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"Great!"

"Isn't this too hasty..."

Some people started to cheer, while others thought it was a bit outrageous.

Kevin looked at Alicia with a puzzled expression; Kiana did the same.

Sakura and Hana exchanged a glance and both sighed.

Bai Yan remained expressionless, showing no reaction whatsoever to Alicia's actions.

After making the announcement, the latter put down the loudspeaker and hurriedly ran to Bai Yan, looking mysterious.

"Fu Yan, guess who your opponent will be later?"

"Kevin."

"Hmm? No."

"?"

As if wanting to see Bai Yan's surprised expression, Alicia nodded in satisfaction.

"Of course, a competition needs to determine rankings! Wouldn't it be boring to put the seeded players together right from the start?"

"Understood. I will go easy on you, don't worry."

"Uh... really, doesn't Fu Yan have any expectations at all?"

Bai Yan smirked: "If it's about trying to beat you to tears, I'm really looking forward to it."

"..."

Some of the Moth Chasers overheard this and turned away to stifle their laughter.

As expected of Captain Fu Yan, she easily accomplished what others could not.

Alicia turned her head away, stood there with her arms crossed, and seemed to have the air of "You better come and coax me, or I'll never forgive you."

Bai Yan's smile widened.

He stood up, put one arm around Alicia's waist, and whispered in her elven ear in a domineering CEO tone, "Don't be angry, come back with me obediently."

Alicia jumped up immediately, her face flushed, her eyes filled with surprise and joy, and she was at a loss for what to do.

"Wow, they actually launched a sneak attack! That's foul!"

After taking a few deep breaths, she regained her composure: "Hmph, since that's the case, then I'll forgive you! Uh, I'll go see how Sakura and Hua are doing with their preparations, excuse me."

Then she ran away.

"A quail," Bai Yan scoffed.

He raised his hand, looked at it, and nodded.

Alicia is really great!

Kiana, standing to the side, watched this scene, her thoughts unknown.

Volume 1: Chapter 164: Mei's Guess

Hua was very nervous.

Ordinary people would be at a great disadvantage against a professional assassin like Sakura.

No one knew why these two were placed in the super-standard group; it was just that such a grouping was likely to attract unusual attention.

It's so strange that these two unknown people are grouped with Kevin and Fu Yan.

Do they really have some incredible trump card up their sleeve?

"Alicia, why did you include them?"

When Alicia came out in a smart combat suit, Bai Yan asked her a question immediately.

In my memory, Hua's potential only gets noticed after it's artificially created and developed, while Ying doesn't have that kind of exaggerated upper limit.

"No, the group assignments were decided by Mei. I'm just announcing them."

"I see……"

The battle was not as earth-shattering as people imagined.

Conversely, Hua had almost no chance against Sakura's speed.

However, Sakura did not seem to be in a hurry to win. She deliberately held back when attacking, but never stopped putting pressure on her opponent.

Gradually, Hua began to show signs of injury, but he continued to struggle on.

As the blade flashed, Sakura seemed to lose patience and paused slightly.

assault!

With the final slash, Hua Ru was struck hard and fell straight down to the ground.

She temporarily lost consciousness.

Sakura put away her weapon and stepped off the ring after the host, Desdobia, announced the winner.

At this moment, only Kiana went up and carried Hua away.

"Fu Yan, who do you think has a better chance of winning, Kiana or Kevin?" Alicia asked.

"Stirring up trouble?"

"No, I'm just curious about Fu Yan's judgment."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yan began to calculate.

Kevin hasn't experienced the Chimera Project yet, so his strength hasn't reached a new level, but he's already powerful enough. The Chimera Project's enhancement would probably be just icing on the cake.

With Kiana possessing four cores, while not as powerful as herself, she should be a match for no Herrscher except for the End of the World...

Those who do not break free from collapse are ultimately nothing more than ants.

Let the demons of karma come!

After a moment's hesitation, Bai Yancai said uncertainly, "Aside from the Divine Key, Kevin is slightly inferior, so I tend to let him fight with the injured Heavenly Fire Judgment, which might give him a better chance of winning."

"what?"

Alicia immediately sensed that something was wrong.

She did the math. According to the intelligence, Kiana lost to Bai Yan in Twilight Street, and during the Heavenly Judgment experiment, Bai Yan spoke as if Kevin wasn't much weaker than him...

"So, Fu Yan, you think Kevin will lose?"

"Correct."

"Then why do you expect Kevin to fight you using the Divine Key?"

"I'm not talking about Kevin now," Bai Yan said calmly.

"I have high hopes for him..."

Soon after, the staff of Moth Chaser began to rearrange the scene.

The battle of the super-specification group was originally designed according to the Herrscher level, and the entire venue was not only exceptionally spacious, but the audience seats were also heavily reinforced.

The higher-ups were also watching, but through a projection.

At that moment, Dr. Mei was talking to Kevin, who kept nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, while holding the Heavenly Judgment in his hand.

Kiana, while moving her joints, would occasionally glance at Kevin.

Kevin then entered the arena, and Kiana quickly followed suit.

Dr. Mei then sat down next to Bai Yan.

"Is there any way to ensure that the following conversation will not be overheard?"

"This is simple."

Bai Yan pointed lightly, and an invisible barrier immediately enveloped the three of them.

This scene was witnessed by the higher-ups of the Firemoth, who couldn't help but frown.

Dr. Mei gazed at the invisible barrier, observed for a moment, and then said, "Some kind of special space, but capable of isolating everything... or rather, an incomplete world?"

"..."

Upon hearing Dr. Mei's words, Bai Yan's heart stirred.

Isolate everything.

The light of one world cannot shine into another; the matter of one world cannot easily travel to another...

Regaining his composure, Bai Yan decided to investigate further later.

"So what are you trying to say?"

"I analyzed it for a long time and finally came to one conclusion: Kiana's power is almost indistinguishable from that of the Herrscher of Flame."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yan looked at Dr. Mei and found that the latter was staring intently at him.

"Moreover, her abilities go beyond that; there are some familiar elements... Just who is she?"

"That depends on whether you have ruled out all the truly impossible possibilities."

"..."

Dr. Mei let out a long sigh of relief.

"It was an unbelievable guess, and I didn't even dare to say it until I got the answer from her."

"Perhaps you can understand that the same event can have completely different meanings in the eyes of different people."

"But in terms of the amount of information, they are not comparable."

Do you understand this?

Bai Yan said very seriously, "I understand, so what's your decision?"

"Let's keep this guess to ourselves for now," Dr. May said, looking at Kiana in the arena. "No one will accept it, and no one will understand it. Let's just pretend it never happened."

"So it seems we've reached a consensus."

"indeed so……"

Alicia listened for a long time.

Didn't understand.

She asked curiously, "What are you talking about? Can you help me join the conversation?"

Dr. Mei looked over, her gaze lingering on the pair of elven ears for a moment, before saying, "Before this, you had quite a few problems, Alicia."

"Uh, what problem could they possibly have?"

"For example, Dr. Mebius has always wanted to figure out why there are no experimental records of yours, and why the genes of the end-of-life Honkai Beast have no side effects on you."

Bai Yan casually replied, "Is it possible that mystery fails in the face of a higher level of mystery?"

Alicia: "Huh?"

Dr. Mei paused for a moment: "Is this considered an explicit statement?"

"We share the same goal. But I dare not say much until now, simply because I don't know if my words will cause irreparable consequences."

“If it weren’t for you, I would have kept quiet about it. Because I think only you can keep things under control to a certain extent.”

Alicia still couldn't understand.

"Mei, and Fu Yan, are you both the kind of people who enjoy toying with girls' curiosity? That's too much!"

Bai Yan reached out and patted Alicia's head.

The latter looked at him expectantly, waiting for some incredible answer.

“When it’s our turn, I will suppress my power to a normal level and will not use any defensive techniques; if you can win under these circumstances, I will tell you a shocking secret.”

"Huh?!" Alicia's eyes widened. "Normal state? What kind of power is that?"

"My full strength is probably 2.5 times that of that state."

Bai Yan has recently leveled up again, but his normal strength hasn't changed much.