Chapter 340 I Can’t Possibly Understand? Ridiculous!

"This feeling is..."

Karen bit her lower lip tightly. She joined the Valkyrie Corps before she was an adult, became the captain at the age of sixteen, and is now the so-called "strongest Valkyrie of destiny". Of course, she can see that the black color that obscured the sky is not a "black cloud" at all, but the color presented by high concentration of Honkai energy.

It is also the strongest Honkai energy reaction she has seen in all these years.

"Damn, it happened at this time..."

Karen glanced at Otto, who was still calm, and her frown soon loosened. She did not hesitate, but smiled apologetically:

"Sorry, Otto, you are not a combatant after all, so just stay here, and get familiar with Vera by the way. Let me handle the frontline."

"Karen!"

Otto narrowed his eyes guiltily to hide his wandering eyes. Of course, he had expected Karen's reaction, or it would be puzzling if Karen did not choose to rush back to the front line at this time.

Therefore, according to his original plan, he should have used various methods to entangle Kallen, but when the time came, he still hesitated for a moment, so that when he stretched out his hand to hold Kallen, the latter had already jumped out quickly with the strong physical fitness of the Valkyrie, leaving Otto with an increasingly small back.

Otto took a symbolic step forward, slowly retracted his outstretched right hand, and covered the lower half of his face instead. His five fingers exerted force for no reason, twisting his mouth and nose abnormally, so that he felt a little pain. Pain? No, he was certainly not a masochist, and he couldn't explain the specific reason for doing so. Perhaps he just wanted to feel the result of "pain" at this moment.

The logistics camp was in chaos. As the "black clouds" on the horizon accumulated more and more, the mules, horses and other animals felt the danger, and their instinctive desire to survive was fully aroused. The whips of the soldiers could no longer suppress them. They all spread their hooves, broke the ropes, broke the fences, and ran around in the already crowded camp. For a while, the people and horses were in a turmoil, and no one cared about Otto standing at the entrance of the camp.

"Aren't you going to chase them?"

Xukong Wanzang, who had been silent for a whole morning, finally spoke, and there was a hint of sarcasm in his words.

"Why chase them?"

Otto lowered his hands, pretending to be indifferent, slowly turned around, and was about to walk into the logistics camp.

"Karen is the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny. It's just a little emergency. She can handle it. Compared to this, I am more anxious to see the child named Vera... After all, she is my and Karen's adopted daughter."

"But, if I remember correctly, this is different from your original plan, right?"

Otto stopped where he was, frowned inward, and unconsciously looked back at the black clouds pressing on the skyline, and retorted sarcastically:

"If I remember correctly, someone claims to have moral qualities Very high, unless facing an enemy, you won't peek into other people's hearts at will, right? "

"Don't blame me for this. Peeping means that I take the initiative to look into your heart, but sometimes, if your emotions fluctuate too violently, just like when I pass by your door and you talk loudly inside, so that I hear a few words, who can I blame?"

Otto sneered twice: "It's a farce!"

Having said that, his footsteps did stop, neither moving forward to enter the noisy logistics camp, nor turning around to chase Karen.

"If you hadn't given me a bunch of weird dreams and made me wake up almost at noon, I should have had many ways to hold Karen back."

"Tsk, don't blame me. Didn't you have a way to hold her back just now? It's just that you don't want to do it. You want to protect her, and you are willing to challenge your conscience and trample on your bottom line for her, but when it comes to the end, you don't want to stop her from living against her will, and you would rather watch her fall into danger. What kind of awkward personality is this?"

Otto took a deep breath. After all, Void Wanzang can directly peek into his heart, so he has a very accurate grasp of his mentality. Although if someone really saw him thinking this way, they would only smile bitterly and not explain.

Otto was still repeating stubbornly:

"It's nothing. With Kallen's strength, it's nothing."

But even so, "Valkyries" are not real "gods" after all. Even if they have abilities far stronger than ordinary people, they still belong to the category of "humans". They can still be killed by an ordinary soldier with a knife, or they can be irreversibly eroded by the overly strong Honkai energy reaction, and finally become dead soldiers who have lost all consciousness.

And Kallen... Otto never doubted her combat effectiveness as the "strongest Valkyrie", but what can a human being do no matter how strong she is? Will she not die if she is strong? Is it not worth worrying about if she is strong?

What's more, Kallen's name is followed by the surname "Kaslana", which is almost a curse!

It seems that a brazier was overturned in the camp, and no one knew what was lit. Just then, a trace of coke smell floated under Otto's nose. The muscles on his face twitched twice quickly, and a feeling of nausea rose from his stomach, making him want to vomit.

He hated the smell of burnt charcoal, as it reminded him of the most powerful human he had ever seen since childhood - Francis Kaslana, Kallen's father.

The scene where he stood in front of him and Kallen and easily killed a giant Honkaiju with a swing of Kaslana's family's Skyfire Sword was still fresh in Otto's memory, but what was the use of it?

Francis was lying in a small coffin. Flowers were placed beside the coffin. The soft colored light in the church and the holy singing of the choir lingered around the coffin, but it still could not cover up the burning smell that kept escaping from the coffin.

As long as he thought that Kallen would one day pick up the Skyfire Sword and burn herself and her enemies together, Otto would tremble with fear and feel sick in his stomach.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment was also damaged after that and has not been repaired to this day. Maybe this is a good thing for the Kaslana family? No, even without the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, Kaslana is still entangled by the curse of death in battle. As William said yesterday, Francis's children either died in battle or died of illness. In the end, only the disabled William was left, and the monk was intact. Karen.

"So... nothing can happen to you, Kallen..."

Otto turned his toes to the side, but he was still hesitantly deceiving himself with a false hope.

Or maybe, even he himself didn't realize that at some point he had regarded Kong Kong Manzo as a friend with whom he could discuss his inner thoughts on an equal footing, so that he revealed his plans in full in confusion, even though... he also knew that these There is no secret at all about Void Manzo:

"According to the plan, Eleanor will spread the potion I concocted around the Ming army camp. It is a by-product of my treatment of the Black Death. It will trigger the deposition of Honkai energy within half an hour. This time should It was enough for Eleanor and the others to evacuate and return to the Destiny Camp. The sedimentation phenomenon would last for about ten minutes, which was enough to turn most ordinary soldiers in the Ming Army Camp into dead soldiers, and their rangers would also be trapped and killed. In the battle between warriors, let Eleanor lead the Valkyrie to fight back at this time...

"Yes! That's right! That's it! Akito will be unable to fight back under the attack of the Valkyrie troops! The reason why I want to keep Kallen and not let her participate is not because I have any concerns about the success rate of this plan. What worries! It’s not that I’m worried that Kallen will be in danger! Akito’s main force has already been in disarray, and there’s not much danger at all. I want to keep her, but I just don’t want her to...

"I want to keep her, but I just don't want her to witness such casualties. I know it will cause her pain...I..."

He said this, but Otto had turned around completely and looked up at the "black cloud" that had begun to dissipate.

In terms of general rationality, he has always considered himself a relatively rational person, but recently he has relied more and more on intuition to make judgments.

Unfortunately, from the beginning of the dream that he stubbornly believed was only forced upon him by the Void Manzo, his intuition had been denying his actions, and his intuition had been conveying an "unknown" premonition to him in his mind. This was completely opposite to the result of his rational analysis, and it also made him more and more confused——

"What is the source of all my ominous premonitions? Is it distrust of the plan I made, distrust of myself? Or is it purely worry about Karen, worry about her safety, and worry about her safety?" Can she accept such dark worries? Or is all this just a hesitation caused by the psychological suggestion that Kongku Manzo exerted on me through that dream? "

Otto experienced the feeling of confusion for the first time. No, this was not ordinary confusion, it was so confusing that he couldn't even figure out what he should be thinking about——

He was obviously worried about Kallen at first, but now he is obsessed with the origin of his ominous premonition?

"So, are you going to keep thinking here?"

Void Manzo let out an unabashed laugh:

"Hey, hey! You don't really plan to stand here thinking all the time, do you?"

"Then what do you think I should do?"

Even in this state, Otto still did not forget to fight back against Void Manzo, but he did not mean to do so. If he had to say it, he actually expected this talkative guy to give him the answer and tell him What should be done.

But he was also very resistant to this, so much so that his consciousness instinctively responded with a fierce rejection before he was ready to ask for help from it.

"Otto, you think you are much more mature than your peers, but in fact, in my opinion, you are just an extremely naive child. I admit that unreasonable thinking can bring a lot of things to people, and the seeds of growth are sometimes hidden in it. . But is it really meaningful to think about it at this moment? This will only waste your time here. Maybe you will not realize how weak you are today until more than ten years later - whether it is to keep her or not. Let her touch the darkness, or catch up with her and accept all the consequences of your 'crime' calmly. You have not made any choice because you are evading responsibility.

"Yes, let me be blunt, you are just escaping, Otto. You blame yourself, you feel guilty, and you feel that you have made such a mistake and you are actually shameless to face Kallen - this is because you do not want to keep her Her reason. You are afraid that she will know everything and expose your hypocrisy to your face... You are even afraid of seeing with your own eyes all the consequences of your 'crime' - this is the reason why you dare not pursue it. You are. Just escaping."

"Yes...yes yes yes!! I'm just escaping, but so what!"

Otto took a few steps forward and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, his whole body shaking uncontrollably with excitement.

"You can't understand! After all, you are just a cube with no human or ghost! Do you know how much blood I have stained in order to develop a medicine to cure the Black Death? Do you know how scared I am of Kallen knowing Is this all? I obviously want to give her what she wants, but I have to first make myself someone she doesn’t want and commit a crime that she can’t accept... Do you understand this kind of pain? "

Regardless of whether anyone would hear him or not, Otto roared these words to his heart's content, but he didn't hear Void Manzo's response for a long time.

In a daze, he seemed to hear Void Wanzang sighing, but the sound was too ethereal, as if it passed by his ears across countless time, space, or even beyond the distance of time and space itself. It was so ethereal that it was just him. My own illusion.

It seemed that after a while, it spoke slowly, with a hint of unprecedented vicissitudes in its tone:

"Very good, very good."

It repeated the word of praise twice, although Otto could hear no praise in it.

"At least you are stronger than the other person I once knew. If he were in a different place, he might have hidden away and cried a lot by himself."

Void Manzang snorted softly, as if he was telling a story about another person who had nothing to do with it.

"Speaking of which, your original personality may not be so awkward, but who made that person your ancestor?"

"ancestor?"

"Okay, let's get back to the topic itself. Otto... do you really think your plan is foolproof? Do you really think... Akito will be powerless to fight back when faced with the erosion of a large amount of Honkai energy? Otto Oh, Otto, your biggest weakness is your arrogance and ego that are proportional to your abilities. Your eyes have never left yourself and Karen, but why do you think that your plan will succeed? "

"What do you mean? I read a lot of records from the Ming Dynasty before I came here. They probably have no experience in facing a collapse of this scale..."

"Tsk, you also said, 'should', which means you also know that compared to the vast historical records of China, you can only read a very small part of it thousands of miles away. Who gave you the courage to be so confident? of?"

"This...this..."

"Sober up, Otto. To be honest, I don't know if Akito has the ability to handle such a scale of collapse on her own, but I know she must have..."

"Her? Who is she?"

"Pfft... Hahaha! You know, Otto, all your self-righteous actions only led to one result - a person who didn't want to get involved in this matter, so he had a reason to have to get involved in this matter. And the so-called The destiny of being the most powerful Valkyrie is just a joke in front of her. After all, at this time and in this world, she is undoubtedly the most powerful [person]..."

Otto couldn't tell whether what Void Manzo said was true or false, but he couldn't find a reason why Void Manzo deceived him, so he had to stand up and run towards the horizon where the black clouds gradually dissipated.

"Yes, that's right, that's it... Run quickly, my descendants... Use your and her love to open up the possibility for [us] to reunite at a new point in time. With your and her love, Point out the direction and open the way for the lonely person, help him...help me find the way that allows everyone to [go home].”

In the spiritual world that Otto could not see, a man with skin as pale as paper lay lazily on a chair. He waved his hands to construct a mirror, looked at himself in the mirror, looked at the pair of oval pink pupils that were incompatible with his own, and smiled to himself——

"I can't possibly understand? Ridiculous!"