Regarding the question of whether one thousand lives are enough to beat Honkai Impact 3rd.

The reason is that if the Honkai Fission Bomb can kill a Herrscher, there's no reason it would have no effect on Su Qing'an. At the same time, he hasn't made a fuss about being betrayed by higher-ups.

Even so, Moon had no intention of telling the authorities about it.

The reason is simple: based solely on speculation without any evidence, doing so would only potentially create real enmity with Su Qing'an and serve no other purpose.

Even if the authorities believe it, what if Himeko is determined to protect Su Qing'an, who is in a critical condition?

Given the delicate relationship between the Fire Moth and the official authorities, it's really difficult to do anything about these things that can't be brought to the forefront.

Even if they could find out where the boy is currently recuperating, it would be uncertain how many troops the authorities should send to kill him, or even whether they should choose to eliminate him in advance.

Therefore, Moon's desire to take Seele Voller has greatly diminished. Provoking a Herrscher-level individual who is destined to return could further affect the progress of the experiment.

Right now, he cares more about the government's talent recruitment program than these other things.

The loss of even a small part of those people on the list is a loss for the entire world.

Unfortunately, under such an unreasonable Honkai outbreak, without sufficient Honkai energy to withstand the relevant environment, even the most outstanding elites will immediately face death just like ordinary people.

Some of the people on these lists have official records, and their chances of survival are determined through intelligent calculations to avoid wasting already insufficient manpower searching for a corpse.

Based on a massive database, the fact that men rarely possess the Honkai energy literacy to confront the realities of the Honkai energy environment leads to an implicit bias in the inclusion of women in the list.

Dr. Moon's experimental group thus welcomed a genius who had previously published papers on quantum mechanics.

Mei.

86.Mei: "I will bring Seele Voller back."

Once upon a time, Mei thought 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 has a foreseeable and far-reaching future, and she is happy with it. Since childhood, she has deliberately studied and worked hard in this direction.

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 deeper, 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 died silently.

But that boy miraculously survived in the highly destructive environment, enduring fear and confusion, grabbing his own hand, and leading him to escape from Chiba 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 Chiba Academy, the third Honkai erupted.

And 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 in the accumulation stage, 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 Dr. Moon.]

Mei nodded, then gently massaged her brow with her fingertips and whispered:

"it is 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 she is most interested in genetic engineering in the field of biology.

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

As monsters born in response to 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 live so naturally in this place, and draw definite conclusions, thereby developing things based on the relevant principles.

Similarly, if we consider Honkai Beasts 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 adaptability should also be feasible.

The Honkai Beasts 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 Beasts 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 Beasts are not living beings. Instead, she believed that Honkai energy should be used as a new scientific framework to wrap up previous knowledge, so as not to be blinded.

As a born scientist, Mei's way of thinking is completely unconventional compared to that of normal 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 Beasts 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 may 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 Beasts. 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 the 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 the AI ​​and permissions she developed to bypass the relevant database, she set off directly to the Australian branch of the Firemoth on the sixth day to obtain some of the remains of the Emperor-class Honkai Beast Ganesha.

Their drive and efficiency are terrifying.

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

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

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

Therefore, despite Mei using the Quantum Sea 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, occasionally breaking gene chains within the human body structure model.

This is because the basic intelligence, which calls itself Prometheus, is quietly using 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 mankind, is like a termite on the entire Quantum Sea 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 Quantum Sea Experiment Group was struggling with was almost an arithmetic problem that could be solved in a day or two. The difficulty was not to the point that it gave her a headache.

Compared to the initial plan in her mind, the obstacles that Dr. Moon and others were struggling with were insignificant in Mei's eyes. She even wondered about their efficiency.

While it may be impolite to think this way, Mei believes that the computing 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. Even though she wasn't afraid of such a sharp and confrontational approach, it was something she wanted to avoid for the time being.

Therefore, Mei added other functions to Prometheus, a basic AI that was originally intended to be used as a database and alarm clock.

Even the laboratory testing grounds and material resources were taken without permission by Prometheus under Mei's special circumstances of working day and night with only experiments in mind, and used on-site to conduct the pre-planned experiments 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 a researcher who was almost indifferent to it.

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

Even though Mei used Prometheus to clean up all the data, the lack of experimental materials still meant that her actions could not be kept secret from the other party.

Moreover, when Mei used the experimental group's reputation to ask the Fire Moth 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, Dr. Moon'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 Dr. Moon was worried that she was wasting her time on things that were 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.

Dr. Moon 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 make Mei realize 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. Moon doesn't think this kind of putting the cart before the horse 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:

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

"I will give you the rest."

"Dr. Moon, 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 a hint of naivety amidst her intellectual appearance, he was speechless for a moment.

Moon 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.