The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Neither Kiana nor Li Shubai had a yacht driving license, so they could only stay on the deck and do other work. Kiana would occasionally throw a mechanical device into the sea, while Li Shubai, standing on the side, focused his attention, staring at the swaying wind vane, while keeping an eye on the weather changes in the nearby waters through his personal terminal.

The weather vane was spinning violently, constantly changing the direction it indicated. The cold breeze stung Li Shubai's cheeks, making him frown.

Logically speaking, on such a cloudless sunny day, the wind in the South China Sea would not change its direction too drastically. However, under the influence of other forces, the weather in this area of ​​the sea has completely lost the control of nature, and the early warnings of meteorological satellites have all failed. Now the only thing they can rely on is their own ability to respond.

"The construction progress of the Honkai energy detection array is 98 percent." Ji Zi's calm voice came from the cockpit, "If we deploy another twelve detectors, we will be able to see everything happening in the entire South China Sea."

The huge array consisting of 600 Honkai energy detectors is enough to thoroughly cover every corner of this sea area.

Although this huge array might completely lose its original effectiveness after half a day due to the influence of ocean currents, it would all be worth it if Chi You hiding in the sea could be found within half a day.

"However, we are not the only ones who know this. It seems that our enemies are also aware of this very clearly." Suddenly, Li Shubai's voice sounded with a hint of chill.

"What do you mean..." Kiana raised her head after throwing another detector into the sea. The scene that came into her eyes made her stop talking.

Without Li Shubai's reminder, she also noticed the sudden abnormality in the air. Only a blind person could not see that kind of thing. A few seconds ago, there was a cloudless sky, and suddenly a low-pressure cloud appeared out of thin air. In the fierce hurricane, the low-pressure cloud was like a whirlpool, and the deafening thunder and the endless spreading lightning resounded in all directions.

Collapse is undoubtedly an abnormal phenomenon caused by collapse. Seeing the abnormal scene happening in front of him, Li Shubai almost subconsciously recalled the content of the textbook "Theory and Practice of Dealing with Collapse" of Saint Freya Academy. The first sentence of the book clearly stated: [The so-called collapse can never be accurately predicted by humans]

What a joke! The very existence of this product that ignores the laws of physics and nature is the biggest mockery of the achievements and civilization obtained by human beings in exploring the world.

But no one on the yacht panicked, not to mention Himeko and Kiana; after adapting to the Honkai energy in this body and realizing how to fight correctly, even Li Shubai could easily overcome the physiological limits that ordinary people could hardly imagine. However, this degree of meteorological disaster could not shake him at all.

"Can we contact Team Fu Hua?" Li Shubai walked to the window of the cockpit and asked Ji Zi, who quickly glanced at her personal terminal, shook her head quickly, and replied: "No, the electromagnetic field disorder caused by Honkai energy has temporarily disabled all communication equipment."

"Really? That's terrible." Li Shubai's voice was flat. "What should we do next? Should we find a way to reunite with Fu Hua's team first, or should we evacuate this sea area first?"

"Let's meet up with Fu Hua's team first." Ji Zi said, "According to the cruise route we planned at the beginning, Fu Hua's team should be not far from us now. In short, we should gather all the available manpower together first, and then think of a way to proceed to the next step."

"I knew it..." Li Shubai shook his head helplessly. "Although I feel that asking you won't change your decision, I still want to mention it. Captain Jizi, aren't you afraid that we will be caught in one fell swoop?"

"Why do you say that?" Ji Zi turned her head and looked at Li Shubai calmly.

"If we assume that the collapse in this area was caused by Chi You, who may have revived," Li Shubai said calmly, "it stands to reason that the more we investigate, the more we will fall into the trap set by the other party."

"Do you think that everything we saw and encountered was a trap set by Chiyou?" Ji Zi frowned, while Li Shubai shook his head. "It's just that this possibility is not ruled out. Although most Honkai beasts do not have what can be called rational intelligence, if they really have no brains at all, I think that thing should not have forced Emperor Xuanyuan to the point where he had to be buried with it."

"Even if it's really a trap, so what." Ji Zi smiled, "Isn't it our mission to fight against Honkai?"

"So I don't have any doubts about your decision. I made it very clear at the beginning, didn't I?" Li Shubai opened the window, took out the equipment box placed next to Ji Zi, and then turned around and left without any regrets. "--It's just an unnecessary inquiry."

After getting the next course of action from Ji Zi, Li Shubai returned to the deck and walked behind Kiana.

Kiana's eyes were filled with solemnity. After realizing that Li Shubai had walked behind her, she turned her face and whispered, "So, what we're going to do next..."

"The mission continues." Li Shubai interrupted Kiana calmly. He handed the equipment box he took out from Ji Zi's side to Kiana. "This sea area is very rich in marine life. These creatures are extremely useful and convenient blades for the upcoming Honkai phenomenon."

The manifestations of Honkai are indeed not limited to dead soldiers and Honkai beasts. However, no matter what form of Honkai takes, after it completely erupts, it will definitely infect the creatures in the area with Honkai energy in different ways, or directly turn them into ashes, or... turn them into dead soldiers and Honkai beasts.

"Understood!" Kiana took the equipment box and took out the pulse pistol that Saint Freya had distributed to the Valkyries on the mission. She weighed the pistol and her eyes flashed with confidence: "Leave the battle to me. I won't let them get close to us!!"

"It's good to be confident, but don't be too careless." Li Shubai looked at the clouds that were about to touch the sea from afar, his expression solemn: "Even if most marine life will turn into ashes the second they are infected by Honkai... but among those creatures, even if there is only a 1%... or even a 1 in 10,000 chance that they can be successfully transformed into Honkai beasts by Honkai, it will immediately become a difficult situation for us to deal with."

"Oh..." Kiana tilted her head and nodded as if she understood.

"Also, put this thing on before the fight." Li Shubai threw a black object to Kiana, who caught it with confusion in her eyes: "Is this... a diving suit?"

"Well, this yacht may not be able to hold out for long in this collapse. It won't be long before we have to go into the water." Li Shubai said as he put on the diving suit issued by Tianming. "Although our body functions have been transformed by the collapse to the point where we won't die from suffocation even if we don't breathe, Tianming's diving suit can still make it easier for us to move underwater. If we prepare in advance, we won't be in a panic when the time comes and we don't know what to do."

At this moment, a bright flash of fire suddenly appeared in the distance, spreading out long trails in the air and rushing straight up towards the clouds.

Along with the roar of the explosion, the wantonly spreading shock waves and thick smoke temporarily disrupted the cloud layer that was about to form a vortex under the influence of the airflow. That was Bronya's heavy artillery. Although the formation of the vortex was slightly delayed by the violent explosion, neither Bronya herself who fired the artillery nor Li Shubai had any expectations of a direct hit from the artillery.

However, it was precisely because of these direct artillery fire that Li Shubai successfully locked onto the current location of Fu Hua's team with his naked eyes.

"Turn left 117 degrees, about three kilometers away from us!" Li Shubai turned his head and shouted loudly to Ji Zi in the cockpit.

With the magnetic field completely disrupted by the collapse energy, both the positioning system and the compass were completely malfunctioning, so he could only describe the current location of Fu Hua's team in such an imprecise way.

"Got it!" Ji Zi quickly turned the steering wheel of the yacht after a concise answer, then pulled the accelerator to the maximum in one breath, and gave her next instruction at a very fast speed: "Don't let the things below hinder us!"

The violent sound of gunfire instantly drowned out Ji Zi's words.

Without her orders, Kiana had already keenly heard the commotion coming from the nearby sea. She jumped to the top of the cockpit at lightning speed, spread her arms, and then quickly turned her body with her right foot as the base. The flying fire lines pierced into the sea around the yacht like blooming flowers, splashing bursts of sharp waves.

After a while, countless sea fish struggled and flapped out of the sea. Li Shubai's eyes twitched slightly. Just as he imagined, all the creatures that were not directly killed by the Honkai were transformed into pale silicon-based creatures. If Kiana hadn't received the latest pulse pistol from Saint Freya, an ordinary pistol would not be able to break even the skin of this thing.

While Kiana was quickly dealing with the Honkai beasts around the yacht, Li Shubai's hands were not idle either. He first came to the deck and fired a flare at the position directly above, then took out a pulse pistol like Kiana's from the equipment box with his right hand and came to the front of the yacht. With his left hand, he held his right wrist tightly and quickly and firmly pressed the trigger of the pistol.

He was not like Kiana who could completely ignore the strong recoil of this special pistol that could almost break an ordinary person's arm in an instant. But the pistol that Destiny gave to the Valkyrie could fire at least ten shots per second, which was enough to clear the lowest level Honkai beasts in front of him.

With the help of Kiana and Li Shubai, Ji Zi steered the yacht through the surging waves, and soon found another yacht like theirs not far away.

The two sides were about 700 meters apart. If both sides moved at full speed, they would be able to successfully meet up within 20 seconds.

Chapter 59: The Key of Domination and the Guardian of Shenzhou

But just as Ji Zi was about to rendezvous with Fu Hua's team at the fastest speed, the entire yacht suddenly shook violently. At the same time, the speedboat, which was supposed to be sailing through the waves at a speed of more than 60 knots, suddenly lost its original acceleration. Kiana, who was standing on the top of the cockpit, and Li Shubai, who was standing on the front deck, both nearly fell down due to the violent vibration and sudden loss of speed.

"These guys want to overturn the yacht!" Ji Zi frowned and stepped hard on the accelerator.

The engine made a low roar and the propeller was still turning normally, but there was not even a single wave behind the yacht.

Ji Zi's face turned pale, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Damn it, the propeller blades in the engine pipe were also destroyed by these ghost things."

As soon as the words fell, violent vibrations came one after another, and the yacht shook violently as if it was experiencing an earthquake.

After realizing that they could not stop the yacht from moving forward, the fish transformed into Honkai beasts chose to directly destroy the yacht's hull. They first dived deep into the seabed, then swam upstream at an extremely fast speed, using their hard bodies to impact the bottom of the yacht.

"The yacht can't withstand a few waves of attack! Li Shubai! Kiana! Listen to my orders!" Ji Zi smashed the glass of the yacht's hatch with a punch, got out of it very quickly, and shouted: "Prepare to abandon the ship!"

The moment Ji Zi issued this instruction, fine cracks instantly spread across the fiberglass on the bottom of the yacht, and seawater poured in through the cracks. The steel frame of the yacht also uttered a mournful cry as it was deformed and could not bear the heavy weight.

Suddenly, Ji Zi, who had jumped out of the cockpit, was stunned. She looked at Li Shubai, who had somehow run to the back of the yacht, and shouted loudly: "Hey! Did you hear my order?!"

Facing Ji Zi's questioning, Li Shubai did not answer, but explained his behavior with one word: "Jump!!!!!!"

Li Shubai's roar made Jizi and Kiana kick their feet almost instinctively and jump high from the yacht. The small speedboat, which was not huge to begin with, sank into the sea in an instant under the Valkyries' powerful jump.

Half a second later, accompanied by a low roar, the sea surface first rose slightly like an inflated balloon, and then suddenly exploded! The high waves swept in like a tsunami in the violent chain explosions, several sharp flames shot up into the sky, and metal and glass fragments flew everywhere.

It was only at this time that Ji Zi realized that Li Shubai had stuffed the bomb into the fuel tank, and then used the reaction force of their jump to turn the yacht that was submerged in the sea into a larger bomb, and used the explosion to wipe out the nearby Honkai fish school in one go.

But what about him? In such a somewhat ominous doubt, Ji Zi and Kiana looked at each other and fell into the water uncontrollably.

At the moment she warned them, Ning Jizi clearly saw that Li Shubai did not escape from the range of the explosion.

At this moment, the sound of wireless communication suddenly rang in their ears.

"Turn on the searchlight."

That was Li Shubai's voice. Upon hearing this voice, Ji Zi and Kiana breathed a sigh of relief, then turned on the searchlight located between their eyebrows as instructed and quickly searched around. Soon, they found Li Shubai who was wandering towards them quickly and waving to them.

Li Shubai's searchlight seemed to be damaged by the violent explosion. Now he could only identify his direction through the searchlights of the other two people.

Although Ji Zi and Kiana were relieved to see that Li Shubai was safe and sound, another doubt still involuntarily surfaced in their minds.

How did he survive?

What they didn't see was that behind Li Shubai, a long trail of blood spread out, gradually fading and dissipating, and finally merging into the sea water.

Emergency resuscitation needle, remaining quantity - four

"Captain Ji Zi, are you okay?" At this moment, another voice sounded in the ears of the three people. They turned their heads and found that the bright lights from three searchlights were wandering towards them.

Seeing Mei Raiden wearing a diving suit, Kiana's eyes lit up slightly, but she didn't say anything. A huge mechanical device was floating next to Bronya.

"No problem for now." Ji Zi shook her head, "What about you guys?"

"We don't have any problems either." The leader Fu Hua gave a simple answer and raised her head slightly. "But, judging from the situation, it seems that we can't leave this sea area for the time being."

After hearing Fu Hua's judgment, Ji Zi raised her head vigilantly, and when she saw the scene on the sea, her eyes sank slightly.

A thin line, as if connecting the boundary between heaven and earth, appeared at the end of the sea, and dark clouds filled every corner of the vision.

Typhoon is not a natural phenomenon, but... a collapse phenomenon caused by pure collapse energy.

When they were attacked by the tidal-like school of Honkai fish, they were so focused on the sea that they subconsciously ignored the abnormal phenomena in the sky. By the time the typhoon formed, it was too late to escape from the sea.

"It seems that we are trapped in this sea." Ji Zi sighed, but her tone did not sound nervous.

For these Valkyries, if they don't enter combat mode, they won't die from fatigue or hunger even if they work for a week without sleep or food. Their metabolic systems have been completely transformed to a level that is completely different from that of ordinary humans. It is for this reason that the diving suits that Destiny equipped the Valkyries with don't even have an oxygen supply system installed.

Therefore, although it was a hopeless situation for ordinary people, the six people present did not panic at all. If they could not even deal with this level of collapse, how could they fight against it?

"To say that I'm sleepy to death... isn't necessarily the case." Li Shubai shook his head. Under Ji Zi's puzzled gaze, he took out a small mechanical device from his arms.

"This is..." Fu Hua whispered: "...a Honkai energy detector?"

"I took this thing out of the equipment box just before the explosion." Li Shubai said calmly.

"But even if you bring this thing out, what's the use?" Ji Zi frowned, "The Honkai energy detection matrix has been basically completed, but we still haven't found Chi You's current location."

"Since no source of collapse has been detected in the other 98% of the sea area, then according to the process of elimination, Chi You's current location should be in the remaining 2% of the sea area where we have not yet deployed collapse energy detectors." Li Shubai twisted the detector in his hand, and then gently pressed a button, "To be more precise-"

The moment Li Shubai pressed the button, the indicator light of the mechanical device suddenly burst into a bright red light.

"——The guy now should be in the sea area where we are." Li Shubai showed the indicator lights of the detector to the other five stunned Valkyries one by one, and then threw the instrument away in their stunned eyes.

"What are you doing!?" Ji Zi instinctively swam over, trying to retrieve the detector that Li Shubai had dropped, but stopped after hearing Li Shubai's words.

"That thing is useless now." Li Shubai said calmly, "Originally, I took this thing out of the equipment box just to prove my point. Although I also wanted to convince myself that the so-called Judgment-level Honkai Beast should not have intelligence that can be called rational, but now it seems that my judgment was correct from the beginning."

"That guy is not only irrational... He is extremely smart." Li Shubai sighed and shook his head with a headache: "Since the day it woke up, it has not appeared in other people's sight for the second time. In order to hide, it took the initiative to trigger a very high frequency of collapse phenomenon in the South China Sea, but it was not particularly serious, so that we could not confirm the real location of that guy... But the fact is that it has never left the sea area where it woke up."

Li Shubai lowered his head and stared at the bottomless black sea water from afar: "And now, it has used the typhoon to block the shallow sea water and airspace in this sea area. Although as warriors strengthened by Honkai, even if we are caught in such a meteorological disaster, we will not lose our lives, but long-term drifting will still continue to consume our physical strength, and at that time... it will be the best time for it to show its fangs."

"Fortunately, although this is a deadly trap for us, it also made me understand another thing because of its layout." Li Shubai's mouth curled up a slight sneer, "That is, the so-called Judgment-level Honkai beast should not be as strong as I imagined at the beginning."

"Indeed, if it could easily deal with us, it would have more directly displayed its irresistible violence instead of going through so much trouble." Fu Hua calmly interrupted Li Shubai's words and looked at him: "So, for us, this is also a great opportunity."

After they finished speaking, they turned and stared at Ji Zi.

The silence lasted for a moment. When Ji Zi realized that everyone else was staring at her for some reason, she suddenly realized that she was the only one who had the power to give orders.

She patted her head in annoyance, glared at Li Shubai fiercely, spread her hands in despair, and said helplessly: "You have already made up your mind, why are you still looking at me like this?... I know, I know! Action begins! Why do I feel like you, a little brat, have become the captain..."

"Hehe..." Kiana covered her mouth and chuckled with glee. Not only her, but even Bronya and Raiden Mei couldn't help laughing.

After receiving the order from Fu Hua and Ji Zi, the six people dived deep without hesitation. The light traces of five searchlights sank into the dark seabed, like five indomitable swords.

Soon after, the South China Sea.

The sea was surging due to the heavy rain, and dark clouds covered the sky, as if it had entered the night ahead of time.

At this moment, Shenzhou's Meteorological Bureau was in complete chaos.

A meteorological disaster unprecedented in the past hundred years swept across the South China Sea in less than ten minutes. Except for meteorological satellites, all other instruments and equipment have completely lost the ability to monitor the surrounding weather.

The director of the Meteorological Bureau looked at his subordinates, whose faces were covered in cold sweat and panic, and after being stunned for half a second, he ran all the way to the data monitoring center. Then, when he saw the data and satellite weather maps that were beyond his understanding, he took out the landline phone next to him, called the local department's landline phone with cold sweat on his forehead, and roared like a madman.

Similar scenes also appeared in various cities along the South China Sea coast. In the eyes of ordinary people, the weather changes in the South China Sea may be just an ordinary typhoon that is slightly out of season. However, only experts who are truly proficient in this field can clearly realize that this is an unstoppable, unpredictable, and complete disaster.

Just as the coastal cities in the South China Sea fell into chaos.

In the eye of the typhoon, the only place not obscured by clouds and heavy rain, Rita Rossweisse with beautiful long hair stood quietly in the air, with a bright blue tail flame emanating from behind her.

Rita herself had no ability to fly, the reason she could fly in the air was because she was wearing the fourth generation God-killing armor, the Brilliant Knight Moon Soul, which was temporarily loaned to her by Bishop Otto. Driven by the flight module of the Brilliant Knight Moon Soul, Rita passed through the high clouds and the raging storm without much effort, and arrived at the eye of the typhoon.

"The captain of today has no experience in confronting a Judgment-level Honkai Beast head-on." Although no one could be seen in the eye of the storm, Korita still spoke calmly in a soft yet cold tone, "So, he doesn't know that even a Judgment-level Honkai Beast can't change the climate so drastically in a short period of time."

Silence fell, but the howling of the wind and the rustling of the rain continued to echo.

"Although drastic weather changes are indeed a form of Honkai phenomenon. However, with the Judgment-level Honkai beast awakened, the one controlling this sudden typhoon is not an ordinary Honkai phenomenon, but someone else."

"..."

"Even after talking about this, you still don't want to show up?" After a moment of silence, Rita, who was suspended in the center of the eye of the storm, stared at the empty space in the center of the eye of the storm. A calm smile appeared on her beautiful face, "-- Miss Ji Lin, who holds the Key of Domination and can control the power of the wind within a certain range."

Chapter 4: Encounter in the Deep Sea, Death Battle in the Eye of the Storm (k)

2014 December 1

Shenzhou time, 3:00 p.m.

As the six people gradually dived deeper into the sea, the light nearby became increasingly scarce.