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

………………

In an unknown corner of the world, a jackal dressed in a sacrificial robe stood behind thick protective glass, looking down at a deep pit that looked like a Colosseum.

There are countless animals there, including cats, dogs, weasels, mice...

There are hundreds and thousands of them, so densely packed that it is difficult to count them.

They were thrown densely into the same area, yet remained relatively safe;

The reason is that each of them has a red light flashing on its body, controlling its actions.

The animals that could not move could only endure the rumbling of hunger and roar one after another at the prey around them or the world that hunted them.

"The experiment begins..."

The jackal folded its arms, its golden eyes gazing at the magnificent scene in the distance with great interest, and issued an expectant command.

"First, let's get rid of the most uncultivable garbage."

As the order was given, the lights in the entire laboratory suddenly dimmed.

On the other hand, at the top of the Colosseum, the edge of the high wall suddenly lit up with a flash, and a fierce electric current rushed down along the steel wall, instantly sweeping away the poor animals below.

The screams suddenly became louder and then stopped abruptly.

Electric arcs flashed and jumped, and more than half of the animals were electrocuted to death on the spot. Some even had their hair burned, emitting a pungent burnt smell.

Of course, the well-protected Jackal Lady couldn't smell the scent. She just curled her lips to admire the tragic scene while gently counting the time with her fingers: 3, 2, 1...

"stop!"

As new instructions were issued, the lights in the laboratory came back on.

Those animals could no longer make any sound. The previous "screening" had killed at least 80% of them. The remaining survivors were already stiff all over and could only barely whimper in pain to show that they were still alive.

The lights on their bodies had long been damaged by the impact of the electric current and had lost the ability to control their movements, but they themselves were now motionless.

The Colosseum's secret door opened, and hundreds of small cleaning robots entered, collecting the dead animals. As they left, the once-crowded arena suddenly emptied, with the remaining cats, dogs, and animals scattered sparsely in every corner.

"Haha, it looks like the pet food problem for the next period of time has been solved."

Seeing that everything went well, the jackal was in a good mood, and then issued a new order -

"Then, let's screen out the cute little ones who are worth cultivating."

In another area of ​​the base, after receiving the order, several Titans threw the already prepared Honkai beasts into the Honkai furnace that was ready to go.

The Honkai beast instantly disintegrated, releasing pure Honkai energy, which flowed into the Colosseum along the energy pipeline.

More than half of the surviving animals were instantly reduced to ashes.

Among the small half that did not turn into gray, a large part of them began to show a faint purple-red color on their bodies, but in the moment before they mutated, they were shot dead by the mechas that had been prepared in advance.

The surviving animals watched numbly as another wave of cleaning robots entered and left the scene.

Then, the field now seemed extremely empty.

"Oh? There are still so many left? That's a good thing though."

Jackal turned his head to look at the remaining number displayed on the instrument and was a little surprised at the number of survivors.

"Well, it's time to give these cute little guys some rewards."

As the experiment progressed, the Jackal's name for the test subject became more affectionate.

"Oh!"

Several drones flew over and threw some medicines and food into the arena like garbage. The smell in the air aroused the desire for life among the miserable survivors.

"Okay, the last step..."

The amount of food and medicine is relatively scarce, not even enough for half of the animals.

"Let's select the strongest and most determined little fellow~"

The jackal's voice was extremely joyful. She enjoyed the pleasure of holding other people's anger in her hands.

Even animals are the same.

“Woo woo woo…Ah!”

Those originally quite cute cats and dogs now struggled with their last bit of strength to get up from the ground.

Being close to food and medicine is both lucky and unlucky.

I say lucky because they are as fast as they are swallowed;

It is unfortunate because they are quickly torn into pieces by more of them, and then, along with the ones that are swallowed, become their food and medicine, replenishing their life energy.

Among them, there was a light grey cat that was quite clever. It did not fight with them, but just rushed in, grabbed a bite and ran away amidst the feast of torn flesh and blood.

If other animals attack it, it will fight them fiercely.

In the end, the brutal joy came to an end, and only a dozen winners remained on the field.

"Very good, send them to my lab."

The jackal was satisfied. She believed that among these little cuties, she would be able to cultivate the weapons she wanted.

………………

Changkong City, ME Society.

This is Cocolia's private territory, but at this moment, she is standing alone on the roof of a building that is over a hundred stories high, enduring the howling cold wind from high altitude.

After a long while, she seemed to hear some noise, turned around, and said impatiently,

"Jackal, you are late..."

"You contacted me so suddenly. If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, I can't guarantee that you will walk out of here alive."

Chapter 76: The holiday is over

The following days were peaceful and Lin Wei's life seemed quite regular:

Read books and play games in your spare time;

Of course, Yae Sakura would urge them to do some physical and combat training every day, usually in the morning before dawn and in the evening after dark.

This also caused Lin Wei to often use the daytime to catch up on sleep, which made the usually diligent and self-disciplined Yaezakura unable to understand:

"How can this guy be so lazy?"

Regarding this, Lin Wei was very confident.

"Because I'm lazy!"

Then I happily received the extra training package from Instructor Yaezakura...

In addition to that, I go fishing at the beach every afternoon, and after returning home at night, I have some high-intensity solo confrontations with Bronya.

Speaking of which, ever since they played the game together that day, Bronya would log in on time almost every night, inviting Lin Wei to play games with her and chatting for a while, but she never talked about anything other than the game, let alone asking him for other information about the "Quantum Realm" and Seele.

Lin Wei also tacitly kept silent about this.

For Lin Wei, maintaining a stable status quo and a relatively friendly understanding with Bronya is a pretty good result;

For Bronya, Lin Wei's existence is a real dream of hope, and she doesn't know how much of it is true or false; but as long as he is still there and Bronya feels that she can see and reach him, she will feel at ease.

Even if it was really a fantasy, she didn't want to burst it.

Therefore, the two of them were just like ordinary netizens, playing games every day and only talking about games; when it was late at night, they said goodbye to each other and went offline, making an appointment to meet again tomorrow.

Then, Lin Wei seemed to have finished a day's work and fell into a deep sleep in all kinds of bizarre dreams;

Bronya once again connected to the data center of Destiny and continued to work hard to find a way to turn "dreams" into "reality".

This is how the world is. Everyone lives for himself and works for his own piece of the world. Everyone has his own life and his own difficulties.

Bronya endured the inefficiency of a headless fly, flipping through entry after entry in the vast ocean of data. Starting from any keyword that caught her attention, she searched for all the upstream or downstream information connected to it;

Then either discard it with disappointment, or save it thoughtfully in your own database.

The next morning, I dragged my tired body to class, then shut down my computer and started catching up on sleep. I left all the work of studying and organizing my notes to Chongzhuang Xiaotu.

Bishop Otto, who was far away at the headquarters, saw all of this.

"What on earth does this little guy want to do? Is he trying to publish some cutting-edge academic paper?"

Otto looked at the vast search area and pondered for a long time, saying that he really couldn't understand the connection and intention.

I just think this Valkyrie student is too hardworking.

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

Since Otto couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it.

He transferred all the data he valued from the data center and relocated it elsewhere, then decided to wait and see.

After all, changes of this magnitude did not seem to have any obvious consequences and could only be considered minor accidents, not enough to require him to intervene in the "progress of the experiment".

He just sent a message to Fu Hua to tell her that Bronya was acting strangely; at the same time, he emphasized to Amber again that they should monitor the movements of Anti-Entropy to prevent any accidents.

After arranging these, he devoted his energy to more important things.

These things that happened within Tianming were far away from Lin Wei for the time being. He was neither aware of them nor able to interfere.

"Sakura, what's the result?"

In the vast sea far away from the shipping route, there was a fishing boat floating. The owner dropped anchor and took a nap in the cabin, leaving the calm sea and vast world outside to Lin Wei.

At this moment, he was standing by the side of the ship, swinging the boom seemingly casually while asking Yaezakura in his heart.

"The energy has been stable, there are no abnormalities, and there are no Honkai beasts living on the seabed."

Yaezakura's voice was cold and calm.

"We've traveled to several sea areas in the past few days, and the results are almost the same. There's no dangerous aura."

Yaezakura has always had a keen sense of smell like a wild animal. When she was guarding the village in the past, she was always able to discover the existence of danger in the first time, and then rush to eliminate it. Now she is just borrowing the power of the Key of God to further develop her expertise.

"Where is Chiyou?"

Lin Wei did not comment and asked,

"The seal is intact. If I hadn't paid close attention, I wouldn't even be able to find its exact location..."

Yaezakura answered calmly, and then asked with some confusion,

"Lin Weijun, you've asked this question many times. But for some reason, I sense your unease is growing day by day."

"Is it that obvious?"

Lin Wei smiled helplessly, put away the empty hook, changed to another one and threw it out, answering seriously,

"Because this is consistent with the information I received from Anti-Entropy."

During this period, Lin Wei used fishing as usual to cover up his activities, but in fact he was investigating and monitoring the energy tides in Southeast Asia.

After a few days, Lin Wei suddenly felt a little uneasy and began to contact Anti-Entropy to inquire about their situation with Honkai energy detection in Southeast Asia.

"The eruption of Honkai follows a pattern. It occurs suddenly after regional energy accumulates to a critical point. Just like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, there are always signs that professional organizations can observe and warn of. Both Destiny and Anti-Entropy are clearly adept at this."

Lin Wei explained seriously,

"The collapse in Manila was so significant. Apart from the fact that no Herrscher was born, the damage and losses it caused were almost as great as the collapse in Changkong City."

"But whether it's our own testing or the information synchronized from Anti-Entropy, it shows that this area is extremely stable and everything is normal. Tesla even laughed at me for being so suspicious..."

After another empty hook, Lin Wei was so angry that he simply gave up fishing and threw out a spear and chain, forcibly forking a tuna from the seabed.

"..."

Yae Sakura felt helpless about Lin Wei's childish behavior.

"But this kind of 'normal', in the eyes of you and me who know what will happen, is 'too abnormal'."

After venting his frustration, Lin Wei felt better, he heaved a sigh of relief, and said seriously,

"Ying, I now suspect that the collapse in Manila, like the collapse in Changkong City, was also a man-made tragedy."

Natural disasters are tragedies, man-made disasters are tragedies. Lin Wei's classification criteria are always subtle and appropriate.

"...Do you suspect this is the World Serpent's revenge? Because of the Coral Island incident?"

After such a long time, Yaezakura gradually caught up with Lin Wei's train of thought, but she still couldn't believe it.