Honkai Impact 3rd: My Days as a Captain in Schicksal

Chapter 88 Composite Reconnaissance Array Type II

“…Zero…” Keng Huo said weakly, “Because all the equipment I prepared was destroyed in the battle with that pseudo-Herrscher…so now my combat power is actually at the level of an ordinary person…”

Theresa's eyes showed a hint of doubt: "I don't believe it."

"Really... At the very least, it's a pseudo-Herrscher... I've been working myself to the bone, staying up all night to craft some equipment, and now it's all destroyed. I'm so desperate..."

"I've heard that the Honkai Hunters of Shenzhou are skilled at using tools to fight Honkai..." Theresa said thoughtfully, "In other words..."

Just when Keng Huo thought Theresa understood, Theresa changed the subject: "You embezzled the school's public funds to make equipment?"

Keng Huo broke out in a cold sweat: "Wait! I've been doing everything I can for the school! Think about it, how am I supposed to save you if I don't have this equipment..."

Theresa glanced sideways at Keng Huo: "Well... it's all a small matter, but you need to give me a list of all the materials you brought!"

"What are you doing?! You want to check my water meter?"

"The academy's finances are so tight right now! Of course I have to see just how much you've embezzled!"

"Since you know the finances are tight, could you at least cut back on using public funds to buy comics? The library could already dedicate a separate section to comics!"

Theresa knew she wasn't in the right either, so she simply picked up Keng Huo and ran outside.

"Ah, wait..."

"Boom-"

"Remember to remind me next time you go out!!!"

……

"You did this?" Theresa stared in disbelief at the ruins of Chiba Academy, where only half of the school gate remained, bearing the single character "Chiba"...

“Hmm…” Keng Huo held Theresa’s head and looked around. “Let me tell you, my battle back then was earth-shattering. I fought from Earth to Mars and then to Jupiter…”

"Are you also trying to say that you created Jupiter's Great Red Spot?"

"Cough cough... those were from before..."

"..." Theresa was speechless, and finally decided to ignore this liar whose nine out of ten words were false.

Theresa walked toward the Oath of Judah, which still stood in the center of the playground. She gently placed her palm on the huge cross, as if she could feel a joy emanating from it.

“…Yes, I’m back.” Theresa’s eyes softened for a moment as she gently stroked the patterned surface of the cross.

"【The Oath of Judah】... Unfold!" With Theresa's delicate shout, the sides of the enormous metal cross suddenly unfolded, and two weapon rack-like structures popped out from both sides of the cross, each with several golden spears stuck in them.

"Wait, what are you doing!" Keng Huo was startled and instinctively shrank back, almost falling off Theresa's shoulder.

“Check the weapons.” Theresa drew a spear and weighed it in her hand. “They’ve been sitting here for a while now. What if something unexpected happens? We’d be in trouble when we need them later.”

“You scared me to death… I thought you were going to…” Keng Huo stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence, afraid that Theresa would think of the second half of what he was about to say.

Theresa's face was turned away from Keng Huo, so he couldn't see her expression or know what she was thinking. To change the subject and avoid the scene he had just imagined, Keng Huo clapped his hands dramatically: "Now that we've got the weapon back, let's go!"

After saying that, Keng Huo pointed a finger forward: "It's you I choose! Theresa, let's go! Use the flight spell! Our goal is the stars and the sea!"

But Theresa beneath him remained motionless, seemingly deep in thought.

Keng Huo urged somewhat guiltily, "What are you hesitating for? Hurry up and carry Judas on your back..."

"Oh?" Theresa's drawn-out question came through, "I still feel like something's not right..."

"Why are you urging me to leave?" Theresa put Keng Huo down and looked him up and down. "I've been wanting to say this for a while now... what 'experimental version of composite mobile reconnaissance array'... isn't that just a children's game of riding horses and fighting?"

A flicker of relief crossed Keng's bewildered gaze: it seemed Theresa hadn't considered the half-sentence I'd just uttered... Excellent, excellent...

But he didn't stop talking: "What do you know! In warship command, this is called a single column formation! It's incredibly powerful! Let me tell you, just now you and I formed a three-dimensional single column formation. As long as the enemy attacks, we can simultaneously turn our guns and blast them to smithereens..."

"Where did you get the cannon muzzle from? Are you going to say you're Gangdamur or something?!"

"Talk...talking skills! I have a talking skill!"

"Aaaah, you bastard, how dare you talk back!" Seeing that Keng Huo showed no remorse and even dared to talk back to her, Theresa habitually raised her little hand...

[The Oath of Judah] As if possessed by a spirit, the spear in the weapon rack suddenly flew out, its end connected to a golden chain, like a flying golden snake, wrapping the defenseless Keng Huo layer by layer around the cross, enveloping him like a silkworm.

"You idiot! Let's go!" Theresa skillfully slinged the huge cross behind her, and with a weak, feeble scream, her short legs raced off towards the northwest.

"You you you you slowly slowly tap tap tap tap..." The weak and feeble voice was shaken into a very rhythmic tremor, like talking to an electric fan, "Let go let go let me I I I down down down down..."

However, Theresa completely ignored Keng Huo's screams, because she had accumulated experience in her long-term struggle with Keng Huo. Whenever Keng Huo still had the strength to scream, his condition was generally not too bad.

Keng Huo rolled his eyes upwards. He had assumed that Theresa wouldn't have thought of taking him away tied to Judas without his prompting, but reality told him...

Theresa wouldn't even need to think before she tied him to Judas and took him away.

Half an hour later...

Theresa put down Keng Huo with a heavy heart.

"Keng Huo... We are now facing a serious problem."

"What what? What are you asking...?"

"Stop being normal!"

"It's you, it's you, it's you, it's you..." Keng Huo was now like a little prince on Douyin, every word had to be swayed rhythmically before he could say it, and even his head was nodding up and down unconsciously.

He looks like he has epilepsy.

Theresa opened her mouth, but then guiltily looked away: "Um... do you know which way we should go..."

"Knowing, knowing, knowing..."

"Great! Now you can give me directions!"

"...every single fart..."

"..."

"You tied me face down to Judas!! How am I supposed to know where you ran off to?!" Keng Huo roared, snapping back from his TikTok DJ mode. "You didn't say a word, just randomly picked a direction and ran to the end, and then you come asking me if I know how to get there! If you're so capable, why don't you just fly to the moon?!"

"What do we do now?!" Theresa was dumbfounded and dared not meet Keng Huo's gaze.

"Wait a minute, let me look at the map..." Keng Huo sighed, took out his personal data terminal, and after looking at it carefully for a while, he suddenly became furious, "You're running in the wrong direction!"

"It's one thing to be going in the wrong direction! But you're going completely the opposite way!!!" Keng Huo grabbed his hair with both hands. "Headmistress, with our situation in such an emergency, can you please stop trying to be cute?!"

Theresa's gaze darted awkwardly left and right.

“I’ll show you the way, just follow the directions I tell you…” Keng Huo sighed, knowing that relying on Theresa’s sense of direction was probably impossible. He even doubted how Theresa had found that pseudo-Herrscher before…

"I...I just forgot to turn on the navigation..." Theresa stubbornly insisted, "If I get serious, I can get you out of here in no time!"

"Oh, then go ahead and leave." Keng Huo waited to see Theresa make a fool of herself.

Theresa angrily took out the communicator they had picked up on their way to Chiba Academy, and as if activating some program, a soft and familiar male voice suddenly came from the communicator.

"Theresa's dedicated version of the foolproof navigation system is activated."

Keng Huo: "???"

"See that!" Theresa waved the communicator in her hand triumphantly. "I told you! As long as I'm serious, finding the way is a piece of cake!"

Keng Huo opened his mouth, but found there were too many things to complain about and he didn't know where to begin.

However, at that moment, Theresa seemed to have discovered something extremely important. She nervously pulled the communicator back in front of her and frantically pressed the screen and buttons: "Huh?"

"What's wrong now..." An ominous premonition welled up in Keng Huo's heart.

"The communicator is broken!" Theresa said anxiously.

"Let me see?" Keng Huo was very puzzled. He took the communicator from Theresa, whose screen was already off, and tried to force it to start, force restart, and reset the system. If it weren't for the conditions and time constraints, he would have taken out his personal data terminal to reflash the communicator...

However, the communicator did not respond at all, as if it were a brick.

Keng Huo remained silent for a long while. The communicator in front of him was really abnormal. Logically speaking, such military equipment should not be damaged so easily. Moreover, there were no obvious damages on its outer shell. It should not be an accident caused by a violent impact leading to poor contact in the internal structure...

Seeing Keng Huo's apparent helplessness, Theresa nervously moved closer.

"It can't be that the power is out, can it?" Keng Huo scratched his head and gave this conclusion with no other choice.

"Oh!" Theresa actually believed her. "So what do we do now?"

"Can't you at least offer some explanation for 'running out of power'?" Keng Huo glanced sideways at Theresa. "Your communicator model can last for a week on a full charge..."

Theresa's eyes were desperately darting to the left, avoiding eye contact with Keng Huo.

"Could you please check your communicator's battery before your next mission, okay..." Keng Huo slapped the communicator in her palm like a pointer, making a cracking sound. "You're an S-rank Valkyrie and you can't even remember such a small detail?"

Theresa seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "Okay, I'll be more careful next time..."

Keng looked at Theresa's expression with suspicion, and pondered for a moment.

"The power consumption of this electronic navigation system..."

Theresa's expression softened further: "Yes, yes, especially big..."

"You used it to play games?"

Theresa's expression instantly tensed up.

Seeing this, Keng Huo couldn't help but sigh, feeling that his life had lost its meaning of striving.

The enemy is a world on the verge of collapse, and the teammates are incompetent idiots who play games on critical electronic devices while carrying out high-risk missions...

Keng Huo was exhausted. He didn't want to complain anymore. The barrage of complaints had overwhelmed him, and he was utterly weary. All he wanted to do now was silently slap the communicator onto Theresa's face...

He would have done it if he could have beaten Theresa.

"Alright then... let's keep the 'composite reconnaissance array,' and I'll show you the way..."

"No! I refuse!" Theresa firmly refused. "That pose is just too stupid!"

"Well, we don't have any other choice right now!" Keng Huo spread his hands helplessly. "You see, we need to maintain high mobility while also ensuring reconnaissance and navigation. In order not to hinder your movement, I can't let you carry me or hold me, so I can only ride on your back..."

“Emmmm…” Although she was very unwilling, Theresa thought for a moment and still felt inexplicably that what Keng Huo said seemed to make a lot of sense.

So the two skillfully began to form an array, but unexpectedly encountered trouble this time.

The reason lies in the oath of Judah.

When Keng Huo sits on Theresa's shoulders, the Oath of Judah will irritate him.

When he sits on the crossbar of the Oath of Judah, the intricate patterns and decorations will feel uncomfortable on him...

The two argued about the position for a long time, and in the end, Theresa got so angry that she simply tied him to the cross again. However, this time, surprisingly, Keng Huo did not object and even praised Theresa's idea.