Chapter 5 The Snake's Gaze

"Dong dong dong", "Open the door, check..."

Before Mikael finished speaking, the laboratory door opened layer by layer, and dark green light and shadow seeped out like water overflowing from a cup.

Walking into the interior of the laboratory, Mebius was facing away from the two of them, holding a document in his hand and sketching something.

And on the chair in front of her, there was a pale-faced warrior who was muttering something in a low voice.

"What do you want from me?" She had her green hair tied back casually and her tone was a little impatient.

"Doctor, we need to take back your badge." Alicia said in a low voice.

"Take back my seal? So suddenly...why?"

It was obviously just a simple question, but the temperature in the room dropped visibly.

"And... is it necessary to wear a gas mask when coming to my laboratory?"

"Well... because the badge distribution system has been modified, these numbered badges need to be recycled. All future badges will be unnumbered versions. As for... gas masks... safety comes first, doctor. ”

"cut……"

Mebius then turned around and looked up and down at the two strangers in front of him.

Perhaps out of some intuition, or perhaps because the request to recover the badge came so strangely, Mebius always felt that there was some kind of problem with these two people.

But after all, she didn't detect any clues.

"okay, I get it."

She stopped asking, maybe because there was no need, maybe because she felt that saying another word to these two people would be a waste of time and life.

She quickly walked to the test bench and opened drawers one after another. Countless penalty notices were scattered in the laboratory as she rummaged through them.

Mikael still had the heart to count, well...a total of nineteen pictures.

Finally, in the corner of the bottom drawer, she found the badge with the word "1" engraved on the back, and handed it to Mikael.

"Take it!"

She flicked it casually and slapped it on Mikael's sleeve. Mikael quickly said the medal to catch it, and then looked down at his watch imperceptibly. Two and a half minutes had passed since the alarm went off - the time to gather. Only five minutes.

So he answered before Ellie:

"Thank you for your cooperation, Dr. Mebius. The new badge will be delivered to your laboratory within a week."

Then the two of them left in a hurry.

"etc."

"Don't think I don't know anything."

Mikael rubbed his palms, his heart beating loudly. He didn't know where Mebius saw the flaw. For a moment, there seemed to be no better plan besides escaping.

"Doctor, I don't quite understand what you mean?" He was prevaricating, ready to pick up Alicia and run away at any time.

"I know you all want to hide it from me, and you even made various excuses to keep me in the laboratory and not let me out... But if you want to understand something, you don't have to see it with your own eyes. "

"?" Mikael slowly typed out a question mark, and then his whole heart went back to his stomach - it seemed that what she was going to say next had nothing to do with the two of them.

"Honkai...how is the situation now?"

"Hey, doctor, it turns out that this is what you wanted to ask about." Mikael could feel Alicia on the side also letting out a sigh of relief.

"Well...how should I put it, the situation is indeed not optimistic."

"But, this is only temporary..."

"Where are Mikael and Alicia?" Himiko asked with a frown.

Everyone was fully armed and assembled. The fifth team only had twenty soldiers in total, and there was no need to even report the numbers. She glanced over and saw that the only two recruits were missing.

But the soldiers who were asked were also confused.

Those two new recruits with incredible physical fitness were really not easy to get in contact with.

The girl named Alicia seems to be everywhere, always chirping and nosy, but if we really want to find her, no one can tell her whereabouts.

And the young man named Mikael is even more weird. He almost doesn’t talk to anyone except Alicia. He reads all kinds of books all day long, so that his sense of existence is extremely low, and no one can tell him clearly. Gone somewhere.

Himihu looked at his watch.

There are only twenty...nineteen seconds left before the five-minute assembly time ends.

eighteen……

Seventeen...

sixteen……

"Um?"

As if something flashed before his eyes, Himihu looked up and saw that the two recruits were already fully armed and standing in the team.

"Let's go now!"

The heavy door had already been opened, and the transport helicopter flew straight to the vast snowfield.

"I will only emphasize once again that our mission is not to fight the monster named Herrscher, but to enter the underground base of Irkune City and protect the Honkai energy piggy bank there. The specific location has been sent to everyone's operations Map, any questions?"

"No!"

Just at this moment, the driver's voice came over the radio.

"The transport helicopter will arrive at the battlefield in two minutes, please prepare the fifth team..."

"boom!"

The flames of the explosion raged in the cabin, followed by the coldness and howling of the wind, as well as the weightless feeling caused by the rolling.

Before Mikael could figure out what was going on, he was pulled out by the air pressure.

"Ellie!"

She hurriedly held his hand, but followed him and flew out.

The two people's hands were locked together, and taking advantage of the opportunity to roll, Mikael only saw a dozen small black dots thrown out from the broken belly of the transport helicopter.

Many members of the fifth team reacted the moment they were thrown out of the cabin and opened their emergency parachutes.

However, the height of hundreds of meters is not enough for the parachute to complete the deceleration. Only a few of these people can survive with the protection of their excellent physique and exoskeleton armor.

As for Mikael, his ability is fully capable of trying to save them, but...

Four or five seconds passed quickly, and he suddenly held Alicia in his arms. The moment before landing, a large mattress suddenly appeared on the ground, catching the two of them.

"boom!"

The air mattress was directly shaken into energy fragments and scattered in the air. The waist-deep snow was thrown into the air more than ten meters high, revealing the dark and hard frozen soil on the ground.

Even though both of them have physical fitness that far exceeds that of ordinary people, the impact of the moment they hit the ground made people feel as if their bones were shattered into slag. The exoskeleton armor shattered and failed, their heads buzzed, and their eyesight continued. Tumble and spin, as if spinning in circles thousands of times.

Especially Mikael, who withstood Alicia's impact along with it, could only hold his chest and cough.

When the two of them climbed out of the snow pit in embarrassment, they saw a barefoot purple-haired girl standing in front of them.

"Huh."

"What a coincidence. To meet you here. Traitor."

She clearly had a human face and spoke human language, but her voice was flat and dead, without any emotion.

Alicia wanted to say something, but Mikael was guarding her behind her. His eyes instantly turned blood red and his pupils turned into the shape of gears.

A large blue shield was quickly constructed in front of him, and the Second Herrscher not far away opened a black hole, and a missile flew out, directly blowing Mikael and Alicia out.

After confirming that there were no other soldiers present, Mikael constructed two rail guns while flying upside down and fired at the Second Herrscher.

"Where are you aiming?"

The Second Herrscher's face was expressionless.

She walked barefoot on the snow-covered ground, letting her long purple hair fly, and didn't even use her power to change the trajectory of the rail gun's shells.

There was no doubt that the two shells flew over her head and exploded on the snowy field not far away.

"Alicia."

"uh-huh?"

"run!"

Seeing the First Herrscher who turned his back on Honkai and chose to run away, the Second Herrscher tilted his head.

She really didn't expect to meet the First Herrscher here, and he seemed to have joined the human camp...

But he is too vulnerable.

etc!

The Second Herrscher turned around, and the explosion just now raised up the ice and snow in the sky, and they fell like a tsunami, as if they were going to drown her.

"That's it."

She tore open the space and appeared on another mountaintop in the next moment.

"Oops! Hello!"

"What."

The Second Herrscher looked back again, and this time, what was reflected in her eyes, except for the annoying pink color, was only an inverted gun butt.

"Bang", the gun butt shattered, and the Second Herrscher was knocked away like a baseball.

And where she landed, as expected, the annoying First Herrscher had already set up a rail gun.

The gear-like pupils locked onto the target.

In the laboratory illuminated by green lights, Mebius looked at the pocket screen in front of him, which was playing images from a tiny camera attached to someone's sleeve, and couldn't help but dub a sentence.

"Fire!"

"Haha, I really didn't expect it. I just wanted to learn about the situation outside, but I discovered such an interesting thing..."

Her eyes flickered, reflecting green light.

That's the gaze from the snake.

But the next moment, the picture in the camera spun around and landed on a red snowfield.