Chapter 861

What met General Feixiao's eyes,

was a vast, dark, unknown space.

【Hearing Yanqing, you will carry out the Cloud Knights' military code.】

【Understood?】

【Don't let her leave this place!】

【Wake up, General!】

Muffled voices drifted in from nowhere,

making Feixiao frown despite herself.

March 7th: "What's going on here?!"

Stelle: "Where did General Feixiao get knocked off to?"

Dan Heng: "This might be the deepest layer of General Feixiao's consciousness right now."

Dan Heng: "Obviously, she's trapped here."

Furina: "Meaning, unless General Feixiao can break out of here, she can't wake up?"

Miss Qingque: "Sounds like some 'overcome your inner demon' trope."

Guinaifen: "What do you mean 'sounds like'—this totally is one!"

Miss Yunli: "General, please hurry up and get out of here!"

Miss Yunli: "Even if I'm just watching a video."

Miss Yunli: "I still don't want to see myself die miserably in there."

Miss Yunli: "And dying at my own General's hands feels kind of... off."

Feixiao: "Is this Hulei's doing?"

Feixiao: "Could he really be so delusional as to think this could trap me?"

Feixiao: "Hah, in the end, he just doesn't understand me!"

The video continued.

【You always keep the harder fights for yourself.】

【Just like now, never knowing what retreat even means.】

【Strange, isn't it—as your enemy, I understand you better than your own comrades do.】

At that moment,

Hulei's figure appeared once again!

【Hulei...?】

Seeing this,

Feixiao was somewhat surprised.

【This fury... how nostalgic.】

【I know what it seeks was never victory, but the hunt itself.】

【Am I right, Feixiao?】

Miss Sushang: "Oh my god!"

Miss Sushang: "How is Hulei alive again?!"

Brother Dan Heng: "Knew the Huleibu Society wouldn't give up that easily."

Brother Dan Heng: "As expected—he was after something deeper!"

Stelle: "What's he trying to do?"

Stelle: "Chat with General Feixiao inside her own consciousness to stall her and keep her from getting out?"

March 7th: "Uh... it's not that simple, is it?"

March 7th: "He must have an even bigger scheme!"

March 7th: "No wonder he died so cleanly."

March 7th: "Turns out he was never really dead!"

Furina: "But if he didn't die, then what form of existence is he in now?"

Hu Tao: "Spirit body? Astral form?"

Hu Tao: "Want me to try torching him and sending him on his way?"

Ying: "Ahem, I don't think that's a reliable method."

The video continued.

【You shouldn't exist.】

【I saw you die with my own eyes....】

Hulei coming back from the dead

struck Feixiao as bizarre.

【Just treat me as a hallucination.】

【Before every hunt, I prepare myself for coming home empty-handed.】

【But this time is different. This time... failure is the very destination I'm rushing toward.】

【After I learned your story from Seeing Jiaoqiu, I discovered a secret he's been hiding all along....】

【And the meaning of that secret—even that healer himself failed to notice.】

【Fate is truly ironic.】

【I've been waiting for this day, never expecting it would come in this form.】

【... but I am willing to accept it.】

【As for now, let us pry open the ironclad heart of the Divine Bow Sky General and see what lies hidden in her darkest corners.】

Firefly: "Failure is the destination he was rushing toward?"

Firefly: "He was waiting for failure from the very start?"

Stelle: "Damn!"

Stelle: "Why do I suddenly feel that everyone, including Hulei, is an old fox?"

Stelle: "The three Generals designed it so Hulei would walk right into their trap."

Stelle: "Seeing Jiaoqiu entered the game himself, and even tricked Hulei into drinking the poisoned blood, leading to his utter defeat."

Stelle: "And now, Hulei says his goal was failure itself!"

Stelle: "Good grief, so everyone was just playing mind games, huh?"

Stelle: "With all this, it makes Brother Dan Heng, me, and March look like complete clueless wage-slaves."

Dan Heng: "Our purpose is simple, there is nothing that requires scheming."

Dan Heng: "Naturally, there is no need to plot anything..."

March 7th: "The three Generals' plan was to recapture Hulei."

March 7th: "Mr. Jiaoqiu's plan was to use Hulei's hand to cure General Feixiao's Moon Madness."

March 7th: "Then what was Hulei's plan?"

March 7th: "Worth him rushing toward failure and death from the very start?"

Paimon: "He said Mr. Jiaoqiu failed to notice a secret..."

Paimon: "Perhaps that is the key?"

Sampo: "The vibe is starting to drift toward weird riddles again."

Sampo: "Sigh, can't things just be straightforward?"

Rike: "That is not quite right. Without suspense, without twists, how can the plot rise and fall and become rich?"

Rike: "In my view, the current plot quality still remains above the perfect baseline!"

Rike: "Such a perfect plot, I really haven't seen one in ages!! (Ecstatic. jpg)"

The video continues.

Hulei's figure vanished along with the sound,

and ahead in the black stillness,

phantasm after phantasm appeared.

【The Weak】

【Justice】