The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

At this moment, several buttons suspended in the air above the bridge displayed the words [Attack][Valkyrie][Equipment], [Doll] and [Supply]. The UI display and button appearance were so familiar that Li Shubai began to doubt whether he was dreaming.

"Don't be so excited. Rest assured, Captain, there is nothing wrong with your thinking and vision." Ai Yi crossed her hands behind her back and took two steps to Li Shubai's front. "The picture in front of you is indeed the game UI interface of [Honkai Impact 3rd]. At the same time, describe it with the words you once said to me--"

"——This is also the only thing similar to a 'golden finger' that you obtained when you 'traveled' to this world."

"I..." Li Shubai opened his mouth. The two eye-catching words [Honkai Impact 3rd] and [Golden Finger] that came out of Ai Yi's mouth made him feel absurd and he didn't know what to say.

"Have you never realized one thing?" Ai Yi smiled, "I am not a fusion warrior, nor a Valkyrie like Kiana and the others, but why can I drive Honkai and part of the power of those girls without any obstacles?"

"…That's because, during the time when I have no memories, [I] used some means that I don't fully understand now to obtain those powers, right?" After a moment of silence, Li Shubai raised his palm, "Although I don't understand the principle, this power as a [captain] does exist in my body and mind."

"Your speculation is generally correct. Indeed, this power of [Captain of the Hyperion] is undoubtedly yours. Apart from yourself, even the Ruler of Constraint cannot take your power away." Ai Yi turned around and looked at the virtual buttons floating in the air. "However, if you want to explain it in more detail, whether it is the physical fitness that can release the Holy Judge of Skyfire, or the motor function that can barely compete with the fusion warriors like Kevin, or even the resistance to Honkai energy that can use the Key of God at will, the spirit and swordsmanship that have reached the realm of [Taixu]... These things are just accessories you get after using the power of [Captain]."

"Accessories?" Li Shubai hesitated for a moment and asked honestly, "What do you mean?"

"To understand this question, you must first understand what the so-called "captain's" power is." Ai Yi turned her head and looked at Li Shubai's confused and thoughtful expression with encouraging eyes. "In your opinion, what kind of person can control this unsinkable ship called Hyperion?"

"...possessing unlimited energy and the ability to travel through time and space?" Li Shubai thought for a moment and said, "If I must say, there is one more point, that is, it is exempt from the life limit of humans? After all, if it is an [unsinkable ship], then as its owner, it should also be an [immortal], right?"

"You're half right. You're really perceptive." Ai nodded. "When you traveled to this world, you've already experienced [time travel] once. The mental space in your body is the Hyperion we are in now. It is the only 'golden finger' you had when you came to this world. It gave you the possibility to continuously replenish energy from the outside. As for the final immortality, it is the easiest thing to obtain through the power of Honkai."

"Let me think it over..." Li Shubai touched his chin and suddenly recalled the earliest scene in his memory, which was when he first came to this world. "That is to say, when we first came to this world and had not yet lost our memories, the Hyperion under our feet was not what I saw before?"

"That's right." Ai Yi said, "Although I don't know what you saw the last time you came here, but if I'm not mistaken... all the facilities here are out of power, and space and time should be cut off and appear gray, right?"

"Yeah." Li Shubai nodded.

In the Paradise of the Past, after Sue and Aponia performed the SO-1129 operation on him, his consciousness once unfolded in the form of a memory space. That time, the scene presented by the [Hyperion] he entered was exactly as Ai described, everything was stained with a thin layer of gray.

Not only was there no living person to be seen, but even all the electronic equipment had become unusable and stopped working.

At that time, he thought that the images he saw were just meaningless afterimages, so he quickly put the matter behind him and began to analyze the principles of the SO-1129 operation. However, he did not expect... that the images he saw at that time actually had such a reason.

After pondering for a moment, Li Shubai raised his head and scanned the pages suspended in the air one by one: "From the information you have told me so far, I can infer that when I was still without memories, that is, when I just arrived in this world, because I had the power here, I made a completely different choice from the me now, right?"

He still remembered the terrible mentality he had when he first arrived in this world in his existing memories.

Having lost his family and friends, as well as all the life and ties in his original world, he fell into a state of extreme pessimism with no desire to survive.

As a result, they had more than a hundred days but they were all wasted due to passivity and negligence. They did nothing until the collapse of Changkong City, and then they were awakened by a slap in the face by the bloody hell with flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Even after regaining his power as a captain, Li Shubai never denied how stupid and superficial he was during that time.

But if, in another possibility, he noticed the existence of a Hyperion in his mental space at the beginning of his journey...

"That's right." Ai Yi said, "When you [first] came to this world, the Hyperion here was not in a dormant state like it is now. Almost that night, you noticed the abnormal phenomenon in your mental space during your sleep. What happened next... I'm afraid you can guess it yourself even if Ai Yi doesn't tell you?"

"After I realize Hyperion's power, I will immediately leave Changkong City." Li Shubai continued what Ai Yi said, and a huge story outline and model slowly took shape in his mind. "After all, even if I have Hyperion in my mind space, my body is still mortal and cannot survive the collapse of Changkong City. After leaving Changkong City, the first thing I have to do... is to find a way to get close to the world's largest anti-collapse organization."

"Using the power of Hyperion that continues to operate in your mindscape, you quickly gained the attention of Destiny." Ai said, "As a captain, although you have considerable ambition, you are also very rational. You did not choose to stand out in Destiny, but climbed to a mid-level position as a researcher and then lay dormant."

"In Destiny, I will not come into contact with other people until..." Li Shubai pursed his lips, "...the moment Theresa betrayed me."

"Yes." Ai nodded. "That was the first time you accepted the Valkyrie of this world into your Hyperion, and it was also the first time you used the Key of God at full power. When Miss Jizi was killed by the Herrscher of the Void and was about to fall into the imaginary space, you used Yu Duchen's zeroth rated power to forcibly bind her consciousness that was about to dissipate into a feather, and then recovered her body into the Hyperion... You cured her, but it was also at that time that you first discovered the disadvantages caused by your ability."

"Himeko, who entered Hyperion, was judged as [dead] in that world and therefore cannot appear in that world again." Li Shubai narrowed his eyes, "But since I saved Himeko, I will definitely use Himeko... to find a way to force Kiana and the others to join my Hyperion, so as to accumulate my own personal strength and power."

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned this, but as soon as Li Shubai mentioned this, Ai Yi's expression suddenly became strange.

My dear and lovely captain, it is absolutely true that you say one thing and mean another.

Would you like Miss Kiana to join the Hyperion in order to accumulate your own strength?

It was because he had saved Miss Himeko but couldn't let her appear in this world. He felt that he was too incompetent to reunite the teacher and student, and he couldn't bear to see Miss Kiana's miserable experience, so he pretended to be cold and ruthless and dragged Miss Kiana and the others to his Hyperion...

If you really wanted to accumulate your own strength, why did you force Miss Kiana to become your crew member when she was still unable to control her own power?

Since Ms. Himeko is in your hands, and you have saved her life and completely healed her body, then even if you wait until Ms. Kiana completely controls the power of the Herrscher of the Void and inherits the Plague Gem, and then use this as a condition to force Ms. Kiana to submit... she will not refuse.

He is really not a honest boy at all...

"Why are you sighing all of a sudden?" Li Shubai turned his head and looked at Ai Yi, who was suddenly shaking her head and sighing, with a puzzled look on his face. He couldn't help but touch his trembling shoulders, "And you're smiling so creepily, can you please stop doing that?"

"You misunderstood. I was just thinking that although most of your guesses are correct, there will inevitably be some deviations in the details if you haven't witnessed the records with your own eyes." Ai said, "Since I have promised to help the captain find his past, then let Ai, as the chief administrator of the Hyperion, guide you into your past self."

"That sounds good." Li Shubai nodded. "Then what should I do?"

"First..." Ai raised her hand and tapped the three words [Valkyrie] floating in the air, then opened the member selection interface. "Please choose a member of your choice from these three characters~"

The avatars that popped up on the character selection interface were none other than the Herrscher of Fire, the Herrscher of Thunder, and the Secondary Silver Wing.

Chapter 5: Qibao who doubts life (k)

"...Choose a member you like?" After hearing Ai Yi's instructions, Li Shubai did not follow them immediately. Instead, he was stunned for a moment and honestly asked a question that seemed a bit strange to him: "Why? Reading my past records should have nothing to do with them, right?"

"Indeed, if it is just to allow the Captain to experience what happened to you again in Ai's data space, as you said, there is no need to let Miss Kiana and the others go with you." Ai nodded, and then showed a somewhat embarrassed expression, "It's just..."

"Just what?" Li Shubai asked.

"...Ahem, sorry for the inconvenience." Ai Yi cleared her throat, and her mature and bright face flushed with a hint of anticipation. "Are you willing to be the Valkyrie yourself?"

"Huh?" Li Shubai was stunned. "What do you mean I have to be the Valkyrie myself?"

"Of course it means literally." Ai Yi said with a smile, "This Hyperion is your original power, and it is also the mental landscape inside your body. In the past, you once temporarily entrusted everything you have to Ai Yi, and Ai Yi sealed your memories and past, as well as the 'key' to open this Hyperion in the form of data in Ai Yi's storage device."

"It's pretty much what I expected." Li Shubai nodded, and then continued to ask, "But what does this have to do with you saying that you want me to be the Valkyrie myself?"

"I haven't finished yet." Ai Yi still smiled, "You should have known just now that if you want to enter a mental landscape that does not belong to you but comes from someone else, there is only one thing you must do, and that is you must feel each other's whole being with your whole body, right?"

"Is that right?" Li Shubai nodded, "So what?"

"After entering your heart, Ai Yi activated the Hyperion." Ai Yi turned around and gently walked to the fence of the bridge. She gently supported the iron railing with both hands, and her head slowly turned, carefully looking around every detail here. "Although because I only got the key and there is no master, I can only keep your Hyperion in a minimum operating state, but just now, through the second deep communication between consciousnesses, I have opened all the facilities on your Hyperion. The memories that you once sealed here have also been completely uploaded to the database here by me."

"However, as I just told you, this Hyperion is your original power and the only [Gold Finger] you have when you come to this world." Ai Yi raised her hand and clicked on the [Equipment] interface, which was unexpectedly blank. "So, strictly speaking, this Hyperion is not the same thing as the Hyperion that I, Theresa and the others know. It is neither an aerospace mothership nor the hyperspace ship that belongs to you now. It is an independent area formed by the mobile game [Honkai Impact 3rd] in your memory."

"Because of the same nature as that game, although you relied on the power here for a long time in the early days of coming to this world, when you used your own power to imitate this mental space, built the Hyperion in the real world that travels through various worlds and time and space, and transferred most of the equipment here, this place was actually abandoned by you." Ai Yi said calmly, "It is precisely because this place relies on the game system, and is different from the [Matter Interference System] you used before, that even if you enter the data space built by yourself, you must choose a Valkyrie who meets the conditions to fight."

"Is this why I have to choose a character to fight?" Li Shubai's expression was a little annoyed. "That's really inconvenient. No wonder the past me would have abandoned it without regrets and created another Hyperion on my own."

"So, I should be grateful for the many restrictions here, right?" Suddenly, Ai Yi's face showed a look of nostalgia, as if she was sighing about something, "If this place had not been abandoned by you, maybe... I would not have appeared in this world."

"What does this mean?" Li Shubai was stunned. "Are you also..."

"Shh... Let's stop here." Ai Yi blinked her single eye, and her mature and elegant face revealed a hint of playfulness for the first time. "If you continue talking, it will easily involve some very dangerous topics. You know it in your heart, and that's enough."

"..." Gulp, Li Shubai's Adam's apple rolled as he swallowed saliva.

Obviously, he had realized...what Ai Yi was referring to.

"Okay." After forcing himself to forget about this very dangerous topic, Li Shubai asked, "Since I must choose a Valkyrie to fight, according to the [settings] of the game, I may not be able to choose only one, right?"

"Uh..." Ai Yi was stunned and nodded hesitantly, "It seems... that's the case?"

"...Okay." Li Shubai selected [Herrser of Fire], [Herrser of Thunder], and [Secondary Silver Wing] on the character selection interface without hesitation. "Although it feels a bit strange to only be able to select three Cs together, but since there is no other choice, I can only reluctantly put them together as a team."

"By the way, let me ask you something." Suddenly, Li Shubai turned his gaze to Ai Yi, "Since this place has just been reactivated by you, then the three characters I chose should not be them themselves, but the [data] you just entered into the database, right?"

"...Uh." Ai Yi was silent for a moment, looked away, and laughed awkwardly, "No, that's right, they are just the data I transferred to the database, of course they are not the real people."

"...Then why did you look away?" Li Shubai suddenly felt something was wrong.

"You misunderstood. I just had some sand in my eyes and I wanted to rub it a little." Ai Yi raised one hand and wiped the corner of her eyes with the back of her hand.

The action was so fake that Li Shubai found it difficult to watch.

As Li Shubai maintained the action of raising his arm, a little cold sweat appeared on his forehead. The corner of his mouth twitched, and he no longer looked at Ai Yi's expression. Instead, he looked at the three character avatars on the task menu interface which now looked extremely eye-catching with some embarrassment.

After all, he has not yet recovered his past memories. Although he has deduced from his own behavior patterns and style of doing things what kind of trajectory his past self was heading towards, but...

Li Shubai instinctively felt some resistance and guilt when he let someone break into his past memories without any preparation.

Forget it, it’s all me after all.

Here... we can only believe that the him in the past would not do anything too outrageous, right?

Li Shubai made up his mind, gritted his teeth, prepared to face everything, and resolutely pressed the [attack] button.

In an instant, accompanied by a dizzying feeling similar to time travel, Li Shubai's vision fell into chaos.

The chaos that lasted for a moment came and disappeared quickly.

However, just before his vision was about to be fully restored, a cold and hostile wind pressure came towards him.

The wind pressure is so strong that if you get hit, your entire head might be blown away like tofu.

"Oh my god!" Realizing that his life was in danger, the moment before the wind pressure was about to reach his forehead, Li Shubai raised his hands and clapped them without thinking!

Cheats! 100% catching a knife with bare hands!

Snap! Along with the sound of the palm hitting the steel block, the huge wind pressure full of oppression stopped abruptly. The touch in the palm of the hand was round and hard, just like holding a huge steel pipe. The cold and sharp object was tightly pressed against Li Shubai's brow and pierced the skin in the center. The hot pain mixed with the warm feeling of blood lingered on the brow and nose. Li Shubai hurriedly opened his eyes.

He looked at the Spear of the Archon that almost took him away, and then looked at Kiana Kaslana [Arch Ranger] who was holding the tail of the Spear and staring at him with angry eyes as if she was looking at the murderer of her father. He felt that his brain was a little out of order.

Wait, could this scene be—Li Shubai suddenly recalled his own speculation.

But now that I have saved Himeko, I will definitely use Himeko's help... to find a way to force Kiana and the others to join my Hyperion, so as to accumulate my own personal strength and power.

Shit! Could this be the scene from the past where he forced Kiana to join Hyperion?! Li Shubai was a little confused.

He thought to himself, what on earth did he do to break Kiana's defense and make her eyes red like this? And she was still in the [Sky Ranger] state. If he remembered correctly, wasn't Kiana already quite calm during this period?

Before Li Shubai could think carefully about why Kiana lost her mind, Kiana, holding the Spear of the Sky, spoke with gritted teeth.

"You are a lackey of destiny, don't even think about using Mr. Jizi's affairs to take advantage of me!"

The voice was low and hoarse, mixed with hatred and disgust, which frightened Li Shubai greatly.

It is really hard to imagine what kind of emotional stimulation Kiana's clear and pleasant voice has experienced to produce such a different sound from the past.

What's worse is that Li Shubai, who had no idea of ​​the causes and consequences of his current situation, had no idea what he had done to get into this situation with Kiana.

He guessed that he would use the matter of bringing Himeko back to try to get Kiana to join his Hyperion, but... he also didn't expect that his past self would directly break off negotiations with Kiana!

Looking at Kiana holding the Spear of the Archon and pointing it at his head with an angry look on her face, one could tell that her opinion of him had definitely dropped below freezing point.

Fortunately, just when Li Shubai was confused and at a loss, an image was infusing into his brain in an extremely rough manner.

However, after Li Shubai finished watching the video, his expression suddenly became strange.

He seemed to understand a little bit why he saw Kiana slashing at him mercilessly with the Spear of the Sky as soon as he opened his eyes.

Well… to put it simply, when negotiating with Kiana just now, in order to gain a psychological advantage, [his] attitude seemed to be a little bit tough.

Well, to put it more simply, even Kiana, who was standing in front of him, and whose current state of [Sky Ranger] had obtained part of the power of the Herrscher of the Void, seemed to have been forced out by him.

A minute ago -

The moment when Kiana pointed the gun at her own chin because she couldn't suppress her Herrscher consciousness.

"This is not okay."

He crushed the gun easily with his palm and broke the silence of the night with his cold and rational voice.

"Your value has not been fully utilized. Regarding your suicidal behavior, my judgment is - it is not allowed."

"You will be taken back by me just like Wuliangta Jizi. I allow you to give up resistance. Of course, you have no right to refuse now."

It was a calm and cold attitude that controlled everything on the scene with absolute dominance.

And [he] - that is, Li Shubai at that time was very clear that facing his calm and oppressive words, Kiana would never be intimidated. After hearing the two key words [Milauda Himeko] and [Recycling], her indomitable competitive spirit would naturally inject strength into her body and will, making her, who had lost her only means of suicide, suppress the invasion of another consciousness even if she tried her best, forcibly control part of the power of the Herrscher of the Void, and launch a desperate resistance against him.

Facts have proved that he was successful in the past. Kiana, who had transformed into Sky Ranger, picked up the Spear of the Sub-Void and attacked without mercy. If Li Shubai had not suddenly replaced him at this time, he would have easily crushed the Spear of the Sub-Void and coldly told Kiana the objective gap between the two sides.

Although it is hard to believe, but... this past self took advantage of the three years when Hyperion was dormant in Destiny, and through various methods, he did gain power far superior to Kiana's at this stage.

He knew that he was just a stranger to Kiana, so if he wanted her to meet Himeko, who could not come to this world, again, he could only use a slightly tougher approach.

Although Li Shubai could understand his own behavior, after all, he would do the same if he were in his place, but looking at his past self from a third-party perspective, even if he had no memory, he would inevitably feel like he was seeing a dark history...

It seems that it's not just the strength, but even the fact that they don't speak human language... I have also learned a little bit from what I have heard and seen.

Then the question comes-

Now he is being pointed at the center of his forehead by the angry Qibao. How can he resolve this dilemma?

Should he follow his past self's example and crush the Spear of the Archon, and defeat Qibao as he had planned and shatter her self-confidence? Should he force her into Hyperion?

——Don't doubt it, after taking Kiana's attack just now, Li Shubai understood the fact that he could easily crush this thing by intervening in this data image.

Or should he show weakness to the enemy first? And then try to explain to Kiana that Himeko is still alive?

Although Kiana was indeed very angry, and hated and despised him immensely because of the provocation she had made in the past and her stance of standing on the side of destiny, Li Shubai could sense that even in this situation, Kiana did not really have the intention to kill him.