Bad woman, join the hunt tonight

And now, at least the person named Lihua in the Honkai world needs to take a rest.

Looking at the wounds on Otto's body that had been healed, Lihua smiled slightly, no longer resisting the tide of fatigue, and slowly closed her eyes.

......

Otto didn't want to open his eyes, as if by doing so he could deny what was happening in this world.

If it is true that if you don't see something, it won't happen, then Otto would rather dig out his eyes right now and let the world stop moving at this moment. Unfortunately, this world still does not follow human will, and Otto can't control time, just like he can't control the tears in his eyes now.

The person he loved most was no longer there, and the weight on his chest was proof of that.

Otto's consciousness had just been restored. Although he could not control his body, he could hear Lihua's sighs and wishes in his ears.

She had tried her best to do everything she could, but at the last moment she still felt that she had done nothing and that she was unprotected... and until the very last moment she still believed in him, believed that this man whose blood was on his hands and who had betrayed her was the great inventor.

Lamenting that you can't be great.

But she believed that this man who had accomplished nothing would become the savior.

......

There will never be another girl like her who would climb up a tree to pick paper airplanes for herself and praise herself as a great inventor.

The person who trusted him the most in this world has left this world.

Just like the Kaslanas before, they disappeared in the flames.

I will never sit up and tell him it was a joke again, I will never cook for him again, I will never trust him unconditionally again…

And the last thing he did for her before she died was to betray her most cruelly together with Kallen Kaslana and then put her in jail.

"Haha, hahaha..."

When he came to his senses, Otto found that he had started to laugh dryly without knowing when, but the laughter was more piercing than crying, like the heart-wrenching wail of the most desperate and angry person.

Volume 46 Ideals Disappear in Collapse: Chapter Chapter Funeral

Lihua Kaslana's funeral was the most attended in the history of Tianming. Countless civilians from Klosten came to the scene spontaneously to offer their sincere condolences to the saint.

In the uprising that broke out a few days ago, the old Mandate diehards, led by Bishop Nicolas Apocalis, released terrible monsters from ancient times in a desperate attempt to maintain their power, trying to kill all the rebels.

In this event, known as the Zeroth Collapse, Lihua Kaslana first protected the people, and then sacrificed her own life to completely destroy the monsters, activating the Key of God that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Kaslana family - the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire.

As promised in her childhood, she protected the people's right to pursue a peaceful life.

And now, on the podium, the newly appointed Lord of Destiny, Otto Apokalis, personally delivered a eulogy for her.

"My loving Heavenly Father, we gather here today not to grieve over a life that has passed away, but to rejoice over a soul that will enter your kingdom. Lihua Kaslana is a great person with the purest soul in the world. She dedicated her life and even her very life to the people she loves most..."

Otto mechanically recited the words in his hand. At this moment, he wished that he could believe in the existence of heaven and afterlife like the common people in the audience, because in this way he could deceive himself that Lihua was not dead, but just went to a better place.

But he couldn't do it. Knowledge was both a blessing and a curse. While it helped him achieve his goals, it also doomed him to be unable to indulge in self-deceiving fantasies.

Human death is the end, the complete dissipation of subjective consciousness, and the end of everything.

He would never see her smile again. This was the cold and cruel reality.

It was not until he saw the coffin emitting a burnt smell and buried in the ground that Otto began to regret.

Why did he always avoid Lihua and always treat her coldly? Why didn't he use that time to spend more time with Lihua and talk to her more?

Protect Lihua?

Oh, if it was really for Lihua's own good, I shouldn't have tried to seize those rights. That would be useless. Even if I was with Lihua, I wouldn't let her be attacked. And with Kallen as my good friend and the head of the Kaslana family, Lihua wouldn't have to worry about being sent to those dangerous battlefields.

He just felt that Lihua was his own thing, so she couldn't be touched by others and had to be controlled by himself...

Otto looked at the coffin covered with handfuls of soil in a daze. He seemed to be back in the church at Francis Kaslana's funeral, where the smell of burning was also wafting in the air.

At that time, Lihua thought she was afraid, so she smiled and told herself that she would protect him, and Otto was also determined to protect Lihua and never let the events before his eyes happen again.

Now Lihua has proved her promise with her actions, and he...

No matter what efforts he made, the nightmare that haunted him all day long eventually became a reality, and everything he did was even the cause of this nightmare.

Otto suddenly felt a few strands of chill on his exposed skin. He looked up blankly and found that tiny snowflakes were beginning to float in the light gray sky.

It was just like the day Lihua left him.

So is this snow trying to tell him that this time Lihua is going to leave him completely?

Otto looked at the coffin that was gradually being buried, with only one corner left exposed, and suddenly a sense of panic surged in his heart.

He always felt that Lihua was not dead yet and had not left him yet, but if he really buried the coffin like this, Lihua would really leave him and really die.

No...No...

"Get out! Get out of here!!"

Seeing that the last corner was about to be buried, Otto finally couldn't bear it anymore. He rushed over in the shocked eyes of the people around him, pushed away the people in charge of burying the body like a madman, then jumped into the pit and desperately began to dig the dirt off the coffin: "He must be alive, there must be a chance..."

"Otto, what are you doing!!"

Otto's behavior of disrespecting the funeral and the corpse finally angered Kallen and Eleanor, who had been silently participating in the funeral. They immediately walked over and prepared to pull Otto away.

Now that Lihua is dead, Otto still won't let her go in peace?!

"do not come!!!"

Almost without thinking, a golden pistol appeared in Otto's hand, and he pointed it at the two people who were about to come over without hesitation!

“Otto…are you serious?” Looking at the Mimic Heavenly Fire Holy Judge in Otto’s hand, Kallen’s expression finally became completely gloomy. “Because I don’t want to have a conflict with you, Lihua, but this is her funeral, not a place for you to mess around!”

"Otto, you bastard--!"

Eleanor, who had a bad temper and was born into a commoner family, and had never received any aristocratic education, was even more straightforward: "If you dare to damage Lady Lihua's coffin, I will hang your head on the cross at the association's headquarters!"

"You are not allowed to come over here. I will never let you kill Lihua!!"

Witnessed by countless Valkyries and civilians, the new Archbishop of Destiny had no manners at all. His white robe was covered in mud, and he held a toy-like golden pistol in his hand. Like a madman, he desperately threatened anyone who dared to approach him, just to protect a coffin containing a corpse.

"She's still alive, there must be a way..." Otto muttered to himself, not knowing whether he was talking to others or trying to convince himself, "I will save her, I will definitely save her..."

Finally, at this funeral, the new bishop of the Mandate of Heaven defected from the Mandate of Heaven with a coffin less than three days after taking office.

Anyone who dared to intercept him was scared away by Otto's fighting style that seemed to be a fight to the death.

Although the two strongest fighters of Destiny were present, they ultimately chose to turn a blind eye to Otto's defection.

Perhaps it was because the wounds they sustained from the battle with the Herrscher born during the Zeroth Collapse had not yet healed, or it could be because they also had hopes for the resurrection that Otto had mentioned.

After all, no matter how much you hate him, you have to admit that Otto is the smartest person in the world today, and he can create many inventions that are far ahead of his time. If there is really one person in this world who can resurrect Lihua, it must be Otto.

But only Otto knew that he couldn't do it.

Maybe the ancient civilization would have a solution?

If Xukong Wanzang was willing to give him the authority to search all knowledge, Otto would definitely try his best to find a way to revive Lihua from that vast ocean of knowledge.

But Xukong Wanzang was unwilling to do so, and it would take too long for Otto to learn all the knowledge in Xukong Wanzang bit by bit.

So Otto chose to look for the immortal.

The Red Kite Immortal of the Ming Empire was rumored to be omnipotent and had lived for thousands of years. However, Otto knew that the Immortal was actually an even older being than the legend, a hero who had survived from the previous era 50,000 years ago until today.

If there is one person in the world who can revive Lihua, it can only be her. Rather than aimlessly searching for the knowledge to revive Lihua in the Void, it might be more likely to get the answer from the immortal.

Otto carried the coffin on his back and walked 15,000 miles day and night, regardless of wind and rain, and finally arrived at the Ming Empire, to the place of his last hope - Taixu Mountain, where the immortals lived.

But standing at the foot of the mountain, looking at the raging fire burning in the Taoist temple on the mountain, he fell into despair again.

Immortals, can they also die?

"Keeper of the Key, what are you doing here?"

Just as Otto fell to his knees in despair, a familiar voice sounded behind him, rekindling his hope.

Otto turned his head excitedly, and what he saw was the Red Kite Immortal, whose clothes were a little tattered but still maintained his demeanor.

Although he wanted to ask directly for the method to revive Lihua, after all, he was asking for help, so Otto suppressed his anxiety and asked politely, "Do you need help now?"

"Nothing, just dealing with some disobedient disciples."

Fu Hua looked down at the dust on her clothes and casually patted them twice: "Just tell me what you want to do."

Skirt~

Volume 47 Ideals Disappear in Collapse: Chapter Chapter Taixu Mountain

"I....."

Otto wanted to ask for help, hoping that the immortal in front of him could tell him how to resurrect Lihua, but he was worried that his attitude was not respectful enough and that speaking rashly would anger the immortal.

In the end, Otto chose to kneel heavily on the ground and lowered his proud head.

In the face of Fu Hua's slightly surprised expression, Otto trembled and said, "Please..."

"Please save Lihua..."

"Lihua?"

Fu Hua frowned slightly, then shook her head, turned around and walked up the mountain: "Let's talk about it after we get to the temple."

Seeing Fu Hua leaving, Otto hurriedly followed. It was said that Taixu Temple was the residence of immortals, and as the place where warriors from the previous era lived, there might be some time-traveling items in it that could save Lihua.

As they walked on the road, the smell of smoke produced by the burning flames kept drifting towards Otto. Looking at the flames burning around him, he really wanted to ask Fu Hua what was going on here, but he was worried that it would be too rude, so he had to suppress all his questions in his heart.

But when he followed Fu Hua up Taixu Mountain and arrived at the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, he looked at the scene in front of him and finally couldn't help but ask.

"Excuse me, what is going on?"

The original Taoist temple on the top of the mountain is now in ruins, as if it had experienced a war. In the open space in front of Taixu Temple, there are 7 wooden frames lined up in a row, and a person is hanging on the top of each frame.

One man and six women were all tied up tightly with hemp ropes, hanging in the air half-dead with bruised faces and noses, looking like they had lost all hope in life.

"Oh, them."

Fu Hua walked into the ruins of the Taoist temple, dug out two wooden benches from a pile of garbage, dusted them off and walked out: "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. The disciple I taught was always naughty and wanted to kill his master because he thought he was strong enough. I beat him up and hung him there."

Putting the stool in front of Otto, Fu Hua sat down very calmly, without even glancing at the disciples hanging on the racks. "Let them hang there and repent until they understand how rebellious their behavior is and reflect deeply on it."

Kill, kill the master?!

Cold sweat flowed down Otto's forehead. Did he just hear some incredible words?

“Master, I was wrong! Wuuwuwu…” Hearing what Fu Hua said, the youngest girl burst into tears: “I’m really sorry, let me die to atone for my sin!”

"Dying to atone for your sins? That's easy to think of." Fu Hua didn't look back. After realizing that sitting there like this didn't seem like a good way to entertain guests, she returned to the ruins and dug out a set of tea sets and half a can of tea. "I said, I won't let you go until you deeply reflect on your mistakes."

At this time, the red-haired girl whose face was the most swollen and who was hung the highest also spoke up: "Master, if I say this was an accident, would you believe it?"

"Seven of you guys slipped your hands and slashed at me at the same time. If this was really an accident, then you deserved to be hung up." Fu Hua walked to the well to get a pot of water, then walked back to sit in front of Otto. "After learning martial arts for so many years, you can't even hold a sword steadily. Don't you feel ashamed if you tell others about it?"

As she spoke, Fu Hua picked up the teapot, and saw a flash of red flames between her palms. The tea in the pot had already boiled. She poured tea for herself and Otto slowly, as if they were not sitting next to the ruins with many people hanging on them, but in a teahouse for guests: "This is a simple room, please forgive me."

It's all in ruins and it's indeed quite shabby - Otto only dared to think about this in his mind. Now that he needed help from others, he didn't know what the etiquette of drinking tea was in the East. He could only pick up the teacup in front of him with some restraint and drink it all in one gulp.

It's so hot, I feel like my entire throat is burning, is this the test I need to go through before meeting the Immortal...? !

But for Lihua, Otto endured the pain and did not show any discomfort on his face.

When he came to his senses, he found Fu Hua looking at him with a very subtle look.

"Don't you feel hot?"

But the water she just boiled...

"Thank you, immortal. This tea has the right temperature and a rich aroma. It's very tasty!" Otto said sincerely. As long as he could revive Lihua, he would drink up even molten iron or copper juice, not to mention a cup of boiling water!

"I see. People's physiques really can't be generalized..."

Otto did not hear the second half of Fu Hua's whispered sentence. He only saw that she looked thoughtful. Thinking that the immortal was judging whether his behavior was qualified, he quickly sat up straight.

"The Lihua you are talking about, is it the girl from the Kipchak Steppe?"

After thinking for a long time, Fu Hua finally spoke and looked at the white coffin behind Otto: "She... is dead?"

"...Yes, previously, Tianming was studying a black box that seemed to have been passed down from the previous era, but it released the Herrscher..."

"Herrscher..."

Fu Hua looked at the teacup in her hand with an inexplicable look in her eyes: "But since you are standing here now, it means that the Herrscher has been dealt with, right?"

".......yes."