Otto and Jackal's Mutual Approach

Nobody knew how ecstatic Jackal was when, filled with resentment, she walked to the edge of the crater formed by the explosion, ignoring the mess and her somewhat awkward posture, using her hands and feet.

From afar, she saw a girl lying motionless in the center of the radial crater.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Jackal couldn't help but laugh heartily, feeling that all the ups and downs she had encountered in these short two days, as well as the humiliation, frustration, and annoyance she had received, had all received their final reward.

Fairly speaking, Jackal was a very selfish person, but she was not one to let her personal feelings interfere with business…

Downstream in the original timeline, Jackal also madly coveted the Herrscher of the Void and once stuffed Kiana into her laboratory for research.

But unexpectedly, Kiana turned the tables, took advantage of the opportunity to steal a lot of information, and completely destroyed the Stigmata experiment she had carefully prepared for a long time in Arc City.

With her personality, she had every reason to resent and retaliate against Kiana.

But in the attack on Schicksal's North African base that followed the Arc City incident, after once again capturing the whereabouts of the Herrscher of the Void, she did not hesitate at all, but immediately reported her whereabouts to Kevin and asked him to decide.

She herself did not take any unauthorized action from beginning to end.

To be sure, her personality has many flaws: arrogant, conceited, disdainful of others, contemptuous of human life…

But again, who among those who can join World Serpent doesn't have some major flaws?

At least, everyone in World Serpent, including Kevin, would not think that Jackal was an unqualified cadre –

Of course, even within World Serpent, she was not very popular…

And now, everything Jackal did in Manila was based on the same logic:

From her personal point of view, she did indeed hate, resent, despise, and envy Lin Wei, and wanted to teach him a profound lesson as a price for his offense to her and to World Serpent.

But from the perspective of the meaning represented by the identity of "Jackal," she sincerely believed that putting Lin Wei and Yuno, two extremely special samples, on the experimental table for careful study would definitely give her Stigmata Project new inspiration and take a big leap forward!

In Jackal's view, all of this was to achieve the organization's mission and aspirations!

And the price to be paid was just a few lives, what was there to mention?

Over the years, the number of people who have died at her hands is countless!

As for "unique samples"?

She sneered at this even more. The rarer the unique sample, the more valuable it is for research!

In Jackal's view, her demands were simply reasonable!

Precisely because of this, she was seriously dissatisfied with Gray Serpent's "repeated obstruction" before, thinking that he was too afraid of the Key of Erosion and cowardly, so he did not dare to attack Lin Wei.

But even with such dissatisfaction, she just suppressed her dissatisfaction in her heart and did not take any action until she got Gray Serpent's nod of approval.

After all, Jackal was always the Jackal of World Serpent, the loyal and even fanatical Jackal…

Although her initial target was only Lin Wei, when she realized the existence of "Yuno," she naturally and logically included her in her plan.

Then, it was almost all ruined by that obviously premeditated bombardment…

The reason why Jackal was so unwilling to give up and rushed to this wreckage that was still radiating heat was because she was unwilling. She wanted to see with her own eyes whether that rare unique sample would be turned to ashes in that almost sweeping energy torrent.

But fortunately, after Jackal arrived here, she saw "Yuno" lying at the bottom of the crater with her own eyes, and her body was roughly intact. This was enough to make Jackal overjoyed.

As for whether she was dead or alive, she didn't care for the time being.

At this moment, she just wanted to harvest her other prey as soon as possible, and then send her and Lin Wei together into her real laboratory!

"Soon, it will be soon!"

Thinking so, Jackal stepped on the still hot rubble and approached the "sleeping" girl in the distance with some excitement.

"When the Sovereign returns to the throne from outside the world, I will definitely be able to present Him with the most generous gifts!"

Jackal was extremely looking forward to this!

......

"Being bombarded by my own subordinates with a battleship's main cannon… Hehe, am I, the Overseer of Schicksal, too miserable?"

Otto, hiding in "Yuno's" body, mocked himself with a smile.

Contrary to Jackal's ups and downs, Otto was lying there with confidence, leisurely counting how many stones had fallen on him.

When that energy torrent that split the sky fell on the ground where he was, Otto knew that everything was settled.

Either, the woman behind the microphone who thought she was in control of everything would be blasted to ashes along with this building by the main cannon of the Schicksal battleship. Or, she would survive the bombardment by luck.

And after that woman luckily survived, whether she would flee in a hurry or unwillingly return to this place to find "Yuno" – that is, himself. Otto didn't even bother to consider this simple question.

The reason was very simple: if she looked for "Yuno," then he didn't need to do anything more, just wait quietly.

And if she was ready to escape…

"Bianka seeing such a bright signal flare, she would probably rush to meet me immediately, right? Hehe, I don't need to do anything unnecessary…"

Otto laughed to himself.

With Durandal's speed, the people of World Serpent could not escape. Otto was full of confidence in this.

Otto learned from his many past mistakes, where he clearly had the advantage, but because he opened the champagne too early, he ended up losing everything.

This time he decided to remain calm, and before everything was completely settled, he would play the play to the last second.

Therefore, compared to Jackal's ups and downs and Lin Wei's holding his breath, Otto himself seemed to be in control, like a fisherman about to reel in his net, looking forward to it, and calm.

"Aren't you really worried that the people of World Serpent will turn to ashes along with those Deadmen and Honkai beasts?"

Void Archives asked somewhat speechlessly. It felt that Otto's current appearance of being in control and even somewhat bored looked a little hateful.

"How could that be? My friend…"

Otto was really not worried, and said with a smile,

"If that mysterious World Serpent can't even withstand such a mere bombardment, then I can only say that I overestimated them. I won't get what I want from such a vulnerable opponent."

Therefore, it is better to forget this possibility and expect them to walk in front of him, or be brought in front of him by Durandal…

It has to be said that Otto's way of thinking is indeed difficult for ordinary people to understand.

"Speaking of which, I wonder if that respectable Valkyrie captain can escape the aftermath of the explosion?"

Otto thought of Jell, who was thrown out forcefully by "Yuno" at the last moment. If she died here, he would feel a little regretful, and sighed slightly.

"She really doesn't care about the consequences…"

Of course, Otto's regret would not be much, nor would it last long. Like most of the things he had lost in these five hundred years, it was insignificant.

Just like he watched from beginning to end, without making any move to stop it…

Jell's plan was not told to anyone, but it was difficult to hide it from Otto – even though Otto did not receive relevant information reports from headquarters.

But it wasn't hard to guess.

After all, knowing that the other party would most likely set up a trap at the end of the clue, she still drove there without hesitation. People who can do this kind of thing are either impulsive hotheads who don't think before they act, or they have absolute confidence that they can break this trap.

As the captain of a Valkyrie squad, Jell was thoughtful and considerate, so she would naturally not be an impulsive hothead.

And she was just an ordinary A-rank Valkyrie captain, and did not have the power to break all obstacles – so she must have relied on something else.

As for what she relied on, Otto didn't know for a while, after all, there were many types of support that Schicksal HQ could provide her.

But Otto did not directly read the answer from her memory. He wanted to preserve this mystery and see if this ordinary A-rank Valkyrie could bring him a little surprise.

The result was indeed a small surprise. It didn't bring Otto too much unexpectedness, but the result was enough to make him smile wryly.

Precisely because of this, when he noticed that "Yuno's" virtual personality wanted to disobey his wishes again, he did not stop it, but let his virtual personality, like the real Yuno, send the senior who had taken good care of her away from death.

"Anna… will be sad…"

This was Yuno's blessing. She regarded Anna as her friend, and she also hoped that Jell would be regarded as another friend.

And this indulgence was Otto's small reward for Jell, because…

"Tsk… These people, one by one, how can they be so similar to Kallen?"

"Yuno" had been with Jell almost day and night during this period of time, which gave Otto ample time to observe.

On her, Otto saw many shadows of Kallen: gentle, caring, yet firm and resolute; diligently fulfilling her duties, yet regarding death as merely going home.

This made him feel gratified, and also a little emotional.

"If Kallen came back, she would probably like a junior like this…"

Then what would Kallen do?

Otto's thoughts began to wander. The distant memory that had long been blurred in his mind, the pretty figure with white hair, was still as clear as yesterday.

She would probably scold her severely for her recklessness, and then squat down and gently bandage her wounds.

"Ah… Five hundred years, time flies so fast…"

The more warm and touching the imagined picture was, the more empty and lost Otto's heart became.

"Soon, soon…"

Otto gently soothed his slightly throbbing heart.

In the Second Eruption more than ten years ago, he had faced the Will of the Honkai. At his request, It generously gave him a revelation and instilled countless complex information into his mind, which once made Otto's Soulium brain feel unbearable.

For more than ten years, Otto had been working to unravel that revelation and understand this information. Although the progress so far has been slow, it has been enough to allow him to gradually find the right direction.

"As long as I find the Second Divine Key, as long as the plan can be launched smoothly, everything will fall into place!"

Otto firmly believed this.

The Second Divine Key was the first key to starting his plan.

Only by obtaining it could he maximize the role of the other key in his hand – the Herrscher of the Void.

The significance was too great, and Otto did not want any mistakes in his plan.

And to obtain the Second Divine Key, since his own search plan of looking for a needle in a haystack was progressing slowly, it would be better to grab that deeply hidden World Serpent and directly knock out the answer from its mouth!

Originally, this matter was almost impossible, and Otto did not have much hope for it. But a year ago, the girl Fu Hua accidentally brought back from Nagazora City gave Otto a new choice.

Therefore, after a long period of observation, Otto keenly noticed the opportunity contained in a report from a Snow Lotus squad about the Manila incident, and thus formulated this plan accordingly.

Well… how should I put it?

World Serpent did indeed have many tricks, and made Otto suffer a small loss.

But overall it was still very smooth; even smoother than Otto himself had expected!

It was as if someone was helping him succeed in secret!

But, how is that possible? Otto scoffed.

Even if there really was, it must be Kallen in the dark generously helping himself!

"And now, it's finally time to harvest!"

Otto was also looking forward to this.

But what Otto didn't know was that the person who was about to meet him also had similar emotions.

He also didn't know that just a few hundred meters away, there was a guy in the "best audience seat", also looking forward to this "meeting of the century"…

And our respected Dr. Jackal was also completely unaware of this.

"Sand… Sand…"

"Creak, creak…"

The land that had been swept by the huge impact dust became loose and fluffy, making a rustling sound when stepped on. And from time to time, one would kick the hard blocks formed by the high temperature, making people walk on it with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

As she approached "Yuno," Jackal suddenly moved in her heart and stopped abruptly.

"You guys, go and collect this sample."

Jackal called the girl not far away with contempt, and sneered, commanding the several humanoid constructs she brought with her.

"The vitality of a fusion warrior is so tenacious, how can they die so easily? Be careful, don't capsize in the gutter!"

Jackal cautiously took out a few bottles of medicine and handed them over.

"Inject these potions into her body, even if she is pretending to be honest now, she will really be honest!"

The constructs silently carried out the order.

"?"

This scene made Otto a little confused.

With the keen senses of this Soulium body, he could naturally detect that the footsteps approaching him did not belong to humans, but to some kind of machine.

Precisely because of this, he was a little confused by Jackal's operation.

If you say she's careless, she seems quite cautious: I'm already so defenseless, and she's still standing far away from me, as if she's afraid of capsizing in the gutter.

But if you say she's cautious, it doesn't seem to be the case – no one would directly reveal their secrets as soon as they come up!

And aren't you bringing robots? Do you need to explain it so clearly to them?

You're afraid I won't hear it, aren't you?!

This contradiction made Otto instantly alert: No, she said this to me on purpose.

"She must still have other tricks up her sleeve, just waiting for 'Yuno' to be provoked by these words and then strike heavily!"

Otto suddenly realized, and exclaimed despicable,

"Tsk, it seems that I have to hide for a while longer!"

He decided to wait a little longer and see the situation before revealing his identity.

"?"

Otto was puzzled by Jackal, and a certain audience member in the distance was puzzled by Otto at this time.

"Why are you still lying there?"

In Lin Wei's impression, Otto should jump up and give Jackal a surprise, a huge shock…

This sudden preemptive strike is more in line with Overseer Otto's character.

But now, he was lying quietly on the ground, letting those constructs manipulate "Yuno's" body.

"Could it be… he was killed by his own people's artillery?"

If that was the case, then this ending would be too O. Henry-esque!

Lin Wei suddenly had this absurd thought, and then shook his head, because it was too outrageous.

"Otto should have discovered something, and decided to hold back for the time being, right?"

Lin Wei also made a decision similar to Otto's.

"…No, let's wait and see."

Lin Wei only had one chance. Only when Otto felt that he had the victory in his grasp and was in control of the overall situation, and his vigilance against the outside world was at its lowest, was Lin Wei's best time to strike!

Otherwise, with Otto's top-notch Soulium body, he would very likely perceive the danger and dodge the originally fatal bullet.

And he, had no second chance.

"Wait, wait a little longer…"

Lin Wei suppressed his somewhat restless heart, glanced at the screen, and saw that Stan's "work" was very effective, and he still had a little time.

But if Otto still didn't act next, then he also had to do something!

Lin Wei secretly made up his mind.