"Welcome back, Ryn. We parted so suddenly before, I never got a chance to properly thank you and Penglaiji Ryn for everything you've done for this world."
"Bronya, there's no need to be so formal between us. Just like how you just vented your stress, shouting out loud, letting down your guard in front of us, and showing your true self, we've all subconsciously come to see each other as family we can trust."
Bronya shook her head, disagreeing with Ryn's statement, and said to him seriously:
"No, that's not right. Ryn, it's precisely because we are family that I must thank you even more.
No one is born obligated to make sacrifices for others.
We can't just use the word 'family' as an excuse to take everything you've done for granted and accept it all with a clear conscience."
After speaking, Bronya's eyes were filled with sincerity and gratitude as she gave Ryn a deep bow.
"On behalf of myself and the entire 'Fire Moth World,' I extend my heartfelt thanks to you. At the same time, every living being in the 'Fire Moth World,' even the Honkai Beasts, will unconditionally provide you and Penglaiji Ryn with the greatest possible assistance."
Ryn waved his hand and quickly pulled up Bronya, who was about to bow again.
"Bronya, my dear leader! Have you forgotten? I, Ryn, am also a member of Fire Moth! So, as a being of this world, isn't it normal to save my own world? There's no need for such thanks!"
Hearing Ryn still call himself a member of Fire Moth, Bronya couldn't help but smile from the heart.
Then, she pointed one finger at the "sun" death spot in the sky, radiating light and heat, and another at the flat ground.
"Even though you say there's no need for thanks, everyone, from the heavens to the earth, is constantly grateful to you!"
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Ryn chatted with Bronya and Seele for a while, gave them the gifts he had prepared, and also helped upgrade Bronya's Project Bunny and Seele's scythe.
This world, like the Bubble Universe inside Durandal's body, currently relies on Penglaiji Ryn to maintain its stability and existence.
Therefore, Penglaiji Ryn might not be able to return to this world until he finds a stable anchor for the "Fire Moth World" and separates it from his own body.
Similarly, the people of this world cannot leave and enter the world where Penglaiji Ryn is.
This put Ryn in a difficult position. He had prepared gifts for both Janna and Penglaiji Ryn, but the rules of this world were now relatively complete, making it impossible to jump directly to the real world where Penglaiji Ryn was, as he could when the world was newly created.
If he wanted to go to Penglaiji Ryn's world, he might have to return to the Sea of Quanta and perform another world-crossing.
He wondered how their world was progressing, and what the flow of time was like.
Ryn gave the Star of Eden, originally prepared for Penglaiji Ryn, to Yiselian for her to research and replicate.
What Ryn hadn't expected was how attractive a Star of Eden, created by manifesting Authority, would be to a mad scientist.
When Yiselian got the Star of Eden, she felt it was a waste to use something that could create a pseudo-black hole as a weapon.
She could use the Star of Eden, based on the principles of black holes and time dilation, to create a time chamber.
Through the time chamber, she could control the flow of time in different areas of the world, causing the world's resources to expand rapidly in a short period, ultimately achieving resource freedom.
During the previous exchange between the real world's Yiselian and the Fire Moth's Yiselian, due to their shared characteristics, the Stigmata "Key of Creation" on the Fire Moth's Yiselian also awakened along with the real world's Yiselian's awakening.
Although its specific effects were unknown, it allowed Yiselian to instantly understand any technological blueprint.
Without the interference of the Honkai, with sufficient resources, and with a nearly infinite amount of relative time, what could possibly trouble Yiselian?
Yiselian immediately began writing a plan and draft, sending her proposal to Bronya and Theresa via Young Mei, and then started researching the creation of the time chamber.
If it weren't for the fact that Yiselian was still human and had limited practical abilities, Ryn suspected she could have built a star destroyer, a time machine, and a series of planetary-level strategic weapons right in front of him.
Yiselian even said she now had an idea "about using black hole data to build a data model of a black hole and re-simulate the process of the universe exploding from a gravitational singularity."
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After seeing the plan submitted by Yiselian, Bronya immediately notified Theresa. Then, the two of them had Young Mei detain and evacuate all personnel from the Mobius laboratory and the surrounding several kilometers.
Theresa, carrying her cross, angrily blocked the entrance to the Mobius laboratory. With one hand on her hip, she angrily pointed at Ryn and Yiselian, who were huddled together and shivering.
"Ryn! How could you bring such a dangerous thing here and just give it to someone!!
Let's not even talk about how it can directly create a black hole, just listen to Dr. Yiselian's ideas… don't you find them terrifying?!"
"No, Theresa! This is an important step in the progress of human civilization!"
Yiselian, huddled in a corner behind Ryn with her head in her hands, shouted back at Theresa.
Yiselian: "Theresa, think about it! These Stars of Eden were all created by Ryn using his Authority, which means they are the most direct and real manifestations of the world's rules!
If we can analyze and successfully replicate this world rule, we can create a device similar to a 'Herrscher Core' and, in our own human way, truly seize the power that belongs to the gods!"
Ryn, also huddled in the corner of the lab, echoed Yiselian's sentiment:
"That's right, although it's unlikely we can truly seize the Authority. But it's very possible for Yiselian to create a device similar to a Herrscher Core.
Because the essence of a Herrscher Core is just a certain layered structure used to mobilize Honkai energy to imitate the ultimate physical laws.
Before a Herrscher truly merges with the Authority within the Herrscher Core, they are just 'borrowing' the power of the gods by mobilizing Honkai energy through the 'converter' Herrscher Core. So, Theresa…"
"Shut up!"
Theresa angrily knocked on both Ryn's and Yiselian's heads, interrupting their crazy ideas.
"What's the point of doing this? To plunge the world into chaos again, to return to the brink of destruction?
Yiselian, you are a mad scientist… Ryn, you are an overly optimistic Herrscher… You are too idealistic and fail to pay attention to the true nature of the human heart.
One thought leads to heaven, another to hell. The human heart is too complex, so complex that words cannot describe it… No one can suppress their desires forever, not even me.
Ryn, Yiselian… the things you're talking about, that's the power of the gods… Their weight is not only something humanity can never bear, but the world is also not ready for another Honkai eruption."
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In the end, Bronya and Theresa together made Ryn take back the Star of Eden and had Young Mei strictly monitor anyone who knew about this matter.
Everything has a gradual process. Perhaps what Yiselian and Ryn envisioned is the future trend, but it is not something the currently fragile "Fire Moth World" can bear.
The human heart is uncontrollable, and the Honkai controlled by humans is even more so.
And what happens when the Honkai goes out of control…
The facts have already proven everything.