Chapter 21: What kind of hunk are you?
Ai Yue naturally didn't know that his image in Mobius' 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 short time 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. Currently, 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 guessed 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 40% of the complete scientific research value, this part almost completes all the sub-projects left for him by Mobius, leaving only 12.6% 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 Twilight Street and finished the job directly.
As a theoretical model, the "Fusion Warrior Project" is essentially an attempt to deduce the possibility of combining the genes of the Honkai beasts with the genes of humans. 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 at the time, this plan would have remained at the theoretical level and would never have had the possibility of being put into actual experiments.
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 is the Honkai Beast that Dr. Mei has studied for the longest time and is also the Honkai Beast with the best compatibility with Kevin. The genes extracted from its body were then made into a "super mutation factor" using gene editing technology, which was barely successful.
The reason why it is said "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 turn into ice. Even if he wanted to cry, his 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 see the day of peace that fusion warriors can become "heroes". Otherwise, once the threat brought by the Honkai is over, fusion warriors like Kevin will inevitably be rejected by human society and eventually explode into the doomsday of another civilization.
Ai Yue has experienced 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, so for now, let's just deal with the projects at hand.'
Ai Yue threw aside the messy thoughts in his mind and refocused on the fusion warrior plan.
After solving this project, he finally understood why the entire project could be studied almost completely with the help of Mobius' saliva - because the Fusion Warrior Plan was more like a formula, and it was not enough to just understand the formula. It was also necessary to conduct 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 Mobius handed over to 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, while retaining the main body of the Honkai beast's genes to the greatest extent possible and reducing the pollution value to human genes as much as possible.
It is no wonder that Mobius thought Ai Yue was too arrogant. After all, even if Mobius did this kind of work herself, he would have to spend a lot of time with the assistance of professional equipment and repeat experiments hundreds of times before she could find the best solution from the few successful cases.
But even so, this "best solution" is only in a subjective sense. 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 Program" researched and developed by Dr. Mei and Dr. Mobius. However, this ideal model shows 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 was still 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, by using optimization points, you can easily correct it little by little into a delicate and beautiful portrait from the aspects of "optimization sequelae", "optimization effect", "optimization penetration rate", etc.
Of course, given that 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 had a clearer understanding in his mind.
'So that's how it is. By removing this information, we can reduce the probability of distortion...'
His eyes shifted to Garuda's genome data and he drew a black line through one of the sets of genetic information.
Having completed the basic theoretical construction, the next step is to enter the practical phase - 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 genes cannot be established as an independent scientific research project in the system, but is intelligently mounted under the Fusion Warrior Project, becoming 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, Mobius's task requirement was just to let Ai Yue perform the simplest processing on Garuda's genome data according to the formula of the Fusion Warrior Plan, which is probably just equivalent to picking vegetables when converted into the cooking steps. However, Ai Yue naturally would not do such a worthless job. Now that the ingredients are already 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, not really turning him into a fusion warrior.
The result of the first version of the fusion warrior surgery was 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 burst.
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 life and enhanced physical fitness, nothing else.
Ai Yue kept this version of the data, thinking it might be useful elsewhere, and then started his third attempt.
Then came the fourth time, the fifth time...
The next morning, Mobius 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 went there 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 image of a senior in front of the other party, and also be a powerful counterattack to the other party's arrogance yesterday.
Thinking of this, Mobius couldn't help but yawn and rubbed her eyes.
Under the exquisite makeup, there were dark circles that were carefully concealed - in order to complete the initial editing of the Garuda genome data before Ai Yue, Mobius pulled everyone in the First Research Institute to stay up all night.
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 the arrogance he displays, she is determined to vent her anger today!
As if she had already imagined Ai Yue's shocked expression, Mobius was in such a good mood that she almost started humming a song.
She couldn't wait to see Ai Yue get humiliated, so she tidied up her appearance and made sure that the relaxed look on her face could be easily seen before Mobius rang the doorbell.
…Thirty seconds passed and there was no response from inside.
This guy, is he not too tired and fell asleep?
This thought came to Mobius' mind, and then he began to ring the doorbell frantically.
It was not until five minutes after the doorbell rang that a sleepy voice came from above Mobius's head: "Hey, Dr. Mobius, aren't you here a little early today?"
Mobius looked up and saw Ai Yue with messy hair leaning out from the second floor.
"It's still early. What time is it?" Mobius pretended to be serious. "Do you really take the project seriously? I took a big risk to give it to you!"
In a house of this structure, the second floor and above are all living areas, right? Could it be that this guy didn't stay up all night in the lab last night, but 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 work all night, the other party's completion rate must be lower. Maybe they found that they couldn't finish it in one day, so they were desperate and chose to give up, hehe...'
Mobius began to look forward to what kind of expression 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 Mobius's psychological activities. "Wait a moment, I'll go down and open the door for you."
After a while, Ai Yue finally invited Mobius into the laboratory.
"How's the project going?" Mobius asked impatiently as soon as she entered the room. Seeing that the laboratory was as tidy as when she came yesterday, she couldn't help but think, "You didn't do it at all, did you?!"
For a moment, Mobius thought she 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 she deliberately provoked him, while he did nothing and wanted to get something for nothing?
'Damn it, what do you think of scientific research?'
"Oh, I've done it." Ai Yue took a piece of paper from the table and handed it to Mobius. "Here, here is the final result."
"Where's the process? Where's the plan? How can we compare the pros and cons if you only keep one copy of the result..." Mobius muttered as she took the paper from Ai Yue's hand. She couldn't hold back her expression after just one look. "How come you deleted so many!"
The paper that Ai Yue left for her actually contained a lot of data, but compared to the original genome data of the Honkai beast, this little bit of data was like a 100,000-word novel deleted into an 800-word essay!
Even the final version of the "super-mutable factor" used in Kevin's surgery had a little more than this!
"It only takes this information to make a super-mutation factor." Ai Yue said nonchalantly, "If there is more, it will affect the success rate."
"The success rate is not something you need to worry about..." Mobius was halfway through his words when he suddenly froze, "Wait, you said super mutation factor?"
"Is this the information data of the super-mutation factor?"
One person completed the gene editing work from the complete Honkai beast genome information to the super mutation factors in one day?
Mobius held up the paper in her hand, and now she couldn't remember any of the lines she had planned.