V2/Chapter 23: Suddenly Entering the Field of Metaphysics
"I suddenly understand you a little, Mobius."
In the First Research Institute, Ai Yue was analyzing Kosma's genetic data with Mobius's experimental equipment while speaking to Mobius in the corner.
"What do you mean?" Mobius, who had been looking at him, quickly looked away and pretended to have just reacted. "By the way, why is that Kosma guy so enthusiastic about you? Did you do anything to him?"
Just now, Mobius saw with her own eyes that Kosma followed Ai Yue into the First Research Institute, underwent a complete examination that took two hours, and even left behind 1200CC of blood when he left. If Ai Yue had not strongly dissuaded him, he would have drawn another 1200CC.
Where had Mobius seen such a thing? You have to know that Kosma, a taciturn guy with almost no expression, has never been close to the 500-meter radius of the First Research Institute after undergoing the Fusion Warrior surgery. It can be said that he is the most difficult to deceive among the several Fusion Warriors... I mean the guy who cooperates with the research.
As a result, in front of Ai Yue, Kosma cooperated extremely well as if he was hypnotized. He did whatever Ai Yue said, and the expression on his face kept repeating the same phrase: "I'm so fucking happy - no, I have to hold it back - I can't hold it back anymore, I'm so happy." If it weren't for the fact that he could tell from the various details about the other party that he was clear-headed, Mobius would have even suspected that Ai Yue had brainwashed him.
No, even brainwashing can't do this, right? Based on Kosma's performance just now, Mobius even felt that even if Ai Yue said, "We're going to take off your kidneys for research," he would take the initiative to lie on the operating table, undress to make it easier for Ai Yue to operate, and say something like "Is one enough?"
It's not that Mobius was overly delusional, but mainly because Kosma just said something like "Is this little blood enough? How about drawing another bucket?", which really shocked Mobius.
"Although I can't say that I didn't do anything, it's definitely different from what you think." Ai Yue shook his head. "What I mean is that by playing to their preferences and making them take the initiative to cooperate with the research, it can indeed give people a dark sense of satisfaction."
"Yeah, you finally understand." Mobius nodded in agreement, then reacted, "Wait, what do you mean by dark pleasure? Are you scolding me?"
Ai Yue grinned at her but said nothing.
"Why are you so sarcastic?" Mobius slid over on her office chair and kicked him in the calf. "Also, what did you do to Kosma?"
"Stop messing around, let's get down to business." Ai Yue didn't even turn his head back, and pushed Mobius and her chair far away. "I just wanted to show off the new equipment to Kosma. He wants it too, so doesn't he have to cooperate with me?"
"So what new equipment did you make?" Mobius frowned. "Aren't you busy with the Honkai Serum recently? Are you secretly doing this behind my back?"
"You didn't roll it?" Ai Yue turned his head and rolled his eyes at her. "Do you need me to remind you that Rose is also in charge of the First Research Institute's computer system now? I know better than you how much electricity your institute uses every day?"
"You're being boring..." Mobius curled her lips and quietly came over, "So what are you researching? I can help you with the fusion warrior thing."
"Nothing much, mainly to see if there will be any changes in the genetic information after Kosma goes berserk." Ai Yue said casually, "So far, there seems to be no difference. It seems that the balance in his body is not so easy to be broken."
Ai Yue originally thought that rampage, as a precursor to overweight super mutation, would leave some traces of distortion in Kosma's genes. However, no abnormalities were found through equipment analysis, as if rampage was not enough to make Kosma cross that line.
In other words, isn't the mutation of the Honkai Beast's genes the key point to excessive super mutation?
"Kosma is going berserk? He won't hurt you, will he?" Upon hearing this, Mobius immediately came over and stretched out her hand to grab Ai Yue's collar, "Let me see!"
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Ai Yue quickly held down his clothes to prevent this guy from plotting against him. "The person fighting him is Hua."
By the way, Hua is unwilling to enter the First Research Institute, so she is now waiting outside the door.
"So the new equipment you prepared for Hua defeated Kosma, so he cooperated like this?" Mobius quickly pieced together the truth from Ai Yue's fragmentary words, and then moved closer to the equipment. "This gene expression is very stable, it seems that the rampage time is very short."
All I can say is that Mobius is indeed an expert in this field. Although she cannot be compared with someone as smart as Ai Yue, she is still a top scholar in the field of genetics.
"I think you must have studied it, so I'll just tell you straight away." Ai Yue looked at Mobius, "Overweight super transformation, what's your conclusion?"
"I knew you were going to ask this." Mobius smiled smugly and manipulated the computer to retrieve a document. "Overweight transformation currently only exists in theory. Due to the lack of real cases to support the argument, we cannot continue to study it in depth. Do you think Kosma can do it?"
Mobius had no intention of hiding her incompetence in front of Ai Yue. When the other party mentioned the heavy super transformation, she knew that she had to tell it all, because she knew very well that if she could not show her ability and role in this area, the other party would simply leave her alone, and then in a few days would come up with a result with a success rate of more than 90%, and her research results would be destroyed in an instant.
In this case, it would be better to be open from the beginning. Maybe Ai Yue can give the leading position of the project to her.
After all, the other party generally will not be interested in a project that is not difficult.
"These cases are all people whose fusion warriors failed directly during surgery." Ai Yue flipped through the information, "So what do you think is the key factor that leads to the occurrence of overweight super mutation?"
"Emotions, will, or mental state." Mobius took back control of the computer from Ai Yue and dragged the file to the end. "Compared with all the successful cases so far, the runaway distortions in the failed cases basically occurred at the time when the operator's emotions were frenzied, his will collapsed, and his mind was distracted. If I use a less rigorous way to describe it——"
"The soul is the key to the success of the fusion warrior surgery."