Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

"I can create a living being to express this kind of genetic information. By the same logic, I can also reverse-engineer the ability to obtain and recreate this information from a living creature."

Suddenly, a tentacle shot out from Noldrei's body, flying off somewhere unknown.

Soon, this tentacle came back with a small mouse.

He poked the mouse's head with a finger, and in an instant, the mouse became incredibly obedient, a vacant-looking dumb mouse.

Amidst everyone's confusion, Noldrei placed the mouse in a box.

"Like this, I disassembled the information of this little mouse, then accelerated its metabolism and growth, ensuring the absorption of material energy within its body. Then, it'll become like this."

Under Noldrei's modification, the mouse in the box kept growing, quickly undergoing indescribable changes. The direction of its limbs' growth became aimless, and its body started growing in weird and unusual shapes.

Even the mouse's facial features began to go wild, like it was having a stroke, with its mouth and nose all crooked.

In this continuous 'growth,' the mouse soon turned into a strange-shaped lump of flesh, which even retained the capabilities of its organs.

Everyone could still see the mouse's eyes constantly moving around until its visual nerves also underwent a huge transformation, making its eyeballs unstable, and one of them was no longer a sphere.

"This is the result of a living being's growth after extracting some genetic information. The genes don't split in the planned direction. Similarly, if I inject some genetic information into your bodies, then I can set the direction of your future growth."

"So, I think Stigmata must have a similar function. Mei, do you want to try it?"

Noldrei successfully explained his experiment with the mouse.

'No wonder Kiana's been trying to stop this guy from messing around…'

After seeing what happened to the mouse, Raiden Mei immediately rejected Noldrei's idea of injecting her with genetic information.

She immediately shook her head and said, "No, I think I'm fine as a pony."

"Is that how you modified my body?!" The twintailed doctor immediately blew up.

Tesla had her eyes opened. She hadn't paid much attention when Noldrei hadn't explained it, but after his explanation, she immediately understood what could have happened to her body.

"Relax, I know you guys are more traditional, so I've always preserved most of your genetic information so you know you're still the same person."

Noldrei waved his hand, indicating that she shouldn't get so worked up.

"I should thank you, then?!" Tesla was a bit exasperated. She stood up, ready for a righteous showdown with Noldrei.

Bronya quickly grabbed Doctor Tesla, comforting her, "It's okay, it's okay, Doctor. You're alright, aren't you?"

"You wanna become a Teletubby?!" Tesla was almost driven to rage by Bronya.

"But, I can transform into a pony now?"

Bronya thought, even in this situation, Doctor Tesla was still so eager to fight; she was really amazing.

Tesla was helpless. She had no idea where this genetic information was hidden, so she couldn't do anything about Noldrei's actions.

"Just wait, I'll find this genetic information, no matter what!"

Tesla huffed and went quiet.

The white-haired dumpling asked hesitantly, "Then, does that mean if you can always maintain a state of high-speed growth and reshape genetic information, could you become something like me?!"

Kiana was quick on the uptake. Her eyes lit up, as if she could see the future of humanity.

Her dark history, all her bad luck, would happen to everyone else.

This made Kiana actually have a desire to give it a try.

"Theoretically, yes, but some necessary stages need to be overcome. Look... is it possible for me to implant something like these 'Stigmata' or, rather, genetic information?"

As he spoke, a sprig actually grew from Noldrei's body.

That's right, a plant sprig, and it even sprouted vibrant green leaves.

"I thought fungi would be your limit, but you can even turn into a plant?!"

Tesla was shocked. She never expected that a future human like Noldrei would break the barrier between animals and plants.

"Yeah, I saw similar things in the cartoons here, didn't I? There's the story about the Calabash Brothers and the little butterfly, the stories of peach blossom spirits and scholars, and Tang San and the Blue Silver Grass." [popular Chinese animations and novels]

"I thought people of this era would accept the idea of animal-plant hybrids. So, I was wondering if I could implant some genetic information into Mei to give her the ability to control plants."

Noldrei had seemingly put a lot of thought into it, and had even watched the cartoons and myths of this era.

He also saw a lot of weird fetish news, like those of people dating car exhaust pipes.

The sexual repression of this era was exceptionally powerful, and in Noldrei's eyes, it was so brilliantly attractive.

'What the hell have you been watching?!'

Kiana finally couldn't hold back anymore. She thought those people who wrote these books and made these cartoons were terrible. How could they guide people to think about things like genetic information?

She wanted to say that all that stuff was made-up, it was all human imagination.

But seeing the branch growing from Noldrei's shoulder, she suddenly wasn't sure if future humans could actually do these things.

He ignored everyone's astonishment and casually plucked a leaf from the branch.

"See? Isn't it the same type as the leaves outside? It's a pity this thing can't grow for too long on an animal body. I can only simulate this kind of thing temporarily; it's still not as useful as a tentacle."

He ripped the sprig off, leaving some frightening chunks of flesh behind.

"This is the directional effect of genetic information, so I'm asking Raiden Mei if she wants to try injecting this specific genetic information into her body. What I mean is, the kind of Stigmata genetic information related to Honkai."

"Since dreams are the way Honkai thinks, and I happen to know how to express genetic information in dreams..."

"So, do you want to try it?"

Noldrei was looking forward to seeing if they could inject the future human genetic information he prepared back into the Stigmata space.

He really hadn't done much research on dreaming, especially since the dreams of this era were connected to the strange energy of Honkai, which gave Noldrei another special energy to change the course of history.

'You wanna go?'

Raiden Mei glanced at Bronya behind Doctor Tesla.

Bronya shook her head quickly and then looked at Kiana.

Kiana looked at the ceiling, even though there was nothing there. She admitted that she wanted to see the Stigmata space, but she didn't want to bring any weird things inside.

What about Doctor Tesla?

Oh, she had actually fallen asleep there? How could she fall asleep so fast?

Fu Hua was the most sensible. She had already done an experiment with living Stigmata. What was another Stigmata genetic information injection experiment?

The immortal Fu Hua gritted her teeth, preparing to sacrifice herself once again.

Suddenly, they heard someone returning outside.

"Huh? What are you guys doing? Huddling together to discuss buying New Year's goods?"

Siegfried, carrying Wendy, personally brought a new experiment subject to Noldrei.