Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"Pfft!"

Cheng Xing's entire body was turned into a pool of blood and flesh, with even his bones mixed in and unrecognizable.

He died, in a corner where no one was around, in such a humble way, in a place where no one cared.

Everything unfolded as Kiana had planned. Jackal, due to his arrogance and smugness, failed to see through Kiana's deliberate feigned failure and was successfully infiltrated by her. After passing through her cruel human experiments and easily defeating the guards and monsters inside, Jackal led the Undying Squad and Rita to evacuate Shenzhou Pharmaceutical.

Then, Kiana learned of the Jackals' insane plan to detonate a high-level Honkai energy bomb in the city and decided to find it immediately to save the people in the city.

But before that, Rita handed Kiana another item she had found.

"I think you have the right to know the truth."

Kiana opened the video with a puzzled expression.

The video is short; it simply records the truth of a fact.

Jackal put Cheng Xing, whom Raven had brought back, into the biological tank, saying he wanted to test the guy's physical condition, but at the same time injected him with various drugs that kept him awake but were extremely painful.

Using this method, they relentlessly pressed Cheng Xing for all sorts of information about Kiana.

"Tell me, why did you suddenly become so obsessed with drugging her?"

"The jackal asked."

"I've emphasized this many times, I really just lust after her body."

Cheng Xing's voice sounded very weak.

"What's the point of lying now? Your entire body is under the monitoring of instruments. If you don't want to suffer even more torment, I advise you to tell the whole truth. I don't want to waste my time on a useless person like you, understand?"

"...Fine, if you really want to know, then I'll tell you. When I learned that she was being hunted by some organization, I knew my life was numbered. So, I staged this whole thing to drive the girl away, so you'd never be able to use an ordinary person like me to achieve your goals again. Didn't expect that, did you!"

"Do you know what you're doing? That's the Second Herrscher, a complete monster! And you're going to show mercy to a monster? That's utterly absurd!"

"A monster? Sorry, but if there were such a beautiful and cute monster that was willing to stay with me, I would rather spend my life with it."

"What an incomprehensible lunatic."

Kiana stared blankly at Cheng Xing in the video, who was laughing wildly in the culture tank.

"Kiana...it seems we already know why."

In fact, after she came out and calmed down, Kiana also had doubts. Why did Cheng Xing's change happen so suddenly? And did he really think that a sleeping pill could knock her unconscious?

Kiana suddenly remembered Cheng Xing's back as he kept heading towards dangerous places.

Kiana had a very bad feeling.

"Kiana! This is not the time to think about these things. We have to find that Honkai energy bomb, or the entire city will die!"

The class monitor knew that Kiana needed to find that person first, but time was running out.

Kiana didn't speak, but silently searched for the bomb. Thanks to Rita and the others' help, the bomb was easily found, and she wanted to go there.

But on the way, he met Mei.

After a heated argument, Kiana finally broke free from Mei and quickly approached the tower where the bomb was located.

However, along the way, Kiana always saw a black raven, constantly guiding her path. Whenever her path deviated, the black raven would circle around her and lead her in the right direction.

Finally, she arrived at the top of the tower and stood before the Honkai energy bomb that was about to explode.

Kiana struggled to get closer to the bomb as her body was being eroded, and just when she thought she was about to give up, a fiery red figure appeared beside her.

"Himeko-sensei?"

"Go, Kiana, go and transform this imperfect world into the one you desire."

Kiana used the power of the Herrscher of the Void to carry the bomb to a higher place. As she continued to climb and move upward, she remembered something someone had said.

"The moon's light comes from the sun. When a person dies, if another person carries on her will and lives on, then she has not died; she lives on in you."

"Himeko-sensei, life has come to life in you."

Kiana instinctively tried to find that person, but she couldn't see him anywhere, as if the dark night around her had swallowed his figure.

After the bomb exploded, Kiana absorbed all the released Honkai energy, but lost consciousness and fell. When she regained consciousness, she was taken to Schicksal's base, where the strongest Valkyrie in Schicksal's legend was right beside her.

"Tell me how that person is doing?"

Kiana's expression showed some fear.

Yulan Dai'er knew who Kiana was asking.

"...According to the subsequent investigation, the surveillance footage shows that he was trampled to death by the Honkai Beast on your way to Shenzhou Pharmaceutical. He ignored the warning and found that place on his own."

"...So, if I hadn't chosen to turn a blind eye back then..."

“You had plenty of time to save him, and we saw that he definitely saw you just as you were about to leave.”

These last words made Kiana burst into tears, unable to bear it any longer.

On that rainy night, he chose her.

On the same rainy night, she gave up on him.

Some people will risk their lives to uphold their promises, while others will sacrifice everything to save another person.

Yet such a person ended up unremembered and uncared for, like a pile of mud.

Even the person he saved didn't want to save him.

Ultimately, it was just his wishful thinking and his own fault, right?

Kiana.

Chapter 32: Conversation with Bronya

"Holy crap! What the hell is this?"

After Cheng Xing finished the simulation, he floated in the simulated world as a soul, staring blankly at his own corpse that had been trampled into mincemeat.

"What the heck? Why am I simulating a tragic drama protagonist again? Is this my destiny?"

"Simulation complete, evaluation in progress..."

"Congratulations, host, on obtaining the title: Cowardly Seeker of Death."

"Even though life in this world is incredibly boring and painful, you still don't have the courage to take action and choose to end it all. Until you get an excuse, an excuse to die openly and honestly. You even have to find all sorts of bizarre reasons to commit suicide, you're really a coward."

"Title ability: When playing dead, there is a higher probability of not being detected."

Cheng Xing woke up in his home, looking at the title and ability he had just acquired with a blank expression.

"No, even if my performance in the simulation was incredibly bitter and full of hatred, I still did pretty well, right? Why are the rewards I got so low-level?"

"We have received the host's feedback and are currently inquiring about it... This performance was not perfect enough."

"Don't try to fool me with Teacher Ma's voice!"

After Cheng Xing finished complaining, he suddenly remembered something very important.

"System! Kiana won't gain the memories from the simulation, will she? I think the me in the simulation was indeed quite memorable."

"Please wait, the system is locking onto the other party's mental state... Assessment complete. Kiana Kaslana has recovered her memories from the simulation from her dream. She has now awakened from the dream and is constantly reliving its events. Her physical reactions and emotional spectrum fluctuations indicate..."

"Host, she regrets it."

Cheng Xing suddenly became conflicted. After holding back for a full three minutes, he finally asked, "Do you think it's possible that the things I did made Kiana develop those kinds of feelings for me?"

"Host, because this is a change in the future timeline, not the past timeline, the degree of change between the two is not profound. Dreams always have a blurred texture with reality. Kiana Kaslana is currently only feeling some regret towards you because she had a very realistic dream. However, that feeling will soon be overshadowed by Mei's company."

"Then if you do nothing from now on and let the timeline go back to the time of the celestial meteor... everything will repeat itself."

"Hey, in the real world I'm a high-ranking official in the World Serpent, and with that slut Jackal, do you think she can keep me locked up?"

Cheng Xing was immediately indignant. Although he was better than some but not as good as others, he was still a 4000-attack minion crusher. How could he not beat minions like jackals?

The system is currently silent.

Cheng Xing snorted, recalling the scene of being tortured by jackals in the simulation. He felt a dull ache in his body, and then he decided to do something.

When Jackal returned to his experimental base the next day, he found that all the files he had saved on his computer had been rearranged, and many files were copied and pasted together in a mess.

What was even more frustrating was that the precision of all the instruments had to be adjusted.

"Who the hell did this?!"

The jackal was so angry he almost fainted.

Bronya has fully recovered today, but shortly after being discharged from the hospital, she learned that Kiana seems to have developed the exact same symptoms she had a few days ago.

She hasn't had any energy for several days, hasn't been eating or drinking well, and hasn't even bothered Mei as usual. She seems to be depressed.

This worried everyone, who were afraid that Kiana would end up like Bronya, hospitalized due to some kind of shock.

After learning about Kiana's symptoms, Bronya suddenly felt a sense of unease and immediately took out her phone to dial that number.

"Hello! This is Cheng Xing."

A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Cheng Xing, Kiana is in the same situation. Do you have anything to say about it?"

"Hmm... okay, my time travel ability has activated again. I had some things happen with Kiana in the future. After I used my ability, I lost my memory and couldn't use my other abilities. In that situation, I stayed with her for a while... In short, after a lot of things happened, she left me to die, and then I died, and she regretted it."

"That sounds like a fantastical time travel story. But how do you plan to help Kiana now?"

"Because it's a future situation, it won't have as much of an impact on the present as it did in the past. I estimate that it won't be long before Mei's comforting words will make Kiana forget about it."

At this moment, Bronya gripped her phone tightly and said, "Cheng Xing, promise me that no matter what happens in the future, whether you go back to the past or come to the future, you must come find me! I don't want to know nothing, and I want to be able to offer you some help."

"It's no use. Time travel involves many problems. Maybe I'll travel to a point in the distant past, before you were even born. Maybe I'll travel to the future, before you even have time to meet me. Do you think it would be useful for me to find you? Bronya, if I hadn't helped you when you were at your most vulnerable, you wouldn't have let me exist in your heart, right?"

"Good thing you know, you big idiot who runs a harem!"

"Hey, when did I start having a harem?! Don't insult my innocence."

"Hmph, even if you haven't developed any deep feelings for Kiana yet, as your so-called time travel continues, the debts you owe will only grow, right? By then, can you really just ignore all those girls you owe or who owe you?"

"How do you know so much?!"

"Phew, anyway, Cheng Xing, I hope you can communicate with me after each time travel, okay?"

"it is good."