Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"No, this is impossible—"

However, Kiana's conjecture was interrupted by Velvi and Mebius before it could be established.

"There are only twelve Herrschers in your era! Even including that Herrscher of the End, there are only thirteen!"

"Um...can I ask why???"

Kiana, somewhat embarrassed by being interrupted by the two highly educated individuals, looked at Mebius and Velvet...

"There's no reason why!"

The two glanced at Kiana, who seemed as academically naive as Kevin, and gave her a look that said, "Your cultural level is too low; explaining this to you is too much trouble..."

"Oh...you guys are discriminating against people with lower levels of education, aren't you???"

Kiana's lips twitched.

"Is it possible that Kevin's descendants... even if we explain, you still wouldn't understand?"

Vervi gave a mocking look...

"Ahem, then, you two doctors, please explain this to me... If it were me, it shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Otto coughed a few times and glanced at everyone on the field—the Anti-Entropy people weren't here, and he didn't know what was going on with his old friend. The kid named Bronya from his own side probably had a pretty good education, and only he, this 500-year-old old man, had any real skill left.

“Mr. Otto, you could… but it would be even better if you could relay the description to them in an easy-to-understand way.”

Vervi nodded.

"Hmm...I tried my best?"

The man touched his chin uncertainly.

--

"So, the doctors from the previous civilization used some means to give 'Honkai' a consciousness, and this consciousness fixed all the types of Herrschers that would appear in our era and arranged them in the exact same order as in the previous civilization?"

"That's right—"

Otto nodded, glancing at Dr. Möbius and Ms. Vervie with a hint of admiration...

"Those two are really bold and crazy..."

"Trying is always better than doing nothing, and besides, we succeeded—"

"Speaking of which, you two have been mentioning Miss Alicia and Miss Padofelis..."

"But I don't seem to have seen those two anywhere?"

Otto glanced somewhat perplexed at the positions where the heroes were sitting...

Then everyone realized something was wrong...

Of the thirteen heroes, only ten were present.

"Wait a minute—I almost forgot, where's Alicia???"

Reminded by Otto, Velvet immediately sensed something was wrong... She turned to look at Eden, who was whispering with Kosmo, while Möbius noticed something else...

"Kosmo—where's your sister Gretchen??? Wait, what happened to the cat too???"

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Eternal Paradise: Chapter 527 You guys caused trouble and didn't even include me! by Wilvi

Eden and Kosmo, now under the watchful eyes of everyone, stopped talking, their faces showing a mixture of tension and confusion...

"Ellie disappeared this morning. According to Kosmo, she seemed to have taken Gretchen out to play, but neither Kosmo nor I have been able to contact her or Gretchen since then..."

"As for Pado..."

Velvi frowned, as if she had remembered something—

"If I remember correctly, today was the day that Pado and that Jiuxiao from Penglai Temple were exchanging information and making a deal?"

"Wait a minute, now that you mention it... it seems like Jiuxiao from Penglai Temple didn't come either???"

Thinking this, Velvi raised her head and glanced at everyone. Good, she didn't see the purple-haired Valkyrie at all... not even the purple-haired kid.

Wait... the purple-haired kid is gone too??

"Why are more and more people disappearing the more we push the message out? — Could this whole thing be something these missing guys did because they're bored? And they didn't even include me!!!"

"..."

"What are you talking about...Vilvie? What do you mean by 'making trouble without including you'...???"

Upon hearing this, Mr. Kevin's blood pressure started to spike!

"Ahem, I mean, didn't you guys notice that it's not just Alicia and Paddo who's missing???"

Sensing something was amiss, Velvi immediately changed the subject—

"Look, Ellie is gone, Pado is gone, Gretchen is gone—and upon closer examination, Snow has also mysteriously disappeared, Miss Horaiji Kusho is gone, and her adorable little Sirin is gone too—"

"By the way, did any of you see those two little tagalongs with that kid?"

Suddenly remembering something, Velvi looked at everyone...

"A tagalong?"

"Miss Wilvi is referring to the Sirin doll and Benares, right?"

Kiana scratched her hair, looking somewhat troubled.

"That's right, it's those two."

"Hmm...I didn't see her. So, it's not just Xiao Xilin, who's connected to Jiu Xiao, and her followers who are missing..."

"It seems that Snow's adopted daughter, Little Ningdi, has also disappeared?"

Kiana glanced at Kallen beside her, her gaze carrying a hint of inquiry...

"Hmm... Snow took Ninti away from me last night, saying he was going out to play..."

"hiss--"

"Let's summarize first..."

Mr. Otto rubbed his forehead, looking somewhat troubled...

"First, my daughter Snow Apocalypse suddenly became unreachable. Then there's my other granddaughter, Ninti Apocalypse, who was taken away by Snow yesterday and disappeared. Also missing were her partner, Houraiji Jiuxiao, another little girl, Miss Sirin, an armed doll, and a Judgment-class Honkai Beast."

"Then, on Yingjie's side, Miss Alicia, Padofelis, and Gretchen have also disappeared..."

Mr. Otto displayed the portraits of these absent individuals on the projection screen and astutely placed his own daughter and son-in-law at the very top of this network of relationships.

"Now, let's draw a simple relationship diagram—"

The former bishop sketched and annotated a few lines on the screen, completing a "simple" relationship diagram.

"Among the missing people, there are more or less direct or indirect close connections with Snow and Penglai Temple Jiuxiao. Also, if I may ask—Ms. Eden, did my daughter look for Ms. Alicia yesterday?"

Otto glanced at Eden beside him, who quickly recalled for a moment and then nodded.

"Miss Snow came to see Ellie yesterday evening, but I didn't hear what they talked about... However, it seems that Ellie accepted some invitation from Miss Snow..."

"I see..."

Otto nodded, adding a plot to the story of his daughter's relationship with Alicia.

"But Padrephilis and Gretchen...?"

The group exchanged glances, all looking somewhat puzzled.

"Would the former dare to go to such lengths with Jiuxiao and Snow?...I can't even think of a reason for the latter to take this little stick away..."

"Is it possible... that Miss Pado was kidnapped by Sister Jiuxiao on a whim? Bronya didn't even see a can of food... Kidnapping a person is one thing... but who kidnaps a cat?"

"...It's not impossible?"

Mr. Otto thought for a moment and then marked it on the screen: Kidnapped, with a cat.

......

"That's about right..."

As everyone contributed their information, Mr. Otto gradually pieced together a complex network of relationships...

"Little Sirin, the armed doll Sirin, the Judgment-class Honkai Beast Benares, and Miss Pado and Miss Gretchen were unsurprisingly taken away by these three on a whim..."

Otto tapped Snow, Nine Heavens, and Miss Alicia, who were placed at the very top of the social network...

"Our only question now is, where did these three ladies go?"

Velvi glanced at the three ladies at the top of the list, her lips twitching—the most mischievous and the most capable fighters in the previous civilization, and the most mischievous and the most capable fighters in the current civilization...

"We might need to check with our dear Miss Snow's computer—let's see if she's written down her schedule for today..."

"The itinerary? Lord Otto, I know a little about Rita."

Miss Rita, who had been spared because she had received a gift from Durandal, spoke up.

"Lord Snow and Lord Nine Heavens went to the Coral Artificial Island this morning to attend the inauguration ceremony of the space orbital elevator there, but I did not see Sirin, Miss Ningdi, or the others..."

"It would be incredibly easy for those two to hide people... Anyway, let's see what the situation is like in the Coral Islands now..."

Otto gently swiped the screen, seemingly adjusting the orbit of a monitoring satellite—

......

"I understand the logic, but what about the tower? What is this tree that's almost reaching near-Earth orbit???"

During a brief satellite orbit change procedure, everyone witnessed something somewhat absurd—

A colossal, slightly ethereal golden tree now stands on the screen—if you look closely, you can probably see the shadow of the original tower within this illusory projection...

"Besides Snow and Jiuxiao...did anyone from Anti-Entropy also attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony...?"

Otto glanced strangely at Rita behind him...

"Hmm... I heard that the two leaders of Anti-Entropy also participated?"

Rita thought for a moment...