Honkai Impact, please stop imagining it.

Inviting Mei was definitely the right decision; Himeko really made a brilliant move.

Lin Yu's test report was displayed on the computer, and various data about his body were printed out. Mei picked up the test report and glanced at it while chatting with Lin Yu.

“Dr. Mebius, you’ve put in the wrong genes. Is this a report from some death row inmate? Why are there so many pathogens?”

Lin Yu: "That's mine."

It would be strange if there weren't that many pathogens. Lin Yu wanted to take the report back, but Mei held it tightly.

Mei frowned. "I remember your health shouldn't be this bad."

With Möbius around, even if he couldn't become like a normal person, he could at least extend his lifespan a little. Why did his condition worsen and increase instead?

Mebius: "Because he fought, and every time he fought, he used the Honkai energy within him. The Honkai energy caused his genes to mutate, and the more he fought, the worse his body became. Isn't that reasonable?"

Mebius raised an eyebrow and explained to Mei in a very professional manner that this was a reasonable phenomenon, but Mei was puzzled.

"Since you knew this would happen, why did you still send him to fight?"

You know all this, so why did you still send him to fight?

Lin Yu: "Because I believe you can successfully develop the fusion warrior before I die, and the weaker my physique, the stronger my combat power will be. The closer I get to death, the more I will be able to understand the true meaning of life."

Lin Yu took off in front of Mei, floating in mid-air. "Could I have done this before? Could he have easily killed a Warlord-level Honkai Beast?"

Lin Yu sat back down on the chair, spun around in it, and said casually.

mei: "But."

Lin Yu: "You studied the Chimera to cure me, but if I possess great power and other warriors fight and lose their lives to save me, then what am I? Mei."

Mei's expression was gloomy and uncertain. "One must learn to be selfish."

Mebius leaned close to Klein and whispered, "See? Mebius is even more inhuman than I am when it comes to being inhuman."

Mei: "Human life is a consumable. The Chimera Project is not only to save you, but also to save the world. It is the destiny of a warrior to sacrifice his life for the latter."

Klein's hair stood on end, he bent over and tried to shrink himself so that Mei wouldn't see him, and whispered to Möbius, "Dr. Möbius, I used to feel ashamed when I heard outsiders say that you were the devil, but now when I think about what they said, I feel that they didn't understand you or Mei at all."

Klein: "Dr. Mei is even more of a devil."

"Mei, do you believe me?"

Lin Yu noticed Mei's serious expression and asked with a smile.

Mei nodded. "No one trusts you more than I do."

Lin Yu: "I'm going to tell you a secret now, a true story, one that is absolutely true."

"I hope you can calm down and listen to the whole thing, okay?"

Mei frowned. "What are you trying to say?"

Lin Yu: "I was already dead. I died on the afternoon of my sixteenth birthday. Since then, I will no longer die from illness. Illness cannot kill me. It will only make me stronger. A warrior's destiny is to save the world. I am not a warrior, and I have no destiny, but I will still save the world."

Mei: "........"

Lin Yu: "I am not your childhood sweetheart, not the childhood sweetheart who played and frolicked with you before I was ten years old, nor the child who shouted that you would definitely become a great scientist in the future. I died in that drizzling rain in spring. Well, I can't say I wasn't, um... I should say more than that."

"The immense pain of this or that cancer that you see is at most one-tenth of what I can bear in my body, or even negligible."

"This world is cruel. Humanity has lost its home. Collapse is sweeping across the land, and cities are falling apart. You are a researcher, while I am just an ordinary person who is not so ordinary. At this moment, our feelings for each other are like a cup of water in a raging fire. It can't be said that they are useless, but it can only be said that they are nothing."

"Nothing in this world is more important than strength, including life. The Honkai will grow stronger and stronger until it destroys the entire world, and what we need to do is stop it. Everything else is trivial."

........

Mei's thoughts paused at the moment Lin Yu said he died on the afternoon of his sixteenth birthday.

She paused for a second after Lin Yu said he wasn't her childhood sweetheart.

The pause was at the moment when Lin Yu said that from that time on, he would never die from illness or feel pain because of his ailment.

The pause was when Lin Yu recounted his childhood sweetheart relationship with her.

Lin Yu: "So now you understand, right?"

Seeing Mei staring blankly with a sorrowful expression, Lin Yu said somewhat awkwardly.

Mei: "......."

Lin Yu waved his hand in front of her face. "Me?"

Mebius and Klein were bending over, eating watermelon.

Möbius: "Goodness, he's laid his cards on the table. He's exaggerating the importance of the Collapse to reject Mei. Has Mei done anything to make Lin Yu feel bad before?"

Klein: "I don't know, but judging from Lin Yu's expression, it seems like he doesn't care if I suffer, die from illness or pain, he just put it a little euphemistically."

Klein opened a bag of potato chips from the drawer and placed it between her and Mebius. "Doctor, have something good to eat."

Möbius ate a piece and nodded in satisfaction. "I knew you were clever."

Mei: "No, no matter what you say, I will never give up on you!"

Lin Yu: "I didn't ask you to give up. What I meant was that you can continue to work hard on the research of the Chimera, and then create more Fusion Warriors to eliminate the Honkai together. I will help you kill the Honkai Beasts, instead of you stopping me."

Mei: "Eek, even if you say that, I won't give up on you."

Mei reached out and hugged Lin Yu's neck, sobbing uncontrollably, "I will make up for the mistakes I made before, and I will never let you suffer the same pain again, waah waah waah."

Lin Yu was completely bewildered by the hug, but hearing Mei's cries, he didn't break free and slowly reached out to hug her back.

"I understand, so you'll do your best to study the chimera, right?"

"Ok!"

Lin Yu: "You understood what I said, right?"

Mei: "Slurp~, Mmm!"

Lin Yu: "If you want to cry, then cry for a while. I know this might be hard for you to bear."

Mei: "I will definitely create a drug to cure your side effects before you die!"

Lin Yu: "......."

You think you understand anything, you bastard?

Lin Yu sighed helplessly, then thought for a moment and hugged Mei tightly.

As long as it doesn't stop us from becoming stronger, that's fine. "Then let's do our best."

The two embraced in silence, while Klein and Möbius hid under the table.

"Dr. Mebius, Dr. Mebius, did you see that? Hug! Hug!"

"Wow, it's so sweet! Isn't this better than TV dramas? Isn't this better than movies?" Klein said excitedly.

Möbius: "I saw it. Go and separate the two of them."

Möbius's face darkened, and he tugged at Klein's sleeve, speaking earnestly.

Klein: "?"

Klein: "Huh? Dr. Möbius, why?"

We were having a great time watching them just now, so why did you ask me to pull them apart as soon as we hugged?

Klein had the look of a little demon who had been instructed by the Demon King to capture Tang Sanzang and his disciples, the kind of look his boss gave him—clear yet foolish—as if he were telling a college student to build a website comparable to Taobao.

Möbius: "I thought they were going to separate, but it turns out it's for a better reunion. How can I stand this? Hurry up and hurry up."

The takeout arrived, and the cafeteria lady in her delivery uniform swiftly opened the outer door of the research institute. "Whose takeout is this? Lobster meat rice bowl."

Klein struggled for ages trying to figure out what to do, but the delivery lady solved it with just one sentence.

Upon hearing the older woman's words, Mei quickly got off Lin Yu's lap, turned her back, wiped her tears with a tissue, and blushed without turning around.

She finally realized what she had just done.

Chapter 69 Long time no see, Kevin, you've gotten uglier.

Lin Yu was in a great mood. Mei had actually sat on his lap and hugged him in front of Klein at Mebius's research institute.

However, Lin Yu found it somewhat amusing that Mei cried like this. "Ugh, is that it?"

The crying sound, like a green tea tweezer, actually came from Mei's mouth.

Considering that Mei needed to have a physical examination every month, Lin Yu couldn't go out, so he simply accompanied Mei to walk around the research institute.

Lin Yu and Mei deliberately avoided heading towards the death row inmates, instead observing the branch experiments being conducted by the researchers in the institute.

Mei: "If only there were something that could grant people immense power just by sticking it on."

As Mei walked out of the branch research institute, she sighed and said this.

If there were something that could grant humans immense power simply by attaching it to their bodies, then Lin Yu wouldn't need to fight. The warriors would probably be happy to attach themselves to it and easily defeat the Honkai Beasts to collect their military merits.

"If you're willing to do it, it will happen in the future. Well, if such a thing appears, my suggestion is to name it the Holy Mark."

Mei: "Why is it a stigmata?"

Lin Yu: "It needs to have a name, right?"

It has to have a name. Speaking of which, the Stigmata was also researched by Mei. There are too many things that Mei researched, and it seems that everything in later generations has Mei's influence.

"If there were a spaceship that could absorb Honkai energy and release it as an attack at the same time, I think no living being could withstand that kind of attack."

Lin Yu thought of the Moon Throne. The Moon Throne's model must be like this.

"That's simple, but there's no time right now."

Lin Yu: "After we finish the Chimera project, let's get on with the Stigmata Project and the spaceship."

"So eager? Hmm... I'm free anyway. I was planning to make an ether anchor to fix the quantum sea, but I can do it without Einstein, so I'll agree. But I want to repay you."

Mei put her hands behind her back, stood on tiptoe, puffed out her chest, and smiled slightly. "What benefits will you give me if I succeed?"

Lin Yu: "Hmm... Your fame will spread from Shenzhou to Mu Continent, known to all. On the day of the collapse and dissipation, everyone will remember everything you have done. You will become the most cutting-edge scientist in all mankind, and no one will be in the same position as you. You are unique and supreme."

Lin Yu was absolutely certain that if Mei successfully developed these technologies ahead of schedule, the Honkai would surrender immediately, if the Honkai outbreak was a test for humanity.

So what Mei did was like asking Honkai what one plus one equals. Mei not only answered it, but also sent Honkai a multiplication table. A perfect answer.

Mei: "Huh? I'm not the kind of person who chases fame and fortune. I just like doing research."