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ArabicChat Group Crossover: My System Simulates Infinite Anime Worlds — Chapter 17
Chapter 17: Unification is Necessary
[Mr. Nagumo, our nation of Shenzhou would like to formally invite you to serve as the chief director of our primary research laboratory. We will provide you with the absolute best material security and resources.]
[You agreed. After all, you had seen the true face of the Flame-Chasers. Staying among those insects, you never knew when the next bout of internal strife would erupt. When that time came, you might not perish from the Honkai, but you would certainly be consumed by their infighting.]
[That very night, you sought out MEI to discuss the matter.]
[She readily agreed.]
[There was no time to lose. Under the cover of darkness, you and MEI departed from the Flame-Chasers, making your way to Shenzhou. As a parting gift, you also conveniently appropriated the cryo-preserved bodies and cores of the First, Second, and Third Herrschers.]
[Meanwhile, in a small church on Dusk Street, a young nun gazed up at the threads of fate crisscrossing the sky. They had become tangled and chaotic, a sign that someone, somewhere, was resisting their destiny. She silently clasped her hands and began to pray, a familiar ritual for a sight she had witnessed many times before.]
[The next morning, when Mobius learned of your departure, her expression instantly turned venomous. Klein, who had only recently arrived at the laboratory, couldn’t help but shrink back, her neck retracting like a startled turtle.]
[You arrived in Shenzhou and were immediately installed as the general director of a national laboratory named Taixu. There were no convoluted schemes or petty power struggles. Your authority was immense, granting you the power to mobilize military assets and a significant portion of national resources.]
[A rare sense of satisfaction settled over you; this was a world away from the bureaucratic nightmare of the Flame-Chasers.]
[You promptly liquidated the entire balance of your bank card, converting the vast sum into a mountain of raw materials. After all, why not spend this free money? If left untouched, it was no different from waste paper.]
[You also discovered a peculiar perk of your new position: every so often, a substantial amount of funds would simply appear on the card. It was a self-funding enterprise with no upfront costs. Between this endless stream of capital and the government’s own allocated budget, supporting a massive laboratory was not just feasible—it was an exercise in affluence.]
[Fueled by this near-limitless funding and the unified enthusiasm of a nation, your research progressed at a blinding pace.]
[By studying the Herrscher bodies and their cores, and by pushing the boundaries of numerous advanced technologies, breakthroughs came one after another.]
[First, the existing Honkai energy protective suits were improved, their defensive capabilities increasing by a staggering 300%.]
[Powered exoskeleton combat suits, high-energy laser weapons—a whole series of advanced armaments proliferated at an astonishing rate.]
[Working closely with MEI, you explored the Second Herrscher’s core and developed the Time-Space Fracture Device. It could infinitely stretch a single second of time, creating a localized bubble of temporal distortion. Its only drawback was its immense power consumption; each charge was only good for two or three uses. Still, on a battlefield swarming with Honkai beasts, such a device was very useful.]
[Your research also uncovered a grim correlation: the frequency of Honkai Eruptions was directly related to the advancement of a civilization. The more a society progressed, the more it attracted the Honkai’s attention.]
[You felt this discovery came far too late. You had seen the M Continent, where hyper-advanced technology was already a part of every household. All you could do now was secretly develop weapons and prepare for the inevitable.]
[Or, you could focus on your own training, striving to break through to the next level of Magnetic Field Rotation. If you could reach the 750,000 HP Atomic Fission Realm before the final disaster arrived, then combining that power with your mastery of flow and the Total Realm… it wouldn’t be impossible to fight back.]
[You considered many paths. You could ignore all of this, wait for the world to end, and simply enter the next simulation. You could build a starship, gather a select few, and escape the planet to live as interstellar wanderers.]
[But you found you couldn’t do it. You simply couldn’t. The sum of your education, your fundamental character, and the unwavering sense of justice buried deep in your heart would not allow you to become that kind of person.]
[Though some people in this world were complacent and unmotivated, others were fighting with everything they had to avert the coming disaster.]
[‘Those who carry firewood for the masses must not be allowed to freeze to death in the snow. Those who open the path for freedom must not be allowed to be trapped by thorns.’]
[You decided then and there to be one of those who carried the firewood. You also understood a truth unique to your existence: you could not truly die. For you, death was just a new beginning. As long as you existed, as long as you grew strong enough in other worlds to one day cross the universe itself, it might even be possible to return to your original home.]
[With such thoughts steeling your resolve, you threw yourself back into the intense crucible of research.]
[Your gaze turned to the Honkai Beasts themselves. Your new idea was simple and brutal: the resources of a single region were far too scarce. To have any hope, you had to cultivate an invincible army. Unifying the entire world in a short time and gathering every last scientist to study the Honkai together was the only path to survival.]
[You had been in Shenzhou for about half a year when a surprise arrived.]
[Elysia and Kevin appeared at your gates, each leading detachments of anti-Honkai teams and a number of scientists who had fled the Flame-Chasers. Among them was Blanca.]
[You quickly arranged for housing to be provided for all the newcomers. You even assigned a dedicated nanny to the pregnant Blanca and had a large supply of infant necessities purchased and delivered.]
[This gesture left Hen feeling utterly speechless. If he hadn’t known for a fact that you had been in Shenzhou this entire time, he would have sworn Blanca was carrying your child.]
[From Elysia and Kevin, you learned what had transpired after your departure.]
[Shenzhou had been the first to withdraw its investment, and other nations quickly followed suit. The Flame-Chasers had been turned into a political circus by the remaining bureaucrats. They would hold pointless meetings at a moment’s notice, publicly criticize the laboratory heads, and slash their funding with impunity.]
[Hearing this, you could vividly imagine the look on Mobius’s face as she was forced to endure a public dressing-down.]
[Finally, you turned to Kevin. Seeing that the last traces of naivety had vanished from his eyes, you clapped him on the shoulder. “Bring your best friend over. I remember he studied medicine.”]
[Kevin shook his head, a troubled look on his face. He didn’t want to drag his friend into this mess.]
[You explained patiently that the Honkai was not a regional disaster. It was a global one. “Do you want to be here when the next Great Honkai occurs, only to hear later that your friend died a senseless death somewhere else? Besides,” you added, “he can still do his original job after he comes here. We need doctors more than ever.”]
[Your words successfully persuaded him. You dispatched a small, efficient team with a specific set of instructions.]
[Before long, in just a few days, Su was brought back. The team had been thorough. Along with Su, they had relocated his family, his mentor, and even his mentor’s entire family.]
[It was a practical application of the old saying: while your parents are alive, you should not travel far. The solution was simply to bring them with you.]
[Su’s mentor immediately understood the gravity of the situation. He himself had been researching the Honkai, treating it as a new form of virulent disease. After a persuasive conversation with you, he eagerly joined the growing family of Taixu Laboratory.]
[What more could Su say? With his best friend and his mentor already committed, he had no choice but to join as well.]
[In the blink of an eye, several more months passed.]
[During this time, a major event occurred: Blanca gave birth to a cute little princess named Griseo.]
[However, this adorable little princess had a peculiar quirk: she would cry the moment almost anyone held her. Even Hen, her own father, had to hold his daughter with extreme care, terrified he would set her off.]
[But when you held Griseo, she simply giggled up at you.]
[And once in your arms, she wouldn’t let anyone else near. Even when her own mother approached, she would scrunch up her face and burst into tears.]
[This made Elysia and the others burn with a jealousy so intense it was almost comical.]
[“Ungrateful little wolf,” Blanca would mutter, but despite her words, she would still gaze at her daughter with a mother’s love. The child still had to be raised, after all.]
[You had no idea what was going on. You felt that you hadn’t even consciously activated your Magnetic Field Power. You weren’t a ‘Magnetic Field Incubus’ yet, so how could you have already developed the passive abilities of one?]
[Shortly after Griseo was born, perhaps pulled by the strings of fate, a new set of arrivals appeared.]
[Mobius and Klein stood at the entrance to your laboratory, surrounded by luggage.]
[You looked at the haggard, exhausted Mobius and the dark circles under Klein’s eyes, which seemed to have deepened into permanent fixtures. You immediately arranged for them to be shown to private quarters, insisting that work could wait for a couple of days. There were plenty of job openings here, and a desperate need for brilliant scientists.]
[As the saying goes, “An army of a thousand is easy to find, but a general is hard to come by.” But mostly, you just felt that the two of them looked like they were about to collapse from sheer exhaustion.]
[Before you left them to rest, Mobius pulled you aside. She told you that according to her calculations, the Fourth Herrscher would soon awaken in Northern Europe. She urged you to hurry and prepare.]
[Mobius had reported this to the Flame-Chasers, but the bureaucrats hadn’t listened at all. They called her an alarmist and told her not to say things that were “detrimental to unity.”]
[You nodded grimly after hearing her report, assuring her you would make the necessary arrangements.]
[At the same time, you felt a new resolve solidify within you. It was time to launch your other plan: the Global Unification Plan. The Super Soldier program had accumulated a sufficient number of candidates, and the gene serums had been upgraded to use programmed genetic code. This was going to be a tiring, monumental task.]
[During the two days she was supposed to be resting, Mobius spent most of her time at Blanca’s apartment. She took a great liking to Griseo and even went out of her way to learn the specific way to hold the child to keep her comfortable and content.]