It must be miHoYo's doing.

The cleaner nearly bit his back teeth. What the hell was wrong with these kids? They were discussing game strategies in front of a three-meter-tall monster? Even more outrageous, why were there baseball bats in their backpacks?!

"This isn't a game! It can kill people!!"

Before he could finish his words, the Honkai Beast's cannon suddenly swung towards the three of them. A purple-black energy ball began to condense, and the surrounding air was distorted by the high temperature.

At the critical moment, three white lights flashed.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Three baseball bats hit the energy cannon at the same time, and something incredible happened - the attack that should have razed the street to the ground was actually hit away like a baseball, exploding into a ball of fireworks in the air far away.

"That's impossible..." The cleaner's eyes widened. He clearly saw the moment the bat came into contact with the energy, the same blue lines appeared on its surface as when Bronya used the Herrscher Core to construct an object in the game.

The fat boy looked at the smoking bat and suddenly tears welled up in his eyes: "I knew it! MiHoYo is selling the real thing!"

"Idiot!" The tall and thin man kicked him. "This is obviously because I awakened the stigma!"

The man with glasses had already pulled out his phone to record the video: "Everyone, now is the actual test phase. We will verify whether the "Honkai Impact 3" peripheral products are authentic..."

Just as the three of them were showing off, the Honkai Beast let out an angry roar, and its breastplate suddenly opened, revealing dense missile launch holes.

This time it was an all-round, saturated attack with no blind spots.

"Damn..." The cleaner instinctively shielded the three chuunibyou idiots behind him. He didn't understand why he had to protect these idiots, just like he didn't understand why game monsters appeared in reality.

Just as the missile was about to be launched, the roar of the engine was heard from the horizon.

"Reloading the Bunny 19C, full load!"

Countless lasers rained down like a torrential rain, blasting all the missiles apart. A silver-haired girl descended from the sky in a hover mecha, the muzzle of the heavily armored bunny still emitting smoke.

"It's Bronya! It's the living Bronya!!" The three boys hugged each other excitedly.

The cleaner was struck by lightning. The girl before him was a perfect match for the game character and the fragment of memory. A sudden sharp pain in his temple, and the deleted memories came flooding back like a tide.

A cold gun barrel... a blue data stream... "Amnesiac gun"...

Bronya glanced at them, her gaze lingering on the cleaner for a fraction of a second. "Civilians, please evacuate immediately."

"We're not civilians!" the fat boy raised his bat. "We're Hyperion reserves!"

Bronya: "QUN Yilingqi Eight IV starts? Fibromyalgia..."

She seemed about to say something, but the Honkai Beast suddenly leaped up, dozens of spikes darting out from the ground, forcing her to turn and fight.

The cleaner suddenly grabbed the three hot-blooded high school students and said, "If you don't want to die, get out of here! That girl obviously doesn't want us to get in her way!"

"But......"

"No buts! You're lucky your crappy sticks could block it once!"

As if to prove his point, a spike that had escaped the net suddenly pierced everyone. The cleaner instinctively pushed the student away, but was grazed on the arm, and blood instantly soaked his suit.

"Uncle!!"

Bronya's mecha suddenly deployed a force field to block the subsequent attack. Without even turning back, she tossed a small bottle: "Hemostatic spray."

The cleaner took it in a daze. The bottle was printed with the "Anti-Entropy Technology" logo.

"Watch out behind you!" The screams of three boys interrupted his thoughts.

The Honkai Beast had somehow found its way around Bronya's blind spot, its sharp claws piercing the air as it attacked. Bronya seemed to have no time to turn around—

"boom!"

Unable to find the courage, the cleaner picked up the baseball bat from the ground and threw it with all his might. The bat glowed blue again, accurately hitting the monster's optical sensor.

Although it only caused half a second of stiffness, it was enough time for Bronya to complete the charge. The main cannon of the Heavy Rabbit roared, and the energy core of the Honkai Beast was accurately shattered.

The monster let out a final wail before turning into black particles and dissipating into the air.

An eerie silence descended upon the scene. The three boys gaped in surprise, the janitor stared at his bleeding arm, and Bronya withdrew her hand from the three baseball bats lying on the ground.

That's right, the reason why the three baseball bats were able to knock away the Honkai beast's energy bombs was because she attached a part of the power of the Herrscher's Core to them.

Moreover, the one here wasn't Bronya's real body, but just a clone. Otherwise, she could have killed a tank-class Honkai beast like the one just now with just a single glare.

"Um..." the fat boy raised his hand weakly, "Can we take a photo together?"

Bronya's terminal suddenly sounded an alarm. She frowned. "Other areas need support." Before leaving, she gave the cleaner a long look. "Wait a minute, you'd better go to the hospital."

Originally, Bronya wanted to catch the killer in front of her and interrogate him after she had dealt with the matter, but after seeing him risking his life for the three boys, Bronya changed her mind.

Maybe this person is not a bad person?

As the silver-haired girl rode away in the mecha, the tall and thin man suddenly picked up a baseball bat and said, "Look! The pattern has disappeared!"

Indeed, the glowing patterns on the stick were now dim, just like an ordinary peripheral product.

The cleaner looked in the direction where Bronya disappeared, and a crazy guess gradually took shape: those settings in the game... maybe they are all true?

"Uncle? You look so ugly..."

The cleaner shook his head and smiled, "It's okay, I was just scared, and the wound on my hand is fine now. The spray that Bronya gave me is really useful."

"Uncle! Thank you so much!" The fat boy suddenly rushed over and hugged the cleaner's arm tightly, scaring him so much that he almost threw his phone away.

The tall and thin man came over and slapped him on the back: "If you hadn't pushed us away, I would be the one lying on the ground now - ow!" Before he could finish his words, he was stepped on by the man with glasses.

"According to psychological trauma theory," the man with glasses pushed his glasses up, the lenses reflecting a strange white light, "this level of shock would take at least three months to heal..."

Before the man with glasses could finish his words, a crisp snap of fingers suddenly rang out.

"Pah."

Time seemed to stand still at that moment. The air around the four people rippled like water, and blue data streams coiled around their temples like living things. The recently destroyed ground and facilities around them were instantly repaired.

The cleaner's pupils constricted. As a former professional killer, he was instinctively alert to such unusual situations—but before he could draw his weapon, a clear memory, like pencil writing erased by an eraser, quickly faded from his mind:

Bronya...silver-haired girl...hover mecha...Honkai Beast...

He subconsciously reached out to grab something, but only felt nothing.

The cleaner looked at the three high school students in front of him and was confused for a moment.

"Did I forget something?"

"Never mind him!"

The next moment, the "cleaner" heartlessly opened Honkai Impact 3rd on his phone and continued playing.

Volume 2 must be miHoYo's doing! 乆! : 076 Anyone who messes with miHoYo will die! Genshin Impact is online

A few days later, at three in the morning, the cleaner sat in front of his computer in his safe house, the pale fluorescent light illuminating his angular face. He slowly tapped the keyboard and logged into a secret website that required seven levels of verification.

"Mission No. MH-0419: Execution terminated"

[Note: The target is under my protection. Any person who accepts the order will be regarded as a provocation to the "cleaner"]

A series of shocked replies popped up on the screen.

[KingSlayer]: WTF? A legend in the industry actually broke his rules?

[Ghost]: If you triple the offer, I might consider it.

[Cleaner]: The quote is your life.

The chat room fell silent instantly.

His finger hovered over the Enter key for a moment, and he added:

PS2. Recommended to play "Honkai Impact 3rd"

Then he quickly closed the page and returned the $5 million deposit. There were only two letters in the transfer note column:

"GL" (Good Luck)

…………

As the morning light filtered through the cracks in the curtains, the cleaner was topping up his new account. His in-game ID, "SilverWolf," had already become a bit of a celebrity on the various servers—after all, a newbie who could clear the latest Abyss dungeon in three hours was incredibly conspicuous.

"I didn't win again..." He stared at the screen, his 78th single draw of the Pulse Katana 19C, and scratched his hair in frustration. Seven phones lay scattered on the bedside table, each logged into a different Honkai Impact 3rd account.

The alarm clock suddenly rang. He instinctively rolled out of bed, his tactical dagger already pressed against the source of the sound—it was just a peripheral alarm clock, with a chibi image of a silver-haired girl jumping on the screen.

"..."

He silently retracted his weapon and found his back drenched in cold sweat. This was his thirteenth instinctive reaction in two months, but for the first time, it wasn't accompanied by a headache.

The tactics manual on the desk had been replaced by the official "Honkai Impact 3rd" design collection at some point, and a row of unopened figurines of young girls lined the corners. In the most prominent position, a life-size standee of the Herrscher of Reason stood quietly, its base inscribed with "To My Savior."

The cleaner gently touched the arm of the stand, where there was a mecha seam that was exactly the same as a real person.

"This is crazy..." He muttered to himself as he turned on his computer, "How could a legendary killer like me be obsessed with 2D paper figures..."

He turned on the computer and entered his bank card number.

"Emm~~, let's just top up each account with another $100 today~"

………鸸I〤散】7 leek and pomegranate?衤三〆貳０…

At the Xiaoyu Technology headquarters in Los Santos, the bulletproof glass windows reflected a distorted reflection of Jie Qun'er. He stared at the message on his tablet, his fingers nearly crushing the screen.

"This piece of shit!" He kicked over a mahogany desk worth two hundred thousand dollars. "Ten million dollars! And all you get is 'I'll protect her'?!"

The female secretary tremblingly handed over the towel: "Boss, your coffee is fine..."

"Get out!" Jack swept the cups and plates off the table, sending shards scattering across the carpet. "Contact the dark web! I'm raising the price!"

Catherine didn't move. "We've already tried that... All the killers who took orders saw the name 'Cleaner'..."

"What?!"

"Everyone recommended us to play "Honkai Impact 3rd"..."

The office suddenly became eerily quiet. Jack turned slowly, the coffee stains on his suit cuffs looking like dried blood.

Jack's eyes grew empty as he staggered to the window, overlooking the lights of Los Santos.

"Why..." His sinister smile was reflected in the glass. "Why is everything miHoYo does so...illogical?"

………………

Time passed slowly. After the large-scale alien evil creature descended in the Demon City a few days ago, a large number of black-air-contaminated Honkai beasts and monsters appeared in both the Honkai III world and the Teyvat world.

Although the intensity is mostly not high, the endless number makes it difficult to become a member of both worlds.

In this context, on Blue Star, Mihoyo's "Genshin Impact" and Xiaoyu Games' "Eternal Realm" were officially launched.

At 10:00 AM Shanghai time, the global servers for Genshin Impact were activated. On the giant screen at miHoYo's headquarters data center, the number of players skyrocketed:

500 million...800 million...1200 million...

"Over 1500 million!" The operations girl wearing cat-ear headphones suddenly screamed, "North American servers requesting urgent capacity expansion!"

Bronya stood at the center of the circular control console, her silver hair gleaming coldly under the fluorescent blue data stream. Her fingertips danced across the holographic keyboard, and a projection of the reinstalled bunny constantly popped up with the status of servers on various continents.

"Sakurajima node latency increased by 0.3 seconds."

"The number of Europa players queuing has exceeded the warning line."

"The American OIS bestseller has reached the top of the charts."

Tianming appeared behind her without her noticing, holding a cup of pearl milk tea. "How is it, Chief Game Designer?"

Bronya took the milk tea without looking back, and the straw accurately pierced the seal. "It's 47% higher than the estimated flow rate, but it's still within a controllable range."

Under the giant advertising screen at Sakurajima Tokyo Akihabara, thousands of gamers simultaneously raised their phones. When Zhongli's rock spear pierced the clouds on the screen, the entire street erupted in cheers like a tsunami.

"すごい! This particle effect!"

"Look at that water physics! Even the waves have collision volumes!"

In a university dormitory, a boy wearing glasses stared at his computer screen in amazement: "This is a mobile game? How come the graphics are better than all the VR games I've played before?"

His roommate suddenly rolled off the bed and exclaimed, "Holy crap! Look at this!" On the phone screen, Wendy's wind field was sweeping the Hilichurls high into the sky. "There's definitely something wrong with this physics engine! Newton's coffin can't hold it down!"

In a Parisian café, two young men were scrolling through a map on a tablet. As the panorama of Liyue Harbor unfolded, a silver coffee spoon clanged onto a porcelain plate.

"This is impossible..." the young Frenchman said, his eyes widening. "This map is over five times larger than Eternal Realm!"

At Xiaoyu Technology's headquarters in Los Santos, the air in the public relations department was so thick it felt like water could be squeezed out of it. Twenty surveillance screens simultaneously broadcast reviews of "Genshin Impact" from gaming media outlets around the world. The inexhaustible stream of perfect scores was a sight to behold.

"Boss, are we still sending out our press release?" Secretary V raised the tablet with trembling voice. The promotional copy for "Eternal Realm" as "Best VR Game of the Year" had been revised seventeen times.

Jack stood in front of the French window, his crystal glass distorting his reflection. Outside the window was a giant miHoYo ad, with Klee on the screen flashing a victory sign towards the Xiaoyu Technology Building.