The World Kisses Me with Pain, So I Shall Repay It with a Spear

Amid the vast expanse of falling snow, a specialized drone flew out at headquarters' command. It hovered in midair, scanning the numerous Honkai Beast corpses scattered across the snowfield and retrieving and comparing the corresponding data before reaching a conclusion:

"Based on the scene, most of the corpses were piled together. They appear to have been preparing some kind of tactic and advancing during an intense battle. Some of the Honkai Beasts may have possessed slightly higher intelligence."

"Detection report: all eighteen Honkai Beasts evolved from local animals after being eroded. Based on the gradual decline in the residual Honkai Energy output, the data indicates that it will fall below 100 HW in ten minutes. There are no survivors. Manual removal may be attempted."

"Orders received. The crisis has been resolved."

The alarm at the A-81 military supply station fell silent. The soldiers outside the station lowered their weapons one after another and stood down.

Romonlosov gazed at the wreckage in the distant snowfield, unscrewed his flask once more, and took a sip of vodka. He raised his head, his gaze settling on the limpid blue sky in the distance, clear as though washed by a lake.

The sunlight parting the wind and snow and gradually spilling down announced the arrival of fine weather.

Given the local geography, such weather was truly rare. Although the temperature had not risen with it, the increasingly clear view still lifted one's spirits, and even his chilled body seemed to fill with warmth.

Once he completed another three months stationed at this supply station, his three-year military posting would finally end. When that time came, he would take his wife and parents to a warm, pleasant country for a long-overdue trip.

The man suddenly recalled the black bears that often passed through the woods