Honkai, but Spirit Simulator

[Fu Hua Affinity +10%]

"Your dad... he really has some ideas," Liu Bai commented.

Actually, their relationship was just mutual assistance. Hua teaching him fist techniques was much more tiring than him teaching her knowledge...

Looking at it that way, ignoring the titles, perhaps Hua is more like the teacher.

Bang—!

"Oh dear, wasn't the door locked properly?"

Hua's father looked towards the martial arts hall door that suddenly made a sound.

"Dad will go take a look, Hua, you keep eating."

There's more tonight

Chapter 60: Hua's First Battle

"Speaking of which, Hua, don't you feel like the atmosphere around us is a bit off right now?"

Liu Bai looked solemnly at the courtyard outside, not taking the opportunity to tease Hua, who was in a shy mood and not in the mood to eat.

Ever since just now, Liu Bai had felt the atmosphere around them become heavy.

"...Eh?"

Liu Bai's serious tone immediately brought Hua back to her senses.

"Atmosphere... now that Teacher Liu mentions it..."

Hua touched her heart, indeed feeling a faint sense of unease.

"Dad! Wait!"

Without Liu Bai needing to remind her, Hua subconsciously called out to stop her father, who was preparing to open the door.

"What's wrong, Hua?" Hua's father, who was about to open the door to check the situation, looked at his suddenly tense daughter with some confusion.

Clang—!

Just as Hua's father was stunned, the iron gate of the martial arts hall suddenly rang out again with a muffled sound, as if the entire iron gate had been hit by a large iron hammer.

No, not an iron hammer.

Under the dim night sky, the slender fist mark on the iron gate was so glaring.

One punch... dented the iron gate? It could even directly punch through the solid iron gate of their martial arts hall with a little more force.

No, he could also make a fist mark on the iron gate, but such a slender fist mark...

It looked to be about the same size as his daughter's hand.

...Which meant that the one who threw this punch was a young girl about the same age as his daughter?

What a joke.

With a flash of thought, Hua's father staggered back several steps.

"Dad! What's wrong?"

That punch almost pierced the iron gate, and the shocking sound that was enough to make one's heart skip a beat naturally did not escape Hua's notice. She quickly took three steps as two, rushing to her father's side.

"...Something's not right," Hua's father muttered in a low voice.

If the person outside the door throwing punches was really about the same age as his daughter, then could it be that the other party had been practicing martial arts since they were in the womb?

"Something's fishy."

"As expected, it's a Death Soldier—a type of Honkai monster."

As Hua's father spat, Liu Bai had already seen the monster outside the door from the air.

Pale skin, scarlet eyes, as long as it wore a black, gold-trimmed, one-piece miniskirt and held a scythe in its hand, it would look exactly like a Death Soldier from the game.

This was the first time he had seen a Death Soldier in reality. During the Manhattan Incident, Liu Bai had only seen some Honkai Beasts.

And the Death Soldier below was the lowest-level ordinary Death Soldier, without a scythe, its behavior pattern basically equal to a zombie, belonging to the cannon fodder that didn't even qualify to appear in the game.

The Guardian Death Soldier, who is most commonly seen in the game wearing black gold-trimmed clothes, exposing two large white legs, and wielding a scythe, is actually already an elite monster among ordinary Death Soldiers.

However, although the low-level Death Soldier in front of the door had a similar behavior pattern to zombies, its seemingly fair and weak body was far more powerful and defensive than zombies.

Otherwise, Hua's father, who could be called a martial arts master, wouldn't have ended up in the hospital.

Don't think that Hua's father is always badmouthing martial arts, but Liu Bai doesn't dare to underestimate Hua's father at all.

After all, the future Fu Hua has already proven with her own fists that her family's Cunxin Fist is not just for show.

"Hua, go out the back door and call the police. Dad will block the guy outside the door here."

"Dad, this..."

"Call the police, but you have to stay here." Liu Bai descended from the air. "Although your dad can beat that Death Soldier outside alone, he won't feel good himself... and if he's unlucky, he might even die here."

"Got it!"

Hua immediately took out her phone from her pocket and dialed the police.

"...What's the reason for the call?"

"This..."

"Zombie attack."

Liu Bai gave Hua's father a sufficient reason to call the police on Hua's behalf.

"Hello! We're under attack by zombies! The location is..."

Thud—!

The second punch left another fist mark on the martial arts hall's heavy iron gate, but even worse, the lock on the iron gate was directly broken.

Squeak...

The deformed iron gate was ruthlessly pushed open, and the hearts of Hua's father and Hua skipped a beat with the sound of the opening.

The enemy who had blasted open the martial arts hall with two consecutive punches finally revealed their true face.

White hair, white skin, scarlet eyes, devoid of any rationality, only a bloodthirsty light remained in the eyes of the girl.

"...Zombie?"

Hua's father recalled the adjective his daughter had blurted out just now.

"That's quite fitting, I didn't expect to encounter something like this at my age—Hua, run! Dad will hold it back, we can't let this thing harm the neighborhood."

"I can help too!"

Hua struck the same fighting stance as her father.

My father might die—Liu Bai's reminder lingered in Hua's ears.

Even with the prerequisite of "bad luck," could Hua dare to gamble?

The answer was no.

She only had one father.

"Teacher Liu..."

Hua whispered Liu Bai's name.

"The lowest level Death Soldier before you is transformed from ordinary people who lost their minds after being infected by Honkai. Their combat power is extremely weak, they're too weak to even be considered cannon fodder—but that's relative to other Honkai monsters."

Liu Bai spoke about the Death Soldier's information in Hua's ear.

"Compared to ordinary people, these monsters are extremely strong, have very high defense, and are not slow. Even light firearms like worldly pistols can hardly cause them damage, and the most deadly thing is a substance on them called Honkai Energy—you can understand it as a kind of poison."

Liu Bai paused to allow Hua to absorb the information in his words.

"Although women's adaptation to this poison, or rather their resistance, far exceeds that of men, it's still not easy to deal with—that is to say, in this battle, if either of you gets hurt, it's a complete defeat."

"Dad, be careful of the poison on it, don't get hurt."

Hua immediately relayed the message to her father.

"Oh, is it like the zombie virus in movies? Dad understands."

"..."

So her father watches zombie movies...

"Roar—!"

The Death Soldier let out a bloodthirsty roar that didn't match its cute image at all, and then pounced, heading straight for the weaker-looking Hua.

However, perhaps because the Death Soldier's movements were too hasty, its body actually experienced a moment of imbalance during the pounce, causing the overall movement to be a beat slower.

"Sorry, but this battle is a three-on-one..."

This beat slowed down by Liu Bai's interference allowed Hua to recover from the panic brought by the murderous aura.

In her sight, the figure of the Death Soldier was getting closer and closer, and at this distance, Hua's father didn't have time to rescue her.

If it's a pounce... which move should I use?

In an instant, countless possibilities flashed through Hua's mind.

This was the first time Hua had faced such a life-and-death battle.

Choose right and live, choose wrong and die.

"...Retreat to advance, Inch Punch: Cloud Mist." At the moment of making the choice, Hua seemed to have some new understanding of her martial arts.

Three steps away, retreat four.

As if by coincidence, the pouncing Death Soldier happened to land at Hua's feet. At this moment, Hua boldly restrained the Death Soldier's hands.

Inch Punch: Cloud Mist!

Inch Punch erupted, and at this moment, Hua actually lifted the Death Soldier, whose physique was similar to her own, into the air.

Chapter 61: Himiko 4k

"Beautiful!"

Hua's father, who had been sweating for Hua, suddenly had his eyes light up when he saw the Death Soldier being thrown into the air by the Cunxin Fist.

He refused to believe that a mere zombie could use its left foot to step on its right foot in mid-air to gain leverage.

Inch Punch: Rock Shatter!

Fueled by the anger of his daughter being ambushed, Hua's father suddenly raised his knee, lifting the Death Soldier's back upwards again. The next moment, he crossed his hands into a fist and slammed it down directly onto the Death Soldier's chest without reservation.

Bang!

Crack!

In an instant, a dull thud as if hitting a rock and the crisp sound of bone breaking rang out in everyone's ears one after another.

"Not dead yet."

Hua's father was indeed the ordinary person who could still end up in the hospital after being attacked by a "zombie" in the original story. The Death Soldier's body was twisted by this blow, and spiderweb-like cracks even appeared on its pale, morbid skin.

But... it wasn't dead yet.

Seeing Hua's father still wanting to pursue the attack, Liu Bai couldn't care less about arousing suspicion and directly reached out to pull Hua's father back with force.

...What stable footing. Even though Liu Bai's power to interfere with reality now surpassed ordinary people, he almost failed to pull Hua's father.

The moment Hua's father stepped back, claws with a hint of scarlet light brushed past Hua's father's forehead, taking a few strands of hair with them.

Although Hua's father's knee strike, combined with the punch, had caused considerable damage to the Death Soldier, it also gave the Death Soldier a support, allowing it to counterattack.

"...Truly blessed by the heavens."

Looking at the falling strands of hair in front of him, Hua's father broke out in a cold sweat.

Just now... it seemed like someone pulled him from behind?

But there was no one else here besides Hua. With a strong enemy in front of him, Hua's father couldn't think too much and could only attribute it to the blessings of the heavens.