Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

Having waited patiently and made thorough preparations, he had nowhere to escape.

Suddenly everyone heard a crisp sound as gas sped through the air; to put it simply, it was a sonic boom.

“Swish, swish, swish, swish—”

Before Shen Liang could turn around, the explosion had already begun!

A black convertible supercar, a familiar Lamborghini, sped towards them carrying two women! The black-haired girl driving had a cold and stern look in her eyes, while the red-haired woman in the passenger seat had already unbuckled her seatbelt, one foot on the windshield and the other on the backrest, standing steadily with her knees bent at 200 kilometers per hour, carrying a row of triple-barreled RPG-29s!

Only a Valkyrie could wield such a brutally bound weapon! The woman didn't even install a scope; she just charged straight at Li Sushang! From the explosion, it was clear this had absolutely nothing to do with "anesthesia grenades." Yes, it was a rocket launcher. This weapon couldn't possibly be modified into an anesthesia weapon; the sheer impact was enough to kill a non-biological Valkyrie!

"Soho District Chief! Raiden Mei! You dare use this weapon? Do you want to play with explosions in the city?!" a girl shouted in terror!

"Anyway, you've evacuated the people, right? At most, it will cause some financial losses." A faint smile appeared on Raiden Mei's cold and beautiful face. "The Raiden family should be able to afford it. If they can't, then let the Shaniat family pay for it. I believe they would be very willing."

Some of the Valkyries who participated in the battle couldn't hold back anymore. The biggest aftershocks they caused in this battle were only cracks in some building exteriors and floor tiles, but Raiden Mei's attack had already collapsed a coffee shop! And it seems that she doesn't care how much damage she caused at all; she actually came to support Shen Liang!

"Sister Mei?" Shen Liang was taken aback.

He never expected Raiden Mei to rush out; in his mind, he had already prepared himself for all the Valkyries in the entire Schicksal headquarters to be his enemies.

Himeko's six rockets forced Li Sushang to retreat! The biggest problem with the Mind Lake's clarity is that it cannot be disturbed. The vast Sword Lake requires Li Sushang to enter into meditation to maintain it. Originally, she could use it with peace of mind when surrounded by her own people, but who would have thought that there would be uninvited guests at this time!

“Even the Schicksal headquarters doesn’t have the ability to get everyone to work together. It’s just that all my weapons and equipment have been confiscated, so even if I came out to help, I wouldn’t be of much help.” Raiden Mei suddenly braked beside him and jumped out of the car. “I specially took my men to the police station and the Siberian gangs to steal some equipment, which took a while. Junior brother, I’m sorry for being late.”

"This is about dealing with an S-rank Valkyrie; we can't do it without some serious equipment." Himeko, in the passenger seat, gave Shen Liang a mischievous smile. "Young man, judging from your expression, do you think your senior sister has betrayed you too?"

Shen Liang didn't know how to answer.

"That's my! Junior! Brother! Hand him over!" A furious shout came from the sky, "Raiden Mei! Himeko! Are you betraying headquarters?!"

Li Sushang was absolutely furious. One after another, it was the same! Unexpected events kept popping up! Even though Raiden Mei and Himeko were not even aware of the plan, and were given leave and even stripped of their weapons to ensure its stability, they still managed to show up!

You could have just pretended you knew nothing! Or are you saying you're not going to work at Destiny Headquarters anymore!?

"Betrayal? Fine, I'll just go back to Japan then." Himeko shrugged.

“St. Freya will not abandon any student. Although my junior brother is only a prospective student... he is Kiana’s man after all.” Raiden Mei said calmly, “He is the off-campus boyfriend of a second-year high school student, the headmaster’s nephew-in-law, and my best friend’s man. For both personal and professional reasons, I, as his senior, have to help him out.”

"Where does this whole relationship go from here! You're clearly just trying to get ahead!" Li Sushang was furious!

"You can drive, right?" Raiden Mei watched him get into the driver's seat, then saw Kirin transform into a beautiful girl and jump into the passenger seat with Sirin. She was slightly taken aback, then smiled, "Junior brother really does have a way with women wherever he goes."

Chapter 59 Even if the Holy Maiden's child points a gun at me

Shen Liang can drive, of course. This car is the one he drove when he went shopping with Xilin before. He didn’t expect that the car Xilin borrowed was Raiden Mei’s own car.

"But can you stop them?" Sirin held Gan Yu, who was sitting obediently in her arms, and stared at Raiden Mei with suspicion.

Raiden Mei glanced at her with a hint of disdain in her eyes, while Sirin narrowed her eyes instantly, her expression equally hostile.

"I'm entrusting my junior brother to you. You must ensure his well-being. You are Kiana's older sister; don't let Kiana be sad." Raiden Mei didn't answer, but instead said coldly.

Celine paused for a moment, then asked, "What do you mean?"

"That's what I mean."

“You’re Kiana’s best friend, and so are you. Don’t hurt her.” Sirin sneered. “As for me, a mere human, I’m not your concern. You have no right to interfere.”

By this time, the other Valkyries had recovered from their shock and were about to stop the sports car. The tall, slender swordswoman pulled a white umbrella from behind her back, casually shaking off the canopy to reveal its true form: a pure blue particle cutting blade.

“Magnetic Storm, the second weapon ME designed for me. Because it was disguised with an umbrella, headquarters didn’t take it away.” Raiden Mei, with her back to Shen Liang, pressed the fingerprint lock on the tsuba, unfolded the light blade, and suddenly said, “It’s a matching weapon with the ‘Raikiri’ I gave to my junior brother. It even has Mei’s name engraved on it. I wonder if my junior brother still keeps the sword that Mei gave you?”

Shen Liang's face turned pale instantly. He suddenly remembered that he had given the knife to Ayaka Kamisato to play with.

Not receiving an immediate response, Raiden Mei sighed softly.

"Did you give it to some pretty girl? That's really too much, junior brother." Raiden Mei said softly, "If Mei gives you anything again, you can't just give it to anyone. It's a girl's sentiment, so you have to remember it carefully."

The helpless yet indulgent tone made Himeko suddenly feel a little guilty, and she dared not meet the kind and pure eyes of this yakuza young lady.

"I swear, I won't do it again." Shen Liang felt a rare sense of shame for his playboy behavior.

"Then let's go quickly. Although I don't know why you want to run away, there must be a reason. If there is a reason, we don't need to ask." Raiden Mei smiled slightly. "Junior brother, and if the young lady of the Shaniat family is determined to go against headquarters, then it must be that headquarters has done something unethical. That's what we all believe."

Shen Liang and Xi Lin finally understood.

So that's how it is... So that's how it is... They didn't even know what had happened. They didn't understand why Shen Liang and the others wanted to escape, or why they were going against Otto. They simply trusted him unconditionally, not for any other reason than that he couldn't be wrong, because he was Shaniat's child.

Shen Liang suddenly noticed that Raiden Mei had just used the word "we". Although she and Himeko could also use "we", generally two people would use their names instead, and "们" always refers to three or more people.

"Let's go!" Raiden Mei slammed the car door shut, then turned her head to look at the sports cars that appeared one after another at the end of the road.

"I told you we should have come in a Bugatti! Do you know how many laps the SoHo district manager gave us!" The tanned beauty, "genius" Patrick, slammed his fist on the steering wheel, then got out of the car carrying a rocket launcher exactly like Himeko's. "It's so embarrassing! I can't even outrun a girl who's not even twenty!"

“My car isn’t much slower than a Lamborghini! It’s all because you hit the road sign that we weren’t the first to arrive! Hi Pandora, you’re so cute. It’s a pity we’re in a rush, otherwise I would definitely pick you up and lift you high in the air.” Shub winked at Shen Liang from afar. “Don’t you recognize me? Didn’t the Holy Maiden tell you about me? We are her personally trained soldiers. It was agreed that if the Holy Maiden gave birth to a son, we would all have to be her child brides.”

"Stop talking nonsense. The Shaniat family can't produce boys at all; that's just a joke. Besides, Pandora isn't the Saintess's son." This time, it was a Valkyrie who got out of another car, someone Shen Liang didn't recognize.

"It doesn't matter. If it's Pandora, I'd be happy to raise him from a young age." Salome was a cold girl. Although Shen Liang knew she was over thirty, because all the Valkyries who followed Cecilia back then were probably over thirty now.

"Don't try to take advantage of her, you Snow Wolf Squad! Ever since Pandora became famous, you've been trying every means to get close to her. Everyone knows what you're thinking! Are you only after Pandora's body? You clearly want to get pregnant so you can use the tradition of keeping the Shaniat family bloodline from flowing out to marry into the family, so you can see the Holy Maiden every day, right? And have the Holy Maiden call you daughters-in-law!" More and more unfamiliar Valkyries appeared.

"Kira, Kira didn't mean it that way, oh my god... this is too sinful." Shigure Kira looked at her teammates from the Snow Wolf Squad in shock. "At most, I just wanted to be Pandora's stepmother... but you want to call me stepmother?"

Sports cars, sedans, and even helicopters were parked, and the Valkyries who disembarked were fully armed. Li Sushang stared in astonishment at these beautiful but actually older Valkyries, some of whom had even distinguished themselves in battle. Most of these Valkyries were the backbone of Schicksal, with an average age of over thirty, and most of them, while holding A-rank status, possessed a wealth of combat experience rarely seen among the younger generation.

Li Sushang saw many people among them who were fully aware of Otto's plan to establish a heavenly kingdom on earth. She even saw the South American branch leader, who strongly supported Otto, but at that moment, the leader dared not meet her gaze. She couldn't understand it, she couldn't comprehend it.

"Hard to understand?" Himeko lit a cigarette and looked up at Li Sushang in the sky.

"When exactly...did you all gather together?" Li Sushang had a vague feeling that Otto's calculations were about to go wrong.

“I heard that you and His Holiness the Bishop are both over five hundred years old. So you probably know Otto better than any of us,” Himeko exhaled a smoke ring, “but you probably still don’t know Her Holiness the Saintess.”

Li Sushang was stunned.

"If the children raised by the Holy Maiden pointed guns at us, we would only think that we must have committed an unforgivable crime and had our memories erased."

"A bunch of fanatics." Li Sushang gritted her teeth, looking at the Lamborghini that had already fled far away.

But she couldn't chase after them, because countless powerful Honkai energies had already locked onto her. Compared to her, who had been guarding Shanhaiguan for five hundred years, these older Valkyries were even more skilled at fighting and killing. Even though they were of higher cultivation levels, she dared not let her guard down for a moment.

"Come on, Miss Su Chang, let me show you the progress humanity has made in the last five hundred years!!" a Valkyrie shouted boldly. "Let's start the battle! Let's also see the prowess of an S-rank Valkyrie!"

"You're cheating! You're cheating!"

Holy crap, my leave request didn't go through.

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Chapter Sixty: The Poison of the Night Owl

"Raven, Raven, please respond. Destiny Headquarters failed to achieve an effective interception. The hostages are out of control. Young Master and Young Lady have left London and are heading towards Munich along the highway. They are expected to arrive within three hours." A woman's voice came through the earpiece.

“Received. Three hours? Jackal, did you hear me right? Destiny has shut down all the airports, and the British government has tacitly taken control of the airspace. It’s at least a thousand kilometers from London to here. You’re saying they’ll arrive in three hours?” Raven asked, leaping back and forth among the city buildings to dodge the indiscriminate attacks of the giant ice block in the sky, while clutching the silver briefcase engraved with an ouroboros.

Inside was a disassembled AW50F.

This weapon is a bolt-action sniper rifle, manufactured by Precision International in the UK, and is highly favored by agents within the World Snake organization. Its standard ammunition combines penetrating, high-explosive, and incendiary effects in a single shot, with an effective range of two kilometers. It is highly effective against armored vehicles, field fortifications, buildings, and ammunition depots.

But in the hands of the Raven, this weapon is often not used for anti-materiel purposes.

It could even be said that the so-called anti-materiel sniper rifle is just a disguise, and the true purpose of this gun is to assassinate the most powerful beings on Earth.

She looked up at the sky, where a blue ice ball, supported by several icicles touching the ground, hung high in the air, like some kind of pupa waiting to emerge from its cocoon. But insect cocoons are disgusting, while clear ice is different; refracting the seven colors of sunlight, it looks almost sacred, reminding the raven of a cathedral with stained glass windows.

Munich's city center is deserted. The Herrscher of Ice's domain is indiscriminately eliminating living beings. Whenever life is detected, massive ice spikes erupt from anywhere and shoot towards it. The affected person immediately dodges and hides to avoid being detected by Anna. The domain now encompasses three city blocks. Fortunately, World Serpent had already made evacuation preparations. Those remaining in the city are likely Valkyries, World Serpent's, Schicksal's, or… Schariac's.

After "Herrscher Resurrection" was injected into Anna's body, her changes became completely out of control. World Serpent used large doses of liquid nitrogen to freeze Anna, even freezing the entire Bode Tower, in order to slow down her metabolism as much as possible and prevent Anna from being eroded too quickly, leaving no time for rescue. Now, the expulsion of the living from the domain is entirely a natural effect of being a Herrscher; Anna may not even have awakened from the freeze yet.

The process went smoothly. Schicksal's S-rank arrived even faster than the Schariac family, so this was now Schicksal and World Serpent's domain. Durandal's appearance relieved Raven, as she had always doubted whether liquid nitrogen could calm Anna. After all, Anna was the Herrscher of Ice; how could an Ice Herrscher be frozen?

With Durandal's arrival, there's nothing to fear. Even if Anna breaks free from the ice, the invincible Durandal would likely be able to defeat her. Therefore, she wouldn't need to use the AW50F; she still harbors some reservations and is unwilling to shoot an innocent girl.

After all, she knew better than anyone else about the intimacy between Shen Liang and Anna; their feelings, hidden beneath the surface, were always so fragile. Yet, even with Anna's fragile nature, Raven still chose to bury her hopes, turning the lovers into a tragedy.

This feeling was awful; Raven felt incredibly ugly, but she couldn't deny it. She could only hope that the one who had captured Anna wasn't herself.

"They came in a sports car, a supercar that ME Company modified for Valkyrie! It can easily break 500 km/h!" Jackal said angrily in the headset. "If it weren't for their poor driving skills and having to dodge pedestrians, they would have arrived in two hours! These DIY enthusiasts' modification skills are even better than Mikoyan Design Bureau! Our mass-produced sports cars haven't even broken the 500 km/h mark yet!"

"You sound like you're in a hurry?" Raven said casually.

"Of course I'm anxious! I was already surprised enough when the Lord suddenly asked me to pay attention to those two little ones, but I even raised the alert level for Pandora and Sirin, and Destiny even sent an S-class Valkyrie to show that they were important! But look what happened, even the S-class Valkyrie couldn't stop them, you should understand what that means!" Jackal practically yelled into his headset.

"Does that mean the two of them represent S-class combat power?"

"To escape from an S-rank enemy, they're probably at this level. This level of unexpected situation could disrupt our entire plan! Why don't you seem surprised at all?"

“Then let’s resolve this within three hours. Our original plan didn’t require the young master and young lady to interfere, right? Even if they lose control, they’re just outsiders.” Raven said in a low voice, “I admire a man who would do anything for his woman. It’s a pity that even if he drove a sports car at four or five hundred miles per hour, fought his way through obstacles, and risked his life, he couldn’t accomplish anything.”

After a long silence, Jackal's contemptuous voice rang out, "You're not starting to feel sorry for this young couple, are you? Being sentimental isn't like a mercenary like you."

"I was just rambling... After all, if the experiment succeeds, World Serpent will have one more controllable Herrscher. I can tell whether this significant research achievement or an innocent girl is more important. Besides, Night Owl will treat her very well... I think so."

She looked at the owl who was hiding on the second floor of a library, operating the equipment.

Chains shot out from the device, piercing through the solid ice encasing Anna—a layer of ice a full twenty meters thick—via an extremely powerful jet. This device was provided by the Destiny Headquarters, and the chains were made of Soul Steel, the toughest known material on the transcendental level, said to have been used to forge the Key of God during the Fire Chasing Era.

The owl looked up, expressionless, as the pure white chain pierced through the ice, then activated its second stage of power from the other side, deeply anchoring itself in another building. There were four such chain devices, meaning four chains pierced through the ice, and judging by their positions, the Soul Steel Chain also pierced through the girl's body inside the ice as it did so.

Because the chains, though pure white, were stained with bright red blood.