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

"Zheng!"

There was the sound of a blade being unsheathed in the distance.

"……continue."

Lin Wei didn't take it as an offense, but seemed to be thinking about something, and motioned him to continue.

"Even if you obtain external stigmata and force Mr. Lin Wei to move freely during the Collapse, Mr. Lin Wei's genes still do not possess much resistance to the Collapse energy. I have to say, this is a huge shortcoming. The stigmata can improve Mr. Lin Wei's resistance to the Collapse energy, but the process is slow and time-consuming after all - however, the Collapse is not far away..."

Gray Snake said, pointing to the injection in his hand,

"This gift can accelerate this process and make up for Mr. Lin Wei's regret."

"Pah! Pah..."

Lin Wei slowly clapped his hands.

"Mr. Gray Snake is indeed an excellent businessman. His words directly hit the weak spot, are well-reasoned and compelling."

Lin Wei said approvingly, then changed the subject and said in a cold voice,

"But in the end, it's just icing on the cake. It's not enough."

"Then may I ask what else Mr. Lin Wei would like?"

Gray Snake asked calmly,

"Tell me, what are your plans? What are your intentions in Manila? And what is your purpose in repeatedly plotting against me?"

Lin Wei directly clicked three times in a row.

"of course can."

Gray Snake said calmly,

"My plan is, of course: to welcome back the Lord and defeat the Honkai. This has never changed, past, present, or future."

Lin Wei frowned, this answer was too general.

"As for Manila? Haha, we have no interest in this city. The fact that we're standing here talking now is just a coincidence. If the Jackal hadn't lost track of you and happened to discover that the Valkyrie named Yuno had come to this city, you and I would be meeting in Singapore right now."

"...You mean, you don't have any plans to cause destruction in this city?"

Lin Wei frowned and asked, he was still worried about this matter and couldn't let it go.

"Of course not. Snakes don't lie."

Gray Snake said calmly,

"The Stigma Project hasn't even started yet. Furthermore, you're even in charge of its execution. Mr. Lin Wei should know better than I do what the Jackal has been working hard for all this time."

“…That makes a lot of sense.”

Lin Wei was speechless. This guy had been competing with himself and Otto wholeheartedly during this period. How could he care about the Stigmata Plan?

What's more, he had thoroughly checked the database and memory of the humanoid machine, and the Jackal had indeed not made any targeted arrangements in Manila.

So to say,

"Then it really is a natural disaster..."

Lin Wei said with some disappointment.

When natural disasters strike, how can humans stop them?

"As for your third question, Mr. Lin Wei..."

Gray Snake paused, laughed, and said,

"The answer in your own heart is the answer at this moment."

He started the Riddler act again.

"Oh? Aren't you afraid that I might be wrong and cause some misunderstanding?"

Lin Wei raised his eyebrows and sneered.

"Whatever the answer is, the snake won't mind."

Gray Snake answered seriously,

"When you travel through the wilderness and the human world, you will naturally have your own answer - and when that time comes, the Lord will naturally come and ask you: "Is it an enemy or a friend?"

Gray Snake laughed and said,

"I just hope that by that time, Mr. Lin Wei won't still consider himself a 'lost traveler.'"

This is what Lin Wei said when they first met.

"..."

Lin Wei pondered for a moment, squinting his eyes as he stared at the gray snake, digesting the information in his words. After a long moment, he raised his head and said,

"One potion is not enough, I have another request."

"Oh? Please speak."

"It's okay once, twice, but not three times. No matter what the reason, you've already schemed against me twice. I don't want it to happen a third time."

Lin Wei said,

"So, if it happens a third time, I will consider it a provocation or even a declaration of war against me. Therefore, the content of our previous deal—the promise that I will not obstruct the Stigma Project—is null and void. How do you say that?"

This agreement is one of the few constraints on Lin Wei. Now that the situation is beginning to change, Lin Wei does not want this seemingly loose agreement to become a rope that binds his hands and feet in the future.

"..."

This time, the gray snake finally lost its composure and looked Lin Wei up and down, as if it was getting to know the young man in front of it all over again.

"Oh? Why, are you planning a new trap for me?"

Lin Wei said sarcastically.

"Mr. Lin Wei misunderstood."

No matter what he was thinking, Gray Snake had to take over the conversation.

"In that case, the deal is done."

"What's the deal? Repeat."

Lin Wei had no intention of giving Gray Snake the chance to get away with it and play word games.

"From today onwards, the World Serpent will no longer take any action against Lin Wei. Otherwise, Mr. Lin Wei will rescind his promise not to obstruct the Stigmata Project."

Now, the constraints became two-way, and Gray Snake had never made such a losing business.

Lin Wei chewed over the text and was generally satisfied, so he stretched out his hand and said,

"Bring it here."

From then on, both parties said goodbye - Yae Sakura handed the jackal to the gray snake, and left first with Lin Wei.

………………

On a quiet road in the suburbs of Manila, Lin Wei and Yae Sakura were walking leisurely towards the city center as if they were taking a stroll.

"Lin Weijun..."

Yae Sakura followed Lin Wei and looked at him playing with the injection of anti-collapse serum in his hand. She looked thoughtful and asked,

"Do you want to use it now?"

For some reason, she even felt a little resistant to this, as if she had become unimportant.

If I become no longer important, where should I go?

Yaezakura felt a little panicked for a moment.

"No, you are enough for me. This icing on the cake is not important."

Lin Wei smiled, threw it to Yaezakura, and said,

"I'm just feeling a little sad. Three thousand lives are in this. Using three thousand to exchange for one of me, huh... Gray Snake really thinks highly of me. You know, even Su only used a thousand."

In the style of the World Serpent, a person's life has a quantifiable value, and no one has ever heard of anyone using such an expensive potion.

Perhaps, Lin Wei himself is the only one.

Seeing Lin Wei being so casual, Yaezakura quickly reached out to take it, so as not to drop it on the ground and get damaged. She said angrily,

“How can you carelessly keep something this precious even if you don’t use it immediately?”

Unconsciously, the inexplicable resistance in her heart had disappeared without a trace.

"Haha, Miss Sakura is right."

Lin Wei smiled slightly.

"...Really, you're not going to use it?"

Yaezakura hesitated for a moment and handed it to Lin Wei.

"With Sakura here, it's really not that important to me. Besides..."

Lin Wei laughed and repeated, then paused and sighed deeply.

"Three thousand men... the price is so heavy, how can I dare to use them so easily?"

"The World Serpent sees human life as nothing more than cold numbers, but no matter how I look at it, all I see is a mountain of corpses."

Lin Wei said, shaking his head slightly, then turned his head and glanced at the light grey liquid gently shaking in Yae Sakura's hand, and said solemnly,

"Put it away first..."

"Maybe in the future, if I meet someone who is suffering from Honkai Disease like I was in the past, I can use this thing to save his life?"

Lin Wei calculated a simple number seriously.

"Three thousand servings... can only save three people!"

The morning mist gradually dissipated, and a man and a woman walked forward slowly and firmly under the reflection of the rising sun.

Chapter 157: MVP is still outputing!

"Well……"

When the jackal woke up again, he just twisted his neck subconsciously, and the pain at the back of his neck still irritated him so much that he frowned and couldn't help but take a breath.

"hiss……"

This stimulation made me feel much more sober.

"woke up?"

A familiar voice came from not far away. It sounded very distinctive and unique. It could only be the Gray Snake.

The jackal slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he did was to reach out and touch his face to confirm that the mask was still on his face. Only then did he quickly examine his situation with great relief.

At this time, Gray Snake was driving a rather low-key business car, carrying the Jackal away from Manila. The road was surrounded by mountains and lined with green trees.

The further they walked, the thicker the primitive atmosphere of the mountain forest became. The jackal even caught a glimpse of a few monkeys wandering in the treetops in the distance. They seemed to notice the sound of the car and turned their heads to take a curious look.

The feeling of being explored by an inferior species made the Jackal frown; at this moment, she had recalled all the causes and consequences, turned her head, and looked at the empty back seat in silence.

"You just let him go like that?"

As if to save her last bit of dignity, she only glanced at the gray snake that was concentrating on driving, then turned her head to the window and asked unwillingly,

"Since you've been observing secretly for so long, and still come back empty-handed..."

At this point, she suddenly paused and said with sudden enlightenment,

"That's right. After all, it's the Key to Corrosion. Asking you to step forward is really putting you in a difficult position."

"It wasn't me who let him go, it was him who let us go."

Gray Snake still focused on driving the car, and said lightly,

"You lose, Jackal."

"you!"

This merciless statement made the Jackal furious, and then suddenly he got stuck, and then he collapsed like a tire punctured by an awl, and said weakly,

"Although I'm a little reluctant, I have to admit: you're right, Gray Snake..."