Arknights' Lock of Heaven

“Now I do understand Dr. Kal'tsit a little better,” Skadi smiled with a complicated expression. “Knowing too much isn’t necessarily a good thing. At least, right now… I don’t even have the interest to swing my sword.”

Well, the kid's been stunned by the news about the deep sea.

Well, that's actually normal. After all, it took Agor so many years to gather so many deep-sea hunters, and they were almost completely wiped out in the process of hunting down a sea god.

I originally thought that as long as we killed the so-called sea god, it would be worth it even if the entire army was wiped out, as long as the strategic objective was achieved.

It can be said that the deep-sea hunters of that time all set out with the determination to die.

But now you tell me, are you surprised or not? There are actually a dozen more of these so-called sea gods deep inside the lair of the Sea King!

How could this not lead to despair?

This is one of the reasons why Skadi is so depressed.

Yes, one of them.

She was, after all, a resilient hunter and a battle-hardened warrior; even such news shouldn't have changed her so drastically in such a short time.

But what can you do when her state of mind is not so stable to begin with?

The essence of the sea goddess Issa Mara, deeply buried within her, resonated with the fleeting nature of sunset and others under the influence of divinity, directly affecting Skadi herself.

If it weren't for the unreasonable existence of divinity, this situation would never have occurred; it can only be said that the world has truly been changed a lot.

Xia Yu just placed a seal on her. Divinity is a good thing, but there's a saying that goes something like this.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

Skadi undoubtedly has the qualifications. As Agor's most perfect biological weapon and a god-slayer, she certainly has the qualifications.

But being qualified doesn't mean things will go smoothly; she still has a long way to go.

Xia Yu's seal can make her path forward a little smoother.

"Don't worry, it's nothing serious," Xia Yu shrugged upon hearing this. "Didn't I tell you? According to reliable intelligence, those things won't wake up unless something unexpected happens."

"They will just continue to sleep. Perhaps one of them will awaken, but it won't affect the overall situation at all."

“After all,” Xia Yu said with a slight smile, “I’m still here.”

Let alone one, if they all woke up, we could just give up on life. I could force the heads of emperors from all over the world to get enough Originium and use the Holy Grail as a vessel to load Tiamat's Spirit Origin. Let's see if the sea creatures you reproduce with flesh and blood are stronger, or the magical beasts I conjure with my power.

Yes, Warcraft, after all, that thing called Rahmu really doesn't fit Xia Yu's aesthetic at all.

311 Pompeii Crisis!

"Miss Skadi, are you really alright?"

Skyfire glanced at Skadi, who was carrying her greatsword as always, and felt a little scared.

Ah, of course, it's not that I'm afraid of Skadi now, but rather...

The scene in the alley yesterday really frightened her.

Rivers of blood flow!

Even Herman, a high-ranking official who single-handedly built Siesta, felt a little weak in the knees, let alone these few scholar-type operators.

To be honest, this was because she didn't witness the killing scene immediately; she only went to see the alleyway littered with corpses afterward.

If you saw Skadi slaughter more than forty people in less than a minute... tsk tsk tsk.

I'm afraid she'll even stutter when she speaks now.

“It’s nothing,” Skadi said guiltily, pulling down her hat brim to cover her eyes. “Don’t worry.”

"I won't lose control again."

Yes, after a night of adjustment, she has calmed down.

The previous accident, well, it was probably because the divinity and behemoth nature of the Sunset Quartet unexpectedly stirred the divinity buried within her.

Because of the shock brought by divinity, she was somewhat out of touch with reality for a moment, well, she was drunk or something.

That's probably it.

After Xia Yu's treatment, I'm basically no longer worried about these problems.

“Then you must remember this,” Tianhuo said anxiously, “we just need to make it turn around, we don’t need to kill Pompeii at all!”

"Not to mention the environmental impact, the fact that it serves as a typical case of biological activities affecting the environment and causing natural disasters is enough to attract countless scholars!"

"You know, as an emerging discipline, many graduate students and professors have been struggling to find a suitable research location even after their hair has turned white."

"Either it's a desolate place far from civilization, or it's already packed with researchers queuing up, with no end in sight."

"And Siesta, a developed city, is a research subject that is within easy reach, making it a perfect research condition."

"Not to mention that the upcoming natural disasters will also attract a large group of disaster research experts... a few months is enough time for them to get here."

"If we can preserve this precious sample, Siesta will likely be able to establish a research institute or something similar after becoming a tourist city."

Hearing this, Ceylon was very excited. "That's great. Siesta is still quite vulnerable if it relies solely on tourism. It would be very important for the city to establish a good academic model through this opportunity."

"So, you absolutely must not hurt it!"

“No, it’s impossible not to hurt it…” Hearing this, Surtr looked speechlessly at Pompeii in the tunnel, “Such a big creature… how can we make it back down without using some heavy-handed tactics?”

"You have to understand, no matter how much it mutates, it doesn't possess human intelligence. To make it turn back, you have to give it a good beating!"

“Oh, it’s my fault,” Ceylon said, bowing his head in embarrassment. “I was just too excited! I’m so sorry, everyone.”

Her excitement is understandable.

As the only highly educated person in her family, last night was the first time she had a heart-to-heart talk with her father.

On an equal footing, not as a daughter who is not yet grown up.

Unfortunately, Hermann, despite his remarkable skills, was completely ignorant of academic matters.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been unaware of the potential problems with the volcano when they discovered that obsidian was still being illegally mined.

It wasn't that he was incompetent, but rather that he was truly powerless to manage such a large city; it had already exhausted all his energy.

Leave professional matters to professionals, but who made this professional disaster messenger, Kronin, fail to perform?

As for Hei, she knew absolutely nothing about these things. While she was skilled at infiltration and assassination, she was completely clueless when faced with these problems.

Therefore, their attention naturally fell on Ceylon, the only highly educated person in the family.

After all, they knew nothing about Rhodes Island. No matter how strong Eyjafjalla and Skyfire's professional abilities were, they still trusted their own people, Ceylon, more.

This is quite normal, after all, it concerns the lives of an entire city, so being extremely careful is never an overreaction.

It's too late to call a professional agency when things are already so urgent.

As for Ceylon... as a recent graduate, being able to discover the anomalies of the volcano and independently organize the data is already quite outstanding.

This shows that she studied very thoroughly in college and wasn't just rote learning.

However, they are still a long way from being geniuses like Tianhuo or seasoned messengers of natural disasters like Provence.

Not to mention Eyjafjalla.

Since these three people were faking it together, she naturally believed them.

Driving Pompeii and its people could not delay the natural disaster for three months, but Xia Yu could.

Of course, I couldn't tell Ceylon about this, so I had to falsify the data, since they wouldn't be able to tell anyway.

Even if someone points to the report and says the data is abnormal when the volcano erupts three months later, someone else will point to the time and tell him that the facts will prove everything.

Perfectly clothed.

Therefore, Ceylon confidently assured Herman and Black that Rhodes Island's data was reliable.

She also told Herman about the doctor's idea and her proposal, which was to accept the scholars' idea of ​​opening up another pillar for Siesta.

Herman was overjoyed, his face filled with emotion; his daughter had finally grown up…

Although he knew that such a long-term idea was probably not something Ceylon had come up with on his own, what did it matter?

Ceylon played a crucial role, at least in this crisis.

The idea of ​​bringing in scholars to create Siesta's second pillar sounds wonderful, but it's no less difficult than Hermann building Siesta from scratch to its current state.

But Hermann wasn't worried about that; he still had plenty of time.

After so many years of development, Siesta has gradually reached its limit.

The tourism industry has its limits. No matter how much you promote it, the target audience is already saturated, making further development extremely difficult.

A crisis is both a danger and an opportunity.

The natural disaster brought danger to Siesta, while Herman saw the scholars who came in pursuit of it as an opportunity.

Even though it's very difficult, I have to give it a try.

Hermann, who dedicated his life to Siesta, disregarded this difficulty.

Therefore, he was very happy about his successful daughter.

Ceylon was even happier. For so many years, she had been protected as a child by her father and the Blacks. Now, she had finally proven her abilities.

It's no wonder she values ​​Pompeii so much; after all, she almost didn't sleep a wink last night.