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[Host, preliminary analysis shows that we have been swallowed by the rift created by the imaginary explosion under the interference of the Star God. The area of this rift is unprecedented. If we want to return to the material universe safely, we must find an opening.]
The analysis of the system came at a very timely moment;
[The old method of using violence to destroy the entrance will not work, please be sure to consider your own safety. 】
Inside the rift?
"Help me locate the nearest opening—"
[Preliminary inference: 1200 kilometers to the east.]
"…Are you kidding? So far?"
On the minimap, in addition to the nearby Haiya appearing as a green dot, the nearest unknown target is in a yellow neutral state and is also in the east.
He squatted down and felt Haiya's pulse to make sure she was fine. After she pretended to faint, Kong picked her up by the waist and carried her across his shoulders.
Paimeng smacked her lips in dissatisfaction after vaguely feeling that someone was trying to snatch the empty VIP seat from her. She just moved her shoulders and opened her eyes, and was immediately frightened by Haiya's cold snake eyes that were slanting over her.
“Eh! Great, you’re all okay! Uh, Ying and the others…”
"I'm the one who should say this... I didn't break your little arms and legs... Don't worry, they will be fine. Even if something happens to me, nothing will happen to them—"
"Don't talk so horribly!"
"...Doctor, I thought you had come to your senses, but in the end you still chose the most efficient way of transporting... I am so disappointed."
Haiya, who was being carried on Kongdang’s sack, sighed at the noise and stopped pretending to sleep.
"At times like this, I would also want you to hold me in your arms..."
"If you really fainted, I might do that, but you're just wasting my energy by pretending to be asleep."
Sora didn't flinch at all like he did in the car or when he was asked for money in private. He was still angry about being schemed by the Star God and the irresponsibility of Party A:
"Come down?"
"Can't you let me stay a little longer?"
Haiya gently wrapped her tail around Kong's arm and rubbed it up and down, seeming to find this somewhat embarrassing and unromantic gesture refreshing.
"I suggest you not to. The surrounding danger has not been eliminated. Now I have to concentrate on protecting you."
"It becomes boring once we enter combat mode. Doctor, don't forget that it was you who was unwilling to take charge that put you in danger."
Haiya has always been dissatisfied with Kong's presence at the front line, but this time the situation is particularly serious. She rolled down from Kong's shoulder, grabbed two slender hands, and found that her staff had been lost in the previous impact.
No wonder the doctor said to protect her... She is not a patient with Originium disease. If she wants to mobilize Originium energy, the staff as an amplifier is an extremely critical equipment.
"If I wasn't here, you would be swallowed by the rift and it would be even more troublesome... System self-check."
Kong patted Haiya's drum depressedly to ask her to stop talking - being played by the Star God was not too shameful, but it was also true that he was blinded by the weekly rewards. As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Now the mission of the Mother of Illusion has not been settled, and he has lost contact with his companions. The situation is not optimistic.
...Of course, it's just not optimistic, and it's not a setback for him.
[Mild aftereffects of slow-acting imaginary numbers, excessive consumption of spiritual energy, no internal or external injuries.]
"How long will it take for the teleportation function to be repaired?"
[Still under maintenance, two days left. 】
"Two days? By the time the problem is fixed, the flowers will be cold?" Kong's brows twitched when he heard that Party A had not yet successfully solved the problem.
It’s unclear whether Bu Liren’s fleet can get through or not - but since he’s not there, they can only rely on Lao Yang and Ji Zi to take over the command.
He was not worried about himself getting into danger, but that his separated companions might get too concerned and do something irrational...
The girls have the ability and determination to take revenge on certain guys in a way that would scare Sora.
"We have to find a way to quickly reestablish contact with the outside world... We've destroyed the Rift so many times, but this is the first time we have to travel through it... System, have you detected any Rift creation activity in the surrounding area?"
[There are no other signs of activity except punctuation, and the monitoring range is limited. 】
"This is weird. They threw me in here without giving me a specific goal. Could it be that He just wanted to delay our reunion?"
Damn, 1200 kilometers, it would take half a day to drive, but the power armor can only be used for one hour a day - this distance must have been carefully calculated.
Kong was thinking about how to maneuver quickly on this endless snowfield. He had just taken two steps forward when he was pulled back by Haiya's tail on his arm.
"what happened?"
"……a little cold."
The equipment on her body was equipped with a constant temperature maintenance system, but Haiya's tail had no matching warming measures to consider issues such as body balance and information collection. Although she was acting coquettishly to Sora, she was also stating a hard requirement:
"The new internal circulation device can last for 8 hours, but it is too wasteful to keep it on all the time. Help me find some other way to keep warm."
The temperature in the Yalilo VI Snowfield in the Rift is usually around minus fifty degrees Celsius, and even lower during the long night, which is a threat to Miss Quetzalcoatl.
She thought Sora was too arrogant and kept rushing to the front line. In fact, she herself did not prepare additional warming measures and supplies in advance because she trusted the train crew and Sora's abilities...
Obviously, she had learned her lesson before. Is this the retribution for being used to relying on others? She laughed at herself in her heart.
Perhaps it was because the sense of security that the Doctor gave her was too strong, causing her to almost forget the time when she was a lone wolf.
Once you get used to the thrill of having someone take care of your logistics, it’s hard to go back.
"Huh, luckily I prepared a portable marrow furnace... uh..."
Kong was just about to show his foresight and gentleness and consideration when he discovered that his portable space could not be opened.
"...System, what's going on?" With one unexpected thing after another, he was really unable to hold it any longer.
[The storage space is also under maintenance. When debugging, Party A considered the warehouse as one of the BUG sources that caused the transmission to fail to start normally. The warehouse is being reloaded...]
"Gan, then my Tao Gangjia won't also..."
[The Primaris-related plug-ins have been pre-loaded, and the transformation can be loaded normally, but the armor cannot be removed. 】
"Huh...something's wrong. Someone must have been plotting against me..."
There is no need for random analysis. As long as two small-probability accidents occur in succession, Kong can conclude that this is a long-planned persecution.
Although it was a blessing in disguise that Tao Gangjia was not dragged away for "maintenance", Kong still felt that the series of setbacks he encountered were too deliberate.
It should be said that Party A will not follow Star God's plan... and take advantage of the situation to hit him, right?
……No way?
"System, help me find out what Party A is saying."
Kong really felt like a thorn in his back this time.
How could he have almost forgotten that the prefix of this Party A system was "Honkai Impact"? Recalling his past experience of ecstasy and death under the system with the same prefix, he felt that these consecutive accidents were also related to the fact that the Honkai Impact 3 system had not been able to start normally so far.
[…It said that everything was done for better compatibility testing, there was no hostile behavior or deliberate obstruction against us, and the partnership with us would not be terminated unexpectedly.]
I believe you, you are such a bad old man.
Kong Xindi has already come to the conclusion that although there is no hostility... there is definitely some overlap between their intentions with Nanook and Party A's goals.
"...There's nothing we can do...Keep your body temperature. Let's go check out the yellow spot first. Haiya, put your tail in."
He seemed to accept his fate and tapped his waist muscles at Haiya behind him.
"...?"
Ignoring Paimon's weird look, Haiya accepted Kong's "invitation" without hesitation, leaned over from his left hand, and let his tail slide along Kong's coat and into his waist, doing an extreme touch that would make an anaconda shy.
This is the cheapest and simplest way to keep warm. It is impossible for Mr. Kong to use the original casting method to maintain her body temperature.
"Hey, I told you to come in, but why are you getting into my pants?"
"Trivia: the temperature of most male triangles is the second highest among all parts of the body."
"...Hot Knowledge, if you keep doing this, I'm not sure I'll do something bad that will make you lose temperature even faster."
Under Paimon's stunned gaze, Kong, who had a sad face just now, seemed to have figured it out. His face was calm again. He gently pulled up Haiya's tail that was trying to go deeper, and tucked it into the gap of his clothes around his waist.
"Hiss, Haiya, you are really cold."
Kong used the temperature of his back and abdominal muscles to warm Haiya's tail. Although the way of transferring heat was a bit inefficient, Haiya's slightly shivered body actually calmed down a lot after being warmed by him.
Maybe it was because Kong's firepower was strong enough, or maybe it was because he had more spiritual support, Haiya's steps became faster as she was almost connected to Kong.
"Is it cold? But it's icy cold all over - wouldn't you like it just as well?"
It was obvious that they were in a life-or-death situation on the train and should have speeded up, but Haiya greedily hoped that this weird "dating mode" would continue forever.
"The application scenarios are different... Do you understand what I mean?"
"I see, Doctor, you feel unsafe here." The snake's tongue brushed across his earlobe, and Kong shuddered all over. He lightly slapped the tail at his waist to stop her from making trouble.
"... What I'm saying is, can you please stop teasing me when I'm getting serious?"
Kong Heng pulled her and rushed towards the only small map point nearby at a speed that seemed awkward but not slow.
Neutral unit - in fact, Kong had already guessed it a little, but when Cocolia appeared in his field of vision with a relieved smile on her face while maintaining the duck sitting posture, Kong still felt that... this script was most likely arranged by Aha.
"... Stop sitting there... If you keep sitting in the snow, you'll definitely run away at night."
Even though the one-piece pose with Haiya looked terrible, considering that he had been stigmatized by pleasure, he didn't need to maintain any hypocritical social image in front of Cocolia. He walked straight to her with dead eyes and waved his hands vigorously in front of her eyelashes.
The overly unceremonious "invitation to confront" calmed her mind, and Cocolia, who was ready to die, developed a new "pulse".
She let out a long breath and had to open her eyes. She looked at the blond young man in front of her who had a painful look on his face, and the snake girl who was bound to him with a bit of amusement, and said slowly:
"You shouldn't have come to me."
"It's just on the way. I don't want to disturb your peace."
Sora wanted to make her realize the reality as soon as possible, so he chose to be a little more humorous when speaking:
"Just a reminder. If you don't get up, you'll have abdominal cramps in 5 minutes, and in 10 minutes it may further cause menstrual disorders. For your health, don't do anything that will torture yourself."
"...the previous Great Guardians have never been afraid of the cold - this makes it difficult for me to freeze to death in the snow after self-exile."
Cocolia didn't seem to mind Sora's overly life-like speech: "Thank you for your concern, outsider... Since you appear in front of me, is it because Bronya stubbornly wants me to go back to stand trial?"
"No, it's really just along the way, wherever there's light, go there."
Sora scratched his head. Just now, Cocolia's yellow light turned green on the small map. "...I'm lost from your daughter. Do you want to go look for her together?"
"?" Cocolia tilted her head, and some other emotions finally appeared on her face that seemed to have seen through all the suffering in the world.
319. I think Cocolia still has her charm