The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

But after all... he still couldn't stand by and watch everything that happened in the paradise of the past, nor could he really treat this world as an experimental field where it didn't matter even if it failed.

Li Shubai is such a greedy person. He cannot lose any Valkyrie on his ship, and he also wants to save the world that is invaded by Honkai.

Perhaps after experiencing failure, such thoughts will be forced to change under the cruel reality, but at least at this moment, Li Shubai, who stood in front of Kiana with an indifferent attitude, was unwilling to give up on the important people and the world, no matter which side they were on.

Under Li Shubai's questioning, Kiana was silent for a moment, and still insisted on her choice with an extremely firm attitude.

"Perhaps, as you said, we... probably don't have a sure-fire way to win against the End." She said firmly, "But precisely because of this, I can't forget everything that happened here, and I can't forget the expectations and trust you placed in us."

"I think you must have made a mistake." Li Shubai's tone sounded quite cold. "If I had placed my hopes and trust in you, I would not have been here in the first place."

"Really? But it seems to me that it's just the opposite. You're standing here because you believe in us, right?" Kiana smiled gently. "Otherwise, after doing all this, why would you forcibly delete the memory of Mei and me?"

"Don't you understand what I'm saying?" Li Shubai snorted coldly, "I've already said the reason a long time ago, of course it's because -"

"I don't want the future to deviate too much, so that we can't observe and interfere with our world further..." Kiana spread her hands, showing a very subtle expression, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, "But if according to what you said, you want to find the best way to fight the Honkai, and you don't expect our generation of humans to survive at all-"

"——Why would you let us face Kevin's Stigmata Project while being completely unaware of what is happening here?"

Seeing Kiana's calm expression, Li Shubai, who had fallen into silence, felt a jolt in his heart.

Oops, it seems that I underestimated Kiana's intelligence and accidentally revealed too much to her.

He had already guessed what Kiana was going to say next.

"We all know the final result of the Stigmata Project. Only the Awakened Stigmata will remain in this world, and the Honkai will flow through the bodies of the Awakened Stigmata, coexisting with the rest of the humans in this world." Kiana smiled and came close to Li Shubai. "That is to say, if the Stigmata Project is truly completed, the end of this world will never happen, right?"

"..." Li Shubai remained silent, while Kevin glanced with a little surprise at this junior who always made him feel that his IQ was a little problematic.

Could it be that this little girl has been showing such a...childish side just to get them to talk?

"You are so determined that we will face the end, which means that Kevin's Stigmata Plan was not realized in the end." Kiana talked incessantly, her eyes becoming brighter and brighter. "And given Kevin's personality, he would not give up the Stigmata Plan on his own initiative. So in this case, there should be only one possibility that the Stigmata Plan did not come true."

"..." Li Shubai's eyelids twitched.

"...That is, in the future, we in this world did overthrow the Stigmata Plan that Kevin was implementing, and then after that, we successfully found a way to suppress the Honkai, right?" Kiana asked with a smile.

"...This is just your wishful thinking." Li Shubai turned his head away, pretending not to see Kiana's smiling expression, and said in an extremely stiff tone, "There is no evidence, and it is completely illogical."

"Oh~" Kiana lengthened her tone in a meaningful tone, "Okay, then what happens next is just my wishful thinking."

It's just her guess, so there's no need for her to respond, right?

After understanding Kiana's metaphor, Li Shubai's expression became as ugly as if he had eaten a cockroach.

"At some point in the future, we successfully defeated... or survived the End, and completely suppressed the Honkai, but we also paid a price for it." Kiana said faintly, "And at this time, a captain who has been spying on our world and knows us unilaterally, but we don't know him, after predicting all this in some way, can't stand the sacrifices we made in fighting the End and the Honkai."

"One day, he finally couldn't sit still anymore because he felt more and more uncomfortable. He tried to use his observation ability to find a better way that was more acceptable to him to help us get through the difficult time called the end. However, in the process, he suddenly saw what happened to Mei."

"Then……"

"That's enough..." Li Shubai covered his face with a headache, "Stop talking."

"Ah, I haven't told you who this happened to~" Kiana looked at Li Shubai who covered his face with a smile.

"..." Li Shubai stopped talking.

"Although it is just a guess without logic and evidence." Kiana laughed, "However, this captain——"

"——Are you a tsundere?"

Chapter 4: Stress Test of the Power of the End (k)

Recalling the previous conversation with Li Shubai, Kiana's expression couldn't help but become subtle.

Specifically, it became like this →＝ω＝

In the eyes of quite a few people, contrast is something quite wonderful, charming and attractive, and Kiana is no exception to this.

No matter how you put it, for this little bug, the mere fact that he was able to allow the "Captain" who appeared in this world with an extremely calm attitude and relied on his special abilities and intelligence to control himself and most people including Mei and Kevin since his debut to break down the defense with just a few words. The Captain grabbed Kevin on the spot and fled away from here under the pretext of "leaving this stigmata space to their family temporarily"... In addition to producing some kind of emotion similar to a sense of accomplishment, Kiana also inexplicably felt a sense of revenge.

After all... after fully understanding Li Shubai's actions, she remembered all the troubles she had encountered with this captain from another world - from the beginning when they invaded the Hyperion and she was played around by the nose until she became irritable, to when she teamed up with Yulandel to chase the Hyperion out and was tied up tightly by the Key of Constraint, and finally her intentions were completely seen through, and after she was induced to use the power of the Herrscher of the Void, he used the power of the Herrscher of Consciousness to deceive her perception, so that she wanted to escape but was forcibly given a space gate by the opposite side, and had to pinch her nose and follow them... All that Kiana had experienced from Li Shubai turned into injustices that could not be retaliated.

She is not the kind of narrow-minded person who repays kindness with enmity and cannot see the kindness others have shown her. Now that she knows that this captain from another world came with good intentions towards this world and them, what else can Kiana do?

I can only bear the grievances I have suffered from this captain.

But understanding is understanding, and even if she has completely given up the idea of ​​revenge and counterattack, Kiana still feels a little unwilling to be bullied to that extent.

And now, there is such a reasonable opportunity to make the hateful captain who "righteously asserted that it was fun to bully Kiana" show such a broken defense. Wouldn't Kiana have to put on a good face?

Of course, joking aside, after successfully getting her revenge, Kiana certainly would not become vague when faced with a problem that required her to be serious.

Even if the captain's true nature is successfully uncovered, what the captain is going to do will not change at all.

And since Kiana still insisted on her request to keep her memory, then as the price for Li Shubai to be at ease and not use Yu Duchen on her, Kiana must of course do her part.

To be more specific, she knew part of the truth, but while her memory was retained, she could not tell other people in this world about this part of the known facts.

Yes, even Siegfried... and Theresa, whom she will inevitably face after returning to the Hyperion, are also included.

Of course, Li Shubai and Kiana are not the kind of people who are completely inflexible.

Although after being broken by Kiana, Li Shubai, who left the Stigmata Space, still said in an extremely stubborn and stiff manner, "Since you choose to maintain your memory, you should take the responsibility that you should do", but in the final analysis, his ultimate goal is not to [prevent Kiana from telling others what she knows], but to rely on this behavior to prevent future events from deviating too much.

On the other hand, if it can ensure that the development of events continues to move forward in the expected direction, revealing part of the truth to others within a certain range is not completely unacceptable.

For example - now.

"What? So you guys have already reached a consensus!" Hahahaha - after listening to Kiana's explanation, Siegfried, who was successfully revived, stood up suddenly and laughed heartily, "Hey, couldn't you have said it like this at the beginning? Look how worried I was. I thought you and your sister were imprisoned by the World Serpent like me! It's great that everyone is safe."

After a moment of silence, Siegfried put away the cheerful smile on his face, patted Kiana on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Although your father is definitely unable to agree with Kevin's idea, but since Kiana... you have made up your mind, then just go for it."

After saying that, Siegfried smiled again, his slightly grinning mouth revealing a mouthful of big white teeth. He raised his hand and pointed at himself with his thumb: "Captain Li Shubai can trust you, so your father certainly can't fall behind! Kiana, I also believe that you can do it."

"Humph, of course I can do it!" Kiana put her hands on her hips, with an extremely confident expression on her face, "Just stay here and recuperate. Next, keep your eyes open and watch how your daughter makes a name for herself!"

"Oh! That's the kind of momentum!" Siegfried gave Kiana a thumbs up: "Then your dad will be looking forward to your performance here!"

After explaining the rest of the things and letting Siegfried stay here to recuperate, Li Shubai and his group left.

After leaving the tower where Siegfried was imprisoned, under the leadership of Kevin, the few people did not return to the real world immediately, but came to the ice field on the outskirts of this space - the place they arrived at first when they just arrived here.

Siegfried and Bianca, who were the will of the stigmata, had been taken back by Li Shubai into his own stigmata space. Now, there were only four people left standing on this ice field.

It was at this time that something happened that was completely unexpected by Kiana and Yulandel.

"Let's stop here." Kevin looked around the spacious ice field and confirmed whether the area was suitable for a battlefield. He then focused his attention on Li Shubai. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"We agreed on this when we were helping Siegfried buy supplies." Li Shubai shrugged, and while saying these words that sounded a bit incoherent, he turned his gaze to Kevin who seemed a little hesitant, and smiled, "Why, if we don't show up, you don't even want to see your comrades for the last time, but you are worried about me who is meeting you for the first time?"

"Hmm?" Hearing Li Shubai's teasing words, Kiana and Yulandel pricked up their ears at the same time.

They looked at each other and saw a hint of doubt in each other's eyes.

Yulandel frowned, her sharp intuition gave off a somewhat uneasy warning. Although she instinctively felt that there was something wrong with the conversation between Kevin and Li Shubai, she didn't understand what was wrong because Li Shubai had not informed her of this in advance.

So, after a moment's hesitation, Youlan Daier decisively spoke out the question in her heart, hoping to get an answer from Li Shubai: "Captain, what are you and Kevin talking about?"

Li Shubai turned his head and smiled at Youlan Daier: "Don't worry, it's just my unilateral request to Kevin."

"A one-sided request..." Yulandel hesitated for a moment, "...Is there anything that only Kevin can do? If not, if there is something that needs help from others, why don't you ask me directly, Captain, or other members of the Hyperion?"

"It's not that Kevin is the only one who can accomplish the task, but it is undeniable that Kevin is indeed the best candidate I can think of at this stage." Li Shubai said, "Don't worry, it's just a small experiment. You and Kiana go back to the real world first, and Kevin and I will follow soon."

Feeling more and more that something was wrong, Yulandel bluntly expressed her doubts and concerns: "What kind of experiment is this? Can't Kiana and I watch it?"

"That's right." Kiana seconded, "Besides, if it's just an experiment, Yulandel and I can help you watch over it. If there are more people, the experiment you want to conduct will be completed more efficiently."

Li Shubai shook his head decisively and said concisely: "If you two are here, the accuracy of the experimental results cannot be guaranteed."

"Forget it..." Li Shubai thought about it and chose to use the simplest and crudest method to temporarily shut up Youlan Daier and Qiyana: "Kevin, thank you for your help."

"Ah..." Kevin sighed, looked at the two girls who were theoretically his two descendants, and shook his head helplessly: "...I'm sorry."

"Hold..." Hearing Kevin's apology, Youlandel's pupils shrank slightly, and she almost instinctively wanted to stop Kevin's next move, "Wait - what exactly do you want to do!?"

However, Yulandel was unable to get an answer from Kevin.

Although she is also Kaslana, she has just awakened the stigmata and her control over this stigmata space is certainly not comparable to Kevin, who was sealed at the bottom of the Quantum Sea by Su and even worked as the manager of the stigmata space for a period of time.

Thus, as the scene before their eyes blurred, Yulandel and Kiana, who were forcibly kicked out of the Stigmata Space by Kevin, could only watch themselves return to the real world.

After asking Kevin to send Yulandel and Kiana back to the real world from this holy scar space, Li Shubai took a long breath of the cold air that almost frostbitten his lungs, and then exhaled a mouthful of white mist.

After adjusting his physical condition to the peak in one breath, Li Shubai stared into Kevin's eyes, suddenly raised his hand, and threw a pair of guns that appeared out of thin air on his palms to Kevin.

"Use my Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment." Li Shubai said, "Compared to the Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment you have, which can only enter the highest form of annihilation, this Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment that I have over-limited can release the maximum power, which should allow you to exert your full strength a little more."

Super-limit transformation - After crossing over to this world, Li Shubai discovered the third thing that had some errors in the game settings of Honkai Impact 3rd before crossing over.

Although most of the weapons he possessed had super-limited forms, and he had developed them to their full potential - in the terms of the game, he had pushed them to the maximum level of 65. But in fact, let alone the current civilization, even the super-limit technology of the pre-civilization era was not enough to transform the Key of God.

Judging from what Li Shubai has experienced so far, the God's Key that he possesses, which has undergone super-limit modification, is much stronger than the original God's Key that was mostly made by Wei Erwei in this world.

The key of restraint that can easily control Kiana [Herrscher of the Fire] and Yulandel [Gengen Rider] at the same time is the evidence.

Kevin silently took the double guns thrown to him by Li Shubai. Although he called the Skyfire Holy Judgment in his hand an old friend very affectionately, Kevin was actually not the kind of warrior who had a complex about weapons.

For Kevin, a thorough pragmatist, the reason why he calls the Skyfire Judge an old friend, besides the fact that this weapon is indeed the one that has been with him the longest, the biggest reason is simply because Kevin does not think that there will be a weapon that is more suitable for him.

In other words, if he could really come across a weapon that was more powerful than his Heavenly Fire Judgement... then Kevin would not develop any extra feelings for this so-called "old friend" even if he banished him to the cold palace.

Not to mention the special situation where the more handy weapon is another Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire.

After taking the Holy Fire Judgement thrown by Li Shubai, Kevin first felt the power of the Key of God, then nodded and looked at Li Shubai's face again: "One last question, are you sure you want to do this?"

"Of course." Li Shubai did not show any impatience towards Kevin's inquiry, but took out another pair of Skyfire Holy Judges, transformed them into big swords, and then took out a Black Abyss White Flower.

——There was indeed more than one such thing as the Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire in his Hyperion’s arsenal. As for why he possessed more than one Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire, that was another sad story.

After fully arming himself, Li Shubai stared at Kevin's face and said in a solemn tone: "The time I can stay in this world is limited. Before I leave this world, next, just follow your words and boldly release the power of [End]."

Chapter 5 Plan (k)

Kevin nodded silently. He grasped the hilt of the Skyfire Greatsword that Li Shubai handed to him with one hand. The sword had been completely liberated into the super-limited form of [Destruction without Ashes]. Then he raised his arm and held it high above his head.

The next moment, there was a loud explosion like a meteorite hitting the earth. In this roar that almost made Li Shubai lose his hearing in an instant, a nearly crazy fire storm rose up from all around Kevin. The bright and dazzling blazing light pierced through the sky mercilessly, and also illuminated Li Shubai's extremely solemn face palely.

What Li Shubai didn't explain to Kiana and Yulandel was that, although on the surface, Kiana's words had indeed broken his defense to the point of fleeing, in fact, even if Kiana hadn't asked Siegfried to keep her memory when his stigmata helped him regain his personal will, and there hadn't been any subsequent conversation, Li Shubai would still have left the stigmata space with the same excuse to give himself a chance to communicate with Kevin alone.

After all, even if its financial resources are slightly inferior to that of the Destiny that nominally rules the Eurasian continent, the World Serpent is still a behemoth with more than 700,000 loyal believers in this world. If they just want to purchase daily necessities that allow Siegfried to live comfortably in the Stigmata space, there is no need for Kevin and Li Shubai to do it themselves.

It was during the brief time when Kiana and the others were spending time with their families that Li Shubai, who had returned to the real world with Kevin under the pretext of purchasing daily necessities, had a more in-depth communication with Kevin, with whom he had reached a preliminary consensus before.

In a sense, Li Shubai, who worked as a company executive in a world without collapse, is a person who is quite good at making big promises. And because of the characteristics of his profession, even when making big promises, he likes to list data and factual evidence.

Therefore, the two men discussed for a long time in the real world about Kevin's next course of action in this civilized era, as well as the specific means of letting Li Shubai go back 50,000 years to try to save the previous civilized era with Kevin, and successfully obtained a result that was relatively satisfactory to both parties.

The first thing that needs to be made clear is, what method should Li Shubai use to make Kevin return to the pre-civilization era?

——No, in fact, if the only thing to do is to let Kevin go back to the past, then Li Shubai can do it immediately now, and he can do it in more than one way.

To give the simplest example - not long ago, Kiana Kaslana [Hersher of the Fire], who was supposed to appear at this point in time, once followed Aponia to capture the coordinates left by his consciousness in the native world, and used the Hyperion's [Consciousness Mapping System] to replace her consciousness with the consciousness of another her in the native world - Kiana, and achieved an effect similar to going back to the past.

Therefore, if you want to send Kevin back to the past, you just need to try to find the consciousness beacon located in the previous civilization era.

And finding the beacon of the previous civilization era is not a difficult task for Li Shubai, who has several thirteen heroes under his name.

The crew of the Hyperion possesses the ability to freely return to their original world.

Although in fact the dead heroes would not be allowed in by the world they originally lived in, if they just wanted to leave a beacon for the previous civilization era, they did not necessarily have to descend into that world in person in the flesh.

Space beacon and consciousness beacon - no matter which one it is, just let the Herrscher of Void or the Herrscher of Consciousness prepare it in advance, and then, at the moment of returning to the world you are in, put the beacon back in its original place, and then just return to Hyperion before the world's rejection occurs, and the prerequisite for [returning to the past] will be completed.

The remaining more troublesome questions are probably the specific point in time to go back to the past, and how long the act of [going back to the past] itself can last.

The [Consciousness Mapping System] that projects consciousness onto another [self], and the [Matter Interference System] that Li Shubai is currently using to help him, Yulandel, and the Herrscher of Consciousness travel directly to the future in the flesh, both have a limited stay time.

If it is a consciousness mapping, under the premise of not engaging in a fierce battle that requires forcibly releasing one's original power, the maximum time it can maintain is only seventy-two hours. If one forcibly uses one's original power like [Herrscher of the Fire], the maintenance time will be even shorter.

The [Matter Interference System] he is currently using, although unlike the [Consciousness Mapping System], the retention time will be shortened as the traverser's consciousness energy is intensively consumed, but like the Consciousness Mapping System, it will also intensively consume a certain energy of the Hyperion while maintaining time travel.

- To describe it in the language of the game, during the main storyline, the Captain's stamina will gradually decrease as the level progresses, and eventually when his stamina reaches zero, he will not be able to order any Valkyrie to fight due to lack of stamina.