Honkai: Strijder (Honkai Impact 3 Male MC)

Chapter 73: Interlude: Snake Hunt

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These events took place during Sigurd's visit to Sky City.

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Northern Russia, Novyel Province.

This was an extremely cold region perpetually covered in ice and snow, with harsh living conditions and sparse population. It was an ideal place for experiments that could cause destruction and required a hidden environment.

Cocolia had an experimental base in this area.

At this moment, the Judgement of Shamash was placed deep within the base.

So Gray Serpent had arrived, and lurking in the distant snowy plains was Raven, holding the Third God Key, the Key of Thunder.

They had come for the Judgement of Shamash.

Dressed in black hoodies, white masks, and with bodies composed of mechanical prosthetics that almost outnumbered their organic components, they appeared inside the base without making a sound, disregarding the heavily guarded special forces outside.

"It indeed triggered the response of the Judgement of Shamash. Cocolia wasn't lying."

Gray Serpent held a palm-sized detection device, and the only red cybernetic eye exposed from the mask shimmered momentarily.

Originally, Cocolia had been a persuaded collaborator, conducting follow-up experiments for the Stigmata Plan using Anti-Entropy's equipment and ideal subjects from the orphanage. Gray Serpent gained experimental data, and Cocolia sought ways to save the victims of Honkai Erosion. Everyone got something out of it.

But then Cocolia had a change of heart, apparently finding a better backer and establishing a connection with the real upper echelons of Anti-Entropy.

Cocolia no longer needed Gray Serpent's experiments, and Gray Serpent didn't insist. In the eyes of Gray Serpent, who had lived for fifteen hundred years, time was the least important resource. Losing Cocolia meant nothing, he just needed to wait for the next suitable collaborator to come.

However, just a few days ago, Cocolia had contacted Gray Serpent once again.

This time, Cocolia initiated the trade, and the trade was the Judgement of Shamash.

Gray Serpent had to be interested because this was the weapon of their Lord. Currently, it wasn't in Otto's possession, nor was it in the hands of Anti-Entropy's upper echelons, or that troublesome Siegfried. It was simply stored in an experimental base that could be easily infiltrated.

Gray Serpent had considered the possibility of a trap, but initial investigations didn't reveal any problems. So here they were, with the worst-case scenario being the loss of a prosthetic body. And Ravens outside were almost impossible to ambush and could withdraw at any time.

"Raven, I'm inside. How's the situation outside?"

"Everything's normal. Hurry up, I'm feeling a bit cold."

"Just a little low temperature; I told you to accept my prosthetic modifications, and you wouldn't have this problem."

"Give it up. I don't want to lose human emotions," Raven sneered. She would accept it sooner or later, in the face of heartless time and fragile reality.