The girl, standing quietly under the moonlight, raised her delicate left hand and gently waved it down. The fluorescent objects around her, as if understanding her meaning, began to glow as if gathering moonlight. Beams of light shot out from the fluorescent flying objects, attacking Li Xuan and the others.
Beams of laser shot toward Li Xuan and the others. "Dodge!" Li Xuan shouted loudly, and everyone dodged the lasers. The milky-white lasers missed them but directly pierced through the bridge deck under their feet.
"Stop, we mean no harm!" Li Xuan said to the girl in front of them. But the girl did not respond. What responded was a laser beam shooting out. Li Xuan's pupils shrank. He wanted to dodge but it was already too late.
With no other choice, Li Xuan stretched out his left hand as if to catch the laser beam. But the laser did not penetrate his palm as the girl had expected. Instead, it was blocked and neutralized by a layer of previously invisible azure energy shield in front of his palm.
"Damn it, let's fight back," Li Xuan was a bit annoyed by the girl's unprovoked attack. Although she was very cute, that couldn't be a reason for them not to fight back when attacked.
"Kiana! Attack her fluorescent flying objects," Mei said. She was not using a samurai sword but a shotgun. This was also unavoidable; she couldn't just charge in with a sword. After all, the barrage of lasers was not something anyone could just tank.
Kiana followed Mei's words, and a yellow and black pistol appeared in her hand. This was Kiana's backup pistol—Fairy Bow Silven. The powerful 'Mjolnir' had already run out of ammunition at the beginning, so she could only use Fairy Bow Silven. Although its damage output was not high, its advantage was its infinite ammo. This was what they called 'what you lack in power, you make up for in quantity!'
Holding Fairy Bow Silven, Kiana performed gun-kata and started shooting at the fluorescent flying objects. But to Kiana's annoyance, these flying objects were too damn slippery. It was very difficult to hit them with Fairy Bow, and even if she did, the damage was not significant unless she hit them several times. But it wasn't that easy to hit them, and it seemed they would also switch to attack in turns.
Let's focus fire and take one out first, Kiana thought to herself. She raised Fairy Bow Silven and focused on shooting at one of the flying objects. It had to be said, the effect was quite good. The fluorescent flying object that Kiana was targeting quickly became riddled with damage. But while Kiana was concentrating, a fluorescent flying object secretly flew behind her, and then a laser beam shot out from it, aimed straight at Kiana.
"Watch out behind you, Kiana!..." Bronya, whose senses were keen, immediately spotted the laser beam and quickly warned her. Kiana had just fired a shot to neutralize an attack from a fluorescent flying object. By the time she turned her head, it was too late to react.
Li Xuan had taken out his Super-Electromagnetic Handgun at the beginning and fired a shot... a super-electromagnetic cannonball at the unknown girl. But it was neutralized by the lasers fired from the fluorescent flying objects surrounding the girl. The super-electromagnetic cannonball exploded in front of the girl after being neutralized.
After firing several shots at the girl with the Super-Electromagnetic Handgun to no avail, Li Xuan suddenly heard Bronya's shout and realized Kiana's dangerous situation. He was the closest to Kiana, so he quickly rushed over and stood in front of her. The milky-white laser hit Li Xuan and was like a stone sinking into the sea, but the azure light of his shield also dimmed from this attack.
Li Xuan, who was hit by the laser, did not go after the fluorescent flying object behind Kiana. Instead, he aimed his gun at the flying machine that had already been heavily damaged by Kiana. A white arc of electricity flashed at the dark muzzle, then shot towards the flying machine. The powerful kinetic and electrical energy instantly burst forth. The fluorescent flying object paused for a moment, then exploded like a firework. The bright flash of light illuminated everyone's faces for an instant, then vanished like a summer firefly.
"Th... thanks," Kiana said, turning her face away reluctantly. In the firelight, her face was slightly flushed.
"You're welcome," Li Xuan said, trying to hold back his laughter at Kiana's textbook tsundere behavior. He added in his mind, Just be nicer to me. He had figured out why Kiana was always so hostile towards him. The reason was very simple and yet hard to imagine: Kiana Kaslana was a genuine lesbian, or what they call a lesbian, LES, or generally yuri! It took Li Xuan a lot of time to confirm this, and he was still a bit unsure at first.
To this, he just wanted to say, 'The world is vast and full of wonders.' But this could also explain why Kiana was not nice to him. Imagine a man hanging around your wife every day. Even if he had no intentions, would you have a good attitude? So Li Xuan completely gave up any ideas and silently blessed them. He was actually a bit afraid that if he tried to hit on the girl, who knew if Kiana would put 'Mjolnir' to his head?!
So, girls are precious, but life is more precious!
The explosion of the fluorescent flying object made a flash of pain cross the eyes of the girl who had been sitting coldly all along.
"Tch! - Requesting retreat," the girl said reluctantly. The outer shell of the cabin beneath her shed a layer of useless casing. The main body of the machine glowed with fluorescent light, carrying the girl and the fluorescent flying objects towards the direction of Nagazora City, away from the bridge.
"Phew~ she ran away," Mei said with a sigh of relief.
"Bronya, was she just talking about the Valkyrie system?" Kiana suddenly seemed to remember something and asked Bronya.
"The Bronya believes she is an experimental subject like the Bronya, but... the Bronya cannot identify her ID," Bronya said with a frown.
"An experimental machine from Anti-Entropy? Why would it appear here..." Kiana said strangely.
"Wait, what the hell is Anti-Entropy?" Li Xuan asked curiously. As a top student in high school, he knew about entropy. In thermodynamics, entropy is a parameter representing the state of a substance, and it is also used by social sciences as a metaphor for the degree of certain states in human society.
"Anti-Entropy is an organization that opposes the Schicksal organization. It is an organization that has conducted in-depth research on the Honkai. But their philosophy is not in line with ours, so they have had many conflicts with the organization," Kiana said, then added with a casual tone, "Anyway, they are our enemies, so we just need to take them all out!"
"Eh~ I don't get it, but it sounds impressive," Li Xuan said, not quite understanding what Schicksal and Anti-Entropy were.
"You're neither from Schicksal nor Anti-Entropy. I really don't know where you get your power from?!" Kiana said, staring at Li Xuan.
"Haha, I'm just someone who accidentally fell into this world!" Li Xuan laughed, but there was a strange sense of sadness in his heart. After all, he was not from this world.
"Did she mistake us for people who hurt her?" Mei said, trying to change the subject.
"Maybe..." Li Xuan shrugged.
Bronya walked over to the abandoned flying object's shell on the ground. On the shell was written, 'Failed product, life support time 360 hours!' "Does she only have 15 days to live?" Bronya lowered her head.
"The moon is so full tonight..." Kiana said, looking up at the full moon. A full moon hung high in the night sky, casting a soft moonlight.
"Let's get out of Nagazora City quickly!" Li Xuan said. Before he could finish his sentence, a roar came from the bridge deck in front of them, and the already riddled bridge directly collapsed.
Li Xuan's feelings at this moment were complicated, and the atmosphere was awkward. "No! Ahhhh~" Under the moonlight, a loser in life let out a miserable howl...