Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"So you really are a master at playing dumb—so you couldn't keep up the act this time?"

"Nonsense! Does Qianjie look like the kind of person who would buy a pillow to hug and sleep with?!"

Mebius rolled his eyes at Snow and continued—

"He'd be better off buying a punching bag the size of me and hanging it around there to hit me every day!"

"Wow, they're quite self-aware..."

"Emmmm...so we just have to find some unlucky scapegoat again—"

Snow fell into deep thought...

"Can't you guys just stop talking about it everywhere???"

Seeing the two deep in thought about which unlucky person to blame, Möbius loudly berated them...

"Cannot do" *2

"I feel like you're deliberately making things difficult for us socially anxious people—"

Snow retorted without hesitation.

"Socially anxious people? You guys???"

"Your full name for being a socially anxious person isn't social terrorism, is it?!"

"Congratulations, you got it right—but there was no prize... Now there is!"

After replying to Möbius, Snow seemed to have thought of something, slamming his right fist into his left palm, as if he had an idea—

"Let's just pin the blame on some purple-haired guy!"

The blonde girl seemed to be thinking of one of her purple-haired accomplices...

[Yeah, when I'm not working, I hide in my room with a gloomy face, playing my handheld console and PS5. My greatest pleasure is using my alt account to backstab Bronya in the middle of the night while she's sleeping, taking advantage of her recent world record.]

[Then, the next day, seeing Bronya's furious expression, I let out a scornful laugh...]

[And there are all sorts of weird and wonderful pillows and figurines—hmm, speaking of which, why does she have a Little Sirin wedding dress figurine in her closet? ? ? ]

[My choice—! I've decided on you... Penglai Temple, Nine Heavens!]

"Hmm... Purple Hair? My dear Snow, who are you talking about?"

"Ah... my... girlfriend? Maybe?"

The blonde girl said uncertainly, "Logically speaking, the most likely scenario if the two of them met right now would be that they'd be shouting 'I love you' while simultaneously engaging in a deadly fight..."

Hmm... it's definitely not a good time to see Jiuxiao right now....

Snow, after briefly imagining the scene, shuddered—this was too bizarre.jpg

"Ah...so there's a trick to pinning the blame on her—I actually recommend Kosmo more—"

"Indeed... a silent, unassuming person, always hanging around my little Greta..."

Möbius nodded in agreement.

"Ah...let that little Kosmo go...I suggest the Valkyrie Horaiji Kusho from Schicksal instead—"

—Since we're all on the same side, we can cheat as much as we want. We're all good people who will forgive each other.

The blonde girl recommended a purple-haired girl to the pink fairy and Mebius.

"She's a genuine homebody—playing games all night, owning countless body pillows and figurines, and a top-tier S-rank goddess with a terrible public reputation..."

"He bluntly said that going to work is like being in prison, and being present is like being allowed to go outside for fresh air... He drank so much that another S-class Valkyrie, Durandal, blacked out, and as a result, he had to take over Durandal's shift the next day. He is the number one problem child in the Destiny."

.......

"Um...that sounds absurd. In the Firemoth, a child like that is supposed to be fed to Aponia—so, your Schicksal bishop didn't do anything to her?"

"What can Theresa and Otto do...? The answer is they can't beat them. If you don't pay them, they'll just run off and mess around, and nobody can stop them—in the end, they'll have to pay out of their own pockets."

Snow then gave a grand introduction to another local tyrant in the Destiny, in a sense—Master Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple.

"And in order to slack off as soon as possible—when Jiuxiao is on duty, she always puts in 1000% effort, so... in the combat unit, this guy's reputation is not bad... so the two bishops are too lazy to care about her."

"It's not a loss to give away a tough old man, right?"

--

"Lord Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple... please show some decorum—"

In the Valkyrie's dormitory, Miss Jiuxiao, who was holding Ningdi and planning to betray the top-ranked Bronya once again, looked at the adjutant who barged into her room and curled her lip indifferently.

"What good is being respectable...? Tell me, what is it?"

"It's intelligence obtained through exchanges with anti-entropy; recently, a number of people have mysteriously disappeared... Following Dr. Einstein's deductions, the doctor has reached a conclusion—"

"Another new Herrscher has emerged—and is lurking within human civilization."

"A Herrscher lurking in the shadows...."

“He’s definitely a troublesome guy—I understand.”

*Throw tiles! !!

*Votes!*

*Le, backstabbing, but not completely backstabbing. I don't know about other authors, but I can keep making things up.

*Anyway, my side is the easiest to smooth things over. As the highest-ranking individual of the Imaginary Tree in this story's broken worldview, the little golden retriever directly demonstrates what idealism is all about ( ).

*Also, I'm cured of that demon Kevin! I couldn't be better! I declare myself to be the paradise of Nantong! (Just kidding!)

Eternal Paradise: Chapter 409 Interlude: For Whom Does the World Revolve?

At an unknown time, in a secluded and quiet room within the Paradise of the World Serpent, a conversation was taking place—

At the heart of this conversation, Mebius and the real Kevin initially just silently gazed at each other—only the cat that Mebius had brought back from the Tree of Imaginary Numbers circled around them.

"This is....."

Seeing that Mebius didn't seem to have any intention of getting straight to the point, Kevin shifted his attention to the strange, translucent cat on the ground.

"That's Number Seventeen, or rather, the only remaining part of Number Seventeen as we know it..."

"Number 17... How could this be... Wait, Möbius, are you saying this is the only remaining part of Number 17?"

“That’s right… When the last surviving member of Number Seventeen—your special ‘descendant’—came to us and asked about the Honkai consciousness, I thought the Stigmata Project was about to be exposed….”

“Until she led me to see that thing... Number Seventeen, no, it shouldn't be called Number Seventeen now, this cat is the only part of it left.”

Mebius glanced at the cat spinning on the ground, took a deep breath, and continued speaking.

"The anchor point we originally set for Honkai has become some kind of optimization patch for Honkai itself?"

After thinking for a while, the snake master could only come up with one adjective to describe its current state—

"And so, the back cave that Number Seventeen left for us—"

"The back cave disappeared long ago, Dr. Mebius."

Kevin interrupted Mebius with an unexpected answer.

"Disappeared a long time ago? Kevin, when—?!"

Mebius looked at Kevin in surprise, seemingly unable to believe it—

"Shouldn't the back cave left by Number Seventeen disappear soon?"

"It was probably before the second collapse of this era that the signs first appeared—the back cave left by Number Seventeen began to become very unstable, and from then on I had difficulty contacting Number Seventeen."

Kevin shook his head—

"At the time, I didn't know the reason—Doctor, you know I'm not good at these kinds of academic questions. Back then, I thought it was just some kind of 'network fluctuation'..."

"And then? Kevin, when did that vulnerability truly disappear?"

Mebius pressed the young man in front of him with questions.

"During the Third Honkai Impact, the vulnerability disappeared without warning, and I was never able to contact Number Seventeen again after that."

"It's as if some supreme will discovered this strange backdoor and this aberrant 'Honkai consciousness'..."

"After being swept by a force that was completely incomprehensible... the Stigmata Project failed in a sense—"

"...Did a higher-level will directly sever or eliminate that backdoor?"

"But if it's the Tree of Imaginary Numbers itself... wait—! Your descendant?!"

"Snow Apocalypse... the god of imaginary numbers, the only god in this world—Raiden Mei and Himeko Murata talked to me about the Third Honkai World centered around them..."

"They mentioned my descendant—when she reappeared before them after being struck by a lightning spear from the Third Herrscher, she was in a state akin to a god..."

Kevin nodded, as if he had found an answer—

"That must have been her first awakening... a transformation from a 'human' to a 'god' in the essence of life—"

"And the backdoor left by Number Seventeen must have been discovered by her, who was closer to God at that time, and was seen as a loophole in the rules, which was then eliminated..."

The young man sighed, seemingly with a sense of helplessness and bitterness...

"And not long after, this child approached me and proposed another plan—"

"I agreed, or rather, I didn't have a choice at the time..."

"Of course, now that things have come to this, we have even less of a choice..."

The man took a deep breath and continued—

"However, Sue told me... he saw the possibility and hope of victory—so at the time, we chose to leave the matter of what exactly happened to Number Seventeen unresolved."

"No—if what you're saying is true, Kevin, then Number Seventeen shouldn't have changed that much... What I've seen is that it's truly become a question-and-answer machine..."

"And that goddess seems to know nothing about it either..."

After listening to Kevin's account, Möbius seemed to have grasped some key point...

"Well... I don't know then—"

Kevin shook his head, indicating that this touched on a blind spot in his knowledge.

"You're all here..."