Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 30
Chapter 30: The Elegance of a Maiden
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The underground base beneath ME Corp’s building was extremely spacious, after all, it was essentially a massive mechanical factory.
“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I doubt anyone would have imagined that beneath ME Corp’s building there would be such a huge underground base.”
Elysia, who was advancing together with Mei, looked at the surrounding scenery and couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.
“Fortunately, this base had already stopped production not long ago, and even the products inside had been transferred elsewhere. Otherwise, our situation would have been very dire.”
On the surrounding production lines, you could still see shadows of parts from defense robots and Titans.
The Nagazora City Honkai eruption that Cocolia was plotting would destroy the entire city.
ME Corp would naturally be no exception, so early in the plan, after gaining control of ME Corp, that cunning fox had already moved away the remaining weapon mechs from the factory.
It had to be said that their timing was really too perfect.
If they had come too early, ME Corp’s defensive forces definitely wouldn’t have been so few.
With curious gazes, the three of them looked around as they proceeded, while also maintaining vigilance toward their surroundings.
This underground base also had quite a few guard robots, but just like those on the surface, they posed no threat whatsoever.
Soon, they arrived at a relatively open area. The surroundings here were pale white with nothing else, making Kiana somewhat curious:
“Eh, this place is so spacious. What’s it for?”
“I guess it’s probably a testing ground for weapons or something like that.”
Elysia touched her chin and, after examining the surroundings, tried to guess based on what they had seen before.
However, Mei behind them unconsciously clenched her hands and spoke up:
“Be careful. For some reason, I have an ominous feeling.”
“How could…”
Kiana was about to deny it, but Elysia suddenly laughed:
“Oh my, that’s true indeed. I knew this underground journey wouldn’t go smoothly~”
“Isn’t that right, unknown gentleman?”
“!?”
“There’s an enemy!?”
Mei and Kiana immediately took defensive positions.
And before their eyes, a figure appeared.
“Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Gray Serpent.”
“I apologize, but due to certain necessary reasons, you two beautiful ladies and this gentleman, I must bring your actions to a halt here.”
The hoarse voice maintained politeness. Although this man’s words were filled with gentlemanly demeanor, Kiana obviously didn’t care about that at all. She just stared at him angrily and loudly questioned:
“Bastard, are you in cahoots with Cocolia!”
“You could understand it that way.”
Although it didn’t matter whether he answered such a question or not, Gray Serpent’s personality didn’t mind engaging in conversation without revealing more intelligence.
“Hmm~ That won’t do. After all, there are people from an entire city waiting for us to save them. Could I ask Mr. Gray Serpent to step aside?”
“…”
Gray Serpent’s mechanical face showed no expression, but it fell silent for a moment, as if staring at Jiang Qiao, seeming to want to discern something.
“What’s wrong? Staring at someone’s face like that is quite rude, you know. But it’s okay, since this face really is quite handsome, isn’t it?”
This tone.
This familiar feeling.
What was up with this man?
Gray Serpent was born from Mobius’s hands. As a remnant of the Previous Era, its database naturally stored information about that person.
He stared at the man named Jiang Qiao before him with suspicion and uncertainty.
How absurd. Looking at this person, he almost felt as if he were conversing with that Lord.
…Was it a coincidence?
It should be a coincidence, Gray Serpent tried to convince himself.
50,000 years of time was enough to change too much. Even if someone very similar to that person appeared, it wouldn’t be strange.
There was no other possibility besides this, after all, that person had already died 50,000 years ago.
The Elysian Realm could never have had any accidents either.
“It seems we must continue this conversation with a battle between us.”
Seeing the unmoved Gray Serpent, Elysia sighed regretfully.
She couldn’t yield, after all, behind her were the 10 million citizens of Nagazora City, 10 million lives.
And Gray Serpent naturally couldn’t yield either.
Although he was extremely shocked to see the shadow of that person in this strange man.
But Gray Serpent was not his Lord.
If Kevin were here now, he would definitely choose to yield because of this similarity.
But as a machine, Gray Serpent would only carry out the will of World Serpent to the end.
In this regard, he was much purer than other World Serpent cadres like Raven and Jackal.
The supreme Lord would surely return, and those who tried to block the way would be crushed to dust by the Serpent!
Elysia had patience to talk with Gray Serpent, but the white-haired fluffball, being impatient, didn’t have such patience. She directly raised her baseball bat and coldly shouted:
“What’s the point of talking to him? For this kind of bad guy, just smash him to pieces!”
As she spoke, Kiana directly charged forward with arrow steps, fiercely swinging her bat toward Gray Serpent’s face.
However, obviously, it had no effect.
The opponent raised his hand and caught the white-haired fluffball’s full-powered furious strike.
He even flexibly kicked the former away with one foot.
“Kiana, are you alright?”
Mei caught Kiana with some concern.
The white-haired fluffball being supported stared at the opponent with some disbelief:
“This guy, is he made of iron or something?”
That was her full-powered furious strike, the kind without holding back, aimed at either blowing up the opponent or at least turning him into a vegetable.
Yet it was blocked by one hand.
Could the opponent be a humanoid Titan?!
Her invincible baseball bat had basically only failed against Ducky’s Project Bunny and the Titans commanded by Sin Mal. Now this man was added to the list.
Good grief, aside from Honkai Beasts, now any person could block her baseball bat?
Kiana deeply suspected whether she had already fallen behind the meta.
However, Elysia saw through the situation and speculated:
“I’m afraid his entire body is made of high-strength alloy.”
“This person isn’t human; he should be a robot or something similar.”
“Terminator? 007?”
Kiana’s reaction made Elysia unable to suppress her laughter, while reminding her:
“How could that be? It’s not a movie. Stop defaulting to the baseball bat for everything and use the electromagnetic hand cannon I gave you!”
Really, she had specifically gotten high-tech weapons from Jiang Qiao, but this child still preferred playing with the baseball bat. Was that thing really so fun?
Elysia completely couldn’t understand the appeal of baseball bats.
Such a crude thing didn’t match beautiful girls at all!
Compared to that thing, her specially customized bow and arrows were definitely the best~
She lifted the electromagnetic bow in her hand, displaying the elegance of an archer.
— Inadvertently, some subtle moth patterns on the bow flashed by.