Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

"This is... Siren's, but how could it be..."

Kiana looked at the ring in her hand and suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some words engraved on the inside of the ring. But before she could take a closer look, painful wails and calls for help began to come from a certain direction.

Kiana didn't have time to think too much, so she had to cross the messy passage and ran towards the end of the passage. Along the way, she saw some discarded experimental equipment such as test tubes, as well as various garbage and gravel.

"Haah! Haah! What on earth happened!?"

Kiana panted, but her pace did not slow down at all. In contrast, the sound echoing in the building became closer and closer.

The miserable wailing was extremely heart-wrenching. If possible, Kiana even wanted to cover her ears right now, but she couldn't do that.

But when Kiana finally ran to a brighter place, she saw several people in white coats through the glass wall panels on one side of the passage. Several people were walking back and forth in the room, looking very nervous. Busy, among them, there were two men who were particularly familiar to her.

"Those two men are from the Tower of Babylon..."

At the fork in the passageway of the Tower of Babel, the two researchers who unleashed violence on Siren and other experimental subjects were among those people at this moment.

"Continue! Keep adding Honkai energy into the room, it will be successful, it will be successful!"

The researcher wearing glasses repeated this sentence in an almost crazy tone while looking at the screen, and soon, more miserable wails began to echo in the building.

"Ci Lin!? Could it be that..."

Kiana rushed into the room and looked intently at the person's computer. The picture on it made her feel strongly suffocated in just a moment. She felt that the world was spinning, and the heavy scene in front of her almost knocked her down.

On the screen, a girl was being tightly tied to an experimental table in a certain room. Her body was covered with dark red Honkai energy veins, blue veins protruded on the top of her head, and her golden eyes were full of terrifying bloodshot eyes, and the corners of his eyes began to bleed.

"Stop! You bastard! Stop it!!!"

Kiana shouted to stop, but the other party regarded her as useless. In desperation, Kiana had no choice but to remember the numbers above and ran to the room in the picture.

"This is it!"

Through the high-strength explosion-proof window, Kiana saw the girl who was tied to the test table and struggling wildly. She wanted to open the door, but the door made of five layers of reinforced alloy was locked. It is also covered with warning signs one after another.

"Damn it! Open the door, open the door for me! Ouch!!!"

In desperation, Kiana kicked the isolation door fiercely. It stands to reason that as a Valkyrie, she could at least make the door dent a little if she kicked it. If she really activates the power of the Valkyrie, she can use With all her strength, she would be able to smash the door in a few blows, but no matter how she attacked now, the door would remain intact and motionless.

"Does it mean that not only people, but also scenes can't be interfered with...?"

Listening to the screams that kept coming from inside, Kiana punched the isolation door angrily, then loosened her fist, and her hands fell down weakly.

She dragged her extremely heavy body to the explosion-proof window. The high concentration of Honkai energy that filled the room continued to torture the girl on the test platform. The pain beyond the limit of ordinary people's endurance made her go crazy.

Under the continuous struggle, Xilin's bound limbs had been strangled in several wounds, but the extremely tough straps also began to be torn off one by one.

The physical changes caused by excessive Honkai Energy erosion to the point of no return...increased muscle strength is one of them.

Just like the Valkyrie who uses the power of "Stigmata" to gain powerful physical fitness, people who are corrupted by Honkai Energy will also behave similarly.

However, the occurrence of this change also conveyed another very unfortunate news to the outside world...

It's already... too late.

From those damaged wounds, Honkai energy can further accelerate the erosion of living organisms. The severe burning pain from the wounds made the girl scream and roll down from the test table.

"Ugh————It hurts... It hurts so much... Someone, come and save me... Save Siren————"

Her internal organs seemed to be bitten by thousands of insects, and her skin and limbs seemed to be pierced by thousands of needles. The girl rolled back and forth in pain on the ground. She tore her long, fluffy and smooth hair, and scratched her face randomly... Her bloody nails were there. There were red marks and even scars left on it.

"It hurts! It hurts so much! Save Siren, Bella...Mom...Xiao Zhi...? Xiao Zhi...Where are you? Save Siren... Siren wants to see you... Siren misses you so much..."

In the laboratory that continues to release high concentrations of Honkai energy, the girl's call can no longer be answered by the owner of the name.

Perhaps because of the light, Xilin crawled bit by bit towards where Kiana was. Kiana closed her eyes filled with tears tightly, unable to bear to look directly at the tragic scene in the window.

She heard Siren calling the captain's name in an almost desperate voice, but the captain was not here now...

"Captain...where are you...? Please, save her..."

Kiana begged repeatedly in her heart, hoping that person could appear here and change everything...

She didn't know what happened after that to make things turn into such a tragic situation. This was certainly not what the captain wanted to see at that time.

The dress on the girl's body has long lost its previous exquisiteness, and is now only in tatters. Her slender hands have been worn out in several wounds, covered with blood, dirt, and grid-like veins of Honkai energy.

Even during the struggle just now, the nails on some of the girl's fingers had turned up, and thick black blood flowed from the fingertips, and inevitably stained the dress during the crawling process, which looked very scary.

"Save Siren... Xiaozhi... Xiaozhi..."

When Siren finally climbed to where the light was, she only touched a cold isolation window. Her vision had become blurred due to the erosion of Honkai energy, and there was nothing there.

"Liar...liar...you liar...you clearly said that no one will bully Xilin again...you clearly promised Xilin that you would help Xilin find her mother...you liar..."

Kiana and Sirin were only separated by a window. She lowered her head and heard Sirin's despair and pain. At the end of her life, she used her remaining strength to curse the person who had given her salvation and warmth. And love gave her the hope of meeting her mother again... and in the end, the boy ruthlessly took away that hope in front of her.

"...?"

"is that so?"

"Is it really?"

"Is this sound...?"

Moved by the unexpected voice, Kiana raised her head and looked at the poor girl who was only separated from her by a window, and tears began to fall uncontrollably from her blue eyes.

For some reason, Kiana at this moment actually heard the girl's final self-questions before she died, and heard the girl's thoughts before she completely despaired.

She saw that before her consciousness was about to be completely overwhelmed by the unbearable physical pain, the days before she met that person flashed through Sirin's mind...

She thought of those well-dressed but ruthless adults, of the endless experiments day after day, of the pain and suffering that she endured every day that was comparable to torture...

In that pure white snowfield, in that cold steel tower, gritting one's teeth and surviving day after day, life was worse than death...

Every day when she opens her eyes from a happy dream, she is immediately greeted by a new round of nightmares, and all she can do is endure it and close her eyes with her own hands for her friends who died in despair and pain...

Then, they waited for them to be taken away and cleaned up by the adults with disgusted faces, just like ordinary garbage.

"So this is ah--"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...I'm sorry...Xiao Zhi...I'm sorry..."

Click, click...

Tears fell from the girl's terrifying face and dripped on her blood-stained hands. Siren cried, and after desperately cursing, she muttered to herself and apologized to that person.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

At the end of her life, at the end of despair and pain that came too late, Xilin seemed to finally understand...

"——It turns out that I have never escaped from that nightmare..."