The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Due to the special nature of memory, including Alicia's memory, the thirteen heroes standing here actually have no way of knowing what their true ending will be.

The technology of creating memory will itself place an extremely huge burden on the body and mind of the subject. Even with the technical means of the previous civilization era, it is almost impossible to interfere with, hack into, or even turn memory into data.

Even with the help of the psycho-perception fusion warriors and the Eighth God's Key, this originally difficult technology became possible. However, ordinary warriors and researchers other than the Thirteen Heroes still could not copy their memories into data.

Even for the Thirteen Heroes, it is impossible for them to update their memories after death.

However, Aponia is an exception.

Fifty thousand years ago, after the collapse of Alicia [Return], Aponia used the technology of Velvet to integrate everything about herself into the paradise of the past. Therefore, in a sense, Aponia standing here is actually different from the memories of most heroes.

——She is undoubtedly the real Aponia, or at least, compared with the memories of other heroes, she is the one closest to the [original].

So, through her own perception ability, she saw Aponia [Discipline: Threshold of Deep Sin] suddenly appear in the hall of Paradise with Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] and the others. Even with her unwillingness to go out to meet visitors, she had to show up at the first moment along with the memories of all the other heroes.

At first, she didn't believe that it was the real "herself", and she also developed a feeling of distrust towards the other three Yingjies who visited her.

After all, as the only one among all the heroes' memories who witnessed his own demise, Aponia knew his own end very well.

However, when Aponia and her other self [Discipline: The Threshold of Deep Sin] faced each other, almost all doubts were dispelled in an instant.

As a fusion warrior of the psycho-perception system, Aponia's way of perceiving the outside world is different from that of ordinary people.

Ordinary humans perceive everything in the outside world through their five senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch, and even taste... Humans can distinguish and recognize all things in the outside world only if they are within their perception range.

But as a fusion warrior of the spiritual perception system, Aponia has one more sensory organ than humans - or even several different sensory organs. She can confirm things in the outside world at a completely different level from the five senses.

Especially when the other party being sensed is also a psychic perception fusion warrior like her.

Through their extraordinary perception abilities, the two beings, both of whom are Aponians, can even exchange information in a way that is unknowable and unpredictable to others.

Therefore, the moment the two Aponias faced each other, Aponia immediately confirmed that the other's true identity was definitely the real [himself].

However, the path he took was slightly different from his own, who was completely plunged into despair after watching Alicia sacrifice herself.

After a brief meeting, the four surviving heroes did not stay in the paradise for long. Since they wanted to completely control the World Serpent, they had to personally interfere in all matters of the World Serpent.

So, after the brief meeting, except for Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] who was not good at dealing with such serious occasions, Eden [Gold·Song of Brilliance], Sakura [Godly Clothes·Forgetfulness] and Aponia [Discipline·Threshold of Deep Sin] left the paradise very quickly. It was not known whether it was to make up for [her own] regrets, but Sakura [Godly Clothes·Forgetfulness] even temporarily lent her Ksitigarbha Soul to Sakura's memory before leaving.

Although the meeting was very short, for their memories, the shock they received in these few minutes was probably far greater than any other moment in the past 50,000 years.

This is even more true for Alicia.

But for some reason, [my] real body has been hiding from me, as if I, as a memory, was some kind of monster.

This really made Alicia, who was full of curiosity but couldn't get an answer, anxious. Why was she still alive? What happened to her after that? Why did Sakura also come back to life? What happened in the real world? In order to satisfy her curiosity and meet her true self, during the three days when Alicia [Pink Fairy Lady] and Eden and Aponia's memories were nestled in the deepest place, Alicia didn't know how many ways she tried to break into Aponia's area.

She tried to break in directly, but was trapped in darkness when she entered the deepest part; she tried to ask for help from Mebius, who was also itching to go in but kept saying that he didn't care, but found that Aponia had used some unknown means to hide the data in the deepest part; in the end, desperate Alicia even went to find Padofilis to see if this smart cat had any secret passage that only she knew about. After getting an affirmative answer, she was ripped off. As a result, when they all went to the secret passage [Data Vulnerability] that only Padofilis knew about... they found that at some point even the secret passage that was supposed to be known only to Padofilis was blocked.

Having exhausted all her options, Alicia, who was extremely anxious, had no choice but to temporarily give up the idea of ​​looking for her original body. Then... she waited with great anticipation for the return of Aponia and Eden, to see if she could get some useful information from these two good friends.

But...the two traitors, Eden and Aponia, didn't come out after diving into the deepest place with their original bodies.

Therefore, during these three days, Alicia, who had never seen Aponia and Eden, had never heard of the fact that their memories had been updated by them from the real world.

When Kevin suddenly said that Eden and Aponia's memories had been updated by their original bodies, Alicia's first reaction was surprise.

Then, an indescribable feeling of grievance suddenly rose up.

She pursed her rosy lips, and her bright and flawless face showed an expression of tears, looking pitiful: "My dear Abonya, my dear Eden, why did you hide such a big thing from me? Aren't we best friends? Why didn't you tell me even what Kevin knew?"

"I'm sorry, Ellie." Perhaps because he felt a little sorry for Alicia, Eden sighed softly with a hint of regret in his voice, "Of course you are my best friend. In most cases, neither I nor Aponia are willing to hide any facts from you. However, this is also your own request, Ellie, so..."

"When did I ever make such a request!" After hearing Eden's response, Alicia first subconsciously refuted, and then immediately reacted, "Wait a minute, is this my request in the real world?"

"Yes." Aponya nodded slightly.

"Why?" After receiving the affirmation, Alicia felt a kind of anger for the first time in a long time. Now that she knew the reason, she certainly would not continue to vent her anger on her two best friends, so she naturally poured all her dissatisfaction on herself. "We are all Alicia, is it necessary for her to be so defensive against me? I am just a memory. Sharing her memories a little bit will not cause her any loss."

When Alicia thought about how Eden, Aponia and Sakura all received the updates from the main body, but she was the only one left out, she became angrier and angrier. In the end, her cheeks puffed up like a hamster's.

"Maybe it's because she suffered a loss at your hands before." Kevin said lightly.

"Ah?" Alicia was stunned. "What do you mean by you've suffered a loss at my hands... Wait, I forgot to ask. It's ok that Eden and Aponia updated their memories, but why do you know all this, Kevin?!"

"Who told you that the only people whose memories were updated were Eden and Aponia?" Kevin shifted his gaze to Alicia, who had a look of disbelief on her face, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"???"

All the heroes present were stunned, and they all turned their eyes to Kevin, who was smiling.

"Has Kevin from the real world also visited the Paradise of the Past?" Su bluntly asked a question that puzzled everyone, "But none of us noticed the real you."

"This is not contradictory." Kevin crossed his arms, "After all, I never gained more memories from my original body. The source of those memories is another memory that is the same as mine."

"Oh?" Mebius's snake pupils narrowed slightly. "Is this the reason why your personality suddenly changed?"

"If you want to understand it this way, that's fine too," Kevin said.

"But how can you guarantee that those so-called [new memories] you mentioned really come from the real [Kevin]?" Mebius said meaningfully, "This is a space made up of cognition. Even if you are Kevin, you can't guarantee that your perception has not been deceived, right?"

"The data of the paradise in the past is not something that can be hacked so easily. You and Wei Wei should know this better than me." Kevin shook his head. "My memory was changed not because the data of the paradise was hacked by outsiders, but because it was affected by the underlying operating mechanism of the world."

"The underlying operating mechanism of the world?" Mebius frowned.

"The same entity in different timelines cannot appear in the same place at the same time—" Kevin nodded, then turned his gaze in the direction of Li Shubai, "Although the principle is not yet clear, and Captain Li Shubai, who has lost his memory, cannot interpret your confusion for the time being, but as a time traveler who has been jumping between different timelines and different worlds, he should be the one who knows these things best."

So, everyone turned their eyes to Li Shubai's direction.

Mebius licked his lips and tongue, his eyes burning: "Time traveler? Little brother, this uncle's description of you... shouldn't be groundless, right?"

"Uh..." Feeling the burning gaze of Mobius, Li Shubai shuddered for no reason. He pondered for a moment and nodded cautiously, "Maybe?"

Mebius patted the suitcase under him and controlled his means of transportation to float in the direction of Li Shubai: "In this case, I have some questions I want to ask you and hope to get answers. I wonder if this cute little brother is willing to satisfy my curiosity?"

Before Mobius, who was posing with an innocent look, floated to Li Shubai's side, Aponia and Eden stood silently in front of her.

"..." Mebius' expression froze slightly, and his pupils narrowed dangerously. "What are you doing? Do you want to hinder me?"

Eden gently took a sip of the wine in the goblet, and a hint of drunkenness appeared on her fair and graceful cheeks. She shook her head helplessly and said in her usual perfect voice that was almost like a work of art: "I'm sorry, Doctor. As a member of the Hyperion, we cannot let our captain enter your laboratory in this state."

"...Hyperion?" Mebius first murmured the name Eden had just said in confusion, then snorted coldly and said sarcastically: "Can you two big-breasted and brainless women really understand his value?"

Chapter 4: Seventeenth Edition of the Stigmata Project (k)

Time Operation——

These four words are extremely tempting to scientific researchers of any era.

But at the same time, if someone just came and told Mebius that she could control time, Mebius would probably just scoff at it.

After all, even though Möbius's specialty is biology, her physics knowledge has actually surpassed that of most physicists with doctoral degrees. She can clearly realize that from the perspective of the physics that supports the operation of the world, time travel and reversal are impossible things in themselves.

To use a metaphor, it is as if someone has used brutal means to overwhelm the underlying physical mechanisms of this world, using an ice cube at minus 200 degrees to boil a pot of water.

However, the person who told her about this was Kevin.

Even though Kevin himself did not have much academic level and he had not even had the chance to go to college before joining the Fire Moth, based on what Mebius knew about Kevin, this man would never easily make a judgment on something without being absolutely sure.

Whatever the nature of the boy's abilities, at least he had definitely demonstrated the ability to travel through time in front of Kevin.

Did the boy use some clever trick to deceive Kevin's extremely keen perception? Or is it really possible to manipulate time to a certain extent? In Mebius's eyes, no matter which one it is, she can put all her efforts into studying the boy's body, will, five senses, and even physiological mechanisms.

But if you want to do this, there is a prerequisite that must be met——

——That is, the boy must lie on his own laboratory table.

Mebius stared directly at Eden and Aponia who were standing in front of him, and an unnatural anxiety flashed in his cold snake eyes.

Like Alicia, she had always been concerned about what happened in the real world, but she was too embarrassed to ask others for help. Until now, when Alicia called her to Eden and Su's territory, she had only met the four heroes who suddenly appeared once. She didn't know what Aponiya and Eden saw after updating their memories, but logically speaking, with the two heroes' peaceful personalities, they should not deliberately stand in front of them for a visitor.

Even if Alicia was standing in front of him, Mebius would not feel so anxious.

Although it was groundless, for some reason...when he saw Eden and Aponia standing in front of him, blocking him from the boy, he always felt as if something that should have belonged to him was taken away by others.

This annoying feeling drove Mebius to even forget about learning how to talk to Alicia to induce the boy to let down his guard. Instead, he angrily shouted at Aponia and Eden in a look of exasperation: "Listen, Aponia, Eden, you can do whatever you want at other times, even if it's making meaningless noises or locking yourself up in a cage. But if you understand what I say, get out of my way - now!"

"Um..." Li Shubai raised his hand with a complicated expression, "I seem to have said that I have no intention of going on the operating table."

"Shut up." Mobius glared at Li Shubai fiercely. Her voice hadn't changed, but she looked strangely majestic when she spoke without using a coquettish tone. "You don't understand your true value at all. If what Kevin said is true, then your best choice is to come to my laboratory immediately and accept my examination. You clearly have the qualifications to reach the truth, but you still let your personal will be bound by those meaningless frameworks?"

"Well, I think I'm pretty good the way I am now." Li Shubai said with some embarrassment, "Besides, at least I haven't had such a lofty goal yet."

"So what exactly is it that you desire?" asked Mebius.

"Well...if you are asking me now..." Li Shubai pondered for a moment, "Live a good life, enrich your knowledge and strength as much as possible, defeat all enemies who come to attack, and make yourself and the important people live a happy life?"

"Then shouldn't you come to my lab?" Mobius said, "As long as I understand your abilities, I can transform your body into the most suitable way to use your abilities. I am a doctor from the pre-civilization era. Looking back over the past 50,000 years, there are probably only five people who can be compared with me in terms of knowledge. Even... if your abilities are really the same as I imagined, then you are even qualified to incarnate the truth. It will be easy for you and the people who are important to you to live a good life."

"No matter how you look at it, I can't find any reason for you to reject me." Mebius raised his lips slightly, his cold snake eyes revealing an undisguised sarcasm. "Or is it that, as Alicia's lover and Eden and Aponia's direct superior, you are unexpectedly the type who fears pain?"

"What are you thinking?" Li Shubai rolled his eyes. "There are two reasons why I don't want to go to your lab table."

"Tell me about it?" asked Mebius.

"First, I don't want to give up my identity as a human being." Li Shubai shrugged, "Then the second, and more important point is--"

"——Do you think I've never been on Mobius's experimental table?" Li Shubai raised his head helplessly and looked directly at Mobius's surprised face. "Why do you feel that... after knowing Alicia, Kevin, Eden... and many other heroes in the real world, I don't know you?"

Just as Li Shubai said, the reason why he was unwilling to go on Mebius's experimental table was not because he was afraid of pain or because he could not accept the transformation of his own body.

Under the influence of the precepts, his consciousness spontaneously entered a defensive posture because of the attack from the invaders. At the same time, due to external stimulation, the ether singularity in his body that was undergoing memory restoration slightly transferred some of the memories that had completed data conversion into his mind.

Maybe it was because he was surrounded by the heroes, but the memories that were recovered were mostly about his interactions with the heroes, including the scene where he took the initiative to seek help from Mobius and lay on her experimental table.

In a sense, Li Shubai is no less crazy than Mebius and Velvet. The transformation he has done on his body and consciousness is actually more exaggerated than most Valkyries can imagine. After all, the world of Honkai is a world that relies on external forces as the main source of strength. The Herrscher core, stigmata, super-mutation factor, mechanical transformation, and even the divine sound... In most cases, the main source of power for humans in this world comes from the outside world, not from training themselves. Li Shubai's ability to rival or even surpass the Herrscher today is inseparable from his experiments and transformations on himself.

Whether before or now when he lost his memory, Li Shubai is a person who treats himself with a strict attitude. When he faces those terrible enemies, in order to protect himself and every crew member of the Hyperion from the enemies, he will naturally develop to the point where he will torture himself to death as long as he can survive.

Therefore, the real reason why he would so decisively refute Mobius' proposal was only one thing -

"No matter how you brag about yourself, you are just a memory of Mobius. Therefore, the experiments you can perform on me... In fact, I have already experienced them at the hands of the real Mobius. In this case, lying on your experimental table is simply a waste of time." Li Shubai asserted to Mobius with an extremely clear rejection attitude.

"Oh?" Mobius narrowed her eyes slightly. In most cases, she didn't really mind the comments from the outside world. Whether it was the evil scientist or the rumors deliberately released by the detractors, Mobius could ignore those comments with a calm attitude. However, when she heard Li Shubai's description of "It's just Mobius's memory", a fire of ignorance rose from her chest unconsciously. "The real Mobius is better than the memory... Is this what you want to say?"

"Yes." Li Shubai nodded calmly. It was unclear whether he was completely unaware that he was dancing in a minefield, or whether he had already noticed this but still actively teased the other party's emotions. "No matter how you think of yourselves, in fact, you are all born from the memory of the original body and transformed into data by an experiment specially used to interfere with consciousness. I will not regard you as something without self-awareness because of this... But you can't deny that the knowledge and experience you can obtain are inherited from the mind of the original body after all."

"Of course I know that." Mobius hugged her chest indifferently. Although everyone has different personal views on themselves, she does not think that she is a fake Mobius. But as a scientific researcher, Mobius certainly knows how to analyze a matter from an objective perspective. "However, since you do not deny that we are all beings with self-awareness, you should also understand... In the paradise of the past, I have enough time to further enrich and learn the knowledge that I did not master before, right?"

"Or does it mean that I in the real world also have a time of 50,000 years, just like me in the paradise of the past?"

"The Holy Scar Project—" Suddenly, Li Shubai proposed a name that caught all the heroes off guard. "You should have heard of this name, right?"

"Of course." Mobius nodded. "So what? Are you trying to tell me that there is something I don't know about this plan that I have revised for fifteen years?"

"The Stigmata Project is not the best plan to defeat the Honkai, but if we do not regard it as a means to fight the Honkai, but instead regard it as an independent plan... sometimes, the effect of this plan may be more powerful than you think." Li Shubai smiled, "For example... through the seventeenth version of the [Stigmata Project] that you personally modified, with the help of someone whose face I have not yet recalled, my body even has a whole Stigmata space that is independent of the real world but has not been invaded by imaginary numbers and quantum."

——Local time, one o'clock in the afternoon.

When Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] and several other Valkyries who visited the World Serpent Headquarters resolved the sudden collapse of unknown cause and walked into the underground hall under the guidance of the Gray Snake, Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy] who had been waiting there for a long time greeted them with joy.

"Hi, here, here!" She waved and held the wrist of a white-haired woman, with a bright and beautiful smile on her face, "You are finally here, I have been waiting for you for a long time~"

"Alisa?" Raiden Mei [Herser of Thunder] raised her eyebrows and turned her gaze to the expressionless white-haired woman, "And... this one is."

"..." For some reason, the moment they arrived at the underground hall, this expressionless white-haired woman kept staring at Kiana [Hersher of the Fire]'s face with an inexplicable look. Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] followed her gaze, but couldn't help but be stunned after seeing that very familiar face.

That mature face was gentle and dignified, and her appearance was 90% similar to her mother, Cecilia Shaniat. If it weren't for the overly cold and distant atmosphere around her, which constantly reminded her of the fact that she was not Cecilia, perhaps Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] would have pounced on her immediately upon seeing her for the first time.

"Misterin Shaniyate." Before Kiana [Herserker of the Fire] could ask, the expressionless white-haired woman took the initiative to extend her hand to her, "Of course, you can also call me [Feather Rabbit]."

Chapter 4: Thoughts Opened (k)

"Oh...oh." Hearing the gentle and soft voice introducing herself in a cold tone, the stunned Kiana [Hersler of Fire] stretched out her hand and clasped the other's white gloves. The golden gloves felt cold and smooth. "Hello...Hello, I'm Kiana, Kiana Kaslana. If you don't mind, you can just call me Kiana!"

Kiana scratched her silver hair awkwardly and looked at Raiden Mei.

"Kiana...?" Mistellin's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion and puzzlement. After Kiana said her name, she instinctively turned her gaze in the direction of the two Yulandel, and then whispered in a voice so soft that others could hardly hear, "But Kiana shouldn't be... No, why were there two before that?"

Of course, in the empty and silent environment of the World Serpent Underground Base, even the slightest whisper would echo clearly.

Therefore, Kiana, who was already embarrassed because her other self [Hersler of the Fire] had already reported the name [Kiana], became even more at a loss.

Although after everyone talked things out, Kiana had already reached a consensus and reconciliation with the Yulandel of this world on a series of issues brought about by the name [Kiana], just like her other self [Herrser of the Fire], but she was not the [Herrser of the Fire] who had known Yulandel for a long time after all, and even if she didn't care - or was quite happy and excited about the fact that she suddenly had a sister, to be honest, she hadn't even figured out how she should get along with Yulandel yet, let alone completely sort out this tangled relationship.

Perhaps realizing Kiana's uneasiness and helplessness, Yulandel silently patted her shoulder, silently expressing her comfort and encouragement to her sister.

Seeing this scene, a look of relief flashed in Raiden Mei's eyes.

"Well, there are some very complicated reasons..." Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] coughed guiltily, and then changed the subject a little stiffly: "Your last name is Shaniyate, and you look so much like...our mother, could it be...that you are also a blood relative of ours?"

Hearing the question asked by another person, Kiana subconsciously pricked up her ears. As Kiana, she would of course care about the things that [Hersher of the Fire] cared about. The reason why she had remained silent until now was simply because she felt that in the current situation, [Hersher of the Fire] was far more suitable to communicate with him than herself.