Chapter 51: I didn't do anything, she blew up on her own
Although the content of the meeting on releasing Kalpas was not made public, part of the content of the meeting spread like wildfire and soon spread throughout the entire Fire Moth.
When everyone heard that Ai Yue had used a valuable patent to exchange for the release of a prisoner, they were shocked and asked everywhere on the Fire Moth Intranet: "Who is Ai Yue?"
Soon, some enthusiastic netizens pointed out that Ai Yue was a talented scientist who was recently introduced by Dr. Mei to join the Fire Moth. He has very high levels in many fields. The Honkai Energy Adsorption Device he invented is the product with the strongest comprehensive performance among all similar products today. It is precisely because of this that this patent was targeted by someone who planned such an incident.
However, such discussions were quickly blocked by administrators on the intranet, and all related posts were deleted, and soon lost their popularity. However, such actions by administrators only further confirmed the words of this enthusiastic netizen, and as a result, Ai Yue's popularity gradually increased within the Fire Moth.
"What a calculation, Dr. Ai Yue."
In the First Research Institute, Mobius was drinking milk tea while teasing Ai Yue, "You can put pressure on the top management through public opinion, and improve your own reputation at the same time, killing two birds with one stone."
"What plan?" Ai Yue looked puzzled. He put down the book in his hand and said, "I have finished reading this batch of books. Remember to change to another batch."
"Can't you borrow it yourself?" Mobius said unhappily, "Do you think this is a library?"
Although she said so, she still took the book that Ai Yue had finished reading and put it in a bag beside her, preparing to send the two idle guys to run errands.
"You have high authority, so you can get access to things that ordinary people can't." Ai Yue picked up the next book, using this method to make up for his missing technology points. "Come to think of it, are you free today? Aren't you going to do experiments?"
"Today is a holiday for our institute." Mobius stretched and showed off her body curves. "I even kicked Klein out to play, not to mention those two lazy guys."
Ai Yue glanced at her, and a trace of regret flashed through his heart.
To be fair, Mobius is now one of the most beautiful women among the Fire Moths. When Ai Yue thought that such a person would gradually turn into a cold, sharp-tongued, flat female ghost, he couldn't help but feel sad.
"What are you thinking about? There's something wrong with your eyes." Mobius also noticed the change in Ai Yue's expression and couldn't help but frowned. "You, you don't have any bad intentions towards me, do you?"
Ever since he started to play badly, Mobius has become more and more casual in front of Ai Yue.
"Sister, you're a fusion warrior, how dare I harbor any ill will towards you?" Ai Yue rolled his eyes. "It's better to say that you gave those three people a day off, but didn't give yourself a day off, and you waited for me to come over. Is there something shady that you need my help with?"
Ever since Prometheus lifted the restrictions on Internet access, Ai Yue's laboratory has been filled with the roar of various machines running all day long. The key is that the AI girl said that "monitoring the entire network requires a lot of computing power", which made Ai Yue unable to say anything to her, so he had to come out and occupy Mobius' laboratory himself.
After all, her place has complete equipment and plenty of space, which is actually more comfortable than her own laboratory.
"Oh, you found me. I was just trying to figure out how to start this." Mobius pulled out a syringe from her pocket. A strange-looking lavender liquid was flowing through it. "There's some progress on the report you gave me before."
"You've even made a finished product?" Ai Yue raised his eyebrows. "Shouldn't you show me the theoretical model first?"
"That's too much trouble. Why not just use the experimental data to speak for itself?" Mobius smiled and said, "Come with me. Let's find a place where we won't get dirty."
"You are directly assuming failure as a prerequisite?" Ai Yue shook his head. "I can only say that immortality is really amazing."
As a fusion warrior, Mobius naturally has special abilities like Kevin's ability to control ice and snow. Her ability is immortality - after suffering fatal injuries, she will enter a state of suspended animation, and then be reborn by absorbing a large amount of energy.
Of course, this immortality also has side effects. That is, every time she is resurrected, Mobius' body will reverse its growth. As the number of times the immortality ability is used gradually increases, she will become younger and younger, and may even degenerate into a baby.
For most people, even though they would be happy about this powerful ability, they would also be concerned about the side effects and try to reduce the number of times this ability is triggered.
But Mobius is different. Having such ability means that she can conduct experiments on herself even if the mortality rate is 100%.
Today is apparently such an experiment.
Ai Yue followed behind Mobius and came to the most special operating room No. 1, which was obviously prepared by Mobius. Although there was no special smell inside, one could see coagulated blood that had remained in various corners and had not been cleaned up.
At the same time, there were various indelible scorch marks and scars caused by sharp objects on the floor, ceiling, and walls.
It's not hard to imagine what this place has been through.
"Okay, go wait for me in the observation room next door." Mobius pointed to another door, then hung her white coat on the rack and walked into the operating room.
Ai Yue also walked into the observation room and looked at Mobius through the thick transparent glass wall. Various instruments in the observation room were also aimed at Mobius to prevent missing any details of the operation.
Mobius sat on the bed in the operating room, facing Ai Yue, and injected the reagent into her body.
About ten seconds later, an expression of endurance appeared on her face. Purple lines continued to extend from under the clothes that covered her tightly, gradually spreading to her head and limbs.
At the same time, the concentration of Honkai energy in the operating room is also increasing. Fortunately, this place has undergone special protective treatment, so there will be no leakage problem.
About thirty seconds later, Mobius's expression gradually returned to normal, which meant that she had survived the initial extreme effect of the potion. Then, Ai Yue saw that her snake-like pupils were suddenly dyed gold, turning into more majestic golden vertical pupils.
"Mobius?" Ai Yue shouted subconsciously, "Are you still conscious? If so, wave your hand!"
As the speakers in the operating room transmitted Ai Yue's words, Mobius also responded. She focused her eyes on the location of the speakers and then waved her hand.
But that was not the ordinary wave that Ai Yue had imagined - it was an action that could trigger special abilities.
The next second, a strange space crack suddenly opened up at the location of the speaker, directly swallowing the speaker!
There is no doubt that this is the ability of the Second Herrscher to manipulate space.
However, there was no joy on Ai Yue's face, because judging from Mobius's reaction, the other party's mind had obviously been affected by the potion. In this case, the other party also possessed such a dangerous ability, which was obviously not a good thing.
So he took out Pikachu without hesitation, intending to fire a maximum-power shot at Mobius, but he hesitated when pulling the trigger.
If Mobius is beaten into pieces, can she be resurrected?
And because of this moment of hesitation, Ai Yue no longer had to worry about completely killing Mobius.
Because the other party exploded herself.
Almost at the same time that Ai Yue drew his gun, the purple cracks on the opponent's body suddenly became brighter, as if some kind of violent energy reaction occurred in Mobius' body, and soon, the cracks turned into cracks, causing countless blood and steam to be released from Mobius' body, which was enough to show how hot the opponent's body was.
Then the next second, accompanied by a violent roar, Mobius's body exploded into pieces in front of Ai Yue. Blood and various debris almost covered the entire glass wall, directly blocking Ai Yue's vision.
The instrument next to Ai Yue used to observe Mobius's physiological data also instantly returned to zero, meaning that the other party was dead.
Soon, all the cleanup machines in the operating room started to operate automatically, and the nozzles on the top of the glass wall sprayed water to wash the blood stains on it, making Ai Yue's vision clear again.
At this moment, where Mobius had originally sat, only the bloody skeleton from the neck to the pelvis remained.
However, Ai Yue was no longer in the observation room at this moment. He turned around, pushed the door open, grabbed the white coat that Mobius had taken off, and walked into the operating room.
The process of Mobius's resurrection from the dead is not something you can always see.
Not to mention...
The first thing Ai Yue did when he entered the operating room was to touch the blood splattered on the door, and then he raised his eyebrows.
[Remains of a defective artificial Herrscher simulation (rare): Use value 100%.]
[Investing in the research project 'Artificial Pseudo-Herrschers' can increase the research progress by an additional 50%.]
So Ai Yue picked up the largest piece of meat he could see and put it into the material storage box he carried with him.
At this time, Mobius's resurrection ability also began to take effect, and the Honkai energy reading in the air began to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye, and eventually quickly dropped to zero.
Ai Yue stared at the largest part of the opponent's skeleton that remained in place, but found that Mobius's resurrection was not based on this. He looked around and saw Mobius's bloody head in the corner.
Soon, the dark, sticky, unknown substance that Ai Yue had seen before spread in the operating room. It swallowed up most of Mobius's remains and eventually turned into a "cocoon" that wrapped up Mobius's head, blocking Ai Yue's view of what was going on.
However, although it cannot be seen, some creepy sounds can still be vaguely heard. If someone with a good imagination stands here, he or she may be able to restore the entire process of a human body's gradual "growth" in his or her mind based on these sounds.
Judging from Ai Yue's gradually becoming more interesting expression, he is probably this kind of person.
Fortunately, the process ended quickly. About ten minutes later, a pair of white and tender arms tore open the thick black calluses, revealing Mobius's newly reborn body in front of Ai Yue.
Ai Yue's gaze naturally focused on the black and green things on the other person's body.
He now understood why Mobius always wore clothes that covered her entire body, because snake-like scales grew on certain parts of her body.
"Have you seen enough?" Mobius suddenly covered her body with her arms, blocking the dense black and green scales. Ai Yue then raised his eyes and saw Mobius's evasive expression. "If you have seen enough, give me your clothes."
Ai Yue threw the white coat at Mobius, then turned around to give the other party some space - although it seemed to be meaningless.
"How does it feel?" Mobius quickly put on her clothes and stood barefoot on the wet floor.
"There is no need to make experimental reagents of this level. It will only waste materials and time. It's too immature." Ai Yue commented, "Even a fusion warrior like you can't last more than ten seconds. It's better to go through it a few more times in the simulation system. I'll ask Vill-V to build a Prometheus extension for you someday and let her help you set it up."
"I see." Mobius nodded, but suddenly asked, "What about me? How do you feel?"
Only then did Ai Yue realize that the other party was not asking about the experiment.
"Not very good." He shook his head, and continued as Mobius lowered her eyes slightly, "Your resurrection process was blocked by the black cocoon. I can't see anything. Bad review."
Mobius looked up at him in surprise: "Huh?"
"What? What do you think I'm going to say?" Ai Yue turned and walked out of the operating room. "Do you think you're disgusting, or are you a monster?"
"I didn't realize you had masochistic tendencies. I'll consider using those words next time."
"Who has a masochistic tendency? Don't think you can judge me recklessly just because you came up with the topic!" Mobius quickly chased after him, "Where's the experimental data? I want to see it!"
It was difficult for Mobius to figure out what he was thinking.
If she were in front of other people, she probably wouldn't have so many messy emotions and thoughts, but it was Ai Yue. In front of this existence that far exceeded the limits of human imagination, she always couldn't help but do some unnecessary things.
Was she trying to show her true self in this way? Or was she trying to tell Ai Yue that she would catch up with him one day by her own means? Or...
Forget it, now that things have come to this, it is more important to look at the experimental data first.
Mobius quickly put these inexplicable psychological activities aside.
She caught up with Ai Yue in front of her, but he suddenly stood still.
"What's wrong?" Mobius asked subconsciously, but saw an expression on the other person's face that she had never seen before, "You are..."
It was an expression as if one knew that a time bomb had finally exploded and he had to deal with the scene.
"Nothing, just do your thing, I have to go." Ai Yue pushed his glasses on his face, "By the way, I may have to go on a long trip during this period, please help me take care of Pardofelis and the others."
"Are you not afraid of me getting close to her now?"
Mobius teased subconsciously, but found that the other party did not respond at all, so he strode out the door.
After leaving the First Research Institute, Ai Yue once again turned on the display mode of the lens and reread the message sent by Prometheus.
It was just a screenshot of a post from some forum.
"[Help Post] My daughter has suddenly fallen into a coma for several days. I have been to several hospitals but no diagnosis has been given. I need help from the Internet experts!"
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