Elysia and V2V

While thinking, he was performing surgery on the third volunteer when his hand slipped, and the volunteer died instantly.

Actually, it's not Chen Luo's fault, because the other party was already doomed, so after his slip of the hand, Chen Luo quickly started observing the other party's vital signs.

Ultimately, it turned out that halving the amount did not guarantee that ordinary soldiers could become puppets 100% of the time, even though the opponent was stronger than Volunteer No. 2, so the amount of Domination Mark required was greater.

[Ding! Mission complete]

Although the other party died, they quickly came back to life, thus completing the mission.

The other party's wish was not to become Flame-Chaser, but to survive.

"Hmm?" After completing the other party's request, just as Chen Luo was about to wake him up and ask him to leave the operating table on his own, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

"This kid actually has the potential to become Flame-Chaser," Chen Luo said in surprise, looking at the other's Threads of Destiny.

The opponent's strength was not as great as that of Killer No. 1, but after dying once and gaining corresponding resistance, the opponent was able to become Flame-Chaser just like Killer No. 1. This really shows that becoming Flame-Chaser is not about your strength, but about your luck.

And coincidentally, he was very lucky.

Not only was Chen Luo lucky enough to perform the fusion surgery on the other party, but he was also lucky enough to become Flame-Chaser by dying only once.

Since this was something he did on a whim, Chen Luo performed a fusion surgery on the other party, helping them directly become Flame-Chaser.

As a puppeteer, Chen Luo never hesitates to enhance his puppets.

After all, strengthening one's own puppets is the same as strengthening one's own combat power.

It's a pity that even though the other party became Flame-Chaser, it seems that he didn't reach a particularly outstanding level, or even the level of Killer No. 1, let alone Kevin.

However, casually killing ordinary Fire Moth warriors is still within their capabilities.

Most importantly, all Flame-Chaser, regardless of their strength, have a lifespan far exceeding that of ordinary people.

Starting today, the other person will be able to live forever.

This method of achieving immortality is truly astonishing.

This is exactly the method that the higher-ups of the Fire Moth want; they don't need to have great power, but at least they need to have the ability to live forever.

Throughout history, no ruler has ever refrained from pursuing immortality.

"Alright, all three surgeries for today are finished. The rest is up to you, Snake Snake. When you implant the Puppet Mark into them later, remember to help measure the accuracy of the Puppet Mark," Chen Luo said.

Currently, only Chen Luo and Mobius are capable of performing the fusion surgery. Dr. Mei should also be able to, but he doesn't have the time.

The other party's current focus should be on the Stigmata Project.

"Understood." Mobius nodded.

However, Mobius's current expression still proves that he is still immersed in the techniques Chen Luo used during the fusion surgery.

Mobius is now slowly absorbing Chen Luo's mastery of fusion surgery techniques to improve his own skills.

Although Chen Luo would usually give Mobius some knowledge about Previous Era, Chen Luo never dared to give anything too outrageous because the stronger a civilization's development, the stronger its Honkai would be. He also strongly urged Mobius not to leak this knowledge.

Therefore, Mobius remained passionate about his research, to the point that even Chen Luo was somewhat afraid.

Chen Luo even more frightened when he felt that Mobius was planning to test his skills on him.

"Um, Kevin, what are you doing here?" After Chen Luo pushed Volunteer No. 3, who had just undergone surgery and failed, out of the operating room, he was surprised to see Kevin outside the operating room.

Next, the operating room will be entirely given to Mobius. Although Doctor Mobius could refuse such frequent surgical procedures, after watching Chen Luo's fusion surgery demonstration, Mobius couldn't wait to ask Fire Moth to send new volunteers as soon as possible.

Mobius said he took a white mouse in one bite, and that wasn't just a random nickname.

Chen Luo didn't care about this, since there was Puppet Mark anyway.

Therefore, after Chen Luo pushes the other person out alone this time, he will not return to the operating room.

"Did the surgery fail again?" Kevin asked coldly, looking at volunteer number 3, who was sitting in a wheelchair, looking pale and seemingly still under the effects of anesthesia.

Don't misunderstand, Kevin wasn't wearing a cold face because Chen Luo's surgery failed, but because he's always had a cold face.

Kevin couldn't sense a strong Honkai energy aura from the opponent, which meant that the opponent must have failed.

"Fusion surgery is not that simple. Kevin, you should know the pain you endure during fusion surgery. It is completely above the limit of anesthesia. People who are not determined, not physically strong, and not lucky simply cannot succeed. This fusion surgery is practically a life-threatening operation. So failure is very normal."

Although Volunteer #3 has indeed become Flame-Chaser, the first fusion surgery did fail.

"Luo, this is all we can do now," Kevin said gravely after glancing at Chen Luo.

After years of fighting, Kevin has now become a young and powerful qualified warrior, meaning that he is actually older than Chen Luo.

Kevin now looks at Chen Luo like he's a child, which makes Chen Luo feel a little awkward.

Although I am indeed just a child.

"Don't tell me these things, I understand them all. After all, I'm someone who has truly faced the Honkai directly," Chen Luo said.

"Indeed, the Sixth Herrscher ..." Upon hearing Chen Luo's words, Kevin seemed to fall into some kind of reminiscence.

"..."

Um, you might have misunderstood. When I said "facing the Honkai," I meant facing the Honkai Consciousness.

Never mind.

"We have paid too much and lost too much in the fight against the Honkai. Although your ability has indeed greatly guaranteed the lives of volunteers after failed surgeries, it has not been done enough," Kevin said, looking at the third volunteer who had failed in his surgery.

"Given the current state of the battle, the Herrscher that emerge in the future may become increasingly powerful, so the plan to Flame-Chaser cannot be halted. It may even extend beyond the Fire Moth warriors and involve soliciting volunteers from outside."

"Currently, there are very few people in the entire Fire Moth who can perform fusion surgery, but that may not be the case in the future. The number of fusion surgeries per day may surge dramatically, and the three life-saving quotas per day will not be enough to meet everyone's needs."

Kevin has a fairly good understanding of the Fire Moth.

With the Honkai drawing ever closer, the enemy will absolutely not abandon the Flame-Chaser plan because of the high mortality rate. They may temporarily shelve the plan due to public opinion or for their own potential political gains, but the plan will ultimately continue.

Whether in the open or in the shadows.

"Fire Moth? Volunteers? The upper echelons of the Fire Moth..." Upon hearing Kevin's words, a sudden flash of inspiration struck Chen Luo.

Well, if something called a coronavirus were to appear in the world in the future, then each country would naturally develop a corresponding vaccine.

Once a vaccine is available, it will naturally be administered to people across the country.

So here's the problem: what if we mix the Puppet Mark into the vaccine, and use the excuse of maximizing the Honkai Sickness adaptability of everyone in the world to give the vaccine to people all over the world for free?

How many of those suffering from the Honkai would believe that?

If the other party resists, is it permissible to administer the injection by force?

If the Puppet Mark continues to spread along with these vaccines, is it possible for the entire world's population to be marked with the Puppet Mark?

The Puppet Mark doesn't necessarily have to be displayed in the form of Primogem; that's just Chen Luo's perverse sense of humor, like condensing the puppeteer's threads into crystal.

The Puppet Mark can turn into Primogem, and naturally it can also become a kind of liquid.

However, if one really wants to force everyone to be injected with this vaccine that contains Puppet Mark, firstly, one must have considerable power to have sufficient credibility, and secondly, this vaccine must actually have a certain effect.

However, the effect cannot be too obvious, because if the effect is too obvious, and everyone in the entire First Civilization Era gains enough Honkai Resistance, what if a Herrscher specifically designed to counter Honkai appears, given the characteristic that Honkai will specifically grant Herrscher Authority?

Moreover, this technology itself requires extremely high levels of expertise, something that Previous Era could not possibly possess.

Therefore... Chen Luo's gaze involuntarily fell upon the Imaginary Stigmata on the back of his left hand.

The Previous Era did not have it does not mean that the countless knowledge within the Imaginary Stigmata was not there.

"Thanks for the reminder. I'll leave him to you. I'm heading back to the lab now." Chen Luo patted Kevin on the shoulder and ran off into the distance.

"..." Kevin was somewhat confused as he watched Chen Luo pat his shoulder and then shake his hand as if he were cold.

What did I remind myself of?

Chapter 468 Elysia and V2V

"From a purely rational perspective, Honkai is a selection mechanism on the Imaginary Tree. So, how to resist Honkai should also be considered knowledge within the Imaginary Tree. Let me look carefully... Ah, I found it." As soon as Chen Luo finished speaking and entered the Stigmata Space of the Imaginary Tree, a book slowly and actively floated to Chen Luo's front.

How to Increase Honkai Sickness Resistance by Just a Little Bit

"What a simple and easy-to-understand title!" Chen Luo suddenly felt that this Imaginary Space was much more useful than the Void Archive.

The key is that the knowledge in the Void Archive is presented in individual books. To truly understand it, one sometimes needs to read several books that are not closely related to each other in order to improve upon a basic level.

However, the Imaginary Stigmata and Quantum Stigmata are different. There are no fixed books in the Imaginary Stigmata and Quantum Stigmata. The books are combined according to your needs.

It's like the difference between a library and the human brain.

You have to search for books in the library one by one, but if you have a brain that has learned all the knowledge, wouldn't the thing you want to look for appear in your mind in an instant?

Although addition and multiplication are both fundamental algorithms, they are located in different areas of the library.

But it's much easier to think about it in your mind.

"Hmm, I see. I understand now." After carefully reading the book, which practically had its contents written all over its face, Chen Luo roughly understood how to make a special vaccine that could slightly increase resistance to Honkai Sickness.

And most importantly, the upper limit of this technology is only to increase resistance slightly.

Chen Luo doesn't need to worry that anyone will use this thing to research a stronger way to resist Honkai Sickness, and at the same time, use it to research how to increase Honkai Energy Adaptation.

The increased Honkai Sickness resistance falls somewhere in between—it's something that can be widely adopted, but the effect isn't exceptionally outstanding, and there's not much benefit to it.

The best way to promote vaccines without causing trouble for the public is to ensure that there is no profit to be made.

Because once something becomes profitable, no matter how good the other party's original intention is, there will always be some people who can turn something that heals and saves lives into a business.

Even though there's no profit to be made, which might make those promoting it less interested, isn't it enough as long as the order comes from above?

"Perhaps I really should find a few more scapegoats among the higher-ups at Fire Moth, or go directly to the United Nations and find a few powerful but not exactly ethical scapegoats..."

After having a vaccine, Chen Luo began to think.

Since arriving in the Previous Era, Chen Luo has never actively expanded his puppet's sphere of influence, but now, in order to spread the Puppet Mark as far as possible, Chen Luo has this idea.

If Chen Luo only wanted to expand his power, he didn't need to care about ordinary people. Since they wouldn't provide much enhancement to Chen Luo after becoming puppets, he could focus on the Flame-Chaser.

But Chen Luo always felt that he should do something in the Previous Era.

Watching a civilization rush headlong into an unstoppable abyss without any attempt to stop it was already incredibly frustrating for Chen Luo, a participant in that civilization.

If Chen Luo didn't do something, he would feel like he had come all this way for nothing.

Of course, doing so wouldn't be entirely without benefits for Chen Luo.

What was the puppeteer's initial introduction? It was about treating the entire world as a puppet to be manipulated at will.

Chen Luo cannot control the entire world, but controlling an Earth is a very rare experience for Chen Luo.

Moreover, with so many people in the world, there are bound to be a few ordinary people who possess special abilities like Pardo.

Before joining the Fire Moth, Pardo was an unknown figure, and even after joining, none of the Fire Moth's higher-ups remembered Pardo.

After the S-rank Herrscher of Domination's ability was transformed into Domination Authority, there was no longer an upper limit to the number of puppets that could be controlled, and it was quite different from the initial Herrscher of Domination Authority.

For example, the more people Domination Authority controls, the greater the benefits one receives.

Chen Luo could clearly feel that as the number of puppets increased, the strength of the Collective Network was also constantly increasing.

The increase in intensity is very slight, but what if it were a planetary inhabitant?

In other words, what if it were a Flame-Chaser from a single planet?

"I want to transform this imperfect world into the one I envision!"

The deeper Chen Luo became involved with the Honkai World, the stronger this thought became.

It turns out that not only was Chen Luo trying to increase the favorability of other people in the Honkai World, but the Honkai World itself was also trying to increase Chen Luo's favorability.

As Chen Luo gets to know more and more people in the Honkai World, including Herrscher of Knowledge, Fu Hua, Mobius, Kiana, Theresa, Himeko, Mei, Bronya, Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, Elysia...

The reason why a person feels a sense of belonging to the world, the country, and the city is because they have more and more ties with the people they know in this place.

The more ties you have, the harder it is to let go.

However, Chen Luo still has a clear understanding of himself. He is not a savior, nor does he have any idea of saving the world or risking his life for it. The world does not hold that much weight in Chen Luo's heart.

But Chen Luo still wanted to do his part for the world, however small.

"Clap clap clap!" A burst of applause immediately brought Chen Luo back to reality from his somewhat excited state of mind.

Chen Luo turned his head and saw Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu clapping beside him.

Klein was nodding drowsily.

"... When did you three arrive?" Chen Luo asked after a moment of silence.