The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"The Thousand Worlds One can speed up the observation speed of parallel worlds. The Zeroth Rated Power of the Star of Eden can create a pseudo-black hole with time disorder. Even without the help of the Herrscher's power itself, as long as a certain reference point is locked, the Herrscher's core's direct link to the high-dimensional space can be artificially induced to the time dimension, which can easily cause the directional splitting of the history of that reference point. This is what we usually call [going back to the past and changing history]."

Li Shubai said very quickly: "Although this approach essentially only creates an additional parallel world, if it is just [time interference], there is no need for the so-called 'end' to achieve this."

"Indeed..." The Herrscher of Fire and the Herrscher of Thunder looked at each other and said, "If it's just time interference and changing the past, Otto has already done it once, right?"

"However, accomplishing something is not the same thing as the power of the Herrscher itself." The Second Silver Wing said calmly, "Take the power of lightning that Mei possesses as an example. The lightning we can see is actually the fire caused by the energy of high-intensity electric current bursting out in a short period of time. Neither electromagnetic waves nor electric current itself can be seen directly with the naked eye. The power of the Herrscher of Thunder and the power of the Herrscher of Fire are obviously not the same thing."

"This is also the same as the power of the Ruler of Reason that I once possessed."

"I can use the power of the Herrscher of Reason to construct the Key of God, such as the Star of Eden, which I can fully understand, and then manipulate the powers of other Herrschers, but that does not mean that I possess the power of the Herrscher of Stone."

"The powers of the Herrscher of the Void and the Herrscher of the Stone can indeed interfere with time, but the interference of these two Herrscher powers on time is, at best, just like the Planet of Eden that I constructed using the power of the Herrscher of the Reason. It is just a product of power and cannot be considered the power itself."

"..." The persuasive words of Ci Sheng Yin Yi made Li Shubai fall into a slight silence.

"Okay, even if you are right." After a moment of silence, Li Shubai spoke, "But if the true power of the End is actually 'time', then why did Kevin hide this from us?"

"As for the squad leader, perhaps she is worried that this incident will cause unnecessary trouble to the Spark Plan she is carrying out. As for the captain——"

Cisheng Yinyi paused for a moment, then said this in response to Li Shubai's dumbfounded expression.

"——I'm sorry, Bronya doesn't know either."

"Uh..." Li Shubai asked stupidly, "Don't know?"

Second Silver Wing rolled her eyes at Li Shubai, and spread her hands with an expression of dismay: "As far as I know, the captain has never appeared in front of Kevin. After being abducted by the captain to the Hyperion, I have never seen the exchange and communication between Kevin and the captain. Isn't it normal for Bronya to not understand Kevin's attitude towards the captain?"

"No, that's what I said, but..."

"If the captain wants to know why Kevin deliberately concealed this matter from you, Bronya suggests that the captain should ask him directly." Second Silver Wing said, "Anyway, if you calculate the time, it will be almost time for Kevin to return as the leader of the World Serpent in the next two weeks. Instead of speculating about his intentions here, it is obviously more efficient to confront him directly."

"Are you going to help Kevin return to this world?" Fu Hua asked.

"Of course." Second Silver Wing said, "We know the monitor's concerns, so we will do our best to deal with the experiments conducted by Shencheng Medicine in Tianqiong City before Kevin returns to this world. Perhaps you have already noticed that after Teacher Ji Zi re-sealed the consciousness of the Herrscher of the Void, the small-scale collapse that has continued to erupt around Tianqiong City is not actually caused by the large-scale collapse caused by the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void."

"Is that so..." Fu Hua nodded in understanding, "Then you should have decided what to do next, right? Do you need my help?"

Chapter 4 Fishing (k)

Intrinsic World, January 2014, 1, 8 noon.

The Hyperion, located above St. Freya's College, was now bathed in bright sunlight.

[Sky Ranger] leaned against the edge of the bridge railing, his arms crossed in front of his chest, his fingers tapping on his arms.

She narrowed her eyes, as if she was thinking about something.

When Sirin ran away, as one of the only three Valkyries who could fully or partially use the power of the void among all the members of the Hyperion, after the Herrscher of Fire followed the Stargazer and the Twilight Knight to the St. Freya Academy and discussed the incident of the captain being suddenly kidnapped with Theresa and others from the Equivalent World, the Sky Ranger was naturally chosen as a member stationed on board to ensure that the Hyperion could leave this world at any time through space jump.

Now she was the only one left on the bridge. Except for the optical camouflage device used to avoid the surveillance of the Destiny satellite and the Leonov anti-gravity engine that kept the ship suspended in the air, most of the electronic equipment on the Hyperion briefly went into hibernation.

Sky Ranger has never been a sociable person. Even after the captain disappeared nearly five months ago, Stargazing and Theresa lifted the ban on members of each world. Sky Ranger, unlike the other Valkyries such as Yulandel, Raiden Mei, Bronya and Fu Hua, rarely had direct communication with his other self, the Herrscher of Fire.

This was certainly due to the fact that Herrscher of the Fire had been waiting on the bridge for news from the captain, but the bigger reason was that it was not until the Twilight Knight summoned Hyperion to reassure all the members that the Sky Ranger fully understood how much help he had received from others in secret.

Before leaving Hyperion, Li Shubai had been secretly maintaining the balance of the entire Hyperion. Based on the basic principle that individuals of the same person in different time periods cannot appear in the same place, in order to ensure that his crew would not encounter other unexpected situations due to the order of time, except for Twilight Knight, the acting captain, and Stargazing, the wise man who coordinated the overall situation, Hyperion adhered to the principle of [trying to prevent people from different worlds from coming into contact as much as possible] and has been sailing in the quantum sea until now.

On the one hundred and forty-second day after Li Shubai left the Hyperion, because Aponia observed Li Shubai's traces in the intrinsic world, Stargazer and Twilight Knight, who learned the news, somehow lifted the ban on mutual termination between members of different worlds, and also summoned all members on the Hyperion to the conference room.

Although until now, Twilight Knight and Stargazer have not explained the decision, most members, including Sky Ranger, have probably realized why the ban was lifted the moment they met each other.

Maybe... it was because of Li Shubai's decision to leave the Hyperion that he succeeded and received certain rewards?

At least in terms of results, all members of the Hyperion have basically succeeded in breaking free from the constraints of the basic order of time, making it possible for the same person on different timelines to come into contact with each other, which should have been impossible.

But when the Sky Ranger recalled the days she lived in the Hyperion, it was not until the moment she and the Herrscher of Fire met each other that she suddenly realized that in order to ensure that her body would not collapse due to excessive use of the Herrscher of the Void, the principle of [avoiding contact between people from different worlds as much as possible] had actually been violated once by Li Shubai himself.

Sky Ranger is still impressed by the scene when she just joined the Hyperion. At that time, Li Shubai led her to a device similar to a sleeping cabin. He told herself that as long as she entered the device and had a vague dream, the will of the Ruler of the Void would not continue to try to take away its body.

At that time, the Sky Ranger did as she was told without much hesitation, and a series of facts that happened afterwards also proved that what Li Shubai said was false. After entering the sleeping cabin, she soon lost consciousness. In a daze, she seemed to see herself wrapped in flames, bravely and selflessly fighting against the will of the Herrscher who had been trying to take away her consciousness.

Now recalling the memories of that time, Sky Ranger could easily guess that the so-called [Sleeping Chamber] he entered at that time should be the consciousness infiltration device on the Hyperion, and the blurry images he saw in his dreams should be himself who had accepted the consciousness projection of the Herrscher of Fire, and the Herrscher consciousness in his body who had also accepted the consciousness projection of Sirin.

The final result was of course not difficult to guess. The Herrscher of Fire, who had defeated the Herrscher of Void once in her own history, easily won the battle for her. The Herrscher consciousness in her body also completely disappeared after that and no longer tried to take over her body.

Although he wanted to express his gratitude to the Herrscher of Fire and even the Herrscher of the Void Sirin and others who had helped him in secret, the Sky Ranger had not found a suitable opportunity to start a conversation during the days when the Hyperion had detected the captain's location, so this decision was put on hold until now, until -

"Well?"

——She suddenly recalled why she agreed to Li Shubai's recruitment and became a crew member before entering the Hyperion.

"I see... something like this has happened before." She murmured to herself, "So, before I came to the Hyperion, I had actually met another me?"

Why did she suddenly recall this incident only now? Was her memory already interfered with at that time?

Come to think of it, during the time when he and Herrscher of the Flame tore open the space rift and allowed the Hyperion to instantly travel from London to Saint Freya, Herrscher of the Flame's reaction seemed strange.

She, like herself, had just recovered her memory?

Could it be that--

After realizing a certain fact, Sky Ranger was silent for a moment. She raised her head and secretly glanced at the surveillance camera on the top of the bridge. After taking a deep breath, she quietly closed her eyes.

Along with the surge of light, her body on the bridge disappeared without a trace in an instant.

In a vague sense of consciousness, Kiana used the authority of "Crew" to return to her original world and gradually recovered her five senses.

But before she could feel the surrounding environment, a sentence full of evil and intimidating momentum made her suddenly a little confused.

"Principal of St. Freya Academy, if you don't want me to do anything excessive to your lovely Kiana, then just follow my instructions and drive the Hyperion to the designated location."

Kiana: “???”

She opened her eyes. The surrounding environment was quite dim. Kiana, who had just come from the bridge bathed in the midday sun to this dim room, had difficulty adapting to such a drastic change in light. All she could see was a pitch-black darkness, except for -

——The virtual display screen that was suspended in the air, emitting electronic fluorescence, showing Theresa and Mei Raiden and others with angry faces, as well as [myself] tied to a chair under the light of the screen, and Li Shubai who was smiling and stroking [myself]'s face with closed eyes, and who had just said a line to Theresa and others on the screen that sounded no different from that of a villain.

"..." What's going on? Kiana opened her mouth subconsciously, but suddenly found that her mouth, hands and feet were tied up by glowing threads. The glowing threads suddenly pulled her body, which had just come into this world not long ago, behind her.

"!!" Kiana was startled and instinctively wanted to use the power of the power of the void to break free from the thin strings that controlled her, but she suddenly calmed down when she heard the voice coming from behind her.

"Quiet, Kiana, don't disturb the captain yet."

That was the voice of Secondary Silver Wing. She covered Kiana's mouth and whispered in her ear with a helpless tone.

"Really... Suddenly returning to this world at this time, Kiana is still the same as before, always bringing uncontrollable accidents to people." Cisheng Yinyi said lightly, "I will slowly loosen these thin strings that control you. Don't struggle, and don't make any sound."

"..." Kiana turned her face slightly and saw the Herrscher of Thunder standing next to her and Second Silver Wing as expected. After pondering for a moment, she nodded calmly in agreement.

Unlike her who just knew the true identity of Li Shubai, as the [Sky Ranger] on the Hyperion who has been with Second Silver Wing and Herrscher of Thunder for quite some time, Kiana now has a different trust in these colleagues who are similar to Bronya and Raiden Meiyi than before. She knows that although they are not the same person in the strict sense, except for the unexpected situation that she is trying to threaten Li Shubai, Raiden Meiyi and Bronya cannot really hurt her.

So, even though she didn't understand the current situation, Kiana quickly showed her cooperative attitude.

Did he notice that the Kiana under his control was slightly different from the one not long ago? Her submissive reaction made Second Silver Wing slightly stunned.

"You..." While slowly loosening the restraint on Kiana, Secondary Silver Wing asked in a low voice, "...is that Kiana from our side?"

"Yeah." Kiana nodded. "Not long ago, I over there should have experienced the same thing, right?"

“Is that so? No wonder I didn’t sense the Herrscher of the Void’s consciousness when we made contact…” said Second Silver Wing.

Although Second Silver Wing and Kiana deliberately lowered their voices during the conversation, with the sharpness of the five senses of the Herrscher of Thunder, she could of course hear every word Kiana and Second Silver Wing said.

She glanced at Kiana with some surprise, and for some reason her eyes softened a little.

"What are the captain and her...doing?" Kiana glanced at Li Shubai, who was still teasing Theresa on the virtual screen, and at [herself] who was obviously pretending to sleep and even enjoying the caress, and her eyelids twitched.

"You'll understand after reading this, right?" Second Silver Wing laughed softly. "Of course, they are using Kiana as bait to get the bishops of this world... no, the deans and the others to take the initiative to bite the hook."

"…Why do you have to do this?" Kiana asked speechlessly, "If you want the dean and Mei from this world to help us, then just let me convince them, right?"

"Although communication is the most peaceful approach, in most cases, the most peaceful approach also means that it takes the most time." Second Silver Wing shrugged, "Kiana is from this world, so she doesn't need to care about this. But for the captain and us who can only act within a limited time, what we lack most happens to be time."

"Or, based on Kiana's knowledge of her eloquence, can you ensure that you can immediately convince the deans of this world to trust us without reservation?" Second Silver Wing smiled, "If you can, the captain should not mind letting you show up right away."

"..." Kiana thought about it and closed her mouth decisively.

At this moment, Li Shubai suddenly put his face close to the face of the Herrscher of Fire and Flame, whose eyes were closed.

"Since you have made up your mind to take Kiana back no matter what happens, then abide by our agreement and don't be late."

He put his arms around the Herrscher of Fire's neck and smiled at Theresa, whose eyes were red on the screen.

"If you're late, I can't guarantee that I can bear to do nothing to such a cute and defenseless Kiana."

Amidst a barrage of curses like [Pervert!] and [If you dare to attack Kiana! I will eat you alive!], Li Shubai calmly turned off the screen.

At the same time, the lights nearby came back on.

"..." The Herrscher of Fire and Flame opened his eyes with a ruddy complexion and a look of unsatisfied satisfaction.

Although he felt a little sorry for Theresa and Mei who were caught in a world of rage, the Herrscher of Fire sincerely felt that... this scene could actually be played a little more realistically.

Chapter 4: Li Shubai dancing in the minefield (k)

March 2017, 3, 16:3 a.m.

On the Hyperion, Mei Raiden, Bronya and others stared at the gray screen expressionlessly, and there were blue veins moving on Theresa's forehead like thin snakes.

In order to find Kiana's whereabouts, they have almost traveled all over the European continent with the Destiny Floating Island as the center in the past three months. Now, after finally getting news about her, they are hit hard by the dire situation that Kiana is in.

Half an hour ago, the communication room of the Hyperion suddenly received a communication request from an unfamiliar frequency band. At first, Dr. Theresa Einstein and others thought that the location of the Hyperion had been exposed under the noses of Otto and Tianming, but after receiving the strange communication signal, the scene reflected on the screen made everyone who heard the news and came to the communication room hold their breath.

In the dim environment, the very familiar Kiana Kaslana sat on a chair with her eyes closed, like an unconscious Sleeping Beauty, without any resistance, and her ankles and wrists behind the back of the chair were tied tightly with two ropes.

In front of her, a young boy who looked to be about fifteen years old occupied half of the screen. He was wearing a long windbreaker that looked neither like the style of Destiny nor Anti-Entropy. Under the open collar of the coat was a close-fitting combat uniform in black and white.

——There is no doubt that although the close-fitting combat uniform was re-sewn temporarily, the coat on the outside was the windbreaker that Li Shubai had temporarily borrowed from Kevin because his own clothes were burned during the battle, but he had not had time to return it to him.

He stretched his hand to a place outside the screen, seemingly adjusting something, and said in a frivolous tone:

"Test, Test, everyone on the Hyperion, can you hear me? Can you hear me? If you can, please answer immediately. If you can, please answer immediately. If you don't, this communication channel will be disconnected in ten seconds. No more waiting after the expiration date!"

"nineteen--"

"Wait! Don't hang up! This is Hyperion! We heard it clearly! We heard it clearly!" Theresa interrupted the boy's countdown anxiously.

"Oh, the signal is OK." The young man took a few steps back and looked at the Hyperion's communication room through the camera on his side with a smile. "Although I can't see what's happening over there, from your anxious tone, you should be able to see the little beauty behind me clearly, right?"

Originally, after the young man said these frivolous words, with the visual function of the Valkyries, even through the screen, they should be able to detect the fact that Kiana was not unconscious through her suddenly rapid breathing rate and her cheeks that kept getting red.

But after seeing Kiana's "miserable" appearance and the young boy who was talking to them next to Kiana being such a slick person who didn't look serious at all, Theresa and Raiden Mei, not to mention, even Bronya temporarily lost her composure, so much so that she forgot to use her biochip to try to read Kiana's general condition through the picture displayed on the screen in the first place.

Although she lost her composure for a moment, Theresa was the commander-in-chief of the Far East Branch of the Mandate after all. She took a deep breath and tried her best to remind herself not to lose her mind. Then, she tried her best to endure the anger that surged in her chest, and asked three crucial questions in a row in an extremely cold tone: "Who are you? What happened to Kiana? Who instructed you to contact us?"

At the same time, she winked at Bronya secretly. Theresa was not stupid enough to pin all her hopes on a negotiation with a stranger. She asked those three questions not because she expected to get answers from the other party, but to delay time. Since the other party contacted them through the Internet, they could of course use the Internet to find the other party's location.

Bronya nodded immediately, and she tiptoed gently, using the power of the heavy-duty bunny to float silently, and then silently left the communication room to find Einstein and Tesla to get some technical support. Theresa breathed a sigh of relief and turned her gaze back to the screen.

"Do you want Bronya to ask Dr. Einstein and the others to search for my location? Good judgment." The young man's words suddenly made Theresa and Raiden Mei's pupils shrink slightly. "Although I am too lazy to stop you, I advise you to save your energy a little. Since I can find you and take the initiative to contact you, it means that I certainly have the means to hide the place where the message was sent from under your search."

"Tsk...you're full of lies. Didn't you say you couldn't see what's happening over here?" Theresa smacked her lips. Although she was reluctant to admit it, the young man had always had the upper hand over the conversation since the other party came to her. She realized that there must be extremely powerful backing behind this young man, and that powerful backing might very well be Tianming and Otto.

If they continued to negotiate with this dangerous young man, perhaps everyone on the Hyperion would be in a dangerous situation again as before. But after seeing Kiana in the hands of the other party, Theresa also had no choice now.

"What do you want?" Having seen through all her plans, Theresa decided to give in. Although the other party said that he was too lazy to stop them, since he specifically pointed out Bronya's move to find Einstein and the others, it meant that he also saw through her purpose of stalling for time. For Kiana's safety, Theresa had to temporarily give up her original plan of beating around the bush and directly raised the most important content of this negotiation, "Since you found Kiana and came to us, you must want to get something from us, and it must be something that only we can give you, right?"

She took a deep breath and looked directly at the figure on the screen. "Although I don't want to admit it, my grandfather... Bishop of Heaven's Fate, can probably give you the same things we can give you. In fact, in most cases, he can even offer you better conditions."

"Oh?" The young boy raised his eyebrows and showed an expression of interest. "That's a good guess, but, haven't you thought of a possibility? I'm actually going to propose my own conditions to all of you, and then choose the side that is more in line with my interests after weighing the pros and cons? Or, am I simply someone sent by Bishop Otto?"

"You don't dare." Theresa said coldly, "Although I don't know how you did it, since you know us so well, you should also know about Destiny and its controller. You have a deep understanding of what kind of organization Destiny is. In this world, all those who dared to blackmail Destiny have disappeared in the torrent of history."

"It seems that you are very confident in your grandfather." The young boy smiled indifferently.

"If I had a choice, I would rather not have such confidence." Theresa's tone gradually softened. She persuaded him with emotion and reason, trying to regain control of both parties as much as possible. "You chose us as your trading partner because you know that as long as you can guarantee Kiana's safety, then we will not regret our promise at will, right?"

"Similarly, for this reason, you can't be someone from Destiny. If it were Grandpa, he wouldn't have made this call at all, but would have attacked us immediately with thunder and lightning. Since Kiana has been taken back by Destiny, then he naturally has no reason to let us traitors go after finding our location." Theresa said softly.

"It sounds scary." The young man touched his chin and nodded in agreement. "So, Tianming is really an organization that is not easy to mess with."

"So, return Kiana to us." Feeling she saw hope, Theresa stared into the young boy's black eyes. Her breathing became a little faster, but her tone became more sincere. "As someone who knows our Hyperion and knows the destiny, you should be one of the insiders of Honkai, just like us."

"To you, Kiana is very dangerous now, and Destiny is also very dangerous. But since you helped us find Kiana, we will not deny your contribution to us and Kiana. We are not only willing to pay a reasonable reward for it, but after Kiana returns, we will also do our best to protect your safety from the hands of Destiny and Honkai." Theresa said seriously.

"Sounds good." The young boy seemed to be interested. He grinned and smiled silently. "It seems like you are very sincere."

"But... haven't you ever thought of a possibility?" Suddenly, the young boy changed the subject, "Actually, I don't care about rewards, or destiny, or collapse, or anything like that."

"......?" Theresa was stunned. She and Mei Raiden beside her looked at each other, and saw a hint of confusion in each other's eyes.