Honkai Impact: Saving the Pre-civilization by rubbing black technology

Chapter 2: Cheaters from Out of This World

It can be seen that the fat bald man's new collection is indeed worth something. The several gems that Pardofelis got are all things that Ai Yue can use.

 "There are five in total. I want them all." Ai Yue casually put a few precious gems into his pocket. "Still the same old price, one gem for one box of canned food?"

 "I love you, Brother Yue! I knew you were the best!" Hearing that the other party wanted all of them, Pardofelis was overjoyed and got up from the sofa. "As for the canned food, I'd better come to get it in the evening. It's too conspicuous now."

 Although gems are more valuable than food, due to their poor liquidity, they will be severely discounted if sold to black market merchants. One gem cannot be exchanged for a box of canned goods, let alone half a box of canned goods. Only Ai Yue can offer this price.

 And it's not just gems. As long as Ai Yue wants to buy something, he will buy it at a very generous price and never bargain. Therefore, Pardofelis has long developed the habit of selling to Ai Yue first after purchasing the goods.

 Of course, she didn't know that Ai Yue did this on purpose in order to improve her favorability.

 "By the way, Brother Yue," after getting over her excitement, Pardofelis remembered something and showed a flattering smile to Ai Yue, "Have you come up with any new magical tools recently? If so, don't forget me!"

 Although it is difficult to tell from his appearance, Ai Yue is actually a "scientist" who can invent all kinds of strange things.

 "It will be soon." Ai Yue glanced at the air beside him and said casually, "Wait two more days."

 "Okay, okay!" Pardofelis nodded repeatedly, "Then I'll leave first. I won't disturb you when I move things at night!"

 As Ai Yue's largest supplier, Pardofelis can not only trade with him face to face, but also enjoys the right to enter and exit Ai Yue's storage room at will.

 After Pardofelis left, Ai Yue carried the rags he bought from the market and walked into the innermost room.

 There was a sign saying "Laboratory" on the door of the room. Even Pardofelis, who could come and go freely in Ai Yue's house, could not enter. In the girl's imagination, the room must be filled with various instruments and tools, but in fact the room was empty.

 Because Ai Yue does scientific research, he relies not on instruments and equipment, but on plug-ins.

 As a transmigrator, plug-ins are Ai Yue's basis for survival in this chaotic world.

 After locking the door, Ai Yue sat down with a sense of peace and put the half wooden chair on the table.

 In his field of vision, special information was displayed on the wooden chair.

 [Maple Tree (Normal): Usable Value 100%.]

 [Welcome back to the Scientific Research System. Do you want to start the unfinished scientific research project?]

 Along with the prompts that appeared in Ai Yue's mind, a light screen appeared in front of him that only he could see. The light screen displayed the unfinished scientific research project "Time and Space Fracture Technology" based on his ideas.

 The scientific research system, although not as convenient as those plug-ins that can make you stronger by simply adding points mindlessly, is indeed the same as its name, that is, as long as you have hands, you can do scientific research.

 As long as materials with practical value are put into the system, the research progress of the scientific research project can be improved. When the scientific research project is successful, Ai Yue will be able to learn all the contents of the project.

 However, it should be noted that although everything in the world has use value, once the use value of a material is exhausted, this material can no longer advance the progress of scientific research.

 For example, the maple wood chair in front of Ai Yue. Once its use value is used up, the maple wood will be meaningless to him. Even if there are a hundred identical chairs placed in front of him, he will not even take a second look at them.

 This is also why he and Pardofelis believe that "gold is no longer useful".

 However, based on Ai Yue's research on the system, he found that the system is very tolerant in the identification of use value. If new things can be made from materials that have been drained of their use value, then the new things will regain their use value.

 For example, if Ai Yue first used up the use value of copper and tin alloy, and then smelted these two materials into bronze, that is, copper-tin alloy, then the copper-tin alloy would also have its own use value.

 But now is not the time to dwell on these things.

 Ai Yue refocused his scattered thoughts on the scientific research project at hand.

 [Time and Space Fracture Technology: total progress 89.1%.]

 [Basic principle analysis: completed.]

 [Basic structural design: completed.]

 [Basic material screening: Completed.]

 [Prototype framework construction: 43.6%.]

 No matter how many times he browses this system, Ai Yue can't help but sigh that this system is really simple and violent.

 The technology that originally required a long time and a lot of manpower and material resources to explore bit by bit, and to be developed through repeated testing and iterative updates, is now divided into only four parts in the system. If you want to complete this technology, you only need to find some wood, stone, metal or the like and stuff it in to succeed.

 Once this thing is released to the public, who knows how many people will vomit blood and die on the spot. Even for the sake of other people's physical and mental health, Ai Yue must not expose the existence of the system.

 When he thought about saving so many innocent lives, Ai Yue couldn't help but feel proud of himself.

 After reopening the scientific research project, Ai Yue directly invested all the use value of the maple wood into it. Soon, half of the legs of the wooden chair turned into countless light spots and dissipated into the air, and the progress of the "prototype framework construction" also increased accordingly - 5%.

 To be honest, Ai Yue had no idea how half a chair leg could be used in the research of "Time and Space Fracture Technology", but he quickly gave up this meaningless thought and started picking up the second thing and stuffing it into the system.

 In just two minutes, the things that Ai Yue bought from the market today were completely drained of their use value and turned into complete waste. The progress of the prototype framework construction also rose to 85.4%. However, Ai Yue did not throw them aside, but continued to control the system to devour these items.

 Even if they were all stuffed into the system, it would not be possible to advance the scientific research progress by even one percent, but this would allow them to be completely decomposed, saving Ai Yue the effort of dealing with the garbage.

 What comes next is the highlight.

 Ai Yue took out the Taaffeite stone from his pocket, placed it on the table, and his expression became serious.

 As one of the most precious gemstones in the world, the word "rare" after Taaffeite also proves that the system recognizes its value. The biggest difference between rare materials and ordinary materials is that they have special effects.

 For example, Taaffeite stone can contribute 150% of the scientific research progress in the research and development of "Time and Space Fracture Technology". If the same quality of materials can advance by 10%, it can advance by 15%.

 Whether we can get this project done today depends entirely on Taaffeite Stone.

 'After all, it was brought back by the Lucky Cat, so please don't let me down.'

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