Luo Lin gently patted Kiana's back, feeling her breath gradually calming down. At least the dampness on her shoulder wasn't increasing anymore. It seemed like the little white furball had adjusted her mood.
"Mom..."
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
Luo Lin took out two pieces of paper and placed them in Kiana's hands. The little white furball rubbed her eyes and nose.
"I feel like I'm dreaming... but this dream feels so real..." Kiana rested her chin on Luo Lin's shoulder and whispered, "Mom, do you know what's going on here?"
"Well... I have some idea..."
Luo Lin thought for a moment, then said straightforwardly, "In a sense, you really are dreaming because this place is actually an illusion created by the Divine Key..."
"Illusion?! But I've eaten so much, and I still feel full now." Kiana was shocked, quickly lifting her head to carefully examine Luo Lin's face. She blinked in amazement, then pinched her thigh hard, sucking in a breath at the pain.
"Alright, pain won't wake you up from the illusion created by a Divine Key..."
"...What is a Divine Key?"
Kiana asked somewhat confusedly.
Luo Lin looked at the white furball's face, pulled over a chair from the side, patted it, and gestured for her to sit down. "Kiana, let me first ask you, do you know what 'Honkai' is?"
"Um, Dad seems to have told me... 'Honkai' is an abnormal disaster that could occur in any corner of the world, causing mutations or death in both wild animals and humans, summoning Honkai beasts to attack humans..."
"And the Kaslana family has a strong resistance to Honkai, and a robust system. They are knights who resist Honkai! Dad has always been fighting for this world, battling Honkai... so, I've been following the clues of Honkai, hoping to meet Dad one day."
"As for the rest... I'm not very clear about it. Maybe it's because I was injured when I was a child, so my memories from that time aren't very clear. I only remember these things."
Kiana's tone was relaxed, but Luo Lin found it hard to imagine how a girl with only a few years of memories managed to survive being abandoned by Siegfried in Europe and how she eventually decided to travel the world in search of her father.
She rubbed the white furball's cheek again, making Kiana feel a bit embarrassed as she tilted her head.
"Ah, Siegfried..."
Luo Lin glanced at the gradually darkening sky and streets below. The sun had not completely disappeared yet, lighting up the distant sky in fiery red.
Night was approaching.
"In simple terms, Honkai not only infects humans and creates Honkai beasts, but in large-scale Honkai eruptions, there may even appear entities called 'Herrscher,' which are the most threatening manifestations of Honkai. If they succeed, they can easily destroy the world."
Kiana widened her eyes, "What?! I thought Honkai was just like a natural disaster, like a flash flood... Is it really this terrifying?"
"Kiana, next time you encounter Honkai, don't recklessly charge in..." Luo Lin shook her head, "As for the Divine Key, it's a device created by humans in the previous era using the cores of Herrschers. Each one has miraculous functions... The one creating this 'illusion' is called 'Divine Key - Fenghuang Down.'"
Kiana always caught the key words in Luo Lin's words, "Previous era?"
"Yes, this world was once destroyed by Honkai, and powerful Honkai and Herrschers destroyed the civilization of the previous era. In their resistance, they also killed Herrschers and extracted their cores to create the Divine Key... Humans now are the descendants left behind by the humans of the previous era."
"Honkai actually destroyed the world... Doesn't that make Dad's situation very dangerous..."
Kiana's face showed obvious concern as she clenched her fists, a sense of urgency rising in her heart.
"It's okay, Siegfried is a powerful warrior. Ordinary Honkai poses little threat to him. Unless..."
Luo Lin gazed at the street below the balcony, where sparse crowds laughed and passed by, disappearing into the shadows of the buildings.
The girl frowned, leaning on the balcony railing, carefully observing the direction where the pedestrians disappeared. There was only darkness there, with nothing else left.
No, where are the people? It's only been a few seconds, right? It's impossible for them to walk through that shadow directly...
Luo Lin suddenly raised her head, seeing the sunlight completely disappear, and the cold moonlight pouring into the city.
At that moment, dozens of clear quantum reactions appeared within Luo Lin's perception range, and there were almost as many...
"Honkai beasts?"
Luo Lin couldn't help but massage her temples. She should have thought of it earlier. With her physique, if the two big shots didn't intervene, they would definitely appear in pairs!
Kiana also followed Luo Lin to lean on the window sill, whispering, "Mom? What's wrong?"
"...This illusion is indeed having some problems, and it's quite serious."
Luo Lin reached out, and "Mimicry - Black Abyss, White Flower" fell into her hand. The girl took out two pistols and a packaged magazine from the system storage and handed them to Kiana.
"Huh?! What's this!?"
"Kaslana Gunfighting Technique, haven't you learned it?"
Luo Lin looked at the Honkai beast emerging from the shadows of the buildings and asked.
Kiana naturally also saw the pink and white creature shimmering with strange light. She picked up the pistols, slung the full magazine bag around her, and quickly familiarized herself with the feel of the guns.
"Of course, watch me."
"Before that... Sirin, Mom and little sister are going out for a night run. You stay at home and sleep well, okay?"
"Yeah, I got it." The purple-haired girl replied.
Luo Lin watched Sirin close the door and still felt a little uneasy, so she cast her gaze on the floating Fu Hua.
"Fu Hua, can you help me watch over Sirin, and make sure she isn't disturbed by the Honkai beasts or quantum shadows around?"
Fu Hua spread her hands helplessly, "For those ordinary Honkai beasts with bad brains, Fenghuang Down doesn't have much effect, and besides, given the current situation of Fenghuang Down, I dare not use it for anything else..."
"It's not the Divine Key."
"But apart from the Divine Key, I can't touch anything now. How can I help you when I'm like a ghost...?"
Fu Hua widened her eyes, looking at another "herself" that suddenly appeared in front of her. She was wearing a blue training suit, red-framed glasses, and had a pair of very simple combat gloves on her hands, standing there quietly.
Moreover, she had a feeling that she could easily enter it and control this body.
"What is this?!"
[Valkyrie - Accipiter, summon successful!]
"Just use this,"
Fu Hua said helplessly. "Luo Lin... you're really too mysterious..."
Luo Lin looked at "Accipiter" opening her eyes, she then picked up the golden spear, and grabbing Kiana like picking up a chick, then jumping directly off the balcony.
Fu Hua clenched her fist, feeling the surging power in this body, and finally sighed helplessly.
"Luo Lin... you're really too mysterious..."