The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?" Ai Yi smiled, "Didn't I tell you that I'm just helping the captain regain his past memories?"

"This is just the original instruction given to you by the captain." Yae Kasumi said calmly, "Helping the current captain to regain his lost memories... This should be just a task given to you by the past captain."

"But, as the administrator of the Hyperion, isn't my duty to complete the tasks assigned to me by the captain?" Ai said, "From this point of view, maybe the two of us are somewhat similar?"

"No, I can feel that you and I are fundamentally different." Yae Kasumi said, "I am the captain's shadow, but you are not. Although you are also conscientiously fulfilling the duties assigned to you by the captain, at the same time, you always have your own selfish desires and goals."

"So, Administrator, in addition to helping the Captain regain his lost memories."

"What is your real [purpose]?"

Chapter 4: The Kidnapped Snake Eyes Leader (k)

When the consciousness of Snake Eyes' current leader, Rita Rossweisse, emerged from the chaos, what she saw was a bottomless darkness.

The dull pain from the back of her neck kept invading her thoughts, trying to pull her consciousness back into the chaos where she could not perceive anything.

From the bridge of the nose to the eyes and eyebrows, one could feel the rough touch of the cloth. It was probably covered tightly with a thick black cloth. Not only that, even the mouth was firmly taped with a piece of tape.

…Although it was a rather fresh first experience, as the leader of Snake Eyes, the largest underground intelligence organization in Sky City, Rita guessed her situation almost the moment her consciousness returned to her brain.

The last memory that remained in her mind was in her own kitchen. If she told others about it, people would probably laugh at her. The current leader of the largest intelligence organization in Sky City was actually a humble woman who loved housework and would unconsciously play the role of a maid even when she lived alone. Due to this strange habit, she was wearing a British-style maid suit. The long skirt wrapped around her slender legs that were tightly locked by the straps, and the roland-colored strappy high heels were exposed outside the skirt.

While recognizing her current situation, Rita endured the dizziness in her mind and silently slowed down her breathing to pretend that she was still in a coma. Even though she knew that she was being kidnapped, she still had no idea about the identity of the kidnapper or his purpose.

The air that touched the skin was very dry, and there was not even a trace of plant scent in the air. The Sky City shrouded by the light curtain was a city that paid great attention to environmental quality. Because the entire city was completely closed, if the quality of the already slow-flowing air was not controlled, the residents of the city would immediately fall into a state of widespread respiratory diseases.

This is obviously intolerable for Shencheng Technology, which hopes that the residents of the town can live as peacefully as possible in the Sky Dome City within the light curtain.

So, I must be locked in a room.

Moreover, judging by the softness of her arms and legs, she must have been tied to a bed on her side.

After roughly identifying the surrounding environment, Rita focused her attention on her ears, trying to use her hearing to capture the human breath around her.

As the leader of Snake Eyes, Rita, who likes to play the role of a maid in private, is certainly not a weak woman without any fighting ability. To be honest, even if her limbs are restricted, Rita still has a thousand ways to break free from the straps that bind her hands and feet.

However, as one of the few people at the top of Sky City in terms of both combat power and power, and the leader of the underground intelligence organization Snake Eyes, she is well aware of the importance of intelligence and understands that she must find out who could kidnap her so easily in her own home before she escapes.

She was abducted without any resistance in the home of the leader of an intelligence organization. Rita could only conclude that the kidnapper's concealment ability was far beyond her imagination. If possible, she even wanted to recruit the prisoner who kidnapped her into Snake Eyes.

What happened next was just as Rita had expected. With the sound of a door opening, three footsteps approached her slowly and rhythmically.

"Is this how you invite the leader here?" A young boy asked in a voice as low as possible, "Are you sure this is an invitation and not a kidnapping?"

A charming female voice chuckled and responded with a tone of humility mixed with slight disappointment: "I'm sorry, Captain. It's rare to see myself as a leader in another world. As a fellow Rita, I can't help but feel a little competitive."

"It's just that Rita really couldn't have imagined that Rita, as a leader, would be so vulnerable."

"...?"

Hearing the voice that was exactly the same as her own, Rita was completely stunned.

"I don't think I can blame them for this." Maybe he thought he was still in a coma? The young man lowered his voice, his tone was quite funny, "In terms of the number of years you have lived in this world, you are the oldest among all the Ritas. In addition to the fact that the Ritas in the original world have a different level from the life forms of you world bubbles due to the different scale of the world itself, you, the Prime Minister, should be the strongest among all the Ritas, right?"

"Are you dissatisfied with the fact that Rita is getting old and ugly?" the soft and charming voice said with an extremely dissatisfied tone.

"When did I say that?" The young man's voice suddenly rose, as if he was protesting something with all his might.

"But the captain clearly knew that age had always been a thorn in Rita's heart. Why did he repeatedly emphasize this in front of Rita?" The soft voice said with a tone full of melancholy, "When they first met, he was careful to show such a lovely expression when he was with Rita. Why did he become so unkind after meeting again after a long separation?"

"Although I still don't remember everything that happened back then, I think that memory should be one of the few dark histories that I never want to recall again..."

"How can it be a dark history? The Captain at that time was so innocent and lovely."

"I think the two adjectives 'innocent' and 'cute' are enough to make a man of his stature consign that memory to the dark history," the young man said in a dull voice.

This conversation was really nonsensical, Rita thought. She originally thought that the criminals who kidnapped her should be like the members of Snake Eyes, one or a group of elite assassins roaming on the edge of darkness. At the very least, they should be people with profound martial arts skills like the leader of Taixu Sect, "Sister Hua". But she never expected that, judging from the conversation she just heard, these people who kidnapped her were more like a group of crosstalk performers, the male funny man and the female supporting man with the same voice as her...

At this moment, Rita, whose mind was in a mess, suddenly felt someone poking her eyelid.

"Hey, how badly did you hit your other self? Why hasn't this guy woken up yet?" At the same time, another voice with a slight milky flavor sounded in Rita's ears.

Only then did Rita remember that there were three footsteps she had just heard, and the last voice was not unfamiliar to Rita.

It turned out to be the voice of the person he had cheated not long ago, the famous hacker "Haitu" from Tianqiong City.

"This..." A hint of hesitation suddenly appeared in the gentle voice. "Although I did not hold back much when I attacked her, given Rita's physical condition, she shouldn't be unable to wake up now, right?"

"Just in case, let me ask you something." The boy said in a somewhat worried tone, "How did you make her faint? The knockout drug? Or the sedative on the Hyperion?"

"Well, the captain should remember the sickle that Rita used, right?" the soft voice said, "Use the discus of that sickle to hit the back of her neck..."

"Physical sedation! Damn it!" The boy's voice suddenly rose. "You didn't hit her so hard that she had a brain hemorrhage? Should I call 120 right away? By the way, is 120 the emergency number in Tianqiong City?"

"Brain hemorrhage? Why would such symptoms occur when hitting this area with the handle of a sickle?" The soft voice was full of confusion. "In our time, being hit by a blunt object in this area would only cause a person to lose consciousness for a short period of time, and would not cause any real harm, right?"

"What kind of plot is that from a martial arts novel? What kind of weird experience gave you the weird common sense to be able to hit someone's neck really hard and still be fine!" As the boy was talking, there was a snapping sound from the direction of his voice. He must have been too speechless and slapped himself on the forehead. "I almost forgot that the original book of your world was a historical novel. It makes sense that you would have such weird common sense... The problem is that this world is not like yours! Hitting someone's neck really could kill them!"

...I was just pretending to sleep. My breathing and chest movement were normal. Isn't it a bit too hasty to declare my death so quickly?

No! Is this the problem now? ? My train of thought was almost led astray by this couple! Rita, who suddenly realized, took a deep breath and shook her head slightly, conveying to the outside world the fact that she had woken up, while also trying to use this action to attract the attention of the three people.

"Oh, she's moving." The voice with a hint of milk was full of surprise. "Captain, she seems to have woken up. It seems to be just as Prime Minister Rita said. Even if you use heavy force on this place, others will just faint and wake up safely after a while. It really opened my eyes and I gained a very practical piece of knowledge."

"...No, I think she was able to wake up only because Rita is a pretty good fighter. Don't use this kind of common sense on ordinary people." The boy's voice was filled with silence. "I don't want to see my crew members become unconscious murderers."

As she heard this sound, Rita felt as if the black cloth on her face was being pulled away by someone.

The white light from the fluorescent lamp shone into the pupils, causing the dazzling feeling to make the eyes, which had not yet re-adapted to the light, close for a moment. At the same time, the tape on the mouth was carefully torn off.

His gentle, gentlemanly movements made it difficult for people to associate him with the word kidnapper.

And this is exactly the case. After her eyes fully adapted to the surrounding environment, the young face that came into her field of vision made Rita instinctively exclude this boy from the category of "enemy".

"I'll make it clear in advance that I wasn't the one who tied you up or knocked you out." After removing the restraints on himself, the young boy raised his hands and took a step back, as if to proclaim his innocence. "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and if you want to get angry, don't do it to me."

"..." Rita rubbed her wrist and stared at the innocent young boy with her wine-red eyes filled with strange expressions - our captain Li Shubai.

When Li Shubai was stared at so hard that his back was getting creepy and Prime Minister Rita couldn't help but squint her eyes, Rita suddenly shifted her gaze away from Li Shubai and looked in the direction of Brownie, who had a teasing look on his face, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

"I don't know. Why did Miss Brownie go to so much trouble to invite me here? If I remember correctly, the grudge between us should have been settled long before the light curtain disappeared, right?"

"Yeah." Brownie shrugged, "So, it wasn't me who knocked you out."

"I know, but we still have to settle the accounts one by one to make it clearer, right?" Rita's tone was calm and elegant, not like a hostage who had just been kidnapped. "Before we figure out the grudge between me and the other 'Rita', it would be a rational decision to choose the person I already knew as the hacker lady as the person to talk to."

"Although the culprit who caused me to lose consciousness was Rita, whom you called the Prime Minister, these things on Rita's body should be the work of Miss Brownie, right?"

"You can see that too?" Brownie, who was directly pointed out that he was also an accomplice, did not panic, but spread his hands openly, "Okay, I admit that tying you up is indeed a bit of revenge for you using me back then. But with your skills, it shouldn't be difficult to break free of these things, right?"

"You misunderstood me." Rita said with a smile, "Even if it was Rita, after being attacked by the despicable villain, it would be impossible for her to maintain her state before she woke up. Of course, there is no way for her to easily break free from the restraints of these straps as you said."

"Despicable villain?" Prime Minister Rita pondered over these four words and suddenly revealed a subtle smile. "I just heard from Miss Haha Rabbit that Rita Rossweisse in this world is the leader of an underground intelligence organization. I couldn't resist the urge to test you just now."

"But I really didn't expect that you would be so lax in your vigilance that you didn't even notice my attack even though I just returned to my own residence." Prime Minister Rita said with a smile, "If you, like Rita, call me despicable for this reason, then I have nothing to say."

Chapter 4: The messed up Snake Eyes leader (k)

"Um... um... no, no, there, be a little gentler..."

The charming voice, mixed with faint gasps, echoed in the not-so-spacious room.

"I say..." Li Shubai closed his eyes, with black lines on his forehead.

"What...what happened? Um...Captain? Ah..."

"I shouldn't have done anything bad to you now, right?" Li Shubai's voice sounded slightly trembling due to the deep embarrassment and speechlessness.

"Of course... Um... Ah... Captain's palm... feels so good."

"Since you admit that I didn't do anything bad to you, then Miss Rita." Li Shubai's mouth twitched, and the black lines on his forehead became denser and denser because of excessive silence. "Can you please stop making such strange noises? I obviously didn't do anything bad to you, why do I have to fall into such an embarrassing situation?"

"Could it be that... um... Rita's skin... um, does the Captain feel uncomfortable when he touches it?" Rita's intermittent voice was full of shame.

"No, it's hard to imagine. It's just such an ordinary part, how can your skin be maintained so delicate and smooth? To be honest, any man would love to touch your skin." Li Shubai's eyebrows jumped. "But the problem is, I'm just helping you apply medicine, and the place I touch is only the back of your neck. No matter from which angle you look at it, there is nothing wrong with it. Even if we strictly abide by the latest draft of the appropriate age, I can undoubtedly classify what I'm doing as 6+. But if you continue to make this strange sound, I seriously suspect that everything that is happening now will be forcibly erased by some mysterious force from outside the world."

"But, but, the captain's method is indeed a little beyond... well, Rita's, expectations." Rita, lying on the sheets, made a sound that sounded like she had eaten computer parts. Her moist breath wet a large area of ​​the fluffy pillow that was pressing down on her mouth and nose. "Rita... can't control myself... well..."

"..." Feeling the cold or playful gazes of Prime Minister Rita and Brownie, Li Shubai evenly applied the ointment for bruises and sprains on Rita's fair and smooth neck, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.

“Ah ...

"That won't do." Seeing the elegant maid who was calm and composed a second ago now losing control of herself under the force of his fingers, Li Shubai's mouth curled up with a hint of pleasure because he felt the pleasure of successful revenge. "In order to allow the drug to fully penetrate your muscles and bones, Miss Rita, please be able to endure this level of massage and pain."

"No, that's not right! Stop, please, get off quickly, Rita knows she's wrong, Rita hasn't been... Ugh--!!!"

As the charming voice completely transformed into a wail of intense pain, the originally charming atmosphere suddenly became even stranger.

Just like that, about half an hour later...

"You just left her in the room like that?"

At noon, while playing with the secret key that was handed to him by the Snake Eyes leader with tearful hands, Brownie couldn't help but look back at the five-star hotel behind him.

"Having said that, it's really eye-opening. I didn't expect that the captain, who looks like a good guy, could be so vicious when he gets angry."

"Can you blame me for this? That bad woman is full of bad intentions." Li Shubai poked his finger, not realizing that he had almost ruined an elegant and calm lady. "Besides, you don't think she was just pretending, do you? I don't believe that as Rita's parallel world counterpart, that guy would show such a disgusting appearance because of this level of pain."

"Captain, what you said makes sense." Prime Minister Rita said with a smile, "Let's not talk about Rita from the Eigenworld. Even I can't be defeated so easily by Pain. The reason why Rita showed such a terrible appearance is probably just to try to reduce our vigilance by doing this, right?"

Li Shubai rolled his eyes: "You also realized that she was acting, then why did you stare at me with such a cold gaze when I was applying medicine to her?"

"Knowing that she is acting does not conflict with my jealousy of Rita's intimacy with the captain." Prime Minister Rita stroked her hair, and her beautiful face, which perfectly blended the two opposite temperaments of coquettishness and solemnity, showed a coquettish and charming expression as if she was throwing a tantrum. "Captain, you seem to underestimate women's jealousy. Women in an irrational state cannot be persuaded by ordinary reasoning. Even I am no exception to this."

"Well, anyway, the first secret key is in our hands." Li Shu glanced at the microelectronic components that Brownie kept throwing up and catching, and touched his chin. "If I remember correctly, the remaining two secret keys should be in the hands of Shencheng Technology and Fu Hua in this world, right?"

"That's right." Brownie caught the secret key in mid-air steadily and looked in the direction of Taixu Gate. "Last time, after the light curtain was lifted, Shencheng Medicine and Snake Eyes were unable to find any intelligence and information useful to them in the world outside the light curtain. On the contrary, except for me, all the reconnaissance units and unmanned detection devices that left this world completely lost contact with this world after passing through the strange boundary outside the light curtain. To be honest, even if it was me, after leaving this world, if it weren't for the help of the Hyperion and the captain, it would be difficult for me to return to this world again after falling into the gap between worlds."

"So, after the core that constructed the light curtain reappeared, in order to protect the safety of ordinary people, the three major organizations in Tianqiong City united again, and used the same encryption method as the previous light curtain to seal the three sets of core keys in their hands."

Li Shubai nodded: "Although not everything is recorded in detail, the Hyperion's logbook has recorded your general experience before you left this world into the Hyperion's database."

"Yeah." Brownie shrugged, and a very dissatisfied expression suddenly appeared on his young face. "Even the embarrassing things that happened to me when I was fooled around by Rita, the captain, and that rigid ninja in this world were all recorded by you."

"Uh..." Li Shubai's expression was stiff. "Look at the bright side. We have tried our best to avoid the dangers you would have encountered in the Quantum Sea, right?"

"Of course I know this, so I didn't refuse the captain's invitation, right?" Brownie shrugged indifferently, "It's not like I don't know what's good for me. Although it does make people feel uncomfortable when an exciting adventure is controlled by others, humans are just such creatures. Even if we jump out of a framework, there will be another bigger framework to constrain us. Unknown things will certainly stimulate my curiosity, but this curiosity is just self-satisfaction. I can't ignore Xiola and Theresa, who care about me, just because I insist on pursuing unknown things, right?"

"I didn't expect you to say that." Li Shubai couldn't help but look at Brownie with curiosity. "I thought that after you broke free from the shackles of this bubble and came to the vast quantum ocean, you would be more eager for the unknown and freedom."

"Oh, people grow up." Brownie waved his hand a little embarrassedly. "For humans, the unknown and adventure are something they can never reach their end in their lifetime. Although I still like to go out for adventures, compared to the unknown world, caring for your family and companions from the bottom of your heart is equally important, isn't it?"

"I think you might as well tell Xiola in this world about this." Li Shubai smiled. "After hearing your current opinion, she will probably feel very relieved."

"I...I don't want to." Brownie turned his head away awkwardly. "Captain, don't say anything unnecessary to her. If she knew what I said now, who knows if she would become like before I left this world and want to tie me up in Raven's as a waiter... Valuing family and friends doesn't mean I'm ready to give up my pursuit!"

"Heh..." Looking at Brownie's slightly red face, Li Shubai smiled and shook his head helplessly.

He stretched out his palm and rubbed Brownie's head hard.

"Okay, okay, I know you're a dishonest kid. If you don't listen to the captain in the future, don't blame me for telling Miss Xiola exactly what you said."

"What—who are you calling a kid?" Brownie slapped the captain's hand away. "You're only a few years older than me! Don't act like an old father!"

"Haha." Seeing Brownie's angry look, Prime Minister Rita couldn't help but laugh, "If the Captain is the father, Rita wouldn't mind playing the role of Miss Brownie's biological mother for a while."

"****! You're such a jerk! You're taking advantage of me!!"

Just as the group was laughing and walking slowly towards Taixu Gate, on the other side, in Raven's bar.

"Well, Ms. Kiana, what do you think about Ai's proposal?"

In the dim bar, the faint fluorescent light illuminated Ai Yi's beautiful face with a calm smile.

In mid-air, a virtual light screen emitting faint fluorescence projected the upper body of Kiana [Hersher of the End]. She touched her chin, and her face, which was much more mature than other Kianas, had an expression as if she was deep in thought.

"Let's fight the Honkai, and after we have completely resolved the Honkai, we will take the captain back to the Hyperion... I don't have much opinion on this matter." After pondering for a long time, Kiana [Hersher of the End] nodded, "But before that, there is a more important issue."

"During this period of time when we are fighting against Honkai, how will you ensure the captain's safety?" Kiana [Hersher of the End] looked at Ai Yi under the screen with a questioning look, "And, during this period, how will you conceal it from the captain?"

"Just now, in the information I exchanged with you, Ms. Kiana, you should have also seen the captain's current condition, right?" Ai said.

"Of course I saw it." Kiana [Hersher of the End]'s face turned a little ugly. "It's our fault that the captain lost the past time. If Mei and I had mastered the power of the End and the Origin earlier, the captain would not have been forced to exile himself from our world because of forcibly accepting the power of the End."

"You and Prometheus worked together to take back the time the captain lost from the other side of the imaginary number, making up for the mistakes I made. For this reason alone, I am indeed very grateful to you." Kiana [Hersher of the End] said, "But since the captain is still unable to bear such a huge memory, for his safety, we should take him back to the Hyperion, right?"

"I understand your desire to protect the captain. In fact, if possible, Ai Yi doesn't want the captain to continue to wander alone in other worlds." Ai Yi said calmly, "But after taking the captain back to the Hyperion? Can you guarantee the personal safety of the captain who is traveling with you while fighting against the fateful moment that will come within three years?"

"Of course I can!" Kiana [Hersher of the End] nodded her head fiercely, her eyes filled with iron determination.

"No, Miss Kiana, you can't do that." However, facing the sight of Kiana [Hershers of the End], Ai Yi shook her head gently, "I admit that even compared with Miss Kiana who became the [Hershers of the End] before you in another world I observed, you have achieved complete control over the Cocoon of the End, not only have you completely mastered the power of the End, but you can even project your own power onto other humans at will, and you have unscrupulously given birth to human Herrshers, you are still much stronger."

"But you must have remembered who helped you achieve this, right?"