"Hello? Hanyin? Mm, okay, I understand."
Putting down the communication device, Tieshi Yixia turned to her subordinates with a helpless expression. "Captain Mu ran into a little problem on her end. Let's go first."
Tieshi Yixia, a young woman with brown hair and purple eyes, was also affiliated with the OPBI. She was a rare "hidden big boob" character.
(T/N: This character is from "Honkai Gakuen 2".)
Upon receiving the mission, she had rushed over from a nearby urban area to participate in encircling the Hyperion group.
"Yes!"
Her subordinates responded quickly, running alongside her along the route arranged by the logistics department.
As they ran, they realized something was wrong.
The scenery of the Kanas streets in early July was extremely beautiful. The midday sun was like molten gold, splashing among the winding cluster of wooden houses.
The air floated with the cool fragrance of pine resin and wildflowers. Birch leaves sifted down fragmented spots of light, dancing on the wooden plank road like silver fish. When the wind passed, the entire street rustled into a tide of green sound.
Shuttling through such streets should have been a beautiful thing, provided one ignored the scrutinizing gazes filled with negative emotions cast from numerous corners.
"It's those people, right?"
"Yeah, yeah! Is that what the internet said?"
"They look human enough."
"Hmph! Capitalist running dogs!"
And the unmasked whispering and crickets of criticism.
"Hey!"
A young man who had just joined the team was very dissatisfied and wanted to open his mouth to argue with these unruly people hurting them with malicious words.
"Ignore them. We have more important things to do."
Tieshi Yixia blocked the rookie's path.
"Understood! Captain!"
To be selected for the OPBI, one had to be qualified in terms of discipline at least.
The young man with flickering eyes silenced himself voluntarily but secretly went online to search for the corresponding clues.
Soon, as an internet specialist, he locked onto the source—Old Man Lu, the fisherman who suffered from kidney deficiency due to drawing erotic manga and had a head full of white hair at the tender age of twenty-six, forcing him to retire from the industry.
As a locally famous manga artist, upholding the spiteful spirit of "fearing my brother lives a hard life, but fearing my brother drives a Land Rover even more," and adding a tiny bit of genuine camaraderie in wanting Fuli to successfully escape, he had started to mass-post essays on local forums to cyberbully the OPBI group.
The effect was super effective.
It didn't go as far as direct physical attacks, but small incidents like intentionally or unintentionally bumping into them or throwing banana peels to cause trouble were common.
"There are bad people among the masses!"
Swatting away the eighth rotten egg stuck to her shoulder, the stinky Tieshi Yixia muttered softly.
"Tell me about it."
Mu Hanyin, who had gone through untold hardships to regroup with her, sighed.
Just now, seeing that they were about to catch up with the SUV driven by the trio, a row of heavy motorcycles suddenly drilled out from the roadside, calmly parking between the two parties to block the way.
The leader, Old Liu, had specifically put on sunglasses and a leather jacket with explosive fashion levels. His flashy appearance drew whistles from many onlookers.
"Captain! We can't tolerate this anymore. We must strike hard!"
The muscle man was filled with righteous indignation.
Mu Hanyin glared at him. "What, do you want to learn from the Gwangju Runner—six baton strikes in a second—and make the people scream?"
"I wouldn't dare, wouldn't dare..."
The muscle man shrank back, answering with a sheepish smile.
"Call the police. How about that?" Tieshi Yixia suggested. "Currently, there is obviously an unknown force disrupting our situation. For this kind of thing, it's better to hand it over to professionals."
The others looked at each other, feeling that calling the police because they couldn't solve the problem was very shameful.
Who were they? Transcendent individuals of the Honkai side!
However, they really had no other moves right now. These bastards were distributed in every corner of the city. The incident happened in a rush, and the OPBI was severely understaffed.
"Let's do that."
Seeing no objections, Mu Hanyin took out her phone.
Receiving a request for support from the higher-ups, the local police dispatched quickly.
Starting with the obvious breakthrough point of Old Lu, the number of online users in the fishing group dropped exponentially, and the chat group was instantly filled with wailing.
However, thinking that through their efforts they had broken up Fuli and that peerless rich young miss, saving him from the painful latter half of his life driving luxury cars and living in villas, the middle-aged geezers became high-spirited again.
Ah, humans. Only when doing this kind of thing do they feel neither bitter nor tired.
...
With the all-out stalling efforts and various help from these "kind-hearted people," it took less than twenty minutes for Fuli and the others to escape the encirclement and drive to the edge of the national border according to the planned route.
Seeing the boundary marker approaching from afar, Kiana couldn't help but laugh loudly. "Heh, I suddenly remembered. Back in Nagazora City, the few of us were also chased all over the place by that blonde vixen like this."
Even knowing that this dummy had no malicious intent, as the goddaughter of the blonde vixen Cocolia she mentioned, Bronya still rolled her eyes at her.
"Back then, we had to add Mei," Fuli said cheerfully, holding his head. "And it wasn't like now, with so many people helping."
"In the blink of an eye... uh, only four months have passed?"
Kiana sounded unsure.
"That's not short."
There were only two and a half years left until 2017, when that bitch, the Herrscher of Dominance, would appear. Considering the butterfly effect he brought, an early appearance wasn't impossible.
The boy's fists clenched unconsciously, and the crimson eyes under his sunglasses turned slightly cold.
Kiana asked worriedly, "Helping us like this, those uncles in the group won't get in trouble, right?"
Pulling himself out of the unpleasant memories involving the "Cecilias," Fuli quickly adjusted his mindset and waved his hand. "Don't take them for fools. Middle-aged men know very well how to protect themselves. They all acted within the scope permitted by law."
Is it wrong for security personnel to stop unidentified outsiders from entering or leaving the community?
What's wrong with parking a car in an empty spot in the parking lot?
Old Zhuge driving recklessly? He's over 80, his wife passed away early, and he was just looking for a chance to get into the detention center for a few days of free meals.
As for Old Lu, if I draw a comic strip cursing capitalist running dogs for oppressing the common people and upload it to Weibo, what does that have to do with you OPBI? Can you blame me if you insist on dressing like that on the street in the middle of summer?
"The only trouble might be the WeChat group. If investigated, there might be suspicion of organized crime."
Saying this, Fuli looked at Bronya.
"Already handled," the little girl responded leisurely. "Bai Ze was held back by something unknown. No one can stop the great Metal Gear Bronya."
Bai Ze, the super AI of the Taixuan Front, was on par with Anti-Entropy's Prometheus and Schicksal's Ella.
Note: On par with Ella.
Currently, the latter was inside the aerial battleship and had conveniently done the job of pinning down the former.
Fuli added, "And don't forget Cousin Ah-Hua."
"That's right!" Kiana slapped her thigh. "At worst, we can ask the Class Monitor to plead for mercy!"
If you don't give face to the Hyperion, will you give face to the Celestial of Empyrea?
Thinking about it this way, Prisoner Li suddenly felt that not running away might actually be fine.
Isn't it just marrying my cousin!
When he has a flock of children in the future, he can tell his subordinates: If the Shenzhou high command hadn't personally drafted me back then, maybe I'd still be the King of Hyperion.
Actually, being a King isn't bad, but defecting to Shenzhou would open up a wider sky for me.
"Ah-Li! Ah-Li!"
"What Ah-Li! How many times have I said it, use the job title when working!"
"I told you not to hold the Pad and watch In the Name of People/Netherworld all the time. Stop messing around and look outside!"
Kiana pressed down on the back of his head. With a little force, that handsome face was smashed directly against the front windshield.
Fuli was just about to turn his head and scold her for staying in the Far East too long and learning the "insubordination" ways of the Japanese, when he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye and realized the situation on the distant horizon was wrong.
The earth was rising.
At first, it was a dull roar, as if a thousand furnaces deep in the earth's core had overturned simultaneously. Gravel rolled down from the ridges, coniferous forests tilted like drunkards, and startled flocks of birds were pressed back into the churning waves of soil by invisible giant hands before they could rush into the sky.
The earth was no longer a docile support; it woke violently from its slumber. Its spine arched up section by section, throwing mountains, rivers, and human boundaries into the void.
The earth's crust tore open a rift on the national border line. The reinforced concrete boundary markers were like fragile building blocks, shattering and flying under the brute force of the twisted rock strata, as if the entire space was being kneaded and reshaped by the palm of a god.
Looking up at this scene steaming with a primordial aura, a few words slowly squeezed out of Fuli's throat: "Divine Equipment · Rex Lapis Seat, Situ Qinghong!"
Even though the earth surged and arched its spine, the earth-shaking shockwaves did not affect the Hyperion group just a few miles away.
To create such a horrifying miracle within Shenzhou, it could only be the Earth Official Emperor, Situ Qinghong, who "governs the Three Realms, Ten Directions, and Nine Earths, masters the Five Mountains, Eight Poles, and Four Dimensions, and breathes Yin and Yang"!
What? Didn't they say the Honkai side couldn't be exposed to civilians?
First, this was an extremely remote border area with basically no normal people around. Second, rules were always used to bind subordinates. Have you ever seen a leader take that stuff seriously?
Someone held Fuli's hesitating hand.
He turned his head and met Kiana's sea-like eyes.
"Shall we fuse again?"
As long as they performed the Metamoran Fusion Dance again to summon Fuli-Kaslana, with S-Rank power, blasting through the uplifted Mountains of Madness would be effortless.
Regarding this proposal, Fuli, who always acted decisively, rarely hesitated for a moment.
For some unknown reason, after the first time, he inexplicably didn't want to fuse with Kiana again.
It was as if, after using it a few more times, he would—anyway, he couldn't explain it clearly.
The problem was that in the current situation, accelerating the escape was the kingly way.
So, even though he didn't want to blow this matter up from the bottom of his heart, the boy still held Kiana's hand back.
"Okay, come—"
BOOM!
An explosion resounding through heaven and earth interrupted the second half of his sentence.
The beam of light that descended suddenly wasn't brilliant; instead, it was like solidified ink-blue thunder, piercing the firmament with a silence that blasphemed the gods.
The moment it struck the newborn mountain range, a silence of one-trillionth of a second swallowed all sound, followed by the arrival of monstrous annihilation.
The blue-black basalt rock layers of the ridge vaporized like cheap wax blocks, revealing the molten gold-like magma organs flowing inside.
The shockwave only caught up after the matter annihilation, violently tearing at the mountain's wound.
The plowed trajectory left a perfect hole with a diameter of a hundred meters. The walls of the hole were smooth as mirrors, flowing with solidified blue-purple enamel.
"It's Genesis!"
As a member of the Hyperion, Kiana could naturally recognize the essence of the bombardment that pierced the mountain range.
That's right! At the critical moment, Mei and Kallen, who had been on standby outside, made their move!
They used the Genesis demonic cannon at 20% power to chisel through the mountain range, creating an escape route for the group!
"Now! Rush through!"
"Accel World!"
Accompanying Fuli's loud cry, Bronya slammed on the accelerator.
The SUV's engine let out a tearing roar. The tires kicked up lava dust like a crimson comet tail. The front of the car suddenly jerked upward, and the entire vehicle tensed like an arrow on a full bow in the blinding stream of light, suddenly leaping up and rushing toward the hollow tunnel!
Kiana, with quick eyes and hands, tapped the palm-sized Clock of Miaocheng Law. The moment it was stimulated, this B-Rank defensive treasure that originally belonged to Yama-Raja diffused a layer of halo wrapping around the SUV, preventing it from being destroyed by high temperatures during the drive.
In the blink of an eye, the wheels landing on the hollow tunnel scraped out blue-purple electric sparks on the smooth mirror wall. The entire car was pressed firmly to the ground by inertia, the chassis scraping against the glazed rock layer as it slid forward. Escape was imminent!
"Charge, Duck!"
"Hahahaha!!!"
Fuli and Kiana laughed heartily. Even Bronya, who was usually expressionless, curled up the corners of her mouth.
They succeeded!
Just passing through the tunnel was Kazakhstan, leaving the jurisdiction of the Taixuan Front!
With Shenzhou's current style, they absolutely wouldn't actively provoke border conflicts with other countries, not to mention the five Central Asian countries that were considered semi-friendly neighbors.
They, victory—
"Don't even think about running!!!"
A tender shout suppressed all miscellaneous noises between heaven and earth.
A barefoot figure holding a pitch-black greatsword descended from the sky, vowing to cut the trio's vehicle in half!
It was Yunli!
Yunli, who had a black eye on her right eye from the Inch Heart fist technique!
She had been holding back a belly full of anger from the battle with the Schicksal trio earlier. Having finally found a chance to come out, she intended to vent it all on Fuli!
Bronya said urgently, "Idiot Kiana, Imaginary Shuttle!"
"I'm already doing it! But—"
"Useless! She carries a large-range anti-teleportation prop with her!"
Fuli thought to himself, This is bad.
There was absolutely no second person in the world who knew Yunli better than him. This girl not only deliberately stuck at the Critical Limit/Breaker level without promoting, but her entire body was covered in high-level armaments she forged herself!
The boy suddenly regretted it slightly. This little time was obviously not enough for him and Kiana to complete the fusion dance.
Was he really going to be captured back to be a live-in son-in-law?
"Heh heh, at a time like this, it should be this old man's turn to appear!"
At the critical juncture, an unexpected voice reached everyone's ears.
It was Dr. Zhou!
Standing on the mountaintop, he wiped his nose. His body, strengthened by the evolution potion, glowed with a bronze luster under the sun.
"Little Li, don't be afraid! Grandpa Zhou is here to save you!"
He leaped, pouncing toward Yunli in mid-air with a hearty smile.
"Doctor!!!"
The trio revealed looks of hope.
"In the way!"
Bang!
He was slapped away by "Old Iron" in the girl's palm, embedding his entire person into the mountain, knocking his sunglasses askew.
"Fuck!"
The expected development made the three little ones click their tongues simultaneously.
But you absolutely couldn't say Dr. Zhou's arrival was useless!
Because—
"Meow~~~"
A cat's meow followed closely behind.
"Kitty! Where is the kitty!"
The moment the sound rang out, Yunli, who had a fierce look just now, instantly stood down.
"Meow~"
Big Orange, who came here with Dr. Zhou, rubbed against her ankle. Its body, like a small gas canister, lay directly on her bare foot and stopped moving, seeming to want to use this method to buy time for Fuli.
Super effective!
"It's a kitty! Such a cute kitty! Huff huff~"
Li-Bao's heart was about to melt. She quickly leaned over to pick up Big Orange, burying her face in the fluff for a fierce inhale.
That's right, the Master Artisan girl whose temper was directly proportional to her looks had three hobbies in this life:
First, hunting magic swords;
Second, forging divine weapons;
And third, cute raccoon slaves (cats).
She even raised two at home, named Lili and Guoguo.
In the previous loop, Fuli had mocked her as a "childless cat lady" and unsurprisingly received a good 'lesson'.
With this delay, the screeching of the SUV became sharper and sharper, until finally, with a loud bang, the car body suddenly smashed through the end of the tunnel.
Blinding white light swallowed their vision head-on. The tires bit into solid ground again, kicking up the dust of a new world.
Kazakhstan, arrived!
Safe on base! It's a Hyperion victory!
"Crap!"
The sound of the vehicle landing also woke up Yunli, who was addicted to sniffing the cat.
"Despicable guy!"
She held Big Orange in one hand and pulled out "Old Iron" stuck in the ground with the other, wanting to cross the border line to chase them.
A figure stopped her.
"That's enough, Yunli."
The belated Situ Qinghong was also in ragged clothes; one could imagine what kind of battle she had just experienced.
Sighing, she turned around immediately, shrinking the ground to inches to arrive at the tunnel exit. She cupped her hands in salute to the stopped SUV below. "Truly, man proposes but heaven disposes. Congratulations to everyone on the Hyperion for a perfect conclusion."
"No, no, mainly thanks to everyone showing mercy."
Getting out of the car, Fuli returned the salute humbly while secretly urging Bronya to fix the car quickly.
After tossing and turning so much, and being a used SUV driven for years, it would be weird if the suspension didn't have problems.
Of course, even if there weren't issues, the boy would still be very humble.
Unofficial history records that Jing Ke was the first person to show you his privates with a look of disdain.
Back then, when Jing Ke failed to assassinate the King of Qin and was slashed and lost mobility.
Open-crotch pants were popular at the time, so Jing Ke sat on the ground, legs spread, showing his treasures to the King of Qin to mock him.
Then the guards entered and hacked Jing Ke to death.
This shows that even mockery should be done in moderation. Leave a way out, so it's easier to meet in the future.
"Hmph! Good thing you know I showed mercy!"
Yunli held the cat, fierce like a little tiger.
Fuli, on the contrary, showed a doting smile. "Yes, yes, I know, I know."
This reaction confused the girl. So this guy is not only a philanderer but also a masochist?
Situ Qinghong looked at the two of them thoughtfully, then suddenly said, "Lord Fuli, do you know the reason why we wanted to invite you to Yingtian Prefecture?"
"Isn't it just about the Genghis Khan Mausoleum!"
Kiana stuck her head out of the car window, then quickly shrank back to help Bronya.
The SUV engine buzzed to life, then died quickly three seconds later, causing Fuli immense embarrassment.
"Yes, and no."
Situ Qinghong smiled, ignoring the small movement.
She summoned a clear breeze to block the sight from third parties, then revealed everything about Fuli Yuanshi Tianzun and the divine position.
"This is the main reason we invited you. Although—"
Looking around, Situ Qinghong gave a low, bitter laugh. "Although many things happened by accident, please believe that our starting point was good."
"And even now, I still sincerely invite you to accompany me."
The girl wasn't lying. She genuinely thought it was best for Fuli to return to Shenzhou with her.
Not everyone knew that Fuli's talent was enough to reach the Star Creation Rank rivaling Finality in 6-8 years. In her eyes, that was a Sequence Rank picked up for free, literally ascending to the heavens in a single step!
The gale swept across the vast plain. Sand and dust spiraled into chaotic vortices in the low sky. The grass lay silently dormant in the flying earth mist, as if stripped of all shielding shells.
"Sequence Rank?"
Hearing this, Kiana exchanged a glance with the cat-peeking Bronya, and then they coincidentally looked at Fuli.
Having shared a bed—pah, having lived together day and night for over four months, they naturally knew how obsessed the boy was with this.
It had reached the level of obsession, of inner demons, a terrifying degree where he wouldn't even speak kindly to numerous Herrscher-level beautiful girls!
The girls were both worried and afraid. Worried that Fuli really couldn't withstand the temptation and chose to leave with them.
Afraid that once this link was lost, the sanctuary they had finally found (Hyperion) would immediately fall apart.
Despite this, they had no way to say words to stop him.
Thus, they could only widen their round eyes, pretending not to care, listening to the sound of their violent heartbeats while waiting for the answer.
Silence was tonight's Cambridge. The dead branches of trees snapped in the chaos, like the soft sound of shattering bones, immediately swallowed by the howling wind.
After a long time, Fuli finally let out a light chuckle.
"So, what is the price?" he asked back. "Ms. Chief of Staff, what is the price?"
Unconsciously touching her chest, Situ Qinghong whispered, "Self and lifespan limit will be eroded by the divinity corresponding to the priesthood, and lifespan cannot be extended by external means."
The girl raised her voice again. "But this depends on compatibility! If it's you, living peacefully for seventy or eighty years is absolutely—"
"I'm not talking about that." Fuli waved his hand to interrupt her. "I don't care about lifespan. But if I recall correctly, the power granted by the Heavenly Court priesthood can only be perfectly displayed within the territory of the Taixuan Front—within Shenzhou and the Six Xianzhou Ships, right?"
"...Correct."
This was the fundamental reason why the Taixuan Front had a lower presence in the world compared to Schicksal and Anti-Entropy, which were also super-large organizations.
Even if they could use techniques like "All under heaven is the King's land" to expand, once they left the territory designated by the Taixuan Front, the combat power of the priest would drop by at least half to a full rank.
This was also the reason Situ Qinghong didn't chase them out. Once an S-Rank like her was downgraded to Critical Limit, it was uncertain who would beat whom between her and Fuli.
An A-Rank Breaker was basically on par with Critical Limit. In battles of the same level, our protagonist had never been defeated once.
"So, please allow me to refuse this generous gift." The boy smiled and said, "I still want to become a Sequence Rank that won't be arbitrarily stripped away and won't be limited by the environment."
He was definitely going to seek revenge on the Herrscher of Dominance. If she hid abroad and refused to come in, would he have to go out and then be defeated by her (an S-Rank Breaker) again for a grand ultimate humiliation?
Furthermore, if he really took over the divine position, whether these people in Shenzhou would let him leave the border was another matter.
"Is that so..."
Seeing that the other party's mind was made up, Situ Qinghong sighed.
"Of course, that's just for now." Fuli changed the subject. "If one day in the future I really feel that leveling up is hopeless, maybe I'll come begging at your door shamelessly."
Leave a line in life, so we can meet happily later.
Words shouldn't be said too absolutely; otherwise, it's leaving no way out for oneself.
"We welcome your Excellency's arrival at any time."
The girl nodded, turned, and left.
"Bleh bleh bleh!"
Yunli stuck her tongue out at him, holding Big Orange and following closely behind.
The mountain range that had risen thousands of meters instantly flattened under the power of the Rex Lapis Seat. The grassland was endless, as if nothing had happened just now.
"Divine Equipment is really useful."
Retracting his gaze from their backs, Fuli turned around. "Let's go too."
"The car can't move."
Bronya, who breathed a sigh of relief, returned to her usual expressionless tone, but the small hand gripping the corner of his clothes tightened.
The boy patted her little head. "Use your invincible Project Bunny to think of a way!"
"It's not that problem."
Kiana kicked the tire gloomily. "The car is out of gas."
Fuli looked around. Rugged rocks, withered thorns, cracked wasteland stretching endlessly. The wind scraped past his ears carrying gravel.
"No way! I can't even find a tire track in this damn place, where am I supposed to get gasoline?" He roared at the sky, "Old Zhang has misled me!"
Before his voice fell, a hand steadily carrying a jerry can suddenly poked out silently from the shadow of the rock beside Fuli.
The trio's pupils shrank, and they turned their heads in unison.
From behind the rock, Dr. Zhou's hunchbacked figure leisurely turned out.
"Heh, this old man thought of everything, didn't I?"
With gray messy hair blown into a bird's nest by the wind, the corners of his mouth cracked into a sly arc.
Some time later, on the Hyperion—
Seeing the three successfully leave the border, Mei also breathed a sigh of relief.
Launching Genesis at the Shenzhou border faced immense risk, but the situation was urgent, and she couldn't consider that much.
Mei had just sorted out her thoughts and was about to leave to welcome the triumphant heroes.
Kallen silently leaned half her body down from the ceiling, wearing a triumphant look of "I made big news."
"We just unexpectedly made a small fortune!"
"?"
Mei's movement paused. She lifted her face, looking at the inverted Kallen, silently projecting a question mark.
The Saintess didn't waste words and snapped her fingers crisply.
A faint light lit up, and an immersive virtual video screen instantly floated in front of Mei.
The image was exactly the hilarious MVP settlement scene in the SUV. The trio, having successfully ended the Kanas incident, were obviously still immersed in a huge sense of accomplishment, excited to the point of forgetting themselves.
Fuli had one hand on the steering wheel, but his head was like an out-of-control rattle drum, swinging wildly left and right with extreme rhythm. He seemed to be muttering something, humming some out-of-tune melody.
Kiana was almost bouncing in her seat, arms raised high above her head waving indiscriminately, her two iconic silver-white twintails dancing a crazy head-banging dance in the air.
Bronya seemed a bit more restrained by comparison, but on that small face usually lacking expression, the corners of her mouth were suspiciously curling up in an extremely subtle arc.
Most fatally, her entire shoulders and petite upper body were swaying left and right following the rhythm. The frequency was precise, like a humanoid metronome. This serious, ghost-like twitching was even more magical!
The movements of the three had their own characteristics yet were strangely synchronized to some weird rhythm. Coupled with the limitations of the car cabin space, the screen was filled with shaking figures, revealing a natural absurdity amidst the chaos.
Kallen was laughing heartily on the side. "See that! Just this posture! I made a prompt decision, grabbed the classic 'What Is Love' BGM from the Jim Carrey trio, edited the rhythm sync points a bit, and posted it. Now the view count has broken the million mark!"
Colorful bullet comments scrolled frantically at the edge of the virtual screen, like a waterfall torrent.
LMAO! What is this large-scale atavism scene?
Human Bewildering Behavior Awards
Multi-Player-Sport
Cold knowledge: Everyone in front of the screen doesn't need to shake along
Mei looked at the three magical swaying figures on the screen, then at the overwhelming bullet comments. She couldn't help but take a deep breath, her slender eyebrows raising high. "How much can we earn?"
"Not much yet, the creative incentive on Bilibili has been slashed hard." Kallen restrained her movements and probed tentatively, "How about... I post it to other websites to see?"
Mei was silent.
She watched Fuli's wild head-banging, Kiana's nearly manic swaying, and Bronya's cute yet precise mechanical dance shake.
The few seconds seemed to be stretched out.
Finally, she slowly spat out a word, clear, firm, even carrying a sense of resignation like smashing a cracked pot:
"Post!"
——— Volume IV: The Longevity Heaven Between Sky and Lake · End