The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Ah, but I'm in Changkong City now. Wouldn't it be disrespectful to Eden to say this?

Thinking about all these things, Li Shubai glanced at the remaining 3,000 crystals, skillfully clicked the [+] next to the crystals, and started spending money.

Before crossing into this world, Li Shubai was a financial director of a state-owned enterprise. He was able to deeply understand that any account book involving scientific research projects would not be able to withstand inspection, not to mention a large-scale alliance organization like Anti-Entropy involving high-tech military industry. Therefore, after Lei Dian Longma and his people were framed and imprisoned, Li Shubai also relied on his excellent professional qualities that were unknown to others to find the asset company that Cocolia owned in public, "helped" her conduct a friendly audit, and then threw the final results to the local government.

So Cocolia went to prison with great honor. Maybe, now she is in some cell staring at Raiden Ryoma and the others.

Although... whether it is Cocolia or Thunder Ryuma, Li Shubai doesn't think that Anti-Entropy will ignore them because of such a playful frame-up, but if he can disgust Cocolia, he will still be happy.

He originally thought that there would be some trouble in krypton gold, but contrary to his expectations, the krypton gold process was unexpectedly smooth. In the end, Li Shubai looked at the hundreds of thousands of crystals in the upper right corner with a complicated expression, and suddenly felt a little bit amused.

He was not the type to get carried away. Rather, who would get carried away and spend money before drawing a card? But when he thought about his current situation, Li Shubai, who had just felt a little upset, calmed down again.

I've already spent all the money, so there's only one option left.

"Beat her!" Li Shubai pressed the button for the tenth supply attack viciously.

Chapter 2 Consciousness Mapping

"..."

The large conference table that could seat dozens of people was full of people. No one spoke, and the entire hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Finally, Theresa, who was sitting in the second seat at the round table, patted the edge of the table.

Bang, bang, bang! Theresa clapped her hands on the table to attract everyone's attention. She said, "Now that everyone is here, Aponya, tell me what you found just now."

"Wait, Auntie." Kiana "Hersher of the Fire" raised a hand. "Although it still feels a little hard to believe, we already know most of what you said before. On this ship, there are 'ourselves' in different timelines who were recruited by the captain Hyperion, but before that..."

As she spoke, Kiana, the Herrscher of the Fire, pointed at Aponia and the unfamiliar beautiful women sitting nearby, and asked her question directly: "If the captain arranged for the other 'selves', as well as Mei, the squad leader, Bronya and others from different timelines, whom I have never seen until today, who are those people?"

Fu Hua "Valkyrie Swift Feather" turned her face slightly and looked at the beautiful women headed by Alicia, her brows slightly furrowed, and a slight pain flashed across her forehead.

Fu Hua's intuition told her that she should know those people, but...

"Hey, you don't have any experience with this, do you? They are all the thirteen heroes who were as famous as me fifty thousand years ago. At that time, every one of them was a well-known 'celebrity'." A lively voice sounded, and Fu Hua, the Herrscher of Knowledge, shook his hands and suddenly added, "Ah, but that guy Phyllis is an exception."

"That's too much! What do you mean by excluding that guy Felice?" Padofelice protested in dissatisfaction and murmured in a low voice: "But... I am indeed not good at fighting, so maybe what I said is not wrong?"

Watching the interaction between Xiao Shi and Padu Felice, Fu Hua "Yun Mo Dan Xin" narrowed her eyes expressionlessly, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Kiana..." Raiden Mei "Herser of Lightning" looked at Herrser of Fire and Fire who raised the first question in a daze, and the corners of her mouth involuntarily rose slightly.

Mei Raiden "Dawn Strike" pursed her lips. She looked at Kiana "Valkyrie White Silk" who was obviously still at a loss, and "Hersher of the Fire" who had almost figured out the current situation and started thinking for herself. She didn't know whether she should be thankful for the girl's growth like her other self, or lament that she still failed to protect Kiana.

Although the Herrscher of Fire and Fire raised his first question, it was obvious that not everyone cared so much about the Thirteen Heroes.

Bronya "Yamabuki: Comet Drive" stared blankly at Bronya "Secondary Silver Wings" who was drawing something on a drawing board, put her hands in front of her, squeezed her extremely mediocre little chest, and suddenly let out a soft "Yeah!"

On the other side, Yulandel "Tianyuan Knight" stared at the Herrscher of Fire and Bai Lian with a slightly complicated look, and then glanced at her other self "Shining Knight·Yueping" who was sitting upright. She seemed to want to say something, but was a little hesitant, not knowing whether she should speak at this time.

...In short, after Theresa's bombshell at the beginning, almost everyone present fell into a brief chaos.

Of course, although everyone's minds were slightly confused by the shocking facts, it was obvious that no one had forgotten the main purpose of this discussion in this conference hall.

"So, Aponia." The Herrscher of Thunder, who had already traveled through the Paradise of the Past, asked the question that everyone wanted to ask, "You said you received a message from the captain. You shouldn't be lying about this, right?"

"Oh, Mei." It was strange that even though she was smiling, the Herrscher of Thunder could still read a hint of anger from Alicia's expression. Alicia held Aponia's arm, as if she was a little upset, and stood up for Aponia: "I know that some unpleasant things happened in the paradise that made you wary of Aponia, but you should also know that Aponia would not joke about such things."

Alicia's words were filled with a hint of blame, causing the Herrscher of Thunder, who had noticed something else, to look at her with a slightly condensed gaze. "You said... in the Paradise, you are not Ying Jie himself, but the memory of the Paradise of the Past?"

Could that captain actually do such a thing?

The Herrscher of Thunder lowered his eyes, thinking secretly.

It is a well-known fact that the Hyperion has a captain. Including the Herrscher of Thunder, all members of the Hyperion present will undergo an interview with the captain when they arrive at the ship.

Regardless of status or origin, as long as someone has the opportunity to arrive at the Hyperion, the mysterious captain will personally come forward to receive them, and most people will choose to stay here after that.

This is not a strange thing, nor is it a secret, because everyone knows that they chose to stay here voluntarily. Only a very few people chose to leave after meeting the captain, such as Yulandel who has the blood of elves flowing in a certain world, and Miss Rita Rossweisse "Lost Rosemary" who most people have never met.

Despite this, the Herrscher of Thunder had not expected that the guy could actually bring memories that should not be able to leave from a virtual space composed of subjective consciousness to the real world.

Wait, if that's the case, then the World Serpent is...

"...I joined the Hyperion an hour ago." At this moment, Aponia's words attracted the attention of everyone present. "At that time, I found that I could not see his fate, nor could I understand his destiny."

Aponia's voice was very soft and her tone was very slow, as if she was comforting a crying child. Her soft lips opened and closed in a gentle arc: "He is an abandoned child wandering in the sea, a lonely soul that is not tolerated by the world. Therefore, the world cannot connect the puppet string called fate to him. After understanding this, I held his outstretched hand and sincerely prayed that he could find a home."

"I know that." A trace of nostalgia flashed in the eyes of the Herrscher of Firefire. She said softly, "He knew the pain and confusion of wandering very well. In order to accept people like him, he built this Hyperion, so that people who have lost their homes like him can have a place to return to that is close to 'home'."

"But this doesn't make sense." Bai Lian, who was sitting next to the Herrscher of Fire, seemed to have finally reacted and suddenly made a puzzled sound, "The captain disappeared several months ago. If Aponia had seen him not long ago, then why didn't he return to Hyperion?"

"In other words, we have already returned to Hyperion and recruited such a beautiful woman into the ship, so why doesn't that philandering guy show up in front of us?" Guanxing narrowed his eyes and covered half of his face with the feather fan in his hand, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

Although he harshly called the captain "that playboy", Guanxing was actually not dissatisfied with the captain's habit of recruiting one or two beautiful women from time to time. He just felt it was a little strange.

"No, I can see that the man who recruited me into Hyperion is not his real self." Aponia shook his head and whispered, "Although I can't see his fate, I can still see something like a puppet line in him. And the end point of the puppet line... is where the mysterious captain's real body is."

Although the captain of the Hyperion existed and everyone present had indeed seen his face, after recruiting them into the Hyperion, most people rarely saw the captain a second time, except for a few people like Guanxing and the Lost Rosemary who had stayed here for a short time.

The captain would appear on the bridge of Hyperion for about two hours every day. For a captain, such a short working time was obviously far from enough. However, he could easily subvert common sense and complete the work arrangements that should have taken a whole day in just two hours. Over time, everyone naturally got used to the captain's appalling work efficiency.

Because of this, when the captain disappeared without reason, an indescribable feeling of emptiness and depression naturally descended on everyone's heart.

"Then go find him." Xiao Shi said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Let's not talk about this Immortal and the Thirteen Heroes for now. If they are all Kiana, then there are three Herrs of the Void who can use the power of the Void. The current route of the Hyperion is the gap between the worlds, that is, the quantum sea. It's just a parallel world. Finding it and then teleporting the Hyperion there shouldn't be a problem at all, right?"

"Yes." Alicia nodded, agreeing with Xiaozhi's confident words. She turned her head slightly and said, "Aponia, can you locate the parallel world where the captain is?"

"Unfortunately, that is something that only Su within the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle can do." Aponia's voice was as gentle as ever.

She raised her eyes, which were covered by a few strands of hair and narrowed slightly. Her hazy and illusory eyes seemed to be looking into the distance: "However, if it is just consciousness... I wonder if you have heard of the so-called 'consciousness mapping'?"

Chapter 3: The Third Outbreak of Honkai

Thump—thump—

In the endless darkness, nothing could be sensed except the faint sound of heartbeats.

The whole person's consciousness is like a helpless feather in a storm, floating aimlessly in the darkness.

But this aimless wandering will eventually stop. When the storm subsides, the consciousness that has touched warmth and life will finally find a home, and finally, settle in someone's soul.

With that disgusting feeling, Kiana slowly opened her still hazy eyes.

Although I realized that I was awake, my sense of wakefulness was surprisingly poor. I felt like I was still in a dream and my brain couldn't function properly.

At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew in from the gap in the window, causing the girl, who was still a little conscious, to shiver. Her teeth also trembled because of the cold: "Hiss... It's so cold..."

Because of the cold wind blowing in from outside, the chaotic feeling in her consciousness was finally dispelled a little. When Kiana came to her senses completely, she noticed that she was sleeping in a mess on the bed and the quilt had been kicked to the ground a long time ago, as if she had had a disturbing nightmare.

Although the memories in the dream gradually became blurred as her consciousness became clearer, when Kiana began to try to recall the dream, she suddenly shuddered.

"...No! That's not right!" She suddenly turned over from the bed, and almost using both her hands and feet, pounced on the desk about three meters away from the bed, and grabbed the calendar with an imposing manner.

The calendar clearly marked the current date in front of Kiana.

2014 1 Month 2 Day.

It was an ordinary, unremarkable date, but it made Kiana suddenly fully awake.

Bang! She slapped her face, turned her head blankly and looked out the window.

Under the clear sky, the prosperous Changkong City is lined with tall buildings, the streets are busy with traffic, and there is a thriving scene everywhere.

This is Changkong City in 2014. At this time, most of the chosen girls still don’t know the fate they will face.

"Calm down, calm down..." Kiana closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths. "It is January 2014, 1. I am Kiana Kaslana, and I am also the Herrscher of the Fire."

"Herrser of the Fire...Herrser of the Fire..." As if to confirm her identity, Kiana repeated these five words several times, repeating them for about half a minute. Then, she opened her eyes again, breathed a sigh of relief, and spoke in the calmest tone possible: "Consciousness mapping... was very successful."

After saying that she was very successful, Kiana's body suddenly went limp and her face turned extremely pale. Beads of sweat the size of beans kept oozing out from her forehead, ignoring the cold wind blowing in from the window.

Is this consciousness mapping? Kiana raised the back of her hand to wipe away the cold sweat on her forehead, and couldn't help feeling a lingering fear.

This was her first time to experience the technology of consciousness mapping. Although Aponia had given her a very serious warning when entering the experimental cabin, when she actually experienced this new and dangerous thing, she found that many things could not be fully controlled by determination and perseverance.

The situation just now was really dangerous.

If you wake up half a breath slower, the memory and consciousness that have just stabilized will not be activated correctly and will slip through your fingers as easily as sand.

If it becomes like that, it's over.

The object of consciousness mapping will regard all of this as his or her own dream and will naturally forget it.

"Such a dangerous technology, no wonder the captain completely forbids us to use it." Kiana muttered to herself.

After her consciousness was completely stabilized, Kiana adjusted her physical condition slightly, then controlled her still somewhat weak legs and stood up.

She walked back to the bed, put on her loose pajamas before her body became completely cold, tightened her collar, and turned to the bathroom.

After a simple wash, she raised her head and looked at herself in the mirror, but she couldn't help but be dazed. She stood there and began to feel conflicted.

"Forget it." After struggling for a while, Kiana felt that it was not like her to hesitate on such a matter, so she neatly braided her long and smooth silver hair into two silly pigtails and nodded with satisfaction. "I haven't braided my hair in a long time, so I'll leave it like this for now."

Kiana opened the door of her room, stuck her head out, looked around at the surroundings, and without saying a word, ran towards the direction of the nearest police station in her memory.

Consciousness mapping is indeed a magical technology. Kiana is very clear that she is not the original Kiana Kaslana who is still studying at Qianyu Academy, but she does not feel that she has taken over someone else's body. To use a metaphor, it is as if Kiana Kaslana has experienced everything that would have happened in the future overnight.

The consciousness of the object selected by the consciousness mapping does not disappear. If a person's consciousness is compared to a painting, the so-called consciousness mapping is to project a new picture onto the painting using a projection device.

Therefore, Kiana also knew that when the consciousness mapping was terminated, this "Kiana Kaslana" who was not her would naturally return to her original state.

She trotted towards Qianyu College, thinking as she went.

The time for consciousness mapping was limited by Aponia to seventy-two hours. If it exceeded seventy-two hours, there would be a risk of losing oneself.

The top priority of this operation is to find the captain and ensure his personal safety.

Unfortunately, although the consciousness mapping has been successful, the performance of the body itself will not change due to the projected consciousness.

At this point in time, Kiana is still unable to fully control the power of the "core" in her body while maintaining her self-awareness. Kiana also doesn't have the leisure to argue with that guy at this time, so the plan of using the power of the Herrscher of the Void to leave a beacon in this world is temporarily rejected.

Well, there was no other way except to find the captain as quickly as possible.

Kiana's primary method of solving problems has always been to use her great strength to knock bricks flying. This has not changed much in her past or future. However, it is still too far-fetched to want to completely visit this town with a population of millions within three days.

Then, use the dumbest but most effective method.

——Go to the police station and report the case to the police. This kind of matter should of course be handled by professionals.

With this thought in mind, the white-haired boy walked into the police station gate with great enthusiasm, but as expected, he walked out dejectedly amid a round of scolding and shouting "Stand at attention".

"Thinking about it carefully, even though I've been on Hyperion for so long, I don't even know the captain's name..." Kiana sat on a bench in the park, stretched out her long legs, and looked at the cloudless sky with empty eyes. She seemed to have lost all desire to live.

"Please help me find a handsome man." Faced with such an unreasonable citizen, the police were already quite easy to talk to by not detaining her on the charge of obstructing public service.

Could it be that this was the reason why the captain left without a word? Kiana thought, he had put in so much effort to give them a safe place to live, and he had worked so hard to finally create the Hyperion, a ship that was like a dream. But now, she didn't even know his name.

A mountain of heavy frustration weighed on Kiana's heart. God knows how happy she was when she saw that teacher Ji Zi was safe and sound. But when Kiana recalled the scene at that time, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have forgotten the person who should not have been forgotten at that time.

Could it be that her captain left the Hyperion because of the people he saved...

Just when Kiana was feeling depressed, a feeling of palpitations suddenly came over her.

"That's..." She suddenly turned her head and looked in the direction of Qianyu College, her mouth slightly open, her blue pupils full of disbelief, "Mei?!"

Under the cloudless sky, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and the loud explosion tore through the peaceful Changkong City during the holiday.

On the other side, Li Shubai, who walked out of the convenience store, raised his head and looked far away in the direction where the thunder came from.

"That direction is..." He frowned, with an ominous premonition in his heart, "Qianyu Academy?"

The footsteps behind him came closer and closer, and a bloody arm stretched out from his shoulder.

2014年1月2日，上午10：35分。

Changkong City, lost contact.

Chapter 4: Collapse, starting with Kiana coming to the door

Perhaps because they had only been dead for too short a time, the two men who were the store manager and waiter a minute ago did not cause any further harm or attack to Li Shubai except giving him a big fright.

He ran back to his home desperately and slammed the door shut.

The feeling of blood was still on his shoulder. As soon as he walked into the house, Li Shubai couldn't help but cover his neck and breathe heavily.

"Well……"