Chapter 30: Hidden Weapons Are Useless*
"In other words..."
Xiao Ping looked at the handsome man with black hair and golden eyes in front of her, picked up a pen thoughtfully and started scribbling on the piece of paper on the table.
"Are you still planning to continue destroying the world? So you're here to talk to our Miko faction?"
Ragnarl (in human form) sitting opposite nodded.
"Well, I used my Star Killer privileges to look at the original versions of some ancient materials."
He is a giant dragon, and apparently he is not used to the human form (?). From time to time, he would make some beast-like movements, such as wanting to lick the tea in the cup directly with his head, or scratch his neck with his front paws (hands), which greatly destroyed his elegant image.
"But after looking at the Red Moon Consciousness's schedule, this time, the great disaster unleashed by the witch is ahead. If the witch fails, we will sabotage her. So, before the witch takes action, we still have a short period of dormancy. You can relax a little for the time being."
"It would be strange if I could relax."
Xiao Ping glanced towards the door.
"She only has one night left to recover her strength. Tomorrow—it's almost time for us to launch a counterattack."
"Counterattack, are you really planning to betray?"
"Without loyalty, how can there be betrayal?" Xiao Ping sneered, narrowing his beautiful eyes. "Wait, you just said 'you' are going to sabotage? Are there other star killers besides you?"
"Yes, I have."
Ragnarl nodded leisurely as everyone in the room turned pale in vain.
"I am the 'Destroyer of All Things,' who practices direct and violent destruction. There are also the 'Hateful of All Things,' who practices mental torture. And there are the 'Laughing of All Things,' who disrupt the laws of the world."
"Two more!?"
Hei Huo took a breath and exchanged a glance with Su Jie, who then spoke:
"What is the relationship between the three ancient wills and you three star killers?"
"Huh, quite perceptive?" The dragon glanced sideways at Su Jie. "All I can tell you is the information I've gathered so far. After all, even if she's just a saboteurs, she's still my superior. ...But this question is beyond my authority."
Xiang Ying pondered for a few seconds - indeed, in Chita, many keywords were entered, but precious or important information required identity permissions - as a tourist like him, most of the information he could see was not very important. The permissions of Yagard's Red Moon Knight were slightly higher, but he could not see all the information.
...And, just like the face of the "true God" has been blurred, much of the information available to the outside world has been tampered with. I'm afraid that in order to see the whole thing, one would need the authority of a star killer like Ragnarl to see the original, unmodified content.
"Then, to put it another way..." Xiang Ying murmured, "The three Star Killers...are they all like you, dormant somewhere, and then awakened by the witch? Are they all awake now?"
"Awake, huh? Actually, the Star Killer is the Miko's weapon, appearing only after the Miko's appearance. But unlike me, it wasn't awakened after a ten-thousand-year slumber. The previous generation's 'All-Hating One' and 'All-Laughing One' died in the previous catastrophe. But now—when I went to the Chita database, I saw that the survival status of all three Star Killers showed 'alive'. In other words, the other two have been recreated."
"This is a bit troublesome."
Yaye knocked on the back of the sofa with his hand.
"One is troublesome enough, and now we have to deal with three at once—it seems we'll have to mobilize the full might of the Elysion Alliance this time."
"I'm actually quite puzzled," the dragon surveyed the crowd with its golden eyes. "As relatives of the miko, you've already become the chosen people. Why are you so afraid of the coming disaster? Senagard is nearly at its limit. Wouldn't a purge and reorganization be a good idea?"
Gu Yinyue narrowed his eyes: "Limit?"
"Well, artists probably understand this feeling better. If you're not entirely satisfied with a work, no matter how you revise it, it'll only get worse. So, if you just start over, the new work will be completed faster and more perfectly."
"Are you comparing the Senagade to a work of art?" Yaye snorted mockingly. "Sorry, but art doesn't have a life of its own. If it did, that less-than-successful piece would surely have complained endlessly, unwillingly and aggrieved, before being destroyed by its creator. Even if the world seems shattered and dilapidated from the perspective of superiors like you, this is still our home, and we, your so-called 'works of art,' are all alive."
Xiao Peng then spoke:
"And I actually think that being able to revise an unsatisfactory piece of work into something satisfactory is what makes an artist truly talented. Blaming the failure of a good piece on tactility, aura, or state of mind, and then simply starting over, is just a form of self-consolation and escapism in the eyes of us vulgar people, right?"
"It's useless even if you try to convince me."
Faced with the aggressive question, the Star Killer just shrugged nonchalantly.
"I'm just a weapon. I might find excuses for my violence—well, I'm conscious after all—but if I really wanted to, I could blow a city to ash with a single cannonball, even without any reason. A mental attack on me is useless."
The veins on the foreheads of the people around them jumped at the same time.
"Instead of trying to convince me, why not just focus on expanding the number of selected people? I think that's a more practical approach."
Ragnarl walked to the window and jumped onto the windowsill.
"Then I'll go find a place to wait for the great disaster to strike again. See you again if we're lucky."
"It's best if there is no fate."
Yaye choked, Ragnarl smiled indifferently, jumped out of the window, turned into a flying dragon the size of the Disaster King, and quickly disappeared into the sky.
"Expand the number of selected people..."
Xiao Ping narrowed his eyes, recalling the hint left by the dragon before leaving, and began to think about something.
Xiang Ying knocked on the table, attracting everyone's attention.
"Next, I want to tell you about what we saw in Chita."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's expressions became even more serious.
Xiang Ying and Yagard looked at each other and took a breath.
"Because of limited time and our eagerness to return to reunite with our master, we didn't get much intelligence, but there was still a lot of important information. First of all, there's the matter of Mr. Gu Yinyue's knife—it's deeply connected to our master's past."
Then, for a while afterwards, Xiang Ying, speaking in a slightly subdued tone, told everyone about Beichen's past. Because everyone present was his own family, and Beichen had promised to explain his past to them when he had time, and presumably they didn't care about them knowing, Xiang Ying spoke directly for them, not wanting Beichen to open up his wounds again.
After hearing this, the room fell into deathly silence for a full five minutes. Hei Huo, Su Jie, Ya Ye, Gu Yin Yue, Atlas, Xiao Ping—almost everyone—clenched their fists, with complex expressions between their brows that could not be determined whether it was anger, heartache, or sighs.
"Fortunately, the woman named Jin Mingjing and her uncle are already dead."
Recalling what happened while staying in Feinheim, Gu Yinyue murmured softly.
"Reddis... at least he still has some conscience. Otherwise, I wouldn't let him and those two people go."
"Don't even mention not letting them go. Even if they're already dead, I'd still want to pull them out of their graves and give them a beating." Black Fire said in a cold voice, while Su Jie nodded.
"Well, I really want to run to Heyang Country and put a handful of laxatives and erectile dysfunction drugs in Redis's teacup."
"Just having diarrhea and erectile dysfunction is too easy for him." Yaye grinned, "Strip him naked and hang him upside down on the flagpole in the most crowded square in the capital of Heyang Kingdom."
"Then draw a human face on the belly, add a beard and fish cakes on the face with oil-based ink, wear carrot underwear on the head, and a heart scarf around the neck." Atlas interjected.
Wait, this is a bit too much! Where in the database did you find such a terrifying image?
──Everyone twitched their lips at the same time.
"Alright, alright." Xiao Peng smirked and shook his head. "We can't just vent our anger on them. Looking at the outcome, Redis finally recovered the Moon-Slaying Blade, which is why we were able to save Beichen's life this time. ...So, we better squeeze the Heyang Nation hard from now on. The most practical thing to do is to squeeze as much profit as possible out of them."
This statement was unanimously agreed upon, and the others nodded one after another with gritted teeth expressions.
"The other information is—"
Xiang Ying looked at Yagad, and Yagad continued speaking with an expressionless face.
"I used my authority as a Crimson Moon Knight to review the preserved footage from the previous catastrophe and learned how it occurred—and how the Chosen People came into being."
"What?!"
"It's a plague. Someone artificially created a highly contagious virus and spread it. The creatures infected by the virus and becoming ill—they look very similar to the possessed Moon Messenger. Their skin color has turned nearly gray, and hard, shimmering blue crystals have appeared on their bodies."
"Possessing the Moon Envoy?!"
Black Fate screamed.
"But isn't the Possessed Moon Envoy a biological weapon?! Produced in large quantities on the Poison Moon?!"
"I'm not sure about that either. I don't have much information to look up. After all, my position is merely that of a knight who assists the miko in close combat. I'm just a 'weapon' without any real power—nothing comparable to a large-scale ancient killing weapon like the Star Killer."
The knight finished his explanation, paused for a few seconds, and then continued.
"It's not just humans who are infected, animals are also infected. In short, judging from those intermittent videos, the world is in a state of extreme chaos."
"…and cruel."
Agard, who had no sense of good or evil, would not make any emotional comments, so he added another word to Ying.
"Then, the chosen method seems to be 'resisting consciousness'."
"Resistance consciousness?"
"Yes, the virus doesn't infect everyone. Some people and animals with a strong will to survive or strong bodies and strong resistance don't get sick—or if they do, they recover. This is how the miko selects them. These few survivors who retain their original form in the virus-ravaged areas become the chosen ones, and are taken to Chita by the miko in batches.
Because Chita is located tens of thousands of meters above sea level, the virus is ineffective at such high altitudes due to the altitude and air pressure. However, Chita's environmental conditioning system allows the built-up area to maintain an environment suitable for human survival. Therefore, the remaining people successfully survived the disaster. More than two hundred years later, these people and their descendants returned to the surface of Senagard and began a new path of survival and development.
"Strange?" Su Jie tilted his head. "If you can take refuge in Chita, why do you want to go back? Aren't you afraid of contracting the virus again?"
"The virus has weakened after over two hundred years, and Chita's food and water production is ultimately insufficient. If this continues, resources will eventually run out, so they decided to return to Earth. However, to ensure a possible escape route, some people stayed in Chita, while others implanted identification microchips in their bodies. These are nanomachines that reside in the blood and allow them to maintain communication with Chita, providing instructions from there at critical moments."
"I see. It's in the blood. ...So, as a descendant of the Chosen People, Karina can also hear the voice of Chita."
Xiao Peng replied thoughtfully, and Yagad nodded in affirmation:
"That's probably right. The microchip is passed down through the mother's genes and into the offspring's bloodstream. But after so much time has passed, there probably won't be much left. So, Karina probably won't be able to hear every bit, only the most important ones."
The knight said as he looked around at everyone.
"The reason we prioritized investigating the catastrophe ten thousand years ago is to learn from it. What do you think might have caused this catastrophe? Was it still a plague?"
"It's not impossible."
Xiao Ping stood up from the sofa and paced back and forth a few times.
"If it's a virus that can mutate into a Moon Envoy, then with the presence of weapon blood, it shouldn't be a big problem. As for a racial war, Beichen discovered it a long time ago, so he has discussed with me many strategies to interrupt it. I guess Su Mo won't choose this one first. The rest - creating natural disasters... opening the box... killing the star..."
Unfortunately, Xiao Ping did not have ten thousand years of knowledge as a foundation, so it seemed that he could not think of any particularly efficient way of destruction for the time being.
"No, I don't have much of a clue."
He waved his hands in frustration.
"I'm going to the library. Yaye, Gu Yinyue, I'll leave the arrangements for other trivial matters to you. Before the sun rises tomorrow, we must strive to be in a state where we can focus on the counterattack without distraction."
"Okay. Everyone, please go back to your seats."
Yaye also stood up and stretched his neck, then raised his hand and patted the bracelet that Xiangying gave him for telepathic communication.
"If there's anything, please contact me through the telepathic communication channel."
"No problem!" Su Jie patted his chest with great enthusiasm, "But it's really a bargain for Little Loach. Xifeng and I are kissing each other, and we are running around for her──"
"No jealousy and no acting like a spoiled child!"
Yaye patted Su Jie on the head.
"Damn Matcha only has one night to rest. If you want to be intimate with her, you have to show some military merit!"
"Besides..." Xiang Ying coughed with a wry smile, "Xifeng...everyone seems to have forgotten that Xifeng's injuries from Feibai...are still not fully healed? For injuries of this magnitude, using sharpening blades to repair them would be more efficient, right?"
“…”
Many people looked away with guilty eyes - because they were distracted by Beichen's affairs, the fact that Xifeng was moving with injuries seemed to have been ignored.
"Tsk, Xifeng got it easy." Black Disaster patted Su Jie's shoulder sourly, "Let's go, let's go grab the merits of the battle."
"So should I join in the threesome?"
Atlas, who had been silent the entire time, raised his hand to ask a question, but everyone just shook their heads like rattles:
"Ah, no, forget it this time. Xifeng will really cry."
“…”
On the other side, in Beichen's room, Beichen was struggling with the cloth tied around his wrist with a pale face.
"Uh, Zephyr, I didn't disagree with sharpening my blade with you, so why did you tie me up?"
"It's a matter of habit. Seeing people helpless like fish on a chopping block is more interesting to me."
"But I didn't intend to resist—"
"Your refusal to be tied up is a form of resistance. Stop talking nonsense. I'm already giving you face by not blindfolding you."
"So I was wondering why you have such a perverted hobby..."
Xifeng's coat was half-open, revealing the beautiful and lean curves of her chest and abdomen. At this moment, she was hugging Beichen in an extremely aggressive posture. "Haven't you known for a long time that my preferences are rather abnormal? If you still approach me knowing this, you must be prepared to be influenced by this abnormal hobby."
The problem is that since you think it's "abnormal," it means you know what's normal! So why are you so unwilling to change?
──Of course, Beichen only dared to complain about these words in his heart.
"And what do you think this is, some cheerful, pink, and corny couple's activity? Make no mistake, I just told you, this is a punishment, a training, to make you pay for your reckless actions!"
After saying that, there was a ripping sound, and Beichen's already tattered combat uniform was completely torn into pieces of cloth - the fair skin under the clothes was exposed.
"Ehhhh!? I can't wear it at all like this! Xifeng, how could you be so wasteful!"
"...At this time, you're still thinking about whether your clothes can be repaired. It seems that you really need repairs."
Xifeng's eyes turned cold, and with a wave of his hand, everything in a certain column of the storage space fell onto the bed. Beichen, who was still tied up, widened his eyes at the sight.
"W-West Wind...you...you're not going to kill me, are you?! Did I...did I do anything to make you hate me so much?! I, I, I can apologize! Please spare my life, brave man!"
Xifeng raised his eyebrows:
"How do you know I want to kill you?"
"But aren't these things all placed in the 'Hidden Weapons' section of your storage space?!"
"Are you stupid? Who would just leave an adult film on a desk? There have to be folders with names like 'Papers' and 'Grammar Encyclopedia'. Do I have to label them 'sex toys' so you can understand?"
"Sex toys..."
Beichen's face turned even greener.
"Why do they look more like weapons? Xifeng, are you sure you didn't go into the wrong store? For example, the store you entered was actually an underground business that sold banned hidden weapons, and the store that ostensibly sold sex toys..."
"So annoying! I know these things a hundred times better than you do. How dare you doubt them?!"
"Help, help!?"
Beichen struggled like an earthworm in Xifeng's arms, trying to break free from Xifeng.
"Xifeng, can we do something more normal?! The props and other things are really too heavy-handed! It will have a psychological trauma on me, and the author will be put in a sack and beaten by everyone!"
"normal?"
Xifeng pressed Beichen back into his arms, and their skin exposed to the air touched and rubbed against each other ambiguously.
"With so many normal people around, you'll get tired of them sooner or later. Don't worry, I won't torture you to death."
"But he'll be half dead, right? He'll be half dead, right?"
Xifeng's eyes wandered for a moment:
"It will only take a few days to recover, and there will be no aftereffects."
"It'll take a few days to respond! Xifeng, you... you're a sadist, right?! Actually, the reason Redis was so happy to work with you was because this authoritarian psychopath really liked your torture methods, right? Actually, you were in charge of interrogation under him, right?!"
"...Huh? How did you know? Did he tell you?"
"...I was just complaining, but I didn't expect it to actually work, you super S!"
"So what?"
Xifeng's mouth corners curled up in a rare moment - he rarely smiled, but now in the dim light, with a thin layer of sweat on his body, he smiled coldly, looking dangerous and sexy.
"Don't worry. You're very promiscuous, so you can definitely handle it. Since you said I'm an S... I believe we're a good match. I'll bring out all your M cells."
"...Wait, I don't want my M cells to go all out at all!"
Just as Beichen was complaining, Xifeng's hand suddenly pressed hard on the sensitive part of her chest! Beichen screamed softly and then gave Xifeng a red face with hatred - of course, it seemed completely useless.
"That's why I like to cover a woman's eyes and mouth when I do it. Not only is it noisy and annoying, but I also like to ogle. But forget it... your words."
The Star Vein chuckled softly.
"Since you are special, I really want to hear your desperate cries and the look of resistance yet helplessness in your eyes."
"Wait, normally in this situation it would be 'moaning' and 'a loving look' or something like that, right?! And I wasn't ogling just now, I was just using my eyes to express my accusation and dissatisfaction!"
"……What did you say?"
"No, I didn't say anything. Anyway, please don't use props. That's too scary, Master Xifeng!"
"I asked you once when I was injured, but you refused. You lost your only chance to take the initiative a long time ago, so now you have no right to refute."
“…”
Beichen's face turned from green to purple.
Seeing that she had adopted the expression of a revolutionary martyr, with her brows furrowed and her eyes tightly closed, and was almost reciting the Great Compassion Mantra for him, Xifeng snorted amusedly and lowered his head to peck the corner of her lips.
"Do you think you're in a torture chamber? If that were the case, you wouldn't even have a piece of flesh left. If you're really that repulsive...it's not like there aren't other options. There's a certain kind of person I can be reluctantly gentle with."
"Huh? What?! Tell me now! Even if that person is Harry Potter, I will still work hard to learn magic!"
“…”
But Xifeng fell silent, his eyes drifting for a long time, then he coughed lightly a few times, turned his head and whispered:
"my wife."
"Ah? This... Could it be that Xifeng is planning to marry a woman other than me?!"
Seeing that the expression on Beichen's face suddenly turned sour, Xifeng raised his eyebrows in a good mood.
"Because you haven't said the most important words, I have to be prepared to retreat at any time."
"I'm telling you! Xifeng, I like you! Please date me! That's not right! Please marry me!... Uh, that doesn't seem right either... Please let me marry you!... That's not right either, please join me in my ancestral tomb!... That's still not right, please get lost with me on the journey of life!... That's even more wrong! Then, please become the father of my child?!"
"Okay, I get it! Shut up! And one last thing, are you trying to show your love or poke me in the sore spot?"
I don’t know if it was because he felt shy or because Beichen’s lame confession was too embarrassing, but Xifeng couldn’t help but take out the gun, and then put it back when Beichen’s face turned green.
"Since you're so sincere, I'll be gentle for once. You're lucky."
"Oooohhh!! Zephyr is the best!"
Beichen, who had finally secured normal treatment for himself, breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed into the quilt.
As a result, two hours later, the other people who were working heard Beichen's tearful voice through the mind communication channel.
"Please... please tell me how to make Xifeng impotent!"
"Yeah! What's wrong, little loach!" Black Disaster's voice rang out. "Did West Wind bully you?! I'll teach you a trick. Use your knee to hit his Armstrong Spin Cannon!"
"Very good, Black Disaster, I'll use this trick to honor you someday." Xifeng's voice also appeared on the telepathic communication channel. "Also, Xiang Beichen, I didn't give you ten minutes to post a request for help."
"Xifeng! Are you really going to bully the master?!" Xiang Ying also became anxious.
Su Jie laughed strangely: "Little Loach, now you know that my brother and I are good friends. You've learned your lesson after suffering so much. Don't go looking for that vandal-obsessed pervert again!"
Zephyr: "No, I didn't abuse her. This was my first time sharpening a blade in a gentle way."
Beichen: "You call this gentleness! Then Xiangying is a jellyfish!"
Xiang Ying: "Jellyfish!? Me?! ...Master, are you praising my gentleness or are you saying I'm not tough enough? If it's the latter, I can learn from Xifeng──"
Beichen: "No, no, no, no! Xiangying, please stay like this! If even you become swayed by the west wind, I'll have no safe haven! Xiangying, you are my conscience!"
Xiang Ying: "Oh, oh oh oh! That's great! As long as Master likes it, I will work hard to become a jellyfish!"
Black Disaster: "Stupid Shadow Little Loach, that was just a metaphor."
Su Jie: "If you really dare to go out wearing transparent clothes like a jellyfish, I will definitely not admit that I know you."
Beichen: "..."
Yaye, who was watching the channel through his bracelet, said, "But Xifeng was really unexpected this time. Damn Matcha just came back from the battlefield and walked out of a pile of meat, but he still touched it. Has his mysophobia been cured? He deserves a reward."
Xifeng: "Well, you gave me inspiration, Yaye, let's go to the bathroom later."
Beichen: "Wait a minute, Xifeng, didn't you say... this rest would be the last time?!"
Xifeng: "Since you still have the energy to complain on the telepathic communication channel, it means you have a lot of energy left."
Beichen: "Please... please tell me how to make Xifeng impotent!"
Gu Yinyue, who was watching the channel through the bracelet, said: "Xifeng, stop it. Beichen is in good health."
Xifeng: "I know my limits. But I've been holding it in for her for nearly three years... Gu Yinyue, I think you understand how this feels."
Gu Yinyue: "...Please, please do a good job of massage afterward."
Beichen: "Yinyue, please don't abandon me too, ahhhhhhhhhh────"
Atlas, who was watching the channel through his bracelet, said: "I won't abandon Beichen. Do you need me to help you out?"
Everyone: "You just wanted a threesome, didn't you? It was just a joke, don't remember it so clearly!"
Yagard, who was watching the channel through the bracelet, said: "Ms. Beichen, if you really want to stop sharpening, I recommend a method. Just [beep──────], then [beep────] and it will be done."
The channel was silent for a few seconds, and then Beichen's cheers suddenly broke out.
"It seems to be working! I'll try again──"
"Don't even think about it, Xiang Beichen! ...And Yagad, I'll remember what happened today!"
Bang!
There was an inexplicable gunshot in the sky above the palace.
Xiao Peng in the library looked up for a second, then lowered his head and continued reading:
"Xifeng's being naughty again. Weird, is he even sharpening a blade with a gun, or does he have a perverted hobby of using his own body to sharpen blades? I hope he can control it. The Queen just recovered from the crisis of losing her heart, and it would be too embarrassing for her to die from anal rape."
Pah!
Lahan, who was helping to move the books, slipped and fell into a pile with a pile of books, his mouth twitching.
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