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"Yes."
...There is no need for Heita to make too much effort, as the people who care about the little yellow-haired boy have spontaneously organized a rescue team.
The mutual screening restrictions are certainly irritating, but the harsh conditions cannot stop the enthusiasm of the people.
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Now the offensive and defensive positions have been reversed. Considering the "small-mindedness" that the Star Core had shown before, actively breaking into the Rift Realm is like running into the opponent's gun...
But when Eula went deep alone, she didn't hesitate at all, didn't say hello to anyone, and just rushed into the filter.
She had already lost Kong once, and even though she trusted Kong to be able to overcome the difficulties on his own, her body moved before her brain.
She admired Ying for being able to suppress the urge to draw his sword against the filter - but she couldn't do it. When she thought of the relaxation and satisfaction she had experienced with Kong during these days, which Ou had not been able to experience in Mondstadt for more than ten years, she fell into the anxiety she had when she came here again.
He just can't call for help, the public channels are cut off - he needs me. This thought swirled in her mind.
The rift does not always have external energy manifestations. At least this time it seemed as if nothing had happened. The world suddenly turned in front of Eula's eyes, the deep pit disappeared, and was replaced by an ancient battlefield.
The hand of a virtual pawn was frozen in the snow pile in front of her. The destroyed pawns seemed like memories of the last era, forgotten in the wind and snow - but there was no doubt that this thing was alive, but the temperature rise speed of the star core after the protection was removed was not enough to make it active again immediately.
Perhaps it was because her impulsive mood was barely calmed down, or perhaps it was because after seeing the things buried under her feet and the white snow in the distance that seemed to have nowhere to land, she realized that it was useless to be angry. Her heart gradually cooled down, and the urge to fly up immediately and look for space all over the world was finally suppressed.
"...Lawrence, it's you."
Holding a greatsword, she wandered among the "remains" of the legion, exploring her slightly more familiar psychic energy, hoping to hear good news about the reconstruction of the public frequency. However, during this search, she seemed to hear the voice of Holhaiya:
"The Doctor should be around here too, are you the only one? Where are the others? I remember you were protecting Nata?"
"...Fat snake?" The big sword she picked up knocked lightly on the ground, and Eula let out a slow breath.
The familiar green shadow that emerged from behind the abandoned mecha gave her an outlet for her anxiety:
"You seem to be so leisurely. Where's Sora? It looks like you came in here alone without telling anyone."
"? You broke in? The Doctor and I were blown away in the explosion, and we got separated - and the Great Guardian who has recovered himself... From the looks of you, you probably don't know where we are... It's really troublesome that I have to locate us myself -"
"...You are so calm that it makes me angry. Why don't you leave immediately?"
"I can't find them even if I search with my sword in hand. Forget it. I need to prepare a conspicuous signal that can be seen from a long distance. I don't want to run around in this cold place... Since you suddenly appeared, there must be a gap in the Rift nearby."
Haiya lowered her head and looked at a handful of soil under the snow, but couldn't see any clues, so she clapped her hands and stood up.
"Raise the signal smoke?" Eula suggested.
"It's a simple method, but it might also attract enemies."
Haiya gently pointed her staff at the soldier whose feet were stiff.
"Starting a fire might irritate these guys, so use a cold light source. I also have a small drone here that can send out two long-wave signals and three signal lights—only the doctor can understand them."
As she spoke, she untied the special drone carried by the exoskeleton and threw it into the sky:
"No snow, fog, or storms... Hopefully, everything will go well."
"... Fatty Snake, have you been looking for a while?"
"I just woke up, too, and I saw you wandering around like an idiot. But don't worry, the speed of time here is no different from that in the outside world. At least my watch face shows normal... It's only been less than ten minutes."
Haiya showed her great wilderness survival skills: "The direction of the sun here is opposite to that of the outside world - if you are not sure where you are, locate yourself in the opposite direction of the sun."
Hearing this, Youla raised her eyebrows:
"…Aren't there markings for east, south, west and north on the shared mini-map?"
"Huh? The public channel is disconnected, where is the mini-map?"
Haiya also frowned and looked at Youla again: "Bingliangliang, are you...testing me?"
"...Well, this annoying look——seems to be genuine."
After staring at the fat snake for a long time, Eula nodded, seeming to have put away her vigilance: "There's nothing I can do. I'm unfamiliar with the place. The star core can also tamper with people's minds. I have to be more careful."
"That's right. Star cores can affect our spirits... Tell me a secret that outsiders don't know, so I can identify it."
Haiya took the initiative.
"Am I no longer an 'outsider' to you? Tsk, that's really annoying."
Eula put one hand on her waist: "You hate it when I touch your tail."
"It's not a secret, change it."
"I like facesitting."
"...Tsk."
Haiya also turned her head away unhappily:
"I knew that your eyes rolling around every night was always bad."
"Each each other."
After the two men completed their identity confirmation, they moved closer to each other, seemingly ready for the next step of search and rescue.
But when Haiya was operating the drone to activate the light signal, Eula, who was just walking towards her and seemed to have no hostility, suddenly touched Songlai on her back and attacked Haiya from the back of her head!
"state!"
A ball of golden light rushed towards her sword, deflecting her attack and making Haiya's body blurry.
"Oh, did you lose your patience and reveal the truth?"
Eula's attack missed, but because she didn't use her full strength in the attack, she immediately moved sideways when the golden light came, and avoided the staff swung by "Haya" like dancing.
She gave the distorted golden figure a mocking smile, and then an immense hostility surged in her eyes.
"...We read the memories of this woman, including the memories of her species from the bottom of her heart for four hundred years. We even imitated your interpersonal relationships to the best of our ability. How could you still see through it?"
[Because there are some details that I can’t really explain, but there are too many of them, and there are loopholes everywhere.]
While Eula was complaining in her heart, she raised the tip of her sword above her shoulder - although it was a bit too dependent on "intuition" to say this, the star core did not show the side of Haiya that was truly at odds with herself, and the details did not match.
The reason why she and Haiya disliked each other was different from what Star Core understood. At least the Vengeful Knight was very sure that if it was Haiya, she would definitely confirm the authenticity of her identity before him, and might even launch a test attack first - he even hesitated for a moment.
...The most important thing is that Eula just wants to judge whether the other party is genuine by her stress reaction. If she doesn't react when she is hit on the head, her head will just turn red slightly, but if she overreacts, then she must be an enemy -
It's hard to say that there's no personal grudge involved, and it's a bit inappropriate, but the effect is still outstanding.
It is estimated that Xinghe would not have thought that the relationship between Eula and Haiya could be so "bad". In fact, Eula really remembered every grudge she had against Haiya, but the place and environment for revenge on her were all in private... in each other's dormitory - it was difficult to have such a legitimate opportunity to do something bad.
"Things without heart, you won't understand even if I tell you about them."
Eula would never explain it to it - if it became cunning and started to cheat others, that would be terrible.
"In order to reduce the risk of being discovered, we did not choose to become your lovers - but this may be a wrong decision." The voice of the ball of golden light became unpredictable.
Ha, indeed. If you become like him, I might even avoid chopping at your face when I chop you down—!
The Star Core's BB Lai Lai did not affect Eula's approaching posture. She confirmed that the ball of golden light that had just knocked away her sword was the drone released by the fake Haiya - but now looking closely, it was just a wisp of mimicry energy separated from the Star Core. But if there were more of those flexible things, she would not have a chance to deal a fatal blow to the Star Core.
"This cyborg is not a member of the local biome. If we have more time, we can perfectly mimic her and analyze her again. You instinctively captured the details that her resistance to cold is slightly stronger than in your memory, and the details that she was too rational after being separated from her kind. We will record these key information and strive to make the mimicry more perfect next time. "
"You won't get a second chance!"
Facing this opponent of unknown strength, Eula implemented Sora's good habit of dealing with all the unknowns with all her strength.
"Ice Waves and Raging Waves!!"
Right in front of him was the culprit of the entire disaster, and it was able to withstand the elemental explosion that Eula had saved for several months and had been suppressing.
The huge sword swung horizontally and cut into the golden light, completely blowing Haiya's figure away.
"Ok??"
Eula had also fought against enemies without physical form, but she was limited in her attack methods and had no corresponding countermeasures for the time being as she could not cope with the strange thing called the star core, which could switch back and forth between physical and non-physical states at any time.
I didn't get anything substantial after all this time, but I opened most of them. Whether it was out of obsessive-compulsive disorder or fear of waste, I shouldn't blow up all of them.
She chased the scattered light particles from the star core all the way to the other side of the snow hill, and chased to the wreckage of the collapsed creation engine, her words becoming more and more fierce:
"Shameless! Your death is approaching!"
Although she behaved like an angry female leopard and leaped up many times, chasing the light spots of the star core all over the street, but at the moment she landed on the wreckage of the creation engine's arm, Eula seemed to suddenly calm down, and she stepped forward with her high-heeled boots, stopping her momentum by forming frost.
The half-broken Frost Crystal Sword fell down from behind with a loud bang, blowing away the new snow on the wreckage, shattering its rusted surface armor and carving out a twisted steel cavity.
From the hole, a slightly humanoid star core flew past her body but failed to hit her.
"…Woman, you are more alert than our last carrier, with better physical fitness, and can withstand more blessings - with you as a carrier, we will definitely find a place to rebuild a new world. Become a part of us."
The star core, which had also failed in its sneak attack, was first satisfied with the woman's "cleverness", and then condensed into the shape of a void in front of her -
It was her favorite young boy's figure. It stretched out its palm towards Eula, politely as if inviting her to dance.
"Eula, do you have the heart to reject me?"
"It's very cruel."
However, the attack failed, and Eula did not hesitate to change from cutting to grabbing, and blew away the entity of the star core with two consecutive swords.
The elemental explosion that had just descended with its white wings splashed onto the star core and also made several holes in the human figure it was mimicking. It looked like an uncanny valley effect.
What's more, he was the person that Eula loved the most and was most familiar with. If her bloodline had not prohibited it, she would have to show her anger to Xinghe:
"He certainly wouldn't say such a thing - if you want to disgust me, I admit you succeeded."
"So what should we say?"
[Eula——Please don’t, let me go——]
Eula's thoughts were somewhat confused.
"?"
Maybe the Star Core didn't know that Eula and Sora's status in private life were opposite, but the Star Core, which vaguely read her strong thoughts, froze for a moment.
Then this thing that was like an aggregate of consciousness began to quarrel with itself.
"...We must get the carrier before our kind find us. This is the last chance for the Arbitrator to support us. If we fail to win, we will be sealed."
"We know that the red-haired woman will seal us into a container."
"But if you forcibly occupy the body, you will lose a lot of energy."
"We can use this to threaten our kind. They have a close relationship, so it's worth a try."