Boonie Bears: Another World Fantasy

Chapter 155: My whole life has been filled with anticipation

Deep city ruins, 5:47 AM

"Drip-drip-"

"Cough cough."

A small ball covered in dust emerged from the pile of rocks. As if sensing something, the half-armored Leyter armor kept warning it with its remaining electricity.

"Warning: Large-scale purple star energy reaction detected..."

A purple flame ignited on the distant sea, like a newly risen purple sun. It quickly overwhelmed the embers left by the golden antlers.

"I knew it, I knew it." Abu impatiently tore at the armor plate stuck in his neck while trying to find his remaining companions.

"Where are the others? We need to call them back!" It ran and jumped to the edge of the pit. The flat, rubble-covered "plaza" in front of it made the nearshore situation clear.

After the mushroom cloud dissipated, the sky tinged with an eerie crimson hue, and the scorching heat rising from the scorched earth distorted the air into ripples. Freed from the cargo ship's restraints, the fiery metal feet crushed the collapsed harbor, the seawater evaporating and boiling beneath them. Purple star rays erupted from the prismatic reactor on its face, melting even reinforced concrete in their wake. As Naya was carried into the bunker by Naling, the last beam of light swept across the spot where she had just stood—the Deer Clan cavalry company thirty meters away was instantly ignited, leaving only charred, humanoid silhouettes on the asphalt.

"Hey! Look at me!" Naling, ignoring her injured right arm, kept slapping her sister's pale cheeks. The shock of the explosion almost gave Naya a concussion; she was still dazed and her eyes were vacant.

Damn it, how did it turn out like this?

Na Ling was in agony, yet she couldn't find anyone to lean on at this moment. After removing the damaged shoulder armor from her right arm, Na Ling quickly bandaged it. Just then, she saw Su Luo rushing towards her through the jagged mound of earth.

"Everyone! Are you alright?!" Su Luo's shout gave the crowd, who were in a slump, a little bit of confidence.

Sharp, who was escorting Sulo, quickly arrived at Naya's side and helped her remove the deformed chest armor. However, as he began to clean the shards embedded in Naya's collarbone, Naya let out a hoarse gasp.

"Um..."

She grabbed Sharp's forearm, holding it tightly as if afraid he would leave.

This time, however, Sharp didn't hesitate as much as usual. He didn't even dare to look Naya in the eye, as if he was deliberately avoiding something.

The two exchanged a brief conversation, but Naling couldn't decipher its meaning. She only saw Naya shaking her head repeatedly at Sharp, clearly rejecting something.

Naling's suspicions grew stronger, but they were quickly dispelled by Sharp's request.

"Na Ling, take her away—"

Sharp removed the two feathers from Naya's waist, deciding to break free from this deep attachment with a force that wouldn't harm her.

Before Na Ling could even understand the situation, she heard a mournful cry coming through the rain.

From the direction of the fleet, a biplane helicopter was rapidly approaching, responding to Salta's distress call.

"Great!" Salta raised his signal flare and swung his arms rhythmically, making them look less like the Deer Clan. "Any later and it would be too late to evacuate."

"But what about Naling and Naya?" This joy didn't last long. Zhao Lin pointed at the Heavenly Fire and said, "That thing was sent by your military, right? Can it distinguish between enemies and friends?"

The tremors continued beneath their feet, and the group sat in silence in the rain…

Su Luo, who had been fiddling with something on the sidelines, finally took over the mess. She placed a crudely designed terminal on the rain-washed cement slab, and code flowed on the monitor.

"It can't tell who's who at all, or rather, it's specifically targeting us," Su Luo said, forcefully pushing her messy hair back, trying to brush away all her troubles.

"Ever since Genius Wei took over Skyfire, he has planted an instruction in Skyfire's central computer. This instruction is closely linked to his vital signs through remote binding. In other words, as soon as he dies, no matter who is controlling Skyfire, it will execute this command first."

"Damn it." Abu suddenly realized what had happened and remembered what the genius Wei had said before he committed suicide, and he was filled with remorse.

"Dr. Su, what is the content of that instruction?" Zhao Lin asked.

Su Luo pursed her lips, a hint of helplessness on her face. When her gaze inevitably turned to the two sisters tending to each other, Na Ling had already understood everything through the terminal screen in Su Luo's hand. She smiled wryly, already knowing what Su Luo was about to say.

"The order is... to immediately and indiscriminately annihilate all Deer Clan people on this planet."

As they talked, the tremors on the ground became more and more frequent, giving them no time to discuss things properly.

"this--"

This was the last thing Zhao Lin wanted to see, but the words she was about to say were carried away by the cold wind as the helicopter landed.

“No, perhaps there are other ways. After all, the machine probably can’t distinguish between the deer people and ordinary humans just by looking at their appearance…” An Han comforted her.

"enough!!"

This pointless conversation infuriated Naling. After yelling at everyone present, she knelt down next to Naya and, for the first time, carefully stroked the face of her blood relative.

“They have ways of identifying them…any Deer Clan member who has used the Stream Energy is easily distinguishable…” Na Ling’s gaze lingered on her longsword leaning against her side, ready to raise it at any moment. “But what I want to say is, thank you all for your helping hands. Whatever you have done in the past, whatever mistakes you have made, whatever hurt you have been hurt by…but we are standing together now, at least we have made a final effort to save this city—”

The fire atop the garbage heap illuminated Naling's resolute spirit, making her appear even more like an indomitable knight.

"However, what follows is a matter for our deer clan, so you can go with peace of mind."

The distant celestial fire dismantled the remaining Deer Clan army's counterattack like dismantling building blocks. The Purple Star Cannons continuously cleaved the earth, leaving behind insurmountable ravines.

The landing helicopter quickly opened its bottom hatch, and several soldiers ran out to guide the people from the disaster area into the cabin. During this time, Salta kept looking at Naling, trying to confirm with her whether she wanted to stay…

Unexpectedly, the other person simply put their index finger to their lips and shook their head.

You have never been in contact with the energy of the radiant light, nor do you bear the mark of the Deer Clan, so they will not discover you.

Take care.

Salta placed two fingers on his heart and gave her a deer-like salute.

This was the first time he had ever considered doing this to his people.

......

A light was hidden behind Sharp as he dragged the scalding object to Su Luo and asked uncertainly, "What are the chances of this plan succeeding?"

"Wow, are you asking a mechanical engineering PhD a probability question?" Su Luo replied irritably, seeing his nonchalant attitude. "However... as long as I'm confident I can get close enough to the Heavenly Fire, I'm confident I can use this machine to overwrite the Heavenly Fire's central program."

"First, I need to activate the 'force lock' I set up to cut off this guy's power supply—"

Then, the confident doctor turned his attention to a decent-looking SUV next to him.

"Handsome, you should be able to drive, right?"

......

At the evacuation point, amidst the hurricane whipped up by helicopter rotors.

Naya suddenly pressed her hand to her chest, which felt tight. A resonance from her deer-blooded lineage caused her heart to clench violently. "He's not on the helicopter." She turned to stare at Zhao Lin, who was counting heads on the plane. Realizing something, Zhao Lin anxiously looked out of the cabin.

"Sharp! Sulu! Come up here quickly!!" Zhao Lin shouted.

Su Luo moved the bulky terminal onto the car, a dense array of data cables tumbling down from the corner of the door. The heavy rain soaked Sharp to the bone; the boy stood at a distance, watching the group prepare to evacuate.

“Xia…” Na Ling choked up because he saw golden antlers suddenly appearing behind Sharp.

It turns out he had just gone to the epicenter of the explosion and brought it back.

What are you going to do?

“I also have residual radiant energy on me, plus the golden antlers... enough to make me a conspicuous target.” As he spoke, he spread his arms and retreated towards the car. “Suluo has a way to stop that thing. But before that, I want to make sure the people I care about are not within its range.”

"!" Naya tried to rush forward, but Salta, who blocked her way from behind, held her firmly.

"You're dawdling! If we don't leave now, we'll all die!" He forcibly dragged Naya onto the plane. Right now, who was who didn't matter; what mattered was that someone was stepping forward to break the deadlock, even if it was a well-intentioned cover-up.

During the struggle, Na Ling saw Tian Huo walking towards them, and Sharp's last glance back.

"It's alright," he said with a smile.

The plane took off amidst the chaos. After gaining altitude, Zhao Lin burst into tears. In the distance, the SUV swerving through the purple-red light was a fearless vehicle from another world.

The antlers of the dumpling emitted an emerald halo inside the cabin. This ancient being, who had remained silent all along, placed his hand on the edge of the cabin door.

"A king, with the will to die, exchanges for glory." Her voice resounded directly in everyone's minds.

......

“搞定了！剩余能源可持续时间还剩4分30秒！&34；苏洛的声音从通讯器里炸响，夹杂着越野车引擎的轰鸣，&34；夏普！再往前就是射线覆盖区了！&34；

The SUV's windows were already riddled with spiderweb-like cracks. Sharp swerved to avoid the burning wreckage of the tanker truck. In the passenger seat, Su Luo clung tightly to the silver-white terminal, the flickering code on the screen reflected in her glasses with a ghostly blue light. Three hundred meters. Sharp glanced in the rearview mirror; Skyfire was turning its head cannon towards them.

"Doctor, are you afraid of dying?" Sharp had never felt so exhilarated. Sharing this joy with a complete stranger was a pleasure in itself.

"Heh, I'm already here, do you really have to say something?"

The vehicle's terminal indicated that they had entered the electromagnetic pulse coverage area. As Su Luo flung open the car door and rolled into the rubble, Sharp saw blood seeping through the back of her white coat—a steel bar had pierced the young scientist's left shoulder while they were crossing the overpass ruins.

"The password is the reverse-engineered resonant frequency of the Purple Star!" Su Luo coughed up blood as she plugged the data cable into the mecha's external port, "But the system will require biometric authentication..." She suddenly froze. A bright red warning box popped up on the terminal screen: [Requires the Leyte royal family gene sequence].

Sharp reached for the hidden compartment at his waist. The rhombus-shaped crystal he had taken from Abu's armor was still hot, and the image of the cat-like creature gently rubbing his wrist with its tail before parting flashed through his mind.

"Abu is a descendant of the exiled royal family of Leyte." "He pressed the crystal into the authentication slot, right?"

You've been a great help, little one.

A deafening clang of gears meshing echoed from inside the mech, and the raised cannon barrel of Skyfire froze in mid-air. Su Luo's ecstatic shouts were swallowed by a new wave of explosions—the naval fleet had begun indiscriminate bombardment of the land.

......

At the highest point of Deep City, the Deer Queen knelt on the edge of the crater formed by the fall of the golden stag. Her breastplate, adorned with star and moon patterns, was riddled with cracks, and behind her lay the corpses of Templar Knights arranged in a broken arc. As Na'ling's arrow pierced her right shoulder, this ruler who had sworn to burn away human civilization suddenly smiled.

"Accept your fate, Your Majesty. The Deer Clan has been utterly destroyed by you." Naling's arrow tip trembled. At their feet lay the Deer Clan's battle banner, pierced by rays, the charred deer head totem still faintly discernible.

The continuous engine noise as the planes evacuated brought Naling a sense of relief; she knew her sister was out of danger. The bowstring in her hand slowly loosened. She saw crystallized tears fall from the Queen's eyes—long-term exposure to radioactive golden antlers had already caused Serafina's body to undergo vitreous degeneration.

Final countdown: 1 minute and 17 seconds.

As Sharp climbed up the protruding parts of the Skyfire's outer armor, a cracking sound came from his left leg, as if a bone had dislocated. Five minutes earlier, an armor-piercing shell fired by Suzumiya Inori's fleet had grazed his side; now, the sensation there was no longer pain, but numbness. When he was three meters away from the central control cabin, the Purple Star Ray suddenly turned 180 degrees and swept back towards him.

"drink!!"

The instant the flowing energy collided with the beam of destruction, Xia Jie's face flashed rapidly through his mind... Sharp felt a lump in his throat, then burst into laughter.

Sister, so you've always been here—

"The Road of Fire"

You've always understood.

It was this that brought us home.

"They led me to you."

The shockwave sent Sharp flying, and as he fell, he threw out a magnetic grappling hook—a piece of equipment from the Sunset Group that Anhan had modified, capable of supporting the weight of several people.

Sharp, using the last of his strength, leaped into the control bay. Inside, it was filled with neural connectors; seeing those interfaces strikingly similar to the structure of the human spinal cord, Sharp became even more determined to stop this destructive machine. As he inserted the virus chip given to him by Sulo into the main control slot, Abu's figure suddenly appeared in the holographic projection.

&34；莱尔特族从未消亡。&34；猫型生物的声音带着电子杂音，&34；我们只是将自己转化为更适应辐射的形态......&34；它的影像指向某个坐标，&34；让天火挥拳！&34；

My life

Everyone is searching.

"A Lost Land"

That's the place I long for.

My life

Everyone is looking forward to it.

"Live a happy life"

The moment Naya broke free from Salta, she saw Skyfire make a move that defied all operational logic—this mech, born for slaughter, suddenly turned around and slammed its fully charged fist into the fleet flagship on the sea. The shockwave created a tsunami that swallowed the subsequent missile salvo, and Skyfire came to a complete halt after the attack, frozen in its fist-pumping pose into a metallic monument.

Sharp lay in the seawater that was gradually engulfing the control cabin. Naya's feathers shimmered in his palm, sealing within them the true heritage of the Deer Clan—not the obsession with revenge, but a medical genetic blueprint that transcended races. As the seawater rose over his chest, he seemed to hear Naya humming an ancient requiem for the Deer Clan.

The sound of the helicopter rotors faded into the distance.

Sulo's terminal flashed its last message on the seabed: [Abu's genetic sequence matches 100% - Welcome home, the seventh crown prince of Leyte]

......

Short-haired Sharp leaped into the sea, crawled into Skyfire's control room, and grabbed his hands that were hanging limply in mid-air.

"Welcome home, Sharp."