Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

"...I can show a person their deepest, most hidden fears. Would you like to see?"

Cheng Xing looked at the paramecium that had come closer with a smile, and emphasized his words.

"Now I have the ability to see into people's hearts. Once I use this ability on you, I'll have your mind completely read. Are you really willing to let me have such a..."

"I want to try."

"........."

His smile vanished as Kiana made him freeze.

"No! Why did you agree so easily? Hey, at least have some caution! Aren't you afraid I'll use this ability on you?"

Cheng Xing looked at Kiana, who had a normal expression, and exclaimed in disbelief.

Kiana scratched her head a little embarrassed when she heard this, and then said...

"Hey, I never thought you would harm me."

Cheng Xing fell silent.

Chapter 8: Communications

Kiana!

In her dream, Raiden Mei saw the crow with human teeth speaking to her in Kiana's voice. She was terrified, she was afraid, and she couldn't believe the fact that the person she knew had become a monster.

"Mei, I'm here!"

Kiana grabbed Raiden Mei's outstretched hand, and their eyes met. Seeing Kiana unharmed and unchanged, Raiden Mei breathed a sigh of relief, then began to ask where she was and what had happened.

Kiana explained the whole story and defended Cheng Xing, saying that everything that had happened before was out of necessity, and although he had acted ruthlessly, it was a helpless move.

Raiden Mei was not an ungrateful person; she felt a bit grateful to that man for turning her from a monster back into a human.

So Raiden Mei decided to personally thank him and apologize for her previous actions.

When Raiden Mei arrived in the living room, she found the man sitting on the sofa, staring at a girl with gray hair and two spiral ponytails across from him.

"Tell me, where did you find out about Seele?"

Although the girl appeared calm on the surface, her clenched fists and rapid speech betrayed a certain anxiety within her.

"I can only see what you fear in your heart. You are afraid of the experiment, you are afraid of the outcome, you are afraid of the fact that you can never bring that person back."

"Shut up!"

Even Bronya, who is usually emotionally detached, was broken by these words. She wanted to immediately pull out the military dagger she had hidden on her body and stab the man in front of her through the heart, but for the sake of self-protection, she could not do so, because she could not possibly kill the guy in front of her.

This guy is a complete monster. Even if you could pierce his heart and cut off his head, you probably still couldn't kill him. This was just a strange intuition Bronya had, an intuition that had saved her many times before.

Cheng Xing looked at the emotionally agitated Bronya with a blank expression, then sighed helplessly in his heart. After all, when he used to play with scarecrows, that guy's mouth was never clean.

Having experienced too much of Federico's emotions, he sometimes enjoys revealing other people's inner fears to provoke their anger and panic. I wonder if, if he continues like this, he might one day expose Otto or Kevin's scars and get blasted to smithereens.

“Alright, Miss Bronya, I don’t want to stir up your anger and hatred for no reason. Now I just want an answer: give me Cocolia’s contact information.”

The reason the two were at an impasse was that Cheng Xing wanted to obtain Cocolia's contact information, while Bronya felt that Cheng Xing was an extremely dangerous person and did not want him to contact her mother. Therefore, Cheng Xing had no choice but to resort to this tactic.

Cheng Xing took a deep breath, then said in a soft, girlish voice, "Bronya, Seele, Seele wants to go back. It's so dark here, I'm so scared, and I'm all alone here... Bronya..."

"Seele! Seele!"

Even though Bronya's emotions were suppressed by the chip in his brain, he could no longer bear it and his emotions completely erupted. The Heavy Bunny 19C appeared on his back, and the energy beam inside was ready to fire at any time to blast him to smithereens!

However, a phantom scythe flashed by, and the Heavy Bunny 19C behind her vanished back into nothingness. At that moment, Bronya was overwhelmed by a nameless fear and collapsed onto the sofa, her body limp.

"So this thing really does eat silence."

Cheng Xing thought to himself, then said ruthlessly to the pitiful girl in front of him who was constantly sweating, "So give me Cocolia's contact information, otherwise I will keep using that girl's voice in front of you. You don't want to hear it anymore, do you?"

Bronya couldn't bear Seele's constant pleas for help; the guilt and pain she felt would overwhelm her. Finally, with a reluctant expression, she took out a communication device and told Cheng Xing how to contact her.

Raiden Mei naturally witnessed the whole process. Several times she wanted to stop Cheng Xing's torture-like questioning, but Kiana behind her stopped her each time.

“Mei, although I don’t know why Cheng Xing did this, it must be very important, otherwise he wouldn’t have used such methods.”

Kiana spoke with a rare seriousness, "If it weren't for him, we would never have met again. He's my friend, and I believe everything he's doing now is for us, so can you trust me?"

Looking at Kiana's serious and earnest expression, Raiden Mei felt a pang of sadness for some reason, and she couldn't help but want to say something.

"I was here first."

Cheng Xing breathed a sigh of relief after obtaining the communication device. The reason he wanted to contact that hateful woman now was to prevent a series of unforeseen events from happening later. After all, the Hyperion had not yet arrived, which meant that Destiny might not have reacted yet.

So, assuming Otto is the one causing trouble, Cocolia will definitely keep the news under wraps; at least Theresa certainly won't know.

However, with a spy right beside him, he couldn't bring himself to be ruthless. Therefore, that woman would definitely learn a lot of information through the chip implanted in Bronya's brain.

If we don't want to be chased by a large number of Titan fathers in the remaining days, then we must deal with this hidden danger in advance.

Otherwise, even if their own people manage to evade Titan's pursuit, they'll likely have to face Yang's sit-up clones.

Subsequently, Cheng Xing used communication equipment.

Meanwhile, a voice full of mature and sophisticated charm came from the other side.

"Hello, Mr. Cheng Xing."

At that moment, Cheng Xing revealed an extremely wicked smile and spoke in a voice that nearly made Cocolia drop her communication device in fright.

"Cocolia, are you treating me, the leader of this alliance, as if I don't exist?"

It was the voice of Walter Young, the sit-up master.

Chapter Nine: Fiddlesticks, He's Just a Legend

Cheng Xing seized this opportunity.

Cocolia quickly calmed down. She had already learned about this guy's abilities from Bronya. It seemed that he could see into other people's minds, imitate their voices, and even control animals.

However, these abilities pose no threat to him, who possesses the Titan mech legion.

I just don't know how this guy found out about my existence? And why did he need my contact information from Bronya?

"Mr. Cheng Xing, I don't know why you made such a nasty joke, but please know that we at Anti-Entropy will absolutely not tolerate any casual insults to our leader. Please think twice and stop making such meaningless and malicious jokes."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Xing felt an overwhelming urge to criticize. He desperately wanted to reveal everything he knew this woman had done to see who was disrespecting the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance.

However, there's no point in arguing with politicians about this, so he simply said...

"Let's leave Changkong City."

"impossible."

Cocolia directly rejected Cheng Xing's request.

"Hey, hey, hey, your daughter is in our hands. If you refuse so readily, and I have even the slightest unpleasant thought, then this little girl who isn't even an adult yet might suffer."

Cocolia gripped the communicator, her veins bulging. Although she was an extremely despicable woman, you couldn't deny that she did have maternal love for the children in the orphanage. However, compared to her own interests, she would resolutely send her children into the laboratory while shedding tears and feeling heartbroken and unable to breathe.

This is Cocolia, a woman as venomous as a snake.

"You really did refuse thoroughly. I knew you wouldn't give up on conquering the gems so easily... But I want to ask you a question. Given that you could have chosen the wilderness or the Siberian permafrost like during the Second Honkai Impact to create a Herrscher, why did you choose this city with millions of people?"

"I don't need to answer your question."

"Alright, since you're unwilling to say, let me guess. What is your purpose? The Far East is also within the territory controlled by Schicksal. If everyone in such a large city under Schicksal's control dies in the Honkai outbreak, Schicksal will inevitably be thrown into chaos for a while. Moreover, you deliberately obstructed the transmission of information. Although I don't know how you managed to prevent the news of an entire city's population dying inexplicably from getting out, you did indeed conceal the information."

"When such things become fallacies and spread online, the existence of Destiny may even be completely exposed, and all sorts of chaotic scenes will erupt. Although Destiny will only be busy dealing with it for a while, it also gives you a great opportunity, since the attention has been diverted, hasn't it?"

"And what will you do with this opportunity? The original plan was to retrieve the Third Herrscher, so what do you intend to do with it?"

Cheng Xing's increasingly probing questions and words made Cocolia's breathing quicken. She immediately said coldly, "Shut up! I don't know what you want to do, but you're provoking me again and again. Do you know what the consequences will be, kid?"

"In fact, I have just achieved my goal."

Cheng Xing unilaterally ended the call and hung up. Then, looking at Mei, who seemed to want to say something but hesitated, and Kiana, who was just quietly watching him, he took a deep breath and said...

"Are you willing to believe me?"

Kiana burst out laughing when she heard that.

"You're such a forgetful idiot. I've emphasized this so many times, Cheng Xing, I believe in you."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Xing smiled, then transformed into a wisp of black smoke and vanished.

Meanwhile, aboard a warship high above Changkong City, Cocolia frowned as she watched the call end. She couldn't understand why this guy had made that inexplicable call just to mock and provoke her.

"Never mind that guy, immediately dispatch the Titan forces to retrieve the Third Herrscher while she's weakened, and bring back that guy with some special abilities as well. Of course, if all else fails, just retrieve their corpses. As long as we stay safe, nothing else matters."

"Wow, that's really brutal."

A familiar, infuriating voice suddenly rang out in the warship's command room. All the commanders sensed an ominous aura and looked toward the source of the sound.

Then they saw a black crow.

Let's take another look at Fiddlesticks' character design. This guy represents fear; he's the embodiment of the concept of fear among demons, and he's always chasing after fear.

Originally lost to the annals of history, it was brought back to the present by the panic caused by the riots of the mages in Demacia, which made it smell the scent of great fear.

So when a place evokes immense fear, it attracts its unconscious wanderings. But what if there's a place it already wants to go, and that place evokes fear?

The answer is, it will appear there.

This is neither teleportation nor fast travel.

Because fear has arisen in that place, Fiddlesticks must be able to stand there.

Cheng Xing utilized this concept. Of course, he didn't have the ability to be wherever fear was like Federico. He could only try to awaken other people's fear, then seize the moment of that person's fear to accumulate power for a period of time before reaching that place.

To put it simply, this is TP.

That's why he talked a lot to prolong the call and constantly escalated the other person's frustration and inexplicable panic.

This is to ensure that TP does not make mistakes.

"Now, let's talk again."

Cheng Xing's voice was no longer that of a young man, but had become a strangely hoarse and deep voice that sent chills down one's spine.

"...What kind of monster are you?"

Cocolia felt an inexplicable and uncontrollable fear welling up inside her, but having experienced so much, she was still able to stand up straight and ask questions, unlike the others who had turned pale and were on the verge of fainting.