Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

"Ah! I'm sorry!" Jody's expression tightened. "I didn't mean to waste time. This is time that Xiaobai and the others worked so hard to gain."

"...There's no need to exaggerate like that."

Kal'tsit pointed to the control panel next to her, indicating that Jody should come over and cooperate with her.

Jody held his breath nervously, trying to recall the knowledge Kal'tsit had taught him these past few days, and cooperated with Kal'tsit to gradually activate the lighthouse's energy system.

A deep, powerful hum emanated from inside the lighthouse.

More and more indicator lights flashed on the control panel, and Jody's heart continued to race.

Then another loud bang was heard outside the lighthouse, followed by the familiar tremor emanating from the lighthouse.

Jody steadied herself by holding onto the control panel, and looked up as a third hole appeared in the wall of the lighthouse above her head.

Before he could react, there was another loud bang, and a fourth hole appeared in the lighthouse.

Kal'tsit clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction: "Qi Yan is doing this on purpose. Qi Lin, please go and warn him that this lighthouse cannot be his toy for the time being."

Amidst Jody's bewildered gaze, Qi Lin lightly leaped to the newly appeared hole, stood at the opening, and glared outside.

Then Qilin turned around and returned to the two of them, continuing to take over M3's responsibility of protecting Kal'tsit.

Jody swallowed hard, belatedly realizing that the situation seemed to be different from what she had expected.

Gretia shared similar ideas with Jody.

She watched helplessly as the knight charged forward with an aura that even she feared, and then watched as Qi Yan leaped up and slapped both the knight and Rosinant. Finally, the familiar scene repeated itself.

Two more waves appeared on the sea surface, and two more holes appeared on the outer wall of the lighthouse. Qi Yan landed on the ground in a strange posture and remained motionless.

M3 curiously nudged Qi Yan with its head and let out a low growl of confusion.

"Stop messing around. According to the system, I'm frozen right now. We can't cheat," Qi Yan said seriously.

"……roar?"

M3 seemed to understand but not quite, and followed Qi Yan's example, remaining completely still.

Goredia watched the two, a human and a beast, making silly faces, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Ignoring Ghost Shark's warnings, she stepped forward and reminded Qi Yan:

“I can sense your strength; you are much stronger than me and that knight, so I will not interfere with your hunt.”

But your opponent is Hai Si; allowing the battle to drag on will only be disadvantageous to you.

"It's okay, this thing isn't connected to the internet, it won't evolve."

Qi Yan didn't care to explain to Gretia, and timed it perfectly to 'unfreeze' himself.

At the same time, the knight leaped out of the sea again.

His armor was already dented from Qi Yan's shoes and slaps, and thick, inhuman blood seeped out from the cracks in the armor.

"You... have insulted the name of a knight!"

The knight, aware of the difference in strength between himself and Qi Yan, did not back down.

From the moment he began hunting the seas, from the moment he became a knight, the word "retreat" did not exist in his dictionary.

"I will charge!"

The knight raised his lance once more.

Rosinant sensed his master's will, shook his dizzy head, and once again came to the knight's feet and carried him on his back.

The knight and Rosinante worked in perfect harmony, as if they were one, swirling on the sea and creating a waterspout that shot skyward.

A waterspout nearly ten meters in diameter shot into the sky, almost as tall as the lighthouse next to them, and the splashing water made the area look like it was experiencing a heavy rain.

Dario's expression changed slightly, and he asked Qi Yan for instructions:

"Lord Qi Yan, this attack by the enemy is likely to damage the lighthouse. Could you please shift the battlefield?"

They didn't answer, but instead looked towards the lighthouse.

After confirming that the tornado rain would not reach Qi Lin inside the lighthouse, he turned his gaze away and walked towards the knight who was poised to strike without looking back.

Upon hearing Qi Yan's call, M3 immediately followed suit and rushed over to carry Qi Yan on its back.

Qi Yan gripped the reins, facing the raging wind and torrential rain with his head held high and a smug, almost punchable, smile on his face:

"You knight, you delight me, but... you're spinning around, aren't you?"

"You opened it first! Don't blame me then!"

M3 leaped into the water, carrying Qi Yan, and began swimming wildly at a speed similar to that of a knight.

Qi Yan wasn't idle either; he swung his arms in the water and started dog paddling at an astonishing speed.

Grandia watched in disbelief as Qi Yan swung his arms, which seemed to transform into propellers, leaving afterimages. She felt as if her worldview had collapsed.

"No way, is he crazy?!"

Grandia grabbed Ghost Shark's arm, pointed at the man and beast stirring up the sea, and roared, abandoning all pretense of composure, "Why waste his energy if he has the power to attack the enemy directly?"

That knight clearly used some kind of technique to stir up the seawater; how could he possibly be a match for him by simply stirring the seawater with brute force... Ah?"

"O Tide, I have returned!"

As Greta completed her Liberian citizenship application, Qi Yan also let out what he considered a cool shout.

He squeezed his legs tightly around the M3 beneath him and began to unleash all the power he had in his current position in a dog paddle.

Gladys, Dario, and the others were petrified, the powerful hum of a machine running at full power echoing in their ears.

No, even Goredia, in the technologically advanced Agor, had never heard of an engine with that frequency.

The crowd watched numbly as Qi Yan swung his arms, breaking through a certain threshold, transforming them into two perfect, blurred halos in their vision.

The seawater began to vaporize, but even more seawater was stirred up by Qi Yan's unreasonable and brute force.

Goredia even saw a visible drop in the sea level around the island where the lighthouse was located.

A waterspout several times larger than the knight's whirlpool rose from the ground.

knight:"……"

He unconsciously stopped moving and, together with Rosinante beneath him, looked up to try and see the top of the waterspout.

Chapter 1054 We still don't know what the knight who flew away that day wanted to say.

The knight was unable to see the top of the waterspout that had disappeared into the clouds.

But he was lucky enough to see all the details at the bottom of the waterspout clearly, experiencing its impact up close with incredible clarity.

The waterspout he stirred up didn't even have time to dissipate before it was instantly destroyed and assimilated by Qi Yan's waterspout.

"Rosinant, we..."

No one knows what the knight finally wanted to say.

His figure and the rest of his words were all swept into the waterspout.

The man and the horse struggled desperately, trying to hold each other back in the swirling force.

But the knight found that his grip on Rosinante's fingers was so weak and powerless, and under the tearing force, he even felt as if his fingers were about to break.

Rosinant's teeth clenched tightly around the knight's armor, while his Heinz-like limbs thrashed wildly in the air.

"Damn it, a million horsepower of magnetic field rotation, let me fly high into the air, oh my god!!!"

Accompanied by incoherent ramblings distorted by the waterspout, the knight ultimately failed to capture Rosinante.

The two separated inside the waterspout and spun rapidly into the sky.

Dario and the others tried their best to keep their bodies low to the ground, maintaining their balance amidst the fierce winds and torrential rain stirred up by Qi Yan. They struggled to open their eyes a crack and stared speechlessly at the two figures that were gradually becoming smaller.

No one knows who this knight is, where he came from, or why he came.

No one even knew what grudge this knight had against Qi Yan.

But none of that matters anymore.

After all, the person had already flown away, and they didn't have the ability to jump into the waterspout to pull them back for questioning.

Inside the waterspout, Qi Yan stopped his madness, pulled out the M3, which had turned back into a rhomboid crystal and was cowering for its life, from under his crotch, and held it in his palm.

He casually waved his hand: "Witch King, come out and sweep the floor."

"I curse *Letania*!"

The Witch King cursed wildly in his mind: "You *Letanian* bastard, you stirred up such a huge waterspout, how am I supposed to quell it? I still want to watch the show, if I exhaust myself too much, won't I have to go to sleep again?"

Qi Yan's body began to swirl within the waterspout.

His voice became distant and uncertain, sometimes near, sometimes far.

"What can we do then? If no one stops this thing and it's allowed to run rampant, the lighthouse will be ruined, and so will I. Kal'tsit will hang me on the ruins of the lighthouse."

"Go tell your dog, Big White."

"Big White, help me!"

Qi Yan crossed his arms and drifted along in the waterspout.

A clear and helpless sigh echoed from the void.

Even the raging waterspout couldn't affect Big White's voice in the slightest.

The towering waterspout began to condense at the bottom and quickly spread upwards, reaching Qi Yan's position in the blink of an eye.

"I'm still inside!" Qi Yan cried out in alarm. "Witch King, save me!"

"I saved *Leitania*!"

The Witch King cursed irritably and unleashed a shock spell that hit Qi Yan in the buttocks.

Beneath the lighthouse, Gladys, Dario, and the others watched with stunned, numb eyes as the devastating waterspout rapidly froze into ice. They even felt that after this experience, there would be no other scene on this land that could leave them speechless.

Then, everyone saw a blinding red flash erupt from within the waterspout.

The next second, Qi Yan flew out of the waterspout at a tangential angle, drawing a perfect parabola in the air, and flew towards the end of their line of sight.

Where is Qi Yan going?

Why does his flight angle and posture give me the illusion that he's been kicked?

"The waterspout has condensed into the clouds... Wow, the knight and his mount were sent flying as if they had been kicked."

Everyone turned their gaze away and, in unison, looked in another direction, paying their respects to the two figures that were quickly disappearing from the edge of their field of vision.

Inside the lighthouse, Kal'tsit was completely oblivious to the chaos outside, directing the bewildered Jody to complete the final step in restarting the lighthouse system.

As the lever was pushed up, one dazzling light after another lit up.

This man-made wonder, which had been dormant for many years, is once again displaying its magnificence to the world next to another wonder created through the collaboration of humans and gods.

Dario and the others, like the most obedient spectators, uniformly shifted their gaze to the lighthouse.

"The Eye of Iberia... We did it! It's lit up again!"

Dario was in a state of complex emotion.

This was undoubtedly an exciting result, especially considering they had just witnessed a spectacular feat that was worth dying for. The combination of the two should have made it a joyous occasion.

Why did it turn out like this...?

Dario wiped the water droplets from his face and gave a wry smile:

"Although it seems like we didn't have much to do throughout the whole process, at least we successfully completed our mission."

"Let's continue clearing away the Netherworld Mark and driving away the Terrorfish near the lighthouse... If they're still there, I'll go inside the lighthouse and ask Lady Kal'tsit for her opinion."

"me and you togather."

Goredia stepped forward with a complicated expression.

Neither of them had the heart to exchange pleasantries, and they walked side by side toward the lighthouse.

When the two met Kal'tsit and the other two, they found that the three had stopped what they were doing and were silently gazing out the window in the direction where Qi Yan had disappeared.

Upon seeing this, Dario realized what was going on.

Clearly, Kal'tsit and the other two didn't know where Qi Yanfei had gone either.