Sorry, you scumbag woman, you can do whatever you want.

……

the other side.

The dark basement suddenly became bright and airy. With the activation of Honkai energy, a series of modern, high-precision medical instruments appeared, and soon it transformed into a state-of-the-art operating room.

"Is this magic?" Aponia's mouth gaped slightly as she looked at Mebius beside her, who snapped his fingers and conjured up a bunch of medical instruments. She began to wonder if magic or something similar existed in the world she lived in.

Otherwise, how could such a miraculous scene have occurred?

“This is the magic of love.” Möbius put down his snapping fingers and made up a story to Aponia. “It’s the energy of love we accumulated last night that allowed me to cast this spell of love.”

"Please, don't joke like that." Aponia gently turned her head away, her melodious voice revealing suppressed shame. She recalled the scene where she was clearly rejecting Mebius, but he became even more enthusiastic.

However, Mebius pretended not to hear, went to Aponia's side, and pulled her onto the operating table.

"Just like last night, be good." She pointed to the operating table. "Although it will hurt a little at first, you'll get used to it quickly."

"I understand." Aponia took a deep breath, clasped her hands together in prayer, and lay down on the operating table.

Then, she closed her eyes tightly and began to pray silently, letting Mebius touch her body as he pleased.

Then, her consciousness gradually fell into an abyss of incomprehension, and her five senses gradually disappeared. However, in this state of losing all senses, she seemed to possess another sense, freeing herself from the constraints of material appearances and seeing another level of the world.

The river, no… it’s… a tangled ball of hemp thread, an endlessly intertwined ball of hemp thread, so tangled that you can’t tell the beginning from the end.

Her consciousness could only follow the tangled hemp thread, repeating and cycling endlessly, and she vaguely seemed to see the era constantly being reset and reincarnated.

Until, freed from that endless cycle of threads.

I saw it—a snake.

Chapter 89

It's not easy to fool anymore.

What exactly is it?

Although it looked like a snake, it was more magnificent than any snake she had ever seen. Among the snakes currently known to be recorded, it barely exceeded ten meters in length; larger snakes only existed in the records.

However, that snake... was more magnificent than anything else. From a more macroscopic perspective, it was a monster coiled around a tree, larger than any world combined, composed of countless orbs of light from different worlds, constantly feeding on the tree's branches and leaves.

On that colossal serpent, so magnificent it defies imagination, countless civilizations rose and fell.

Is this still a snake?

This is beyond the limits of comprehension and cannot be accurately defined.

Aponia remained silent. This was beyond the comprehension of her existing knowledge system. Was it a hallucination that occurred during her surgery, or a mistaken intention arising from her inability to understand or accurately perceive it?

Do all cataract surgeries produce such strange hallucinations?

Just as she was thinking this, the snake that was coiled up in the tree and endlessly feeding suddenly turned its head and met Aponia's gaze. In the instant their eyes met,

Everything seemed to have come to a standstill.

……

...

"Aponia, did you have a nightmare?" A clear, gentle female voice came through the phone.

Gently opening her eyes, she looked toward the source of the sound and saw Mebius sitting sideways on the edge of the bed, peeling an apple without breaking the peel, like a snake coiled up.

“…I don’t know, am I dreaming?” Aponia tried to sit up to talk, but Mebius pressed her back down.

“Don’t rush, you need to rest for a while,” Mebius said. Although she had used some medical means to speed up Aponia’s recovery process, she still needed an adjustment period.

Unless Aponia has a max-level account like Fu Hua, it's impossible for her to adapt immediately and have complete control over her abilities.

It will take some time to adapt and study.

“Hmm.” Aponia did not refuse. Although she felt fine, she did not reject Mebius’s kindness. She simply steered the conversation back on track. “I dreamed of a snake that was coiled around a tree and kept gnawing on the leaves and branches.”

"Was the snake you dreamed of black?" Mebius pondered, stroking her chin. In the mythology of her previous life, there was a mythical creature that perfectly matched this image: Nidhogg, the black dragon that gnawed at the World Tree. In the legend, Nidhogg was constantly gnawing at the World Tree until he broke its roots, at which point Ragnarok would come.

That will be the time when everything comes to an end.

“No, it’s…it’s…I’m sorry, I don’t know how to describe it.” Frowning, Aponia shook her head in confusion. She didn’t know how to describe the snake she saw in her dream either; it was as if it had been heavily filtered and abstracted.

It's so unreal and hard to describe.

“It’s alright, that’s not important.” Gently shaking his head, Möbius reached out and stroked Aponia’s pretty face. “You should rest a bit more. I’ll go prepare for Velvi’s surgery.”

"Where did Miss Velve go?" Aponia asked curiously. She hadn't seen Velve since the surgery began; it was as if she had vanished.

“She went to perform magic in the square.” Mebius said, standing up and waving his hand with his back to Aponia. “She’ll come back when she’s satisfied her desire to perform and has received enough applause.”

During this time, Vervi was always with her and didn't have time to perform street magic, which was a bit difficult for Vervi. So, after entering the city, Vervi went to perform magic first.

By the time she completes her surgery, Vilvie will probably be back from her performance.

Aponia watched Mebius leave, her eyelids slightly lowered, and she clasped her hands together in prayer.

Then, she found herself becoming somewhat different.

……

……

at the same time.

At the experimental base of the Fire-Chasing Moth, surrounded by pristine white snow, the base resembles a sharp sword piercing straight into the snow.

"Strange, why does the concentration of Honkai energy seem to have increased?"

In the monitoring room, a researcher looked at the computer screen and couldn't help but frown. He began to wonder if there was a problem with the equipment. This was just a desolate snowfield, and there weren't many animals, let alone people.

Under normal circumstances, an increase in the concentration of Honkai energy usually occurs primarily in cities and highly dense industrial areas.

However, this place is a human experimentation area, with very few people and it is not a highly concentrated industrial area.

Why does the Honkai energy concentration increase?

"Forget it, let's do a manual test." With a sigh, he decided to try using other instruments to check it.

However, before that, he first reported the abnormal Honkai energy information to his superiors to prevent any unexpected incidents from leading to accountability.

He then left the monitoring room.

This is the base where the Fire Moths conduct illegal and secret research on Honkai. Their current projects are to study the connection between Honkai energy and humans, to treat Honkai disease, and to use Honkai energy to strengthen the human body and achieve breakthroughs in human limits.

There have been some results to date, at least confirming that Honkai energy can enhance the human body.

However, it's a bit... life-threatening.

after a while.

The lower level of the experimental base.

"..." The researchers, holding scanners, kept searching for anomalies in the increased Honkai energy concentration until they came to a girl with long purple hair. She was wearing a thin hospital gown, curled up against the corner of the wall, her head buried between her knees, exuding an aura of rejection.

There's no mistake, that girl is an abnormal individual.

"Hey, 10040, look up." His gaze fell on the girl, on the number written on her shoulder, and he asked, suppressing his excitement, "Have you noticed any unusual changes in yourself?"

"...It hurts so much, my body hurts so much." The beautiful girl with purple hair raised her head with a blank look in her eyes, tears rolling down her cheeks. "It feels like someone is talking in my head."

"What are you saying?" the researcher asked calmly, but the purple-haired girl shook her head and did not answer.

"Answer me, what's that voice in your head!" His tone hardened, making the girl in the cell tremble.

A moment later, I received a reply.

"Kill you all, kill you all." The girl curled up, hugging her knees tightly with both hands, burying her head in her arms.

The aura of rejection emanating from them became even stronger.

"Do you want to kill us?" The researcher interpreted the girl's words as a desire to kill everyone in the research base.

However, this was only natural; he knew that what he was doing was not human, but it was something necessary for humanity.

Technology always requires progress and sacrifice.

"..." The girl did not answer, but hugged her knees even tighter, using her actions to show her resistance and that she did not want to answer the question.

The researcher didn't force him, turned around and left the prison, and then he had a direction for his research.

And after he left.

The girl slightly raised her head, looked at the sturdy iron fence, stood up and approached it, reaching out a hand to grasp it, her fingers sinking slightly into it.

Then, she pursed her lips, withdrew her hand, returned to the corner, squatted down, hugged her knees, and buried her head in her arms.

There's no way to escape.

No, the iron bars, strong enough to trap even the most ferocious beasts, bore clear handprints.

Explaining this situation is not simple.

……

……

basement.