"Extreme Pain Insensitivity A": Your pain sensitivity is one-fiftieth that of an ordinary person. "Flowing Quills EX": Even if your body has already fallen apart and both feet have stepped into death, you can still keep going for a while. "Unyielding Will A": Your will shall not yield. Even Gods cannot make you submit.
"..."
Bai Ge stared silently at the six entries for quite a while.
His expression strange, Bai Ge said,
"System, are you screwing with your host?"
How could that be, Host?
"But this looks super suspicious! It feels like it's already written the ending where 'I will die'!!"
Your deaths in the past will not affect you in the present. At the same time, things like history's corrective force will have their ability to interfere with you reduced to the minimum.
"Perfect! This flesh-and-blood body only needs to burn once! Come on! I'm ready!"
Bai Ge immediately changed his attitude. Looking like he had paid his party dues and was ready to die heroically, he left even the emotionless system speechless.
Giving up was impossible. He did not know whether he would get another chance to draw again, but even if he did, Bai Ge would not miss this opportunity.
That was the Second Honkai Eruption.
The Second Honkai Eruption, packed full of knives!
Sirin's tragic experiences and death, Cecilia's death, Cheng Lixue's death, Siegfried's severe injuries, Valkyrie Hua's severe injuries, and Welt Yang repeatedly getting back up from the dead countless times!
Now that he had a chance to change all that, how could Bai Ge possibly choose to give up?
Of course, the most important thing was...
(Hehehe! I remember Otto will show up too, right? Good! I'll finally get to hear that bastard's Soul Steel face squeak beneath my fists~ That'll definitely be a melody more pleasant than any music!)
Putting everything else aside, as long as he managed to punch Otto even once—no, even if he merely splattered blood all over that bastard, Bai Ge would feel this transmigration had been worth it.
This transmigration will not be affected by time. No matter how long you remain in the past, when you return, it will still be this same moment for you, Host.
"Okay, let's go!"
With that, his final concern was gone. Bai Ge gave the storybook in his hand a deep look before opening it.
December 11th, year...
Siberia, Schicksal's Babylon Laboratory.
"It hurts! It hurts so much! Mommy, aaah!"
"This one's adaptability isn't bad. We finally have an experimental subject that can be of some use. Next is the last one... Hm? Why is it a boy? Looks like this one will be scrapped in the first round too."
Before he even opened his eyes, Bai Ge heard a girl's screams, a man's cold voice, and even more crying from all around him.
When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a dark bluish-green wall. The space resembled a prison cell, and the freezing air made Bai Ge shudder.
"Kid, you're next."
"..."
Bai Ge looked blankly around himself.
There were four girls in the same "cell" as him. Their memories surfaced in his mind: Avrora, Agata, Galina, and... Sirin.
Other than the last one, who would eventually become the Herrscher of the Void, the remaining girls all died early in the human experiments. Although Sirin, after becoming the Herrscher of the Void, later revived them in the form of Simulated Herrschers, they were no longer truly themselves.
Bai Ge immediately made up his mind. Saving one was saving someone, and saving two was saving someone too. Since that was the case, he might as well save them all!
The identity the system had arranged for him this time was the girls' childhood friend. They had all been tricked by Schicksal into coming to the Tower of Babylon as guinea pigs for Honkai Energy experiments.
"Huh? Why did I shrink? I didn't take any little red-and-white pills."
Bai Ge noticed that something was wrong with him.
His body had shrunk to that of a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old. Thinking that it must have been the system's doing, he could not help feeling regretful that there was no mirror for him to admire his younger self.
"Brat, what the fuck are you standing around for? You think pretending to be mute means you can avoid the experiment? Get your ass over here, or I'll make you regret it."
"... I have one condition."
"What did you say?"
"You can experiment on me, but don't touch them."
Bai Ge said as he crouched down and picked up the suffering Sirin.
Unfortunately, he had arrived a little too late. Sirin and the others had already been harmed by these parasites once. The marks of Honkai Energy injections still remained on the girl's arm.
The others were the same.
Bai Ge clenched his fists in fury, nearly wishing he could punch these people's heads clean off.
Just look at what you animals have done. You actually performed human experiments on these adorable little girls. If this had happened in his previous life, they would have been public enemies of humanity. The otaku of the 2D world would have ground them to dust!
"It's okay. It's okay now. Leave the rest to me, Sirin."
"Bai Ge, what are you going to do?"
The purple-haired girl in his arms, Sirin, asked nervously. At the same time, she found it strange. Bai Ge was clearly the childhood friend she knew so well, so why did calling his name feel somewhat unfamiliar?
Bai Ge merely smiled and stroked her head.
"I'll save all of you. As long as I'm here, those tragedies will never happen again."
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Chapter 28: Heaven and Hell Were Never Mine to Choose From
On the sparsely populated Siberian snowfields stood a towering, cloud-piercing structure.
Just like its name, "Babylon," it resembled the sky-reaching tower from myth.
To the outside world, Babylon Laboratory claimed to be a medical research institution that treated Honkai Energy-related illnesses. In reality, it researched the fusion of Honkai Energy and the human body—the technology known as artificial stigmata.
And since the experiments involved human bodies, human test subjects were naturally indispensable.
Every year, Schicksal "recruited" thousands of experimental subjects from all over, most of them little girls.
Therefore, a little boy like Bai Ge was quite a rare creature in Babylon Laboratory.
"Give this arrogant brat something harsh."
Bai Ge's earlier request had been rejected.
To these Schicksal scientists, who had lost all humanity and treated lives as expendable resources, the boy's words were like a mouse demanding its freedom from them.
How could they possibly agree? Who would care about the conditions set by a mere lab rat?
They even cruelly decided to increase the experiment's intensity. After all, Bai Ge was male, and in this world, male Honkai Energy adaptability was far inferior to that of females. They all believed that he would simply drop dead.
They felt no regret over it whatsoever. Their only hope was that Bai Ge could provide them with more experimental data before dying, and that he would not cause too much trouble after turning into a zombie.
"Bring it on. We'll see."
Bai Ge said fearlessly, allowing the white-coated people to strap him onto the operating table.
To be honest, the gleaming knives and syringes with unknown contents were frightening, but as long as he closed his eyes, he would not see them.
He knew that making demands now was useless.
So he decided to let the facts speak for themselves.
"Test his Honkai Energy resistance first."
"Test what? What Honkai Energy resistance could a little brat possibly have? What a waste of time."
"He'll turn into a zombie soon anyway. If he's going to turn, then give him a heavy dose and see if we can collect some unexpected data."
"Remember to have the weapons ready in case of an accident. Look at that kid's eyes. It's like he wants to bite every one of us to death with his teeth."
The white-coated scientists spoke coldly. As one life after another died in their hands, their humanity had long since been worn away in the process.
Bai Ge only felt a chill at his neck as a massive dose of liquid Honkai Energy was injected into his body.
Some indescribable energy fused into his body, but perhaps thanks to the double pain-insensitivity entries, he did not feel anything in particular.
At the same time, the scientists noticed that something was unusual about him and cried out in alarm.
"Th-this reading is?!"
"The experimental subject's vital signs are stable! Blood pressure, heart rate, pulse—everything is normal!"
"What? Such high Honkai Energy adaptability? This has already surpassed the level of an S-Rank Valkyrie, hasn't it?!"
"Hisss! Those useless idiots in recruitment finally sent us something worthwhile!"
Bai Ge could not hear their words through the soundproof glass, but their excited expressions were enough to tell him that he had caught these beasts' interest.
After they had completely recorded the data from this experiment, the people who had looked at him with contempt and indifference just moments ago now looked at him as if he were an enormous treasure.
Especially when Bai Ge casually stepped down from the operating table in front of them, yawned, stretched, and said, "That's it?"
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