Chapter 66: The lawless outlaw Ai Yue makes his grand appearance
Prometheus was so efficient that the news spread throughout the entire Fire Moth in just a moment.
It's just that because of the Eighth Herrscher's invasion of the Fire Moth headquarters, the entire headquarters is still paralyzed. Although some people will soon wake up from their dissipated dreams, it will obviously take some time to get the entire headquarters up and running.
However, in addition to the Fire Moth headquarters, it is clear that other people also received the message.
"The Herrscher is dead?" Elysia was stunned when she heard the news, and even the arrow in her hand deflected and flew past the target's head.
Fortunately, the sea of Honkai beasts in front of them was very dense, so other unlucky guys were not hit as well.
"What should we do now?" Sakura frowned, appeared beside Kevin, and killed a Honkai beast that attacked from behind for him. "Evacuate? It seems there is no reason to move forward."
"No, on the contrary, we have to go and take a look." Ato took over the topic. After all, he was one of the most experienced veterans in the Fire Moth, and his reaction was very fast. "Even if this is true, we must see the body of the Eighth Herrscher with our own eyes."
"The message was sent by Prometheus, which means that this incident might have been done by Dr. Ai Yue and his team." Kevin held the same opinion. "Although we don't know how they found the Eighth Herrscher and how they killed her, we all have to go over to support them. The Honkai beasts will soon go crazy without their leader, and the situation will become even more chaotic. Don't hold back your strength, just sprint!"
In order to conserve enough energy to face the Herrscher, the fusion warriors have been controlling their fighting style, trying to clear the way with the least loss possible. But if they are really not needed to deal with the Herrscher, then things will become simple.
"No problem!" The first person to respond was Elysia. She drew her longbow, and a pink crystal arrow filled with vast energy gradually appeared in her hand. As the girl released the bowstring, the entire arrow turned into a huge torrent of light and blasted forward, instantly opening up a path in the dense sea of Honkai beasts.
"The Eighth Herrscher is dead?"
Just as Kevin and the others were struggling to move forward, Mei slowly woke up in the conference room. She was the only one left in the room. After seeing the message on her phone, the girl couldn't help but look stunned: "What happened?"
"The process is complicated, but the Eighth Herrscher is indeed dead." Prometheus sent a photo showing the remains of a young girl. "Also, Dr. Ai Yue said that you may need to deal with another matter now."
"What's the matter?" Dr. Mei frowned. Judging from Prometheus's slightly hesitant attitude, it seemed to be a rather troublesome matter. "Finishing work? I'll arrange it right away."
"No, I can take care of the finishing work," Prometheus said, "but you still need to deal with the big shots above, Dr. Mei—these are Dr. Ai Yue's original words."
"Dealing with the big shots above?" Dr. Mei was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Wait, what did Ai Yue do?"
Dr. Mei finally realized why she had always felt that something was very wrong—because from the beginning until now, she had not received any form of orders from above!
This was simply impossible in the past. Even if they chose to let the Fire Moths make the decision on their own at the beginning, once the situation of the Herrscher was confirmed, the decision-making power would be quickly taken away again.
Although everything was over very quickly this time, with the entire process taking less than 48 hours, there was not a single order, and it was completely inconsistent with that group's style of doing things.
Even though Prometheus has blocked the connection between Fire Moth's internal network and the external network, those people still have plenty of ways to contact Fire Moth.
In response to Dr. Mei's question, Prometheus chose to respond with silence.
'What did you do?'
Dr. Mei felt a black screen before her eyes.
Ai Yue has always given people a very strange feeling.
On the one hand, he is very clear about his abilities and often produces incredible projects, constantly refreshing the evaluation of him by Dr. Mei and others. It can be said that there may be geniuses like Mobius, Vill-V, or even Mei in the entire human race, but there will definitely not be another person like Ai Yue.
On the other hand, compared with his talent, this person's temper and personality are extremely good, even a little cowardly. Whether he is getting along with other people in daily life or facing the deliberate difficulties of the top leaders of the Fire Moth, he will take the initiative to give in, giving people a feeling that he has a very high moral bottom line.
Only when he was with Mobius and the others would Ai Yue occasionally reveal his unruly side.
But in fact, we can see from Dr. Mei and others that intelligence beyond human beings and an extremely high moral bottom line are actually contradictory to some extent. After all, when many scientific and technological achievements were born, they almost violated the secular rules of the time. If there was no courage to confront authority and secularity, many technologies might not have appeared.
Dr. Mei sometimes wondered where Ai Yue's courage came from, and now she finally knew.
"Ai Yue blocked the communication between the top leaders and the Fire Moth?" Dr. Mei took off her glasses.
"Yes."
"It goes without saying that Vill-V's transformation of the Deep Place and Aponia's departure were all decisions he made on his own?" Dr. Mei began to rub her brows.
"Yes."
"Besides that, what else did he do?" After realizing that the problem seemed a bit outrageous, Dr. Mei laughed and said, "Don't hide it. Tell me everything."
"He asked me to hack into the shelters of several high-ranking officials and imprison them so that they could not send any information to the outside world. He also tampered with the wartime orders of many countries and put most of the military on alert..."
Prometheus began to confess everything Ai Yue had done, each of which made Dr. Mei shudder.
Then she felt weak.
This was no longer something she could solve—even at this moment, even Dr. Mei felt fear of Ai Yue.
"What does Ai Yue want me to do?" Dr. Mei leaned back in her chair after Prometheus finished his report. "Or, at this point, what else does he think I can do?"
If Ai Yue were tried according to human law, he would be executed with a punishment known as "shooting for one hour."
At this point, unless the next Herrscher comes tomorrow, Ai Yue will probably have to spend the rest of his time in jail before then.
Not only that, even Prometheus might not be spared. In the worst case, she might even be abandoned directly.
"You just need to delay time." Prometheus gave a surprising answer to Dr. Mei, "Delay until Dr. Ai Yue comes back."
'Ah? He dares to come back?'
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