I am doing evil in the collapsed world

Like most ordinary men in the Demon Realm, Xia has a common weakness: he is easily fooled by soft tactics.

A male chauvinist is not afraid of girls confronting him. On the contrary, he would find it interesting if he really encountered a girl who was confrontational. He is afraid of girls who are gentle, considerate and can put themselves in their shoes.

Originally, Xia thought Mei's personality was quite interesting to tease, but today she suddenly changed, which made Xia feel uncomfortable.

"It's not that I have to go out. I have a meeting today."

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Chapter 159 Mebius’ heartbeat quickened.

Mei: "Today is from 9am to 12pm, then from 1pm to 5pm, and from 6pm to 9pm. We need to attend all three periods. If you still want to play, then I'll go by myself."

Mei sighed and looked at Hua as if she had accepted her fate. "I won't waste Hua's time today. It's boring to accompany me to meetings and jail. Hua, just take a break."

Mei: "I slept pretty well yesterday, so I shouldn't feel sleepy during the day."

Xia: "...I feel like you're saying I'd be really sorry if I didn't agree to your meeting."

Xia raised his eyebrows and said doubtfully, not knowing whether what he was thinking was right or wrong.

Mei: "So that's how you think of me? Never mind, it's up to you."

Mei lowered her head sadly. In fact, during the free time in the meeting, Mei thought about how Xia tricked her into becoming an assistant.

She is very smart. She didn't figure it out when she was at the scene and involved in the situation, but it was easy for her to figure it out when she left that pressing environment and was alone to think about it.

Give Xia a taste of his own medicine, and deal with him the way he treats you, but with a little guidance. Then, Xia will be under your control.

Mei made a plan without any hesitation. Although the dream last night made Mei feel happier, the plan could not be changed.

Xia watched Mei eat breakfast, "Okay, now I'm sure you are Pua me."

Xia picked up the pancake and took two bites. "Actually, you don't have to do it this way. Just tell me and I'll still accompany you."

Mei: “What you say may not be what you actually do.”

Haha, what Mei said was really the truth, because if Mei didn't use this method, Xia might really pretend to be deaf and dumb and watch Mei leave.

"Okay, okay, I won't do that next time, okay?"

Xia said soothingly, which made Mei feel a little happier. "I had a good dream last night. Maybe Hua secretly cast an illusion on me."

Xia: "I did it. You looked very tired, so I cast an illusion on you so you can have a good rest. How did you sleep last night?"

Mei gave a thumbs up, but did not answer whether she slept well or not.

After Mei finished breakfast, Mebius and the others came up, but they didn't come up to have breakfast. They had already eaten in the restaurant downstairs.

After chatting for a while upstairs, it was almost time to enter the meeting room. Xia followed Mei downstairs, while Mebius and Blanca did not go down.

When Xia agreed to attend the seminar, Mei notified the waiter to rearrange the seats in the conference room and prepared the names in advance.

After going downstairs to the venue, Xia sat in the seat that belonged to Mei yesterday. Today, Mei sat in the audience.

Mebius didn't come, and the big guys who came today were obviously not very important. There were only two leadership seats on the stage, and unfortunately Xia was one of them.

Xia sat in his seat waiting for the biology expert who looked to be about a hundred years old, skinny and with a breathing tube, but with bright eyes to start his speech. The name in front of him showed Puning, and he should be a native of Mu Continent.

Puning also looked at Xia in the same way as Xia did, also silent, as if waiting for Xia to start.

Xia and Puning stared at each other for a full minute before Puning withdrew his gaze as if he had suddenly realized something.

He is a local. Even though Xia developed the elixir of life in the quantum energy laboratory, he is still not from Mu Continent. The meeting must be opened by the host. However, Puning is used to letting young people take the lead. After being looked at by Xia for a minute, he realized that he seemed to be the only one who could speak the first sentence in the meeting today.

Puning moved the microphone over and approached Xia with a hoarse voice, saying, "Young man, if I speak first, you won't have a chance to speak. I've been teaching for many years and am used to speaking alone, and I'm more engaged."

Xia: "It doesn't matter, senior, just say what you need to say, don't worry about me."

Is this even possible? Could this meeting just be undone like this?

Puning: "Yesterday, the young man didn't come to talk about your research philosophy and content. In Chinese parlance, you failed to show your ability to others. And today you're giving the opportunity to an old man like me. Is that appropriate?"

Xia: "Without you, I don't know how many people would have suffered. You have made great contributions to mankind by reaching this position. Compared to you, I am just a latecomer. Please, old man."

Xia would rather just spend the whole day without saying a word.

Puning sighed and patted Xia's shoulder with some emotion. "If I had been as sensible as you when I was young, I wouldn't have become a professor at forty. So, I'll take advantage of you. At my age, this may be the last time I get to share my research findings with so many people, sitting at the center of a discussion. I thought I'd be just a foil, but I didn't expect... Anyway, thank you, young man."

Xia listened to Puning's speech for over two hours. Puning patted Xia on the shoulder again at the end of the meeting. "Dr. Xia and I just had a chat before the meeting. Dr. Xia is a good person and the most professional and respectful biological researcher I have ever met."

He got the benefit and tried to show off to Xia. This might be his last time to hold a meeting. He could also let the popular Xia act as a foil and listen to his old ideas quietly for more than two hours. It was worth it in this life.

It wouldn't be too much to praise it more.

Puning was sent away by medical staff and had lunch before the next meeting began.

Listening to Puning being surrounded by the scientific researchers who had left and still praising him, Xia suddenly felt that he seemed to have found a good way to avoid giving a speech.

He quietly approached Xia and asked, "Why do you let Puning give the speeches all the time, while you only occasionally interject as a foil? Although Puning has indeed made great contributions to mankind, this seminar should be reserved for you."

Xia: "We must respect our predecessors. The old man is still working on the front lines at such an old age. He hasn't achieved any new results in recent years, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been working hard. Anyone who works hard for human biology and medicine should not be ignored."

Xia tapped his heart and made an "I understand you" expression. "I'm only eighteen, and there are still many years in the future. But Mr. Puning is already that old, it's not too much to share a fight with him."

Mei: "...I thought you would only take advantage of the situation and not do anything that didn't benefit you. It seems I was wrong about you."

How could a person who respects the elderly, understands the older generation of researchers and is willing to give up the opportunity to shine be selfish?

Xia: "Everyone has their own unique perspective. In your eyes, I am just a label you put on me. It's just a concrete representation. Even I can't say that I understand myself, so how can you understand me?"

Mei hammered Xia's shoulder, bit her lip and snorted softly, "Although you seem a bit bad in small matters, but when it comes to major issues, you really haven't made any problems."

On major issues of right and wrong, Xia always stands on the side of justice, but he can be a little selfish on small matters, like when he dropped her off at the venue yesterday and went out to play with Kevin and the others for the entire afternoon.

This incident cannot be remembered for a lifetime.

When the next class started, Xia immediately used the excuses of "senior", "years of accumulation without results is also a contribution", "I grew up reading your books", and "I want to catch a glimpse of the style of senior seniors" to get through another class.

After a short break after afternoon tea, the third game was with Mebius.

Xia: "Dr. Mobius, I feel like you haven't been in the spotlight for too long. It's not your fault that you haven't achieved much. Scientists all over the world think you're a monster, but I never think so."

Xia: "Yesterday, Dr. Mebius only helped other researchers by sharing some scientific research that enlightened them, but he didn't talk about his own research. That's wrong."

Mebius: "They don't support me, so why should I say this in front of them? I'm serving the people. Isn't it better to just say what they like to hear and be my tool?"

During afternoon tea, Mebius and Xia sat together, nominally discussing the content of the next game, but in reality it was Xia who was encouraging Mebius.

"We are in the same research institute, Mebius. We are together. We are studying the Fusion Warrior Project together. If you are a devil, then I will also be a devil. If you are a sinner, then I will definitely be no exception."

Mebius: "It would be unfortunate for me to discuss the human experimentation fusion warrior program in your seminar."

Xia: "Girl, are you doubting your own righteousness? Are you compromising with the world? Do you think you are wrong and they are right? Are you going to become smooth and blend in with the world?"

Mebius: "What are you talking about?"

Xia: "I think Dr. Mobius, you need a strong backer to support you so that you won't be treated as a demon anymore."

Mebius' heartbeat quickened. "What do you mean?"

Xia adjusted his tie. "Do you think I, the developer of the immortality drug, the newly appointed professor at Atlantis University, promoted by Professor Einstein himself, and the most popular figure in the world this year, am qualified?"

Mebius: "If the Fusion Warrior Project fails, you will be brought down by me."

Xia: "I'm Dr. Xia, but before I entered your institute, I was just an ordinary high school dropout. You got me on board, so I should be responsible for pushing you to higher mountains."

Mebius: "Are you crazy? Einstein will kill both of us for pulling something like this at a time like this."

Mebius's left eyelid was twitching wildly. She didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but what Xia said really made Mebius feel moved by the inner struggle.

Xia: "You're talking about failure before you even succeed, Dr. Mobius. Don't bow to reality. In my eyes, you've always been at the forefront. I'll give you full authority over the next meeting."

Xia: "If Einstein gets angry, we'll shoulder it together. If it causes a social uproar, we'll also shoulder it together. You've helped me go from a high school dropout to Dr. Xia. I'm repaying you with a kind gesture. I'll help you step back into the spotlight and become the brightest star. If you do well, it's yours. If you do badly, it's ours."

Xia grabbed Mebius's hand and spoke in an extremely masculine and domineering tone.

If a man in his thirties or forties said this, it might sound a bit greasy, but when an eighteen-year-old says this, it's really handsome and heart-warming.

Mebius's heart was pounding. Now he finally understood why some people liked young and handsome guys.

That look of wanting to stand by you without caring about any consequences is really irresistible to a big sister like Mebius who is about to turn 30.

Mebius withdrew his hand, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. After opening his eyes, his expression gradually became firm. "Leave it to me."

When there is someone standing behind you who is risking his own name and reputation and betting his own honor, even if the whole world regards him as a devil and does not recognize him, the person in front of the stage will become confident.

At the beginning of the third scene, Möbius's ideas and scientific experiments caused a sensation. Although many of them could be used in their own laboratories and integrated with their own research, they still felt... Is this a topic worth touching upon?

After the third lecture, I left at around nine o'clock in the evening.

People in the venue were somewhat relieved that this seminar was just an internal discussion and there were no reporters.

Xia Zhantai Mobius, they can eat this big melon for a year.

Another day of fooling around.

The two-day meeting was almost over. A seminar is actually just a few big guys giving talks and others listening.

The same goes for Xia’s seminar, except…the difference from others is that Xia’s seminar is given by a big shot, and everyone else, including himself, is listening.

Mebius was in a very happy mood. When he talked about the experimental progress of the Fusion Warrior Plan for the first time, no one refuted him, and some people even applauded after he finished speaking.

Xia led the applause, and the audience could only clap for Xia's sake. Although they didn't dare to support Mebius, they could still say "Xia did it too" when asked. "What we heard were not the whispers of the devil, but the professional experimental process, with Dr. Xia as a witness."

Or you could also get away with saying, "We're just giving Mebius a round of applause for Dr. Xia's sake."

The two-day seminar is over, and tomorrow is the time to have some drinks, have a banquet and take some photos.

"A drug that can make people live longer is indeed amazing. It's not just Mu Continent, but the top leaders and investors from other continents all think it's great. But for the investors in the pharmaceutical industry, it's a different picture."

Xia's medicine can make people live forever, but it has dealt a huge blow to the pharmaceutical industry. Medicine is one of the three most profitable industries in the world and is not a small industry. For their capitalists, Xia's longevity medicine is indeed beneficial to the whole world, but it has turned them from billionaires into ordinary millionaires, and even those who leveraged their capital have become heavily in debt.

The global market size of more than 2 trillion Muyuan per year can be directly destroyed. I don’t know how many wealthy people will go bankrupt and their assets will be reduced.

For them, life expectancy has increased, but it has only become the same as that of ordinary people. Their assets have decreased, and their life expectancy has only increased by the same proportion as that of ordinary people.

The wealthy in the pharmaceutical industry do not want an increase in life expectancy for people around the world, but rather an increase in their life expectancy while the pharmaceutical industry reaps steady profits, which is beneficial to them.

So they may not kill Xia, but it is important for them to use various means of pressure and threats to force Mu Dalu to re-evaluate the value of the longevity medicine and determine the sales channels and target groups.

If necessary, he would take action against Xia directly to avoid himself going bankrupt and becoming like an ordinary person, and to pass on the capital he could have. This was far more important than the longevity medicine that Xia "might" come out earlier that could extend people's lifespan.

People with privilege will not sit idly by and watch their privilege disappear. It is human nature to go crazy when faced with the trend of the times."

Einstein is discussing with Mel what desperate measures the pharmaceutical industry will take to put pressure on Mu Dalu, restrict the sale of longevity drugs, or pay Mu Dalu an annual protection fee.

Mel: "So this is a difficult situation. Last night, our Minister of Health proposed raising the price of longevity drugs to a point where ordinary people can't afford them. This will target the wealthy while stabilizing the pharmaceutical industry and allowing us to continue to collect tax revenue from the pharmaceutical industry."

Einstein: "Isn't that easy? We can develop a new type of longevity drug that can extend a person's lifespan by 300 to 500 years."

Mel: "Can you make that Xia of yours?"

Einstein: "They can't make it, but they don't know how to do it, right? They just repackage the elixir and sell it to the rich at a higher price, and sell the ordinary elixir to ordinary people."

Mel: "What if they find out?"

Einstein: "It will take at least a hundred years for them to discover it. It's already over a hundred years from now. Who knows what the situation will be like then? We can just make up some explanation then. We can leave the problem to future generations and trust in their wisdom."

Einstein gave him a look that said, "You know what I mean."

Mel: "...You, you always come up with something new for me."

Mel sighed, "What about the retaliation from those wealthy people in the pharmaceutical industry? We're not afraid of overt betrayal, but secret assassinations are still difficult to prevent. It's like being on the lookout for thieves for a thousand days. The people in your research institute are trustworthy, but the people at Fire Moth are more mixed. Can you guarantee that Xia will stay in Atlantis?"

Einstein's eyes were firm: "I can't, but I can guarantee that no one in this world can assassinate Xia."

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Chapter 160 Kevin: It’s all because I was too young.

Einstein is not stupid. Is the magic array used in the elixir of immortality that Xia developed really scientific?

It is indeed scientific in theory, but that kind of science is completely different from what they use in their daily research.

When Xia was still a high school student, he could hunt down the Death Soldiers and Honkai Beasts, and he could kill hundreds of members of the Honkai Shoes Cult in one wave.

Ignoring Xia's calm and gentle daily life, he has more than three digits of human lives under his control.

And there is the formation disk, who knows how many types of formation disks there are.

There may be someone in this world who can assassinate Xia, but it definitely won’t be those capitalists.

……