Honkai, why do you only play high-end games?

Anna didn't want to listen to all that nonsense, so she pulled Lin Wei up and asked worriedly,

"Are you really okay?"

Anna knew clearly how poorly men were adaptable to Honkai energy, and that in every Honkai disaster, they only accounted for a very small proportion of the survivors.

"Don't worry, I'm a survivor of the Honkai myself. This dose poses no threat to me."

Lin Wei said with a puzzled look, there was a time when he could actually move freely in the Honkai energy environment.

"...Then you must be careful."

Anna gritted her teeth secretly. This guy is always mysterious. One day he will dig out all your secrets!

As they spoke, they descended another floor. This floor was roughly the same size as the previous one, with another staircase leading down, clearly indicating further depths. Compared to the seemingly endless emptiness upstairs, this floor was divided into numerous separate rooms. Occasionally, beings similar to the wandering constructs of the outside world would patrol along fixed routes.

"It really is a soldier ant."

Lin Wei looked at their stiff and rigid appearance and made no comment.

Based on the experience of the upper and lower floors, this should be a vertically downward cylindrical structure. The area of ​​each floor is not large. I just don’t know if there is something else deeper.

Anna shook her head at Lin Wei. The life detector had no response, indicating there was no living person here. Then she grinned and looked at Lin Wei with some concern.

"The concentration of Honkai energy on this level has increased again."

Anna was a little confused about what was going on here.

"Sifting, I guess."

Lin Wei looked in the direction of those rooms and said softly.

Anna looked at him in confusion, signaling with her eyes that he might as well explain it more clearly.

"You and I both came here following the traces of the survivors of the Honkai."

After the showdown, it becomes much easier to talk.

"And the guys here are even capturing ordinary citizens at night. And how many people from this source are resistant to Honkai energy? So screening is imperative."

Lin Wei couldn't help but sneer.

"Survival of the fittest, what a cold and cruel law... I imagine the concentration of Honkai energy will be even higher a few levels down."

Anna felt goose bumps all over her body at the evil here, and couldn't help shivering.

"What about those who were screened out?"

Anna felt that she had asked a very stupid question, because Lin Wei had been looking at the room over there, and the answer was obvious.

"Roar!"

As if to confirm it, a roar similar to that of a wild beast was heard from behind the closed door, and then more roars came one after another as if provoked, countless in number.

"This is?"

Even though she had guessed the answer, Anna still found it a little unacceptable.

Because those are the sounds made by dead men after they die.

In fact, only low-level zombie-like warriors would make such sounds.

Chapter 49: Getting More and More Complicated

Human beings are insignificant, and the value of life is pathetic.

Amidst the noisy noises, a construct called a "worker ant" calmly walked towards the place where the first roar came from. The moment it gently opened a door, the figure that rushed out from the door and pounced on it seemed to be telling this cruel truth mercilessly.

Not only was it subdued by the construct in an instant, a mechanical claw calmly raised itself up and grabbed its neck, slamming it to the ground and dragging it away like a dead dog, the sound of it rustling on the smooth floor;

It was also because Lin Wei had recognized the "person" who had already changed beyond recognition.

"he is?!"

Anna exclaimed, she also recognized him - he was the investigative reporter who was unfortunately caught and taken away before. The memory card that recorded his last scene was now carried by her.

She still remembered his last expression in the video, a look of determination like a moth to a flame, an extreme desire to uncover the truth and pursue justice.

But now, the young man whose eyes seemed to have light and whose heart was full of lofty aspirations had turned into an ugly dead soldier; his originally decent suit had been torn into tatters, just like its former owner, becoming a worthless, ridiculous and filthy thing.

And his previous ideals and pursuits seemed to become sad and ridiculous at this moment.

"hateful!"

Anna came to her senses and was shocked and angry. She blamed herself for not being able to save him in time, and was angry at the base's desecration and contempt for life.

Lin Wei saw Anna's hands shaking as she gripped and unclenched her weapon. She was torn between her conscience and her desires, muttering to herself,

"He's already dead. I can't waste time here. He's already dead, he's already dead... I have more important things to do... I can't be exposed here..."

There may be survivors still alive in the deeper part, and alerting them may harm them;

Finding the base's control center and destroying it will deal the greatest blow to these evil guys...

"But!"

If it were Yulan Dell, what would she do?

The image of the tall blond girl suddenly emerged in Anna's mind.

In the end, he still couldn't convince himself, so he pulled out the crystal reverse-blade knife from his waist, rushed forward with a cold azure air, and with a "crack", he split the construct in half at the torso as if to vent his anger, and then gave it another fierce knife in the head and heart.

"Ka...Gaao!"

The freed assassin staggered to his feet from the ground, his distorted face fixed on the girl not far away, totally unaware that she was his savior. He simply pounced on Anna with his stiff limbs as if she were his prey.

Anna held the knife in one hand and slowly pulled out the pistol from her waist with the other, aiming it at the hideous empty shell that had lost its soul with a complicated expression.

"boom!"

The dead man fell down immediately, and his dead body lay motionless on the ground without a drop of blood flowing out, and he was freed from this.

"Sorry……"

Anna murmured sadly, and no one knew why she was apologizing.

The noisy roars all around became more intense after the gunshots. The sound was like a hundred ghosts parading at night, echoing back and forth in this closed underground space, making people feel upset.

In several corners not far away, there were several other constructs scattered around, completely unaware of the brief battle that was taking place here.

Lin Wei also walked over, gently picked up the resting body, opened the door, and kicked the broken remains of the construct into the room one by one. Then he carefully placed the man's body in it and gently closed the door, as if he was treating it as a grave.

"That way, even if it leaves my virus shield, those stupid 'worker ants' won't notice anything unusual."

Lin Wei said softly, as if talking to herself.

"What's in the room?"

Anna, who was standing there quietly in a daze, suddenly asked.

"Nothing, just a small cage."

Lin Wei said that he lied.

He clearly saw a few small pools of blood and a few broken, bloody nails there. Those were the last traces left by the once passionate young man in this world.

Unfortunately, the facilities here are so solid that no mortal body can shake them at all.

Lin Wei looked up at the dim ceiling. Isn't this whole world just a bigger, stronger, colder and crueler cage?

Faced with the difficult choice between "survival" and "destruction", "justice" seems ridiculous and meaningless.

"Let's go, Anna."

Lin Wei patted Anna's shoulder gently, indicating that she still had important things to do, and walked past her and walked ahead.

Then her wrist was suddenly pulled. Lin Wei turned around and looked at Anna in confusion, and saw a confused and fragile expression on the beautiful girl's face.

"Lin Wei..."

"Well, I'm here."

"You're going to be okay, right?"

"I've always been with you. With you watching over me, how could anything happen?"

"Don't comfort me, I know what I am like..."

Anna looked a little depressed.

"I can eliminate the dead soldiers and defeat the Honkai beasts, but I find that I can't defeat Honkai at all, and I can't save anyone..."

Her tone was confused and sad, and she smiled at herself sadly.

"I don't even know if what I'm doing is right or wrong... It's really terrible."

"Yeah, it's terrible..."

Lin Wei took over and said with deep agreement.

Hearing him say this, Anna's eyes became a little dim.

"Isn't it terrible that this world needs a delicate and cute little girl like you to save it? It's so unfair to let such a small body bear such a heavy responsibility."

Lin Wei smiled and ruffled her hair.

"I think it's better to destroy such a terrible world."

“…Nonsense.”

Anna was speechless. But after Lin Wei's disturbance, the inexplicable sadness in her heart was diluted a lot.

“Life is like a mountain that piles up day by day. Instead of dwelling on the past, which cannot be changed, it is better to take the present moment seriously. Otherwise, you will miss the sunrise.”

Seeing Anna come out of her dilemma, Lin Wei reached out and smoothed her messed up hair, and said softly,

"You've done very well. No one is born invincible and knows everything. Everyone's path is built step by step. The key is not to give up. As long as you don't give up and keep going, you will eventually reach the end."

Anna was rubbed on the head by Lin Wei, and her face turned red as she took a step back and protested,

"Where did you get this chicken soup?"

This time Lin Wei quit.

"What chicken soup? This is the culmination of everything I've learned in my life, okay?"

Seeing that the atmosphere had almost recovered, Lin Wei said seriously,

"Okay, stop making trouble, it's time to go."

"Ah."

Anna nodded softly, and then called softly,

"Lin Wei..."

"Ok?"

"You're going to be okay, right?"

Everything seems familiar.

Lin Wei thought about it and answered seriously,

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Nothing can defeat me, not God, not Honkai, not even the Herrscher."

"The Law-Bearer, you're such a boaster..."

Anna chuckled, but looked at Lin Wei with some doubt and confusion.

"But you know so much... Lin Wei, ah Lin Wei, who are you?"

Lin Wei looked at her with a smile but did not answer.

There are some things that Anna knows too much about, which is not good for her or herself.

"That's right. You didn't respond directly to my proposal before, so you probably won't tell me..."

Anna suddenly realized something and remembered how she had invited him to join Tianming before, but he had fooled her into accepting the invitation. She couldn't help but touch the pendant around her neck, her expression becoming somewhat regretful. After hesitating for a moment, she gritted her teeth and asked,

"Then, here's the last question...will we be enemies?"

Anna's voice was very soft, but Lin Wei felt that if she continued to avoid the question, she would be very, very disappointed.

What's more, there is nothing to avoid about this issue itself.

"The matter is a bit complicated and cannot be explained in a few words. But you can rest assured of one thing: you, me, and the Valkyrie will never be enemies."