Jiang Yu and Stelle accepted Ruan Mei's apology.
Getting Ruan Mei to make such a gesture already fulfilled Jiang Yu's purpose. After all, he did not think someone as rational and almost devoid of humanity as Ruan Mei would sincerely apologize.
To Ruan Mei, doing something like this was like placing a puzzle piece in its proper position because the puzzle had to be completed.
He had no idea how she had developed this personality as she grew up.
In any case, after accepting her apology, Stelle decided to hear what Ruan Mei wanted to do for the sake of the reward she had mentioned.
"When I arrived at the Space Station, I borrowed the Phase Flame, a creation of #29 Sserkal, from Herta, hoping to gain some inspiration from other members' research results.
"I did gain a little inspiration, so I tried cultivating life on the Space Station.
"In my imagination, these would be entirely new life-forms... born as geniuses. I intended to name them after #8 Lambda of the Genius Society...
"But something went wrong somewhere. They developed consciousness of their own, but had nothing whatsoever to do with genius.
"Moreover, my free-range approach to raising them seems to have backfired. A few days ago, during a containment breach, several newly cultivated little life-forms escaped and scattered throughout the Space Station.
"I don't want Herta or Asta to get involved. This has nothing to do with them, and the more people participate, the more trouble there will be.
"So... I hope you... both of you can help me retrieve these little life-forms."
Ruan Mei had originally intended for Stelle alone to handle this, but now, since Jiang Yu happened to be present too...
She considered this a good opportunity-a good opportunity to observe the incarnation of the Fragment