Chapter 38: See? I Told You Ten Seconds Was Enough, Right?
Ten seconds, is that enough?
Are you talking nonsense?
When she heard Jiang Qiao say this, not only Kiana and Mei but even Elysia, the original owner of the body, couldn't help but think this.
Although it was very rude, but...
That was also her body, right?
Although she couldn't understand the meaning behind Jiang Qiao's transformation and that manta ray, and even though it was really frying her CPU,
How was Jiang Qiao going to stop Cocolia's conspiracy?
Not to mention ten seconds. Based on Elysia's knowledge of her body, not only could she not stop those programs, even if she could, considering that Cocolia had placed about a dozen Honkai energy reactors of various sizes all over Nagazora City, even if she could get there and stop one reactor on the spot, it would take at least an hour just to travel to them, right?
What's more, she had to solve those Honkai energy reactors within ten seconds and save Nagazora City from Cocolia's conspiracy.
Elysia understood Jiang Qiao's desire to show off in front of the girls.
But it was obviously not the time for that, right?
She really wanted to persuade Jiang Qiao to leave quickly. If she could survive this, she could let him show off in front of her, and she would just smile and watch him, even if it was for a day or a week, it wouldn't be a problem.
But unfortunately, she didn't have the opportunity to do that.
Because the countdown on the central control room's screen, as well as Jiang Qiao's words, had entered the ten-second countdown.
Nine seconds.
As Kiana, Mei, and Elysia watched with unease, the pink girl, who had spoken so boldly, raised her hand.
Eight seconds.
In their shocked eyes, a bow made of crystal, extremely dazzling, appeared in Jiang Qiao's hand.
If the bow had a name, he would probably give it—[Domain of Ego: Flawless Return].
Seven seconds.
The crystal bow completely materialized.
But looking at the crystal bow in Jiang Qiao's hand, Kiana and Mei, while thinking that it was very beautiful, were confused on whether something as fragile yet beautiful as crystal could actually be used as a bow.
Of course, a more important question was, how did she create this crystal bow out of thin air?
Elysia was a bit dumbfounded as she watched.
Possessing extremely refined Honkai energy control techniques, she also possessed the ability to create objects. But her limit was creating crystal arrows, that was, the ammunition for her pink electromagnetic catapult bow, which was customized by Fire Moth's weapon development department.
As for creating a bow, although she had thought about it,
It was undoubtedly a failure.
Even if Honkai energy was used to strengthen it, a bow and an arrow were completely different concepts.
The power that a bow had to endure was a thousand or a hundred times that of an arrow.
Unless the bow wasn't meant to be used to shoot!
Unfortunately,
Jiang Qiao could achieve such a thing.
As an awakened Herrscher of Origin, her Honkai energy application techniques, as well as those that Elysia had taught her at the start, had, the moment she had awakened, jumped to a level that could destroy Elysia in an instant.
Whether it was giving the bow enough strength to withstand any arrow or to use the bow as a "staff" to fire the arrow, it was a piece of cake for her.
Six seconds.
Elysia watched as Jiang Qiao raised her bow, with an extremely amateurish stance, and with her deep knowledge from a certain dojo in Shenzhou, she had to forcefully restrain her urge to correct his stance. Then, in the fifth second, she used a whole second to adjust the hair near her ear.
She used a whole second to adjust her hair?!
Although she had thought from the start that Jiang Qiao was showing off, seeing this scene, Elysia couldn't help but scream extremely unladylike in her heart.
That feeling of having to maintain elegance while having your eyebrows burned off, it's so familiar!
—It was indeed very familiar because Elysia herself fought like that.
And Jiang Qiao was even more excessive than her. With less than ten seconds left, she even squeezed out one second to maintain [Elysia]'s habits.
Five seconds.
Jiang Qiao placed her slender index finger on the bowstring. The wind that came from nowhere blew the hair on her cheek… wait, where did this wind come from? This was underground?
Looking closely, she noticed that it was the manta ray on the side who was flapping its wings very diligently, and it seemed like it was trying its best.
This scene almost made the three of them faint on the spot.
Wait, you summoned that Honkai beast just so it could fan you?
Four seconds.
As the three of them held their breath, Jiang Qiao slowly pulled back the bowstring.
The process was extremely long, as if she wasn't pulling the bowstring, but rather, a century.
Three seconds. The direction of the bow gradually moved towards the sky.
This operation dumbfounded the three of them again.
They also looked up.
It was the ceiling!
According to the specifications of the underground base, the underground base was at least several dozen meters deep below the ME Corp building.
And above that, there was also the ME Corp building, which was a hundred meters tall.
Not to mention, the base itself also had various defensive layers such as anti-impact ones.
If Cocolia was still there, seeing this scene, she would probably have immediately started to mock them—
Wait, are you really going to shoot through the ceiling?
Not to mention that small arrow.
Even if you dropped a Honkai energy fission bomb from above, it wouldn't do any good! Not to mention that it was being shot upwards! Don't you understand gravity?
Two seconds.
The bowstring was pulled back to its maximum, and a smile appeared on the girl's lips.
Before the final 0.5 seconds of the countdown timer.
She released the index finger that was pinching the bowstring.
At that moment, the arrow that had left the string was like a wild horse that had been released from its reins—
It shot directly upwards!
And the moment that arrow was fired, the large Honkai energy reactor, which had been filled with ominous purple light, instantly went out!
In Elysia, Kiana, and Mei's stunned gazes,
The pink arrow completely ignored the layers of soil and protective layers.
From their view, it quickly pierced through the entire underground base, the entire ME Corp building, and then into the sky.
Then, after reaching the predetermined location, the arrow exploded directly.
Through the thick layers of soil, Jiang Qiao's divine pink eyes were reflected in the arrow that had left the string.
—The authority of Origin began to turn at this moment.
It was as if the night sky of Nagazora City had been lit up.
The pedestrians on the streets, looking at this scene, all stopped and marveled.
There were even children, holding an adult's hand, saying ignorantly:
"Mommy, a shooting star!"
As the light barrier rapidly covered the area, all of the large and small Honkai energy reactors that were placed in various places in Nagazora City all turned off with a whoosh at the moment of their imminent explosion, becoming dim and dull.
And after completing all of this, Jiang Qiao slowly lowered the bow in her hand.
The crystal transformed into starlight and disappeared, and her clothes, which belonged to the Herrscher of Origin, also returned to normal.
And the one who had started this change, the pink girl playfully blinked her eyes. Her voice, which held a smile, rang out in the ears of the three:
"See? I told you ten seconds was enough, right?"