The atmosphere in the spacious living room turned into a dead silence. Little Duck, using the Big Duck body, and Haxxor Bunny stared at each other.
Compared to this elegant silver-gray curly-haired beauty who looked slightly familiar but whom she didn't seem to know, Haxxor's attention was drawn more to the indigo-haired girl.
The snowy white long dress was like a phantom epiphyllum floating up from the deep sea, tailored from icy silk. The hem was embellished with embroidered butterfly shadows, and a wisp of dark blue silk ribbon was tied around her waist, matching the blue-black satin entwined in her hair.
Combined with that face which exuded a delicate and immature softness, the girl seemed like a fragile willow swaying in the wind amidst the misty rain of Jiangnan.
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The first glance was stunning, but closely following it was confusion: How does she also know my real name?
Or could it be... Haxxor stopped her chewing motion, habitually tugging at the rabbit ears on her hood, and refocused her gaze on the dazed silver-gray curly-haired beauty... No way?
Her expression gradually looked as if she had seen a ghost.
Haxxor slowly turned her stiff neck to look at the gray-haired young man, using her eyes to hammer him for an explanation.
Noticing Haxxor's gaze, Bronya, Seele, and Welt's eyes moved along with hers.
Caelus, being stared at by a room full of people, spread his hands and shrugged.
Immediately, he put on a warm smile like a spring breeze, as if a filter had been applied to his entire being, and his voice suddenly changed into Kevin's broadcasting announcer tone:
"Regardless of whether your worlds have the concept of day and night, in short, I wish you good morning, good noon, and good evening! I am your good buddy, the all-knowing Caelus-baby."
"The mercenary world, an industry where talents emerge in large numbers, a cradle that births big shots, where countless legends have appeared. In Night City... uh, it seems to be called Arc City? In Arc City, there is no one who doesn't know her, no one who hasn't heard of her~!"
"Among them is such a person. Now, let me formally introduce her to you—Raven's Bar waitress and part-time bartender, the rising new star of the mercenary world, the legend who rules the hacker world throughout the ages, the girl who yearns for adventure and freedom, the Nameless reservist hoping to join my Galactic Pirate Crew—Haxxor Bunny!"
Suddenly praising her like an opera, supplemented by an imposing manner raised by his steps and posture, the cadence of his lines suppressed the entire venue like a storm.
This made both Welt and Bronya twitch their lips. The two quickly extracted effective information from Caelus's strange speech.
This girl, who looked like a copy-paste of herself/Bronya, was a mercenary and hacker from Arc City!?
Little Duck in the current timeline didn't have much of an impression of the city named Arc, but Old Yang knew exactly what had happened in that city. Was it the Arc City of Earth?
Another transmigrator?
Hearing Caelus introduce her weirdly using a veteran cyberpunk city dweller's announcer voice, the corners of Haxxor's eyes couldn't help but twitch.
After speaking, Caelus jumped across from Haxxor and pointed at the Big Duck to introduce her.
"This is Bronya Zaychik."
Caelus placed his hand on the shoulder of Haxxor, whose face changed drastically upon hearing this: "Consider her my fiancée."
"Holy crap! (ºДº)"
Haxxor's small face collapsed from astonishment into shock. The caught-off-guard news subjected her to a violent mental impact.
Bronya!
No wonder she looked a bit familiar. The eerie familiarity combined with the identical name, and considering the factor of parallel worlds, the conjecture in Haxxor's mind instantly became clear as if supported by evidence.
[The other me, the other me! What do you think?]
Haxxor shouted frantically for Bronie in the mental channel.
[My guess is the same as yours.]
Bronie steadily maintained her persona.
[Think about the result that guy gave us from the fortune-telling earlier.]
"Your emotional line is intertwined with me and my sister."
Caelus's words echoed in Haxxor's mind. The chain of evidence formed a linked loop like dominoes, causing Haxxor to suck in a sharp breath of cold air.
"Seele, I showed you photos before. This Welt Yang is one of the seniors with the oldest qualifications in our Star Rail Pirate Crew, and Li Sushang..."
"It's the Astral Express, not a Pirate Crew."
Concentrating his energy to accelerate his brain's analysis, Welt simply couldn't stand watching Caelus ruin the Astral Express's reputation and spoke up to correct him with a tired heart.
Caelus briefly introduced everyone's identities to each other, and then the atmosphere became even weirder.
Haxxor fell completely into a kind of disbelief and uncertainty, faintly carrying a bit of excitement.
Mainly because the curves of the milk-scented buns wrapped in lotus leaves on the silver-gray curly-haired beauty's chest were too soul-stirring. Haxxor lowered her head and glanced out of the corner of her eye at her own expensive... flat airfield.
A kind of excitement to betray the flat-chested class... oh no, a sense of guilt arose spontaneously.
Sure enough, she had said she just hadn't reached her growth phase yet!
If the facts were truly as she guessed, her figure in the future might even surpass Cioara's!
However, being that big, would it affect movement during combat?
Before she had even grown up, Haxxor was already considering future troubles in advance.
"This... Brother Caelus, what exactly is going on? Haxxor?"
Seeing that the other party's eyes lit up upon seeing her but showed no other expressions, 'White' Seele could tell that this person wasn't her Sister Bronya. She tugged at Caelus's sleeve and asked in a soft, waxy voice.
"March, you explain."
Welt called on her like a teacher calling a student to answer a question.
In the past, during trailblazing journeys on other planets, he, Himeko, and Dan Heng wouldn't let Little March explain the situation unless necessary.
But after Stelle and Caelus boarded the train, Old Yang felt that Little March, who couldn't grasp the main point and couldn't smooth out the logic, was actually quite fine.
"Oh, oh!"
Little March, whose brain was half a beat slow, was still stuck on Caelus's introduction of Haxxor. The pink Samoyed gestured with both hands in the air, vivid as a princess who had run out of a Disney movie:
"Today I was dragged by Ah Xing and Ah Qiong to set up a stall to tell fortunes and sell things..."
The opening words made Welt and Bronya type a question mark. Setting up a stall? Fortune telling? Selling things sounded relatively normal, but... never mind, scrolling through the Luofu Myths later would probably bring up related videos.
March 7th explained the sequence of events vaguely, while Stelle added oil and vinegar from the side.
Haxxor, having awakened from the magnificent impact of the 'Breast Duck', was in a super good mood, feeling that the air in the new world was much sweeter. She scooped out all the oil and vinegar Stelle had added.
Bronie took back control of the body and engaged in an intelligence exchange with Welt using the rhetoric she had prepared.
Everyone sat around in the living room.
"In other words, Miss Bronie doesn't know why she came to this world?"
Welt crossed his hands, resting them against his chin, and asked in a deep voice.
"Correct. When I came to my senses, I was already standing on a desolate and dilapidated platform on the sea surface."
Bronie crossed her two small white legs clad in sneakers.
"What about the time? Do you remember?" Welt continued to ask after thinking for two seconds.
"Let me calculate."
Bronie took out her phone to check the time, seeming to perform a conversion: "Oh, it was roughly two days ago, system time 16:26:25."
"Wow, you remember it so clearly! That time point... we should have still been fighting Phantylia, right?"
March 7th exclaimed, then counted the time on her fingers.
"Mm, and if I remember correctly, that is very close to the time point when Stelle used the beam to shoot the Ambrosial Arbor's root system."
Silver Wing took back control of the Big Duck's body at the right moment to offer an assist.
"Was the Stellaron stimulated by unprecedented energy?"
Welt nodded thoughtfully.
This was the most likely inducing cause!
Seele from the Herta Space Station, Bronya from Jarilo, Sushang and Haxxor on the Xianzhou—once or twice might be a coincidence, but three times almost completely nailed down that the transmigration was related to the Stellaron.
Curiously sizing up Haxxor, who was staring at the Big Duck, and seeing the obviously brilliant smile on the girl's face, March 7th scratched her head and asked curiously:
"Bronie, you don't seem worried about suddenly transmigrating to a strange world?"
"Worried? Why should I be worried?"
Miss Haxxor Bunny indicated: Here I am happy, I do not think of the nest.
"Sister Bronie, don't you want to return to your own world?"
'White' Seele brought over drinks and placed them on the low table.
Bronie gave control of the body to Haxxor.
"I don't~! Trapped in that city since childhood, dreaming of one day leaving the Light Curtain to venture into the outside world, and now coming directly to another parallel universe—this is simply too cool, okay!"
The tone in which Haxxor spoke to 'White' Seele wasn't obviously different, but most people present could detect her more enthusiastic and gentle attitude. This made Little Duck frown.
It was bad enough that there was a wolf cub thinking about her Seele every day, but now a rabbit has come too!?
And it's her own iso... It just sucks!
"Light Curtain?" Welt, retrieving an unknown vocabulary term, raised his eyebrow.
"Oh, the so-called Light Curtain is..."
Haxxor drank a beverage she had never seen before with novelty and roughly described the situation in Arc City.
Anyway, the transmigration phenomenon wasn't some major secret to this group of Astral Express people. Even Bronya and Seele in the Express crew had inexplicably 'transmigrated' to this world, so what necessity was there for her to hide it?
"An absolute barrier isolating the city? Contracting inward at a very slow speed... It sounds like a decaying Bubble Universe."
Having been raised by two scientific giants, with Einstein being an expert among experts in researching the Sea of Quanta, and having created Bubble Universes when passing on the Herrscher of Reason inheritance to Bronya, Welt considered his understanding of Bubble Universes to be second only to Einstein and Tesla.
From Bronie's description, he could determine that the Arc City she was in was a Bubble Universe being submerged by the Sea.
"Bubble Universe? What is that?"
Haxxor looked up in astonishment. She hadn't expected to get intelligence regarding the Light Curtain and her own world in this strange world.
"Cough, I'll explain, I'll explain! I heard this knowledge point last time."
Little March, eager to be a teacher, volunteered and chattered on, successfully making Haxxor reveal a confused expression. Finally, Little Duck explained it clearly in a few words.
"Is it destined to perish one day?"
Haxxor didn't care about anything else, but if that Bubble Universe was destroyed, what would happen to Cioara and Theresa?
"Is there any way to stop the Bubble Universe's destruction?"
Haxxor's tone became serious.
"There is, and more than one kind, but every method requires special power or equipment."
Old Yang, having gone through the Honkai once, naturally knew what to do.
"Special power? Hey, does this count?"
Haxxor seemed to think of something and hurriedly raised her hand to grip the void in front of her.
Fluorescent blue particles turned into countless fiber-optic-like threads, constructing outlines in the void as if painting.
It was like the Creator adding an object to the real world using this blue light. At first, it was just an outline, then as it gradually became more detailed, it roughly formed the appearance the girl wanted—a blue and white rabbit-head drone, the Hunter.
"This is!"
Welt suddenly opened his eyes wide.
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