Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"Why can't I stay here? Let's go inside!"

An old man and a young boy, one white and one gold, the Kaslana bloodline grandfather and grandson grabbed Welt Yang by the shoulders, lifted him up, and carried him directly into the World Bubble without Welt's resistance, leaving only an empty labyrinth seal behind.

...

"So, you're not going to carry out the Stigmata Project...?"

Yang pushed up his glasses and looked at Kevin Kaslana in front of him with a serious expression.

"To be precise... we'll put on a show to fool Archbishop Otto Apocalypse, but the Stigmata Project, which is on a global scale, will not be carried out."

Kevin crossed his arms and nodded seriously, as the lord of the World Serpent.

"...?"

"Did you team up with everyone to scam your old man?"

Yang turned to look at Snow, who was assembling several computers, seemingly turning WorldBubble into an internet cafe. The network cables that had been moved from WorldBubble were left aside.

"What do you mean by 'a disgrace'? Am I a disgrace? No, I'm not!"

"Dad's just sitting at home, and Karen comes to him like that. Is this what you call being a burden to your father? This isn't—"

"Okay... and one more thing—don't squeeze thermal paste into the CPU recess on the motherboard! Seriously, where did you learn your PC building skills???"

Yang's eyebrows twitched as he watched Snow begin to operate haphazardly.

"Huh? I found it on a forum called Baidu Tieba in the World of BBS. The GIF animation of the PC installation process looks like that, doesn't it?"

Miss Apocalypse, who had never assembled a computer herself before, issued a bewildered statement and stopped what she was doing.

Didn't you even check what happened next?

"What happened next?"

The blonde girl scratched her chin, turned on the phone she had acquired in that world, and with a series of magical operations, connected to the internet. Then, at the very bottom of the post, she saw a message from the forum administrator.

[Misleading newcomers will be punished ten times over. We hope all forum members will take this as a warning.]

"Ah, this..."

"So what are you doing here now...?"

Yang turned his head and watched as the gray-haired youth with squinted eyes finished slurping his noodles and then carelessly tossed the plastic bowl out of the world bubble. Suddenly, he felt that all his previous wariness of the pioneers of the previous civilization had been in vain.

Su Ze, who was being watched by him, seemed to notice Yang looking at him and waved to him.

"Are you Welt Young, the Herrscher of Reason of this generation?"

"I am...and you are?"

“I am Su, as you can see, one of the fusion warriors of the last era. A young descendant of the Kevin family gave me a commission—which is quite related to you.”

"Me?"

"Or rather, it has something to do with that Mr. Walter Joyce... This determines how we bring him back to reality."

“I have witnessed your story with that Mr. Joyce… I understand the beliefs contained in the surname ‘Walter’ that you have inherited, so I accepted the girl’s request.”

Su Jingjing looked at Walter Yang, who was somewhat agitated, and explained the reason to him.

What should I do?

"Relax... Mr. Yang, I will accompany you to delve into the true core of the Herrscher of Reason—"

“If Miss Snow Apocalypse’s guess is correct—he should be lost or asleep in the core—I can sense the will of the 300,000 people in the core, and he should be included in it.... What we need to do is guide him back.”

Su opened her eyes, looked at Yang in front of her, and waited for his reply.

"Okay...I believe you."

Yang nodded, and gray shattered crystals appeared in his hand. Su gently touched them with her fingers and closed her eyes.

"Come, step into this boundless light..."

...

"Do you think they can succeed, Snow?"

With Kevin's help, Snow finished tinkering with the few computers he had taken. The white-haired man looked at the two people sitting cross-legged on the ground with their eyes closed.

"Of course it will succeed. Let's just say it's the Kaslana family's intuition... After all, the intuition of descendants with this bloodline has always been very accurate, hasn't it?"

"Intuition... If only I had this kind of self-awareness—a Herrscher who has stood on the side of humanity and civilization since birth...."

Kevin Kaslana fell silent, the ancient forerunner seemingly lost in thought... lost in memories.

"It's so similar... even the ending is almost identical—they chose to sacrifice themselves to save humanity."

"At least with this one, we can still rewrite the uncertain ending..."

The blonde girl's voice rang out, bringing Kevin back to his senses.

"After this, would my descendants be interested in visiting the paradise of the World Serpent's past? It belongs to the previous era, to 'her' predetermined fate?"

“Miss Alicia... I’ll go check on her, but for now, let’s wait for Sue and Welt Yang to return.”

Knowing the story of the past and understanding who the ancestor in front of her was referring to, the blonde girl nodded in acceptance of the young man's invitation and began to hatch her own scheme.

[If nothing unexpected happens, what's stored there is the consciousness of the heroes, not their memories... If we ignore the philosophical questions that give us a headache—it wouldn't be wrong to say that they are the heroes themselves...]

Ah—the world allows consciousness to match new containers—tsk tsk tsk.

Snow seemed to have thought of something, and an interesting look appeared in her eyes. Unfortunately, Kevin did not see or notice the mischievous glint in the girl's eyes.

Chapter 133 Ai-in and Joyce

Brown-haired middle-aged men and gray-haired youths stroll through this historic city, in Berlin as people remember it in 1952, in the heart of the Herrscher of the Law, where the will of 30 people resides, in old Berlin more than sixty years ago.

"Mr. Yang, where do you think we can find Mr. Joyce?"

The gray-haired pioneer handed over the task of leading the way to Yang, while the brown-haired middle-aged man, after a moment of contemplation, formed his own conjecture and led Su toward a quiet street...

"This is, without a doubt, the city before the collapse on January 1, 1952, formed by the will of its 1 inhabitants—"

Yang looked at the bustling street and explained to Su beside him.

“But Joyce is special. Dr. Einstein and Dr. Tesla told me that Joyce has no memories of the past. His real memories begin after the first Honkai outbreak. He spent three years in the laboratory at Schicksal headquarters.”

"Later, the Schicksal headquarters, unable to produce anything, eventually followed the application of the Imperial Research Institute Laboratory 42, which was under Schicksal at the time, and transferred him back to Berlin once again—if I'm not mistaken... in this 52-year-old Berlin, there will be a Schicksal Imperial Research Institute Laboratory 42 from 1955."

“A bold but reasonable guess, Mr. Walter Young.”

Su nodded in approval.

...

"As expected...we've arrived."

Yang led Su to stand in front of a building that resembled an old-fashioned advanced research institute.

The plaque on the gate indicates the location and name of this research institute—Imperial Research Institute, Laboratory 42.

“Well then, let’s go in… I hope Mr. Joyce won’t be too surprised to see us.”

Su shook her head and gently pushed open the door to the research lab.

After crossing the steps, the two headed towards the accommodation area inside the laboratory, with Yang continuing to tell Su about the past of this place.

"Although the Imperial 42 Laboratory was called a laboratory, it was actually a research team consisting of only two researchers, namely Dr. Einstein and Dr. Tesla."

"After Joyce was taken in by the two doctors, he did not participate in any experiments. Instead, he worked as a handyman for the two doctors in Laboratory 42. The name Walter Joyce was given to him by the doctors at this time."

Su listened quietly as Walter Yang recounted the past, a polite smile on her lips, without a trace of annoyance.

"Ah, I'm sorry... Mr. Su, you must have already seen or heard Snow talk about him, right? I'm getting a little nervous about meeting him, so I've been talking a bit too much."

“I understand, Mr. Walter Young. It’s human nature to feel a little nervous when reuniting after a long separation. This must be the residence of the two doctors and Mr. Joyce, right?”

Su looked toward a door at the end of the corridor.

"Yes."

Yang turned the doorknob, and a room that was more like a library than a living room came into view of the two men. A young man with indigo hair was lying quietly asleep on the sofa, with a copy of The Theory of Relativity open on his chest, as if the room's owner had been reading it before falling asleep.

"Mr. Walter Joyce?"

Su tentatively called out to the sleeping man on the sofa, trying to wake him, but the man remained asleep without any response.

Su and Yang exchanged a glance, then stepped forward and patted Joyce on the shoulder. However, the young man with indigo hair seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, showing no reaction whatsoever.

“This… Mr. Yang, please wait a moment while I check on Mr. Joyce’s condition.”

Sue stopped her physical attempts to wake Joyce, and instead placed her hand on Joyce's forehead, beginning to sense something...

After a long while, he opened his eyes and shook his head at Yang.

"It seems we can't wake Mr. Joyce up... I don't know why, but he's left himself with a very deep kind of hypnotic mental suggestion."

“He won’t wake up unless someone specifically comes to do so—Mr. Yang, let’s go out first. Perhaps we should discuss with Miss Snow and the others who Mr. Joyce’s sweetheart is…”

"Sigh... okay, I knew it wouldn't be that easy..."

Yang sighed and agreed with Su's statement. The two then disappeared from the room together.

--

"You mean Joyce's sweetheart?"

Snow tilted his head slightly, looking a little puzzled.

"Of course it's Einstein—his name was given to him by that 'chicken-haired' PhD student, so who else could it be?"

"You wait here, I'll go find Dr. Ai and we'll go in together to bring him in."

Snow snapped his fingers, and a golden portal appeared in front of them.

"Alliance Leader Yang, come back with me. There are some things you need to take care of."

"I want to go back with you too...?"

The man's tone was somewhat confused.

"Yes, there's a troublemaker you need to deal with, and it's from your family."

Snow's tone became somewhat impatient when he mentioned the troublemaker.