This was the best way to let Mobius verify it on the spot.
Bringing Blanca along counted as making full use of her. Otherwise, Ye Chang'an would have had to find an outsider to cooperate.
After all, he couldn't exactly pump Mobius or Eden full of Destruction energy.
As for himself... what a joke. With all his resistance, how much would it take to produce Erosion Markings?
That was why Blanca was the most suitable candidate.
It was almost like this was what she was meant for.
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Chapter of Creation: Journey to a New World: Alone with Mobius
Watching the Erosion Markings vanish from Blanca's skin with her own eyes, Mobius still found it hard to believe.
She touched the restored, healthy skin, feeling here and pinching there. It looked like she was taking advantage of Blanca, but she was only conducting an examination.
Like examining a lab rat.
Blanca got goosebumps and quickly scooted away to put some distance between them.
"Doctor, I'm already fine. Really, please stop touching me."
She chickened out.
"..." Mobius reluctantly withdrew her hand, then turned to Ye Chang'an with a complicated expression.
"How did you do it?"
"I just did it. You saw it yourself—I only played a section of the Chang'an Melody."
"No, I'm asking how you made Blanca fall ill."
Mobius shook her head in correction, her green eyes fixed intently on Ye Chang'an.
More than the treatment method, she cared about how he had made Blanca sick.
"...Doctor Mobius, do you know what kind of illness this is?" Ye Chang'an asked instead of answering.
"A contagious disease whose source and means of transmission remain unclear. It has a 100% fatality rate and has been temporarily named Deathline by the medical community."
Mobius's answer was clearly different from what he knew from the game.
After all, from a medical perspective, Destruction Sickness was still an unknown phenomenon. Even if it had to be named, it would be difficult to use a strange descriptor like "Destruction."
Deathline, on the other hand, was a more intuitive temporary name—the lines that announced death.
Ye Chang'an took it as one of the minor differences of this parallel world and did not think much of it before explaining.
"In my understanding, this illness is called Destruction Sickness. Humans contract Destruction Sickness after absorbing excessive amounts of Destruction energy.
"So the way I made Blanca sick was simple as well. I only needed to make her absorb Destruction energy."
"Destruction..." Mobius muttered with a frown, finding the term strange no matter how she heard it.
But Ye Chang'an's certainty made her reluctantly accept the name, and she could not help converting the concepts against her own research findings.
Contagious disease = Destruction Sickness
Source of infection = Destruction energy
It was that simple. She understood quickly, but then discovered a blind spot.
"You can control who absorbs Destruction energy?"
She had been sitting beside Blanca, yet no Erosion Markings had appeared on her.
That was far too strange.
"In fact, I can." Ye Chang'an nodded without denying it.
Trying to deceive a genius was a foolish thing to do. Ye Chang'an knew his own limits and had never intended to hide anything from Mobius.
"...Manually controlled Destruction energy... How did you do that?" Mobius muttered, intensely curious.
After all, she had previously defined Destruction energy as the source of infection. She had never considered the possibility of artificially controlling that source.
"Doctor, do you know where Destruction energy comes from?" Ye Chang'an asked instead of answering.
"No." Mobius shook her head.
"Then do you know what Destruction energy can do?"
Mobius shook her head.
"Do you want to know?"
Ye Chang'an wanted to tell her everything he knew about Destruction.
For a mere mortal like him, the theoretical level of Destruction was truly too profound.
Even as a player, he could not clearly define the essence of Destruction.
After all, to players, the things in games had always been fictional, and the explanations they received remained only on the surface.
If anyone truly wanted to analyze it, that task would have to be handed to the professionals within the game.
A genius like Mobius, for example.
So Ye Chang'an wanted to speak, and Mobius wanted to listen.
"Blanca, could I trouble you to buy me a bottle of cola? I feel like having one."
The moment she opened her mouth, she was sending someone away. Mobius wanted an undisturbed environment for their conversation.
"Eden, take Miss Blanca to buy it. She might not know where the shop is."
Ye Chang'an sent Eden away as well, though he also whispered a few words into her ear.
In the end, Eden left with Blanca, and they would not be returning anytime soon.
Mobius picked up her cup and took a sip of tea. Her meaning was obvious.
Ye Chang'an was no fool. He likewise took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, then began.
"Destruction energy comes from advanced civilizations beyond the planet..."
He explained with clear logic while she listened in silence, drinking tea.
Only after the speaker and listener had both fallen silent did Mobius set down her long-empty teacup.
"...Such wild fantasy. Perhaps Mister Chang'an should consider changing careers and writing novels."
She did not quite believe him, because it was too vague.
It was like the fantasy of an adolescent boy—full of all kinds of gorgeous settings, yet lacking any rigorous underlying structure.
It was merely a hypothesis meant to fool people.
Ye Chang'an had not expected to convince her so easily. After refilling her tea, he asked, "Doctor, do you think I can create fire out of thin air?"
"Create fire out of thin air?"
It was a strange question. Mobius shook her head. "If the fire you mean isn't physiological desire, then I don't think you can."
"Hehe~"
Ye Chang'an smiled and spread his fingers, waving his hand before Mobius's eyes. Then, using Destruction energy, he covered his palm in a layer of blazing flames.
"(⊙o⊙)..." Mobius was dumbfounded.
Ye Chang'an's smile widened. He took a tissue and held it over the flames, where it burned up in an instant.
"This..." Mobius was even more astonished.
The flames vanished. Ye Chang'an flicked away the ashes left by the tissue, then showed her his smooth, unblemished palm, without the slightest sign of a burn.
Mobius immediately seized his hand and scrutinized it closely, pinching and squeezing it to confirm that it was indeed a real hand of flesh.
He was not wearing any high-tech glove, either.
"Doctor, can you believe me now?" Ye Chang'an pulled his hand free and asked with a smile.
"...How did you do it?"
"I already told you. This is the power of Destruction. Destruction is omnipotent. The flames just now were created by transforming Destruction energy under my control."
"..." Mobius fell silent, still processing the shock in her heart.
Humans could not create fire out of thin air, but they could with Destruction energy.
In that case, Destruction energy could grant humans new power, but it also carried the risk of eroding them into monsters.
If there were a way to avoid the risks while gaining its benefits... wouldn't that allow humanity to evolve?
Evolution—a word that filled Mobius with longing.
"Mister Chang'an, how do you control Destruction energy? No, before that, please tell me how you gained the ability to control this power."
"The Chang'an Melody."
Ye Chang'an gave the answer. Knowing that Mobius now believed him, he continued.
"Doctor Mobius, I would like to ask you to help me research the specific effects of the Chang'an Melody."
He had been researching it himself, but all his research so far had been useless.
He knew that it worked, but not why it worked.
Perhaps only Mobius could understand why it worked.
Because the essence of the Chang'an Melody and the Sword Heart Art was highly likely something proposed by Mobius.
Chapter of Creation: Journey to a New World: Eden, Why Are You Wearing Mobius's Clothes?
In order to bring evolution to humanity, Mobius's primary field was biology.
And biology focused on the flesh.
The essence of the Chang'an Melody and the Sword Heart Art was Divine Sound, while Divine Sound was a form of hypnotherapy that acted upon the human body itself.
Although the Divine Sound Experiment was led by Mei, the person who proposed the theory of Divine Sound should have been Mobius.
Because Mei pursued external things too much. She was not suited to a form of hypnotherapy like Divine Sound, which excavated one's inner potential.
As for why Mobius had not taken part in leading it... she had most likely been held back by other experiments.
After all, the Divine Sound Experiment took effect far too slowly. It was nowhere near as efficient as the Fusion Experiment.
Near the end of the Destruction war, experiments that could rapidly increase combat power were what research leaders like Mobius focused on overcoming. It was only natural that she had no time to involve herself in the Divine Sound Experiment.
If the Divine Sound Experiment had been perfected before the First Great Destruction erupted, the outcome would certainly have been vastly different.
That was why Ye Chang'an needed Mobius's assistance, and why he had shown sufficient sincerity by openly telling her even the essence of Destruction.
And Mobius?
She was hesitating.
Researching the Chang'an Melody could very well allow her to touch the evolution she had pursued for so long, but she was currently with Moth of the Fire.
Taking on private work was not forbidden, as long as it did not affect her official duties.
But she was certain that if she took this job, she would lose interest in her official work.
After all, this was something that could very likely bring evolution to humanity.
So accepting this job meant she would have to change employers.
But changing employers would bring a whole host of problems.
"Mister Chang'an, researching the Chang'an Melody will require many samples for comparative experiments. Can you provide them?" Mobius asked.
"I can."
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