Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 217 Just one lick

How would you describe the scene before you?

All I can say is that the sky is about to fall.

A few minutes later, the alarm blared louder. Due to the chaos caused by the research institute staff running around, Qiong lost track of Bai E. While he was still wandering aimlessly, Xi'er told him to look up at the sky—a huge hole had appeared in the sky above Weiming City, and that dark hole was expanding at a visible rate, with streaks of meteors and lightning flashing through it from time to time… Purple arcs of electricity twisted and turned, illuminating the sky that should have been dusk but was gradually darkening, followed by deafening thunder… Stars and other objects transformed into meteors one after another, rushing towards the small city of Weiming.

"Um, what kind of hole is this?"

As they were talking, a huge meteorite happened to fall not far from the research institute. Soon after, Qiong felt the ground shake violently. Apart from the research institute itself being sturdy enough, the surrounding buildings collapsed one after another...

"Seele, run!"

Qiong pulled Seele and ran desperately towards an open space, leaving a trail of dust and flying debris behind them. Finally reaching a relatively safe spot, Qiong stopped and realized that Seele was actually a quantum ghost; she probably didn't need to run…

"What bad luck..."

Qiong looked at her forearm and noticed that it had been scratched and was bleeding.

"Bai'er, where are you! Is anyone here?!"

This is definitely not an ordinary celestial phenomenon. If it were the Dome, we'd write the name backwards! But what's going on in Weiming City all of a sudden?

Is the end of the world coming?

"Brother Qiong..."

Qiong, who was pulling Seele along, was filled with a sense of danger and carefully observed his surroundings to look for someone, but he did not notice the subtle change in Seele's eyes.

Those red eyes flashed and stared intently at Qiong's exposed forearm, which was almost within reach and was faintly bleeding.

"Quick, lick it!"

"lick?"

Startled by the sudden voice of another version of herself in her mind, Xi'er urged Bai Xi to lick Qiong's wound. Xi'er subconsciously leaned forward slightly, but stopped abruptly just before touching Qiong's arm.

"No, Seele can't do that! Seele isn't a bad child!"

Seele bit her lip hard and shook her head frantically, rejecting Black Seele's bizarre idea.

"Tch, I'll do it myself!"

In just a moment, Blackie forcibly seized control of her body—this was the first time she had taken control of her body for her own desires. All along, Sheryl's sadness, fear, pain and helplessness had been absorbed by her as if by instinct... When she calmly thought about it, Blackie herself had to admit that it was these emotions that made her increasingly violent and sadistic, and she wanted to vent them at all times.

But she didn't regret it. After all, she was the "shadow." Absorbing these emotions and protecting Seele's smile was the meaning of her existence, her entire meaning.

But today was a little different. This Qiong-gege actually made her feel the "sense of food"—she only had this experience when she occasionally took over the account of Seele and that Xing and they fought over stealing snacks from a few little rascals, and she felt that those little rascals, including Seele, had rather poor taste...

Before Qiong could react, Seele's tongue licked the small wound: it tasted a little salty, a little sweet, and had a metallic feel to it...

But seriously, it smells so good… better than all the cream puffs, beet soup, cherry jam, blueberry cupcakes, rye bread, and yogurt from the orphanage combined. She could feel a kind of electric shock—no, a warm current! A warm current entered her mouth from the tip of her tongue, running from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, making her feel completely refreshed.

Unfortunately, Seele can't understand... Never mind, I'll just lick her a few more times!

"Seele, what are you doing?! No, are you another Seele?"

With a gasp from Qiong, he pulled his hand away, and Seele's tongue froze in mid-air.

It's already chaotic enough, and you, Hei hope, are making it even worse!

Already on edge and filled with suspicion, Qiong took a few steps back, watching Hei hope warily.

"Brother Qiong, you got it right! It's the hungry Seele! Seele is just hungry."

With a smile, Hei hope slowly approached the agitated Qiong. But this only made her want to get closer to Qiong and taste him.

"How about letting Seele lick it one more time? Just one!"

But the only response Hei hope received was four words squeezed out from between Sora's teeth.

"Get the hell out of here!"

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Earlier, at the headquarters of Anti-Entropy in Weiming City.

Under the surprised gazes of the Anti-Entropy staff, Bio walked into the Anti-Entropy headquarters.

Before today, he had never visited this Entropy stronghold. After all, ever since he forcibly intervened and disbanded the R&D department, the core members of Entropy had been very hostile to him. Even if there was any cooperation that had to be carried out, they would try to avoid contact with Bio. Bio was not that kind of fool, and of course he would also try to avoid meeting with people from Entropy.

But this time was different; he had to go there personally to dissuade the anti-entropy energy research from being put on hold.

In that laboratory filled with the smell of disinfectant, Bio met Yang Shijie, who was intently fiddling with a bunch of complicated instruments.

"Xiao Yang, I hope you can postpone the research on that endless energy."

Bio immediately stated his request, a seemingly unreasonable one that made Lao Yang laugh.

Yang Shijie stopped what he was doing and slowly turned around.

"What's your reason, Bio? You've retired and you're demanding we stop progressing with entropy reduction? The entropy reduction research is all planned out; why should we listen to you?"

Bio frowned; the holiday was too big, and persuasion would be difficult.

“I have received reliable intelligence that your current research direction may lead to the destruction of the world. You know those shadow monsters, right? They are very likely caused by your extraction of energy from outside the world! Stop now, the consequences will be unimaginable if it gets out of control.”

Did you know that our energy conversion comes from outside the world?

Yang Shijie was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected Bio to discover the source of their energy conversion, but he quickly responded with a cold laugh.

"Reliable intelligence? Mr. Bio, although I don't know how you stole our core secrets, you wouldn't be trying to stop our research with such an ambiguous reason, would you? We have already invested a lot of time and energy in this project. Once successful, Weiming City will never have to worry about energy again. How could we give up just because of your words?"

Yang Shijie glanced at his watch. It was 5:59. "Hmm, we can begin."

"Please go back, Bio. Our anti-entropy experiment starts at six o'clock, so I'm sorry I can't accompany you!"

"That experiment? It's not some kind of endless energy source, is it?"

Bi Ao wanted to persuade him further, but then he saw Yang Shijie say "Start" into the walkie-talkie.

"Yang Shijie, stop right now! Haven't you noticed that the more energy you extract, the more frequently the Shadow Monsters become active? Your experiment is too dangerous; it could have irreversible consequences!"

Yang Shijie, however, seemed not to hear him at all and continued issuing orders into the walkie-talkie.

"Bio, you're just jealous! This is a world-changing experiment. If it succeeds, we, Anti-Entropy, will become the creators of history! Just think about it, Anti-Entropy brings endless energy, and the future Star of Weiming City can only be me—no, we, Anti-Entropy, are the future!"

Boom—

A huge explosion was heard outside the Anti-Entropy headquarters.

"The experiment failed?"

Bi Ao and Yang Shijie looked out the window at the experimental site at the same time. A purple light shot up from the explosion site, and soon after, an ever-expanding hole appeared above the Anti-Entropy headquarters.

"broken……"

Looking up at the empty space, Bio felt a sense of foreboding.