Chapter 83: How Many Memories Did Fu Hua Burn?

It must be said that the scene where Fu Hua battled the Herrscher of Dominance left a profound impression on Luo Lin. Whenever this incident was brought up, the scene would always replay in her mind.

The Herrscher had droned on for a while, insisting that Fu Hua should resolve her own troubles. In reality, her demeanor had softened, and with a few more words, they could have reached a mutually beneficial agreement to lend power. However, Fu Hua, masquerading as an anxious person, made a grab for it.

"Sorry—!" Seizing the moment when Senti relaxed, Fu Hua forcefully yanked the chain representing the Herrscher's power towards herself.

...

"You old fossil! You—!" Senti watched this scene through the mental link, labeled with tags like "initial deception" and "exasperating the old timer," listening to her own frustrated voice, feeling both strange and embarrassed.

She fell silent. She covered her face, murmuring, "...So it was Fu Hua that you were talking about. This guy really is like an old timet... Wait, is it really so easy to snatch the Herrscher's power?"

After saying this, Senti's expression became subtle. She looked at the black feather-like Herrscher core still inside her, realizing that taking it away didn't require much effort..

But wait, she was the Herrscher herself, so it was only natural to reclaim it effortlessly—so why did Fu Hua manage to do it with just a pull?

"Is there a possibility that you actually trust Fu Hua very much? So you..."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. What you know isn't the real me," Senti said with utmost certainty. "Compared to the old timer, I now trust you more."

After saying this, Senti was stunned. She looked at Luo Lin's surprised expression, and her face turning red in an instant.

Luo Lin's gaze became subtle.

Did she just let slip?

Senti exclaimed, "You, trying to trick me! You're really cunning, too much like Otto!"

"...I won't comment on why you're using Otto as a benchmark, but the mental link has always been active. If I wanted to trick you, wouldn't you have known by now?"

Seeing Senti's expression, Luo Lin shook her head—she seemed less stubborn than Mobius.

There's a joke that says when the Herrscher destroys the Earth, Mobius still survives because her mouth still exists...

"I seem to have some impression of the person you're talking about, but not much," Senti said after careful thought. She suddenly clapping her hands. "Isn't that the green-haired doctor in this consciousness world? And she seems quite capable in combat!"

Luo Lin looked at Senti with pity. "Think again? Can't you remember who Mobius is?"

"I really can't remember..."

Seeing Senti scratching her head, the girl scratched her own. Mobius was Fu Hua's comrade, always tying her to the operating table for experiments, probably a hundred times or so? With such experiences, how could Senti suddenly forget?

Could it be...

"A hundred times? Is it that exaggerated? ...Fu Hua actually hates being experimented on!"

Listening to Luo Lin's thoughts, Senti felt incredulous. "Even Otto went all out, threatening and tempting her, making promises just to get her lie on that damn memory immersion device—does Mobius have great persuasion abilities?"

Senti rummaged through the memories she "copied and pasted" from Fu Hua, finally finding a tiny remnant left over—

[Doctor], [Mobius did it], [Thirteen Flamechasers]...?!

"The Thirteen Flamechasers?!"

"Well, I've been thinking for so long, did Fu Hua really burn these memories?"

Luo Lin was also a bit dumbfounded. Fu Hua burned these memories too?

Upon careful consideration, when Fu Hua used Fenghuang Down to burn her memories, she usually only burned the "heavyweight" memories to restore her state. Memories of The Thirteen Flamechasers would definitely have enough weight...

"Senti, how many of the Thirteen Flamchasers does Fu Hua still remember?"

"Let me see... Kevin, Su, Mobius, Elysia... That's it."

"What about the events from the previous era? Do you still remember what Fu Hua's father looked like? And that classmate who looked like Carole?"

"Uh, I don't remember."

Luo Lin sighed, "She really burned them clean."

With her sigh, Senti received the appearance of the Thirteen Flamechasers through the mental link. After staring for a while, she exclaimed in surprise, "Wait a minute? How do you know about the Thirteen Flame Chasers—ah, is it also from 'Honkai Impact 3rd'??"

Luo Lin's brain gave the answer first, and the girl could only helplessly add, "Yes, that's right."

"It seems like I've seen these people when I invaded your consciousness with Fenghuang Down... No, I wasn't there at the time, it was Fu Hua!"

Senti naturally recalled the memory space she saw when Fu Hua first came to Nagazora and investigated Luo Lin's memories from outside the bedroom door. At that time, Fu Hua only felt a sense of deja vu and didn't pay much attention to them..

Now, upon closer inspection, many of them were theoretically "acquaintances"!

This is really outrageous!

Senti grabbed Luo Lin's hand. "What kind of game is this 'Honkai Impact 3rd'? Tell me more!"

Honkai Impact 3rd...

When Senti asked this, Luo Lin couldn't immediately think of words to describe the game.

[Come play Honkai Impact 3rd, the plot is so sweet!], [Ignite the soul of action], [My Phone is on fire, Literally, the grap-], [Himeko!!!], [One cup of tea, one pack of cigarettes, one Abyss, and a day], [The combat machine in mobile gaming], [Storage space devourer]...

The chaotic thoughts made Senti a little dizzy.

She quickly told Luo Lin not to think too much. "You're overthinking, and it's making me confused too—forget all the other stuff, just tell me about what you know, about me, the 'Herrscher'!"

"Is there such a negative side effect from the mental link?"

Luo Lin was stunned for a moment. She hadn't expected such chaotic contemplation to lead to this consequence. After regaining her composure, she began to recount, "Then let's start with Fu Hua being shot in the head by Otto..."

As a MANTIS, Fu Hua had extremely powerful recovery abilities, which Otto took advantage of. He aimed carefully when he shot her, not blowing her head to bits in one go.

After all, Otto believed he understood Fu Hua's thoughts. Even if she took this kind of lethal blow. Once she recovered, he could still manipulate her with "protecting humanity and guarding Shenzhou."

Who would have thought that before that shot, Fu Hua had exerted all her strength to transfer her consciousness to Fenghuang Down, which presented an opportunity that Honkai seized upon... And thus, the entity known as the "Herrscher of Sentience" was born from the vacant body.

But what no one had anticipated was the weight of fifty thousand years of memories, which turned the Herrscher into Fu Hua herself.

"So that's how I came into existence there..." Senti murmured.