Chapter 429: No Wonder Jiaoqiu Is Nihility! Hoolay's Win Rate Just Increased!
[ Little Gui's Livestream Room ]
"Ahhhhh…"
"After watching 'Arrow that Seeks the Stars,' I seriously can't wait to see the final showdown between Feixiao and Hoolay!"
"Honkai: Star Rail, launch!"
Guinaifen had a face full of anticipation!
She proceeded with the trailblaze mission.
A line of text appeared on the black screen.
[ An hour before the Wardance ceremony, Aurum Alley ]
"Aurum Alley?"
"We should be back to Jiaoqiu's perspective now."
"Feixiao already let a Borisin go to lead the way. I reckon the Xianzhou and the Borisin are about to start a direct clash!"
However.
After the subtitle faded.
The scene that appeared caught her somewhat by surprise.
"Please… save… me…"
"I still want to live… Doctor…"
Weak, feeble voices echoed.
These,
All came from the wounded.
This seemed to be someone's memory.
"Jiaoqiu, quickly find a medical aurumaton to administer acupuncture to that child! Hurry!" A healer's voice rang out.
"I… I understand. How is the suture going?"
As Jiaoqiu's voice sounded,
Color returned to the screen.
Jiaoqiu was standing in front of an operating table.
He looked a bit younger than he did now.
His face
Was filled with deep worry.
And lying on the operating table,
Was a white-haired Foxian.
"The Borisin's beastly warships have already landed on Fanghu… It won't be long before this place is breached as well."
Jiaoqiu pressed further, "What about General Yueyu… is there any news of her? I am her healer. I should be by her side right now."
As soon as these words were spoken,
Some players in the livestream chat already realized what was happening.
…
"The Xianzhou Fanghu!"
"The Third Abundance War…"
"Back then, Jiaoqiu was still a military doctor on the front lines."
"He looked quite clean-cut and delicate back then."
"What I fear most is when memories suddenly flood back…"
"So Jiaoqiu has served as the healer-counselor for two generations of Yaoqing Generals."
"The one lying on the operating table… couldn't be Feixiao, right? This side profile looks a lot like her!"
…
"The General asked me to tell you that she won't be coming back. She must hold the Cloud-Viewing Mirror."
The Cloud Knight's voice carried a hint of suppressed grief.
"The General wants you to… save that child. She fought like a maniac, just to bring all of us back here!"
"I've never seen such a terrifying way of fighting… Her body… I felt like her entire being was being torn apart… like…"
"The patient's blood pressure is bottoming out. Did you hear me, Jiaoqiu?!"
"I hear you loud and clear… Prepare a dose of Stumble Powder. We must start the surgery now!"
Jiaoqiu gritted his teeth, his tone resolute.
"I… will definitely bring her back!"
The screen went dark once more.
This time,
It was Hoolay's voice that echoed.
"…Is this why you've been so intent on unraveling the secret from my body? Can you hear me, Foxian?"
"I hear you. I hear you loud and clear." Jiaoqiu's voice sounded somewhat weak.
Hoolay continued, "In that great war on the Xianzhou Fanghu thirty years ago, she saved all of you, but at the brink of death, she accidentally realized that Borisin blood flowed within her veins."
"Mok Tok told me that she was a war slave who escaped from the Eclipse Moon Pack. What an exquisite twist of fate—she and I actually hail from the same tribe."
Beside him, Mok Tok gritted his teeth and said, "So that's how it is. No wonder the power, decisiveness, and cruelty that Foxian displayed in battle… were so astonishing! It was all thanks to her Borisin blood. Mongrel… abominable mongrel General."
…
"What's wrong with having Borisin blood? Sister Feixiao is forever my Great Victorious General! I will always believe in her!"
"How dare you insult our General, you're looking for death!"
"A Borisin pup like Mok Tok would be crushed with a single finger by the Merlin's Claw on the battlefield."
"I just love seeing him fly into a rage out of humiliation!"
"This is called incompetent fury."
"Mok Tok's vision is just this narrow."
…
Unlike Mok Tok,
Hoolay actually curled his lips slightly.
And let out a thunderous laugh!
"And she used the gift in her bloodline to destroy the Borisin."
"Moon Rage—the wolf's blessing, the fox's curse. For the Borisin, having one's body torn apart and transforming into a beast during battle… is supreme bliss. But for you Foxians with limited self-healing abilities, it is a dead end."
"Accompanied by the burning, angry blood rushing to her heart, this Foxian General fights on without distinguishing friend from foe. The wounds blooming on her body do not come from the enemy's weapons, but from the immense power she cannot bear. One day, she will die, torn to pieces as a monster."
"And to repay her for saving your life, you plan to do everything in your power to challenge this unsolvable riddle."
…
"How long has it been since he escaped? Hoolay saw through the history between Jiaoqiu and Feixiao in just a few moves."
"He even knows the secret that Feixiao suffers from Moon Rage."
"Spicy!"
"He will definitely exploit this during the final showdown later."
"Hoolay still has a Lunar Embryo inside his body. Feixiao must be extremely careful of this when the time comes!"
"Lunar Embryo, Moon Rage? Oh no, this is bad!"
"Hoolay's chances of winning suddenly started to rise."
…
At this moment,
The weakened Jiaoqiu suddenly asked back:
"Hoolay… do you know what the most tragic thing is about being a healer?"
"All this time, I have exhausted everything I've learned in my life, trying to snatch those lives marching toward death back from the hands of monsters like you. I would sit down exhausted, my hands trembling, thinking that everything I did was meaningful…"
"But they would charge onto the battlefield once again. And so, I would hear of their deaths. They died under your claws and fangs, in the flames of crashing starskiffs, in the light-arrows of the Reignbow Arbiter…"
"I am like a futile idiot, scooping a fish named life out of the cauldron of death—only to watch it struggle once and leap right back into the boiling broth."
"I ask myself, what is it that makes them, after recovering from their wounds, charge recklessly back to the place of death? Why don't they cherish their hard-won lives? This makes me feel lost, empty…"
At this moment, Jiaoqiu
Gave off a profound sense of "there is no grief greater than the death of the heart."
Hoolay also said, "Haha… I smell a despair in you that has seeped into your very bones."
…
"Jiaoqiu: I can't do anything!"
"Listening to this, why does it feel like you're about to fall into Nihility, bro?"
"No wonder Jiaoqiu's Path in Star Rail is Nihility…"
"Fighting is so that we no longer have to fight; sacrificing is so that we no longer have to sacrifice."
"Because they are carrying the heavy burden forward for our beautiful and peaceful lives!"
"Jiaoqiu's state is really one where, if he's not careful, he could easily become a Self-Annihilator and go work with Acheron. Right now, he's barely being held back by Feixiao…"
"I get it, Jiaoqiu and Acheron in the same team can bring out the maximum potential."
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