A journey into an infinite dimension

A hoarse male voice rang out from the Ouroboros communication. Otto, the other two, and Einstein immediately realized that the other party was not disguising his voice. This hoarse voice was his original voice.

"Long time no see, Dr. Einstein. Nice to meet you, Mr. Messenger."

Supporting his cheek with one hand, Otto Otto also greeted the two of them with a smile.

"However, the messenger didn't actually show up, so it can't be considered a 'meeting'."

"My name is Gray Snake. I'm here to speak with you two on behalf of my faction, so I'm not authorized to appear in person. Please forgive me for any impoliteness."

Gray Snake said calmly.

"Let's skip the pointless probing and get to the point. I believe you're both currently worried about the two Herrschers stationed at the Babylonian Research Institute under the command of Heavenly Mandate."

"It's not just us who are having a headache, it's also the forces behind you, isn't it, Mr. Gray Snake?"

Otto smiled slightly as he tapped his cheek with his fingers.

[After all, this is the first time we've learned of your existence and your power. If it weren't for this incident, we wouldn't have known there was another powerful force in the world.]

Einstein also took over the conversation.

Although it was not clearly shown, it was obvious that in the face of Gray Snake, a mysterious figure whose identity was completely shrouded in the unknown, Destiny and Anti-Entropy, who had been competing against each other for decades, both showed a tendency to be in sync at this moment.

Although this cooperation is very fragile, it already shows the thinking of the two major forces.

They don't trust this mysterious third party.

"The snake in the shadows will always surface one day. Even if it weren't for this incident, our existence would have been known to you two sooner or later."

Facing the attacks from both sides, Gray Snake's tone remained calm.

"Please end these meaningless temptations. At least for now, we are all on the same page. You two don't need to worry about us taking advantage of your misfortune."

"For now? But it doesn't matter. After all, if you can't hear the present, then there's no point in thinking about the future."

With a meaningful smile, Otto gently extended his hand and made a 'please' gesture.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you, but please continue, Mr. Gray Snake."

〈Are you discussing how you should commit suicide, ants☆〉

Just as he finished speaking, a fourth voice filled with arrogance and contempt rang out from three screens in total, including here and in two other corners far above the Earth. This voice made the three people sitting in front of the screens stand up at the same time.

"The Second Herrscher——"

Otto looked at the fourth virtual screen that suddenly lit up in front of him without any human intervention, as well as the purple-haired girl on the screen. The cunning he had built up over the past five hundred years made him calm down quickly after a brief moment of surprise.

"What a distinguished guest, Miss Sirin, the Herrscher of the Sky."

【Are you here to challenge us to a final battle? 】

Gray Snake and Einstein also quickly regained their composure. At least Otto did not hear anything unusual in their voices.

"The final battle? Are you dreaming? What makes you think we need to fight you?"

Sitting leisurely in the comfortable and soft office chair, Xilin slowly turned the chair and glanced at the three people on the screen with contempt.

<Now, 375 hydrogen bombs, ten times the power of the Tsar Bomba, are aimed at the glaciers of the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as active volcanoes around the world. Now, with just a flick of my finger—bang, you humans can prepare for the most spectacular fireworks display in history☆>

Shaking a palm-sized machine in her hand, Xilin smiled like a little girl who had successfully played a prank. Her excellent appearance made her smile look very bright and beautiful, but the malice contained in it made the three people who were lucky enough to witness this scene have no time to appreciate it.

Silence, deathly silence filled the entire office as Xilin finished speaking.

At this moment, Otto's expression was no longer as calm as before. A cold light gradually began to gather in his pair of green eyes. Amber, who was standing behind him, took several steps back uncontrollably. She was shocked by Xilin's words and suppressed by Otto's aura.

There was no sound in the other two communications. Obviously, Einstein and Gray Snake were in the same mood as Otto at this moment.

They did not doubt the truthfulness of Xilin's words. Perhaps there was no nuclear bomb of the equivalent she mentioned in the world, but they all knew that the core of the Ruler of Law, which could reproduce things in knowledge, had fallen into the hands of the other party. In other words, as long as they could create reasonable knowledge, then they could use enough Honkai energy to create a Tsar Bomb with an equivalent of not only ten times, but even a hundred or a thousand times.

This is the terrifying thing about the Herrscher.

If only those nuclear bombs existed, then the Ouroboros forces, whose technological power far surpassed that of the secular world, Destiny and Anti-Entropy, and the unknown strength of the Ouroboros forces might be able to intercept them before they reached their destination. However, with the power of Sirin's Herrscher of the Sky, they had no idea from which corner the nuclear bombs would suddenly pop out, and there was even the possibility that they would appear at the target location the moment after taking off.

How is this still playing?

[...Miss Xilin, what do you want?]

In the solemn atmosphere, Einstein's voice rang out, with a hint of emotion that was difficult to conceal.

Since they didn't take direct action, it means that the other party is willing to negotiate terms - is that what you mean?

Otto immediately understood Einstein's idea, but he just shook his head slightly in his heart.

How could a Herrscher whose duty is to destroy human civilization stop when the conditions for victory are confirmed? Maybe she is just here to show off.

But humanity must not perish. Otherwise, even if I succeed in resurrecting Kallen, how can I let her see the desolate end of the world?

Otto lowered his eyes slightly, and a firm but unkind look flashed across his eyes.

"I hate humans, but I love this beautiful world. It would be a shame if it were to be leveled. So, let's play a game, humans."

Xilin in the image seemed to glance in a certain direction outside the screen for a moment, but no one noticed.

"In the coming time, we will use various methods invented by you humans to defeat you. When the number of humans decreases to a certain level, we will take action ourselves and wipe out all the remaining humans."

Xilin's tone and expression were very calm, as if what she was talking about at the moment was not the future of a civilized race, but how to play with the ants in an ant nest.

<I have the final say on the standards, so struggle hard. By the way, if you want to return those four destinies, show your sincerity in exchange☆>

As soon as the voice fell, without waiting for Otto and the other three to speak, Xilin stood up and stepped into an open space door, disappearing in the image.

However, the image was not cut off, because another figure soon appeared on the screen.

Good evening, Mr. Otto, Bishop of Heaven's Destiny, Ms. Einstein, Anti-Entropy Executor, and Mr. Gray Snake, World Serpent Cadre.

The young man with a pair of flaming eyes dropped a bombshell on the three of them as soon as he appeared.

"By the way, I'd like to thank Mr. Gray Snake. The various intelligence and information accumulated by World Snake over the past millennia have been of immense benefit to me, so I'm leaving you a gift in return. I hope you enjoy it."

Chapter 80 Where is the Future Going?

"millennium?"

Otto's eyes trembled slightly. He felt that today was the day with the most frequent and greatest emotional fluctuations in his life. From being shocked by the battle in space, the Second Herrscher, and the power of the mysterious girl during the day, to the unknown force finally jumping out and the Second Herrscher declaring that it would play a game with the future of mankind, to now learning that the unknown force was actually a thousand-year-old force, and that the Third Herrscher had successfully hacked into it.

All of this is really a surprise.

But what we need to worry about now is not this matter, but the game of the Second Herrscher——

Looking at Jia Ye in the video, a piece of information flashed through Otto's mind.

[Kaya Kisaragi, sixteen years old, the sole heir to the Kisaragi Group, whose power once overwhelmed the consortiums under the control of Destiny and Anti-Entropy. Due to the sudden death of his parents, he was accidentally caught up in the Second Honkai Impact while traveling to Siberia to relax, and eventually awakened to become the Third Herrscher.]

[A rare genius, he displayed formidable abilities at a young age. He earned multiple doctoral degrees at the age of sixteen and was involved in various fields. He had proposed countless proposals that led to the Ruyue Group's current status. He was hailed as a genius with potential equal to, or even surpassing, Leonardo da Vinci. However, he kept a low profile since childhood and remained unknown to the world.]

Now he is the enemy of mankind. If he is allowed to control the Ruyue Group, there may be some troubles. If the Ruyue Group is destroyed in advance... Forget it, he is a Herrscher now, how could he care about the power of mankind? Instead of wasting resources and time, it is better to wait.

Suddenly thinking of something, Otto calmly disguised his image into another picture, then immediately opened a new page and quickly flipped through the information that had just been sent to him not long ago.

Is there a childhood sweetheart and fiancée who I have been close to since childhood... Third Herrscher, let me see if a Herrscher can still have human emotions.

His eyes flickered slightly, and a cold arc quietly appeared at the corner of Otto's mouth.

"what?!"

At the same time, somewhere on Earth, in a workshop surrounded by countless equipment and instruments, a man wearing a black hoodie and a one-eyed mask, standing in front of three virtual screens, couldn't help but exclaim in shock.

Then he immediately operated on the keyboard on the table quickly, so fast that his fingers turned into afterimages, and as one encrypted page after another was opened, a new virtual screen popped up in front of the three communication screens.

There was no sign of any intrusion, but there was an unknown file...

Looking at the page displayed on the screen, Gray Snake was completely shocked.

Originally he suspected that Jia Ye was just talking nonsense, or showing off his ability to know the origin of the World Snake, but looking at the folder that was conspicuously classified as non-staff, he had to believe this fact.

How is it possible? How could he have gotten in by bypassing so many firewalls? That was a firewall written by combining the skills of everyone else and the knowledge of a PhD. It's impossible!

He was roaring madly in his heart, but in reality, Gray Snake remained calm and opened the extra file.

[I'm looking forward to the return of the former civilization's strongest warrior. Please let him know when the time comes. I have something I want to discuss with him.]

This was the sentence written at the top of the document, and it also made Gray Snake completely understand that he and others who had only recently surfaced and were supposed to be extremely mysterious were no different from being naked in the eyes of the other party.

Even this most heavily guarded intelligence was discovered. What kind of monstrous hacking ability is this...

His body felt a little weak for a moment, and Gray Snake supported himself on the table with one hand. The only artificial eye that was not covered by the mask was flashing with an unsteady scarlet light, making him as terrifying as a demon from hell, and as cold as a wounded lone wolf.

boom!

He quickly read the contents of the document, then punched the table in front of him hard, with such great force that half of the table was completely shattered.

"What a great gift! Third Herrscher! You will surely pay the price for your arrogance today!"

Because the sound connection had been cut off, the other three people did not hear the gray snake's roar. However, even if they heard it, Otto and Einstein would not have any feelings about it at all, not to mention Jia Ye.

Because the chess player is unlikely to care about the chess pieces' thoughts.

Now, let me just fill in what Xilin left unsaid.

Not caring how much shock his words had brought to the three people in front of the communication, Jia Ye's voice continued to ring through the communication.

"We will not participate in the subsequent war between humanity and Honkai, but will act on our own terms. You three may challenge us with force to the best of your ability, but we will not initiate combat against human civilization."

"This is a long game. Please show us the possibilities of humanity."

After leaving behind a few words that sounded stern, Jia Ye closed the communication, leaving the three people in different places, but equally silent.

"Actually, I'm surprised that you're willing to be willful with me."

Jia Ye turned and looked at Xilin who was sitting behind him and said softly.

"God told me that the mission He gave you is different from mine, so I am only helping you because of God's will. Don't think too much about it."

Xilin tapped the ground with her toes and gently pushed the chair back and forth. After hearing Jia Ye's words, she immediately snorted.

However, although she said this, no matter how slow-witted Jia Ye was, it was impossible for him not to see what she was thinking.

[Oh, you finally understand? Then what are you going to do? Take her away?]

The voice of someone who was watching the fun without minding any trouble sounded in his mind, interrupting Jiaye's train of thought.

"Why do you want to take her away? I have a younger sister after all, and I know she can't stay by my side forever, whether biological or otherwise. So when I leave, I should just erase all her memories of me."

Jiaye asked in confusion.

[......Huh? ]

Blinking, the teasing smirk froze on his face. Ge Jiuye looked at Jia Ye, who was full of confusion, through the all-round ultra-clear screen in front of him. After confirming that this was his true thought, he suddenly felt helpless.

Can't you even guess that? No, this option doesn't exist in my subconscious, or perhaps it was eliminated from the beginning.

For those two people? This is really—— Never mind, the memory will be erased in the end anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

Shrugging his shoulders, Ge Jiuye just let the misunderstanding, which could have been resolved, continue to develop.

[Who are you going to fill your position with?]

[Just create a new memory, or let Bella fill in the blank.]

【Yu Duchen may not be effective on her.】

[Just use the knowledge you gave me. There are many ways to modify memory based on the concept of time.]

【Okay, just think about it.】

"Really? Then if you get impatient, just tell me. I can change the plan then."

Jia Ye nodded and continued speaking according to Xilin's words.

"By the way, have you ever thought about experiencing the life of an ordinary person?"

His plan is to find the conditions for his victory—the clone of the Honkai Will—through the forces in human society, and to use various means to attack human civilization.

Because of the knowledge of the previous generation civilization left on the lunar altar, combined with the intelligence and information obtained from forces such as Anti-Entropy, Destiny, and World Serpent, which more or less control a part of the power of the previous generation civilization, and the information revealed intentionally or unintentionally by the Honkai Will in the conditions for victory, Jiaye has more or less guessed the identity of the Honkai clone in this world, which is why this plan was born.

However, if his speculation is correct, the time required during this period is not short, at least several years. If it is just him, it is not a big deal, because his body will not show any growth during the period of being a Herrscher, and his mind can change the perspective of time by accepting some memories of the previous life, so he will not feel bored.

But Sirin is different. Although she is the only five-in-one Herrscher, she is mentally still just a thirteen-year-old girl. She needs to stay among humans for several years in a row because she hates humans. Jiaye is really worried that she will not be able to bear it and directly use a large wave of meteorites to destroy the earth.

Then he would have no choice but to go to other civilizations in the universe or other parallel worlds on the Tree of Imaginary Numbers to start over. That would be very troublesome, and he hated trouble.

So if the situation allows, he will try his best to prevent Xilin from losing patience and avoiding having to resort to a backup plan.

For example, using various interesting games to gradually make her addicted, after all, she is only a thirteen-year-old child.

"Your dirty thoughts don't seem like those of a sixteen-year-old at all."