The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"No, I can't do it." Vita shook her head and said bluntly.

"... 乕... can't do it?"

"Before coming here, I was prepared for you to control me or read my memory. So, although I know that your little wife is in my hands, as I just said, that part of my memory was deleted by me before I came to the cloned Earth you created."

"Then how do we get that memory back?"

"Go to the Quantum Sea." Vita said calmly.

"The quantum sea?"

"You are a captain who has sailed in the Quantum Sea for a long time. Don't you know what the Quantum Sea is made of?" Vita rolled her eyes, put her hands on her hips, and put on an unhappy expression. "I really don't understand why I let someone like you become my captain..."

"..." Li Shubai was speechless for a moment. For some reason, he seemed to be able to vaguely see a heart-shaped logo floating above Vita's head, and a 0/900 favorability bar below it.

Very good. Although Vita did become his "controllable character", since he had just drawn Vita, the other party's favorability towards him was still very low. Although the other party had lost the possibility of being hostile to him, it was natural for him to speak ill of him.

Out of caution, Li Shubai decided to ask, "I remember that the quantum sea is made up of a basic element called ether, right? Is there any problem?"

"Then do you know what the so-called ether is?"

"This……"

This question really stumped Li Shubai. Although he had a little knowledge of the various technical theories of this world under the influence of Einstein, Tesla, and Snake, he had only a superficial understanding and did not have a deep understanding of those profound theoretical knowledge. So he expressed his ignorance very frankly: "What is it?"

"memory."

"Memory?" Su and Li Shubai exclaimed in unison.

"To be precise, it's a memory that has taken shape." Vita crossed her arms, closed one eye, and put on a very proud expression. It seemed that she was enjoying the pleasure brought by the superiority of knowledge. "Although you, the captain, have traveled through countless parallel worlds and world bubbles, in the end, the farthest distance you have traveled is still only near your own planet."

Li Shubai did not refute Vita's words, because he indeed could not extend his range of activities beyond the earth. Although Hyperion could jump in different spaces, if it did not use the ability of space folding, the highest cruising speed it could reach in the real world could not even break the speed of light.

On the scale of the universe, even the speed of light is no different from the crawling speed of a turtle.

"You have lived in the solar system for hundreds of millions of years, but you have not found a way to leave it." Li Shubai said, "You must have been blocked by the imaginary energy that isolates the galaxy."

"Did you notice that, too?"

"Hmph, whether it is the humans of this era or the humans of the last era, they have all made countless attempts to leave the solar system. Unfortunately, those actions have all failed without exception," said Li Shubai.

"But, I think no one has reached the edge of the solar system like me." Vita said with a smile, "Luckily, although my star-crosser cannot break through the imaginary internal energy tidal belt and send out the signal, for those 'big shots' out there, interstellar travel... doesn't seem to be a concept that only exists on paper."

Li Shubai was stunned: "Have you ever received a signal from an extraterrestrial civilization?"

"They are just unilaterally accepting the information from outside... From the perspective of 'over there', maybe they are just communicating with people from other galaxies? It's just that the communication happened to be captured by the Star Crossing."

"The content of their communications is really explosive, like some star god, some messenger, and in between there are also some companies, families, Liuguang Yiting and other forces." Vita shrugged, and a look of fear suddenly appeared on her face. "Sometimes, I don't know whether I should be thankful that the technology of the Star Crossers is not enough to support us to send signals to the outside world. Otherwise, if we are discovered, who knows what excessive things those people will do to the solar system..."

Chapter 4: Life goes on, troubles never cease (k)

The nouns that Vita said made Li Shubai frown slightly.

Although he had chosen to use his naked eyes to confirm the real situation of this world a long time ago, rather than leaving his understanding of this world at the stage before the time travel, even if he did not regard the "game content" before the time travel as the truth, those "game contents" still had their necessary reference value.

In his previous life, the time point when he traveled through was probably in the middle of the version of the Paradise of the Past. Although he was able to master stories from the future due to the continuous updates of the APP on that smartphone, even so, the scope he could access was limited to the events that happened in "this world".

The "this world" here does not refer to an independent world, but a whole range of "recorded events" that derive from everything that happens in the intrinsic world as the basic framework.

On the other hand, Li Shubai certainly had no way of confirming things that had not been recorded. There was almost no other way for him to go except to personally venture into those unknown areas that had never been observed by the "game content".

Outside the solar system is a vast universe. Although it is difficult for the natives from Earth to escape from the solar system due to the barrier of imaginary numbers, even Vita, an alien resident who has spent a year in the universe and the quantum sea, is trapped in this galaxy like them. However, if we look at it from the perspective of the universe, Li Shubai can almost conclude that there is an advanced civilization outside the solar system that has developed to the stage of interstellar civilization.

One of the ironclad evidences is the existence of the Cocoon of the End.

After forcibly requisitioning the power of the Cocoon of the End, Li Shubai had already read about this thing's experience of traveling in outer space. In fact, before arriving on Earth, it had already visited at least three planets in the solar system.

Except for the first planet, which is too close to the sun to have any possibility of giving birth to life, the second and fourth planets, which are closest to the third planet, the Earth, both gave birth to civilizations hundreds of millions or even billions of years ago, and were completely destroyed by the end in different ways.

Although three different civilizations were born in the solar system of this world, none of them was the civilization that created the Cocoon of the End, so Li Shubai could only conclude that the Cocoon of the End was a mechanism deployed by other civilizations outside the solar system from the beginning.

Another piece of evidence is what he saw and heard before he traveled through time.

The time point he traveled through was probably in the middle of the version of the Paradise of the Past, which was May 2022. At that time, the third orthodox work of the Honkai IP had completed its first internal test half a year ago. Although Li Shubai in his previous life did not win the qualification for the internal test, he also knew that the work called "Honkai: Star Dome Railway" told a story that happened in the stars.

"Company... Family... Liuguang Yiting." He touched his chin and repeated Vita's words. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong. "Can you recognize the language they use?"

"Rather than saying that I can recognize their language, it's better to say that the signals they send out have a strange technology that allows people to understand them on their own." Vita nodded between her eyebrows and smiled, "It's the same reason why the power of the Herrscher of Knowledge will not be blocked outside the brain by a language barrier."

"Can people understand each other's language at the conscious level?" Li Shubai raised his eyebrows. "It seems that the communication methods between interstellar civilizations are much more advanced than we imagined."

"So, you also obtained the knowledge about the Quantum Ocean from those scattered signals?"

"It's just combined with the actual experience of managing world bubbles." Vita said, "You should also know that the quantum sea is actually a different dimension from the real world dominated by classical mechanics. In each world bubble of the quantum sea, there are all kinds of strange world laws. Those world bubbles, whether from the perspective of formation or operation, are actually idealistic rather than materialistic to a large extent. Things like time reversal, which is impossible in the real world, are no different from daily life in many world bubbles."

"..."

Indeed, Li Shubai could not deny Vita's words.

Although he possesses the power of the end and can interfere with and rewrite time within a certain range, even he cannot reverse time and erase the facts that have already happened.

If you forcibly go back to the past and reverse something that has already happened, the end result can only be the creation of a new timeline.

Unless one can maintain the original reality while changing it one by one, allowing it to continue running on the established trajectory.

Although it sounds quite contradictory, with the intervention of various abilities, Li Shubai has barely been able to do this.

This cloned Earth is one of the results.

But in the final analysis, this act of rewriting the past is only achievable after combining a variety of special abilities.

If you simply use the ability to interfere with time, you cannot modify the past.

However, this iron rule that cannot be changed in the real world is completely invalid in the world bubble.

Not only that, in many world bubbles, the basic logic of how things operate is completely different from that in the real world.

To give an example, the scale of many world bubbles is actually only about the size of a city, but in those world bubbles, Destiny, Anti-Entropy, and even the World Serpent... these organizations from different countries, different regions, and even different eras can still be preserved intact.

In some world bubbles, there is even Bronya, who has become the president of miHoYo.

He originally thought that this was due to the way the world bubbles were formed. Most of them were just incomplete "projections", but he did not expect that this was actually closely related to the formation of the quantum sea.

"The basic component of the quantum sea is something called ether. Of course, the so-called 'ether' is just a name given by us humans. In your world, it is a hypothetical substance conceived by a philosopher two thousand years ago. Later, scientists denied the existence of ether in the real world, but at that time, no one could have imagined that this world was not entirely made up of the real world, and no one could have imagined that this hypothetical substance, originally proposed by philosophers, would fill every corner of the abstract space of the quantum sea."

Vita's expression became a little more serious:

"For those interstellar civilizations that have already entered the super-distance field, their cognition and understanding of this world is far better than ours. In fact, I was not sure whether the thing called 'ether' by those extraterrestrial civilizations was the basic element of the quantum sea we know. Maybe it just happened to have the same name? But during the time when the quantum sea was active, I confirmed more than once the amazing commonality between the two."

Li Shubai narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a deep voice: "So, if, in the explanation of those interstellar civilizations, the so-called ether, which is the basic component of the quantum sea, is actually materialized memory..."

"…So, even if something…something disappears into the quantum sea, as long as there is something that materializes those memories again, we can get it back, right?"

"Hmmmm~"

Vita gently closed one eye and made a playful sound.

Li Shubai touched his nose and suddenly felt a bit amused.

"So, you were just trying to get something for nothing from the beginning? I was almost fooled by you."

The world bubble called Canghai City has long been in a stage of collapse. Except for the [Original Sin Hunter] Kallen Kaslana who escaped by chance, her binary opposite [Moonlight Oath] Theresa has completely disappeared.

Vita never found the vampire he had always been thinking about from the beginning, so of course he couldn't take her as a hostage.

She simply captured the communications from extraterrestrial civilizations and used the scattered information to piece together a method to "recover things that disappeared in the quantum sea."

"Hmph. It's obviously you who wanted to get something for nothing." Vita put her hands on her hips, a dissatisfied look on her face. "I obviously came to you with good intentions, but who would have thought that you would be so unreasonable and forcefully capture me. Ah~ah~ It's really abominable. I originally wanted to travel freely to other worlds after getting the reward, but now, all these plans have gone down the drain."

"Who told you to be so bluffing?" Li Shubai glanced at Vita with a look that carried some inexplicable meaning. "You are obviously not a kidnapper, but you have to pretend to be one. Have you ever seen a man who can remain calm after his wife was kidnapped by someone else?"

"Who said I'm not a kidnapper?" Vita's lips curled up slightly. "I just didn't kidnap your vampire wife. You didn't forget that the three Valkyries who followed you had already left this world before I came to see you, right?"

Li Shubai looked at Vita with disdain: "Can you beat the three of them?"

"Uh..." Vita was embarrassed, shook her head, and said very bluntly, "I can't beat him."

"Then how did you kidnap the three of them? Trick them into going to the Quantum Sea and asking them to save the world bubbles that were about to dissipate?" Li Shubai shrugged. He sneered, "This kind of time-delaying trick is fine if you use it to fool others, but you wouldn't fool yourself, would you?"

"...Okay, I admit it." Vita sighed, "I didn't plan to let them encounter any danger. The world bubble in the quantum sea can't stop the three Herrscher ladies."

"Of course, as for what will happen to them when they see those ether fragments from Canghai City and those scattered memory fragments of the Captain and Miss Yuexia being affectionate with each other during the process of saving the World Bubble—"

Vita smiled happily.

"That has nothing to do with me."

Li Shubai's expression froze for a moment, and it seemed as if a cheerful crow was flying over his head, cawing.

..............................

For the three Herrschers who were considered top fighters in their own world, this world with the theme of "magical girls" did not cause them much trouble at all.

From the Crescent String Area, to the Broken Star Old City, to the Ravinia Library, they finally solved the Demon King who could be called "despair" in the eyes of the original inhabitants of the World Bubble. The whole process was so smooth that Xilin and Trilili, who followed the three of them, felt as if they were redundant. Even after solving the problem of the Demon King, Kiana also re-materialized the two souls that were solidified in the anchor point.

It was only after the magical girl Freya and the magical girl Brollo reappeared with confused faces that Silin and Trilili realized that the girl who looked very similar to Brollo was not the classmate they knew at all.

"This thing will corrode the core of the magical girl... It should be the culprit that prevents people in this world from living in a fixed place for a long time, right?" Kiana said softly, looking at something in her palm.

The so-called core is actually something similar to a seed. Kiana, who has seen similar things on the Hyperion, can of course understand that this is the core of this world bubble, which is called the ether singularity. For the world bubble, its operating laws can be said to be absolute, and the laws generated by it will also affect and dominate the world bubble where it is located at all times.

For the world bubble, the ether singularity is not a necessity. The power of the ether singularity is an uncontrollable double-edged sword for the world bubble. It will certainly bring benefits to the people in the world bubble, but it will also cause irreversible damage to the situation in the world bubble at certain times.

"Let's recycle it back to the Captain's Hyperion," Raiden Mei suggested. "Compared to the three of us, the Captain should know better how to deal with this product from the World Bubble."

"That makes sense." Kiana nodded and threw the seed into the imaginary space used for storage.

Seeing these three girls in strange costumes wantonly controlling the "seeds of the devil" who regarded them as their lifelong enemies, Xilin and Terry looked at each other and couldn't help swallowing lightly.

But at this moment, Fuleai, who still looked a little confused, suddenly shuddered:

"Wait, you just said, Hyperion?"

"Huh?" The three young ladies were stunned at the same time.

Kiana nodded, "Yeah, have you heard of our captain?"

Chapter 4: The Disappearance of Xi'er (k)

Have you heard of your captain?

For some reason, when hearing these words, the expression of the magical girl Freya obviously darkened.

"Haha, of course I've heard of it. How could I not have heard of it?"

She first laughed in a tone full of sourness and a hint of inexplicable aggrievedness, then said through gritted teeth.

"..."

Kiana, Bronya, and Raiden Mei all keenly smelled a scent of melon from the resentful tone of the woman.

They looked at each other, recalled the countless times they had seen the decadent scenes while working on the Hyperion, recalled the scenes of the captain and other Valkyries intertwining with each other, and fell into silence at the same time.

Apparently, even though he had lost his memories and most of his powers, the captain was still messing around with other girls during his time wandering the Quantum Sea.

It's amazing, why hasn't he been divided up by these girls yet?

After a long silence, Kiana asked first:

"When did you... meet him?"

"Six hundred and seventy-four days ago." said the magical girl Freya.

"Uh...what is the captain you know like?" Kiana asked again.

"A man named Li." Magical Girl Fuleai said with a dark face, "More than 600 days ago, he suddenly appeared in this world and sent my other personality back."

Kiana and the other two raised their hands at the same time, supporting their foreheads with bitter faces, while the other three magical girls showed stunned expressions at the same time.

"Another personality? Why haven't I heard you talk about it before?" The magical girl Trili couldn't help but ask.

Magical girl Freya looked away, her cheeks slightly red. "It's just... I just didn't find a chance to introduce her to you."

"Where is she?" asked the magical girl Silin.

"Run away." The magical girl Freya said concisely.

"what?"

Everyone made sounds of surprise.

As the person who was closest to the two Seeles among all the people present, Bronya could probably guess what was going on with the magical girl Freya and asked subconsciously, "Run away? What do you mean?"

"Literally." Magical girl Fuleai rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "Since you have freed our souls from their imprisonment, you should have a general understanding of the situation in our world, right?"