The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"..." Bronya tilted her face and glanced at Kiana with emotionless eyes, then quickly turned her face back to the sky, her voice without any fluctuations: "Bronya is only responsible for saving partners who are in crisis or forced by others. Based on our friendship, Bronya can choose to turn a blind eye to Mei and Kiana's misconduct from a private standpoint, but other than that... I'm sorry, even Bronya can't do anything."

"What do you mean by the improper behavior of Mei and me?" Kiana put her hands on her hips, "Are you trying to say that this is all our fault?!"

"Yes."

Bronya stated this clearly without any hesitation.

"It was Mei who started the conversation, and it was Mei and Kiana who rushed forward impulsively. Bronya believes that as the party whose personal safety was violated, any resistance measures taken by the captain are reasonable and legal - this even includes killing Kiana and Mei on the spot." Bronya said lightly, "Although as a partner, I will not watch the captain kill Mei and Kiana, but that is only a choice based on Bronya's personal standpoint."

Bronya's brutal and ruthless thought process stunned everyone present, not to mention Kiana and Raiden Mei, even Li Shubai was stunned.

Kiana opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a word of rebuttal.

Although she has been arrogant and even willful at times, Kiana has never been a person who confuses right and wrong or is unreasonable.

Therefore, Kiana could not say something like "putting the facts aside".

However, even though she had accepted her fate rationally, the fact that she had "lost her first kiss in a muddle" still made it difficult for her emotionally to accept the current situation.

"Even if it's my fault, you can just...kiss me for a little while and then stop, right? There's no need to kiss me...kiss me for several minutes!"

She lowered her moist eyelids, raised her arms, and pointed her two white index fingers at each other in front of her chest, looking extremely aggrieved.

"And... and... putting your hand in that place..."

"I've already told you two are so beautiful, I can't help myself!" Li Shubai interrupted Kiana impatiently and muttered, "If it were anyone else, I would have executed them right there."

"What does it mean to... execute him on the spot?!" Kiana said in disbelief with her eyes wide open.

"Don't get me wrong, it's just what you think." Li Shubai rolled his eyes.

After saying that, he sighed deeply, suddenly turned around, and walked quietly into the island.

Looking at Li Shubai's receding back, Kiana hesitated for a moment, not knowing how she had offended the captain again, and asked, "Where... where are you going?"

"Go to a place where none of you three can find me - no, go to a place where no one can find me." For some reason, Li Shubai's tone was filled with an irrepressible irritability and distress. "Don't ask me where I'm going, and don't ask me what I want to do. I'll be back in a while, just wait there. Do you hear me?"

"What...what? Can you please explain it more clearly?!" Although Li Shubai told her not to ask any more questions, Kiana, who had some PTSD towards the Riddler due to her past experiences, couldn't help but ask.

"..."

Li Shubai was too lazy to answer Kiana's words and left on his own.

Watching Li Shubai's back disappearing at the end of her field of vision, Kiana opened her mouth and muttered in a low voice: "What do you mean... Didn't you admit that we are beautiful and that you like us... You didn't suffer any loss, so why are you so angry?"

"Uh..." Raiden Mei's face was stiff. Unlike Kiana, who was slow-witted and had no idea why Li Shubai left, she had always been observant and had more or less realized the reason why Li Shubai suddenly left.

"Alas..." Bronya walked onto the beach and sighed delicately, "Falling in love with someone like Kiana from the bottom of her heart is probably Captain Shubai's greatest misfortune in his life."

"Huh?!" Kiana opened her mouth wide, staring at Bronya's expressionless face in anger. "What do you mean falling in love with me is the greatest misfortune? Did he feel wronged by falling in love with me?"

"Of course." Bronya nodded without hesitation.

"How did he feel wronged? Look at how arrogant he was just now! It's obviously Mei and I who were wronged!"

"..." Bronya sighed silently, "So, do you need Bronya to repeat what just happened here?"

"I--" Kiana stared at Bronya's face with angry eyes, while Bronya looked back at her with her usual calm expression.

After about ten seconds, Kiana, who knew she was in the wrong, was the first to give in. She lowered her head dejectedly and said dejectedly, "Okay, I know I just did something a little too much. I will apologize to the captain later. Is that okay?"

"Indeed." Mei Raiden took a deep breath, "I will be with you. After all, the cause of this oolong incident was still due to my wishful misunderstanding."

"...Then, when the captain comes back, shall we go together?" Kiana asked.

"Yeah." Raiden Mei nodded.

Bronya rolled her eyes and said, "To be honest, if you really feel sorry for the captain, why don't you go find him right now?"

"?" Kiana was stunned, "Why?"

Mei Raiden's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She lowered her head and said softly, "That...that kind of thing is really a little too early for my relationship with the Captain."

Obviously, she had understood what Bronya meant.

"That only means that Mei and Kiana's apologies to the captain are only verbal." Bronya said calmly, "Of course, it is Mei and Kiana's freedom to choose what they want, and Bronya is not going to interfere."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Kiana became more and more confused.

"...Don't ask, Kiana." Raiden Mei pulled the corner of Kiana's clothes and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "The reason why the captain left just now is because..."

"..." Kiana put her ear close to Raiden Mei's mouth, and after hearing what she said, her expression suddenly froze.

——In fact, contrary to what most people thought, Li Shubai, who left the three people, did not vent the anger accumulated in his heart.

In the shower room of the construction site, Li Shubai supported the wall in front of him with his hands, slightly bent over, and let the cold water from the shower head flow over every inch of his skin.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and his chest, which was slightly bulging with muscles, rose and fell regularly with his heavy breathing. His fast-beating heart and turbulent blood quickly cooled down.

After all, as someone who has practiced Taixu Sword Heart, Li Shubai certainly would not lose control of his desires for such a simple reason.

But to be honest, he did lose some self-control in the past year, so much so that after being teased, he didn't dare to continue looking at the overly seductive postures of Mei Raiden and Kiana.

At this moment, Li Shubai suddenly heard the sound of a door opening, accompanied by a cheerful humming, and a naked woman walked into a cubicle in the shower room.

Li Shubai was silent for a moment. He heard rustling sounds coming from the cubicle next to him and couldn't help but say, "Hey, there's someone here."

"Yeah, I know." The man spoke in a very natural tone, "This is the only place where you can take a shower. There's no need to be so particular on a construction site. I won't suddenly yell molest."

"Besides, even if she screamed that she was molested, no one here would respond to a weak woman's cry for help."

"Ah, that sentence just now, does it sound like an invitation for you to commit a crime? Could it be that I accidentally sent myself into the wolf's mouth?"

Li Shubai was speechless for a moment: "Can you please not presume that I will commit a crime? Besides, I'm just reminding you that there are several seats here. What did you want to do when you ran straight to the room next to mine after entering the shower room? It's obviously me who wants help, okay?"

A boastful laugh came from the cubicle, followed by the sound of water splashing onto the ground: "You, a grown man, will only be arrested by the police if you shout for help! But don't worry, I'm just too bored and want to find someone to chat with. I don't mean anything to you."

Feeling the liquid suddenly flowing under his feet, the heat that Li Shubai had just suppressed suddenly rose up again when he thought that the water flowing from the cubicle had just flowed through the body of the person next door.

"Then you will be disappointed. I have no strange interest in talking to people while taking a shower, and I don't plan to stay here any longer." Pulling down the shower head, Li Shubai randomly rinsed his body, and then immediately opened the door of the cubicle, "You should continue to stay here bored."

"Hey, don't be so impatient--!"

Sudden.

The moment Li Shubai opened the door, the door of the next compartment also opened suddenly.

"Oh... it's more ferocious than I thought." The woman who opened the door blinked and stared at Li Shubai's body motionlessly, with a mischievous smile on her face, "I think you've almost reached your limit of endurance, do you need my help, Captain~"

"Captain?" Li Shubai's pupils shrank slightly as he stood stiffly. "Wei Weiwei...you?"

"However, I'm the only one here for now. If the captain wants to do it..." The woman blinked her eye playfully, "Please be a little gentle. If you accidentally hurt me--"

boom--

Wall bang.

The walls are cracked.

Weiwei's playful and exaggerated words suddenly stopped.

She was sweating and trembling all over. She turned her head and glanced at Li Shubai's blue-veined hand and the cracked wall. She looked at Li Shubai's expressionless face again, swallowed her saliva, and smiled awkwardly: "Um... please be a little gentle?"

Chapter 4: The beginning of a three-way melee (k)

——One o’clock in the afternoon.

The bright sun hanging high in the sky was mercilessly baking the scorching beach.

Despite the shelter of the beach umbrella, the high temperature of nearly 30 degrees still made the two Herrscher ladies who were sitting on the beach waiting sweat profusely.

"Strange, why did the captain leave for such a long time?"

Kiana raised the back of her hand and wiped the sweat that soaked her hair.

"Even if he really went to... uh... deal with that kind of thing, it should be about time for him to come back."

No one responded to Kiana's words.

Although an hour later, Mei Raiden's emotions were no longer as anxious and ashamed as they were at the beginning, it was obvious that she, who had received a good education, still couldn't simply speak out "that kind of thing" directly.

Compared to Mei Raiden, Kiana, who has a purer heart, is much more calm in her attitude towards such things.

Facing reality has always been Kiana's strong point. Although she has a pure mind and is a little slow when it comes to feelings, Kiana has never been the kind of person who likes to escape from reality.

Even though she is not able to confidently declare that "she likes the captain" for the time being, it is a fact that she and Raiden Mei kissed the captain forcefully.

However, in this process, the dominant party changed from the two of them who launched the attack to the captain.

After understanding this fact, Kiana quickly let go of the grievance and shame that had been overflowing in her heart, and picked up her duties as a Valkyrie, obediently following the captain's orders and waiting for his return here.

But having said that, hasn't the captain been away for a little too long?

Seeing that no one responded to her words, Kiana had no choice but to turn her gaze towards Raiden Mei and took the initiative to ask:

"Mei, do you think we should go look for the captain?"

"..." Raiden Mei hesitated for a moment and glanced towards the island. "Although the captain has been away for a long time, he has already warned us not to get close. It would be inappropriate to go to him rashly, right?"

"What's inappropriate?" Kiana asked back, then blushed, "We...we haven't run into the captain and others doing...that kind of thing for the first time. Although I feel a little shy, as the Valkyries who follow him in this world, we also need to confirm his safety when the captain is away for a long time, right?"

Mei Raiden was a little surprised: "Are you worried about him?"

"A little bit." Kiana nodded frankly, but she quickly reacted and shook her head hastily, "You... don't get me wrong, Mei. I'm just worried about the leader's safety from the perspective of a Valkyrie. I don't mean anything else."

Mei Raiden's eyes wandered for a moment, she pursed her lips and sighed softly: "Indeed, although it is a little difficult to evaluate personal feelings, as our leader, the captain is indeed a person worthy of our admiration and concern."

After all, the direct reason why they followed the captain to this world was because they needed to restore the lost pre-civilization era.

Whether it was the three Herrs who joined Hyperion later, or the captain Li Shubai himself, or the vast majority of the members on Hyperion... almost everyone had put in a considerable amount of effort and hard work for the "clone planet" plan formulated by Li Shubai.

Twisting reality, reversing the dead, reshaping the world - even if she mastered the power of the end, Kiana could assert without hesitation that these things were great feats that even she could never accomplish, or in other words, the price she had to pay to accomplish these things was so high that she absolutely could not accept it.

And it was precisely because Li Shubai did all the things that even she, who had achieved the "end", did not dare to touch that she could more deeply understand how much value the word "captain" contained.

This reshaped world, the era of civilization that was forcibly intercepted by the captain from the control of the "Cocoon of the End", is the most convincing evidence.

Looking at the bright sky and the peaceful island, before going to look for the captain, Kiana suddenly asked: "By the way, Mei, I never had the chance to ask you before, what kind of person is the one who hired us, Vivi?"

"She," Raiden Mei pondered for a moment, "I should say she is a natural performer."

"Performer?" Kiana rolled her eyes, feeling a little confused. She could only search for similar cases in her mind based on Lei Dongdian Mei's description: "Does it mean that her personality is quite exaggerated? Just like... the Herrscher of Knowledge?"

"Hersher of Knowledge?" Mei Raiden recalled the character of the Herrsher of Knowledge for a while and smiled silently, as if recalling some 'pleasant' scenes. "In some ways, Velvet and Shiki are indeed a bit similar. Although I'm not sure what the difference is between Velvet's character and that of the mechanic I know in this world where Honkai has disappeared, if given the chance, no matter which Velvet is, she would probably treat the whole world as her stage without hesitation."

"It sounds like it's even more dangerous than the Herrscher of Knowledge?" Kiana said.

"Do you think the Herrscher of Knowledge's personality is dangerous?" asked Mei Raiden.

"Well... I can't say it's dangerous, it's just relatively self-centered, just like..."

"Just like Kiana in the past, she's a complete child." At this time, an emotionless voice interrupted the conversation between the two.

"Yes, yes! Just like a kid - just the size! What do you mean by the same as my past self?" Kiana stared at the person who spoke. "Aren't you still swimming? Why are you on the shore again?"

Bronya, who had removed the half-body armor and was left with only a blue and white swimsuit, made an expression of disbelief: "Although Mei and Kiana's attack on the captain has nothing to do with Bronya, Bronya still can't leave you two alone."

"——Besides, in this world where we can't freely use our powers, without Bronya, what methods are you going to use to find the captain?"

"This--" Kiana and Raiden Mei's expressions froze at the same time.

Although Kiana has inherited the power of the end and has become the "God of the Earth" in a sense, the fact is that no matter what form it takes, Kiana, or all the powers of the Herrschers known to date, all derive their power from [Cocoon].

Even those Herrs who belong to the Hyperion and have left their respective worlds cannot escape this theorem.

Therefore, most of the time, the Hyperion's activity area in the Quantum Sea will basically not transcend the scope corresponding to the intrinsic world.

Of course, even if you leave the control area of ​​the Cocoon of the End, it does not mean that the power will be invalidated.

However, the Herrscher Core, which is unable to absorb a large amount of energy from the Cocoon of the End, will find it difficult to use its power freely.

However, what Bronya said about "not being able to use power freely" was not a problem related to energy.

This "clone earth" that Li Shubai incorporated into the Holy Scar Space not only broke free from the control of the Cocoon of the End, but was also a planet completely free of any Honkai energy.

Honkai energy - this force, once characterized by Einstein as imaginary internal energy, is not something that can reach the real world through normal means.

Imaginary numbers and reality, in a world dominated by normal physics, these two concepts are two parallel lines that cannot coexist, so normally, humans and Honkai energy are things that cannot appear in the same dimension.

The fundamental reason why Honkai energy appears in the real world is that something bypasses the boundary between reality and imaginary numbers in an incomprehensible way.