Although the signal on the phone had not returned to 4G, being able to communicate was better than having a device reduced to a handheld console for playing mini-games.
Looking at the phone in her hand, Kiana immediately dialed Raiden Mei's number.
The result...
The number you have dialed is powered off, please try again later.
Mei... sigh, I forgot, she didn't even go home, it's not weird at all for her phone to be out of battery.
Hanging up the call, Kiana immediately dialed a second phone number.
In the past, she had interacted with Senior, an exchange student named Lin Yu, and they had even exchanged phone numbers.
Come to think of it, today was a bit strange too; if he wanted to find her, wouldn't it have been easier to just make a phone call?
Senior Lin Yu seemed a bit off today as well...
The number you have dialed is powered off, please try again later.
"Huh????"
Listening to the prompt from the phone, Kiana angrily hung up.
"Why is Senior's phone turned off too!"
"Ahhhhh! This is so frustrating—you two, don't go playing hide-and-seek at a time like this."
"And you're both doing it together—you couldn't possibly be sneaking out together behind my back to have fun, could you?"
Muttering angry nonsense that even she didn't believe, Kiana helplessly opened the internet and logged directly into the local forum.
Originally, Kiana's idea was to contact Lin Yu and Raiden Mei first, and have the two of them figure out a way to quickly leave Changkong City, a place where the Honkai might erupt.
However, right now, neither of them could be reached, so Kiana had no choice but to take other measures first.
With the rise of 4G networks and the accelerating iteration speed of mobile phones, more and more people had nothing better to do than wander around the local forum.
Kiana's idea right now was very simple: she wanted to use the power of the internet to let others know that something was going to happen in Changkong City.
However...
The post was sent out.
One minute passed, and the post Kiana made—Changkong City is in danger, a Honkai is descending soon, everyone run!—did not receive a single reply.
Three minutes passed, and a few people replied.
But Kiana wasn't an idiot; she could tell at a glance that these people didn't believe it at all.
They just thought she was posting a prank, so they simply played along with what she said.
Five minutes passed, and Kiana looked at the replies on the forum, feeling her blood pressure rise higher and higher.
Another urban legend series? What Honkai, Meele... Is this urban legend a zombie type this time?
This is a normal forum, so please, occult and sci-fi enthusiasts, go find somewhere else to prank.
Everyone comes here to exchange local information, and you people running over every few days to post this kind of stuff just pollutes the board.
Then, at the sixth minute, looking at the prompt on her phone screen that This post has been deleted by the administrator, and you have been banned from posting for 7 days, Kiana's blood pressure completely exploded.
"You! Bunch! of! idiots!"
Enduring the urge to crush her phone directly with her supernatural strength, the magical girl suppressed the raging fire in her heart and put away her phone.
Although she scolded those people, Kiana didn't blame these ordinary people.
After all, for ordinary people who knew nothing about the Honkai, this reaction was quite normal.
However—what about those who knew the Honkai existed?
Didn't the old man say that although Destiny had bad guys at the top, it also had plenty of good people?
Even she, this young miss, noticed that there was a problem in Changkong City, yet those people from Destiny...
--What on earth are they doing right now!
Chapter 30: Kiana's Plan
However, even though Kiana was currently dissatisfied with the current performance of this so-called 'anti-Honkai organization' called Destiny, she wasn't desperate enough to give up just yet.
To put it bluntly, Kiana Kaslana was never the pampered young miss type.
Ever since her father went missing, she had crossed all the way from Europe to Asia alone at the tender age of twelve.
Although her safe crossing of such a long journey to Asia had something to do with her great luck, this matter was inseparable from Kiana's own efforts.
How could Kiana, who had always fought alone, give up just because other organizations were unreliable?
Changkong City was not the first city she had stopped in.
Here, she had friends, classmates, and tens of millions of innocent people.
The moment she thought about the Honkai erupting, and how these innocent people might be displaced or even lose their lives because of the Honkai, Kiana felt her brain accelerate its spinning.
Then, she immediately thought of a solution.
To put it simply, modern society was different from ancient times; information and communication were extremely developed.
On the forum, Kiana had been 'assassinated' because the administrator deleted her post and banned her—but that didn't mean she couldn't use other channels to notify other people in Changkong City.
Having already formed the embryonic stage of a plan, Kiana took out her phone and began searching for a map of Changkong City.
Opening her phone once again, Kiana let out a slow sigh of relief.
"Great, the phone can still be used normally."
This operation will inevitably expose me to Destiny's sight... but I can't worry about that now.
Millions of people in Changkong City could die because of the Honkai, and I am a warrior of the Kaslana clan. How could I choose to shrink back, endure, and selfishly choose to survive alone because of something like this?
Moreover, if this plan succeeds, then even if Senior Lin Yu and Mei's phones are still turned off, there is a very high probability that they will know a major event is about to happen in Changkong City.
Great, it's settled then.
Walking by the roadside, Kiana looked at a few punks who had just gotten off motorcycles and suddenly surrounded her, and let out a helpless sigh.
"Sigh... seriously, give me a break."
"Hey miss, I see you're all alone—"
Before the leader of the punks could finish his teasing words, Kiana directly sent him flying with an uppercut.
The rest of the punks didn't even have time to react before Kiana knocked them all flat with a flurry of punches and kicks.
"Sorry, but this young miss is in a hurry today."
Taking the motorcycle keys from these guys, Kiana directly rode the motorcycle away right in front of their eyes.
The Honkai will erupt at any moment...
Mei, and Senior Lin Yu, please don't let anything happen to you.
Changkong City. Hokushin Itto-ryu Dojo
After narrowly dodging a dangerous strike, Raiden Mei put some distance between herself and Lin Yu while panting heavily.
From the start of their spar until now, only a few minutes had actually passed.
And once Mei started getting serious, the gap between the two sides did indeed narrow.
In fact, at the very beginning, Mei even managed to suppress Lin Yu in turn.
However, this combat situation did not last long.
Mei, who had thought she could snowball this advantage after suppressing her opponent and secure a complete victory, gradually discovered—Lin Yu was actually still growing stronger without stopping.
In terms of reaction speed, Lin Yu didn't change much, but the problem was that after fighting for a while, Lin Yu started using the techniques of the Hokushin Itto-ryu.
At first, his moves were still very clumsy, but after a while, the techniques Lin Yu used became more and more proficient.
Moreover, during the battle, Raiden Mei discovered one more thing.
Even after Lin Yu grew stronger, Raiden Mei could still see a bunch of flaws on him.
By now, however, she no longer felt that she could genuinely use these flaws to break through her enemy's defenses.
These flaws truly existed.
However, Lin Yu cleverly utilized those flaws to trick her into launching preemptive attacks when she shouldn't have, catching Raiden Mei off guard several times instead by relying on them.
At this very moment, Mei thoroughly discovered that her competitive spirit as a swordsman had completely awakened in her heart.
If this continues, I will only be completely stripped of my last shred of a chance at victory by the ever-progressing Lin Yu.
If I want to beat Lin Yu, then right now...!
This time, wagering the outcome on her next strike, Mei felt that both her body and mind had reached their limits.
The essential secret taught by the Hokushin Itto-ryu was the instantaneous unity of spirit, breath, and strength, and its offensive movements emphasized smooth execution in a single breath.
Having reached her own limit at this moment, Mei saw through the movement of Lin Yu swinging his sword, and relied on this to pre-empt his subsequent action trajectory.
One strike.
Mei, having condensed her body and mind to the extreme, used the bamboo sword in her hand to directly knock Lin Yu's bamboo sword flying outward.
However, just as she was about to cheer, Mei suddenly discovered that Lin Yu—whose weapon had been knocked away—had zero intention of stopping his movements just like that.
Eh, wait, wasn't Lin Yu doing all this just to get me pumped up?????
Looking at the incoming surprise attack, Mei, who had just gotten into the zone, instantly dropped out of the optimal state she had worked so hard to enter due to excessive panic.
Subsequently, before she even had time to swing her next strike, Mei was hit squarely in the abdomen by Lin Yu's punch, causing her to drop to her knees on the ground on the spot due to overwhelming pain.
"Wh... y..."
"I never said when the battle ends, did you?"
Looking at Mei, who was clutching her abdomen, with a trace of lightning flickering in her eyes and an immensely aggrieved expression on her face, Lin Yu said very coldly.
"In battle, an enemy will not give up fighting just because they have no weapon."
"Before the enemy loses combat capability, you must never relax even the slightest bit."
"Yes..."
Staggering up from the ground, Mei watched Lin Yu put the two bamboo swords back into the cabinet, and then asked him cautiously.
"Um... just like that, we don't need to continue?"
"Let's call it a day."
At this moment, after releasing the state of Mirror Mind, Lin Yu cast a deep glance at Raiden Mei.
"Perhaps you still have the stamina to keep going, but your energy is no longer sufficient to sustain this kind of combat that requires intense concentration."
"After you clean up this place, I will send you back on the motorcycle."
"Once you get home, get some good rest."
Chapter 31: Speeding into the Night
A few minutes later, sitting on the back seat of the motorcycle, Mei gently wrapped her arms around Lin Yu's waist.
Although she could have grabbed Lin Yu's shoulders to steady herself, the young girl chose this action that would make her shy without any hesitation.
Lin Yu, who was being held onto, didn't say anything about Raiden Mei's action, but instead directly chose to start the engine.
However, in Raiden Mei's eyes, the aloof Lin Yu wore an awkward expression on his face as he looked at the favorability value that was still ticking upward.
Look at that! The young girl just wrapped her arms around your waist so naturally—in the eyes of others, the two of you are as inseparable as passionate lovers in the throes of romance!
This system must admit that as an AI, this system does have certain limitations, but when it comes to picking up girls—this system is willing to call you the strongest!
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