[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st":3,"chapter-star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-599":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Honkai: Star Rail: Starting by Building the Foundation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1928628,2626,"Chapter 599: SCP-3125, The Fugitive","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-599",599,"\u003Cp>On the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka: \"How about it, can this answer serve as a bargaining chip for me and Blade to leave?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Stelle looked into her eyes; her eyes were filled with a hazy, pink-purple mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Stelle tilted her head, and Kafka also tilted her head slightly, a strand of purple hair falling from her ear, which she lifted and tucked behind her ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What else was there to ask?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The bank account and password of the \"Stellaron Hunters\"? What was Silver Wolf's new account? Where was the lair of the \"Stellaron Hunters\"? Who exactly was Elio, what did he look like, and why could he see the possibilities of the future?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But these questions would certainly not get an answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Rather than asking Kafka and Blade these questions, it would be more practical to urge Jing Jing Yuan to abdicate to Diviner Fu now and let Miss Miss Qingque be promoted directly to the next Diviner of the Divination Commission.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Stelle felt she needed a little help from her friends and family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>She looked to the left—Bai Bai Xuan: \"Look at you, if you think it's okay, then it's okay\"; she looked to the right—March 7th: \"Squeeze a little more information out of the bad woman.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Suddenly, Stelle remembered something.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Kafka,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka nodded, signaling that she was listening.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"In your eyes, is everything fake, just possibilities destined by fate, and does free will simply not exist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka was stunned for a moment, and those originally calm eyes suddenly had some different colors, but it didn't last long before they sank back down, like a deep pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although this subtle change was fleeting, as short as a meteor streaking across the night sky, it was enough for Stelle to discern her thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So that was it?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Everything was pre-drawn by Elio's pen, and every step of the future was firmly engraved on the trajectory of fate, impossible to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even if the Foundation appeared out of nowhere, and Xiao Bai intervened and rewrote the future scroll preset by Elio.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was ultimately just moving from one predetermined fate to another, never having deviated from the established track by even half a step.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The concept of \"free will\" was at least not everything being at the mercy of others; it was a glimmer of elusive light that illuminated subjectivity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was like standing on the edge of a vast forest, with countless paths branching out ahead, each leading to an unknown destination.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It didn't lie in which path was preset, nor in where one would eventually arrive, but in the \"self\" standing at the crossroads, gazing into the unknown, and finally taking the step.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So, after making choices again and again to reach one station after another, only to find that everything on the journey was already destined—whether it was the scenery along the way or the thrilling adventures—one couldn't help but feel doubt:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Does \"free will\" still exist?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I have nothing else to ask.\" Stelle shook her head and said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Anyway, I wouldn't get anything else by asking... she added in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seeing that Stelle intended to stop there, Kafka pursed her lips, frowned slightly, and sighed a little, seeming a bit regretful.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But Kafka quickly composed her expression and said: \"Thank you, 'Stelle.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"We haven't talked like this for a long time, and I'm very happy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Aren't you curious about what Xiao Bai did to make Elio's script turn into something else?\" Stelle asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"No need to be curious; when it's time to know, I'll naturally know, and when it's not time to know, I naturally won't.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka stared into Stelle's eyes, and was likewise stared at by Stelle.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>An ordinary person without any extraordinary power, after some training, can read many things through the other person's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the Memokeeper of the \"Garden of Recollection\" can use eye contact to delve into the target's mind, roam the ocean of the subconscious, climb the island of the mind, read memories, and see thoughts...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although she didn't receive the gift of \"Remembrance\" Fuli, Kafka's power of \"Spirit Whisper\" still gave her some small achievements in the realm of mind and emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At least, Stelle's eyes, which refused to give up, wrote all her thoughts on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What a child who is easy to understand... Is it because of the influence brought by the story of \"SCP-C-3999\"?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka smiled and shook her head: \"Don't try to persuade me; adults are all stubborn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In Stelle's puzzled and confused gaze, Kafka slowly turned to the side, walked two steps toward the coast, squatted down, grabbed a flat stone, held it in her hand, and played with it casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Do you know what the most essential difference between adults and children is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It's not age, nor experience, nor mindset, but plasticity... or, the possibilities of the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then, she said:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Children can still be molded and can embark on another brand-new path; but adults can only be screened. We walk along our respective paths to the end, until the road ahead is cut off, until we can no longer walk.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>She bent down and threw the stone in her hand. Stelle silently guessed how many skips it would make; five? Ten? Or fifteen?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But a wave surged up, and the stone disappeared without a trace; it probably sank to the bottom of the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"...And then with a 'pop,' it turns into a pile of fragments, scattered and broken, very tragic and beautiful, right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka stood calmly by the sea, watching the disappearing stone, and patted the sand off her gloves.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The sea breeze stirred a few strands of her hair, swaying like seaweed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"After this, some people can piece the fragments together, glue them, and walk onto another path;\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Some people realize from then on that people are meant to be broken, and from then on get used to being broken, thinking this is also a kind of perfection;\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Some people are extinguished, and some people walk into 'Nihility' from then on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"So, 'Stelle,' you are very good now, and I am very happy. He is very good to you and protects you very well, and I hope you can always be this good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The \"Stellaron Hunters\" were never a positive organization. Stelle could get a sincere heart and could get salvation, but she couldn't; the bad woman was responsible for carrying out the boss's will.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How rare a sincere heart is; how many people have screened out suitable prey, successfully making the silly butterfly think that the sweet nectar just fits the void in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Little did they know, that was a hallucinogenic disguise, a pheromone to attract prey, a firelight to lure moths.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Get closer, get a little closer, let the paralyzing venom take effect, let the tough spider web wrap tightly, and then let the prey be strangled in an innocent dream with illusory fantasies.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This might be the price of using \"Spirit Whisper\" to manipulate the mind...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When she turned the prey into a puppet, the threads of fate also quietly tied onto her limbs, turning her into a doll of \"Fate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As a long-lost conversation progressed, her empty heart was satisfied, and Kafka felt that this world was still a bit interesting, and not everyone was enslaved by \"Fate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>While the two were talking, Blade had been standing silently on the side, trying his best to stay awake and suppress his Mara-struck state. He had released himself briefly just now and suffered some injuries, which made his situation a bit bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka noticed the abnormality in Blade and knew that Blade was having a Mara-struck episode again. This situation had been particularly fierce since he came to the Luofu Luofu Xianzhou, once reaching the point where even \"Spirit Whisper\" could not suppress it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He could no longer remember many things, forgot the exquisite forging techniques he had as a Master Blacksmith, and couldn't remember the past of the \"High-Cloud Quintet,\" but the Luofu Luofu Xianzhou was full of familiar scenery, calling out to his broken memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Stelle also noticed Blade's abnormality: \"He looks... like something is wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this time, she had talked enough, and she had nothing she wanted to ask. Kafka clearly hid many things in her heart, but in fact, it didn't matter whether she asked or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If Elio compiled the first version of the script and built the crew.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then, Xiao Bai, who painted and modified the script and pushed some plots to be redone, should also know all the futures and could make arrangements like Elio.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xuan, however, was tight-lipped about this.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Was it because he was worried that she, like Kafka, would doubt her own existence and become a \"slave of fate\" after asking a few times and being blocked by him?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Anyway, when he was caught by the handle, he wouldn't say anything, so Stelle would just wait peacefully; there would always be a day when he would say it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>She was very curious about what she would encounter at the next stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Would Penacony really stage a \"sunny, healthy, and positive\" play as Kafka said?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That was quite worth looking forward to.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kafka: \"Are you going to let me and Blade go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Stelle nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Then Blade and I will leave first, and we'll contact you later if there's anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not long after Kafka and Blade left, Jing Jing Yuan, Seeing Seeing Yanqing, and Dan Heng returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Jing Jing Yuan had a smile on his face, with a lion hidden in his golden eyes, as if he had returned to the banquet of the \"High-Cloud Quintet\" more than seven hundred years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seeing Seeing Yanqing followed Jing Jing Yuan, stroking the gap in his sword blade, his face full of heartache.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dan Heng walked at the very end, his face silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He walked while pinching his chin, as if in deep thought, with Lu Mingfei hidden in his eyes, and thus he became dejected.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"'Permanence'... 'Permanence'...\" Dan Heng kept repeating this word, muttering in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Bai Bai Xuan hadn't told him about this?? How could he hide it so deeply, having the ability to designate an Aeon?? But why was it him again???\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Didn't he come to the Luofu Luofu Xianzhou to settle the sins of his past life, to cut off the past and be reborn?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How did it get involved with becoming a god again?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Sins of the past life... Did you also take into account the many casualties of the Vidyadhara clan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In short, Dan Heng was very confused now.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even if one day, Bai Bai Xuan was annoyed by the news of the \"Legion\" while listening to the \"Interastral Peace Broadcast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And set off on the spot to seize the bird position of Nanook the \"Destruction,\" sat on it himself, and renamed \"Destruction\" to \"Khorne\"...\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dan Heng wouldn't be surprised anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I remember Akivili of 'Trailblaze' took the train with the 'Nameless' before falling... Does it actually make any difference whether one becomes a god or not?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Uncle Yang didn't object, it's just that I don't know what Sister Himeko would think... But what does the path of 'Permanence' mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dan Heng didn't know how to describe this feeling either.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Very unreal? But not accurate enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Using some concrete examples to describe it, it was a bit like the \"loser counterattack\" novels that were popular a while ago:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The penniless protagonist hadn't eaten for three days and was dizzy with hunger when the landlord urged him to pay the rent. After persuading him away with good words, a strange phone call suddenly came.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>. ....... 0\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The person on the other end of the phone told him that a distant relative he had never heard of had no descendants and had designated him as the heir, and that relative was a supervisor in the P47 department of the \"Interastral Peace Corporation\" before his death, accumulating the wealth of several star systems in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Let me be quiet...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Forget it, nothing to think about, they were all \"Trailblazers\" of the \"Astral Express,\" Bai Bai Xuan had no reason to pit him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>· · Seeking flowers ··· 0\u003C\u002Fp>",2040,"2026-06-14T04:01:52.187Z","2026-06-17T08:39:59.885Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9ff40f68a4e219903bad06c0495cf99630d0617597e3d386a0f596e403fc7e26","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-600","star-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-chapter-598",641,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstar-rail-i-established-the-foundation-at-the-st-cover.jpg"]