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

The implication of this sentence is, of course, that he will attend the party.

"Excuse me, can I bring my family members?"

Sakura hesitated for a moment, then said, "If possible, I'd like to take my sister with me."

Alicia immediately came over to Sakura and started talking to her again.

"Where's Sue?"

Kevin looked at his friend next to him and said, "You should be able to join, right?"

"That depends on whether Dr. Ai Yue is willing to grant me leave,"

Su smiled and looked to the other side, "After all, the Moon Mountain thing can't be stopped without his consent."

"It's just a small matter, okay."

Ai Yue waved his hand and said, "I'll give you a blank leave note later. Just fill in the dates you want to take off for as long as you want."

The main reason he sent Su to the moon was actually to detect the approximate location of the Cocoon of the End in advance. However, now with the Stigma Project, things on the moon have become less important.

If Su is more attached to Earth, then it's okay for him not to go back.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that everyone's eyes seemed to be focused on him.

"Everyone has expressed their opinions, what about you, Ai Yue?"

Alicia took the initiative to ask, "You should come, right?"

Ai Yue was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Of course."

1

Chapter One: The Unity of Soul and Flesh.

Half a month after the battle plan against the "Eleventh Ruler" was completed, at the Light Star Experimental Base.

Ai Yue and Mebius stayed in the laboratory as usual, worrying about the experimental data in front of them.

"Even though there are successful cases, finding a stable cultivation method is still very difficult."

Ai Yue scratched his head and said, "Mobius, can you recall it again and find out some details?"

"I'm still reminiscing. I'm almost having a psychological trauma."

Mebius rolled his eyes. "Is there no other trick? You can't do it either."

Ever since the success of the "Stigmata Project" in Mebius's hands, this guy has become more and more arrogant, especially after Ai Yue's many subsequent attempts ended in failure, Mebius' tone has become increasingly tough.

Obviously, she realized how valuable her success was, and she also knew clearly that Ai Yue now needed to rely on herself.

"I've really hit a bottleneck."

Ai Yue sighed and readily admitted his failure. "Could it be that the Stigmata Project has different triggering conditions for different people? Wouldn't that mean there's no way to summarize universal experience?"

After obtaining the sample data of Mobius, Ai Yue realized more clearly that the stigmata he had researched were actually very different from the stigmata that appeared in the original plot.

Although both have certain similarities, Ai Yue's version of the stigma is more complex and more powerful. The best proof of this is that Mebius can easily trap a Herrscher in the stigma space.

However, this also made it difficult for Ai Yue to improve the Stigmata Project with the experience and knowledge he had. His existing knowledge reserves seemed to be completely useless in the project at hand, so now, apart from relying on the system, he could only study the situation of Mebius himself.

"I don't think so. I think there's just something we haven't discovered yet."

Mebius shook his head. "After all, I didn't follow your plan. I used my own methods, but I still achieved my goal."

"That's the problem,"

Ai Yue repeatedly flipped through the data in his hand. "Theoretically, your method is unlikely to succeed. If you can explain the details of your success, then we'll have a research direction. Right now, we haven't even found a way to further optimize it."

"Anyway, let's experiment first."

Mebius tapped the container on the lab table with her finger, and a drop of dark green liquid immediately dripped from her fingertips. "Imagination alone will definitely not solve the problem."

As she spoke, she yawned.

"Are you sleepy? It's only been a short time..."

Ai Yue looked at Mebius's reaction and subconsciously glanced at the time. "Why do you feel less energetic recently?"

"Who knows, maybe it's a side effect of the Stigmata Project?"

Mebius shook his head. "But nothing happens when I'm not doing experiments. Could it be that I'm stressed out from all the experiments I've done before?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple, otherwise you would have reacted to the stress long ago."

Ai Yue smiled, then placed the dark green substance in the container into the analytical instrument. "To be honest, this machine seems a bit inadequate. Let's upgrade the equipment tomorrow."

Mebius didn't say anything. Ai Yue turned his head and saw that she had fallen asleep on the side.

So exaggerated?

Ai Yue shook his head, but did not try to wake her up. He could control the equipment in the laboratory by himself, so he just needed to call her when the results came out.

However, at this time, there was a knock on the door of the laboratory. Ai Yue walked over and opened the door, and found that it was Aponiya standing outside.

She took another day off these two days, so she stayed here.

"It's very late."

Aponya spoke directly, "I understand the importance of the project, but you should also rest."

"Wait a little longer, this round of experiments has already begun. It will be a waste if we don't finish it quickly."

Ai Yue said in a low voice, motioning Aponya to look to the side, "But this guy is really a little exhausted, why don't you send her to the room first?"

"I don't think she would agree."

Aponia glanced at Mebius. "Besides, this is a symptom of overexertion. Are your experiments so exhausting?"

"No, they're all fully automatic..."

Ai Yue said subconsciously, then froze for a moment, "Overconsumption? What do you mean by overconsumption?"

Just like Ai Yue said, the equipment in the laboratory is basically fully automatic. They only need to do some work such as placing materials and checking data. With the energy of the fusion warriors, this kind of experiment can be done for three days and three nights without any problem.

"It's hard to describe. After all, Mebius no longer has any mental power to speak of. Instead, he has a new... um, life force?"

Aponia thought for a moment, then said, "Have you given this new thing a name?"

Ai Yue looked at Aponya in a daze, and suddenly realized that he might have made a very low-level mistake.

The reason why he discovered the Stigmata Factor was because he sensed the presence of mental power in it. However, after Mebius completed the awakening of the Stigmata, he could no longer detect anything related to mental power from the substances extracted from her body. This was obviously a bit abnormal.

But they actually skipped this question and instead analyzed the specific composition and synthesis path of this substance?

If it weren't for Aponia, the psychic, saying this today, Ai Yue and Mebius didn't know when they would be able to think about this problem again.

"Describe it carefully, Aponya."

Realizing that this might be the key to the problem, Ai Yue pulled Aponya into the laboratory and asked, "What life force?"

"That's what Mobius has now."

Aponia was still a little confused, not knowing why Ai Yue was suddenly so excited about this matter. "After that battle, I could no longer sense the fluctuations of spiritual power from Mebius. Instead, I felt something that was closely connected to her life."

"Closely connected with life..."

Ai Yue muttered to himself, "But the human body and spirit are inseparable, right?"

"Even though they are inseparable, they are still two different things,"

Aponia said, "But now, Mebius's body and spirit are more like a complete fusion, which has led to a kind of... well, in her own words, evolution?"

"What evolution?"

Mebius, who was standing by, seemed to have caught some key words and suddenly woke up. "Aponia? Why are you here?"

"Let me give you some rest."

Aponia glanced at Mebius, then looked at Ai Yue, who was showing an excited expression, and then sighed, "But now it seems that it seems to have had the opposite effect."

2

Chapter 2 The possibility of becoming light.

Aponya's premonition was very correct.

Her words "the complete fusion of body and spirit" obviously awakened a plan that had been shelved for many years in Ai Yue's heart, that is, the "racial ascension plan" triggered by the "Plasma Spark Tower".

In this plan, people will be able to complete the life leap from flesh and blood to giants of light through the miracles caused by the "Plasma Spark Tower", and become a powerful race capable of traversing the universe.

However, this project has been shelved for various reasons, resulting in zero progress for the entire plan.

In fact, as long as Ai Yue was willing, he could have already started developing the "Plasma Spark Tower" - the power of the Herrscher was so convenient beyond imagination that even many necessary technologies in the system could be replaced by this plug-in-like method.

But there is one problem that is the key obstacle to the launch of this plan - there is no "light".

This light does not simply refer to the light released by the sun or any other star, but is the key substance that can transform a flesh and blood body into a giant of light. Without this substance, the plasma spark tower is just some kind of artificial energy base.

This special substance is also extremely crucial in the stories related to it. Whether it is to transform humans into giants of light or to develop weapons and equipment that can use the power of giants of light, it is inseparable from the research on this special substance.

It was because of the lack of this thing that Ai Yue was unable to develop even a little related technology. After all, no matter how powerful the system was, it still needed the most basic materials to operate. Without the most basic "1", no matter how many zeros were written afterwards, they would all be meaningless.

But this is a world of Honkai energy after all. It is neither the Heisei Earth where humans possess the genes of warriors from super ancient civilizations, nor the Showa Earth where the Giant of Light once visited, nor the Reiwa Earth where groups of Giants of Light pass by every now and then. It is simply impossible to directly extract light particles in such a place.

Therefore, if he wants to complete this plan, this most critical substance must be created by Ai Yue himself.

But it is already extremely difficult to develop a new substance out of nothing, not to mention that Ai Yue needs to deal with a substance with such powerful properties?

Even with the help of the system, we still need to light up countless technology trees before we can have hope.

Therefore, considering that this project needs to solve such a difficult problem, Ai Yue can only put it on hold temporarily and focus all his energy on the project at hand that can solve human dilemmas.

But he never forgot his dream, and that was why Aponya's words gave him such a great stimulus.

Ai Yue had always thought that perhaps only after he completely controlled the Cocoon of the End and obtained the power of "The End" would it be possible to create such a special substance, but Aponya's words made him have different ideas.

It is indeed difficult to create a completely new substance from scratch, but what if we change our thinking and use other methods to allow humans to evolve into life forms similar to the Giant of Light?

The Giant of Light was not born because of light, but light existed because of the birth of the Giant of Light.

This idea may sound like nonsense, but it actually represents two completely opposite ideas.

But the Stigma Project confirmed the correctness of this idea to some extent, because if Aponya's perception was correct, then Mebius's current life form obviously conforms to Ai Yue's imagination.

In Ai Yue's opinion, the reason why races like the Giants of Light are so powerful is that their life state simultaneously conforms to the characteristics of three completely different things: "matter", "spirit" and "energy". To put it simply, it is a perfect fusion of these three things.

In this way, even if they are seriously injured, they can recover by absorbing energy. When they are too weak to maintain their physical form, they can use the characteristics of their mental power to attach themselves to other living beings. When they need to use their strength, they can also materialize their own strength, thus having a substantial body that can fight.

As long as Ai Yue can enable humans to complete the same degree of evolution, then even if there is an essential difference between them and the Giant of Light, he can achieve the same effect.

And Mebius's current state has obviously taken the most critical step.

This assumes that Aponya's intuition is correct.

"A fusion of spirit and body?"

After listening to Ai Yue's explanation, Mebius couldn't help but frown. "This statement does seem to explain the current situation. In other words, the matter I separated is equivalent to consuming my mental strength and vitality at the same time?"

"That's about right,"

Ai Yue then extended a hand, "To verify this, we need to see if you can make your body display the characteristics of spiritual power."

"That sounds weird, and I really don't know much about mental power..."

Mebius couldn't help showing a tangled expression. She hesitated for a moment, then put her hand on Ai Yue's hand and said, "Forget it, I'd better try it first."

"Perhaps I can guide you?"

Aponia on the side spoke up, extending a hand as well, "Please take my hand, Mebius."

Due to Mebius's current special situation, Aponia can only communicate with her on a spiritual level through direct contact.

Mebius did not hesitate and grabbed Aponia's hand - after all, in the field of mental power, the other party was the real expert.

The two then had a mental communication that excluded Ai Yue, so Ai Yue could only guess what they were talking about based on Mobius's constantly changing expressions.

Well, I don’t understand it at all.

However, after a moment, Aponia's guidance paid off. As Mebius opened his eyes, Ai Yue felt his hand lighten. He looked down and found that the palm of Mebius that was originally on his hand had strangely turned into some kind of dark green mist, which was now entwined around his palm.

"That's weird, does this mean it's successful?"

Mebius subconsciously raised her hand, and the mist surged and transformed into her palm again. Then, the next second, her entire arm turned into mist. "But what you said is not quite the same, Aponya?"