They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 104: Two Geniuses Starting to Court Death
After Dan Lei officially became the advisor (assistant) to the two geniuses, he sent a letter back to Luo Fu, saying that he would be studying with Ms. Black Tower and would not be returning for a while, and that Luo Fu and the others could rest assured.

At the same time, Dan Lei also sent letters to Fei Xiao and Dan Zhu, saying that for the next period of time, they could simply send their letters to the Black Tower Space Station.

Regardless of what the two sides thought after receiving the letter, Dan Lei officially took office.

However, the first thing Nguyen Mai did upon taking office was to ask Dan Lei to strip naked and lie on the lab table so that she could examine him.

At Dan Lei's insistence, Ruan Mei finally agreed to let Dan Lei keep a pair of briefs, thus avoiding having his masculine dignity exposed to public scrutiny.

Then, Nguyen Mai gave Dan Lei a full-body massage.

Dan Lei felt that Ruan Mei must have a slight desire for revenge, as her hands lingered on his neck for an unusually long time, pressing and stroking it in various ways.

However, after it was all over, Nguyen Mai still made an evaluation.

"You are very strong, or rather, excessively strong."

I have studied the Vidyadhara Dragon Clan and even obtained the body tissue of the Dragon Lord, but none of them are as strong as you.

Your cells are far more active than those of ordinary organisms, is it because of that special life energy within you? I'm going to extract some.

After saying that, Nguyen Mai took out a prop that she didn't recognize at all and sucked it on her arm.

Dan Lei felt that some of the magic power that filled his body was indeed being drawn out, and a little blood was also drawn from him.

After that, Ruan Mei's initial examination was completed, and she left with the magic and blood samples collected from her body.

There was absolutely no explanation as to how she obtained the Dragon Lord's body tissue.

However, Danlei has no way to catch up and ask now.

Because after Nguyen Mai, the Black Tower will also come to examine itself.

Yes, these two geniuses claimed to be collaborating on research, but in reality, they were each researching their own things and had no intention of doing research together at all.

Therefore, Danlei needs to undergo all his tests twice.

Fortunately, the Black Tower's examination was much more normal than Nguyen Mai's.

She had Danlei lie down in a large, state-of-the-art medical pod, then let him take a nap. When he woke up, all the necessary tests had been completed.

However, after Dan Lei woke up, he clearly felt the depletion in his body; the Black Tower had definitely drained a lot of his blood.

But these were all necessary procedures, so Danlei could only make up for his deficit with a big meal.

Then, the two geniuses who discovered that Dan Lei seemed to have a gluttonous ability became even more interested in Dan Lei's body and began to constantly torment him.

Fortunately, the two geniuses' frenzied research on themselves only lasted for a month. They both obviously encountered a bottleneck and almost simultaneously stopped messing with Dan Lei, and began to formally study the remains of the Insect Emperor and the power of reproduction.

However, the fact that Heita and Ruan Mei have stopped bothering Danlei doesn't mean that Danlei has become idle.

Danlei has officially entered learning mode and assistant mode.

The learning mode is simple. According to the information from the Black Tower Space Station, Dan Lei is diligently studying four things: the creation of crystal computers, programming, space folding technology, and the principle of ultra-long-distance mental transmission.

The purpose of the first two studies is simple: Danlei wants the Holy Grail to take him to a modern world again in the future, so he won't have to find a local identity.

Even the worst crystal computer is better than the quantum computer used by humans when they couldn't fully leave Earth, and its signal encoding patterns can be cracked in a matter of minutes.

At that time, you can make up whatever identity you want, and money will no longer be a problem.

As for the principles of ultra-long-range mental transmission and spatial folding technology, they are still for the purpose of using one's own backup body.

Aozaki Touko has completed the task that Dan Lei gave herself, and now she can create a complete 1:1 human version of herself. Luo Fu now has one hidden there.

However, even with Dan Lei's level of substitution magic, there are still limitations on the distance he can transfer his soul into a spare body.

The same applies to Aozaki Touko; otherwise, she wouldn't need to set up a bunch of bases all over the world and then put one or two spare bodies of hers in each place.

For Dan Lei, even with the power of destiny, this distance is barely enough for one planet. Now, with countless star systems separating them, his backup body in Luofu would definitely be useless.

At this point, the ultra-long-range mental transmission technology and spatial folding technology become useful.

Like the Black Tower, she could use the Black Tower Magic Mirror's spatial folding to project her data spirit directly from the Black Tower Space Station to Onfaros via the Star Train as a signal base station.

If Dan Lei can do the same thing in the future, then as long as he prepares enough spare bodies, he might be even harder to kill than Shu Hu.

Of course, Danlei is only at the starting point on this path. Although Black Tower has paved the entire road, Danlei can only complete it on his own.

Moreover, Danlei is actually unable to keep learning all the time.

On the Black Tower space station, Danlei is nominally an advisor, but in reality, he is the assistant to two geniuses.

Of course, Dan Lei could hardly help with the geniuses' experiments; he could only watch. The most Dan Lei did was clean up the mess left by the two geniuses.

Since becoming the assistant to the genius, Dan Lei has really found it hard to look at the word "genius" the same way anymore; all his illusions about him have shattered.

In the universal concept of geniuses in the Star Iron Universe, even if a genius is an eccentric, a pervert, or a villain, these people are the pinnacle of intelligence among intelligent beings.

It seems that these people never fail in scientific research. As long as they want to study something, even if it is theoretically impossible to achieve, they can always find something.

Of course, this is a one-sided view of genius held by the mortals of Star Iron.

Since Danlei became the assistant to the two geniuses, she has discovered that their experiments have a very high failure rate and that they can easily cause big problems.

For example, Ruan Mei, ever since she began researching the power of reproduction, apart from opening the amber stone containing the remains of the Insect King with Black Tower, she took some samples of Taizyuros's body and went to study them on her own.

Moreover, the situation is similar for the Black Tower.

Then their experiment began to encounter a series of unexpected problems.

Clearly, studying the body of the Star God was already beyond the scope of their abilities for the two geniuses.

But both of them are incredibly ambitious.

At this point, Nguyen Mai no longer cared about cultivating and breeding envoys; she directly changed the purpose of her experiment to cultivating an organism with Taizyuros genes.

As expected, Ruan Mei immediately created a creature that constantly splits itself, with an armored body similar to an alien. It was only because the Black Tower space station was sturdy enough and its energy insulation for containing the artifact was excellent that this thing almost escaped the laboratory and went on a killing spree.

Nguyen Mai was clearly very experienced; she left the lab as soon as the experimental block went out of control, remaining completely calm throughout, with hardly any change in expression.

When she found Danlei, she even brought him desserts and tea, making Danlei think it was just a minor problem.

As a result, upon entering the laboratory's chamber, Dan Lei was nearly overwhelmed by the horde of "alien" creatures. He eventually had to use the reproductive destiny power of a Commander-level being to defeat the mother monster.

It can be said that the monster created by Nguyen Mai is absolutely capable of destroying a planet's surface civilization by itself, and this refers to the kind of civilization that has already been able to fly into space and start the era of colonization within a star system.

Moreover, this was just the beginning of Dan Lei's combat training. Later, Ruan Mei created a series of monsters, including a Cthulhu-like creature with infinitely splitting tentacles, a berserk plant that could suck blood and flesh from its branches, and an organic chunk of flesh that could infinitely split and expand... and so on.

Ruan Mei made Dan Lei suspect that she drew inspiration from horror and disaster movies in the film and television department of Interstellar Peace Company for each experiment, otherwise how could she create monsters with such a strong sense of déjà vu every time?

Nguyen Mai is like this, and the Black Tower side is actually about the same.

However, since the Black Tower doesn't cause biological disasters, she is indeed more responsible than Nguyen May. She can easily kill ordinary monsters, and the Black Tower dolls will take care of the monster bodies.

However, Black Tower has a very explosive "talent".

Since her laboratory began studying the remains of the insect queen and conducting experiments on the energy of the reproductive destiny, large explosions have frequently occurred.

Dan Lei has lost count of how many times the Black Tower space station has had to be evacuated due to similar explosions.

Dan Lei believes that after the antimatter legion invades in the future, the crew of the Black Tower space station will definitely not be as terrified as they are in the game.

Because they are no longer living a life free from disasters and difficulties, where they only need to conduct research.

Now, the Black Tower space station's red evacuation alarm is constantly sounding with massive explosions and tremors, and maintenance costs are constantly doubling.

Moreover, Heita, who was used to being a hands-off manager, eventually handed over the maintenance and experimental expenses to Danlei.

Because she knew that Danlei was actually very rich. Danlei received a share of the temple's profits, and as the value of those materials was continuously verified, Danlei's savings in Luofu and Interstellar Peace Company had become incredibly large.

Furthermore, Toppa and Sandstone would often entice Danlei to invest in this or that, and although there were gains and losses, the overall result was a profit.

Therefore, Black Tower stated that in order for the research on the remains of the Insect Emperor and the power of reproduction to continue, the money for those experiments and repairs would be considered as borrowed money.

Dan Lei had no choice but to generously donate to the research and maintain his promise not to interfere with the two's experiments, considering it tuition for the knowledge of the Black Tower Space Station.

Fifteen years have passed in this way.

According to the calculation method of the Immortal Ship, it is now the year 8091 of the Star Calendar, with only nine years left before the start of the game's story.

During this time, Danlei's Holy Grail travel energy was already full, but Danlei did not travel, because the knowledge of the Black Tower Space Station was clearly more useful to him than the Holy Grail travel to which he had no idea.

Moreover, in fifteen years, Dan Lei also learned how to make crystal computers. With the help of the Divine Machine Refinement, as long as there are enough materials, he can now handcraft low-end crystal computers in the Star Iron Universe, including program compilation.

As for ultra-long-range mental transmission technology and spatial folding technology, we've only scratched the surface; there's still a long way to go.

Of course, Danlei's learning efficiency would be ridiculed by Heita. Heita highly recognized Danlei's learning spirit, but also often laughed at Danlei for learning so little knowledge so slowly.

However, after the joke, Heita would still let Danlei ask questions and answer them.

Therefore, Danlei has become able to ignore Heita's sharp tongue.

After all, for the past fifteen years, the two geniuses had spent most of their time at the Black Tower Space Station because of the remains of the Insect Emperor, and Dan Lei had long since become familiar with them.

Even when she doesn't need Dan Lei's help, Ruan Mei will still feed him in her spare time.

As for Black Tower, they're practically on friendly terms, exchanging playful banter all the time.

Danlei no longer uses the "Ms." prefix when talking to either of them; they're considered friends now.

However, for Danlei, who is under close scrutiny by [the authorities], the idea of ​​settling down in one place for an extended period is simply wishful thinking.

At this juncture of fifteen years, one day, Heita and Ruan Mei found Danlei together and said that after so many years of research, they had gained a certain understanding of the remains of the Insect King.

Now, it's time to activate this remnant of the Insect King. The two geniuses hope to find clues to the secrets of the Star God from the erupting Star God-level reproductive destiny power.

For the past fifteen years, Black Tower and Ruan Mei have kept their promises, always having Dan Lei observe whenever they conduct research on the remains of the Insect King.

So this time, Dan Lei naturally wouldn't refuse, and once again came with Hei Ta and Ruan Mei to the laboratory where the entire cabin had been transformed into a multi-layered artifact sealing chamber, where the remains of the Insect King had been locked for fifteen years.

Dan Lei had lost count of how many times he had seen this unsealed remains of the Insect King.

According to Nguyen Mai's research, this fragment has been confirmed to be a tail structure of Taizyuros, and the serrated structure should be part of its tail segment.

However, no matter how many times Dan Lei looked at the undisturbed spots on it after it was unsealed and the buzzing vibrations it made, he would feel nauseous.

The purpose of this experiment is to inject the "reproductive destiny" energy of the Black Tower's restoration into this remains, and to inject the Taizyuros gene cultivated by Nguyen Mai back into the remains, so as to activate it to restore a corner of its original power.

However, Dan Lei's heart was pounding with unease, a bad premonition weighing on his mind, so he couldn't help but ask the Black Tower...
"Black Tower, are you sure the current laboratory can withstand the power of the Star God's destiny? Won't the protective glass here shatter instantly?"

Regarding this question, Black Tower said dismissively to Dan Lei.

"What? Scared? If you're scared, then get out."

Dan Lei didn't pay attention to Heita's usual sarcastic remarks and waited for her subsequent explanation.

Sure enough, after Black Tower finished criticizing Dan Lei, he immediately explained...

"If it were a true Star God, my protection would be far from enough. It would be normal for them to melt my entire space station with just a little bit of their energy."

But this is just a small fragment, and it's impossible for it to unleash energy at the level of a true star god. I only need it to unleash energy of the same nature.

For the past fifteen years, I've had a secret project that's been significantly accelerated because of this piece of debris.

This is a huge project, Danlei. I'll give you beta testing access later, so you'd better help me test it properly.

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei knew that the simulated universe should be nearing completion, but he pretended to be oblivious for the moment.

"No, I don't have much money left. I can't afford to participate in your new project, Black Tower. If I'm not careful, I'll end up picking up trash in space to pay off my debts."

(End of this chapter)