Chapter 84 The Moon Is Reunited, but the Old Relationship Is Hard to Let Go

Time flies, it always flies by, and in a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Zhongqiu Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Mother Festival, Reunion Festival, etc., together with Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival, are known as the four traditional festivals in China.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from worshiping the moon on Autumn Eve in ancient times. It was popularized in the Han Dynasty, finalized in the early Tang Dynasty, and became popular after the Song Dynasty.

The original "Moon Sacrifice Festival" was held on the "autumn equinox" of the 24th solar term in the Ganzhi calendar, but later it was moved to the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has included worshiping the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine and other customs.

Since China is relatively large, the customs and habits of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival may be different in different regions, but it seems that they all have the custom of admiring the moon and eating moon cakes.

For most people, the Mid-Autumn Festival represents a day of reunion. However, for people without family members, the Mid-Autumn Festival may not be a good feeling in their hearts.

People's joys and sorrows are not the same. Perhaps only they themselves understand what it feels like.

For example...Bella.

Bella has no family, no father or mother. If she had to find a family for her, maybe Wutong and Sakura could barely be considered her family.

Because only Sakura and Wutong know all her "past" and experiences.

Therefore, Bella planned to go to Wutong's house to celebrate the festival today.

However, plans can never keep up with changes. Siren's invitation to her and Jizi's mother and daughter made Bella hesitate. After much thought, she finally chose to accept the invitation.

Yesterday the wind blew and no one was there, but tonight the light is as clear as in previous years.

In the evening, it started to rain lightly in Taixu Mountain. It didn't rain for five minutes before the thick clouds were broken by a big guy who "drilled" out of nowhere.

Clear away the clouds and see the bright moon.

Xilin's house was very lively tonight. Xilin's mother cooked a sumptuous dinner, but no one was watching the moon.

The TV in the living room was playing a comedy movie that no one was watching, and Xilin was chatting away while eating.

Bella tasted the sweet-scented osmanthus wine in silence, ate the fruit, and rarely interrupted. However, she quite liked the atmosphere at the moment. Sometimes, she felt that if Jizi's family and Xilin's family became a family, it might be very difficult. Happy and contented.

Of course, she didn't say what she was thinking. Xilin and Jizi were still young and might not feel anything, but the two mothers might feel very embarrassed.

"Bella, Bella." Siren tapped the table lightly with her chopsticks, and her voice interrupted Bella's thoughts.

"Um?"

"Can you let me experience the fantasy you experienced?"

"No." Bella refused decisively.

The "illusion" she had experienced was still in her hands. Bella did not return the feather to heaven, and no one asked her for it.

Maybe it's because that's her "life".

A false life, a life in which no one knows the details except Sakura, Wutong and herself.

"Don't be so stingy! I also want to experience the past you have experienced."

"You want to improve your academic performance, right?" Bella exposed Sirin's lies ruthlessly.

"cough!"

Xilin coughed lightly, smiled awkwardly but politely and said, "I have everything."

The great Master Fugu already knew about Himeko's plan to take the college entrance exam early next year. She couldn't sit still. She wanted to go to school with Himeko forever, go to the same school and in the same class.

"It's not that I don't let you experience it, it's that you can't bear it."

"Why can't I bear it?" Xilin was very unconvinced. She felt that she was no worse than Bella.

"That illusion lasted too long, and it will have an unpredictable impact on your character, thoughts, and yourself as a human being." Bella explained calmly, "You'd better experience those days and days. Weeks or months of 'ordinary' fantasy."

The situations of Bella and Siren are different. The previous Bella was a "blank slate" with false and vague memories. The decades of experience in the fantasy world shaped her character, outlook, etc. shaped her as a person.

Xilin already has a real "story" of fifteen years, and other people's decades of experience can easily change and affect her, not to mention such an "exciting" experience.

"I won't be affected." Xilin patted her medium-sized chest and said confidently.

“Do you think you will be who you are twenty years from now?”

"Yes! I am who I am, and fireworks with different colors will never change!" Xilin said self-righteously.

"..."

Bella didn't know where she got her confidence.

In fact, some of Bella's current behaviors and habits are the same as hers in the fantasy.

For example, a while ago, when Bella saw Alicia at Wutong's house, she subconsciously said hello to Ellie, but Ellie didn't recognize her, which made Bella feel a little... The discomfort made her feel uncomfortable all afternoon, and she felt particularly uncomfortable.

But Ai Li was indeed Ai Li. Although she didn't know why the beautiful little girl in front of her was disappointed, she pestered Bella for several days until Bella went back to school.

Alicia is happy to make friends with Bella, who makes Bella good-looking.

Beautiful, kind, lively and consistent girls are really hard to dislike. Although Alicia is a bit talkative and occasionally annoying, Bella was really in a good mood those days.

For another example, Bella still calls Wutong "Brother Wutong", which is also her habit in the fantasy world.

But this didn't matter. Although others didn't know what was going on, Wutong and Sakura knew that Bella's decades of experience had no impact on the two old monsters.

In the eyes of others, Taixu illusion is false, but for Bella, it is her experience, her past, and part of her life.

Perhaps the reason why she made the dolls look like pre-civilized people in her memories was because she imagined that one day, fantasy would become reality.

In other words, she wants to create reality within fiction.

Of course, Bella knew in her heart that this was impossible, and even if she succeeded, it would only be to deceive herself and others for comfort.

Bella knew that her palace was just a "stage" and "theater", the puppets were "actors", and she was the only "audience".

If you include Wutong, he is the only audience.

The actors will try their best to perform what the audience likes to see, but what they perform is just a performance, not reality.

Fortunately, she is not alone. At least Wutong and Sakura understand her.

Bella sometimes thinks that she should hate Wutong and Sakura because they forced her to have a false life.

However, she really couldn't hate it. Not only did she not hate it, but she was very grateful because she cherished that different life and she couldn't let go of her past experience. That illusory dream taught her a lot, letting her know what a human being is, how to behave, why she should live, and the meaning of her life.

The illusion made her real, the unique Bella.

She is no longer an ignorant Judgment-level Honkai Beast, nor is she a simple Herrscher, but a free and complex person with her own will.

Well...it's not that free, and she still owes a lot of money.

"Let's discuss it! My dear Bella." Sirin grabbed Bella's arm, shook it, and said coquettishly, "It's okay, this Lord Herrscher is very powerful! Don't worry about me. It's just a fantasy. That’s it, it’s not like Jizi and I haven’t experienced it before. Let’s do this, I promise you, as long as you let me experience it tonight, when I wake up tomorrow morning, I will see a psychiatrist.”

School has a three-day holiday during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Bella pulled out her arm and shook her head: "That illusion can't be solved by seeing a psychiatrist. I won't do it if I say no."

"How did you..."

"Celine!" Celine's mother suddenly said, "Don't be ignorant! You are already 15 years old, why are you still fooling around?! Look at Bella, she is only two years old, she is much more sensible than you!"

"Hey...it's true." Xilin's mother turned to Jizi's mother and said, "It would be great if Bella or Jizi were my daughters."

"..."

Ji Zi's mother was a little unsure for a moment, was Xilin's mother hinting at something...

Hmm... maybe she's overthinking it, Xilin's mother looks quite normal.

Her hobbies are quite normal.

"..."

Xilin puffed up her face, feeling somewhat unconvinced. Why wasn't she sensible? Why aren't Himeko and Bella more sensible?

Their mother didn't understand them. Himeko was sometimes naive, and Bella was sometimes reckless.

Siren rolled her golden eyes, raised her voice deliberately, and said, "Bella, let me ask you something."

"Say it."

Bella peeled off a whole dragon fruit and cut it into pieces with a knife.

She doesn't like to eat moon cakes.

"After you had just become a Herrscher, why did you want to deprive me of my Herrscher core and kidnap me?"

Xilin's mother was stunned when she heard this, turned around and asked, "When did it happen?"

"..."

Bella didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Why? How does she know why?

Hmm... It should be said that she knew why, but she couldn't say.

Would Bella have done that if it wasn't to complete the task assigned to her by the "system"?

impossible!

She had no motive and no reason to do that.

Bella didn't want to do that, and she wasn't stupid, so how could she try to fight against Huawei?

To be honest, she was a little scared when she thought about it now. How stupid was she to think of a way to defeat Hua with force?

Bella has already watched the previous videos of the infinite group competition. The gap between Hua and her... Let's put it this way, it is impossible for her to defeat Hua.

That Taixu Sword God is "throwing around" as if he doesn't need money. It's scary to think about it.

Well...it doesn't cost any money.

Bella is now very sensitive about money.

The "system" is the same, thinking how inhuman the fox is to use that method to test her character, test what she will do, test whether she has betrayed humanity...and use her to lure out Mebius.

What a blessing! Fortunately, Kevin went to the moon that day, and I don’t know if it was arranged in advance by Dan Fox.

Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous and Hua Neng would scatter her ashes.

But then again, although what Sakura did was inappropriate, Bella could understand it.

After waking up from Taixu Illusion, it is unclear whether she is an enemy or a friend. If Bella were to stand in Sakura's position, then she would definitely use some methods to test the thinking, moral concepts and code of conduct of the new Herrscher. , testing whether the newly born Herrscher betrayed mankind.

Hmm... No, I should say whether he betrayed Honkai.

Otherwise, for ordinary people, it may be disaster, pain, family destruction and death.

Bella has experienced pre-civilization and knows what the Herrschers of pre-civilization were like and how "insidious" they were, so she can understand Sakura's approach.

Of course, understanding is understanding, but it is completely different from how good or bad she feels about Sakura.

Bella doesn't like Sakura.

I don’t like Sakura from the pre-civilization era, and I also don’t like Sakura now.

In the pre-civilization period, Sakura was the "god of death" who harvested life, and even killed Wutong. Although that was Wutong's plan, Bella didn't know it, and she was kept in the dark.

In her eyes, Wutong was dead, and the people who had taken care of her were dead. They did not die on the battlefield or in the Honkai Impact, but they died in the hands of dirty bad guys. The murderer was a high-ranking member of Fire Chasing Moth, and the murder weapon was Sakura.

She just wants to avenge Wutong.

Even later, Bella knew the truth and knew that Sakura was actually Wutong's "knife", but her "seed" of bad feelings towards Sakura had been buried too deep and for too long, even if she dug up the "seed" When it came out, it also left a "pit".

"Bella, speak up! Why did you hurt me then?" Xilin said reluctantly.

Bella came back to her senses and said calmly: "That was my test for you."

"Test? What test?"

"Test whether you are qualified to be my master."

"..."

Siren heard that Bella meant that she was not qualified.

"Then, then, why did you send me back intact again? Are you afraid of me?!"

"Because you failed the test, you are pitifully fragile, and so weak that I don't want to hurt you."

"..."