"Well, it is fine to be a little more submissive when you are weak."
"Once I regain the power I once lost, I will make these people pay a hundredfold! Especially that little white-haired girl~☆"
Naturally, no one knew the inner thoughts of the Herrscher of the Void inside Kiana.
"Okay, you silly niece, I promise I will fully respect your wishes."
Theresa patted Kiana's head and said in an indulgent tone, "She is my niece after all. Her aunt has been away for so many years. If I forced her to break with the past as soon as I reappeared, I think she would just beat me up."
Imagining that scene, Theresa couldn't help but shiver.
"Uh-huh."
Kiana, whose head was being patted, looked completely obedient.
At the same time, a hint of curiosity appeared on her face: "By the way, Auntie, do you have any clues about the whereabouts of the real Kiana?"
After all, Theresa has considerable authority in Schicksal. Although she has been working in the Far East Branch for many years, she should have seen some relevant files on the Valkyries of Schicksal Headquarters and its various branches, even if she has never met them.
She hadn't paid attention before because she didn't know the real Kiana existed.
Perhaps if we think carefully about the past now, we can find a clue.
However, Kiana overestimated Theresa.
After all, Theresa also has the Kaslana family genes in her body.
The most prominent feature of the Kaslana family is their stupidity. (The second most prominent feature is their terrible cooking skills).
The fact that Theresa can now give clear and organized commands is already an extraordinary achievement within the framework of the Prometheus Project.
It is really asking too much of her to recall the Valkyries she has seen or the relevant files and filter out the true Kiana suspects.
However, if you ask her to name the number of anime, manga, theatrical versions, and even live-action tokusatsu series that have featured magical girl characters over the years, she can do so with great familiarity.
Theresa shook her head: "Superficially at least, I haven't seen another Kiana Kaslana. So, either Otto didn't raise her in Schicksal, or Otto did something to make her look different from when she was a child. In any case, I need to go back to St. Freya Academy and carefully review the files of Schicksal's Valkyries over the years."
"Alright..."
Since Theresa's answer was somewhat expected, Kiana was only disappointed for a short time before her thoughts drifted elsewhere.
For example, how to further strengthen the relationship between Mei and the others.
After all, although it wasn't the current Mei who said those words in the Q&A space, but the future Mei, those were Mei's own thoughts!
In other words, rounding up means Mei has already confessed her love to her.
As a responsible member of the Kaslana race, how could Kiana not respond to this?
Thinking of this, Kiana couldn't help but smile.
What is that idiot Kiana thinking about? She has a lewd smile and is drooling.
Kiana's appearance was noticed by Bronya, who couldn't help but make a sarcastic comment.
Drooling?
Kiana was startled by what she heard. She subconsciously touched the corners of her mouth and found nothing unusual. Only then did she realize that Bronya had tricked her.
"Aaaah, you damn Bronya, don't you dare run away, stop right there!"
Seeing Bronya floating away in time with the help of Heavy Bunny, Kiana quickly took a step and chased after her.
Mei, worried that Kiana and Bronya might go too far, said apologetically to Theresa: "Principal, I'm a little worried about them..."
Theresa waved her hand: "No need to ask me, go if you want."
It was only after the three children had left that Theresa withdrew her somewhat melancholic gaze.
When she and Cecilia were young, they got along just like Kiana and the other two now, carefree and happy together.
Her memories of Cecilia are forever frozen in that cold winter in Siberia.
But the friendship between Kiana and her two friends continues.
Even if it is only to ensure this beautiful moment continues, Theresa will not allow certain things to happen!
"Principal, let's start our archaeological work too."
Fu Hua adjusted her glasses and said this.
"Okay, sure."
"Ji Xuanyang should also come with us. There are some things you might know more about than I do, after all, you have memories of living in that era."
Turning slightly, Fu Hua extended an invitation to Ji Xuanyang, who seemed somewhat lost.
Looking at Fu Hua's familiar face, Ji Xuanyang smiled and said, "Okay."
As she spoke, Ji Xuanyang stepped forward and naturally took Fu Hua's right arm.
Fu Hua was startled by Ji Xuanyang's sudden intimate gesture but did not pull away. She just stiffened for a few seconds before forcing herself to divert her attention.
Ji Xuanyang observed Fu Hua's reaction.
She shook her head. Back then, Fu Hua could remain calm even in the face of attacks from both sides of Cang Xuan Dan Zhu, but now she showed awkwardness with her simple gesture of linking arms. Indeed, the current Fu Hua is much more interesting than before.
Ji Xuanyang did not know that the fundamental reason for Fu Hua's drastic change was that she had always been influenced by Kenshin.
While Kenshin is one of the guarantees of Fu Hua's strength, its side effects are also quite obvious.
Emotional detachment is one of them.
Five hundred years ago, her sword heart was already shattered.
It can be said that from that moment on, Fu Hua returned to the state she was in before Dr. Mei performed the Divine Sound Experiment.
That state prevented her from unleashing the Void God Sword at will, and her strength declined a little; otherwise, she wouldn't have lost her immortality in the following days.
Of course, Fu Hua was not entirely clear about these matters either.
Not only did she lose most of her memories when her sword heart shattered, but during the second collapse, some of them were also burned by Yu Duchen to activate the Taixu Sword God.
Now, she can barely recall her past identity and the general outline of her past experiences.
The reason she was able to correctly answer the first question in the Q&A space was mainly because the other three people in the options besides her were so distinctive that, even in her current state, she could still recall some of their characteristics.
And so, three days passed quietly between the playful antics of Kiana and her two companions and the diligent archaeological work of Fu Hua and her two companions.
During the next three days, Bronya executed Prometheus for forty minutes each day, devoting all her time to studying the super-variant factor technology.
And after running for 20 minutes on the third day, Prometheus finally finalized the initial repair plan tailored to Fu Hua's physical condition.
Fu Hua's health problems are mainly due to two aspects.
Firstly, the super-variant factor technology at the time was not yet mature and had some inherent drawbacks.
According to Prometheus's analysis, Fu Hua's body had already experienced side effects back then.
For example: hyperthymesia.
This is the result obtained by Prometheus in conjunction with the analysis of Feathered Dust.
She specifically asked Fu Hua for a feather. Although in such a short time, Prometheus was completely unable to decipher the information about the Herrscher of Consciousness-related abilities of the previous civilization contained in these feathers, nor could she obtain Fu Hua's memories that were "burned" or sealed in them.
However, she still came to a preliminary conclusion.
After Fu Hua obtained the Feathered Dust, she frequently used its ability to periodically rewind her memories.
The most plausible explanation Prometheus found for this situation was hyperthymesia.
However, Fu Hua no longer appears to have the painful symptoms of hyperthymesia, which should be related to the second aspect of her physical problems.
Simply put, the second aspect is that Fu Hua suffered a very severe trauma in the past.
This trauma shattered Fu Hua's sword heart, but the sword heart, which is also the Divine Sound, remains.
It was merely a patch that Dr. Mei applied to Fu Hua, and it was not strongly related to the super-variant factor technology.
What is really relevant is the loss of immortality.
Like hyperthymesia, immortality is also an ability Fu Hua gained after undergoing experiments with the Hypermutant Factor.
It seems that hyperthymesia was lost along with immortality.
In this way, Prometheus was able to draw a preliminary conclusion.
The supermutant factor technology initially applied to Fu Hua was likely effective primarily in her brain.
The brain is the most complex and sophisticated part of the human body, but for Prometheus, it was a way to find a way to repair it without damaging it.
Moreover, this kind of repair is straightforward and can be performed on the Hyperion.
Considering that Fu Hua's behavior after receiving the hypermutation factor and after her body was damaged was related to memory, and that recent memory was related to the hippocampus, temporal stem, dorsolateral thalamic nucleus, and mammillary gland, while distant memory was related to the cortex, especially the frontal cortex, it can be roughly analyzed that the hypermutation factor initially had a very important effect on the frontal cortex.
Although Prometheus did not find any obvious problems using nuclear magnetic resonance on the Hyperion, she should know that Fu Hua's previous immortality was essentially a super-regenerative ability.
In other words, she can use the super-variant factor analysis technology to find a way to temporarily reproduce this regenerative capacity and then apply it to the frontal cortex.
In this way, no matter what problems Fu Hua's frontal cortex has, as long as it can regenerate, the problems will be effectively alleviated.
The reason why we don't say it is completely solved is because the super-variant factor technology does not only work in one place, and Fu Hua's initial damage was not limited to the frontal cortex.
To achieve a complete repair, her current understanding of hypermutation factor technology is insufficient, and the Hyperion does not possess the necessary capabilities.
And so, that morning, Prometheus, controlling Bronya's body, began the repair work in the Hyperion's operating room.
The key to the surgery was to temporarily activate Fu Hua's lost immortality ability and apply it to the frontal cortex, which is theoretically impossible to perform.
However, Prometheus knew very well that although Fu Hua had lost her immortality, the changes in her body were completed the moment she became a Fusion Warrior. In other words, Prometheus could extract the desired substance from Fu Hua's body at that time.
Simply put, Fu Hua once underwent a complete supermutant factor experiment, and what Prometheus is going to do now is to extract the still active supermutant factor from Fu Hua's body, and then use her frontal cortex as the subject to reproduce the original experiment.
This process does not require a lot of processing power; theoretically, it can be carried out as long as one is sufficiently familiar with the human body.
Unfortunately, on the Nine Nether side, apart from Prometheus, who has gained a deep understanding of human anatomy through the analysis of supermutation factor technology, the other people's understanding of the human body is even less than that of art students.
Therefore, the only option was to send Prometheus into battle.
Fortunately, this did not require Bronya's brain to run at full power, so the surgery lasted over an hour. However, after the surgery, Bronya's brain fatigue level was still lower than that of Prometheus, who had been performing high-intensity analysis for 40 minutes.
"Did the surgery go well?"
Seeing Bronya emerge from the operating room in her white coat, Ji Xuanyang was the first to step forward and ask about Fu Hua's condition.
Bronya regained control of her body and received the results from Prometheus. She greeted Ji Xuanyang with a nod and said, "The surgery was a success. Squad Leader will wake up in about half an hour, after the anesthesia wears off."
After hearing Bronya's words, Ji Xuanyang visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Can we go in and see Fu Hua now?"
Theresa, who was nearby, also asked a question.
Bronya nodded: "But don't make too much noise. She is not only asleep from the anesthesia but also because her regenerative capabilities have been reactivated. If the environment is too noisy, it could cause problems with the repair of her frontal cortex."
Hearing Bronya's words, Theresa's furrowed brows relaxed a little.
It's only a half-hour wait; we can go in and check after the other person wakes up.
And so, everyone remained silent outside the operating room, quietly waiting for the time to pass.
Half an hour finally passed before they knew it.
Just as Theresa had perfectly calculated the time and was about to push open the operating room door, the door opened from the inside.
"Fu Hua, why don't you stay in bed for a little longer?"
Theresa said it with a hint of resentment in her voice.
Fu Hua smiled and said, "Principal, I feel better than ever. My brain hasn't felt this relaxed in a long time, so as soon as I woke up, I couldn't wait to come out and get some fresh air."
Hearing Fu Hua say that, Theresa's knitted brows relaxed a bit.
"Why don't we go up to the deck and get some fresh air?"
Theresa made the suggestion.
Fu Hua nodded: "Okay."