I am Möbius's sister.

Although the campsite covered a large area, there weren't many tents left. Sirin searched for the tents that were still relatively intact one by one, and soon found Alicia's location.

It was a rather special-looking tent, slightly different from the others. As for why it was said to be Alicia's location, it was because Sirin had just passed by when she heard Alicia's incredibly familiar voice.

"What's the casualty situation?" Alicia asked in a serious tone.

"Nearly seventy percent of the people died, and the rest were more or less injured, but there were no seriously injured people, because the seriously injured died before they could be treated." The person who answered Alicia's question was also a young woman, but her voice became a little choked up at the end. The death rate of nearly eighty percent was undoubtedly very tragic.

"Please accept my condolences. You are all heroes, and your deaths are glorious. Your achievements will be remembered. It was your tenacious resistance that held out until our arrival. Otherwise, the Honkai Beast tide might have already destroyed several cities." Alicia gently comforted the sobbing woman.

Outside the tent, Xilin let out a long breath and reached out to lift the curtain and go in, but she withdrew her hand just before touching it. This heavy atmosphere was not suitable for disturbing them, and she didn't really like this kind of heavy atmosphere either; it always felt very oppressive.

Just as Sirin withdrew her hand and turned to leave, Alicia's voice suddenly came from behind, causing Sirin to stop in her tracks.

"Is that Sirin?"

Sirin turned around, and at the same moment, Alicia lifted the curtain, their eyes meeting in mid-air.

"You've come at the right time, come in quickly." Before Sirin could even react, Alicia smiled and carried her into the tent.

When Sirin came to her senses, she was already standing in front of a young woman wearing combat gear with the Fire Moth emblem on her chest. When the woman saw Sirin, she suddenly stopped crying.

After a long pause, he murmured, "So cute..."

"Isn't it cute? Thinking about happy things will make you feel less sad. Our mission isn't over yet, so cheer up and look at some cute things to cheer yourself up." Alicia tilted her head and smiled.

"Hmm." The young woman nodded slightly, then stared intently at Sirin. This intense gaze made Sirin feel uncomfortable. Was Alicia using her as a tool to comfort people?

"That wretched Alicia!" Sirin turned her head and glared fiercely at Alicia.

Finally, Sirin sighed softly. Well, it's not bad to comfort people occasionally, after all, she's so kind~ Let Alicia go this time, she'll settle the score with her next time.

Chapter Twenty-One: Little Angel Sirin

"Don't be too sad. What you should do is carry on with their will and keep moving forward, understand?" Xilin hugged the young woman and gently comforted her by stroking her back.

"I understand." The young woman nodded slightly. Although the sadness still lingered on her face, her complexion was noticeably better. She felt that the purple-haired girl before her was truly an angel, gentle and lovely...

Wait… purple hair? The young woman’s body suddenly stiffened, and she couldn’t help but feel a little flustered. Not long ago, the purple figure in the sky that looked like a god had greatly shocked her. The woman was also an insider and knew that a purple-haired girl who possessed the power of a Herrscher was coming here.

Combining all the information, the woman instantly determined Sirin's identity: she was a Herrscher!

The terror of the Herrscher is well known within the Firemoth organization. The woman had participated in the Second Honkai Impact 3rd operation against the Herrscher of the Void, witnessing her godlike power and the Herrscher's ruthlessness. An army was like paper in front of the Herrscher, instantly collapsing into disarray.

The fact that she was being held by a Herrscher made the woman feel somewhat frightened.

However, Xilin was unaware of all this. When she felt the woman's body suddenly stiffen and tremble slightly, Xilin thought the woman was sad again, so she continued to comfort her with extremely gentle words.

When Sirin's gentle voice reached the woman's ears, it pulled her back from her fear of the Herrscher. Could such a gentle and lovely person be that ruthless Herrscher? This question surfaced in the woman's mind, and after a moment, her heart gave her the answer.

The fear in her heart gradually subsided. So what if such a gentle person was a Herrscher? The woman's heart gradually calmed down.

Alicia, standing to the side, nodded slightly with a smile. Sure enough, no one can resist a cute girl. But was it just her imagination? Sirin seemed to have become even cuter.

After Xilin comforted the young woman and released her, she remembered why she had come here. Looking at the young woman who had regained her composure, she asked softly, "Um... do you have an accurate map of Changkong City here?"

Upon hearing this, the young woman was slightly taken aback, then shook her head and said helplessly, "I'm sorry, because of the chaotic magnetic field here and the electromagnetic pulse that suddenly came from Changkong City, the equipment has been damaged. However, there is still a paper map of Changkong City."

Upon hearing the first part of the sentence, Xilin couldn't help but feel a little regretful, but upon hearing the second part, her eyes lit up. Although it was a pity that there was no map with precise location, a paper map would be sufficient, even if it might be a little more troublesome.

After receiving the paper map from the young woman, Celine began to locate their positions based on Kaiwen and Mei's descriptions. Once they were located on the map, it would be much easier to find them.

However, at this moment, not long after she had just started locating her location, Xilin received a system notification, and the notification sound made her heart sink into an ice cellar.

[A sudden event has been triggered! The current event is "[Rescue Kevin and Mei]". The injured Judgment-class Honkai Beast Shesa is closing in on Mei's location, while Emperor-class Honkai Beasts are sweeping through the area where Kevin is located. Kevin and Mei are in grave danger!]

This event overlaps with the previous event [Rescue Kevin and May], the story events have been merged, the difficulty has been increased, and the event has been updated to [Rescue Kevin and May]

[Completing this event will reward you with: two chances to win a prize, a golden treasure chest, the title [Heroic Savior], +5 to Kaiwen's favorability, and +5 to Mei's favorability.]

Hearing the system notification in her ear, Xilin's body stiffened. What was this all about?! This was a huge problem!

Taking a deep breath, Sirin calmed herself down. She had to think of a solution, or she would be doomed. After thinking for a while, Sirin turned her attention to Alicia.

With Alicia's strength, suppressing an Emperor-level Honkai Beast should be more than enough, and she can even fight a Judgment-level Honkai Beast. She can't handle it all by herself, but wouldn't it be easier for the two of them to split up?

This is undoubtedly a good idea, but the difficulty lies in explaining it to Alicia. We can't expose the system, and we need to convince Alicia. It feels like the difficulty is exceptionally high.

Celine was a little troubled. She turned her gaze back to the map and quickly located Kaiwen's position. However, Celine could only roughly locate Mei's position. But she should be able to find it when she took off, since Mei had said that only the hotel opposite her had become ruins.

After locating the location, Sirin put away the map and walked up to Alicia.

"Sister Alicia, let's go save Kaiwen and Mei. You go save Kaiwen and I'll save Mei. I've already located their position. All we need to do is scan Changkong City and we can teleport to their side," Sirin pleaded, looking into Alicia's eyes.

“Sure.” Alicia nodded with a smile, then suddenly changed the subject, “But… you have to tell me first how you became so cute. You’re so much cuter than you were a while ago.”

"Eh...cute? Have I really become cuter?" Upon hearing this, Sirin was slightly taken aback. She naturally knew the answer to what Alicia was talking about—it was nothing more than the charm-enhancing ability of her bracelet. However, she couldn't tell the truth, so she could only gloss over it for now. "Hmm...this might be a side effect of becoming a full Herrscher, becoming cuter and all that, hehe..."

The moment those words left her lips, Sirin screamed inwardly, "What a lame excuse! Becoming a Herrscher makes you prettier and cuter? Who would believe that?! Oh no, Alicia definitely won't believe that..."

"Huh? Is that so? Becoming a Herrscher can actually make you more beautiful and cute? There's such an effect. I remember Dr. Mebius also said that Herrschers have very active cells and long lifespans. Maybe that's the reason."

Upon hearing Alicia's words, Sirin was completely stunned. "No way, no way, she really believed it?" Sirin blinked, subtly withdrawing her slightly surprised gaze, and smiled brightly in agreement with Alicia, while secretly letting out a sigh of relief.

However, at that moment, Sirin didn't see the playful glint in Alicia's eyes; lying is a bad thing for a beautiful girl...

After chatting with Alicia for a while, Sirin pulled Alicia out of the tent and had her take a weapon, preparing to head to Changkong City to rescue Mei and Kaiwen.

Sirin transformed into her Herrscher form and flew into the sky. She used a small portion of her Honkai energy to roughly sense the spatial location of Changkong City and successfully located Keven's position and the approximate location of Mei.

It was thanks to the map that Sirin didn't have to sense the entire Changkong City, otherwise the Honkai energy she would have consumed would have been much greater.

In her rough perception, Sirin discovered that the space in the city center of Changkong City was somewhat collapsed and distorted, and she sensed a familiar fluctuation within it—the fluctuation of a Herrscher.

After regaining her composure, Sirin waved her hand and instantly opened two spatial portals. One led to the vicinity of Kewen's location, while the other led to Shesa's side. She decided to eliminate the threat of Shesa at its root. As for how Sirin knew Shesa's coordinates, that had to do with the Void Spear stuck in Shesa's chest.

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Death of Shesa

Thunderclouds rolled and surged in the sky, and the booming thunder proclaimed its power to the world. The entire Changkong City was shrouded in darkness, especially the city center, which was deathly silent, as if no life existed there.

However, on the streets on the outskirts of the city center, one could hear heavy breathing and hurried footsteps. The wind howled, and in the pitch-black darkness, one could only rely on touch and the faint light to avoid obstacles, or on the lightning bolts rolling in the sky.

'Boom, boom'

A series of thunderclaps boomed, and the pale lightning temporarily illuminated the darkness, revealing Mei's terrified face and the pitch-black mud behind her in the brief moment of light.

The broken streetlights creaked and the fallen trees rustled. Fear of the darkness and the monster chasing behind her filled Mei's heart. No matter how calm she was usually, she couldn't calm down at this moment.

She didn't know what this strange thing was, but she knew that if she was caught, she would only die. She knew clearly what kind of monster was hidden under the black mud: a tall body, a thick snake tail, and an extremely ferocious face. It was completely unlike any known creature, and it also had the strange ability to disappear into the black mud.

However, it seemed to be seriously injured, with a strangely shaped... spear stuck in its chest?

What secrets does this world hold?

Although she felt curious and confused, Mei knew that now was not the time to think about it. She had to run away with all her might. Fortunately, the monster seemed to be toying with her. Even though it could catch up with her frail body in just a few breaths, the monster was still chasing after her, as if it was enjoying the process of hunting its prey and enjoying the fear of its prey.

Mei, running in the dark, already had many wounds on her body. After all, it was so dark that she could hardly see her own hand in front of her face, and there was no flashlight around her. She could only rely on touch and the lightning bolts from the sky to avoid obstacles in front of her, which naturally made it difficult to avoid bumps and bruises.

Suddenly, Mei felt her foot slip and she lost her balance. A sharp pain shot through her arm, and she had fallen. But that wasn't the worst of it. Worse still, the monster that had been chasing her seemed to have had enough. Instead of waiting for her to get up, it gradually emerged from the black mud and slowly approached her.

Mei tried to stand up and keep running, but as soon as she moved her foot, a sharp pain shot through her ankle. She had twisted her ankle, and this would undoubtedly be the last straw that broke the camel's back.

As the enormous and ferocious figure gradually approached in the distance, and as she listened to the rumbling thunder and the monster's nauseating screams, Mei's heart sank to the bottom.

A thunderous roar erupted, and a pale flash of lightning illuminated the monster's raised serpentine tail, which was lashing out at Mei on the ground.

Just as Mei was about to die under the giant snake's tail, several whooshing sounds suddenly came from the air.

With several sharp sounds of blades piercing flesh, the monster let out a shrill scream. At that moment, the thunderstorm in the sky became more intense. In the lightning, Mei saw four strangely shaped spears stuck in the monster's thick snake tail. These spears looked just like the spears on the monster's chest.

Before Mei could react, she felt someone approaching her: "You are..." Before Mei could finish speaking, she heard the voice of an unfamiliar girl.

"We finally made it! Mei, are you alright?"

"Who are you?" Mei asked, puzzled. She didn't recognize the voice; it sounded very unfamiliar. However, the girl seemed to know her very well.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Sirin. Didn't I ask for your location earlier? That's why I came to rescue you. It's just that that big guy keeps running around, so it's hard to pinpoint its location." Sirin smiled gently at Mei. Although it was in the dark, as a Herrscher, she naturally had the ability to see in the dark. Unfortunately, Mei couldn't see Sirin's smile at that moment.

Shesa's screams still echoed in her ears. This time, it was preparing to escape into the black mud again. However, Sirin, who was prepared, would not let Shesa escape from her hands a second time using the same method. Otherwise, she would lose face. A Herrscher who could sweep across the world was being eaten by a Judgment-level Honkai Beast one after another.

Can we tolerate this? No, we cannot.

So, Sirin cleverly teleported Shesa’s enormous body into the air, giving it a high-altitude bungee jump. As she expected, the extremely strange black mud did not appear in the air.

Hearing the muffled thuds coming from her ears every now and then, and Shesa’s howls growing louder and louder, Mei’s brows furrowed slightly. Xilin… what is she doing?

Although Mei didn't know what had happened to the monster, she could tell from its pitiful howls that it had been badly tormented by Sirin.

Mei wasn't feeling sorry for the monster, but rather pondering Sirin's identity. Although she had only been chased by the monster for a short while, she still understood its power. Ordinary people would only have the option of waiting to die in front of it, but Sirin was now treating the monster like a toy, making it scream in agony.

This made Mei curious about Xilin's identity, and also about the organization behind Xilin, the Moth of Fire. If she remembered correctly, the organization called the Moth of Fire had previously sent her an invitation, but she had not accepted it immediately. Now it seemed that joining that organization might be a good opportunity to learn about the unknown side of this world.

Her ideal is to become a great scientist, and what a scientist must have is a tireless spirit of exploration, even if the unknown before them is hell, they must bravely explore it.

After giving Shesa a few high-altitude bungee jumps, tearing its scales and hard shell to shreds, Sirin seemed to have gotten tired of it. With a snap of her fingers, five explosions accompanied by Shesa's wailing echoed throughout the area.

"Tsk, such tenacious vitality, still not dead." Sensing that Shesana, though weak, still possessed a considerable amount of life force, Sirin clicked her tongue. Since this attack wasn't enough to kill it, she would go for something bigger.

Xilin's lips curled up slightly, and Mei noticed that Xilin's demeanor seemed to have changed, taking on an air of authority.

To prevent Shesa from using the same trick again, Sirin teleported it into the air again, but this time it wasn't bungee jumping, but archery, except the target was Shesa.

Celine raised her hand, and a hazy purple halo appeared around her. Through this faint light, Mei was able to see Celine's appearance clearly.

Just as Shesa was about to land, Sirin grabbed and raised her hand, and a huge purple cone suddenly appeared from the ground, shooting straight at Shesa. Around Shesa, seven or eight identical cones also appeared, piercing her and freezing her in mid-air.

Then, Sirin released her hand, and dozens of Void Spears appeared from the surroundings, transforming into Void Belts that cut towards Shesa before detonating simultaneously.

The deafening roar shattered the silence. The spatial tremors caused by the explosion of dozens of sub-space spears directly collapsed several surrounding buildings and left a large crater in their place.

Shesa had already lost all life, leaving only scattered corpses.

However, seeing this situation, Xilin did not seem happy. She sighed in frustration and muttered to herself, "It's comfortable, but it's so hard to collect all this scraps of meat. I hope you won't mind, sister."

Although she felt regretful, there was nothing she could do but collect them one by one, since it was already too late. Fortunately, she had the power of a Herrscher, so she collected them relatively quickly.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Saving Kevin and May

A moment later, Sirin swiftly took Shesa's remaining body and the black mud on the ground into the imaginary space she had created. The imaginary space Sirin created was filled with Honkai energy, making it the best place to preserve Shesa's body.

The patch of black mud on the ground was special; it couldn't be directly collected into the imaginary space. Sirin used Honkai energy to envelop and condense the black mud before she could collect it into the imaginary space.

Looking at the much cleaner ground in front of her, Xilin nodded in satisfaction. Then she walked to Mei's side, squatted down, and took Mei's hand: "Can you still stand up?"