Transform into a human

Backstage, Deefu was smiling as she looked at the girl before her:

"Bai, I'm sorry to trouble you this time. Luo An has caused too much trouble. We can only salvage her reputation, or rather, our team's reputation, through some unconventional means."

The white-haired girl pursed her lips. Not only was her hair white, but even her eyelashes and pupils were white. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't even tell the whites of her eyes from her pupils.

So her name is Bai.

Being a northerner is not a pleasant name. Although the northern planet is covered in white snow, northerners like red, which represents vitality, green, which represents life, and black, which represents the endless starry sky, but they dislike white.

She was the stand-in prepared by the Loan family for Winona. Although she also followed the path of a rebellious son, she was proficient in combat skills. It was she who helped Winona establish her reputation as the "Battle Diva".

"It's okay, it's not the first time anyway," Bai said nonchalantly, wrapping the bandages around her hands. "So where did she go?"

"Uh, that's not something I can easily tell you..."

Winona's whereabouts involve the core secrets of the Luo family, so it's impossible for her to go around spreading rumors.

Diefu was slightly embarrassed, but Qiqi didn't care; she never bothered to care about Bai's feelings.

She clapped her hands, and the staff pushed the cage up, inside which was a very beautiful feathered beast.

The feathered beast remained quietly in its cage, resembling a peacock in appearance, but its phoenix head was empty except for its beak. Instead, each feather tipped with an abyss-like eye that sent chills down one's spine when it looked at a certain spot.

"This is a new alien beast bred by the Mountain and Sea Research Institute through genetic programming. [Huiguan] is the one you will be fighting this time."

Bai remained silent.

Qi Qi waved her hand irritably: "I know what you're thinking, and don't blame us for telling you right before we go on stage. Do you really think it's easy to find a suitable beast for a performance?"

"Those lunatics at the Mountain and Sea Research Institute produce all sorts of ugly monsters. It was rare to find a suitable one, but the level of secrecy was ridiculously high. The family spent a lot of effort to create it—and even then, they still required it to die on stage, and not a single bit of its biological information, such as its blood, could be leaked."

That's right, this is the plan that Deeford came up with to reverse public opinion. He wants "Winona" to fight against beautiful monsters while singing loudly!

You're questioning the combat prowess of the Battle Songstress? Then let's show you all what she's made of!

She believes this will surely be an immortal monument in art history!

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Bai," the lady said apologetically again. "Too many people are watching this performance, so we can't use the methods we usually do."

In the past, Winona's acts of fighting evil always had an element of showmanship. For example, in the previous "unintentionally filmed video," when she stormed into the pirate's lair, a high-ranking official had already completed mind control beforehand.

But today's performance must be a real battle; as a timeless classic, it cannot tolerate any flaws.

Bai glanced at the strange beast Huiguan and suddenly asked, "What level of strange beast was it originally?"

Diefu and Qiqi exchanged a glance:

"It seems you guessed it, but this is a top federal secret, and I hope you can keep it a secret."

"It was genetically locked in the laboratory beforehand, and was originally a level three alien beast."

A level three mythical beast! Equivalent to a flower-adorned hermit!

This news is truly earth-shattering. If humanity's enemies knew about it, they would probably immediately launch a war against the Mountain and Sea System!

After all, the Flower-Haired Warriors are considered the backbone of the military systems of all civilizations, and now humans are actually able to create beasts of the same extraordinary level, even if they are still in the laboratory stage... The future prospects are enough to make people shudder.

That would be an invincible biological army.

In fact, even though humanity has created an additional "capable human system" outside of the "extraordinary human system" through pioneering wars, the attempt to explore other extraordinary paths has never stopped. The "monster system" is one of them.

As the remains of ancient gods, tearstones produce extremely strong "radiation" when their purity reaches a critical value. Scientists have been trying to mass-produce relics and extraordinary creatures by controlling the radiation environment, and this shroud is the latest achievement.

One can't help but admire the power of the Luo An family, which is able to "borrow" even such "top secret results".

Just then, Bai suddenly did something that caught Diefu and Qiqi off guard: she reached her arm through the cage and gently brushed against the dark and beautiful feathers.

Fortunately, the tranquilizer's effects hadn't worn off yet. The beast simply stared coldly at the girl with countless eyes, lost in thought.

"Alright, alright," Qiqi pulled her away, "We're about to go on stage, let's get ready in advance."

As she spoke, mysterious ancient inscriptions flickered on her fingertips. As one of the members of the core team that the Luo family had assigned to Winona, Qiqi was a highly skilled skin-painting artist.

As she described it, Bai gradually transformed into the pink-haired girl they were familiar with.

Perhaps out of distrust of Bai, or perhaps due to her understanding of the path to becoming a rebellious son, the noblewoman, taking advantage of the "makeup" opportunity, did not forget to instruct him:

"The rest of the Vanrentine family have been doing quite well, haven't they?"

The girl trembled slightly for a moment; Baihua Vanrentin was her real name.

"Many small and medium-sized tribes started a civil war in the North back then, but very few survived. You should know very well why the Vanrentine family has survived to this day—it is the mercy of the Loren family."

"In comparison, you might as well look at the territories of the other five great families. For one thing, the Dimitrov family has managed to ensure that their city has only one surname ever since."

The noblewoman maintained her usual gentle tone, but the content of her words was colder than the northern wind:

"It was Qiqi and I who chose you three years ago. Otherwise, let alone embarking on the path of the extraordinary, you would still be in the slums of Winter City, spending your days with stinking ditches, your brain only used to think about what to eat for your next meal."

"Bai, shouldn't we all know how to repay kindness?"

The girl clenched her fists.

"Alright, don't blame me for being too harsh. Qiqi and I are just doing this for your own good. After all, the entire Vanrentine family depends on you to support them. In our team, the more you work, the more you earn."

After giving the warning, she conjured a green pill out of thin air. As Winona's agent and the decision-maker of the logistics team, Defer was an excellent pharmacist.

"It's better to get hurt this time. This pill will reduce your pain—but it won't completely eliminate it."

He swallowed it without any expression on his face.

"That's right."

As one of the Thirty-Six Extraordinary Talents, it is not difficult for a beginner to concoct pills that eliminate pain. Therefore, it is not that Deefu cannot completely eliminate pain, but that he cannot.

Although Winona is portrayed as a "stoic female knight," she still needs to show subtle changes in facial expressions after experiencing pain. Deefu does not allow his work to have any flaws.

So... this pill doesn't even have any pain-relieving function; its only effect is to cool the mouth.

"It at least provides some psychological comfort...it's a kind of pain relief."

The noblewoman thought this way.

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P.S.: Believe me! The big one is coming! I need to rest for two days, then I'll get back to updating twice a week! (I'm already convinced myself!)