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

Chapter 13: The Nature of Erosion Power

"Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"

It was another morning, and Lin Wei was once again awakened by the various loud noises coming from upstairs.

"!"

Lin Wei stood up angrily, went upstairs and kicked the door open.

Ever since that battle, Lin Wei has never been polite to Wei Erwei. When he speaks to her, he is either sarcastic or sarcastic.

Knock on the door? No.

With a "clang", the door opened and the roar became louder without any obstruction.

"During work, refuse to receive any visitors (especially external successors) - Wei Erweiliu".

A huge blackboard stood in the corridor, with a slogan written on it in eye-catching fonts.

"I care about you?"

Lin Wei sneered and was about to push the thing that was blocking his way to the ground, but he calmed down at the moment before taking action.

He quietly retreated to the door, stretched out his hand to call out Pandora, disguised it as a pistol, aimed at the bracket at the bottom of the wooden board and fired a shot.

"boom!"

The gun went off, the support broke, and the wooden board crashed to the bottom.

I waited for a while and nothing happened.

There doesn't seem to be any trap.

"It seems I've overthought it."

Lin Wei thought about it and agreed. After all, this was the hall of the paradise of the past, not the depths of the data space. If any trouble arose, it would be quite troublesome to clean up.

Other heroes would not allow Wei Erwei to mess around here.

As Lin Wei thought about this, he put away the Key of God and walked back into the workshop.

After taking a step forward, Lin Wei felt something wrong under his feet, as if he had tripped over something.

"grass!"

Before he could react further, Lin Wei lost consciousness in a burst of electric current.

When Lin Wei woke up again, he was already in the lounge. He opened his eyes and saw the familiar ceiling. Not far away, Wei Erwei was leisurely playing with a quaint mechanical clock.

"Hey, are you awake?"

Wei Erwei seemed to sense the slight change in Lin Wei's breathing. She looked up at him and grinned, revealing a harmless smile.

"He was unconscious for a total of 24 minutes and 11 seconds, which is much longer than I expected. Unfortunately, I don't know much about biology, which is Dr. Mebius's specialty. If it were her, this period of time would be enough for her to conduct some more dangerous experiments~"

Lin Wei turned over and sat up, feeling his body up and down first, finding nothing unusual, he tried calling Pandora again, and the little black box obediently appeared in his hand as usual, quietly emitting a hidden light.

"Don't look at me like that. You asked for this. If you ignore the existence of the wooden board and keep going forward, nothing will happen. Of course, there is a high probability that you will be chased out by the 'experts' who are working. After all, you have completely dismantled the workshop deep in the paradise, and she is full of resentment now~"

Wei Erwei put away the pocket watch in her hand and calmly explained the current situation to Lin Wei, while passing on the blame.

"Really? It seems that the trap was not set for me?"

Lin Wei has never suffered such a loss before.

"Of course it's for you. After all, as a smart person, you always think more than others, and you may fall into some obvious traps because of your own cleverness."

Wei Erwei jumped up from the sofa, stretched comfortably, and then took off her hat and bowed gracefully to Lin Wei.

"This can be considered as reciprocity. After all, you did the same to me before, didn't you?"

What Weiwei was referring to was of course the ghostly "Faraday cage" and the electric shock that followed after being pierced by a sharp object.

If we hadn't been prepared in advance, we would have suffered a great loss.

I'm just a fragile scientific researcher, how dare you do that to me!

"Really? I was just cooperating with you to provide actual combat data, and I saw that you were having a lot of fun at that time."

Lin Wei sneered and no longer mentioned the plot that had just happened.

I am the one who suffered the loss. The more I keep harping on this matter, the more I appear to be an incompetent and angry loser.

And when it comes to the farce that happened deep in the paradise, the one who would be uncomfortable is Wei Wei.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Wei Wei looked a little unnatural.

"Don't mention it! You and Kevin tore it apart completely, and there isn't much left that can be used! I don't know how long it will take to restore it... Really, you two were too harsh."

"Oh, is that so? So I guess it's Paddy's paradise now?"

Lin Wei imagined the scene - Padu sneaked into the collapsed spiral workshop and called out carefully, "Sister Wei Wei"

After repeatedly confirming that the owner was not there and there was no danger around, Padu jumped onto the pile of ruins that were still warm from the fire with a look of surprise on his face. With shining eyes, he went in to search around, pulling out some strange things from time to time, and excitedly called out to someone holding a large bag of canned food to come over and take the goods...

Quite interesting~

Lin Wei was amused by the scene he imagined.

"That should be the case. Let her be. Anyway, Padu has been coveting my wealth for a long time."

Wei Erwei didn't care, instead she looked at Lin Wei teasingly.

"But if this happens, I will have to go back to this small workshop to continue working. After all, I'm bankrupt. I can't ask for too much, right?"

Wei Erwei pretended to be sad, as if she didn't notice that Lin Wei's face had turned dark.

"We will be neighbors from now on, so please take care of me!"

You're going to hurt each other, right? You're not going to be able to live like this anymore, right?

"Isn't the Paradise of the Past a data space? Wouldn't it be enough to just rewind the file?"

Lin Wei scoffed at Wei Erwei's excuse.

"Huh? You know a lot! Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you. After all, these are some data related to the Key of Corrosion. If I just read the file so easily, all these contents will be deleted. Then my work will be in vain!"

Wei Erwei spread her hands helplessly and sighed.

"So...?"

Are you really bankrupt?

Lin Wei touched his chin and looked at Wei Erwei with a strange expression. Is this scoundrel really going to bury himself in the pit?

Wei Erwei understood the meaning of half of Lin Wei's words and nodded with a bitter look on her face.

Lin Wei was delighted to receive the conclusive answer.

Good! Not a loss!

"So what did you analyze from the data?"

Lin Wei, feeling relieved, went straight to the point, which was the key content of the agreement between him and Wei Erwei.

"In terms of results, you are indeed like a monkey who has learned to pull the trigger."

Wei Wei took off her hat, pulled out a light curtain device, and tapped on it.

"After all, if an ape or monkey accidentally picked up a gun and luckily learned how to pull the trigger, it could also pose a threat to tigers, lions, elephants and even humans, right?"

Wei Erwei's tone sounded very distressed, as if Lin Wei was wasting natural resources.

"In short, you only have a vague understanding of the power of erosion, relying only on guesswork and intuition. Your use of power is even more messed up."

Wei Erwei recalled the fight before, when Lin Wei's legs were shaking weakly but he was still trying hard to stay standing, and she sneered.

"I have to admit that your compatibility with the Twelfth God's Key is higher than that between any other God's Key of the Fire Moth and its holder, including Kevin. However, it does not show a power that matches this compatibility in your hands."

Lin Wei listened in silence, without making any comment. Pandora quietly circled around his palm, flying intimately, as if to comfort him, "Don't listen to her nonsense."

"Come on, stop talking to me in that condescending tone, Vivi."

Lin Wei didn't need the Key of God to comfort himself. He was completely disdainful of the contempt in Wei Erwei's tone.

"Whether you think I am as weak as a monkey or as shallow as a monkey, that is your judgment of me. I don't care."

"I am just an ordinary mortal. I am vulnerable to Honkai and will die at the first touch. I am not an expert in fighting Honkai, nor am I a genius like you. It is natural that I know nothing about Honkai and Herrscher."

Lin Wei retracted his arm, and the circling black box slowly fell onto the table in front of him, following his line of sight, as if it were an extension of his own body.

"Vilvi, I'm not interested in playing charades with you. It's here, that's a fact, and it's mine, that's also a fact."

"If you want to try to provoke me and then experience the feeling of being 'corrupted', then you can just say so. Then go and apply to Kevin and Alicia. If your leader and deputy leader agree, I don't mind fulfilling your wish - after all, I can't guarantee that I can return you to them in the same state as before."

The black box flew up, and with a stream of light it fell behind Lin Wei and disappeared, and was taken into his body.

"If I'm not mistaken, you should have tried to find it on me while I was unconscious, but you couldn't find it, right?"

Communicating with Weiwei is like a guessing game. You have to look for the most insignificant information in her words and exclude those that are deliberately emphasized.

After all, the so-called "magic" is an art that conceals the performer's true intentions by diverting the audience's attention.

"Unfortunately, you guessed wrong. I did try to find the Twelfth God's Key on you, and I did detect it."

Wei Wei made a "you are boring" expression, and her tone was somewhat frustrated and helpless.

"But I can't separate it from you. So, as you can see, this is the result - I can't even touch it without your permission."

"Really? Then you should have been a little more ruthless to me, so that you could have had a chance to have close contact with it."

Lin Wei summoned Pandora again, watching it spin between her fingers like a coin or a basketball, and nonchalantly taunted Wei Wei.

Don't think it's very well behaved now. If you touch its threshold, it will get angry and tear you apart in minutes.

"Hey, you're going too far! You're just sitting here, okay? Stop thinking I'm as dangerous as Mobius, okay?"

Velvet cried out loudly and threw dirty water on Mebius.

"Let's make a deal. You study it carefully for me, and I'll tell you some other backdoors to control the God's Key. After all, you will encounter other God's Keys after you return to reality, right?"

“…No thanks.”

Lin Wei looked at Wei Erwei with a strange expression. Implanting a backdoor? You don't hide it at all, or do you have another purpose?

Just in case, I rejected them all.

"Have you collected almost all the data you need? Stop wasting time and tell me the conclusion directly. Or do you need me to 'cooperate with you' again?"

Lin Wei interrupted Wei Erwei's chant again with a teasing tone.

Paradise is not easy to come by, Lin Wei sighed.

Why bother? I just want to spend my time here. Weiwei, why do you keep provoking me?

(ー`?ー)

It must be said that Mei has been in this paradise for a long time, and it is not without reason that she has become irritable and sharp-tongued——

After fighting wits and courage with these guys for a long time, your nerves will become more or less abnormal.

"Okay, okay~ I think it's necessary to upgrade the firewall of Paradise to improve its ability to resist the 'Herrscher of Corrosion'."

"I remember you mentioned it once. My suggestion is to let the World Serpent use 10,000 tons of cement to block the passage outside so that no virus can get in. If 10,000 tons is not enough, add another 10,000 tons~"

Lin Wei told the joke in a neutral tone. After all, the most effective way to prevent viruses is always to unplug the network cable.

"...You and Qianjie must have a lot in common."

Wei Wei's mouth twitched, and then her eyes turned and she showed a strange smile.

"Besides, your understanding of Honkai is indeed very shallow. Who told you that the Herrscher of Corrosion can't descend directly to the Paradise of the Past?"

Lin Wei looked at Wei Erwei with even stranger eyes.

Do you think I don't know that you are related to that "Honkai Will"?

Suddenly, Lin Wei's mind jumped and he thought of another possibility -

When Mei was facing the "Will of Honkai" deep in the core of the Herrscher, the Herrscher of Corrosion was born and infected her without her knowledge.

The question is - why did the "Honkai Will" choose to release this last monster at this time? Doesn't He, who knows a lot of information about the past and the future, know that Mei will eventually return to the paradise of the past?

Lin Wei's expression became more and more serious, and his eyes became more and more vague. He discovered a possibility that he had been ignoring - the Will of Honkai was intentionally using Mei's hand to send the eroded seedlings into the paradise of the afterlife.

After all, the existence of the paradise of the past is the most favorable breeding ground for the Ruler of Erosion!

But what is the purpose of doing this?