What if your Honkai Star Rail was like this?

Chapter 375: Chapter 375: Social Skills, Man-Eating Tree

”Bailu, I’m begging you, please stop overthinking!” Jing Yuan looked at Bailu with tears in his eyes, sincere and heartfelt: ”It really, really isn’t what you imagine!”

Jing Yuan felt somewhat helpless, somewhat broken down, and somewhat like cursing.

Normally Bailu seemed quite silly, so why did she suddenly become ”smart” at critical moments?

”Really?”

Bailu stroked her chin. Suddenly, inspiration struck her. She raised one finger: ”Eh! You just repeated ’really’ twice, using the rhetorical device of repetition to emphasize... So you actually mean it’s fake, right?”

Jing Yuan: ???

How did she even make that connection?

However, the next second, he felt Jingliu’s palm slam solidly into his back. The powerful force immediately made him spit out a mouthful of blood, dyeing the ground in front of him red.

”Old Jing!”

Seeing this scene, Bailu immediately stared in shock and said: ”666 Old Jing, I worried about you for nothing. When did you secretly eat fire dragon fruit behind my back?”

Jing Yuan: ...

When people reach the extreme of speechlessness, they really will laugh.

You two are both setting me up, right?

Jingliu didn’t need to be mentioned—she never treated him as a human at all. As for Bailu... she was selectively smart. She acted dumb when she should be smart, and overthought wildly when she shouldn’t.

Could it be that I am actually just a part of your play?!

Jing Yuan struggled to show a smile at Bailu and said: ”Bailu, ah, if you have any complaints about me, just say them directly. Don’t deliberately borrow someone else’s hand to kill me at a time like this, okay?”

Bailu was stunned again. Her little head began operating at full speed, even producing faint black smoke from the top... After a long while, she excitedly said: ”Ohhh——I got it!”

”You said I have complaints about you, but I know I have no complaints about you at all. So why fabricate such a thing? This means you’re hinting at the word ’complaint’!”

”So you must mean that you’ve long had complaints about your Master. Everything you said earlier was to deceive me, but you didn’t dare say it outright, right?”

Jing Yuan looked back in horror, then hurriedly explained, ”Complaint my ass! Stop guessing randomly!”

”Ass? The English for head is head, the first letter of head is h. The first character you get when typing h in input method is ’good’... So I guessed correctly?”

Jing Yuan: !!!

”Graaaaah—!”

Another palm strike powerful enough to split mountains and crack stones landed on Jing Yuan’s back, forcefully making him spit out another mouthful of blood.

”Hungry? No, you clearly just ate fire dragon fruit, so how could you be hungry? This must also be a hint... Oh, I understand. The ’hungry’ here doesn’t refer to you yourself, but to your Master.”

”You want to say your Master is hungry, but when Stelle called me earlier, she was eating with your Master, so your Master shouldn’t be hungry. Therefore, this doesn’t refer to hunger in the general sense. Could it be physiological hunger?”

Bailu’s speaking speed became faster and faster. Bursts of wise light surged from the top of her head. This segment of intellectual battle had simply reached the peak of her life!

”Combined with the fact that these conversations only appeared after I arrived here... What?! Your Master’s real target is actually me?! Damn bottom-tier woman, disgusting!”

Rumble—!

When Jingliu heard the word ”disgusting,” it was as if she had been struck by lightning. Her entire body froze in place, petrified.

”Jing Yuan...” Her voice was so cold it seemed like it could freeze.

”Master, I really didn’t imply anything! She’s the one guessing wildly!!”

”You’re useless now. Prepare to look at the ultimate technique diagram...”

”Wait, wait a moment, Master! My hit sound effect has always been this! If you don’t believe me, go check the previous three hundred and seventy-four Chapters. I always make this sound every time I get hit!”

Jingliu slapped down fiercely. Wherever her palm passed, even space shattered, revealing a starry background behind it.

—”Wait a moment!”

At this time, Xueyi, whom Bailu had brought along, suddenly spoke up to stop them. She took out a gourd and said: ”Be, fore, we, make, a, move, let, us, first, go, through, the, pro, ce, dure.”

”Just, now, we, re, ceived, no, ti, fi, ca, tion, from, Trail, bla, zer, Miss, say, ing, that, some, one, here, is, pos, sessed, by, a, Heli, o, bus. The, cur, rent, scene, is, cha, otic. I, sus, pect, it, is, in, flu, enced, by, the, Heli, o, bus, so, be, fore, we, make, a, move, let, us, first, check, to, a, void, you, do, ing, some, thing, you, will, re, gret, for, the, rest, of, your, life.”

Heliobus?

Everyone hearing this word couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment. Then they all slapped their foreheads at the same time: Ah, we were so busy eating this melon that we forgot the main matter.

Among them, Jing Yuan reacted the fastest due to his overflowing survival instinct. He immediately hugged Jingliu’s thigh and echoed: ”Yes yes yes! My Master was possessed by a Heliobus, which is why she did so many muddle-headed things.”

”Causing the Universe Locust Plague, creating the anti-organic equations, founding Penacony, locking the [Erudition] Path... All of these were definitely done by that Heliobus!”

Jing Yuan shouted loudly: ”Truly a despicable, shameless, filthy, low-down, evil-doing scoundrel who borrows money and doesn’t repay it!”

The hidden greedy Heliobus: Me... me?

”This, ar, ti, fact, is...”

Before Xueyi could finish speaking, Sushang behind her took out a remote control and pressed a button on her: ”Speak at double speed, otherwise someone will say you’re padding the runtime.”

Xueyi: ”...”

Xueyi: ”This artifact was crafted by the Artisanship Commission specifically to capture Heliobuses. Using it, we can detect and extract the Heliobus... (the following one million words of instruction manual are omitted)”

Ten minutes later.

The greedy Heliobus sat inside the gourd with a face full of confusion, unable to understand the sudden plot twist for a long time.

Ber... Weren’t those three people just having an intellectual battle? How did it suddenly turn toward me?

Moreover, I didn’t even do anything!

The greedy Heliobus looked blankly outside the gourd. Jing Yuan was holding both of Jingliu’s hands, bowing deeply in apology. His face was full of the affection between master and disciple: ”Ah~ Master! This disciple was unfilial just now. This disciple misunderstood you!”

”So those bad things were all done by this damnable Heliobus! You are the victim!”

Jingliu, on the other hand, showed a face full of remorse: ”Sigh... Disciple, ah, Master was also confused by that Heliobus earlier. This is also my fault for having a weak mind.”

”Hey, Master, what are you saying? Everyone has flaws, unless you were born flawless, but how could that be possible?”

”Heh, disciple, ah, I offended you quite a bit during our sparring earlier. How about Master helps circulate your meridians later?”

”Ahahaha, no need Master, no need.”

”Don’t refuse~”

At this moment, Jing Yuan and Jingliu stood together with mutual respect, both faces showing the warmth between master and disciple. However, behind each of their backs, they hid a hand gripping a weapon.