Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

——October 2016, 10——

——Early morning 07:05——

"Red Yuan...woo!!!" The young man woke up from the extremely frightening nightmare and stood up suddenly, but immediately fell back on the hospital bed due to the severe pain coming from his left chest and right abdomen at the same time.

The little nurse who was startled by the captain's movement immediately came over and held him down with both hands: "Captain, what are you doing!? Two of your ribs are broken. If you move around, you will be injured." There will be big problems with the organs!"

"…Well."

After hearing this, the captain, who gradually calmed down, glanced at the nurse next to him. He recognized the other person as the medical staff on the Huberian. This was undoubtedly the intensive care unit of the Huberian.

What's strange is that he clearly knew in his heart that it was a very bad dream, but when the captain thought about it, he couldn't remember exactly what kind of horrific scene he saw during his brief coma, or in other words, he didn't understand. Was that just a simple dream?

But at least one thing the captain could be sure of was that it was definitely a...complete nightmare that he didn't dare to let go of easily.

"I...this is..."

"Ah, a crew member found you lying in the cabin with many injuries, so they rushed you over..."

"…I see."

As the other party explained, the memory before the collapse gradually recovered in his mind. When his mind started to work again, the captain began to ask some urgent questions: "How long have I been unconscious? How is the coalition retreat going? Hyperion is currently Where is the location? How are the others?"

"Calm down, Captain, you asked too many questions at once..."

"...I'm sorry, I was too impatient." Realizing that he had lost his composure, the captain tried to relax. The little nurse also sighed and replied to the captain's questions one by one:

"You have been unconscious for more than an hour. The Hyperion is currently over the Arabian Sea. According to the Mediterranean time zone, it is now 7:06 in the morning. As for the situation of others... Lady Theresa and Lieutenant Mia are currently She is still in a coma, Lady Theresa is fine, but... Lieutenant Mia's injury condition is not very optimistic..."

"..." The nurse's solemn pause made the captain sweat for Mia.

When he rushed to support Fu Hua, he asked Einstein to order the retreat and also confirmed the situation on the ship. Because his right shoulder was penetrated by a sharp weapon under the shoulder, Mia was in a critical state with excessive blood loss and severe coma. Even if there was Milly and the others may not be able to easily escape life-threatening danger if they provide plasma...

"What about the coalition forces? What's the status of the coalition forces?"

"Ah..." The nurse felt a little embarrassed and shook her head: "I'm very sorry, Captain, I also..."

"...It's okay, Miss Charel, you've done a great job."

"Huh?" Even through a layer of masks, you can still see that the nurse was obviously surprised when she heard the captain call her name, because she was not wearing an ID tag on her clothes now, and she had just arrived. , she even only greeted her young boss once or twice.

"Do you...remember my name?"

"? Of course, I remember the names of everyone on this ship... It's really embarrassing for you. You were involved in this kind of thing not long after you arrived."

"Don't worry, although I have just arrived, if I can contribute to everyone, I will do my best!"

"Really...Thank you, then, I have to go back to the bridge..."

After saying that, the captain was about to pull out the infusion needle on the back of his hand and get out of bed. The little nurse saw him and immediately pressed him on the bed: "No! Captain, the doctor said that your broken ribs are seriously dislocated. , you must undergo surgical correction first, and you still have symptoms of penetrating injury and internal bleeding in your abdomen, so you can’t move now!”

"...No, I'm really fine..."

"No! If I say no, I just can't!"

"..."

Although she is very young, she surprisingly turns out to be a very responsible and somewhat tough girl...

Looking at the nurse beside him, the captain couldn't help complaining, but immediately, he thought of a way.

"I know, I'll take a good rest."

"That's pretty much it..."

"But can you ask the doctor to start quickly? I feel... uh... the broken place is very painful... I can't stand it anymore." The captain said with a look of pain on his face.

"Hey!? I understand. Don't move. I'll call the doctor right now. Also, don't move!"

"Okay..." The captain replied with difficulty as he lay on the bed obediently.

Seeing that the little nurse was successfully pushed away by him, the captain finally breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately stood up and pulled out the needle on his hand. Then he placed his hand under the chest cavity with broken ribs on the left side, and the crystal pendant around his neck also responded. The master's command began to glow with a faint purple light.

"Ugh...uh!"

Under the power of the "Key of God", the captain's hand turned into a phantom and gradually reached into his chest. Gritting his teeth to endure the strong foreign body sensation and pain coming from his chest, he just forced it directly into his body. The two completely broken and misplaced ribs were pulled out.

Seeing the two blood-stained white bones in his hand gradually changing in character after being extracted, the captain couldn't help but sigh, this bizarre and horrifying scene... really shouldn't be shown to the new staff...

"Doctor, hurry up, Captain, he... eh!?"

When the little nurse hurried back to the ward with the chief surgeon, the young man on the bed in the consulting room had long disappeared. Only the patient's list on the table next to the bed was written with a slightly trembling and concise handwriting: "very "Sorry, please don't worry, I'm fine" were the words, and next to the message were two slender strips of pink "crystal" that came from nowhere.

"Uh, sure enough it still... hurts a bit..."

The captain, who was holding on to the wall and walking slowly toward the passageway in the cabin, covered the wound on his abdomen that had been bandaged urgently and complained with a wry smile. But before he could finish speaking, his hand slipped and fell to the ground.

Someone who happened to be passing by the captain saw this and immediately reached out to support him, "You, don't show off when you are so seriously injured."

"...?"

A helpless female voice came from the captain's ear. The captain turned his head and saw a familiar female figure: "Himeko?"

Jizi shook the can in her hand and sighed, then helped the captain to the corridor and motioned for him to sit down, and the two of them sat down together temporarily.

"When did you return to the ship? What's the situation with the coalition forces?"

"More than half an hour ago, the Herrscher of the Sky sent that Judgment-level Honkai Beast to chase Hyperion. You and Theresa are both in a coma. I can only rush back to defend. Don't worry, the coalition fleet has already We retreated separately according to the route you drew. Everyone is fine, and I have kicked the dragon back into the sea. "

"Pursuit...where is Chi...Fu Hua?"

"..." Hearing Fu Hua's name, Ji Zi's hand shaking the can suddenly stopped stiffly, and the captain, whose heart tightened, suddenly felt something was not good.