The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

He didn't even bring a parachute. With his bright burgundy hair flying in the wind, Eden, who had already put on goggles like Kevin, fell rapidly in a supine position in mid-air.

“Aaaaaaaa——What’s wrong? What’s happening?!!! Why am I falling?!”

“…It’s probably because I was targeted by Wei Erwei who also recovered her memory.” Su closed his eyes and looked calm.

The speaking voice was as calm and gentle as always.

"That's not what I'm asking! Boss Kevin, Brother Su! Sister Eden! Sister Nia! Anyone is fine! Come and help me!!"

——Well, the passengers who were not panicking did not seem to include a tearful cat.

Below was a verdant island, and in the sky was the sun that baked the temperature. Kevin pondered for half a second, then decisively pulled up his girlfriend's hand and said, "MEI, let's land over there!"

"Huh? Are you going to ignore Padu and Eden?"

"Don't worry," Kevin said, "What we are replying to is not just something as simple as memory."

Chapter 4: Encounter Underground (k)

“It hurts… It hurts so much…”

In the dark space, cries of pain mixed with distress echoed clearly under the reflection of the surrounding stone walls.

Kiana supported her forehead and was about to reach out her hand to her butt that had been hit hard by the fall, but suddenly she realized that something was wrong.

"Uh, no, it doesn't seem to hurt that much?"

…Although I was thrown from a high altitude into this pitch-black space where I couldn’t see anything, the touch between my body and buttocks was unexpectedly soft.

"It seems like something caught me? What is this thing...?"

Because she couldn't recognize the environment with her eyes, Kiana could only reach out her hand and carefully press the "something" under her with the tips of her five fingers.

The thing that the fingers touched had the feel of a textile. The object wrapped in the textile was quite soft. If the fingertips moved outward, a sphere could be drawn that was just big enough for Kiana's hand to grasp. Kiana frowned slightly, clenched her fingers into claws, and could not help but gently pinch the thing that felt quite good.

"Well……!!!"

Suddenly, accompanied by a difficult and painful breathing sound, a moist and warm air flowed through a sensitive area of ​​Kiana.

"Ah! What is that?" Kiana was so startled that she jumped up on the spot, raised her arms to protect her face, and then quickly turned around.

An extremely strong white glare illuminated the surrounding environment the moment Kiana bounced up from the spot, followed by a feeling of surviving a disaster:

“Pfft… I almost… I almost died…”

Huh... Huh... Huh... The strange woman wearing a helmet with a light on her head was panting rapidly. She stood up tremblingly and gasped: "Hiss... It hurts, my waist, the back of my head..."

"..." Kiana blinked, her azure eyes full of innocence and confusion, "Um... who are you?"

"Me?" The strange woman pointed at herself, then gasped in pain and said in a trembling voice, "I, I'm just a worker helping Teacher Wei Erwei with the construction here. But Miss... why did you suddenly fall from the ceiling? If I remember correctly, didn't I set up a cordon near that entrance and exit?"

"Warning line?" Kiana thought about why she suddenly fell down. After a moment of silence, she shook her head and said, "No, there is no warning line in that place."

Although her mind was a little confused due to the sudden fall, as a Valkyrie, even if she could not use the power of the Herrscher, with Kiana's physical fitness, it was impossible for her to lose consciousness for such a simple reason.

She remembered clearly that when she was running to the bathroom on the construction site with Mei and Bronya, the temporary land built by the mechanical construction team controlled by Velvet suddenly cracked without any warning, forming a dark hole with a diameter of thirty meters.

If the edge of the hole had not been too far away for the three of them who were right in the center of the hole, they would not have fallen into the hole without any resistance.

"Huh?" After hearing what Kiana said, the strange woman wearing a helmet was also confused. "But I clearly remember... that entrance was blocked by me. Could it be that after that, someone removed the cordon?"

"Wait, compared to that kind of thing - what is this place?" Kiana looked around, then turned her gaze to the strange woman's face, "And who are you?"

"This is a spiral maze." The strange woman's expression was very calm, and her tone was self-righteous, as if she was saying something that was a matter of course. "Don't you know? Most of the coasts and scenic spots on the island are just entrances to guide tourists underground. The main body of the spiral maze has been underground from the beginning."

"Underground?" Kiana raised her head and looked at the sky in a daze, which was just pitch black from here.

"Yes! The underground depth is 40 meters, there are eight floors in total, and the total area is about the sum of all the islands! If you count the underwater tunnel and the like, the entire journey is even more than 300 kilometers." For some reason, the strange woman put on a very excited expression, "It sounds great, right! When Teacher Wei Erwei planned this project, I had been longing for it for a long time! It's really a lucky thing that I can join the engineering team this time!"

"Uh..." Seeing the strange woman looking like a fanatic fan, Kiana couldn't help but let out a drop of embarrassed sweat. She laughed dryly and asked tentatively, "So, how do we get back to land?"

"Back to land... Normally, there should be a direct link to the surface right above here. There's a construction elevator in front, but..." The strange woman turned her gaze and the light of the searchlight on her helmet toward the direction where Kiana had just landed.

Kiana followed the strange woman's gaze, and when she saw the scene clearly, she fell into deep silence.

The white light from the searchlight illuminated a huge area of ​​rubble with incredible clarity. The object pressed underneath the rubble was an engineering elevator that looked so broken that it could not be broken any further.

"Is there no other exit?" After a long silence, Kiana couldn't help but ask.

"Of course there are. In order to ensure an absolute safety factor, this underground maze has an entrance to the surface every 500 meters. Even if all the elevators are broken, Teacher Wei Wei will have security robots patrol the maze regularly. Those robots usually have extremely strong climbing abilities. As long as you get on one, it will automatically send the passengers to the surface safely."

The strange woman smiled shyly.

"However, because those robots moving around are really a bit of a nuisance, I... am used to temporarily shutting them down during work hours and opening them up when I need them. Anyway, I am the only one responsible for building the underground maze. Logically speaking, no one else can come in here before the scenic area is opened."

As if not wanting to make Kiana too panicked after she suddenly fell, the strange woman quickly added: "But don't worry, since I closed them, I can of course open them again. Come with me, I'll let the security robot take you up first. Next time, be careful and don't fall suddenly again."

"Wait, wait." Kiana quickly interrupted the strange woman. "I'm not in a hurry to get out. Um... can you tell me the location of those security robots first? Or do you have a map of the underground maze? If you have one, please give me one. I have two friends who also fell down, but I don't know why they are not with me. Before returning to the surface, I have to find them first."

"Two more friends fell down as well?" The strange woman was startled and said quickly, "Then go find them. Wait a moment, I'll get the map out."

"I'm sorry to bother you." Kiana was a little embarrassed. Knowing the skills of Mei Raiden and Bronya, Kiana was not worried about their safety. "How about you lend me the map first, and I'll return it to you before we leave the maze."

"That won't do." The strange woman turned her head and looked seriously at Kiana's eyes full of embarrassment. "This underground maze is the project I'm responsible for. If I don't see you and your friends leave safely, I won't be able to concentrate on my work... After all, no one wants to see someone get hurt where they work, right?"

Looking at the strange woman's serious expression, Kiana's eyes were inexplicably dazed for a moment.

For some reason, after her expression became serious, Kiana always felt that this strange woman's face...she seemed to have seen it somewhere before.

What is that familiar yet somewhat confusing and wrong feeling?

"Oh, I forgot." Suddenly, the serious face of the strange woman was replaced by a gentle expression. "I don't know your name yet, beautiful lady, what should I call you?"

"Uh, Ki, Kiana."

"It's Miss Kiana, what a beautiful name." The corners of the stranger's mouth drew a trace of happiness. "I can feel the taste of warmth and courage from this name. I guess the person who gave Miss Kiana this name must be a very gentle person."

"..."

The praise was like a machine gun, making Kiana's expression unconsciously become shy.

Having said that, she did not feel unhappy or embarrassed because of shyness.

After all, even if she was shy, Kiana couldn't deny from the bottom of her heart that "the person who gave her this name was a very gentle person."

At the same time, because of this conversation, Kiana finally recalled the source of that familiar feeling.

This kind of social phobia-like personality, and the speaking style that seems to be very familiar with everyone - even if you are not familiar with them, you have to force yourself to become familiar with them. It's just like Alishia who has an unclear relationship with Mei.

It's hard for anyone to dislike this pace of speaking.

Humans are, after all, fundamentally social creatures.

Therefore, no matter whether the other party does it intentionally or unintentionally, as long as people feel that "the other party wants to be close to them", it is difficult for them to reject this expectation from the bottom of their hearts.

In addition, from a rational point of view, Kiana did not think that the other party was approaching her with ulterior motives.

First of all, the identities of these three Herrschers and the captain were humans from this world, and it was impossible for anyone to know them.

Secondly - even if someone really approached them with ulterior motives, it would not be a big deal for Kiana.

On the contrary, this is a good thing.

They would follow the captain into this world. In addition to injecting power into the stigmata space to allow the body to rest, another purpose was to maintain the peace and stability of this world.

The power of the Ruler of Reason can only ensure that this "clone Earth" is no different from the original Earth on the material level.

However, for this world that is not just made up of real number space, simply maintaining the stability of matter is far from enough.

Although the large-scale expansion of the Holy Mark Space has isolated the impact of the collapse of the cloned Earth to the greatest extent, the so-called collapse is something that originates from imaginary numbers.

No one can guarantee whether there is any existence among the imaginary creations that can cross the Holy Scar Space and directly interfere with this world.

Although Li Shubai would not care about the disasters and disputes caused by human beings themselves, if they were things from other worlds, that would be a different matter.

Since he saved the cloned Earth from collapse, he should be held responsible for the negative consequences resulting from the collapse.

Kiana and the others naturally had no objection to Li Shubai's opinion, so when faced with the unreasonable approach of a strange woman, she naturally accepted the approach of the other party and immediately asked back:

"Now that I've told you your name, it should be your turn next."

"Of course." The strange woman said with a bright smile, "My name is Vita, a beautiful name that is not inferior to Kiana, right?"

"Vita?" Kiana silently repeated the pronunciation of the two words, and her blue eyes rolled.

She searched her memory carefully, and after confirming that this was indeed the first time she had heard the name, she nodded her head generously: "Well, it is indeed a very nice name. I will thank you for your care from now on."

"And..." Halfway through, Kiana seemed to suddenly remember something and showed a worried expression, "Are you... okay?"

"Hmm?" Vita tilted her head. The searchlight above her head pierced Kiana's eyes brightly as she moved. "What do you mean?"

"That's right, when I fell just now..." Kiana said with some difficulty, "Well... it seems that I accidentally sat on your head."

"Well..." Vita's smile froze for a moment. "No, it's okay. Didn't you see that I was wearing my helmet? Although it hurts a little, it's more painful than being hit. It's more painful because Kiana kept sitting on my face."

"But now my head doesn't hurt anymore!" Vita put her hands on her hips and showed a proud expression as if she had won. "After all, if I didn't even have this little recovery ability, I wouldn't have been chosen by Teacher Weiwei to be the first person in charge of the spiral maze."

Chapter 4: Secret Confrontation (k)

After getting the map from the construction site, the two reunited and began to move in this dark underground maze.

The crisp sound of footsteps kept echoing between the uneven and narrow stone walls. The hanging lights on the stone walls had no electricity, and except for the searchlight above Vita's head, there was no other light source nearby.

"Oh, right." Perhaps because the spreading silence made Vita, who was not used to silence, feel a little bored, she took the initiative to bring up the topic not long after the two of them walked out, "Kiana, why are you on this island? If I remember correctly, the delivery time of the spiral maze is about half a month, and the paradise on the ground should not be open to the public yet, right?"

"Well..." Kiana scratched her silver hair and said awkwardly, "Actually, we were recruited by Vilvi to build the park just like you."

"Really?" Vita blinked and said in a somewhat confused tone: "Although I am an engineer of the underground maze, to be honest, with the fully automatic engineering robots made by Teacher Wei Wei, the underground maze has already been built automatically without human intervention. If it weren't for the need for someone to supervise the actual work, she wouldn't even have recruited me into the engineering team."

"Ah, I don't mean to look down on Kiana, but it's a little strange. With Teacher Weiwei supervising and planning the construction progress of the ground park, what other work needs to be done by others?"

"Uh..." Hearing Vita's harmless question, Kiana was speechless for a moment, not knowing what words to use to answer Vita's question.

Although nominally, the three Herrschers and Li Shubai were indeed part of the ground construction team, but as Vita said, with most of the construction work being done by intelligent robots, these so-called "construction workers" actually had no real work to do.

Even if they left the construction site on the island and went to the beach to fish, it would not affect the construction progress of the ground park.

Having said that, after a brief moment of guilt, Kiana quickly regained her composure.

She puffed up her cheeks and spoke with a hint of obvious anger: "It was that Wei Erwei who inexplicably put out a lucky draw promotion for a seven-day trip to the island park to the beverage manufacturer! I originally thought it was just pure luck, but when I got here I found out that this island park has not even been put into use!"

"And that guy... Shubai... used that excuse to accept Weiwei's employment request. I think at that time, he had already..."

As she spoke, Kiana's voice gradually became lighter, unconsciously taking on a sour taste.

Even Kiana herself didn't know what she was being jealous of.

Logically speaking, since she had not spent much time with Li Shubai in the year since she joined the Hyperion, it was natural that she had not established much personal relationship with the captain.

Although the captain was quite reliable in all aspects and had leadership skills that convinced her, this conviction was at best just the opinion of a subordinate about his superior and had little to do with personal feelings.

But for some reason, after recalling the images played by the monitor constructed by Bronya through the power of the Herrscher of Reason, her face turned red to the point of almost bleeding, and an extremely strange feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction kept sticking to the depths of her heart like a maggot attached to her bones, like a piece of chewing gum stuck to the ground, which could not be cleaned off no matter what.

As we all know, when there is an external brain around, Kiana is mostly a person who is too lazy to think deeply about one thing.

So, it didn't take her much time to subconsciously cut off this unhappy feeling from herself.

——I must be feeling sorry for the other “Kianas” who were also a member of the Hyperion.

Yes, although they are not the same individual in the true sense, even so, Kiana has to admit that all the Kiana Kaslanas belonging to the Hyperion are the same as herself - or almost the same person.

The only difference between them is their different experiences.

Therefore, it is reasonable to feel unhappy about the unfair treatment you have encountered.

He had always declared his love for "Kiana" and had even told "Kiana" that she was "ultimately fucking cute", but in the end... in the end... he was also Kiana and she was right next to him, but that guy actually... actually left her there and went to find another woman!

Kiana did not realize what kind of conclusion she would come to if she continued to deduce with this kind of thinking logic. She did not think deeply about it and was simply venting her dissatisfaction and jealousy.

But in the eyes of Vita, who was walking side by side with her, this sourness obviously had a different flavor.

Vita pondered for a moment and said tentatively: "Well, that is to say, Kiana did not come to Teacher Weiwei's construction site on her own initiative, but was forcibly brought here by others, right?"

"It seems a bit wrong to say that I was forced..." Kiana's expression was a little tangled. "After all, what Shubai said was actually not wrong. This is our job when we came to this world... this island."

Vita nodded and put on an understanding expression: "That can't be helped. Even if you want to do your best every day, there will always be times when you are not satisfied with the current situation. However, since you, Kiana, are still staying at this construction site, it should also mean that you are not unable to accept the current environment, right?"

"After all, although Teacher Wei Erwei's instructions are always a little difficult, she is a very free person. If she didn't have that kind of free concept, she probably wouldn't be able to come up with so many amazing ideas."