Hello, Arknights

It was the customer named Waifan who often came to the Yuanfang Coffee Shop. Ling Dengxian keenly noticed something was wrong.

She often comes to the store because she likes the coffee and atmosphere here. But usually at this time, she would have been sitting in seat 5 in the store, sitting in front of the computer to complete an afternoon of work under the gaze of Ling Dengxian and A'ran. But today they were not in the store. At Lorna's suggestion, they came to this remote museum without notifying anyone in advance. And the other party still happened to appear here.

Today is not a day off.

The two men looked at each other, and Ling Dengxian was the first to look away. The other party had no ill intentions, but he could not withstand the pressure brought by that calm gaze.

This influence triggered his body functions, and the blood flow rate quietly increased a lot. Some muscles that were originally in a relaxed state entered a state of combat readiness without him even realizing it.

The lights in the hall were dim, and he seemed to be back in that dangerous and gloomy valley, but the opponent he was on guard against was far inferior to the monster he had faced.

If she wanted to, I would die a miserable death.

The time of staring at each other was very brief, but Ah Ran was still keenly aware of it. Lorna was still observing carefully. She pinched the corner of Ling Dengxian's clothes and said, "... Ling Dengxian, is it the Ms. Vaifan?"

"Ah Ran?" Ling Dengxian looked at her, and she shook her head: "It's okay, she... is the friend I mentioned."

Ling Dengxian immediately realized that this was related to Ah Ran's secret. After a moment of silence, he said, "It's okay, right?"

"I have no idea."

"Ashe, you... let's talk." The gray-haired Vaifan spoke, and almost at the moment he heard her speak, Ling Dengxian took a step forward and made a defensive preparation.

But the other party did not move. Her eyes just paused on him, nodded to him, and then continued to look at A'ran.

Ah Ran's expression was covered by her bangs, so Ling Dengxian couldn't see it clearly. He only heard her take a small breath, raised her fair face and gave him a forced smile: "I'll go...don't worry."

"Hey, what's going on?" Ling Dengxian didn't have time to respond to Lorna who had come to her senses. He looked at Carters walking towards Waifan step by step with struggle in his eyes, but as soon as he took another step, he was suffocated by Waifan's gaze.

"Hmm? What's going on? A'ran, do you know her? Where are you going?" Ling Dengxian was blown by a strong wind. The girl from Liberi brushed past his shoulder, caught up with the white Carters, pulled her behind him, and glared at Vayfan:

"You are Ms. Saria? What are you going to do to Aran?!"

Saria looked at the girl from Liberi who had similar hair color to her with some surprise, and shook her head slightly: "I just want to talk to her, there is no other intention."

"Sister Lorna..." A'ran patted the girl's shoulder, indicating that it was okay, and continued to walk towards Saria.

"Aran?" Carters paused, a little unsteadily, "It's okay, I... won't..."

"Ashe?" Saria saw the blue veins bulging on the fair skin under her neck and black lines beginning to appear on her cheeks. Her eyes fixed and her heart suddenly tightened.

"Deal with it... pierce it, tear it apart... I, I don't want to!!" Ah Ran fell to her knees as if she was hit by a heavy object that appeared out of nowhere. Black liquid suddenly spurted out of her mouth, and the clothes that were similar in color to her hair were stained with black marks.

The three of them were shocked at the same time and almost ran towards the fallen A'ran at the same time. At the same time, the communication terminal on Saria's body also screamed like crazy.

"Why didn't she answer? Asshole!"

"The experimental subject's final stage of evolution was destroyed for unknown reasons. Now that body will destroy everything around it! Even...

"Tobrand is under our feet!" Ibus's tiger pupils fluctuated violently. He did not expect that this experiment would have such a problem. Before coming to Tobrand, everything was under the control of the scepter and the institute.

"Black-hearted tiger! Send us the coordinates of the experimental subject!" Gu Fan jumped from the rooftop of a high-rise building with a big sword on his back and landed steadily on another platform.

"The coordinates, the coordinates were destroyed by the Eye! The location of the last launch... is in the museum!"

"Got it!" Norsa turned around and ran straight to the destination. "Fortunately, due to the natural disaster warning, there are very few pedestrians on the street, so we can reduce the number of people as much as possible-"

"No difference!"

"what?!"

"Once the Eye is freed, even if you, me and this city are destroyed here together, that would be the best outcome!"

"Explain it clearly, you bastard!!"

As an invisible stance suddenly expanded, even the scepter and the communication terminal lost their ability to operate.

"..." Norsa wanted to curse, but she held it back. After all, when she was tricked, she had already imagined a worse situation.

Meanwhile, at the museum, the Scepter and the Institute's B-7 experimental subject, formerly known as Ashe and now called A'ran, was extremely unstable. Several mouthfuls of black liquid were spurted out, and she looked extremely tragic. Just as Saria reached out to check on her condition, her pupils suddenly shrank. Almost before she could react, she pushed away Lorna and Ling Dengxian with one hand, and was instantly knocked away by an invisible force!

"Ahem...sa...what's going on?!" Ling Dengxian got some scrapes on the ground, but was not accidentally injured.

"You, leave immediately!" In the dim light, a figure walked out from the rising smoke and dust, and her torn coat was thrown away. Ling Dengxian vaguely saw some white substance crawling onto her skin.

"immediately!!"

Ling Dengxian looked at Ah Ran who was struggling in pain and said anxiously: "But Ah Ran -"

"Before you do anything, she will kill you first." Lorna was completely stunned, looking at the drastic changes in front of her and seemed a little confused.

"Take her away!" Along with the words, the ceiling of the museum also fell. There was no warning, as if it was cut off in an instant. However, before it could hit the ground, it was shattered by Vaiven's punch.

Ling Dengxian no longer hesitated. He picked up Lorna and fled to the open area across the rubble.

"We can't just leave her alone!" Ling Dengxian went straight to the storage room, "Lorna, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. What are you going to do?" Lorna signaled him to put her down.

"...I am ashamed of my hesitation." Ling Dengxian did not put her down, "I will send you back to Ms. Wesson first."

"Hey! Don't mess around!"

"It's not your turn to criticize me." Ling Dengxian quickened his pace, leaving the cold wind behind him. His blood was getting heavier, but his body was getting lighter.

"I hope I haven't backed down...it's nothing in the first place..."

Hesitation or something... bring out that damn stubbornness of yours!

He made up his mind. He knew almost nothing about this matter, but this time, even if it was unreasonable and beyond his ability, he would stand in front of A'ran.