This feeling didn't trouble Ana for long. She quickly shook her head, casting aside all distracting thoughts.
So what if she might not have saved this guy? If she saved him this time, wouldn't that even things out?
Ana thought with a small spark of resentment.
And at that thought, she started to get a little excited.
Now, she had the power of a "prophet," knowing the major events of the future, knowing who the "big shots" of the future would be.
Call her—the Great Lady Transmigrator!
And now, Lady Transmigrator was about to use her reliable "past life memories" to show everyone the way to the future!
So, someone might ask, "Ana, Ana, what should we do?"
Uh...
Good question.
Ana's spirit deflated. She realized all she had was a gun and a desperate-struggle-last-resort potion. Nothing else.
This transmigration did bring some things over, but not much.
Er... could it be that the others also brought things with them?
In reality, only Ana, for some special reason, had brought a few items with her. The others only had the clothes on their backs; nothing else had made it to this world.
Ana didn't know this yet. What she was thinking now was, if anyone else had made it through, where would they be?
She quickly thought of the "connection" point and her first reaction was also to rush to the Taixu Martial Arts School to meet up with Fu Hua.
But... she suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
A few of them working together could probably only save a limited number of people, at most rescuing those in this city who hadn't turned into zombies. It wouldn't have a decisive impact.
The future Fire Moth didn't lack cutting-edge power, high-tech equipment, or basic supplies.
What it lacked was people. Living, breathing people.
If, this time, more people around the world could survive, wouldn't Fire Moth's situation become much better?
But how could just a few of them spread the news and intelligence about the Honkai beyond this city?
They didn't have a car. The only means of transportation would have to wait until her future self arrived in Sapphire City.
By then, it would be too late!
And at this moment, the person who could contact Future City, or rather, the highest echelons of Future City, the current leader Joyce...
There was probably only one person in this city who could do that. Everyone else would have to step aside.
Joachim, the runaway prince, was the only one who could contact Joyce.
So, if she found Joachim first, and then brought him to the Taixu Martial Arts School to cooperate with Senior Fu Hua, maybe Future City could really release the relevant information to the whole world within a few hours, greatly reducing the casualties.
Perhaps if the intelligence about the Honkai was sent to Future City in the morning, by evening she could see a group of automatons labeled "Anti-Honkai Armor" appear in Sapphire City, helping her eliminate the Honkai.
Hey, you know, that might actually be possible!
Her thoughts instantly cleared. The first step now was to find Joachim's location!
She did remember the location Joachim had set for their rendezvous and the handover of the "trafficked" person, but that was a public place. Joachim couldn't be there.
At least not now. She would probably have to wait until her other self arrived in Sapphire City to see him there.
So the final answer was...
Give him a call.
But she didn't have a communicator...
Ana's eyes narrowed. At the same time, Chen Tianwu's eyes also narrowed, his hand gripping his phone tighter, the emergency number ready to be dialed.
"Can I borrow your phone?" Ana's hand was still on her waist. If before, her hand on her weapon was out of vigilance, now it had a more sinister implication.
You say a good person shouldn't have such threatening intentions?
What are you blabbering about? Save that for a Kaslana!
But unfortunately for her, she was facing a person from the Chinese mainland, a magical creature that could be reasoned with or bullied, but would never yield to a life-or-death threat, and would automatically activate their genealogy mode in a desperate situation.
If you were holding a stick, he would cower for you, because getting beaten up really hurts, and it's embarrassing.
But if you're holding a gun, and all I have to lose is my life, and this is the Chinese mainland, the one who survives is the one who will face true hell.
Do you really think this is the free land of America, where shootings happen every day?
So Chen Tianwu was not intimidated at all. Instead, he gave Ana a very calm smile and decisively pressed the emergency button.
He had been threatened. He was now the undisputed victim. Even if everything turned out fine in the end, he had an absolutely valid reason to get rid of a series of troubles that were disadvantageous to him.
The two of them, each with their own thoughts, stared at each other. The atmosphere between them was so heavy it felt like it could drip water. It wouldn't be surprising if they started fighting right then and there.
Three minutes later.
At the door of the hotel room, the two of them stood side by side, facing a barrage of spittle from the police, so ashamed they could have died.
"A perfectly fine young couple, and you actually called the police?" A police officer with a determined face stood in front of them, pointing his finger at them, completely ignoring their identities.
"Let me ask you, did she hit you? Huh? You can't just say she's abusing you because she's fierce, can you? You two aren't even married, where's the domestic abuse? Huh? I'm asking you, where's the domestic abuse?"
"Did she lay a hand on you or a foot? Or did she bite a chunk of flesh out of you somewhere? Do you want me to accompany you to get an injury report? Do you?"
Chen Tianwu didn't dare to breathe. He felt like he was back in high school, sitting in the front row during a test review, but he had lost his paper and could only pretend to be listening attentively with another subject's paper.
He stole a glance at Ana, who was also standing beside him with her head bowed. Seeing the curve of her lips, Chen Tianwu felt his face contort.
This person had used some trick to instantly transform into an ordinary, slightly pretty local of the Chinese mainland the moment the police knocked on the door.
Then she had even produced a matching ID card. The scene was bizarre to him, as if the great official had been hypnotized, turning a blind eye to the abnormality.
Otto's improved Mosquito's Breath, you deserve it.
For some unknown reason, Ana had also brought the improved version of Mosquito's Breath with her. As for the ID card... Future City's universal identification was valid in the Chinese mainland. Coupled with Mosquito's Breath, it was a universal identity.
And when she handed over her ID, she had been clever, not letting Chen Tianwu see it too clearly, only letting him know that she had indeed produced identification.
So Chen Tianwu's contorted face was expected by Ana. She just hadn't expected him to be even more afraid of the police he had called than she was.
This fear was different from what Ana had seen in the Americas and Western Europe. It was as if he wasn't afraid of the police themselves, but of having done something wrong.
This strange emotion made her want to laugh.
Wait, why should I hold it in?
So she curved her lips, letting Chen Tianwu see her smile clearly.
As expected, Chen Tianwu's face contorted, twisting into a big knot. And she, watching him being reprimanded by the police, pretended to be wronged while specifically smiling at an angle only he could see.
Quite a wicked sense of humor.
Don't say you shouldn't build your happiness on someone else's misery. That kind of talk would only make a Kaslana jump out of bed in the middle of the night and slap themselves.
In the end, Chen Tianwu, with a face full of despair, sent the indignant police off. It was five in the morning, the last shift for the night police.
If it weren't for Chen Tianwu's emergency call, they would have been close to getting off work by now.
Just as Chen Tianwu was resentful for being woken up by Ana at five in the morning, the police in the Chinese mainland, although different from the warlords of other countries, were still mostly ordinary people.
They also followed the principle of yielding to reason and bullying, but not to life-or-death threats. They would make small matters disappear, and make big matters small. Only when their bottom line was touched would they show their proper attitude.
Of course, police and similar professions in other countries would also show this kind of proper quality when their bottom line was touched. Those who could hold this position were, after all, mostly people with a strong sense of responsibility.
After the police left, Ana mercilessly grabbed Chen Tianwu by the collar and dragged him back into the room.
Then, without any hesitation, she tapped the medal on her chest in front of him, changing back to her original appearance.
She stretched and gave him a provocative raise of her eyebrows.
"Tsk..." Chen Tianwu let out a disdainful click of his tongue. He could see it now. This person with a terrible personality was probably really from the Schariac family, filled with a sense of incompatibility with him.
He was just an ordinary person. Why did it feel like what he was experiencing today was the beginning of some urban fantasy web novel?
A beauty falling from the sky, a sudden appearance of abilities he couldn't understand...
Was she going to tell him next that the world was about to end and invite him to save it with her?
...
Ana was about to speak when she saw Chen Tianwu start to furtively look around, as if the room he had paid for had suddenly become completely unfamiliar.
"What are you doing?" Ana was a bit dumbfounded, but she soon knew what he was looking for. "Don't worry, at least my appearance here is definitely not some variety show prank."
"I thought so too," Chen Tianwu sighed. "Because I didn't receive any script, and such a big production shouldn't exist in our country."
Hiss... is it really okay to talk about your own country's entertainment industry like that?
Ana clearly felt the resentment from Chen Tianwu. It was only now that she realized the deep-seated resentment he had was not something that had formed overnight, but had accumulated over many years.
So there are really people in this world who are so down on their luck that their whole being wilts?
"Forget it, I should have gotten used to it by now." Ana watched as Chen Tianwu offered himself some self-deprecating comfort. Then, when he looked up, the bitterness on his lips was ten thousand times more bitter than industrial bittering agents.
"Go ahead, is the world about to end?"
Ana was silent, then nodded seriously, with a hint of hesitation.
She was serious because she had used the three minutes it took for the police to arrive to get Chen Tianwu's phone and look through everything she should and shouldn't have seen.
This was also the source of her confidence in being able to bluff her way through by pretending to be his girlfriend. In front of the police, she had laid out all of Chen Tianwu's secrets. Who else but a girlfriend could remember so clearly?
Could this person also be a Schariac?
And looking at this information only took about a minute. In the remaining two minutes, Ana had already finished her call with Joachim. In their brief exchange, she had learned that Kallen was right beside him.
As expected of Senior Kallen! She had just thought of it, and the other person had already found the target.
While filled with admiration, Ana also felt a great weight lift from her shoulders.
She wasn't alone. Senior Kallen had also "traveled" here and would fight alongside her.
At the same time, she could also be sure that everything before was not her hallucination. She had clearly heard the words "Honkai" from Senior Kallen's mouth.
This evening, the Honkai descends!
The weight had lifted, replaced by the pressure on her shoulders.
So many people were going to die tonight... those who were immediately converted into zombies and Honkai zombies the moment the Honkai descended, and those unlucky ones who encountered Honkai Beasts right away.
Just like her "past life" self and... this unlucky guy named Chen Tianwu.
The density of Honkai Beasts was very low. Unless there were some special clusters, there would be no more than a hundred in a large city.
With such a low density, how could one still encounter one right away? That was really unlucky.
This was why Ana had nodded with a hint of hesitation.
Because after she nodded, Chen Tianwu's entire person had lost all color!
"Ha, so it's true? I'm so unlucky that I get to see the end of the world in just over twenty years..." Chen Tianwu completely wilted, turning into a special-grade cursed spirit more dead than a zombie.
"No, this problem can't be attributed to a single person or group, right... It's not like you sent some message into space." Ana tried to comfort the person she intended to "make up for."
But Chen Tianwu clearly wasn't taking any comfort. Instead, he smoothly picked up the joke in her words and continued, "You don't need to blame me. After all, I don't even have the qualification to receive the 'do not answer' message."
He really seemed a bit dead inside.
Ana's mouth twitched, watching as Chen Tianwu once again entered a state of giving up.
"Alright, then tell me, how exactly does the world end?"