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

V2/Chapter 40: Are you interested in becoming a toy designer?

Compared to the smooth and perfect deployment of the encirclement by the drone swarm before, the war segment was the part that Einstein could accept the most.

Because in such a precise and detailed encirclement, the remaining operations are actually very simple. All the drones need to do is fire together, and these Honkai beasts will be killed or wounded immediately.

Einstein even suspected that this swarm of drones could accurately assign an independent small encirclement to each individual Honkai beast, ensuring that more than 90% of the Honkai beasts could be eliminated after the first round of firepower.

And in fact, this was indeed the case. The entire battle process only took a few minutes longer than the advance deployment of the drone swarm. When the first round of fire coverage by the drone swarm ended, there were basically only a dozen or so Honkai beasts that could still move.

In comparison, although the drone also suffered damage, it was insignificant compared to the herd of Honkai beasts.

Of course, the firepower displayed by these drones still surprised Einstein a little, because seeing the size of the drones, she thought the firepower of these drones would not be very strong, but she did not expect that they were not using live ammunition weapons, but energy weapons.

As weapons that use energy as ammunition, energy weapons do not need to consider ammunition reserves like live ammunition weapons, which greatly reduces the weight and volume requirements of drones. Although they also have the disadvantage of being difficult to exert their power in special environments, they are at least better than live ammunition weapons in normal environments.

However, Einstein did not remember that all of Fire Moth's current research on energy weapons is still in the experimental stage. As for putting it into actual combat, mass production, and miniaturization, that will have to be a very distant thing in the future.

But considering that these drones were probably made by Ai Yue, it's not surprising.

Einstein thought the video ended here, but she didn't expect there was another part after it. The drones that had finished the operation of exterminating the Honkai beasts regrouped and started new work.

Some of them were collecting the wreckage of destroyed drones, some were dealing with the corpses of Honkai beasts, some were sticking out strange devices from their bodies and wandering in the air, and others were drilling in and out of the wreckage of buildings, occasionally digging up collapsed ruins, as if they were simulating the action of rescuing the trapped people.

Compared with all the previous stages, the aftermath stage was the one that took the longest time. It took a full half hour before these drones finally gathered into a dark cloud and left here, just like when they first came.

Only the remnants of war in the ruins can prove that a special battle had just taken place here.

The video ends here.

When the screen went dark, Einstein saw her own expression—fatigue caused by long-term overwork covered this rather delicate face, but other than that, there was not much emotion.

"A multifunctional war drone swarm can independently complete tasks such as clearing out Honkai beasts, post-disaster rescue, and environmental cleanup. It's really amazing," Einstein said softly, "Is this your project?"

Ai Yue nodded: "Yes."

"So how long will it take for it to go into mass production?"

"Mass production has already begun. The video just now was shot this morning."

"Really?" Einstein took off her glasses and rubbed her dry eyes. "That's good. This way, many people can be saved from sacrifice, right?"

The Armed Doll Project is no longer meaningful.

This is what Einstein was thinking at the moment.

The Armed Doll Project was originally intended to reduce the sacrifice of soldiers and ordinary people and thus designed a special autonomous machine that could assist humans in fighting the Honkai. However, in front of the drone displayed by Ai Yue, except for its cute appearance, the Armed Doll had no other features that were superior to its opponent.

Whether it is cost, technological maturity, AI intelligence level, or difficulty of mass production, they are all completely defeated. Such a project is obviously no longer worth continuing. The only consolation is that Einstein has at least produced a prototype, which can be used to prove that this technology once existed.

At least, it wouldn't be shameful to lose to Dr. Ai Yue, right?

Einstein glanced at Elf, who was in a dormant state, and couldn't help rubbing her eyes.

In less than two hours, the Armed Doll Project went from being on the verge of success to being on the verge of termination, and Elf, who was created, couldn't even understand what was going on.

'Sure enough, I still feel a little reluctant.'

Mobius saw all of Einstein's expressions. She turned her head to look at Ai Yue and couldn't help elbowing him: "Can you just say what you want to say? Is it interesting to see other people's expressions like this?"

Spending a long time with Ai Yue did not make any qualitative leap in Mobius's scientific research. On the contrary, because she played the role of an ordinary person for a long time, her empathy ability was greatly improved.

Einstein's expression was probably similar to the one she had when she first discovered that the Fusion Warrior Formula had been easily optimized.

"Your level of anthropomorphism is a bit high today," Ai Yue glanced at Mobius teasingly, and after being elbowed again, he turned his gaze to Einstein, "Okay, Dr. Einstein, I'm not here today to shut down your research project."

"However, in the military field, armed dolls are no longer worth researching," Einstein quickly calmed down and returned to her original state. "It is not a wise choice to continue investing energy and funds in this project."

"But you also said that it was only in the military field," Ai Yue took over the topic and tapped the Prometheus extension connected to the computer. "I wonder if Dr. Einstein has paid attention to the field of people's livelihood recently."

Einstein looked at him with some confusion, not knowing what Ai Yue wanted to say.

"After experiencing the disasters caused by the Herrschers, ordinary people have become pessimistic and even desperate about the future," Ai Yue watched Prometheus project some data and analysis onto the screen and continued, "Although ordinary people still do not know the truth behind these disasters, I personally think that this is a matter of time."

"Perhaps one day, in order to fight against the Honkai and survive, humans will abandon all unnecessary entertainment, but I think they at least need something that can soothe their hearts and make them feel a little warm in such an environment."

Einstein blinked and turned her attention to the cute-looking Elf: "Do you think the armed doll can take on this responsibility?"

"Of course, cute things always bring positive emotions to people, don't they?" Ai Yue smiled. "What's more, they also have certain combat capabilities and can protect the safety of ordinary people in critical moments. Who wouldn't like them?"

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