The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"It's been a long time, Mr. Ferryman. I am Yaexia, and I am willing to be your strength."

"Why is it you, a rigid ninja, again?" Before Li Shubai could respond to the voice, Brownie, who was hung in the air by the collar, shouted angrily, "Put me down! The captain didn't say anything, why did you suddenly come out to join in the fun!"

"The reason why the captain didn't protest your outrageous behavior is because he indulges you." Miss Ninja, who mentioned Brownie, stretched out her arms, then slowly turned Brownie's body around, staring at her angry expression with a calm gaze, "As his shadow, of course, I should do what the captain is not convenient to do."

"I thought you were such a rigid person?" Brownie was dumbfounded. "You participated in the game and lost to me! Why can you say that you abuse your power for personal gain so confidently?!"

Chapter 4: The Threat of the Loyal Dog Ninja (k)

"Please don't use the words 'abuse of power for personal gain' to describe my behavior, hacker."

Miss Ninja's tone was as bland and steady as ever.

"I am only carrying out my duty. If you care about your spoils, then feel free to treat my shoulder as a special seat."

"Who cares about your shoulders? Put me down!" Brownie struggled with all his might in mid-air. "Do you think the special seats we talk about are shoulders? The person is what's important!"

"But if I remember correctly, Hacker, you have always firmly insisted that you have no romantic feelings for the captain." Miss Ninja said expressionlessly, "Since you have no admiration for the captain, you should understand that men and women should not be intimate with each other. Even if you beat me in the competition, it does not mean that you can recklessly violate common sense."

"How can you, a guy who originally belonged to the Destiny Anbu, say such moral role model words so confidently?!" Brownie was so angry that she almost laughed. After struggling in vain, she stared at the ninja lady's beautiful and elegant face with incredible eyes, which seemed to have the word "shameless" written all over it. She felt that compared with this ninja who was good at talking nonsense in a serious manner, even she, who thought she was sharp-tongued, had become a harmless little white rabbit.

"I am no longer a member of the Destiny Anbu." Miss Ninja corrected him seriously, as if she didn't hear Brownie's hidden meaning. "I have never considered myself a moral role model."

"...Sometimes I wonder if you don't understand what people are saying." Brownie said unhappily, "I don't know if you are a superb actor or just honest by nature."

"You misunderstood, hacker." Miss Ninja shook her head and said lightly, "I have never lied."

"Okay, okay, I know you're not lying." Brownie said with disgust, "Put me down now!"

Miss Ninja nodded, "Okay, but you have to promise not to climb onto the Captain's shoulders again."

Brownie's eyes rolled around, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He put on a helpless expression: "Oh, I know! You just want me to give you the spoils? Since the ninja is so eager for the captain's shoulders and neck, I can bear the pain and let it go."

A rather blatant way of provoking someone.

After hearing Brownie's words, everyone present couldn't help but reveal some subtle expressions.

Even Miss Xilin, who is widely acknowledged to be extremely arrogant and irrational, probably wouldn't step into this obvious trap, right? Just as Li Shubai was thinking this, he suddenly realized that something was very wrong.

Huh?

Why did the rational and calm Miss Ninja suddenly become silent?

Before he realized what this strange silence meant, Miss Ninja's clothes suddenly emitted a dazzling light.

After the dazzling flash, the cyber-style soft armor that was originally flowing with a breathing RGB light disappeared, and was replaced by a very light black ninja outfit, with two leg rings, one black and one white, tied around the powerful white thighs.

"There's another trick... I see." After changing into her original equipment, Yae Kasumi stroked her chin. "As long as the spoils are transferred to others, there will be no risk of moral condemnation. It is indeed a very smart decision."

"Wait, are you serious?" Brownie was stunned.

"Didn't you propose this yourself?" Yae Kasumi gently loosened her five fingers. Haitu, who was in a daze, didn't notice and fell on the wooden floor of the bar.

However, Brownie didn't have time to pay attention to the sharp pain in her buttocks. The moment she fell to the ground, her body jumped up quickly like a frightened rabbit. Then, in less than a millisecond, she opened her arms and rushed in front of the stunned Li Shubai, gritting her teeth and cursing: "You are such a good ninja! I really misjudged you! You said you have no interest in the captain, but you are secretly trying to trip me up, right?! I tell you, even if I don't have any romantic feelings for the captain, you can't get close to the captain in this bar!"

"Brownie..." Theresa looked at the angry Brownie at a loss.

Yae Kasumi remained calm and said calmly, "You misunderstood two things, hacker."

"Humph!" Brownie snorted with disdain, "Why don't you tell me what I misunderstood?"

"First of all, I have never said that I don't have any romantic feelings for the captain." Yae Kasumi said, "Although I don't expect to have a bright future, and I have never expected to establish a formal husband-and-wife relationship with the captain, this does not contradict my love and attachment to the captain."

"If the captain wishes, I am ready to give him everything I have at any time."

"..." Brownie opened his mouth slightly, his eyes dull, and for a moment he felt like he didn't know what to say.

"Secondly," Yae Kasumi continued, "I have never done anything to hinder you in secret. Although I am a ninja who is good at concealment and spying, you, hacker, are not the target of my mission as a ninja. Therefore, I have always been hindering you openly."

"I..." Brownie hesitated, his mind in confusion.

"Also, including me, except you, all the women present have feelings for the captain." Before Brownie could fully understand the current situation, Yae Kasumi did not hesitate to pursue the confused Hare Rabbit. "If we split what happened here into two perspectives, although in the eyes of Mr. Hacker, I am the one who hinders you. But in other words, for us, the one who really hinders us is you who claims that you have no feelings for the captain but continues to approach the captain, not me."

"No... I can't get close to the captain without any romantic feelings?!" Brownie shouted in a cowardly manner.

"Of course not." Yae Kasumi shook her head calmly, "I was simply describing our feelings and did not make any comments on your actions."

"After all, how you want to treat others has always been everyone's individual freedom." Yaexia said leisurely, "Even if you want to destroy the relationship between lovers, that is your freedom. As an outsider, I am not qualified to judge your behavior."

"..." Is Yae Kasumi's mouth that powerful? Seeing the rabbit being beaten to a pulp by Miss Ninja, Li Shubai couldn't help but mutter in secret with a look of astonishment on his face.

As for her nonchalantly declaring her love for him... at this point, Li Shubai was no longer surprised that his Valkyrie liked him.

How should I put it? Instead of worrying about how many Valkyries like him, Li Shubai feels that what he should focus on and care about more is whether his waist can withstand the pressure of these Valkyries.

"Don't bully Miss Brownie too much, Miss Yae Kasumi." At this moment, Lost Rosemary broke the silent and stiff atmosphere in the bar with her usual gentle voice, "Whether Miss Brownie has feelings for our captain or not, she is still a member of the Hyperion. Since we are companions who can trust each other without reason on the battlefield, we should of course be tolerant of different ideas."

"Of course I understand this truth." Yaexia raised her arms and crossed them across her chest. "It is precisely because I understand this truth that I am here to make things clear."

"If I don't do that, I will probably be put on your enemy list at some point." As she spoke, Yae Kasumi turned her calm gaze towards the smiling Lost Rosemary, "Am I right?"

"Haha, after all, for a lady with a normal concept of love who happens to be in the passionate love period, it should be natural to want to embrace the opposite sex she admires." Lost Rose smiled coquettishly, neither denying nor confirming Yae Kasumi's thorny remarks, "As a former member of the Destiny Anbu, Miss Yae Kasumi should have realized long ago that victory and defeat are common in the military. In the process of competing for beauty, since some people will succeed, it is inevitable that others will suffer a certain degree of frustration. This is also a very normal thing."

Although she looked like she was in a state of ease, the wine-red pupils of Lost Rose as she looked at Yaezaki were filled with deep solemnity.

Strong enemy.

Compared to Sirin and Kiana, the Herrschers of the Void, and Yulandel who had already successfully confessed her love for the Einstein Time, this seemingly stoic but emotionless ninja lady was a powerful enemy who was completely beyond Lost Rosemary's expectations and had a completely different nature from everyone else.

Although most of the Valkyries on the Hyperion have romantic feelings for the captain, even so, they do not put themselves below the captain emotionally.

...Even after confirming the feelings of both parties, most of the dwarf Valkyries did not mind showing a little toughness towards the attractive captain.

In this respect, Rita is completely different from most Valkyries.

If Kiana and the others, after realizing that the captain also had ill intentions towards them, the Valkyries who were trying to rebel against his superiors in terms of relationships, the first thing they did was to show their feelings to the captain without reservation... and push him back without hesitation; Rita's choice was to show her softest and most attractive side to the captain, and let the captain turn all his fantasies into reality.

Of course, in certain situations, Rita doesn't mind taking the initiative, but that is ultimately just an embellishment to add interest and cannot represent her true attitude towards her love.

In a sense, Yae Kasumi, who was willing to stand behind the captain as a vassal, had the same attitude towards the captain as all [Rita Rossweisse] including herself.

This kind of loyal dog-like character that only shows off its loyalty is too dangerous for the kind-hearted captain.

"Let's return to the previous topic for now." While secretly adjusting Yae Kasumi's danger level to the highest level in her heart, Lost Rosemary calmly changed the topic and said, "Ms. Ai Yi, you suggested to the captain that he should see the current state of this world with his own eyes. Since the natives of this world have already come to this bar, why don't we first get a general understanding of the current situation of this world from them?"

Ai Yi smiled: "If it is just what Miss Brownie and Miss Theresa know... then the Hyperion's logbook has already recorded all these things very clearly."

"I heard from Brownie that the light curtain covering Sky City disappeared because you took away the core?" Theresa asked, "If that's the case, then the light curtain reappeared, could it be because the core appeared again?"

Li Shubai subconsciously turned his gaze to Ai Yi and asked directly: "Did you do it?"

"If you understand it this way, it doesn't seem to be a big problem." Ai Yi nodded, "However, even if I tell you that the pseudo-time crystal that wraps this bubble has reset the state of this bubble to the state before Miss Brownie left, it would be difficult for even the captain to understand if he doesn't confirm it with his own eyes, right?"

"The time of the world bubble has been reset to the state before Brownie left?" Theresa was stunned. "The world bubble you mentioned... is another name for our world, right? The time of this world has been reset? Why didn't I notice it?"

"After all, a pseudo-time crystal is not a real time crystal," Ai said, "so it can't really lock the world in a cycle of time."

"Just like what the End did to the Eigenworld?" Li Shubai suddenly understood. "So, you want me to observe the ether singularity of this world in the hope that I can reversely deduce the principle of [End] through the core reproduced by the pseudo-time crystal, and then further increase the possibility of my being able to fully control the power of the End?"

"In addition, the ether singularity constructed by the pseudo-time crystal also has a special relationship with the captain's organization of his huge and messy memories." Ai Yi nodded, "What do you think? If the captain wants to take action immediately, I believe Miss Brownie and Miss Theresa will not mind being a guide."

Chapter 4 The Weight of Memory (k)

"Launch an operation?" Li Shubai repeated the four words with a strange expression, then narrowed his eyes, tilted his head, and stared at Ai Yi's gentle, beautiful, yet shrewd and mature face with suspicion. "The reason sounds quite legitimate, but why are you so anxious to drive me away after only being back for less than half a day? Could it be that you are hiding something from me again, just like the last time you traveled through time?"

Although I have indeed completely regained my past memories to a certain extent, I did not encounter any real danger or challenge during this trip to 2017.

But Li Shubai did not forget that after entering the bridge of the Hyperion, Ai Yi clearly told him that the way she would help him regain his memory was to use the ability of the Hyperion to guide his consciousness into the virtual space recorded in the database, allowing him to relive what he had experienced from the perspective of his past self, thereby awakening the forgotten memories hidden in his mind.

However, in fact, the destination of that trip was not a so-called data space at all, and the list of Valkyries that Ai gave him was not the data of Kiana and the others, but themselves.

Therefore, when Ai Yi proposed to him again about launching the next action, Li Shubai, who had been cheated once, expressed doubts about Ai Yi's suggestion almost without thinking.

Perhaps because she had indeed concealed something from Li Shubai, Ai Yi did not show any surprise at being suddenly suspected. She smiled gently, turned her face to the side, and looked back at Li Shubai without any trace of guilt. Her tone of voice was also quite calm and confident: "Yes, I did hide something from the captain."

"I……"

Li Shubai had never expected that Ai Yi would admit this so confidently. For a moment, he couldn't help but feel like he had punched cotton.

"But, even if you know this, what does it matter? After all, all Ai Yi's current words and deeds are just to fulfill the promise made to the captain." Ai Yi smiled at Li Shubai's constipated expression, "Even if I don't make any suggestions to the captain, can you always tolerate the current state of confusion in your brain?"

"...Is it you who caused my memory to become so messy?"

"You have to ask yourself that." Suddenly, Ai Yi's voice suddenly showed a strong sense of dissatisfaction without any warning.

, she said with a smile, gritting her teeth, "Your physical age is not even adult yet. Even if you take into account your mental age before coming to this world and the external time you have experienced in this world, it is only less than 30 years. Why did the captain lose a full 100,000 years of memory after the time was reset? Even Miss Prometheus had to compress and reorganize those memories many times after she helped you retrieve this part of time from the other side of the imaginary number, so that these memories were transcribed into your brain by her again, presenting such a chaotic pattern. Ai Yi, a small administrator, knows nothing about this matter."

"Uh..." A fine layer of cold sweat broke out on Li Shubai's forehead.

The rationality that was originally a little infuriating because of being schemed against by Ai was extinguished like a bucket of cold water after hearing the words full of resentment and dissatisfaction from the administrator.

"One hundred thousand years of memory?" At the same time, Lost Rosemary, who caught the key words from Ai Yi's mouth, shrank her pupils slightly, "Can you please explain the meaning of this sentence in detail?"

"Nothing to explain. It means literally. You should have seen such a record in the Hyperion's logbook." Ai Yi gently took a sip of the wine in the glass. "After several reincarnations, the captain sought a perfect solution to keep Mr. Stargazer in his original bubble, but to no avail. On the local Chinese Valentine's Day, the captain took Mr. Stargazer from his original bubble to Hyperion."

"...That's right." Lost Rosemary pondered for a moment and nodded. "This sentence is indeed recorded in the Hyperion's logbook. In addition to the world bubble where Master Stargazer was originally located, similar records have also appeared in several other places. Is there any problem with this record?"

"There is nothing wrong with this record itself. The Hyperion's logbook is indeed objective and fair in recording the facts." Ai Yi said calmly, "--but what if I tell you that the so-called "several times" is exactly 36,745,026 times?"

"What—" Lost Rosemary opened her red lips slightly, her voice trembling, "Thirty... thirty million times??"

"Although each cycle only takes about half a day, even if it's only 30 million half days, it's still a full 40,000 years." Ai Yi turned her half-smiled gaze to Li Shubai, who was also shocked by the number, "And, our captain has done things like this more than once or twice."

"Wow." Brownie blinked with surprise in his eyes. "I was wondering why Miss Guanxing, who is so wise and intelligent, would tie her heart to you so irrationally. I didn't expect there is such a relationship."

"Oh, if the captain also reincarnates more than 30 million times for my affairs like he did for stargazing, I will probably tie my heart to you wholeheartedly after knowing all this." Hahaha, Brownie laughed heartily and patted Li Shubai on the back in Theresa's headache. "Okay, you are worthy of being my best partner. It's a pity that I probably won't have the opportunity to let you make such an exaggerated sacrifice."

Li Shubai rolled his eyes and said with a look of despair, "My dear Miss Haitu, could you please stop adding fuel to the fire at a time like this?"

"...I see. In that case, it's no wonder that Lord Guanxing agreed with the captain's decision at that time. Even with Lady Fu Hua's stoic character, after enduring a thousand years of memories, she still had to endure the pain and pressure of consciousness because of the excess memory. So, even if she hadn't lost that part of the past time, the captain's consciousness at that time would have been on the verge of limit." Lost Rose nodded, her wine-red eyes revealing a thoughtful look, "So, even though the captain accepted the power of the end in the first reincarnation, he failed to completely control it, which directly led to the separation of his own time from that world. But from the results, the activation of the reincarnation mechanism not only completely reset the captain's time, but also cleared the memory pressure caused by that part of the excess time..."

"That's right." Ai nodded. "That's why even if No. 17 re-transcribes the memory that has been compressed several times and is in a disordered state into the captain's mind, we can't immediately let the captain return to the state before time was reset. If we do this, even if the captain completely recovers his past memories, his consciousness will be overwhelmed by the heavy weight of the memories."

"It's not that serious, right?" Li Shubai smiled awkwardly. "Don't I have Yu Duchen? If the weight of the memory is really so huge that it will affect consciousness, then why didn't my previous self give this part of the memory to...ah."

Halfway through his speech, Li Shubai himself felt something was wrong.

Why didn't he give those memories to Yu Duchen? Wasn't it because he was not the only one on the Hyperion who could use Yu Duchen?

Although the Key of Consciousness is a relatively special one among the Keys of God, for the Hyperion, whose members all possess extinct powers, throwing the feather into the pile of Valkyries will probably hit someone who can use it.

And the reason why he didn't want to share his memories with Yu Duchen, since he hadn't lost his memories yet...

There shouldn't be anyone in this world who would want to make their browser history public, right?

In addition to this simple and easy-to-understand truth, a bigger reason is probably that Li Shubai does not want his actions to bring too much burden to his crew members?

So, even though with Guanxing's intelligence, it is not difficult to guess what he has done for her, but even so, until now, Guanxing should not be able to truly understand what his past self has done from that vague sailing log.

"Since this is the reason, Captain, why don't we set off right now?" Suddenly, a gentle and unquestionable smile appeared on the charming face of Lost Rosemary. "In order to let you completely regain your past memories and to prevent your consciousness from being overwhelmed by the excess memories, Miss Ai has taken great pains. Since Miss Ai can do this for you, we should not let her down."

Although Li Shubai still instinctively felt that something was wrong, looking at the disappointed smile on Mimi's face, he couldn't say the word "No".

There was no way. The embarrassing situation now was caused by what he had done before. Since he was the blame from the beginning, he would not continue to doubt Ai Yi's words and deeds because of his own affairs.

"..." However, even though his rationality and sensibility had been defeated by the double attack of Ai Yi and Lost Rosemary, Li Shubai's instinct still continued to warn him.

He knew clearly that Ai Yi would never harm him, and now she should have told him all the information, from the reason why he lost his past time, to where Prometheus found his past, and why these memories from the past were so messy... Ai Yi had explained all these things to him clearly.

But why... he could still instinctively feel that he seemed to have overlooked some important information?

With such confusion, Li Shubai and Lost Rosemary left the bar under the guidance of Theresa and Brownie.

"Aren't you going to follow the captain?" Ai turned around and looked at the motionless ninja lady with a smile, "As the captain's shadow, shouldn't I be by his side all the time?"

"Shadows are not something to be protected." Miss Ninja put on her cyber-style soft armor again. She lowered her face slightly, hiding her mouth and chin behind the high collar of the soft armor. "I am representing the captain's will. With Rita and the hacker by his side, the captain does not need me to help him ensure his safety."

"If that's the case, why don't you help the captain find the core of the light curtain from this city in advance?" Ai Yi cast her eyes towards the half-open shutter door. "With your skills and your experience fighting with Miss Brownie in the core's hiding place, wouldn't it be easy for you to hand the core to the captain?"

"You talk too much, Administrator." Yae Kasumi's face was calm, and her emotionless voice was as cold and pure as ever. "Give up. I will never leave your side until the captain completely lets down his guard against you."

"You want to help the captain monitor me?" The smile on Ai Yi's face became more and more intense.

"If you do anything unnecessary to the captain." Yae Kasumi neither denied nor confirmed Ai's words.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything bad to you, Captain." Ai sighed softly, "If you're really worried, I can't stop you from staying by my side."

"So, you are still hiding something from the captain." Yaexia looked at Ai's face calmly, and suddenly changed the subject, "Administrator, what is your purpose?"