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

The newly created Prometheus could not escape the search of the laboratory's intelligent system. Even though the relevant images were deleted, the original data was still displayed after Moon's subsequent restoration.

Mei gazed at the rows of children's corpses in the storage room and stood silently for an hour.

When she first entered the laboratory, she was unaware that it was trampling on taboos and ethics to conduct human experiments that were despised by everyone.

If a normal girl of this age suddenly discovered this reality, it wouldn't be surprising if she experienced a brief breakdown.

In the end, Mei shed tears and was forced to vomit by the sight of the corpse, but she still suppressed all her emotions and followed the path of her predecessors without hesitation, stepping into the forbidden territory.

Incredible adaptability.

In just three hours, she went from trembling with gritted teeth to calm and expressionless, achieving a transformation that could hardly be described as monstrous.

The core motivation that kept Mei calm at that time was simply her unwillingness to let these corpses go to waste.

Therefore, unnecessary mistakes are not allowed to exist. We must find the shortest path to success so as to minimize minor requirements and achieve results with fewer sacrifices.

With such belief and willpower, the girl held firm to her nerves and successfully crossed the most difficult initial hurdle.

Mu En admired Mei for her qualities, but he still didn't think she was mature enough. Therefore, Seele's return was not something that made him happy at this time.

The old man also couldn't understand why she would choose to come back.

It wasn't until he saw those eyes, which had been suppressed by other things and no longer cared about hatred, that the highly experienced old man vaguely understood some of the answers.

The experiment quietly began in the presence of Mei and Moon.

Moon gazed at the slender girl inside the incubation chamber. Her gentle breathing sent tiny bubbles through the liquid, and her dark blue hair floated with it. Her eyes watched the two of them calmly, their emotions unreadable.

Moon vaguely recalled the eyes of her during that experiment, and when the image overlapped with that scene, it seemed indistinguishable. However, the current Seele Vollerai possessed a terrifying quality that made her vaguely aware of fear.

This fearlessness in the face of death reveals an indescribable eeriness and morbidity.

Dr. Moon didn't want to think about these things anymore. He said to Mei beside him:

"If your theory is correct, then given her adaptability to the quantum sea, the chances of the experiment succeeding are very high."

“But Mei, if we fail, our experimental group will very likely face a Herrscher-level individual.”

"This is tantamount to taking away the dragon's precious treasure from the cave. While it sleeps, everything will naturally be fine, but this is just a false illusion."

"It is destined to awaken, and because of what happened in Canghai City, it will probably be very grumpy when it wakes up. If anything unexpected happens, we will face its full-scale revenge."

“I don’t care about my own life, but it would be a very bad thing if the experiment had to be terminated.”

Mei used the light screen displayed by Prometheus to continuously measure data and theoretical models, her eyes reflecting the thousands of flowing data points as she focused intently.

However, the girl still followed basic etiquette. From both a human perspective and a researcher's perspective, Mei believed that Dr. Moon was worthy of respect.

So she responded:

"I think it's more like breaking the sword in the stone in front of King Arthur, or perhaps it's more accurate to describe it as setting a fire in an art collector's private exhibition studio."

"Judging from Miss Seele's attitude toward Mr. Su, that man truly treats Miss Seele as family. If Mr. Su were an emotional person, it wouldn't be surprising if he chose to risk becoming an enemy of humanity to grind us to dust."

“But Dr. Moon, I need time, the project team needs time, and humanity needs time.”

"You have to give something in order to get something."

"Isn't that reasonable and fair?"

“Miss Seele and I made a deal, and we both risked our lives before it was done.”

“We are all prepared to die, and I believe the lab will also be prepared to do so in order to get ahead of schedule by ten years.”

Dr. Moon stopped talking; he was not angry at Mei’s behavior and tone.

The old man could sense the anxiety and unease hidden in the girl's heart.

Is choosing such a risky option a sign of immaturity, or an overconfidence in oneself?

This is an answer that only Mei herself can know.

But what she said was undoubtedly true. At the current pace of the project team, it would take at least ten years to reach the theoretical results constructed by Mei, even with optimistic calculations.

But this is far too long, far too long. How many decades does humanity have left?

Can humanity survive the first decade?

If the frequency of Herrschers appearing increases again, the so-called ten years is an optimistic but unrealistic number.

This was especially true after Dr. Moon learned part of the truth about the Third Herrscher's death.

Assuming that humanity does not achieve any major breakthroughs in the near future, the subsequent Fourth Herrscher, Fifth Herrscher, and even Herrschers whose ultimate potential is unknown, will completely destroy civilization.

Gambling is the only option.

Even if it's for the sake of the entire human system, to build high walls of defense for the remaining survivors, and to ensure the future continues, Moon has no other choice.

Or rather... humanity has long since had no other choice.

Moon had no reason to refute Mei's words. Not only did he not want to refute them, but the old man also admired the young girl even more and completely abandoned all his preconceived notions about her.

After only half a month of knowing about the existence of Honkai, Mei was able to see that the current situation had reached a point of irreversible despair, yet she was still able to immediately accept reality and risk everything for it.

This awareness, this decisiveness, this talent, this belief.

perhaps……

Mei is not only suited to be a genius who creates miracles in scientific research, she even has the qualifications to lead humanity.

In Dr. Moon's eyes, it doesn't matter if the experiment fails. As long as Mei continues to live, she will eventually be able to complete the Quantum Sea Project before the end of the world and continue to pass on human civilization.

And... hidden within those recovered documents lies an even greater hope.

Although it is only in its nascent stage and has a faint glow, Moon has already seen the future of humanity in her.

Therefore, Moon is prepared to shoulder all the responsibility.

Even if the cost were only the laboratory and his own life, Moon would still choose Mei without hesitation, even if it meant the instant extinction of half of Australia or even humanity.

The core of the Second Herrscher rotates silently within a special instrument. Just figuring out how to accurately extract its power and control its fixed amount and direction has already taken half of the total time since the experiment was established.

Attempting to peer into the divine realm with the power of mortals is an extremely difficult and dangerous endeavor. To date, even considering only the advanced experimental personnel who possess the relevant knowledge, the number of lives sacrificed for this cause has reached nearly three digits.

These elites, who stood above the majority, kept rushing towards a grand death, and eventually established a relatively mature core usage method for the Herrscher.

As a researcher who proposed experimenting with the Herrscher Core and successfully led his team to research the basic premise of utilizing powers, it's no wonder that Dr. Moon is respected by Mei.

Now, the teams that have successively launched research on the first and third Herrschers have also inherited the framework of this technology. They only need to make corresponding minor adjustments to immediately conduct preliminary research on their powers.

The little girl was quietly and completely submerged by the massive amount of Honkai energy created by the power, and the fluctuations in the quantum sea were instantly detected by the instrument.

Mei watched this scene calmly.

She was not worried about failing, nor was she worried about the consequences of failure.

The immense talent built upon enlightenment and the current trends facing civilization have driven the girl's thoughts to extremes under immense pressure.

failure?

This is only to be expected; the failure of the experiment is in order to move towards the final success.

As long as the final result is achieved, failure is tolerable and permissible for a normal researcher.

But Mei is different; what she wants to achieve in her heart determines her extraordinary nature.

If even such a simple experiment cannot be successful on the first try, how can one overcome the despair that lies ahead?

She could not allow herself to fail in this kind of experiment where she could not sense the difficulty, not even once.

Because this is as if Mei has already seen the limit of his talent, and Mei must ensure that the limit of this talent is enough to overcome the efforts of the previous century in order to turn everything around.

But this idea is too arrogant; it's completely wishful thinking.

This is tantamount to blatant disregard for the wisdom of past generations, as if stepping on the corpses of our ancestors and telling them that the time and effort they put in are worthless in my eyes.

Mei couldn't be that arrogant, because she was just a gentle girl with a stubborn streak in some ways.

But she had to do it.

But she cannot afford to fail now.

Her vision meant that without absolute self-confidence and personal ability, that vision would never be realized.

Mei needs to succeed on her first try.

A beautiful, perfect success, enough to ignite that first spark in your chest.

If Seele refuses, that's fine.

But since someone is with me and shares the same unwavering resolve.

That was enough for Mei to choose to gamble everything on this experiment, on what was crucial, a turning point in history, and the first success he absolutely needed.

How can a gambler with insufficient chips turn things around in a short period of time?

The only answer is all in.

Moreover...

The girl glanced at Seele, who was winking at her in the incubation chamber, and pursed her lips as she continued to have Prometheus perform the thirty-fifth repetition of the calculation results.

Having someone with you feels pretty good.

This scene, which should have been incredibly grand, quietly unfolded on an ordinary afternoon.

Mei closed her eyes and then opened them again. She entered the final calculated data and performed the corresponding operations.

The experiment officially began.

One second later, the girl's body seamlessly transformed into a quantum state.

Five seconds later, the instrument could no longer detect quantum fluctuations, confirming that Seele Voller had entered the Sea of ​​Quanta.

The fact that these two steps were so successful is enough to prove that Mei's theory does not contain any fundamental errors.

But the most crucial step is the last one.

That is, to allow Seele-Floré to transition from a quantum state to a present state within a specified time without any loss.

The long minute slowly passed, during which the girl and the old man stared at the empty incubation chamber without blinking or shifting their gaze even once.

Finally, Moon gazed at the girl sleeping peacefully in the incubation chamber and fell into a long silence.

The experiment... was a success.

A complete and utter success.