It was perfectly normal for Miss Fairy not to understand.
Just like how this world's Welt was somewhat frivolous and laid-back, this world's Kevin was actually a bit of a goofball?
[What's wrong with Miss Fairy? Isn't it just that a male character suddenly appeared?]
[Honestly, I think Kevin is quite handsome. White hair, hehehe~ Better looking than Welt.]
[Welt (gripping the Star of Eden): Say that again if you dare?]
"Is Elysia very surprised?" Su Luo asked.
Hearing this, Elysia tried hard to suppress the excitement in her heart.
She carefully examined the handsome CG on the screen.
It had Kevin's face, Kevin's voice, but...
It really wasn't much like the real-world Kevin at all!!
Elysia made this judgment.
"This is Kevin?"
"Mm, look, his name is written on the dialogue box," Su Luo calmly reminded her.
"But... I thought Kevin would be the type to say... I have a dream! It'll definitely shock you if I say it out loud, I've decided to become a hero!" Elysia imitated vividly.
"..." Su Luo was somewhat speechless.
[What kind of Kiana-like/Tuna-like talk is that?]
[Miss Fairy, wake up! The one in front of you is Kevin, not Kiana.]
[It's over, it's over. I thought Miss Fairy had recovered, but actually, she was traumatized by the knives in the last chapter and still hasn't snapped out of it.]
In the end, Su Luo could only give Elysia an artistically embellished reply.
Elysia stared at it for a while longer, took a screenshot, sent it to the group chat with the message 'Everyone, come quick and look, this is Kevin!', and only then did she continue progressing the story.
The plot suddenly shifted to Haiyuan City.
This part of the plot was very simple: Gray Serpent shot and injured Cocolia, then devoured Liliya and transformed into the Honkai Beast Ashvini L.
To save Liliya, Theresa pushed the release rate of her activation factor into the fourth stage.
This meant liberating a portion of the power of the Emperor-class Honkai Beast Vishnu, which was said in the previous plot to have been sealed by 'Blood Knight: Moonlight'.
She manipulated Judah to immobilize Gray Serpent.
And Rozaliya, who was telepathically linked with Liliya, seized the opportunity to sever the matrix connecting Liliya to the alien Ashvini, rescuing Liliya.
Theresa seemed to have had a power-up, but in reality, she had merely played a supporting role again.
Of course, seeing Theresa's performance this time, the audience was still very much looking forward to her combat power when she fully unleashed her abilities in the future.
It felt like she might be very strong!
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After this segment, the main story returned to the World Bubble.
"Sakura! Stop it, this is as far as you go!" Kevin, with a cold expression, blocked Sakura's path, sword raised.
"Move aside, Kevin! I know very well what I'm doing!"
Sakura, desperate to save her sister, clearly had no intention of backing down.
Kevin: "I also know very well, which is why I must stop you. Sakura, before things become irreversible, stop. Your actions are tantamount to betraying humanity."
Sakura, however, questioned him resentfully: "Rin is innocent! She did nothing wrong! You can't arbitrarily decide she's a threat, much less imprison her!"
Their heated words made the players understand one thing: the situation in this world was dire.
Perhaps the appearance of the next Herrscher would mean the end of the world.
For this reason, they had to detain, imprison, and even, if necessary, kill Sakura's only sister—Sakura, who had once risked her life to fight for the salvation of all humanity...
The players gradually sensed a pervasive despair lingering in this world that could not be dispelled.
In the end, neither Sakura nor Kevin could persuade the other.
Just as the two were about to clash, Sakura disappeared with Seele.
Kevin intended to pursue, but he received an order from his superiors to deploy, the reason being: a Herrscher had awakened.
At this time, Sakura, who had entered a deeper tunnel, discovered that it was filled with Honkai zombies. Soldiers and all ordinary personnel within the base had been infected and turned into Honkai zombies.
[I already have a bad feeling. Sakura's sister is eighty percent likely to die.]
[Hehe, let me refute that. It's not eighty percent, it's one hundred and ten percent going to die. If she doesn't, I'll swallow a five-speed electric fan!]
[So what if someone dies? I've been through a hundred battles and fear nothing! (Dear scriptwriter, please, no more knives!)]
The plot continued.
Sakura, after calming Seele whose Stigmata had suddenly gone berserk, continued deeper and finally reached the 33rd underground level, the place where her sister was imprisoned.
But the environment here was extremely unsettling.
Large amounts of blood flowed on the ground, as if a massacre had just taken place here.
Seeing this scene, Sakura probably also became anxious. She told Seele to take care of herself and then impatiently went to find her sister Rin.
Sakura raced through the corridors, her figure flashing past one iron door after another. The escalating alarms continuously frayed the girl's already taut nerves.
"Faster, a little faster!"
"Rin, where are you?"
"Ah! Found it, 769... 767... Rin's room is just ahead!"
"Rin! I'm here to save you!"
With a noticeably uplifted tone, Sakura opened the unlocked confinement cell, eagerly...
Towards the depths of the room...
Looked...
In the air, the smell of blood lingered.
The scene before her eyes assaulted her brain, leaving a deep imprint in the depths of her consciousness.
Sakura had still lost her sister.
At this point, although the audience was sad, because they had anticipated it, they were merely sad.
But the plot wasn't over yet.
In what was the darkest moment for Sakura, she made a decision: she would go find her sister, who had already turned into a Herrscher.
This was undoubtedly pushing herself towards death's door.
Everyone could feel that Sakura already had a death wish.
[Rin is dead, Sakura is going to die too. In the end, everyone will definitely die. No one understands the miHoYo scriptwriter better than me!]
[My cute little sister, my warm big sister, why do they all have to die?!]
[Bring on the knives, bring on the knives! It's best if none of them survive. I won't feel sad anymore (Honkai-corrupted face).]
The subsequent developments, as expected, did not exceed expectations. Humanity paid a great price to painstakingly seal the Herrscher of Corruption.
Seele and Kevin also found Sakura, who had left alone earlier, amidst a pile of metal wreckage. Her eyes were vacant, like a solitary flower in the ruins, about to wither.
But Sakura's next words broke through the players' psychological defenses, which had already grown numb from too many knives.
She fought for humanity, yet in the end, she couldn't even protect her own sister.
Sakura, at the height of tragedy, encouraged Seele like this:
"Some things... some regrets... we are powerless against... But you... still have people you want to protect..."
"When you and she... stand together under the cherry blossom tree... you will find... this world is still beautiful..."
"You will find... your world... still has hope..."
The words 'hope' and 'beautiful' came from her mouth.
Clearly, neither of these things belonged to her.
Yet, she could utter such gentle words before dying.
Watching all this unfold, everyone could empathize with Sakura's despair, but they never expected that atop this despair, a hope as beautiful as a cherry blossom would bloom.
Everyone fell silent.
Seele's sobs alone in the darkness mirrored their current mood.
[So sweet, so sweet, sweet to the point of sorrow.]
[Is this what you call a very heartwarming ending? Thanks, I was indeed warmed.]
[Everyone, don't panic! This is just a World Bubble, maybe it's all fake!!]
Some players noticed the plot was still continuing.
[I feel like maybe it's just like before, someone deliberately created such a tragic World Bubble to shake Seele's heart.]
[Makes sense!!]
The players instantly felt like they understood everything!
So that was it! They had seen through miHoYo!
A flame of hope rekindled in their hearts.
Fake! All of this must be fake!
As the game screen turned completely dark, a voice broke the silence.
"Hector knew the kingdom would eventually fall, and Achilles also understood he was walking towards his death, but both of them still charged onto the battlefield without hesitation."
"In this story, destined to be a tragedy from the very beginning, not a single person ever hesitated or wavered because of it."
"They were like that. We, too, are like that."
Seele knew this story; it was the Trojan War.
The voice didn't stop, continuing to elaborate:
"I brought her remains back to her hometown, but when I arrived there... all I saw was a barren wasteland."
"The Herrscher took control of the missile silos and completely destroyed humanity's remaining three cities with nuclear bombs."
As the voice fell, everyone's heart skipped a beat.
Wait a minute! Didn't we agree it was all fake? This rhythm feels a bit off, doesn't it?
The voice continued to narrate: "I stood in the square that had been reduced to ruins... In my eyes, I couldn't see a single cherry blossom."
The scene changed.
Countless cherry blossoms danced in the air, converging in this Sea of Quanta to form a resplendent cherry blossom tree, a tree of indescribable beauty.
Kevin stood beneath the cherry blossom tree.
"On the scorched earth, I made a promise to her, to everyone, no matter the cost."
The camera turned to Kevin's face, which had almost lost all emotion.
He declared resolutely, his voice firm: "Humanity! Will definitely defeat Honkai!"
Seeing this scene, Seele also understood.
"You are the Serpent? You created this World Bubble!"
"That is my memory, my unfulfilled promise... They are like illusory dreams, reminding me again and again of the fact that humanity was once exterminated by Honkai!"
This sentence exploded like thunder in the players' minds.
Were all the stories just now real?
Rin's death, Sakura's death, humanity almost wiped out by nuclear bombs launched under Herrscher control.
All the sorrow and despair, were they things that had actually happened?
Perhaps even more desperate than what they had seen?
They had never so clearly recognized the cruelty of the struggle between humanity and Honkai.
Humanity could win against Honkai countless times, but Honkai only needed to win once!
The flame that had just rekindled in their hearts was instantly extinguished, transforming into an even deeper pain.
[Is this Honkai?]
[Pain! It's too painful! I've decided to recommend Honkai Impact 3rd to all my friends and relatives! (twisted expression) Let the world feel pain!]
[What kind of grudge is this? But count me in! I'm also going to recommend it to all my friends and relatives!]
[Count me in +1]
[Count me in +2]
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