Chapter 231: Hellmaru
At this point, the villagers have become zombies. She is surrounded and may be torn into a ball of meat by these zombies at any time.
"Kallen!"
The gunshot sounded, and a bullet pierced through countless zombies.
And Yae Sakura was naturally staring at Mr. Otto.
Kallen heard a familiar voice and looked back.
"Why are you here..."
Kallen was a little surprised by Otto's appearance, but the current situation didn't allow her to think about it.
"Now is not the time to discuss such things, Mei, take it!"
As she said that, Bronya found a zombie who looked relatively weak and took the weapon in his hand.
God knows how the sickle appeared in the zombie's hand, but it's done!
Watching Bronya's smooth movements, she snatched the sickle and handed it to Mei. Kallen was slightly surprised and exclaimed. "Hey, your little sister is quite capable. Could it be that you are also a Valkyrie of Schicksal?"
"So even without Project Bunny, Bronya also has such powerful fighting skills?!" Mei was even more surprised.
Looking at Bronya's small frame, one can surmise that she didn't have much fighting power. Dealing with one or two zombies with bare hands looks like not a big deal for Bronya; just a little bit of effort. But if she has to deal with more than three with bare hands, is Bronya not Nezha?
Of course she isn't, where does she get three heads and six arms?
So Bronya fought and retreated along the way and even looked at the pistol on Kallen's waist.
"This world is under the control of Hellmaru. We can't run away. We must fight head-on. If nothing goes wrong, Hellmaru's body is now with Yae Sakura. Only by defeating her can we find a glimmer of hope!"
Kallen's footsteps slowly stopped, and then she threw the unused pistol to Bronya.
"I never succeeded once before..."
"That's because you're already dead!"
There is hope only when you are alive, and can being alive be the last straw that breaks the camel's back at the level of will?
Interesting theory.
Watching Bronya take the pistol and shoot the zombie accurately, the shooting method of two shots to the body and one shot to the head prevented a zombie from getting close.
And the fallen zombie became a stumbling block for the later zombies.
"Brat, your judgment is not wrong. Hellmaru is the culprit of everything. Escape can only encourage the other party's arrogance. Just watch my fight! Mimic Divine Key - Oath of Judah!"
Otto broke out of the encirclement and came between Yae Sakura and Kallen.
At this time, he held a golden spear and fought back and forth with Yae Sakura, but Yae Sakura's sword skills were mainly accurate and fast. Otto was not good at fighting, so he was always on passive defense.
Of course, after watching the video and various materials sent by Bronie, Otto was also conducting combat training intentionally or unintentionally. If it weren't for this half-baked combat training, Otto felt that he really couldn't beat Yae Sakura.
"Sorry, although it is not a gentleman's behavior to let the cute girl get stained with dust on the ground, please forgive me, because my friend is fighting there."
"Just a friend?" Bronya asked.
Obviously, although Otto wore a mask, Bronya must still know him. Although she didn't know why he chose to hide his identity, if she thought about it carefully, it was probably to prevent Kiana from going berserk?
"Hahaha, of course we're just friends! Then I'll ask you to take care of this brave knight of the Kaslana family and the lovely Miss Mei. I want to make a good break with Yae Sakura!"
Leaving a handsome back to Kiana, Kallen walked towards Yae Sakura not far away.
Yae Sakura's samurai sword was always in the state of being sheathed, and the attack was so fast that no one could react when the other party drew the sword.
This extremely fast speed of drawing the sword achieved the effect of a sneak attack from the frontal battle!
Otto said that it was really troublesome to deal with such an attack.
"Kallen..."
Although he was tired of dealing with Yae Sakura's attack, he still did not forget to call Kallen's name.
"Great inventor, how come you are here? If I remember correctly... it should have been a long time, right? And that Kiana Kaslana, I'm afraid she is a descendant of our Kaslana family?"
In the previous reincarnation, Kiana and Kallen made a lot of jokes.
But it seems that because Kiana's personality is so similar to Kallen's, the relationship between the two of them is also very good.
Of course, there are also Yae Sakura, and Bronya, who doesn't seem to like to smile.
From their mouths, Kallen knows a lot about the outside world and also knows that Schicksal has now become the world's largest organization against Honkai.
After hearing such news, Kallen still feels a little regretful.
After all, Honkai still exists and still causes harm to humans.
"Five hundred years."
"Eh!? Yes, has it been that long!?"
"The power of science is very magical, and I have not given up finding a way to revive you! But before that, let's get rid of this slutty fox first!"
"It's not a slutty fox! It's Miss Yae Sakura! Sakura was just bewitched by the devil, and she is still resisting until now, but it's been too long... so..."
"Sakura, you're calling me so intimately... but what do you think I'm here for? Of course I'm here to fulfill your wish!"
Is this Kallen in front of me real or fake?
Does the soul really exist?
Can the power of the stigma really reach this level?
Otto doesn't know.
But when he really faced this face, he was no longer facing cold data, and all the behaviors he expected.
Otto found it difficult to put a false label on Kallen in front of him.
Time has also left some traces on Kallen, but her optimistic and cheerful personality allows her to have fun in the midst of suffering, and she still has time to flirt with Kiana.
The battle has never stopped for five hundred years. Even if she forget the time, she still remember the reason why she is fighting here.
"It's amazing, my great inventor. If you can solve it, it will be great!"
"It can't be better..."
Otto waved the spear fired from Judas. The power of this Divine Key naturally restrains the power emitted by Hellmaru. With just a light wave, several zombies turned to dust.
Hellmaru was clearly afraid of this kind of power, so she kept a safe distance from Otto.
"Then, my great inventor, let's fight together! Let's drive this demon, Hellmaru, out of Yae Sakura's body!"
...
"Cognitive fluctuations detected. Hellmaru's consciousness seems to be in a highly active state now."
On the other side, in Yae Village, the ground began to shake as if a vibrant volcano was brewing a new power beneath the village.
Fu Hua quickly took out the feather and prepared to rewrite Hellmaru's consciousness.
"Because Kallen and Otto disrupted Hellmaru's original plan, all the sacrifices were lost. More importantly, the Herrscher core in Mei and Kiana disappeared, and the one who freed them was Bronya, whom she had always looked down upon."
"So all of this was planned?"
Fu Hua felt uneasy.
Fu Hua had played the game Persona before, especially the part where if you die in the Palace, you also die in the real world. This made Fu Hua think that in this world of deep consciousness, if you truly die, something very bad would happen!
Bronie nodded.
"The time is almost right. Hellmaru realizes that she might be destroyed. When sbe comes to that realization, 'secret treasure' will appear, just like in the game."
The earthquake gradually calmed, and the stone road below began to distort slightly. It seemed that the attacks from Otto and Kallen had caused significant damage.
"This is... originally, this was a castle tower covered by thick fog, but now the fog has dissipated?"
"Let's go, Hua, this is our battlefield now!"
Bronie projected her gun and ready for battle while Fu Hua also showed her boxing gloves.
But Bronie's next move confused Fu Hua.
"Is this the wine jar from the villagers in the village?"
Though its shape was strange, this wine jar had a similar effect to the ones from Shenzhou.
"No, this is the former home of Piccolo..."
There was also a piece of paper with an unknown meaning on top of the jar, which Bronya easily tore open.
Just when Fu Hua was curious about why Bronya was doing this, an unknown creature emerged from the wine jar, making Fu Hua clench her fists.
"What is this!?"
"I told you, my current perspective is not necessarily the same as yours. I just noticed that Hellmaru's emotions fluctuated violently, but there was one place where there was no movement at all."
"It's like a stone creating a ripple, but the ripple bypassed an area, right?"
"That's right!"
Fu Hua silently watched as Bronie carried the unknown creature out. She then noticed that the creature was as small as an ELF.
Her cherry-pink hair had a hint of crimson, and her clothing resembled that of a little shrine maiden.
However, if the clothes were changed to ordinary attire, Fu Hua couldn't help but see her as Rin—the twelfth Herrscher, sacrificed when humanity was most desperate.
She slept in Bronie's arms like a baby, with her tail drooping over her arms. The slight movement seemed to disturb her sleep. Slowly, she opened her eyes and looked at Bronya, confused.
"You, are you here to make a barbecue of Higokumaru?"
"Hiss—So this is the target you want me to find?"
When Fu Hua heard this, something felt very wrong.
How could she say it...?
Using the most innocent language, she spoke the cruelest fact. In addition to human sacrifice, Yae Village might have had a custom of cannibalism...
When Holmes analyzed this, she immediately sensed something was wrong.
"Higokumaru is so cute, you can tell at a glance that she was born to be eaten!"
"The fun is over, Bronie. Look around."
If a Honkai Beast is a subconscious self-defense mechanism, then the zombies are probably something that can only be generated by the main consciousness.
After Fu Hua made this inference, she immediately realized that she and Bronie had made too much noise!
Or had they truly found the most important thing for Hellmaru outside?
"Hey! Those villagers are here again! They want to eat Higokumaru again! Higokumaru didn't do anything! Higokumaru was locked in the wine jar for no reason and then killed for no reason..."
"Higokumaru... do you remember anything?"
When Fu Hua heard Higokumaru say this, she could feel the resentment in Rin's heart.
The initial resentment was also the first thought after the birth of the Herrscher of Corruption.
"Wu~ I don't remember, I don't remember anything~"
Higokumaru covered her head, as if trying to retrieve some memory from it.
But unfortunately, Higokumaru's head was truly empty at the moment, without any memory at all.
In short, all sorts of grievances surged in her heart.
"It doesn't matter if you don't remember. Relax, I'll protect you!"
Bronya gently touched Higokumaru's head, showing a sunny smile.
"Okay, big sister! But now is not the time to talk about these things, big sister! Look at those villagers..."
"Fu Hua! Your fight isn't that bloody, I'll leave it to you next!"
Bronie was used to fighting with a gun, so she knew how the blood and gore from the zombies are quite scary for Higokumaru.
But Fu Hua was different.
Fu Hua knocked her opponents away directly or beat them into piles.
From a sensory point of view, Fu Hua's fighting style was much gentler.
"Okay, this is also my responsibility, so... Inch Force?"
In an instant, all the zombies turned into piles of lifeless bodies.
"Wow! So cool! If that's the case, then we can walk around Yae Village like madmen? In this way, we can eat as much fried tofu as we want, right?"
"Want to have fried tofu freedom? Hehe, that's a good wish! Then follow me! Find your power and memory, we'll take you home, and then we'll realize the freedom of fried tofu!"
"Go home? Do you know where Hellmaru's home is?"
"Of course! After all, we came to Yae Village to find you from the beginning~"