Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

The words that could be expressed at any time on normal days were now so difficult to utter. She tried her best to speak, but in the end, only the tears kept flowing from the corners of the girl's eyes...silently conveying what she wanted to express to the boy in front of her.

The captain knew what she had seen and what she wanted to say, but he still smiled, stroked the girl's cheek, and wiped away the tears from her eyes: "I understand, Mei, don't worry about me, I'll be fine..."

The captain gently comforted the girl in his arms, but Mei was still crying and shaking her head, her eyes full of sadness and pity.

Broken and even missing ribs in the chest, the risk of concussion caused by blunt force trauma, and injuries to various parts of the body. In addition to these results that Bronya had drawn from her previous diagnosis, which had already made Mei heartbroken, Mei also saw through the information displayed in the tactical eyepiece that the captain had developed countless horrific burns and a serious wound that went through his abdomen.

The captain's critical health warning message kept popping up in the eyepiece, but he couldn't even say a decent word. He could only cry like this...

Why did you transfer the armor to me when you were so seriously injured?

As if he knew what the girl was thinking, the captain held the girl's hand that was grabbing the corner of his clothes and gently pushed it away: "Mei is my important Valkyrie. As a captain, isn't it natural for me to want to protect my Valkyrie?"

The thrusters behind him hummed softly, converting the residual Honkai energy emanating uncontrollably from Mei's body into energy. Then, the God-killing Armor, which began to execute the induction plan, protected its user, slowly adjusted its posture, and rose into the sky.

"No...Captain...No..."

Mei cried and tried desperately to grab the captain's hand, as if if she let go here, she would never have the chance to grab this hand again.

But as the armor slowly lifted her body, the girl's slender five fingers covered with armor were gradually peeled off from the captain's palm covered with burns and blood, and finally... completely separated.

“No…don’t…please…!”

Amid the girl's sobs, a silver light carrying the boy's "hope" rose into the sky, bringing the girl he had failed to save away from this hopeless place in the never-ending rainstorm.

"Mei! You have to live on, live on, and go to the future with everyone else."

Standing on this deadly land, the captain watched the ray of light moving further away from him, and gave the girl perhaps his last blessing, just like the good wishes she had given him at that time.

The body's perception gradually disappeared under the erosion of "The End", and the limbs became heavier as if filled with lead. Only the will and soul were still suffering in the pain that ordinary people could not bear.

Both his body and consciousness had already exceeded the limits of their endurance, but even though his existence could completely collapse at any time, the captain still gritted his teeth and maintained a standing posture with trembling legs, and slowly turned around, intending to once again enter the battlefield from which he would have no return.

At the same time he turned around, Fu Hua, who was tightly held by the white ribbon wrapped around her ankle, fell from the sky under Xilin's full force.

Along with the powerful kinetic energy brought by the high-speed fall, a large hole was smashed into the ground of the "Third Airport" with a dull bang, and the girl lying in the middle of the hole struggled to get up from it, and at the critical moment she turned over to avoid several sub-sky spears falling on her head.

Even though it was different from the last time, this time due to the captain's interference, Sirin did not get the power of "conquering" as she wished, but as a "herrscher" with the "power of death", she was still almost invincible when facing an enemy like Fu Hua who mainly relied on physical means and fighting skills.

It is true that, just like last time, Fu Hua's superb fighting skills did put a lot of pressure on Xilin in the initial battle, but if there is no strong enough force to simultaneously suppress and consume the energy stored in the two "Herrser Cores" in Xilin's body, once they are dragged into an endless war of attrition, the only one who will suffer will be Fu Hua.

Now that Mia and Mei have escaped the fate of being seriously injured or sacrificed, the captain only needs to do one last thing - defeat Sirin and rescue Kiana.

But if he wants to do this, he needs some special power possessed by his old friend to achieve a most critical condition, which is... something necessary for the best ending he wants to achieve.

Not far away, Fu Hua, who was struggling to deflect several Sub-Sky Spears with her arms, lost her balance again due to the sudden force exerted by the ribbons wrapped around her feet, and was dragged towards Xilin's direction.

The golden hole dragged the girl in the distance at high speed like a tape measure. At the same time, more Sub-Sky Spears flew out from the hole behind Xilin and stabbed at the prey she was holding tightly.

And the next second, the faint purple sword energy swept between the two people just enough to cut the ribbon while retaining the residual energy to the maximum extent, creating a curtain of water.

Fu Hua, who was freed from the entanglement of the ribbons, rolled twice on the ground due to inertia and then turned over with a nimble move, once again dodging the sharp spears that were stabbed into the ground less than two centimeters away from her.

"Um!?"

Seeing the prey escape death, Xilin turned her head while making a suspicious sound. Not far from the two of them, a scarred human was standing in the heavy rain, and the black sword in his hand was shaking slightly as his arm trembled uncontrollably.

"You idiot... huh?"

Just when Xilin was about to feel angry, her attention was suddenly drawn elsewhere.

The golden eyes that were looking at a certain human revealed doubts that could not be answered. She was very sure that she did not kill the human in front of her. When she wanted to snatch the unconscious human from Raiden Mei before, she also paid attention to the other party's injuries, which should not be as serious as they are now...

But the human standing not far from him at this moment looked as if he was dying and his end was approaching... She couldn't help but wonder what happened in the few minutes when she took her eyes off him...

And, as time went by, a certain indescribable weirdness began to become clear in her mind.

"Human, what have you done?"

All the doubts finally turned into a vague question, and the human in front of her was still speechless...or rather, he almost didn't have the energy to speak.

"..."

"Humph…"

Seeing that the other party ignored her, the somewhat unhappy Xilin casually shot a sub-sky spear from the hole beside her at the other party. Sure enough, after the captain barely blocked the sharp spear that was purely used for testing, he fell to his knees on the ground, unable to support himself. He could only use his sword as a support point to prevent himself from really falling down.

"Human, you..."

Perhaps it was the effect of the "Quiet Gem". Xilin could clearly feel that the other party's vitality was gradually disappearing. No, it was better to say that his life had already entered the countdown to death.

If he is not treated immediately, he will die in front of me...

Realizing this, Xilin suddenly became a little confused. She didn't care about anything else. The two sub-sky spears with only the tips exposed in the golden hole behind her immediately transformed into white ribbons and flew out, heading straight for the humans not far away.

"stop!!!!"

Fu Hua, who had also noticed the strangeness of her old friend, thought that Xilin wanted to take advantage of the situation, so she rushed forward without thinking too much and stood in front of her old friend. After transforming the golden boxing gloves in her hands into a long sword, she used swift sword moves to cut the ribbons that attempted to "harm" her old friend into pieces.

"Tsk, damn it! You damned woman!"

With her brows furrowed and her teeth clenched, Xilin's anger reached its peak almost instantly when she saw the ribbon she had shot out in an attempt to pull someone to her side so that she could heal his injuries was chopped into pieces by the other party.

However, Fu Hua didn't care at all about where the anger in the eyes of the "Herrser" who was emitting a strong murderous aura came from. She just took a step back, glanced at the young man behind her with her peripheral vision, and carefully asked about his situation.