V2/Chapter 16: What is Honkai Energy?
Rin integrated into this group faster than Ai Yue had imagined.
He originally thought that the children in Twilight Street would be more or less resistant to Rin's arrival because they had not interacted with their peers from outside for a long time, so he was still thinking about how to eliminate the barriers between them.
Who knew that the thing he was worried about did not happen at all. After he briefly introduced Rin's situation and explained that everyone would live together, the children quickly accepted Rin.
Rin did not feel uncomfortable interacting with strange children, and even showed a very maternal side. After a short period of getting along, she had already become the leader of the children and was unanimously called "sister" by everyone.
"After leaving her hometown, Rin hasn't smiled like this for a long time." Sakura still stood in the corner, watching Rin playing with the children, and couldn't help but smile, "Thank you, Ai Yue."
"Not necessarily. Now it seems that placing Rin here will be beneficial to the future development of Twilight Street." Ai Yue smiled. "In the future, this place will take in more homeless children. When children from different places and with different experiences gather together, there will inevitably be contradictions and conflicts. Such things are difficult to resolve with the restraint of adults alone, but if it is Rin, maybe it can be resolved."
"Rin will definitely be able to do it." Sakura said affirmatively, and then her tone became a little depressed, "In fact, she has always been much stronger than me."
"Family members should support each other. How can it be a one-sided effort?" Ai Yue glanced at her. "Don't always think that you haven't done enough to make Rin mature so early. If you always think like this, it's easy to get stuck in a dead end."
Sakura just nodded and said nothing. Ai Yue also knew that these things could not be solved by a few words from outsiders, so he didn't say much.
Just at this moment, a tall figure walked out of the house and knocked on the door with his hand, attracting everyone's attention.
"Little devils," Kalpas said in an impatient tone, "it's snack time!"
"It's snack time!" A child immediately asked excitedly, "Uncle Kalpas, what's today's snack?"
More people rushed directly into the house, but Rin stood there in a daze, not knowing what was going on.
"Chocolate chip cookies." Kalpas said casually. He glanced around the yard and then focused his attention on Rin. "New here?"
Perhaps because she was shocked by the other party's peculiar attire, Rin just nodded without saying anything.
"Come along." Kalpas said as he walked towards the house, "Your share is not a small difference."
"Kalpas? Snack time?" Sakura looked at Ai Yue with a strange expression, "Excuse me, it's hard for me to connect these two words together."
There was a hint of doubt in her eyes when she looked at Ai Yue - it was obvious that if there was anything that could combine these two words together, it must be Ai Yue.
"Don't look at me like that, I just mentioned it casually at the time." Ai Yue's expression was also a bit complicated, "Who knew he was serious about it."
Yes, Kalpas is not only the combat force here, but also the dessert chef for the children.
Since attending the banquet organized by Elysia a few days ago, he spent most of his salary to buy various baking tools and materials, and then studied them for a whole day. Except for the fact that he almost sent his adjutant to the hospital with his failed baking, everything went smoothly.
By the time Ai Yue received the news, Kalpas had successfully changed his job from "porter uncle" to "dessert chef".
However, looking at the children's excited reactions, it can be seen that Kalpas does have some talent in this area.
Thinking of this, Ai Yue couldn't help but want to go in to see how the children were eating, but at this moment, Prometheus suddenly said: "Dr. Ai Yue, the 'Code Purification' project has been calculated. Should we check it now?"
"Finished? So quickly?" Ai Yue was stunned for a moment, then showed an excited expression, "It seems that I can't eat these chocolate cookies anymore."
"What's wrong?" Sakura noticed Ai Yue's mood change and couldn't help but ask.
"Nothing, I'm leaving now." Ai Yue responded, and at the same time began to contact Hua, who was responsible for handing over the report content, "You can stay for a few more days. Anyway, there are no missions recently. You can come back with the plane that transports the supplies when the time comes."
Sakura wanted to go with Ai Yue, but in the end she couldn't bear to leave her sister. Thinking that she didn't know when they would meet again after this separation, she nodded obediently: "Thank you, Ai Yue."
Ai Yue waved his hand: "Then please explain it to the children."
After saying this, he walked outside, leaving Sakura standing there with a dazed look on her face.
'How should I explain this to the kids?'
"Dr. Ai Yue, what happened? Why are you so anxious?"
As soon as he got on the plane, Hua couldn't wait to ask, "Did something happen at the headquarters?"
Hua originally thought that there was some urgent mission that required her and others, but when she found that Sakura did not leave with them, she realized that it was probably not a particularly urgent situation.
"Nothing, just an experiment that produced results." Ai Yue briefly explained, and suddenly asked, "Hua, what do you think the essence of 'Honkai Energy' is?"
"Uh... is it a kind of energy?" Hua was stunned for a moment before answering, but then she realized that she had said something nonsense, "Sorry, I don't know much about these things."
"It doesn't matter. This is also the most common idea." Ai Yue didn't care and continued, "Honkai energy is indeed a kind of energy, but it is more than just energy. Think about it, why are Honkai beasts born from the explosion of Honkai energy? Why are humans corroded by Honkai energy and turned into monsters instead of dying directly?"
"Could it be because there is some special information hidden in Honkai energy?"
"Hidden... information?" Hua repeated Ai Yue's last words, vaguely understanding, "Dr. Ai Yue, what does this have to do with information? Could it be that as long as we unlock the information in Honkai energy, we can understand where this disaster came from?"
"Who knows? This is just my guess. Even if there is information hidden in Honkai energy, with our current capabilities, we are not yet able to decipher and interpret it." Ai Yue shook his head, but smiled. "However, even if we can't interpret it, we can try the most basic screening."
"If we can separate the energy from that weird corrosiveness, maybe we can get a purer energy source."
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