The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

——I want to see who dares to help you out!

2014 December 1

Far Eastern Time, eight in the morning.

Today is the day when the entrance examination results are announced.

Li Shubai stood in the crowded hall, looking up at the huge screen on the wall.

The screen displayed the rankings and scores of all the students. It was obviously the entrance exam list, and he quickly found his name on the list.

It is not at the top of the list, but it is not far from the top.

Li Shubai, theoretical exam: 98, grade A, practical exam: 87, grade B, comprehensive assessment, B, overall ranking: 7.

More and more people gathered around. All present were young girls around eighteen or nineteen years old. They poked their heads around, and their bright gazes and pleasant, clear voices flocked over.

"Great, I passed."

“The results of the actual combat training were better than I expected, and my ranking rose.”

"By the way, did you notice? The second and third seem to be transfer students who just transferred to St. Freya this year."

"I see, I see. Their names are... Bronya and Raiden Mei, right?"

"Yes, yes, it seems that the transfer students this year all have very good grades."

"The man named Li Shubai who ranks seventh on the list should be the only male student of Saint Freya as rumored. Judging from his name, he seems to be from Shenzhou like Sister Fu Hua."

"Is it him?"

"That should be it. The uniform he wears is a little different from ours. Judging from the results published on the list, he seems to have done very well in both the theoretical and practical exams."

"What do you think? Should we try to get him into our team?"

"Feel like you can give it a try...?"

"Sorry, please make way." When the topic inexplicably began to focus on him, Li Shubai pushed aside the girl who was crowding next to him and walked towards the hall door without hesitation.

...Three days ago, after Yulandel and Rita disappeared from his sight, he ran back to his room without much hesitation, took a nap, and returned to the Holy Mark Space that he had just left.

If I ask Theresa this kind of question, she will probably just think she is mentally ill. If I go to Kiana and the others, I probably won't get any useful answers. As for going to Yulandel and Rita's immediate superior, the Bishop of Heaven Otto...

...It's not impossible.

So Li Shubai very single-mindedly chose to seek help from the big guys in the Holy Scar Space.

In the stigmata space, after Otto listened carefully to Li Shubai's narration, he spread his hands helplessly at first, expressing his regret and gloating over the sudden loss of two generals for another self. Then he gave the answer without much hesitation: "If you mean that Yulandel and Rita suddenly disappeared after they reached a cooperative relationship with you and joined your ship, then I think you don't need to worry too much about them."

"Although you have lost your past memories and cannot recall how to use your past strength, some muscle reactions engraved in your instincts will still be triggered naturally in certain situations."

"After all, no matter what your current status is, you are still recognized by everyone as the captain of the Hyperion. With the consent of both parties, bringing the crew on board the ship is also your ability as a captain."

In other words, the moment Yulandel and Rita agreed to become crew members under my... Li Shubai's name, the two of them were teleported to the Hyperion... Although I still don't understand it, but since the two of them are safe, Li Shubai will focus his next actions on preparing for Saint Freya's entrance examination.

After two days and three nights, nearly sixty hours of full-speed and intensive study, Li Shubai not only honed his consciousness to the point where it could keep up with his body and barely reach the level of being able to fight, but also thoroughly mastered all subjects of the entrance examination for St. Freya Academy.

It is worth mentioning that it seems that because of Li Shubai, Raiden Mei and Bronya's learning attitude, which is either really serious or pretending to be serious, Kiana, who has been hanging out with them for the past two days, has managed to master the knowledge bit by bit, even though she still feels sleepy when she sees the book.

On the day of the announcement of the results, after seeing his name on the list, Li Shubai felt relieved about the entrance exam for the time being.

The next step is to do your best to learn everything you can, improve everything you can, and use everything you can before the events that are about to happen in the future, and then...

...try to turn the tragedy happening before his eyes into the story he wants to see.

The sound of high-heeled shoes hitting the ground was quick and sharp. Hearing this sound, Li Shubai suddenly came back to his senses.

He raised his head and looked at the gate not far in front of him. Wuliangta Jizi came to the door of the hall with a serious expression and hurried steps. She looked around and locked her eyes on Li Shubai, who had a confused expression.

"Come with me." She raised her finger and pointed at Li Shubai, "Yes, that's right, it's you, Li Shubai."

Chapter 2: Serial Car Rollover Case (k)

——Four days ago.

January 2014, 1, 3 a.m. Vienna time.

Church No. 557 St.

In the shadows, Otto, who had finished his daily prayers, stood up, his face expressionless.

The door of the church had already been fully opened. The white sunlight shining in through the doorway reflected the woman's charming and attractive figure without any scruples. The shadow inside the church completely enveloped Otto's body.

The clear boundary between light and dark created a tense and confrontational atmosphere, but the strange thing was that no matter the woman who opened the door and walked into the church without hesitation, or Otto who didn't care about the woman's invasion and still completed his daily prayers, their faces did not show even the slightest fluctuation.

Otto turned around, looked directly at the charming woman in front of him with her back to the sun, and chuckled.

"Just five minutes ago, Amber has shut down all of Rita Rossweisse's privileges in the Sky Island. Although I don't know who you are and why you have such excellent gene cloning technology..." Otto bowed gently to the charming woman in front of him, as polite as a standard gentleman, but his eyes were full of piercing coldness, "...but unfortunately, this distinguished guest who invaded the Sky Headquarters, you have been killed."

"Bishop Otto, you are still as confident as ever." The charming woman pursed her lips and showed a soft but beautiful smile. "But, I wonder if you have ever thought that since Rita dared to invade this heavily guarded floating island without any disguise and stood in front of you, naturally, you are also confident that you can retreat safely?"

...At this time, are you still calling yourself Rita? Although he was confused, Otto still showed his usual calm expression. He chuckled and said with interest: "Indeed, I did think that according to normal people's thinking, since I invaded here, I should be able to escape unscathed. I was also quite curious about this, but unfortunately...Since you are standing in front of me, then, what I want to know...I don't need you to ask."

As soon as the words fell, gorgeous golden feathers appeared in front of the charming woman without any warning and floated slowly.

Mimicry: Yu Duchen.

"Let me see what your so-called reliance is?" Otto murmured in a low voice.

However, the next moment——

"You are so naive to think that you can break Rita's defenses with just this little trick. I have to say, Bishop Otto, it's not completely unreasonable that you would lose to Miss Yaesakura." With a sweet laugh like a silver bell, the charming woman just glanced at the golden feathers that appeared in her vision. The feathers with hallucinogenic abilities dissipated easily as if they had never appeared.

Seeing the charming woman easily break through the mimicry of Yu Duchen, Otto's eyes showed a little surprise.

Although the words of this charming woman just now were simply dancing on Otto's minefield, he was not the kind of fool who would let anger dominate his reason. He sighed and shrugged helplessly: "I don't deny the failure of love, but this distinguished guest may have misunderstood something. What I did just now was to save you from some unnecessary pain."

His compassionate look made him look like a saint who cared about others wholeheartedly.

"Such a unique way of worrying is still difficult for Rita to understand." The charming woman showed a subtle smile, "However, Rita still agrees with what Bishop Otto said."

"You agree with what I said?" Otto was stunned and asked curiously, "What did you say?"

"Of course, it's better not to endure unnecessary pain if you can avoid it." The charming woman showed a nostalgic expression, "After all, someone once said the same thing to me, and that person has already built a nest in Rita's heart. No matter how I drive him away, he will not be moved. There is no other way. I can only spend the rest of my life with him helplessly."

"Such behavior is really excessive, don't you think, Bishop Otto?" The charming woman looked at Otto, but there was no dissatisfaction in her wine-red pupils, but they were filled with unspeakable happiness.

Otto was suddenly speechless. He looked at the happy expression on the face of the charming woman in front of him, and an inexplicable irritation rose in his chest.

"After saying so much..." He sighed and spread his hands, "...you should be aware of your situation."

"Of course, Bishop Otto has been stalling for time since the beginning, letting his men surround this remote church, right?" The charming woman was not shaken at all by Otto's words. Her beautiful face was full of confidence. She raised her fair and slender arm and stretched out her palm in Otto's direction. "But, if it's just to delay time, then both of us are the same."

"Oh?" Otto looked at the woman's actions, raised his eyebrows, and was about to speak when his expression suddenly changed.

With the place where the charming woman was standing as the center point, a dark purple circle similar to a magic circle spread out in an instant, and gorgeous and strange patterns covered the periphery of the circle.

Evil play spell: Gluttony!

The moment the huge complex ring lit up, there were continuous sounds of people falling around the church. Under the mysterious means of the charming woman, the extremely tight encirclement collapsed instantly! Even Otto himself felt dizzy, his brain seemed to have a fever, and it was difficult for him to think normally.

But what he was using was actually Hun Gang's body. Logically speaking, even if it was destroyed, his consciousness should not be affected at all.

Therefore, this woman's method is -

"Directly interfere with... the soul?" Enduring the dizziness in his head and consciousness, Otto suddenly raised his head, breathing rapidly, and looked at the charming woman with eyes full of undisguised passion.

Otto had almost given up hope of reviving Kallen from a soul level, because, after a long period of research, he realized in despair that the rules of this world do not allow the soul to exist alone. Once the container loses its vitality, the dissipated soul cannot be continued again.

But what if someone could bypass the container and directly interfere with the soul?

"I know your purpose very well, Bishop Otto." With the sound of crisp footsteps, the charming woman walked forward and stood in front of Otto. "Similarly, Rita's goal can only be achieved by you now."

"…What do you want?" Otto asked without hesitation.

"Three days later, the Judgment-level Honkai Beast Chiyou will be fully revived in the South Sea of ​​Shenzhou." A faint smile appeared on the face of the charming woman, "I want you to order your two S-level Valkyries, Lady Yulandel, and me in this world before the Far East Branch does -"

"——Eradicate the Judgment-level Honkai Beast Chiyou completely from the world."

"Is that all?" Otto was stunned, then nodded with a smile, "This is destiny's responsibility. Even if you don't say it, I will order Yulandel and... Rita to attack it."

At this time, neither Otto nor the charming woman could have imagined.

One day later, Yulandel and Rita had completely disappeared from this world.

Chapter 4: Inference, Choice (k)

2014 December 1

Far Eastern Time, 8:30 in the morning.

St. Freya Academy, the principal's office.

Theresa's office is located on the top floor of the St. Freya Academy teaching building. The four transparent skylights are inlaid with frosted glass. Even if the lights are turned off during the day, every corner of the space can enjoy the sun's bath. On both sides of the office are bookshelves full of files, and in front of the desk is a coffee table and sofa for reception.

Ji Zi opened the door and led the five students to the dean's office. She gestured to the sofas on both sides of the coffee table and said, "What I'm going to say next will take a little time. Please find a seat and sit down first."

Li Shubai glanced at the empty desk and asked curiously, "Where is Dean Theresa?"

"Principal Theresa has other arrangements. During this time, I will be the acting principal of Saint Freya." Jizi walked to the desk, opened the drawer, took out a few documents and threw them on the coffee table. "Take a look at them yourself first. If you have any questions, we can discuss them together after you finish reading them."

Kiana and Raiden Mei looked at each other, while Li Shubai, Bronya and Fu Hua calmly walked to the coffee table, each picked up a document and quickly scanned the contents.

Seeing that Li Shubai, Bronya and Fu Hua had already started working, Kiana and Raiden Mei had no choice but to follow them in confusion and picked up their own documents.

Before they could carefully read the contents of the document, Li Shubai and Fu Hua put down the document at the same time and looked at each other.

"Tell me." Ji Zi leaned against the desk, her plump buttocks wrapped in military green shorts slightly sunken by the corner of the desk, "What did you find after reading it?"

"Does the dean know about this?" Li Shubai suddenly asked. He raised his head and looked into Ji Zi's eyes seriously.

Ji Zi looked back at Li Shubai and said calmly, "Not yet. When this document was intercepted by the Valkyrie planted in the Shenzhou military by Tianming, Dean Theresa had already left Saint Freya."

"Why?" Li Shubai asked.

"Principal Theresa's affairs are not your business, and you have no right to ask about her whereabouts." Ji Zi glanced at Li Shubai coldly and said calmly, "Now, I am the acting president of St. Freya College. Is there any problem?"

"..." Li Shubai shook his head helplessly, looked at Fu Hua with a complicated expression again, took a step back, indicating that he had nothing to say.

Ji Zi couldn't help but frown at the inexplicable contemptuous attitude, but before she could say anything, another calm voice suddenly sounded.

"Major Ji Zi, on this issue, my opinion is the same as Li Shubai's." The person who spoke was Fu Hua. She looked into Ji Zi's eyes seriously and said in a serious tone: "According to the data, the unexplained shipwreck accident that occurred on the border of Shenzhou's South China Sea should have been caused by the collapse."

"Of course I know that." Ji Zi's expression eased a little. In Ji Zi's eyes, although Li Shubai's grades were excellent, he was selected as one of the candidates for this mission only because of his background rather than his strength. Therefore, Ji Zi didn't care much about Li Shubai's words and questions, but Fu Hua's warning made her take it seriously: "So what?"

"According to the icebreaker's navigation data recorder," Li Shubai suddenly spoke up. "From the time they arrived at the designated sea area to the time all personnel suddenly stopped operations, it was about an hour and a half. In the report, I saw that the polar icebreaker was carrying China's most advanced submersible at this stage, which can dive to depths of less than 7,000 meters in less than two hours."

Ji Zi and Fu Hua looked at each other and nodded: "...Go on."

"Look at the sea area where they are carrying out their mission." Li Shubai walked to the side of the coffee table, bent down slightly, and pointed to the place where the shipwreck occurred. "This is the border of the South China Sea, and it is also the dividing line between the Zhongsha Islands and the Philippine Islands. That place is the Manila Trench, and the deepest depth of the seabed is more than 5,000 meters. That is to say, after arriving at the mission area, the submersible successfully reached the seabed after an hour and a half of deep diving, and then at that moment-"

"——boom!" Li Shubai made an exaggerated gesture. "Something lurking at the bottom of the trench destroyed the submersible and the icebreaker in an instant."

"..." Ji Zi fell into silence, feeling a chill on her back.

She was also a seasoned warrior, and after Li Shubai's reminder, she quickly discovered something was wrong.

The time between the submersible losing contact and the icebreaker being wrecked was probably less than ten seconds, because before the icebreaker was wrecked, it had not lost contact with the expedition team's superiors.

However, the captain of the ship still did not have time to upload the data detected by the submersible to his superiors. Instead, he decisively chose to protect the only recorder that could leave navigation command data at the last moment, hoping that this clue could serve as a warning to possible disasters.

In other words, the moment the submersible lost contact, the captain had already sensed his own death through vision or hearing...

"It crossed a depth of 5,000 meters in an instant, and destroyed the submersible and the icebreaker at the same time. An unknown entity..." Li Shubai smiled, "...I don't know what you are planning, Major Jizi, but I have no interest in a battle that has no chance of winning. This level of vicious Houkai incident, in the absence of Principal Theresa... Excuse me for being blunt."

"With just two A-rank Valkyries, they are simply seeking death."

Quiet, terrifyingly quiet.

Mei Raiden and Kiana were both stunned by Li Shubai's bluntness. Bronya had a blank expression on her face, while Fu Hua gently adjusted her glasses and did not say anything.

Jizi carefully looked at Li Shubai's frosty expression. Contrary to Kiana and Raiden Mei's expectations, she was not angry. Instead, she smiled softly and said something that seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation: "It seems that you have almost finished reading all the current textbooks of Saint Freya."

"Not really." Li Shubai shook his head. "At least, I have to know what kind of teammates I'm fighting with, and I have to clearly understand what I can do... In terms of physical strength alone, an A-level Valkyrie is dozens of times stronger than the most advanced submersible in Shenzhou. Even if you are only equipped with the most basic diving equipment, it is not too difficult for an A-level Valkyrie like you to dive 5,000 meters in the deep sea."

"But even so, your physical strength cannot match the natural barrier formed by the sea water at a depth of 5,000 meters." Li Shubai said, "Since that thing can penetrate the sea water more than 5,000 meters deep from the bottom of the sea in an instant and destroy the icebreaker, it is not difficult to kill the A-level Valkyrie with the same method."

"Not to mention -" Li Shubai turned his gaze and glanced at Fu Hua lightly, "- the South China Sea is not an auspicious place."