Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 326 Selecting Knights? Choosing Patients!

Who is Leera?

At this moment, this is the biggest question in Qiong's mind.

Upon hearing this question, the somewhat familiar voice paused slightly.

She's not important, not at all.

As soon as the sound faded, the blanket covering Sora disappeared, and the surrounding scenery distorted and changed again. After it stabilized, Sora found that the scene in front of her had become...

Three little girls are gathered around a miniature version of themselves, who is sitting on the ground, weeping uncontrollably.

"You idiot, Ash Fur, give up your unrealistic fantasies! Why do you have to go on adventures? Isn't it better to stay in the village?"

A disdainful, childlike voice came from ahead. Although she couldn't see the face, Qiong could guess from the voice that the tiny white-furred creature was a paramecium... And those two next to it must be Mei and Bronya? But why hasn't Bronya changed at all...?

"No, no! I think..."

"You bunch of bad guys? Don't you dare bully A-Qiong!"

Suddenly, a small firefly darted from the side and pulled the tiny gray hairs off the ground.

"Aqiong, you're a man now. My future great adventurer can't be made to cry by a few bad girls!"

Qiong: ...

What the heck?!

Then, the usually gentle Firefly stood in front of her and loudly rebuked the young versions of the three starter families.

"You three bad guys, you're not allowed to bully A-Qiong!"

The three people whose faces were not visible to Qiong made puzzled noises.

"Where did we bully him? And who are you?"

"I, I am..."

Little Firefly seemed stumped by the question, and her face turned red.

"I'm Qiong's neighbor and his best friend! If you want to bully Qiong, you'll have to get over me first!"

"Is this... a childhood sweetheart story?"

Then came scenes often seen in anime and movies: Sora and Hotaru growing up together, walking through fields, going on adventures with Silver Wolf, and being punished by Kafka and Blade to reflect on their mistakes.

While getting lost again during an outing, they encountered Hinadia, a warm and hospitable woman who seemed to radiate holy light, a figure worthy of worship yet untouchable, representing all that is beautiful in the world…

Qiong: ...

Qiong's face showed only surprise... Why does this feel like the style of the scene is a bit off?

Qiong wasn't immersed in the story because, besides the art style, there were several huge plot holes that couldn't be patched up.

"Hey, didn't you say you'd move away when he was three? Isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to call this 1.8-meter-tall gray-haired guy 'three years old'?"

[Ahem, don't worry about the details.]

It was that somewhat familiar voice, and she seemed a little embarrassed, perhaps because of an inexplicable bug.

Qiong rolled her eyes at the air.

This trial is riddled with flaws!

Putting aside the question of why so many adjectives were used to describe Hina Diya, how did this story, riddled with plot holes, turn from an adventure into a romance drama? Did it end with her dying in the arms of the Demon King, Liu Ying, after she couldn't be saved?

Qiong's mind conjured up the image of Liuying lying dying in his arms, a scene from which he was powerless to help—a gentle face with a faint smile, eyes filled with an unparalleled will to live and an unwillingness to accept the end of her life. Someone like him, who couldn't bear to see tragedy, would probably be driven to death by it... well, driven to death by the forced sentimental tragedy in this terrible movie.

After a not-so-short encounter, Qiong believed he had figured out the common characteristics of this trial: chaotic and nonsensical, without any order or method, just something that came up out of nowhere. Rather than a trial, it was more like forcing him to watch a story that guy came up with on a whim...

This storyline, this script... it's not even one percent of Lao Yang's level!

Just as Qiong was secretly complaining, the surrounding scenery kept changing one after another: one moment it became the wilderness where the five of them first met Liuying, the next it became the Demon King's castle, then it became a village, and then it became the Starry Sky Train...

"what happened?"

[Little Reyella, stop fooling around!]

[Litost, Nahera, let me do it! No one is better than me—]

"Lithost?!"

Qiong didn't understand the rest. But upon hearing the name Lithost, Qiong instantly became alert: So, his presence here was related to Lithost? But wasn't he drinking Ajeta's medicine?!

Moreover, judging from the commotion, it seems that at least two groups are vying for control of this "trial".

But why? He's still alive, and it doesn't seem like he was supposed to be killed. No, wait, the selling point of this trial is immortality, and the grand prize of the Ten Arts War is immortality…

No, that's not right. Would Lithost, that psychopathic killer, be so kind?

Lacking crucial information, Qiong couldn't deduce the other party's purpose, but one thing he was certain of was that he had to wake up quickly and get everyone's help. But the problem was, if the other party discovered that he wanted to escape and knew who they were, would they put him in a state of brain death to maintain secrecy?

What should he do?

He didn't have time to think.

The surrounding scenery trembled more and more violently. The once intact land collapsed and tore apart with each distortion of the scene. Even Newtonian mechanics ceased to exist, and countless pieces of land flew into the air to form floating islands. If he didn't know, he would believe you if you said it was the Sea of ​​Quanta!

A purple sun suddenly appeared in the clear sky. Before Qiong could draw a conclusion, the purple sun suddenly burst out with dark purple light, which spread in all directions as if it were a tangible light, turning the scene into a pitch-black night.

Qiong summoned his baseball bat, his eyes fixed warily on the blazing sun. Its viscous purple halo slowly spread across the sky. Then he witnessed a heart-stopping scene: the celestial body, which should have been radiant and scorching, had transformed into a gigantic eyeball?!

The halo is its vascular pattern, the pupils are the sun itself, and the innermost iris is pure black—thankfully, it only resembles that consciousness ruler a little bit…

Just a little bit.

As Qiong stared in stunned silence at all this, a mouth suddenly opened in his pupil, and a pitch-black figure slowly floated out from the giant-eyed monster...

The person had long black hair, wore a purple and black outfit, and had a purple and black crescent moon floating behind her... She was related to Lithost, could she also be a knight of the gods?

Qiong tried to meet her gaze. After all, even if that person's eyes were cold and sharp, they were still much better than that big-eyed monster that gave people goosebumps.

"Uh, so you're the mastermind behind bringing me here for this trial... Huh? You're the Dream Seeker Entropy?"

"Dream Seeker, Entropy?"

Leiera was stunned for a moment, then slowly floated down from mid-air.

Of course she knew what a Dream Seeker was; it was just a myth from the Elysian region where Rimu lived. It was said that Dream Seekers could enter the dreams of others and thus travel against the flow of time, achieving the effect of time travel back to the past...

But what is this gray-haired man saying? What is his relationship with the Dream Seeker?

If she were a dream seeker, she would have already infiltrated everyone's dreams and gone against the current to bring Hinadia back!

"No, I'm not a dream seeker, you've mistaken me for someone else."

Lera frowned slightly and spoke coldly. But as soon as the words left her mouth, she regretted it: she had rushed in recklessly simply to have a friendly conversation with him and learn about Sinadia. Although torture was a method, she still felt that a peaceful resolution was preferable…

After all, there aren't many people who know about Hinadia anymore.

"If you're not a Dream Seeker, then who is? Do you know Helia and Sheena...?"

"Yes, of course I know Hinadia!"

Upon hearing "Xina," Leiera suddenly interrupted Sora excitedly, floating within three steps of him and staring intently at him.

"You know Sinadia, right? Tell me quickly, you know Sinadia!"

Reira's aura suddenly intensified, to the point that Qiong felt like he was being stared at by a ferocious lioness, so he gripped his baseball bat tighter and took three steps back warily.

"Calm down first?"

This person doesn't seem like a good person either; this attitude suggests he might be a fellow sufferer of Litost's mental illness...

Is the selection of Martian God contestants based on their mental state?!

Sorry, we have to temporarily...

"what?"

Before either Qiong or Leiera could continue speaking, the surrounding space trembled violently once again.

Qiong saw that Leiera's face showed an angry expression.

"Litost! Nahera! What are you doing?!"

As the bespectacled dreamer roared, several black shadows flew out from his body, attempting to fill the cracked earth, but to no avail.

The chaotic, distorted space, along with the ground beneath Qiong's feet, collapsed, and Qiong plummeted down. Leiera gritted her teeth, leaped towards Qiong, and grabbed his arm. The two plummeted rapidly through the air, the surrounding scenery flickering like a shattered mirror.

Tell me, where are you?

"what?"

"Speak! Speak up!"

Leera yelled at Sora at point-blank range. Faced with this crazy woman who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, Sora, inexplicably angry, blurted out a curt reply.

I'm not telling you!

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It's not me, it's my stomach.

My stomach is rebelling...

I will make up for what I owed and what I did wrong, but I really can't help having a stomachache...