavens—these are Rhodes Island's two greatest strengths and its two most well-known features.

However, besides these two points, there is another point that will absolutely not be overlooked, and that is Rhodes Island's combat strength.

Within Rhodes Island, combat personnel and technological personnel are not separated. Operators are responsible for technology, production, and combat, making them all soldiers. Even the seemingly weak medical operators can easily demonstrate impressive close-combat skills.

For example, our Shining Sword Saint.

Although they live in the incredibly peaceful Gensokyo, the people of Rhodes Island hardly ever need to fight.

Today, because of Rhodes Island's monthly meeting, the top executives of Rhodes Island gathered in the conference room.

Shining, Saria, Warfarin, Haze, SilverAsh, Hellagur, Amiya, Dobermann, Kroos.

Because of Bai Jie, Kal'tsit and the others were not there, but everyone was already used to their absence and didn't say much.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Amiya, who had become the acting—actually, the official—leader of Rhodes Island and had grown into a mature woman, announced: "Well then, everyone, let's begin the meeting."

"They say they're having a meeting, but there's really nothing to talk about, is there? Are they going to discuss Amiya's marriage?" Kroos said shamelessly.

Amiya's face immediately darkened upon hearing this unscrupulous merchant's words.

As an aside—Amiya is 39 years old and unmarried.

Stroking his white beard, Herag chuckled, "Kroos is right. Amiya, you're not getting any younger. Aren't you really planning to find someone to marry?"

"What can I do? The Doctor has only come back once or twice in all these years, and each time he was accompanied by Kal'tsit and the others. How am I supposed to talk to the Doctor about this?"

Like a resentful woman abandoned at home by a neglectful man, Amiya slumped onto the table and began to sob. She had been secretly in love with Bai Jie for over twenty years, but Bai Jie had only come back once or twice in all that time! She really had no chance of winning him over!

"Speaking of marriage, our Ifrit should find someone soon; she's already over thirty."

Saria and Himeru also began to consider the little dragon's marriage.

Silently watching the group discuss marriage, SilverAsh suddenly spoke up: "Everyone, have you all forgotten that we are already immortal beings, with a lifespan of at least a thousand years? That means we're still just children at our current age. Is it really necessary to be in such a hurry to get married?"

"SilverAsh, you hopeless siscon, shut up!"

The crowd immediately roared at SilverAsh in unison. SilverAsh was a little embarrassed when he heard this. He didn't want to be a siscon either, but what could he do when Frostleaf and Cliffheart were so cute?

With a soft sigh, Shining spoke up: "Everyone, this is a regular meeting, we should discuss something more practical."