Collapse: The World I Live In

Two days later, in the Fire Moth's high-level meeting room,

"So, Dr. Mei, why did you call everyone here? What's the matter?" Erken sat in the first seat, supporting his head with both hands and said with a smile.

"I believe everyone already knows about the assassination attempt I had two days ago." Mei took a deep breath and said.

"Oh~ A high-level meeting is held for such a small matter? Who among you hasn't encountered an assassination attempt? You are just wasting everyone's time. Our time is very precious." The second senior executive sitting on the right of Erken said. This senior executive was the one who ordered "Forget-me-not" to assassinate Mei before. At this moment, he acted like nothing happened, as if the assassination had nothing to do with him. It has to be said that the senior executive's acting skills are good. Perhaps he also thinks that "Forget-me-not" will not give him up.

As the high-level official's words came down, intermittent voices came from the surroundings, almost all of them saying that Dr. Mei wasted their time.

"Quiet." Erken raised his hand and said, "Let Dr. Mei continue." The voices around him suddenly became quiet. Long and Mei couldn't help but frowned when they saw this scene. Erken's power was too great...

Long gave Mei a look, asking her to continue. Mei also understood Long's look and said, "Of course, this meeting would not be held for an ordinary assassination, but the one who came to assassinate me was the famous "Forget-me-not". If Kevin hadn't been by my side, I might have died."

"what?"

“Does “Forget-me-not” really exist?”

Such surprised and puzzled voices appeared in the high-level meeting.

"I told you to be quiet," Erken said again, and the discussion around him stopped immediately.

"And this "Forget-me-not" is not from another organization, but a member of the Poison Pupa of the Fire Moth." Mei paused and observed the expressions of the senior executives around him, and found that there was no change, and continued, "And the only ones who can command the Poison Pupa... are the senior executives of the Fire Moth."

As Mei's voice fell, the entire high-level conference room fell silent, and no one stood up to say a word.

"So, Dr. Mei means that someone among us wants to kill you?" Erken said as the smile disappeared from his face, and he suddenly felt the temperature of the entire conference room drop a few degrees.

"I don't want to think this way...but this is the fact." Mei said.

"Then everyone, just as Dr. Mei said, I hope that you can be honest, take the initiative to stand up, and don't waste everyone's time." Al said, lying back in his chair.

"Huh, you said that we were the ones who assassinated you, right? Dr. Mei, you have been thinking about entering the top ranks for a long time. Who knows if you made this up? There should be evidence for everything." It was the same senior executive who said this again, with a very disdainful tone.

"You are wrong. We captured the Forget-Me-Not alive. She has confessed everything. I hope the person behind this can be honest." Looking at the executive who jumped out, Mei smiled and stared at the executive.

"What do you mean by looking at me? Do you think it's me?" The senior executive felt a little uneasy when being stared at, so he stood up and pounded the table and said.

"I didn't say it was you, and there are others who are more convincing than me." Mei spread her hands and shook her head and said, "I have brought the Forget-Me-Not with me, and I will invite her in right away."

As Mei finished speaking, the door to the conference room opened and Kevin and Sakura, who was under his control, walked in.

As the two people came in, the discussion in the conference room began again.

"Okay, the person has been brought here, Miss Forget-me-not. Now you can identify who is the mastermind behind this." Mei walked to Ying's side, put her hands on her shoulders from behind, and pushed her out.

Ying stood in front of the senior executives, watching everyone's eyes turn to her. She couldn't help but feel a little nervous. After all, for a killer in the dark, facing so many people might be nervous. But she still took a deep breath and pointed her finger at one of the senior executives, the one who stood up, "That's him."

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to this senior executive, including Erken. This senior executive was frightened and took a few steps back. His chair was also knocked over by him. He roared, "Nonsense, you are lying! It's not me!"

But he looked around and saw no one who believed in him. He turned to look at Erken, who fell in front of him, lowered his head, and kept saying, "Erken, you have to believe me, you have to believe me, it really wasn't me..."

"Do you believe what you said?" Erken's cold voice rang in the ears of the senior executives, "I should have told you that the main goal should be to fight against Honkai."

"Alas..." The senior executive wanted to raise his head and tried to quibble, but before he could say anything, a black object blocked his mouth. This object was a gun.

"Why are there so many idiots in this world..." Erken said, shaking his head.

"I was wrong, Erken, I was wrong. There won't be a next time..." the senior executive grumbled.

But the response he got was not Erken's forgiveness. When he looked at Erken's extremely cold eyes, he knew that he was finished this time. He regretted very much now. He should not have asked someone to assassinate Dr. Mei, but there was no regret medicine in the world.

boom!

With a gunshot, the bullet pierced the senior executive's head and the entire conference room was filled with the smell of blood.

Mei looked at Erken in horror. She couldn't believe that Erken had killed someone of the same level as him. Not only was Mei shocked, but all the senior executives in the conference room were shocked. They didn't expect that this senior executive would die like this.

Blood splattered on Erken's white suit and face. Erken took out a handkerchief from the lining and wiped the blood off his face. Then he threw the handkerchief on the face of the dead senior executive next to him and said, "Dr. Mei, you will inherit his position."

"Ah... okay..." Mei was stunned for a moment, then agreed. After all, their goal was to squeeze into the upper echelons, but she didn't expect it to be so easy.

"Don't let me down, Doctor." Erken came to the opposite side of Mei and wanted to get close to Mei to say something, but was stopped by Kevin. Erken had to give up and turned to the senior executives and said, "Everyone here, I hope that such a scene will not appear again among our senior executives. The purpose of our Fire Moth is to fight against the Honkai! Let's cheer for this goal!" After that, he left the meeting room.

……

Accompanied by Mei, Kevin, Ying and Long returned to Mobius' laboratory.

"How is it? Was it successful?" Mebius looked at Mei who came in with a pale face and handed her a glass of water and said.

"It was a success, but the process..." Mei took the water and said while sitting on the sofa in the laboratory.

"Erken directly killed that senior executive and let Mei take his place. We didn't expect Erken's power to be so great. That senior executive must be no simple person..." Long lit a cigarette and told everyone in the laboratory the details.

"You can't light cigarettes in the lab." Yi came over and took the cigarette from Long's mouth and said, "It's good that it succeeded in the end. Besides, didn't that Erken fight against Honkai in the end?"

"That's because you have too little contact with him. Although he is the leader in the fight against Honkai, what he did to fight Honkai is even more unacceptable than Mobius's human experiments. This is just what happens on the surface, there are many more things happening behind the scenes." Long wanted to snatch the cigarette back from Yi, but failed and said again.

"Really?" Yi had only met Erken a few times and didn't know what kind of person he was. "According to this situation, wouldn't he be the one who has the final say in the Fire Moth?"

"That's not wrong..." Long said, scratching his head.

"So what are you going to do next?" Yi asked.

"We can only take it one step at a time and try to find a way to take power back from Erken, so that our plan can be carried out." Mei said while lying on the sofa with her head raised.