V2/Chapter 4: Treasures from the ancient times are now given away for free
After saying goodbye to the Griseo family, Ai Yue soon met the second beneficiary.
"Hello, Dr. Ai Yue!"
The energetic girl Dystopia dragged Kosma over and greeted him while handing him a beautifully wrapped box: "This is a gift for you!"
"For me?" Ai Yue raised his eyebrows and took it. "Thank you. I haven't received a gift for a long time."
"Actually, it should be considered a meeting gift, but everyone was busy preparing a birthday party for Captain Kevin, so I didn't have time to prepare it," Dystopia nudged Kosma with her elbow, "Hurry up and open it and take a look. I don't know if you will like it."
"I picked the gift, Dr. Ai Yue." Kosma finally spoke, "Because Dystopia said that as a man, I might be able to understand your preferences better. But I'm not good at giving gifts. If you don't like it, I can change it..."
He was unable to finish the rest of his words as he was interrupted by Dystopia's elbow.
The girl couldn't help but roll her eyes at him - 'Stupid Kosma, how can you say such things when giving a gift!'
After Ai Yue opened the package, he took out a box of...assembly models.
"This is a mecha-themed model that's very popular recently, and it's a limited edition with different colors. It's very handsome, but it's also hard to get..." Kosma introduced it while observing Ai Yue's expression, "Uh, don't you like it?"
"It's just a little unexpected." Ai Yue stroked the pattern on the box with a subtle expression, "I didn't expect that I couldn't escape even after getting here."
'As expected, there are always dog companies that use toys to cheat people out of money in every world... Don't you agree, Generation X?'
"Anyway, I like it very much." Ai Yue put it aside for the time being and reached into his pocket again. "Also, since I'm taking this opportunity, I'll just give you these two things."
As he spoke, he took out two things that looked like forehead protectors from his pocket.
"Isn't this... the 'Soul Guardian' from before?" Kosma quickly recognized what Ai Yue was holding. "Don't we already have one?"
"It's different. This is a special prop made just for you." Ai Yue explained, "I remember you two were acting together, right?"
"Yes, usually Dystopia is in charge of the main attack, and I am in charge of protection and attacking." Kosma nodded, "Dystopia's ability, clearing the mess... I mean, it is very effective in dealing with the Honkai Beast."
Perhaps because he vaguely felt that Ai Yue was of the same kind as him, Kosma couldn't help but get excited and almost blurted out the gaming jargon.
In the current tactical arrangement, Kevin's team is mainly responsible for the decapitation operations against powerful individual Honkai beasts, but every Honkai beast of the emperor level or even above is bound to appear together with the huge sea of Honkai beasts. How to quickly fight a bloody path out of the sea of Honkai beasts while avoiding consuming too much strength as much as possible is what Dystopia is responsible for.
"These two items are prototypes developed based on the power of the Eighth Herrscher." Ai Yue handed them to two people respectively. "After they are activated, they can resonate the mental powers of the two wearers, thus exerting special effects."
"Resonance?" Dystopia and Kosma looked at each other, and saw deep curiosity in each other's eyes. "What do you mean by special effect?"
"The results of the experiment show that it is possible to share the mental burden between two people," Ai Yue thought for a moment and explained, "For example, Dystopia, you can let Kosma share your mental consumption, and after Kosma resonates with your mental power, he can also gain corresponding benefits."
"So powerful?" Kosma's eyes widened. "I thought equipment with this effect could only be seen in games."
The spiritual powers of two people resonate and both benefit from it, which sounds like some kind of magic.
"It's only in the testing phase right now, so I need to find someone to help collect experimental data." Ai Yue smiled, "Why don't you try it now?"
The two looked at each other, and then tried to put the equipment on their heads.
As the equipment was activated, both of them felt dizzy at the same time. Fortunately, the feeling only lasted for a moment and did not cause any lasting impact.
"It seems like it's really different?" Dystopia looked around. She raised her hand slightly, and all the tableware on the table floated up and began to fly in the air. "I can control more things! Kosma, how are you? Are you dizzy?"
When Dystopia tried to use telekinesis beyond her limit, she would experience symptoms such as dizziness and nosebleeds, but none of these symptoms appeared at the moment, causing her to worry that Kosma was asking her to bear the consequences.
"No, I feel fine now." Kosma frowned, "Although I don't feel the existence of telekinesis, it seems that something is different."
He closed his eyes, and a special feeling came to his heart - under the blessing of Dystopia's powerful mental power, Kosma vaguely felt the position and individual energy intensity of everyone in the banquet hall.
The strongest person at the moment is Elysia, but Kevin, who is theoretically stronger than her, is somehow weaker, and his energy response is slightly lower than Elysia's. Next is Ato, and then...
Kosma quickly opened his eyes, and the look he gave Ai Yue suddenly became strange.
He could sense everyone in the room, including Dr. Mei, whose energy response was slightly lower than that of ordinary people, but he could not sense Ai Yue who was so close to him.
If he closed his eyes, he would not realize that there was someone standing in front of him.
If the principle of telepathy is similar to that of radar, and both detect by receiving emitted mental waves, doesn't it mean that Ai Yue can "absorb" the mental power he emits?
"What's wrong?" Ai Yue was not aware of Kosma's mental activity. "Remember to tell me if you feel uncomfortable."
"No, everything is fine." Kosma didn't say what he was thinking, but just nodded. "This equipment is really amazing. Does it have a name?"
"I originally wanted to call it 'Knight's Oath', but after actually making it, I found that the effect was not quite right, so it has no name yet." Ai Yue said with a smile, "As the first batch of people using this pair of equipment, the right to name it is given to you, but you must think carefully."
Kosma lowered his head and thought seriously, then looked at the girl beside him: "How about calling it 'Soul Contract'?"
"That's really your style." Dystopia showed an expression that said "I can't stand you" but she didn't object. "But I can't think of any other name right now, so I'll use this one for now."
Ai Yue smiled without saying anything, just looking at the system interface in front of him.
[Spiritual Power Sample Dystopia (Rare): Usable Value 100%.]
[Spiritual Power Sample·Kosma (Rare): Usable Value 100%.]
"Dystopia, what are you doing?" At this moment, Kevin and Dr. Mei came over, "Why are the dishes suddenly floating?"
"Ah, sorry, I'll recover right away!" Dystopia blushed suddenly, and quickly controlled the tableware back to its original place, and then she and Kosma ran away quickly.
Although it was at a banquet, it was definitely stressful to be with a boss like Dr. Mei.
Ai Yue simply explained the situation to the two people.
"I see. You are worthy of this, right?" Dr. Mei looked at the equipment on the two people's heads and couldn't help but sigh. "It's only been a few days, and the research on the power of the Eighth Herrscher has yielded results."
"It's just a simple application, not an achievement." Ai Yue shook his head and didn't say much. Instead, he looked behind the two people and asked, "Who is this?"
Behind Kevin and Dr. Mei, there stood quietly a gray-haired man. He had a handsome face and could easily be mistaken for a woman. Since he was silent, he did not attract the attention of Kosma and the others.
"Oh yeah, let me introduce you." Kevin smiled, and reached out to pull the man over. "This is Su, a former classmate of Mei and me. He joined the Fire Moth some time ago and is currently a doctor in the Fifth Science Department, researching ways to cure the Honkai Disease."
Kevin did not hide anything, because he had already learned about Ai Yue's authority from Dr. Mei, and Su's affairs were obviously not above his authority.
"Hello, Dr. Ai Yue, I have heard of your name for a long time." Su stretched out his hand and said in a respectful tone, "When my teacher and I first received the formula, we thought it was a prank by someone, but we didn't expect it to be so powerful."
Su's words, "I have heard of your name for a long time," were truly sincere.
He first heard of Ai Yue's name from his mentor, the director of the Fifth Science Department, who said that there was a new scholar who was very close to Mobius and was definitely not a good person.
The main project of the Fifth Scientific Department is medicine. The vast majority of its members are doctors, and Minister Spasi is no exception. Each of them adheres to the beliefs of a doctor, so they are very dissatisfied with Mobius who repeatedly breaks the moral bottom line of mankind.
Although Su had just arrived and did not have too much prejudice against Mobius and Ai Yue, he did not pay much attention to Ai Yue's affairs because of Spasi, until a few days ago, when the mysterious formula suddenly appeared on all the computers in the Fifth Science Department.
At first, Spasi thought that some daring guy had come to provoke the Fire Moth again, but soon Dr. Mei came to the Fifth Science Department to explain the whole story. Spasi then realized the crux of the matter, but as the director of the Fifth Science Department, he naturally could not accept that someone had easily developed a drug that could resist mental pollution.
However, the Fifth Scientific Department could not disobey Dr. Mei's orders and could only skip all the test processes and go directly into mass production under the other party's coordination. It was not until this time that Su became curious because Dr. Mei trusted Ai Yue so much.
What kind of outrageous achievements did a young scholar who had just joined the Fire Moth for a few months have to make in order for Dr. Mei to bear all possible consequences for him without hesitation?
The results proved that Dr. Mei and Ai Yue were right. The effect of the formula was even better than expected. None of the soldiers who took the medicine and participated in the war to eliminate the Honkai Beast showed any abnormalities. However, as for the control group, two-thirds of the local army fell into a coma the moment they entered the battlefield.
So when Kevin asked him if he would like to come to the party, Su agreed almost without hesitation.
After coming here, he found out that Ai Yue had even developed a drug that could temporarily control Kevin's body temperature, allowing the lovers who should have been unable to touch each other to hug each other.
The other party's invention proved that Ai Yue's research on the fusion warrior program had even surpassed its original creator.
A young scholar who has surpassed Dr. Mei and Dr. Mobius only a few months into his career.
This is no longer something that can be described as genius, it's even a little scary.
Such a person, if he has even the slightest bit of malice towards humanity, may cause huge consequences.
Therefore, Su wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of person Dr. Ai Yue was.
Compared with Su's complicated psychological activities, Ai Yue's thoughts were much simpler. When he saw Su, his first reaction was - finally they had established a relationship, and he would no longer have to worry about having an excuse to go to the Fifth Science Department.
He hasn't forgotten that he still has a side quest to complete, which is to reduce the cost of the Honkai disease vaccine.
"It's just part of my job." Ai Yue and Su shook hands briefly, then said, "I've also heard about the achievements of the Fifth Science Department. I heard that you have completed the research on curing the Honkai Disease?"
"We can't say it's complete yet." Su's eyes dimmed when he mentioned this matter. "As for Honkai Disease, we still have a long way to go."
To sacrifice a thousand lives to save one life - can such a result really be considered a cure?
At least Su couldn't accept it.
"I am also somewhat curious about this project," Ai Yue continued, "If Dr. Spasi doesn't mind, could you allow me to make an appointment to visit you?"
"Of course, the teacher will be very happy!" Su was stunned for a moment, and then agreed decisively, "I believe Dr. Ai Yue also has good research in medical treatment. We can..."
"Okay, okay, can we talk about work at another time?" Kevin interrupted the conversation between the two. He showed a helpless expression, "Even Mei wouldn't think about work at this time. You should enjoy this rare relaxation and leave work for tomorrow."
Ai Yue and Su looked at each other, and then exchanged contact information.
Dr. Mei wanted to say something else, but suddenly his eyes passed Ai Yue and looked behind him, then he smiled and said, "Then we won't bother you anymore, Dr. Ai Yue, see you later."
Ai Yue turned around and found that Aponia, Hua, and Kalpas were walking towards them.
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