The World of Bengtieli: They All Have designs on me

Upon hearing Natasha's words, Luo Ning's expression also turned serious.

It seems the impact of this star core is much more severe than I anticipated.

Natasha seemed to have a lot of experience navigating areas infested with monsters, so she was able to perfectly hold Lonning's hand as they walked, dodging monster patrols and safely making their way inside.

Suddenly, Natasha reached out and grabbed Luo Ning, her relaxed expression instantly turning serious and solemn.

Then, Natasha pulled Luo Ning over and hugged her tightly. Her large, white breasts pressed against Luo Ning's head, but because of the unexpected situation, neither of them paid any attention.

For some reason, Natasha was now terrified that Luo Ning would suffer even the slightest harm, so she felt a deep desire to protect him in any situation.

I don't know if this feeling comes from maternal love or from the emotions I experienced while giving Luo Ning physical therapy earlier.

Natasha pressed her gaze forward and whispered to Luo Ning, "Luoning, don't rush off. Hurry up ahead! There's a green monster over there that exudes a strange aura."

Upon hearing Natasha's words, Luo Ning forgot to enjoy the softness on his head and instead felt a tightness in his heart, quickly looking in the direction Natasha was pointing.

Sure enough, not far away, he saw a terrifying monster.

This monster has four thick, powerful legs that support its huge and strong body, while its upper body is humanoid, but it is distinctly different from humans—its skin is a dark green color, as if covered with a layer of moss-like substance.

What's even more striking is that this monster holds an enormous wind elemental bow in its hand, the bowstring gleaming with a faint blue light, seemingly containing powerful energy.

"According to the message from Himeko, this monster is called [Winged Wind Form - Stagnant Phantom], an elite-level monster that was created from a crack in the star core."

Natasha continued to explain with a serious expression: "According to the information provided by the Starbow Train, one of the key raw materials for the currently known medicine that can effectively inhibit Star Core Erosion is the Eye of the Storm on the top of this monster's head."

"And this eye of the storm was actually formed from the arrows left behind by the Stormbringers. These arrows are an essential material for treating the symptoms of the star core."

"This monster was created by the Rift, and it was modeled after a kind of illusory soldier. If you look closely, there is a section of arrowhead faintly visible at the core of that spiraling airflow. That is the material we need."

Upon hearing Natasha's words, Luo Ning stroked his chin with one hand, then nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

After ensuring that the wind-shaped creature hadn't noticed them, Lonin and Natasha exchanged a glance and began whispering amongst themselves, discussing how to defeat the powerful and mysterious monster before them and successfully obtain its head.

The precious Eye of the Storm at the top.

Suddenly, Luo Ning pointed to the sky, a flash of inspiration striking her. "I've got it, Sister Natasha, we can do this..."

Chapter 16: Misunderstanding Cleared Up, Bronya Joins the Party

In the corridor of the abandoned hospital in Rivet Town, disinfectant and the smell of rust clashed in the air.

Luo Ning's back was pressed against the mottled tiled wall, and he could feel the ice cracks left by the erosion spreading beneath his feet. "It's here!"

Natasha's low shout was torn apart by the gale.

Emerald-colored eye of wind gathers at the top of the bend, the shape of the winged wind freezes into a phantom, four mantis-like limbs crush the supporting pillars, and the star core patterns floating on the humanoid torso shine like phosphorescence.

The longbow, formed from a hurricane, whistled as twelve swirling arrows simultaneously locked onto the clinic where the two were hiding. "Proceed as planned, I'll cover you!"

Notasha gently stroked her grenade launcher. The milk from Lonin that she had just swallowed spread rapidly in her abdomen, as if some unfamiliar energy was awakening in her blood. Then, she shouted at the winged wind form in front of her, "Sister's medical expenses are very expensive!"

The smell of gunpowder mixed with the odor of medical alcohol filled the corridor.

Natasha took a half step back and braced herself against the load-bearing wall; the dark green howitzer barrel was still emitting scorching heat.

She ran her index finger across the scorching hot cannon barrel, and the metal surface revealed the taut waistline beneath her doctor's gown—a wound from three minutes earlier when she had been slashed by steel bars while protecting Luo Ning.

"boom!"

The specially designed incendiary bomb exploded in the wing-shaped chest cavity, creating an indigo ring of fire. The shockwave shattered the glass curtain walls of the two wards into dust.

The floating shards of glass refracted through the smoke, creating tube-like spots of light that illuminated Natasha's sweat-drenched collarbone. She tossed aside the chestnut curls clinging to her neck, and the howitzer's spool clicked crisply as it returned to its place.

“Little brother Luo Ning, it seems this…” She gasped as she leaned against the charred wall. Two drops of pale white liquid suddenly dripped from the hem of her white coat—the metabolic waste left over from when she was treating Luo Ning earlier. “The so-called star core creation, it’s just my sister’s physical anesthesia.”

Before she could finish speaking, Luo Ning suddenly tasted a metallic, sweet-smelling metallic flavor in her throat. The "no harm from smoke" principle!

The boy's pupils constricted as he saw the blue energy threads that should have dissipated were frantically reassembling within the drifting smoke.

The shattered remains of the monster liquefied within the pulsating star core, reforming themselves along the purple veins that ran through the cracks in the ground. "Down!"

Almost the instant Luo Ning hissed, six pairs of scarlet compound eyes lit up from the depths of the ruins.

The reborn winged bowstring was adorned with twelve spiraling vortexes, each arrow representing the black mist overflowing from underground pipes. Natasha's boot heel suddenly slipped—the sticky white awakening agent that Loning had left on her feet earlier caused her to slip. The sound of wind piercing the air and the sound of glass shattering exploded simultaneously.

As Luo Ning rushed forward, a strand of hair that flew up when the physician leaned back revealed a grayish-white color that was quietly turning into the erosion of a star core.

An ancient hunting instinct awakened at this moment, and his finger, which was nocking the arrow, displayed gear-shaped golden patterns as he pursued and locked on!

The moment the jade arrow left the bowstring, the entire space resounded with the sound of ancient tree rings growing.

The arrowhead split into eight streams of light, each precisely piercing the energy node of the Winged Wind Formation's regeneration core. The monster's raised longbow suddenly stiffened, and the cyan threads connecting to the Earth's core snapped like harp strings.

The powerful Winged Wind Form was reduced to dust by Luo Ning's Hunting Arrow, with only the Eye of the Storm on its head remaining in place.

"What a wolf's whiskers." Natasha stood up, dusted herself off, and gave Luo Ning a somewhat awkward smile.

She originally wanted to show off in front of the cute boy, but unexpectedly, she failed to do so despite having the skills, and was instead saved by the cute boy.

However, after this incident, Natasha's trust and dependence on Lonin deepened even further. "Your eyes..."

Natasha suddenly cupped the little boy's face in her hands and looked at him affectionately.

Luo Ning then noticed that she was seeing golden star trails floating in her iris, like a galaxy locked in amber. At that moment, the door to the examination room was flung open by military boots.

Amidst the cold gleam of eight silver-plated, iron-armored standard-issue spears, Bronya Rand watched as the blood-soaked doctor shielded the young boy behind him.

The caduceus insignia on the white coat and the ice crystal emblem on the military uniform clashed amidst the smoke, until Seele used her scythe to deflect the gun pointed at Natasha. "Put away your toy gun, young lady." The Earthfire Master flicked her deep blue ponytail. "If I'm not mistaken, this one just killed..."

The heroes of Star Core's minions—though the heroes now look like a cat caught in the rain.

Luo Ning then realized that he was still in Natasha's arms.

The doctor's blood-stained fingers were gently stroking his cracked tiger's mouth. This overly intimate gesture caused Bronya's pupils to contract sharply—she couldn't remember her mother ever touching her like this.

"According to Article 17 of the Bellberg Crisis Management Regulations,..." The Silver Iron Guard Commander's voice tightened, his tactical gloves crumpling the projection screen of his portable think tank. "No civilian organization may handle the source of the rift pollution without authorization."

“So you brought your personal guard to the lower district,” Natasha said, as she placed the Eye of the Storm into a lead container, the metallic clang like a judge’s gavel, “to collect household registrations from the law-abiding residents.”

The examination room suddenly fell into dead silence.

Bronya's gaze swept over the medical records piled up in the corner. On those yellowed pages were handwritten records from seven years ago from a mother who begged a doctor to treat her feverish toddler.

Her military boots unconsciously crunched over the shards of glass on the ground. Suddenly, she noticed that the light and shadow projected by the Eye of the Storm into the container—the supposedly pure blue energy—was mixed with wisps of black mist.

"Energy pollution level 37%..." Seele had somehow moved closer to the lead box, the detector on the sickle handle flashing red light wildly, "More than ten times higher than the sample collected last week."

She turned her head to look at Luo Ning's still bleeding arrow wound; the bandage on the little boy's arm had turned a strange purple color. Natasha's stethoscope suddenly pressed against Bronya's chest.

Before the commander could draw his gun, Natasha said coldly, "112 heartbeats per minute, excessive adrenal cortex hormones—what are you afraid of, Miss Breonya Rand?"

The shadow under the examination table suddenly twitched.

By the time the guards realized what was happening, ten members of the Earthfire faction had already quietly slipped in through the ventilation ducts, their poison daggers pressed against the lower backs of each Silver Forbidden Iron Guard.

Seele fiddled with the access card she'd swiped from Bronya's abdomen; the projection screen displayed the "Lower Sector Purification Plan" signed by the High Warden.

“Mother, she…” Bronya’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and she suddenly snatched Natasha’s detector and pointed it at her own pupils. When the instrument displayed “Star Core Contamination Level 0.02%”, the first wrinkle finally appeared on her crisp military uniform. At this moment, Lonin tugged at Natasha’s sleeve.

A weak smile appeared on the little boy's pale face, drained of energy: "Sister, I think... I saw a lot of golden gears..." Natasha picked up the coughing Lonin and rushed to the operating room, while the Eye of the Storm emitted a mournful cry from inside the lead box.

Bronya looked at her hand hanging in mid-air—for a moment she even wanted to help support Luo Ning's drooping arm.

"Notify the logistics team." Bronya suddenly ripped off her epaulettes and threw them to her adjutant. "Silver Guard Special Operations Team, be incorporated into the Earthfire Temporary Command."

After saying that, Bronya walked towards the pollution detector under Seele's amused gaze, the hem of her military uniform brushing against the blood that had dripped onto the ground from Luo Ning. "In addition, I need chromatographic analysis reports of all star core energy samples from the past three months."

The emergency lights in the abandoned hospital corridor suddenly turned on, casting long shadows of everyone onto the walls covered with quarantine markings.

No one noticed that the black mist in the Eye of the Storm was gathering into a human face inside the lead box, a face that bore a striking resemblance to a certain High Warden slumbering in Everwinter Hill.

“When you uttered the vital signs data…” Bronya suddenly grasped Natasha’s hand as she changed Lonning’s bandages. In their intertwined palms, the star trails and the serpent staff’s markings lit up simultaneously. “I heard the ice of Everwinter Ridge moaning—the souls of those swallowed by the star core, weeping for our shared suffering.”

"It seems you've come to your senses, Commander Bronya. Your mother never intended to completely eradicate the influence of the Star Core." Lonin nocked a hunting arrow onto the suddenly appearing phantom longbow, and as the arrow-wielding archer pointed towards Everwinter Ridge, he said, "Now, let's work together to deal with this huge problem—the Star Core."

Seele suddenly laughed and slapped a metal plate onto Bronya's chest.

That was the nameplate of the first commander of the Silver Iron Guard, with the Tibetan inscription on the back: "Reborn through the tempering of earth fire." "Welcome to the Earth Fire Special Operations Team," she said, her scythe slicing in an icy blue arc as she turned, "Former Young Lady." As the last trace of separation dissolved in the resonance, a furious hiss from the star core echoed from the earth.

But in the consultation room at this moment, the standard-issue spears of the Silver Iron Guards and the poisoned daggers of the Earthfire stood crossed, casting light and shadow like meshing gears under the illumination of the Eye of the Storm.

Chapter 17 New Mission? Why must it be witnessed by Seele?

Just as Luo Ningchou confidently announced the united front against Bronya's mother, the High Guardian Cocolia, the system notification suddenly rang in his mind again: [Special Supply Mission Activated - Please have the target, Bronya Rand, swallow the host's bodily fluids (Sword Marrow Form), and this must be done in front of Seele!]

"Holy crap! What kind of judgment criteria are these?!"

Luo Ning nearly crushed the newly formed hunting arrow in his hand; the gear-like patterns on his wrist flickered with his emotions. The tasks assigned by the world system here are getting increasingly insane!

Luo Ning stared wide-eyed at the scene unfolding before him, his face filled with astonishment. He couldn't help but exclaim inwardly, "They actually want me to do this in front of Xi'er? Isn't this blatant NTR?"

Although the pairing of Seele and Bronya was just something players imagined and hyped up, the sight of this scene appearing before him at this moment still surprised him somewhat.

In his mind, even if they weren't officially a couple, such blatant behavior could be considered a form of NTR (Netorare).

Moreover, Bronya had just established a cooperative relationship with the Earthfire Organization, represented by Seele, and now she's pulling this stunt?

If it's not handled well, it could be a diplomatic incident! But...

Bronya, that big duck, is indeed a feast for the eyes.

After all, it's been nicknamed "Big Duck" by players, so its big, white headlights are naturally among the best.

Especially in this hidden world of Ironclad, Bronya's size is far more powerful, many times stronger than Seele's flat body; Luo Ning felt that she could barely grasp it with her two small hands.

The thought of having such a beauty swallow his sword marrow is incredibly exciting.

At this moment, Bronya was adjusting the spectrometer with her back to him. Her full breasts swayed with her movements under the tight waistline of her silver armor uniform, a sight that was enough to make one's imagination run wild.

Seele suddenly appeared between the two, the hilt of her dagger "just" touching Luo Ning's chest: "Hey~ brat, the way you're staring at other people's backs is dangerous."

Upon hearing this, Luo Ning withdrew his gaze. This amusing scene not only made Xi'er burst into laughter, but also sparked a strong interest in this cute little boy.

Just moments ago he was acting like an adult, using his newly awakened patrol power to declare war on Cocolia, the Great Guardian of Beloborg, but now he's acting like a child again.

However, he was just a child, but all that had happened and his identity as the nameless guest had burdened him with so much at such a young age. "Let's go back to the clinic first. It's still very dangerous here, and the children in the clinic are waiting for the antidote."

Natasha made the suggestion, and the others nodded in agreement. Seele instructed the Earthfire members to disperse and return to the Earthfire camp, avoiding the monsters. Bronya...

Escorted by her female bodyguards, Bronya walked with the others towards Natasha's clinic. Soon, Bronya returned to the clinic with ten female soldiers.

These experienced female soldiers modified their rifles into medical devices.

“The second floor will be converted into an isolation ward in three hours.” Bronya projected the conversion diagram onto her glasses. “We’ll replace the stiff protective suits with soft fabric so the children will be comfortable to wear.”

Natasha was busy in the laboratory, putting the green-glowing Eye of the Storm into a special machine.

Soon, Natasha created the antidote for Star Core Erosion and began mass production, making one for every patient in the clinic.

With the help of Bronya and her personal guards, as well as Shirlonin, Natasha successfully cured all the patients with Astral Erosion at the clinic.

After finishing their work, the group breathed a sigh of relief.

“Great! Brother Lonning, Bronya, Seele, we can rest for a while now.”

Seeing that all the patients had recovered and only needed a short rest to fully recover, Natasha breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at the group of people she had spent most of the day with narrowed eyes.

“In that case, let’s take a break,” Hill suggested with a grin, hands on his hips.

"Yes, he really needs a good rest, and one of the kids is due for physical therapy."

As Natasha spoke, she glanced at Luo Ning with a greedy look, which made Luo Ning shiver involuntarily.

Sure enough, this beautiful woman who was just saving lives and practicing medicine in the clinic, displaying noble spirit and compassion, now wanted to flirt with her again.

Alright!

"Alright, little brother Luo Ning, you've worked hard too~"

"It's really too much trouble for you to do such dirty and tiring work at your age. I'll help you take a bath later, and then we'll go to sleep and rest."

Holy crap! There are still projects? They're squeezing us dry every single day!

Soon, at Martha's request, Luo Ning arrived at the clinic's bathroom and sat quietly on the wooden chair in the shower. While waiting for Natasha to prepare the hot water, he checked his system panel.

[Host: Luo Ning]

[Characters already conquered: March 7 (35%), Himeko (55%), Bronya (30%), Natasha (75%)]