Their commission was suspicious.

"Number 17, are you fully capable of controlling the backup machine?"

"can."

"So you're admitting that you were the one controlling the backup machine when it attacked me just now?" Chen Luo said.

"Does Dr. Mei have any other instructions?" Artificial intelligence doesn't lie, but it can change the subject, especially since Chen Luo doesn't have control over Number 17.

"That's all. Take the backup unit back," Dr. Mei said.

“Okay.” With a thought, Prometheus 17 disassembled and reassembled its original backup machine into two huge external armored arms, which then disappeared into the void.

"But Doctor, after I retrieved the backup unit, I lost my sense of it again." After noticing the anomaly, Number 17 immediately chose to report to Dr. Mei.

It must have been Chen Luo who did this!

Dr. Mei also looked at Chen Nuoluo quite naturally.

"This setting can only be activated in emergency situations and when Unit 17 suffers severe damage," Chen Luo said.

"And what about just now? Why was that possible just now?"

"Because it was an emergency just now, I was really in a hurry."

"Hand over the communication methods to Number 17."

Although Chen Luo's logic makes some sense, it's not very strong.

"alright."

It's a pity about Chen Luo's emergency situation.

This emergency setup was created by Chen Luo to meet his own needs. When Chen Luo needed Prometheus to handle official business while he himself needed to carry something, it was time for the backup Prometheus to come into play.

However, to be honest, Chen Luo initially didn't know that the mechanical body he designed was intended for Number 17. Although Chen Luo knew that Number 17 was indeed Dr. Mei's assistant in the original storyline, Chen Luo thought that with his influence, the situation would change.

However, upon closer reflection, Chen Luo and number 17 actually have quite a connection.

Besides the fact that No. 17's mechanical body was created by Chen Luo, and that it embodies all the mechanical races that Chen Luo knows, No. 17 is also the Prometheus model that Dr. Mei plans to make into a Honkai consciousness to continue the hope of future civilization.

In other words, barring any unforeseen circumstances, No. 17 will enter Chen Luo's "body" and become a glorious human double agent!

However, unless someone triggers the backdoor set up by Number 17, Number 17 is the true Honkai consciousness that wants to destroy civilization!

To fool the Honkai, you have to make the fake look real!

The most skilled liar is the one who even deceives himself!

After Chen Luo handed over the method to operate one of the many backdoors he had prepared to Number 17, just as Chen Luo was about to happily go and choose his own office, Dr. Mei called Chen Luo back again.

"what?"

“Of course, it’s a task within the responsibilities of our fusion surgery office consultant,” Dr. Mei said.

"Hmm? But I don't even have an office yet."

"But you are already a fusion surgery consultant."

"What kind of job requires you to start working before you even receive your salary?"

“But we do have a document on hand right now that we need to discuss with you.” At Dr. Mei’s prompting, No. 17 handed a document to Chen Luo.

"A plan to recruit volunteers for fusion surgery? The higher-ups want to open up recruitment channels for fusion surgery volunteers to the public?" Chen Luo snapped the plan in his hand shut.

Let's skip the rest of the nonsense; the gist of this proposal is to recruit volunteers from outside the community.

The reason given was that even with Chen Luo, an anomaly who could perform surgeries without failure, the number of surgeries performed each day was limited, and most surgeries were normal fusion surgeries with extremely high mortality rates, resulting in the sacrifice of a large number of excellent Moth Chasing soldiers.

However, the cost of training Moth soldiers is extremely high, and with such a high mortality rate, it is easy to cause a great waste of resources.

In that case, opening up recruitment channels for volunteers for fusion surgery to the public, and then recruiting volunteers who have successfully undergone surgery into the "Moth Chasing the Flame" program for further training, would allow for more effective resource utilization.

In short, this plan takes a completely rational approach to fusion surgery.

"It's just a proposal," Dr. Mei said.

"And then, coincidentally, I applied for a position as a consultant in the fusion surgery office, and as a result, the decision-making power for this project ended up in my hands? Did I just happen to walk into the line of fire?"

"This can hardly be considered running into the line of fire; it's just a coincidence. Besides, if this plan goes through, your power as the consultant of the fusion surgery office will become quite significant."

"Heh, sorry, I'm already the retired emperor of the Firemoth, what power do I need? As long as all the high-ranking members haven't all become fusion warriors, all the reasonable demands I make will be agreed to by the Firemoth high-ranking members, of course, based on general rationality, not because I would probably die a terrible death after becoming a fusion warrior."

Tools must be destroyed once they are no longer needed, especially those that are constantly malfunctioning.

"Don't worry, I won't let that happen. As long as you don't cause trouble, those higher-ups will always have their cronies who need to be bribed with your surgery slots. That's probably what those higher-ups would do," Mei said.

"I'm not worried at all. Anyway, they'll never be able to fully complete the fusion surgery in their lifetime," Chen Luo waved his hand.

In reality, 90% of the high-ranking members of the Fire Moth have been turned into puppets by Chen Luo, so Chen Luo understands their thoughts better than Mei does.

Moreover, those useless individuals are the type of patients who will absolutely not succeed without undergoing at least 10 fusion surgeries to increase their success rate.

From this perspective, it's perfectly reasonable for Chen Luo to call himself the retired emperor who chases the flame like a moth.

"Ahem, Number 17, set that conversation to top secret. Okay, let's not talk about that anymore. Let's get back to the project proposal." Mei was startled by Chen Luo's bold statement.

"This proposal... to be honest, it is indeed feasible. If viewed from a completely rational perspective, it is quite excellent. However, the problem is that the current social order has not completely collapsed, and the public's attitude towards fusion warriors is extremely resistant. The effect may not be very good," Chen Luo said.

"However, on the other hand, the Seventh Herrscher incident has almost exposed the Fire Moth to the public. It's not a bad thing for the public to learn about the Fire Moth, since they will have to learn about it sooner or later. Nobody knows what kind of trouble the next Herrscher will cause."

"So you're against this proposal?"

"No, I agree. Although it is inhumane to treat people in normal society as guinea pigs from a personal perspective, the world is on the verge of destruction."

"The current Moth Chaser seems to be thriving, but the Eighth Herrscher incident shows that the Moth Chaser's preparations are not perfect. Because we can never predict what kind of Herrscher the next Herrscher will be, it is necessary to make the most thorough preparations."

"Besides, they said they were recruiting volunteers. It's a matter of mutual consent, so we can't stop them, can we?"

"It seems you think the same way I do, Luo." Dr. Mei sighed helplessly after hearing Chen Luo's assessment.

Chen Luo is right. Because of the randomness of the Herrscher, the Moth of Flame must make up for all its shortcomings as much as possible.

This is where humanity is at a disadvantage when facing the Herrscher.

A Herrscher can make countless mistakes, but a human is doomed if they make just one mistake.

Chen Luo didn't care about changing this history because, after the appearance of the Herrscher of Binding, the entire pre-civilization would only have 13 Fusion Warriors left. This meant that as long as Chen Luo didn't go too far before the tragedy of the binding, it wouldn't cause the timeline to collapse.

For some bank managers, a bank robbery isn't necessarily a bad thing.

What a windfall opportunity to balance things out!

The next day, while watching the news, the robber discovered that although he had only stolen 8 million, the bank unilaterally announced that 180 million had been stolen.

These bank managers are worse than robbers!

But the robbers can't possibly call the police, can they?

Anyway, all the Heralds of Binding are going to be killed, so how could humans possibly listen to her explanation that she didn't kill that many people?

"Actually, this proposal will most likely be approved before the next Lawyer. Even if the two of us object, it won't make much difference. All we can do is find a suitable person to handle this proposal."

"So, the right person is me?" Chen Luo pointed to himself.

“Because you are the only one with the most special status and the easiest job.” Mei did not deny this at all.

"While you're handling this, I'll assign the backup unit of number 17 as your assistant, and once this job is done, the doctoral degree will be awarded to you."

"You're just making empty promises, aren't you? Mei, you've changed." Chen Luo said sadly.

"Okay, okay, I just can't find a suitable candidate, so please help me."

"Alright, alright." Chen Luo nodded, accepting the job.

Since Mei has entrusted this task to Chen Luo, Chen Luo can then delegate it to someone else. Chen Luo can simply act as an advisor.

Mei appointed Chen Luolai as the person in charge mainly in order to obtain more resources from higher-ups to compensate the volunteers.

Fusion surgery is extremely dangerous, with a very low success rate. If the patient dies, the beneficiary listed in the agreement before the deceased signed it will receive a large sum of compensation.

If someone else were to take charge, Mei worried that the compensation money might... no, it would definitely be embezzled.

It's different with Chen Luo. Chen Luo is someone who dares to fight even the higher-ups of the Fire Moth, and he's not interested in money.

The former would deter frontline staff responsible for distributing compensation from stealing it, otherwise they might be beaten to death.

The latter would ensure that Chen Luo himself would not take the compensation money from these poor people.

Moreover, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Eden will most likely be responsible for these compensation payments.

Although saying this is quite detrimental to the prestige of the Flame Chaser, Eden is the Flame Chaser's new biggest financial backer, and the United Nations is also short of funds.

The fact that the Fire-Chasing Moths are now being treated better and better is largely thanks to Eden.

Eden and Chen Luo seem to have a pretty good relationship.

In conclusion, Chen Luo is the only friend Mei can find who is most suitable for this job.

"Don't look so glum. How about I give you a break after this job is done? You can go visit the Mu Continent branch. I heard that a certain doctor there recently developed a special artificial life form called an Armed Doll. I think you might be interested," Mei said.

Dr. Mei knew that Chen Luo seemed to have a special fondness for dolls, so when she heard this news, Chen Luo was the first person she thought of.

"..."

"Why aren't you saying anything? You have a two-week vacation."

"Let's discuss the plan first; we can talk about the holiday later," Chen Luo said.

At this critical juncture, you want me to go to Mu Continent, and for half a month at that?

The old man who celebrates his birthday drinks arsenic, right?

Are they afraid that I won't be affected when the Ninth Herrscher appears?

“Okay, how do you plan to begin the first step of the plan?” Dr. May asked.

"First, find a partner, preferably a relatively low-level organization with a good reputation, to be in charge of the publicity."

"for example?"

"How is the River God Church? I heard they took in a lot of patients with narcolepsy during the Eighth Herrscher incident, and they have a very good reputation."

Moreover, if Chen Luo remembered correctly, Pado seemed to be freeloading at the River God Church as well.

But cat, you need to understand one thing: every can of cat food you eat is not free!

You think Chen Luo came to Dr. Mei's office this time just for the 17th? No, Chen Luo wants it all!

Chapter 1664 Eight Vilvies, Eight Different Kinds of Happiness!

"Huh? Why is your super-transformation surgery consultant's office located next to my engineering department?" Velvi asked, puzzled.

The engineering department is quite a distance from the medical department.

Fusion surgery is short for hypermutation surgery performed on fusion warriors.

The true name for the surgery that turns humans into fusion warriors is the "super-transformation surgery".

Previously, everyone around him had been misled by Chen Luo, but when it came to establishing a real office, he couldn't afford to make a mistake.

So just as Wilvi was about to leave the engineering department to have dinner and then come back to continue tinkering with her sixth divine key, she saw the renovation work being done next door as soon as she stepped out.

"Of course it's because I miss you, Sister Wilvi. I even don't want to be apart from you," Chen Luo said with a grin.

"Go tell that to the magician, I don't believe it," conductor Wilvi said disdainfully.

"Sister Wilvi, you know me..."

"It's precisely because I know you so well that I know you would never set up an office in front of my house for such a reason."

"Well, actually, it's mainly because I only have three places to choose from right now. One is next to the Möbius lab, but since I'm next to the Möbius lab, why don't I go to the lab's lounge to see Möbius?"

"continue."

"Secondly, the medical department, especially the 5th Science Department, but if I went there, I'd be drafted 99.9% of the time. Please, I only want this office to slack off, how could I possibly work overtime?"

"That suits your personality."

"Finally, there's the engineering department. After all, I'm a PhD in mechanical dynamics. Isn't it only natural for me to be here? It might be tough for those looking for office space, but their misfortune isn't mine."

"Alright, that's a reasonable reason, so does that mean we're neighbors now?"

"As you can see, but let's make this clear first, Sister Wilvi, you're not allowed to conscript me."

"Don't worry, I guarantee 100% that I won't drag you into the engineering department like a conscript... but if the experts do that, then it's none of my business."

"Gan!"