Honkai Impact 3rd experience, starting with a thousand Herrschers

Kiana tossed two packs of cookies, chocolate, and a bottle of mineral water to Cheng Xing.

"Senior, you must have used up a lot of energy before. We can't stop you from fighting like we used to, so you need to be prepared for battle. After all, those machine creatures won't stop attacking us just because we put away our weapons."

"It's alright. Although I've never handled firearms before, my body has become extraordinary after being tempered by the Honkai. I've also learned some swordsmanship, so dealing with some machines shouldn't be a problem."

Having quickly replenished her food and water, Kiana sat down next to Cheng Xing without any hesitation, leaned against him, and said, "I'm a little tired, let me take a nap."

"That's not a good idea. I'm a guy, after all."

"Then where do you expect me to lean against? Against Raiden Mei?"

Is something wrong?

Kiana looked up and rolled her eyes at Cheng Xing as if he were an idiot, then closed her eyes without saying anything, leaned against Cheng Xing, and began to take a nap.

Raiden Mei took the melee weapon she had previously taken from the melee-type mecha girls, then sat cross-legged, closed her eyes, and placed the blade on her knees, as if she were meditating.

Cheng Xing felt the girl's breath and turned his head slightly to look at her. Her head was resting on his shoulder, and she looked like she was fast asleep. Her peaceful sleeping face showed no signs of wariness.

"Ugh!"

Cheng Xing sighed softly, then calmly gazed into the distance, keeping watch for any approaching danger.

Kiana slightly raised her eyes, then looked at Cheng Xing's serious and motionless appearance, and for some reason felt like laughing. Although she couldn't see what his face looked like, he must be looking like a righteous and responsible person on guard right now.

"You're really too easy to understand."

Then, Kiana closed her eyes again, this time truly giving up all awareness of the outside world and falling into a deep sleep.

About two hours later, the group finally finished resting and set off again. For Kiana, this rest felt particularly strange. She used to be on guard even when she was sleeping at night, but for some reason, she had no vigilance at all during those two hours of sleep.

"There's nothing I can do about it; this guy is such a good person, and I can definitely trust someone like him."

Kiana stated the reasons that came to mind, and then heard the sound of a train rushing towards them. She quickly looked around and, finding nothing to hide behind, sighed helplessly. She then said to the two who had already drawn their weapons and were ready for battle, "We're pretty lucky, at least they waited for us to finish resting."

Another battle has begun.

Chapter 164: Anger

"These lumps of iron just won't stop!"

After Kiana tore the charging melee mech girl apart with her bare hands, she checked her ammunition and realized that if things continued like this, she would probably have to resort to emergency measures.

"Yeah, I wonder when we'll be able to leave. This track is really long; it truly is a transportation network that connects the entire city."

Cheng Xing stood on the ground amidst the scattered mecha fragments, looking at the still intact baseball bat in his hand, and suddenly felt that this thing seemed to contain some kind of advanced technology.

"Is everyone alright?"

Raiden Mei put away her sword and asked the two of them a question.

"It's nothing, it's just that we're really running out of ammunition now, and we probably won't even be able to last for one more battle. If we encounter those guys again, we'll probably have to leave the light rail and enter the complex urban terrain to search for supplies while fighting guerrilla warfare against those suicide soldiers. But the problem is that this will take up a lot of our time, and we might even get lost in this city. Moreover, in such a huge urban area, I don't know how many strange monsters this collapse will create. The longer it drags on, the stronger the monsters will become. We can't stay here indefinitely."

Kiana frowned. If she had no other choice, she would have to use special methods to replenish her ammunition, but that would put a lot of strain on her body. Even if she replenished her ammunition, it would be difficult to replenish her physical strength in a short time.

When that time comes, I will really have to entrust my life to these two people. During that period of weakness, my combat power will be greatly reduced, which is equivalent to entrusting my life to others.

While they were thinking, the three of them suddenly heard something approaching at high speed not far away. It wasn't the sound of a train, but rather the sound of something flying through the air.

The three looked up and saw a mecha much larger than the mecha girls they had fought before, flying rapidly through the air.

"shit."

Kiana realized that this guy was probably an elite or boss-level character much stronger than the mobs she had encountered before, and that she was likely to face a tough battle now that she was short of ammunition.

"Damn it! If I hadn't been chased by a bunch of zombies while just collecting some supplies on my way to school, I wouldn't be in such a predicament now... No, I was just collecting some things that have nothing to do with the Honkai, so why was I chased by so many zombies? There must be something interfering with me... It was a very coincidental encounter with Raiden Mei. If it weren't for Honesty's help that distracted her from her out-of-control state at the time, allowing me to fight more easily, I would have definitely consumed more of my reserve ammunition and stamina."

"There's also that obviously strange white fox that's been assigned to the old school building. If I leave through the side gate of the school, I'll inevitably run into that fox there, and then a battle will break out, which will consume my supplies and strength."

"Then, we originally wanted to slow down the consumption of physical strength and ammunition, so we took the light rail route, but we didn't expect there to be so many mecha girls, which caused us to further deplete our own strength."

"When these factors are put together, then all these arrangements for the patient are being orchestrated by someone behind the scenes... If we can catch this big guy and examine him thoroughly, we might find information about the mastermind behind it all."

The giant mecha landed on the ground at that moment, and surprisingly, a little girl who looked to be no more than 10 years old was with her.

"Life signs detected, quantity 3, Honkai sign scan initiated."

The girl's voice was completely flat, sounding like an emotionless machine.

Why would a little girl be with a giant weapon?

Raiden Mei looked at the girl and the huge mecha unit behind her with a puzzled expression.

"Detection complete. Signs of collapse detected. Confirmed as target A for recovery. Execute countermeasures. Recovery operation commences."

Who exactly are you?

Kiana asked with a frown, though she was already prepared for battle at any moment.

"I am Bronya, the embedded general-purpose girl's decisive weapon, the carrier of Heavy Bunny."

They actually answered.

"Girl's weapon?"

Raiden Mei was somewhat puzzled.

However, there wasn't much time to think about it, because Bronya in front of her had already deployed her Heavy Bunny armor and seemed ready for battle.

For some reason, Cheng Xing's expression was slightly strange as he watched this scene. He had a feeling that a strangely familiar scene would happen next.

"Cheng Xing! Quickly use your foul mouth to draw aggro! We're running out of ammo, we have to make sure every bullet hits her!"

Kiana called out to Cheng Xing behind her.

"I knew this scene looked familiar."

Cheng Xing muttered to himself speechlessly, after all, the person he had been verbally abusing from the very beginning was Bronya... how come the script seems to be the same even in a different world?

Taking a deep breath, Cheng Xing's eyes turned a crimson hue as he prepared to examine Bronya's inner world in this world.

"Cocolia! I curse your ancestors for eighteen generations! You sow trampled by a thousand (beep) ten thousand! I beep! Beep! You!"

Everyone present watched in silence as Cheng Xing uttered vulgarities that sounded like thugs arguing in a street market, which shocked the two well-educated girls.

Cheng Xing was so angry because when he tried to use the Scarecrow's ability to see what Bronya feared in this world, he found that the girl in front of him had no emotions at all. All the nerves and thought circuits related to emotions in her body were mechanically suppressed and destroyed.

Cheng Xing also discovered that Bronya is currently being directly manipulated behind the scenes by a certain character in most cases... Do we even need to think about who that person is?

Even if this isn't the Bronya I know, even if this isn't my lover, and even if the connection between this world and me isn't actually that profound, I have absolutely no reason to be so angry.

But Cheng Xing is now burning with rage.

This is not only because the victim is Bronya, but also because of the disgust brought about by the experiment that so cruelly and tormented a child. It is something I have seen and experienced, and now someone is putting such things in front of me.

"No matter what world you're in, you're utterly hopeless!"

Some lines appeared on the back of Cheng Xing's hand, which were clearly visible to everyone present.

"Sacred Mark?"

Kiana had already anticipated this, but she was still somewhat surprised when the Stigmata actually appeared.

Chapter 165: I Believe in You

Although the anger in his heart was constantly consuming his reason, Cheng Xing knew that he could not completely abandon everything to use his ability to kill Cocolia because of this matter.

Doing that will not bring you any benefit, and may even endanger your life.

Therefore, he could only use some power to create this ability to simulate a holy mark. Fortunately, he had experienced various forms of training from the previous civilization, so although he did not understand the structure of holy marks, he could even say that he knew nothing about it.

However, with the Chimera Project and the Fusion Warrior Project as his foundation, he was still able to create a pseudo-stigma.

You can't say it's completely fake, because in a sense it is real, except that it differs from normal stigmata in that it's not something that can be recorded by the physical body.

In a sense, this thing was forged using the soul, an abnormal scientific concept.

"Simulated Sacred Marks - Fictional All Things".

Cheng Xing used the Vayte doll he possessed to deduce a portion of the Herrscher of Reason's power, and then used that power to inscribe a stigma on the back of his hand through the Honkai's workings.

The authenticity of this stigmata is unlikely to be revealed unless it is personally investigated by the consciousness of this world or directly analyzed by the End.

The system and operation of this Holy Mark are all traces of this world, and its power is not particularly outstanding. The world consciousness may have paid attention to this transmigrator before, but after confirming that there was nothing special about him, it should have stopped paying attention to him.

After all, the system is still dealing with Him.

"Unexplained interference detected, system error occurred... Re-establishing contact..."

Bronya's eyes were devoid of any light. Her modified body relied entirely on a brain chip for movement, but at this moment, inexplicable interference made it impossible for her to hear the program commands in the background. Now, with her mechanical way of thinking, she had completely lost her ability to act on her own.

The strange holy mark on the back of Cheng Xing's hand emitted specks of light. He was creating a kind of electromagnetic pulse around him through a construction method. This peculiar electromagnetic pulse had extremely strong penetrating power, capable of malfunctioning all the action chips in Bronya's brain, but not destroying them immediately.

"Kiana, I'm sorry, I did something impulsive again. I want to help this girl regain her own emotions."

Kiana, as expected, heard Cheng Xing's request and looked at the stigma on the back of his hand that would never fade, asking, "Is this your power? Even the fact that you were able to attack a Herrscher with a brick before, and that agile reaction and action... is it really okay to just expose it like this?"

"You could have kept this as your most precious trump card, but is it really okay to expose it for this girl? Even if you know that you won't get any benefit from helping her, you'll still be holding back."

"Cheng Xing, do you really believe that good deeds will be rewarded?"

Hearing this, Cheng Xing didn't look at Kiana's expression. Instead, he went to Bronya, who was standing still and unable to move due to the program crash. Just as he was about to get closer, the Heavy Bunny behind him took action on its own without hearing any program commands and raised its shield to block in front of him.

Cheng Xing raised his fake hand, which was covered in holy marks, and placed it on the shield.

Then the heavily armed bunny vanished into thin air like a phantom, leaving only the girl standing motionless in the spot.

"Kiana, when I help others, I never think about what I will gain... A long time ago, I almost lost my life helping others, but even so, I lost a lot. When I help others, I never think about what benefits it will bring. They really need my help. And I happen to be able to do it, so why shouldn't I do it? At least when they are saved because of it, when they can return to a normal life and show a happy smile, I will feel more satisfied than ever before."

Cheng Xing shut down all the brain chips that controlled Bronya's actions. As for destroying them, it would be better to do it surgically. Now that the girl wakes up, she should regain her ability to think and act on her own.

"...As expected, he's an unprecedentedly stupid idiot."

Although Kiana said this, the smile on her face did not reveal much helplessness.

Raiden Mei was also looking at Cheng Xing, who was helping others, and for some reason felt that this person was more genuine and better than those she had taught before.

Although this guy was indeed quite sarcastic before, let's forgive him since he always likes to help others.

Raiden Mei also felt sorry for Bronya's plight. Such a young girl had been transformed into a humanoid weapon. How much torture and pain had she endured? The person behind it all was far too heartless.

Kiana stepped forward and picked up Bronya, who was standing there in a daze, and then said, "Let's get out of here quickly. The original light rail probably can't run anymore. Even if this guy isn't a particularly important person, he definitely has a secret experimental subject. If we stay here on the light rail, we'll probably only face a continuous onslaught from the enemy. We have to get into the city. We probably can't leave here anytime soon."

"Even if that organization can't find us in the city, as long as they send a large number of mechanical weapons to surround the city, they will be discovered instantly when we try to leave. At that time, we will probably be facing a true legion."