Mei: "I'll bring Seele Vollerei back."

Once upon a time, Mei believed her future was bright.

Her father is a world-renowned electromagnetic physicist, so her future path is very clear.

Mei is different from her peers; she possesses a foreseeable and far-reaching future, and she is happy with it, having deliberately studied and worked hard in this direction since childhood.

If nothing unexpected happens, I can probably anticipate and plan for my future work and life.

But after that day, this future as a scientist seemed to be shrouded in something far more profound, forcing this girl with unparalleled talent to keep moving forward toward the abyss and the realm of the gods.

How should we recall the past?

Her fingertips pressed against the badge pinned to the chest of her white coat, which bore her name and official title.

[Mei/Assistant]

That happened about two weeks ago.

Even after being pulled out of that hellish place, Mei's heart was still filled with the sorrow and shock of seeing the world turn upside down in an instant.

She sometimes thought that if Kevin hadn't grabbed her hand back then, she might have been lost in that bizarre world, and then died silently.

But that boy miraculously survived in the highly Honkai Energy environment, enduring fear and confusion, grabbing his own hand, and leading him away from the Senba Academy.

So Mei felt his and her own breath, ignoring the rapid rise and fall of her chest, forgetting the ambiguous and tender feelings that should have been there, and casting aside the abnormality and fear brought about by the world's anomaly. In a daze, she looked at the desolation behind her and the humans who had become demons and ghosts.

Those deep purple eyes reflected the twilight the world was facing, yet also shimmered with sorrow and radiant hope.

On February 21st, at the Senba Academy, the Third Honkai Outbreak.

And so this young girl, who was already extraordinary despite her young age, received a divine revelation.

She will change the world single-handedly, even if it means... giving her all.

But not now.

Even though Mei has glimpsed a new path, with her current resources and power, as well as her shallow knowledge that is still accumulating, she cannot fully reveal the burning brilliance hidden beneath her naive exterior.

Illusory light and shadow surged from the watch face on her wrist, the fluorescent blue data weaving into a petite girl who spoke expressionlessly in a purely synthesized human voice:

[Dr. Mei, there are ten minutes left before your meeting with Doctor Muen.]

Mei nodded, then gently massaged her brow with her fingertips for a while before softly saying:

"Good."

Then the light and shadow disappeared, just like a timed alarm clock that would stop ringing once it was turned off.

This is a basic AI that Mei has casually created over the past two weeks to improve basic work efficiency. Currently, it only has some basic functions and effects.

However, it is worth mentioning that the underlying logic and rudimentary technology used by this intelligence are quite different from normal advanced artificial intelligence and even the most rudimentary basic intelligence.

Although her father was a physicist specializing in electromagnetism, she herself possessed an exceptionally broad aptitude for science, which led her father, who discovered this fact at a young age, to raise her in a completely different way than others.

Mei has dabbled in many fields, but her greatest interest lies in genetic engineering in biology.

When Mei was brought back to the safe zone by the Moth to Fire, she obtained a series of accurate information from the relevant personnel. Among this knowledge about Honkai, she was instinctively curious about whether Honkai Beast were living beings.

As monsters born from the Honkai itself, they naturally possess innate Honkai Energy resistance, much like how marine creatures are not drowned by Seawater at birth.

Humans can use science to understand and analyze why these organisms can survive so naturally in this environment, draw definitive conclusions, and develop related products based on these principles.

Similarly, if we consider Honkai Beast as living beings, then theoretically, replicating the same operations to find out why they can thrive in the Honkai environment and derive research directions to improve Honkai Energy should also be feasible.

The Honkai Beast at the lower levels do not seem to have the ability to possess corpses. The higher the concentration of Honkai Energy in an environment, the faster the Honkai Beast will dissolve into Honkai Energy particles and merge into the atmosphere after they die, undergoing a cycle that is difficult to separate.

However, Mei did not conclude from this phenomenon that Honkai Beast are not living beings. Instead, she believed that Honkai Energy should be used as a new scientific framework to encompass previous knowledge, so as not to be blinded by it.

As a born scientist, Mei's way of thinking is completely unconventional compared to that of ordinary people.

Sometimes, even Kevin, who was closest to her on a spiritual level, found it difficult to understand the strange words that came from the combination of her unconventional thinking and her vast and complex knowledge.

Mei once believed that the way Honkai Beast died was like dandelions swaying in the wind, constantly scattering their seeds in all directions, which was their unique pattern of birth, aging, sickness, death, and reproduction.

Those Honkai Energy particles might be carriers of encoded information, too small and numerous to be worth destroying at a great cost.

This is similar to the various survival methods that animals have evolved over a long period of time to adapt to their environment and strive to survive.

Mei believes that she is not the only one trying to find the answer to breaking free from the shackles by looking at the Honkai Beast. These people must have gone through a long search and tedious research, but in the end, they all failed without exception.

Observing such microscopic Honkai Energy particles from a human perspective, especially when there is no relevant theoretical framework, is entirely a matter of luck.

But the path of science is always like this: sometimes all the groundwork and exploration of millions of people cannot compare to a flash of inspiration in the mind of a genius.

Incomprehensible things are commonplace in this field, and Mei is a genius who has transcended normal understanding in this regard.

She spent only three days understanding the basics of Honkai, and using her self-developed AI and permissions to bypass the relevant database, she set off directly to the Australian branch of the Moth to Fire on the sixth day to obtain some of the remains of the Emperor-class Honkai Beast Ganesha.

Their drive and efficiency are truly terrifying.

Mei was able to obtain the remains of Emperor-class Honkai Beast because Emperor-class Honkai Beast are fundamentally different from normal Honkai Beast; they cannot undergo the ecological cycle of evaporating within seconds like lower-class Honkai Beast.

The rate at which it decays is similar to that of a normal biological body, except that it manifests as Honkai Energy particles slowly overflowing and dispersing into the surroundings.

The Moth to Fire obtained the body of Ganesha in Canghai City and preserved it using special methods for research.

Mei published a paper on quantum mechanics six months ago, which caused a huge stir in the academic community. This is the core reason why she is on the talent repatriation list.

Therefore, Moth to Fire has always treated Mei very well, so it can be said that her initial status was not low.

The Moth to Fire agreed to let her come to the Sea of Quantum Project's experimental group this time, besides Muen's request, was also to allow the girl to shine in her field and grow rapidly as a result.

Therefore, despite Mei using the Sea of Quantum Project as a pretext, the application for some of Ganesha's bodily tissues was approved on the same day.

In the time that followed, Mei endured the minor psychological discomfort and spent three days collecting evidence and conducting research in the laboratory using the remains of previously tested subjects and ordinary human remains.

As a result, Mei gained almost nothing, but intuitively felt that an experimental direction and a draft plan were bound to be promising.

However, contrary to his initial thoughts, even in its initial form, this plan could not ultimately solve the problem of insufficient resistance to Honkai Energy among the general population.

The girl glanced at the constantly flowing data on the screen and the continuously spiraling, twisting, and occasionally breaking gene chains within the human body structure model.

This is because the basic intelligence, which calls itself Prometheus, is quietly borrowing the entire laboratory's computing power to help guide the prototype of this project in the right direction.

Prometheus, who symbolizes stealing the spark of hope for humanity, is like a termite on the entire Sea of Quantum Experiment Group, draining the progress of the experiments here to satisfy Mei's own ideas.

But Mei didn't feel guilty. In her eyes, the problem that the Sea of Quantum Experiment Group was struggling with was almost an arithmetic problem that could be solved in a day or two, and the difficulty was not to the point that it gave her a headache.

Compared to the rudimentary plan in her mind, the obstacles that Doctor Muen and his team were struggling with were insignificant in Mei's eyes. She even questioned their efficiency.

While it may be somewhat impolite to think this way, Mei believes that the computational power in the experimental group was being used to calculate things in the completely wrong direction, which is a complete waste of efficiency.

However, her basic emotional intelligence prevented the girl from directly confronting the other party and tearing the experimental group's face off. Although such a sharp and confrontational approach was not something she feared, it was something she wanted to avoid for the time being.

Therefore, Mei added other functions to Prometheus, a basic AI originally designed as a database and alarm clock.

Even the laboratory testing grounds and material resources were taken without permission by Mei, who was working day and night and only focused on Prometheus, and used on-site for the experiments he had envisioned in his mind.

It was precisely in this state of near-absence of focus on anything other than the experiments that Mei was able to so quickly transform from the mindset of a normal person seeing the internal structure of a corpse to that of a researcher who was almost indifferent to it.

Of course, the result of doing so was that Doctor Muen unsurprisingly discovered most of Mei's misdeeds.

Even though Mei used Prometheus to clean up all the data, the lack of experimental materials meant that her actions were bound to be exposed to the other party.

Moreover, when Mei used the experimental group's reputation to ask the Moth to Fire for Ganesha's remains, she had no intention of concealing her actions.

She didn't care about the lingering effects of those boring rules; the image reflected in her eyes that day was enough to change many things for this girl who once only had a weak belief.

Therefore, Doctor Muen's invitation is undoubtedly related to this.

Mei guessed that the other party wouldn't do anything to her. The most likely explanation was that Doctor Muen was worried that she was wasting her time on things unrelated to the project team and her own talents, so he intended to advise Mei not to waste time on areas that weren't her area of expertise.

Doctor Muen knew about these things on the day they happened, and the reason he didn't go to persuade or stop them on the spot was simply to let Mei understand the difficulty of these fields by expending some resources, so that she would willingly give up.

From the other party's perspective, this conversation was just a formality.

Mei has no reason to continue wasting her talent in the quantum field after recognizing reality. Muen doesn't believe that such a backward approach is something this intelligent girl would insist on.

However, the only thing the old man overlooked was his misjudgment of Mei's talent and so-called intelligence, which led to the conversation going far beyond his expectations.

Ten minutes later, Mei looked at the bewildered old man and said softly:

"Assign half of the laboratory's computing power to Prometheus, and without questioning why, fulfill all my requests for materials and resources within the laboratory's capabilities."

"I will give you the rest."

"Doctor Muen, what do you think?"

The old man's thin, veiny hands gripped the document tightly, as if it were a precious treasure, and he carefully reviewed the documents Mei had just handed over. Looking at the young girl's face, which held both intellect and naivety, he was speechless for a moment.

Muen had noticed Mei's existence a long time ago, and if it weren't for Mei's paper on quantum mechanics that inspired him, he might not have proposed this far-fetched plan.

The old man had long believed that she was an extraordinary genius in this field, and he even thought that she would surpass him and take over the project in less than three years.

But Muen really didn't expect that she would surpass the results of three months of hard work in the laboratory, which had been done day and night using high-intensity computing power, in just a few days, while even specializing in other fields.

It's so irrational that it's absurd and nonsensical.

Was it shocking? Absolutely.

Jealousy? Doctor Muen had absolutely no such thoughts.

Aside from shock, the only emotion remaining in the old man's mind was unparalleled joy. Every pore and cell in his body seemed to tremble, and the air he breathed was fresh and pleasant.

Muen gazed at the girl, his eyes slowly closed; at that moment, it was as if a divine revelation had occurred to him.

Humanity needs this kind of existence.

Mei's existence is a blessing for all humanity; almost instantly, the old man made this judgment.

However, Mei cannot be allowed to appear in the public eye now. Once such an existence is discovered, she will become the target of public criticism. While this may grant the girl great power and abundant resources, the intense attention will only draw more attention to the Honkai.

The feint Third Honkai Outbreak was enough to teach all of humanity a lesson; the official understanding is that the Honkai side possesses its own consciousness.

This is a terrifying being that possesses intelligence and personally intervenes in events.

Muen couldn't be sure what the future held, but given the glimpses of talent Mei had shown so far, he could almost foresee the scene where, as she took control of the situation and dominated humanity's future, the Honkai Consciousness would actively target Mei.

The old man's foresight was undoubtedly remarkable; he understood that the authorities were still committed to stabilizing the social order of the remaining cities and the morale of the soldiers.

With the fundamental problem unresolved and lives constantly threatened by insufficient Honkai resistance, Mei's existence makes her the perfect candidate for a god-making project.

Simply informing the public of her success and terrifying talent would stabilize the situation.

Mei will easily succeed time and time again, creating miracles. With the official media hype, it's completely impossible for the Honkai not to take Honkai against Mei in the future.

Besides... human nature is unpredictable.

For the reasons mentioned above, even though Doctor Muen. Moon wanted Mei to have all the rights and resources to fully utilize her abilities and add a fatal Honkai to humanity's victory over the Honkai, he still believed that the current stage was not the perfect time.

Even if the ultimate plan to create a god is inevitable, Doctor Muen hopes that this plan will be launched when things are more difficult, more desperate, and when the authorities are paying more attention, so that Mei can gain more substantial power and use it to protect himself.

Prior to this, the elderly man would do his best to conceal Mei's talents while creating the best research environment for her within his capabilities.

Therefore, he had to find difficulties that did not involve scientific research to persuade Mei not to reveal her talents so quickly.

This way, once she backs down, it's easy to get a positive response from you if you then express your willingness to fully support her within your capabilities.

Suppressing the turmoil within him, Muen said softly:

"Experimental specimen Serial Number VJKA13809, Seele Fulei."

"Your numerical and theoretical data do not support her existence. To confirm this using ordinary experimental subjects would require experimental subjects that currently exceed our project team's permitted scope."

"Seele Fulei is currently in the Logistics Department of the Moth to Fire's Fifth Squad. We cannot bring her back for experiments unless she volunteers."

"So Mei, I personally appreciate your proposal, but due to the current situation, please allow me to temporarily refrain from responding to your request."

Is it Seele Fulei?

Mei narrowed her eyes, recalling all the information about her.

The young girl looked at the old man, already having made up her mind, and said softly:

"I will make sure she comes voluntarily, Doctor Muen."

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