Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

Kiana took a closer look and saw that this old iron door, which was five to six meters high and almost one meter thick, was actually plated with gilt inscriptions such as "Shaniat", "Apokallis" and "Kas" in her impression. "Lanna" is the emblem of these three major families, and you can tell at a glance that there is something terrible hidden inside.

What is stored behind this door is actually the core facility used by the "Far East Branch" to connect to the headquarters data terminal: the "central database".

Kiana quietly poked her head out from behind the half-open iron door and looked inside. She saw Theresa in the distance surrounded by dozens of screen projections, and her hands were constantly operating on the virtual keyboard. It looked like Looking for something.

"Start the consciousness immersion mode and transfer all the unbrowsed document data about the "counter-entropy" human brain to the biochip in batches. "

After Theresa gave the order, a female mechanical voice immediately came from the terminal:

"The identity information is being confirmed for the second time, and the identity of the visitor is confirmed to be: Theresa Apokalis..."

"The order is being executed..."

"We are entering the consciousness immersion mode. Please stay calm and relax to ensure that the program proceeds normally..."

"Generating data space...will start overwriting in 5 seconds, 5, 4, 3..."

As the instructions began to be executed, the space Theresa was in began to slowly become blurry in Kiana's eyes. The data flow and optical projection gradually covered Theresa's petite body, and the shape of the entire space seemed to be changing. Constantly changing.

"Sank consciousness...what do you mean?"

In the end, in Kiana's blurry vision, Theresa seemed to move deeper into the data projection, and she was no longer seen.

Before Kiana could recover, the half-open iron door in front of her began to close automatically. Without thinking, she had no choice but to rush in. In the strong projected light, Kiana could not see anything. She only felt that her foot was missing. Then, a severe dizziness and weightlessness invaded her senses...

"..."

The girl who gradually regained consciousness from the dizziness opened her eyes again in a daze, and the pale scene in front of her made her eyes feel stinging.

Although her vision had not yet adapted to this sudden change of scenery, the soft and cold touch beneath her body and the biting cold wind made her regain consciousness in just a few seconds.

After rubbing her eyes and getting up from the pure white snow, and blinking repeatedly to adapt to the change in light, Kiana finally saw clearly the incredible scene in front of her.

"This, this is...?"

At a glance, the frozen land was only pure white and silent. The cold wind whistled in her ears, and the snowflakes mixed in it kept flapping and melting on Kiana's soft cheeks. The too real wind and snow made her feel cold. She was shaking all over.

"It's so cold...what the hell is this place?! Auntie——where are you!"

No one responded...even the girl's shouts at the top of her lungs were quickly swallowed up by the howling cold wind.

The wind and snow continued to get stronger, but the visual range was getting smaller and smaller. Looking around, I couldn't see any place where I could avoid the snow and keep warm.

"Haah...haah...so cold..."

Kiana kept breathing hot air into her hands that were almost freezing, but her lungs had obviously not adapted to the cold air, as evidenced by the sharp stabbing pain in her chest.

The two long braids were swaying in the cold wind, and even their owner who had just stood up was about to be blown down by the cold wind.

Before her eyelashes could be stuck by the condensation of the hot air coming out of her mouth, Kiana opened her eyes wide again and looked at everything she could see, trying to find a shelter in this lifeless snowfield. A place to hide from the snow.

"That is!?"

Suddenly, Kiana looked behind her in surprise and saw a towering tower-like building standing in the snow not far away.

She hadn't noticed such a tall and conspicuous building just now, and...this tall tower exuded a strange and familiar feeling, which made Kiana feel more and more wrong.

The feeling of such a magnificent building is no different from this pure white land of death, and even a little oozing.

But at the moment, it seems that there is no room for the girl to be picky. After all, this kind of ice and snow is not something ordinary people can afford. Although she was a little reluctant, she still strode down to the tower.

After a while, Kiana ran to the bottom of the tower. There were thickly dressed and fully armed "valkyries" standing on the left and right of the entrance gate. They seemed to be the guards here.

"Um, hello, may I ask..."

Kiana stepped forward and tried to talk to them, but the two of them remained motionless, as if they hadn't seen her at all, and stayed where they were.

"Huh…?"

Kiana stretched out her hand and waved it in front of one of them, but the other person still didn't respond, as if he really couldn't see her.

But Kiana caught a glimpse of the ID card hanging on the other person's coat. It was the same as the other person's, with the words "A-Class Valkyrie" printed on it.

"A-level Valkyrie's identity card...what exactly is this tower...?"

Generally speaking, "A-level Valkyrie" is an important part of the "Valkyrie Force" in "Destiny". Every "A-level Valkyrie" without exception has strong strength, and is also responsible for defeating high-level Extremely dangerous missions such as Honkaimon.

Excellent warriors like Fu Hua and Ji Zi around him all have the status of "A-level Valkyrie", which is enough to show how strong people of this level are.

However, this tower is guarded by an "A-class Valkyrie", which not only proves that this tower is owned by "Destiny", but also proves its importance.

"..."

Kiana couldn't figure it out, but since they couldn't see her, it saved a lot of effort. With this idea in mind, Kiana swaggered into the tower.

Walls made of steel formed a long, dark corridor, and the air was filled with the unpleasant smell of disinfectant and metal... This feeling became increasingly familiar to Kiana.

"It's strange, could this be..."

As she walked deeper, Kiana gradually remembered what the captain had said to her in her dream.

At the end of the last century, "Destiny" built a huge building called the "Babylon Experimental Tower" on the desolate snowfields of Siberia.

Nominally, the tower was built to treat and develop medicines for people affected by the "Honkai Disaster."

But this is just a high-sounding excuse. The real purpose of building this tower is actually for those inhumane human experiments, not to treat civilians at all, and... the "Second Collapse" also happened here.

The further inside, the more Kiana became convinced that this was the "Babylon Experimental Tower" she saw in her dream.

The staff who occasionally passed by in the corridor also regarded Kiana as non-existent. Kiana didn't know where to get more information for a while, and the most important thing is that she still hasn't seen Theresa there...