Sorry, you scumbag woman, you can do whatever you want.

……

……

The next day.

“Klein, look.” Mebius pulled Klein along, pointing to the green-haired little girl and saying, “Isn’t she adorable? You were just a child.”

Klein: “…”

Although she knew Mebius was up to something, she was still completely taken aback by his actions.

This directly allowed her to skip the stage of having children... and become a mother.

"Work, there's work." The green-haired little girl looked around, then automatically ran to Möbius's chair, sat down, and began working.

The workaholic trait seems to be ingrained in their very being.

"..." Klein raised his hand and covered his cheek, feeling as if he were seeing another version of himself.

Meanwhile, Mebius happily told him, "From tonight onwards, with little Klein's help, you won't have to work so hard, and you can raise her like a daughter."

She tilted her head.

"Rounded up, it's like Klein has a well-behaved and capable daughter."

“…Doctor, that’s not how it works.” Klein sighed wearily. “Rounding it up, it’s like my daughter and I are working for you together.”

“To be more precise, Klein has more time to spend with me.” Möbius winked, his words carrying a very clear implication. “Klein can come to my house tonight.”

"..." Klein was somewhat tempted, but looking at the constantly working armed doll, even though he knew it was just a replica of hers, he still couldn't let go of it and shook his head to refuse Mebius's invitation.

"Doctor, I may not have time for a while." After saying that, she walked over to the armed doll and patiently began to teach it how to work.

The two figures, one large and one small, looked very much like a mother and daughter, creating a harmonious scene.

“Looks good.” Mebius chuckled, turned and left the room. She created the armed doll Klein mainly to… satisfy her collecting obsession from her previous life. Of course, it didn’t mean she wanted to create them all.

For example, the void has no intention of creating.

Chapter 177

Monsters are born

World Serpent.

Underground laboratory.

After passing through layers of closed metal doors, Mebius saw the dejected Vervie and couldn't help but ask her a question out of curiosity.

"What's wrong? You look so gloomy?"

"..." Velvi leaned back in the ergonomic chair, turned her head to look at Mebius who was walking over, and explained, "I have a split personality, or even multiple personality disorder. If I were to undergo 'erosion' modification on myself..."

She shrugged, looking utterly helpless.

"At that time, it might lead to a situation where the personality cannot be controlled and there is a split."

"Your personality and relationships are all quite good, aren't they?" Mebius asked, but Velvey shook her head and shrugged.

"People can even hate themselves, let alone different personalities. More importantly, no one can guarantee what kind of personality I will develop in the future, nor can anyone guarantee that we will always live in peace like this."

It is no exaggeration that she deeply considered the knowledge given by Möbius and gained an extremely profound understanding of how Möbius controlled nanorobots and how he accomplished the process of mechanical ascension.

First, there are naturally nanorobots that can potentially self-replicate indefinitely. Given enough resources and a suitable environment, they can evolve indefinitely.

However, to support such infinite self-replication and evolution, and to ensure that no errors occur in the process, a soul sufficient to unify all the nanobots is also needed.

That is, the so-called "erosion".

They would control nanobots by transforming their consciousness into something akin to a data life form.

In such a situation, the original body can be discarded at any time, and nanobots can be used as a new body.

To achieve true machine ascension.

However, for her... there is a problem: she has multiple personality disorder, not just ordinary multiple personality disorder.

In such a situation, using nanobots as clones could easily lead to a personality that can act independently of the original body at any time.

In the short term, that's naturally not a problem.

However, this could become problematic in the long run. No one can guarantee that over a long period of time, some individuals might want to become independent, or that new individuals might emerge and want to rebel.

Or perhaps, the newly born personality not only desires independence but also sees 'life' as a cancer of the universe.

He went berserk and wanted to exterminate all life.

In short, under such circumstances, it was a risky thing for her to "erode" and transform herself.

Unless the original personality returns and all created personalities are erased.

Then, the original personality operates independently on its own.

“…” Mebius understood Vervie’s concerns, thought about it carefully for a while, and then came to Vervie.

"Then let me talk to her and set some constraints on her current and future personality?" She blinked her beautiful eyes, using a tone that seemed to be coaxing a little white rabbit.

To this, Velvi rolled her eyes and refused without hesitation, "No, you're too dangerous for her."

As for who "she" is, as Mebius refers to, the answer is obvious without much thought: it is naturally the most primordial, dormant personality.

Of course, it's one thing for Möbius to be dangerous with the original personality, but another is that the original personality was socially anxious.

They wanted "her" to come out and communicate with someone like Mebius.

It's not impossible, but it's certainly wishful thinking.

“Then there’s no way.” Mebius sighed regretfully. She had always wanted to meet with Velvi’s original personality. When she had a spiritual connection with Velvi last time, she had tried to see if she could break through the wall of Velvi’s heart.

However, even with enough goodwill, one can freely interact and clash with the personality of Virvi.

However, that original personality... is completely inaccessible; rather, one can sense its presence.

However, it is also possible to detect the original personality's avoidance.

This situation is somewhat like that of a hardcore shut-in... Upon discovering a stranger in their home, their first reaction is to hide and not let anyone see them.

Even though seeing people doesn't cause any loss, I'm still afraid to meet them.

"Don't worry, she'll come out to see you sooner or later." Velvi smiled mysteriously, then changed the subject before Mebius could ask, "By the way, I've noticed that the Honkai concentration has been increasing dramatically lately."

“After all, the level of human life has undergone tremendous changes.” Mebius was not surprised. “This time, the Third Herrscher will be very strong.”

"Even the mechanical Herrscher I created will find it troublesome?" Velvet chuckled, feeling no fear or apprehension towards the soon-to-be-born Third Herrscher, but rather... anticipation.

Is it stronger that she created the mechanical Herrscher, or that the Herrscher created by an unknown civilization is stronger?

I really want to know the answer to this.

“I might disappoint you,” Mebius replied with certainty, but Velvet didn’t seem to care.

"The nanorobot evolution data you gave me covers a time span of more than five hundred years, doesn't it?" she asked Mebius.

After delving into the intelligence provided by Mebius, she discovered the strangeness of these knowledge systems, as if... they possessed some kind of unseen power that allowed them to overcome technological barriers, directly obtain results, and then push back to cause an explosive leap in technology.

It's somewhat similar to how she used the core of the Herrscher of Reason to create materials and instruments that current civilizations cannot manufacture.

Then, using these created materials and instruments, we can arrive at the desired answer.

This sense of incongruity permeated every corner of the knowledge system that Möbius had given her.

It's like Mebius possesses many Herrscher Cores.

“Everyone has a few secrets, don’t they?” Möbius didn’t tell the truth. From a normal perspective, the technology of nanobots was certainly more than five hundred years old.

This involved using many illogical abilities of monsters and overcoming numerous technological barriers.

This leads to unreasonable...results.

"Never mind, magicians need secrets, but they should also respect other people's secrets." Velvi chose to give up asking further questions.

This is not to say that she wasn't curious, but with her intelligence, she could easily analyze it.

This is a secret that Möbius cannot reveal willingly.

“If Vervie can break through my defenses, then it doesn’t matter if I know.” Möbius’s eyes narrowed slightly. “I still have a lot of knowledge I want to share with you. Let’s have another spiritual exchange.”

"...I...haven't finished digesting it yet." Velvi unexpectedly revealed a hint of girlish awkwardness, her beautiful eyes darting around before changing the subject, "By the way, I've been researching an incredibly powerful magic trick recently, Möbius, would you like to see it?"

"Impressive magic?" Mebius became somewhat interested, just as he saw Velvi cough lightly, take off her hat, take out a watch, and press it gently.

The light was distorted as a result.

The person disappeared.

Yes, they ran away.

"Not interested in knowledge at all?" Möbius tilted his head. "If it were Mebius, he would stick to me every day until he had squeezed all my knowledge dry."

After saying that, she turned and left the underground laboratory. The main reason for her meeting with Velvi was to check on Velvi's condition.

I'll also see if I can get a chance to meet Virvi's original personality.

……