The world is broken, my Valkyrie is doubled

Hmm... But maybe it's the opposite. He might bless me instead and hand over the position of bishop to me and Kallen?

But don't think too much about this, and focus on the present matter. Wang Chen said: "I didn't tell you these things before because my memory is incomplete, and this information comes from my memory, so it will take a while to explain it. So I concealed it from you."

"It's okay. I feel dizzy just thinking about these things. As I said before, Captain, I will not care too much about your private life for now. What's important now is, what is the truth about this space, what is the purpose of that Herrscher? What is his relationship with Miss Yaesakura? Do you know, Captain?" Theresa asked.

"The Corrosion Herrscher is essentially an invisible consciousness without a body. If its purpose has not changed, it should want to completely defeat Yae Sakura's mind, assimilate her, and take over her body. This is why this space appeared." Wang Chen said, "But, this is just my previous memory. At that time, there was only one Herrscher, the Corrosion Herrscher. But now, there is another Herrscher of the Thousand who has also intervened in this matter."

Afterwards, Wang Chen informed Theresa of the information he had discovered from the rules that the two Herrs were cooperating with each other but were secretly competing against each other. After sharing most of the information, both of them fell into deep thought for a while.

"As far as the current situation is concerned, protecting Yaezakura has become the most critical thing. Especially since tomorrow's grand festival will be the ending of Yaezakura, the ending of this space, right?" Theresa said.

"Well, we don't have much time left. We have two things we must do immediately." Wang Chen said, "First, protect or even save Yae Sakura's heart. Second, find that strange clergyman. She is very likely a student of Chiba Academy who survived multiple rounds. She must have information that we don't know."

"Come to think of it, we still haven't met our previous companions... They should have all entered this world. Could it be that there is more than one such space? Did the others fall into other places?" Theresa reminded.

"It's possible. I'm going to help you find the way home later, so I can investigate the boundaries of this space. By the way, take Karen with you. Karen is also the key to this incident." Wang Chen said.

Theresa gave Wang Chen a strange look, but didn't say much. Then she frowned and looked at the puppet that suddenly appeared on Wang Chen's shoulder, and said, "You said before that this puppet is the spy of the Thousand Herrscher, why is it still..."

"There's no other way. Even if we destroy this puppet now, there will be new unknown spies hiding nearby. It's better to control it like this." Wang Chen shrugged and said, "And strangely enough, since I put on this puppet, the erosion effect of the Herrscher has weakened a lot on me."

Chapter 102: Finding a Way Out of the Village

"Now are we going to help this little sister find the way home? But without Miss Yaesakura's guidance, can she find the way?" Karen said when she saw Wang Chen and Theresa coming over, and heard that Wang Chen wanted to find the way to the village.

"Let's look for her. Yaezakura hasn't come back yet, and it seems like it will take her a long time to deal with the village affairs in a short time." Wang Chen said.

"Okay, then let's go look for it first. Once things here are dealt with, we can continue on our way. After all, the guy in the box still needs to be properly dealt with." Karin said.

"Box... Karen, what's the current condition of the box?" After hearing Karen talking about this thing, Wang Chen remembered that the Corrosion Ruler of the previous civilization was originally placed in this box. The box was specially created by Dr. Mei to seal the Corrosion Ruler.

"It's a pity that Dr. Mei is not here, otherwise I could ask her how she installed the bell in the first place, or ask her to help make an identical thing." Wang Chen thought.

"The box is here." Karin took the box out of her bag. Wang Chen looked at the black box and then scanned it using the command system.

"Ding - Black Box (Illusion) (Opened): An artifact that can be used to isolate Honkai energy and completely seal the consciousness inside. It was once used to imprison the Herrscher of Corrosion, and is currently empty."

"Tsk, it's gone as expected. But it makes sense. Now this space was built by the Herrscher of Erosion. Even if the box has not been opened, it is estimated that there is no item inside. And using an illusory thing, it is obviously impossible to put the real Herrscher of Erosion in." Wang Chen thought.

So Wang Chen asked Kallen to put it away and told her to keep it properly, then he set out to find a way out of the village.

"Black box... I remember there was a record that when Saint Kallen left her destiny, she took a black box with her. What was in that thing?" While walking on the road, Theresa secretly asked Wang Chen about the inspection of the black box that she had just seen under the help of the synchronous link.

"It contains the enemy we are facing now—the Corrosion Ruler." Wang Chen said lightly.

"What? So the Herrscher of Corrosion is in that black box? Doesn't that mean that what is happening in Yae Village right now, and the Herrscher of Corrosion trying to devour Yae Sakura's body..."

"Well, it's just as you thought. It was all caused by the leak of the black box, including the reason why we are facing this enemy now. It is also a derivative of that incident." Wang Chen said slowly, "At the end of that story, Kallen used her power to re-seal the Herrscher of Corrosion. But now it seems that I guess the monster has broken the seal again and joined forces with the Thousand Herrschers. So the Yae Sakura in reality has been paying attention to this matter and hopes that we can defeat each other."

"In other words, even now, the Herrscher is still trying to seize the body of Yaezakura in the real world? And is the Yaezakura in this space a reflection of her soul in the real world?" Theresa asked.

"That should be the case." Although Wang Chen answered Theresa like this, he knew in his heart that the relationship between the two was not that simple. However, the current information could only make such an inference.

"So that's why you said that the key to defeating the Herrscher is whether we can protect Yae Sakura. Tsk, so it seems that we have been used by that Yae Sakura outside?" Theresa felt a little unhappy, and then said, "Forget it, but think about it carefully, this miko is also a miserable person. It is estimated that she and the Herrscher have tortured each other for 500 years. It's good enough that she didn't go crazy."

The conversation with Theresa came to an abrupt end, and both sides had no more questions. So along the way, the three of them chatted with each other, walked on the mountain path, and began to look for a way out of the village. Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the sun was already high above the head, and it was already noon.

"Chen, what's going on with this village? The only way to find a road is to form a circle. There is no way out of the village at all?" Karin frowned and said when she saw that they were back to the entrance of the village.

After walking for a whole morning, Wang Chen and the other two had circled the village several times. As Karen said, all the forks and branches would eventually lead to the village. If they wanted to avoid the normal roads and go far away from the village, they would find that there was either endless dense forest outside or blocked by rivers and mountain walls.

"Come to think of it, we floated here from the river, so why don't we walk along the river and chop trees?" Wang Chen suggested.

"That's right, let's walk along the river." Karen nodded, and the three of them first came to the river at the entrance of the village, and then walked upstream along the river bank. The river was on the left side of the three of them, and the Zhuque Slope on the back mountain was on the right side.

But after walking for a while, they stopped and saw a waterfall in front of them. It was obvious that their way forward was blocked. If they wanted to move forward, they had to climb up the mountain wall.

"It looks like we have to go back. And to be honest, even if we go upstream, we may not be able to find little Theresa's way home. I remember you found this child in the back mountain, right?" Karen asked, with her hands on her hips.

"Yes. So you think there might be a road in the back mountain, right?" Wang Chen asked.

"Well, after all, for now, there is no good road for outside merchants to enter the village, and the only option left is the back mountain. I heard from Miss Yaezakura that in the past, there were still traveling merchants coming to their village from time to time, so there must be a road leading to the outside world." Karin said.

"Okay, then let's go to the back mountain to take a look." Wang Chen nodded. It just so happened that the progress bar displayed by the system still had a section left. If something new could be explored in the back mountain, the progress bar should be completely filled up, thus finding a strategy to crack this world.

"Useless big brother, there is indeed a boundary in the entire space, but the road to the boundary has basically been blocked by the two of them." Suddenly, Lin's voice came into Wang Chen's ears.

"Lin? Are you awake?" Wang Chen quickly used electromagnetic force to encrypt the voice 2 and spoke to the black feather hanging beside his ear.

"Well, I have recovered a little bit of my energy... but it's noon now, so it might be a bit difficult." Yae Rin's voice sounded a little tired, but she continued to add, "If you want to go to the border, you can only complete the events in this space and reach the ending. Many students have successfully opened the door to the next space in this way."

"As long as the event is accomplished and the ending is reached, that's all? From what you said, it seems that after these three days, there will be more than one ending?" Wang Chen asked Yae Rin as he and the three of them walked towards the back mountain.

"Well... the story of these three days will eventually lead to different endings based on the results chosen by everyone. Some people successfully offer the correct sacrifice and enter the next world, while some people anger their sister and eventually lead to a more tragic ending. Some even trigger a grand sacrifice in advance and sacrifice everyone..." As she spoke, Yae Rin's voice trembled, and finally she said, "Up to now, there are not many people left in the entire reincarnation. The eldest brother and the short sister are the newest people to come in."

"Then do you know where those students went?" Wang Chen asked hurriedly.

"I don't know, but without exception, most of them were taken to the border. And then they disappeared." Yae Rin said.

"Most of the time?" Wang Chen keenly noticed the descriptive word used by Yae Rin.

"Yes... there is another part... Because what they did was too terrible, their hearts have been twisted and broken. They have reached the standards of doll ladies or fox demons, and in the end, almost all of them have been assimilated into aliens." Yae Rin sighed and said.

Chapter 103 The Result of Alienation

Hearing this, Wang Chen's mood sank. In other words, when he entered this world, there were already victims, and some students had already become like dead soldiers and could no longer be saved.

"Are those alienated students still in this space? Or have they been taken to other places?" Wang Chen asked.

"They are still here, and you may have even come into contact with them. Look at the doll on your shoulder." Yae Rin said slowly.

"You mean, they all turned into dolls like this?" Wang Chen was shocked and looked at the golden-haired doll on his shoulder and said.

"Yes, but some of them turned into foxes." Yae Rin said, "In the original world, although there were foxes and puppets, their functions were actually very limited. After all, they were purely fake things. As long as one had a strong will, he could defeat the other party. And even if they were used as props in the hands of people with special identities, they were disposable props. Basically, they would dissipate and break after being used once."

"But the puppet on big brother's shoulder is obviously different. It is not an illusion, but a product of the alienation of living consciousness. Therefore, every time it uses its power or is used as a prop, it will only go dormant and will not dissipate. After all, it was a living person before." Yae Rin said.

"That is to say... except for the clergyman with strange behavior, all the students who remain in this space have basically turned into more lethal and practical puppets or foxes?" Wang Chen took the puppet off his shoulder, carefully examined it, and finally sighed and asked, "Is there no way to change it back?"

"There is no way, the alienation is complete. They have been imprisoned under this appearance, and their behavior and thoughts are controlled by the puppet sister and the fox demon. It is better to become a puppet. Sometimes the puppet sister will temporarily loosen the thin strings tied to them and let them free for a while. But those guys who turned into foxes basically became beasts who only knew how to kill. Their mental will." Yae Rin said slowly.

"Even if we destroy the puppet sister and the fox demon, those alienated humans can't be transformed back. Instead, they will die due to the loss of support."

"Tsk..." Wang Chen looked at the doll in his hand. She must have been a cute girl with golden hair, but now she has completely become a Herrscher of the Thousands, and can never be the same again. Recalling the Yuno incident not long ago, Wang Chen knew the pain of being transformed by Honkai, the pain of being unable to control oneself and eventually leading to self-destruction.

When he thought of this, Wang Chen felt as if there was an unknown fire in his heart that could not be extinguished.

"Chen? What's wrong with you? You look so unhappy? And you're still holding this doll." Suddenly, Karen's worried voice reached Wang Chen's ears. Wang Chen then noticed that Karen and Theresa had stopped moving forward and were looking at Wang Chen with some concern.

"Sorry... I'm fine. Where are you now? Kallen." Wang Chen put the blonde doll back on his shoulder and asked.

"We're already near the foot of Zhuquepo Mountain. If we go further, we'll be back to the bridge across the river at the entrance of the back village." Seeing that Wang Chen didn't give a specific reason, Karen didn't ask any more questions, but answered.

"That's the road that will soon lead us to Zhuquepo on the back mountain. Let's go, let's find the road quickly so that we can go back to the shrine for lunch." Wang Chen said.

Kallen nodded, and the three of them continued to walk side by side. Theresa secretly poked Wang Chen's thigh at this moment, and then, under the effect of the synchronous link, she transmitted her voice: "What happened just now? I heard your inner voice become particularly chaotic, and the anger kept coming to me. Is it because of the puppet?"

"Well... I may have found a student from Senyu Academy, but unfortunately..." Wang Chen immediately told Theresa the information he had just discovered and briefly introduced the matter of Yae Rin.

“Wha…what? That puppet is actually…no wonder you are so angry.” After Theresa understood the whole story, she clenched her fists and said, “I understand how you feel, but now that things have come to this, all we can do is save all the remaining people. We must defeat those two Herrschers.”

"Yes, I know, Theresa. Don't worry, I'm fine." Wang Chen responded.

"However, Rin-chan also appeared in this world. But why is she in the form of a ghost? Shouldn't the space here be the experience and memory of Yaezakura outside 500 years ago? Isn't Rin-chan still alive and well in reality? Could it be that what Teriri saw in reality was also a ghost!!" Suddenly, Theresa was shocked by her own thoughts.

"It shouldn't be that simple. This is also what I'm confused about. But now there's one more person who can provide clues, which is undoubtedly a help to us." Wang Chen said.

"That's right, you gave me such important information right at the beginning. Although it's not good news." Theresa said, "Then you continue to inquire about the information, and I will attract Lady Kallen's attention. Otherwise, Lady Kallen will probably be suspicious if she sees you talking so mysteriously all the time."

"Wait, everyone, look, is that Miss Miko?" Suddenly, Karen made a surprised sound. After hearing it, Wang Chen and Theresa immediately adjusted their attention and looked in the direction Karen pointed. They saw Yae Sakura fighting with a huge fox demon on the cliff not far ahead, and behind Yae Sakura, there was a man wearing a hood who looked like a villager.

"How could this be? The monster on the back mountain has been eliminated, so why is there still one?" Theresa asked puzzled after looking at it.

"Chen, Miss Miko needs our help, we...ah! Chen, wait for me!" Karin was about to tell Wang Chen that the two of them would go to help Yae Sakura, but before she could finish her words, she found that Wang Chen had rushed up in a hurry, so she hurriedly chased after him.

Why was Wang Chen so anxious that he didn't even have time to say hello to Kallen? That was because Wang Chen not only noticed that Yae Sakura was fighting with the fox demon, but he also noticed that the villager behind Yae Sakura, although he seemed to be frightened and fell to the ground, reached into his arms and took out something like a doll.

Wang Chen immediately realized who the other party was. There was only one person who was so familiar with the use of rule products and had such a strong hostility towards the miko Yaezakura... that was the strange clergyman from last night! He was also the only student of Qianyu Academy in this space who had not been alienated.

"Ms. Yaesakura, be careful behind you!" Wang Chen shouted.

"Behind?" Yae Sakura heard Wang Chen's voice. She saw Wang Chen's figure appear at the foot of the mountain and run towards her. Her years of life and death experience fighting monsters immediately allowed her to make the correct judgment. She turned around immediately, and the sword in her hand was ready to go after her body rotated.

"Ding——" A crisp sound of metal collision was heard, and a monster appeared behind him at some point.

"Xiaosheng, why?!" Yaezakura obviously noticed who was behind this and immediately questioned the hooded man behind the monster.

"It's not just a small victory for me." A familiar voice suddenly came from the mouth of the person opposite. However, after hearing this voice, Yae Sakura was struck by lightning and was almost hit by the monster's next knife.

"This sound is...how is it possible!" Yaezakura said with a trembling voice.

"Oh? Don't you even recognize this voice?" At this time, the hooded villager took off his hood, and a girl with pink hair and a cute face like a porcelain doll appeared in front of Yaesakura.

However, it was this expression that completely made Yaesakura unable to focus on the two monsters. She stared blankly at the girl in front of her and slowly said:

"Is that you, Rin?"

Chapter 104 True and False Yae Rin

Wang Chen was still on his way to catch up, and when he found that the villager on the cliff took off his hood and revealed his true face, he was also suddenly shocked. Why did the other person look exactly like Yae Rin? If she is Yae Rin, then who is the person on my ear?

But compared to these, Wang Chen had a worse premonition in his heart. Thinking of the other party's killing intention towards Yaezakura, and seeing that Yaezakura had begun to lose her fighting spirit and could no longer seriously block the monster's attack, Wang Chen immediately realized the danger of the current situation and activated his "transcendence power" without thinking.

On the cliff, the girl with the same face as "Yae Rin" smiled and said, "Sister, this is the end of you. Don't resist anymore. Think about the crimes you have committed. Do you still have the qualifications to continue living?"

Hearing the other party's words, Yae Sakura seemed to have lost her soul, and the sword in her hand became weaker and weaker. Then she was hit on the back by the monster's claws and fell to the ground, with three blood marks on her back. Yae Sakura barely climbed up, she saw the fox opened its mouth and prepared to spit out flames, and the other monster was about to tear her apart with its claws. The instinct for survival made Yae Sakura raise the sword to resist.

"Sister, this is the punishment." The girl had an angelic face, but whispered like a devil: "Let's stop here, just think of it as for my own good, okay? I want you to die."

"Okay..." Suddenly, Yae Sakura laughed. Perhaps she had been waiting for this day for a long time, waiting for someone to punish her for her sins. Now being killed by her own sister was the retribution she had always wanted. In the end, Yae Sakura gave up. She put down her sword, closed her eyes, gave up the idea of ​​living, and waited for the monster to kill her.

"Ding--"

However, the sound was not the sound of claws piercing flesh, but the sound of metal hitting each other. Yaezakura opened her eyes and found that Wang Chen appeared in front of her and blocked the monster's attack. He was so far away before, how did he get here?

"Why...why did you save me?" Yaesakura asked in confusion.

"It's just rescuing people, why are there so many whys? Then should I ask you why you pulled us out of the river?" Wang Chen blocked the monster's attack, then chopped back at Yaezakura's back. A lightning arc swung out from the greatsword, splitting a huge fireball and shattering it.

"I don't know what happened to you. But remember Miss Miko." Wang Chen picked up the sword, lightning flashed in his hand, and then said, "Life should not be given up easily, even if that life belongs to you. At least, those who care about you will definitely not want to see you give up on yourself."

"At this point...is there anyone who still cares about me?" Yaezakura said, shaking her head bitterly.

"Yes? Otherwise, how do you think I could have jumped here so quickly? So, just treat it as a reward for my hard work to run here, okay? Give me--" Wang Chen gathered fierce lightning, his voice as heavy as thunder, and roared: "Live well!"

In an instant, with a flash of lightning, the greatsword smashed the body of the virtual skeleton, cut off the head of the fox demon, and the two monsters collapsed to the ground with a bang.

Yaezakura sat on the ground, staring blankly at Wang Chen's gesture of smashing the monster and recalling what Wang Chen had just said. A strange emotion was planted deep in her heart, a little numb, but also made her feel at ease.

Wang Chen then looked at the girl with the face of "Yae Rin" and said, "Do you want to continue?"

"Damn it! Where on earth did you come from? Haha, just wait and see!" After saying that, the girl disappeared again the next moment.

"Is there teleportation here? Tsk, or is there no teleportation array, and she was simply able to escape by teleporting?" Wang Chen cursed inwardly. Next time, he would use the power of transcendence to get close to the other party as soon as possible and knock her out directly.

"Don't worry, she can't escape, big brother. The other party is using the puppet channel. As long as you are in the corresponding position, hold the puppet, and silently say the four words "open the channel" in your heart, you can open the channel for transmission." Suddenly, Yae Rin's voice appeared in Wang Chen's ears and said.

"Is that so? No wonder." Wang Chen was about to pick up the doll on his shoulder to give it a try, but when he saw that Yaezakura was still injured, he said, "Don't worry, heal your sister's injury first."

"Sorry." Wang Chen came behind Yaezakura and used the power of Origin to inject it into Yaezakura's back to neutralize the Honkai energy in the three scratches.

"Chen! How is Miss Yaesakura?" At this time, Karin also climbed up and asked after seeing the bodies of the two monsters lying on the ground and Wang Chen treating Yaesakura.

"It's nothing serious. I have already neutralized the erosion of Honkai energy. What's left are just some flesh wounds." Wang Chen said, "That's great. Kallen, take Miss Yaezakura back to the shrine to rest. I'll go after the murderer."

"Okay, be careful, Chen," Kallen warned.

"Yes." Then, Wang Chen came to the cliff, took out the puppet in his hand, and then silently said in his heart: "Open the passage."

The next moment, Wang Chen felt his whole body tremble, and then he found that the surrounding scenery had changed. At this moment, he actually appeared in the cemetery area in the back mountain.

Wang Chen immediately realized that he had completed the transfer, and then immediately used electromagnetic induction to explore the surrounding life forms. The other party should not be able to run far. Soon, he was outside the cemetery, on the road to the logging area, and sensed a human figure walking in a certain direction.

Without saying anything, Wang Chen immediately chased after him, and at the same time began to use the power of magnetic field rotation to cover his entire body with a layer of optical camouflage, hiding his figure. Then, Wang Chen directly locked onto the "Yae Rin" who was still manipulating around and sneakily put on his hood again.

This time, Wang Chen did not say anything, and slashed the opponent's neck with his knife, trying to knock him out. Everything was perfect, and the opponent did not notice his approach and attack at all. Just when Wang Chen thought the incident was over, suddenly, a puppet appeared in front of Wang Chen's knife, and purple-black flames appeared on the puppet, blocking Wang Chen's knife, which also startled the opponent.

"Who!" The other party immediately jumped away and turned around. After seeing a purple-black flame burning in the air, he angrily said, "Damn it, are there any new monsters appearing? Fortunately... fortunately, she is here to protect me."

At this time, Wang Chen also took off his optical camouflage, and looked at the purple-black flame in his hand with a cold face.

"It's you again! You come out to obstruct us time and again! Where on earth did you come from...!!!"