Their commission was suspicious.

"Ok?"

"Don't be fooled by how quickly she was defeated; she's a high-level combatant from Anti-Entropy, and her value is immense," Chen Luo explained.

“Bring back Destiny,” Durandal said after a moment’s thought.

"Kill me!" Xing said viciously, as Durandal kept trampling under her feet.

"You're perfectly fine, why are you so upset?" Chen Luo squatted down again and poked the other person's face.

"Then kill him." Durandal nodded solemnly, and then thrust her spear down.

"Damn it, Captain, don't be so hasty!" Chen Luo exclaimed in horror, looking at the gun blade that was only three centimeters away from the back of his hand.

Chen Luo immediately pushed Xing's head away after Yulandel said those words; otherwise, Xing might have been killed on the spot.

Seeing the ferocious Durandal, Xing dared not continue her taunts.

“This is not an arbitrary decision, but a result of careful consideration,” Durandal said.

“I only have one rope like this, and her ability is quite special. Her escape ability is not much different from yours. As long as I let go of her, she could use her time ability to escape at any time.”

"Compared to you, her value is much less. She's just an anti-entropy executor, and it's impossible for anti-entropy to spend a large sum of money to redeem her."

"So rather than letting her slip away on the road at any time, it's better to just kill her." Durandal's reasoning was logical and convincing.

And that is indeed the case.

"How about you hand her over to me, Captain? I'll trade you a pseudo-Herrscher that hasn't fully developed yet," Chen Luo suddenly said to Durandal.

"A pseudo-law enforcer?" Durandal frowned.

"Yes, a pseudo-Herrscher. A pseudo-Herrscher that is still in its gestation period and has not yet taken shape. Aren't you Valkyries supposed to be eliminating Honkai Beasts and Herrschers? Now an opportunity is presented to you. After all, a pseudo-Herrscher that grows up will also cause considerable trouble for Schicksal."

“When you encounter an ordinary Honkai Beast, you can let it run rampant, after all, the growth ceiling of an ordinary Honkai Beast is just so-so. But it is not a good thing to let a pseudo-Herrscher continue to develop in Changkong City.”

"...Wait a moment, let me ask the bishop." After a moment, Yulandel said to Chen Luo.

Perhaps because the matter was rather secretive, Durandal did not use video calling, but instead walked to the corner and started tapping on her communicator.

Chen Luo took over from Durandal in stepping on Xing, but unlike Durandal, he didn't step on her without any mercy. Instead, he simply sat on her waist.

"Hey, you know what, your waist is pretty slim," Chen Luo said after sitting down a couple of times.

“…You…” Xing paused for a moment, and was about to curse when she felt something being stuffed into her mouth.

Durandal returned shortly afterward.

“His Holiness the Bishop said that you can do whatever you want with her.” Durandal nodded to Chen Luo.

What Durandal didn't say was that Otto actually meant she could unleash her full potential.

Otto was more interested in knowing what Chen Luo was up to than this so-called high-end combatant whose name he didn't even know.

Chen Luo's purpose and logic, as well as his personality... these are all pieces of information needed to carry out the plan later.

"That's great." Chen Luo nodded happily, then picked up the communicator that Xing had tucked into her waistband.

"Hey, Cocolia, can you hear me?"

"Speak, what do you want?" Cocolia's voice didn't come from the communicator, but from the loudspeaker in the ME company's corridor.

"I need materials, lots of materials, lots of Honkai Beast and Suicide Beast materials. As for the price... well, that depends on how much your daughter is worth," Chen Luo said bluntly.

Chen Luo urgently needs materials to refine puppets. Although he can use the dead soldiers he picks up on the road, this kind of local sourcing is not a long-term solution. Chen Luo can't stay in Changkong City forever.

The drop rate for materials from defeating Honkai Beasts and Death Knights is extremely low, so the only option is to extort money from them.

"What do you need these materials for?"

"What's it to you? Just tell me if you're selling or not. If you're not selling, your daughter is actually quite a good prospect..." Chen Luo pinched Xing's arm under his butt.

To be fair, apricot, as a high-grade human material, is far superior to those materials used by Honkai Beasts and Death Warriors.

However, since Chen Luo was not comfortable with that style of human body modification, he was willing to settle for second best.

Besides, Chen Luo needs to practice with ordinary materials right now. He can't handle such high-level materials right away.

"Okay, I can promise you that you can take all the materials from ME Corporation now. I can also open the secret room to you. But you have to promise me that I'll put Apricot in there afterward," Cocolia said over the loudspeaker.

"Wait, you're trying to get something for nothing! Even without you, wouldn't all the materials from ME Company be mine?" Chen Luo immediately interrupted Cocolia.

Cocolia has really got a good plan.

“But without my help, you won’t be able to find those hidden places where the materials are stored. And even if you do find them, I can activate the self-destruct mode so you won’t be able to get them,” Cocolia said decisively.

"Well... alright, I agree." After hesitating for a moment, Chen Luo agreed to Cocolia's request.

Since Chen Luo's original goal wasn't Xing, but the Honkai Energy Reactor, extorting money from her was just a side effect.

Another thing is to let Durandal know about the pseudo-Herrscher that is being conceived.

That pseudo-Herrscher was a candidate, and was actually being slowly eroded by the Honkai.

According to the original plot, Raiden Mei was conceived as a substitute and became a pseudo-Herrscher after leaving Changkong City before fully awakening.

But this time, because of Chen Luo's intervention, Raiden Mei left too quickly.

So for some reason, this pseudo-Herrscher began to develop rapidly.

After nearly two days of development, this pseudo-Herrscher is slowly maturing.

If the opponent truly becomes a pseudo-Herrscher, Chen Luo's skills will fall behind, so now is the best time to reap the rewards.

For Chen Luo, this kind of semi-finished pseudo-Herrscher is the most suitable material.

At the same time, since the pseudo-heroes themselves are not human, using pseudo-heroes to create dolls will not shake Chen Luo's pitiful, stubborn, and self-deceiving humanity.

Although the "Bio-Doll" branch of the puppeteer profession sounds rather inhuman, Chen Luo felt that he should try his best to maintain humanity whenever possible.

For example, Chen Luo wouldn't use the apricot from under his buttocks, which is obviously rarer, to make a doll.

Chen Luo first took out a rope from his backpack and neatly wrapped it around Xing 20 times, binding her securely. Then, he found a remote-controlled bomb among the supplies Liu Wenxuan had given him and tied it to Xing's body. Only then did he begin the ME Society exploration journey with Xing.

To be honest, the materials from ME Society weren't as plentiful as Chen Luo had imagined.

Perhaps because Cocolia was responsible for this massive collapse, she knew exactly when it would happen and thus moved some precious items away beforehand.

Even so, Chen Luo still reaped considerable rewards.

After all, what is precious to Cocolia and Anti-Entropy is nothing precious to Chen Luo.

For example, the precious data in the Entropy Database is extremely valuable to both Entropy and Destiny, but it's just so-so to Chen Luo.

Even so, Chen Luo still copied the data and gave a copy to Durandal as well.

The physical valuable items can be transferred, but the data cannot.

Originally, this was supposed to be destroyed afterward, but Cocolia never expected that someone would be brave enough to come all the way to the Anti-Entropy headquarters—ME Company—in Changkong City, where the 3rd Great Collapse had just occurred.

Fortunately, some core data requires keys, which Chen Luo and his team can't take, and Cocolia isn't willing to tell them. As for the peripheral data, it's fine if it's lost.

The most precious thing in ME Corporation right now is probably that super-powerful Honkai energy reactor.

Cocolia was determined not to give this to Chen Luo, and Chen Luo couldn't move it anyway.

Within ME, a subsidiary of Anti-Entropy, Chen Luo didn't actually find much data on human experimentation. After all, Anti-Entropy was founded on high technology, so Chen Luo did collect quite a few high-tech firearms and ammunition.

If this were the Destiny Research Lab, it would be full of human experiments.

So overall, Anti-Entropy is still better than Schicksal, at least in terms of humanity. This refers to the conservative faction of Anti-Entropy. The radical faction… is even worse than Schicksal. Even disregarding the Third Honkai, that bastard Cocolia is still thinking of using the Tranquility Gem to trigger another Honkai. That's truly inhuman!

Besides the materials, Chen Luo also readily accepted all the mechs in ME Corporation's hangar that dared not attack him, putting them all into his backpack.

This also made Durandal and Cocolia, who saw the situation through monitoring, secretly marvel at Chen Luo's amazing spatial storage technology.

"It's a pity that fate has moved up the timeline," Cocolia sighed.

Watching Chen Luo rummage through the surveillance cameras, Cocolia was furious but helpless as she saw him looting valuable items from ME Company.

With Durandal, currently the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny, by his side, sending any number of mechs would be like sending them to their deaths. Moreover, 90% of the mechs currently stationed in Changkong City are now in Chen Luo's backpack.

But the apricot is worth the price.

This is not because Anzu came from Cocolia's orphanage, but because Anzu herself is one of the very few high-end combatants around Cocolia.

Anti-Entropy's mech and airship technology is indeed advanced, and it can win by sheer numbers, but high-end combat power is something that can never be lacking.

After binding the apricots into a rice dumpling again with iron chains and throwing them into a ME company basement, Chen Luo and Youlandail slipped away.

Chen Luo did this because he was afraid that Xing would launch another reckless attack after being liberated, since Xing was indeed capable of anything.

As for how Apricot, who was bound hand and foot like a dumpling, would escape, that would have to be done by Cocolia's people.

Mechs are out of the question. Almost all of Anti-Entropy's mechs in Changkong City are now in Chen Luo's hands. Besides, mechs can't perform such precise unbinding operations.

However, Cocolia never understood why Chen Luo wanted the mecha.

Chen Luo already has a lot of data, but the mech with the remote control system can't be used by him. What does he need it for?

Unless Chen Luo possesses hacking skills comparable to Bronya's, but the other party clearly did not demonstrate similar abilities, they were even unable to properly copy ME's database, ultimately leaving it to Durandal to do.

"What did you throw next to the Honkai reactor?" Durandal asked as they walked out of ME Corporation.

Durandal just saw Chen Luo throw something next to the Honkai reactor from a blind spot in the surveillance camera's view, but because he threw it so fast, Durandal didn't see it clearly.

"Who knows?" Chen Luo shrugged.

Chen Luo couldn't very well admit that he had thrown his Eye of God into it, could he?

Even after leaving ME Company, Chen Luo could still feel the pleasant sense of satisfaction emanating from his God's Eye.

In any case, as long as Chen Luo wants it, the Eye of God will immediately return to Chen Luo's backpack.

Do you even understand the value of "binding"?

As for damage? If you can even scratch this thing, I'll livestream myself being stewed in this iron pot!

"Unfortunately, the little girl's parents are really gone."

This was a surveillance video that Chen Luo had Cocolia investigate while he was scavenging for supplies. The video clearly showed that both of the other party's parents had died because they could not withstand the erosion of Honkai energy. There were no suicide soldiers left, but this could be considered another kind of peace.

"Let's go, it's time to find that pseudo-Herrscher who hasn't fully developed yet. I think you Schicksal are also very curious about it." Chen Luo said as he cast a flight spell on himself.

"By the way, I don't think I'll have to carry you again this time, do I?" Chen Luo asked tentatively.

"What do you think?" Durandal glanced at Chen Luo.

"..."

While carrying a beautiful girl through the sky might sound interesting, Durandal is actually quite heavy. The main problem is the weight of the lance she carries and the armor she wears, and she is completely unaware of her own weight.

"Alright, come on up," Chen Luo said helplessly.

"..." Durandal looked at the unwilling boy in front of her and subconsciously tapped him on the head with the butt of her lance.

The way you're making it look like I desperately want you to carry me on your back.

Whom are you complaining about?

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Chapter 89 The invincible Durandal has fallen!

Durandal walked alone into the classroom of Chiba Academy and looked at the girl in front of her who was entangled by countless vines and thorns.

Even though the girl knelt quietly in the center of the classroom as if she were dead, seemingly harmless, the countless corpses entangled in vines around her testified to how terrifying she was.

Or perhaps the girl herself wasn't scary at all, just an ordinary person, but under the influence of the Honkai, after becoming a pseudo-Herrscher, she instantly transformed into the most ferocious enemy to humanity.

However, the other party is currently in the process of gestation and cannot even move, so it can be said to be in its weakest state.

Looking at the girl before her, Durandal raised the spear in her hand.

……

"Why hasn't Durandal come out yet? Why is she taking so long?" On the roof of the teaching building, Chen Luo complained as he shot at the scattered assassins in the distance with his bow.

Isn't it just a pseudo-Herrscher that hasn't fully matured yet? It's just a matter of one shot, isn't it?

Chen Luo looked at his panel, anticipating the arrival of the raw stone.

As Durandal is a teammate, the enemies she defeats or kills can also be credited to Chen Luo's account. For example, after Durandal knocked down Xing in a few moves, Chen Luo received 150 Primogems.

This pseudo-Herrscher, even though it's weak and might not even be able to leave, should still give me 50 Primogems.

Thinking this, Chen Luo glanced at the talent panel and was instantly horrified.