Chapter 123: Summoning of an Old Friend

On this side, Mobius and Himeko were going back and forth, one word from you and one word from me, the tension in the air becoming thicker and thicker.

Meanwhile, the person involved, Van, took the opportunity while the two weren't paying attention to inch little by little toward the edge of the sofa, trying to stay away from the line of fire.

Just at that moment, Raiden Mei's voice came from the kitchen, "Van, Teacher Himeko, time to eat. The curry still needs to stew a bit, so let's eat Class President Fu Hua's noodles first~"

Hearing the voice, Van felt like a heavy burden had been lifted and hurriedly got up to head to the dining room.

On the dining table, the aroma of five large bowls of clear noodles was overwhelming. And on top of the noodles, aside from the golden fried eggs, there were also some vegetables of various shapes.

Looking at the noodles in front of him that made one's mouth water, Van was just about to pick up his chopsticks, when he saw Mobius walk in from outside the front door with a takeaway meal and placed it in front of him.

"I bought your favorite spicy crayfish, come on, open up, ah~"

Beside her, Fu Hua calmly said, "Noodles must be eaten while hot, or they'll clump together and not taste good..."

Just at this moment, a 'ka-cha~' sound was heard.

Himeko directly opened a can of beer and placed it in front of Van, "Here, have a little appetizer drink."

Looking at the three people in front of him, Van's chopsticks froze in mid-air, unable to move forward or backward.

But it wasn't over yet.

Just when Van didn't know what to do, Raiden Mei, wearing gloves, came out from the kitchen holding a pot of curry.

"Curry's done, want some?"

Feeling the four scorching gazes beside him, Van could only choose to mix the crayfish and curry into the noodles.

After slurping a big mouthful of the crayfish curry mixed noodles, Van then took a sip of beer.

After all this, surprisingly it was not bad?

Just as Van, feeling like he'd unlocked a new way of eating, was preparing to survive this crisis this way, suddenly, Mobius leaned close to him and said, "Speaking of which, Van, your apartment is a bit small. Why not move into my lab? There are a lot of spare rooms there..."

But before she could finish, she was interrupted by Himeko, "Since some people feel it's crowded, how about leaving early?"

At this moment, Raiden Mei suddenly interjected, "Actually, my house is quite big, and there's even a private car that picks you up and drops you off every day. So how about..."

Hearing this, Van immediately felt the noodles in his mouth lose all taste.

He looked toward Fu Hua for help, hoping she would, like before, help ease the tense atmosphere.

And Fu Hua understood Van's gaze, put down her chopsticks, and opened her mouth, "Well... actually, my family's martial arts hall back home also has a pretty nice environment..."

Van, '¿¿¿ No, bro! Hua, even you...'

Looking at the four pairs of expectant eyes, Van silently put down his chopsticks,

"Um... I'm full. You guys go ahead and eat slowly..."

But just as Van stood up, four arms pressed him back into his seat.

"No, you're not full yet!" All for them said in unison.

At this moment, the moonlight outside the window was dense, the bright moonlight spreading across the windowsill, enchanting and beautiful.

But what Van saw was not the beautiful moonlight, but a pale whiteness in the pitch-black night sky.

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On the other side, while Van was still worrying about how he might die in the future, the internet had already exploded.

Because in the latest Honkai Impact 3 video, the person least likely to become a villain, Van, actually became the BOSS.

This, of course, made netizens say it was unacceptable.

But then again, on the other hand, some said they couldn't accept it, but many others said they had already mentally prepared for Van's betrayal.

And all of these mentally prepared people had one thing in common, and that was that they had seen the analysis videos of the Bilibili lore zone uploader "Fictional Historian."

After all, this uploader had predicted the possibility of Van's betrayal long ago.

However, at the time, since Van hadn't shown any signs of betrayal, in fact, because of "Final Lesson" and "Heavenly Meteor," he had gained a large number of fans online,

This led to the uploader "Fictional Historian" being gang-attacked by many of Van's fan groups.

Faced with the sudden wave of cyberbullying, the uploader "Fictional Historian" didn't feel uncomfortable at all, on the contrary, he was unusually excited.

Because it meant he could finally profit off the wave of hate traffic.

Fictional Historian had already thought it through. The moment his reputation turned bad enough that everyone on Bilibili wanted to throw eggs at him, that would be the perfect time to post an apology video.

By then, as long as he appeared on camera wearing a clown mask, with a few tears streaming down his face as a finishing touch, the heat of the topic would be beyond what he could imagine.

Thinking of this, the Fictional Historian even pre-ordered a bottle of champagne online, just waiting to pop it open on the day he became famous from hate.

But while the Fictional Historian was still fantasizing about riding the wave of hate traffic to fame, unexpectedly, his reputation took a sudden and complete reversal.

Those netizens who had once cursed at him all came to his comment section one by one to repent.

[Shocked! Didn't expect the uploader to be the greatest prophet]

[Turns out I was the clown]

[I apologize for the things I said to the uploader before!]

[Bilibili needs uploaders who dare to speak sharp truths]

[Turns out all that abstract behavior from Ah Xu before was just his camouflage, he's actually a genius acting foolish!]

Looking at the tens of thousands of repentance comments in his comment section, and his skyrocketing follower count, Fictional Historian was stunned.

'No way, bro! Don't turn me into some mythical "Honkai Impact 3 Great Prophet," okay!?'

'And for those people saying I might actually be a scriptwriter working inside MiHoyo, are you trying to get me killed!? Don't you know that on some dark web sites, the bounty for "finding a MiHoyo scriptwriter" has already reached the milion level!?

Watching the escalating personal worship in his comment section, Fictional Historian decided to post another ridiculous prediction video to lower his popularity.

After one day and one night of creating, a video titled, [Van is the Final Boss? No, that just means you haven't understood his true intentions.], was uploaded to Bilibili.

Many fans clicked in at the first moment, wanting to see what high-level theory the great Honkai Impact 3 prophet had this time.

At the beginning of the video, he still used his usual very abstract opening, "Before this video begins, there's one thing I need everyone to understand, and that is..."

"No one understands Honkai Impact 3 better than me!"

In the video, Fictional Historian completely overturned his earlier claim that Van was the final boss.

Instead, he portrayed Van as a hero who had no choice but to do what he did for a greater goal.

Once released, the video received support from Bilibili's traffic algorithm and quickly climbed to the homepage ranking.

Looking at the "sharp comments" that began to appear in his comment section again, Fictional Historian curled his lips into a crooked smile,

'To think I could use a wrong answer to cover up a previously right one... I'm seriously a f***ing genius!' Thinking of this, Fictional Historian took out the long-sealed champagne.

Then with a pop, he opened it. Just at that moment, the phone on his desk suddenly made a push notification sound. He picked it up to look.

[Your specially followed uploader @MiHoyo's Number One Idol Ai-chan just updated, go watch now!]

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