Chapter 431 Mebius Dies Again

“Tick-tick-tick-tick-”

The wind and rain stopped, but from time to time there would be a red lightning in the sky.

The water drops on the ruins outside the house dripped rhythmically, which corresponded perfectly with the second hand of the old watch on Bronya's hand.

The black paint on the watch belt had long been cracked, and a lot of the paint on the ground had peeled off, leaving a series of white spots of varying sizes. There was a big crack on the watch mirror, and there were countless scratches, which made people seriously doubt whether the owner of the watch could see the direction of the hands on the dial.

The dial was military green as a whole, with a red star in the center, which looked a bit old-fashioned. At least when it appeared on Bronya's wrist, it looked abrupt no matter how you looked at it.

Perhaps... it was normal for it to be worn by a man with a shabby beard and a waist that was ten times bigger?

Bronya smiled slightly.

Yes, its previous owner, Uncle Maxim, really looked so sloppy.

However, the next moment, her smile disappeared:

"It's time."

She spoke not loudly, almost in a whisper, but in the darkness opposite her, a pair of emerald green eyes responded, and just a glance at each other made her hair stand up from the back of her neck to her lumbar spine.

Fortunately, the sharpness in the other's eyes was only for a moment, and she quickly looked away, rubbing her eyes at the same time, as if trying to make her eyes gentler.

"I'll check the surroundings and replan the route. I'll leave it to you to wake them up."

Mebius lifted his long hair, gently lifted Mei's head from his knees, and then picked up her entire upper body and slowly laid it flat on the ground.

She didn't say anything more to Bronya, but just stood up with her legs propped up, and then quietly walked to the balcony outside.

The resting place she had found before was on the second floor, which would not affect her escape because it was too high, nor would it be directly discovered by the dead soldiers and Honkai beasts wandering on the street.

As for the collapse of the building, there is no need to worry, because only half of the wall is left above the third floor of the building. Looking at the broken edge, it was probably swept by the previous collapse beast when it passed by, and finally collapsed.

Of course, how the building collapsed is not important.

Mobius's chest swelled quickly, and a mouthful of damp and cold air penetrated deep into his lungs, mixed with a fishy smell that could not be told whether it came from soil or blood, just like her eyes that flickered in the dark. No one could tell what she was thinking, at least the four girls would not understand.

The third collapse, night, these two keywords combined together, even Mobius, who has always been reluctant to recall the past, could not help but be moved.

How could she forget that night? It was on that day that she ushered in her new life, no matter in what sense.

Such an important time, how could she forget it?

"What a pity... What a pity..."

The object of pity is not herself, she has nothing to pity, and nothing to regret.

Of course, she would not feel sorry for someone in the past. Some of those people did not need her to feel sorry for them, and some of them she was too lazy to feel sorry for.

She felt sorry for that entire era.

No...

Her fist slammed heavily on the balcony fence. The tiles on the surface of the fence had long disappeared. Her fist hit the rough cement directly, and the slight pain was just right.

She was not only sorry, but also resentful and envious.

She envied these girls for being born in such an era, and resented why her own era was the era without any hope...

But soon, such thoughts also dissipated.

"Mobius, we can set off."

Bronya called softly behind her.

"Okay."

She responded lightly, then turned and walked back into the house.

"Have you planned the route? How do we leave Changkong City?"

As soon as they met, Bronya asked directly.

"Don't worry, there's still a long way to go. The most urgent thing is to find some weapons for self-defense."

"Weapons for self-defense?"

"Yes. I can't protect you all the time. There will always be times when I'm careless, so it's better for you to bring some weapons."

"That makes sense."

Bronya looked down at her pistol. This was the only high-powered weapon among the few people. Although this high power was not enough in front of the Honkai Beast, it could protect herself to some extent. Unfortunately, there was only this one, and the amount of ammunition could only support one or two battles.

"But where can we find weapons? Bronya thought, instead of looking for them, it would be better to use local materials, right?"

Bronya broke off two pieces of steel bars from the broken wall on the side. Seele took one and when she handed it to Meiyi, she squinted her purple eyes for several seconds before slowly taking the steel bar. Well, at least now everyone can't be said to be unarmed.

"It's a good idea, but unfortunately, do you think this thing is really useful?"

"But... Bronya thinks that with the physical fitness of ordinary people, the weapons that individuals can carry will not make much difference when facing Honkai beasts."

"It is still a little different. There are not many large Honkai beasts. The main enemies you will face in the future are still mostly dead soldiers and small Honkai beasts. In the hands of ordinary people who have not received any training, guns are still more deterrent than steel bars, right?"

"But, letting someone who has not received shooting training use a gun, especially a pistol... Wait! You said you can get a gun?"

Looking at Bronya's surprised eyes, Mobius knew that she had understood what she meant.

Guns are probably useless in the hands of Mei and Seele, but they are useful in the hands of her and the stupid Kiana! What's more, it's better to have something than nothing.

But... why is Mobius so concerned about arming them?

The reason she gave before... No matter how strong she is, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no situation where she can't take care of them.

How to say it, this reason cannot be said to be unreasonable, it can only be said to be very common sense and logic, so normal that Bronya can't find any point to refute it. If it were someone else, even if it was Mikael standing here saying this, she could still barely believe the other party. This is not to say that in Bronya's eyes, Mikael is more trustworthy than Mobius, but Mobius... Mainly after she said those random words before, Bronya always felt that the other party was playing a big game...

Especially her last sentence before-"You will know what it means soon."

Bronya didn't know what it meant, and she couldn't guess it at all. But judging from the literal meaning alone, it is difficult to ignore the time prefix "soon".

To put it in more popular language, Bronya felt that Mobius was probably going to give everyone a "surprise" soon.

Based on this starting point, any action of Mobius seemed to Bronya to have a meaningful taste.

"Let's go, don't stand there, there is a police station two blocks away, let's go there to replenish weapons and ammunition."

Bronya blinked. Although she felt that something was wrong, she had no reason to refuse.

…………

“Bang——”

Things went much more smoothly than expected. There was no need for prior reconnaissance, and naturally there was no need for a battle plan. All Bronya, Seele, Mei and Kiana had to do was to follow closely behind Mebius, watching the tiny green lightning arcs flying around Mebius. The dead soldiers wearing police uniforms were pulled aside by the arcs before they could even react.

Victory came so easily. Although Mebius cleared out all the dead soldiers and Honkai beasts in the police station for safety reasons, the time spent on cleaning them was still much shorter than the time spent on finding the equipment library, which made Bronya even more suspicious.

Before, Mebius said, “I can’t protect you anytime and anywhere”, and she thought it was normal. Now it seems that she underestimated Mebius after all. With her current strength, it would be easy for her to take them all the way out of Changkong City. There is no situation where she can’t take care of them.

So why did she go to all this trouble?

"Bronya, what are you daydreaming about?"

Kiana turned around and reminded while choosing a pistol.

She picked up two pistols, one was a square, angular automatic pistol, and the other was an old-fashioned revolver that looked clumsy.

Bronya only took a glance and knew that this idiot had difficulty making choices again.

"The automatic pistol in your left hand is a Beretta 92. What year was it... ah, it seems to be the autumn of 1981. The Far East police and extremists had a firefight in Yamanashi Prefecture. The old six-shot revolver faced five AK47s. The result is imaginable. The three unlucky police were shot to pieces on the spot. The Far East police updated their equipment the following year and then introduced this thing. However, the inventory of old revolvers is too large, and it seems that they have not been completely replaced until now."

"Heh, I didn't expect that you, who was born in Siberia, know so much about the Far East."

Mobius did not choose a weapon. With her overwhelming power, she didn't need a weapon at all. She just silently guarded the door for a few people, and didn't urge them. Until she heard the conversation between Bronya and Kiana, she couldn't help but make a joke.

However, Bronya thought she was childish and simply ignored her, continuing to educate Kiana:

"This gun has a magazine capacity of fifteen rounds, but the empty gun weighs nearly one kilogram, which is twice as heavy as the old revolver. It has stronger firepower and better sustainability. You can choose it yourself."

She also needs to find Tokarev pistol bullets. Obviously, there is a high probability that there will be no such things here. Maybe she will have to switch to Beretta in the end.

She is a little strange. When Kiana used the Tokarev pistol before

Kiana listened to her and weighed the two guns in her hands again. There is no need to hesitate. Although the old revolver is light, it is obviously not suitable for the Kaslana family's gun fighting technique. As for the weight...

A kilogram of gun weight is a big burden even for adult men. Even if you hold the gun with both hands, you need to go through strict training to keep it stable, not to mention that the Kaslana family's gun fighting technique requires holding the gun with one hand, which is theoretically more difficult.

But Kiana is not an adult male, so this question is invalid for her.

She slung two guns over her body, and was reluctant to throw away the baseball bat, which she put into a long holster and carried on her back.

"Mei, I'm ready!"

She jumped twice, made sure that her whole body equipment was ready, and ran to Mei, who was hesitating in front of a whole wall of weapons.

"Mei, don't you know what weapon to choose?"

Although girls generally don't study these long guns and short guns, they will always be excited when facing new things, not to mention that these things are the power that can protect them in the next action. Even people with ordinary nature should be a little excited, right?

For example, Seele, this girl who has always been quiet, picked up a long-barreled shotgun directly after a brief hesitation. In contrast, Mei's reaction is too...slow? Or calm?

Hearing Kiana's voice, Mei turned around suddenly, lowered her head slightly, and the purple in her pupils flashed.

"I don't need... uh, I don't know what to choose."

Mei's voice was a little low. Kiana tilted her head, bit her lips, and suddenly stepped forward to hug Mei.

"Hey... what are you... doing!"

Mei's voice became sharp again. After all, there are three living people here. She was about to push Kiana away, but her body resisted this behavior, so this resistance didn't make much sense.

"Hehe!"

Kiana smiled into Mei's ear.

"It's okay if Mei doesn't have a weapon. With me here, no one can hurt Mei!"

"Kiana..."

"Cough!", "Cough cough!", "Cough cough cough!"

The coughs of the other three people were in sync.

Bronya wanted to hit Kiana on the head with the pistol grip, but when she looked at Seele in the direction of the sound, she saw that the latter had a very strange look - she was holding the shotgun grip with her right hand, as if she wanted to hide this weapon that was extremely inconsistent with her temperament behind her, while the five fingers of her left hand were jumping quickly, and two cylindrical bullets were rolling back and forth between her fingers like juggling. What was even more strange was that face, which was obviously smiling, with a familiar smile on the right half of the face, and a pursed mouth on the left half, with visible disdain, and the right eye was clearly staring at Kiana, but the left eye was glancing at Mebius, which looked extremely weird.

"Seele, are you okay?"

Bronya frowned and her eyes widened slightly. After hearing her voice, Seele's left half of her face quickly raised its corners, and the bullet was tightly grasped in her palm. This change was so fast and natural that Bronya thought she was just dazzled.

It was precisely because she had been focusing on Seele that she ignored the person with the strangest look at the scene for a while-

The corners of Mobius' mouth twitched twice, as if he wanted to laugh with everyone, but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't do it, he just couldn't laugh. Instead, his nose was slightly sour, and a hot current rushed straight to his brain.

Why? Why can people of this era still maintain such a naive and childish side in the face of collapse? Why did they never have such innocence 50,000 years ago, and even dared not to dream of such innocence.

"Heh... cough cough!"

Realizing that his voice was trembling, Mobius quickly coughed twice again, forcing himself to stabilize his emotions. Of course, this is not difficult.

"If I remember correctly, Mei has been taught swordsmanship by her father since she was a child, and she has already obtained the Menkyo Kaiden of the Hokushin Ittoryu, right?"

"Huh? Yes."

Mei was stunned for a moment, and took this opportunity to break away from Kiana's suffocating embrace, and then nodded sullenly.

"Then it seems that this is the right one for you."

Mobius took out a half-dachi from behind like a magic trick.

"This is..."

"Ah, I just found it in the director's office. It looks like a personal collection."

Mobius took two steps forward and handed the knife to Mei.

Mei gently pressed the hilt of the knife with her thumb, and the blade slid out of the sheath. It can be seen that this is probably an ancient sword handed down from the director's family. The blade exudes a dull copper light, and the beige fish skin is almost yellow due to the precipitation of time. The gaps between the particles are filled with black stains. It is hard to tell whether it is blood or sweat, but the handle does not look like it has been held recently.

Such a knife? Can it be used to kill people?

There is no doubt that as long as it is a knife, it can be used to kill people, even if the original intention of casting it is just for viewing.

Meiyi pulled the knife out of the sheath little by little. The fluorescent light cast a dazzling cold light on the blade, which also covered the purple in Meiyi's pupils.

Raising his head, Mebius squinted his eyes, smiled and stretched out his hand to her, as if he wanted to touch her head. But if that's all, why are there tiny arcs flashing on the fingertips?

"Haha... Hahahaha..."

"Meiyi" looked at the hand and laughed dryly twice, and then without hesitation, sent the tip of the knife into Mebius' heart.

There is an easter egg hidden. As a reminder, it comes from the same book as the sentence "The wind blows across the grasslands of Bohemia" a long time ago