"It's done, let's go, go, go!!!"
Luo Lin almost slammed the communicator shut, waving to Himiko Murata as she threw out another string of smoke bombs and flashbangs.
The quantum shadows were even getting familiar with her tactics now, their numbers overwhelming—there were even more of them spilling out from the blue barriers behind, crowding into the area obscured by smoke and deafening noise, their momentum as if intending to crush Himiko and Luo Lin directly, filling every corner of the Saad Station.
However, this time, Luo Lin "improved" her moves a bit...
She added two large timed explosives.
"Boom—!!"
The massive explosion almost blew off the ceiling of the Saad Station, the glass windows that had been barely holding up shattered and Honkaid, petals of glass falling to the ground.
The quantum monsters near the explosion were blasted into blue light, while those further away, due to the chain reaction caused by the explosion, directly turned into pale Honkaid states, their cores rolling on the ground, silenced by the grenades thrown by Luo Lin from afar.
"Luo Lin, where did you raid the arsenal from?" Himiko felt the whizzing hot wind, somewhat speechless.
Naturally, Himiko knew that with Luo Lin's system, as long as she had crystals, she could buy almost anything, and even she had been very tempted after seeing the things in the shop, advising Luo Lin to save up the crystals and use them wisely.
So, there was a ninety percent chance that the explosives thrown out were secretly stolen by her from the Shchicksal Arsenal.
Luo Lin said somewhat guiltily, "Uh, a small part was saved up by me usually, and most of it was taken from the Belarus branch... uh, I did fill out an equipment application."
Of course, she filled it out, but whether it was approved or not was another matter.
After the intense explosion, smoke shrouded the Saad Station, and Luo Lin and Himiko took advantage of the chaos among the quantum shadows to escape, returning to the broad and deserted streets of St. Fontaine.
Himiko looked around at the surroundings, marveling, "Could this be the result of a Honkai?"
Luo Lin's face was helpless, "...Very close, and..."
And it might be related to your father, Ryunoske Murata.
Himiko wasn't very concerned about this, she was more interested in another matter: "If I heard correctly, were you just talking to Theresa Apocalypse? And calling her 'Overseer'?"
"Yeah, here, Theresa is already the Overseer of Schicksal." Luo Lin nodded.
"Another parallel world?"
Himiko clicked her tongue, tapping her finger on the hilt of the Labor of Olympus, "Theresa Apocalis... Apocalis... Well, it seems she's the appointed successor by Overseer Otto. But looking at how Theresa in Saint Freya spends her days reading comics and lacks enthusiasm most of the time, I find it hard to imagine what it would be like for her to become a Overseer."
"Don't underestimate Theresa." Luo Lin rolled her eyes, "Theresa is lazy to use her brain, but Otto has always spoiled her and didn't give her a chance to use her brain—Theresa was personally trained by Otto, and her comprehensive qualities are definitely up to standard."
"That's true, Theresa is the type to laze around reading comics while doing her job properly in the end... In a sense, this is also a manifestation of her talent."
After sighing, Himiko took the communicator with stickers in Luo Lin's hand, projecting the images of the three people they needed to find.
Bronya, Lyle, and Timidou.
"There's a boy too?" The Valkyrie was surprised, then asked, "But this doesn't look like someone from the Kaslana family, right?"
"...Why do all of you react like this?"
Luo Lin was a bit speechless, pointing to the humming Moon Ring on her shoulder, explaining, "Schicksal R&D's new product, small-scale Honkai energy conversion device Moon Ring, can convert Honkai energy into other forms of energy, providing protection for the user."
Himiko's eyes lit up, blurting out, "Good stuff!"
What did Schicksal lack? Talent?
Not really, they lacked people with resistance to Honkai energy.
As an old multinational organization, Schicksal could find plenty of talents, even if it was one in a million, or even one in ten million.
But when faced with Honkai events, lacking resistance to Honkai energy meant lacking qualifications. No matter how talented you were in other areas, if you were eroded by the Honkai, you'd become a zombie, unable to be used, effectively making you nonexistent.
"I wonder when this technology will be researched in my place..." Himiko shook her head, "Alright, Luo Lin, use your talents as an intelligence officer to analyze where these people might go."
"Let's go this way."
Luo Lin complied, leading Himiko through the relatively uncomplicated alleys of St. Fontaine. Along the way, several groups of mechanical monsters hurriedly passed by, seemingly heading towards the Saad Station.
Luo Lin prayed in her heart that the Sky People and the big shots on the Sea of Quanta would fight fiercely, preferably resulting in mutual destruction.
Of course, she was pessimistic about this, after all, the Sea of Quanta was endless, and how much manpower could the Sky People have?
Shaking her head to dispel these thoughts, she dutifully led Himiko to the vicinity of the Lionhead Bay Bridge.
From a distance, Luo Lin spotted a silver-white figure.
"Bronya Zaychik..."
Although she had been working in a game company before, a call from Overseer Theresa had brought Bronya out. Allowing the "Ural Silver Wolf" and "Inheritor of Reason" to don their gear once again and dive into the mess of St. Fontaine.
Moreover, from the moment Bronya was called out to retrieve equipment from Schicksal to parachuting into St. Fontaine and getting into a fight with mechanical monsters, the interval was not long, at most it would not exceed a month, and at the shortest, probably four or five days.
What was she doing before this? Holed up in the office coding... well, also instructing the Little Project Bunny to write code at the same time.
Looking at her performance in the game, wielding an energy gun to kill indiscriminately, effortlessly cutting those mechanical monsters into pieces.
It had to be said that Bronya was very good at maintaining her condition... Perhaps she was thinking about how to fight the Honkai creatures while coding? Or maybe when normal people went off work to eat skewers and drink beer at the barbecue stall, Bronya went straight to the local Schicksal's combat simulation room to beat up monsters?
With an office boss who had once fought real battles with Honkai creatures, wouldn't the coders feel a lot of pressure?
Seeing her targets beside Adult Bronya, Luo Lin breathed a sigh of relief, raising her hand to approach them.
"Who?!"
Bronya reacted quickly, almost as soon as Luo Lin raised her hand and appeared in her sight, she aimed her gun at the girl.
But the expression on Adult Bronya's face quickly turned into astonishment, not just because of Luo Lin's outdated Schicksal Intelligence Officer uniform, but also because of the crimson figure behind her.
"Teacher Himiko...?!"
"Why does it feel like everyone knows me, will I really teach so many promising students in the future?"
Himiko was a bit helpless as she hung the Labor of Olympus on her back, following Luo Lin out.