Thanks to her defeating the Tomato Devil and saving the people there, Lihua's favorability with the few hundred people present had basically reached a terrifying level of 7 or 8.
Although many of them didn't know what Lihua had gone through before, with the proselytizing of those who did, they quickly understood the pain Lihua had experienced, and thus, mourned for their savior.
Even if they added up to less than 10,000 energy points, who wouldn't love free energy?
"Lihua, why did you appear here?" After a brief silence, Gao Ming, who had fearfully divorced his paper waifu because of the Otto Trio, couldn't resist his curiosity and asked.
"I'm not too sure myself..." Lihua shook her head, seemingly confused.
Yeah, as if! This clone was freshly baked a few minutes ago!
"I only remember that I was fighting a monster that appeared at the Schicksal headquarters, and then I used the Judgement of Shamash… I should be dead, logically speaking."
"So, the ending of the Saintess Chapter…" Gao Ming pondered. He was thinking that Lihua might be interested in the Honkai Impact 3rd game, after all, she would definitely want to know what happened to her friends, Otto, Kallen, and Eleanor, after her death.
But the obsessed trio had done so many things to revive her. Could Lihua really accept that? Maybe it would be better not to tell her for now...
After hesitating, Gao Ming quietly approached Li Bei while the others were chatting with Lihua and poked him: "Good bro, now I have a century-old problem to choose from..."
After hearing Gao Ming's worries, Li Bei was speechless.
Coming to me, the original body, to discuss whether or not to hide things from my clone? Dude, you're a genius.
"I don't think you need to consider that matter anymore." Li Bei said sincerely, "It's not your place to consider it."
"Why?! Lihua is at least my waifu—" Gao Ming's voice suddenly cut off, and he covered his mouth and looked sneakily towards Lihua.
After confirming that she wasn't paying attention, he breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "She's the paper waifu I used to like, what's wrong with me considering how she feels?"
"Because someone with a higher clearance will consider that."
Li Bei spread his hands, showing his innocence: "Like the police, for example."
In fact, Li Bei's senses had already heard police sirens approaching in the distance. They would probably be arriving on the scene in a few minutes.
When that happened, they, as ordinary people, would definitely be dispersed or taken away. They would definitely not have a chance to continue talking with Lihua, an alien from another world. Therefore, Gao Ming's consideration was completely overthinking it.
And when Gao Ming heard Li Bei mention the police, he immediately wilted. "Yeah, such a fifth-kind contact probably has nothing to do with us ordinary people... Sigh, I didn't even get to say a few words to my paper ex-wife! My life, I've lost such a precious opportunity…!!"
Seeing Gao Ming so sad, Li Bei very generously patted him on the shoulder and then gave himself a thumbs up: "It's okay, even if you can't talk to Lihua, you can talk to me, daddy, right? That's way better than whatever Lihua could offer."
"Go, go, go, not only are you a fake but also a guy, how can you compare to a paper waifu." Gao Ming waved his hand in disgust.
To Gao Ming, a guy with no sense of aesthetics, Li Bei could only give a six.
And the situation was exactly as Li Bei had predicted. Soon, police cars howled as they arrived near the anime convention and began a lockdown. The people in the venue were separated into groups and taken away. Li Bei, Gao Ming, and Liu Yue, as onlookers, were no exception.
As for Lihua, she was escorted by police officers who seemed to have a higher rank and was driven away in a police car, he didn't know where.
After being lectured by the police officers in charge of them for half an hour, and being educated with all sorts of "don't reveal the situation to the public" rules, they cleared all the videos from their devices and signed a confidentiality agreement, and were finally released.
Although Li Bei felt that this kind of approach was completely useless. After all, there were so many people in the venue at the time. It was impossible for everyone to have chosen to stay and watch.
There must have been a lot of people who chose to run away first, and the police would probably find it difficult to track them all down, so there was no way to keep the matter contained.
And there were so many people streaming live at the time. By now, all sorts of leaked videos were probably flying all over the internet. Trying to block the information was basically wishful thinking.
If this was just one or two events, maybe they could still be forcefully suppressed. But as dimensional fusion continued, similar things would only increase...
Sitting in the police car that was driving them home, Li Bei listened to Gao Ming and Liu Yue chattering excitedly about what had just happened. He was more focused on thinking about Lihua.
He was quite curious how the authorities would treat a transmigrator like Lihua.
"Miss Lihua Kaslana, hello. I am the captain of the Kongchang City Unusual Event Handling Team, Wang Chui."
In a bright and clean reception room, a burly man with thick eyebrows wearing a uniform was looking seriously at the young girl sitting in front of him.
Although he had already heard a lot of information, seeing such a girl, who looked like she was only about 20 years old, sitting in front of him and having to treat her as a human weapon that was dozens of times stronger than Schwarzenegger, was really difficult.
Look at her thin arms and legs, she didn't have a single muscle. Compared to fighting, she seemed more suitable to sing and dance on TV or walk the runway as a model.
He remembered she was a character from a game that was very popular now. Did the people these days like to have little girls fighting in games? The games he used to play like Contra were clearly all about buff male leads…
"Hello, Captain Wang." Lihua smiled. "Thank you for treating me with such a kind attitude. I thought you would cuff me first and put me in an interrogation room before talking to me."
"Heh, Miss Kaslana is joking. We are not those military guys with messed-up brains from those superhero movies – um, a superhero movie is a film that comes from our world…"
Wang Chui roughly explained the famous artistic character of Superman in human civilization to Lihua: "A being like you, who came from another world to Earth, should be treated with respect no matter what."