The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

But no matter what kind of preparations are made before facing things and difficulties, the so-called deduction can only be carried out based on the existing data and intelligence.

Therefore, when there was a huge gap between intelligence and facts, and when he had never faced a similar situation before, Li Shubai had quite a few failures.

It's just that in most cases, his sufficient preparations would give him a fairly ample escape route.

Apart from the unexpected situation where he repeatedly provoked his own Valkyrie and was finally overthrown by everyone's joint efforts, Li Shubai has only "fallen" twice in the true sense so far.

The first time was in the original world, facing the situation of the "Cocoon of the End".

For a long time before he fully recovered his memory, Li Shubai had a very strange favoritism towards Kevin.

Although Li Shubai suppressed this mentality very well and did not express it through actual actions, he did analyze Kevin's psychological condition more than once under the noses of Kiana, Bronya, and other Valkyries in various worlds, and he did more than once promote the theory that "Kevin is not an enemy" in front of others.

Originally, before his memory was restored, Li Shubai thought that this feeling was similar to Ji Zi's. He had seen too many "unsatisfactory" things in the "plots" he had seen before crossing over, so he wanted to reverse these tragedies. But after actually restoring his memory, Li Shubai found that his attitude towards Kevin and his attitude towards Ji Zi's situation were completely different in nature.

First of all, apart from the special case of Otto who was happy to die, no matter how many tragedies he had seen before traveling through time, in fact, he had successfully reversed most of those tragedies.

Secondly, even if there are regrets that he cannot make up for, the cause of them is definitely not him.

He might feel regret for those who could not be saved by him; if he encountered the third collapse in the Eigenworld after losing his memory - a tragedy caused by "there was a chance to reverse it, but he gave up his subjective initiative", he would also feel almost guilty towards those strangers who should have been saved but still died in front of him. But in the final analysis, the reason why he has such emotions is only because he has relatively strict requirements for himself, and thus the emotions generated in his subjective will.

From a rational point of view, Li Shubai never thought that he should bear the responsibility for these disasters and tragedies that were not caused by him.

Although Li Shubai's demands on himself are much higher than those of ordinary people, on a rational level, he is much more objective than a "heroic figure" like Kiana who is accustomed to taking everything on herself.

However, the situation is completely different from the above one - Kevin, or in other words, the timeline of the "first world" in the true sense that he encountered after traveling through time, Kevin in that timeline, is the only tragedy caused "by Li Shubai's hands".

In the original timeline, Li Shubai had done the best he could. He resolved most of the tragedies, and even preserved intact the Paradise of the Past that would have been forcibly destroyed by Alicia's memory in the Herrscher of Corrosion incident. However, Kevin was the only one who not only failed to be saved by him, but also lost his life in his hands.

Of course, if you insist, the reason why he killed Kevin in that timeline was still because Kevin himself was too crazy and a riddle.

Even though the World Serpent was completely under his control, that guy still used the power of the Feathered Rabbit to forcibly launch the Stigma Project on the surface of the earth.

Kevin's actions not only cut off his own retreat, but also forced Li Shubai into a situation where he had no way to retreat.

Although everything has become a foregone conclusion, Li Shubai now understands why Kevin made that choice. But unfortunately, at that time, Li Shubai was also angered by Kevin's reckless and crazy criticism.

After both parties lost their necessary rationality, the final result was that while he was killing Kevin, he was unprepared to come into contact with the "Cocoon of the End", and was severely tricked by that thing, so he had to exile himself outside of time.

This was also the first time he suffered a real setback.

After fully restoring your memory and reviewing the situation, it is actually not difficult to analyze the cause of the failure.

Although Kevin's Riddle Man and obsession accounted for most of the causes, Li Shubai was never the kind of person who would put all the blame for his failure on others.

Because he had obtained extremely powerful strength and even integrated most of the front-line combat forces of that world, when the destined moment came, he was too confident at that time and neglected to analyze Kevin's character.

In his opinion at that time, Kevin had no other choice but to form a united front with them.

Because of this overconfident judgment, Kevin accidentally completed the Stigmata Plan without any preparation.

If at that time, he could get all the information about "Cocoon" from Kevin... perhaps, everything that happened in the first world would be completely different from what it is now.

As for the second time - that was the story of the irredeemable vampire he encountered after being exiled outside the timeline, which happened in the Quantum Sea.

In addition to making Li Shubai alert, these two failures also made him consider things more carefully than before when making plans.

But no matter how careful the preparations are, various problems will always arise during the actual operation due to lack of experience. Whether it is for the members of the Hyperion or for the two eras of civilization, "cloning the planet" is an unprecedented challenge, although so far, the plan has been going smoothly.

If nothing unexpected happens, after overwriting all the information of this planet into the "Cocoon", they will be able to imitate the Stigmata Project that Kevin once implemented and transfer all the life on this planet into the "Stigmata". As long as they transfer the Stigmata that embodies the global will to the "Clone Earth" and then wake them up, a world belonging only to the "First Civilization Era" will be successfully created by them.

Although there were no problems on the "content" side, they still had to face many problems and challenges on the "vehicle" side.

The "Reproduction of Truth" of the Herrscher of Reason is a very versatile ability. Within a certain range, Bronya and the others can freely choose the direction where the "creation" appears. As long as they accept Li Shubai's full assistance, even if they cannot generate a complete planet in one go, they can use their own "creations" to slowly piece together the earth step by step as time accumulates.

After all, the so-called planet is not a complete whole from the beginning.

However, completing the cloning of a planet does not mean the creation of a "world".

Problems like biology and the environment are easy to solve. In the previous civilization era, the Fourth God's Key in the form of a satellite was used to gradually repair the damaged atmosphere to a state that allows life to exist. But after creating a cloned Earth, how can we make it orbit a star in an orbit similar to that of the Earth?

If there is no way to adjust the orbit of the planet to the same level as the Earth... even if a cloned Earth is created that can allow humans to survive, it will be destroyed quickly due to a series of problems that arise from it - even more exaggerated than the end of the earth.

When considering this problem, Li Shubai naturally focused his attention on the "Wheel of Cause and Effect" used by Su.

As far as Li Shubai knows, among all the powers he knows, only the "Cause and Effect Wheel" can accurately "replicate" the motion state of things. If the ability limit of the "Cause and Effect Wheel" is large enough, they can copy the Earth's orbit around the sun to the cloned Earth that is not controlled by the "Cocoon".

Unfortunately, due to Su's own "output limit", this plan...

……and many more.

Just when Li Shubai was about to abandon this alternative plan, an idea suddenly came to his mind.

If Sue can't do it herself.

...So, suppose there is such a person in this world.

If that person's abilities are exactly the same as Su's, but he is much stronger than Su in terms of "output limit"... wouldn't the obstacles encountered by this plan be completely solved?

Not to mention, although this condition is quite harsh, if it were someone else, Li Shubai would not even think of this hypothesis, but it just so happens that only this guy Su seems to... really be able to find a similar case?

"Su, I remember your memory once told me that when you were observing the myriad worlds, you seemed to have met a version of yourself 'from a parallel world', right?" Li Shubai raised his eyes and stared at Su's tightly closed eyes with a sharp gaze.

Su couldn't help but reveal a confused expression, and even Kevin couldn't help but look at him with some surprise.

After pondering for a long while, Su confirmed that he had never experienced the situation described by Li Shubai in his memory, and then he shook his head: "... Sorry, I don't seem to have the impression of experiencing this incident."

"Never experienced it?" Hearing Su's denial, Li Shubai was at a loss for a moment, and then quickly reacted, "Oh yes, that seems to be the person you met when you were carrying out the Hengsha plan."

"Anyway, this is what happened." Since Su didn't know about this yet, Li Shubai could only explain it to him himself, "When you were executing the Hengsha Project and observing the parallel world, 'you' from another world sensed your observations."

"According to your memory, the 'you' in that world is a woman. She uses the same abilities as you, but has a completely opposite personality and far greater strength than you."

"After sensing your observation, she hunted you for a long time - but let's put these things aside for now."

"Anyway, if possible, since your 'Wheel of Cause and Effect' cannot replicate the trajectory of the planet due to the output limit, then if the 'Wheel of Cause and Effect' that you, the woman, unfolded could do the same?"

"..."

After listening to Li Shubai's enthusiastic statement, Su and Kevin couldn't help but fall into silence.

"You... want the 'Su' from the parallel world to help us?" Kevin asked.

Su Ze took out a piece of Yudu dust in silence.

This piece of Yudu dust was given to him by Mebius and Eden after they came to this world. It contained the memory of a person named "Su" just like him.

However, it is not known whether it is because the world observed by Su is too complex, the memory stored in Yu Duchen was not judged as the "same existence" by the world like Kevin's previous situation and thus did not undergo fusion. It is also because the information stored in this piece of Yu Duchen is too huge, Su has not yet had time to read all the memories of "another self" from this piece of memory.

Su Chen calmed down and communicated briefly with Yu Duchen's memory in silence. After getting the information he wanted, he couldn't help but slightly open his eyes.

"Perhaps... it's difficult." Su said with a strange and regretful tone, "Although that person is 'me' who is a woman, given her personality, it should be difficult for us to convince her to help us."

Kevin frowned slightly: "Is the other 'Su' a difficult person to talk to?"

Chapter 4: Problems in the New World (k)

"No, if I simply stand in the position of a trader, it is not too difficult to have a conversation with the female 'me'."

Su turned her face towards Kevin and said softly:

"However, as the captain said, although the woman with the same identity as me wields abilities very similar to mine,... that 'Su' has great evil intentions. Even if we successfully enter the communication stage, it is difficult for me to determine what kind of harsh conditions the 'Su', whose mental power is far superior to mine, will put forward."

"Moreover, even if we don't consider the difficulties in communication, the most fundamental problem is... we don't have the means to find each other right now."

After listening to Su's statement, Li Shubai put forward a completely opposite view: "It shouldn't be difficult to find her. Based on the characteristics of the Herrscher's power itself, all the parallel worlds that the Thousand Worlds One Vehicle can reach are also confined to the planet dominated by the cocoon - in other words, all parallel worlds that have escaped the control of the 'cocoon' cannot be observed by the Hengsha Project, right?"

Su was silent for a moment and nodded silently.

"But before getting rid of the 'cocoon', their time will inevitably be sealed inside the 'cocoon'." Li Shubai said, "Although the completely sealed time cannot be observed by the Second God's Key... But the Second God's Key cannot observe it, it does not mean that my Hyperion cannot observe it. If the female 'Su' really used her mental power to weave a fantasy dream that all humans in the world are immersed in as your memory said, then the scale of her ability should not be much weaker than Kevin and Kiana who have become the end."

After a moment of silence, Li Shubai shook his head: "Perhaps, in terms of the ability of 'consciousness' alone, she is even more powerful than everyone we know."

"Maybe." Kevin nodded. "But, as you said, if we only consider the ability of 'consciousness', I don't think we will really lose to the 'Su' of the opposite sex if a conflict actually occurs."

"Of course." Li Shubai shrugged his shoulders lightly. "After all, no matter how powerful she is, she is just a human born in the same world as us. If the world dominated by Cocoon can give birth to an existence that truly surpasses Cocoon, I would doubt whether Cocoon is a born masochist."

Before Alicia completely erased the "thread of fate", all humans in this world - except for outsiders like Qianjie and Herrscher like Alicia who escaped from the control of the "cocoon" - were all unconsciously controlled by the "cocoon".

Among these people whose lives are unconsciously manipulated, there is even a hero like Kevin.

From this perspective, the reason why these heroes possess much stronger abilities than ordinary people can almost all be attributed to the operation of "Cocoon".

The direct reason why humans fight against Honkai, against individual Herrschers, and against the "End" is all because of the thread of fate cast by the "Cocoon".

Of course, just like what Yulandel [Tianyuan Qiying] preached to the managers of the stigmata in Kaslana's stigmata space, Kevin did not think that his free will was really manipulated by the 'Cocoon'.

But in any case, since those "threads of fate" are a real material phenomenon, when Li Shubai thinks about the existence of the world from an objective perspective, he must take this phenomenon into account.

Since both the Honkai energy released onto this planet and the destiny of human birth all come from the "cocoon", conversely, it is of course impossible for humans on this planet to transcend the "cocoon".

Even Kiana and Kevin, who had obtained the power of "The End", could not break this theorem.

All they can do is to have complete control over the "cocoon".

Even if the power of the "cocoon" is utilized to bring the Earth into the era of interstellar civilization, the "cocoon" after that will no longer be the same thing as the "cocoon" that has always dominated the Earth.

In fact - before Li Shubai quietly intervened in this era of civilization, he had already launched the Hyperion into low-Earth orbit, and arranged for Aponia to directly observe the "line" and asked her to pay attention to the changes caused by the "line".

Of course, Li Shubai had no intention of becoming a god, and he was not interested in interfering in the fate of others.

Therefore, after completely replicating all the information of this planet, these "lines" must be erased.

However, if the "Cocoon" and the "Honkai Impact" are lost, can the humans on this planet really develop normally in this "Realm of the Void and Eternal Blindness" where even light cannot penetrate?

Moreover, since they already know the true nature of the "cocoon", which is actually just an alien civilization mechanism whose physical properties are difficult to be analyzed by existing human civilization, there must be more than one such mechanism, right?

In the vast universe, a galaxy was invaded by two "cocoons" at different times - it sounds like a special event with a probability so small that it can be almost ignored, but honestly speaking, it is already unlucky enough that this planet was targeted by this damn thing called "cocoon". God knows whether this extremely unlucky African bloodline will be passed down to the "clone earth".

Li Shubai felt a headache when he thought that this plan would involve so many troubles.

He doesn't like to interfere with the fate of others at will. The problem is that he also doesn't like the fruits of his labor being destroyed by others for no reason.

What made Li Shubai even more frustrated was that he really couldn't find a good solution to this problem in the short term.

First of all, it is impossible for him to completely seal off the "clone earth".

Putting aside whether he has the subjective intention to do so, he is objectively unable to do so.

If it is only sealed for a short period of time, it would be fine. But for a long period of time, even the "cocoon" cannot do it perfectly - Qianjie, who is also an alien, can prove this point well.

Secondly, even if a way to isolate the "cocoon" is really found, it also means that the world has lost the means to advance into the universe.

After thinking it over and over again without any good conclusion, Li Shubai turned his gaze to Kevin and muttered unconsciously: "Kevin, why don't you just stay with Dr. MEI for the rest of your life."

——For Li Shubai, this sentence was really just an unconscious complaint.

However, after listening to Li Shubai's complaints, Kevin also nodded unconsciously.

Although he didn't know why the captain gave him such a supreme blessing after showing an extremely distressed expression.

Just thinking about being with MEI for the rest of his life, Kevin felt like he was dreaming.

So, after hearing Li Shubai's complaint, he, who was not very good at lying, naturally blurted out his innermost thoughts: "Thank you for your blessing. If possible, of course I would like it too."

——In an instant, Li Shubai's gaze towards Kevin suddenly became strange.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" That look made Kevin shudder slightly. "Is there something wrong with what I said?"

"Uh... no, it's okay, there's nothing wrong." Li Shubai shook his head, "I just didn't expect to meet such a suitable person suddenly."

"..." Kevin took a step back subconsciously, sweating profusely, "...you...you should calm down a little."

"What? Calm down?" Li Shubai was stunned. He followed Kevin's logic and carefully chewed on what he just said. Then his face darkened. "Bah, bah, bah, bah, I just think you are more suitable to stay on that 'clone earth' with Dr. MEI and the others. What are you thinking?!"

"...Is that all?" Kevin looked at Li Shubai seriously, with no intention of taking back his steps.

"Nonsense! What else do you want?" Li Shubai also took a step back, his face full of disgust.

Seeing Li Shubai's disgusted expression, Kevin was not angry, but breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Li Shubai pondered for a moment, and suddenly changed the subject: "...But your reaction reminds me that we still have a very serious problem to solve."

"What's the problem?" Kevin and Sue asked in unison.

"Of course it's about your lifespans." Li Shubai said as a matter of course, "Let me give you a heads up. Although I will do my best to completely isolate the society of the cloned Earth from abnormal forces such as Honkai, I will help you completely preserve the power of heroes like you."

"..." Sue and Kevin looked at each other, both feeling a little confused, "Why?"

"Nonsense, because the 'you' that will appear on that cloned Earth are all you." Li Shubai said, "I've already said that what I want to do is not some half-hearted thing like 'opening up a new future in the past', otherwise why would I spend so much effort to rewrite the planet? Can't I just let you go and blow up the 'cocoon' now? My plan from the beginning was to 'change your past'. Since it's your past, what's the point of you not participating in it?"

As a medical student, Su immediately thought of a blind spot that neither Kevin nor Li Shubai realized immediately: "You mean, Kevin and I will be brought back to this world by our own parents on that 'clone earth'?"

Perhaps considering Kevin's mood, Su deliberately used a relatively euphemistic statement.