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She knew what she could and should do, and this quality was exactly what Ryan liked.
"Okay, that Honkai beast has been badly injured and won't be able to get out for a while. So, are you going to protect me like this?"
"Well, I know I'm weak, but being able to block one attack for you is enough." The girl was still serious, without any intention of joking.
Ryan was somewhat moved by Hua's persistence, so he nodded gently: "Thank you."
"I should thank you. If you hadn't come to Canghai, I would have been unable to resist my curiosity and ran in sooner or later. You saved me again."
"Then we're even." Ryan naturally took the girl's hand and walked out of the village. "Let's go home. I'll make lunch. I haven't cooked for a long time."
"Brother, your cooking skills are ten times better than mine. So, you really don't want to go to that fire-chasing moth?"
"I hate those things. I'd rather stay with you. But let's make a deal. After a few more days, I'll go back to Huwu and take Master with me to hide in the mountains. Don't be petty."
A trace of unwillingness flashed across Hua's face, but as a sensible and serious person, he knew that he could do nothing after seeing the fight.
"Okay, I promise you, but you have to promise me too."
"what?"
"Since I can't escape, I have to contribute my strength. At least I can control my own destiny like you do."
Ryan slowed down his pace, turned his head slightly, and looked at the girl's determined expression. Out of selfish motives, he didn't want Hua to come in, because even he couldn't control his future.
But after thinking about it, as I said, no one can escape the collapse in the future. Since we will be involved sooner or later, it is always better to do it sooner.
"Okay, I promise you."
......
The clouds were dark, as if a rainstorm was gathering, and seagulls flew through the clouds, with huge steel ships reflected in their dark eyes.
A fleet was sailing on the sea, with six destroyers forming a wheel-shaped formation, escorting the aircraft carrier in the center.
The wind and waves grew stronger, the bow of the ship rose high, and then plunged into the water. Only the aircraft carrier, which weighed about 100,000 tons, remained stable, and under the rotating weather radar was a huge fire-chasing moth logo.
Unlike the Far East branch which was established in a military base, the South Shenzhou branch was simply moved to an aircraft carrier. This giant steel ship cruised in the open sea like a moving castle.
The blonde Calis held up a telescope and watched the sparks produced by the electromagnetic catapult. A new group of patrol planes were taking off rapidly, which made people marvel at the prosperity of civilization.
"Chief of Staff, the battle report is out."
Just then, a burly man with blue hair walked in, waved his hand to let the people around him step back, and stuffed a thick stack of reports into the man's hands.
"As planned, Dr. Ryan repelled Moshazhi, who has sustained over 58% damage and is now submerged in the deep sea."
Calis took the report, glanced at it, and placed it on the table next to him, with an elegant smile: "As expected of the most powerful emperor-level Honkai beast known, it is only seriously injured by this kind of firepower. As long as the core is still there, it will be back in no time."
"We tried our best. This thing is really hard to kill."
"I don't mean to reprimand you, Branch Chief Erwin." Kallis glanced at him and flipped through a few pages of the report, "So has the Honkai Beast left?"
"No, it's still lurking fifty kilometers from the coastline. An unmanned submarine is watching it. These monsters are really unreasonable. They neither come ashore nor run away." Erwin tapped the table lightly, his angular face wrinkled. "Dr. Ryan is here, why don't we call the pink monster over as well and take some risks to defeat it."
"Don't try to understand these magical creations. This will make us appear ignorant and arrogant. In fact, the opinions of the staff are very interesting."
"What is it waiting for?"
"Yes, there are various signs that the critical value is approaching, and the third collapse is just around the corner."
The bridge fell into a deathly silence. Erwin swallowed. He was not worried about the Herrscher, but the attitude of the man in front of him was strange.
He was not anxious at all, but instead had a vague expectation. He thought that people who could become branch heads had high emotional intelligence. Combined with the recent frequent meetings of the League of Nations, he suddenly understood something.
"what do you mean......"
"Humans always like to learn from their mistakes. You should have heard about the proposal to dismember the Fire Moth."
"Yes, but was suppressed by the commander-in-chief."
"It's just for now. When the storm dissipates, the discordant voices will emerge again." Calis looked at the raindrops hitting the window and the borrowed fleet in front of him, and asked with a smile: "You are more energetic than the previous two collapses, right?"
"Yes, I fought on the front line and experienced that cruel and hopeless war."
"So you know the significance of the Fire Chaser's existence, but it's hard to get to the bone just by looking at the image. Do you know what I think about the first two collapses?"
Without waiting for the branch chief to answer, Calis took a breath, his handsome and elegant face filled with ferocity.
"That's because it's not desperate enough, it's not cruel enough, and the pain hasn't penetrated everyone's bones. We still live in an illusory peace, even if this peace was brought about by people like you who risked their lives."
The solemn tone was like the strong wind outside the window, but Erwin became excited instead. He was fed up with the feeling of constraints, and even more disgusted with racking his brains to cover up the truth.
Those naive young people thought they were in a superhero movie and indulged in the fantasy of being heroes behind the scenes.
Calis glanced at the excited branch chief and said calmly, "The future will be even more cruel. We must wake everyone up. Even if the price is a bit high, it is so small that it can be ignored for the future of all mankind."
This sentence was like a ray of light that cleared the clouds, turning Erwin's excitement into calm.
"I understand how to do it."
"Then go ahead and act as the whistleblower for mankind."
"Yes, I will change the plan immediately." The branch chief nodded, and then thought of something else: "What should we do with Dr. Ryan? Should we notify him or hint at him?"
he?
The blond man was silent for a moment. Logically speaking, since the other party had helped to repel the Moshazhi, he should have been invited to have a chat, and the two sides should cooperate in hunting down the Honkai beast.
"No, I can't see through this person and can't predict his actions."
"Maybe he'll notice something?"
"It doesn't matter. The time is approaching. It's meaningless for him to notice anything. Besides, we are not really helping Honkai, so it's better to end the disaster as soon as possible."
Aren’t you afraid that he will die?
Erwin moved his mouth slightly but said nothing. He saluted, turned around and left. His steps were heavy and sacred, as if a great mission was weighing on his shoulders.
Calis kept staring at the back, his face full of admiration, but deep in his eyes there was contempt.
The weak always have to make choices, just like cutting a rotten apple, cutting it one by one until nothing is left. It is really helpless to be born as such a weak, complex and inferior creature.
He turned his head and glanced at the information on the table. On the top was the aerial photo of Moshachi. He tapped the table with his fingertips and looked up at the storm that was about to break out.
Are we qualified to move on to some higher existence and end this immature childhood?
Chapter 48: To be an immortal, you must have backbone!
What on earth are those people from the Fire Moth Chaser doing?
Ryan sat on a recliner in the yard, and he didn't know how many times he had asked this question.
At first, he thought he was being used. Although he was inevitably a little unhappy, at least he repelled Moshazhi and fought against the Fire Moth.
But then something got weird. Two full days had passed since they had defeated the Honkai Beast, and except for Hen's phone call saying that it had been done, everything seemed as if nothing had happened.
Moshachi did not come to seek revenge, but remained on the seabed of the continental shelf. The Fire Moth did not take any further action, as if this battle had never existed at all.
The alert was not raised, and I was not asked to cooperate. They were just left aside. What kind of thing is this?
Ryan gradually realized that there was a problem, but he couldn't run to the door to question it. He was far from being able to do whatever he wanted.
"Brother, let's go."
Ryan was rocking on the recliner when he suddenly heard Hua's voice. He turned his head subconsciously and his eyes lit up.
The girl had her long gray-blue hair tied into a ponytail and wore a striped shirt with her collar unbuttoned to reveal her delicate collarbone, but what surprised Ryan the most was her lower body.
Hua was wearing a denim skirt that went past her knees, revealing a section of her fair calves. Adding on the white sneakers, she exuded a youthful vibe.
The girl is tall, and the heroic spirit brought by long-term martial arts training also conceals the flaws of her flat figure. Although she has nothing to do with being glamorous or charming, she is extremely showy.
Ryan's admiring gaze made Hua smile slightly, revealing a few white teeth, but the smile soon froze again.
"Did you take the wrong medicine today?"
It's not Ryan's fault for being foul-mouthed. He has known Hua for five years, and thanks to Hua Xia's sportswear and school uniform, he has never seen this girl in a skirt. She always wears sweatpants or at most a pair of jeans.
But as soon as he said it, he knew he had said it wrong, so he smiled awkwardly: "Don't mind it, I'm just surprised, how come you suddenly know how to dress up?"
In fact, the girl was not wearing any makeup, and the denim skirt was even very tacky, but for Hua, it was a groundbreaking step.
"When you first came in that day, you praised me for being able to wear nice clothes." Hua muttered, remembering the things he saw hanging on the clothes rack when Ryan first came.
"What are you mumbling about?"
"No, it's just that the last time I went shopping with Carol, she insisted on buying it for me. After what happened the other day, I suddenly realized that if I don't wear it now, I will never have the chance to wear it in the future."
"That's true. It will become a rare thing in our daily life in the future." Ryan nodded, accepting this statement.
On the surface, he was accompanying Hua to buy some local specialties to bring home today, but in fact, he was also trying to change the girl's mood. After all, what happened in the past two days was too exciting for ordinary people, and Hua was not as rough as Kevin.
Of course, he could also take this opportunity to relax. Thinking about how to deal with Honkai every day would be too much of a hassle.
"By the way, isn't Carol going with us?"
"He didn't go, and he scolded me on the phone. It was really inexplicable."
"Why did she scold you?"
"Uh, don't ask too many questions about topics between girls. Let's go." Hua's face turned red when he thought about it, and he hurried ahead.
Ryan scratched his face, glanced at the slender figure and the swaying white legs, then lowered his head and followed.
Because the rental house was too remote, Ryan drove for half an hour to get into the city, and then was stuck on the overpass. Canghai is indeed the largest city in China, and there is a lot of traffic even on weekdays.
Hua originally thought Ryan would be impatient, but later he found out that this man was actually admiring the traffic jam. In his words, the more you see of this kind of prosperity, the less you will see of it.
We set out at ten in the morning and were stuck in traffic until noon before we arrived at Huaizhong Road. As one of the most prosperous business districts in Canghai, it is dotted with various shopping malls and high-end restaurants.
"So this is Huaizhong Road." Hua stood on the side of the road, looking at the towering buildings and the fashionable men and women hurrying by, feeling out of place.
"No way, you haven't been to Huaizhong Road in two years since you came to Canghai?" Ryan locked the car and put on a black windbreaker. He seemed accustomed to the bustling scene.
Over the years, he has played Bear Grylls in the deep mountains and forests, and has also stayed in the most expensive hotel in Manhattan.
"No, the things here are too expensive. Why would I come here?" Hua turned his head and said helplessly, "I just want to buy some ham for my father. Do I need to come to Huaizhong Road?"
"You buy yours and I buy mine. Don't forget, your father is also my master. Come on, let's go have lunch first." Ryan took the girl and left. Since he had already decided to spend some time with her, of course he had to leave no regrets.
The man is handsome and the girl is beautiful. They are walking around in a bustling shopping mall. Although they are dressed simply, there is no melodramatic plot.
There is no melodramatic plot, but there is also no scene in TV dramas where women have unlimited physical strength and men complain bitterly.
After walking from the first floor to the fifth floor and then back to the first floor, a full hour later, Ryan sat in a roadside noodle shop, watching Hua helplessly as he slurped up a huge bowl of beef noodles.