Is this world of yours a serious place?

The girl's thumb gently stroked Chen Xiuming's face, and tears unconsciously overflowed from the corners of her eyes, flowing along her delicate yet numb cheeks.

"Yes, it's a living human..."

"That's great, it's really great..."

"Sorry……"

Perhaps because of excitement, the girl's speech was a little incoherent.

Then, like a little girl who had done something wrong, she asked cautiously and nervously, "Excuse me... can I, can I hug you?"

He is clearly the invincible Ruler of the End in the world, but at this moment he seems to be pleading and begging, looking at Chen Xiuming with eyes full of expectation.

Chen Xiuming's expression softened, and he tried to slow down his tone as much as possible: "Okay."

"Thank you, thank you very much..."

The girl immediately hugged Chen Xiuming tightly, greedily feeling Chen Xiuming's embrace.

At this moment, the desperate girl seemed to have found spiritual support, and the despair in her heart poured out and turned into uncontrollable howling.

The girl couldn't help crying out familiar names, but her voice was filled with deep despair.

These names were all her former loved ones and friends, but they had long been killed by her own hands.

Their desperate faces and cries are still vivid in the girl's mind, causing her to suffer torture and torment.

Chen Xiuming remained silent, gently stroking the girl's back, letting the girl lie in his arms and cry loudly.

The dead silent earth was filled with the girl's cries of despair and catharsis.

The shadow of Chen Xiuming's feet rippled slightly, and then a breeze blew past, like an invisible caress, gently wiping away the girl's tears.

The girl cried for a long time, and then her emotions gradually stabilized, and even her expression returned to that numb look.

"Thank you……"

Seeing Chen Xiuming's expression full of pity, the girl twitched the corners of her mouth, as if she wanted to smile, but due to numbness for tens of thousands of years, she had long forgotten how to smile and was unable to do so.

"How can I help you?"

Chen Xiuming spoke softly, looking directly into the girl's lifeless eyes.

The girl looked back, with a look of hope in her eyes.

"As long as you are alive and well, it will be the greatest salvation for me - if possible, I would like you to kill me with your own hands."

"..."

Chen Xiuming was silent for a second or two, then nodded gently, "I understand."

The Honkai energy can be shaped into a revolver, but it is no longer pure purple, and there are faint golden lines flowing continuously.

Chen Xiuming didn't have time to slowly familiarize himself with the power of the golden lines, so he could only use the ability that was most convenient for him to condense his strongest means of attack.

The moment the revolver was formed, without waiting for Chen Xiuming to raise the revolver, the girl took the initiative to grasp the barrel of the revolver and pointed it at her forehead.

"Thank you……"

"Can you...can you tell me your name?"

"My name is Chen Xiuming."

"Chen Xiuming, Chen Xiuming..."

The girl murmured Chen Xiuming's name repeatedly, as if she wanted to remember Chen Xiuming's name firmly in her heart.

"My name is Kiana - Kiana Kaslana. Thank you for helping me get rid of it, Chen Xiuming."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kiana the End covered Chen Xiuming's hand with her other hand, pressed his fingers and pulled the trigger.

boom--!

The bullet condensed from the Honkai energy pierced through the center of Kiana's brow, but no blood splashed. Instead, it was like shattering an illusion, causing Kiana's death to instantly shatter into countless golden spots, beautiful and dreamy.

At the moment the bullet pierced through her eyebrows, Kiana's eyes were no longer numb and lifeless, but were filled with relief from the cycle of despair.

Chen Xiuming stared at this beautiful and dreamy scene in amazement, his thoughts a little absent-minded.

The next second, the golden light spots transformed by End Kiana were attracted by something and all poured into the golden lines on Chen Xiuming's back.

The golden lines became extremely hot, as if a red-hot iron was pressed against the skin on his back, causing Chen Xiuming to groan in pain.

When all the light spots poured into the golden lines, the heat of the golden lines receded like the tide.

Janna's plan was successful, but the results she expected were slightly off.

Kiana the End was indeed relying on the golden lines on Chen Xiuming's back to sustain her life. Although she had lost her body, the power of "The End" was not lost at all and was all integrated into the golden lines.

Since Kiana the End has not died, Chen Xiuming cannot directly use the power of "The End" contained in the golden lines, but he can borrow the power of the End that he can bear from Kiana the End at any time.

Today, Kiana of the End has become a being similar to a "stand-in" or a "ghost behind the scenes", but as long as she is willing, she can reshape her body at any time through the power of "The End".

"Kiana, how do you feel now?"

Chen Xiuming spoke softly, asking about Kiana, the End, who was residing in the golden lines.

Finally, Kiana was silent for a long time, and then he suddenly heard a long sigh of relief in his ears.

"I'm fine. I haven't felt this relaxed feeling in a long time."

Kiana's whisper seemed to ring directly in Chen Xiuming's mind, but it also seemed to be whispered softly in Chen Xiuming's ears.

At first, the "liberation" she hoped for might be real death, but when Chen Xiuming became her spiritual support, that kind of "liberation" quietly turned into escape from the endless cycle of despair.

"…Thank you, Xiuming."

A faint murmur sounded in Chen Xiuming's ears, but it was also like an auditory hallucination caused by the breeze.

As Janna and Kiana the End disappeared one after another, the already shattered world bubble began the countdown to its demise.

Before leaving this world, Chen Xiuming still had two things to deal with——

One is the location coordinates mentioned by Janna when she was sleeping, and the other is to enter Janna's corpse and see if you can find the "Stigma Terminal" stored inside Janna's body.

44. Anila, the Ruler of Death

Chen Xiuming looked at the ocean not far away, and recalled the location coordinates provided by Janna, and was suddenly in trouble.

Janna's corpse is located deep in the ocean, quite a distance from the shore, and the location coordinates she provided are also far away from the shore. With Chen Xiuming's speed, he probably won't be able to reach these two locations before the world bubble disappears.

Kiana seemed to sense Chen Xiuming's distress, and her questioning voice, like a breeze, sounded in his ears.

"Is there anything you need my help with?"

"I want to get to a farther place quickly, do you have a way?"

"Have."

Kiana of the End is concise and to the point.

Before she finished her words, her illusory figure appeared behind Chen Xiuming and she gently hugged Chen Xiuming from behind.

Just when Chen Xiuming was wondering why Kiana the End was hugging him, Kiana the End hugged him and flew into the sky, crossing tens of thousands of meters in an instant and heading straight for the location coordinates provided by Janna.

The strong winds during the flight were all isolated by the power of Kiana the End and did not cause any adverse effects on Chen Xiuming.

In just a few breaths, she flew from the shore to the location coordinates provided by Janna while holding Chen Xiuming.

Finally, Kiana suddenly stopped flying, then landed gently, floating behind Chen Xiuming like a "guardian angel".

Although she could reshape her physical body, she felt that there was no need for the time being, so she remained in the state of "spirit".

Chen Xiuming had personally experienced the demise of the world bubble and was very sensitive to it. Almost at the moment he landed steadily on the ground, he sensed the broken world bubble that Janna had mentioned.

The Broken World Bubble is located inside the ruins of what appears to be a pet store.

To be precise, the Broken World Bubble is located under the collapsed wall, with only a football-sized hole for passage.

Chen Xiuming politely declined Kiana's suggestion to directly blow away the ruins of the pet shop. He lifted the collapsed wall with his bare hands and gradually approached the location of the broken world bubble.

The reason why the broken world bubble is called "broken" is actually because this type of world bubble is very small, needs to rely on other world bubbles to exist, and has no fixed entrances and exits.

If one wants to enter the Broken World Bubble, one must either tear a gap directly or have a close relationship with the Broken World Bubble.

Chen Xiuming himself was a person who accidentally entered this world bubble, so it was naturally impossible for him to have any connection with the broken world bubble, so he could only tear open the world bubble by force.

According to Janna, there is a "little guy" struggling to survive in this broken world bubble.

If Chen Xiuming leaves it alone, the final outcome will be the demise of the world bubble.

With his current strength, even the Broken World Bubble could not be torn apart to create a gap for entry and exit, so he directly borrowed some of the power of Kiana the End.

The power borrowed by Chen Xiuming is just a drop in the ocean for Kiana the End, but it enables him to have the ability to tear apart the broken world bubble.

"Is this... a black cat?"

After tearing a hole in the Broken World Bubble, Chen Xiuming could clearly see the appearance of the Broken World Bubble.

This broken world bubble is very small, and its specific appearance is a relatively comfortable cat bed. A black cat is sleeping soundly in the cat bed, and is unaware of the changes in the broken world bubble.

Chen Xiuming grabbed the black cat by the scruff of its neck and lifted it out of the Broken World Bubble.

The moment it left the broken world bubble, the black cat suddenly woke up as if its fur had exploded, and it looked around nervously, finally looking at Chen Xiuming who was holding it by the scruff of the neck.

"Hello meow~"

The black cat suddenly spoke in human language, sounding like a young girl.

Chen Xiuming knew that there were all kinds of incredible creatures in the world bubble, so he was not surprised at all.

"what do you?"

"My name is Anila, and you're the one who took me away, meow?"

Anila tilted her head and looked at Chen Xiuming, licking her finger pads at the same time.

"Why do you think I'm the one who took you away?"

Chen Xiuming asked Anila curiously, but did not directly answer Anila's doubts.

The next second, he felt his hands lighten, and the black cat he was holding broke free, and the moment it landed on the ground, it turned into a girl with purple hair and gray eyes.

The girl was wearing a gorgeous medieval dress, a purple tulle on her head, and holding a ferocious hatchet in her hand.

"Before, there was a big white-haired demon sister who destroyed the world. Anila hid in this bubble and barely survived."

"Later, a monster sister who has since died told me that someone would take me away from here in the future and asked me to wait patiently, meow."

Anila briefly described her experience, and her cat-like habit of using the word "meow" made her look even more adorable.

Chen Xiuming thought for a moment and realized who the "Big Devil Sister" and "Monster Sister" that Anila mentioned were referring to.

However, he had a doubt in his heart.

Anila seems to be unable to see Kiana the End in her "spiritual" state?

As if she saw Chen Xiuming's confusion, Kiana finally explained softly to him, letting him know the specific reason.

In the "spirit" state, Kiana the End can freely choose to show up or not. When she is not visible, only Chen Xiuming and Janna who is living in Chen Xiuming's shadow can see her.

"According to what humans say, Anila seems to be some kind of 'Herder of Death' meow~"

As if worried that Chen Xiuming was unwilling to take her away, Anila took the initiative to introduce her abilities.

Anila is a very special being and a "non-human herrscher".

During the Black Death, desperate people directed their anger at defenseless and weak wild cats.

A large number of wild cats died in accidents, and their resentment towards humans gathered. Eventually, under the influence of Honkai energy, a special individual like Anila was born.

Although she inherited the Death Cat's resentment towards humans, that resentment had dissipated with the demise of human civilization, so Anila did not resent Chen Xiuming as a human being.

Furthermore, Chen Xiuming gave Anila a terrifying feeling, making her feel that he was very much like the "big devil sister" who had destroyed the world before. So she behaved very well, almost turning back into a cat with her belly exposed to let Chen Xiuming "play with" her.

"Anila will be obedient, so take Anila away, okay meow?"

"I can take you away, but..."

Chen Xiuming was a little hesitant.