Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

"It's done!" Smith was overjoyed, but his elation vanished in the next instant.

Shen Liang looked down at his severed arm, which was bleeding profusely. He tilted his head, expressionless, and then looked in the direction of the shooting, where he saw Smith.

He nodded. "Well played."

Then Smith watched as he ripped off his sleeve, revealing layers of scale-like ripples on his fair arm, which turned a beautiful golden-red.

Dragon scales!

The Coral Palace Secret Technique Transforms into the Moon Drive. This secret technique was tailor-made for all generations of living human goddess priestesses. Shen Liang now inherits the bloodline of the Sea Goddess, making him essentially a living human goddess priestess!

The system refers to Haiqi Jijun's bloodline as that of a dragon descendant. This powerful bloodline, combined with Hua Haiyue, can literally bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded. His bones began to regrow along the flow of dragon blood, and muscles and fascia covered the bones. In just a few minutes, to the astonishment of others, his right arm grew back.

The transformation of the sea moon might not have the same effect on others, but it was different for him, and even more so for him who possessed the bloodline of the Sea Goddess. Compared to the Coral Palace Heart Sea, who couldn't maximize the use of this bloodline, obtaining the Sea Goddess's bloodline almost transformed him into a different species altogether.

They're practically no longer human.

"Monster...monster!" Smith was violently thrown from the third-floor window by Rosalia, but he just stared at Shen Liang in utter terror. "You're not a Valkyrie...you're a monster! A monster!"

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Anna finally understood why Sirin wanted to cooperate with him. This ability, for a man to have this ability, his secrets, let alone the Shaniat family... any power would want to study them!

Such healing ability completely surpasses all current genetic engineering in the world. If this ability can work on other people, then it should work on Lady Cecilia as well!

Or... what about the Valkyries, or those Valkyries who are corrupted because of the mismatch between Honkai energy and their physical limits?

Honkai energy, like nuclear energy, is ultimately a corrosive force, no matter how powerful it is. Every year, people on the transcendent side die from Honkai energy corruption, and every year, people craving Honkai energy go mad. So, is it enough to simply remove the corrupted body? Modern technology can't regenerate a body; if it could, small-scale corruption wouldn't be a problem at all.

Anna became excited.

For Smith, seeing Shen Liangxin's arm felt like encountering a demon.

Mercenaries may not believe in God, but they do believe in the devil. Living a life of utter cruelty on the battlefield, they need some form of reverence to survive. They wouldn't believe in Jesus because they know they'd go to hell after death; they prefer the widely prevalent cult of Satan.

However, believing in Satan also has its downsides. For example, in some doctrines, anything that can make flesh grow back from bones is considered a seductive devil, using such methods to tempt mortals into making deals with them and selling their souls. The regeneration of severed arms is the most classic devilish trope, and the style of being nourished by flesh and blood is like a breeding ground for hellish demons.

But Shen Liang happens to be very good-looking. The Satanic religion says that angels use their terrifying appearance to scare away devils, and only devils have beautiful appearances to bewitch mortals.

Smith initially thought this was a Satanic propaganda tool used to discredit Christ and embellish the devil, but now it seems the doctrine didn't lie to him.

“Hello, Major Smith,” Shen Liang said gently, then put the gun barrel, which was now almost red-hot from firing, into his mouth. “I heard you’ve met my two sisters.”

"Aaaaaaahhhhh!" Smith screamed in agony as the molten gun barrel burned him.

"Can't you understand Chinese? Translate it for me." Shen Liang frowned. "Anna."

“I think he was just screaming. He probably didn’t hear what you were saying.” Anna sighed. She was no longer surprised by Shen Liang’s methods. “You killed so many people and still managed to heal your arm in front of him. He must have been terrified.”

"Am I scary?" Shen Liang took out his phone and looked at himself, frowning. "Although I don't like to admit it, I should be pretty handsome."

Anna looked away as the gun barrel cooled in Smith's mouth.

"Let's not talk about that. Ask him how he met these two girls." Shen Liang took out the photos.

Anna felt like she was aiding and abetting a villain, but upon closer reflection, if the Shaniat family members were nearly captured and humiliated by mercenaries, the Shaniat family's methods would probably not be much more merciful than Shen Liang's... That's just how the world is; "fairness" is often unfair.

If an ordinary person is captured and humiliated by mercenaries, the matter will likely be left unresolved, and no one will be able to seek "justice." However, if someone with powerful backers is threatened, they will be "punished" by the iron fist of reality.

As Anna softly translated, Major Smith, his face contorted with rage, appeared even more terrified. Being captured by these beautiful but insidious girls seemed far more frightening than being captured by a group of savage, burly soldiers. The former, at worst, meant death, but the latter was unimaginable—he couldn't fathom what they might do. He struggled to spit out the gun barrel and mumbled a few words in French.

“He said he didn’t know him…” Anna was too lazy to translate, and turned her back. “Do what you think is best.”

Then she heard the sound of a chainsaw, Shen Liang's calm "Kids, don't look, turn away" and Rosalia sticking out her tongue, followed by the crackling sound of cutting and the sizzling sound of something being roasted on a fire, followed by Smith's desperate wail.

Anna covered her ears.

"Even though you don't understand, I still want to say that I've only ever read about this kind of thing in books. Putting it on your head might be a bit too tight. If you can't get it on, just cut your hand off." Shen Liang's calm voice said.

More screams.

“You’re like a tire man now, yes, the Michelin logo type, but unfortunately I can’t find a white tire.”

"No! No! What is this? Gasoline? No... don't come any closer, don't light it!"

Then Anna heard the sound of rubber bursting, something rolling on the ground, fire and oil crackling and rolling around, mixed with Smith's increasingly faint pleas for mercy.

Then came a gunshot, like the sound of a tire bursting, followed by another bucket of water being poured over him. Smith groaned in agony, as if he were on the verge of death. Then Shen Liang stepped forward and did something, and his groans gradually subsided.

A moment later, Shen Liang's cold voice rang out again: "Anna, don't turn around, just translate directly."

Anna nodded vigorously.

“Tell him that if he doesn’t talk, I’ll let him experience even more interesting ways to play. The books I read in Siberia were textbooks written by agents after the KGB disbanded, and they have a damage bonus against enemies of old-fashioned capitalist countries.”

Anna racked her brains to translate the joke to Smith as well.

"Arresting them was an order from above! Someone recognized them as Siberian agents! We were told not to let other countries discover our presence, but they knew our plans!"

Shen Liang frowned. This was different from what the previous soldiers had said… This major clearly knew more. And rightly so, even mercenaries wouldn't be that disorganized and undisciplined. Bronya and Seele were Siberian citizens; it was indeed illogical for a group of mercenaries to dare attack citizens of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council!

"what's the plan?"

"I don't know, I don't know what the plan is! Really, we're just a small squad in the Vulture Brigade. There are over three hundred mercenaries in our force, and I'm just a squad leader! We don't know what the boss's plan is. We only know that we're here to help the Tallinn Reform Party riot. The boss hasn't told us anything else!"

No wonder the Reform Party was able to fight the government forces so fiercely; they really did hire mercenaries. This mercenary force is probably much stronger than Aisha's army. Although there are only three hundred men, three hundred men are enough to destroy a regime in this country.

"Help?" Shen Liang said coldly, "Aisha is a perfectly peaceful country, and you come to help an opposition party launch a war, harming innocent people. You call a bunch of war hyenas help? Who is your boss? Who paid to hire this mercenary group?"

"Yes……"

"Oh!"

A single bullet easily blew Smith's head off.

Shen Liang turned around abruptly and saw a woman with short, gray-gold hair wearing a white lady's mask and a rose maid outfit on the top of a tall tower about two hundred meters away. She gently blew the smoke from the muzzle of her sniper rifle. Seeing Shen Liang's wary expression, she smiled slightly and bowed, lifting her skirt.

"Grab her!" Shen Liang gestured to Rosalia.

However, the maid-dressed woman was faster than Rosalia, who was a Valkyrie. She leaped dozens of meters in a flash, gracefully landing on the rooftops of various buildings, and soon disappeared from Shen Liang's sight.

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Chapter 124 Why do you have shoulder-length hair even though you're a boy?

Valkyrie.

Shen Liang never expected that the Valkyrie would be involved in this war.

This makes things complicated. Originally, it was thought that Bronya and Seele were just involved in the war, but now it seems that the reason why Bronya and Seele have been out of contact is probably not only because they can't leave, but also because they have discovered something.

And since they are Valkyries, anything that can make them linger... might also attract the attention of other Valkyries, and thus the attention of the transcendent side.

In this war, the rebels hired mercenaries, and behind these mercenaries were supernatural forces...

This is getting more and more of a headache.

"But if she can snipe Smith, then she can snipe us too, so why..." Shen Liang was somewhat doubtful.

It was obvious that she was a very strong Valkyrie who could also conceal her murderous intent; Rosalia didn't even have time to react after the sniper rifle was fired.

But this Valkyrie chose to silence him and keep it a secret, instead of killing him.

Could it be because she's afraid of Anna? Anna is an A-rank Valkyrie, and if a real fight breaks out, Anna will also join the battle to protect herself. Does she lack confidence in defeating Anna?

That doesn't make sense... A sniper rifle can kill both Shen Liang and Smith at the same time, and then run away, so Anna can't catch them.

At that moment, he noticed that Anna's expression was a little strange.

"what happened?"

“That Valkyrie… she looks somewhat familiar to me.” Anna frowned, deep in thought. “I know a Valkyrie who also likes to wear maid outfits and is very strong… but it’s unlikely. Why would she get involved in a war between ordinary people? Impossible, impossible.”

But after pondering for a while and sorting through the clues, Shen Liang felt as if he had forgotten some details.

Since these people are not Aisha people, but mercenaries, it means that the Aisha Reform Party is not actually that strong and needs mercenaries to maintain the balance of power.

A mercenary force of three hundred men...

Elsa can't win, fine, but...

Shen Liang had a sudden inspiration; he remembered that the intelligence from the Shaniat family had mentioned it briefly before.

"Britain has deployed peacekeeping troops, but the problem remains unresolved."

Shen Liang realized where the incongruity lay!

Great Britain!

As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, England's combat capabilities far surpass those of Elsa and mercenaries. According to UN conventions, peacekeeping forces cannot engage in direct combat with rebels and government forces; their primary function is "peacekeeping."

But the mercenaries hired by the Reform Party are different. They are a bunch of hyenas, a group of bandits with no bottom line, no manners, and no legal protection! The British peacekeeping forces do not need to be lenient with mercenaries at all. In fact, given the combat strength of the British forces, three hundred mercenaries are a piece of cake.

They could have easily wiped out this mercenary group, providing greater assistance to the government forces. What is peacekeeping anyway? If mercenaries come to cause trouble, eliminating them is the responsibility of peacekeeping!

But where are they?

Shen Liang's thoughts raced. His IQ test results at the orphanage were on par with Bronya's, and based on these findings, he quickly discovered more suspicious points that he had not noticed before.

Why did the British peacekeeping force arrive so quickly?

Logically, a coup d'état in a country might lead to days of war, with UN peacekeeping forces only being deployed after significant threats and harm to civilians have been posed. But Britain acted too quickly; Siberia, the closest country to El Salvador, hadn't even provided support before Britain hastily dispatched troops.

Britain took the lead in deploying troops, while Siberia remained reluctant to act, and the other five permanent members of the UN Security Council only expressed their concern verbally. When problems arise in small countries that rarely participate in international politics, peacekeeping forces are generally kept to a minimum, so Britain's deployment suited the interests of other countries.