Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

The "world" in the Nine Heavens is not a true standstill of time, but merely a slowed-down time...

Even if the Hyperion's main gun laser is slowed down, it's still light...

boom----

Everything happened so fast… From Himeko ordering the hatches to close and Kusanagi preparing to devour the thunderstorm, to the Hyperion's main cannon firing… it was so fast that it actually took less than half a minute…

The light from the Hyperion's main cannon ripped through the quiet night sky, tearing apart all obstacles in its path.

"Huh...huh..."

Gasping for breath, Jiu Xiao tossed the rescued people aside. This was a true race against time, and Jiu Xiao felt his adrenaline surge, his heart pounding wildly…

Jiuxiao is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of important people dying in front of him.

Penglai Temple Jiuxiao sat down on the ground, her legs a little weak. She saw the main cannon's beam hurtling towards her. At that moment, confusion, fear, and the question of why filled her mind.

However, the others who were rescued by Jiuxiao, although some of them were also weak in the knees, seemed to have gotten used to it.

It seems that being used as cannon fodder and disappearing is just the most normal thing for them...

“Are you scared?” A survivor walked up to Penglai Temple Jiuxiao and patted her on the shoulder.

"Hmm...aren't you afraid?"

"I'm afraid... but that's all we can do... isn't it? Sacrifice ourselves so that others can survive."

The surviving girl sat beside Kyusou of Penglai Temple, quietly watching the train depart in the distance.

These people have no chance to board the train again. If Jiuxiao doesn't come back to save them, they will still die.

It was just a change from being blasted to death by the main cannon to being devoured by countless Honkai Beasts.

Chapter 290 The Last Vanity

The thunderstorm was about to strike, and there was no time to explain anything to Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple. Jiuxiao could only rush into the sky again to stop the thunderstorm.

Raiden Mei did not show her face at all, it is unknown whether she was afraid that Jiuxiao would kill her, or if she was afraid of something else.

However, the electromagnetic field she left behind can hinder the formation of black holes by gravity to a certain extent. Currently, the magnetic field accumulated by Mei is relatively strong, and the black hole formation rate in Jiuxiao has been greatly slowed down.

It's too late to regenerate the black hole now, so Jiuxiao can only use the Star Sword as a lightning rod to try and disrupt the lightning storm's trajectory.

"No!!" Seeing Jiuxiao charging towards Leibao with his sword on the ground, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao shouted and ran towards him.

But the fear of barely surviving still lingered in her mind, and her legs were so weak that she collapsed to the ground after only a few steps.

Whether he hit his head or was stunned into unconsciousness, Penglai Temple Nine Heavens felt the ground beneath him tremble...

First, the sand slowly floated up and rose into the sky, then the pebbles accelerated towards the heavens and earth...

Then the entire earth began to float up, and at that moment, it seemed as if heaven and earth had been turned upside down...

The tectonic plates formed a protective shield that obscured the sky, and thunderstorms pounded upon it, sending up countless plumes of black powder...

Using a sword to attract lightning was a bit far-fetched. Jiuxiao pulled up all the soil from within a radius of hundreds of miles to block the train crew and Jiuxiao and his group at Penglai Temple from the thunderstorm.

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The train pulled away and gradually disappeared from view of Penglai Temple.

That's true... after all, once it starts, it won't stop easily...

What about us?

Penglaiji Jiuxiao looked at the combat personnel around him, as well as the wounded who were unable to board the ship because Himeko had closed the hatch.

In other words, in order to save most of the people on the train, they have been abandoned by Himeko...

Jiuxiao landed beside Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple, silently watching the dozens of people. They were not beings existing in the material world, and his powers could not affect them, which meant that Jiuxiao could not take them all away at once.

And they didn't seem to be leaving...

Those who remained gathered together, but excluded Penglai Temple's Jiuxiao from the group. They all looked at Jiuxiao with eyes that were filled with both gratitude and fear.

“Are you… a Herrscher?” A member of the Gray Moth unit stepped forward.

Before Jiuxiao could answer, the others had already started whispering among themselves.

"That power...it must be a Herrscher..." "I should have guessed. Even with experiments, how could a human possibly fly...free flight is one of the symbols of a Herrscher..." "A Herrscher has always been lurking among us...what does she want to do..."

"No, my brother isn't a bad person! He's not one of those Herrschers you imagine!" Houraiji Kyushou shouted, trying to explain for Kyushou.

"That's enough, let me do it myself."

Jiuxiao reached out and pressed down on Penglai Temple Jiuxiao, shaking his head at her.

Even if not everyone has seen a Herrscher, they are all Herrschers who destroyed everything, the murderers who destroyed this world. This alone is enough for everyone to find it unacceptable to Jiuxiao.

"I am not one of the culprits of that great collapse, nor have I killed any ordinary people. On the contrary, I have saved you many, many times, and this time is no exception..."

Can you try to trust me? I will take you back to the Hyperion…”

Jiuxiao looked at them sincerely, wanting to gain their trust.

The survivors whispered among themselves for a long time, but in the end, it was the Gray Moth team member who stepped forward.

The girl looked at Jiuxiao for a long time, and finally bowed deeply. Dozens of people behind her also bowed to Jiuxiao. The patients who were unable to move on the stretchers also gave Jiuxiao and Penglai Temple Jiuxiao an apologetic look.

"We're sorry, we saw what you did, we know you're all good people, and we're very grateful to you for saving us... but we still can't let go of our resentment towards the Herrscher..."

“I understand… After I get you back to the train and rejoin the main force, I will leave on my own.”

The girl shook her head, took out her pistol, ejected the remaining ammunition from the magazine, leaving only one bullet.

Not only the girl, but everyone else did the same thing.

"What do you want?! I really can take you back!"

Jiu Xiao shouted nervously, but they pressed guns against their own heads, forcing Jiu Xiao not to let him get close.

"Maybe we can go back with you, but in the end we'll just die on the run with the train crew..."

We have been abandoned; in their eyes, we are already sacrificed.

Rather than continue living to go back and seize the few remaining supplies, and be looked at with strange eyes and cursed in secret by others.

"Why don't we die like heroes now..."

Jiuxiao: "What utter nonsense! If you die, you have nothing left! We don't need to be heroes! Only by surviving can we have everything!"

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens: "We can protect you! We'll definitely leave the train crew and survive on our own! Don't do this..."

"I'm sorry. At any other time, we would definitely apologize properly for misunderstanding you... But now, this is the only way we can express our apologies."

Living in constant fear, constantly hungry, unable to sleep or eat properly... the pressure is immense, both physically and mentally...

Don't try to stop us... We are exhausted, we are not afraid to sacrifice, death is more like a relief to us...

Leader Bronya always warned us to respect our lives and protect ourselves... I really feel bad for her now...

Although Captain Himeko always has a stern and fierce expression, she remembers each of our names, hobbies, and dreams perfectly...

Oh, and... don't tell them we committed suicide! Tell them we sacrificed ourselves to clear the way for them... and don't say the wounded were abandoned, just say they deliberately didn't get on, giving them the chance to board...

It might seem a bit hypocritical, but let's indulge ourselves for a moment…

The girl glanced one last time in the direction the train had left, then turned around.

"Please turn around... what's about to happen isn't very pleasant..."

boom--

boom--

Gunshots rang out continuously... and the sound of bodies falling to the ground echoed...

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Jiuxiao and Penglai Temple buried them with great care and collected their belongings...

Oh, no belongings... only the ammunition they left behind...

Their remains were buried by Jiuxiao in the Moth Chaser's Cemetery, where there are countless tombstones, each bearing the remains of those who sacrificed themselves to save their teammates.

Most people don't even leave behind a body; all they can do is erect a tombstone and inscribe their name in remembrance...

Unfortunately, the people buried by Jiuxiao had intact bodies, but Jiuxiao and the Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple did not know their names.

"The heroes who chased the fireflies are buried here"—Jiuxiao, Penglai Temple.

Chapter 291

Jiuxiao led Penglai Temple Jiuxiao toward Himeko and the others, wanting to reunite with them and convey the last words of the deceased.

But on the way, they saw an abandoned train…

The train, which should have been towed by the Hyperion to transport ordinary people and supplies, was simply abandoned on the tracks.

Countless Honkai creatures enveloped the train completely, howling incessantly.