Honkai, starting from being approached by Qiyana

"Is it scanning my brain?" Li Shubai asked, "Although I made the request, judging from the information flow you injected into my mind earlier, you should have prepared a whole set of plans for reading memories, right? ?”

As he was talking, Li Shubai suddenly felt something was wrong: "Wait, could it be that the disgusting emotion you conveyed to my mind before was not because you disliked the memory in my mind, but because you hated the memory in my mind? Shall I explain everything?"

"After all, this should be Aiyi's responsibility." This time, Prometheus did not deny it. She closed her eyes, put her arms on her chest, and put on a silent resistance. Look, "Although I have no objection to assisting the captain in retrieving your past memories, even if it is an artificial intelligence, I don't want my colleagues to impose responsibilities that do not belong to me."

"...She didn't tell me anything about you before she left." Li Shubai was a little ashamed, "And, at the beginning, she didn't even tell me that this was a time travel, if it wasn't because of Qiyana's performance, I even thought it was just a data space?"

"Simply playing past images will not help to retrieve the captain's past memories." Prometheus said lightly, "The Hyperion's logbook should also record most of the captain's past, But until now, the captain has still not been able to fully understand what he has done in the past."

"...It is true that I have read a lot of information about the Hyperion, but no matter how many past materials I have read, I still have no real sense of what should have happened to me." Li Shubai said, "Aiyi is right As I said, before I lost my memory, I uploaded most of the memories I kept to her database in the form of data, and the way she helped me retrieve my memory was to use the data space to let I'm going through what happened to me again."

"But when I actually arrived here, I realized that Aiyi was just framing me. What kind of data space is this?"

"From the promise of 'effectively helping the captain retrieve past memories', Aiyi didn't choose the wrong option?" Prometheus said lightly.

"Wrong option?" Li Shubai was puzzled.

"Well." Prometheus nodded, "The so-called data space, in the final analysis, is nothing more than the result of using external equipment to deceive the brain and consciousness, so in a strict sense, sneaking into the data space The act of re-experiencing what happened in the past is not fundamentally different from directly watching the recorded images of the past.”

"The only difference between the two is that the pure video data is conveying information to the visual and auditory senses, while diving into the data space...is just deceiving all five senses."

Li Shubai understood: "That is to say, even if you experience what happened on the other side again in the data space, is it still impossible to recover the lost memory?"

"That's it." Prometheus said, "Even if you re-experience what happened on the other side in the data space, for the captain, it is nothing more than re-experiencing the experience simulated by the consciousness infiltration device. , but those experiences are indeed facts that have happened before.”

"Is there any difference?" Li Shubai said, "My main purpose is to find out what I have done before, and what stage has I reached in the fight against the end and collapse. Even if it is simulated data, as long as it is real The things that have happened, then, if you go through them again, there should be no essential difference from the fact that I retrieved the past memories, right?"

"Will the captain inject his true feelings into the simulated characters?" Prometheus raised his eyes and stared into Li Shubai's eyes meaningfully.

"This..." This sharp question stopped Li Shubai at once.

Indeed, now that he already knows that those records are just pictures simulated by the data space, no matter how real they look, they are all things that have happened before, and he has no way to really simulate them. Valkyries see themselves as themselves.

"And, even though Ai only promised to help the captain retrieve the memories of the past, what she really wants to retrieve is the lost [time] of the captain." Prometheus said, "As for the retrieval of memories, It's just a by-product of what's bound to happen when time is reclaimed."

"Ah?" Li Shubai was stunned, "Why is it related to time again? Also, what does it mean to find time?"

"Let Kevin answer this question for you." Prometheus cast his eyes on the expressionless Kevin, "In another time and space, you in that world consciously concealed from the captain Part of the truth, but now, since the captain already knows what the finality represents, you should also take the responsibility of explaining to the captain accordingly."

"How to say?" Li Shubai shifted his gaze to Kevin, "Looking at Prometheus, even if you don't explain, she will tell me the truth eventually."

"..." Kevin sighed softly through his nose and nodded, "I see."

"Before I explain to you what the end is, please answer me a question." Kevin said, "In another time and space, did [I] in that world try to let you take over the power of [the end]?"

"Hmm." Li Shubai nodded. He recalled the last time he traveled through time and visited the same space as this space [No Space] with Kevin, facing [NO.17] who had lost most of his self and reason. In the scene, he said with some hesitation, "Although the final result is not very satisfactory."

In the last time travel, Li Shubai tried to accept part of the final power with the help of Kevin and NO.17, but for some unknown reason, after the Herrscher of Corrosion was defeated, the final power had already disappeared. Captured by the stigmata plan, he is completely unaffected by the final force.

—Whether controlling it in the positive sense or being corrupted by it in the negative sense, neither of these things happened at all.

Contrary to him, Kevin incorporated the final strength into his body with almost no effort.

At that time, Li Shubai believed that he could not take over the power of the end because he did not accept the transformation of the Chimera project like Kevin, so he could not accept the end that was hijacked by the stigmata project as the center of the stigmata. Yan Zhili.

But now it seems that whether Kevin in that world didn't tell him the truth about the end, or he couldn't take over the power of the end like Kevin... these two things seem to have other secrets

Chapter 254 Li Shubai: Dabaa, Dabaa 4k

Just as Li Shubai was trying to revisit the obstacles he encountered in taking over the Final Power during the time travel last time, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

Li Shubai looked back and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "What's the matter, Bronya, did you find anything?"

"Since the captain is confused about the reason why he couldn't accept the final power, why try again here?" Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] proposed, "Anyway, whether it is a Trojan horse program that was uploaded by the last civilization Prometheus, who was thrown into the other side of the imaginary number in the era, or Kevin, who was originally scheduled to be the executor of the stigmata plan, aren't the two most important people who make the final power manifest here?"

"..." Kevin was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "Now is probably not the best time to implement the stigmata plan, and the imaginary number renormalization group that Mei put in the channel of the imaginary number space and the earth has not let the All the other Herrschers will come."

"Of course I know that kind of thing." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] shrugged, "If we go ahead with the plan drawn up in the pre-civilized era, after the No.12 Herrscher comes, the Law of the End will Before the descendant comes, it is the best time for you to open the back door of the [Honkai Will] that Prometheus has given the shackles of thinking, and steal the power of the end."

"It's a pity—haven't you noticed it until now? Kevin." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said lightly, "Prometheus standing in front of you, when you opened the will to collapse Before the back door, she has regained her will, and even her body has returned to what you are familiar with."

"...So, the back door left by Mei An in NO.17 has already been opened by someone else?" Kevin frowned with a slight arc, and the fine ice dust accompanied by the rapidly descending air was in the air. All around him, "If it does—"

"If you're worried that Prometheus' return to the human world from the Honkai side will change the nature of the next Herrscher and the form of the final expression, I don't think there is any need for it." Blow Nia [Secondary Silver Wing], "Prometheus is an artificial intelligence life form after all. As an artificial intelligence, as long as it has a data carrier that can store data, she can reappear in front of us in its original appearance. So , Even if you opened the back door you originally prepared, the impact of NO.17, which was swallowed by [Honkai] and lost its original way of thinking, on Honkai has not been eliminated."

Kevin's expression softened slightly: "But even so, before all twelve Herrschers have descended, we shouldn't be able to make Final Yan mention the descending."

"Who said there is no way?" Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] smiled, "It is true that it is not the time for the end to come, but who stipulated that in the Herrscher of the end Before it comes, [Final Yan] will not activate at all?"

Kevin thought for a moment, then said lightly: "...you might as well make it clear."

Before Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] answered Kevin's question, a flash of light suddenly flashed in Li Shubai's mind: "Are you trying to make Honkai think that human civilization has been completely destroyed?"

"That's right." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said leisurely, "Kevin should be clear, [The Power of Final Yan] [The Herrscher of Final Yan] and [The Destiny Mechanism named Final Yan], this Although the three things are quite similar in form and have the word [final] in their names, in fact, their essence is completely different."

"...That's right." Kevin nodded, "The principle of the stigmata project is to let human beings sink into the foundation of the earth in the form of the will of the stigmata. The purpose of coming out is to continuously search for the same phenomenon for the phenomenon we call [Honkai], and the completely completed stigmata plan will dominate it in an irresistible form of Honkai.”

"But even if you use the stigmata plan to capture and successfully take over the final power, you can't really control the destiny organ that controls reincarnation completely, right?" Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said in a flat tone He said, "Otherwise, since you have completely controlled the so-called Terminator, then the stigmata plan, which is considered by everyone to be the worst, can be disarmed immediately after you take over the Terminator. As a fusion warrior who has taken over the power of the end, with your own incomparably long life, you can already bring to the human world a future with almost no end in sight."

"I don't deny this." Kevin said, "But this point should have nothing to do with what you just explained."

"In fact, it has a lot to do with it." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] shook her head, "You can take over the final power, in the final analysis, it is because of the influence left by the Chimera Project on you that you can become The center of the stigmata, but it is precisely because of annoying reasons, even if you take over the power of the end, you can't really activate the [end] - or even make it stop. "

"..." Kevin was silent.

"In contrast to you who took over the power of the end, all Herrschers, after completing the missions assigned to them by Honkai, can use the channel to return to Honkai to activate the destiny mechanism to restart the planet." Bu Lonia [Secondary Silver Wing] shrugged, "As long as it is a life group with wisdom, it is impossible to give up resistance in an endangered disaster. Therefore, almost all human civilizations will surpass all Herrschers before the end, And when the final Herrscher arrives, he has no choice but to step into another reincarnation."

"Therefore, most people ignore this possibility." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said, "If human civilization has been completely destroyed by the Herrscher before the end comes, then What will happen?"

"The answer is that the Herrscher who destroyed human civilization will automatically obtain the authority and qualification to activate [Final Yan] the moment he completes his mission."

"That is to say, time is not the real condition for the finality to be activated, but the destruction of human civilization is?" Li Shubai touched his chin, "This is quite similar to my previous idea, but if you say it like this, There should be another question, right? To what extent will Honkai determine that human civilization has been destroyed?"

"No matter what Honkai's judgment on human civilization is, as long as all life on the planet dies, the end will be successfully activated." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said, "So, if the captain wants to To try to make [Final Yan] enter the activated state, you only need to find a way to simulate a lifeless earth and deceive [Honkai].”

"Wait, wait—" Li Shubai hurriedly raised his palm, "Let's not talk about how we should simulate a planet where all life is dead. If it is true as you said, the function of the end is to control fate. Wouldn’t it be a bad idea to activate it now if you reset the planet’s time back to 5 years ago?”

"If there is no one who can completely control it, it is probably true." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] folded her arms on her chest, staring at Li Shubai's face calmly, "But what if I said, Captain, have you briefly held the authority to activate the end?"

"Ah?" Li Shubai was stunned, his face full of bewilderment, "I? I have the authority to activate the terminal? Why didn't I know? There is no similar thing recorded in the records of the Hyperion?"

"So, back to the topic I talked about before NO.17—" Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said, "Although before Ai sent the captain to this world, she only promised to help the captain find The memory of the past. But what she really wants to get back is the lost [time] of the captain."

Time I ever lost?

After being silent for a long while, Li Shubai couldn't help but raised his finger, gently rubbed the center of his eyebrows that started to ache, and whispered to himself: "That is to say... the reason why I have no memory of the past is because my time has been blocked. Reset? Not something wrong with the consciousness level?"

"But, if the reason why I lost my memory was because my own time was reset, why did that guy--" While whispering in a puzzled voice, Li Shubai appeared uncontrollably in front of the South China Sea The scene I encountered before, "—that guy, said that my memory was erased by him?"

At the bottom of the South China Sea, he once met his superego, which represented [absolute rationality]. ] personality hit him hard.Although at the moment before being completely pierced by the Taixu Sword God, because of the intervention of Xilin and Fu Hua, the personality who called himself "Superego" did not really die under the Taixu Sword God that he unfolded. , but was absorbed into his own consciousness again by him, but in terms of the result, even if he was brought back into his own consciousness, Li Shubai did not recover the lost memory at all.

Moreover, after that, Li Shubai never saw the personality who claimed to be the [superego] again.

When forcing himself to do it, that guy once told Li Shubai that he erased Li Shubai's memory and wanted Li Shubai to disappear completely. However, the person who disappeared in the end was indeed that guy.

According to the testimonies provided by Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] and Prometheus, it seems that not only the purpose, but even the process, that personality told a big lie to itself.

"Well, I'll make sure that what you said is true." Li Shubai said, "Suppose, before I lost my memory, I once had the authority to activate the end Yan, and the end Yan should have been imposed on the planet. The reset function was transferred to myself, which caused me to lose part of [time], but if I can't even control the activation and silence of the end, then I am completely different from Kevin? We rely on The fate of our two half-hearted, if we activate the organ that manipulates fate here, we won’t get any good results, right?”

"Of course Bronya knows." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said, "So, Bronya didn't ask the captain to try to wake up the terminal right away, let alone let the control terminal The most important person hasn't come here yet, and we can't reproduce a planet with no life in a short period of time."

"Besides me and Kevin, do you know anyone else who can control [Final Yan]?" Li Shubai was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately realized, "Wait, what are you talking about..."

"Kevin who can take over the power of the end, the captain who once controlled the reincarnation mechanism, plus... Kiana who has the potential to become the herrscher of the end." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] Stretched out three fingers, "If the three of you work together, it is not impossible to remove Honkai from the earth."

"No." Without even thinking about it, Li Shubai immediately rejected the words of Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing]. Let's try to control the fate mechanism that resets the planet together, but we must not involve Kiana."

"Why?" Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] stared into Li Shubai's eyes, and said lightly, "From the perspective of success rate, the only way to get Qiyana to assist the captain and Kevin together is to win the battle. The possibility of collapse and complete control of [Final Yan] is higher, right? Thinking with normal human rationality, it is the best option to let Qiyana assist the captain. What Na knows, the captain should also know, as long as Bronya asks Kiana for help, she will definitely agree to Bronya's proposal."

"The high success rate means that there is indeed a possibility of failure, right?" Li Shubai stared into Bronya's [Secondary Silver Wing] eyes without giving in.

"In this world, there is no best-of-both-world solution." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] said, "The captain should understand this truth better than anyone else."

"So, I am now saying that the lesser of two evils should be chosen." Li Shubai responded forcefully, "Instead of letting more people take risks, we should do our best to reduce the risks that may happen. sacrifices and injuries."

"Even if they are all willing to face the upcoming difficulties with the captain?" Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] asked.

"Facts that happen objectively will not change with people's subjective consciousness." Li Shubai said righteously.

"...Captain, you really don't hide your double standards." Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] shook her head angrily and amusedly.

"So what?" Li Shubai said confidently, "I am the captain, how could the captain and his own crew share the same standard?"

255 Chapter 4K

Humans are a double-standard creature.

In other words, in this world, there is no absolute fairness.

For the things they like, people will pay more attention and energy; for the things they hate, people will justly stay away from them.

A person can like strawberries, and of course he can hate potatoes; most people value their friends, relatives, and loved ones, but it is impossible to treat strangers with the same standards and attitudes.

Regarding this point, Li Shubai is not exempt, and he has never denied the fact that he has double standards.

If conditions permit, of course, he would not mind showing his kindness to strangers. He has always been a greedy person. While not allowing his crew to be harmed, Li Shubai also hopes to do his best to save the victims of the Honkai. Save the endangered world and civilization from the catastrophe of extinction.

As he said, there must be no one left on his ship, and he has to save this world, which may not be a good one.

But if these two things are put on the balance and compared, the center of gravity of the balance will still fall to the former without hesitation.

Under certain circumstances, as long as the rewards he can get are rich enough, Li Shubai doesn't even mind paying the required price by himself, but if the so-called price must make him put his Valkyrie in danger——

——Sorry, as a captain, it is Li Shubai's bounden duty to protect his own crew.

Therefore, after receiving Bronya's [Secondary Silver Wing]'s proposal, Li Shubai rejected her proposal without hesitation.

He can try to control the time-resetting mechanism called End Yan. If Kevin is willing to take the possible risks with him, Li Shubai will not stop the strongest fusion fighter in the pre-civilization era, but if... ...If you want Kiana to come along.

Even if Kiyana herself would probably agree, he would never allow Kiyana to face this risk.

Li Shubai declared that he was the self-assured and confident person with double standards. After closing his eyes for a while, Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing] shook her head lightly: "...if that guy Qiyana Knowing that the captain doesn't trust her so much, that idiot should feel very sad, right?"

"Isn't it enough to keep her from knowing?" Li Shubai didn't think there was anything wrong with his point of view, "I am your boss, your supreme leader, and as the supreme commander of all the Valkyries, I certainly have the obligation To ensure that you do not face risks beyond your capabilities, and to decide which enemies you shall meet and which tasks you shall complete."

"Regarding the matter of the end, you don't need to face it with all of you, including Qiyana. It is my judgment as the captain, and it is also an order I issued to you as a superior." Li Shubai's expression was unprecedentedly cold and indifferent, "Or is it because you have indulged you too much recently that you have forgotten that you are still a member of the Hyperion?"

Kevin couldn't help but glanced at Li Shubai in surprise.

To be honest, Kevin disagrees with Li Shubai's judgment, if the person named Qiyana assists them, the success rate of completely controlling [Final Yan] can be further improved.Let’s not mention that it’s just to let Kiyana face some possible risks, even if the risks are serious enough to take her life, it’s just a person’s life in exchange for this civilization to survive the end of the future, in Kevin’s opinion There is no need to even think about it.

... No, not just him, maybe most people in this world, including Kiyana herself who was chosen as a victim, should approve of this decision without hesitation.

Therefore, when Li Shubai rejected Bronya [Secondary Silver Wing], even though he didn't say anything, Kevin was still a little dissatisfied deep in his heart.