The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"The formation that Guanxing has mastered is certainly not that simple." Twilight Knight shook his head. "From our perspective, the ability to call the wind and rain is, in a sense, no different from the power of the Herrscher."

The Twilight Knight's description made Ji Zi pause as she stroked her chin, her expression astonished: "Calling the wind and rain? Can the ancient formations of Shenzhou even do something like this?"

"Who knows? If you are curious, why don't you go ask him yourself?" The Twilight Knight said ambiguously, "Don't worry, although he seems to be very arrogant when dealing with serious matters, in private, he is actually easier to talk to than you think. After all, he is the saintly king who is friendly to the people."

Jizi was a little unsure about how to deal with the Twilight Knight's words. Should she be pleased with the fact that the stargazer was very friendly? Or should she be offended that she was treated as a [civilian] and was treated kindly?

"Okay, now that we've come to this point, it's time for you to tell me your decision. Have you thought about it? Should we just pretend that nothing happened and go back to being a teacher at St. Freya's Academy and the ace A-rank Valkyrie of the Far East Branch? Or should we stay here and sit in on our next meeting?"

The Twilight Knight took a look at Jizi's body and said calmly:

"With your body now in a state where the Captain has awakened the stigmata, the constraints imposed on you by your original lifespan and talent should have been broken. Although it is not as unlimited as Yulandel's, at least within a dozen years, the talent you can realize through hard work will not reach its limit. By that time, let alone a simple S-rank, it is not impossible for you to become the strongest Valkyrie by destiny at that time."

"A choice between two options... huh?" Ji Zi narrowed her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

Jizi had to admit that the Twilight Knight's provocation was indeed very effective for her. She was actually a person with a strong desire for knowledge. If she didn't have a strong desire for knowledge, Jizi would not have been able to be admitted to the interstellar navigation dynamics department of California Institute of Technology at the age of fifteen simply by relying on her passion for the starry sky and the universe.

Although Ji Zi, who joined the destiny and joined the Saint Freya Academy after the annihilation of the Valkyrie Assault Team in 2010, had lost a lot of her youthful vigor and desire for knowledge, she headed straight towards the old man and the old driver. But in addition to her desire for knowledge, Li Shubai's help to her made it impossible for her to just turn around and leave.

Although when Ji Zi blocked Li Shubai in the office, what she said, "Since you are coming for my body, I will feel guilty if I don't let you achieve your goal," was probably half a joke and a tease, but in the other half that was not a joke, Ji Zi had really thought seriously about whether she should seize the opportunity to forcibly take off the single hat that she had worn for more than 20 years.

What a joke, you want me to take it back even though I've already taken it off halfway? How could Ji Zi, a woman who claims to be determined to do it to the end after taking off clothes, allow such a thing as the cooked duck flying away to happen in front of her eyes?

"Well, I lose to you." Ji Zi raised her hands high and said helplessly in a tone as if she had admitted defeat, "But before you start talking, I have a question to ask."

"What's the problem?" Twilight Knight asked calmly.

"..." Jizi looked around and focused on the kitchen. After confirming that the three Ritas who were about to finish cooking breakfast were all short-haired Ritas, she hesitantly asked a question that she had felt was quite wrong since she woke up: "So-"

"——Did you call Silin and the long-haired Rita back to Hyperion?"

All of a sudden, because of Ji Zi's sudden questioning, the living room, which was originally filled with light conversations, fell into deathly silence.

On the other side, Li Shubai's world is a bubble.

Somewhere in Skydome City, in a bar called Raven's.

"Are the only six of us who have been successfully summoned?"

Rita [Lost Rosemary], with her long flowing hair, sat elegantly outside the bar counter, her wine-red eyes glancing around at everyone sitting around her.

"Although it is indeed difficult to confront the crew of the Hyperion owned by the captain head-on, but given the current situation, if we simply want the captain to stay safely beside us, it seems to be enough."

"Hey, hey, hey." At this moment, an impatient voice mercilessly interrupted Lost Rosemary's gentle words, "Although I did provide you with a place to discuss, please don't involve me. Matters between men and women and marriage are not things I should consider at my age. I haven't been free and easy outside enough."

"Oh, you misunderstood, Miss Brownie." Lost Rosemary raised her head and smiled at Brownie, who was wearing a simple work suit. "From a normal person's point of view, since Rita loves the captain deeply, she certainly wouldn't want the captain to mess with other girls, right?"

"That's what you said, but who knows if you have other bad ideas in private." Brownie rolled his eyes at the Lost Rosemary who had a gentle smile on her face while mixing the drinks. "Besides, how can you have the nerve to call yourself a normal person?"

"Do you think this of Rita? This is really frustrating." Lost Rose sighed, "But only in this matter, please allow me to explain a little, Rita is indeed..."

"Okay, okay, I understand what you mean." Brownie slammed the cocktail glass in front of Lost Rosemary. Although her face was full of impatience, she still conscientiously completed her job as a bartender: "Today's special, sugar-free grapefruit juice - in short, I don't want to be as scheming as you on Hyperion. Captain Shubai and I just need to trust each other's brothers with our backs when we are adventuring."

Lost Rosemary sighed deeply, feeling a little headache: "Excuse me, Miss Brownie, in my opinion, it is difficult for there to be pure love between men and women——"

"Okay, okay, you guys take your time chatting." After pushing the wine glass in front of Lost Rosemary, Brownie opened the wooden door of the bar, then ran to the door of the bar and looked around.

Unlike other bars in this cyber city, Raven's was opened in a rather remote location. Apart from a few regular customers, there were rarely any strangers visiting. There were no pedestrians or vehicles around now, and all the nearby shops had closed their doors early, leaving only the neon sign of Raven's still emitting colorful lights.

Chapter 4: A Historic Meeting in the Quantum Sea (k)

After confirming that no customers would visit in the short term, Brownie turned off the neon lights on the Raven's sign, walked outside the bar, took out the remote control from the chest pocket of his shirt, controlled the outer layer of the automatically rising and falling iron gate to slowly fall down, and then crouched down before the iron gate was completely closed, and slipped in through the gap below.

"It's time to close!" Brownie dusted off her hands and quickly ran to the staff room to change into her work clothes. When her petite figure reappeared in front of the five people sitting quietly around the bar table, Brownie had transformed from an ordinary employee with a cute look into the most famous hacker in Tianqiong City, [Haitu].

"Wait." After seeing Brownie's eager expression under the hood, Lost Rosemary realized something and quickly asked, "Miss Brownie, are you preparing to..."

"What?" Brownie turned his head and stared at the Lost Rosemary, his pupils under his bangs flashing with a bright blue data stream, "Do you want me to carry out the stupid [Captain Seizing Plan] like you guys? Don't joke, I said I'm not interested in getting involved in your intrigues. Compared to boring love affairs, dragging the captain to do some bad... cough, exciting things is what I want to do now. You're not trying to stop me, are you?"

"Is Rita such a bad woman in your mind?" Lost Rosemary shook her head with a dumb smile, "But you did misunderstand, Miss Brownie. Before you go to find the captain, Rita just wants to give this to you."

As soon as the words fell, a mist emitting a dark light appeared out of thin air, and a rosemary with an elegant floral fragrance floated quietly in front of Brownie.

Brownie took the flower that came with the mist, and scanned it casually with her eyes. The corners of her mouth rose slightly because of happiness: "Hehe, you still say that you are not a bad woman. Aren't you much more sensible than those intelligence dealers of Snake Eyes? If the captain knew that he had already secretly planted the seeds of surveillance on you, I'm afraid he would immediately abandon Ai-chan and run away."

Although he said these sarcastic words, there was a glimmer of loyalty in Brownie's eyes.

Under her scanning ability, which was not as good as that of a genuine Ruler of Reason but could still make a precise analysis of the structure of most things, the rosemary flowers filled with elegant mist suddenly turned into countless complex noise points in Brownie's field of vision, and quickly combined into a dynamic real-time scene.

Although he couldn't see the captain's face, after accurately capturing the figure of Ai Hyperion in the scene before him, Brownie quickly understood Li Shubai's current location and current situation based on the surrounding environment.

"Okay, I'll give it back to you." The scene flashed by. After identifying the exact location of Li Shubai and Ai Yi, Brownie threw the flower back to Lost Rosemary without any hesitation - she didn't want herself and the captain to be stared at and laughed at by this dangerous woman while they were doing bad things.

Brownie, who went to look for Li Shubai, left in a swift and decisive manner. Lost Rosemary sighed softly and shook her head helplessly.

"Is it okay not to stop her?" asked the person sitting next to Lost Rosemary.

"To be honest, it's a big problem." Lost Rose responded calmly to the man's words, "Unfortunately, a forced melon is not sweet after all. Although Miss Scary Rabbit's power is very important to us, since she is not willing to act with us, it probably only means that my ability is not enough to attract her."

"..." The person sitting next to Lost Rosemary chuckled. "Unfortunately, although we are both Rita Rossweisse, I know even less about Miss Hare Rabbit than you do. Otherwise, I wouldn't be helpless and watch you fail to communicate."

"Compared to that kind of thing." Facing the Lost Rose, the third person present spoke in a stern and clear voice, "Although both of you Rita think that it is a huge problem to let Ms. Brownie go to the captain, but from your calm and peaceful expressions, it seems that neither of you is surprised by this result?"

"..." The fourth person did not speak, but just scanned everyone present with a scrutinizing look, and silently took a sip of the drink that Brownie prepared for each of them.

"So, this is your plan?" The last person present narrowed his golden eyes with cross patterns on them. His cold expression gave off an extremely dangerous and cold aura. "You want me to come here with you and watch my servants being snatched away by others?"

"Please be patient, Miss Celine." Lost Rosemary used a gentle tone to calm Celine's emotions, who were almost out of control. "As a crew member who has been living on the Hyperion, you should also understand that compared with the other people on that ship, what you can get is only a tiny part, right?"

"So what?" Xilin sneered and stood up from the chair at the edge of the bar. "I used the power of space to bring you to the captain, and you used your own power to provide me with the captain's accurate position in the Quantum Sea. Our cooperative relationship should be over. Whatever I want to do with my servant next is my freedom. I will not allow you to snatch him away from under my nose again."

"Do you really want to keep the captain by your side?" Lost Rose said faintly, "If so, please do as you please. However, if in the process, you violate the captain's wishes... or even hurt the captain, then, for the captain's safety, Rita should have no choice but to give up all her wishes and return to the Hyperion immediately to explain to everyone the captain's current predicament."

"...Are you threatening me?" Xilin stared coldly at the beautiful face of Lost Rosemary, which was still smiling. Unstable cracks were looming around her body.

As a genuine Ruler of the Void in the original world, Xilin does not even need the power to drive the space to cause changes in the space of this extremely small world bubble. As long as her emotions fluctuate slightly, the rules of this world will instinctively submit to her.

Even if she abandons her hatred for humans, Sirin is still the proud Queen of the Sky.

"How could that be?" Lost Rosemary smiled, "I am just fulfilling my duties as a crew member. If Rita's duties have caused you to misunderstand, please forgive me. After all, no matter what, in Rita's eyes, the captain's safety comes first compared to personal desires and wishes. I believe that Miss Xilin's views on this point should be the same as everyone else, right?"

"Tsk." Xilin smacked her tongue, and the cracks in the surrounding space gradually healed.

Indeed, just as Lost Rosemary said, even for the arrogant Xilin, [not violating Li Shubai's wishes] and [not causing any harm to Li Shubai] are the bottom line of all actions.

Although when she was extremely anxious, Xilin would use the power of space to forcibly bring Li Shubai to her presence, and could not help but snatch his lips, but that was only an impulsive action after her possessions were taken away.

Even though she was severely spanked by Li Shubai on the spot, logically, all her mistakes should have been cleared up. However, for a long time afterwards, Xilin still felt guilty for her impulsive behavior and dared not show her face in public.

Of course, although she felt guilty, Xilin didn't feel any regret at all.

However, if given a choice... Xilin really wanted Li Shubai to truly become her [servant] according to his own wishes.

This is also the biggest reason why Lost Rosemary could easily convince Xilin to cooperate with her.

After all, last night, it was because of Lost Rosemary's suggestion that Xilin was able to feel the joy of [Li Shubai was aroused to the point of completely losing control because of their elaborate dressing], and spent an absurd night that made her feel ashamed and embarrassed.

Obviously, Li Shubai was not the only one who felt great that night. God knows what unspeakable attributes Xilin quietly awakened when she was wearing the noble Winter Queen's clothes and her servants held down her arms to remove the sleeves, and she was completely unable to resist.

In short...if Lost Rosemary can really do what she said, then Xilin can follow her instructions temporarily.

"It seems that you have made your choice." Seeing Xilin gradually calm down, Lost Rosemary smiled. She stood up from the chair, walked to the bar, skillfully mixed a colorful drink, and then pushed the glass with juice swaying in front of Xilin. "Since you have made up your mind, then before the action begins, please allow Rita to introduce you to several other new companions."

"Rita Rossweisse." Just as Lost Rose said this, the woman who spoke first spoke in a voice that was completely indistinguishable from Lost Rose, "The former prime minister of the Huang Empire, and an old acquaintance of Lord Stargazer who is now on your ship. Please take care of me."

Compared to the humble aura surrounding other Ritas, this Rita who calls herself the prime minister looks much more majestic. She wears an ancient palace robe that is full of fairy spirit. Her gray-gold hair is tied into two thin ponytails. Her plump thighs wrapped in black stockings overlap, and her beautiful absolute territory is looming in the shadow of the bar.

"Yulan Dai'er." The person sitting next to Prime Minister Rita said calmly, "The former general of the Huang Empire, like Prime Minister Rita, is an old acquaintance of stargazing."

After General Youlan finished her self-introduction, everyone turned their eyes to the last person who had not spoken a word but just looked at them quietly.

After a moment of silence, the man who had been silent all this time finally sighed and said, "As you can see, I am also Youlandel. My identity... just treat me as an incompetent guardian of the forest."

"Hehe." Lost Rosemary chuckled. She looked at the woman who called herself the Guardian of the Forest, Yulandel, and her bright wine-red eyes flashed with a hint of strong interest. "Before you took the initiative to come to me, Rita had never thought that in the myriad worlds of the Quantum Sea, there actually existed a Lord Yulandel with an elf body... In fact, he had already been captured by the captain a long time ago."

"Indeed." General Youlan looked directly at the pointed ears of the Forest Elf, and then glanced at the blond elf's dignified face that was no different from her own, with an indescribable strange look in her eyes. She asked curiously, "But why did you leave your original world? You said you were an incompetent guardian, but from the look of you, it seems that you didn't want to leave on your own initiative? Did you encounter insurmountable difficulties in the process of protecting something, which led to failure?"

The Forest Elf raised his eyes, and a hint of embarrassment flashed across his sapphire-like clear eyes. "It's not what you think. My original world bubble didn't encounter any danger. After the Captain and Lord Delta visited our world bubble, the enemies that were originally difficult to resist were eliminated. And judging from the current lifespan of that world bubble, that world should be able to last for a long time."

"But... you know, it's precisely because we are too stable that we, the powerful guardians, have gradually begun to doubt the meaning of our existence." The Forest Elf took a sip of the wine in the glass, and his dignified voice, which was inviolable, couldn't help but carry a little confusion and depression. "So, rather than saying that I failed to do my job due to some insurmountable difficulties, in my case, I should say that I took the initiative to abandon the responsibilities that I should have carried out to the end because of my own reasons."

"To put it simply, you've fallen into the common problem of 'not being able to rest' shared by all the Lords of Yulandel?" Lost Rosemary said with a smile.

“Can’t take a break…?” The Forest Fairy hesitated. As the guardian of the forest, she was dormant most of the time except when fighting invaders. Even among all the Yulandel, she was one of the few who didn’t know Rita Rossweisse at all.

Therefore, even though she saw another person named Yulandel here, she, who was alone in the world, never relaxed her vigilance against outsiders.

But when she heard the description of herself given by Lost Rosemary, a deep sense of identification uncontrollably emerged in the heart of this elf who was literally otherworldly.

It seems that although she does not know this Rita, they... and the general who looks exactly like her, seem to be more familiar with [Yulandel] than she thought.

Chapter 4: Their Pasts (k)

However, after pondering for a moment, the Forest Elf forced himself to suppress the sudden sense of recognition in his chest, and shook his head gently at Lost Rosemary: "It should be... I can't say that I can't rest, if I just stay there and do nothing, before the captain and Delta came to the world I live in, I have been living like this all these years."

As a long-lived species of elves, this forest elf, who looks no different from other Yulandel in terms of appearance and figure, should be the oldest individual among all the Yulandel isotopes known at this stage.

In the world where she was, the forest elf once became the gatekeeper of the forest and ruins because of a past contract. If no invaders tried to visit the ruins, she would always stay alone in the forest outside the ruins, or sit there doing nothing all day, or simply fall into a light sleep.

For hundreds of years, the forest elves have been living such a stable and idle life.

It is precisely for this reason that, although for a long time, the Forest Elves did not like to train themselves day and night like most other Yulandel, but under the combined influence of the accumulation of time, the extraordinary talent shared by all Yulandel, and the blessing bestowed on her by the Moon Goddess, perhaps, excluding the Yulandel in the Eigenworld or those other worlds on the Imaginary Number Tree who even contain the power of an entire world bubble in their bodies, the Forest Elves are likely to be the most powerful among all the Yulandel isotopes in the world bubble of the Quantum Sea.

Although the familiar tone of Lost Rosemary's voice when talking about [Yulandel] made the Forest Elf suddenly have the illusion that the other party knew her very well, after carefully recalling her past life, the Forest Elf still rejected the conclusion drawn by Lost Rosemary.

"Oh, the so-called 'can't rest' is just a way of saying it so that you can understand it more easily." Lost Rosemary covered her mouth and chuckled, "Of course I know that if I really make a similar request to Lady Yulandel for a necessary reason, it would be just staying where I am and doing nothing. Lady Yulandel can certainly complete this task perfectly."

The forest elf was stunned for a moment, and a slight blush appeared on her dignified face. She scratched her head a little embarrassedly: "It seems that you trust me more than I thought?"

Although the Forest Elf is indeed the oldest among all the Yulandel in terms of physical age, from the perspectives of mental age and social experience, she has always been conscientious in carrying out her mission, has never encountered any other social occasions except [standing in front of visitors as a guardian], and has not communicated with other elves and humans except the other two Spring Elves in that world. Perhaps, she is also the youngest and most immature one among all the Yulandel.

Before Lost Rosemary brought up the topic of introducing herself, she remained silent. In addition to being wary, she was mostly at a loss.

"Of course." Lost Rosemary nodded gently. "Apart from the Captain, the person Rita trusts the most is none other than Lady Yulandel. As for why I said you can't rest, after listening to my explanation just now, you should understand it yourself, right?"

"The explanation just now...ah!" The Forest Elf recalled what Lost Rosemary had just said and suddenly came back to his senses.

[If there is a real need to make a similar request to Lord Yulandel, then Lord Yulandel can certainly complete this task perfectly if I just stay where I am and do nothing.]

"A long time ago, when I was reading the logbook of the Hyperion, I carefully read every event recorded in the logbook. Among those exciting or dull events, it naturally included the experience of the captain and Delta coming to the bubble of your world." Lost Rosemary said in a leisurely tone, "You can calm down and relax while guarding the Emerald Forest day and night. This is the same as the Lord Yulandel I know, who can calm his mind while meditating in order to achieve his goals."

——But, on the other hand, if that [necessary reason] no longer exists, if there is no [purpose] for meditation, even if it is Yulandel, even if it is a forest elf, it would be difficult for them to just stay there and do nothing.

"In that report, the Captain and Lord Delta, while collecting [Anchor Points] and [Singularities], had no choice but to defeat the Cortia that devoured them... Perhaps it would be easier for you to understand it using the word [Demon King]?" After preparing drinks for everyone with great ease, Lost Rosemary smiled and approached the Forest Elves, pulled out the round chair under the bar and sat next to her. "In short, after the threat of the Demon King was completely eliminated, the elves and humans of that world returned to peace and stability. Similarly, you also lost the reason to continue to protect the Emerald Forest. Am I right?"

"..." The forest elf did not speak, but nodded silently.

Like the Spring Elf who was born from the spring, the Forest Elf was also an elf born in the forest, but she will always guard the Emerald Forest and cannot leave. Ultimately, it is because she needs to abide by the contract entrusted to her by the Moon Goddess.

After the Demon King was completely defeated, there was no need for her to [test] the hero, nor did she need to pass through the Emerald Forest, so she naturally lost her original duties.

It would be fine if I simply unloaded the responsibility on my shoulders, but——

"However, after you lost the reason to stay in that forest, another thing has been tormenting your mind all day long, so that you can't feel at ease staying in that forest that no longer needs a guardian." Lost Rosemary smiled and glanced at the cold-faced Sirin, repeatedly hinting at something, "Before the Captain and Lady Delta arrived at the bubble where you are, among the three elves living in the Emerald Forest, the Spring Elf who is more similar to Miss Sirin had already died in the battle with the [Demon King]."

"Huh?" When Lost Rosemary suddenly called her name, Xilin turned her face to the side in confusion, her thoughts a little stuck.

What is the Spring Elf that is similar to Xilin?

"...They really have recorded all the family affairs of others." After a moment's silence, the Forest Elf showed a helpless expression, "You are right. In the world where we are, there are three elves living together in that forest. I am a forest elf, and the other two sisters who look exactly the same except for their eye color but have completely different personalities are both spring elves. To be honest, when I saw Miss Silin, I thought this journey should have reached its end, but..."

“But I didn’t expect that Miss Xilin is not the spring elf who has been identified as a [sacrifice] by the people of your world?” Lost Rosemary smiled.

The Forest Elf nodded, lowered her head slightly as if recalling something, and said softly: "When the Captain and Lord Delta were about to leave our world, Lord Delta once said to me, 'Too little hope is far more terrifying than despair. It will slowly torture you and ravage you until it kills you completely.'"

"Perhaps it was because of this consideration that they did not tell me the truth of everything right away, telling me that there is another world outside our world, and that the spring elves swallowed by the cracks still have a chance of survival."

"But after I witnessed the Captain and Mr. Delta leaving the world, how could I continue to deceive myself?" The Forest Elf laughed bitterly, "So, I hid it from my 'sister' who returned to the Emerald Forest, and tried to leave that world in the same way that the Captain and Mr. Delta had done once before. It was at that time when I decided to look for the Spring Elf that the Captain's Hyperion captured my specific location. It gave me the identity of a [crew member], helped me open the barrier of the world bubble, and gave me the power to move freely in the quantum sea."

"With the help of the captain, I stayed on the Hyperion for a short time. After I was ready for a long journey, I left the ship." The Forest Elf gently sipped the wine in the glass. The sweet and sour taste lingered between her soft lips and tongue, and went all the way down her throat to her chest. "But... until now, I have not been able to find any trace of the Spring Elf in the Quantum Sea."

Looking at the distressed expression of the Forest Elf, and based on her description, and thinking that the so-called "Spring Elf" might be her own isomorph from another world, Xilin's expression softened for the first time.

"... I think you don't need to worry too much." After hesitating for a moment, Xilin smoothed the silver hair hanging down beside her face, shook her head gently, and put on an extremely arrogant expression. However, her tone of voice had long lost its original indifference. "If it is as you said, the so-called spring spirit is also another me, even if she is not as good as me, she is still the queen of the sky who controls the power of space. It's just that it's easy for her to survive in the quantum sea."

"Thank you. I'll take your good words." The forest elf nodded, and the expression on his face became serious again.

"Hmm...this is really an unexpected story." Prime Minister Rita said softly.

She and General Youlan looked at each other and saw a hint of sigh in each other's eyes.

Although this pair of famous civil and military officials of the Huang Empire also experienced the separation from the Sage King Guanxing, compared to the Forest Elves, at least they could confirm that Guanxing was only taken to the Hyperion and she herself did not encounter any life-threatening threats.