I was transported to a broken world, yet my dreams are connected to Star Iron?

　Wendy buried her head in the blanket, acting like an ostrich: "It's decided, Lingmo will go to the meeting for me later!"

　……

　Two hours later, a worried Lingmo returned to her dormitory.

　Although Ragnar did make some jokes in the middle, perhaps because he was already mentally prepared for the relationship between the two, or perhaps because the main topic of this meeting was indeed serious, Ragnar did not focus the main point on Wendy and Suzumi's Jenga game.

　"Good news, Ragnar hasn't said anything about our situation. It seems she was already prepared for your perversion, Wendy."

　"What kind of good news is this?!"

　"The bad news is that the Honkai Beast monitoring systems across Oceania have recently been showing extremely strange and abnormal activity—if I'm not mistaken, World Serpent may be about to make its move."

　"His arrival is just in time!"

　Wendy, already teary-eyed with shame, gritted her teeth and said, "I was just looking for a place to vent my frustration!"

　"Lingmo, bring me my freckles!"

　Chapter 142 Jackal: Who understands the sense of redemption of a fully armed assault on a branch and then being kicked to death by Brother Cheat?

　Late at night, in the waters surrounding Oceania.

　"Grey Snake, how's the situation on your end?"

　The jackal leaned against the aircraft, looking leisurely at the gray snake beside him.

　"Your potion has already catalyzed the local world snake branch. When the time comes, we can launch the Honkai Beast Tide."

　Through the gray snake network, the gray snakes beside the jackal can quickly establish information sharing channels with the local gray snakes in Oceania. In fact, to ensure the success of this Wendy capture operation, at least five gray snakes were deployed, not including those secretly coordinated.

　There is one jackal here, two local jackals from Oceania, and two more that have successfully entered the city outside the Oceania branch and are ready to be deployed at any time.

　"That's good."

　The jackal nodded.

　"According to the original plan, you need to first catalyze the Honkai Beasts to unleash a beast tide, depleting the Valkyries' manpower. Then, I will lead the rapid reaction force on the periphery of the branch to directly raid the Oceania branch, deal with Wendy, and take her away. Yuto will serve as a reserve team. If Schicksal provides support to Oceania, she will be needed to stop Schicksal's support force."

　"..."

　Gray Serpent paused for a moment: "I remember you said you wanted Feather Rabbit to face off against the Herrscher?"

　“I brought the Staff of the Underworld, and there’s one in the Rapid Reaction Force too. That’s enough to deal with a real Herrscher, let alone a piece of trash who can’t even master the power of a Herrscher in two years.”

　Jackal snorted: "As for Feather Rabbit... Lingmo is in Schicksal now, so it's reasonable for her to be mixed in with Schicksal's reinforcements, right?"

　"If we don't encounter it... we can just shift the blame to the raven."

　"Don't underestimate Wendy."

　Gray Serpent said seriously, "If our intelligence sources are correct, her sniping ability is far beyond the standard of a simple B-rank Valkyrie..."

　"Alas, Gray Serpent."

　Jackal sighed, looking at him like he was an idiot: "The world's most powerful sniper rifle is right here in our World Serpent. No matter how strong Wendy is, how strong can she be?"

　"Our aircraft's hull has been specially reinforced. Even an A-rank Valkyrie might not be able to dismantle it. Do you think she could possibly crash it?"

　……

　"Lingmo, they've entered the Oceania region."

　"This day has finally come..."

　Lingmo stood on the roof of the dormitory building with her hands behind her back, pretending to be deep in thought.

　"Go, deploy countermeasures... Ouch!"

　Before Lingmo could finish reciting her lines, Wendy interrupted her performance with a chop to the neck.

　"Stop being silly, you idiot! Hurry up and transfer the location signal to me!"

　Wendy pulled the bolt sharply, and a crisp sound came from Deadspot's gun.

　"I've spotted the aircraft on the other side. To be honest, it's so dark, it's as conspicuous as a firefly in the night."

　"Also, who should I probably fight?"

　"Don't rush, let me take a look..."

　The abstract airflow detection images transmitted from Wendy were instantly transformed into lifelike "monitoring footage" by Erosion's powerful computing capabilities, and the scene inside the aircraft was immediately displayed before their eyes.

　"Hey, we've found a big fish!"

　Lingmo suddenly perked up: "That's the jackal's ride!"

　"Jackal? Who's that?"

　Wendy asked curiously.

　"A guy who would combine a little girl's upper body with a Honkai Beast's lower body and then make the other person call you 'big sister'."

　"hiss--"

　Wendy gasped, her eyes filled with disgust: "Then I'll just kill her."

　"Don't rush, spare her life first."

　Lingmo held Wendy's hand and gently shook her head: "I still have some information I want to know from her, so let her live, and I'll kill her after I've searched her memories."

　"First, kill the gray snake in the gray cloak. Then, target the pilots of their aircraft and kill them one by one, making sure they crash in this sea area."

　"Huh? Is it really that simple?"

　"She's still quite far from Oceania. There aren't many people on the aircraft, so just take them all out. Leave only Jackal out and let her drift at sea for now. We'll go find her after we've dealt with the trouble in Oceania."

　"Oh, right, remember to leave an airflow mark on her, and then transmit the real-time information to me to prevent losing track of her location."

　"It would be too lenient for her if she accidentally became fish food at sea."

　"it is good."

　Wendy nodded, then snuggled into Lingmo's arms, letting the other's full, soft body cushion the back of her head.

　Don't get me wrong, this is just to get closer and maintain a stable signal, it's definitely not because Wendy wants a breast pillow.

　"So……"

　The dead spots on Wendy's hands lit up.

　"boom!"

　Accompanied by a... oh no, there was no gunshot at all.

　The gray snake next to the jackal suddenly exploded into a pile of parts.

　"?"

　The jackal was startled: "What's going on!"

　"Dr. Jackal, we've been attacked!"

　The terrified voices of World Serpent members immediately came through the Jackal's communication system.

　"If our detection equipment is correct, it looks like an attack by sniper rifle bullets!"

　"what?"

　The jackal was completely stunned.

　"Sniper rifle bullets? Is your radar playing minesweeper?! How could it allow the Herrscher of the Wind to get this close to us?!"

　"Dr. Jackal, there's no one on the radar!"

　The member in charge of detection was on the verge of tears: "We were able to detect the enemy's bullets only because they were deliberately showing off their skills to us. No, these weren't bullets at all. Whose bullets can slow down and dart around randomly before suddenly accelerating?!"

　"Oh no, that might be..."

　Jackal's expression changed drastically. As a researcher with some knowledge, she immediately understood how the other side had managed to do this: "Everyone, prepare for an emergency landing! The other side may have already mastered some of the Herrscher of Wind's powers. We are now sitting ducks!"

　"Descend immediately—"

　Before she could finish speaking, the jackal stumbled forward abruptly. She looked out the window in horror and discovered that her aircraft seemed to be plummeting downwards at high speed.

　"What's going on? Where are they?!"

　There was no response on the communication channel.

　Jackal leaned against the wall and barely managed to turn on the terminal. However, she then realized that she was the only living person left on the entire aircraft's vital signs monitoring system.

　Instantly, an immense fear gripped the jackal's heart.

　……

　"Okay, Suzumo, everything's taken care of."

　Wendy tilted her head back, feeling the soft touch of her hair, and said.

　"The jackal has crawled into the escape pod... The location has been marked, Suzumo, what's our next step?"

　"If I'm not mistaken, it seems that Jackal has left a rapid reaction force nearby."

　Lingmo pondered for a moment: "However... that unit won't be a big problem for us."

　"Wendy, did Captain Ragnar just issue a call to arms?"

　"Yes, the teacher said that a beast tide appeared near the town, so she summoned the Valkyrie squad to clear it out."

　Wendy nodded: "Because my ability has a very long range, I usually stay at the base in these situations."

　"Okay, let's take care of them first."

　Lingmo began to feed data into Wendy's mind.

　"Huh? But here on our side..."

　"Don't worry about that unit."

　Lingmo revealed a mysterious smile.

　"Because that squad that launched a fierce attack on us... was mostly composed of mechanical units."

　Chapter 143 Lingmo: I said the Oceania branch is fraught with crisis, Neil Dorron!

　"Beep-beep-"

　"Jackal? You're not dead!"

　"What nonsense are you spouting!"

　In the waters near Oceania, a spaceship escape pod floats silently in the sea.

　"I just crashed, I'm not dead!"

　A series of fierce roars came from the communicator, the content of which was nothing more than bad luck, that he just happened to run into Wendy, that the accompanying members were too useless, but that he was very lucky, and so on. Although these words could fool ordinary World Serpent members, they could not fool the Gray Serpents who had the Gray Serpent Network. Therefore, the Gray Serpent silently moved the communicator away and waited quietly for the Jackal to finish venting.

　After a long while, when the jackal's voice had subsided, Gray Snake approached the receiver and said, "Oh, I am very sorry for what happened to you. Well then, what we need now is..."

　"Of course they came to rescue me! Otherwise, would they have left me adrift at sea?!"

　Jackal glanced at the boundless sea around him, and memories of things he had seen drifting at sea in the past involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

　"I'm sorry, Ms. Jackal."

　The gray snake on the other end of the communication paused for a moment: "After your signal was lost, we all agreed that you were dead. Therefore, we did not conduct a search and rescue operation for you at all. Instead, we planned to take advantage of the opportunity when the other side was blocking you to launch a general attack and take down the Herrscher of Wind in one fell swoop."

　"What do you mean?"

　"It means... we can't spare any manpower for the time being."

　Grey Serpent shrugged: "My team has fully activated all the controlled Honkai Beasts and successfully evacuated most of the Valkyries from the Oceania headquarters. The team responsible for the main attack on the Oceania branch and capturing Wendy is also ready to go."

　"To put it simply... Ms. Jackal, you don't want Wendy's capture plan to fail because of the search and rescue operation, do you?"

　"no?"

　The jackal was so angry his nose almost twisted out of shape: "Such a huge world serpent, can't it even find someone to save me?"

　"To maintain secrecy, we have been operating in complete silence throughout this operation. Apart from the backup communications you have, all communication is through the Grey Serpent Network, as you are aware of."

　Gray Serpent replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Of course, actually Feather Rabbit hasn't reached the Oceania branch yet. If you'd like..."

　"Get lost! Let Yu Tu come and save me? I want to live a little longer!"