The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Yes! Captain Himeko!" said Raiden Mei.

"Bronya, I have received your instructions." Bronya said calmly.

After saying that, Ji Zi led the two girls away from the bottom of the sea and slowly floated towards the surface of the sea.

When Himeko, Raiden Mei and Bronya were all swallowed by the darkness, Li Shubai let out a long sigh.

He looked at Fu Hua, then winked in the direction of Kiana, and said calmly: "How about this, let her stay here."

"What do you mean?" Fu Hua asked calmly.

"You should be able to see that I already know your identity." Li Shubai narrowed his eyes. "If it weren't for this, you wouldn't have chosen to send Ji Zi and the others away. Exploring the truth about the Xuanyuan Sword is just a cover, isn't it?"

"Huh?" Kiana tilted her head and opened her mouth slightly. She looked at Fu Hua, then at Li Shubai, her face full of confusion: "Is that so?"

"..." Fu Hua's eyes did not fluctuate at all because of Li Shubai's words. She looked at Kiana calmly, suddenly raised her arm, and pointed at Kiana's forehead from a distance.

The bright and beautiful feathers appeared without warning in the sight of Kiana who was not prepared at all. The moment she saw the feathers, Kiana's blue eyes suddenly lost their luster.

Yu Duchen.

"This way, no one will be able to interfere with our conversation." Fu Hua put away her arms and said lightly.

"Uh..." Li Shubai was at a loss for words, "...Okay, you win."

Fu Hua turned her gaze and stared into Li Shubai's eyes: "Now that Kiana can't hear our conversation, then... let me ask you, who are you?"

"An ordinary student of St. Freya." Li Shubai replied indifferently.

"Ordinary Saint Freya students?" Fu Hua shook her head expressionlessly. "Ordinary students cannot have such a clear understanding of what happened on this land."

"..." Li Shubai remained silent.

"Moreover, you said that you knew my identity..." Fu Hua pondered for a moment, "...you know me?"

"Who in China doesn't know the famous Chiyuan Immortal?" Li Shubai spread his hands and said with an exaggerated expression.

After hearing what Li Shubai said, Fu Hua raised her eyebrows, a little surprised.

Unexpectedly, she would suddenly hear the name that she had almost forgotten here.

"In the student information of Saint Freya, I saw that you, like Kiana and Raiden Mei, are all survivors of the Third Great Collapse." Fu Hua did not continue Li Shubai's words. She glanced at Kiana and said calmly, "In other words, before becoming a student of Saint Freya Academy, you and Kiana already knew each other, right?"

"That's right..." Li Shubai nodded, "Why do you ask me this?"

Fu Hua did not answer Li Shubai's question, but changed the subject and said calmly: "Since you respect me as Chiyuan and I am from Shenzhou. Then, you should keep my words in mind, right?"

"That depends on what the Red Kite Immortal is going to say." Li Shubai smiled, "After all, this is the first time I've seen the Red Kite Immortal's true form. If the Immortal wants me to commit suicide, then I really can't obey your order."

"Don't worry, I won't embarrass you." Fu Hua said calmly, "Besides, what I want to say to you is just advice, not an order. As for whether you are willing to listen to my advice, and the consequences you need to bear after making a choice, that has nothing to do with me."

"It seems like a serious matter." Li Shubai smiled, "So, what kind of advice does the Red Kite Immortal want to give me?"

"Don't get too close to her." Fu Hua pointed at Qiana and said softly, "Her identity is more dangerous than you think."

"...You mean," Li Shubai said calmly, "she is the body of the Second Herrscher?"

Fu Hua's eyes revealed a look of surprise, and she said in astonishment: "You even know this."

"I not only know that she is the second Herrscher's body." Li Shubai smiled. He stared into Kiana's eyes with a gaze full of warmth and trust, and whispered in an extremely confident tone: "I also know that she will never lose to the Herrscher's consciousness... absolutely not."

Fu Hua looked at Li Shubai deeply.

She didn't know where Li Shubai's trust came from, but he knew the Herrscher, and even knew that Kiana's true form was the body of the second Herrscher. Presumably, he should not be completely ignorant of the existence of the Herrscher.

In this case, there is naturally no reason for Fu Hua to interfere with Li Shubai's choice.

What neither Fu Hua nor Li Shubai noticed was that Kiana's pupils slightly rippled the moment Li Shubai's words fell, but then immediately returned to silence in panic.

"If you know what's going on, I won't remind you about her anymore." Fu Hua said, "Then, for the second question, you should have guessed that the thing that was truly revived in this collapse event was not Chi You."

The topic turned to things related to the Honkai incident. Li Shubai turned his gaze away from Kiana, hesitated for a moment, and nodded: "To be honest, I guessed it when I saw that the seal below was empty."

"That's right. The seal set by Ji Lin is not something that can be broken so easily." Fu Hua said, "It is a cage made of the power of ice, shackles made of the power of thunder, and poison made of the power of death... and in the end, it uses the power of space to completely separate it from this world..."

Fu Hua looked at the ice beneath her feet with a solemn expression: "It is impossible for Chi You to break through these heavy seals with his words alone. Its power cannot be accumulated and will only gradually dissipate with the passage of time."

"...So, the thing that awakened in this sea area was not the Judgment-level Honkai Beast Chi You from the beginning." Li Shubai whispered, "but... Ji Lin who holds the Key of Domination."

The feeling of depression came silently, Li Shubai pursed his lips and fell into silence.

Although he had never believed from the beginning that he could predict everything, he still felt a little frustrated and depressed to be misled to such an extent.

Fu Hua was unaware of Li Shubai's depression. She stretched out her fingers and called the bright feathers back to her palm. At the same time, Kiana's pupils once again showed vitality and light.

Fu Hua looked at Li Shubai calmly and denied his words three minutes ago in a flat tone: "You think too much. I'm just an ordinary Valkyrie. Kiana, go check the true situation of Xuanyuan Sword immediately. After that, we will follow Jizi's team and surface immediately."

The corners of Kiana's mouth twitched slightly at a level that was barely noticeable. She knew why Fu Hua said that, but she had to pretend that she knew nothing.

So she could only turn her face away the second after Fu Hua gave the order, so as not to let Li Shubai and Fu Hua see her extremely strange expression, and then nodded quickly: "I know, I know! Just pull out the weapon!"

If it weren't for the fact that the Herrscher of Fire had used the power to interfere with consciousness, and if Kiana hadn't instinctively understood how to fight against the power of consciousness after experiencing the mapping of consciousness, perhaps she would have been completely trapped in the illusion created by Yu Duchen.

While feeling grateful to her future self, Kiana swiftly came to the center of the seal array and pulled out the famous golden sword.

——At the same time, the eye of the typhoon.

Ji Lin's body suddenly stopped.

Chapter 4: The Enemy Appears (k)

[That was the Watcher's mass for himself, and also the prelude to his true descent into the mortal world.]

In a battle where both sides' speeds exceed the speed of sound by several times, even a flaw of just 0.1 second can be fatal.

Rita did not miss the slightest flaw revealed by Ji Lin. Her swiftly flying figure and the figure of the petite female knight, like a tilted scale, intersected with each other in the windless eye of the storm.

The azure comet soars into the sky, singing the song of victory.

The pitch-black knight fell into the underworld, foreshadowing his defeat.

Like a petal, the devilish purple sickle radiated, and at the moment when the figures of both sides intersected, it mercilessly cut Ji Lin and the horse she was riding in half.

Undoubtedly a fatal injury.

The sickle that reaped lives started from the heart of the warhorse on the lower side, and cut along Ji Lin's waist all the way to a depth deep enough to cut off the heart.

However, Rita couldn't help but show a look of astonishment on her face.

Because, at the moment when her sickle successfully harvested Ji Lin's life, her figure disappeared without warning.

At the same time, the nearby clouds and storms seemed to have lost their driving force. Although they did not stop immediately, they gradually slowed down their pace of ravaging nature and the laws of physics.

I believe that before long, the collapse phenomenon generated in this sea area will gradually merge with this world and turn into an ordinary natural phenomenon.

The Moo crisis has been resolved. In other words, this time she has won - although she has such certainty, the uneasiness in Rita's heart has not been reduced in the slightest by the fact that she has won.

She was suspended in the air, looking at the sickle in her hand in confusion.

That moment just now...the moment when the sword chopped into Ji Lin's body.

After stabbing into the opponent's body, the feeling of the sickle's blade is transmitted to the hand.

Rather than piercing the life of a living being, it would be more accurate to say that it felt like cutting through an inorganic substance like steel.

"What on earth happened?" Feeling uneasy, Rita whispered to herself while floating in the air.

——South China Sea, four hundred meters deep under the sea.

"The ocean currents around here don't seem to be as violent as they were earlier." As she surfaced, Himeko turned her head and gave instructions to Bronya and Raiden Mei, "Speed ​​up now and get back to the surface in one go."

But what Himeko waited for was not the response from Raiden Mei and Bronya, but a sudden dark hole.

The three people who were floating up were suddenly shocked. Bronya turned around at the first moment and controlled the Heavy Armored Bunny to unfold a spherical stance shield. Raiden Mei drew out her pulse sword and was ready to fight at any time.

But when the three saw the two figures emerging from the black hole, they were all stunned at the same time.

"Kiana, Fu Hua?" Ji Zi asked in surprise, "How could you...?"

Fu Hua's expression seemed a little confused, as if she had just woken up from a dream; there was a faint golden light flashing in Kiana's eyes, but soon, the golden light disappeared as if it was running for its life, as if it had never existed and was just an illusion of others.

Fu Hua quickly came back to her senses. She rubbed her forehead slightly and said with a gloomy face: "The power of space... teleported the two of us out."

She quickly glanced at Kiana, whose eyes were still a little hazy, and moved her sight to the dark depths of the sea. Then, she turned her face to the side and said to Ji Zi, "I don't know why, that inexplicable force only teleported Kiana and me out, and classmate Li Shubai was left alone down there."

"Major Jizi, please lead them to the surface first." Fu Hua said, "As for Li Shubai's matter, leave it to me for now."

"Wait!" Kiana shook her head fiercely, trying to get rid of the vague feeling in her mind as much as possible, but she still couldn't help feeling dizzy, "Class Leader, I'm with you!"

Kiana bit her lower lip, feeling a little annoyed. If she had not been careless for a moment and been bewitched by the will hidden in the Xuanyuan Sword the moment she pulled out the Sword, she would not have left Li Shubai alone in the deep sea where he didn't know what dangers might be.

Fu Hua looked at Kiana deeply, shook her head, and said with an unquestionable determination: "Kiana, I know you are worried about Li Shubai, but you have been controlled by that weapon once. If you are controlled again, you will not be able to do anything except increase the danger."

"But——!" Kiana wanted to refute anxiously, but was stopped by Fu Hua in a calm tone: "There is no need to say anything extra. The mission of exploring the Xuanyuan Sword was ordered by me as the captain, so it should be me who brings him back."

"..." Kiana wanted to say something, but suddenly closed her mouth.

She looked at her squad leader, Fu Hua, who was not far away, gazing calmly at the dark seabed with her waist straight. Her back, which was not very strong, looked as thin and hard as a rock. Although she was only wearing a blue diving suit like them, her whole body exuded a quiet and vicissitudes of life atmosphere and an indescribable majesty.

Kiana stared at Fu Hua's posture in a daze, and suddenly she felt a slight chill on her back.

The few instinctive memories left by the Herrscher of Fire made it difficult for Kiana to develop any real hostility towards Fu Hua even after she was subjected to Yu Duchen's mental control.

But recalling what Li Shubai said when she was controlled by Yu Duchen, combined with the few memories left in her brain by her future self, Kiana finally realized the true identity of this seemingly dull and boring squad leader Fu Hua.

Yes, even for Kiana Kaslana at this point in time, Fu Hua is a somewhat dangerous person, but there is no doubt that as a Red Kite Immortal who is famous throughout the Shenzhou Continent, when she stands beside her in the same position, she is undoubtedly a very reliable partner.

"Then... I'll trouble you, monitor." After hesitating for a moment, Kiana nodded with some difficulty, "Please be sure to bring Shubai back."

Fu Hua didn't say anything, but nodded, her emerald eyes flashing with molten gold flames.

Then, in the sight of the four people, Fu Hua leapt into the depths of the dark sea until her body was completely swallowed up by the endless darkness.

As I was about to wake up from my sleep, I noticed a faint light shining into my eyes.

Li Shubai opened his sleepy eyes and turned his gaze away feeling somewhat uncomfortable in the glaring sunlight.

The room was quiet. Bright sunlight sneaked in through the gaps in the blackout curtains. Judging from how scorching the sunlight was, it seemed that it had already reached noon.

Today is the weekend. Last night, I worked until very late at home in order to finish the company's financial planning table for next month, as well as to sort out the bidding meeting I need to attend the day after tomorrow and the public announcements of other companies. When I woke up today, I had completely missed the opportunity for breakfast.

Li Shubai dragged his slightly tired body to the window and opened the curtains. The sunlight rushed into the clean and simple room, making him unable to help but stretch out his hands and cover his eyes with the sunlight.

The fatigue from lack of sleep still lingered in Li Shubai's mind, making him feel as if he was still a little dazed. He patted his cheeks, and suddenly felt a little ashamed and covered his face.

"I'm already in my twenties, why am I still having those second-year dreams..."

He actually dreamed that he traveled into the Honkai world and had an encounter with Kiana and the others. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his gaze to the display shelf next to the wardrobe.

"Huh?" He tilted his head in confusion when he saw the scene on the display stand.

There was nothing on it, neither figures nor standees. The empty display stand stood next to the hangers full of clothes, creating an extremely strange contrast.

"Why is there nothing here?" Li Shubai touched his chin, feeling a little strange. "If I'm not going to put anything here, why would I put a display stand here?"

Forget it, forget about that, go wash your face first.

After opening the door, Li Shubai went to the bathroom according to his memory.

Inorganic footsteps echoed in the empty room. The bright sunlight illuminated the deserted house, dyeing the furniture in the house with a melancholy color.

Although it was an association with no connection and no evidence, for some reason, Li Shubai felt that this place was more like a tomb for ghosts than a home for people to live in.

"I must not be fully awake yet. How could I have such a strange idea?" He muttered as he turned on the faucet in the bathroom. Suddenly he was startled, "What the hell?!"

What came out of the faucet was not clear natural water, but sticky and bright red blood. Li Shubai could even smell a faint smell of rust from the gushing blood.

"What's going on?!" Li Shubai's scalp went numb as he watched the horrifying scene in front of him. He rushed to the faucet with his hands and feet, and pressed the faucet valve in a panic, trying to shut off the blood that was constantly gushing out.

But even though the faucet was turned off, blood was still gushing out of the outlet.

Li Shubai pressed the faucet hard a few times, but when he realized that this was a futile act, he subconsciously wanted to escape.

Then, he raised his head and inevitably looked at himself in the mirror. This one look made him completely stop wanting to escape.

The self in the mirror was looking at himself with a cold gaze. He was holding a golden sword with the blade connected to his chest.

"Ah..." Li Shubai slowly lowered his head.

The thing that spurted out blood was not the faucet, but his own heart.