The world is broken, my Valkyrie is doubled

"Then let's fight!" It has been a long time since I have experienced this, using low-level combat power to challenge a powerful Honkai beast. Recalling the weaknesses of the Honkai Emperor, Wang Chen took a deep breath. Purple flames wrapped around the greatsword of the Divine Fire Trial. Then Wang Chen took the sword, stomped hard with his uninjured leg, rushed towards the Honkai Emperor, and began to fight with him.

However, just as Wang Chen began his life-and-death struggle with the Emperor of Collapse, a huge throne appeared in the distant sky. A woman with long purple hair reaching the ground was sitting on the throne with a comfortable look on her face, watching everything with a smile on her face.

"You're still the same as always, Joker." The woman smiled slightly, then glanced at the sky and murmured, "Well, it seems that Xiao Qianren's attention is all on him, and no one cares about Xiao Jiuxiao. Then let me provide these pictures I just saw to Xiao Jiuxiao to give her a little encouragement."

Then the throne disappeared in the sky, and the woman also disappeared.

In the next moment, in a dark space, the woman appeared again. She lit a candle, and the tiny candlelight illuminated the space. Not far in front of the woman, a purple-haired girl, her pupils lost focus, knelt on the ground, but her hands were straight. At first glance, it was found that there were two chains connected to her hands. It seemed that the other party's hands were hung up by the chains.

But if you look closely, it's not the chain that locks the wrist, but the girl's hand tightly grasps the chain and wraps it around the entire arm. It seems that she is dragging something.

The girl kept murmuring from time to time: "It hurts... I'm so... tired..." The voice sounded very numb.

Seeing this scene, the woman got down from her chair and slowly came to the girl.

As if she heard someone coming, the girl's murmur changed slightly, and she said: "No... give up... give up?... No..."

"You have been arguing all the time. Jiuxiao has tried very hard. Come, I have something you like to watch." The woman snapped her fingers, and a TV appeared, broadcasting the process of Wang Chen's arrival in this consciousness space.

"Look... your prince charming, your best aibo, he's here to save you." The woman's tone was full of teasing, but after hearing the word "aibo", the girl unexpectedly reacted: "aibo...aibo!"

The voice was no longer as numb as before, and even the pupils regained some color. The woman was very satisfied with the effect, nodded, and then said: "So, Jiuxiao-chan, you must hold on for a while, keep working hard and wait, the miracle will soon bear fruit."

"Who... are... you?" The girl asked with difficulty, seeming to have regained some consciousness.

"Heh... I don't like to introduce myself a second time. You should focus on resisting the tricks of the little thousand people." The woman said, "You just made some movements, and it looks like you will be discovered by the little thousand people. Then I'll take my leave first, and you keep working hard."

As soon as the words fell, the woman's figure, the TV, and the throne all disappeared in this space. Then, a crack was heard in the space, and a figure with golden hair and twin ponytails and a body like a puppet walked in with a cold face. His identity was obvious - it was the Herrscher of the Thousand.

Chapter 109: Thousand Herrschers and Jiuxiao

"Heh, there was a sudden movement. I thought you made the right choice." The Herrscher of the Thousands came to Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple. Seeing that she was still holding the two chains tightly in her hands, he sneered and continued:

"It seems that you also sensed his arrival, right? Tsk tsk... You were about to turn into a wooden man without the ability to think, but now you have regained some vitality?"

"How evil!" The Thousand-Man Ruler cursed, then raised his hand and swung it down. The chain wrapped around Jiuxiao's left hand of Penglai Temple broke with a loud bang, and then a shrill scream came from not far away.

"The criminal should be killed." Qian Lu didn't even look at the fate of the screaming man. He waved his hand upwards, and the chain that was originally wrapped around Penglai Temple Jiuxiao's right hand suddenly broke free from Penglai Temple Jiuxiao's restraints, and then slowly rose upwards. A faint crying sound was heard, and it turned out to be a child wearing coarse cloth clothes.

The child was lying motionless in the cage. A closer look revealed that the child's tendons had been cut and he had lost the ability to move.

The Thousand Ruler came to the child, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and then a small core appeared in his hand. He put it into the child, and many silk threads appeared in the core and began to wrap around the child into a cocoon, covering up the child's crying.

"This is one of the many conscious personalities that the stinky fox has built up by collecting many emotions over the years. In that space, it plays the role of an ordinary child living in the village." The Thousand Herrscher looked at the cocoon, turned his head and said coldly to Penglai Temple Jiuxiao,

"It was this child who was turned by the fox into a tool for passing the level. In order to survive and escape from that space, those students, after knowing that the right sacrifice was this little girl, rushed to cut the little girl's tendons and offer her as a sacrifice to the fox over and over again in their reincarnations, just to pass the level."

The Herrscher of the Thousands actually revealed the method to clear Yae Village. The method to clear Yae Village was so crazy that a young child had to be sacrificed to the gods before the correct sacrifice could be found.

"One sacrifice can only correspond to one candidate. Ever since they saw the first person use this child to pass the level, those students have been like crazy. Haha, they keep fighting for more children like this, without even considering whether there are other possibilities to pass the level."

"Later, they got used to the cycle of death. After they knew that there was a key item that could help them pass the level successfully and that it would be their turn one day, they began to act recklessly in this world. They abolished the clergy of the village, began to use the rules to punish the villagers, and even killed each other."

"If Yae Village wasn't such a poor village, I think they would even do such things as robbing and killing people to satisfy their ugly and greedy hearts."

The Herrscher of the Thousands spoke in a higher and higher tone. Finally, he took a deep breath, sneered twice, and said:

"Heh... 'The right tool' is nothing more than a trap. Although they used these little girls to pass that level, a deeper level of purgatory awaits them."

"But so what? The damage they caused to this little girl has never disappeared. Before each reincarnation, in order to reshape and weave these personalities, I have to recycle the damage and shadow she has suffered. Those emotions have never disappeared, but have all been transferred to my core."

The Herrscher of the Thousands waved his hand, and the puppet threads finally unraveled, turning back into a small core in his hand. The wound on the little girl's ankle had disappeared, and she fell into a deep sleep, as if nothing had happened.

When the Herrscher of the Thousand grasped the core, a trace of pain flashed across his brows, and then he turned indifferent again and said slowly: "But you are an exception. You are different from them. You want to find other ways to pass the level, want to stop those people, and want to find new possibilities. But in the end, because you offended them, you were stabbed in the back and became a sacrifice."

"You are the only human who has not committed any sin and has always remained true to yourself. When I saw your performance, I naively thought that we shared the same ideals and would become partners in changing the world. Therefore, I took great pains to snatch you from that stinky fox. I don't want you to become a beast."

"But later, I found out that I had misjudged you! It was just a simple trial to join the sect, but it exposed your stupidity!" The Herrscher of Thousands snapped his fingers again, and the cage that originally held the child sank again, leaving only a chain on the ground.

Then the Herrscher of the Thousand used silk thread to fix the chain, and then snapped her fingers again. Behind her, another cage with chains was pulled over by the puppet silk thread. The cage kept shaking, and screams and cries for help could be heard from inside from time to time.

Afterwards, like the cage that held the child, it landed in a deep pit on the other side of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao, leaving only the chains in front of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao.

"Choose!" said the Herrscher of the Thousands coldly, "On one side is the child who has been killed countless times through sacrifice, and on the other side is one of the murderers who has committed the crime. Your power can only pull back one cage, one person survives, and one person dies completely. Now - start choosing!"

As soon as the words fell, the threads binding the chains were all removed in an instant. Under the action of gravity, the cage fell rapidly downwards, and the chains were also dragged down by the cage.

However, at the first moment, Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple, who was originally like a piece of wood, acted quickly when he heard the sound of the chains being dragged, and wrapped the two chains around his arms without hesitation.

"Ding--"

"Ding--"

"Ugh——!"

The chains were completely stretched straight, and Penglai Temple Jiuxiao held the two chains tightly. The pulling force generated at the moment of stretching made Penglai Temple Jiuxiao feel the tearing pain as if his arm was torn off.

The severe pain made Penglai Temple Jiuxiao want to let go, but she gritted her teeth and endured the pain, letting the tears caused by stress slide from the corners of her eyes.

"The eightieth time..." The Thousand Herrscher still had a cold face, and he was not moved or surprised at the choice made by Penglai Temple Jiuxiao. Just as the Thousand Herrscher said, this was the eightieth time that Penglai Temple Jiuxiao made the same choice.

"Saving the weak can be called heroic, but if you want to save even the evil, and even equate the victims with the perpetrators, then that is sheer stupidity! Do you understand? Penglai Temple Jiuxiao!"

Facing the questioning of the Thousand Herrschers, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao did not react at all. She only knew one thing: grab the chain and save everyone...

"You're still with God's messenger... Ha, no wonder your power is so weak. I'm afraid even God's messenger doesn't like a fool like you." The Thousand Herrscher sneered.

"..."Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple still did not react at all.

The Thousand Herrscher also felt that it was boring and didn't want to say any more, so he clapped his hands, and a huge silver screen appeared in the space. The picture played on it was actually another "Penglai Temple Jiuxiao", holding a black sword and fighting with the Honkai Emperor.

"The aibo you are talking about is the Lord Messenger of God in my eyes. He has transformed into your appearance and is here. Hehe..." A hint of fanaticism flashed in the eyes of the Thousand Herrscher, and then he said:

"Watch carefully, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao. Since you are recognized by the God's Envoy, I will not do anything to you... But, the God's Envoy will show us what is the most correct choice! You will eventually hate yourself for disappointing the God's Envoy because of your stupidity!"

Chapter 110: Empathy with Jiuxiao

Wang Chen stabbed a sword into the core of the Honkai Emperor. The Honkai Emperor let out a final roar and finally fell to the ground. His body began to dissipate into Honkai energy factors.

After killing the last Honkai Emperor, Wang Chen almost fell to the ground. His clothes were soaked in blood, his left eye was tightly closed, and a bloodstain hung from under his left eye socket.

The battle was extremely brutal. His injured left leg was completely broken, and his left eye was pierced and could no longer be opened. He had countless wounds of varying sizes all over his body. It was no exaggeration to say that he did not die immediately.

But Wang Chen was surprised to find that even though he did such a thing, he and this Jiuxiao body still maintained a fairly good synchronization rate, without any feeling of being separated.

In other words, even if she were to do this now, she would definitely be able to do it. Even if she was covered in wounds and exhausted, she would protect the child behind her, just like the savior in the story.

However, Wang Chen smiled. Through this information, he was more convinced that Penglai Temple Jiuxiao would not be so easily alienated and dominated by the Thousand Rulers. He already knew Jiuxiao's character. Now Jiuxiao must be resisting the domination of the Thousand Rulers in a certain depth of consciousness.

"I will definitely bring you back, Jiuxiao." Wang Chen murmured to himself.

"It's great to have such an awareness, but a new round of tests from that little guy is waiting for you soon. You must keep working hard. Just like now, continue to practice the path of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao, resonate with it, and finally find her."

Suddenly, a familiar female voice came into Wang Chen's ears. Wang Chen was startled and wanted to find the source of the voice, but he couldn't find the person who was talking.

"Illusion? No, such clear information cannot be an illusion. A new round of tests... practicing Jiuxiao's path. And that voice just now, that was clearly... Jiuxiao's voice." Wang Chen began to quickly analyze the situation just now, thinking, "Maybe, this is Jiuxiao's subconscious giving me a hint. Then I just need to keep reading. What exactly is the new test? Continue to practice the path and resonate with it... resonate?"

Wang Chen began to close his eyes carefully, carefully feeling the empathic feedback brought by the fusion of his own mind source and the mind source of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao. Soon, Wang Chen discovered that compared with the empathic feedback he felt when he first came to this consciousness space, after fighting with the Emperor of Collapse, Wang Chen had two more sensory feedbacks. One was visual feedback, the surroundings were pitch black and very dim. The other was pain feedback, his hands seemed to be pulling something, pulling it very painfully.

Wang Chen began to look for the source of the two feelings. Soon, Wang Chen opened his eyes, looked in a certain direction, and then walked slowly forward.

"Help...Savior sister, where are you going?" Suddenly, a girl's voice sounded behind him. Wang Chen found that the little girl had not left. Although she still looked very scared, she kept getting closer to Wang Chen.

"Big sister is going to a very dangerous place to continue fighting those monsters. It is safe here temporarily. Can you find a safe place to hide first? Big sister will come back to find you after she has eliminated those monsters." Wang Chen patiently answered the child's questions and tried his best to calm the emotions of the little blonde girl.

"Wow... Can't you take me with you? I... am scared..." the little girl cried, "Mom and Dad... are gone. My brother... my brother is gone too... I'm so scared... They are all monsters. I'm so scared to be alone."

"Because I still have to kill those monsters. It's very dangerous...I promise you that once I kill those monsters, I will come back to find you, okay? Then I will take you to find mom and dad." Wang Chen said, then stretched out his hand and said, "How about this, I will take you to a safe place first. How about it?"

The little girl finally nodded.

Afterwards, Wang Chen carefully searched the surrounding buildings and unexpectedly found a well-preserved underground supermarket. There were no signs of any Honkai beast activities nearby. The water and food inside were checked and found to be clean. So Wang Chen asked the little girl to stay here and brought a few toy dolls to calm the little girl's panic.

"You stay here for a while. There are food, drinks and dolls to keep you company. You don't have to be afraid. Hide in that room and don't make any noise. Sister will come to find you soon." Wang Chen said.

"Okay...sister, you have to come back soon." The little girl nodded, holding the toy doll obediently, and entered the supermarket's staff lounge.

Wang Chen felt relieved after watching the little girl hide in the room obediently. Although this was only Jiu Xiao's own consciousness space, it was very likely that the little girl was just a residual memory or something, not a living being like the outside world. But Wang Chen would still treat it seriously.

"Jiuxiao will do the same." As he said that, Wang Chen once again felt the empathic feedback in his body. Compared to before, the feedback this time became clearer. He could clearly feel a force of attraction dragging him in a certain direction.

"'Follow the path of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao, resonate with her, and finally find her', is this what this sentence means?" Wang Chen thought to himself. Obviously, the increasingly clear empathy feedback was confirming two key information: First, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao had not been completely dominated and alienated, and she was still resisting. Second, as long as he continued to do things that were consistent with what Penglai Temple Jiuxiao would do, his synchronicity with Penglai Temple Jiuxiao would continue to improve, and he would be able to grasp Jiuxiao's position more accurately.

After learning this information, Wang Chen began to recall Jiuxiao's words and deeds in the past two months, recalled her personality, and then walked in the direction he felt.

Soon, Wang Chen came to a river. The source that attracted him was under the river. Without any hesitation, Wang Chen jumped in. He sank to the bottom of the water, and the direction began to spin. Wang Chen stabilized his body in the water, determined the direction, and swam forward. After swimming for a distance, Wang Chen suddenly found that the source had appeared on the river. So his body began to float up, ready to swim out of the water.

When he was about to swim out of the water, suddenly, a figure appeared above him. Wang Chen stopped moving forward. Then he heard a "splash" sound and saw a humanoid object falling into the river and hitting Wang Chen head-on.

Wang Chen quickly held the figure with both hands and swam out of the water together.

"Cough, cough, cough..." After getting out of the water, Wang Chen swam to the other side, bringing the person who fell into the water with him to the shore. The sound of choking kept ringing in his ears.

"This is... How did it happen? How did it become Yae Village?" When Wang Chen swam back to the shore, he suddenly found that the city ruins around him had turned into the scenery he had been seeing not long ago - Yae Village. When he jumped into the river, the surrounding area was still a city ruin, but when he swam out, it had become Yae Village.

"Ahem... Thank you... Sister Jiuxiao. If it weren't for you, I almost died at the hands of that monster." Suddenly, a familiar girl's voice came into his ears. After hearing this voice, Wang Chen frowned at first, then looked at the other party. Sure enough, the other party was a character he was familiar with.

The person he rescued turned out to be Yae Rin. No, to be more precise, it was someone who looked like Yae Rin. Because the clothes she wore were exactly the same as the strange person who had the same face as Yae Rin who he had captured.

"Tsk, what's going on here?" Wang Chen looked at the girl beside him and began to analyze the current situation.

Chapter 111: A Girl Named Lin (Part 1)

"Jiuxiao's doll was found on her. And the Jiuxiao doll has been protecting her so much. There is indeed some connection between the two of them. In other words, this is not the Yae Village outside, but the Yae Village in Jiuxiao's memory?" After a brief thought, Wang Chen came to this conclusion.

"Then, this should be what happened after Jiuxiao entered this space. Judging from the tone of this guy, Jiuxiao seems to have a good relationship with her. Why not use her mouth to find out what happened before this." Wang Chen made a decision in his heart.

"Jiuxiao...sister? What's wrong with you? Are you okay? You don't look well, and you didn't respond when I called you?" said a girl who looked like Yae Rin.

"...I'm sorry, maybe it's because I was in a hurry to jump into the water...My head is feeling dizzy now, and I can't remember a lot of things all of a sudden." Wang Chen took the opportunity to start acting immediately, pretending to have a headache, and said.

"Damn it... They are all very important things. I can't remember what happened before, including your name." Wang Chen said with some annoyance.

"Sister Jiuxiao, don't worry, let's leave here first! Let's take refuge with the shrine maiden first. You can recall it slowly on the way. If you can't remember, Lin will tell you." said the girl.

"Lin? Is this your name?" Wang Chen asked, his heart moving.

"Yes, Lin. It's probably written like this." The girl wrote her name on Wang Chen's palm with gestures, and Wang Chen realized that this "Lin" was not the same as "Rin". However, this made Wang Chen even more curious about the relationship between the girl and Yae Rin. They looked the same, and even the pronunciation of their names was the same, and in real life...

"Wait? A conscious being from reality... then the only one that meets the requirements is..." Wang Chen showed a strange look, but did not continue to deduce, because at this moment the little girl named "Lin" began to narrate what happened to them before.

It turned out that today was the second day of the entire reincarnation. Lin and Penglai Temple Jiuxiao met on the first day of this reincarnation. However, from what Lin said, she had just arrived in this space, while Jiuxiao seemed to have experienced at least one reincarnation.

On the first day, Jiuxiao found Lin and took her out of the village and hid in the shrine. However, according to Jiuxiao's tone, the reason why she took Lin away was not only because she didn't want Lin to have contact with other students, but also because she accidentally found that Lin looked like someone she knew, so she took her away early out of concern.

It was only after learning about each other's life stories that Jiuxiao realized that he might have recognized the wrong person. However, this did not prevent Jiuxiao from taking care of Lin.

After listening to how they met, Wang Chen nodded, saying that he remembered part of it, and then said that Lin would come back to tell him about the first day's experience on the way, and now they should go to the shrine for shelter. Lin quickly agreed, and the two climbed up from the river bank and began to walk through the dense forest towards the shrine.

On the way, Lin continued to talk about her experience on the first day. Jiuxiao told her what this world was like. There were two very bad monsters ruling this world. One of them represented a puppet and the other represented a fox. Now, they and many other people were captured into this world and were played around by these two monsters using the rules of the game they set.

According to Jiuxiao's example, this world is like a game that keeps repeating. If you fail, you have to start over. But the scariest thing is that this game is too real. The pain and death are the same as the real death in the real world. Although you can start over, the mental damage you suffer is real and has not changed.

There are many conditions for failure, the most basic of which is individual death. Once you die, you will enter the next reincarnation. Most of the causes of death are often due to violating the rules set by the two monsters. Therefore, in order to allow Lin to survive well in this world, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao deliberately wrote down all the rules he had memorized so that Lin could remember them.

"...Then you told me that although both the rules and the truth of the world show that foxes and puppets are not good things, we should not be afraid of encountering those puppets and foxes. Because these two types of things are bound by the rules of each other, as long as we are familiar with the rules, we can target them one by one. We can even use them in reverse. Of course, the premise is that the two monsters are really so trustworthy." Lin took Wang Chen up the steps of the shrine, looked around, and then said,

"It seems that those people didn't come here to surround us... Phew, now we can save a few of the dolls we collected yesterday."

"Encircle..." Wang Chen frowned.

"Have you even forgotten about the siege? Now I...ah, I see Sister Sakura. I'm completely safe now. Sister Sakura~" Lin was about to tell Wang Chen about the siege when she suddenly noticed the shrine maiden Yae Sakura waving in the distance.

Yaezakura in the distance obviously heard Lin's voice, and appeared in front of the two of them the next moment, which surprised Wang Chen: "So fast!"

"Lin, why are you all wet?" Yaezakura asked with concern.

"I'm fine. I just went down to the river to catch some fish, but I didn't stand firmly, so unfortunately I didn't catch any fish." Lin smiled and acted innocently, telling a lie that was completely untrue.

"Be more careful next time. Let's go back to the shrine first. I'll go boil some water for you." Yaezakura rubbed Lin's head helplessly. Lin looked like she was enjoying it. Then she waved to Wang Chen and said, "Sister Jiuxiao, let's go in together."

"Oh..." Wang Chen just agreed, and suddenly felt a murderous gaze staring at him. Looking in that direction, Wang Chen couldn't help but be speechless. It turned out to be from Yaezakura. And it was more of a jealous gaze than a murderous gaze.

Well, it was probably because of Lin's "Sister Jiuxiao" just now. It was obvious that this was a strange jealousy of a stupid sister who had a sister complex.

Afterwards, the two followed Yaezakura into the shrine. Yaezakura went to the well to fetch water, preparing to boil water for the two to take a bath. Wang Chen and Lin sat on the steps of the shrine's main hall and continued to chat.

"You should remember something about Sister Sakura, right? At that time, Sister Jiuxiao took me to escape from those guys and took us to Sister Sakura's place for refuge. However, the first time I met Sister Sakura, she hugged me for a long time and made me breathless. Later I learned that Sister Sakura had a sister who looked very much like me, but she died of illness a long time ago..." Lin talked about the scene of the first time she met Yae Sakura, as well as the look in Yae Sakura's eyes just now. Lin actually noticed it and thought it was both funny and happy.

She has a great liking for this sister Miko who loves her younger sister very much, and she also said that she has also wished to have a sister who could care for her like Sister Sakura since she was a child.

Wang Chen also listened carefully, but his mood unconsciously became heavy. It was obvious from Lin's words that she loved Miss Yaezakura, but why did such a Lin become the one who hated Yaezakura so much in reality? Perhaps the answer to everything can only be found in the memory of Penglai Temple Jiuxiao.