When Blanca first entered Mobius's laboratory, she was rather apprehensive. After all, Dr. Mobius's reputation in the outside world was truly terrible. Many people said she used live humans as test subjects, while others claimed she was constantly researching some kind of forbidden experiment. In short, so many legends and stories were circulating that basically no one was willing to work under Mobius.
Blanca hadn't planned on coming at first, but after seeing the high salary and superior benefits Mobius offered online, she hesitated for a long, long time. In the end, she came.
There was no helping it. She and her lover had to strive for their future, so they were unavoidably a bit short on money. After all, the expenses for getting married and raising children in the future would be enormous.
And while her lover currently had a stable job, the remuneration he received couldn't be considered particularly generous. Besides, Blanca wasn't prepared to let her lover bear all the pressure; she could also contribute to this little family of theirs.
After entering Dr. Mobius's laboratory with a heart full of trepidation, Blanca didn't see any of the bizarre things she had imagined. The various instruments in the entire lab were arranged very neatly, and it was also kept very clean.
All sorts of high-precision equipment were present in this laboratory. There were even a few devices that Blanca had only ever seen on some academic forums before, said to be cutting-edge products that couldn't be bought with money alone.
In fact, these things really weren't bought with money. After Mobius had failed to buy these devices no matter how much money she threw around, in a fit of anger, she had directly dragged Xin Yu over and had him conjure a few sets for her with his abilities.
Although Xin Yu had gone through a period of study before, his own knowledge was still at a high school level. He certainly didn't understand how these instruments and devices were made, but that was only a small problem. He found traces of these instruments' existence within time, and then copied them.
While he could have just directly plucked these things from the river of time, those instruments from a future or past time period would then vanish into thin air. To avoid causing trouble for others, and since stealing wasn't a good thing, Xin Yu simply decided to copy them.
After helping Mobius with various experiments these past few days, Blanca's heart had gradually settled. She also quickly threw herself into the high-end research. She herself was very curious about the existence of the phenomenon known as Honkai.
After all, the organization her lover belonged to, the Flame-Chasers, seemed to be pursuing and researching this phenomenon called Honkai. She just hadn't expected to be able to directly research the biological tissues of creatures infected by the Honkai phenomenon here at Dr. Mobius's lab.
Just yesterday, Dr. Mobius had even solemnly guaranteed that she could get her hands on various samples from a Honkai-infected creature today, and that they would be absolutely fresh.
Blanca had actually been wanting to ask these past few days, setting aside the sparse number of people in their lab, just who was the big benefactor who had been supporting their various research projects from behind the scenes?
So far, she hadn't heard of any official body or large corporation supporting Dr. Mobius's research.
This morning, after finishing a call with her lover, telling him about her excellent benefits and good working environment here, and reminding him to take care of his safety, she hung up and walked into the laboratory.
Inside the lab, Blanca saw a person she hadn't seen before. The other person had a very plain appearance, looking like an ordinary young man who had just graduated from high school and was about to enter university.
He was also wearing one of the lab's white coats. Could he be a newcomer?
So the lab was finally willing to take on new people? It was truly exhausting having just a few people handle the massive amount of data compilation and keep up with the project research.
Besides Blanca, there were only three other researchers on this project, and their own knowledge levels were average. They were purely gamblers who had gritted their teeth and come for the high remuneration.
This newcomer looked quite young, though. She hoped his knowledge level wasn't too poor.
"Hello, are you new here?"
Upon hearing the question, Xin Yu turned his head to look at a woman with light blue hair. Her appearance was somewhat familiar. Xin Yu only needed to think for a moment to recall it. She seemed to be Griseo's mother.
"There seems to be a misunderstanding between us, madam. I'm not a researcher who has joined this laboratory."
"Is that so? My apologies, I was mistaken."
"It's alright. If I had to describe it, I suppose I'm the capital provider for this laboratory."
So he's the big benefactor.
Blanca blinked and re-examined the young man before her. She still couldn't see anything special about him. Was this the legendary second-generation heir? To be able to invest so much money… no, wait, those research devices couldn't be obtained with just money. Could it be that this person had a very powerful faction behind him?
"Xin Yu."
Mobius walked over, holding a document in her hand.
"Good morning, Dr. Mobius."
Blanca greeted her with a smile. After getting along these past few days, she already knew that while this person before her had a somewhat eccentric personality, she was fundamentally a good person. The various scary rumors from the outside world were all lies.
"Mm, morning."
Mobius responded calmly and then looked at Xin Yu, saying, "I want some body tissue from an Emperor-class Honkai Beast, can you get it?"
"Emperor-class? You're still only in the exploratory phase, isn't it better to start with Chariot-class? Why start directly with Emperor-class?"
"They already gave me some body parts from a Chariot-class Honkai Beast over there. I want to compare the differences between an Emperor-class and a Chariot-class Honkai Beast."
"Fine, wait a moment."
Xin Yu responded calmly, and then, under Blanca's stunned gaze, his body dissolved into points of light and vanished without a trace.
"Ah!"
"Let me reintroduce him. The person just now is my lover, Xin Yu."
Mobius looked at Blanca's stupefied expression and said with a hint of a smile on her face.
"Lover!"
Blanca was even more shocked. She never would have thought someone like Dr. Mobius would actually have a lover. Looking at how she had been completely focused on her research these past few days, she had thought that Dr. Mobius wasn't the type to be in a romantic relationship.
"Yes, I never thought I would have a lover either. I never thought I would rely on anyone. After all, that is a very weak kind of behavior."
"But I never would have imagined… a miracle, one that is nigh omnipotent, on a not-so-special day, descended by my side. As sudden and unexpected as a meteorite, it crashed into my life, changing my trajectory."