Chapter 596: Defendant Kiana Kaslana!

Falling endlessly, falling endlessly, as if there is no end to the falling.

Until the end, even the up, down, left, and right markers no longer exist, and even the boundaries of falling itself are blurred with flying.

When I reacted, my body and consciousness seemed to be blurring and collapsing.

I don’t know why I am here.

I don’t know why I have become like this.

I don’t even know who I am.

“Ah, that’s right. Who let you, a stupid human, have so many names, tsk—Sirin, the Second Herrscher, K423, Kiana Kaslana. However, a name is just a title, you won’t abandon your [self] because of this, right? If so, it would be too boring to be an opponent.”

The unruly and disdainful voice sounded at the right time, turning into a golden ribbon, tying up the other self who was falling endlessly in the darkness.

"Xi...Xilin, what am I doing..."

"I don't care what your condition is now. I order you, human, to wake up quickly. There is a very interesting farce waiting for you. I don't want to miss it!"

"Farce?"

Kiana Kaslana opened her eyes, but there was only deep darkness in front of her, and a golden thread that fell from the sky and tied around her waist.

"What do you mean..."

"Tsk. I don't want to talk nonsense with you. Just go and see for yourself!"

The golden thread trembled, and Kiana felt her waist tighten, and then the whole person flew up rapidly--

faster and faster, faster and faster, faster and faster, so fast that Kiana almost felt something leaving her body, until finally, the only light connected by the golden thread came in front of her.

Kiana Kaslana opened her eyes, and what greeted her was an extremely strange purple sky, blue-gray stones that formed a circular staircase and surrounded herself in the middle. The stones were engraved with patterns of different styles, including rigid geometric patterns, square patterns, and round and full flowers. Naturally, there were also abstract patterns that were impossible to recognize.

Where is this? It looks like a mini Colosseum, and also like a desolate and absurd theater.

Try your best to look far away, you can see the gray-white mist through the edge of the circular stone staircase. If you try to break through the barrier of the mist, you can see the Gothic spire that is ridiculously high - it is really weird. The whole can indeed be called a Gothic building, but the part below the spire has a height that does not conform to the Gothic building. It is simply, it is just like... It is just like a 100-meter building stretched four or five times and covered with a layer of Gothic-style skin.

It is not ugly, but staring at it for a long time always makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Yes, it was uncomfortable.

It was not until the fifth second after opening her eyes that Kiana felt the restraints on her hands and feet.

She struggled a little, but nothing happened except that her wrists and ankles were painfully strangled by the cold iron chains.

Moreover, the posture was not suitable for exerting force - Kiana was restrained in a kneeling position, and the chains of the handcuffs and leg cuffs seemed to be nailed into the ground by the cross-like metal rod behind her, and she could not move at all.

"In that case, use the power of the Herrscher of the Void--eh!"

"Puff--hahahahaha!"

A laugh full of bad taste sounded in her mind, confusion and dissatisfaction surged into Kiana's heart at the same time, but before she came out, she only had one sentence left--"How could this happen?"

"Isn't this normal? No matter what, I am the real Herrscher of the Void. In this place independent of the intrinsic world, the power of space took the initiative to choose me instead of you as its master when it felt that the main body was in crisis. This is also the most normal thing."

"You--does all this have anything to do with you?"

Kiana's voice was naturally full of anger, but more of it was disappointment.

"Tsk. I'm not saying Kiana, you really should read more books, even the most basic Chinese reading comprehension is so poor."

"You...what did you say?"

Instinctively questioned first, and then, Kiana realized it belatedly and entered the state of nitpicking.

Biting her lips, she quickly recalled the words of the Second Herrscher - "[When you feel the main body is in danger], that is to say, you didn't expect all this to happen at the beginning."

"Hmm."

The Second Herrscher snorted frivolously and meaninglessly. Kiana waited for two or three seconds, but did not wait for the next word.

So she could only continue to speak according to the guess she had thought of at that moment:

"So, you saw her again afterwards... and then you joined forces? No, you should not like this sneaky method, and you will not condescend to join forces with someone who does such a thing."

"Tsk, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, stupid is stupid, but compared to the beginning, you can be considered to know me quite well."

"Stop talking nonsense! Although I am reluctant to say this, since you and that guy are not in the same group, help me untie the chain!"

There are some signs of disharmony in the words, but if you can explore Kiana's heart, you will find that she is much happier than expected.

However, she did not get the expected response.

"Oh? Help you? Why should I help you?"

"Why? No matter who the power flows to, our existence depends on this body. Is there anything to say?"

"Well, that's true, but I - it doesn't matter."

"ha?"

"I said, I just want to enjoy the farce that will be staged next as an audience. If I randomly interfere with the fate of the protagonist, I won't be able to see such an interesting drama. As for the body? It doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter. Unlike you, I have a reason to live like saving the world. You have also seen with your own eyes that the god who is my last obsession has also betrayed me. From now on, saving the world or destroying the world has nothing to do with me. Just want to have fun."

"you--"

Kiana was furious for a moment, but she couldn't help but feel extremely sad for the Second Herrscher. But she still felt that she seemed to have overlooked something. However, just when she was about to follow the touch in her heart and follow the pictures, the annoying guy coughed lightly and gave a reluctant reminder - —

"Hey, she's here. Get ready, the show is about to begin. Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect it to be such a bloody plot from the beginning...hehehehe..."

Kiana's brows couldn't stop twitching. The idiotic laughter in her mind was really unpleasant. But as the laughter stopped suddenly, the footsteps that were born out of thin air in the dead silence seemed too harsh. .

"Ta-ta-ta-"

Kiana wanted to turn her head to see the person, but the chain restricted the range of her twisting, and she could not see directly behind her.

She could only listen hopelessly as the footsteps came from far to near, from fast to slow, and finally stopped behind her.

A pair of cold palms pressed against her cheeks, and her index and middle fingers gently clasped her eyes - Kiana couldn't help but tremble. She was not afraid of fighting, but she was afraid of this feeling of powerlessness, especially now. , as long as the person behind her applies a little force, she can squeeze her blue eyes out of her sockets.

"Hmm~"

The person behind her took a breath of pleasure, and the slightly cold air flowed over Kiana's earlobe. Before she could taste the numbing feeling, she only felt her eyes tightening, and the person's index and middle fingers began to exert slight force.

"Ka-ka-ka-"

"Pfft——"

Just before Kiana felt that her eyes would burst out with a pop, the person behind her suddenly started laughing.

The cold fingers left her eyes, slid all the way down, gently caressed her cheek, then parted her lips, and gently massaged her teeth with the pads of his fingers.

"Oh, I really didn't expect that Kiana, who is fearless, was so frightened that her teeth chattered just now? Did I hear it wrong? Come on, try again!"

A familiar voice, an unmistakable voice. This time, it was no longer just the teeth that were trembling, but Kiana's entire body.

But the person holding Kiana from behind seemed to gain hard-won pleasure from her appearance. She couldn't help but go further, prying open Kiana's teeth with her fingers, and stuffed her fingers into Kiana's Between his back teeth, he put his lips to Kiana's ear again and said word by word:

"Come - bite - me - ah!"

The explosive air flow made her eardrums hurt, and it was accompanied by fear. Logically speaking, it would not be an exaggeration for Kiana to accidentally bite off the finger at this time, but for some reason, her body was resisting instinctively. His whole body was trembling wildly, but his teeth didn't move at all.

"Oh...it's so boring. I originally wanted to show Kiana something fun, but why are you so uncooperative!"

In a tone of annoyance and pity, the person behind him pulled his fingers out from between Kiana's teeth, and thoughtfully smeared the sticky saliva on Kiana's face.

Kiana tilted her head in disgust, and the hands did not make things difficult for her anymore. They just slid to her shoulders, squeezed them hard, and then took them back.

After that, the figure who was a little strange to Kiana, but could also be said to be familiar, made a semicircle from behind and walked up to her.

"Keep your head up."

The familiar voice suddenly became rough, but essentially it was still the familiar voice.

Kiana's eyes narrowed hard. After hearing the other party's order, she lowered her head as if to resist, so low that she could only see the toes of the other party - maybe this was not resistance, but just didn't want to see. Just to that familiar face.

"Sigh...why do you all like to do such meaningless things?"

Lifting her toes, she hooked Kiana's chin and raised it slightly. Kiana finally saw the face full of teasing.

"[Doing meaningless things], aren't you the same? We are all here, there is no need to pretend to be Wendy anymore!"

"Tsk!"

The green eyes trembled, and then quickly moved to the side.

Wendy's tone no longer had the previous temptation, the previous laziness, nor the previous confidence, although it was only at this moment:

"Why do you think I'm pretending to be Wendy?"

"?"

Wendy held Kiana's cheek again, but this time, her tone was a little more serious.

"Kiana, I am Wendy, no one is pretending."

"This is impossible!"

Kiana fiercely denied the possibility that the existence in front of her was Wendy, even more fiercely than when she denied that she was the Second Herrscher.

She tried with all her strength to break away from the chains that bound her, but this was destined to be meaningless and fruitless. Only a hint of sadness remained in Wendy's eyes.

"Nothing is impossible. I am the one who took advantage of your trust and captured you here from the heavily protected anti-entropy Salt Lake City base. Wendy, the former Destiny A-level Valkyrie, at this moment, accepts The divinely inspired one-thousandth Wendy.”

"You...what are you talking about! Senior Wendy would never do such a thing! The real senior Wendy, even after going through such cruel experiments, after becoming a Herrscher, she was still trying to be with her. Honkai Resistance, even when we were unconscious, did not attack us... How could such a senior Wendy... How could..."

"Don't you understand yet, Kiana? I am still a Herrscher now."

"ah--"

Wendy's forehead was close to Kiana's, and her pair of cyan eyes were unreservedly displayed in front of Kiana.

But in the blink of an eye, the remaining tenderness disappeared without a trace, leaving only joy and teasing in Wendy's smile:

"Ah, that's right. Maybe you don't know how you got here, right?"

"I……"

"It would be better to tell you, what is this called - letting you die in plain sight?"

"..."

"Actually, it's not a complicated plan. God gave me the power of wind and space again. Although it is only one thousandth of what it once was, it is exactly within the range that my body can control. You didn't expect it, either. The power of wind can also change the reflection and refraction of light, thereby achieving the effect of optical invisibility. In other words, the anti-entropy monitoring will not capture anything and will only think that you have suddenly disappeared.

"Of course, Dr. May, who has experienced the previous era, will probably think of me soon. But we have also prepared enough smoke bombs for this - didn't you expect that Miss Guinevere is also one of us? ”

"How...how could..."

"Why not?"

Wendy tilted her head with a smile. That smile may contain many kinds of emotions, but there was no warmth at all.

"Although I have only met her a few times, just the few times you brought her to see me. Perhaps because I feel the same way, I saw through the distortion and darkness in her heart at the first glance. You know, that child What she wants is very simple, so simple that even I feel ashamed of myself - she just wants everyone to see her efforts, and then, if they praise her and love her, she will feel satisfied.

"In a sense, she should be a child who deserves to be loved, cared for and enjoyed by everyone. But it seems that she will never get the satisfaction that can be obtained so easily. So, the beauty is distorted, Love is twisted - it's that simple, so what's impossible? Rather, you spent half a year, but no one can see through this, which is enough to make me think it's "impossible". "

Kiana's lips twitched twice, and suddenly, her cheeks became crimson with blood from excitement. She opened her mouth wide and wanted to say something, but for a moment she felt it was difficult to breathe and her vision was dim, so she could only mouth. Breathing heavily.

Wendy didn't rush her, she just looked at her silently, waiting for whatever words she was about to blurt out.

After a while, Kiana's breathing gradually calmed down. She raised her head again and looked directly into Wendy's eyes, hoping that she could see even the slightest wavering in the subsequent conversation.

"What about you, Wendy-senpai?"

"..."

"The Desire Gem has obviously been taken out, and your legs have been... healed. If I remember correctly, you can almost participate in normal training... Why... why do you still succumb to Honkai! Why? Degenerate into a Herrscher again! Why do you do this again!”

Kiana's breathing became rapid again, but Wendy just stared at her calmly.

"Yes. On the surface, that is indeed the case, but Kiana, after you recover from your injury, can you treat it as if you have not been injured?"

"Well……"

"The wounds will leave scars that cannot be removed, and there will be hidden wounds that may break out at any time under the skin that cannot be seen. Even if the body has really recovered to be exactly the same as before, the pain experienced during the experiment, those memories... will also remain... cannot be erased.”

"But...but you have clearly given up before..."

"Kiana!"

This time, Wendy didn't let Kiana finish her sentence.

"I thought you would understand. The pain of the wound will be suppressed by the analgesics in a short period of time, just like it was indeed the tenderness of Mei and Bronya at first, and later it was Saint Freya's attitude towards me that made me temporarily I can ignore the pain of the past two years, but... when it all disappears, when I get over it every time. When I wake up in the hospital bed, every time I fall while doing rehabilitation training, every time I feel the uncoordinated legs, every time I clearly just want to rest but have to be dragged to do various things. During the inspection, every time I see you running and jumping and sweating...

"I still think of the pain at that time. Then, I think, if it weren't for the Fourth Herrscher's experiment, I would definitely have become the third S-class Valkyrie of Destiny. After all, it is because of this talent that I He was just selected to be the experimental subject...

"Of course, you may want to say that, whether it was my intention or not, at least those who conducted cruel experiments on me have all died in the Fourth Collapse. But their death is their death, that is They should have suffered the sin, but what did I do wrong? I will continue to live with this painful memory. What did I do wrong?

"And the initiator of everything - Otto Apokalis... No, he can't be considered the initiator. Only by mastering the power of Honkai can we have the possibility of defeating Honkai. As the leader of the most powerful people on this planet, As a human being, his decision is not wrong for humanity itself. But the problem is that since he is not wrong and I am not wrong, what is wrong?”

"You can't be trying to say something like [it's this world that's wrong]. Don't bring these outdated lines from such bloody tokusatsu dramas into reality."

With her mentality somewhat adjusted, Kiana said with a sarcastic smile on her lips.

Wendy wasn't angry.

"Really. So why do you think reality won't be more bloody than the reality show?"

After sighing softly, Wendy held Kiana's cheek again.

"I care about you, Kiana Kaslana. You share a fate similar to mine. We are both victims of this wrong world. So, join us."

"Join you and destroy this world?"

Wendy nodded, then shook her head.

She retracted her hands, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and said with piety and enthusiasm:

"We make a wish to the gods for a new world that can heal all wounds and calm all resentments. The gods come to us and say: In this case, then you will burn the old world for me."

Kiana obediently shut her mouth. It was not that she had nothing to say, but she caught a familiar flavor from Wendy's words.

She couldn't help but ask quietly in her heart:

"Hey, Siren, that god she talks about, could it be..."

"Who asked you to interrupt my performance? When can actors talk directly to the audience?"

The Second Herrscher immediately screamed nervously, but after two or three gasps, she still gave Kiana the answer:

"That's right, this tone and speaking skills are 100% Mikael's. Hehe, I suffered the disadvantage of not studying enough at that time and actually believed his lies. Now let's see, what's the use of studying too much? Press this As far as guys are concerned, there are 999 guys who believe that stuff. Tsk, are they all pigs?"

"Huh? One plus nine hundred and ninety-nine equals one thousand. What does this mean?"

"..."

The Second Herrscher didn't want to answer this stupid question.

"So, in the Tower of Babel, at the Destiny Headquarters... Kiana, who has also experienced those pains, you can definitely understand me, you can understand us, right? Come on, join us, for the new one who can heal everything. World, let’s burn the old world together.”

"I refuse."

Kiana held her head high and had no reason to jump into it even though she knew it was a trap.

But what if it’s the other way around?

Kiana's heart moved slightly - as long as she told Xilin's experience, she might be able to reverse the determination of senior Wendy who was deceived by Mikael...

However, she had just opened her mouth, and before she could say anything, she was faced with Wendy's twisted and angry face.

There was no time to say anything, Wendy directly raised her legs and put her toes into her mouth.

"Ugh!"

Not to mention the pungent smell of rubber and fur, the back of her head hit the cross. In pain, Kiana's mind went blank for a moment, and she had no idea what she was doing or what she should do.

"That's right, I should have thought of it earlier."

Wendy tried her best to read every word. Her neck twitched abnormally and tilted bit by bit.

"You and I are different after all. There is another consciousness in your body, and that consciousness has endured the pain in your memory for you. And you... Kiana Kaslana, you are just a person who starts from scratch and has nothing. You know what, little kid!”

"Uh!!! Uh-"

"Stop screaming! If you yell again I'll knock your teeth out!"

"..."

"Hehehe...hahahaha...forget it."

After her chest rose and fell, Wendy let out a long sigh of relief.

"Since you are going to follow this stupid old world all the way to the dark side, I have no obligation to waste my time on you anymore. Come on -"

She retracted her feet, took two steps back, opened her arms, looked up at the empty sky, and shouted loudly in an extremely excited voice:

"Welcome to the Domination Theater. This will be our first trial against the Herrscher. Look, everyone, kneeling in front of me is the defendant this time - Kiana Kaslana. Again Or, K423, of course, she also has a name that everyone is definitely familiar with, Xilin! "

"Click——"

Spider web-like cracks suddenly appeared on Wendy's face that was too fair due to being in the ward for many years. The cracks quickly spread all over her body, whether it was her exposed skin or clothing, her bandaged legs, or her flying blue hair...

The next moment, all the parts belonging to [Wendy], the [human], were shattered, leaving only a patch of cyan glass.

And what came out of that body was a doll that had no connection with [Wendy] - she was wearing a stage dress, with a pair of huge golden horns of unknown meaning on both sides of her short blond hair, and her eyes were Covered by a huge black eye patch, there is a strange triangular knot on the big forehead.

She put her legs together and raised her hands flat, and her joints made a "click-click" sound during this movement.

And the most disgusting thing is the head that rotates 360 degrees every time.

She split her lips, revealing her neatly arranged teeth, and then everything was frozen at this moment - she didn't say anything, and she didn't make any more movements, she just stared at Kiana with this expression. .

Silence, dead silence - nothingness began to spread in the air.

Kiana felt that this was the time for her to expose the lie of the [God], but she could not speak. It seemed that her body was resisting her to break the emptiness.

I don’t know how long it took, or maybe it was only a tenth of a second from beginning to end...

Rustling, rustling.

Nothing was eroded by the sudden noise.

The sounds of hard objects colliding, the sounds of mechanisms opening and closing, the sounds of joints twisting... the sound of wooden blocks hitting wooden blocks occupied this small and spacious space that coexisted.

There is no light, no life, no temperature, and no consciousness.

The noises were like water droplets dripping into a dark spring, causing endless ripples.

Bah-bah-bah-bah-countless sounds followed.

The sounds of hard objects colliding, the sounds of organs opening and closing, the sounds of joints twisting...

The sound of creaking, hundreds and thousands, noisy, wood blocks hitting wood blocks... resounded in this empty space.

However, Kiana could not find the source of the sound until she raised her head——

From the crimson to deep purple sky hang down a series of imperceptible silver threads. At the end of the silver thread, on one side is the unfathomable sky, and on the other side are countless, and they are exactly the same as the existence in front of them. of dolls.

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

Under the influence of the silver thread, each puppet twisted its joints in mid-air, and landed accurately on the stone ring one by one. Looking around, Kiana was surrounded.

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

Crunch - crunch -

The puppets' joints twisted uncoordinatedly:

Some have arms parallel to each other, one forearm twisted to point to the sky, and one arm twisted to point to the ground.

Some picked up their thighs, twisted their joints, and wrapped their knees around their necks.

Others kept twisting their hips, and their hands and feet kept twitching, as if they were completely dissatisfied with this puppet-like body.

If they have anything in common, it is that they rotate their heads 360 degrees amidst the sound of "click, click, click".

Eeyah - Eeeah -

Click - click -

Crunch - crunch -

Click it - click it -