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

Otto smiled as he rewound the image frame by frame. The forest gradually returned to its original state as time went by, and the cat-shaped Honkai Beast was once again frozen in the mid-air in a pouncing posture.

Otto, on the other hand, leisurely returned to the position he had found, raised his head and looked into those ferocious big eyes.

If Yae Sakura could come here, she would be surprised to find that Otto was standing in the same place where she was standing when she was attacked by Stan!

Of course, Otto didn't know this. He just smiled and said,

"I'm really curious. If such a 'eye-to-eye' scene really happened here, then who was the person who should have been standing next to me? Hmm..."

……

Outside, Yuno suddenly raised her head and asked Jier a question from Otto.

"Is there any human DNA in the blood at the scene?"

"Ok?"

Jier was stunned by Yuno's sudden, overly professional question. Without thinking too much, he simply picked up his data terminal and swiped through the team members' reports before answering seriously.

"The only thing at the scene was purple-red blood, with a large amount of Honkai energy remaining in it. From the DNA spectrum comparison data, the target is more likely to be a cat. Apart from that, we haven't found any other samples, especially human DNA, which is what Tianming's equipment is most sensitive to. Why are you asking this?"

……

"Tsk..."

Otto was quite disappointed that he did not get the most direct confirmation from Jier.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... maybe the poor jungle explorer was swallowed whole?"

Seeing Otto suffer another setback, Xukong Wanzang couldn't help but laugh out loud with glee.

"...If it's true, as you say, that he was an innocent jungle adventurer, then he was indeed a pitiful fellow and deserves a few seconds of silence."

Otto had long been immune to Xukong Wanzang's sarcasm and would not be affected by his verbal attacks. He even had the mind to respond with a few words.

"But what if it's not? Could it be that the Honkai Beast can cause me to bleed profusely just by opening its mouth?"

Otto's smile was cold.

"With such a large amount of bleeding, it couldn't have been caused by the fall when he landed, right?"

"...With a body this big, it's not impossible?"

Xukong Wanzang told a meaningless joke.

"I'm glad you have such a sense of humor, Void Bankao."

Otto said with a smile, and then muttered to himself with an inexplicable look,

"I was thinking, who could appear at this time, at this location, and have a face-to-face encounter with that interesting Honkai Beast..."

"Could it be another unexpected guest that even I didn't notice?"

Thinking about the recent intelligence work of Anti-Entropy that made him break out in a cold sweat, Otto couldn't help but think of the worst case scenario again.

Could it be that... Walter appeared again?

Thinking of this, he zoomed out again, leaving a memory-simulated Walter Yang in the original place.

He wanted to see what kind of scene would appear if Walter hit his prey.

The visual performance was lightning fast - Walter was not at all panicked in the face of the sharp claws so close to him, and calmly rubbed a simulated black hole on the spot.

Then, the Honkai Beast, along with the surrounding plants and the soil on the ground, was instantly swallowed by the black hole, annihilated without a trace. Only Walter was left standing, pushing his glasses up in boredom.

“…It’s definitely not him.”

The difference in destructive power was so huge that Otto instantly ruled out this conclusion. Then he waved his hand and the screen reloaded.

"Could it be that you suspect there is another force involved?"

Xukong Wanzang saw Otto's thoughts and thought he was completely incomprehensible.

"Do you think someone has seen through your thoughts and has been secretly following you, and then when your prey finally takes the bait, they suddenly jump out and snatch it away before you can?"

Xukong Wanzang asked with great concern,

"Otto, are you crazy?"

Isn't this paranoia?

"..."

Otto couldn't help but be speechless, because he also felt that what Xukong Wanzang said made sense!

After all, if it weren't for the sudden appearance of the anti-entropy He Kun, who caused him to make a wrong judgment, he would have chased after the cat-shaped Honkai Beast long ago!

However, he still felt that something was not right...

"Could it be that He Kun was a bait to mislead me? To buy time for his companions?"

Otto couldn't help but become suspicious, and then rejected his own guess.

"That's impossible, isn't it? Unless I implanted false memories in him ahead of time to deceive Yu Duchen... But if that's the case, wouldn't I have been exposed from the very beginning?"

Otto found himself at a logical dead end.

"If it's Anti-Entropy, if they discover 'Otto's own conspiracy', according to their usual style, their target should undoubtedly be me! Instead of distracting me and chasing that Honkai Beast themselves."

"And if they hadn't discovered my presence, there would be no reason to be on guard against Yu Duchen in advance... Then all their plans would be visible to me under my feathers."

This doesn't make sense at all logically.

"unless……"

But unless something, he himself couldn't figure it out.

Could there be another force in the world that is not only as interested in the World Serpent as himself, but also has a clear understanding of his thoughts and plans?

Otherwise, how could all this happen so perfectly?

But how is this possible? !

The only one who can do all of these at the same time is yourself!

Is there another me in the world, and is this me deliberately trying to go against me?

This is even more impossible!

One's own thoughts and will are simply incomparable to those of a body with awakened self-awareness.

"...It seems that I should change the direction of simulation..."

Since he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried, Otto didn't hesitate to admit his mistake and changed his direction in time.

"It seems that this should be the gathering place of the World Serpent. And that beast tried to attack its master here..."

Following this idea, Otto reset the simulation direction.

He once again stood in the position where he was about to be killed, but this time, before the cat-shaped Honkai Beast pounced on him, the collar on its neck suddenly emitted a red light, causing it to twitch all over as if it had been electrocuted, and it flew past the height of its head and fell straight into the forest behind it.

But the pain had not stopped yet. It kept twitching and struggling, and its huge limbs made a mess of everything around it. The original wounds reopened in the process, and purple-red blood flowed everywhere.

"Hmm... this result is barely reasonable?"

Otto compared the results of this simulation with the real scene, and found that they were generally close - but the degree of blood flow in the simulation was far less tragic than in reality.

If he still followed his previous line of thought, Otto might have wondered whether there was some powerful warrior who could leave a huge, bleeding wound on the Honkai Beast's body at the moment of contact.

But now, Otto just thought about this doubt and quickly dismissed it, because this kind of fighting style that could inflict horrific damage in an instant did not match any of the strong men in his memory.

"If there really is such a strong guy, why would he be so secretive?"

So, he completely turned his thinking in another direction.

"It seems that the World Serpent guys have a strong control over their creations..."

Otto looked at the purple-red color that almost covered the entire earth in the real scene and marveled at it.

"That little guy must have been severely punished..."

It makes sense when you think about it. After all, if they dare to create such a powerful biological weapon, how could they not have a means of control?

"...What a pity! If it weren't for He Kun's cleverness, would I have already caught the World Serpent?"

Otto thought regretfully.

If I hadn't been distracted at the beginning, and I had been able to chase the World Serpent's creation here in time, then the result...

But no matter what, Otto felt that this trip was worthwhile - he had gotten a glimpse of the mysterious organization's style of operation from some minor details.

At the same time, he became more convinced that he had indeed caught the tail of the World Snake, which made him even more excited.

But then, he became unhappy again.

"Tsk, it's all He Kun's fault, otherwise there wouldn't be so much trouble... No, he needs to make amends for his crime!"

Otto thought maliciously.

"From what I've seen so far, it seems like that World Serpent is quite vicious, able to inflict inhumane punishment on a rebellious creature..."

Otto silently sorted out his harvest.

"And that cat-shaped Honkai Beast seems to have the ability to shrink in size... Tsk, no wonder, after all, it jumped out of the grass by the river and attacked us."

Otto recalled the scene when he was rafting in the mountains.

"In other words, the World Serpent's people could be hiding directly in the city... and that man-made Honkai Beast could also shrink in size and hide in the city together?"

Then, he put this information together,

"Why did the cat attack its owner? Was it dissatisfied with its control, or was it simply feral and unruly, going berserk?"

Otto continued to think,

"Then if it suddenly goes crazy in the city... Haha, this way it will be easier to target it!"

Otto thought so and decided to send this message to Yulan Dell, asking her to pay attention when she was "on vacation" in the city. If she saw any cat-shaped Honkai beasts suddenly running wild in the city, she should take decisive action.

"Phew, luckily I sent Bianca a warning in advance. Otherwise, I was really worried that she would accidentally kill it, which would be troublesome..."

Otto wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

What he meant by "decisive action" was: be gentle and leave him a chance to survive.

……

On the other side, downtown Manila.

"Cat-shaped Honkai Beast? It actually requires a special reminder from the Bishop? That's weird..."

After reading the message, Youlan Dale closed the communicator with a puzzled look on his face, then continued to squat down, teasing a kitten with a strange fur color with a smile on his face.

"You little guy actually still remember to come find me?"

Youlan Dale stretched out his hand and gently scratched its exposed belly while talking to it.

"That 'cat-shaped Honkai Beast' the Bishop mentioned, isn't that you?"

Chapter 112: Top Cat Slave Youlan Dell

A kitten with peculiar patterns and purple-red markings on its forehead, inside its ears, and at the end of its tail lazily leaned against Orchid Dell's feet, closed its eyes, and enjoyed the girl's "massage service."

"That 'cat-shaped Honkai Beast' the Bishop mentioned, isn't that you?"

Yulan Dell reached out and scratched its warm and soft fur. The more he scratched, the more addicted he became. He simply broke it open with both hands, turned it over, and began to scratch its belly with a look of joy.

Well, the feel is even better than I imagined! Yulan Dell is very satisfied.

"A cat is a cat. What kind of cat-shaped Honkai beast is that? Don't compare me with those vulnerable guys!"

Stan half-opened one eye, glanced at her with some dissatisfaction, then lazily closed his eyes and even stretched a little.

"It's comfortable, keep going!"

Stan's IQ is not low, and it has become even higher after the transformation, so it can actually understand what Yulandel says.

But that's all it does; it won't understand the possible meaning behind it.

This might be an educational issue - the Jackal certainly wouldn't create a course specifically for Stan.

What's more, it cannot receive any effective education in such a short time.

In fact, the word "Honkai Beast" itself was heard from the jackal's mumbling during the process of transformation and when it was free from combat tests.

Therefore, it knew: the pink and white monsters that it tore into pieces on the training ground were called "Honkai Beasts".