Collapse, I am actually in the villain camp

"Oh?" Rita's face still wore a perfect smile, but the look in her eyes had completely turned cold. "Ms. Raven, you're quite confident. Are you still planning to rely on gas to deal with those Honkai beasts this time? After all, your specialty is what helped you escape a sentence that would have cost you the rest of your life in the Destiny prison."

"Yeah. There's nothing I can do about it. This is something I'm good at. Even the famous Valkyrie Army of "Destiny" can be easily defeated." Raven retorted sarcastically.

While the two were arguing with each other, the communicator of Rita's team was connected, and Li Wen's projection suddenly appeared in the air.

"Okay, let's stop the useless argument for now, Rita." He looked at his temporary adjutant and said.

Chapter 13: Raven's Psychological Shadow

"Yes." Rita bowed slightly and took a few steps back, leaving space for conversation to Raven and Li Wen.

"It's you."

Raven immediately recognized the identity of the visitor. After all, as the highest commander of "Ship", besides Otto, Gray Snake specially distributed the other party's information to every cadre.

Looking at Li Wen with a faint smile on his face, Raven felt a painful spasm in his lower abdomen.

It was this person who had severely injured her with only three sword strikes last time and had ruined the long-planned plan of the "World Serpent".

The last time Destiny and the World Serpent held talks in Vimur, all the officials were summoned by the Gray Serpent just in case.

When she saw Li Wen, she immediately recognized him and even had an urge to use the third divine key in her hand, "Seven Thunders of Purification", to directly blow his head off.

However, the Lord was present, and she did not dare to act rashly against the Lord's orders.

Afterwards, after the Lord reached an agreement with "Destiny", as an ally, she naturally had no reason to take action.

Li Wen also recognized Raven's identity. Although the two sides were once enemies, they were allies now, so Li Wen naturally would not put on airs.

He smiled and greeted her, "Long time no see, Miss Raven. How have you been lately?"

"Thanks to you, it's not bad." Raven licked his lips and said with a sneer, covering his lower abdomen lightly with his hand, as if it was aching there again.

Because of the failure of the "Stigmata Plan", she was often criticized by the woman named Jackal. As a result, many of the tasks originally assigned to her were transferred to others.

Under such circumstances, she has been idle lately with nothing to do, which is of course "not bad".

As if he didn't hear the sarcasm from Raven, Li Wen smiled and nodded, "That's good."

"You..." Raven couldn't finish his words, but only let out a heavy cold snort from his nose.

"Now that we've said hello, let's get down to business." Li Wen looked past the raven, towards the little heads peeking out from between the houses, then fixed his gaze back on the raven's face. "Are they the World Serpent's experimental subjects?"

Other than that, he really couldn't understand what other reason could have caused Raven to choose to block "Destiny" and clash with his own allies rather than let Rita and the others take these children to a safe place.

"No." Raven shook her head. She didn't want to drag things out on such an important matter, lest it cause any misunderstandings. "I adopted these children."

Li Wen didn't say anything, but just glanced at the raven a few times.

However, because of the unpleasant experience between the two parties before, Raven instinctively felt that there was something strange in Li Wen's gaze.

So, she stiffened her neck and asked, "Why, I can't adopt a child?"

"Ah, you misunderstood. I didn't mean that." Li Wen waved his hand. "I just didn't expect that the capable and tough Miss Raven would have such a tender side."

Li Wen did not show any surprise about Raven adopting a child. After all, over the years, he had seen many people show their "kind" side during missions.

Some people do it just because they are touched, while others do it to find a place to rely on.

Only a very small number of people are truly heartless and ruthless.

The reason why he adopted Blake was because he felt lonely, so he kept him by his side to keep him company.

Adopting so many children is obviously a very time-consuming task. Since Raven was able to persevere, it was definitely not because of a sudden inspiration.

Li Wen took a quick look at the living environment here and concluded that this place had probably existed for a long time.

If it was a momentary impulse, doing a favor or giving some money would probably be enough, but Raven adopted these children for such a long time.

He thought thoughtfully, it seems that this cadre of the "World Snake" is not really that cold-blooded and ruthless.

So, he pondered for a moment and asked another question, "Well, let's change the subject. Miss Raven, since you adopted these children, why don't you take them out? You have the ability to do so."

"You know what kind of impact living in an environment with excessively high Honkai concentration will have on the human body."

Hearing Li Wen's question, Raven fell into silence for a moment.

Of course there was a reason why she didn't take these children away before, because these children were incomplete stigma awakeners.

Because the stigmata of these children have not yet fully awakened, they have developed a withdrawal reaction to Honkai energy. If they leave the area with high concentration of Honkai energy directly, it will actually cause harm to their unformed bodies.

The "World Snake" actually has a way to solve this problem. Although she has never liked the woman named Jackal, she has to acknowledge her talent in this area.

However, as a colleague, she also knew how cruel her colleague could be for the sake of experiments.

After all, these children are probably extremely precious specimens in the eyes of the jackals.

Therefore, she did not dare to hand these children over to the jackal, and she did not even dare to let the "World Serpent" know of their existence.

Therefore, out of desperation, she could only raise these children in Changkong City and deliver supplies to them regularly.

However, these words cannot be said to Li Wen.

Because once Li Wen realized the value of these children, she was worried that the other party would directly tear her off and forcibly snatch them away.

Facing this man who had left a psychological trauma on him, Raven had no hope of defeating him.

"The World Snake will send someone to pick them up soon, so there's no need to trouble Mr. Li Wen to worry about it." Raven said vaguely, and at the same time held up the World Snake behind him, hoping that Li Wen would let them leave safely for the sake of their alliance and Kevin's face.

Not long ago, she received a promise from the Lord for certain achievements, which is why she now has the confidence to ask the "World Serpent" to help her.

"Interesting." Li Wen smiled at Raven's timid appearance. "It seems these kids must have something special about them."

Raven's reaction, words and everything here can reveal too much information. Li Wen can clearly judge that these children may have some problems.

Listening to Li Wen's words, Raven secretly tensed his body.

However, Li Wen's next words made her stunned.

"retreat."

This sentence was not said to her, but to the Valkyries led by Rita.

Raven looked at everything in front of her in disbelief. She had never expected that Li Wen would realize the specialness of these children and would just leave like that without even checking on their condition.

"Hehe." The communication had not been closed yet, and Li Wen's chuckle came from the communicator, "Ms. Raven, I have no interest in your secrets, and I don't intend to cause conflicts between partners, so you can wait here for the "World Snake" with peace of mind.

"However, as an ally, I must remind you that there is less than a day left before the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle experiment. If you don't want these children to suffer any accidents, take them away within this final deadline."

"Otherwise, you're on your own."

As the last sentence fell, Li Wen hung up the phone directly.

Rita glanced at Raven and immediately evacuated with the Valkyries.

Chapter 14: Youlan Daier looks confused

Looking at the Second God's Key that had arrived safely in front of him, Li Wen was not surprised at all.

She was personally escorted by the most powerful S-class Valkyrie. In today's world, apart from him and Kevin, no one could possibly snatch it from her.

After the huge Key of God arrived, many experimenters immediately began to make arrangements. After all, Otto had already given the order to start the experiment as soon as possible.

Looking at the many busy staff members, Li Wen set his sights on the "Thousand Worlds One Vehicle" in front of him. "It's really hard to imagine that such a divine key is actually used for observation."

No matter how you look at it, the train before you looks like it was created to replicate the Herrscher of the Void's ability to travel through space.

But its real function is indeed just observation.

This made Li Wen sigh, wondering why the previous civilization designed the Second God's Key like this.

Listening to Li Wen's sigh, Youlan Dai'er beside him also shook her head. "When I first heard about it, I also thought it was a need for some kind of time travel experiment. It was only later that the bishop explained it to me."

Because her job was just to escort the "One Thousand Worlds Vehicle", Yulandel stayed here directly after escorting the "One Thousand Worlds Vehicle", intending to wait until the end of this observation experiment before leaving.

"The first impression of the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle is indeed easy to misunderstand its true purpose. However, this may be the consideration of the creator of the Second God Key."

Rita walked up with graceful steps, "Lord Yulandel."

"Rita." Yulandel greeted her adjutant with a smile.

"It seems that Miss Rita has brought me some good news?" Li Wen asked with a smile.

"Lord Li Wen, why do you think this is good news?" Rita asked.

"Haha." Li Wen glanced at the perfect smile on the other person's face and said teasingly, "If it was bad news, you wouldn't be asking me now."

"As expected of Lord Li Wen," Rita complimented him before continuing, "Our ally has already sent her children away."

"Is it someone from the World Serpent?"

"Yes."

After getting his answer, Li Wen said thoughtfully, "It seems Miss Raven has gained some good leverage from the World Serpent."

"It seems so." Rita nodded, agreeing with Li Wen's guess.

"What are you talking about?" Yulandel scratched her head in confusion as she listened to the two people's riddle-like conversation.

Although she knew that Li Wen and Rita had discovered Raven, she didn't understand how his departure was related to what they said about obtaining chips.

Looking at the bewildered Youlandel, Li Wen began to explain in words that she could understand: "It's a very simple truth. Before, Raven did not hesitate to conflict with us for those children, which shows that those children are very important to her.

“And yet, she didn’t place these important children in a safer place, but instead placed them in a place like Changkong City, where the concentration of Honkai energy is extremely high. This means that they must be quite dependent on Honkai energy.

"Yulandel, why do you think these children rely so much on Honkai energy?"

"The Awakener of the Holy Mark." Youlandai blurted out immediately.

"That's right." Li Wen snapped his fingers. "To be precise, they should be incomplete stigma awakeners. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so dependent on Honkai energy. Raven placed them here, probably intending to wait until they have fully awakened their stigma and are no longer constrained by Honkai energy before taking them to a safe place."

"But she has sent those children away now." Yulandel was a little confused.

"That's the problem we were talking about, Lady Yulandel," Rita added softly. "Since Raven values those children so much, under normal circumstances, she would never hand them over to the World Serpent. After all, no matter which organization they belong to, these children are excellent examples, especially for a World Serpent so dedicated to the Stigmata Project."

Hearing this, Yulandel finally understood. "So, the reason she entrusted these children to the World Serpent was because she believed they wouldn't be harmed by it?"

"That's right." Li Wen nodded. "If not for this, Raven would never have sent someone from World Serpent to pick him up. And the only promise within World Serpent that could have so reassured Raven, a mercenary, could have come from one person—Kevin Kaslana."

Hearing Kevin's name, Yulandel couldn't help but think of the indifferent white-haired man, who was the most powerful opponent she had ever encountered.

"I'm really curious... Sky City's 'Stigmata Project' has failed. From Raven's tone, it seems like she's been having a hard time lately because of this failure."

Li Wen raised his hand and stroked his chin. "In that case, how did she get Kevin's promise?"

After thinking carefully and making sure that he had not missed any clues, Li Wen still couldn't figure out the real reason.

The image of Kiana flashed through his mind for a moment, but before the thought could fully take shape, he shook his head decisively.

Although Kiana can be considered Kevin's descendant as a clone, it is unknown how many generations of blood have separated them.

If Kevin really cared about this bloodline, Raven would not have killed Kiana in Sky City before.

So, it shouldn’t be because of Kiana.

As for the other people in "Anti-Entropy", they have nothing to do with Kevin, so how could it be because of them?

So what is it?

After thinking for a while and still not getting a real answer, Li Wen threw it out of his mind and shifted his thoughts to the present.

Now that the Raven children have been sent away, it means that the last irrelevant personnel in Changkong City have been evacuated, and their observation experiments can begin at any time.

Just wait for the preparations to be completed before you can start the real experiment.

The preparation work was lengthy. Although the staff were already familiar with the steps of the "Thousand Worlds One Vehicle" observation experiment, unlike all previous experiments, the "Thousand Worlds One Vehicle" merged with its own beacon for the first time after 1,500 years, becoming a complete form.

In order to prevent unforeseen problems from occurring in the experiment, they must complete all detailed inspections at the beginning of the experiment.

Faced with the commotion in front of them, Li Wen, Yulandel, Rita and many Valkyries just stood around to ensure that their work went smoothly.

……

Finally, under the gloomy sky, the preparations for the experiment were completed.