Ren Yu found himself a bench and sat down, quietly watching Kiana as he urged, "Hurry up and train. I still need to use it later."
"Humph!"
Kiana snorted, turned around, and headed into an empty training pod.
Hiss.
The automatic door shut with a sound like air leaking from a balloon.
Then the screen beside the door turned green, and several lines of text appeared.
—In use. Do not disturb. —Occupant: Kiana Kaslana —Simulation in progress: B-Rank Ballistic Shooting Training.
Taking advantage of the gap, Ren Yu carefully recalled how these Valkyries trained.
B-Rank... that was ball shooting, right?
The launcher continuously fired white and red balls, while the trainee had to shoot them one by one.
Hitting a white ball earned one point, while hitting a red ball deducted one point.
It was a fairly basic event, mainly testing one's control over firearms.
Before long, the screen displayed 166/21/7.
That apparently meant Kiana had hit 166 white balls and 21 red balls, while missing seven.
Ren Yu blinked. That was pretty impressive.
He remembered Kiana used pistols, right?
With that nonstop shooting, could it be that she reloaded with her left hand while shooting with her right, then reloaded with her right while shooting with her left?
After a while, the values on the screen changed again.
—247/41/12 —Training complete. B-Rank Valkyrie shooting training passed. Beginning next item: Armored Body Combat.
Ten minutes later, Ren Yu was nearly dozing off from waiting.
It looked like Kiana would not be stopping anytime soon.
Glancing at the empty training pods beside him, Ren Yu hesitated for a moment before draining the drink he had bought from the vending machine.
Then, with a flick of his wrist, he precisely tossed the crushed aluminum can into a trash bin hundreds of meters away and strode into a training pod.
Beep.
A teacher has been detected. The simulation pod is switching to advanced mode.
Several options appeared within the blue floating light screen.
Speed Test
Strength Test
Combat Technique Test
Firearm Technique Test
However, all those options were grayed out. There was only one Ren Yu could use.
—Realistic Battle: Lower-Level Honkai Beast "Honkai Emperor"
After a moment of silence, Ren Yu suddenly laughed.
It really had brought him a Honkai Emperor. Was it asking him to reenact that "nine days and nine nights of mutual beating" from his résumé?
He was numb.
Beep.
After he pressed the button, alarms blared throughout the room, red lights flashed continuously, and the contents on the screen changed as well.
Realistic Simulation: "Honkai Emperor"
Danger Level: High
Execute?
Ren Yu silently pressed the confirmation button. The pod immediately began to tremble faintly, as though something was brewing within.
Energy gathering... 14%... 16%... 18%...
With his arms folded, he quietly waited at the side, the rising progress bar reflected in his black eyes.
Meanwhile, in Area A of the Valkyrie training facility.
The entire training grounds had descended into chaos.
"What's going on? My training suddenly got interrupted?!"
"Same here. It says the energy was forcibly requisitioned. Who's activating a large Honkai Beast simulation? Are they itching for a beating?"
"Could it be a teacher? No, that doesn't make sense. Why would a teacher come to the training pods at this time?"
"Don't tell me Kiana is causing trouble again."
"It wasn't me! I didn't do anything this time!"
Kiana, who had just stepped out of her training pod, hurriedly defended herself loudly.
She had been wronged—it really was not her!
She had been training just fine when she was also kicked out.
Energy gathering complete. Beginning simulation.
On the other side, a cold mechanical voice rang out within Ren Yu's training pod.
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