The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

As a person who is born with knowledge, even though she does not have much experience in truly communicating with others due to her own characteristics, Mistrine does not lack relevant knowledge.

"This is just my unilateral confusion caused by the contradiction between the facts and the knowledge I know. I am sorry if it makes you feel uneasy, and you don't need to explain the identity issues to me." She saw that her whisper caused confusion and uneasiness to the two Kiana and the two Yulandel, so she shook her head gently, and the tone of her voice was no longer as cold as at the beginning, but became a little softer:

"In addition, if we talk about kinship, there is indeed a blood relationship between you and me. However, while the real owner still exists on you in the form of the stigmata, you'd better not regard me as the mother you admire. Although I don't care about this, it is very rude to her."

"It still exists on my body in the form of a stigma?" Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] blinked her eyes, confusion written all over her azure pupils, "What...what do you mean?"

"Don't you know it yourself?" Misterine said lightly, "Then...what if I do this?"

She loosened her grip on Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] and placed her fingers lightly on her chin. Suddenly, a faint fluorescence similar to a data stream flashed in her eyes.

Because they did not sense any hostility or fighting spirit from the other side, Kiana [Hersher of the Fire] and the others were quietly on guard in their hearts, but did not immediately assume a fighting stance.

The next second——

A flawless and dazzling light suddenly flashed between Kiana [Herserker of the Fire] and Misterine. Among them, a female figure who looked 90% similar to Misterine gradually appeared like a ghost, with long white hair cascading down like a waterfall, and a beautiful and mature face as gentle as spring water.

The moment they saw that figure, everyone present was stunned, except for Mistellin herself who had already expected this.

Even the woman who appeared in the light curtain had a confused expression the moment she suddenly appeared.

She glanced around, her arms restlessly folded in front of her, and her voice was indescribably flustered: "What's going on? Why did I suddenly come out of Kiana's body?"

at the same time--

The paradise of the past, the forest at dusk and sunset.

For Li Shubai, it was a rather wonderful experience that his vague memories suddenly became clear.

So far, Li Shubai has lost his memory twice.

The first time was after he woke up from the Eigenworld. He had nothing except a cell phone and those fictitious interpersonal relationships, and he thought he had just traveled to this world.

That time, the reason why he lost his memory was because of time.

Because he was forced to face the [Cocoon] without knowing anything about the End, and faced the invasion of the [Collapse] that was not conscious but was even worse than the [consciousness] fabricated by Prometheus, in order to completely free that world from the Collapse, and to allow himself who had reached the limit to have the possibility of transcending himself and transcending fate, he anchored the [Time Reset] power of the [End] to himself, and temporarily divided his personality into two.

The [Superego] who calls himself the Captain, and the [Id] and [Ego] who have lost all time.

However, the fact is that whether it is the [superego] that calls himself the captain or the [id] and [ego], they are all different personality components of the same person from the beginning. Therefore, no matter which side it is, they have actually lost all the past time under the power of the end.

Li Shubai has always mistakenly believed that everything he encountered at the bottom of the South China Sea was just a trap set by his past self in order to surpass his limits. The evidence was the testimony of stargazing and the fact that he acquired some kind of ability to transcend fate afterwards. He also always believed that his inability to recover his memory was a problem at the level of consciousness that even Yu Duchen could not solve.

But the fact is, everything he saw, recognized and inferred from it were just superficial phenomena produced in the process of real events. The reason for such misunderstanding was simply that after time was erased, no relevant evidence could be obtained, and Li Shubai was unable to infer the correct answer.

Of course, since he knew in advance that the time would be reset, Li Shubai had prepared himself mentally for not being able to leave any evidence, as well as the corresponding coping strategies, before the time was reset.

——That is [Λ] created by Li Shubai, an artificial intelligence life form born in the time crystal.

Since it is difficult to retain anything at either the material or consciousness level under the influence of time, the only thing left is for [Λ], which can move freely within the time crystal, to find a way to regain the lost time.

Although [Λ] did not disappoint Li Shubai's expectations, with the help of Prometheus who hacked into the other side of the imaginary number, she did succeed in recovering the time that Li Shubai had reset by the power of the end.

However, as the saying goes, love for clothes can make you successful or fail. Because her way of thinking is completely different from that of humans, she forgot that there are things that artificial intelligence can do... which humans may not be able to do.

So, for the second time, Li Shubai lost his memory again.

But it is completely different from the last time. If the last time he lost his memory was because he encountered a problem that he could not solve and was forced to lose those memories under the influence of external factors, this time Li Shubai lost his memory purely because of Ai Yi's mistake that triggered the protection mechanism of his body and brain.

The nature of the problem has also changed from [time], where there was originally no way to find relevant signs and evidence, to a real problem at the level of consciousness.

"Stigmata space, do you know what you are talking about?" Just as Li Shubai was silently digesting the memories that were suddenly restored under the influence of the commandments, Mebius' voice, which sounded quite contemptuous, rang out, "Both the stigmata and the stigmata space are substandard failures. Dr. MEI once tried to use the power of the stigmata to directly connect human will with the imaginary space, but this plan couldn't even pass the demonstration experiment. The so-called stigmata space, in the end, just became a dispensable residue in the imaginary space - it can't even appear normally in the real world. Now you tell me, there is a stigmata space in your body that is independent of the real world?"

"It sounds ridiculous, right? I used to think so myself." Li Shubai shrugged after coming back to his senses. "However, I am honored. Although I cannot tell you the details, I do have a large amount of stigmata in the form of data. With the help of a noble who can freely transcribe data and consciousness, I transferred the data from its data carrier and summarized it in an entire independently developed imaginary space."

"You can't even confirm the two most important pieces of information. You still want me to believe what you say... Do you think I'm a fool like Alicia?" Mobius narrowed his eyes in dissatisfaction. "Besides, even if what you said is true, what does this have to do with [Mobius] in the real world?"

"Of course, if I hadn't been transformed by you, my body wouldn't be able to easily hold the weight of the entire world like it is now." Li Shubai crossed his arms, "If you don't believe me, why not bring me to your domain for a trial between the pioneer and the successor? Although I don't want to go to your test bench, if it's just a trial, I'm still happy to accompany you."

"I'm not a battle fanatic like Qianjie. I'm just an experimenter. How can I test anything out of your trial?" Mobius bent over and lay lazily on the suitcase, saying frivolously, "Even if you really passed my trial, it doesn't prove that your body has been developed to the limit by [Mobius] in the real world. Besides, I'm not interested in simple brutal things like strength. What I care about is the extent of your so-called time manipulation."

"I think I'm not the only one who is curious about this question." As he spoke, Mebius suddenly turned his gaze towards Kevin. "Isn't that right, Kevin?"

Kevin ignored Mobius. Or rather, he, who claimed that he was not very smart, was not prepared to intervene in the verbal confrontation between Li Shubai and Mobius. He just glanced at Mobius, and then turned his gaze to the boy who had changed himself: "I don't know the technical details of the Stigmata Project, but I also understand what it takes to complete the Stigmata Project. If it is true that there is a Stigmata space in your body that is independent of the real world, then doesn't it mean..."

"No, no, no, you seem to have misunderstood something." Li Shubai shook his head. "The 17th version of the Stigmata Project is completely different from the Stigmata Project you know. Although the principles and framework borrowed from your legacy, the fundamental purpose of the 17th version of the Stigmata Project has nothing to do with saving the world or defeating Honkai from the very beginning."

"I simply borrowed the framework of the Stigmata Project and allowed the real-world Mebius to perfect a method that would allow pure consciousness to...wait."

Halfway through his speech, Li Shubai's voice suddenly stopped.

Although the Stigmata space he holds is something he constructed, but if the descriptions of the [Seventeenth Edition of the Stigmata Plan] in his recovered memories are correct, then those Stigmata wills... should have come from the earliest [Hyperion], right?

Just like the weapons, tools, keys of god, and even the list of Valkyries that he transferred out, those stigmata all came from Hyperion that he abandoned into his mental space. But if that is the case, then wouldn’t the will of those stigmata be similar to the memories of these heroes?

Thinking the other way around... since the Paradise of the Past is a space made up of cognition, can he let those stigmata wills come out to breathe? Or in other words, invite these memories to stroll around his stigmata space?

Chapter 4: Alicia Kept in the Dark (k)

"Why did you suddenly stop talking?" Seeing that Li Shubai fell into deep thought halfway through his words, Mebius had to interrupt his thoughts without authorization, "Don't you know that it is very rude to stop talking halfway?"

"It seems to be very rude to suddenly interrupt someone's thinking." Li Shubai raised his eyes, glanced at Mobius lightly, then spread his hands helplessly and sighed softly, "Well, to be frank, I'm not sure where to start the explanation. Can you give me some time? You probably don't want to hear the answer I said casually when my thoughts were confused."

Li Shubai is a person who is good at thinking, but even for him, too many things have happened in the past few hours.

First, he was raped by Kiana [Herrscher of the Fire] and her friends who claimed to be his subordinates while he was drunk. After he ran to the World Serpent, he was caught in the act by Alicia's memory. According to Kevin, the Valkyrie who had just raped him was blocking the door outside the paradise. His memory was slightly restored by Aponia's sudden discipline...

Faced with such a complicated situation, even with Li Shubai's thinking ability, he felt that his brain was not enough.

Especially...the memories he recovered were far from perfect.

Although he had clearly recalled the time he spent with the heroes, and the various [atrocities] that Mobius had committed on his body, Li Shubai still could not fully grasp all the details regarding the [Seventeenth Edition of the Stigmata Plan] that he had just mentioned.

The reason why he used the vague description of "a noble person who can freely transcribe data and consciousness" when explaining his situation to Mebius was not because he learned the Riddler from Kevin, but simply because... the man's face was still vague in his memory.

Yes, because the recovered memories are limited to Yingjie, all people and things that are not closely related to Yingjie are still immersed in a fog.

This led to a very strange phenomenon. I don't know if it was because that person was not Ying Jie. He clearly knew that his body had been transformed by Mobius, and he also knew that Mobius had specially developed a new [Seventeenth Edition of the Stigmata Plan] for him, but the most important executor... Li Shubai couldn't remember it at all.

Seeing Li Shubai's somewhat irritated expression, Mobius's expression relaxed slightly. As a scientific researcher, she was not unfamiliar with Li Shubai's expression at this moment. Even with her intelligent brain, the process of scientific research was not always smooth sailing, so she did not ask further questions, but changed her tone: "How much time do you need?"

"I'm not sure." Li Shubai answered decisively.

"Huh?" Mebius frowned deeply. "You don't really think I'm easy to fool, do you?"

"I'm not trying to fool you. This isn't a problem that can be solved by just piling up time." Li Shubai said, "If you insist on giving me a time... half a year? What do you think?"

"Tsk." Mobius smacked her lips. As a memory of the paradise of the past, time was probably the thing she had the most. So theoretically speaking, a mere half a year of waiting was not completely unbearable.

However, when what she wanted was within her reach, Mebius's patience had obviously been worn out to an extremely low level. She narrowed her eyes and pondered for a moment: "What kind of problem did you encounter? It takes a full six months to solve it?"

Li Shubai said: "How much did Alicia tell you about me - I mean the one in the real world."

"Not at all." Mobius snorted, "Rather, except for Sakura, Aponia, and Eden, the real Alicia has been actively avoiding all memories, including her own."

"Yes, yes!" Alicia quickly raised her hand to confirm what Mebius said. She pouted her lips slightly and said in a tone full of resentment, "It's too much, isn't it? We are both Alicia, but why does she keep hiding from me? Cry, this really makes me sad!"

Mobius turned his face and glanced at Alicia, who was looking aggrieved, with great disdain, and said sarcastically: "If I were you, I wouldn't be confused about this question."

"Why?!"

"Huh, don't you understand after listening to Kevin?" Mebius said, "As the memory of Alicia, if she updates the data in Paradise, then you will naturally become [Alica] at that time."

"I don't care about that."

"Is there a possibility that your true self cares?" Mobius sneered, "However, I really didn't expect that as a hopeless good person, your view on love is much more selfish than that of Aponia and Eden."

"You mean..." Alicia also reacted, "She's afraid that I'll take her captain away?"

"Do you dare to say that you can't do such a thing after your memory is updated?" Mobius said faintly, "What's more, since their captain is a time traveler who travels through different times and parallel worlds, we can certainly make a reasonable guess... Even if it is a memory like ours in the paradise of the past, they have probably seen it more than once."

"Is that so?" Alicia was surprised.

"And, if I'm not mistaken, the real Alicia has probably suffered a battle for her memory, right?" Mobius smiled, "Am I right, little white mouse?"

"…Why are you asking me when you have already come to a conclusion?" Li Shubai was helpless.

"...Is that so? Even the real Alicia is afraid of my charm." Alicia lowered her head, and after thinking for a moment, her face suddenly flushed. She put her hands on her hips and put on a proud expression as if she had won a victory. "If you think about it this way, it doesn't seem so unacceptable. After all, who can refuse the kindness of a beautiful girl?"

Halfway through her boasting, Alicia was stunned again: "Wait, if that's the case, why don't Aponya and Eden have such concerns at all?"

"I don't know about that." Mobius shrugged. "Since they have already updated the data in Paradise, and their memories are also here...why don't you ask them directly?"

Alicia followed her instructions and turned her curious gaze towards Aponia and Eden.

Eden chuckled, "Of course, it's to avoid repeating Alicia's mistakes."

"Ah?" Alicia was stunned, with a puzzled look on her face. "Eden, what do you mean?"

"It means exactly what it says." Eden winked playfully.

"But if your original body doesn't want your memory to take away the captain, shouldn't you..." Alicia considered the words for a moment, "be like the real me?"

Aponia slowly walked behind Li Shubai and placed her two white and soft hands on his shoulders. Her expression was as holy as an angel descending from the earth, but the corners of her mouth slightly raised a very human arc: "You seem to have some misunderstandings and confusions, Alicia, what Eden said about [repeating the same mistakes]... is not referring to [the memory and the main body fighting for the captain]."

Alicia and Mebius were both stunned.

"What are you referring to?" asked Alicia.

"Of course, it's referring to the incident [because the memory was not updated in time, which led to another Alicia joining the Hyperion]." Eden said with a smile, "Although the real Alicia has always believed that as long as she keeps her memory as far away from the captain as possible, there will not be another Alicia rival like her, but she ignored that the reason why another Alicia appeared and suddenly joined the Hyperion was precisely because she refused to update the data before. Maybe this is what they call those who are involved are confused, while those who are not involved can see more clearly."

As Eden said, if Alicia had updated the data of the memory of that world in the process of resolving the Herrscher of Corrosion incident, then the [True Self - Herrscher of Man] of that world would not have appeared and joined Hyperion without warning because the memory of that world and Li Shubai recognized each other's identities as [crew member] and [captain].

"..." Alicia opened her mouth, her thoughts were a little stuck, "Then...you two..."

"I don't really care about memories." Eden smiled slightly. She turned her head and pointed her beautiful eyes at Li Shubai. "If the captain has such an idea, even if we let the two Edens go together... it's not impossible."

“…” Li Shubai felt that he was being teased, but he had no evidence.

"As for Aponia and Sakura..." Eden glanced at Sakura and Aponia one by one, "Let's not talk about Sakura's special situation for now. As for Aponia... her way of existence is subtly different from other memories. As for the details, it's better for her to explain it to you herself."

“…My data was not updated.” Aponya’s words were concise, “but was [assimilated] by the real Aponya.”

"[Assimilation]? Is this the first time I've heard of this description?" Mobius said, "I've always felt it was strange. I'm the owner of the paradise of the past, but my control over it is far less profound than yours."

"Before this, I thought you were just like Su, because you have a more special spiritual perception system, so you can reach your hands deeper into this space composed of cognition." She looked at Aponya's body with interest, but her vertical snake pupils were extremely cold. "--But now it seems that your abnormal control over the paradise should not be simply due to your spiritual perception ability, right?"

Aponya nodded, a trace of relief flashed in her hazy eyes: "It was Weiwei who helped me in the end."

"Wha-what!?" When she heard someone suddenly calling her name, Specialist Wei Wei opened her sleepy eyes. In fact, after she confirmed that the fight with Kevin was unlikely to start, she had been dozing off. "Why are you calling me all of a sudden?"

"..." Mebius silently glanced at Wei Wei who had just woken up, then quickly looked away, "Is it the backdoor she left behind? Did you use that backdoor to complete your original plan after the facilities in Paradise were built and started to operate?"

"Yeah." Aponya nodded slightly.

"I see... This is why there is a fundamental difference between you and us." Mobius said slowly, "If this paradise was originally [you], then the moment the real Aponia appeared, she could of course take over what originally belonged to her. Judging from the final result, you and the Aponia in the outside world should have become similar to the Thousand Herrschers - no, it should be said that the degree of your connection is even closer than the Thousand Herrschers' way of getting along, right? No wonder you don't care at all. After all, it is impossible for someone to have a desire to win in a certain part of their body."

"I see, a relationship of one mind and one body?" Alicia nodded seriously, and then she suddenly realized something, "Wait, that means that whether it is Aponia, Eden or Sakura, they have concealed these things from me in the real world?"

In response to her, Eden and Aponia smiled silently.

"...Is this what a beautiful girl looks like when she falls in love with a boy?" It was clearly a beautiful and gentle smile, but when she looked at the two very familiar faces of Eden and Aponia, Alicia felt a chill inexplicably on her back, "It's really... a bit scary."

But soon, Alicia put this hairy emotion behind her.

The Alicia that Aponia and Eden plotted against was not herself.

She is just a memory, so she should not get too hung up on these emotional matters.

Although Alicia doesn't care about falling in love with someone else, or in other words, even if she has never accepted the memory of Alicia [Miss Pink Fairy], she still loves Li Shubai as a human.

But if she had to endure the calculations of her best friend because of her emotional issues, then she would really decline the offer.

The water here is too deep, and she thinks she can't control it.

Seeing Alicia's relaxed expression, Kevin's mouth curled up with a hint of joy.

Chapter 4: Ai Yi Failed Again (k)

——In a certain world bubble, Sky City is shrouded in a curtain of light.

In the dead of night, Prometheus stood in the central control room of the Hyperion, recording the movements of all the Valkyries with an expressionless face.

Nowadays, most of the Valkyries are divided into two teams. One team is traveling with Li Shubai. While ensuring the captain's life, they also hope to change the captain's character as much as possible; the other team is stranded in the original world line, discussing the best solution to the collapse with Theresa, Walter Yang and others who originally belonged to that world.

But no one knew that, except for the Valkyries who divided themselves into two teams, Prometheus and Brownie who followed Ai Yi did not choose any path.