Chapter 179

"Wow, it's huge!"

"Wow, it's huge..."

"It's so big."

"It's huge—"

"It's huge."

"It's white and big."

"Wow, it's huge!"

The exclamations from the children at the Cocolia Orphanage Aurora, annoyed Cocolia so much that she ended the communication.

"By the way, Bronya, Seele... my adoptive parents are getting married in a few days, and I hope you can attend. I will prepare wedding attire for you."

After marveling at Cocolia's grandeur, Aurora remembered something important.

"I want to introduce you to my adoptive parents, and I hope you can come with me."

"Aurora, can we go?"

Seele asked somewhat uneasily.

Aurora hugged Seele and rubbed her face against Seele's until Seele's face turned red before letting her go.

"Of course you can! Why would you think you can't? I've heard wedding cakes are delicious, Huohuo has been looking forward to them for a long time."

"Yes, I've been looking forward to it for a long time."

Huohuo, who was lazily lying on the sofa and munching on a donut, said in despair.

Huohuo was torn between whether to eat another donut before dinner and saving room for dinner at the school cafeteria.

But I accidentally took a couple more bites and ended up eating two more donuts.

The school cafeteria dinner was quite delicious, and she could already see herself getting fat in the future, so she couldn't help but feel a little resigned to her fate. Mei, who was standing next to her, couldn't bear to watch anymore.

The "giving up" part is fake; Huohuo simply wants to eat one more donut.

Huohuo snatched the third donut from Mei's mouth, pouting, and said, "You can't eat too many snacks before meals, or you won't be able to eat!"

Without the donut, Huohuo stared blankly at the ceiling.

It was as if they had experienced something extremely desperate.

Mei's lips twitched, and she decided to ignore her.

Aurora nearby, used the promise of a wedding cake to entice the children from the orphanage.

The children in the orphanage naturally didn't know what a wedding cake was. Even though the orphanage's situation had improved recently, it was still difficult to buy cakes in the remote area.

Only children in orphanages get to eat tiny cakes, no bigger than the palm of their hand, on their birthdays.

When the children in the orphanage saw Aurora gesturing with her arms outstretched to show them the huge cake, they were lost in their fantasies, as if they were swimming inside a cake as big as a castle.

"Utterly stupid, humph..."

Xing, who made that sound, suddenly wiped the corner of her mouth.

"Even if you can't have a wedding cake, there's a huge cake like this on every table."

As she spoke, Aurora gestured with a cake the size of a washbasin.

Even though the cake had been shown to be an exaggerated size beforehand, its enormous size still amazed the children at the orphanage.

Just as they marveled at the magnificence of their mother Cocolia, this time they marveled at the size of the cake.

"Yes, I want to go!"

"Aurora, can we really go?"

"Sister Aurora, Liliya and I want to be your little sisters!"

"...agree."

"Tch, it's just a cake. You were the one who invited me first. If I hadn't been busy that day, I could have gone."

"Thank you, Sister Aurora."

After all the children at the orphanage accepted the invitation, Aurora made a victory V sign with her right hand.

"Yes, the plan worked!"

That healing smile seems to make people forget their troubles.

Afterwards, the children at the orphanage started discussing the wedding cake, and Aurora also played a few games with Bronya.

Although she lost to Bronya, she felt she had gained something.

After all, if she wins, she has to ask Bronya to kiss her; if she loses, she has to kiss Bronya.

Mei was incredibly envious, and the other children all wanted to play with her too.

However, in reality, only Bronya could defeat Aurora.

"Bronya is amazing. It's almost time for dinner, let's go to the school cafeteria."

Aurora's mealtimes are staggered from those of most students. By this time, the students in the regular classes have already had dinner, and the school cafeteria is just starting to cook a new dinner for Aurora and the children from the Cocolia Orphanage.

When Aurora and the others arrived at the school cafeteria, a hot dinner that had been prepared was already on the table.

For the children of Cocolia Orphanage, this was their first meal after starting school, and it would be hard to forget for years to come... mainly because Rosalia ate too fast, shooting spaghetti through her nostrils and smearing it all over Apricot's face, and the scene afterward was indeed quite lively.

202. At least they won't spout nonsense when they don't understand.

"... Really? Did they arrive safely?"

Freya, who returned to Schicksal Headquarters with Theresa, received a report from her subordinates.

To be honest, when she was meeting with Arab leaders at the embassy and heard her subordinates report that the children from the orphanage had been detained by airport security, her serious expression almost crumbled.

Fortunately, it was just a conflict with ordinary passengers, and the problem could be resolved by paying a little money.

From an outsider's perspective, this is just like a brat in the orphanage saying something rude, and then Cocolia is very protective of her child, broke the arms and legs of the passenger who talked back after being insulted.

However, Freya also understood Anzu's personality.

You can call Anne a lower-budget version of herself, or even a more foul-mouthed version, whatever you like. Although she didn't know what happened back then, Anne probably wanted to protect her brothers and sisters.

Freya naturally had no intention of punishing Xing.

After ending her communication with her subordinates, Freya went into the washroom and cleaned her face with Rita's help.

"Rita... here's a report on the latest investigation results."

"Yes, as Kiana said, two teams, one overt and one covert, investigated several secret bases in North America, but found no trace of Bishop Otto..."

"Tell the hidden team to be careful. Bishop Otto has a hypnotic ability, so make sure to report the situation immediately and don't trust what you see too much."

Freya finished speaking and sighed softly.

The intelligence forces she can currently utilize are those established by Otto.

After all, it takes more than six months to build an intelligence unit that is not under Otto's command.

Even with Rita as someone she can trust, Freya still has to be wary of Otto's past mental manipulation abilities.

"Next is South America, tell them to be careful..."

Freya actually guessed that Otto was hiding on a deserted island at sea. After all, the sea is vast, and the sea routes are safe routes that have been explored and developed by predecessors over hundreds of years. After a safe route has been established, few people would risk opening a new one. Hiding on a deserted island that no one knows about would naturally not have to worry about being discovered.

Who knows, Otto may have already secretly transformed that deserted island into a laboratory.

In fact, after humans launched satellites into space, they stopped opening new routes, and people regarded the images captured by satellites as absolute.

But what if the images captured by the satellite are being interfered with?

Perhaps there is a huge uninhabited island in an area of the ocean that has never been explored by people, but the special magnetic field makes it impossible for satellites to photograph this uninhabited island.

Or perhaps the satellite images were altered by someone.

It is important to know that the Schicksal launched many satellites into space, which served a monitoring function and were also responsible for guiding the Floating Battleship.

Just like the current Floating Island group of the Schicksal Headquarters, it moves eastward via satellite navigation.

It can be said that the satellite maps available to Schicksal, or most countries, are provided by Schicksal's satellites.

"By the way, I remember that Anti-Entropy also seems to have launched satellites."

Freya hurriedly contacted Cocolia to inquire about the type of satellite launched by Anti-Entropy.

"Okay, I understand, thank you. That's right, if that bastard bishop really did that, he definitely wouldn't have allowed Anti-Entropy to launch other types of satellites..."

Freya sighed as she ended the communication; Anti-Entropy had launched into space was a communications satellite.

Otto clearly wouldn't allow Anti-Entropy to launch surveillance satellites.

So, her guess was right again.

Otto is likely hiding on an uninhabited island at sea, or perhaps in an underwater laboratory.

It's impossible for it to be in one of those secret bases in South America, but there's no record of it in the database, and searching at sea would certainly yield no results.

"It seems we should have Anti-Entropy launch a few more satellites. Although we had this plan before, it definitely needs to be brought forward—"

Freya originally planned to have Anti-Entropy launch hundreds of satellites to replace Otto's satellite surveillance network. Although she was now heavily reliant on Otto's satellite surveillance network, Freya did not easily believe that Otto had not left any backup plans.

Just as she now has doubts about the so-called detailed satellite maps in the database.

"I'm so sorry, Kiana..."

"It's alright, Rita. The intelligence unit has done a great job, but I'll leave the task of working on my own intelligence unit to you."

"Yes--"

Rita is currently still a maid out of interest, or rather, she just likes wearing Maid Dress, but she is not a maid in a noble household. Even though she is doing the work of a maid in place of Liv, it is only for her own interest.

Her primary job was as an intelligence officer.

Of course, Rita had not yet met the criteria for undergoing modification surgery, so Freya naturally did not intend to have her fitted with the Type-B Stigmata right now.

After all, even if the Type-B Stigmata can replace artificial Stigmata, it still cannot avoid the modification surgery. The conditions for becoming Valkyrie are not only Honkai Energy resistance and Honkai Energy control, but also involve the fusion of the human body and Honkai Energy.

The Type-B Stigmata can serve as a container, but even with Schicksal's technology, there are still huge risks in how to better integrate biological entities with Honkai Energy.

This is also why Freya didn't immediately select someone from the trainees to become Valkyrie.

Changing their title from "candidate" to "trainee" also means that they still need training and have not yet reached the standard to become Valkyrie.

Freya didn't intend to immediately expand her combat power.

However, without a safer modification surgery, Freya will temporarily adopt the strategy of replacing the Type-B Stigmata with the official Valkyrie.

At least the original four Valkyrie of grades A, B, C, and D have already been modified, and replacing them with Type-B Stigmata does not require re-injection of Honkai Energy.

However, after changing to the Type-B Stigmata, the amount of Honkai Antibody in the body increases, and the amount of Honkai Energy contained will naturally increase as well. But the Type-B Stigmata has the advantage of not being a burden, and it can also become a carrier of Honkai Energy. It can be said that it is very friendly to Valkyrie who survive the surgery.

However, the risk is too great for trainees who have not yet undergone surgery.

Of course, even though Rita hasn't undergone the modification surgery and doesn't have the Type-B Stigmata, her skills are constantly improving. Freya intends to train her as her adjutant, and she tries to allocate as many resources as possible to her.

Putting her in charge of the intelligence unit now is to familiarize her with the operational model of the intelligence unit and to gain experience for her in building a new intelligence unit.

"Welt and Tesla's wedding is in five days."

"Yes..."

"We will arrive in Shenzhou in two days. Well, just in time. If we miss it, we'll have to take Floating Battleship to set off first."

To minimize the burden on the Floating Island group, the Schicksal Headquarters does not move quickly.

At the speed of the Floating Battleship, it would only take six hours to reach the other side of the earth, but the Floating Island group where the Schicksal Headquarters is located would take five or six days to reach the Far East.

Fortunately, two days have already passed. After arriving in Shenzhou, we may be able to increase our speed a bit. At least Shenzhou a vast country, and attending one meeting will ensure that our journey within two days will not be hindered.

Moreover, great powers have the credibility of great powers and will not go back on their word. Freya had already negotiated with various countries a month ago regarding the matter of the Schicksal Headquarters borrowing a route. Her attendance at the meeting with Theresa was only to appease the people.

After all, with such a large group of Floating Island passing overhead, political performances like this are necessary to avoid causing unnecessary panic.

In fact, the small countries Freya had encountered before were pitifully small in size, yet they adopted a hardline attitude, Schicksal that they must obtain core technologies before allowing the Floating Island to pass overhead.

Freya simply couldn't understand where they got the confidence to be so assertive.

Moreover, the Schicksal traded urgently needed supplies from these small countries a month ago and has already obtained permission from them to fly over them.