But I don’t know if it’s because they can communicate directly, or simply because she has experienced too many happy things, but Skadi has become a little restless tonight.
【Look, rest, together! Water! Memory, fragments! Knowledge! 】
Well, it seems that in the past, Skadi kept quiet during this period of time in order to receive and sort out the "memory of water" instead of resting... Hmm? Isn't this similar to Xiwang now?
【Together! Friends! Hope, good! Close! Like! 】
You can see that it is really happy.
Xi Wang couldn't persuade it, considering it had always been so friendly, today he had clarified a lot of doubts about it, and it was really happy... so he just let it be.
Yeah, I'm not making excuses, absolutely not - Xiwang comforted himself in this way as Skadi kept rubbing her head against him.
Honestly speaking, it was a bit scary to see such a huge creature with a body length of nearly 30 meters rubbing against me. After all, it was... really too big.
Fortunately, Xiwang is a fusion warrior, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to withstand its closeness.
But today is really fun, isn't it?
Xiwang slowly closed his eyes, ready to start today's "dream"... or to accept the new "memory of water".
【Look, touch! 】
"Skadi, can you please take a break? We have hunting to do tomorrow."
[Hunting! Good! Collapse! Hunting! Eat!]
Skadi accepted this reason and became quiet beside Xiwang.
...Well, as expected, Skadi is a silly "little" cutie who is very easy to deceive.
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[Because you can communicate directly, you and the killer whale Honkaimon named "Skadi" became "friends", and you also learned some secrets of the "ocean" through it]
[The "ocean" is tolerant, it will accept even memories and sink them into the unfathomable seabed. Beings blessed by the "ocean" can get what they need from it, whether it is memory or power]
[The "Ocean" always loves its children and is willing to give them everything, but correspondingly, the "Ocean" is also a mother who loves her children too much and is unwilling to let her children step onto land, endure the pain of dryness, suffer the torture of fire, and be killed by... humans]
[You suddenly understand why you can't return to land, because the "ocean" won't allow you to. It has long regarded you as its own child, and a "poor child" who has suffered from the hardship of drought, the torture of fire, and has lived alone for several years. Therefore, it attaches great importance to you and is no longer willing to let you return to land.]
[You vaguely guessed this and felt a little distressed. This means that you need to fight against this "living ocean" to return to the land and to them. Your ability comes from this "ocean". It is really unwise to use its power to fight against it.]
[But this is not a reason for you to give up. You must return to them.]
[After another failed attempt to return to land, you silently returned to Skadi's side, manipulated the sea water to create "ocean currents", and continued to head to the next hunting location]
[Hunting, continue hunting, hunt all the Honkai beasts in the "ocean", then become stronger, keep getting stronger, until you can escape the ocean]
[You started hunting from warm waters and continued to the extremely cold seas... Is this the Antarctic or the Arctic? It doesn't matter. You and Skadi only know that there are Honkai beasts here, and you have to "hunt" them and then eat them. That's enough.]
[Today's breakfast is still transparent jellyfish, delicious, you like it very much; lunch is manta ray, not very delicious, but Skadi likes it; for dinner you caught a few seals, delicious; there is no midnight snack, what a pity...]
【………】
[Breakfast was still transparent jellyfish, but this was the last time to eat it. It seemed that you had eaten all the transparent jellyfish, and you couldn't find any more. Please cherish them. Lunch was a large "fish", which was a special Honkai beast formed by many small fish Honkai beasts. It was delicious, but it was troublesome to eat. For dinner, we caught a shark, which was not delicious. In the middle of the night, we caught a giant anglerfish, which was ugly and not delicious! ]
[Another attempt to return to land, failed. It seems that there are not enough Honkai beasts to hunt. Continue]
[Should I say it really deserves to be called the "gentle ocean mother"? It actually really preserved most of its "ecology". You and Skadi even found a group of Honkai beasts that looked like penguins... Of course, they were soon "hunted" by you.]
[We had a good harvest today. You and Skadi hunted a large whale Honkai beast. It was really big, enough for the two of you to eat for a day.]
[Today, I saw a group of fish-shaped Honkai beasts flying in the air... The prototype is a flying fish? You remember that it was this kind of Honkai beast that made the Fire Moth set the rule of "flying above the clouds in the open sea area". It is a very troublesome Honkai beast. The water flow controlled by you and Skadi is difficult to hit them in the air... But it doesn't matter, you still hunted them.]
[After all, they are "fish", Honkai beasts that belong to the "ocean". No matter what, they must return to the "ocean" in the end.]
【hunting】
【hunting】
【hunting】
[Tried to return to land, failed, but you can indeed feel yourself gradually getting rid of the "ocean". You can now see the land clearly, although it can only be seen on the distant skyline, but you can indeed see the land clearly, which is a good sign]
【hunting】
【hunting】
[I caught a big crab. The shell is very hard and not tasty. The inside is delicious.]
【hunting】
[Hunting, speaking of which, the "Gabriel" gene in your body seems to have been inactive for a long time. Although it has been very active, you don't seem to have any obvious abnormalities. Hmm... that's a good thing.]
[Hunting, there are too many "memories of water", and they are too fragmented. It's hard to know the information on land... But it's okay, as long as I know that this method works.]
[Hunting, the prey seems to be getting less and less. Have all the group-living Honkai beasts died? Why is there only a single powerful Honkai beast left? Hunting is so troublesome]
[Trying to return to land again, failed... It's okay, continue]
Hunting, hunting, hunting...
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【Hope ~Friends~】
"Okay, touch it."
【Like! Close! 】
Xiwang has become accustomed to Skadi's behavior of wanting to "suck" him from time to time. He always feels as if he has really raised a particularly clingy pet... To be honest, it's quite strange.
"……What's wrong?"
Feeling Skadi approaching again, Xiwang temporarily stopped eating and asked.
【Look, body, strange】
"Are you talking about this? This is for clothes. After all, I am a human being. I can't always be naked."
Xi Wang looked at the dark blue clothes on her body and spoke while eating the remains of the Honkai beast.
[Clothes? No, look, skin!]
Skadi shook her head and denied it.
"........."
What Xi Wang is wearing now is certainly not real "clothes", but a "thing" similar to hair or skin fluff, or to be more precise, a "shell"?
Xi Wang came up with this idea on a sudden inspiration after a hunting trip. He succeeded after several attempts and finally formed this dark blue "hunter suit" with good defensive performance.
Well... after all, you need to go out hunting often, so there's nothing wrong with wearing "hunter's clothes", right?
【Look, strange】
Skadi leaned in a little closer, expressing doubt.
[Look, get close, Skadi, another]
"........."
Xi Wang didn't say anything.
He could understand what Skadi meant... As he stayed with Skadi for a long time, Skadi felt that he was becoming more and more like another Skadi.
To put it simply, it is becoming more and more similar to Skadi and more and more like Honkai Beast.
Xiwang knew of course that when he constructed this "hunter outfit", Skadi said that this "clothes" was very similar to the "skin" of the Honkai beast. From then on, Xiwang fell uncontrollably in a bad direction... No, it started when he chose to start "hunting", but this "clothes" was a symbol of his reaching a certain depth.
However, Xi Wang didn't care. As long as he was conscious and still remembered them, it was enough.
[Look, Skadi, close! Blood relatives! Like! ]
"…I am not your blood relative."
Xiwang has felt helpless about Skadi's inexplicably stupid thinking more than once... Forget it, one can't have too high expectations for a Honkai beast.
【Hope! Blood relatives! 】
"I told you I'm not..."
[Hope, Skadi, the same! Hope, blood relatives! ]
"........."
Why can't this kid understand? !
Xiwang looked helpless.
Although I know that the killer whale that Skadi was based on is a social creature that prefers to be with its own kind, Skadi's kind should have disappeared long ago... Even if you want to "replace your meal", you wouldn't go to him, right? He's just a human "bipedal beast".
[Blood relatives! Hope! Blood relatives! Good! Close! Like! ]
"I already told you that I'm not your blood relative... I'm not a killer whale."
[…嘤]
Skadi's voice suddenly became aggrieved.
"... Never mind. It's up to you."
[Hope! Like! Blood relatives! Skadi! Happy! ]
Chapter 45 [Hunter] Going Ashore
"Dr. Mei, are you sure you want to do this?"
"of course."
In response to Fire Moth's question, Mei's response was calm.
"As of now, the Tenth Herrscher has multiple individuals, each of whom has relatively weaker abilities than previous Herrschers. They have been seen in the destruction and vicious incidents in various cities before. And according to our speculation, they should also have some means of exchanging information regardless of spatial distance. This means that as long as our actions are discovered by one of them, the other individuals will also know about it and react accordingly."
"And the weaker wavelength reaction of the Herrscher also makes it difficult for us to detect them when they are hiding. Unless they actively reveal themselves, it is difficult for us to confirm their identities. This situation where the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light makes us very passive."
Mei paused for a moment, then continued.
"Moreover, the previous attempts to capture the Fire Moths all failed. Those [individuals] all left or hid in advance, and even set up ambushes several times, causing heavy casualties to the capture team, as if they had known our arrangements for a long time."
"…Are you trying to say that there is an individual of the Tenth Herrscher hidden among us, Dr. Mei?"
"This is not impossible. After all, there have been two [individuals] inside the Fire Moth before, right?"
Mei said calmly.
"........."
It was impossible to refute it. After all, there were already two people who became Herrschers, Klein and Imor, which caused suspicion among the Fire Moths.
"So I propose that all the Herrscher Cores that are still under research be collected and kept together to prevent the Tenth Herrscher from infiltrating and stealing them one by one."
Mei said so.
"But that could also result in all the Herrscher Cores being taken away at once, and according to what you said, when you made this proposal, the Tenth Herrscher had already obtained this information."
They also began to think about the problem from the perspective of "there is a mole among them", after all, recent events were indeed very strange.
"And during the transportation of the Herrscher Core, it is very likely to be intercepted by the Tenth Herrscher."
"Yes, so when I tell you this proposal, all the Herrscher Cores are already on the way... Considering the time, they should have been delivered by now."
"[P21 Island]... Is it the location of [The Deep]? Dr. Mei, you should know the consequences of misappropriating the [Herrser Core] without permission."
After reading the short message submitted by Mei, they asked seriously.
"Of course I know that, but I think that now that the Tenth Herrscher has appeared, we should also use some special methods to deal with it."
"More importantly, I have an experimental project that will use these [Herder Cores], and now is the right time to collect them all in one place."
Dr. Mei put a plan in front of them.
"At present, the theory of [Blank Key] has been initially perfected, and the first prototype has been completed. We need to verify whether it can achieve the expected effect... If it succeeds, then we can master the power of [Herrser] with the human body."
"If the Tenth Herrscher knew this information, they would definitely come to stop it with all their might. Otherwise, they would have to face multiple humans with the power of the Herrscher and multiple fusion warriors."
"…You can't guarantee that they will do their best to stop it, Dr. Mei."
"No, they will come."
Dr. May pushed up his glasses and spoke calmly and affirmatively.
"Because I will be the first user of the [Blank Key]."
