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

“Isn’t eighty percent a bit too much?”

Before Su could fully recover from the shock, he was stunned by Ai Yue's words again. "I thought the limit was 50%."

Although he said this, Su flipped through the data at a fast pace. According to the data, all currently known abilities could be resisted and optimized by the third-generation soul steel. Of course, considering that the metal itself was very restraining to the power of several of the Herrschers, this data was not particularly exaggerated...

No, wait, all Herrschers?

"Besides that, there are other things that haven't been tested yet."

Seeing Su's absent-minded expression, Ai Yue had to pat his shoulder to wake him up, "Don't forget what I called you here for."

Su couldn't help but look at him silently: "You still haven't told me what you want me to help with."

"Didn't I say that?"

Ai Yue blinked, then turned his head away as if nothing had happened. "It's not a big deal. It's the same whether I say it now or not."

He walked behind the metal ingot and waved to Su: "Come, use your ability to interfere with me through this metal ingot."

"Oh."

Su agreed subconsciously, then realized, "Can it even defend against mental power?"

No wonder the Eighth Herrscher's data was included in the test data just now.

"That's the theory, but it hasn't been tested yet."

Ai Yue shrugged. "At present, we can only say that the third generation of soul steel can indeed interfere with mental power, but it is not certain whether it can distinguish hostility."

"Identifying hostility..."

Su didn't know what expression to use in response to this. "It's just a piece of metal. It's better not to have too high expectations, right? Even humans can't distinguish hostility without professional training."

"In theory, machines can even more easily discern hostility than humans, because the frequencies emitted by mental energy with different emotions are also different. You are a mentally perceptive type after all, so you haven't forgotten this, right?"

Ai Yue shrugged and explained briefly, "In short, don't worry. It's not like I can't stop you."

As he spoke, he showed the other party the Eighth Herrscher Core on his gauntlet.

If it weren't for the fact that releasing hostility required locking onto a specific target, this experiment wouldn't have needed Su's help at all.

"I see."

Su nodded and stopped hesitating. Then he opened his eyes and looked at the metal ingot in front of him.

To be honest, given Ai Yue's position in his heart and his own personality, it was difficult for Su to feel any hostility towards the person in front of him, so after brewing for a long time, Su finally found some feeling.

Then he frowned slightly and let out a light exclamation.

When the mental force passed through the metal ingot, it did feel an obscure and difficult feedback, just like a human who was walking normally encountered a narrow gap and had to turn sideways and walk through it carefully.

This feeling is truly unprecedented.

Su didn't know what words to use to describe his feelings at the moment, because he had never encountered such a situation before.

Although there are still many secrets in the spiritual realm waiting to be discovered, one thing is certain: only living things have the concept of "spirit", while inanimate objects, even artificial intelligence that is infinitely close to humans in terms of thinking, logic and emotions, do not have such a thing.

Mental power is the power that comes from the spirit. It is something that only living things can possess. Conversely, only living things have the ability to interfere with and contact mental power.

In other words, except for living things, things do not even have the ability to contact mental power. The limit of human science is simply to observe the frequency waves emitted by mental power.

But the metal ingot in front of him completely overturned Su's cognition. He had never sensed any trace of mental power on this metal ingot, but when he controlled his mental power to penetrate the other party, he actually felt the limitation. This situation even made him a little dazed.

What was even more incredible to him was that after continuously releasing his ability on Ai Yue for more than thirty seconds, the feeling he felt was actually getting stronger.

If before it was just a gap that people had to walk through sideways, then now Su felt as if he had crawled into a dog hole and could only crawl on the ground and move forward with difficulty to get through.

The third generation of soul steel can not only truly limit the penetration of mental power, but can also optimize itself for this situation, further limiting the penetration of mental force waves.

If the performance in this area can also achieve the "80% optimization" increase that Ai Yue mentioned, then the third-generation soul steel, under an absolutely ideal state, can almost withstand the capabilities of 95% of the spiritual perception fusion warriors.

“It seems to be working.”

Ai Yue didn't even need to look at the test results beside him, he knew everything from Su's expression, "How do you feel?"

"I really want to say 'this is unscientific.'"

Su quickly adjusted his mood. Facing Ai Yue's teasing, he couldn't help but shake his head slightly, "But considering that such a product is from your handiwork, it doesn't seem surprising."

I can only say that Ai Yue is indeed a magical person. As long as any unreasonable thing is related to him, everyone will become more accepting.

Compared to these, Su is now more concerned about another thing: "Will the production process of this third-generation soul steel be troublesome?"

If an alloy with such terrifying performance could be implemented on a large scale - no, even if it was only supplied to the first generation of fusion warriors, it would be a huge boost to humanity's combat power.

"Well, it's definitely not simple anyway."

Ai Yue subconsciously glanced around the laboratory. "However, if it's just a small supply, it's not a big problem for now."

As a disruptive product, the third-generation soul steel has extreme performance but also increases the manufacturing cost. Even if we put aside the raw materials, the normal manufacturing process alone requires more than 300 steps, and each of these steps requires extremely high precision. The slightest mistake means all the previous efforts will be wasted.

Of course, Ai Yue can temporarily make up for it through the system, and as long as he is given some time, he can also work out a plan to simplify the production process, so these are not a problem.

"Anyway, let's build a box first."

Putting aside the subsequent tedious work for the time being, Ai Yue took the metal ingot in his hand and played with it. "By the way, I remember you came to see me at first. Is there anything wrong?"

"It's Aponya who's looking for you,"

Su then remembered something, "She said she had something to tell you about 'The End'."

Ai Yue's hand suddenly stopped in mid-air: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

A big "?" suddenly appeared above Su's head.

Did you give me a chance?