With "Honkai Energy Adaptability EX," the only ones in this world who could probably compare to Bai Ge were the monsters of the Kaslana family.
"Can you agree to my terms now? You can do whatever you want to me, but you're not allowed to touch Sirin and the others."
"You think you're qualified to negotiate terms now? You are indeed rare, but you're still just an experimental subject. You think you can restrain us?"
In their eyes, everyone was merely a test subject. Bai Ge was indeed a one-in-a-million rarity, but that did not mean they would give up the remaining little girls.
However, Bai Ge's next action nearly made the eyes of these scientists, who believed they had everything under control, pop out of their sockets.
Thud—!
The boy viciously slammed his head against the wall.
It was like a hammer striking their hearts.
"Subject X1! What are you doing?!"
"If you don't agree, I'll kill myself right now!" Bai Ge said fiercely.
No one thought he was joking. The boy's head was already bloody, and the force behind that muffled impact had been so great that it seemed he could kill himself if he used just a little more strength.
Bai Ge knew his own value.
These scientists knew it even better.
He was an SSSR rarity that might not appear even once among tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of people. It was no exaggeration to say that all the test subjects in Babylon Laboratory combined, even along with all these researchers, were not worth as much as Bai Ge alone.
His existence might even make it possible to research a way for men to gain resistance to Honkai Energy.
"If you don't agree, I'll—"
Blood flowed down from his forehead, dyeing Bai Ge's bangs and half his face red. Blood seeped into his eyes, turning everything he saw crimson.
Bai Ge stared directly at the scientists he had frightened senseless, like a young lion roaring silently.
He wiped away the blood blocking his vision and said calmly, "I know this is hell, and I know you are the ones in control now. But... perhaps I have no right to choose between heaven and hell, but! I still have the right to choose death."
"You think doing this will— Wait! Stop! We agree!"
Seeing Bai Ge prepare to ram his head into the wall again, they did not dare gamble on whether he was bluffing.
They hurriedly agreed to Bai Ge's terms, comforting themselves that the girls were only ordinary test subjects anyway.
If it could keep this one-in-a-million boy from continuing to throw his life away, then leaving them alone was no great loss.
Even so, cold sweat streamed down their backs.
They looked at Bai Ge as though he were a little lunatic, all wondering where the recruitment department had found this guy. He was so young, yet so utterly reckless with his life.
"Hmph, wouldn't it have been better if you'd agreed from the start?"
Bai Ge sneered, then used his sleeve to wipe at his still-bleeding head.
Because of the traits "Pain Insensitivity" and "Extreme Pain Insensitivity," he only felt a little dizzy. The pain was probably about the same as having his forehead flicked.
In the end, the scientists hurriedly treated his head injury and gave him an examination as well, lest this precious test subject actually manage to kill himself.
When they saw the examination report—his cracked frontal bone and severe concussion—their eyelids twitched wildly, and every last trace of wishful thinking vanished.
This little madman really dared to get himself killed!
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Including the stockpiled chapters so far.
After the Second Honkai Eruption, it would be the orphanage arc with Bronya and Seele. Before the premium release, readers would get to see Bronya call him Dad. Mm, and Kiana would call him Dad too.
Otto: Are You People Really Going to Turn Over a New Leaf?
"Bai Ge, are you okay? Why is your head bleeding? What did they do to you?!"
When Bai Ge returned to the prison-like room, Sirin and the others immediately crowded around him.
When they saw the thick bandages around the boy's head and the bloodstains on his clothes, they were instantly terrified and worried, yet had no idea what to do.
"It's nothing. I'm fine." Bai Ge immediately reassured them that there was no need to worry.
But he also knew that even if he said he had done it to himself, Sirin and the others would never believe him. So he simply said that those bastard scientists had done it.
The girls were immediately furious.
Only after repeatedly confirming that he was not seriously hurt did Sirin, Avrora, Galina, and Agata finally breathe a sigh of relief.
But soon, the little girls began to cry.
"Bai Ge, I... I want to go home."
"I miss my mom too. Sob..."
"It's so cold here. Are we going to be killed?"
"They said the experiments hurt so much. I don't want them to cut me with knives anymore. I don't want them to inject me with strange medicine anymore."
The four little girls huddled together, trembling as tears continued to spill from their eyes. They were still only children, tricked into this horrific human experimentation facility.
In such a gloomy, freezing environment filled with death and pain, it would have been strange if they were not afraid.
Bai Ge's heart ached for them. They were innocent girls who should have been living under the sunlight, experiencing all the beauty this world had to offer and possessing bright futures.
Yet now they were imprisoned in this damned place, subjected to these inhuman experiments. There was no doubt that this was wrong. It was unforgivable!
"Mm, we'll definitely escape. Sirin, none of you will have to undergo experiments ever again."
"R-Really?"
"Of course. I never lie. No matter what happens, I'll make sure you all survive."
Bai Ge rubbed each of their little heads and wiped away the girls' tears, soothing their frightened hearts. At that moment, he already had a plan.
"Although we can only stay here for now, you won't have to undergo any more experiments. So... let's endure together until the day we leave this place."
"Mm!" x3
"..."
Hearing him say that, Avrora, Agata, and Galina immediately felt somewhat reassured.
Feeling the warmth of Bai Ge's hand against their cheeks, they unconsciously moved a little closer to him.
Only Sirin still frowned worriedly. She recalled the adults who had tied her to the operating table.
Their ugly expressions and the cold way they looked at her made Sirin feel as though she was not human at all, but merely a little mouse.
Would such bad people really let them go? If that were true, then how had Bai Ge managed it?
"Bai Ge, what exactly did you do?"
"...It's already late today. Get some rest, Sirin. Everyone must be tired too."
Bai Ge raised his hand again and patted Sirin's head.
The hair on both sides of her head always stuck up and would not stay down no matter how he pressed it, like two purple folded cat ears.
Bai Ge did not answer Sirin's question. Instead, he told them to sleep. Though he knew that whether he told them or not, the girls would soon find out anyway, still...
Some things truly did not need to be said.
...When the next day arrived...
"Subject X1, come out for your experiment!"
"...Tch, got it."
Sirin and the others stared blankly as Bai Ge was led away by the guards. At that moment, they all understood the price the boy had paid.
To keep them from undergoing experiments.
He had fed himself to those demons.
The girls' eyes immediately grew moist.
"...Don't."
Sirin ran over, wanting to grab Bai Ge's hand, but he shook his head and stopped her.
"Don't worry. I'll be fine."
Then, as the iron door of the prison closed, only Bai Ge's smile remained in their minds.
"Prepare five soft beds for me, along with five thick, warm blankets. This damn place is so cold at night that you wake up freezing in the middle of sleep."
After easily getting through that day's experiment, Bai Ge spoke to the people beside him without even turning around.
"???" xN
Babylon Laboratory had been built in Siberia, a place covered in ice and snow year-round, and the prison-like room they were kept in had terrible conditions.
There were only two hard, freezing metal beds, without even a single blanket. Bai Ge and Sirin's group had been forced to sleep huddled together the previous night, yet they had all woken up freezing in the middle of the night.
"I want them before tonight."
He made sure to add that.
Those four were still little girls. As an eighteen-year-old big brother at heart, Bai Ge felt he could not let them catch colds.
They were already trapped in this damned place. If they got sick too, it would truly be worse than death. He did not believe those beasts in human clothing would treat sick children.
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