Blue Sword

On the second night after arriving at the institute, Mi'er suddenly had the idea to summon the Banshee King before going to bed, and asked her to help with "Don't let the abyss erode your spirit". Sure enough, everyone had fewer nightmares this time.

Minerva's curse ability is powerful. It is a "curse" to her enemies and a "blessing" to her own people. She follows her words and has immediate effects, allowing everyone to barely get a good night's sleep.

On the morning of the third day, Mia got up early and began to practice the Ripple Sword, constantly flashing from one end of the room to the other, and then back again.

Asker stood at the end of the room, with a big circle drawn on the floor in front of him. Every time Mia flashed into the circle, he would take a mallet summoned by a concept weapon and hit the circle - Mi Ya needs to flash out again before being attacked, otherwise she will get a stick.

Mi'er sat on the chair next to her and began to observe the parallel world on a large scale.

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The more she observed, the more she felt something was wrong. This synth... seems to be hiding a lot of things. When Asker tried to talk, he basically avoided the truth and downplayed the truth, but the answers he occasionally leaked showed that he was not an ordinary robot who knew nothing.

While observing the world line, she pulled out a pen and paper from the future, quickly recorded a large number of results, and then silently handed it to Asik when Mia's training entered a rest period.

Asker took the note, read it without saying a word, and then put it on the table. Mi'er lifted the summons again and immediately destroyed the evidence without leaving any traces.

In the afternoon, the synthetic man named Cape came to the room again and asked the visitors "what do they need?"

"We are practicing swordsmanship and would like to borrow a larger venue. I wonder if you can provide it?" Asker asked.

"A bigger venue..." Cappe seemed to be thinking, "How big does it need to be?"

"The bigger, the better," Aske replied.

"Follow me," Cape said.

The three of them followed Cappe out of the room, and Mi'er silently cast a look at Aske.

Asker returned a meaningful look.

Mia walked in the middle, looked at Mi'er on the left, and then looked at Asike on the right. She couldn't understand their eye contact at all, and she didn't dare to ask directly. She felt a little uncomfortable.

Arriving at a huge room that seemed to be a testing ground, Cappe turned around and asked:

"Is this okay?"

"Okay." Ask looked around, "Is this here?"

"A place where our experimental subjects undergo comprehensive testing." Cappe replied.

"Experimental creatures?" Mi'er asked pretending to be curious.

"The main research topic of our scientific research institute is how to enable human beings to live in the corrosive environment of the three major planes." Cappe replied, "The specific scientific research details are confidential and cannot be told to you for the time being."

"Oh..." Mi'er lengthened her voice and cast a questioning look at Aske again.

Ask nodded imperceptibly, placing one hand on the long sword pulled out of the void.

"Actually, we can guess it without you having to tell us." Mi'er suddenly said, "The way to resist the erosion of the abyss is to develop external equipment or modify one's own genes."

"Since you mentioned 'experimental subjects', and the test site is so huge, the specific content is to transform humans at the genetic level, right? By fusing the genes of extraordinary monsters in the abyss, humans can be transformed into huge monsters, thereby obtaining The ability to adapt to the abyss environment?”

The red light in Cappe's eyes suddenly flashed, as if the processor was performing calculations on a huge amount of data. Asker calmly took half a step forward and blocked Mi'er's path; Mia quietly detoured from the side, blocking the synthesizer's path.

"Well, I didn't expect that you could actually guess it..." After a few minutes, the synthesizer spoke again, but it was not a mechanical voice synthesized by the system, but a hoarse middle-aged male voice, "You... Not a simple mercenary, right?"

"So, I guessed it right." Mi'er secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

According to her future observation results, when she pointed out the special information of "genetic modification", there was a 67% chance that the other party would confess, and a 33% chance that they would immediately turn against her. Fortunately, the bet finally won.

"It's not difficult to guess." Cappe laughed coldly, "Research Institute No. 710 at the bottom of the abyss, the most notorious human optimization plan in the history of scientific ethics. Even if you are 'scientific hunters' more than 1,700 years later, You should have heard about the specific direction of our research.”

Human optimization? Research hunter? Mia listened in the back and was completely confused, Asik's expression remained unchanged, and Mi'er took a brief look at the future direction before continuing:

"You misunderstood. We are not so-called scientific research hunters. In other words, after 1700, 'science' is no longer a word that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."

"What did you say?" Cappe's tone was a little incomprehensible, as if he had heard some nonsense.

"Alas." Mi'er sighed and said softly:

"Sir, have you ever heard of Demon Tide?"

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"Nonsense!" After listening to Mi'er's history, Cappe, who was already impatient, angrily shouted, "Planetary magnetic field mutation? Burning out electronic equipment? What a joke! When our fleet colonized this planet, everything The equipment we carry is equipped with top-notch electromagnetic shielding! Do you think we won’t consider the experimental conditions in a strong magnetic field environment?”

"No matter what you think, the fact is that the first demonic wave almost destroyed human technology." Mi'er said quietly, "Most of today's science and technology have been monopolized by the Holy See in Italy and have been packaged as theology. No more open communication to the outside world.”

"This is absolutely impossible!" Cappe said stubbornly, "When we landed on this planet, we monitored the composition of the atmosphere, gravity, soil microbial environment and electromagnetic field strength, and we have never heard of any sudden increase in the magnetic field. The magnetic intensity on the earth's surface is around 0.5-0.6 Gauss, and the induced current it can generate is very small, and it is impossible to burn it out!"

"Lord Cape," Asker said, "If it weren't for the demonic tide that destroyed human technology, then why hasn't a second exploration team visited here in the more than 1,700 years since your place was abandoned?"

"I..." Cappe suddenly choked on his words, "I thought... I thought it was the Scientific Ethics Committee that banned my research institute..."

He quickly stopped talking because he realized that even if it was artificially banned, they could not leave a scientific research institute that could operate independently and store a large amount of cutting-edge scientific research resources in the depths of the abyss for more than 1,700 years. People are asking about it - the only reasonable explanation is what Aske and the others said:

The human technological civilization that was once so brilliant that it could sail across the stars and seas no longer exists.