Collapse, the Ordinary Daily Life of the Valkyries

"This is not something you can touch, Ester."

Then, he looked at Huang Quan again, looking at her warily:

"This isn't something that should appear in this universe. Who gave it to you? The Self-Destructor."

Hearing that Heita still called him a self-destructor, Huang Quan remained calm and said to her calmly:

"He said that when you touch the photo, you will know everything."

"I ask again, who is he?"

Huang Quan looked at the black tower puppet in front of him, leaned on his own imperial sword 'Wu', and stared directly at the black tower puppet:

"Gao Su."

"I haven't heard of it. You can go now."

The Black Tower puppet waved its hand, rejecting her, but Huang Quan became serious:

"You'll accept it."

"Ok?"

A puzzled look appeared on the face of the black tower puppet. Suddenly, a ticking sound like a clock had passed was heard, and everything around it was still.

"What are you doing!? Self-destructor."

However, Huang Quan's answer was completely beyond Heita's expectations:

"It's not me, it's the 'Last King'."

"The Last King? How is that possible!?"

However, accompanied by a cat's meow, a white figure holding a black cat appeared at the entrance of the Black Tower Space Station.

"Since this lady in the Black Tower refuses to accept this 'express delivery', then, could you teach me how to handle this 'express delivery'?"

Then, he nodded slightly to the black tower:

"Nice to meet you, Genius Club No. 83, Ms. Black Tower."

Wing Neighbor#? (I) Qisi (V) Jiusijiu覇群 "How is it possible?"

Heita couldn't believe it, no, he couldn't believe that the photo of this self-destructor could actually attract a star god.

"I remember that when a Star God encounters something that interests him, he will cast his gaze upon it. This is not something that belongs to the 'unknowable' Lady Black Tower."

Accompanied by the meowing of the black cat in his arms, the white-haired man who called himself the 'Last King' took a few steps towards them. As if afraid that Heita would change his words, he quickly said:

"Then I'm going to take this photo."

The next moment, he was beside them and reached out to the photo in Huang Quan's hand:

"Wait! I didn't refuse."

As soon as these words were spoken, a crystal purple light instantly burst out from the photo, repelling the white-haired man who called himself the 'Last King'.

However, the white-haired man did not get angry. Instead, he straightened his clothes and raised his eyebrows elegantly towards Heita and Huangquan:

"In that case, I won't bother you two any longer. The mechanical head is looking over here. We'll see you in the future."

As the white-haired man disappeared with the black cat in his arms, the time around him, which had originally stagnated and even begun to move backwards, began to flow forward again.

"Ms. Black Tower? What happened?"

Estella blinked and looked at the mentor who had brought her out of the family prison. Heita turned his head and his tone became stern:

"Have you finished the lesson I taught you? Ester, I hope you understand that I didn't take you away because of your money. Do you understand?"

"I understand, Ms. Black Tower, I'll get to it right away!"

Hearing Black Tower's tone, Estella hurriedly bowed and walked towards her laboratory. Black Tower's puppet pointed towards a corner:

"Take that photo and come into my office to talk, self-destructor."

"Row."

When Huang Quan nodded, the black tower doll in front of her instantly entered standby mode, which made her feel curious.

Following the instructions on the ground, Huang Quan arrived at the Black Tower's office, only to see a Black Tower puppet activated at the same time:

"Question: Why can this photo attract the attention of King Lai Mo but not the attention of Lord Bo Shi?"

Volume 1: Has the Honkai Impact Really Been Defeaten?: Chapter 152: Gao Su's Delivery (Part 2)

"As long as you come into contact with this photo, everything will become clear..."

Huang Quan pursed his lips. If it weren't for the faintly visible cat pupils in the corner representing the Last King, Heita really didn't want to touch this photo.

However, this photo only attracted the attention of the Last King, making her even more curious. However, Huang Quan asked at this time:

"Why are you so sure that the person just now is the Last King?"

"In this universe, no one would question the authenticity of the Star God, and no one would dare to impersonate the Star God."

However, in response to Heita's answer, Huang Quan looked her up and down with an inexplicable gaze. Feeling very uncomfortable with her looking at him like this, Heita asked:

"Is there any problem?"

"It's okay, do you still want this photo?"

Huang Quan continued to hand over the photo Gao Su had given her. The black tower puppet glanced at her and took out an instrument:

"Let's test it first."

However, before Heita could do anything, the instrument soon began to make strange noises. She looked at the photo in Huang Quan's hand:

“How…is this possible!?”

"what happened?"

Huang Quan was puzzled by Heita's expression. The next moment, Heita's puppet blossomed with colors, and Heita's real body, wearing a witch hat, appeared in front of Huang Quan:

"The spatial energy value of this photo is 0."

"Any questions?"

Huang Quan was very confused, and Heita was speechless. It was troublesome to explain to these simple-minded people:

"When the spatial energy value reaches 0, it means that you have nothing in your hand. In other words, what you hold is 'nothing', pure nothing."

"Isn't this really a blessing bestowed upon you by the Void Star God? Self-destructor, after all, the place where the spatial energy value is 0 only exists in the central region of the Void Star God in the known universe."

Huang Quan looked at the black tower meaningfully:

"If this is truly a blessing bestowed upon me by the Void Star God, do you think He would allow me to teach this to the Envoy of Wisdom? No. 83."

"Also, since you said this is 'nothing', then why can we see it?"

In response to Huang Quan's question, Heita put away the instrument:

"It is light, a light that exists in the knowable realm, that makes this non-existent object visible."

Heita's words were even more difficult to understand than Gao Su's. Huang Quan suppressed the urge to unsheathe his sword and put it on Heita's neck.

"Popularize it."

"Hope. The name of that light is 'Hope'. It's better to say that there are many things mixed in that light, and 'Hope' is the greatest among them."

Heita looked at the photo in Huang Quan's hand. After her brief study, this thing became even more mysterious:

"I need to call some people over. Would you mind? Self-destructor."

Black Tower responded quickly, saying that this problem was beyond their ability to solve and required help:

"Of course I wouldn't mind, but He would mind."

Huang Quan looked at the photo in her hand. Although the black tower told her that it was pure "nothingness", she could still feel the same weight as the photo she had touched.

"Also, I can feel the weight of this photo. How can you say it's 'nothing'?"

While contacting other members of the Genius Club, Heita explained to Huang Quan:

"People's feelings can lie, for example."

Heita threw an ice cube to Huangquan. Huangquan took it and felt warm instead of cold. At the same time, Heita's explanation came:

"It's like this ice cube. When you hold it, it's hot, but in fact, its temperature is -237 degrees Celsius."

"Furthermore, let's go back to the question about the photo in your hand. It's completely different from a black hole."

"A black hole is a celestial body with a very large mass but a very small volume. However, that photo is completely 'nothing'. Space and mass are all zero."

"If I hadn't discovered the Star God's special fluctuations, I would have thought that this was nothingness."

Huang Quan was not surprised at all by Heita's words. After all, the guy who taught him the photo...

Wait a moment.

Huang Quan suddenly realized that she could not remember the appearance of the being who taught her the photo. This made Heita feel a little confused:

"what happened to you?"

"No, it's nothing."

Huang Quan shook his head, and then said:

"Go on. Also, what is the spatial energy value?"

Soon, Heita continued to study the photo:

"The space energy field is the photon field. In other words, the space energy field is the field of energy quanta and energy quanta groups (the smallest photons and photons). Energy is a scalar, so the energy of the space energy field is the simple accumulation of energy quanta."

"In an isolated local spacetime, the energy of physical matter is equal to the energy of space, and their masses are also equal. Therefore, when the physical matter within it completely undergoes the mass-to-light transformation, the number of energy quanta that can be generated is equal to the number of energy quanta in the energy field of space. In this way, the energy of physical matter can also be expressed in terms of the energy of energy quanta."

"From photons (energy quanta are the smallest photons), to particles, to any objective object in the universe, the total energy it possesses locally is the simple accumulation of the energy of the quanta it possesses."

"The energy of spacetime at a different location can also be expressed in terms of the energy of energy quanta. When observed from a different location, the energy of spacetime expands."

"Furthermore, some physical laws are never broken, such as the second law of thermodynamics. Another way to state the second law of thermodynamics is that the entropy of an isolated system—a measure of the system's disorder—never decreases. In other words, there is an arrow of time that points in the direction of increasing entropy."

“Glass breaks, cream dissolves in coffee, eggs become scrambled, but the reverse never happens. This is because during these processes, the overall entropy of the system increases.”

"This is also why heat always flows from hotter objects to cooler ones. The second law of thermodynamics is so fundamental to the physical world that even renowned physicists believe it's the reason time flows in one direction."

"The law of increasing entropy is the most important of all scientific laws. Energy, along with materials and information, is one of the three fundamental elements of the material world. Among the laws of physics, the law of conservation of energy is the most important, stating that when various forms of energy are converted into each other, they are always in equilibrium, neither created nor destroyed. The concept of entropy originated in physics, as a measure of the degree of disorder in a thermodynamic system. The second law of thermodynamics, also known as the 'law of increasing entropy,' states that in natural processes, the total disorder (i.e., 'entropy') of an isolated system does not decrease."

"However, the object in your hand may break this law."

Huang Quan was secretly surprised by Heita's words. She didn't understand what he was talking about.

Volume 1: Did We Really Defeat Honkai?: Chapter 153: The Black Tower Sees the Imaginary Number Tree

"Research is meaningless. You should just listen to me, No. 83."

Huang Quan was somewhat puzzled by the Black Tower's research. Although she knew why, she didn't know how to express it.

"Is it?"

Heita looked at the photo with a clear red figure in a captain's uniform, weighed the pros and cons, and finally reached out to touch the photo.

Suddenly, hymns rang in her ears.

Mist began to spread over the photo. After a while, the hymn that had been ringing in the ears stopped briefly, and then the sound of the hymn began again.

This time, the singing became mournful, slow and heavy.

At that moment, the stars fell, and the purple-gold beams and balls of light covered the entire sky.

A thin and broken body, a pink staff piercing the body, a head with red hair drooping, and white hands full of porcelain-like cracks, hanging on a crystal purple arc.

When the black tower reached the broken body, the arc shattered, and the bound being fell down. The figure with the red-haired head pulled out the pink staff from his body as if enduring severe pain, and then raised it high.

As He moved, the magic ring symbolizing 'imaginary numbers' within the man's body and the ball on the pink staff lit up.

Then, all the laws that maintain the operation of the world turned into a majestic and sacred distant ballad, which sounded in this crystal purple space.

The red-haired figure stood up, turned around, looked at the black tower that had revealed its true form, and greeted him in the tone of an old friend:

"Perhaps I should tell you, it's been a while? 83rd seat of the Genius Club, Ms. Big Black Tower?"

Heita looked at the red-haired remains in front of her. She didn't recognize such a being, so she asked:

"who are you?"