Chapter 262: Honkai: Star Rail — The Xianzhou General Won't Dream of a Yandere Chapter 259: Weng Fa Luo Si's

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

The Eternal Land, Weng Fa Luo Si

Xi Lian sat at the edge of the starry sky, her legs dangling above the lightless abyss, quietly listening to the blue-gold light sphere in her hand tell a story.

The light sphere pulsed faintly, like a heart warmed in the palm.

Suddenly, her fingers clenched, and she flipped to her feet in one motion, gaze alert toward the figure that had appeared silently not far away.

"Lai Gu Shi. What do you want with me?"

Lai Gu Shi looked at the blue-gold light in Xi Lian's hand, saluted, and spoke: "Ms. Xi Lian, no need to be nervous. I bear no ill will."

"I don't believe you."

Xi Lian tightened her grip on the sphere of Xuan Ge's karma she had snatched from Chang Ye Yue's hands.

She had already secretly adjusted her angle — as long as Lai Gu Shi took one more step forward, she would blow up with him.

"Hehe~~" Lai Gu Shi honestly retreated a step, his etiquette impeccable.

He stopped in place, hands slightly spread: "Ms. Xi Lian, I understand your anger. But this time I come with good intentions."

Xi Lian still only said: "I don't believe you."

Lai Gu Shi fell silent for a beat.

This Xi Lian, purely from watching Xuan Ge too much, has learned bad habits.

Where Xi Lian came from is not important.

What's important is that Xi Lian holds Xuan Ge's power in her hand, that is very important.

The moment Xi Lian obtained Xuan Ge's power, she exposed herself — she had merely followed that fluctuation out of curiosity and found the area outside Weng Fa Luo Si, found her.

At that moment, he understood everything.

Actually Weng Fa Luo Si had long since been opened by someone else, but that likewise doesn't matter.

What matters is — the one who opened it was Xuan Ge.

Xuan Ge will come here eventually, that is very important.

Lai Gu Shi simply stopped beating around the bush.

He placed his hands behind his back and spoke in a lamenting tone: "How pathetic. Possessing the Xianzhou Emperor's power, yet willing to bitterly wait for his salvation—"

"What are you trying to do?" Xi Lian interrupted, brows knitting tight.

Lai Gu Shi's words had poison in them.

Lai Gu Shi moved his steps, slowly circling around her once.

He observed very carefully — from her fingers clutching the light sphere, to her slightly tensed body, to those eyes that refused to move away from him by even half an inch.

And then the Xian Huang's preferred measurements.

Lai Gu Shi politely averted his gaze.

Confirmed by eye contact, the kind of person Xuan Ge would love.

He returned to his original position, stood firm, and uttered the second half: "You've always used the power of memory to spy on Xuan Ge, but watching doesn't mean understanding."

"Don't laugh at someone fifty steps away when you've retreated a hundred."

Xi Lian laughed contemptuously, crossed her arms before her chest, chin tilted slightly up.

"Weng Fa Luo Si's savior — Lord Lai Gu Shi."

Hearing the three words "savior," Lai Gu Shi fell silent.

Silent thoroughly.

Xi Lian stepped toward him, the blue-gold light in her palm still clenched dead tight.

She stopped behind him, looking at his back, and word by word laid bare the truth of his "savior":

"Since Shen Wei's descent, the Arrow of the Hunt has rarely appeared in the Huan Yu. It's all General Shen Wei driving the Shen Wu Xian Zhou conquering everywhere, fulfilling the Hunt's hunting."

"Xuan Ge and the Hunt's such actions caused enormous damage — and abstraction — to Weng Fa Luo Si's simulated Path."

Lai Gu Shi showed no reaction, but Xi Lian didn't stop.

"To simulate Xuan Ge and the Hunt, you've kept observing him. After understanding him, you fed certain keywords into the Titan of Ten Thousand Enemies."

"Result — Wan Di became Emperor in a certain cycle, unified Weng Fa Luo Si. Even you didn't expect this."

She nodded to herself, a smile curling her lips, but that smile held no warmth.

"Though your simulation is indeed accurate. After all, in the lifetime Wan Di became Emperor, Xuan Ge was still a General."

Lai Gu Shi remained silent. He couldn't refute. Because that time, he nearly broke Weng Fa Luo Si.

"After Wan Di became Emperor, she didn't turn out like Xuan Ge." Xi Lian continued, voice calm, but every word precisely stabbed the most painful spot in Lai Gu Shi's logic loop.

"You don't understand Xuan Ge either. The keywords you fed in piled up to only two words — ambition. So Wan Di became a tyrant. But it didn't end there."

She paused, gaze falling toward that silent earth beneath Weng Fa Luo Si's vast starry sky.

"Bai E, carrying the cycle's fire seed, to stop Wan Di, nearly detonated billions of fire seeds. You feared Bai E would attract Xie He's gaze like Xuan Ge, so —"

"You, this special savior, personally stepped in, saved Weng Fa Luo Si."

Finished speaking, she turned around, looking at Lai Gu Shi's expressionless mechanical face.

Clearly a cold metal visage, yet she felt as if she saw a helplessness deep to the bone.

"Hehe — Ms. Xi Lian truly flatters me." Lai Gu Shi chuckled.

Xi Lian shook her head: "I don't understand you geniuses' brains. Knowing there are tigers in the mountain, yet deliberately walking toward Tiger Mountain."

"Wan Di, last time you were scolded by Chang — but it seems you didn't learn any lesson at all."

"You put the keyword on Ke Lü De La again, and then almost messed things up again."

"Ms. Xi Lian, as a genius, curiosity is inevitable...." Lai Gu Shi's words paused, then he switched to a more frank tone.

"Undeniably, regarding Xuan Ge, I don't understand him very well. So — I want to invite you to go to Xian Zhou together."

"Why?" Xi Lian stared at him. She couldn't outthink him; if he didn't make things clear, she wouldn't agree to a single word.

"Before answering this question, let me ask you a question first."

Xi Lian fell silent for an instant, then nodded.

Lai Gu Shi asked: "Do you think — Xuan Ge would save you? Or rather, would he save Weng Fa Luo Si?"

"I...." Xi Lian froze instantly.

This question was too fatal.

Xuan Ge came for Tie Mu, but as for Tie Mu's purpose, to this day she couldn't figure it out.

Because this is Xuan Ge's causal line, and even more so the Hunt's.

Only by participating could she see, but now Xuan Ge hasn't shown up, so naturally she can't pry.

Moreover Weng Fa Luo Si — he has no obligation to save.

Who knows, she might even be blamed for snatching that regiment of causal power from Chang Ye Yue's hands in her early years.

What's even more fatal is, Weng Fa Luo Si is ultimately just a string of code.

She was very unwilling to say this, but the Golden Bloodline, Weng Fa Luo Si's people, in Xuan Huang's eyes, in outsiders' eyes, are indeed code.

Lai Gu Shi saw her struggle and threw out his own view: "Hehe~~ Although I really don't want to comment on Xuan Huang's preferences, but if you make an effort, you indeed can be saved."

Seeing Xi Lian silent, he lightly added another sentence after.

"Xi Lian... you also don't want Bai E to have worked hard for so many reincarnations, yet not even see the outside world, right."

Xi Lian: "...."

She laughed, laughed from anger.

"These words, how is the threat so great...." She lowered her head, shoulders trembling slightly, mumbled to herself.

Usually in memories watching Xuan Ge use this sentence structure, she felt nothing, but now it's used on herself, suddenly it's like being crushed to death by a mountain.

She raised her head, the laughter born of anger in her eyes not yet faded, but her tone had already hardened again:

"So — your purpose is Bai E?"

"He goes to compete, qualified enough." Lai Gu Shi nodded.

One of his purposes is to take Bai E to compete.

And he himself — is going to face Polka directly.

"Then what about Weng Fa Luo Si?" Xi Lian pressed.

If Bai E doesn't restart the reincarnation, won't Tie Mu come out?

Moreover, to walk out of Weng Fa Luo Si, one needs to carry Xuan Ge's causality on one's body, and must see Xuan Ge in person, letting Xuan Ge complete the closed loop.

Once the closed loop is completed, code can become flesh and blood, and a person can truly walk in Shi Jian.

Lai Gu Shi spread his arms, raised them slightly, smiled.

"Weng Fa Luo Si has no Bai E, but there's me. I can completely replace Bai E and create the world again."

Xi Lian: "...."