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

Lin Wei was furious and tried his best to squeeze out his physical strength.

"...Projection·Seventh God's Key·Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment!"

A pitch-black sword surrounded by dark fire appeared in his hand. The oath of Judah disappeared, and the chains and restraints also disappeared. The Emperor of Honkai was about to regain his freedom.

You only get one chance!

Lin Wei felt a buzzing in his ears, but he forced himself to retain the power of the holy mark that was about to recede.

We have come this far, we cannot fail, we must finish it ourselves!

Now is not the time to expose Yaezakura!

Lin Wei took a deep breath, endured the buzzing eardrums and blackened vision, gathered the last bit of strength in his body, and rushed quickly towards the half-crippled Honkai Emperor who had not yet climbed up. He summoned up his remaining strength and stabbed the sword deep into the Honkai beast's body.

"Bang", energy is released!

Flames rose in his body, and even burst out from the wound of his broken arm. The surging heat made Lin Wei's mouth dry.

The Collapse Emperor wailed, and his mountain-like body collapsed for the third time, unable to struggle any longer.

"Are you dead?"

Lin Wei's strength was exhausted, but he was still worried and decided to attack again.

Put away the Key of God and unsheath the demon sword again.

Lin Wei held the scarlet demon sword in both hands, but he could not swing the sword that was intended to cut off the head. After a stalemate for a while, he finally gave up.

If I were to swing this knife, I would probably really fall into coma, and then both of us would be injured and controlled by others?

Lin Wei's reason told him that he had to leave room for himself, otherwise the only option left was to let Yaezakura step in to clean up the mess.

Then what was the point of my performance just now?

I have already tried my best, and it is time for the audience in the dark to show up.

After weighing the pros and cons, Lin Wei decided to wait.

Sure enough, the moment Lin Wei withdrew his hand, a scarlet arrow flew over and accurately penetrated the mouth of the Collapse Emperor, completely extinguishing his last ray of life.

Black feathers fell, and a petite figure appeared like a ghost. She helped Lin Wei, who was about to fall, up and injected him with a shot of medicine. After carefully examining him, she said unhappily,

"I'm like, I've only been away from home for a few days, and you've made such a big fuss about me?"

Lin Wei opened his heavy eyes and looked at the girl in front of him, his expression not surprised at all.

"Should I call you 'Natasha' or 'Raven'?"

Chapter 11: The Final Mission

The raven's "arrival as expected" confirmed Lin Wei's guess, but it did not make him feel much sense of accomplishment. Instead, he felt a little depressed.

In fact, Lin Wei still hoped from the bottom of his heart that this was just a coincidence and that he was just a clown who thought too much.

But unfortunately...

What a series of calculations! Lin Wei sneered in his heart.

Let me leave from the headquarters of the "World Snake" and let me go lightly. In the vast North African desert, can I really leave alone except by asking for help from ravens?

Do you really think he can't see that there was something wrong with that small town?

The town was too quiet, just like an ordinary rural area. Lin Wei felt out of place no matter how he looked at it.

If it really is a normal town, then since the snakes in your world have already arranged it this way, even if it is just a disguise, you have to make it a tourist city. That's reasonable, right?

After all, there is such a big pyramid nearby!

Although he had reached a gentleman's agreement with Gray Snake at that time, Lin Wei, having sensed the discord, chose not to take risks. If something unpleasant really happened, he was afraid that he would not even be able to be friends with him.

There's no harm in being a little more cautious.

Therefore, he needed to rely on the raven's hand to leave the World Serpent, and the World Serpent used the raven to keep him in sight throughout the whole process. The two sides ran in both directions until today's farce happened.

But what do they want? Hasn’t the Gray Snake already rejected them?

An absurd thought came to Lin Wei’s mind—could it really be an “observation period” or “entry assessment”?

Aren't you afraid of angering yourself?

"Don't you have anything to say?"

With a teasing smile on his pale lips, Lin Wei stared straight at Raven's scarlet eyes hidden under the hood, too lazy to be polite with her.

"Ms. Sciora, should I call you 'Natasha' or 'Raven'?"

How are you going to talk to me?

Lin Wei hates the feeling of being teased.

"Hey? Your strength has recovered well. You even have the energy to criticize."

Raven carefully examined Lin Wei's face and confirmed that he was normal. Then he expressionlessly let go of his hand and took two steps back. He walked to the mountain-like tall, yet scarred and extremely miserable corpse of the Honkai beast, and exclaimed in amazement.

"I never realized that you have such a serious tendency towards violence? Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, I'm really curious, what on earth did you experience in the paradise?"

Lin Wei didn't reply, but just looked at Raven with a look that said "go ahead".

"...Don't look at me like that, okay? I'm a mercenary after all. Mercenaries, you know, it's only natural to get paid to do something. Hey, hey...you don't really think I'm a good person, do you?"

"I don't know if you are a good person, but I certainly don't think of you as a bad person."

Lin Wei sheathed the scarlet demon sword and felt his strength recovering rapidly. The medicine that Raven had injected into him just now should be good.

"Tell me, is your employer this time World Snake? Didn't you say you had already resigned? How come you were rehired so soon?"

Lin Wei's tone was joking, and he emphasized the word "mercenary", making it sound like sarcasm or a casual joke.

"...Can you not be so blunt? I have indeed resigned. I didn't lie to you."

The raven defended himself somewhat helplessly and speechlessly.

"Have you forgotten? 'Sending you away from the World Snake' is my last mission in the organization."

What does that mean? Lin Wei was speechless.

"So you showed up so quickly because you were really waiting for me?"

"...If you say so, it's not wrong."

Perhaps because he was in the wrong, Raven did not argue with Lin Wei, but continued to explain.

"I could have just walked away at that time. After all, handing you over to Gray Snake can be considered as mission accomplished. In this way, what happened later would have nothing to do with me..."

"so what?"

Lin Wei's heart moved. It seemed that this guy had been tricked by the gray snake just like himself.

"I have some friendships with... a few of the gray snakes, and I don't want to see them die in your hands... and then have you blame them for it."

Raven deleted a lot of details and used a very illogical sentence to evade Lin Wei. Then he looked at him and thought that if he had been left there, it would be a high probability that he would have clashed with the World Snake.

Gray Snake also made preparations for both situations.

"Lin Wei, I have to remind you that although Gray Snake is afraid of your Key of God, it is not without means to counter you. Under the circumstances at that time, if there was a conflict, both the organization and you would suffer losses. This would not benefit anyone, and I don't want to see it happen."

Sure enough, Gray Snake's "deal" contained a trap. But "counterattack"?

How to counter and what to counter?

Is it to counter the Key of God, or to counter me as a person?

There is no time to think about it for now, so just write it down first.

"So you stayed there with the intention of 'getting me out of here and avoiding conflict' from the beginning?"

Raven nodded helplessly.

"I guess I'm asking for trouble... But I was the one who brought you to the headquarters, so it's reasonable for me to send you away, isn't it?"

"...What happens after that? Can't you just send me away?"

Lin Wei didn't think that Raven was a person who would plot against children, and during the more than one month that she had lived in Raven's "nest", she didn't feel any conspiracy or calculation.

"I feel sorry for you, so I'll take you in temporarily, isn't that okay?"

Raven waved his hands impatiently, wanting to end this "interrogation".

"I can't shirk my responsibility for what happened today. After all, if you were always with the children, I would still have an excuse, but now..."

Lin Wei understood what Raven meant - this place was far away from the shelter, and any fighting would not affect the children.

Okay, let’s get back to the topic.

"So what was your purpose in carefully planning this 'accident'?"

Lin Wei raised the original question again - what exactly does the World Snake want to do?

Even though Lin Wei had prepared himself mentally a year ago, this was the inevitable consequence of provoking the World Snake, and it was already much better than the worst expectations.

Even though he had already avoided Changkong City, the feeling of being "watched by a snake" was still unpleasant.

This feeling of being helpless was really annoying, and it made Lin Wei feel agitated and want to do something to regain the initiative!

"It's better not to force me..."

Lin Wei sighed in his heart. He didn't like the feeling of intrigue.

If he had a choice, he would prefer to live a quiet life, but fate is fickle.

Fate whipped him hard, forcing him to "break into" the real side of this world with the most resolute attitude, break into the card table of this "game", "grab" some chips with the most brutal attitude, and then be really qualified to sit at the card table and participate in the game.

Even though it's not what I want, it seems like he really can't quit this game.

"To be honest, I don't know either. Gray Snake just told me to give you a suitable test at the right time and in the right way."

Raven answered truthfully that she was just an executor, a tool, and a weapon.

Being used is her value. At least that's what the snake sees.

She looked up at Lin Wei, and he did the same.

That sounds very sad.

But unfortunately, in this world, the vast majority of people are not even worth being used. They live silently and die silently.

But there was nothing she could do, she could only choose to take care of herself.

"Test? Test of what? It's just a Honkai Emperor, not a high-ranking Honkai Beast. If this is the entry test for the snakes in your world, my evaluation is that it is very easy. I suggest that the difficulty be increased."

Lin Wei sneered. The World Snake was too greedy. Wasn’t it enough for him to become a shareholder as the holder of the Key of God?

Or is the purpose to evaluate my fighting ability so that I can quickly clean myself up if we turn against each other in the future?

Sitting there and waiting for death is not an option. Lin Wei's mind quickly slid to the dark side, and he began to think about how he could better "protect himself".

"…If you want to join the World Snake, I can introduce you to the Gray Snake. But you'd better not get your hopes up. If he wanted to take you into the organization, he would have mentioned it a month ago."

Raven interrupted Lin Wei's strange thoughts unhappily.

A test? You're not asking me to join the World Serpent?

What on earth is Gray Snake trying to do?

This guy's attitude is really ambiguous, neither an enemy nor a friend. On the one hand, he is plotting against me, and on the other hand, he acquiesces to Raven coming out to explain to him. Is he trying to express that he has no hostility towards me?

Is it because even with the means of "countermeasures", Gray Snake still cannot afford the cost of becoming completely its own enemy?

But if that is the case, why is it so easy to expose the information that "he is plotting against me", which should have been deeply hidden?

He had fought against himself several times before, and he should know that such crude means could not conceal himself.

So, what was his purpose in calculating himself?

Lin Wei did not hide her doubts and just looked at Raven, wanting to continue listening to her explanation.

"…Okay, stop looking at me like that. I've already told you that I don't know much."

Raven felt that he couldn't explain it clearly, so he thought for a while and said,

"I only know that before taking you away from the headquarters, Gray Snake told me the story of how David defeated Gotia and eventually ascended the throne... To be honest, he always speaks in a veiled way, and I don't always understand what he means."

The story of King David?

Lin Wei felt it was very absurd, as if he had heard the funniest joke, and laughed wantonly.