章節 73: Chapter 73: Interlude: Snake Hunt
These events took place during Sigurd's visit to Sky City.
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Northern Russia, Novyel Province.
This was an extremely cold region perpetually covered in ice and snow, with harsh living conditions and sparse population. It was an ideal place for experiments that could cause destruction and required a hidden environment.
Cocolia had an experimental base in this area.
At this moment, the Judgement of Shamash was placed deep within the base.
So Gray Serpent had arrived, and lurking in the distant snowy plains was Raven, holding the Third God Key, the Key of Thunder.
They had come for the Judgement of Shamash.
Dressed in black hoodies, white masks, and with bodies composed of mechanical prosthetics that almost outnumbered their organic components, they appeared inside the base without making a sound, disregarding the heavily guarded special forces outside.
"It indeed triggered the response of the Judgement of Shamash. Cocolia wasn't lying."
Gray Serpent held a palm-sized detection device, and the only red cybernetic eye exposed from the mask shimmered momentarily.
Originally, Cocolia had been a persuaded collaborator, conducting follow-up experiments for the Stigmata Plan using Anti-Entropy's equipment and ideal subjects from the orphanage. Gray Serpent gained experimental data, and Cocolia sought ways to save the victims of Honkai Erosion. Everyone got something out of it.
But then Cocolia had a change of heart, apparently finding a better backer and establishing a connection with the real upper echelons of Anti-Entropy.
Cocolia no longer needed Gray Serpent's experiments, and Gray Serpent didn't insist. In the eyes of Gray Serpent, who had lived for fifteen hundred years, time was the least important resource. Losing Cocolia meant nothing, he just needed to wait for the next suitable collaborator to come.
However, just a few days ago, Cocolia had contacted Gray Serpent once again.
This time, Cocolia initiated the trade, and the trade was the Judgement of Shamash.
Gray Serpent had to be interested because this was the weapon of their Lord. Currently, it wasn't in Otto's possession, nor was it in the hands of Anti-Entropy's upper echelons, or that troublesome Siegfried. It was simply stored in an experimental base that could be easily infiltrated.
Gray Serpent had considered the possibility of a trap, but initial investigations didn't reveal any problems. So here they were, with the worst-case scenario being the loss of a prosthetic body. And Ravens outside were almost impossible to ambush and could withdraw at any time.
"Raven, I'm inside. How's the situation outside?"
"Everything's normal. Hurry up, I'm feeling a bit cold."
"Just a little low temperature; I told you to accept my prosthetic modifications, and you wouldn't have this problem."
"Give it up. I don't want to lose human emotions," Raven sneered. She would accept it sooner or later, in the face of heartless time and fragile reality.
Then, Gray Serpent terminated the communication, vanishing into thin air, and began moving rapidly within the base.
Cocolia, the vixen, was playing both sides. On one hand, she was making deals with Gray Serpent using the Judgement of Shamash, and on the other hand, she didn't want to expose herself to continue relying on Anti-Entropy.
So, she only provided the whereabouts of the Judgement of Shamash, leaving the rest for Gray Serpent to handle.
Before long, Gray Serpent triggered an alarm.
Woooooo
"Tsk! There's still something guarding it, but if that's all, it's amount to nothing!"
Breaking through multiple security measures and smashing through the sturdy anti-Honkai energy gate, Gray Serpent came across two snow-white handguns.
"It's this easy to get?"
Driven by his reverence for the Lord, Gray Serpent didn't hesitate to take the pistols and immediately began retreating along the same path.
He ran out of the base but lost one of his mechanical arms.
However, if he could trade this small loss for the Judgement of Shamash, it would be a great gain.
Then, Gray Serpent abruptly stopped in his tracks. In front of him, a cultured-looking man with glasses suddenly materialized out of thin air.
"Is it really a ruse?" Gray Serpent sighed, somewhat unwilling. But he knew this trip had been in vain because the man before him was Welt.
In the absence of the Lord, there were very few who could escape from this man, and Gray Serpent's prosthetic body did not possess that ability.
However, what Gray Serpent wanted to confirm now was a different question.
"Cioara, have you betrayed us?" Gray Serpent asked coldly.
Cioara, or also known as Ciora, held the Key of Sanction and possessed the ability of high-dimensional vision, allowing her to see everything within her sniper range. When Welt appeared, she couldn't have missed it, but she didn't give the appropriate warning.
Raven's cold and resigned voice came through the earpiece.
"I just didn't want to die. After all, you have multiple bodies, and it doesn't matter if you die a few times. Remember to find a chance to rescue me; after all, I'm someone who can wield the Key of Sanction. I should still be valuable."
"I understand. Do your best to keep yourself alive."
Gray Serpent responded coldly and then collapsed to the ground, completely lifeless.
"He already told me about this Grey Serpent before, but I didn't expect him to be this decisive, it's hard to believe unless seen with my own eyes."
Welt picked up Gray Serpent's body, retrieved the Judgement of Shamash, and then took off into the air, quickly arriving next to the motionless Raven lying on the ice and snow.
Raven, dressed in a tight combat suit and a wine-red cape, glanced at him, then obediently put down the sniper rifle in her hand - the third God Key, the Key of Sanction.
Her formidable high-dimensional vision was cut off, and the rows of worker drones in front of her, along with countless laser tracks aimed at her body, disappeared from her sight.
But Raven knew that those things were still there; she just couldn't see them anymore.
Once she activated her high-dimensional vision, nothing could escape her sight, making her an absolute expert in sniping. In general, she was also the most skilled scout who could see through any ambush, which was the main reason Gray Serpent had brought her along.
However, when she had taken up her vantage point and just connected to the Key of Sanction, it was already too late.
Countless laser weapons were aimed at Raven's body, along with a group of worker drones, forming an invisible sentence that occupied half of the sky in front of her:
[Cooperate, or die]
Fortunately, she understood English; otherwise, she would have been turned into a sieve without knowing why.
A single strike from the Key of Sanction could tear apart thousands of worker drones, but facing the overwhelming swarm, this minuscule loss was completely insignificant.
Raven was very sensible, so sensible that as soon as Welt had manifested two pairs of special handcuffs that suppressed Honkai energy, she automatically restrained her hands and feet herself.
Then she lay on the ground, her plump and round body dusted with white snowflakes, gazing at the sky with an indifferent fish-eye expression. If this were a Hentai world, the next plot should be filled with snippet of Welt toying with her until she got mind broken.
"You- forget it, get up and come with me."
Welt was almost choked by her reaction, unsure of how to respond.
In all honesty, he had never encountered an enemy so cooperative before. He didn't know if she was simply afraid of death or if she had some other card that made her this confidence.
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