Collapse, Kaslana's Way of Survival

Does it really take so much time just to buy salt?

With a bad premonition in his heart, Keno rushed out of the shrine.

The villagers' warnings to Yae Sakura echoed in his mind throughout the day. Just as a game's "bad end" suddenly casts a shadowy shadow, the sudden and bizarre changes in the world made it hard for Kaino not to worry that Yae Sakura had met her end.

"Calm down and think carefully." Taking a deep breath, Kainuo continued to hypnotize himself. "Normally, the villagers' bodies shouldn't be moved by anyone. If that's the case, those villagers were able to carry them all the way to the shrine. They must have been instructed by... who cares? In this situation, I have no right to guess!"

No longer concerned about the impact on the villagers of Yae Village, a strong wind suddenly roared up, strong enough to sweep across the entire village. Almost all the buildings within Kaino's sight collapsed, and in an instant, the village was no longer accessible to his wind.

"The houses are empty, the shops are empty, the pharmacies are empty... the castle tower!"

Keno, who finally caught a glimpse of a figure, took a deep breath, and with the help of thunder and strong wind, he rushed towards the tall attic in Yae Village at the fastest speed.

The reckless consumption of Honkai energy and the extraordinary power support naturally gave Kayno extremely strong mobility. In less than two seconds, Kayno arrived at the gate of the castle tower.

And he saw clearly the figure that he had discovered before using his power.

Yaezakura.

Yaezakura is in a very miserable and strange condition.

The once neatly-knit miko's attire was now tattered, its white cloth stained crimson with endless blood. Sakura Fubuki, who should have been lying quietly in its scabbard, now clutched the blade with her back to him. The nearly dried blood still dripped from it, as if to tell of the blade's downfall.

What caught Kaynor's attention the most were the two ears that stood up high on the other person's head, and the pair of scarlet eyes that were clearly distraught but also crazy and bloodthirsty...

And the aura that was extremely familiar to Kaino that surrounded the girl.

Kaino opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

“…Ah, Kaino, you’re here.”

As if she finally noticed Kayno's arrival, Yae Sakura slowly raised her head, forced out a half-smile, and slowly approached Kayno.

The girl's slightly tired tranquility still flickered in the depths of her scarlet eyes, but floating on the outside, covering it up, was a terrifying murderous intent.

"I'm sorry, something happened so I couldn't buy the salt, and I made you come all the way to find me."

"Besides, I probably won't be able to make dinner in my current state."

"If you're not picky, I can do it, but..." Kaino suppressed the fear in his heart and was slightly alert, but his body remained standing and did not retreat. "Ying, do you mind telling me what happened?"

Yaezakura lowered her head upon hearing this, with an expression of fatigue on her face.

"Rin, died again."

Kainuo didn't say anything, waiting quietly for the other party to tell the story.

"Led by my biological father, they dug Rin's coffin out of the grave and dug out her bones in front of me." As she spoke, Yaesakura's eyes became more and more empty, and her limbs became more and more mechanical and stiff.

"They wanted me to agree to go up to the altar voluntarily to avoid being besieged by monsters in Yae Village? Huan Chang? I refused, and they chopped her body into pieces right in front of me. I watched helplessly as her bones broke into pieces, and finally they ground them into powder—"

"I killed them."

"I can see that."

Kaino stared at Yaezakura and said.

Even without mentioning the corpses and blood exposed from the castle tower, the strong smell of blood in the air clearly indicated the one-sided killing that had taken place not long ago.

Yae Sakura stopped two meters away from Kaino, raised her head and looked at Kaino lifelessly.

"So I..."

"So how long do you want to keep pretending?"

Kainuo interrupted the other party directly.

Yaesakura's half-open mouth trembled twice, then slowly closed and revealed a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and mockery.

The traces of Yae Sakura and the unconcealable dejection on the other person disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only the breath that made Kaino feel extremely familiar.

"People... no. Kaino, tell me, how did you know I wasn't the Yaesakura you knew?" Yaesakura tilted her head and looked at Kaino curiously. "A girl filled with despair, losing the will to live and gradually turning into a deadly warrior—I think I played the role well."

"Isn't this world all yours?" Kainuo sneered. "Of course, I was just trying to trick you when the situation wasn't right. I didn't expect you to fall for it so easily. You're as foolish as Ying's biological father."

Yaesakura's smile froze and then slowly disappeared, and the murderous intent in her bloodthirsty red eyes became even stronger.

"I hate you." Yae Sakura raised the demon sword in her hand and said blankly: "Whether it's your face that makes people feel sick, or this name that sounds like it's for a dead person."

"What a coincidence." Kainuo smiled. "Even though I don't know your name, these donkey ears and that touching IQ make me want to laugh."

Yaezakura's eyes flashed, and she took a step forward and swung her sword.

"Go—"

With disbelief in her eyes, Yaesakura looked down at her chest.

In the distance, Keno's figure was still standing there, but an invisible long sword rose from the void and pierced her heart.

"Look." Kainuo's voice rang out from the empty space in front of her. "I told you you were stupid."

In an instant, the whole world turned into pieces and disappeared without a trace.

The world turned dark again.

——Until Kayno opened his eyes again.

"We're out of salt in the kitchen, so I'm going to the store to buy some...Kaino, are you okay?"

It was still night, and Yae Sakura looked at Kainuo who was standing there in a daze with a worried look on her face.

"Ah..." Kainuo finally came back to his senses.

Looking at the scene in front of him, which was extremely familiar except for the panicked Yaezakura, Kaino took a long breath.

"I should be fine." Kainuo glanced at the nun's uniform hanging on the clothesline in the yard and curled his lips. "I'm just a little shocked... and I feel a little stupid."

Chapter 171 "Li Dai Tao Jiang"

"Kaino, what are you talking about?" Yaesakura looked puzzled, with worry hidden in her brows: "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with your body?"

"Really, really no problem."

Kainuo looked away, feeling a bit amused.

"And putting that aside... Sakura, did you find anything else on me when you pulled me out of the water?"

As he spoke, Kaino gestured twice in the air with his hands.

"Like a little purple box or something?"

Keno was puzzled as to why he was wearing a female nun's uniform after being pulled out of the water. In the end, he just thought it was the master of this spiritual world trying to disgust him.

However, the familiar aura that he had felt from Yaezakura before completely overturned this guess.

The female nun's uniform, the Yae Village of hundreds of years ago, and the breath of the Herrscher of Corrosion that felt particularly familiar to him, these clues were enough to complete the loop perfectly.

Because the textbooks were embellished, the other Valkyries of Destiny might not be very familiar with it. However, having heard the priest speak many words and even participated in the performance many times, Kayno was very familiar with this history.

Kallen, the Holy Maiden of Destiny, stole the box that sealed the Herrscher of Corrosion and attempted to take it to Shenzhou to have it destroyed by the Red Kite Immortal.

If nothing unexpected happens, I should have replaced the identity of Kallen in this period of history. This can just explain the appearance of the female nun's uniform and why I was pulled into this spiritual world at the moment of the collapse.

Although it is not clear why Otto did not act with Kallen in this world and why Kallen, who was looking for the Red Tope Sage, finally appeared in a stream in a remote village in the far east, this set of inferences can indeed fully explain it.

In this case, the purple box that seals the Herrscher of Corrosion must undoubtedly be the breaking point for this world.

only……

"No, not really."

After thinking for a while, Yaezakura shook her head.

"I'm sorry, it wasn't just you. As far as I can remember, there wasn't any purple box near you at the time."

"No?"

Keno frowned.

Shouldn't it?

After analyzing the Ruler of Corrosion with the priest for several years, he still didn't make a mistake in identifying him.

But if you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with it. It is quite reasonable for the Ruler of Erosion to hide his weakness in this spiritual space.

But if this is the case...

Hearing the sound of Yae Sakura, whose body was completely taken over by the Herrscher of Corrosion, Kainuo rubbed his temples and looked up at her.

If that's the case, then the breaking point is indeed with the other party.

"Is that little box something important?" Yaesakura's face was still filled with worry. "Is it a token given to you by your friend, Kaino? A way for you to contact each other? Or..."

"No, it's nothing. I must have remembered it wrongly." Kainuo coughed lightly and quickly passed on the topic. "Speaking of which, Ying, aren't you going to buy salt? If you're any later, you won't be able to buy it, right?"

"If it's really something precious, it's more important to find it first, right? Besides, even if the store is closed, it's more than... Never mind, I understand." Yaezakura sighed, "Then I'll be leaving first. You can rest in the shrine for a while."

She saw that Kainuo didn't want to say more about this matter, so she simply stopped asking.

Just after turning around and taking two steps towards the door, Yae Sakura stopped and looked at Kaino who was following her with a puzzled look:

"Kaino, you want to come with me?"

"It's nighttime, and I'm worried you'll get into danger alone." Kainuo blinked. "If we walk together, we can always look after each other."

"Just going to buy a bag of salt..."

"When my sister was little, she almost got lost while just buying some instant noodles. If it weren't for the older sisters nearby who recognized her, she would never have come back."

After staring at Kaino's serious emerald eyes for five seconds, Yae Sakura finally sighed as if admitting defeat.

"Okay, let's go together."

Although she didn't know what instant noodles were, she could feel Kainuo's determination to follow her.

Feeling inexplicably tired, Yaesakura turned around wearily and led Kaino behind her towards the Yaemura convenience store.

"Speaking of which, why didn't I see your father today, Yaesakura?"

As if casually bringing it up, Kaino asked Yaezakura, "Does your village still hold meetings two days in a row?"

Yaezakura paused, then continued to move forward slowly.

"Situations like this don't usually happen in Yae Village unless something major happens. And since I was born, this has only happened two or three times. It seems the sudden increase in the number of monsters this time has really scared them."

Noticing the unnaturalness in Yaesakura's words, Kainuo couldn't help but frowned and turned his head to stare at Yaesakura's profile for a while, but he couldn't find anything unusual on her face.

Kaino couldn't be sure whether Yaesakura had guessed the others in the village wanted to use her for the ritual.

After all, unlike Kaino, who had only been in Yae Village for three days, Yae Sakura, who had witnessed her sister being sacrificed with her own eyes, should not have any expectations of the villagers' moral bottom line.

But it doesn’t matter whether you guessed it or not.

"Miko, come with us."

Not far ahead of where Kaino and Yae Sakura were, the three villagers who had come to cause trouble during the day blocked the road, with a hint of pride and sarcasm on their faces.

However, Yaezakura ignored them and continued walking forward with a normal expression, as if she hadn't seen the three people.

"Your sister's remains are in our hands. If you don't want anything unpleasant to happen, just follow us."

The footsteps suddenly stopped.

"I see."

Looking at Yaesakura who was ignoring the others and walking further and further away, and the few feathers floating around her, Kainuo breathed a sigh of relief and said to the three people not far in front of him.

Similar to Yaezakura's situation, there were also three or two pieces of Yu Duchen floating in the air and slowly rotating around him, so that anyone who looked at him from any angle could be affected by the Yu Duchen.

All I can say is that he is worthy of being the invincible Yu Duchen. Even in the spiritual space constructed by a Herrscher, he can still easily influence others and Yaezakura, who is parasitized by the Herrscher whose mind has been eroded.

After hearing Kainuo's answer, the smile on the face of the villager who was the leader of the three became even wider.

He first clenched his fists and took a step forward, but after taking a look at Kainuo's waist, he immediately showed a hint of fear, smacked his lips, and turned around first.

"Follow us and don't try to play tricks."

Chapter 172 Do you really think Kaslana won’t kill anyone?

Soon, Kainuo followed a few people to the castle tower of Yaemura.

A dozen people were talking in front of the castle tower, but when they saw Kaino disguised as Yae Sakura being brought over, they all suddenly quieted down and stopped talking.

After a while, two people came out of the crowd and walked straight towards him.

The leader was an old man with a white beard that Kaino had never seen before. He was likely the headman of Yae Village. Following him was someone Kaino did recognize; it was Yae Sakura's biological father, whom he had met once before.