The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Tesla's mouth twitched, and he quickly glanced towards the corner, then immediately looked at his neighbor Dr. Einstein: "...What's wrong with her?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?" Dr. Einstein wisely and decisively closed his eyes, as if he was dozing off. "You might as well ask Mei and Bronya... Or Yulandel and Rita. After all, these Valkyries have been with Ms. Theresa for quite some time, so they must know her well enough."

Although a very feasible and specific plan was given, Einstein's extremely sharp intuition told her quite faithfully that it would be better not to get involved in this matter casually.

"Then why don't you ask yourself?" Tesla asked.

"Because I believe that with Dr. Tesla's excellent eloquence, we can definitely get the answers we need from them." Einstein said lightly.

Dr. Tesla looked at Einstein with suspicion, but it was useless. Einstein's expression itself was quite lacking in emotion, and now he had his eyes closed for some reason... It made people feel even more confused.

There was nothing Tesla could do, so he could only calm down and turn his attention to Raiden Mei and the others.

But before she could ask what she wanted to ask, someone took the initiative to speak to Theresa.

"Lady Theresa." Rita, dressed in ice-blue armor, stood up and gracefully came behind Theresa, who was drawing circles in the corner. Then, she bent down slightly, and her charming face showed a bright yet humble smile. "What did you see in the command room where the captain is currently?"

"Don't, don't, don't ask me... I, I, I didn't see anything!" After hearing the soft question in her ear, Theresa not only did not calm down, but she covered her ears and shook her head more violently. Her short silver-white hair swayed like an electric fan. "I didn't go in to disturb them, and I didn't do anything bad! It was all the fault of that troublesome niece and those disobedient students!"

"Please calm down, Lady Theresa." Rita did not show any impatience because of Theresa's loss of composure. She spoke softly and patiently, "Please rest assured that no one here is prepared to hold you accountable or record everything you have witnessed. So, you just need to hand over everything you have seen to Rita. No one else will know what happened here."

Everyone else in the conference room had strange expressions on their faces.

Wait, even if it was Theresa, she wouldn't tell Rita something she didn't want to say just because of such a simple inducement, right?

"I told you I didn't see anything!" As expected, Theresa raised her head, her red eyes mixed with tears and filled with anger and humiliation. "I was stopped by Fu Hua at the door of the command room! How can I go in and disturb them?"

As she was talking, Theresa seemed to suddenly realize something and stood up. If Rita had not reacted in time and straightened her waist, Theresa's sudden action might have caused the maid, who took elegance and perfection as her life motto, to show her awkward posture that was not perfect and elegant at all.

"That's right! It's all Fu Hua's fault!" Theresa said angrily, "If she hadn't stopped me suddenly... I would have gone in and stopped them a long time ago!"

"Being beaten to the punch by my own niece and students... is all because they completely disobey discipline! The captain is the same! He clearly... He clearly said every day that Theresa was the cutest in the world, so why didn't he attack me with the intention of being arrested! And I'm obviously already legal, right!"

Everyone's expression changed at once. Even Einstein, who had his eyes closed, couldn't help but have an obvious blush on his face.

"Oh my god..." Dr. Tesla's face flushed, he was dumbfounded, "That boy, is he really having so much fun? He even dared to lay hands on someone as big as Theresa?"

Chapter 4 Amber: Please turn on the microphone to communicate (k)

Late at night, European Mediterranean region, Austria, Vienna airspace.

At the headquarters of the Mandate of Heaven, Bishop Otto sat at his desk, looking through the resume files of a certain researcher over and over again. In front of him was a huge three-dimensional projection, emitting a faint fluorescent virtual globe and flashing hundreds of warning lights of different colors.

Nearly four months have passed since the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void. Although the impact of the huge imaginary space that appeared out of thin air with Europe as the center has been gradually contained thanks to the efforts of the Valkyrie Corps, the Honkai outbreaks around the world have become much more rapid and intense in both frequency and scale than before the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void.

Theoretically speaking, even if Otto was a bishop of destiny, at a time when everyone was busy and overwhelmed, he couldn't spare the extra energy to pay attention to a researcher who suddenly disappeared - not to mention that the importance of that researcher was far from being crucial.

Under normal circumstances, this information would not even be delivered to him. As for investigating the cause of the researcher's disappearance and finding his whereabouts, these matters would be directly instructed by Amber to the search team and intelligence department of Tianming, and carry out subsequent tracking work.

But when the so-called "insignificant researcher" came into contact with the experimental subject K423 that Otto had been paying attention to, the nature of the matter became completely different.

In front of the Herrscher of the Sky, unless Kallen suddenly jumped out of the grave right now, everything else had to give way unconditionally.

Otto raised his hand and made a casual gesture. Following his command, hundreds of warning lights flashing on the virtual earth disappeared instantly, and then rapidly expanded in front of his eyes. Finally, a three-dimensional structure map of a desolate wilderness was displayed in front of him in full view.

This is the outskirts of Sky City, and it is also the address where the S-class Valkyrie Rita Rossweisse, who was sent by him to recover the experimental subject K423, sent the last video back to the Skyward Headquarters.

Before Otto gave orders to Amber, asking this secretary whom he highly valued to spare some precious time from her busy schedule to send over the researcher's resume and files, he received a video of a mission record automatically uploaded to the Schicksal Headquarters by Rita's Valkyrie Armor.

He slid his palm lightly in front of himself, and the floating window expanded. A piece of data was silently uploaded from his personal terminal to the three-dimensional scene in front of him. After Otto input the mission record sent back by Rita into the supercomputer of the Destiny headquarters, the function of the virtual scene immediately changed from monitoring everything that was happening at the moment to replaying what had happened here before.

In the cold late night, the chill wind blew the overgrown trees, and a total of five figures appeared in the originally deserted suburbs. Among them were Theresa and Rita, who Otto was quite familiar with, Raiden Mei, who he knew but was not familiar with, and the most important one - the experimental subject K423, who he had been paying close attention to, and the person who was holding K423 hostage, who had only entered his field of vision now. Before today, he was not even aware that there was such a person in Skyfall, the deputy director of the Saint 7308 Institute, Li Shubai, who was determined to have disappeared accidentally by the Skyfall Intelligence Department during the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void three months ago.

The people in the virtual image slowly moved. The mission data sent back by Rita allowed the projection to show Otto what happened that night in full view: first, the boy who appeared with the experimental subject K423 had a round of negotiations with Theresa and Raiden Mei, but due to the unreasonable conditions he proposed, the talks between the two sides quickly broke down; then, Rita took the opportunity to interrupt the conversation between the three, trying to bribe the boy who held K423 hostage to return to the Sentence headquarters. Naturally, Theresa got angry and rushed at Rita like a Judas.

It was at this time that Mei Raiden, who was following Theresa, launched a surprise attack on the boy who held K423 hostage without hesitation.

——The image was interrupted instantly. At the moment when the mission data sent back by Rita was terminated, all the people in the three-dimensional projection also disappeared.

The desolate suburbs fell into dead silence again.

Although it was such an abrupt and confusing ending, Otto, who used a body made of a nanorobot cluster [Soul Steel] and had a vision much sharper than that of ordinary humans and even most Valkyries, still noticed a clue.

Tianming's current state-of-the-art high-speed cameras have an imaging rate that has already exceeded 14-digit astronomical figures, and in certain circumstances can even capture the movement of light.

Of course, in order to minimize the hindrance to the combat capability of the Valkyrie and to ensure the stability required when facing a collapse, the mission recording system integrated into the Valkyrie armor certainly cannot have such a high frame rate. But even so, it can still record extremely clear images of more than 10,000 frames in one second.

Otto rewound the mission record to the millisecond before the record was interrupted, and then slowly replayed everything that happened in the last millisecond. Finally, the scene displayed by the three-dimensional projection was frozen on a dazzling thunder that looked like a god descending from heaven, and a tall and awe-inspiring figure stood proudly in the lightning.

Seeing the figure's appearance, even Otto, who was calm and composed, couldn't help but have his pupils shrink slightly.

"Hersher of Thunder...Raiden Mei?" He frowned deeply and spoke uncertainly, then looked at Raiden Mei who looked shocked in this frame, pondered for a moment, and shook his head gently, "No, the Herrsher of the Void had clearly taken the Conquest Gem from her at the Savior Headquarters."

"And hasn't that little girl been following Theresa and the others? No matter what, Theresa shouldn't be unable to tell whether her students are real or fake... Uh, shouldn't she be able to do that?"

As he spoke, Otto couldn't help but recall a niece that Theresa hadn't recognized for nearly ten years. Faced with this real-life example, his tone suddenly became a little timid.

"I have to admit that I was really tricked by that so-called researcher." He sighed helplessly. "Now that I think about it, since he was able to hack into the internal system of the Mandate Headquarters so easily, it certainly means that he already knew all the information about our Mandate, and it is impossible for him not to have prepared countermeasures against Yulandel and Rita..."

"...No, just from this point of view, from the moment he invaded the Destiny System as if it were no one's business, I was actually mentally prepared."

"I can only say that no matter how careful I was, I really could not have predicted... that someone in this world could come up with such an effective plan to deal with the two S-rank Valkyries of Destiny."

Otto believed that he had been cautious enough in his handling of the news about the Herrscher of the Sky. In order to deal with the intelligence sent to the headquarters of the Sky's Mandate by the unknown stranger who had remained unidentified until now, he dispatched two S-class Valkyries that Sky's Mandate could mobilize to the Sky City. Although the individual strengths of these two S-class Valkyries could not be generalized, Rita, as an S-class Valkyrie, was completely on a different level from all the other Valkyries.

Putting aside Theresa, a nearly fusion warrior experiment, herself, the two ancients lying in the petri dishes who are over 500 years old, and the Herrscher body... these extraordinary people, Rita, the S-class Valkyrie, is at the top of the destiny in terms of both strength and experience.

It can be said that the two S-level Valkyries, Yulandel and Rita, represent more than 70% of the entire destiny's armed forces.

However...Rita failed.

Not only did Rita herself lose contact, but in the face of the brilliant burst of lightning, the mission recorder that Rita had been secretly opening, as well as all the electrical devices on the Valkyrie armor she was wearing, all lost their original functions in an instant.

After Rita completely lost contact with Destiny...Yulandel, who followed closely behind, even lost the opportunity to send a mission report.

After losing two Valkyries who could be considered the backbone of the team, even a proud man like Otto had to admit his carelessness and failure.

"If we temporarily identify the Herrscher who suddenly appeared as Raiden Mei... that inconspicuous little girl actually completely controlled her Herrscher power before K423." Otto raised his eyes and carefully watched the holographic projection that turned back into a surveillance screen. The desolate scene suspended in the air was already empty. Except for the traces of burnt trees and the huge pits that suddenly appeared on the ground, which still silently reminded of the brilliant scene not long ago, the culprit who caused all this had completely disappeared. "Is it the research result of Anti-Entropy? No... If Anti-Entropy has successfully found a way to help the Herrscher regain humanity, Theresa, who has formed an alliance with Anti-Entropy, has no reason not to let K423 try to control the power of the Herrscher of the Void."

"Also...let's not talk about Rita for now, why did Yulandel lose so quickly?"

Although the traces on the scene gave people a thrilling feeling, Otto was very clear about Yulandel's strength. If she really used all her strength to fight the opponent head-on but was defeated in the end, this wilderness on the outskirts of Tianqiong City should have been desolate and unrecognizable.

However, the expected environmental changes did not occur in the wilderness. During the few minutes when the Herrscher of Thunder used his power to block the surveillance of the Destiny satellite, the traces left on the battlefield even made Otto feel that Yulandel did not put up much resistance at all.

"Is it because Rita fell into the hands of the opponent first and was coerced so that she couldn't use her full strength? Or does the opponent have some means to make both Rita and Yulandel lose their fighting power?"

"Although according to the resume sent by Amber, the researcher Li Shubai who hijacked K423 in the video sent back by Rita did maintain the Valkyrie armor for Rita and Yulandel, but given his position in Tianming, it should be impossible for him to have access to the core components and technology of the fourth-generation God-killing armor."

"Wait... look at the position where the Herrscher of Thunder suddenly appeared. Could it be that she wanted to protect the boy attacked by Mei Raiden?"

Otto's eyes lit up slightly.

"If you think along this line of thought, you will naturally come to this conclusion."

"——His research and understanding of Herrscher is much deeper than our Destiny and Anti-Entropy."

"And since he has completed the experiment of helping the Herrscher regain his humanity before me, and even obtained the Herrscher of Thunder, an unquestionable and great achievement, I cannot judge him with ordinary thinking."

“While considering as many possibilities as possible, we must also look at him from a more unconventional perspective.”

Suddenly, Otto couldn't help but click his tongue, and an indescribable feeling of tiredness and discomfort flashed across his green pupils.

"Tsk, thinking about it carefully, it really makes me feel a little disappointed. Although I am the Bishop of Heaven's Destiny, no matter whether they are capable talents... or people close to me, they all choose to leave me one by one."

"In the eyes of that researcher, am I such a bishop who is not worthy of his trust?"

"Obviously, he only needs to report his research results truthfully. Not to mention a mere research institute, even if he is given the destiny, it is not impossible..."

"...Or did I accidentally persecute such a talented person's family or someone important at some point that I don't remember?"

Alas, Bishop Otto sighed with a headache, he raised his palm, and golden light quickly condensed into the shape of a lighter between his fingers covered with white gloves.

He lit the lighter and ignited the stack of personal resumes and intelligence files about "Li Shubai" collected and submitted by Amber, then threw them to the center of the desk without any regret, watching it gradually shrink and eventually turn into ashes, with golden flames faintly visible in Bishop Otto's pupils.

Since these materials have no reference value, keeping them here will only mislead your judgment.

At this point, with both Yulandel and Rita being controlled by each other, the only option left for me is probably to go and talk to him in person.

"Amber, I will be away for some time."

"If I can't come back in a short time, you will be in charge of all the affairs of Tianming for the time being."

"Have a nice day at work."

After thinking about it, Otto deleted the last message before walking out of the room.

"In the next period of time, you will have to work hard for a while."

Chapter 4: Death and then suddenly a fire started in the dormitory... (k)

Eigenworld January 2014, 1, 10pm.

Fu Hua has been feeling something is wrong lately.

Rather, ever since the third Honkai outbreak, after Theresa and Himeko brought back the three women and one man who were quite abnormal in every sense from Changkong City, the entire St. Freya Academy has been filled with an extremely strange atmosphere.

Not long ago, everything that Fu Hua encountered when she and Ji Zi's team were carrying out the God's Key recovery mission in the South China Sea also proved that her feeling was not wrong.

Whether it was the Herrscher of the Void who suddenly borrowed Kiana's body for unknown reasons and did not seem to have much hostility towards humans, or Bronya and Raiden Mei who were not surprised at all, or even Rita Rossweisse whose hair suddenly grew a lot longer... This series of abnormal phenomena led Fu Hua's thinking to a very obvious conclusion.

No matter how you look at it, there's something quite wrong with that young man named Li Shubai.

However, this abnormality does not point to anything bad. After all, no matter from which perspective, allowing a law enforcer to coexist peacefully with humans is a very good thing for human civilization.

Therefore, after the South China Sea incident ended, Fu Hua did not even report the mission information to Bishop Otto immediately, but was just preparing to find an opportunity to communicate with the young man in the next few days.

Then on the first day of the new semester...the plan failed.

Apart from class time, the boy was either called away by Jizi or disappeared. Even during class, he would just lie on the table and snore without doing anything...

Well, there is still a lot of time to come. Even if she can't find an opportunity on the first day, there will always be a time for her to catch the boy later.

And then... he was gone.

In a literal sense.

Kiana, Mei Raiden, and Bronya, who were also survivors of the third Great Collapse, were still attending classes normally, but Li Shubai disappeared after the first day of class. When Fu Hua used her role as class monitor to find Theresa and Himeko to confirm the situation, she only got an answer that was obviously perfunctory: "He has some personal matters to attend to, so he has left school temporarily."

In addition to the missing boy, the attitude of Theresa, Himeko, and Kiana towards me... also became strange after that.

Her public identity was just an A-rank Valkyrie. Although she was gifted, she was ultimately just a student at St. Freya's College. But for some reason, Theresa, the dean, and Teacher Himeko... always showed an emotion of respect and emotion when they were with her.

Kiana was even more puzzled. According to Fu Hua's understanding, although this guy had a lively personality, due to her experience of wandering in her childhood, except for the special case of greed for Raiden Mei's body, it should be difficult for her to completely trust a stranger in a short period of time.

But... after completing the South China Sea mission, Fu Hua could clearly feel the closeness of this little bug to her and the natural trust he had in her, which made her feel guilty for doing something wrong and also a little creepy.

This girl... Could it be that she has some improper thoughts about me, just like she has about Meiyi? Fu Hua couldn't help but mutter to herself, but as a spy sent by Bishop Otto to monitor Kiana, she couldn't simply reject Kiana's kindness, either emotionally or rationally.

So, our Fairy Chi Yuan reviewed how to write the word "no choice" after a long time. She could only try to get information about the boy from Kiana's mouth, while secretly observing whether Kiana had really completely controlled the power of the Herrscher of the Void.

However, both of these plans failed.

She could clearly feel Kiana's trust and closeness to her, but even in such a situation, whenever she secretly asked about the boy who participated in the South China Sea mission with them, Kiana would always laugh it off and throw out the news that she had heard from Theresa and Jizi more than once. It was obvious that the three of them had colluded in advance. As for the Herrscher of the Void - after a brief appearance in the South China Sea, Fu Hua had not seen her again in St. Freya's College.

After struggling for a long time, she contacted Otto for the first time in a long time, and then received a radiant answer from the bishop:

"The Xilin Plan has been completed. You have fulfilled the agreement between us, Immortal Chiyuan. As for what happens next, just act according to your own heart."

"???"

After saying this, before Fu Hua, who was in a daze, could ask anything, Bishop Otto, who seemed to be lying in a bush, hung up the phone without hesitation.

Thus, Fu Hua, who had gloriously resigned from her position as a [spy], truly...became a student of St. Freya's College.

What a mess... While recalling the series of strange things that happened in the past two days, Fu Hua, who had completed a day's homework, walked back to the dormitory with a lot of speechless confusion.

Her public identity is that she was discovered by Muliangta Himeko, is directly affiliated with the Far East Branch, and was promoted to A-level in the Far East Branch. As an A-level Valkyrie, Fu Hua's single accommodation conditions are even more comfortable than those of Kiana and her group combined.

So, when she was thinking about whether to find an opportunity to visit Kiana and see if she could find a way to find out the specific situation there, after seeing the brightly lit scene in her dormitory, Fu Hua couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The person who suddenly visited his dormitory did not hide his whereabouts and breath. He even casually placed a wooden board at the door with the words "Welcome back Ms. Fu Hua" engraved on it in large letters. The wooden board was full of fancy patterns, and the glass windows through which the indoor lights came in were covered with paint.

"Meow……"

As if it was aware of the return of the owner of the room, a big fat cat that Fu Hua was very familiar with, lying on the wooden board, stretched lazily, called out weakly, and then slipped in through the crack in the door.

"...???"

Fu Hua raised her hand and adjusted the glasses on her nose. After standing there for a long while, she silently called out her Yu Duchen.