I am in the abyss of Collapse

"...Sister? Sister Xilin? Are you okay?"

"...?"

The purple-haired girl raised an eyebrow, noticing Kiana calling out to her cautiously.

Sirin could easily see that Kiana was under tremendous pressure, her legs were shaking and cold sweat was on her forehead, but she still approached the girl who was curled up on the ground.

The purple-haired girl seemed to be thinking about something, as if she could read the words from the white-haired ball's movements.

[No matter what, Xilin is my sister! ]

Xilin couldn't help but retort: ​​"Who is your sister?"

The purple-haired girl's sudden scolding did not scare Kiana. Instead, she showed a bright and somewhat silly smile: "You really haven't changed. It turns out that the look just now was just to scare me."

"I'm not trying to scare you."

"brush--!"

Kiana froze in place as she looked at the pure white Arkong Spear with a hint of gold pressed against her throat.

"After all, in the eyes of the Herrscher, there is really no difference between humans and insects - oh, maybe humans are more annoying than insects."

The purple-haired girl spoke slowly. She stretched out a hand, and the Spear of the Archon followed Sirin's wrist and circled around Kiana's neck.

Kiana knew how powerful this thing was. When it poked her, she even felt the tip of the spear scratching the hair on her neck. However, this thing did not directly cut off her two braids as she imagined. Instead, it simply disappeared and passed by her hair as if nothing had happened.

"Your hair looks pretty good. I like it very much."

The golden cross in Xilin's eyes dimmed, and she shook her wrist in boredom, causing the Spear of the Sky to dissipate into the air.

Kiana breathed a sigh of relief. It was indeed not a pleasant feeling to have a sharp object pressed against her neck. She looked at Xilin again, walked to the purple-haired girl, and sat on the ground like her.

"Um...Xilin...sister."

The white-haired girl's brain was working rapidly. After thinking for a few seconds, she asked softly, "Do you know where this place is?"

"Good question."

Xilin adjusted her posture, raised her head, stared at the glowing bubbles floating like stars, and replied: "But I don't know where this place is either."

"This……"

Kiana frowned and asked anxiously, "Is there any way to get out of here? After all, the situation outside is still very urgent..."

"I don't know that girl with blue-purple hair. She should be someone you know, right?" Xilin said nonchalantly, "What does her safety have to do with me?"

"No, not just Mei!"

Kiana finally found a breakthrough point and persuaded with emotion: "Dad and Mom are also fighting to protect Mei, Sister Xilin, we should find a way to leave here as soon as possible..."

"..."

To Xilin, the word "parents" is both familiar and unfamiliar.

Xilin raised her arm again, and the golden ribbon flew into the air under her control, catching several sparkling bubbles. She picked up one of them between her index finger and thumb and observed the bubble carefully.

It felt very smooth to the touch, like some kind of flexible plastic. Xilin brushed away the mist covering the outside of the bubble. Now she and Kiana could see clearly what was inside the bubble.

A man sat on a mountain of jewels and gold coins, raising his hands to lift up the wealth, looking very happy and joyful.

Xilin threw the bubble aside in disappointment and picked up another one. This time, the protagonist in the bubble was a girl. She opened her arms and flew back and forth at the fingertips of the tall buildings, freely controlling her own movement trajectory.

Xilin and Qiana looked at each other and seemed to understand something.

Xilin held all the bubbles taken from the Sub-Eye Belt in her arms. Golden light shone from her fingertips, and the mist covering the bubbles disappeared.

They saw girls leaning on others with a happy face, people swimming in the sea, otakus playing games in lazy chairs, and successful people wearing suits and ties to greet the cheers of the crowd...

"This is the dream of the people in Changkong City who were linked to this consciousness space..."

A somewhat tired voice sounded from behind them. The two girls turned around and saw the gray-haired girl appear in a somewhat embarrassed manner and fall to the ground.

"You are...you are mom's friend!"

Kiana recalled for a few seconds and finally found the information of the gray-haired girl in her overloaded brain, but she seemed to have forgotten her name, and she widened her eyes in anxiety.

"Her name is Fu Hua, and Cecilia said you are her friend... Of course, I also remembered some other things."

Some of the more "hot" past events.

Xilin had a complicated look on her face. She clenched her fists, but finally gave up the dangerous idea of ​​starting a fight. She asked softly, "So, you are the one causing trouble now?"

"How can you say it's a trick? I just linked Kiana, you and me together, and then dug a little deeper into the consciousness space..."

The Herrscher of Consciousness gestured with an air of "the universe at his fingertips".

"Of course, it's a bit troublesome to establish a spiritual connection without [Yu Duchen]. I just look embarrassed... well, I should say that I'm not very skilled in the 'business'."

Xilin didn't care about that. She asked directly, "What's your purpose?"

"Find a way to defeat the Herrscher—"

Seeing the purple-haired girl's increasingly hostile look, Shibao laughed dryly, scratched his head, and added: "I mean, the method to defeat the Herrscher of Thunder."

"Don't you want to defeat her and get your revenge?"

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I can still struggle, but I don't recommend that readers struggle with me.

Volume 175: Carrot and stick are most effective: Chapter Chapter The impossible dream, is it a dream?

"In this place full of dreams, can we find a way to defeat the Herrscher of Thunder?"

Xilin's tone rose slightly, sounding sharp and even sarcastic.

Shibao nodded seriously and said, "Xilin, I think you should have noticed that something is wrong with the world outside. In fact, it is a huge consciousness space woven by the unconsciousness of hundreds of thousands of people."

"Walking in it is like we are having a 'lucid dream', except that in a normal dream, death usually means the end of the dream. After you die in a dream, you will wake up in your bed in reality. At most, you will be slightly frightened, but you can continue to live your good life."

"But it's different here. This space is woven by the consciousness of hundreds of thousands of people, and coupled with the Honkai energy that can be called 'omnipotent and extremely dangerous', it has made this space infinitely close to reality - even though we know that this is a consciousness space, we can't control our instinct to be deceived."

Shibao said meaningfully: "If you die here, you will die in reality as well..."

Just as Kiana was trying to think about the deeper meaning of this, Xilin suddenly sneered: "Then it was quite dangerous for me to fight you at the beginning."

"Well, but I didn't hit you, did I?"

The purple-haired girl was a little embarrassed by Shibao's straightforwardness. She coughed softly and said, "Okay, I understand the matter of the consciousness space, but what does this have to do with your plan to defeat the Herrscher of Thunder?"

The Herrscher of Consciousness snapped his fingers and said excitedly, "Look at these bubbles around. These actually represent ordinary people who are connected to this space. They are like necessary but inconspicuous cornerstones, but they do not have much influence on this consciousness space."

"Only those with a strong will can decide what this space of consciousness will look like, just like that—"

The Herrscher of Knowledge pointed her finger into the distance. Kiana and Sirin followed her finger and discovered a "star" surrounded by countless points of light.

There are about dozens of "stars". They are much brighter than the surrounding bubbles and larger in size. You can tell at first glance that they are unusual.

One of them exuded an especially strong presence. Its size far exceeded that of all the bubbles around it, and it was so huge that it almost occupied half of the three people's field of vision.

Interestingly, the light it emits is far from consistent with its size, like the perfect warm sun that makes people drowsy.

"Wow! What is that? When did it appear there?!"

Kiana started to yell, and the Herrscher of Knowledge shrugged and said, "It has always been there, but we were just a little far away from it. I just brought you to a place where you can see it."

“It’s a very powerful technique.”

Xilin didn’t feel that she had been affected in any way. She looked at the gray-haired girl beside her with fear, and then turned her attention back to those “stars”.

Ten seconds later, the purple-haired girl saw something. She pointed at a sphere flashing purple-red electric light and said, "Is this what you are looking for?"

"Well, you're right, I need this thing."

The Herrscher of Consciousness said this, but his eyes never left the big guy behind him.

"Are you interested?"

"Naturally... maybe this thing is the culprit that dragged us into the illusion?"

"Ah, well, you're right."

Shibao touched her nose somewhat awkwardly, then she exchanged glances with Xilin briefly and pulled Kiana, who was still in shock, over to fly.

"Hey, what are you doing? I can do it myself..."

The Herrscher of Knowledge gave Kiana a disdainful look: "Can you fly in this gravity-free environment similar to space?"

As he spoke, Shibao showed the white-haired girl the wing-like thing attached to his waist. It was continuously spewing out Honkai energy, pushing the gray-haired girl forward like an engine - in fact, it was the hem of the [Fiery Wing] form in the game. In the plot, Fu Hua can really use this thing to fly in the sky.

"Uh, then Sister Xilin..."

Kiana turned her head and found that Sirin stretched out her body, flying freely in the starry sky like a fish. The belt of the sky she pulled left a long trail behind her, which looked dreamy and beautiful.

The white-haired ball closed his mouth and stopped talking.

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"Wow... this thing is really big."

After getting closer, Shibao realized that this "star"... no, let's call it a "supernova", because it is not just one or two times larger than the surrounding "stars", but more than ten times.

Xilin and Shibao put their hands on it together, and a window that was neither too big nor too small, allowing them to see the situation inside, gradually appeared under the effect of Honkai energy.

A black-haired girl of medium height with not-so-ideal breasts sat on a bench by the road, watching everything around her with a calm expression.

She doesn't have the kind of appearance that can amaze others at first sight, but rather she has a special charm that only appears after looking at her for a long time.

The Herrscher of Consciousness was stunned. Isn't this Luo Lin? !

Are you the mastermind? I don't think it's stupid, I might as well say it was me... uh...

Xilin was so fascinated by the scene that she was interrupted by Kiana's exclamation beside her after a full half minute, and she came to her senses.

"That's my parents, Xilin and me! Huh? Why is there a blonde girl behind them?"

Kiana was a little confused. It took her a lot of determination to accept the fact that there was an older sister (? ) in the family besides herself. Why did this guy suddenly stuff another family member into her dream?

Xilin looked at the confused white-haired ball, sighed, and glanced at other places - there were many familiar faces there, all of whom she had known or seen in her consciousness space:

A magician, an opera singer, a barbecue stall owner, a brother and sister who paint, a pink-haired girl with long ears...

There were also things Xilin had never seen before: a woman with long golden hair wearing thick clothes and looking like a soldier, a guy wearing a cloak that looked like a crow, a woman with a very good figure that burned like a flame, and a cross that could run away...

Isn't that the [Oath of Judah]? !

The Herrscher of Knowledge did not notice Xilin's somewhat panicked look. She bit her lip and keenly noticed that in the distance, there were two identical gray-haired girls walking towards the end of the street, talking and laughing...

Isn't that me?

The Herrscher of Knowledge shook her head, took a deep breath, and began to think.

Many people matched the numbers, and she had seen them in her consciousness space - it seemed that this was the influence of Luo Lin.

In general, compared to the previous dreams that seemed easy to understand, Luo Lin's "dream" seemed a bit bland and not that exaggerated...

Just a warm and ordinary daily life.

It's like a beautiful world that has collapsed and no longer exists.

"Is that what you think? Luo Lin... maybe this dream can never come true..."

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Volume 176: Carrot and stick are most effective: Chapter Chapter : Means of winning

"It's...beautiful..."

The gray-haired girl murmured with a complicated expression.

She found that she didn't know when she gave up this imagination of a better future. Perhaps it was from the previous era that there were not many traces left in her memory. Fu Hua's responsibilities became heavier and heavier. She went from an ordinary student to an "immortal" who protected a place, and finally shouldered the ambition of [protecting mankind and eliminating the collapse]...

Fu Hua no longer had the time to think about other things; just fulfilling her duties kept her busy.

——Instead of daydreaming, it would be better to fight two more Honkai beasts, maybe you can save more people.

At this moment, the Herrscher of Consciousness began to rethink all this. After being busy for thousands of years, what kind of future did she want?

The gray-haired girl lowered her head, and a black feather-shaped Herrscher Core appeared in her hand. Her fingertips gently brushed the feathers, and the Herrscher Core responded to her with unhesitating obedience.