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

The men in the cleanup team brought out more than twenty XM25s, a direct-fire airburst grenade launcher developed by the U.S. Army. The original idea was to use advanced aiming and fire control systems to fire 25mm grenades and time the airburst for a precise strike above the enemy. However, due to the extremely long and expensive development cycle, this ideal design was ultimately scrapped, the XM25 project was cancelled, and the airburst grenade launcher remained only a cherished fantasy for some military enthusiasts.

But Destiny took over the design, and this extremely precise and destructive individual weapon was equipped on the special forces accompanying the Valkyrie. Its maximum ammunition capacity made it powerful enough to destroy armored vehicles. Dozens of grenades were concentrated and detonated at the spot where Rita's scythe had cut open. The massive flames and explosions nearly shattered everyone's eardrums, even though there was prior preparation.

The giant snake finally felt the pain. It struggled to pull its body out of the rock wall, raised its head, and let out an extremely terrifying hiss!

Snakes don't roar, but Honkai Beasts are different; they sense that they are being injured. The people of Tallinn 1600 years ago didn't possess firepower of this level. Judging solely from physical damage, the firepower of modern technology is absolutely superior to that of the Valkyries!

So it finally opened its eyes.

Those were scarlet eyes, huge, narrow, and sinister, like seeing a car with only its taillights on, speeding towards you in reverse in the dead of night, creating an overwhelming sense of oppression.

It coldly surveyed everyone present, then fixed its gaze on Rita. Although it had transformed into a silicon-based life form, its beastly instincts told it clearly what the greatest threat was here. The weapons wielded by those tiny people were dangerous but not lethal, while this female human possessed a terrifying power originating from the same source as it.

It twisted its neck, and the snake's head was about to pounce on Rita!

"Detonate," Rita whispered.

The fragmentation mines that had been planted near the snake's head exploded with a deafening roar!

We're waiting for it to open its eyes. We must blind it first before we can fight it without worry! It might not take long for it to regenerate an eye, but that will be enough time!

Rita gripped the scythe in reverse, instantly leaping into the air. Honkai energy flowed simultaneously through her body and the scythe—the Honkai energy of an S-rank Valkyrie—instantly boosting her speed and power to a level unimaginable to any living being.

This is the power that can rival Honkai Beasts. With the full power of an S-rank Valkyrie, they can even kill a Blue Whale with their bare hands in a minute.

The scythe drew a beautiful crescent moon as Rita stood high in the sky before slashing down!

She wouldn't shout slogans like "Slash!" "Kill!" or "Can you withstand this blow?" during a fight; that wouldn't fit her character. She was a gentle, charming, and understanding maid, not some fierce and invincible battle maniac. But this strike was truly dangerous and beautiful; the moment Aphrodite slashed down was as radiant as the bright moon in the sky.

Even the giant snake seemed momentarily dazed by the bright white light of the blade, as if it had seen the long-lost moonlight deep underground. But it was blind, so when it reacted, it desperately twisted its head and then relentlessly bit at Rita! Rita used the blade to protect herself, leaping and twisting in the air, her scythe slicing horizontally, clashing with the giant snake's fangs with a metallic clang.

A human and a snake battled in mid-air! No one could lock onto the battle with their eyes; the dynamic vision of an ordinary person simply couldn't keep up with Rita's speed. Her slender figure and snake head flew together, leaving only a hazy, fleeting shadow.

Chapter 150 I have horns on my head, horns

"What's inside? What are you two and Dean Cocolia hiding from me?" Shen Liang sighed.

“Yes…” Rosalia’s eyes darted around, as if she had come up with a brilliant plan. “By the way, brother, don’t you like animal-eared girls the most?”

"I never said I liked kemonomimi (animal-eared girls)."

"That game on your phone called Ark, it's full of kemonomimi girls!"

"Even if I like you, what does it have to do with you?" Shen Liang glanced at her sideways. "You better explain what's in these two boxes."

"The ancestral fetishes of the Chinese are white stockings, lolis, and beast girls, right?" Rosalia looked at him cautiously. "Brother, do you think Rosalia already meets the first two... only the last one is missing?"

Shen Liang glanced at Lilia and noticed that the blue-haired loli was also silent. He roughly guessed what was in the box and remained silent for a while.

"Is this why you were able to become Valkyries?" Shen Liang patted the two little girls' heads, squatted down, and looked at them. "Human modification?"

“To be precise… it’s genetic modification,” Lilia said softly. “In order for us to survive, Mother Cocolia had to make us adapt to Honkai energy, but there aren’t many children who can adapt to Honkai energy… We’re not geniuses like Bronya and Seele, so we can only undergo Honkai Beast gene transplantation.”

Shen Liang's heart skipped a beat. He had never heard of the term "Honkai Beast" before, but he was keenly aware that it was not a good word.

"Honkai Beasts are, how should I put it, born from the will of the Honkai God, a manifestation of malice towards human civilization," Anna said. "You can learn more about the specifics later. All you need to know is that Honkai Beasts are enemies of civilization. From ancient times to the present, these creatures have always been hunted down before they threaten human civilization, which is why they are so rare."

"Honkai Beast gene transplantation technology also exists in Schicksal," Anna added. "However, in Schicksal it is a very mature technology, while in other forces... this technology would never be mature and would inevitably have side effects."

"The aftereffect is..." Rosalia said with a mournful face, "...that I will turn into a half-human, half-Honkai beast."

“To adapt to human society, Cocolia’s mother gave us inhibitors, which will allow us to remain undetected for a year.” Lilia looked up cautiously at Shen Liang’s expression. “But if the time is up, or if we are given a catalyst during the inhibition period, we will revert to our original form… Actually, Lilia doesn’t think that form is scary, it’s just that my brother won’t be able to stand it.”

"Is this the catalyst?" Shen Liang looked at the box. "What will happen after you use it? Be specific."

“It has horns on its head and a tail behind it,” Rosalia whispered.

Anna didn't quite understand why Rosalia sang those ten words. Although she seemed worried that Shen Liang would hate them and was about to cry, she still sang them.

"Is that all?" Shen Liang asked, dissatisfied. "Where are the animal ears?"

Rosalia and Lilia were taken aback.

"How could a beast girl not have beast ears? Although most beast girls with horns don't have beast ears, I personally prefer them to have beast ears, even if it means having four ears." Shen Liang said seriously, "You guys underestimate furry lovers, okay? Do you think I can't stand it? Horns and tails are not enough at all. Will you grow hooves? I play Soraka quite aggressively."

"It only has horns and a tail."

After injecting the catalyst, Shen Liang stroked his chin, carefully observing the changes in the Arlene sisters. The drug worked very quickly, supposedly because Cocolia knew that using the catalyst would inevitably lead to a battle, so a slow process was unlikely.

"Brother..." Rosalia's face flushed red, "Rosalia is about to transform..."

"Oh."

Rosalia felt hot and swollen...

"Oh."

"Ugh, brother, I can't hold it in anymore... It feels like something's about to come out..."

"Hurry up and transform!" Shen Liang's face darkened. "Don't make it sound so suggestive. You definitely have something coming out, you're going to grow a tail!"

Then Shen Liang saw that white and black silicon horns had grown on the tops of Rosalia and Lilia's heads, respectively. He wanted to touch them, but held back. "Does it hurt?"

“It doesn’t hurt, it’s not growing from bone.” Lilia shook her head. “It doesn’t hurt at all. Cocolia’s mother said it’s a product of Honkai energy materialization, so you can touch it as much as you want, brother.”

Shen Liang then stroked the two sisters' horns with relief, and then saw the two sisters wiggle their buttocks and let their tails out from under their skirts.

"There's no hole in the back of my skirt!" Rosalia said angrily. "It's so uncomfortable! I can't wag my tail anymore!"

Then the two women took two devices out of the box and attached them to the tips of their tails. One of them was a bionic robotic hand that could grasp. This allowed the Arlene sisters to utilize their tails as a third hand.

“The Honkai energy intensity has increased significantly.” Anna suddenly said, “Shen Liang, you asked me before what your two younger sisters’ strength level was. At that time, I could only feel that they were barely beginners. But now that the suppression has been lifted, the sense of danger they give me is enough to prove their strength. They are at least B-rank Valkyries. If they were given enough weapon support, like you are now… they might even reach A-rank strength certification.”

"The director sent us all this... he's really worried we might mess things up." Shen Liang chuckled silently. He had never felt the orphanage so important before, even though they couldn't communicate with us from a distant battlefield, they still managed to send support.

Perhaps if he hadn't stepped into the realm of the extraordinary, he would never have known this side of the people in the orphanage. These sisters would have protected him well, keeping him forever away from the dangers of the extraordinary realm, and allowing him to remain an ordinary, well-off light novel writer.

However, that would not be good. That would only belong to two different worlds, and people from two different worlds would eventually drift apart no matter how much they depended on each other.

Shen Liang absolutely did not want to drift apart from his sisters. What he wanted was forever, to love each other forever, to be together forever, to always leave his sisters their own bedroom, to always make breakfast for all five of them, to always let them sit in his lap while eating popcorn and watching horror movies, and to always be able to wake up to see their adorable faces, drooling in their sleep.

"Can Rosalia and Lilia fight alongside their brother now?" Rosalia looked up at her brother and asked expectantly.

"Perhaps I should be the one asking you this." Shen Liang ruffled her soft pink hair. "Did you hear that earthquake? It's time. Let's go rescue Bronya and Seele, and take back everything we want!"

Chapter 151 A fight is taking place here, but there are also audience seats over there.

As researcher Clyde said, much of this Honkai Beast's power has been worn away over countless years. After all, it is a living being, and its dormancy also consumes power, which it has nowhere to replenish.

Therefore, it currently lacks the strength of a Judgment-class Honkai Beast; it can even be injured by artillery fire. However, this is only because it has just awakened and is in its weakest state. If it is allowed to break out and reach a human city, it will soon recover to its full strength.

At that time, perhaps only a bunker-buster nuclear bomb could solve the problem.

"Bombard!" Rita sliced ​​open the giant snake's vital spot, the heart of most snakes. The previous drilling had already excavated nearly half of that spot, so Rita had been attacking this weak point.

The giant serpent possesses immense vitality, frantically healing this area. However, Rita's scythe is coated with a Honkai energy fission drug that causes genetic collapse, and her own Honkai energy also acts on the wound, widening the fissure and rendering it unable to heal.

The cleanup team lived up to expectations; they threw their small cluster bombs faster than Rita gave the command, and the automatically detonating barrage covered Rita and the snake's wounds without leaving any gaps.

They wouldn't consider whether Rita could escape. Humans and Valkyries working together couldn't be expected to understand each other using their own logic. With Rita's strength, she would surely escape; they only needed to trust her. And if Rita couldn't escape, then they would die together. Fate didn't care about sacrifice, as long as it was necessary.

Moreover, if we can't kill this snake, then none of us will have a chance of survival.

The giant snake struggled wildly. It was blind, but it still sensed danger that could tear it apart. It tried to twist its body to avoid the attack, but Rita's assault left it breathless. Before the cluster bomb hit, it lunged at Rita in a rage, as if to take her down with it, but the maid simply stepped lightly on its nose and used the momentum to nimbly dodge a hundred meters away.

"boom!"

Cluster bombs exploded, and thousands of small fragmentation bombs detonated on the giant serpent's body! The force of the explosion finally tore through its impenetrable scales, flesh and blood ripped apart, and purplish-black monster blood gushed from the wounds. It howled in agony amidst the flames that nearly destroyed the entire tomb, but still crawled rapidly toward Rita's location. Its scarlet serpent eyes had recovered, filled with surging killing intent.

Rita curled her lips into a smile, completely unconcerned about the giant snake's attack, because she sensed the bluff behind this madness.

Charge on! The more a beast fights for its life, the more ferocious it becomes, the more it proves its weakness.

This is what is meant by the struggle of a cornered beast.

“It seems like Destiny has a significant advantage,” Black Seele whispered to Bronya.

They were hiding in a safe location, at least two hundred meters away from the battle in the tomb tunnel. Now, not many people cared about them anymore, leaving only one A-rank Valkyrie in charge. Although that Valkyrie was also anxiously watching Rita and the giant serpent's fierce battle, she had no time to pay attention to anything else.

“No wonder the Chosen Ones haven’t been attacking my brother. That makes sense; ensuring the safety of this place is more important than my brother. Bronya initially thought that sending an S-rank Valkyrie was a waste of their talents, but now it seems they’re not there to defend against others, but rather to defend against this Honkai Beast.” Bronya stared intently at the battle. “It seems we don’t have a chance to intervene.”

They were speaking Siberian, which the Valkyrie guard couldn't understand at all.

“Indeed, no. Although I don’t want to admit it, Seele’s strength is at most B-level. Even if I were to control her, she could only reach A-level at most. Most of the people in our orphanage are at this level.” Black Seele stroked her chin. “How to seize the treasure is indeed a problem… It seems that even if Brother Liang came, we would only become three useless people instead of two, or maybe five.”

"Five useless things?"

"Do you think those two idiot sisters won't come? They're obsessed with Liang-gege and won't let go. They've been working on marrying him since seven or eight years ago. They're like sickly fangirls. They're always clinging to him, saying 'brother, feed me' and 'brother, sleep with me.' People who don't know them would think they're siblings... Pshaw, they're just adopted sisters with no blood relation."

"Is Seele jealous of Rosalia and the others?" Bronya asked casually.

“How would I know if Seele is jealous or not? Anyway, I am…” Black Seele stammered, then glared at her angrily, “You’re so annoying, don’t try to trick me!”

“I’m not trying to trick you; I’m asking you directly. As for Seele, Bronya will ask her herself,” Bronya said calmly. “However, Bronya has to refute one point: Schicksal’s advantage doesn’t seem to be that great.”

"Hey, weren't we talking about Brother Liang? How did we suddenly get back to this topic?"

“The people from Schicksal were only focused on studying the snake; they didn’t pay attention to the surroundings. But after I was captured, I’ve been observing this tomb the whole time. As an agent, this is part of our professional ethics,” Bronya said.

Hei Xi was quite embarrassed to admit that she had been so angry about being captured that she hadn't observed anything at all.

“There is an underground river here, and the researchers from Destiny are probably all biology majors, so it is very illogical that they did not realize that an underground river exists here.”

"What's unreasonable about it?"