Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"ich..."

The woman's glassy eyes could no longer see everything in the world, and naturally she could not see the crying girl beside her, but despite this, she still tried her best to move her pale lips, as if she wanted to say something.

"Mother?"

Hearing her mother's weak voice, Xilin hurriedly wiped her tears, tried her best to stop her sobbing, and leaned next to her mother to listen carefully.

"ich..."

However, even if it is just a few words, the woman in front of Kiana has no chance to finish it. Her life is like a candle in the wind, and it will soon be extinguished...

"li...libeh..."

The hoarse voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible, as if the cold wind around him could easily carry it away at any time.

However, the last words of the daughter could not be conveyed after all. In the brief silence, the woman's breath disappeared...

Pure white snowflakes began to fall slowly from the dark sky, falling on the sobbing girl, and on the cold body beneath her that was no longer moving.

"Snow…"

Kiana raised her head, and a cold snowflake fell on her face, and then melted again. She looked at the boy beside her, his dark bangs blocked his expression. The captain also looked uncomfortable, and a few snowflakes fell. It was on his shoulders, but it was blown off by the cold wind before it could melt.

"...?"

A sense of dissonance flashed through Kiana's mind, but she didn't notice where the dissonance came from. It would be better to say that the moment before she was about to notice it, her attention was drawn to her again. The sobbing girl beneath him was attracted away.

Like the dead warriors we usually see, the woman's thin body began to be further eroded by the dark red Honkai energy veins after the body's functions completely stopped... No, it should be said to be "decomposed", and the body was in the process of Honkai energy. Under the influence, it began to turn into light particles and float into the sky little by little.

"Mommy mommy!!!!"

Seeing that her mother's body began to disappear, Xilin desperately grabbed her cold fingers with her hands that were red from the cold, trying to prevent her mother's body from further dissipating, but this approach was obviously in vain.

When the girl's beautiful long purple hair was covered with a thin layer of white silver gauze, there was only a dirty and broken old dress in front of her...

"Celine..."

Kiana stretched out her hand towards the girl who was slumped on the ground, but immediately realized that this was just an image of the past, so she had to take her hand back and look at this extremely pitiful girl silently.

She has also experienced the pain of losing her family. Although her father must still be alive somewhere now and she has never met her mother, she can somehow relate to that feeling.

It's like the most precious thing buried in the deepest part of the soul has been shattered. I can only look at the fragments that can no longer be put together as intact as before...

If you compare this to the most painful thing, then watching the person you love most leave before your eyes, or even disappear without leaving any trace of existence, even without a chance to see the fragments in that place. Here we go…

With bursts of miserable sobs, the girl's body trembled. After a while, she slowly opened her hands that had been tightly clasped together from the beginning.

"ring…?"

Kiana leaned down and looked, and saw a dull, old silver ring lying quietly in the girl's little hand.

"...ich...libeh...? Wuwuwuwu...Mom...! Mom...! Wuwu..."

What caused the girl's sad cry to resound from the dry forest again were the few small words engraved on the inside of the ring...

The young man took off his coat and squatted down. He wanted to put it on Sirin first, but was pushed away by the crying Sirin. His golden eyes that were already red from crying were full of anger towards the young man in front of him.

"Celine..."

"fraud!"

"..."

"You liar! You obviously promised Xilin that you would help Xilin find her mother and send Xilin back to her mother...but...wuwu..."

"..."

"Go away!! Siren doesn't want to see you! You liar and murderer! I hate you!!!"

The angry words were mixed with the girl's pain that had nowhere to vent. The captain stared at the eyes full of anger and sadness, but never spoke again.

This scene did not last long. After that, Sirin pushed the captain away and ran out of the woods alone, crying. After the captain glanced in the direction of Kiana intentionally or unintentionally, he was probably worried about Siren. Lin encountered danger and quickly chased after him.

"Sirin, Captain..."

The relationship between the two seems to have dropped to an irretrievable freezing point, and this image from the past seems to be coming to an end...

Whether it was dead wood or snow, everything in my eyes began to change again, which was a sign of going to the next scene.

Before that, Kiana chose to lean back and lie down in the snow. She looked at the gloomy sky above her head that had never cleared up, and she could not calm down for a long time.

"...Why does Sirin's mother appear here, and she is still in the state of a dead soldier?"

"...Why did the captain seem unsurprised by this, and even stabbed that sword resolutely?"

"...Why do you want me to see such a thing?"

she does not know.

Many questions were placed in front of me, but no one answered them for me. The sad story was unfolding in front of me, but I couldn't stop it...

This is not what I want to see...

"I'm so tired...that's enough...I don't want to read anymore..."

The familiar feeling of dizziness did not arrive as expected, only a few snowflakes falling on her eyelashes temporarily blocked her vision.

When Kiana raised her hand to brush away the snowflakes, she found that she was no longer in the snow.

Kiana's eyes were a little uncomfortable with the change from the bright outdoors to the dark indoors she was now in, but her sense of smell immediately sensed something unusual.

A peculiar smell that was stronger than the Tower of Babel made Kiana feel physically nauseous, and then, a miserable wail reached her ears.

"!?"

The sound startled Kiana and she jumped up and looked around. There were extremely dark corridors around her, but compared to the Tower of Babel, the "style" here seemed a little different.

The surrounding walls are not made of steel, but of concrete structure, and they look very old. You can clearly see the cracks on them without looking carefully.

The lights above the head are basically not working properly, only one or two lights are on, most of them are damaged, and some only emit some "sizzling" current sounds, causing the light to be abnormally dim.

But what Kiana cares about now is not these things at all. What really shocked her was the miserable wail, because the sound was not made by anyone else, but by Sirin.

When confirming the direction of the sound, Kiana saw some messy footprints on the ground with the dim light, and something reflecting a shimmering light.

"Huh? This is it?"

She knelt down and picked it up from the thick layer of dust on the ground. It was an old silver ring.