Raven's "Betrayal"

Perhaps...

Durandal, at least, hasn't figured out how to deal with the War Domain yet.

Conceptual skills can only be countered by conceptual skills.

Unless you put in a lot of effort.

"Before we go see the Grey Serpent, how about we take a look around the World Serpent Headquarters?" Raven suddenly stopped and said to Chen Luo.

"Hmm, Xiola, tell me honestly, did Grey Serpent order you to do this, and did he even pay you?" Chen Luo asked after thinking for a moment, looking at the Raven who was staring intently at him.

"Uh, how could that be?" Raven paused for a moment, then gave an awkward laugh.

"If that's what you mean, then let's skip the sightseeing and go straight to see Grey Serpent. Anyway, you won't get a reward for following me around the World Serpent Headquarters," Chen Luo replied directly.

"No, okay, I admit it was Grey Serpent who told me to show you around World Serpent demonstrate its vast resources, to see if it's possible to recruit you into World Serpent," Raven said, somewhat resignedly.

"I think I'm pretty convincing, so how come you noticed it at a glance?" Raven fell into self-doubt.

Raven felt that he hadn't made any mistakes at all, so why did this happen?

"What gave you the illusion that you could accept other people's commissions in front of a master commissioner like me without being discovered?" Chen Luo said with a sneer.

Just kidding. I, Chen Luo, have taken on more cases than you've ever eaten salt.

Although your act just now was indeed very convincing and casual, your intentions were still quite obvious...

Okay, Chen Luo can't keep up the lie. Although Chen Luo is indeed a master of commissions and just sensed something was wrong, the reason he was so sure was partly due to the abilities of the Herrscher of Knowledge.

Once inside the World Serpent Headquarters, Chen Luo would immediately activate his Herrscher of Knowledge abilities whenever he felt even slightly wary, since it's always wise to be cautious.

And this is the World Serpent.

Therefore, Chen Luo had been keeping the abilities of the Herrscher of Knowledge and the Inner Demon constantly active to prevent others from having any ill intentions.

So even though Chen Luo hadn't specifically targeted Raven, he could still sense the subtle psychological fluctuations in her.

"So, are you going to visit the World Serpent Headquarters or not?" Raven asked in despair.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

[Acceptance of Results]: Please have the "leader" accept the results! Approximately...

Reward: 100 Primogem + 100 Crystals

Difficulty: Two stars

"... Of course you can go shopping, but you know what I mean? If you're making a wish, you'll need to pay out work points," Chen Luo said.

Although work points are truly meaningless to Chen Luo, just like discount coupons issued by a supermarket become completely useless if the supermarket goes bankrupt, in short, the final interpretation right belongs to Chen Luo.

However, if consumption can be stimulated, the Raven will be more motivated to earn work points.

Money only has value when it is in circulation.

"Tell me, how many work points?" Raven asked after a sigh.

"Yes, 20."

"So many? Why don't you just rob them?" Raven blurted out instantly.

"Look at what you're saying. If it's just about accompanying you around the World Serpent, it only costs 5 work points."

"Then why did you charge me 20 work points?" Raven sensed a hint of dissatisfaction.

"That's because of the underlying sense of crisis, of course. Come on, this is the World Serpent. If you went to the headquarters of a very ancient organization hidden in the shadows, would you dare to wander around aimlessly? Ask yourself that question."

If Raven weren't a woman, Chen Luo would have stabbed her in the chest hard.

"So those 15 work points are because this matter is a bit risky, and can be considered as potential crisis response costs," Chen Luo said matter-of-factly.

Of course, judging from the information revealed in this commission alone, Chen Luo knew that this matter should not be dangerous, but the problem was that Raven did not know that.

Moreover, since this was an indirect mission issued by the Raven through the Grey Serpent, Chen Luo still needed to remain vigilant. There was a reason why Chen Luo was charging the other party a fee.

"This..." Raven was caught in a dilemma.

"You never mentioned charging crisis response fees or anything like that before, did you?"

"When I gave you the work points, I told you that you could use them to make reasonable wishes. But this wish is a bit excessive, is that okay? After all, ask yourself honestly, if you were in my shoes, wouldn't you think this is dangerous?" Chen Luo shrugged indifferently.

Even if Raven didn't give him any work points, Chen Luo would still accept the task. But since Raven took the initiative to offer it, rather than Chen Luo getting it, Raven needs to pay a price.

"Alright, 20 work points it is." After thinking for two seconds, Raven made up his mind.

Raven felt that Chen Luo's words made sense, and that he himself would definitely not agree to the request if he were in Chen Luo's shoes.

After all, someone as cautious as Raven wouldn't be willing to take on such a high-risk job.

Moreover, if it's only 20 work points, then there's still money to be made, and quite a lot at that.

"Let's go." Raven said with a slight pang of heartache, as she led Chen Luo on a tour of the entire World Serpent.

The World Serpent base is indeed luxuriously decorated. Although there aren't many living people in the World Serpent itself, the headquarters occupies a very large area.

Of course, there weren't many survivors, but it's not that there weren't any survivors at all; it's just that, relative to Schicksal, there were fewer survivors.

The reason why World Serpent doesn't have many living people is twofold. First, their selection criteria for officers are quite high. Without enough officers, there are naturally fewer living people at headquarters, and most of the other living people tend to be either doing odd jobs or conducting research.

After all, the World Serpent couldn't possibly have only Jackal as a researcher; Jackal was just one of the few executives among these researchers.

And the characters currently appearing in the story are not all of World Serpent's executives.

Secondly, since Grey Serpent alone can be equivalent to hundreds or thousands of people, there is no need for too many henchmen like Valkyrie to manage the World Serpent base.

Thirdly, the guard duties have mostly been taken over by mechs.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the mechs in your World Serpent really come from all sorts of organizations. Anti-Entropy's Titan, the Schicksal series mechs, and some self-developed mechs." As he walked through the World Serpent headquarters, Chen Luo looked at the mechs passing by and couldn't help but sigh.

"This is mainly because both in Schicksal and Anti-Entropy have World Serpent spies, so the data on these mechs is not a problem at all, and mass production is not difficult either," Raven explained.

Since Chen Luo has already been brought to the World Serpent headquarters, and Grey Serpent has even asked him to show Chen Luo around the World Serpent, it's okay to reveal this level of confidentiality.

"How many spies does World Serpent have in Schicksal and Anti-Entropy? No one except Grey Serpent should know, but it is enough to know that their secrets are not secrets to World Serpent. Moreover, World Serpent has been working hard to develop its own mecha brand."

"At the same time, we also have our own weapons technology production routes. Our weapons are mostly combined with conventional weapons for mass production, so even ordinary troops can use these weapons. Of course, this does not mean that our weapons are all civilian-grade weapons. Our advanced weapons naturally have performance that is no less than or even far exceeds that of Schicksal and Anti-Entropy."

Raven once asked Grey Serpent how to introduce the World Serpent, and from what perspective.

At that time, the Grey Serpent only uttered one word.

"Boast."

The Raven were dumbfounded.

Praise? How to praise?

You're just outrageous.

So even though the Raven wasn't entirely clear on these things, it was just a case of exaggerating the high-tech aspects.

Anyway, Chen Luo probably doesn't understand these technologies either, just like me, right?

"..." Because of her Furniture Mastery, Chen Luo, who was also proficient in mecha manufacturing, armor making, weapons manufacturing, and biomedicine, followed behind Raven, silently listening to Raven say things that even she herself might not believe.

Chapter 225 The Raven's "Betrayal"

"Here you are, this is the research department, or rather, the biological laboratory. Although World Serpent has technology in all directions, its main focus is still on human experimentation, which is this biological laboratory in front of us. As for other aspects... weapons can be left to Mikoyan, and the mechs can be copied from Schicksal and Anti-Entropy. Only the biological experiments need to be unique." Raven introduced to Chen Luo.

"Hmm, the Stigmata Project, is it?" Chen Luo nodded thoughtfully.

Kevin is still completely obsessed.

What is the Stigmata Project?

Through artificial intervention, the genome of the Honkai antibody, which had been inoculated in a few offspring embryos but was dispersed due to human lineage inheritance, was activated and recombined.

But the success rate of this kind of "enhancement"...

For details, please refer to the success rate of evolution between the T-virus and Alice in Resident Evil.

While that may be an exaggeration, a great many people would indeed die.

The things he needs to do are probably similar to what Cocolia did in Changkong City.

Of course, the World Serpent's research on the Stigmata Project has been going on for so long, it must have yielded results. Its success rate is much higher than that of Cocolia. At that time, Cocolia wanted was Raiden Mei; nothing else mattered.

The World Serpent's Stigmata Project was certainly intended to ensure success for everyone, but its very nature means that it is impossible for everyone to succeed.

The phrase "hurting the enemy a thousand while losing eight hundred of your own" aptly describes this plan.

From the perspective of racial continuation, if all humans on Earth were to implement the Stigmata Project, all humans would possess the corresponding antibodies to adapt to Honkai energy, and the human population would naturally increase rapidly after a massive reduction in numbers.

After generations of reproduction, it will surely be able to restore its former glory.

This behavior is even more ruthless than Thanos's.

Thanos only wiped out half of humanity.

The Stigmata Project is not enough to eliminate half the population.

"You know about the Stigmata Project?" Raven, slightly surprised.

"How could I not know about the Stigmata... Oh, I remember now, Snake Snake didn't come yesterday either, so you probably don't know, right?" Chen Luo suddenly realized.

Chen Luo originally thought that Raven should know that he knew about the Stigmata Project, since he already knew the former Mobius.

But then Chen Luo suddenly realized that Raven's luck seemed to have always been either bad or always good.

Raven had never met Mobius, and therefore Chen Luo never mentioned to her that this bar not only connected to Different World, but also to different times.

"Snake Snake, hmm, that name brings back bad memories," Raven said honestly.

"Don't worry, the name just sounds a little unpleasant to you."

Actually, when you actually meet that person, you'll definitely feel even worse than you do now.

If you don't tremble a couple of times when you see Big Mei Biu Si, I'll give you 10 work points for free.

Of course, this couldn't be said aloud. If it were, the Raven would be prepared, and the work points would be given away for free.

This is probably considered... an unspoken rule in performance evaluations, right?

"Since you already know about the Stigmata Project, I won't hide it from you anymore. The person currently in charge of the Stigmata Project is a researcher named Jackal, who, like me, is a cadre of the World Serpent. A true demon scientist."

"However, although that woman talks a lot of nonsense, she is indeed a genius," Raven commented fairly and objectively.

"Alright, let's go. We've already seen it, haven't we?" Chen Luo turned around and was about to leave.

In fact, Raven handled things the same way in the previous departments. Raven was probably just as eager to meet the project schedule as I was.

Whether you've finished your tour or not, isn't that enough? Time to go, time to go.

Coincidentally, Chen Luo thought the same thing.

"Hey, don't go!" But this time it didn't seem to work, Raven grabbed Chen Luo's arm.

"What are you doing?" Chen Luo asked.

"I need to talk to that woman about the children. After Jackal learned that I had adopted a group of children in Changkong City, she took the initiative to prepare some treatment drugs for me. Although her purpose was definitely for her own scientific research, I have to admit that her skills are indeed good."

"So this time I'm taking you to see the World Serpent. Besides introducing them to you, we also need to get some medicine here at the Biology Department. So you have to come in with me."

Although Little Kong and the others can indeed live normally under the influence of Chen Luo's Honkai Crystal, some medications can still help, and Chen Luo's treatment is at most a temporary fix.

Although Raven didn't trust Jackal's character, he could trust her skills. At least as long as there was no conflict of interest between them, this woman wouldn't tamper with the drugs.

The only cost is that the effectiveness of the treatment drugs given to the children and the experimental data need to be transmitted back to Jackal.

Since it's all about mutual benefit, there's no point in discussing whether it's good or bad.

"Hey, you can go if you want, why are you dragging me along?" Chen Luo was completely bewildered as he was being pulled along.

Can't I just wait for you at the door?

"Grey Serpent told me to stay with you, at least until I meet him, and especially not to let you touch certain mechs or anything like that," Raven said as she pulled Chen Luo along.

"Oh, this..."

It's likely that Grey Serpent already knows Chen Luo possesses the Herrscher of Corrosion abilities, since Ling's situation isn't something that can be easily ignored.