Beng San, I have an unfinished date with her

Kevin didn't say much. He nodded and said, "Let's go back to World Snake."

His tone was not a request, but a command or compulsion.

Anna warned: "I still have a lot of things to do, so I can't leave with you!"

The huge sky battleship also sailed over Kevin's head, and he said: "This is not a request - when you get to World Serpent, you will know everything about the Stigma Project."

Anna was slightly moved, but she did still have a lot to do... missions, teammates'... corpses, civilian resettlement, reporting information, many, many...

Anna bit her silver teeth. Even though she knew she couldn't resist, she was still tough: "I am Anna Shaniat. I belong to destiny. I still have a lot of things to do. It is impossible to go to other places with you. It's inexplicable. organize!"

"..." Kevin looked at her silently, raised his hand, and a black ice-like substance began to condense in his hand: "You will understand after you get to World Snake."

But something happened that neither of them expected.

Chen Tianwu actually grabbed Kevin's arm...Kevin seemed to want to see what he wanted to say, but he didn't stop him.

Instead, Chen Tianwu let Chen Tianwu grab his arm, changed his direction, and came to the front of Kevin's palm, blocking Anna's figure, and pressed the black ice substance that would no longer change against his chest.

The black ice was sharp, and if it was slightly stained, it would cut through his clothes and cut open his skin.

Chen Tianwu's face was solemn and his eyes were firm: "She gave me my life... If you want to hurt her, then step over my body first. If you want to force her to do something she doesn't want to... then it will be considered death." , I also want to protect her."

Chen Tianwu's gray-blue eyes caught Kevin's eyes.

"......"

In this situation...it seemed that the shadow of another "young man" overlapped on Chen Tianwu's body, which made Kevin hesitate to take action for a moment.

"Kevin...stop it. I won't be so rough. I still have a [net], don't I?"

"The boys and girls have just gone through hardships, so it's a good idea to let them relax."

Another male voice appeared next to the two of them with a persuasive tone, and gently put a hand on Kevin's arm.

It's Long...and beside him, there is a "woman"

The woman completely ignored the situation of the three boys.

She made a gentle and pleasant voice, and said with great emotion: "Ah, the children of the Shaniyat family."

He walked over with joyful steps, and when Anna was shocked, he took her hand and said gently and lovingly: "Thank you for your hard work, my child, and you have become my true kind, a human being with the stigmata."

"Lady Cecilia!" Anna exclaimed loudly.

The reason why Anna was shocked was that she could clearly feel that the woman in front of her was "the same kind" as herself.

The second reason is that this woman looks exactly like Cecilia Shaniat, the former S-class Valkyrie respected by the Shaniat family!

Although Cecilia has left the Tianming headquarters and the Shaniyat family for many years, the Shaniyat tribe and the many Valkyries in Tianming still worship her. The Shaniyat tribe has also gradually recovered in recent years. Correspondence to Cecilia.

The woman touched Anna's face and shook her head slightly and said, "I am not Cecilia. Although my birth is closely related to her, I am indeed not her."

"You can call me Mistrine Shaniat."

"I am the crystallization of the Shaniyat family's stigmata."

Anna repeated doubtfully: "Misterine Shaniat...the crystallization of the stigmata?" Then she looked at the man who had just appeared. He was the same as Lon Shania who had appeared in her consciousness before. Exactly the same.

And the crystallization of the stigmata... It seems that the man also said that he was something similar before?

Uh... maybe I misunderstood?

Misterin seemed to be aware of Anna's thoughts, and said with a smile: "The man's name is Long. Although he is also called Long, he does not have the surname [Shaniat]. And he and the one who appeared in your consciousness [Manager of the Network] Lon Shaniat is not the same person, although the two can be merged. But there is one thing to understand, Anna Shaniat——"

"what?"

"The man named Long is the biological father of the first [member] of the Shaniyat family, that is to say."

"My... ancestor?" Anna was stunned, and then said: "But... so young?"

Misterin chuckled: "He is immortal. He, like the man named Kevin, is a person who survived tens of thousands of years ago."

"!!!?"

Seeing the situation, she continued to abduct: "Do you want to know these secrets and the truth? Then come with us."

After hearing what she said, Ana suddenly woke up and shook her head quickly: "No! I, I still have things to do."

Misterin's eyes moved, and she pretended not to have expected it at all and said: "Oh—! That's such a pity."

...

The confrontation between the boys was over. Long's persuasion was very effective. Kevin retracted his arm and waited.

"Mistrine, come here."

"Yes, Lord Ancestor." Misterin looked at Anna with a smile, turned her head quickly and came to Long and Kevin's side.

"Okay, you can continue working. Anna Shaniat will contact you through [the Internet] later."

"Chen Tianwu, take a good rest after you finish the work. When the time comes to report to the mission point, there will be a surprise for you."

After Long finished speaking to Chen Tianwu and Anna in a gentle tone, he then said to Kevin: "Let's go, Otto won't care about her. Misterin insists on coming to see similar people. I originally said Kai Wen will take you to see her when you come back after the fight."

Just as he said this, taking Kevin and Misterin with him, the three of them disappeared in a ray of golden light.

Anna and Chen Tianwu turned around and walked to a short distance to look at each other.

At this time, the communicators on both of them sounded. The isolated communication in this city was restored.

Both men looked at their communicators.

After a while, they all put down their machines again.

Chen Tianwu said aloud: "I have been notified here... The Honkai disaster has been over. Some troops are clearing out the remaining Honkai beasts, and others are conducting search and rescue... I just need to be here Just wait for reinforcements.”

Anna nodded, shook her hands in front of her and said, "It's the same here... But I have to go to the front to look... My teammates should be... under that kind of disaster..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but Chen Tianwu knew the reason, and he too couldn't bear to part with the remains of his comrades in the squad.

"Your name is...Chen Tianwu, right? I just heard that person say it."

"Um...uh, sorry, I never told you my name."

"It doesn't matter...well, Chen Tianwu, Tianwu...a very handsome name."

"...Thank you for the compliment."

"It's almost time, I -" Anna said, taking off the dark blue heart-shaped pendant inside the white shell around her neck, and then took off half of it, making its arc like half a heart - with a deep blue color There are some white spots on it, making it difficult to tell whether it is the starry sky or the ocean.

Maybe...Heart of the Ocean, the name fits it perfectly.

She looked at the half pendant with a gentle face and a beautiful smile.

"this is for you."

"what..."

"Remember you said... If we can survive, I will date you..." Anna's face blushed slightly, but she continued:

"As a Valkyrie... I have no other way of contacting you."

"It's the most important thing to me."

"If I survive."

"Give it back to me when we meet again."

"Just use it as our agreement."

"I'm sorry... It's a bit selfish. It may take a long time before we can meet again." Anna looked at Chen Tianwu with a slightly apologetic smile: "I'm a little worried."

Chen Tianwu took the pendant in a daze.

Anna took a step back, clasped her hands behind her, and smiled with slightly moist eyes: "[My life was given by her... If you want to hurt her, then step over my body first. If you want to force her to do something she doesn't want to do, thing...even if it means death, I will protect her.], Tianwu, that’s what you said just now, right?”

"Um.."

"Then, don't forget - your life belongs to me."

"do not die."

As she said that, she reluctantly backed up, backed up... and retreated more than ten meters before turning around with difficulty and rushing towards that side.

The sound of rescue helicopters and convoys arrived soon after, rumbling a hundred meters behind Chen Tianwu and heading towards this place.

He looked at Anna's leaving figure, feeling hesitant and lost in his heart, but he knew that both of them had something to do...

[It’s a pity that I don’t have anything worth commemorating. 】

[Anna Shaniat...my life belongs to you. 】

Chen Tianwu thought this as he held a beautiful blue half-heart-shaped pendant in his hand and looked at the helicopter hovering above his head.

Up and down, go to the deepest: 239. Surprise—Appointment—Daily (5k)

...

Half an hour later, Chen Tianwu followed the convoy to the temporary gathering place outside the city.

The city still needs a few days to clean up, as well as various things such as maintaining stability, dealing with the aftermath of Honkai energy, and the remaining small Honkai beasts... The work of these team members will only be more, not less.

The remains of his teammates have been collected and sorted by specialized personnel, but now they are still in body bags in the "morgue" of the isolation tent behind them, together with many other fallen members, waiting for the next step. The specialized personnel will issue the autopsy report, organize the appearance, etc.

The A·L Security Team military base next to this civilian gathering place is small, but it has all the necessary features.

Chen Tianwu sat in a daze outside the morgue, waiting for his superior in another tent nearby to call him in to report and record the mission.

Some comrades he knew from other teams also came to him who was a little hesitant to ask or comfort him.

He had no choice but to put on an ugly polite smile and deal with it.

...

He was lucky that more members of the team were lying in the big tent behind him - the numbers of the teams whose members were killed will be frozen and recorded on the martyrs list for people to pay tribute to and will no longer be used.

At this time, a little girl came over. Judging from the clothes, she was also from A·L Club, but she should be a civilian employee.

"Um...you are Chen Tianwu, right?"

She was holding a gift box and A4 paper in her hand, and she kept looking between the paper and Chen Tianwu, as if she was confirming something.

"Well... I'm Chen Tianwu, what can I do?"

"Ah, that's good... Well, that's it, I received a mission." She raised the gift box in her hand, then looked at the paper and said: "I'll find you as required and give you the gift box. .”

"Here, sign, I have other things to do."

"?" Chen Tianwu was confused.

"Don't look at me like this. I don't know what happened. It was just issued by the mission system." The girl shook her head, her face full of doubts: "Hurry up."

"..." Chen Tianwu looked at the gift box and couldn't think of anything. Anyway, he was waiting now.

He took the paper and pen from the girl's hand and wrote his name on the marked place.

"Okay, the task is completed, and I'm getting paid again~" The girl took back the paper, handed the gift box to Chen Tianwu, cheered with her hands on her hips, and turned to leave.

"..." Chen Tianwu shook his head slightly and looked away, looking at the small gift box on his lap: "Open it..."

But just when he wanted to take it apart.

"Chen Tianwu, it's your turn." Just as he was thinking, the tent next to him opened, and a civilian called him to go in and take notes.

The portable bag couldn't hold it, so Chen Tianwu had to take the small gift box and follow it in.

...

The structure inside the tent is very simple.

There is a main table with a portable computer, two recorders and their computers on the side, and in the middle is the chair where the person being questioned sits and the table for writing.

There were two adult men talking at the main table. One had black hair, the other had rare sky-blue hair. They both looked kind-hearted.

Although the sky-blue-haired officer had a very obvious scar on his nose, which ruined his handsome appearance, it also added to his sense of maturity and vicissitudes of reliability.

Seeing Chen Tianwu come in, the two stopped talking, but the officer with sky blue hair still had a smile on his face and looked very kind.

He took the initiative to greet him: "You must be Chen Tianwu. Sit down and talk. Let's start recording."

"Although I am your commander, you don't have to be formal. Just treat me as your senior."

Chen Tianwu thought for a while and recalled the identity of this person: "Yes, instructor Hen."

After saying that, he came to the seat and sat down, placing the gift box on the table.