Bizarre Honkai, a Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Li Mo had never given much thought to what had happened back then, because all of Otto's actions had been consistent with the original work. His words, actions, and even his attitude had been too exquisite.

The way he spoke, the various outrageous things he did later on, it was not an exaggeration to say that they were exactly the same.

He resigned as the Overseer of Schicksal and completely withdrew from the organization.

He attracted the attention of the protagonist group in Kolosten alone, deliberately provoked Kiana, prayed affectionately in front of Kallen's statue, and delayed for a long time for himself to go to the Cocoon of Finality.

It could be said that without Otto, he would never have been able to hide from Kiana and the others and go to the Cocoon of Finality, let alone tamper with the rules.

It was as if Otto had done those things just to help him, even though it wasn't the case in the original work.

Everything that had happened in that world had proceeded exactly as Otto had laid out, without any time difference.

Especially that incredible blurry memory.

His memory shouldn't have been blurry. Every second should have been very clear. But when Beichen had mentioned where Otto had finally arrived, he had blurted out that small home full of warmth and happiness.

In his blurry vision, he had seen Otto go to the rented house after he had died, and stay for a while before leaving.

He seemed to have said something else...

What did he say?

Li Mo tried hard to recall. Looking at the boundless starry sky, he suddenly uttered a sentence, "You're dead. I finally don't have to pretend anymore..."

Li Mo: "???"

"What... do you mean? What am I pretending?"

Li Mo continued to recall.

Otto seemed to have just made it before Kiana had carried his head back.

If that was the case, then Otto probably already knew what would happen in the future.

Those inflammatory words were just lies.

Indeed, he was a liar himself. There were few truths in his mouth.

Thinking of it this way, every word Otto had said back then had been too targeted at the him of that time.

There were some things that even he himself had not noticed at the time, but Otto had known them inside and out, as if he knew better than himself what "Li Mo" was pursuing, what he was afraid of...

Li Mo immersed himself in his memories—

"The person you care about the most, the most outstanding Valkyrie now, the strongest Herrscher, Kiana Kaslana... she may not recognize your will."

"Just as she is now racking her brains with her companions to fight against the World Serpent, to fight against me. What they have imagined is to let humanity live openly in the sunlight through their own efforts, not to survive in a illusory shadow."

"Doesn't that sound like the protagonist in a novel or manga? Dazzling and brilliant, unlike people like you and me who are only fit to walk in the dark and gloomy corners."

"Do you want all her efforts to be in vain? Or do you simply think that her efforts are not worth mentioning, and that the World Serpent's Project Stigma is more in line with your expectations?"

"She has not yet reached the standard to cross the Finality. If even she can't reach it, no one will be able to stop the Project Stigma."

"Please believe me, my friend. The anger that comes from love can give a person a power equal to or even greater than love."

"So, like me... Li Mo, for the one you love, die willingly, and die willingly."

"You only have one chance to choose. Once you choose, there is absolutely no turning back."

"..."

"..."

Li Mo slowly opened his eyes, his lips slightly parted. He asked a question that puzzled him to the emptiness in front of him, "How did he know that Kiana had not reached the standard to cross the Finality? That world... should not have had anything to support him knowing this."

Li Mo caught the blind spot and kept analyzing and thinking.

Otto, who was bent on saving Kallen and wanted to reach the Imaginary Tree, could not have spent so much effort studying the Cocoon of Finality.

For him, what the Cocoon of Finality was, whether it could be killed, whether it could be persuaded, whether it could be controlled, was not important. Because he had no chance to meet the Herrscher of Finality at all, let alone see the Cocoon of Finality.

What did it have to do with him whether Kiana met the recognition standard of the Cocoon of Finality?

His heart should have been on the Imaginary Tree, the source of the world, not on an unrelated Cocoon of Finality.

He could not have known that Kiana did not meet the standard of the Cocoon of Finality.

Anti-Entropy and the World Serpent had put all their focus on it, and finally determined that Kiana was the most suitable candidate to be recognized by the Cocoon of Finality, and had made a series of efforts to help Kiana meet the recognition standard of the Cocoon of Finality.

Even so, Anti-Entropy and the World Serpent did not dare to be sure that Kiana would definitely meet the acceptance standard of the Cocoon of Finality. So why did Otto, who was completely unrelated to this matter, know?

As he thought deeper, more and more unreasonable things appeared. Every matter revealed a faint trace of the bizarre.

Combined with Beichen's previous hint, a very absurd idea appeared in Li Mo's mind. It was so strange that Li Mo felt it was impossible at all.

"In the same time and space, there can't be two identical people..."

"The first bizarre... if Beichen didn't lie, if the first bizarre was really Kiana, then the Bizarre Stigma definitely didn't come from that time and space, but was brought over from the future by someone."

"And that person definitely couldn't be 'Li Mo'. There can't be two identical people in the same time and space."

Li Mo was silent for a long time, his tone becoming more and more low,

"If I had to go back, I could only use another identity."

"..."

"But what was the reason for going back? Why go to the time and space where the first bizarre was born and do such a thing?"

Li Mo couldn't figure it out. He didn't think he could do such a thing. After all, it was contrary to what he had been doing so far. It was contradictory, conflicting, and irreconcilable.

Letting the first bizarre be born was equivalent to helping the bizarre spread. He was now trying to stop the spread of the bizarre.

The two were not on the same path at all.

Excluding himself, there was too little information. Li Mo couldn't find any other possibilities.

Moreover, even for him, it was difficult to travel through time and space.

There were three known methods so far, and each one carried a huge risk of complete death.

First: seize the time and space ability of Bizarre Kiana.

This method could not be replicated at present. There was no bizarre here that could restrain Bizarre Kiana. Once Bizarre Kiana descended, he would surely die.

In the Tenshukaku of Yae Village, the Bizarre Finality that had been polluted for 50,000 years could not be defeated. Rin, who also had only 50,000 years of pollution, naturally could not restrain Bizarre Kiana.

It was purely a fluke back then. There was a corpse identical to his in St. Freya High School. In addition, with the rules of the hanging ghost, he had managed a "graft," making Bizarre Kiana mistakenly think that he had died, but in fact he was still alive.

This led to the later echo of the coffin, using some "twisted method" to compete in physical strength, making Bizarre Kiana faint, and temporarily seizing all of Bizarre Kiana's abilities.

(The echo of the coffin? The coffin is always ringing!)

But that corpse had no head, and its body and clothes were exactly the same as his. It was very strange... there shouldn't have been two identical people in the same time and space. Who was that corpse?

Second: making a wish.

The bizarre ability that could be displayed after the fictional Mei had given up her self and let the Bizarre Mei come out.

This bizarre ability, to some extent, was far greater than any other bizarre ability.

There was no upper limit to the rules of the bizarre. It was not like some Herrschers, who seemed to have the four fundamental forces of the universe and had mastered the rules that the physics world dreamed of, but were limited by the upper limit of energy output, and their performance was worrying.

There was no upper limit to the ability of the bizarre. As long as one was willing to pay the price, one could get the gaze of the bizarre.

But the transaction was too equal. The more distorted the wish, the greater the amount of pollution it would produce. In addition, there were extra direct exchange conditions.

For example, a life for a life was the most basic, but if you used the life of an ordinary person to exchange for your own life, it was obviously impossible.

To travel to the corresponding time and space through a wish, if it was just to go back a few hours, it probably wouldn't require too heavy a price. But the time when the first bizarre was born... could be traced back to at least a million years ago. The price required, even if you gave up all the people on Earth, you wouldn't be able to afford it.

Then there was the third method, which was also a method of traveling through time and space with almost no side effects that Li Mo had only seen after coming to this world: the consciousness upload of an Impostor.

It could freely go back to a certain time and space where consciousness existed, without any price, without any side effects, and without any extra pollution.

It was perfect, but there were two relatively harsh restrictions.

The first was that one had to become an Impostor. Li Mo obviously couldn't do it. To become an Impostor just to travel through time and space was not worth it.

Who knew if his consciousness would still be complete after becoming an Impostor, and whether he would still be considered Li Mo.

The second was that he could only go back to a time and space where he had left traces, and it was impossible to go back to a time and space where he had never existed at all.

No matter what, it was still better to follow MEI's plan.

He just needed to make his own decisions on matters outside the plan.

Li Mo thought as usual.

Returning to Earth, the divine pattern of the end covered the sky and the sun. No matter from which angle on Earth one looked up, one could see the extremely oppressive golden pattern.

Li Mo did not choose to fight, but returned to Rin's side and let Rin fight against the end, while he assisted and delayed time.

At this time, Rin had already absorbed the life of almost the entire Earth. The huge life force contained in her body was enough for him to maintain a clear consciousness for a long time.

Finally, on the second battlefield of the end, the Herrscher of Finality was absorbed by the unfolding Grief Seed.

The Cocoon of Finality sensed the defeat of the Herrscher of Finality and transported life force and Honkai Energy through some unobservable umbilical cord to maintain the Herrscher of Finality to continue fighting.

As long as the connection was still there and the Cocoon of Finality was not destroyed, the Herrscher of Finality would not die.

And Li Mo cleverly caught the umbilical cord that the Herrscher of Finality was using to transmit energy. For the first time, he activated the Bizarre Stigma and polluted the passage.

The connection between the cocoon and the Herrscher of Finality was not broken, but under the influence of the pollution, it was no longer smooth. The Herrscher of Finality also lost her instinct to destroy humanity and woke up.

Before she woke up, Li Mo quickly left.

He was afraid that if he saw the awakened Herrscher of Finality, he would never be willing to leave. Therefore, before the battle, he had told Rin what to do next, and let her take care of the Herrscher of Finality who had regained her sanity.

Everything proceeded in an orderly manner.

But Li Mo knew very well that he could not wait for 50,000 years. Due to the pollution, if he delayed for a few more years, even if he did nothing, used no abilities, and did not come into contact with pollution.

His body would still uncontrollably slide towards collapse and directly enter the state of four deaths.

Li Mo found Rin and hoped that she could use her huge life force to purify his own pollution.

As expected, an accident happened. Rin had exhausted the life force of thousands of people, but it did not make Li Mo any better.

Rin did not believe it. She wanted to gamble with the life force of more people and even the life force of the Herrscher of Finality to purify the pollution on Li Mo, but was stopped by Li Mo.

Because waiting for the revival of the later civilization was a very long process. Rin had to maintain enough life force to ensure that she could still maintain human consciousness after 50,000 years.

In this way, she could ensure that she would not fall into depravity through the method of the future.

And what he had to do was to let the trajectory develop towards the future, and at the most critical moment, kill the source of the Impostors, Kallen Kaslana.

But the problem came...

How could he live to be 50,000 years old...

If Rin's purification was ineffective on him, then why could Elysia do it back then?

And what kind of existence was Elysia?

The way to live was quickly thought of by Li Mo. He just needed to go back to the original world through the bizarre cave, and then let Elysia eliminate the pollution and return to the state of one death before coming over.

The bizarre of this world would not revive for the time being. Li Mo had plenty of time to deal with his own state.

The original world was the world with the slowest time flow. Maybe if he went back now, only a few days had passed there.

At that time, he would tell MEI everything he knew, and let MEI think of a more reasonable plan.

"I'm not alone. Since I have a chance to leave, I don't have to be stubborn and stay in this world. I'll tell MEI everything I know about this world. MEI will definitely be able to give me the truth. Even if it's not comprehensive, it will be far more than what I know."

"Let Elysia help me eliminate the pollution, and return to this world in the best state. Because I have already established a relationship with Sakura in the world of the cursed blade, Crimson-Dyed Sakura will not care whether I have a strong amount of pollution. Even in the state of one death, I can easily control it."

"After everything is ready, I'll come back and kill the source of the Impostors, Kallen Kaslana. This mission will come to an end, and it will be completely over. There will be no more accidents..."

Thinking of this, Li Mo followed his memory and found the location of the bizarre cave in this world, and returned to... the original world.

However, the familiar scene no longer existed.

Hope was hidden, despair spread, and terror and death spread to the whole world.

The once brightly lit scene was gone, replaced by a dead silent darkness. The buildings in the distance were no longer bright and dazzling skyscrapers. The blood-stained glass panels were shadowy. A few black shadows moved rhythmically, casting a strange gaze at Li Mo.