Chapter 369 Long Time No See, Kevin

What do people think before they die?

Just like most of the questions in this world, no one can tell the answer to the question. If you want to know, you must experience it yourself first...

But can a person experience death twice in his life? Ha, no wonder no one can tell the answer...

Karen took a deep breath, and her lungs felt numb, followed by numbness in her limbs, as if this is what happens when people are nervous.

She turned her head slightly and her eyes fell on the nun's hand pressing the mechanism.

"Huh..."

In the long breath, her mind gradually emptied. It turned out that what people would recall their past lives before they died was all fake.

This moment was exactly the same as every moment before, without any difference.

The only difference was that she finally had some brief images in her mind--

The next moment, the nun's hand would press the mechanism, and almost at the same time, the wooden board under her feet would open downwards, and she would be hung in the air, her body would twitch straight like a fish on the shore, until three or five minutes later, her neck would be broken, or she would suffocate to death.

Thinking of this, she took another deep breath.

Fear? Regret?

Of course there would be, but in the face of established facts, no matter how afraid or regretful, it would not have any effect.

The nun presiding over the side raised her hand high, which was a sign of preparation for execution. Correspondingly, Kallen closed her eyes in despair.

How would people react when they saw her, the daughter of the Kaslana family, being hanged? I'm afraid it would be nothing more than excited screams, just like watching the execution of a gladiator in the Colosseum. Even if the gladiator was originally on the battlefield for them.

"Bang--"

But the next moment, she was not hung up as she had imagined. Instead, everyone screamed, but only after a dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Karen opened her eyes blankly, and saw the nun beside her running back. The human wall formed by the knights was squeezed crookedly, and many torches were squeezed to the ground.

The crowd rushed towards the church desperately, as if there was something extremely terrible behind them.

"Boom!"

Before she could figure out what was going on, a violent explosion came from the street in the distance. As the building collapsed, flames shot up into the sky, and as if it was premeditated, the flames quickly swept everything visible to the naked eye.

And with the help of the raging flames, Kalen finally saw clearly what had landed before-a ten-foot-tall Honkai beast, and on the farther street, there were many black shadows rushing towards this place.

"Oh no!"

Karen had no time to think about why the Honkai Beasts appeared in large numbers in Klosten City, but she had not seen the Valkyrie near the execution ground from the beginning. This was not difficult to understand. It was nothing more than that Tianming was afraid that her former subordinates would take risks.

But the consequence of this was that in front of the ten-foot-tall large Honkai Beasts, the ordinary knights had no power to resist. Even when they saw more Honkai Beasts rushing here, these knights who were usually only responsible for guarding Klosten and had never been on the battlefield at all dropped their weapons and torches and fled in the opposite direction of the Honkai Beasts.

Once the human wall formed by the knights collapsed, the powerless masses naturally rushed to the church behind the gallows, and no one cared about Karen who was supposed to be punished.

But it was said to be escaping, how could people escape from the Honkai Beasts and the spreading flames?

Half of the citizens of the city were crowded into this small square, and only a small group of people at the front could escape.

"Ka--"

Karen bit her teeth lightly. She had taken the medicine before, and her whole body was limp and powerless, but now she squeezed out some strength from nowhere.

"Bang!"

The thick wooden yoke was broken by her knees. Without caring about tasting the pain, Karen quickly broke the rope at the tip of her neck, and then rushed into the fire with empty hands.

"With such a big noise, although the Valkyrie is not nearby, she will be here in a few minutes. The most important thing now is to deal with this big guy!"

Karen's brain spun quickly, and she quickly made the most accurate judgment, but she seemed to have forgotten that her current body might not be as good as that of a girl of the same age.

She rushed straight towards the tall figure, but the fleeing crowd became a wall blocking her. In the past, she only needed one jump to jump onto the roof of the building, but now she could only struggle in the crowd. If she was not careful, she would be drowned by the crowd who were only concerned about escaping.

When she finally pushed through the crowd, there was no shadow of the large Honkai beast in front of her, and only the sound of the Valkyrie fighting with the Honkai beasts came from the street farther away.

"Hmm?"

Karen lowered her head and thought for a moment, but did not rush to meet up with the Valkyrie troops. Instead, she turned around and searched for the traces of the large Honkai beast.

The Valkyrie was still some distance away from here, but the church behind her was close at hand. Most of the panicked people fled there, and behind her were the various organs of the Destiny. No one had ever thought that there would be so many Honkai beasts infiltrating Klosten, let alone a giant Honkai beast that was ten feet tall. After all, Kallen had only encountered a creature of this size once in her many years of fighting experience!

There was no solid line of defense behind her, and the small number of Valkyries that were originally supposed to be on duty did not exist. Perhaps, this was the so-called cleverness that was misled by cleverness.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if there is no defense line. Maybe someone else would take advantage of the opportunity to escape at this moment, as far away as possible, but she is Kallen, she is Kallen Kaslana, and she is the Valkyrie. Captain of the troops, at least he once was.

Then, where she is is the last line of defense for Destiny.

Even though she has calmed down now, she also understands that with her current strength, she may not be able to defeat the big guy, but she must at least buy some insignificant time for others. If she can send a warning to Eleanor and the others, or It would be perfect to guide it to the Valkyrie's location.

Anyway, she had long been prepared to die here, just living for a few more minutes.

"Crack-"

Just as she was thinking this, a soft sound suddenly came from the ruins on the left. Kallen turned her head suddenly and stared at the shadows cast by the ruins. The dazzling firelight all around made it harder for her to see what was in the darkness, but just like that. Judging from its size, it was obviously not the Honkaimon from before.

After taking two steps towards the source of the sound, she finally caught a subtle sob in the crackling sound of the flames.

"There are still people here!"

Karen no longer hesitated, she rushed straight into the ruins. The surrounding firelight became more intense, and the ruins were no longer completely dark. Kallen finally saw a huddled figure in the corner. She took two quick steps and rushed to the other person, only to see it was a ten-year-old child.

"How are you? Are you okay?"

The child wiped his tears and cried desperately:

"elder sister……"

Kallen's pupils trembled, not because of anything else, but because the child in front of her looked really like Otto when he was a boy, with long blond hair and green eyes. In a daze, she thought she had traveled through time. time, back to that summer ten years ago.

That year, she and Otto were about the same age as the child in front of her. They ran out of Klosten excitedly and went to the suburbs of Vienna to play happily, but they bumped into several Honkai beasts at dusk.

Although she had gone through five or six years of warrior training at that time, she was still too young and did not carry any weapons. He obviously boasted in front of Otto that he could protect her, but when faced with several adult-sized advance-level Honkaiju, he could only drag Otto away in embarrassment until he plunged into a dead end.

If it weren't for their father, the two of them wouldn't be alive today, they wouldn't have so many stories, and they wouldn't have those happy times, but they wouldn't have to bear the pain of today.

"elder sister!"

When she came back to her senses, she saw the child in front of her holding the hem of her skirt with one hand and pointing behind her with the other.

"Bang tom——"

Her heart contracted suddenly, Kallen quickly turned around, and the large Honkai beast she was looking for just now was standing behind her. The dim firelight burned half of its body into fiery red, and highlighted the other half as being darker.

It seemed to be just passing by, its body turned to one side, and when it heard the movement, it slowly turned its head in the direction of Karen.

"Gulu——"

Whether it was Honkaimon's subconscious scream, or the sound of Kallen swallowing under extreme stress, there was no need to look into it. The next moment, Honkaimon had already rushed in front of Kallen, waving its weapon high. Claw, hit hard.

Kallen instinctively touched her waist with one hand and held the other hand to her chest. Kaslana's gun fighting skills and Judah's oath were the trump cards that she immediately thought of in a critical moment.

But it's a pity that she didn't have a gun with her, let alone Judas. Seeing the Honkai Beast's sharp claws getting closer and closer to him, it would not be too late to dodge to the side, but that would be tantamount to exposing the child behind him to the Honkai Beast's attack.

With no other choice, Kallen raised her hands directly above her head, barely resisting the Honkai Beast's claws, although she realized her mistake almost at the same time——

Obviously, in close combat, using both hands to catch the opponent's moves is a taboo.

But there was no other way. The claw was as big as a door. It was extremely difficult for her to catch this blow with an ordinary body.

Then, death is natural.

Kallen lowered her head and watched in despair as the tip of the Honkai Beast's other sharp claw got closer and closer to her abdomen.

"Is this time... really the end of your life?"

Perhaps her previous conclusion was a bit hasty. She watched helplessly as the sharp claws touched her abdomen. The thick Valkyrie uniform had even dented slightly downwards. It only took a little, and a little further forward, for the sharp claws to penetrate her belly. abdomen.

But time seemed to really be stretched out at this last moment, long enough for her to have enough time to reflect on her life.

But she didn't do that because she saw a flash of fire.

It was a tiny beam of fire flying from the side, so small that it might be better described as a spark. It was inconspicuous in this illusion of a solar eclipse and a fire.

But for Karen, it was an extremely familiar fire.

She was really, really familiar with this flash of fire.

Her nose was sore, and her vision suddenly became blurry. In the hazy space, she only saw the spark hit the Honkai Beast, and the huge body was burned to ashes in an instant. She also hurriedly stepped back two steps and was almost affected by the flames.

Then, a tall figure stood in front of her, standing on the embers of the Honkai Beast's body.

He was covered by a black robe, and Kallen's vision was hazy, so naturally she couldn't see his facial features clearly.

But the silver-white hair on his head and the weapon he held said it all.

"Dad..."

Karen whispered softly, her thoughts suddenly returned to that evening, when she rashly dragged Otto into the dead end, and saw the adult-sized Honkai beast blocking the only way, it was also such a flash of fire that appeared out of thin air, and it was also such a Kaslana who stood in front of her... Perhaps, this was just her fantasy before death, or perhaps, she had come to the world of the dead, and the Kaslana holding the Holy Judge of Heavenly Fire in front of her might be her father who came to pick her up...

"Hmm? What did you say?"

The low voice woke her up from her trance, and she came back to her senses. It was not Francis Kaslana's voice, and the crackling fire and choking smoke around her kept reminding her that this was still the world she was familiar with.

She wiped away her tears quickly, and when her vision returned to clarity, she found that the man in front of her was not unfamiliar. Of course, she was not surprised by this - it was Kaslana who had met once in the Kipchak Steppe.

"Are you okay?"

He asked with concern, but he had to pretend to be stiff. Not to mention, most people in Kaslana's family are so awkward.

"I... I'm fine."

Karen shook her head. She didn't bother to talk to the man in front of her, but turned back to check the child's condition.

Fortunately, he was just scared and fainted.

She turned around again, staring at the man in front of her, who had the same blue eyes as hers, and asked in a daze:

"You... who are you..."

"Just call me Kevin, the rest is not important, someone entrusted me to save you, that's all."

"Save me..."

Karen pursed her lips, and the first figure that flashed in her mind was Otto. But she quickly rejected this possibility. First of all, Otto probably didn't know this person, and they had no intersection. If he invited Mikael, it would be more likely...

"Okay, come with me. I'll send you out of the city before the eclipse ends. Don't worry about the child behind you. The Valkyries have established a solid defense line and will soon sweep here. It will be bad if they find you by then."

Karen glanced around and was still a little hesitant.

She wanted to die, but as she and Mikael said, wanting to die is a kind of struggle and a kind of weakness. She was not brave. She didn't have the courage to spend a long time and use the rest of her life to carry out a more difficult struggle. She thought she could end in this seemingly brave and heroic way, but she didn't expect the turnaround to come so quickly. She couldn't die even if she wanted to.

Moreover, after touching the edge of death twice in a short period of time, the instinctive desire to survive in people's hearts surged up again. Now it was obviously impossible for her to die again.

She smiled self-deprecatingly and raised her head. If it weren't for the faint halo above her head, she would have thought it was night.

Kevin seemed to have misunderstood her and added:

"Even if you don't believe me, you should believe your comrades, right? But if they see you, it will be a bit troublesome. At worst, there is Chi Yuan."

"Is the Chi Yuan Immortal here too?"

"Yeah."

Kevin nodded imperceptibly, and the sound coming from his throat sounded like an ordinary response and a cold snort.

She wanted to say something else. She felt like she had something else to say, but after holding it in for a long time, she just raised her head and glanced at the halo above her head again, and then let out a meaningless long sigh:

"Oh, how come this solar eclipse lasted so long..."

Before she finished her words, she saw Kevin's pupils suddenly shrink into a small dot, he turned around quickly, raised his hand and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

The wind passed through the still time, the gunshots continued to echo in the narrow streets, and a flame that was hotter than before had already shot out, accurately hitting the forehead of the person behind him.

But the man's footsteps did not stop there, he continued to walk forward two steps and stood only three feet away from Kevin.

His eyes swept across Kallen who was hesitant to speak, and finally stopped at Kevin's face.

So, his originally unchanging expression was added with an ambiguous smile, and then, as if he had met countless times 50,000 years ago, he greeted:

"Hey! Long time no see, Kevin."