As everyone knew.
Because Jiang Yao had barged in.
The plot of Honkai: Star Rail had undergone a massive, irreversible deviation.
In plain English.
Version 1.6 was gone.
But!
All "gone" meant was that the Astral Express Crew would no longer return to Herta Space Station.
It did not mean Ruan Mei would not go there!
Yes.
Ruan Mei arrived at Herta Space Station!
And received the gift from Jiang Yao that Asta passed on to her.
A Light Cone-
The Origin of Life.
At first, Ruan Mei had little interest in the Light Cone Asta handed her.
Ruan Mei had always understood herself very clearly.
She was a monster.
To pursue her ideals, the creations she wanted to make.
What she wanted to become: [](encrypted information detected; please ask Silver Wolf or generate power out of love to unlock)
She would stop at nothing.
To put it nicely, these were a scientist's eccentricities.
To put it bluntly, she had little humanity.
Ruan Mei knew this perfectly well.
But she did not care.
Really.
She was just a little reclusive...
A little hard to understand...
She had lived this way for so many years.
Being alone was fine, too.
At least, that was what Ruan Mei believed for now.
Had Asta not told her this Light Cone was called The Origin of Life.
She would not even have opened it.
She would simply have thanked her, then quietly put it away to gather dust.
But The Origin of Life...
She could not help caring.
She could not help being curious.
Even though she knew the bait was obvious and the hook was bare.
She still bit without hesitation.
There was no helping it.
That was Ruan Mei.
An obsessive.
Only.
Once she opened the sealed Light Cone.
What appeared was