"..."
"It actually worked! That's great..."
Jiang Xiaofeng slowly got up, reached out to cover the Queen with a blanket, armor appeared on his body, and he walked out of the Queen's room.
" Anna Schariac, that's my name."
This is the name the Queen told him last night.
" Anna Schariac? That name sounds familiar..."
"Does my surname have to be Chen to be worthy of the Queen...? What nonsense! People with the surname Chen are even less worthy..."
Jiang Xiaofeng muttered to himself as he took a teleportation stone tablet out of his backpack.
Then, he stood beside the Queen's door.
Jiang Xiaofeng then kept the other stone tablet on his person...
" The Collector, are you up?"
"Coming, coming, my king, what brings you here?"
The Collector rushed out of a room and came to stand in front of Jiang Xiaofeng.
"Get your things ready; I'll take you to see an alchemist later."
"You two talk it over, and remember to reveal a little bit about the android technology to him."
"This is a deal between him and me."
"As long as you don't randomly grab ordinary people for experiments, you can do whatever you want with them."
The Collector nodded and returned to the room he had just been in.
Jiang Xiaofeng sensed the condition of the person inside the King's Box.
The Servant Three Sisters were still sleeping.
The Hand of the King removed his armor and lay down on the bed.
The Greatsword Woman lay down next to the little girl with the Hand of the King.
The Giant has vanished without a trace.
The Time Keeper Paimon, has escaped to the space behind the Golden Gate and is currently dealing with a monster that has turned into a chef.
The Beheaded are still killing monsters in Kinmen.
The Queen... cough cough.
Jiang Xiaofeng stopped sensing.
The rest of the people were still sleeping.
Jiang Xiaofeng stopped looking and jumped out of the King's Box.
Jiang Xiaofeng flew out of the King's Box and put away the King's Box that had shrunk.
Seemingly sensing something, Jiang Xiaofeng subconsciously looked in a certain direction.
There, a little guy with a big nostril stared at Jiang Xiaofeng with his nostrils wide open.
"..."
Jiang Xiaofeng crossed his arms and watched as the Knight rushed up to him.
"?"
The Knight looked up at Jiang Xiaofeng.
To be precise, she was looking at Jiang Xiaofeng's chest.
Jiang Xiaofeng checked the small figure in front of him again and again, and even took off the helmet that was covering his eyes.
Hollow Knight?
Why did this little thing appear?
Jiang Xiaofeng was surprised.
The Knight looked at Jiang Xiaofeng and stretched out his hands.
Jiang Xiaofeng lifted the Knight up and looked at the Knight.
The Knight reached out to grab his chest.
Jiang Xiaofeng suddenly thought of something and pulled his shirt inside.
"You sensed that, didn't you?"
Jiang Xiaofeng pointed to the Void Heart inside the Philosopher's Stone and asked the Knight.
The Knight nodded.
"..."
Jiang Xiaofeng slowly sat down on the grass.
What should we do with this little thing?
Yes, the Knight is only one-third the height of Jiang Xiaofeng.
To be more specific, the Knight's height only reached a little above Jiang Xiaofeng's knee.
This is way too small...
Jiang Xiaofeng raised his hand, pinched a ball containing the Abyss Power, and tossed it to the Knight.
The Knight put it away immediately and then continued to look at Jiang Xiaofeng.
Jiang Xiaofeng nodded thoughtfully.
"It seems the Abyss Power transformed from the Void Heart within me is craving it..."
"Wrong."
Jiang Xiaofeng picked up the Knight again and held it close to his eyes.
You have a mind, right?
The Knight tilted his head.
"... It doesn't look like it."
"Let's observe further."
Jiang Xiaofeng put the Knight down.
Then, Jiang Xiaofeng squatted down and placed his hand on the Knight's head.
Then, Jiang Xiaofeng slowly said, "You will seal away the light of the account book in everyone's dreams, the mind without thought, the will without submission, the Hollow Knight born from the Void."
"You are the Vessel, you are the Hollow Knight, you are the Void."
This time, the Knight finally reacted.
The Knight shook his head and shook off Jiang Xiaofeng's hand, then took out the Nail and pointed it at Jiang Xiaofeng.
Jiang Xiaofeng took out the Dream Nail and tapped it on the Knight.
"..."
Jiang Xiaofeng held down the Knight's small body, which was wielding the Nail, and waited for a long time without hearing the Dream Voice. He couldn't help but wonder, "Does it really have no mind?"
"Then why would you react upon hearing that?"
Jiang Xiaofeng, however, did not notice that the Void Heart in his chest was faintly glowing.
Meanwhile, in the Abyss, the place where Jiang Xiaofeng disappeared.
The Abyss Power that Jiang Xiaofeng had transformed but hadn't yet absorbed slowly coalesced, and one after another, black Void ghosts with blinking Byakugan were born and then constantly perished.
Without Vessel, the Void creatures would find it difficult to exist for long.
The power of the Abyss that once existed was beginning to erode the Abyss Power left behind by Jiang Xiaofeng.
The Abyss Power changed its strategy, no longer pursuing quantity, but instead gathering all its Abyss Power together, which eventually split into three small ghosts.
One of the smaller ghosts had a pair of large horns, with two forked branches on top, resembling bull horns;
The other little ghost has four horns, but all four horns appear to be very small.
The last little ghost had three asymmetrical horns, one small and one large.
As soon as the three little ghosts were born, the remaining Abyss Power transmitted a will to them.
"You were born from the Abyss, awakened by the power of the Void. You are Void creatures, you are the purest Void Power..."
The Abyss Power completely failed, and the three small ghosts gathered together, spinning and breaking through the Abyss power's blockade and assimilation, rushing directly towards the brightest place...
Abyss: "Don't I have any dignity?"
The three little ghosts successfully reached the Teyvat, but they also dispersed.
The three brothers could sense each other's presence, but they couldn't find their way.
The Eldest arrived at an extremely gloomy forest, but this would not harm the little ghosts.
The Eldest chose to rest and recuperate on the spot before going to find his two brothers...
The second of the three-horned Second arrived at a strange space. In the center of the space was a huge sphere of light, from which terrifying roars could be heard continuously.
The Second wasn't afraid; instead, it flew to the side of the light sphere and attempted to intrude into it.
Soon, the light sphere was completely enveloped by the Second, and the roar subsided...
As for the Third of the four... he was unlucky enough to appear directly in front of a blue-feathered crane that was eating.
When a crane encounters a creature like a little ghost, its first action is to unleash its magic to subdue the little ghost.
However, it cannot be contained.
The space created by the talisman couldn't contain the little ghost, which escaped directly.
But before they could get very far, the Third was sealed away by the crane using a bunch of talismans.
The Third was caught.
The Eldest and Second immediately sensed this outcome.
However, the two little ghosts did not immediately chase after the Third's location to come to his rescue.
Instead, he planned to grow stronger on the spot and then come back to rescue the Third.
After all, in their minds, no one could possibly study what results they would get from their research...
And this is indeed the case.
Even when the Eldest and Second came to rescue the Third, Cloud Retainer had not discovered anything worth studying.
Of course, that's a story for another time...
At this moment, Jiang Xiaofeng had already sensed the presence of the three little ghosts through the Void Heart.
"There are... three more?"
"Did it appear because of my own power?"
Jiang Xiaofeng covered his face.
"Although I feel the world is getting more and more chaotic..."
"But... these little things... seem really fun..."
"Could I do something that the ' Pale King ' did...?"
The Knight, now calm, looked at Jiang Xiaofeng, completely bewildered.