Honkai Star Rail: I Started as the Great Iron Tomb

Chapter 275: Chapter 275: Major Event

Herta looked at Xing’s simple logic of "clear division of labor, efficiency first" and suddenly found it a bit... amusing.

This clone’s way of thinking is actually cute in its directness.

(Smart? Can fight? Heh, although my power is restricted, when it comes to being’smart’, I’m afraid no one in this low-magic world can claim to be number one in front of me.)

She crossed her arms and sized up this dilapidated temporary base.

"Cooperation is possible."

Herta’s voice returned to her usual style, "However, first, I don’t want to stay in this dirty and smelly place. Second, I need to understand this world’s magic system, Servant rules, and intelligence on other masters and Servants — the more detailed, the better. Finally..."

She looked at Xing, a sharp glint flashing in her purple eyes:

"Tell me, who made you summon me? Or rather, who arranged this... interesting encounter?"

Xing looked at Herta and blinked.

(Madam Herta’s instructions: Speak less, listen more, act according to circumstances, don’t expose yourself, and admit to being a clone when necessary.)

She thought for a moment and decided to partially confess.

"I am Xing. A clone of Xing."

Her voice was steady, "The summoning was an accident. I don’t know who arranged it."

She wasn’t lying.

The summoning was indeed an accident, and who arranged it? She really didn’t know.

Herta stared at Xing for a few seconds, seemingly judging the truth of her words.

(Clone... accidental summoning... don’t know who arranged it...)

(Either she is telling the truth, or her disguise and psychological resilience are so good that even I cannot see through them for the time being.)

(Forget it, intelligence is insufficient at this stage, observe first.)

Herta hummed softly, seemingly accepting this explanation for the time being.

"Xing, is it?"

She recited the name, her tone unclear, "Fine. Then, Xing, our first step now is to leave this godforsaken place and find a base with some value."

Xing nodded in agreement.

Just then, Herta suddenly sensed something.

She turned her head to look in a certain direction of the room — it was a wall, but her gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the wall and see into the distance.

"Oh? Interesting."

Herta’s lips curled into a playful smile, "Someone has already started moving... Magic power fluctuations, a Servant’s aura... in the northwest direction, about three kilometers away."

Xianzhou Luofu · A certain inconspicuous warehouse area

Kafka stood in the shadows of mountains of containers, the hem of her dark red trench coat motionless.

She had just finished reading the encrypted message from an unknown channel on her personal terminal.

[Processed.]

Only three words.

A faint, imperceptible smile appeared on Kafka’s beautiful face.

She turned off the screen and turned to look at the silver-haired girl leaning against a container nearby, focused on licking a rainbow-colored lollipop.

"Let’s go, Silver Wolf."

Kafka’s voice was as lazy and calm as always, but carried an unquestionable tone, "Don’t keep Xing and the others waiting."

Silver Wolf looked up from her game, blinked her eyes, which were mostly covered by goggles, and said vaguely: "Mmm... Is it done? Did that woman reply?"

"She replied with one sentence."

Kafka stepped forward, her high heels tapping crisp, rhythmic sounds on the metal floor, "However, this is enough. She admitted to interfering and implied she would control the impact. As for the details... she won’t say, and we don’t need to ask. The key nodes of the script haven’t deviated, that’s all that matters."

Silver Wolf shrugged, bit the lollipop, and made a "crunch" sound.

She casually swiped a few times in the air, a few light blue data streams flashed by, and the records of the surrounding surveillance cameras were silently overwritten with looped footage.

"Fine, whatever you say."

However, Kafka, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped again.

"What’s wrong?" Silver Wolf asked from behind, confused.

Kafka’s expression had turned a bit ugly.

Phantylia, disappeared!

Luofu · Teahouse · Private Room

This was a teahouse located on the edge of the commercial district, a quiet spot amidst the noise.

The decor was of a typical elegant Xianzhou style; the wooden window lattices were intricately carved, the room was filled with the faint scent of calming incense, and from the private room by the window, one could see the carefully tended bamboo groves and a pond of koi in the courtyard below.

At this moment, in the private room, the atmosphere was not as "calming" as the environment.

Around the round table, three people sat opposite each other.

Baiheng sat on the side near the window, still in her neat merchant attire, but she hadn’t removed the round black sunglasses from her face even indoors, covering those azure blue eyes — this was her most important disguise for now.

She sat up straight, hands on her knees, maintaining a slightly reserved smile on her face, looking like a junior listening attentively.

Opposite her, Jingliu sat quietly.

The former Sword Master was not wearing her military uniform today, but a simple casual outfit, making her figure appear even more upright and cold.

A black blindfold covered the eyes that had once made countless enemies tremble, but it also made her expression at this moment even harder to fathom.

She held a cup of tea in her hand, her fingertips unconsciously rubbing the warm cup wall, seemingly casual, but the faint, sharp aura around her seemed to make the air in the private room stagnate.

And sitting beside Baiheng, closer to the door, was Cipher.

This cat-eared girl was currently examining the furnishings in the private room with great interest.

Her soft, silver-white short hair gleamed faintly under the light filtering through the window lattice, and the pair of fluffy cat ears on top of her head turned gently from time to time out of curiosity.

Wearing light black clothing, the golden long boots wrapping her thighs added a touch of crispness to her playfulness.

"Regarding yesterday, it was Jingliu who was abrupt."

Jingliu finally spoke, her voice as cold as jade striking stone, without much apology, more like a straightforward notification, "I acted to test you without asking for the reason, accidentally injuring Miss Cipher, please forgive me."

When she spoke, her gaze seemed to pass through the black blindfold and land on Cipher — or rather, on the position beside Cipher, which was Baiheng’s location.

"Oh my, it’s fine, it’s fine~"

Cipher waved her hand, her Tail swinging leisurely behind her, her blue eyes curving into crescents, her smile bright and without any gloom, "Just a small scratch, it’s already healed! Jingliu, you’re too polite! But well..."

She changed the subject, her body leaning naturally towards Baiheng, almost sticking to Baiheng’s arm, her tone carrying a spoiled complaint: "Ah Bai is like that too, yesterday when she saw me get hurt, she was so nervous, insisted on dragging me to check for a long time, and even said something like ’don’t be so reckless next time’... even though she was the one who was scared first~"

Baiheng: "..."

(When did I nervously check for a long time?)

She complained internally, but her smile remained unchanged, even nodding helplessly in cooperation with Cipher’s words, her tone gentle: "After all, she is a friend I invited, if she was injured because of me, I would feel bad."

To Jingliu, this was clearly Baiheng’s undisguised care and affection for Cipher.

Her fingers holding the teacup tightened slightly for a moment.

"Miss Bai Xing and Miss Cipher seem quite familiar?" Jingliu asked in a flat tone, as if just mentioning it casually.

"It’s alright, it’s alright~"

Cipher answered before Baiheng, her cat ears twitching happily, "Ah Bai and I hit it off immediately! She is a good person, her snacks are delicious, and she can tell so many interesting stories~"

Baiheng: "..."

(Cipher! Say less! Don’t you see that the cold air on Jingliu is almost becoming substantial?!)

She quickly kicked Cipher lightly under the table, her smile somewhat stiff: "Miss Cipher is... lively and likes to joke. Please don’t mind, Lord Jingliu."

Jingliu looked in Baiheng’s direction, her brows furrowing under the blindfold.

(The action under the table...?)

(This Cipher, her words are frivolous, her behavior is casual, and her address to Bai Xing is too intimate... and Bai Xing seems quite indulgent towards her, even somewhat... accommodating?)

A gradually clear guess formed in Jingliu’s heart: the relationship between this mysterious, powerful cat-eared girl and Bai Xing is probably not as simple as "friends". And Bai Xing’s protection of her seems more like a compromise?

(Could it be... that this Cipher used some means to coerce Bai Xing?)

Once this thought arose, the inexplicable displeasure in Jingliu’s heart, caused by Cipher’s closeness to Bai Xing, quickly transformed into vigilance and a trace of... anger.

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