Before anyone knew it, night had fallen outside.
The villa was now illuminated by indoor lighting, making it seem even brighter than during the day.
The second floor of the villa was quite noisy.
There were strange shrieking sounds, abnormal explosion sounds, crackling sounds like electric arcs sparking, sounds resembling beam weapon fire, and machine gun sounds.
To put it simply, it sounded as if some sci-fi blockbuster was being played inside the house, with humans engaged in brutal combat against an army of monsters on the battlefield.
"Phew—"
Saori, having finished watching the video she had edited and compiled once again, still felt her heart racing intensely.
The third video she was currently re-editing was mainly not from this protagonist's perspective.
It was actually an omniscient perspective centered around him. However, the camera could zoom in and out. When Black Cat pulled the camera back, she could see more of the battle scenes around him, then capture and extract these scenes.
Otherwise, with an omniscient perspective centered on one person, where he was always in the center of the screen, watching continuously would eventually become tiresome. She needed to switch to other scenes to highlight the grand scale and brutality of the battlefield.
Hmm?
Her phone was vibrating again. Saori picked it up and saw it was a text message from her sister who had said she was getting married and ran off abroad.
Not only had she sent a large number of text messages, but she had also made many phone calls. However, Saori was focused on creating secondary content for the video and hadn't responded.
Initially, she really thought her sister had married someone she liked, but later she realized something was off.
Her sister had never introduced any boyfriend to her, and if there really was one, it would be impossible not to introduce him.
The truth was that her sister had used this excuse to escape their parents' marriage pressure and run off abroad.
Now, her sister was frantically making her phone vibrate, which was naturally Saori asking for help.
Her sister was an extremely intelligent person. Having her help with the commercial operation of this video would definitely generate more buzz, and she could also withstand pressure from others who saw the business opportunity.
Of course, Saori didn't plan to tell her sister about Black Cat's situation, and although her sister was curious, as long as Saori didn't say anything, her sister wouldn't force it.
However, she would probably frantically urge for updates on this side.
Regarding asking her sister for help, Saori had also discussed it with Black Cat and gotten her consent.
Opening the latest message, the information on it made Saori pause. Her sister said she would return tomorrow.
Huh?
Just one video had lured back this sister who had abandoned her for quite some time?
Well then, time to prepare to upload the third short video.
After uploading, she immediately saw the number of viewers currently watching this video rapidly increasing, and the comment section began to buzz with activity.
So Saori also turned off the bullet comments, otherwise the screen would be filled with a large amount of flying text.
"Black Cat, what's wrong?"
Black Cat, who had already opened her eyes, had furrowed brows that made Saori somewhat nervous. Could it be that the other party's live stream had gone offline?
This would mean possibly—
"There's a problem on Asuna's side."
Black Cat simply explained the situation.
If Asuna hadn't given this warning, when Black Cat discovered that there was a strange rotating knob next to the cross-world invitation button, she might have mischievously turned it.
And Asuna, who had accidentally touched this, experienced a significant time difference with their world.
Perhaps after a day passed on their side, a year would have passed on Asuna's side.
Asuna had sent them a message, and their reply after seeing it might seem like a few minutes to them, but Asuna's side probably waited several days before receiving this message.
So, this rotating knob adjusted the value to 1, meaning that after a real day, she would be able to synchronize with Asuna's side in normal perceived time?
Or was this a continuous acceleration?
Black Cat was more inclined toward the former—it should return to normal after one day.
If it were continuous, after several months on this side, Asuna would have already died of old age on her side.
Moreover, according to Asuna's information, this rotating knob was gradually turning back, like a spring automatically returning.
After a month passed on her side, the rotation returned exactly about one-twelfth of a full circle.
So, downloading the new segment, she still downloaded to his current latest live stream time point, and also saw the latest live stream footage. He had put on power armor?
It looked much safer, so Black Cat immediately returned her consciousness to reality.
"Saori!"
She called Saori to watch the newly downloaded half-hour content together. Black Cat didn't know this content either—she hadn't been sneaking peeks at the live stream, but wanted to watch it simultaneously with Saori.
She would only go online occasionally to confirm that the stream was still active and that he was still alive, then focus her attention on reality, helping Saori process the videos.
It was another heart-racing battle scene, and this unit's personnel had already been reduced to just over a hundred people.
Now, with no retreat possible, because they had completely charged into the depths of the enemy position, surrounded by bugs on all sides.
"Exterminatus?"
"Very ominous words."
From the dialogue, they also mentioned possibly abandoning this planet, which indicated this was some very dangerous command...
Saori and Black Cat exchanged glances, seeming to both understand that their speculations were consistent.
That was to destroy this planet!
Since they might have to abandon this planet, but how could they easily hand it over? The answer was naturally mutual destruction.
Since they couldn't defend it, they would rather destroy the planet than give it to the bugs.
Even more terrifying was that there might be no rescue for the people still alive, no escape before destroying the planet, but direct martyrdom!
The destruction of a planet—how many people would be buried with it?
Just thinking about it was spine-chilling.
As a certain scene appeared, both of them became somewhat frightened. It was the steel city where he had been before, the place that was hit by the fortress.
Now, this place was truly like hell.
Correction—it was hell, not as a metaphor, but as a noun.
A crack here had obviously opened to the hell world, and those spine-tingling hell devils and demons were invading en masse.
Those corpses that hadn't been burned to ash and were relatively intact were also crawling up from the lava-like ground one by one.
Some had transformed into creatures that felt like Cthulhu-style monsters, while others looked like more traditional demonic figures.
Hell's army had also begun eroding this world.
With such a worse situation, the possibility that the so-called Exterminatus meant destroying the planet seemed even higher.
However, more crucial plot developments came.
What was this Astartes unit's mission to deliver?
And he was the recipient?
Speaking of which, the name he reported seemed somewhat familiar.
"Ah, Lance Plain, isn't this a combination of the male protagonist Lance and female protagonist Sill Plain from the 'Lance' game series?"
Saori said with sudden realization.
"Uh..."
Black Cat was stunned, and now she understood why it felt so familiar.
She could be certain this guy also knew about this game and had taken these two names to create his own name.
Then, both of them became tense because the cargo was about to be unboxed.
What would it be?
As the safe-like box opened, something flew out first, startling both of them.
It was a skull that seemed to have been mechanically modified.
Subsequently, they learned this was something like a drone, just with this horrifying appearance. But the skull exterior seemed to be made of genuine material—a human skull.
This thing also had some communication message, a message from the sender, and could even project holograms to introduce the delivered product.
And the product—a set of power armor!
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