The Scheme That Extinguished Humanity! A Maiden Sacrificed Her Life for One Man's Obsession!

Tang Ya's face went pale, and she edged closer to Bei Bei. Bei Bei slammed a fist onto the armrest, veins crawling from the back of his hand all the way to his temple. "These are the 'Valkyries' he created? How old were these girls? He didn't even blink!"

He Caitou's lips moved, but in the end, he only forced out a sentence in an extremely low voice. "They're calling out, but the outside world can't hear them."

The image did not stop. The screen shifted to a burning city, Collapse Beasts surging from cracks in the earth like a Black Tide. Streets, houses, and High Towers collapsed in swathes. Data flashed wildly—the casualty count leaped from a hundred thousand to a million, from a million to ten million. In one corner of the screen was a number labeled "Otto Plan," like a seal carved deep into the ruins.

"He caused this?" Xu Sanshi's voice was dry and tight, as if his throat were full of gravel.

"He had people do it." Huo Yuhao's voice was flat, yet it was like a blade tempered in icy water. "For experiments. To see what kind of data this Honkai Energy would produce."

"Tens of millions—for the sake of data?" Ji Dong shot to his feet, his fiery red hair nearly seeming ready to ignite for real. "What did he take the people of those cities for? Coal in a furnace?"

This time, Lie Yan did not immediately restrain him. She merely watched the death toll still scrolling across the Light Screen and said softly, "They were worth less than coal. Someone would feel sorry when coal burned out. When these people died, not even their ashes entered his sight."

The image shifted again. Otto sat in a spacious office, Valkyrie casualty reports