Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

"Accidents always happen suddenly; who can predict all the dangers?"

Fan Xiao sighed softly and comforted him, "You said it yourself, you were only 15 years old at the time, so it's normal that you didn't dare to kill anyone easily."

"If a 15-year-old girl is decisive, ruthless, and merciless in her actions, it can only mean that the environment she grew up in is extremely harsh, so harsh that she cannot survive without doing so."

“We humans are all empathetic. When we see the tragic deaths of our fellow human beings, we subconsciously draw parallels to ourselves, which leads to feelings of resistance and fear. If we feel this way about the dead, how much more so about actively creating mass killings?”

He shook his head and said, "In the end, only a few people can overcome this psychological barrier."

“I usually restrain myself from killing. Killing too many people would make me feel physically uncomfortable.”

"Many people seem to have no psychological burden about killing, but in reality... this is already a kind of mental illness."

"Perhaps you are right, but..."

Cassandra gently shook her head and said, "Division 019 is completely different from other stable divisions. My identity and the environment I am in do not allow me to make such a mistake."

"Given my circumstances back then, I had no right to be soft-hearted!"

"If you've already resolved to change the world, why would you shrink back when it comes to killing... There's no such thing as a free lunch."

At this moment, Alpha suddenly interrupted, saying, "Miss Alsenel is such an idiot! She actually held back against the enemy. Her teammates died so unjustly."

Cassandra: "..."

Fan Xiao: "..."

Fan Xiao silently pulled Alpha to his side, slapped her on the head, and gestured for her to get out of the way.

After a few seconds of silence, Cassandra continued, "After that operation, in order to remind myself, I had my teacher copy and materialize this memory, creating the 'Photograph of Guilt'."

"After that, you never held back when you killed someone?" Fan Xiao asked.

"My identity and position do not allow me to hold back."

Cassandra said in a low voice, "Otherwise, similar situations will surely recur."

"The Holy Sword Alliance is not an organization to be trifled with. We bear the responsibility of saving Division 019 and cannot afford to be naive."

"Naiveté...will kill many of our comrades!"

“Actually, you don’t need to explain so much,” Fan Xiao comforted him. “It’s normal to be ruthless when dealing with enemies. I asked you this question not to condemn you, but simply out of curiosity.”

At this point, he sighed softly and said, "Girls your age should be living peacefully in a greenhouse."

"Even if you get caught up in the evolution game and become a player, you can approach it with a more positive attitude, instead of having to arm yourself with cruelty, even if your goal is to do good..."

"The society in District 019 is indeed facing a major problem."

"Was the section that Mr. Van Helsing went to after leaving Section 019 very peaceful?"

Cassandra shook her head: "That's how it is in Division 019. The situation is too dire, and age can no longer be an excuse for hiding or escaping."

"I know what I'm doing, I don't complain, and I won't complain."

"There are few members of my age in the Holy Sword Alliance, but they are not non-existent."

“Is that so… I underestimated your awareness,” Fan Xiao said. “I apologize for my underestimation.”

"No, there's nothing to apologize for, you don't need to worry about it."

Cassandra continued, "Tina and Jean... they weren't the only members of the Holy Sword who perished."

"As the Holy Sword Alliance grows larger, the things we need to do and the obstacles we face also increase."

"Perhaps I'm just unlucky. Every time I participate in a mission issued by the Holy Sword Alliance, there are always significant casualties among the team members."

"Now... all the friends I used to know are gone, only I survived."

Fan Xiao: "..."

Ah this...

How should I respond?

Isn't it a bit too tragic for junior sister to go through this?

All her friends are dead, and she's the only one still alive... Is the casualty rate of the Holy Sword Alliance really that high?

Fan Xiao suddenly remembered something—his junior sister failed to assassinate Charles and returned to his mansion in Charles's place after his death. She happened to encounter members of the Holy Sword Alliance attacking the mansion and was preparing to massacre these guys who had offended her.

Then, when the Holy Sword Alliance members who attacked the mansion tried to summon the Shadows for support through a ritual of repentance, they all failed.

Because the Shadow was supporting the forces attacking the corporation at the time, they had no time to attend to Charles's residence.

in other words.

If he hadn't been there and acted decisively, the Holy Sword Alliance members involved in this operation would have suffered heavy casualties.

Seriously... isn't this a bit too much of a coincidence?

Fan Xiao fell into deep thought, somewhat unsure whether the fact that "Junior Sister always encounters teammates sacrificing themselves" was due to someone pulling strings behind the scenes, or simply a coincidence.

Many things in reality, when viewed in hindsight, can be considered coincidences.

Even if this coincidence has happened many times, it cannot be used as evidence to prove that there is something fishy going on behind the scenes—because the nature of the Holy Sword Alliance determines that the mortality rate of its members will not be low.

In a revolution, people inevitably die; it's not like we're playing house.

Of course, there must be something fishy going on behind this "A9 base raid".

Charles clearly had a collusion with a high-ranking traitor in the Holy Sword Alliance and knew in advance that the Holy Sword Alliance was going to launch an attack—an insider leaked the intelligence beforehand.

However... Charles's behavior seems rather strange.

It's practically a done deal that the A9 base will be taken over by the Holy Sword Alliance, so... what a waste of a collaboration.

Moreover, Charles was almost killed by his junior sister. It's hard to imagine that such a cunning person would risk his life to plot and kill more members of the Holy Sword Alliance.

Charles was probably unaware of his junior sister's strength, or that she had been sent to assassinate him.

Thinking of this, Van Shaw suddenly asked Cassandra, "Was your assignment to assassinate Charles a last-minute one, or part of a pre-arranged plan?"

"...It was a task that the teacher assigned to me on short notice."

Cassandra was somewhat puzzled by the sudden change of topic, but she still answered seriously, "The specific plans for each operation of the Holy Sword Alliance are only arranged by the teacher at the last minute."

"Before this, everyone could only guess what actions would be taken next based on the general direction of the movement, but they couldn't guess the details."

"Detailed information will only be released at the last minute. This is to avoid premature leaks that could cause the entire plan to collapse."

“So,” Van Xiao asked, “even if Charles had connections with the mole within the Holy Sword Alliance, at most he would only know in advance that the Holy Sword Alliance was going to launch an attack, but he wouldn’t know exactly who would be the one to assassinate him?”

Cassandra nodded slightly.

Fan Xiao continued, "You were sent by Miss Huiying to assassinate Charles, so you must be very strong. Within the Holy Sword Alliance, who knows your level of strength?"

“Only my teacher knows my true strength,” Cassandra replied. “Everyone else only knows that I am a B-rank player.”

She is actually a C-level player.

However, her disguise within the organization was at the B level.

"Is it only Miss Huiying who knows...?"

Fan Xiao seemed to be deep in thought.

No wonder Charles was caught off guard and ended up in such a sorry state—from his perspective, Charles was a top-tier B-level player.

This guy probably never imagined that the person who came to assassinate him possessed A-level psionic energy, which would be considered top-tier even in the entire evolution game.

The mole was unaware of this matter and therefore could not reveal it to Charles.

Now only one question remains—why didn't Charles inform the other B-level players at Base A9 about the Holy Sword Alliance's attack?

The A9 base doesn't appear to have received prior intelligence or laid a trap.

They were completely caught off guard!

"Perhaps... Charles and the mole within the Holy Sword Alliance were actually plotting against each other, both wanting to use someone else to do their dirty work... but Charles ended up getting caught first?"

After much thought, Fan Xiao felt that only this speculation could make sense.

Charles wanted to use the Holy Sword Alliance as a weapon to eliminate his competitors within the A9 base—under such circumstances, he naturally wouldn't reveal the information to others.

He probably thought that after the damned people died, he would join forces with the surviving B-level players, or with any third-party forces that might appear, to defeat the Holy Sword Alliance.

As it turned out, he was unaware that there was an A-level psionicist in the Holy Sword Alliance, which caused him to completely fail.

It is estimated that the high-ranking traitors of the Holy Sword Alliance want to use Charles and others to reduce the number of members in the Holy Sword Alliance.

As it turned out, this guy was wrong; he never expected that Charles hadn't shared the information with anyone else.

So, which faction does this... or rather, this group of high-ranking traitors from the Holy Sword Alliance belong to?

Or perhaps the traitors aren't actually all in cahoots. The forces that bribed them come from various bases, each with their own agenda, and they're all sabotaging each other.

If this conclusion holds true, it means that the Holy Sword Alliance has been thoroughly infiltrated.

Fan Xiao felt that with Huiying, a dungeon boss who could interfere with memories and see through lies, in charge of the Holy Sword Alliance, the probability of such a serious "traitor problem" occurring was extremely small.

Therefore, the conclusion is most likely the former—that is, there are very few traitors and not many forces involved behind them.

It is very likely that only one side is involved.

Besides, there is another possibility.

Why is Your Majesty plotting a rebellion? — It is Huiying himself who is behind this.

“Huiying… She has no motive to do such a thing. She spent several years building the Holy Sword Alliance, only to betray her subordinates and send them to their deaths one by one? Even if she had nothing better to do, she wouldn’t do something like this…”

Fan Xiao felt that the possibility of Huiying being behind it was not very high.

As a member of the "One Wing" organization, Huiying was tasked by Dr. Zhuang with the mission of selecting a large number of eligible young children, gathering them together, and artificially creating psionic beings who are extremely difficult to be born through repeated human experiments.

A sufficient population base is a prerequisite for achieving this.

With more people, the selection pool expands, allowing for the gathering of more "suitable candidates".

Now, in Division 019, the population is almost gone, and there is simply no fertile ground for the birth of "artificial psionicists".

Therefore, Huiying formed the Holy Sword Alliance with the intention of overthrowing the existing regimes of the ten bases, taking control of the 019 district, and allowing it to develop peacefully... She had ample reasons and motives to do this.

Unless she betrays the One Wing organization, she will not sell out her subordinates and deliberately make things difficult for her mission.

After thinking about this, Fan Xiao came to a conclusion.

Only Huiying knows the specific strength of Junior Sister—if this is true, then it's not that someone is deliberately targeting Junior Sister.

The target was all members of the Holy Sword Alliance.

To confirm his conclusion, Fan Xiao asked his junior sister again, "Players need to run dungeons and need some of their own time. I'm sure you don't participate in the Holy Sword Alliance's operations every time."

"What were the casualty rates in operations you didn't participate in? Were they different from those you did participate in?"

I know what you're wondering.

Cassandra shook her head slightly: "When I say I'm unlucky, it's actually... a form of self-deprecation."

“A long time ago, I also had the same doubts you have now, and I investigated it in detail.”

"As a result... the casualty rate was even higher when I wasn't there!"

She turned her gaze to the desolate city in the distance: "All my friends have perished. If only... we could have taken a group photo back then..."

Actually, her personality was very different a year ago compared to now.

At that time, she was a sheltered young lady who had just stepped out into the world and was curious about everything, so she naturally wouldn't have a cold attitude.

She is very polite and responds positively to other people's enthusiasm.

She had made many friends...

Later, these friends died one by one.

This has made her less inclined to build close relationships with others.

She thought she could stop feeling the grief of a friend's death if she had no friends—but in the end, all she could do was hide her emotions inside.

Although she no longer actively contacted or interacted with the members of the organization, she remembered each of their names perfectly...

Cassandra withdrew her gaze from the desolate city area and continued, "My teacher told me that casualties are normal during operations. To reform this world and overturn the existing chaos, sacrifices are unavoidable."

“I understand these principles, but... I can’t accept them psychologically.”

"I am the strongest player in the Holy Sword Alliance! My teacher has high hopes for me. Others may not know my strength, but they all silently trust me and entrust their backs to me."

"I should have protected them..."