In the narrow aisle, Leo constantly waved his long sword, turning the Zombies before him into flying ash.
"Hiss! It hurts!"
Although Kiana wouldn't be infected by this, being grabbed by Zombies really hurt.
"Bear with it for now."
Leo had no other choice regarding this; after all, in the process of killing his way from the Negative First Floor to the first floor, he had also been wounded.
There was no helping it; the number of Zombies was simply too great!
Watching the Zombies surging onto the corridor from who knows where, he couldn't help but feel a headache.
One must know, he was currently in a weighted state. If it were just him, it wouldn't be a big problem; after all, they were just Zombies.
But after carrying a person on his back, he realized that simple weight-bearing and fighting while weight-bearing were two different things.
At most... kill his way through the second floor?
To be honest, he felt he had been a bit too optimistic.
But now he couldn't care about so much; killing his way forward was the key!
The slender and sharp long sword waved constantly; he forcibly carved out a bloody path.
The scant dark red blood from those Zombies all splattered onto his body.
It was only because he currently possessed Honkai Resistance; otherwise, if it were the original him, just this dark red blood could have taken his life.
Even if it didn't turn him directly into flying ash, it would have infected him into a Zombie.
One could only say, doing the butterfly stroke in a cesspool was just like this!
"Huff... huff..."
Finally carrying Kiana up to the second floor, he clearly felt his stamina was about to reach its limit.
Having one life left, he didn't fear death, but he wasn't sure if Kiana would return to the starting point or just be gone after he died, so he was actually quite anxious.
And his state was naturally seen by Kiana behind him.
—Is this the limit? Really... forget it.
Although she thought this, looking at Leo who still hadn't abandoned her despite this, Kiana couldn't say such mocking words even in her heart.
And fundamentally speaking, if that thing hadn't happened when she woke up, she would have even felt goodwill toward Leo.
Of course, this wasn't to say she liked Leo's model, but that Raiden Mei was obviously brought by the other party.
And judging from her mental outlook, Raiden Mei hadn't suffered any torture, indicating Leo was tentatively a good person.
Therefore, in her view, Leo was inevitably an object worth trusting.
Only, only... why did that kind of thing happen!?
Losing her first kiss was one thing, but it was in front of Mei!!!
Precisely because of this, her impression of Leo naturally couldn't get any better.
But even so, looking at Leo fighting desperately for her, this ill feeling was rapidly disappearing, and she was even a little moved.
Thus—
"Accept my blessing, though this is my last bit of strength."
Finished speaking, she turned the trace of Honkai energy she had managed to recover with difficulty into a blessing for Leo, pouring it into Leo's body.
"Hm?"
Leo, who was feeling exhausted and desperately thinking of a way to break the situation, couldn't help but feel a healing power far exceeding what he had sensed before.
Even the Zombies surrounding them began to retreat after sensing this power.
Undoubtedly, this was the enhanced version of the power Kiana had been emitting while sleeping earlier.
"Hah!"
Without responding to Kiana, Leo understood that killing their way out now was the key.
His right hand, which originally couldn't wave the long sword anymore, was injected with new power at this moment.
Forcibly, he killed his way up to the third floor.
At this moment, he only prayed that the third floor was devoid of monsters just like when he first saw it.
However, he froze.
Because although there were no Zombies on the third floor, there were Dead Soldiers!
And at the end point where the Teleport Anchor was, two Dead Soldiers he was very familiar with were waiting—Guard Zombie and Claw Zombie!
Only now did he understand what was up with the previous Zombies... they were all the Zombies he had slain in the past two days!
"This really doesn't want to let people live!"
Seeing this, he couldn't help but feel like giving up.
After all, let alone Kiana's blessing being almost exhausted, even if he were in full condition, he wouldn't dare guarantee he could defeat the Guard Zombie and Claw Zombie guarding the end.
Of course, such a thought of giving up only flashed past for a moment.
After all, as the saying goes, he might live, but Kiana might not, so even if there was only a sliver of hope left, he would absolutely not give up.
This time, he didn't rush to charge again, but stopped his steps, calmly waiting for those "ordinary" Dead Soldiers to actively come up to seek death.
After all, with his current stamina, it simply didn't support him initiating an attack.
But even defending—
"Hiss!"
Raising his left hand to forcibly block the scythe waved over, Leo felt his left hand was losing sensation.
But his right hand still slashed horizontally at flying speed, turning this Dead Soldier that successfully inflicted heavy damage on him into flying ash.
Only... there were still more than ten, how to withstand this?
Using the scant remaining Honkai energy to staunch the bleeding, he felt a burst of dizziness, and even became somewhat unsteady, able to only support his body by leaning against the corridor wall.
"You, you..."
After unreservedly releasing her last strength to Leo, Kiana had been unconscious for a short while.
And when she woke up, what she saw was an even more desperate scene.
Involuntarily, she spoke: "Put me down and run away yourself."
"The me here isn't the main body, it doesn't matter even if I die, but you..."
At this moment, she somewhat understood why Raiden Mei trusted this man.
After all, for the other party to fight to this extent and still not put her down, he was indeed a man worth entrusting.
Now, she completely didn't care about the previous accident.
Only—
"Don't speak discouraged words to me!"
Another slash with the right hand, Leo parried the scythe chopping towards him, then retreated half a step again.
"I protected you all the way here, not to hear you say these things."
"Tell me, can you still chew things?"
"Hm?"
"Speak quickly!"
Risking injury to his left shoulder, he successfully stabbed the long sword into the heart of the Dead Soldier in front of him, then with a forceful twist, he traded injury for injury and solved another Dead Soldier.
However, the current him didn't even have Honkai energy to stop the bleeding; the blood from his left shoulder surged out as if it were free, making Kiana behind him feel a burst of damp heat.
"I can!"
Seeing this, Kiana hurriedly replied.
"Then chew these two Honkai energy fragments for me!"
With a thought, Leo fed the two Tiny Honkai Fragments from the system space into Kiana's mouth.
To be honest, it was only because he could place items from the system space at any position around him; otherwise, with his left hand injured and right hand holding the sword, he really couldn't have fed the Honkai energy fragments to Kiana.
Now, he only expected his conjecture to be correct, otherwise... Kiana might really perish here!
However, the next moment—
"Splurt!"
Reflecting the moonlight, the scythe slashed down towards Leo without reservation.
This time, Leo was powerless to block, so his chest was directly slashed open by this scythe, revealing the flesh, white bone, and internal organs within; fresh blood sprayed the face of the Dead Soldier in front of him.
Yet even so, he still relied on the long sword in his hand to stand in place without falling.
And Kiana's eyes widened.
The next moment, the tiny Honkai energy fragments disintegrated in her mouth, and a powerful aura vented from her body.
—Kiana, launching!
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