Before the collapse of civilization, kiss Mebius at the beginning

The two sides of the river are still in a state of chaos.

For Tianjin... Mobius has nothing to say. She has no good feelings towards this unscrupulous capitalist who is covered with a hypocritical skin. In addition, Tianjin used the identity of the Minister of Finance of the Fire Moth to smother Mobius, so Mobius naturally disliked her even more.

Although the Mobius Research Institute and Tianjin's Tianshi Group have carried out in-depth cooperation afterwards... But that is also because Xu Ziling has a way to check and balance Tianjin. If it were in normal times, the giant snake would hate to cooperate with this kind of profit-seeking weasel the most.

But to be honest... Tianjin himself may not be good, but the people he found are really good.

From meeting to communicating, Mobius had developed a great liking for the white-haired cat-eared girl before he even knew her name... After all, no one would reject a naturally Honkai-resistant body with a low brain capacity but very obedient.

So much so that Mobius couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the naive girl that Tian Jin found was discovered by that guy Alysia?

Looking at Tian Jin's expression of "If you dare to spread it, I will explode with you", Mobius finally gave up the idea. After all, the various research projects and sample purchases that the research institute would carry out later had to be recorded in the account of Tianshi Group, and he couldn't bully others too much.

After Tian Jin signed the surgery guarantee on his behalf, he watched his white cat fall into the operating table of the giant snake with his eyes wide open.

Seeing that the door of the operating room was not closed yet, Tianjin could not help but pace back and forth anxiously outside the operating room, and stretched his neck towards the operating room from time to time... It is really hard to imagine that this anxious man like a midwife would be the Minister of Fire-Chasing Moths who spent a lot of money in front of the world.

For this, Xu Ziling can only say that people are really contradictory creatures. Even a capital beast like Tianjin, who is dressed in human skin, will become as anxious as a child because of the people and cats he cares about.

From this point of view, Xu Ziling actually admires Tianjin's behavior... Because Tianjin is really like him, both are selfish people who can ignore countless people for one person.

This appreciation is also the reason why Xu Ziling has not planted the buds on Tianjin so far, but has used words, interests and handles, which are not efficient ways to check and balance Tianjin.

Of course, if Tianjin wants to do something extraordinary for his only one in the future, Xu Ziling will never be soft-hearted just because the other party is the same as himself.

…

Xu Ziling and Dr. Mobius performed the fusion surgery on the white cat at the same time, and it was undoubtedly successful.

In addition, it is not known whether it was because the white cat was infected by the Honkai or for some other reason, after she merged with Vishnu's genes, she did not grow any additional horns and wings on her body, and still had her original cat ears and tail. This also made Xu Ziling worry-free.

After confirming that his white cat was safe and sound, Tianjin breathed a sigh of relief and immediately gave Xu Ziling a black card.

According to him, this black card records the management key of the American branch of Tianshi Group. As long as this key is entered, the entire American branch of Tianshi Group can be used by Xu Ziling. They will help Xu Ziling or the person designated by Xu Ziling to take the position of President of America and become the new director of the General Category Management Department of Zhuhuo Wuchang.

Frankly speaking, this is really a reward that cannot be refused. As long as it is used, maybe I don't need to plant buds, and I can change the name of the entire Fire Chaser Moth to [Destiny]...

While thinking this in his heart, Xu Ziling smiled and accepted the black card handed by Tianjin.

After today, Xu Ziling suggested going out for dinner together. Of course, eating is secondary. The important thing is to give Wendy and Ling, who are waiting outside the institute, a suitable intervention point, so that they can talk to Tianjin's white cat and put Wendy's worries to rest.

Because Mobius's research progress has not been smooth recently, he needs to change his mood, so he agreed without thinking too much, and also dragged Klein and Xu Ziling along.

Tianjin also considered that there are still many things that have not been explained to Xu Ziling, and her cat really needs to gradually understand the society, so he agreed.

Originally, I planned to call Wei Wei, but she has been in her spiral workshop these days, ping-pong non-stop, as if she is rushing to work on some genius device. After Xu Ziling sent her a message that showed that it was read but not replied, he didn't care anymore.

She.

…

"By the way, this seems to be the first time we have dinner together?"

Xu Ziling, who was sitting in the last row with Tianjin, said casually on the drone car of Mu Dalu.

"Yeah."

Tian Jin nodded, his tone was neither cold nor indifferent, and his eyes were always focused on the white cat who was chatting happily with Wendy and Ling in the front seat.

As a cat owner for six years, Tianjin knew that her personality was actually very shy, so much so that she didn't dare to say a word to Xu Ziling, Mebius or Klein from entering the institute to the end of the operation...

But when she saw Wendy and learned about her identity, she let go and returned to her original energetic and silly cute appearance. Wendy introduced Ling to her, and the three of them talked happily.

Xu Ziling glanced at Mobius, who was teaching Klein how to draw small animals using functions, and said casually:

"Come to think of it... I haven't heard you mention her name yet."

"Tian Xin."

"What?"

"Her name."

Tian Jin also hugged his chest and said,

"When I first found her... she didn't actually have a name. Tian Xin is how she wanted me to call her, which can be considered her name."

"What about you?"

Xu Ziling turned his eyes to He cast his light towards Tianjin and said,

"American Smoker, Shenzhou Tianjin... These should be just code names, right? I don't know your real name yet."

"... You really don't know?"

"I like to hear people tell me in person."

"Okay."

Tianjin shook his head helplessly and said,

"In fact, Tianjin is both a code name and a name. My full name is Li Tianjin, it's that simple."

"What about her?"

Xu Ziling pointed to the white cat in the front row again.

"...Cheng Tianxin."

Tian Jin shook his head slightly and said,

"I originally planned to give her the same surname as me, Li, but she said it was a bit strange to marry someone with the same surname. It just so happened that she was reading a novel with a protagonist named Cheng at that time, so she changed her name to Cheng Tianxin... Why are you asking these questions?"

"Nothing."

Xu Ziling also shook his head, picked a comfortable position and sat down in his seat, and said casually,

"It's just that I think, since we are old friends, we should get to know each other. If we have been friends for several years, but we don't even know each other's name, then this friend is no different from a stranger, right?"

"Friends..."

Tian Jin muttered to himself for a while, then nodded slightly,

"Okay..."

...

The pleasant day passed quickly.

Late at night, Xu Ziling and Mobius discussed the use of the American branch and the identity of the chairman of the parliament.

According to Mobius, the reward offered by Tianjin is indeed irresistible, but this reward is the most tempting right... but also the strongest shackle. To become the fifth leader of the Chasing Fire is to put one's existence under the spotlight. Although there is power, there are also endless responsibilities. Mobius is worried that Xu Ziling will be too busy to handle it alone.

Xu Ziling deeply agrees with this. But according to his idea, if he wants to keep the institute running smoothly, both strength and power are indispensable. Tianjin has his own bottom line and selfishness. Xu Ziling can threaten for a while, but he can't threaten the whole world. To raise your sights to the world level, you must always be prepared for both.

As for Mobius's concerns... Xu Ziling has naturally prepared a way long ago.

That is a small gift that Wei Wei once gave him as a gift...

[Artificial Intelligence·Prometheus-0001]

Five months ago, when Xu Ziling set out for the American continent, he helped Wei Wei solve the illegal problem of the Spiral Workshop. In return, Weiwei gave Xu Ziling the first generation of artificial intelligence she had researched.

Half a year ago, Prometheus was just a simple code program, without emotions or consciousness. It could only do things like organizing files and reporting information. It was just a pseudo-artificial intelligence.

Xu Ziling had returned from America at that time and told other people in the institute about the existence of Prometheus... Mebius was not interested in Prometheus, but Klein showed strong emotions for Prometheus because she found that Prometheus could help her deal with some complicated files that she didn't have time to deal with.

Five months later, Prometheus had helped Klein reduce his workload and processed so many copies of world data... In other words, during these repeated processing and learning, Prometheus's wisdom continued to rise, and its computing power was also increased in repeated configuration updates.

Strong, the current computing power can crush 99.99% of the supercomputers in the world.

As for the remaining 0.01%... it is because Wei Wei later developed a series of artificial intelligences such as Prometheus-0002 and Prometheus-0003. Facing these artificial intelligences of the same series created by the same mother, although the computing power of 0001 has been enhanced through continuous learning, it cannot be described as crushing.

But it doesn't matter. The computing power of Prometheus is now different from the past. Let her help Xu Ziling manage the [Destiny] with only spiral robots like before, or help Klein deal with those unnecessary files... It's like using a 4090 to load Plants vs. Zombies. It's too much of a waste of talent and machine.

In this case, why not let Prometheus be the Minister of America... Anyway, Tianjin also said that the ministers he appointed don't have to be human... right?

Prometheus has super computing power that can crush Mu Continent or even the entire world, and is also an intelligent artificial intelligence. It is very suitable for her to manage the American continent.

The only pity is that although Prometheus's wisdom and computing power are constantly increasing... she still can't understand what "emotion" is.

She may be able to talk to you and complete any task you assign well... but that is actually just the optimal solution she obtained after tens of thousands of simulations and analyses based on existing data, not that she is really talking to you with her own will.

Perhaps, this is the gap between artificial intelligence and artificial life?

But it doesn't matter. After all, for Xu Ziling, he really just needs someone who can help him manage the American branch and will never betray him. Prometheus, who currently does not have emotions, can already do this perfectly. If you continue to add icing on the cake... you must be prepared to be misunderstood by your own doctor, which is not a good plot.

Thinking this in his heart, Xu Ziling silently gave up the idea of ​​entrusting Weierwei to upgrade the emotional module for Prometheus 0001.

No words were spoken that night.

…

Time flies, and when the signs of the birth of the Herrscher of the Wind were suppressed by Xu Ziling and blocked by Ling, time once again ushered in an acceleration called "calmness".

At the end of December in the first year of Zhuhuo.

On the last day of this year, the system issued a year-end bonus for the [Destiny] created by Xu Ziling for the first time, even though this organization is actually just an empty shell organization with a bunch of robots...

You really don't say, the system is really unambiguous in the distribution of year-end bonuses for forces. The current [Destiny] does not count Xu Ziling himself, with Prometheus as the backbone, and the grassroots is composed of 26 spiral robots sent by Weierwei.

So the system issued 1+26 special tickets to Xu Ziling as the year-end bonus of Destiny.

This discovery surprised Xu Ziling a little. Could it be that the system's criterion for issuing year-end bonuses to Tianming is to see how many people join Tianming? It seems that in the new year, I will have to entrust Wei Weiwei to make more spiral robots for me.

However, before Xu Ziling took action, the system's prompt sound extinguished Xu Ziling's delusion.

The system's standard for issuing year-end bonuses to Tianming is that when the number of Tianming members is ≤100, one special ticket will be issued for each grassroots member; and when the number of Tianming members is ≤10,000, the conversion ratio of grassroots members to special tickets will drop to 0.01, and when it is ≥1,000,000, it will drop to 0.0001.

In other words, the system's year-end bonus is a maximum of 100 tickets per year. What it wants to express is actually to let Xu Ziling not be obsessed with Tianming to get special tickets, but calm down and develop Tianming step by step, and create unlimited value with limited resources.

However, Xu Ziling actually has his own plan for this.

…

Early January of the second year of the Fire Chaser.

Fire Chaser conducted an election for the head of the General Category Management Department of Fire Chaser at the beginning of this year. Tian Jin, the head of the Finance and Circulation Department, ignored the scolding of a certain Australian representative and, together with the other three chairmen, elected an ordinary American man as the new head of the General Category Management Department.

And this ordinary American man was actually one of the many identities forged by Prometheus.

The chairmen knew this very well, but they didn't point it out.

In the same month of the same year, the Mobius Institute began to officially recruit some people who were willing to participate in the fusion surgery for the entire Fire Chaser Operations Department, and further improve the fusion surgery using non-Vishnu genes.

At the beginning, after seeing the power of the fusion surgery, the staff from the Fire Chaser Operations Department reacted

It is not small. Thousands of warriors sign up every day... But unfortunately, the physical fitness screening that Klein is responsible for alone eliminated more than half of them.

Fusion surgery is not a joke. If the fusionist's physical fitness is not up to standard, or if he does not have natural Honkai resistance, it is basically 100% dead if he rashly fuses the genes of Honkai beasts.

Even those few superhumans who are born with Honkai resistance... most of them cannot survive the erosion of Honkai beasts. They died tragically on the operating table and became dead warriors who were neither human nor beast. In the end, Mobius used the power of Shesha to dissolve them into waste, and even the corpses were not left.

Of course, as Mobius' assistant, Xu Ziling also has the power of the Ruler of Reason. If he wants, he can use the power of disassembly to disassemble the Honkai beast genes that have been integrated into the human body, so as to save the life of the fusionist.

But... there is no need.

The power of disassembly is placed at the level of microscopic genes. Every time it is used, it will consume a lot of Xu Ziling's energy. Doesn't Xu Ziling know what the meaning of wasting so much energy to save strangers is, just for the "thank you" they said after being saved?

Don't be silly, Xu Ziling is not a saint. Those who died tragically on the operating table, before participating in the fusion operation, didn't they all see the cost of fusion failure? And they signed the fusion operation guarantee form with their own hands... He was going to gamble his life, and if he lost, Xu Ziling didn't know what the meaning of saving the other party was. This is Xu Ziling's attitude towards strangers.

Of course, when it comes to acquaintances like Klein and Ling, Xu Ziling is still willing to open a back door for them separately, and use his power to ensure that the other party will never die on the operating table, just because they are worth it.

So after at least 10,000 soldiers died on the operating table, the number of people willing to sign up for fusion surgery decreased with a visible trend.

And those who died on the operating table... can't be said to be completely worthless, they at least provided Mebius and Xu Ziling with valuable surgical experience. For example, what kind of genes will undergo what kind of positive and negative changes after encountering what kind of people, these are all valuable experimental data.

As for whether it would be cruel to do so? Just kidding, how can scientific progress not be cruel? Mobius and Xu Ziling are willing to use the mimicry gene extracted from the [Mimicry] Great Sword to save those people from the pain they need to endure during the operation and give them a quick death. This is already a great gift from heaven. What else can't be satisfied with this?

With this idea in mind, Xu Ziling would talk to his doctor every day after work. Over time, Mobius' attitude towards strangers has become almost the same as Xu Ziling's.

Although the two of them will definitely be accompanied by public pressure against the institute...but don't forget that the Mobius Institute and the Tianshi Group have a deep cooperative relationship. The public pressure can be thrown to Tianjin to let him worry about it.

It is shameful to use power to suppress others...but if the one being suppressed is not yourself, it would be too interesting, wouldn't it?

Don't blame the institute for being cruel. Those who came to participate in the fusion surgery didn't cherish their lives. They had clearly written in black and white on the surgery commitment that the surgery would cause great risk of death, but they still gambled their lives for the power of the fusion warriors. If it weren't for the dead saying no regrets, I guess the soul would have cursed a few more times. Isn't this just pure cheapness?

…

June of the second year of the fire chaser.

More than five hundred days and months have passed since the world was announced to the existence of the collapse. During this time, the fire chaser moth, which took the lead in developing the collapse technology in other countries in the world, became unprecedentedly powerful. Among them, Shenzhou Tianjin, which received the help of the institute, was the most powerful.

In mid-June of this year, Tianjin launched a joint meeting as the chairman of the parliament and strongly intervened in the election of the new president of the Americas. After joining forces with three other chairmen, he used an extremely domineering way to designate an ordinary white American man as the new president of the Americas.

Needless to say, that ordinary American man is also one of Prometheus's many fake identities.

At this point, artificial intelligence Prometheus became the new president of America and the new director of the General Management Department with the Fire Moth.

In July, Xu Ziling ordered Prometheus to seize talents in the Americas and strengthen [Destiny].

Prometheus took the order and left.

Half a year later, the Congress of America was already in name only. As long as Xu Ziling wanted, the Americas could be renamed the Destiny Continent at any time.

September.

At the beginning of the second semester of Mucheng High School, Wendy and Ling began to be assigned to liberal arts and science. They both had the best grades in the grade.

After choosing science, Xu Ziling, the physical education teacher, was still the head teacher in the second year of high school.

…

February of the third year of the Fire Chaser.

In the past two years, Alicia has been on the front line against Honkai. Two years have passed, and she has killed tens of thousands of Honkai beasts, including some emperor-level Honkai beasts.

In the past, the emperor-level Honkai beasts that needed to be killed in cooperation with the Fire Chaser military fleet could now be killed by Alicia alone after she merged with Vishnu's genes.

She kept the samples of the emperor-level Honkai beasts she had killed and donated them to the Mobius Research Institute, which could maximize the use of these genes.

So after thoroughly studying the genes of those emperor-level Honkai beasts, Mobius applied to Xu Ziling for the Chimera Project to continue to fuse the genes of Honkai beasts.

As usual, Xu Ziling first asked Mebius to fuse the genes of those emperor-level Honkai beasts on his body. After completely understanding the genes of those Honkai beasts, he performed the Chimera operation for Mebius to continue fusing the genes of new Honkai beasts.

With Xu Ziling's practice and the backing of the dismantling power, there was no possibility of failure in the Chimera annexation operation.

In a blink of an eye, Mebius had already fused the genes of seven Honkai beasts, one of which was occupied by the end-of-law gene, which was Vishnu. The second was occupied by the judgment-level gene, which was Shesha and Shishan, and the remaining four were also the genes of the emperor-level Honkai beasts.

There is no doubt that excluding Xu Ziling's special case, after fusing the genes of seven Honkai beasts, Mebius has become the strongest in the world.

If she were to fight the former Herrscher of Thunder or Herrscher of Space, she might be able to rely on the genes of the Corpse Mountain/Shesha, which can also devour space to simulate lightning, to ignore the power of the Herrscher and beat him to the ground.

And Xu Ziling did not really stop. After his stockpiled Xingqiong reached 100,000, the system store ushered in a major update. When the Wonder Mall was opened, the Wonder Repair function was also turned on. Xu Ziling repaired the previously damaged Galaxy Lotto and bought all the Wonders in the system mall that could be useful to him.

It is worth mentioning that... the heaven-defying Wonders like [Realm-changing Crown] that can be resurrected on the spot after death are not within the sales range of the system mall. The system only sells some attribute-added Wonders, such as [Normal Code], which has the effect of increasing Xu Ziling's damage reduction.

Although he couldn't buy a heaven-defying item like the crown, Xu Ziling bought all the bonus items in the system mall, and the amplification effect was particularly amazing.

The single combat power has increased by at least ten times compared to before, and he is more adept at using his power. As long as nothing unexpected happens, Xu Ziling can now defeat the top ten Herrschers of Collapse.

However, in recent years, the old lady of Collapse has been like preparing for pregnancy, and there is no news at all. Although there are emperor-level Collapse beasts born from time to time, the Herrscher of Wind has been silent for a long time. Is this also the credit of the system?

Xu Ziling didn't know, but he knew that since the old lady of Collapse didn't care about him now, he had a lot of time to develop. Although he can now beat most Herrschers, Herrscher has never been Xu Ziling's target. Xu Ziling is very likely to face the situation of the old lady of Collapse herself in the end. That is the enemy Xu Ziling really needs to face.

During the day, I went to Mucheng No. 1 High School to take a class, check on Wendy and Ling, and the rest of the time I returned to the institute to do scientific research with my own doctor. Occasionally, at the suggestion of Alicia, I took the doctor, Klein and Weiwei to listen to Eden's concert. By the way, I asked Tianjin if he wanted to go with them.

This kind of life may not be passionate or clean, but for Xu Ziling, who had been a social animal all his life before crossing, this kind of life where he can stay with the people he likes every day and do what he likes is simply too good.

It is precisely because selfish people have experienced the pain of not having it that they can cherish it when they have it.

So much so that Xu Ziling often thinks that if time can stay in the calmness of this moment forever, it might be good.

Unfortunately, there is no if in reality.

…

The fourth year of Zhuhuo, the end of May.

[Ding~! A specific time point is detected, and the demon mission is triggered! ]

[Demon God Quest: The Desperate One of the Collapsed World]

[Introduction: Preparing for pregnancy (crossed out) The Collapsed God, who had been silent for three years, awakens again. Looking at the thriving human world, He decides to give birth to his fourth child to add some difficulty to this exam. The Fourth Herrscher

It is about to be born, please be prepared! ]

[Quest completion conditions: unknown]

[Quest completion reward: unknown]

[Note: According to system calculations, this demon mission is extremely dangerous, please be fully prepared! ]