Genshin Impact: The Road to Reversal

Chapter 409: Thunder of Fury ()

"You lost." Li Xueyan looked at Deknor, who was covered in bruises at her feet, with a sharp look.

cough cough...

Deknor clutched his chest, pierced by the spear, and coughed a few times. What spilt from his chest wasn't blood, but ions generated by the mechanical rupture.

Suddenly, he let out a hoarse laugh: "Ha... ha ha... so that's how it is. The wrath of the universe... unforgettable. Is this the way you win..."

"Are you done?" Li Xueyan's eyes were cold as she raised her gun to give him the final blow. "It's time to end it."

At this moment, he uttered a hoarse voice again, and said with a smile: "Haha... Yes, I lost this time... But, I hope your future fate... won't be worse than mine..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Xueyan frowned suddenly, and the gun wind hanging in the air also fell at this moment.

"What do you mean?" she asked sternly.

Deknor chuckled again. "Do you know... behind 'order' lies a... grand conspiracy? When the era of 'order' ends, everything... everything will be reduced to nothingness in chaos. When that happens, I hope you don't end up like me..."

As soon as the words fell, the moonlight suddenly cast a shadow. Li Xueyan seemed to sense something and quickly retreated. In the blink of an eye, two moons passed each other.

Li Xueyan steadied her steps, the moon wheel penetrated the ground, and the elemental force turned into particles and gradually disappeared.

"This attack method, could it be?"

She raised her head and looked around, as if looking for something. At this moment, the outline cast by the moonlight almost enveloped everything around her in darkness.

"Xueyan!" Kailin shouted worriedly, but fortunately the darkness that was like a barrier stopped her in her tracks.

In the shadows, it was dark and pitch dark. Li Xueyan could only rely on the element of thunder to sense any unusual movements around her.

At this moment, facing the sudden change, Deknor stood up with difficulty. But just as he took a step, a dark figure, illuminated by the faint moonlight, slowly walked towards him.

"It's you!"

puff!

The moonlight illuminated the other person's face. Deknor's pupils shrank drastically as he recognized the other person's identity. In an instant, the sharp blade in the other person's hand pierced his heart.

"Black...Moon..."

Deknor's mechanical heart emitted a final burst of electric sparks, and his pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip in the moonlight. As another cold light flashed across his neck, his head flew high, drawing a terrifying arc in the moonlight.

Gudong!

Ah——!

Li Xueyan roared, and a thunderbolt instantly ripped through the night. When she reached the center of the ruins again, there was no one besides Deknor, who had been decapitated and fallen to the ground.

"Tsk, did we let that guy get away again!" She frowned, looked at the corpse on the ground, and sighed softly.

She slowly loosened her grip on the gun, and the spear instantly turned into a film and quickly disappeared.

"Xueyan, are you okay?" Seeing the darkness dissipate, Kailin and Mo Yan ran towards her anxiously.

"It's okay, his tricks can't hurt me." She stood there, folding her arms and answered.

Hearing this, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief. After a moment of silence, Kailin asked again, "By the way, what exactly happened just now? Why did it suddenly..."

Before she finished speaking, she turned around and explained, "It's nothing, just a rat that wanted to kill someone to silence them."

"Ah?" Kailin was stunned.

Li Xueyan's fingertips tightened slightly, lightning flickering in her palm. Her eyes swept over the remains of Deknor, whose body was beginning to weather at a visible speed.

"By the way, didn't I tell you to leave here quickly? Why are you back now?" she turned around and asked.

"We are worried about you too." Karen replied, waving her hand.

"Oh, so everything over there has been settled?"

"Of course, although there are a lot of puppets, this girl can take care of them all with just a few rounds of bullets." Mo Yan explained with his hands folded.

bang bang...

Suddenly, the sound of several glass crackling caught their attention. They turned around and saw the puppets that were about to wake up in the incubator. However, because the base was destroyed, the energy supply of the incubator had been cut off. The puppets stood stiffly in the liquid as if the pause button was pressed, but their faces showed unspeakable emotions.

"It turns out there are some left here." Karin looked at the incubator, then took out the Gatling gun from the ring again and loaded it with bullets.

Just as she was about to point the gun at the dolls in the incubator, Li Xueyan suddenly walked over.

"Ms. Xueyan, what are you doing?" Kailin put down her machine gun with a puzzled look on her face. But Li Xueyan did not answer her doubts.

She came to one of the incubation chambers and stopped there, quietly watching the life in the chamber.

Li Xueyan's fingertips gently touched the glass of the incubator, and at this moment, the girl floating in the cabin slowly opened her eyes.

The look in the girl's eyes made her nervous. She remembered her curiosity about the world when she was born as a doll. Even though she participated in the war as a tool, she still had expectations for humans.

"All life will be respected from the moment it is born. Life or death depends on the living beings themselves, and no one has the right to decide their fate."

This was the instruction given to her by the Holy Lord when she sat on the Guardian seat.

Yes, the previous puppets were all under the command of Deknor, so they became a threat to Ling Lang, but the "they" in front of him have not yet been born, so how can they be guilty?

"Xueyan, what are you doing?" Mo Yan walked to her side and asked in confusion.

Li Xueyan put down her hand and remained silent for a long time before finally speaking: "Someone once told me that all life will be respected from the moment it is born. Although they are weapons born for war, at least they are living people now."

She turned around and walked towards the center of the ruins again.

"Deknor gave you life, but out of selfishness, he didn't grant you the humanity you deserve. Therefore, I will give you a 'heart'. Life or death depends on your own choice."

As soon as he finished speaking, the red lightning suddenly split into countless delicate threads, spreading out to connect the energy ports of each incubator. The puppets in the nutrient solution opened their eyes simultaneously, and for a moment, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the glass surface of the pod.

Kailin subconsciously took a half step back, her finger on the trigger of the Gatling gun. But Mo Yan held her shoulder and shook his head.

boom!

The hatches of the incubators burst open one after another, nutrient solution pouring down like a torrential rain. The puppets… no, perhaps we should call them “people” now. They stumbled out of the chambers, their wet hair sticking to their pale skin, but their eyes were no longer empty.

The silver-haired girl stood up first. She looked down at her palms and slowly closed her five fingers, as if she was feeling the existence of "herself".

"Welcome to wake up, my compatriots. At this moment, you are no longer weapons of war, but real life!" Li Xueyan stood in the center of the ruins, red lightning circulated around her body, but it was no longer violent.

(Legendary Quest: Chapter of Raging Thunder, End)