Honkai Impact 3: Saving the former civilization by rubbing the black technology

"Obtained new material: Mebius Saliva (precious)."

"Mebius Spit (Precious): Usable Value 100%."

"Investing in the current R&D project, 'Fusion Warrior Plan', will increase research progress by an additional 50% and earn you 1 optimization point."

A moment later, at the First Research Institute.

"Doctor, you're back?" A woman with messy green medium-length hair looked up from a pile of documents, revealing a haggard face with heavy dark circles under her eyes. "Hey, isn't that newcomer you mentioned coming back with you?"

"Klein, don't mention him!" Mobius stormed back to the lab table and began taking out his anger on the lab equipment. "That arrogant guy actually dared to look down on our work..."

"To be able to piss you off like this..." The woman named Klein adjusted the hairpin holding her bangs in place and couldn't help but smile strangely. "It seems he really is quite a genius."

"Genius? No, that's not right." As if realizing something, Mebius suddenly calmed down. "His attitude, rather than confidence in his own talent, seems more like something else..."

Carefully recalling Ai Yue's attitude just now, Mebius couldn't help but frown.

She suddenly realized that Ai Yue might be the most arrogant person she had ever met.

Arrogant to the point of... as if he was above the world.

Chapter 21 What kind of hunk are you?

Ai Yue naturally didn't know that his image in Mebius's mind had changed. He was still studying other people's saliva at this moment.

Oh, to be precise, it should be precious research material.

Although Kevin's hair is also a material of the same level, saliva is temporary and may dry up in a while if not used. Therefore, Ai Yue did not care too much about it and directly put it into the scientific research project.

Although the "Fusion Warrior Project" is also a scientific research project, it is different from the projects that Ai Yue has done before that were able to produce physical objects. At present, only theoretical models can be constructed, so the internal components of the scientific research project are also different.

Because there is no physical object to be constructed, there is no basic material analysis link. Instead, it is replaced by theoretical model deduction, and "prototype framework construction" also becomes "model optimization construction". Ai Yue speculates that this should be related to the "optimization points" provided by precious materials.

It has to be said that the precious material is really powerful. Although the saliva remaining on the straw mouth can only provide 12.6% of the complete scientific research value, this part almost completes the deduction of all the sub-projects left to him by Mebius, leaving only % of the total progress.

With this level of progress, Kevin's hair was of no use at all. Ai Yue just found a few ordinary-level materials from the bag he brought out from Dusk Street and got it done directly.

As a theoretical model, the "Fusion Warrior Plan" is essentially an attempt to deduce the possibility of combining the Honkai beast genes with human genes. It did not have a practical basis at the beginning, because even if it was just a theoretical deduction, the success rate of this thing has always been zero percent.

In other words, if humans had not really reached a desperate point, this plan would have remained at the theoretical level and would never have had the possibility of being put into actual experimentation.

The reason why Kevin's surgery was successful, in addition to a large part of luck, was also because Dr. Mei made independent optimizations specifically for Kevin's fusion warrior surgery.

The Honkai Beast genes integrated into Kevin's body came from the emperor-level Honkai Beast "Pavanti", which was the Honkai Beast that Dr. Mei had studied for the longest time and also the Honkai Beast with the best compatibility with Kevin. The genes extracted from its body and then made into a "super-mutation factor" through gene editing technology were barely successful.

The reason why it is said to be "barely" is that even though Kevin successfully survived and gained powerful strength and abilities, the fusion warrior surgery still left him with serious sequelae.

His body temperature was almost kept constant at minus 30 degrees Celsius, a temperature at which water would freeze. Even if he wanted to cry, the tears would turn into ice chips the moment they overflowed from his eyes, and he would never be able to have close contact with other people again.

And this is just one of the sequelae. Various physiological deformities, various criticisms caused by his embarrassing position in human society, and the increasingly serious sense of inhumanity deep in his heart, each sequelae will gradually manifest itself in Kevin.

It is because this world will never usher in the day of peace that fusion warriors can become "heroes". Otherwise, once the threat brought by the collapse is over, fusion warriors like Kevin will inevitably be excluded by human society and eventually explode into the doomsday of another civilization.

Ai Yue has tasted so many similar stories that he can create pictures in his mind just by thinking with his heels.

Fortunately, as long as I work hard enough, such a future will not happen.

However, these are things that need to be considered later. For now, let’s just deal with the project at hand.

Ai Yue threw the messy thoughts in his mind aside and refocused his attention on the Fusion Warrior Plan.

After solving this project, he finally understood why the entire project could be researched almost completely with the help of Mobius' saliva - because the Fusion Warrior Plan was more like a formula. It was not enough to just understand the formula. It also required separate processing and experiments based on the different Honkai Beast genes.

Processing the genes of various Honkai beasts and turning them into "super-mutant factors" with different effects is the most critical part of the entire fusion warrior plan.

The files that Mebius handed him included the genome data of a Honkai beast code-named "Garuda".

His task is to use gene editing technology to cut out some data that is harmful to the human body, and to reduce the pollution value of human genes as much as possible while retaining the main body of the Honkai beast gene to the greatest extent.

It was no wonder that Mobius thought Ai Yue was being too arrogant. After all, even if Mobius did this kind of work himself, he would have to spend a lot of time with the help of professional equipment and repeat experiments hundreds of times before he could find the best solution from the few successful cases.

But even so, this "best solution" is only subjective. If you want to find the best solution in an objective sense, it will take several times longer.

But this kind of thing is different for Ai Yue - because it is so easy with the assistance of the system.

After completing the most basic project of the Fusion Warrior Plan, Ai Yue also successfully activated the "Model Optimization Construction" system, and a brand new interface appeared in front of him.

That is the ideal model of the "Fusion Warrior Plan" researched and developed by Dr. Mei and Dr. Mebius. However, this ideal model has many loopholes and deformities in the construction of the system, and there is obviously a lot of room for optimization.

If we use a painting as a metaphor, what appeared before Ai Yue's eyes was a strange creature with six eyes, three nostrils, no teeth in its mouth, limbs of different lengths, a sunken chest, a waist thinner than its neck, and deformed sexual characteristics.

If Ai Yue had no intuitive understanding of the madness of the Fusion Warrior Plan just now, then when he saw the ideal model constructed by the system, he finally understood how lucky Kevin was.

After undergoing such a haphazard operation, he was still able to maintain his human appearance and his mind remained normal. The only sequelae was a slightly low body temperature - it can only be said that he deserves to be the irreplaceable protagonist in the current plot.

In this case, using optimization points, you can easily correct it into a delicate and beautiful portrait little by little from the aspects of "optimization sequelae", "optimization effect", "optimization penetration rate", etc.

Of course, since Ai Yue only has one optimization point in his hand, he must use it in the most critical place.

Taking Kevin's situation into consideration and his own follow-up plans, Ai Yue chose to optimize the sequelae of the fusion warrior surgery.

The next second, the ideal model changed, and Ai Yue's mind gained a new understanding.

So that's how it is. By eliminating this information, we can reduce the probability of distortion...

His gaze shifted to Garuda's genomic data, and he drew a black line across one of the sets of genetic information.

After completing the basic theoretical construction, we will enter the practical stage - by the way, who will Garuda be used for in the future?

This thought flashed through Ai Yue's mind, and then he threw it aside.

The targeted optimization of the Honkai Beast's genes cannot be established as an independent scientific research project in the system. Instead, it is intelligently mounted under the Fusion Warrior Project and becomes a sub-project that can utilize all the data and functions of the parent project. What Ai Yue has to do now is to use the ideal model obtained from the Fusion Warrior Project to edit Garuda's genome.

Then it is combined with human genes to simulate the results of fusion warrior surgery, and the editing direction is continuously adjusted through repeated trial and error to obtain the best solution in an objective sense.

In fact, Mebius's task only required Ai Yue to perform the simplest processing on Garuda's genome data according to the formula of the Fusion Warrior Plan. Converted into the steps of cooking, it is probably just equivalent to picking vegetables. However, Ai Yue naturally would not do such a worthless job. Now that the ingredients are in his hands, it is up to him to decide what dish to make in the end.

However, as soon as he completed the first version of gene editing, he encountered a problem - he did not have human genome data and could not conduct experimental simulations.

However, this problem was solved in just one second - Ai Yue pulled out a strand of his own hair and threw it into the system, directly choosing to use his own genome as a blueprint for the experiment.

Anyway, the so-called experiments are all simulated in the system, and they are not really turning him into a fusion warrior.

The results of the first version of the fusion warrior surgery were not very ideal. Ai Yue in the simulation experiment directly turned into a fire man. The external flames were a symbol of passive burning vitality. In other words, the sequelae of this version was the inability to control his own power. Even though Garuda's genes gave him a long life, this unbridled burning only lasted for a few decades.

So Ai Yue made some changes in the second edition, deleting more information about ability bursts.

This time it didn't burn, but the bad news was that it couldn't burn at all. The only abilities left after the fusion were a long lifespan and enhanced physical fitness, nothing else.

Ai Yue kept this version of the data because it might be useful elsewhere, and then started his third attempt.

Then came the fourth time, the fifth time...

The next morning, Mebius arrived an hour earlier than the first day out of spite.

According to her guess, in order to fulfill his boast, Ai Yue must have been working on the theoretical model in the laboratory all night. Even if he could really do it, he must still be doing the final finishing work at this time.

If she came at this time, she could not only catch the other party off guard, but also pretend to be casual and easily intercept the other party's final finishing work, establish a tall senior image in front of the other party, and also be a powerful counterattack to the other party's arrogance yesterday.

Thinking of this, Mebius couldn't help but yawn and rubbed his eyes.

Beneath the exquisite makeup were carefully concealed dark circles - in order to complete the initial editing of the Garuda genome data before Ai Yue, Mebius pulled everyone in the First Research Institute through an all-nighter.

Although there were two guys inside who only held her back, fortunately she managed to complete it in the end.

No matter whether Ai Yue’s talent is worthy of his arrogance, she is determined to vent her anger today!

As if he had already imagined Ai Yue's shocked expression, Mobius was in such a good mood that he almost started humming a song.

Unable to wait to see Ai Yue get humiliated, she tidied up her appearance and made sure that the relaxed expression on her face could be easily seen before Mebius rang the doorbell.

...Thirty seconds passed and there was no response from inside.

This guy, is he not too tired to fall asleep?

This thought came to Mebius' mind, and then he began to ring the doorbell frantically.

It wasn't until five minutes after the doorbell rang that a sleepy voice came from above Mebius's head: "Hey, Dr. Mebius, aren't you here a little early today?"

Mebius looked up and saw Ai Yue with messy hair coming out from the second floor.

"It's still early! What time is it?" Mobius pretended to be serious. "Do you really care about this project? I took a huge risk to give it to you!"

Speaking of this kind of house, the second floor and up are all living areas, right? Could it be that this guy didn't stay up all night in the lab last night and went to sleep in the bedroom instead?

Damn it, how can you sleep at your age!

But it doesn't matter. Since they didn't pull an all-nighter, their completion rate must be even lower. Maybe they just realized they couldn't finish it in one day, so they gave up out of despair, hehe...

Mebius began to look forward to the expression that would appear on Ai Yue's face when he slapped the completed plan on the other person's desk.

"Of course I took it to heart." Ai Yue was still thinking about the beautiful dream he had last night, so he naturally didn't care about Mebius's thoughts. "Wait a moment, I'll go down and open the door for you."

After a while, Ai Yue finally invited Mebius into the laboratory.

"How's the project going?" Mobius asked impatiently as she entered. Seeing that the laboratory was as tidy as when she came yesterday, she couldn't help but think, "You haven't done anything at all, have you?!"

For a moment, Mebius thought he was being fooled by Ai Yue - could it be that the other party had figured out his temper and knew that he would work all night to finish the task, so he deliberately provoked him, while he did nothing and wanted to get something for nothing?

Damn it, what do you take scientific research for?

"Oh, I've done it." Ai Yue took a piece of paper from the table and handed it to Mebius. "Here, here are the final results."

"Where's the process? Where's the plan? How can we compare the pros and cons when you only keep one copy of the results..." Mebius muttered as he took the paper from Ai Yue's hand. He couldn't hold back his expression after just one glance. "How come you deleted so little!"

The paper that Ai Yue left for her was actually filled with a lot of data, but compared to the original genome data of the Honkai beast, this little bit was like a 100,000-word novel deleted into an 800-word essay!

Even the final version of the "super-mutation factor" used in Kevin's surgery contained a little more than this!

"To create a super-mutation factor, just retain this information." Ai Yue said nonchalantly, "Any more will affect the success rate."

"The success rate isn't something you need to worry about..." Mobius froze mid-sentence. "Wait, you said the super-mutation factor?"

"Is this the information data of the super-mutation factor?"

One person completed the gene editing work from complete Honkai Beast genome information to super mutation factors in one day?

Mebius held up the paper in his hand, and now he couldn't remember a single line he had planned.

Chapter 22: This world does not allow such a powerful person to exist

Mebius always believed that he was knowledgeable and could deal with situations that ordinary people could not understand with ease.

After all, ever since she was nine years old and chose to run away from home because she was completely disappointed with her father, she has been struggling in society alone. What kind of storms has she not seen?

But she had never seen this before.

"You said this was the Garuda super-mutation factor you simulated and edited?" Mobius finally came to his senses after a moment. "Less than twenty-four hours? No, you weren't in the lab last night, right? Doesn't that mean it wasn't even twenty hours?"

"It's okay," Ai Yue said vaguely, "Well, it's pretty much what you thought."

In fact, as soon as Mebius left yesterday, Ai Yue almost completed that sub-project. Even if the time spent on repeatedly deducing the best solution for the super-variable factor was included, it did not exceed two hours.

While Mebius was working day and night to optimize the genome, Ai Yue had lunch with Padufilis, visited the recovering Aponia, went to the logistics department with Alicia to purchase daily necessities, visited the soldiers' training, and finally lay down in bed and had a good sleep.

Of course, none of this could be told to Mobius - on the one hand, it was to protect Ai Yue's own secrets, and on the other hand, it was to prevent Mobius's already distorted values from being hurt again.

But even in this version, Mebius couldn't accept it: "Impossible! Do you know how much information is contained in the genome of the Honkai beast? Even the information expressed in the redundant areas cannot be directly discarded. Not to mention manual calculation, even with the help of the most advanced computers, it would still take a huge amount of time. Such time cannot be shortened by talent at all!"

What's more, the other party had just come into contact with the Fusion Warrior Plan yesterday. Even if he just wanted to thoroughly understand the content of the Fusion Warrior Plan, even if he was extremely talented, it would take at least a few hours, right?

All in all, Mebius' attitude can be summed up in two words: acting.

"Is it possible that the Fusion Warrior Project isn't as complicated as you think?" Ai Yue looked at Mebius with a strange look. "It's true that redundant genomic information can't be directly removed, but the useful information within it follows a pattern. As long as we master the formula, there's no need for extensive calculations and deductions."

"That's easy to say," Mobius sneered, "where's the formula..."

Before she finished speaking, Ai Yue had already handed another piece of paper to her.

Mobius lowered her head and repeatedly examined the contents of the paper. After a moment, she looked up. "Even so, if you don't have the corresponding human genome information, how can you deduce the results of the surgery? Without a theoretical model, neither the success rate nor the effectiveness can be guaranteed!"

As one of the proponents of the Fusion Warrior Plan, Mebius quickly realized that what Ai Yue said was true. However, as a scholar, she still chose to question it first. After all, this kind of thing was too outrageous.

"The success rate is a bit low." Ai Yue didn't refute at this time. "I tried several solutions, and the highest is 96% of this one. Any higher than that would mean giving up some performance."

"Mr. Duo?" Mebius widened his eyes.

"Ninety-six percent. Don't worry, it's not a big problem." Ai Yue reassured her, "Even if the experimenter is unfortunately infected with that 4%, they won't die. The fused genome will just become recessive. There should be a way to activate it later."

Mebius looked at Ai Yue, then at the paper in his hand, opened his mouth, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Is this really human language? I don't understand!

After a brief silence, Mebius suddenly reached out and grabbed Ai Yue's wrist, dragging him out without saying anything.