Chapter 169: This is a Royal Rumble!
The three people at home almost started fighting.
What Cocolia liked to do most was watch the fun, and Raiden Ryoma was still playing the part of a high-class Palu. [Palu is a slang term used in online gaming, especially MOBAs, referring to players who are very bad at the game.]
And what about Raiden Mei and old sister Fu Hua?
One of them really didn't understand anything, and the other one didn't care about anything other than fighting the Honkai.
After Noldrei came back, they explained the situation.
Simply put, the three of them had different ideas.
Bronya herself was involved in managing the students, and she was also responsible for supervising the safety of Academy City. She was mainly telling Dr. Tesla that she needed to slow down, otherwise this place would collapse.
And what about Dr. Tesla? For the current her, everything was slow, especially since the work that Noldrei had arranged for her was basically all about the Honkai.
It wasn't anything like human experimentation, it was just normal biotechnology research, but she was just doing it a bit too quickly. It was just that everyone else wasn't able to handle the trouble caused by this rapid progress.
And what about Kiana?
She did indeed need more and more genetic information for the Stigmata space. She wanted everyone to progress quickly, but she also wanted things to slow down a bit so that she could relax for a couple of days.
But the things that she needed required Dr. Tesla's research to continue to be pushed forward, so she was both progressive and conservative. All progress was to maintain her own 'imperial power.'
"Kiana, why do I feel like… you've become a labor union?"
Noldrei came up with a good word to describe his heir.
Unfortunately, Kiana didn't understand what he meant. Her brain froze for a short moment.
It was obvious that Bronya and Tesla agreed with what he had said. They had finally begun to understand some things. That Kiana was really capable of causing problems.
"What did you tell Hei to do?"
Noldrei asked out of curiosity. Even Raiden Mei was curious about how Kiana had caused so much trouble while playing games at home.
Kiana thought for a moment and said, "I just told him to find a way to slow down the stuff that was being handed out by the research institutes."
"So you told him to intentionally cause trouble? And what was that thing about getting the so-called Holy Mother to descend early?"
Bronya thought that Kiana's order was too absurd.
"No, Hei didn't do anything wrong. He faithfully understood Kiana's orders." Noldrei explained a bit for Hei and said, "He needs to maintain the flow of genetic information into the Kaslana Stigmata space, and he also needs to keep the development of Academy City stable, so the best way to do that is to stir up conflicts so that people can learn and adapt in conflicts. And he could also shift the attention of many people towards the adaptation of ordinary people."
"The problem was that he was too loyal to Kiana and did too good of a job."
The reason that Noldrei had given made Raiden Mei's head spin.
Tesla covered her face. She couldn't imagine how Kiana's progressive yet conservative thoughts had been conveyed to her subordinate.
"God damn it! Kiana! You're such a useless leader! No, that's not right either. You're quite successful in some aspects…"
Tesla collapsed on the ground. She no longer had the strength to argue with Kiana.
"This is the disadvantage of a family-controlled government! If we want power, then we have to suffer this pain! Your Majesty, what are we supposed to do next?"
Cocolia was very upset. How had society regressed to this point?
The conflicts of Academy City had even reached the Emperor's house. This was a very troublesome thing.
If everyone was fighting for power, then that would be fine, since he was the true 'emperor'. But Noldrei was only being the emperor so that it would be more convenient for him to centralize power in the later genetic era.
Seeing that everyone was waiting for his solution, he pondered for a moment and then said, "Since that's the case, then let's think of a simple solution. Create something like the Kengan Association Arena?"
Tesla suspected that Noldrei wanted all of the people in Academy City to die.
As she was thinking, she asked, "Do you want the three of us to have a fight, and then see who has the biggest fists?"
"How could that be? I'm just saying that we should establish a simple platform for discussions."
Noldrei didn't want them to really start fighting. And besides…
He glanced at Bronya. If they were to start fighting, this little girl would probably be crushed by the other two.
"We can't let Bronya suffer too much. The students in Academy City have all contacted me through Otto, saying that Academy City was developing too fast and needed some time to settle down."
Noldrei hadn't released too many things yet, and Academy City was already unable to handle it.
It seemed that the people of this era were still not very adaptable.
"To be honest, I do understand why those students like the current Academy City. But just liking it isn't enough. We'll need more people to join the era of genetic currency in the future."
"Let me think, what should Tesla be mainly researching now?"
Dr. Tesla's expression wasn't very pleasant. It was already troublesome enough for her to constantly research living Stigmata battlesuits. Now, she needed to research other things?
"Forget it, I won't give you extra responsibilities for now. You can take a break when you're free. Go out shopping with some friends."
After hearing that, Tesla's expression instantly changed, and she even began to see his face in a more favorable light.
'Is that PUA? Workplace training?' Raiden Mei couldn't help but complain. She didn't understand why Dr. Tesla, who was so powerful, still had such an easy-to-understand expression.
'You should at least resist a little! But wait, is that considered resistance?'
Mei thought of what happened when Tesla resisted, but that didn't look like 'resistance' at all.
"But who am I supposed to go shopping with? Einstein's not here. She's still working on the final parts of the Moonlight Throne. I'm not going to fly to North America every time I go out, right?"
Tesla didn't actually have much of a shopping desire. She preferred staying in the lab. If she really had to go out, she might as well do some physics research.
She was actually feeling uncomfortable being suddenly given a vacation.
"That's easy, just take Kiana out shopping, have her look at pretty girls, and that will be it."
Noldrei waved his hand and solved the two major troubles in Academy City, finally giving the researchers a chance to relax.
"What about me?" Bronya pointed at herself. Didn't she also need a vacation?
Noldrei explained, "You have the important task of maintaining public order. And we don't have enough manpower now. If you take a vacation, how are those two going to go out and play? And if you don't let those two go on vacation, how are we supposed to reduce the conflicts inside Academy City?"
'...'
Bronya's head was full of questions.