To the Previous Civilization

Huang Hao floated over to the Imaginary Tree, pondering how to get to the eigenworld of Honkai Impact 3rd.

"Crap, the story didn't explain how to get in. I wonder if Kevin's around, I could ask him to throw me in."

Suddenly, flames reignited on Huang Hao's hand, forming a line that connected to a point on the Imaginary Tree.

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"What's going on?"

Huang Hao looked at the line in confusion. His intuition told him that it was the eigenworld, and it was where he needed to go.

"This is too weirdly coincidental. I'd suspect the Imaginary Tree itself did this, but if the story hadn't mentioned the Imaginary Tree being active, I'd be cursing it right now."

Huang Hao didn't want to follow the line, but he couldn't just stay here alone.

"Fine, let's just go with it. Here goes nothing."

Huang Hao grabbed the line and slowly arrived at its end, then... he fainted again. (How many times has this been?)

When Huang Hao woke up, he found himself in a ruin, alone.

"Hey, are you okay?"

From a distance, a young man called out.

Huang Hao: "Oh, I'm fine, excuse me..."

As Huang Hao spoke, the young man was pulled behind a ruin wall by someone wearing a protective suit.

Huang Hao: "?"

Huang Hao vaguely heard a middle-aged man say, "Are you trying to die?! There was no signal when this meteor fell. It's highly likely a Herrscher. You're just asking for it!"

Hearing this, Huang Hao recalled what happened earlier. When he first arrived, he seemed to have been teleported directly from the Imaginary Tree.

Huang Hao: "Teleported here and turned into a meteor... it's not impossible. But why am I completely unharmed? Wait!"

Huang Hao was in the center of the crater. The two men were over a hundred meters away. How could he have heard them?

However, in a dangerous place like this, it would either be Valkyries or the Previous Civilization. The Previous Civilization usually only had Moth to the Flame members around, right?

Huang Hao: "Hey, I'm not a Herrscher, I'm just a passing victim."

The uncle picked up his loudspeaker and said, "Then how do you prove it?"

Huang Hao: "Have you ever seen such a friendly Herrscher?"

"How are you friendly?"

Huang Hao: "..."

"If I were a Herrscher, I would have killed you instantly. There aren't many people as humane as me!"

The uncle slowly emerged from the ruins, aiming his gun at Huang Hao. "Stay put, I'm coming to check." He then turned back to the young man and said, "You stay here. If anything happens to me, report to the higher-ups." Then he walked over.

A moment later, the uncle began to talk with Huang Hao. Uncle: "Why are you here?"

Huang Hao: "I don't know."

Uncle: "Do you know what happened here?"

Huang Hao: "I don't know?"

Uncle: "Then what do you know?"

Huang Hao: "I know I'm here."

Uncle: "..."

Uncle: "Forget it. I'll measure your Honkai Energy."

The uncle took out a strange-looking device and began to measure. Soon, the uncle frowned. (Although he was wearing a protective suit, Huang Hao guessed he must have been frowning.)

Uncle: "Strange. This place is full of Honkai Energy, but you have none on you."

Hearing this, Huang Hao suddenly realized. Everything was so coincidental. First, he discovered that after being killed by flames, he could teleport to a blank space, and then the flames directly teleported him to this Previous Civilization era.

Huang Hao: "So that's how it is. I thought the Imaginary Tree was just a tree. The clown was me all along. But why would the Imaginary Tree do this? No, it really has consciousness!"

Uncle: "What are you talking about?"

Huang Hao: "Oh, oh! I was just thinking about how I lost my memory."

Uncle: "You were at the center of the meteor. It's a miracle you weren't killed. Losing your memory is already a good outcome."

Clearly, the uncle had already mistaken Huang Hao for an ordinary person.

Huang Hao: "Moth to the Flame... no, Uncle, can you do me a favor?"

Uncle: "Just say it. We Moth to the Flame aren't bad people who kill innocent people for no reason."

Huang Hao: "Can you not report what happened to me here?"

Uncle: "No, and even if I didn't report it, the Honkai Energy here can't be explained away."

Huang Hao: "Uncle, think about it. If they discover an ordinary person who isn't wearing protective gear in such a heavily contaminated area, and they're completely unharmed, they'll dissect me!"

The uncle thought for a moment. "Those people upstairs have been acting crazy lately. I don't know what they're up to. Many people have gone in recently and haven't come out, with no news at all. I can keep this confidential for you, but before you woke up, we had already reported to the higher-ups."

Huang Hao: "Anyway, with Honkai Energy this dense and an explosion this big, it's perfectly normal for a regular person to die."

Uncle: "Alright, young man. Don't come this way anymore. I know the concert is popular, but I didn't expect so many people to come from this desolate area."

Huang Hao: "Concert? Eden's?"

Uncle: "Yeah, weren't you going?"

Huang Hao: "No, no, no, I am."

Hearing about the concert, Huang Hao completely panicked. It was really the Previous Civilization. What should he do when the Previous Civilization was destroyed? He had no power at all. Wait, he could even withstand a meteor. No, he was the meteor, so his power wasn't lacking, right?

Huang Hao: "Thanks, Uncle. Since you've already told the higher-ups, reinforcements should be here soon, right? I'm outta here. Goodbye!"

Uncle: "Take care, young man. Don't take shortcuts anymore."

Huang Hao: "Thank you, Uncle. Survive in the Honkai!"

Afterward, Huang Hao headed to Eden's concert.

"There's nothing else to do right now, so I'll go take a look over there."