Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

The night sky hung low, the rain falling like a shuttle. The village houses were scattered along a winding path. The dim moonlight shone through the windows, exuding an aura of loneliness and sorrow.

A faint glow fell on Li Mo, and on his tattered shadow.

The raindrops fell on the stone slabs of the village, making a crisp sound, but no one was walking on the road. On the lonely steps, the sound of the wind blowing through the treetops could be heard occasionally.

This was the staircase leading to the Yae Shrine. The surrounding bamboo forest moved, and the dim vision was exceptionally clear in Li Mo's eyes.

So clear that there was only a patch of mottled blood-red.

The path ahead was silent. There was no laughter, no smoke from cooking, only the sound of raindrops hitting the roofs echoing in the air.

And that bell, which should not have existed at all, was like a Western-style tall bell tower holding a ceremony, for a dead person, or a person about to die.

The lonely moonlight flickered in the rainy night, casting mottled shadows. The lush bamboo forest stood quietly in the rain, as if it were a lonely witness, silently telling the story of the heavy burden and regret that one had to bear for their choices.

Li Mo seemed to have been forgotten at the edge of time. Loneliness and coldness intertwined, forming a strange and mysterious picture.

"Main keep."

Li Mo looked at the building, which was dozens of meters high, and called out its true name.

According to the speculation during the day and Yae Sakura's silent agreement, once he entered the main keep, he would become the next Guji, for unknown reasons.

But it was very likely because something would happen inside.

The festival could not quell the source of the Bizarre. Perhaps this was the real ritual of Yae Village.

But what was the price?

Was it the death of a person? Or the destruction of a person?

Then could he just let any outsider, any living person in, so that he could complete the ritual and solve the source of the Bizarre this time?

"No..."

"There's only one chance to try and fail, and the inside may not be the real ritual, but just a guise. The real ritual is probably still the festival, but the requirements are different."

Li Mo said with certainty, taking out the notebook and casually mentioning, "Right?"

The notebook turned to the seventh page, without directly answering Li Mo's question.

Instead, it repeated the content it had described before.

[My name is Li Mo. I whimper, I lament.]

[With this blade, I am invincible.]

[But I know that great power comes with an equal price.]

Li Mo closed the notebook, his face gloomy.

The notebook's answering pattern was currently one page at a time. The first page could suppress the other pages of the notebook, but it was also the most mysterious, suspected to be the main core of the entire notebook.

To use a human analogy, it would be the majority of the brain.

The rule on the second page was to keep his physical body alive, regardless of whether his soul remained intact.

The fourth page would reveal many absurd futures, but... from the example of Shigure Kira, one of its predicted results was bound to be accurate, but the process was twisted and exaggerated.

The sixth page described regrettable futures and gave hints.

This time it was the seventh page. Li Mo had a faint feeling that most of the time it was not predicting the future, but stating the past.

"The current Yae Guji wrote an obvious rule with the help of the Grief Seed."

"This rule only applies to two moments: one when I enter the main keep, and the other when I come out of the main keep and am killed as a sacrifice."

"This means that even if I come out of the main keep, the rule will not disappear. The ritual has not been completed. The real ritual is probably—"

"—my death."

Li Mo's mind recalled Yae Sakura repeatedly mentioning his "specialness."

Compared to ordinary outsiders, he was indeed special.

But this specialness was not special to the Bizarre, so this specialness was very likely not from a certain bizarre object on him or a certain rule, a certain ability...

but because of the definition of "I am Li Mo."

"It might be a trap, but I don't have a better choice."

Li Mo walked to the door of the main keep and pushed open the ancient door.

To his surprise—

there was no dust flying around. The scene inside was as if it had never flowed in the long river of time. Everything was as new as if it had just been built.

"A bizarre rule involving time..."

Li Mo took out his Bizarre pistol in advance.

Although he had promised MEI that he would not treat this gun as a reckless bizarre object.

But when it came to a point where he couldn't retreat, what he could rely on was definitely not the wisdom to avoid triggering rules, but the ability to bear the price after triggering them.

Because some bizarre rules were simply unavoidable without prior information.

"Bizarre rules have always been related to time. As the rule exists for a longer time, it becomes more complete."

"Fifty thousand years. This time point has flashed through my subconscious several times since I came to Yae Village. If the main keep was built fifty thousand years ago, then any ghost wandering in the main keep would be an existence I cannot contend with..."

Li Mo calmly stated the facts, while walking deeper step by step.

A completely strange environment. Each floor was like a maze. If it weren't for his photographic memory, it would take a lot of time to reach the top.

Thump... thump... thump...

Faint, regular footsteps sounded not far ahead. Li Mo quickly retreated to the previous corner, took out his phone and turned on the video recording, while he himself hid in the corner.

He estimated that the ghosts in the main keep had fifty thousand years of pollution. Then he should try to avoid any way that could trigger the rules.

On this basis, he would observe their rules and abilities.

Otherwise, he would always be in a passive state.

"Hmm?"

When all the preparations were ready, he didn't see any ghosts on his phone.

But when the camera was just turned on, he could clearly capture the ghost's figure, even if it was just a blurry silhouette.

Li Mo was stunned. The next second, a chill ran down his spine.

Immediately after, his brain suddenly felt a strong sense of discomfort.

Click—click—

Li Mo instinctively turned around, but he heard the sound of gears turning.

This sound did not come from anywhere outside, but from his joints.

His knees and right elbow had become mechanical joints like a machine.

Bang!

An eerie blue flame burst from the barrel, accurately hitting the ghost shadow behind Li Mo.

A white-haired ghost with female physical features, her eyes were crimson gears. Even under the suppression of the nether fire, she still did not move her gaze from Li Mo.

"Ugh!"

Li Mo got up, wanting to go to the second floor, but found that his body was being mechanized.

First the joints, then the flesh and skin, even the nerves were faintly changing.

Fortunately, the nether fire suppressed that ghost, making this change slow. Otherwise, in less than ten seconds, he would have become a machine that could not think.

As Li Mo was leaving, he did not forget to look back and found a very terrifying fact.

The other party's eyes could turn, changing with his position.

"I need to pull away first."

"Although I don't know when the rule was triggered, my body didn't change before it came behind me. I'll try to keep my distance first."

Just as Li Mo took a few flash steps to a relatively hidden place on the first floor in his memory, he suddenly found that the changes in his body were getting faster and faster.

But only a few seconds had passed?

The space in the main keep had become very large due to the bizarre rules, but his own movement speed was definitely not slow. If it were on an open plain, he would have already pulled away by several kilometers.

There was no way. Li Mo gritted his teeth and forcibly tore off his right hand, letting the bizarre primordial rule fight against the ghost's rule.

The left hand was not needed. The left hand itself was a bizarre hand. Although its completeness was not as good as the other party's, it would not be easily changed, unless this rule continued...

Within half a minute, Li Mo had almost "alternatively restarted" his entire body.

Whether it was the organs that had already become mechanical parts, or the nerves and blood vessels that had become circuits, he tore them off and shredded them, letting them recover naturally.

MEI had said that the primordial rule was the most difficult rule to erase, even if the completeness of the two differed greatly.

The ground was covered with black blood, and the mechanical parts glowing with a faint blue light were mixed with the rotten, cold flesh and blood residue.

Li Mo opened the video he had just recorded, wanting to find out what was going on.

When he was operating his phone with both hands, his chest was suddenly pierced by a blood-red spear, and his whole person was nailed to the wall.

Puchi!!

The Lance of Void? No... this was... the Bizarre Lance of Void.

Li Mo barely maintained his consciousness and recognized the identity of the spear. It was very similar to the Spear of Subspace, but it was not the Spear of Subspace.

He smelled a familiar aura on it, the skull of someone he knew.

Before he could think about who the aura belonged to, Li Mo ignored the heart-piercing pain and grabbed the spear, preparing to pull it out.

Suddenly, hundreds of bone spurs shot out from the spear, blooming and piercing out from within Li Mo's body.

In an instant, Li Mo's body was like a sieve, pierced by the bone spurs, his body riddled with holes.

His eyeballs were pierced, his organs were shattered, and large holes were pierced all over his body.

Li Mo fell to the ground, his vision becoming extremely blurry.

There was no reaction time, no countermeasures.

Unlike a certain death rule.

This feeling... was like being slaughtered by a more powerful existence, without any ability to fight back.

Even though he was in a state of three deaths now, he could even defeat the Herrscher of Finality in her normal state.

With a full burst of power, he could easily destroy a planet. He just needed to gather the energy in his body and release it.

Although he himself would die because of it.

But to directly cross time and strike at the target with a law of causality, he couldn't do it alone.

But oddly enough, the ghost on the first floor seemed to be able to...

"Ugh—"

Li Mo pulled the spear out of his body by feeling. His body was already tattered, as if he had fallen into a meat grinder. There was not a single intact piece of flesh on him.

Fortunately, the recovery ability in his state of three deaths was extremely strong. It only took a few seconds to fully recover.

The omamori was still white, and his cognition was not contaminated.

Li Mo tightened his grip on the Bizarre pistol.

There was no escape. He had to suppress it first to have a chance of escaping.

Thump... thump... thump...

White and purple high heels stepped on the wooden floor. The light footsteps were like a countdown to life for Li Mo at this moment.

The god of death stood at the top of the tower, ringing the death knell for the living.

Before long, a blurry silhouette of a white-haired ghost appeared at the corner.

Without any hesitation, Li Mo rushed forward and fired five bullets into her heart and brain.

The nether fire ignited again and soon spread to her whole body.

After confirming that the nether fire had suppressed her, Li Mo quickly left, wanting to find the stairs leading to the second floor and leave this ghostly place.

He couldn't care less if there was something more terrifying on the second floor. At least the white-haired ghost on the first floor was an existence he couldn't fight against at all.

"..."

"..."

"..."

The white-haired ghost stared coldly at Li Mo's departing figure. Under the suppression of the nether fire, the Bizarre should not have been able to move.

But she could still think, could still act, and even use her own abilities.

A snap of the fingers, a clap of thunder.

Thud! Li Mo fell heavily to the ground.

"What is it this time?" Li Mo was completely bewildered. He had been prepared to move forward while enduring the Bizarre Spear of Subspace.

But he had not expected to suddenly lose control of his legs.

His brain kept feeding him an abnormal feeling. His legs had lost all feeling, and the only sensation was numbness.

Before Li Mo could react, a faint echo came from the wind—

"Are you going to destroy me?"

"Are you going to destroy me?"

"Are you going to destroy me?"

The inexplicable message, everything indicated the identity of the white-haired ghost.

"Four Herrscher powers have already appeared. She is the Herrscher of Finality of this world. But why is she in the main keep?"

Li Mo cut off his legs again, waited a few seconds for them to recover, and continued to look for the passage upstairs.

If it was just the Herrscher of Finality, he wouldn't be afraid. Even if the Finality in the Bizarre Sprout world turned into a Bizarre, he could still barely handle it.

But this was a Finality with fifty thousand years of pollution. He couldn't deal with her.

"I can't find the way..." Li Mo was lost on the first floor. After a brief hesitation, he decided to break the routine and jump directly to the roof of the main keep.

The moment he broke through the ceiling of the first floor, he saw his own lower body on the second floor.

He tried again, and on the ceiling of the second floor, he saw his own lower body on the third floor.

The floors were connected...

The first floor was the starting point, and also the end point.

As Li Mo was at a loss, the white-haired ghost unhurriedly appeared in his sight.

Her clothes had obvious traces of being burned by a fierce fire. The skin on her body was no different from a dead person's, very pale.

Under the broken skirt were long, slender legs, but they were full of tragic marks from battle, and the wounds had not healed.

Her eyes had turned a dim blue-purple, deep and dark, reflecting the era when the end of the world had come.

Like a pool of cold water, solidifying the traces of time. Like a collection of poems silently telling an unspeakable sorrow.

The brilliant silver river was draped over her shoulders, flowing with a sad melody.

The face of Finality was still noble and beautiful. Even after falling into the Bizarre, it was hard to hide her princess-like appearance.

But the flash of pure light blue in her eyes deeply struck Li Mo's heart.

Li Mo thought—

she might have... once been his little princess, but now she had become a lonely ghost in the ruins, forgotten by time in a desolate corner.

All that was left was the twisted authority, and the instinct to pursue her lover.

Depicting the drops of memory in her life. A similar but different experience, like a withered flower blooming in the dark of night, blooming alone, withering alone.

"Mo..."

The Bizarre Finality stretched out her right hand. The aura of death lingered on her long fingers. The moment it touched Li Mo, her body suddenly collapsed like a city of sand.

"You are not... her."

Li Mo's pupils trembled. Perhaps because of the decomposition of the Herrscher of death, black blood flowed from the bottom of his eyes.

Fate did not disdain to play with others. It was just that people often walked towards their own fate and made fools of themselves.

Li Mo had always had a guess, but he had never dared to be sure.

In any time and space, as long as the two of them met, an impulse would uncontrollably sprout.

No matter if one was a ghost or a person.

No matter if sensibility had completely disappeared, or if rationality dominated the brain.

Li Mo had been deceived.

His body was gradually turning into golden sand. The bizarre recovery had failed, and the restart was frozen in time and space.

Only his numb spirit was still immersed in the river of love, as if drunk, hazy.

He was completely unaware that the Bizarre Finality was trying to kill him.

And... the omamori on his chest had turned from white to pitch black.

Yes, the Bizarre Finality did not know that killing Li Mo required a time-space freeze.

After trying various authorities and still failing to kill Li Mo, she used the two most unsolvable abilities.

One made the other party unable to resist, and the other made the other party's resistance futile.

The Bizarre Finality turned into the person Li Mo loved most in his memory. While embracing him, she delivered the final blow of annihilation that symbolized the end of existence.

"I love you."

The Bizarre Finality held up Li Mo's face, which was gradually turning into golden sand, and said affectionately.

Li Mo did not resist at all, without any awareness.

Li Mo had always been extremely cautious about spiritual polluters. Once he noticed that his thoughts were not right, he would analyze whether he was in a state of cognitive pollution through various logics.

But even the strongest person would have an irresistible weakness.

Just like the Achilles' heel.

When the weakness was exposed and touched, the consolidated castle was like a dam that had burst, collapsing with a roar.

"Hee hee~ you're going to die! You have half a minute left to die! This time, no one will save you, haha!"

The Misfortune Ghost cursed as usual.

But Li Mo seemed not to have heard it. He hugged the soft and warm body of the Bizarre Finality.

His lips moved, and he murmured according to the rule, "I... love... you."

For most people, there was something very attractive, and that was the knife inserted into the wound. It was the only thing that could prevent death from excessive blood loss.

The one who intended to kill you was the only thing that could let you continue to live.

Many people tried to pull out that knife, and in fact, they did try to pull it out, but they had to immediately insert it back, because the moment it was pulled out, life would quickly drain away.

Even though that knife threatened your life...

The world fell silent.

Instant, temporary, moment.

Any word that could describe time could be used, or perhaps none of them could be used.

Because...

The moment time began to flow, the Bizarre Finality, who was stroking Li Mo's face and showing a strange smile, was cut in half at the waist.

The main keep, with fifty thousand years of pollution and rules, was instantly overturned.

Violence, rage, and ferocity were injected into the scarlet pupils. That was an expression Li Mo had never dared to imagine, the expression of the jealous Corrupted Tuna.