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

"I told you on the phone before that I wanted to stay with you for a few days, Natasha, but I have nowhere else to go."

Lin Wei said pitifully.

Raven told me his name on the phone before, and now he wants to deny it?

"Hehe, I'm sorry, Mr. Lin Wei. I only take in homeless children here, not homeless adults. Unfortunately, you are over the age limit."

Raven looked Lin Wei up and down with his eyes slanted, and spoke in a rude tone.

"I'm a mercenary, not a philanthropist. Since we've known each other for a while, I can give you a ride before you leave. This isn't a commission, so I won't charge you anything."

"Then where should I go? The World Serpent doesn't want me, and I can't go back to the paradise. I really don't know where to go next... Home? Oh, my home was destroyed in the third collapse! I don't have many people in this world who can be called 'friends'. After thinking about it, the only person I can ask for help right now is you, Natasha."

Lin Weixiao explained his feelings, and then suddenly sneered.

"Can I ask you to send me to St. Freya's Academy again? Stop it... I disappeared for half a year and suddenly reappeared. I'm afraid I was taken away by the people of Destiny as soon as I landed! People of Destiny, haha, I can't afford to offend them."

Raven himself is a survivor of the Second Collapse; and because of the truth behind the Second Collapse, he extremely hates and rejects Fate.

Therefore, emphasizing the identity of "Honkai survivor" and "fate may be unfavorable to oneself" can greatly bring oneself closer to Raven.

Besides, what I said was the truth, I didn’t lie!

Lin Wei Lin Wei is justified.

This is a different time now. The last time I successfully hid around St. Freya's Academy, it was because I was in the dark; if I go there again now, I would be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth.

After finally escaping from the sight of destiny, you return to St. Freya Academy to die?

I'm not crazy!

"...If it doesn't work, send me to Changkong City. I'm relatively familiar with that place, and there shouldn't be anyone disturbing that deadly place."

This is Lin Wei’s real request - to let himself return to Changkong City.

This is a moment.

A year ago, Changkong City was a deadly place that he had to escape from quickly; but now, a year later, it has become his best hiding place.

Lin Wei thought that with his current Honkai energy resistance, the remaining Honkai energy in Changkong City, as well as the possible Honkai beasts and dead soldiers, would basically pose no threat to him.

The city could originally accommodate several million people, and with such huge ruins, it would not be a problem for me to hide in it for two years.

Lin Wei has made up his mind, once he goes in, he won’t come out!

Isn't it nice to bask in the sun like Padre?

As for the World Serpent, it had indeed always been in their sight.

But as long as you make your attitude clear, stay at home in Changkong City, be harmless like a little white rabbit, don't go out, don't cause trouble, and don't threaten any plans of the snakes in your world, isn't that enough?

What is there to say?

As long as I lie flat enough, I am invincible!

I don’t care what you, Gray Snake, have planned for me.

As long as I start, non-violently, non-cooperatively and not making trouble, can you still come and beat me?

The plan is passed√!

Lin Wei looked at Raven very frankly and expressed his real needs.

"If you were the one to send me back, then Tianming wouldn't be able to find out about my existence anyway, right?"

The World Snake hides its own abilities, you can't deny it!

The fact that they set up their headquarters in North Africa, right next to Tianming, and yet Otto has been looking for them for so many years and still hasn't found them, is enough to explain it.

(ノへ￣,)

Bishop, can you do it?

"..."

Raven was speechless. Changkong City, is it such a coincidence?

Looking at Lin Wei's harmless expression, and thinking of his and my own similar life experiences, where the same sudden collapse destroyed everything, I couldn't help but feel soft in my heart.

I really owe you, the raven sighed helplessly. But he said,

"Okay, I just happened to adopt some surviving orphans from Changkong City and set up a temporary shelter there... Don't look at me like that. I'm not irresponsible, but I can't explain it in a few words."

Raven felt Lin Wei's strange look. Feeling guilty, she interpreted it as an accusation and glared back at him unconvinced.

"Besides me, there are only a few children in the shelter. Due to reasons you know, there are not many boys, and some jobs that require physical strength have always lacked sufficient manpower. Therefore, it is not impossible to take you in temporarily."

Raven looked up and down at Lin Wei's body, showing a look of disdain, bossing him around like a big company HR.

"I have some work here, such as climbing, carrying heavy objects, and unclogging sewers. I need to hire a temporary worker to help with odd jobs for a few days. The salary is... food and accommodation are provided, but the salary is not negotiable. Do you want to come?"

It sounds quite like that...

Lin Wei touched his nose. The other party had already given in and offered a way out. What was he waiting for if he didn't agree?

"Oh, you're smart. My car is on the other side, follow me."

Raven was very satisfied with Lin Wei's attitude. He glanced at the smooth cut surface between the two halves of the boulder, pulled up his arm, and the two of them disappeared from the spot in a flash, leaving only black feathers falling all over the sky.

"Hey! Hey! Slow down!"

Lin Wei's distant exclamation was blurred in the wind and could not be heard at all.

………………

The sun has set in the west, and the town not far away is already brightly lit. There is none of the noisy and flashing lights of the city, only peace and tranquility, as if it is just an ordinary world.

"Haha, I told you, he won't play such a boring game with you. Jackal, it's time to put away your boring traps."

The gray snake appeared from somewhere and walked into the town calmly with relaxed steps.

The climate in North Africa is rarely dry and rainy. Walking outside with an umbrella in this climate is a performance art, but no one cares about his weird behavior.

No, there are still some.

"Humph, it was you who let Raven interfere?"

A slim woman wearing a mask shaped like a dog's head walked out of the town and came to the front of Gray Snake with a rather indignant tone.

"How dare a mere ant be so presumptuous? If we let him go so easily, what will happen to the dignity of the snake?"

How could the Jackal not realize now that he was blackmailed a year ago?

Moreover, there are so many World Snakes, but why did they choose me? How abominable!

This sudden humiliation made her furious. She felt resentful for a long time and had been waiting for an opportunity until today.

Therefore, she was even more dissatisfied with the failure at this moment, and she poured all this indignation on the gray snake.

"You asked Raven to rescue her, didn't you?"

"And what a precious specimen this man is! A natural stigma implanted from outside sounds like a complete paradox, but it can be integrated so naturally!"

The Jackal was intoxicated with his dream of scientific research. His tone suddenly became more agitated. He wanted to tear off his mask and scold the Gray Snake.

"Don't you know how much our Stigmata Project will benefit from capturing him? And you let him go so easily! You, you are committing a crime!"

"Haha, don't get excited, Jackal. I didn't give any orders to Raven, nor did I hint any information to her, nor did I give any hints to that man."

Gray Snake took all the trash talk with a smile and was not angry about it.

"After all, as a good scientist, you should also understand that things develop according to their own laws. The purpose of the experiment is to observe and verify, and you should not interfere rudely in the process. That does not conform to my aesthetics."

"Are you trying to say that the ant discovered my existence by itself?"

The jackal was very unconvinced. How could this be possible?

"Yes or no, what difference does it make? I'm glad he didn't step into this place, otherwise the snake would have lost an important companion today."

Gray Snake's tone was still so slow and unhurried as he spoke.

"Oh? You actually agreed to let him join the organization?"

The jackal raised his eyebrows helplessly, very dissatisfied with the gray snake's decision.

"No, I'm talking about you, Jackal. Now put away these boring toys and traps of yours. If we really meet, they will only become weapons to kill you."

As Gray Snake finished speaking, the town that was originally brightly lit suddenly fell into darkness. Then, the silence became noisy, with the creaking of various mechanical deformations, the sticky sounds of limbs twisting, and the rustling sounds of footsteps mixed together, making the originally quiet town strangely lively.

If either the Jackal or the Gray Snake looked back at this moment, they would see a large area of ​​dense and strange scarlet spots, as if the eyes of evil spirits were staring at the surroundings.

Those were the lights emitted by various mechas, bio-modified bodies, and indicator lights on the Honkai beasts and death warriors implanted with control systems. There were hundreds and thousands of them, densely packed together.

The once peaceful and harmonious town has disappeared, or rather, it never existed in the first place.

The Jackal clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction, took out a controller from his priest robe and pressed a few buttons. The daunting group of monsters seemed to have received some instructions and lined up in an orderly manner and walked into a passage.

"You mean the 12th God Key? Ha, a poor fellow who didn't even have any resistance to Honkai energy a year ago. I really want to see if he can exert that kind of miraculous power."

The jackal's tone was very disdainful, and then he turned his head and stared at the gray snake with an extremely serious tone.

"I will report today's events to the Lord truthfully when he returns."

"Haha, go ahead."

Gray Snake didn't care at all, instead he gracefully made a welcoming gesture.

"Also, I think you misunderstood one thing, Jackal. I don't mean to stop you. After today, you can still do whatever research you want, even if you want to capture that man and send him to your laboratory. Haha, of course, as a companion, I still have to give you a friendly reminder. I don't recommend you to do this."

The jackal looked at the gray snake with some confusion.

"After all, the Lord has also shown concern for him. I think you should understand the meaning."

The gray snake stopped talking here, opened his umbrella and left on his own, soon disappearing into the night, and the rustling sound of his footsteps gradually became inaudible.

"...pretending to be a ghost!"

The jackal was silent for a while, then left unwillingly.

There will always be a chance!

The Jackal gritted his teeth and thought bitterly that she had not given up.

The evening breeze blew up dust, burying all traces of human footprints and erasing all traces.

As the camera zoomed out, the tall and ancient pyramid disappeared from the spot, as if it had never existed.

All that exists here is a desert with few people, vast and desolate, and it has been like this since ancient times.

Chapter 7: That’s hell ahead!

Changkong City in the second year after the disaster was no different from when he risked his life to return there a year ago.

The sky was gray and thick purple clouds covered the sky.

The clouds were too thick, rolling and surging at the top of the sky, occasionally rubbing against each other and making loud thunderous sounds, but no one had ever seen even a single flash of lightning break through the sky and illuminate this dark and silent world.

The stubborn sunlight squeezed through the thin gaps in the clouds, sprinkling a tiny bit of warmth that belonged to life on the cold and silent earth, which seemed to have been completely deprived.

There are still changes.

Lin Wei stood on the top of a tall building, overlooking the dilapidated and silent city.

The seawater has begun to flood back, and some low-lying neighborhoods have become swamps.

Lin Wei clearly saw that in the river that should have been called a "block", he could occasionally see a few Honkai beasts or dead soldiers walking with difficulty in the water. Some skinny dead soldiers could not even withstand the erosion of the water, and were directly washed away if they could not stand steadily, and no one knew where they were taken by the whirlpool.

Although the flooded area is still some distance away from here, this once prosperous city has indeed entered a state of death.

"Brother Lin Wei, what are you looking at?"

A girl with short lavender hair came over from behind, carefully avoiding the scattered debris on the slippery ground.

Perhaps because of the backflow of seawater, the humidity in the air has become much higher. The outer walls, rooftops, corridor corners and various places are covered with slippery moss, making this place look increasingly dilapidated and decadent, but also faintly exuding a strange and vigorous vitality.

"Xiaokong, it's you. Be careful. Walk slowly and don't fall."

Lin Wei jumped down from the wall, walked quickly to Xiao Kong's side, and helped the girl who had nearly slipped.

"This place is nice, it's on a high floor, the view is wide, and the wind isn't too strong. I was thinking, if we clean this place up and use it as an observation deck for you and your brothers and sisters to look out into the distance, it would be nice."

Lin Wei laughed and pointed at the thin sunlight that sprinkled on the girl, ruffling her smooth short hair.

"And it's better for children to get some sun exposure."

"I'm not a child anymore..."