Ling Xi immediately lost his composure. Honkai?
And... wasn't the First Laboratory near Mobius's lab?
This was an app used for communication among Flame-Chasing Moths members. There was no way they would joke about something like this, so...
"Teacher, I need to use the restroom!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Ling Xi immediately decided to head to the laboratory. After all... Mobius was still there. He absolutely could not let anything happen to her!
"Alright, student."
The teacher did not refuse and simply gestured for Ling Xi to go.
"Thank you, Teacher!"
Without hesitation, Ling Xi rushed out of the classroom and quickly ran toward the laboratory.
Qianyu Academy was about three kilometers from the research institute, so Ling Xi decisively chose to take a taxi. What a joke—if he walked there, it would be far too late!
After getting in the car, Ling Xi immediately called Mobius, Klein, and even that slacker, but reality was outside the service area...
Ling Xi: "..." Honkai seemed capable of interfering with signals, so... either they were in the Honkai-affected area, or they had left their phones behind.
"Phew..."
Ling Xi took a deep breath. He hoped it was the latter...
Soon, Ling Xi arrived at the research institute. It had already been surrounded by the police, with barricade tape set up. The institute's guards and the police were jointly maintaining order at the scene.
At the same time, Ling Xi saw quite a few people being evacuated from the institute. Most of them were staff members. After all, out of the entire institute's five hundred-plus people, aside from one hundred guards, the rest were basically noncombatant personnel!
However, Ling Xi did not see Mobius, Klein, or the others. Could they... still be inside?
"Has Honkai appeared? This looks pretty bad..."
At that moment, Sirin's voice suddenly sounded in Ling Xi's mind.
"Sirin?"
Ling Xi was immediately delighted. That girl was often AFK, and sometimes he would not see her for an entire week!
"Ling Xi, you now face two choices!"
Sirin did not waste words and directly opened an option screen before Ling Xi's eyes!
A: Go alone to rescue Mobius and the survivors! Mission reward: one to three Supply Cards, depending on mission completion! B: Wait where you are! Mission reward: one Supply Card!
"Heh, even if A had no reward, I'd still go!"
Ling Xi decisively chose to enter and rescue them. Mobius was only a scientist with no combat ability right now. If he did not go, then Mobius could very likely be in danger!
Therefore, even if Sirin had not appeared, even if Option A had no reward whatsoever, he would still choose to save them!
Mobius, she was... his Doctor!
"Then good luck, Ling Xi."
Sirin merely smiled and wished him luck. However... she had already anticipated Ling Xi's choice.
"Yeah, definitely!"
Now that he had made his choice, Ling Xi did not waste any more time and headed straight for the research institute. However... the place had already been sealed off.
Let Thunder Shatter the Darkness!
"Entry is prohibited here!"
As soon as Ling Xi approached the barricade at the entrance, a police officer blocked his way. "It's very dangerous inside right now. Please leave immediately."
"I work here."
Ling Xi directly showed his ID card. "I left important documents inside and have to go back to retrieve them."
"No, there are currently more than ten Honkai Beasts inside."
The officer still shook his head and said seriously, "With the strength of the police and guards, we can only barely contain them inside. We have to wait for the military to arrive before they can be eliminated!"
"More than ten..."
Ling Xi was shocked upon hearing that. That many? And... these were real Honkai Beasts, Honkai Beasts in the real world!
Though he did not know what class of Honkai Beasts they were, still...
Even a single Knight-class Honkai Beast required at least a hundred fully armed soldiers to contend with. If they were unlucky, dozens of people might have to be sacrificed.
At that thought, Ling Xi no longer had any intention of wasting words and charged straight inside.
"Hey..."
The officer seemed to want to call Ling Xi back, but Ling Xi had already gone far away. Moreover, he still had to maintain order at the scene, so he could only let it go...
After running into the institute, Ling Xi directly used Tesla's power and drew Dawnbreaker. Then, he headed straight for Mobius's laboratory. As for rescuing the others mentioned in the mission option... that could wait!
"Bang! Bang!"
Gunshots suddenly rang out from ahead, followed by...
"It's coming over..."
"Fire!"
"Use the rockets, quickly!"
"Arghhhh..."
Ling Xi immediately rushed over and found two Assault-class Honkai Beasts ignoring the weapons of seven or eight guards and pouncing directly at them. What followed was a massacre. In an instant, three people were seriously injured or even killed.
"Raikiri!"
Seeing this, Ling Xi used his power without hesitation, coating his blade in lightning before slashing out. With one move, he instantly killed both Assault-class Honkai Beasts!
Ling Xi did not want to deliberately expose his power, but he was not cold-blooded either. Besides, the institute's guards counted as his own people. If he could save them, then of course he would!
"Ah... you're... Ling Xi?"
Watching Ling Xi instantly kill the two Honkai Beasts, the survivors stared at him in dumbfounded shock. Naturally, they also recognized him as Mobius's newly recruited assistant.
"Have you seen my Doctor?"
Ling Xi did not waste any words and directly asked whether they had seen his Doctor.
"N-No. Doctor Mobius should still be in her own laboratory. Also..."
The guard hesitated before saying cautiously, "The Honkai Beasts appeared from Doctor Mobius's direction. There are still many Honkai Beasts over there."
Ling Xi did not stop and once again rushed toward the laboratory. Absolutely... nothing could happen to Mobius!
"Doctor, what should we do now?"
Inside the laboratory, Klein watched the Honkai Beasts on the monitor desperately battering against the laboratory's reinforced door, looking rather worried.
"Don't worry, Klein. This door can hold for at least another five minutes."
Unlike Klein, Mobius was calm as could be. She even began analyzing the situation. "Why has Honkai suddenly appeared in our institute? This has never happened before. How strange..."
Klein: "..." When would she be able to stay as calm as Doctor?
As a place for research, the laboratory did have some defensive capabilities, but it was not a bunker. With the Knight-class Honkai Beasts continuously crashing into it, at this rate, the door would probably be forced open in five minutes. Once the metal door was breached, only the automatic doors of the specialized laboratory would remain, but those doors' defensive capabilities...
Probably would not last even a minute!
Klein glanced back at Cangxuan and Danzhu, wondering whether they might be nervous. If they were, then as their senior sister, she had to comfort them.
"Mmm... I can't buy stocks anymore..."
Holding her phone, Cangxuan looked helpless. "Honkai really does block the network. I can't trade stocks now. How much money am I going to lose?"
"Hmph, who told you not to buy me figurines? This is... divine punishment!"
Danzhu looked somewhat pleased by Cangxuan's misfortune, but she quickly changed her tune and smiled. "Alright, Sister, don't worry. Your judgment is so good, so it definitely won't drop today either."
"Little Sister, even if you say that, I'm not buying you figurines."
Cangxuan saw through Danzhu's intentions at a glance. Was she not just trying to trick her into buying figurines?
"Hehe, I... I wasn't thinking that."
Danzhu awkwardly touched her nose, then sat to one side and continued playing an offline mini-game.
Klein: "..." Hey, could you two be even a little nervous? The Honkai Beasts are right outside the door!
"Hm?"
Suddenly, a black-haired boy appeared on the surveillance screen...
"Ling Xi?"
Klein naturally recognized Ling Xi at a glance, and her expression immediately turned rather unpleasant. Why had this guy run into the Honkai Beast horde?
"No, I have to make him leave!"
Klein had just wanted to use the loudspeaker to tell Ling Xi to leave when Mobius beside her also spotted him immediately...
Thus, Mobius hurried over to the computer, pushed Klein aside, snatched the microphone, and said, "Ling Xi, what took you so long? Hurry up and save me!"
"Doctor?"
Ling Xi, who was about to reach the laboratory, froze upon hearing Mobius's voice. Then he finally breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "Doctor, are you alright?"
Since Mobius could see him, there had to be surveillance cameras nearby, and perhaps microphones as well. Therefore, Ling Xi chose to speak with Mobius from where he stood.
"I'm fine for now, but I probably won't be in five minutes."
With Ling Xi here, Mobius completely stopped worrying about her safety.
"Don't worry, I'll be there in thirty seconds!"
Ling Xi was now less than a hundred meters from the laboratory, and he could already see the Honkai Beasts ahead.
"Oh, there are about seven Honkai Beasts here. Two Knight-class and five Assault-class. No problem, right?"
Although Mobius already knew Ling Xi was that person from two months ago, and these small fry definitely would not be a problem for him, she still asked symbolically.
"Of course."
Holding Dawnbreaker, Ling Xi said, "Doctor, see you in one minute!"
With that, Ling Xi no longer hesitated and accelerated toward the laboratory. He immediately saw two Knight-class Honkai Beasts taking turns crashing into the laboratory's protective door, while the other Assault-class Honkai Beasts watched the show.
"Lightning Enchantment!"
With Mobius still trapped inside, Ling Xi had no intention of wasting time. He coated his blade in power, then unleashed five lightning-fast slashes in succession. In an instant, the five Assault-class Honkai Beasts were cut down.
"Hiss..."
The two remaining Knight-class Honkai Beasts also turned around, raising their lances and thrusting them at Ling Xi.
"Hmph, Knight-class..."
Ling Xi thought for a moment. Tesla's power should have no problem dealing with Knight-class Honkai Beasts, but basic attacks and Raikiri probably could not kill them instantly. He was in a hurry now, so...
He would try his ultimate!
Let thunder shatter the darkness!
Ling Xi raised Dawnbreaker high, gathering lightning along its blade before shouting, "Lightning Radiance... Thousandfold!"
As Ling Xi swung his sword, dozens of lightning chains poured down toward the two Honkai Beasts. In an instant, violet light flooded the surroundings, while the nearby electronic devices—especially the cameras—were instantly destroyed!
When the lightning faded, the area before him had become ruins, and the two Knight-class Honkai Beasts had long since been reduced to ashes...
Liars Have to Be Doctor's Dog!
"Ling Xi, you finally came."
With the danger gone, the laboratory door opened at once. Mobius immediately threw herself into Ling Xi's arms and complained, "Were you lying to me before? That day, when I told you to release your power, you only let out a tiny electrical current!"
"Uh..."
Ling Xi suddenly did not know how to explain himself and could only smile. "Well... Doctor, that day... wasn't I afraid of damaging the laboratory?"
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