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

"Dr. Mebius is in operating room number two..." Klein replied subconsciously, then saw Ai Yue walking inside. He quickly stood up and tried to stop him, "Wait, please wait! The doctor's work is very important now, and he can't be beaten... Oops!"

Perhaps due to long-term desk work, Klein's physical condition was quite impressive. He had just stood up and taken two steps when he stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

In the end, it was Ai Yue who helped her up, preventing the fragile woman from falling face first onto the ground.

"Thank you." Klein stood up and took a deep breath, but still firmly grasped Ai Yue's arm. "But you really can't go in now."

"Let him in." Mobius' voice suddenly came from the loudspeaker in the corner of the ceiling. "Remember to wear protective clothing."

Klein then let go of his hand, silently nodded to Ai Yue in apology, and then returned to his seat to continue working.

"Can you do this?" Ai Yue didn't leave immediately. Instead, he looked at Erklein who was working hard and asked, "If you keep going like this, you might die suddenly one day."

"It's okay. I'm not important," Klein said nonchalantly. "But if my laziness causes the progress of my projects to be delayed, that would delay a lot of things."

Ai Yue could only shake his head slightly at Klein's attitude and stop asking questions.

The second operating room is located in the northwest corner of the first institute. When Ai Yue put on his protective suit and walked in, he happened to meet two people wearing the same protective suits walking out. Through the protective suits that wrapped people tightly, Ai Yue found it difficult to distinguish the other party's identities. However, based on the known information, these two people should be Mebius's other two assistants, Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu.

"Hello, Dr. Ai Yue, is this the first time we meet?"

Ai Yue was still thinking about how to start the conversation when the other party took the initiative to greet him: "My name is Dan Zhu, and this is my sister Cang Xuan. We are both assistants to Dr. Mobius!"

"Hello." Ai Yue nodded as a response to Dan Zhu, "Why did you come out? Is the operation over?"

"Ah, how should I put it?" Dan Zhu was stunned for a moment, then said, "Although it is called an operating room, this room basically never performs surgeries in the normal sense. Instead, it is..."

"Danzhu, you talk too much." Cang Xuan interrupted Danzhu and then looked at Ai Yue with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, Dr. Ai Yue, my sister never stops talking... The situation at the institute is quite complicated, so it would be better for you to ask Dr. Mobius directly. We'll take our leave now."

Compared with the simple-minded Danzhu, Cang Xuan obviously considered more things. After nodding to Ai Yue, he pulled his confused sister to make way.

Ai Yue just asked casually and didn't expect these two guys to give any unexpected information, so he didn't care and just pushed the door and walked into the operating room.

Unlike the three people who were wrapped tightly, Mobius simply put on a white coat and exposed himself to a high-risk environment. The fusion warrior's fearlessness of Honkai energy radiation was fully demonstrated at this moment. It is hard not to suspect that Mobius had performed the surgery on himself for this reason.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the...creature placed on the operating table.

It vaguely had the outline of a human, but its body was covered with all kinds of twisted and deformed growths, completely turning into a monster. However, these changes stopped abruptly before they could wrap around the entire body, apparently being forcibly stopped by an external force.

Even though Ai Yue had never seen such a deformed body, the knowledge he gained from the Fusion Warrior Formula allowed him to recognize the identity of this monster at a glance.

The loser of the fusion warrior surgery.

"Come, give me a hand." Seeing Ai Yue coming in, Mebius was not polite at all. He pointed at the opening of the other party's chest and said, "You stretch this place open, and I will cut out the deformed tissue inside."

Ai Yue walked forward and did what Mebius said, but his mouth was not idle: "What about you and Padoti's fusion warrior?"

"Pado? Oh, is she the girl who came to the Fire Moth with you?" Mebius didn't even look up, not even pausing in his movements. "I saw her medical report, it was good, so when I met her the other day, I asked her what happened?"

"Stay away from Paduo from now on." Ai Yue said bluntly, "I don't care if you kidnap others, but don't harm my family."

"I can't believe you're so... uh, protective?" Having gotten what he wanted, Mebius signaled Ai Yue to let go. "Don't worry, I won't force anyone to participate in my surgery."

"That's why I just came here to tell you." Ai Yue glanced at the body on the operating table again. "Also, if the success rate doesn't improve significantly, don't perform Fusion Warrior surgeries anymore. It will only result in more meaningless sacrifices."

"Well said." Mobius smiled slightly. "Then why don't we wait until the Honkai disaster occurs and let the ordinary soldiers deal with it?"

Mebius' words were full of sarcasm, but Ai Yue couldn't refute it for a moment.

Indeed, the difficulties faced by humans today do not allow them to face them so easily. One more fusion warrior may be able to avoid the sacrifice of dozens or even hundreds of ordinary soldiers.

"I've read your previous report," Mebius continued. "By utilizing information from redundant regions of the genome to proactively create redundant aberrations during fusion warrior surgery, thereby increasing the success rate of the operation, it's indeed a very good design."

As she spoke, she gently stroked the deformed body on the operating table. "Before you, I was also exploring this area. However, 13 people died on my operating table, and the data I obtained was not enough to establish a complete theoretical model. How ridiculous."

Ai Yue suddenly felt that the atmosphere in the room became depressing. He lowered his head slightly and noticed that a dark shadow had appeared under his feet.

No, that was not a shadow, but some other real substance. The sticky and weird feeling was like a hunting poisonous snake, making people feel chest tightness and difficulty breathing.

"Tell me, Ai Yue." Mobius looked into Ai Yue's eyes. "What on earth are you?"

Chapter 34: Brain Clearing Gun

How does God view human beings?

If God loves the world, then why did Honkai and Herrscher come?

But if God wants to destroy the world, then why did Ai Yue come?

Such questions have been bothering Mebius during this period.

As the original designer of the Fusion Warrior Program, Mebius believed that no one in the world understood this program, which was full of flaws and difficulties, better than her. It could be said that this program should not have been treated as a scientific research technology, but rather as the ravings of a mental patient thrown directly into the trash.

Because even the most advanced and difficult scientific research project should have theoretical possibilities. However, when the Fusion Warrior Project was first proposed, not even a theoretical model could be built.

If Dr. Mei had not later dug it out of the secret documents and barely completed the construction of the theoretical framework through his own efforts, coupled with the imminent danger of the Herrscher of Fire, this plan would never have seen the light of day.

It was also because of this that Mebius understood that every improvement in this technology was accompanied by countless sacrifices.

This kind of sacrifice is simply unavoidable - without the data brought by the experiments, without the disassembly and analysis of failed cases, no matter how smart Mebius is, he cannot understand how to solve the loopholes and shortcomings of the fusion warrior formula based on imagination and theoretical deduction alone.

But Ai Yue can do it.

On the first day, he relied on the most basic fusion warrior formula to complete the editing of Garuda's genes and deduced the super-mutation factor with a 100% success rate.

The next day, he relied on several fusion warriors' surgical records and corresponding super-mutation factors to propose a complete theoretical model of "redundant distortion to improve the success rate of surgery."

This directly shook Mebius's originally firm belief.

If the fusion warrior formula can be completed so easily, then what is the so-called "inevitable sacrifice" she once made?

In the eyes of others, Möbius is a scientific maniac. She is cold-blooded and ruthless. She can sacrifice everything for scientific research and will not give up until she achieves her goal.

But some people also say that Mebius treated scholars and soldiers equally and was actually a very good person.

As for Mebius herself, she thinks these statements are all correct.

As long as he can achieve his ideal goal, Mebius can sacrifice everything. This "everything" includes himself, others, and everything in the world.

She does treat everyone equally, but that's simply because everyone is the same to her.

Since there is no difference between them in my eyes, there is naturally no need to treat them differently.

These three perspectives, which are very different from those of ordinary people, have made Mebius what she is today and also support her research creed.

Because of this, when encountering Ai Yue, who is beyond common sense, Mebius will be more shaken than others.

So much so that when facing Ai Yue today, Mebius would feel hostility towards Ai Yue.

She desperately wanted to know what Ai Yue was—even if she had to force him...

Mebius's psychological activities were very intense, but Ai Yue didn't care.

When he noticed the emotion in Mebius' eyes, he knew that this matter would be difficult to resolve peacefully today.

Fortunately, the reason he chose this time to come here was to prepare for this possibility.

"I don't know if you have any misunderstandings about me, Mobius." Facing Mobius's threatening questioning, Ai Yue suddenly unbuttoned his protective suit, "But I suggest you calm down, otherwise this matter may be difficult to resolve."

The heavy protective suit slipped to Ai Yue's feet, and he was finally able to draw out the secret weapon hidden at his waist.

"What's that?" Mebius almost laughed out loud as Ai Yue pulled something out and pointed it at him. "A pistol? You're going to use that against a fusion warrior?"

It was indeed a pistol. The yellow and black paint job and the slightly sci-fi design made the pistol look very special, even a little cute.

But no matter what, a pistol is a pistol. Even if it is a weapon carefully crafted by Velvet, can it threaten a fusion warrior?

Mebius felt that she was being looked down upon. Even though she was a scientific researcher, it didn't mean that she would be as weak as a scholar if she became a fusion warrior.

"I advise you not to underestimate it." Ai Yue could see the contempt in Mebius' eyes. He hesitated for a moment, then sighed, "Forget it, there's no point in saying more."

After saying this, he pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The bullet did not hit Mebius, but flew towards a medical device next to her.

With a slight sound, the bullet penetrated into the device effortlessly.

Then, the entire medical device collapsed in a burst of light and heat, and not even large fragments were preserved.

Mebius looked at the scene in front of him, and his head buzzed as if it was hit by a sledgehammer.

She had seen this scene before, it was...

"This is the power of the Third Herrscher..." Mobius spoke with difficulty. When he looked at the pistol in Ai Yue's hand again, his eyes were completely different from before. "How could you?"

The research on the power of the Herrscher is an extremely important project within the Fire Moth. There are countless branches, thousands of scholars, hundreds of completely different projects, and countless research funds. It can be said that 40% of the energy within the Fire Moth is focused on the research on the power of the Herrscher.

But until today, the benefits that the Fire Moth can obtain are far from worth its efforts.

But in Ai Yue's hands, there is actually a mature weapon that can be used in actual combat?

Do you have time to do this kind of thing while you are working on the Fusion Warrior Project?

"Not bad, right?" Ai Yue spun the gun twice and put it back on his waist, because he saw that Mebius had regained his sanity. "I call it Pikachu."

The "Pseudo-Hermaphrodite Power: Atomic Disintegration Technology" was finally successfully completed by the system at noon today, and the first thing Ai Yue did was to get himself a handy weapon.

It was precisely because of this thing that Ai Yue had the confidence to face an emotionally out-of-control fusion warrior.

As it turned out, his decision was correct.

"You..." Mebius opened his mouth, but ended up asking the same question as before, "Who are you?"

But this time, the tone was not as aggressive as before.

"Someone who comes to save this world." Ai Yue smiled slightly, "So, with me here, you don't have to push yourself so hard."

Chapter 35 A must-see

In Ai Yue's opinion, Mebius is a scholar worthy of respect.

Although her methods were too extreme and she was too eager in her journey of exploration in order to seek a path to evolution and defeat the collapse, there was no doubt that she was constantly working hard for "humanity."

However, such extremes cannot be recognized by universal values. It is precisely because of this that Möbius becomes increasingly distorted under the dual pressures of the outside world and himself. For the survival of mankind, he even wants to turn them into existence like data life forms.

Although this plan did not succeed until the end, it also indirectly revealed Mebius's mental state at the time.

Now that Ai Yue and the system exist, Mebius naturally no longer needs to bear such a heavy responsibility. At least from Ai Yue's perspective, he hopes that this green guy can live an easier life.

That's why he said that.

However, these words obviously took on a different meaning when they fell into Mebius's ears.

"Are you feeling sorry for me?" Mobius gritted his teeth when he heard Ai Yue's words, revealing a slightly distorted expression. "Pity me, someone who, even if I try my best, is still not even a fraction as good as you?"

Halfway through her words, she had already begun to feel discouraged.

From Ai Yue's perspective, wasn't it normal to feel sorry for myself? When I first worked with those scholars, watching them argue and pore over a simple formula for a whole month without reaching a reasonable conclusion, hadn't I felt the same way?

It's not like Mebius had never thought that there would be people in the world who were smarter than her, but before meeting Ai Yue, she really couldn't imagine that there were such outrageous... monsters in the world.

"I can only say that I'm not pitying you." Ai Yue shook his head. "As a scholar, you should know very well that I'm just stating the facts."

Ai Yue understood Mobius's current mood. In his previous life, when he was killed by the opponent while playing games, he was similar to Mobius now. He felt that everything others said was really weird.

However, Mebius is not so fragile that she needs my comfort. If I give her some time, she will be able to adjust herself.

"So, what are you going to do?" Mobius stopped his meaningless outburst of emotion and looked at Ai Yue calmly. "Tell those people above to disband the First Research Institute and let me be your assistant?"

"Of course not. I don't need an assistant." Ai Yue shook his head as a matter of course. "Like I said just now, reduce avoidable sacrifices, slow down your research, and leave the rest to me."

"Well said." Mobius clapped his hands, as if applauding Ai Yue, "But, I have a question."

Ai Yue didn't say anything, just looked at her quietly.

He could probably guess what Mebius's problem was.

"How can I believe that you will always stand on the side of humanity?" Mobius looked directly into Ai Yue's eyes. "There are countless examples of people who have gone astray in the pursuit of knowledge, ultimately bringing disaster to humanity. Do you think you are an exception?"

"You don't need to believe that I will always stand on the side of humanity." Ai Yue shook his head. "You just need to know that I will always stand on the opposite side of Honkai."

At this point, he suddenly remembered something: "Also, you made a mistake."

"I don't seek knowledge." Ai Yue pointed to his head under Mobius's puzzled gaze. "They will come to me on their own."

"So I wouldn't go astray at all."

Mebius:......

"What's wrong? Isn't it funny?" Looking at Mebius' speechless expression, Ai Yue was a little confused. "I thought telling some jokes could calm you down."

"Saying this to a scholar will only raise their blood pressure." Mobius rolled his eyes, annoyed by Ai Yue's malicious pretense. "What do you mean knowledge will find you? You're..."

She paused mid-sentence and then asked cautiously, "Are you sure this is a joke?"