Genshin Impact: I am best at sacrifice, don't cry

The next morning, after breakfast, Nan Dou went to the experimental tower of the Black Tower again.

This time, Nan Dou saw the black tower very smoothly.

"Huh, the air conditioning in this lab is turned up pretty high."

As soon as Nan Dou entered the laboratory, he felt a biting chill, but he didn't think much about it.

After all, the attribute of the Black Tower's destiny power is ice, so it is normal that it likes to stay in cold places.

"Heita, how about we go have lunch together?"

It was a long time since Nan Dou finished speaking, but there was no response from Heita.

Looking up, Nan Dou found that Heita was looking at him with a weird look, which made him feel a little creepy.

If I were to describe it in one word, it would be...resentment.

This is extremely rare for the Black Tower, no, it has never happened before.

"What...what happened?"

Nandou asked cautiously.

"Let me see your new technique."

Heita blinked and his eyes returned to normal, as if nothing that had just happened had happened.

"Oh, alright."

Nan Dou also tacitly pretended that he saw nothing and handed the information he copied to the black tower.

Soon, Heita finished reading Nandou's research materials.

During this time, Nan Dou remained quiet, waiting for the black tower.

After reading the information, Heita closed his eyes and his brain worked rapidly, as if he was thinking about the possibilities of Nan Dou research.

"Give up, your technology cannot coexist with neural connection technology."

"Only neural connection technology is the future of the Azure Planet."

Heita opened his eyes again, and this time, there was only indifference and rationality in his eyes.

"..."

Nan Dou was stunned. This was the first time he saw such a cold look in Heita's eyes.

What surprised him was that Heita, who had been very tolerant of scientific research since he was a child, was now so angry because it went against his own research project.

"strangeness."

Nan Dou moved closer to Heita, muttering to herself as she stared at her research motionlessly.

"What's weird?"

Heita replied in a calm tone with no expression on his face.

"If you want to continue your research, that's fine. I won't take back the permissions I gave you, but don't expect me to help you anymore."

Hearing Heita's straightforward words, Nandou frowned and asked in disbelief, "You want to break up?"

The black tower was not angry, nor did it respond immediately, it just gently pressed a button.

In an instant, the originally brightly lit laboratory fell into complete darkness, and Nan Dou could only see the black tower's eyes that were glowing with a bright blue light.

"Click! Click! Click!"

The sound of huge machinery running echoed throughout the laboratory, and the ground beneath one's feet began to sink.

Nan Dou and the Black Tower were moving quickly towards the depths of the underground as if they were riding in an elevator.

In the darkness, there was suddenly a dazzling light, and the azure light made Nan Dou involuntarily think of the eyes of the black tower.

As the ground beneath his feet sank rapidly, Nan Dou finally saw the object emitting the light.

That... was actually a robot head that was a hundred meters tall!

You can imagine how big the whole robot would be if the head alone was a hundred meters high!

"What is this?"

Nan Dou was extremely shocked, and at the same time, his heart was filled with anticipation.

The following scene did not disappoint Nan Dou. Under the huge head, there was indeed an extremely cool mechanical body. However, compared to the well-built head, it was now only a frame.

During the entire process, Heita never said a word.

Until it reached the bottom.

"follow me."

The black tower led Nan Dou for another distance and entered a room that was so hidden that Nan Dou could not sense any aura at all.

"Authentication passed, Black Tower, welcome to you!"

Nan Dou vaguely guessed what was in the room.

Sure enough, in a special container, the palm-sized source of hope that he once held in his hand was placed inside.

"Do you know what this is?"

For the first time since just now, Heita looked Nandou in the eyes and asked him a question.

Nan Dou carefully sensed the breath of the source of hope, but apart from the extreme energy, he did not notice any other abnormalities.

"I don't know." Nan Dou spread his hands.

"I tell you..." As he spoke, Heita waved his hand, and a virtual projection appeared in front of the two of them, and a video began to play.

The image was taken from outer space, and if nothing unexpected happens, it should have been taken by a satellite.

Seen from outer space, the Azure Star is a blue sphere as a whole, glowing with a faint blue light under the illumination of the sun in this galaxy. It is very similar to the Earth, but it is many times larger.

Then a small black dot suddenly appeared somewhere on the azure star, just like a black mole on a fair face.

The small black dot began to expand at an extremely fast speed. After a few minutes, a large area of ​​fire lit up around the small black dot.

But when the flames faded, the small black spots continued to expand.

"Zizi..."

The picture suddenly flashed and switched to another angle. The original small black dot had expanded into a round black hole.

If it were converted to the ground, it would be an unknown number of kilometers in size.

The black area no longer expanded, but tiny black dots appeared everywhere on the azure star.

……

"Have you guessed it now?"

Heita crossed his arms and said indifferently.

Nan Dou's eyes were fixed on the source of hope, or... it would be more appropriate to call it the source of destruction.

After so many years on the Azure Star, Nan Dou also has some understanding of the whole process of the arrival of the antimatter army.

Thirty years ago, a dead zone suddenly appeared somewhere on the Azure Star and kept expanding. The Azure Star Federation used all its firepower but was unable to stop its expansion in the slightest.

But when the Dead Zone stopped expanding, rifts appeared in various places on the Azure Star, and peace was instantly broken.

The Azure Star, which had already entered the interstellar age, was reduced to its original form and plunged into a protracted war.

What Nan Dou didn't expect was that Black Tower, by some unknown means and at some unknown price, actually got the star core.

That’s right, the source of hope is actually the star core sealed by a special device!

Although star cores are released into various universes by the star god of destruction Nanook, ordinary life cannot touch them, even the antimatter army is the same.

Therefore, there is no such thing as an antimatter army protecting the star core, but getting the star core from the dead zone affected by the energy of the star core is not an easy task in itself.

"Nandou, you have to be clear about one thing."

"I never considered you as a research partner."

"You...are not qualified yet."

Heita's voice was very calm, but it made Nan Dou's heart feel as if it was being tightly grasped by a huge hand.

"I'm not qualified..."

Nan Dou's eyes gradually lost their luster. Being denied by his friend whom he had been with day and night for more than ten years since coming to this world was so negative that even someone as strong-minded as him found it difficult to bear for a moment.

Even when he came out of the experimental tower of the Black Tower, Nan Dou still had a dull look in his eyes.

Nan Dou walked on the road unconsciously, his mind blank, until he walked outside a restaurant.

"Hey, isn't this Dr. Nan Dou? Are you here for dinner again?"

Xiao Cui's voice woke Nan Dou up, and he realized that he had walked to the restaurant where Xiao Cui worked without knowing when.

"Well, since you're here, let's have a good meal."

"..."