Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

After having dinner with everyone, the captain thought of going outside to take a breath before the girls' usual chat session started.

Seeing that the captain wanted to get up and leave, Kiana, who was sitting next to him and flipping through a book, stopped him: "Wait! Captain, you are not leaving so soon, are you? What time is it?"

"No, I just want to go outside and get some fresh air. How can I run away without the principal's order?"

"Oh, that's okay. By the way, Captain, do you think this person looks like you?"

"Ok?"

Kiana said as she handed over the book. What she held in her hand seemed to be a collection of biographies and interviews with accomplished adventurers from around the world in the past two centuries.

"Can you actually read this kind of book?"

"Oh~ you don't understand this, I'm a very good lady!"

Kiana put her hands on her hips proudly. Although the captain did not rush to expose her, he did not believe it at all and just read the above content instead.

"The first person in history who was not afraid of hardships and stepped into the pure white land of death alone, extending human footprints to the North Pole - Robert Peary..."

"Hmm, isn't it awesome!"

"What does this have to do with me?"

"Oh, look at the next paragraph."

Following the paragraph pointed by Kiana, it was an interview with Robert Peary after he became famous for reaching the North Pole. The question the reporter asked her here was: "Excuse me, Ms. Robert, does anyone have any questions about this?" Who provided you with indispensable help in this great and successful journey to the North Pole? If so, what kind of person was he?"

The moment he saw this question, the captain understood why Kiana said that. Sure enough, as he continued reading, Piri mentioned the "person who is very similar to himself" in Kiana's mouth.

"Of course, if it weren't for the generous helping hands of many people, I wouldn't have been able to reach the top by luck. But...if I had to choose one among them, I would like to share a little story with you. .”

"Before I really went deep into the Arctic region, I conducted pre-explorations from different routes many times. During one of my explorations, I was attacked by a group of wild beasts."

"Wow! That sounds really bad!"

"They rushed at me like crazy, and they refused to give up even if I fired back with a shotgun. I had no choice but to escape on the sled. The beasts that intercepted me jumped off the sled during the attack. When I reacted, the snow sled The sled and shotgun had long since disappeared, only a strong wolf pounced on me, biting my arm."

"Oh! My God, this is terrible, I can't imagine, how on earth did you escape?"

"I didn't escape, but I thought that in that temperature, I was wearing thick enough clothes so that I wouldn't be bitten to death immediately. But under the successive sieges of the wolves, the clothes on me quickly changed. It had to be in tatters, and just when I thought I was going to die, that man appeared..."

"that person?"

"Yes, he...haha, to be honest, even looking back now, he is an incredible guy. He was obviously in the polar regions, but he was wearing clothes that could freeze him to death at any time, and he just fought away the wolves with his bare hands. , and rescued me back to my camp.”

"It's unbelievable. Could it be the Inuit people living there? As far as I know, only the Inuit people who have lived in the polar regions for a long time have mastered the skills to survive in harsh environments."

"No, he is a Chinese, and he is very young. He is almost the same as me."

After that, there are some descriptions about the "Chinese man". Reading line by line will indeed give people who are familiar with the captain a sense of déjà vu...

But of course, Kiana cannot be blamed for this, because now only the so-called "Chinese man", the captain himself, knows the whole story.

Even though that was more than 100 years ago...

"Pili..."

"Huh? Captain, what did you say? What happened to Piri?"

"Nothing." The young man shook his head.

"There's more, Captain, please turn to the back. There's someone named Roald in the back. He went to Antarctica. There were also mentions of people who looked very similar to you, Captain..."

"Sigh... I'm really busy. After going to the North Pole, I went to the South Pole, right? Do you really want me to freeze to death?"

"No way, it's really true!"

Being pestered by Kiana, the captain had no choice but to continue flipping back, but as he flipped through the pages, a photo fell out of the book.

"Hey, what is this?"

"Ok?"

Kiana picked up the photo, which seemed to be a photo of the captain and a woman.

In the photo, the woman in a maid uniform hugged the captain tightly with her hands and smiled happily. The captain's expression looked a little helpless, as if he had given up resistance and allowed her to make trouble.

But when the captain saw the photo, he was suddenly stunned.

"Who is this, Captain?"

Kiana looked at the photos in her hands and couldn't figure out why. She didn't know why there were photos of the captain and other girls in the book Jizi lent her.

After a few seconds of frowning silence, the captain suddenly spoke: "Is this your book, Kiana?"

"Huh? No, Aunt Jizi lent it to me. Last time, didn't I say that the male protagonist of "The Legend of the Dragon" looked like you, the captain? Then I asked Jizi if there were other similar ones, and she said He lent me several books, saying that there were people in them who looked very similar to you, Captain."

"Why are you looking for someone who looks like me?"

"Because the book last time was very good. It didn't feel inconsistent at all to put the captain's appearance on the protagonist. Hehe, but who knew that Aunt Jizi gave me biographies and history books. If it weren't for Jizi said yes, but I was too lazy to look through it."

"..."

The captain looked at the photo in Kiana's hand thoughtfully. If this was true, then maybe... Jizi had already discovered something. However, she who kept this photo must have had many questions about herself, but she never mentioned that person to herself.

"captain?"

"...I'm fine, she...her name is Ragnar, she is my friend and the captain of the unit that Himeko once belonged to."

"team leader?"

"Himeko once served in the stormtroopers. You should know that, right?"

"Yes, I think I heard Aunt Jizi say that." Kiana nodded as if she understood.

"Huh... That's it in a nutshell. Okay, I'm going to go outside to get some fresh air. Kiana, remember to put the photo back."

"Good~"

Seeing the captain frowning slightly, Kiana didn't ask any more questions. She looked at the captain's leaving back and then looked at the photo in her hand.

"What on earth...is going on..." Kiana murmured, staring at the woman in the photo in her hand, and she actually felt a slight twitching in her heart.

"It's strange. I've never seen this woman before, but I still feel familiar..."