The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

If the brain is damaged, no matter how deep the obsession, no matter how strong the memory, no matter how firm the belief, it will disappear without a trace in that instant.

It's always been like this.

In the confrontation between consciousnesses, Honkai always gains the upper hand with its absolute advantage that is difficult for individual human consciousness to contend with.

Not to mention, Li Shubai's body is not strong, nor does it have the adaptability to Honkai energy, so he is far from qualified to be a vessel for the Herrscher.

It didn't even need to create a new consciousness for the body that was corroded by Honkai energy to the brain like it did when it gave birth to the Herrscher. As long as his consciousness was dissolved, the destructive and corrosive nature of Honkai energy would be enough to turn that body into a dead warrior that only relied on killing instinct to act.

However, the development of things always changes due to chance.

When his consciousness was about to disappear without a chance of resistance, a window floating in mid-air suddenly appeared in Li Shubai's vision which was invaded by strong light.

[Captain's vital signs are weak. Do you want to use emergency resuscitation needle?: 1]

[Number remaining: 6]

【Confirm/Cancel. 】

The blue window was so faint under the strong light. Logically, Li Shubai should not be able to see the faint window in such a dazzling environment.

However, this suddenly appearing window had an extremely strong presence that he could not ignore; it appeared in his field of vision forcefully and resolutely.

However, no matter what happened, Li Shubai's consciousness did not allow him to think about it carefully.

There was only one thing he could realize.

That is, as long as you reach out now, you can get help.

The moment he confirmed it almost instinctively, the bright light that had invaded his vision disappeared.

When he regained consciousness, Li Shubai smelled a faint fragrance at the tip of his nose.

The body was lying on the stiff concrete, while the head seemed to be wrapped in two very comfortable pillows.

Um... two pillows?

Li Shubai opened his eyes, whose eyelids were still fighting, and saw the sky with dark clouds still there in confusion.

The clouds were probably blown away by the strong winter wind. The clouds that were originally so dark that they seemed to be falling down became much thinner. The obscured sunlight shone through the gaps in the clouds, making the rooftop of Qianyu Academy no longer as dark and silent as if it were trapped in the night. The nearby scenery became much brighter than before Li Shubai lost consciousness.

My body felt incredibly heavy, and I felt as if the blood circulation in my body was blocked. It seemed that if I relaxed a little, my consciousness would fall into sleep again.

I feel uncomfortable and extremely tired, as if I didn't get enough sleep. How should I put it... Yes, it's like the feeling of being woken up by the doctor after having surgery under general anesthesia.

Although his body was still urging Li Shubai to continue sleeping, he still frowned slightly, desperately whipping his body and thoughts to move as fast as possible.

Uh... I am, what's wrong...

Li Shubai tried his best to recall with his fuzzy mind.

I remember it seemed like... Oh yeah, because when the third collapse happened, I came to Senba Academy, and then... I was defeated by Raiden Mei...

Wait, why does it feel like there are... two pillows?

He suddenly felt a little puzzled, and then he twisted his neck with great effort, turning his narrow vision slightly to the side due to his drooping eyelids.

Then, Li Shubai saw a face approaching him.

"woke up?"

The owner of that face stretched out his hands and touched his hair with gentle and slow force.

The moment he saw that face, all his sense of urgency disappeared and Li Shubai almost fell asleep again because he relaxed.

"...Yeah." He nodded and narrowed his eyes again. His voice was very light because it had no strength. "Raiden Mei... should be back to normal."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...?"

What was going on with this strange silence? Li Shubai was a little puzzled, and the next moment, another voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"…I'm really sorry, Li."

That seemed to be Mei Raiden's voice.

However, compared to the voice just now that was so cold that it didn't even sound like a human voice, this voice now sounded gentle and humane.

After she put all her apology into her voice, Mei Raiden said, "Your parents were implicated and imprisoned because of my father's affairs, but I..."

"Heh..." Li Shubai smiled and said in a nonchalant tone, "It's just a frame-up. What's the big deal? The important thing is to make the people who framed my family receive the appropriate punishment. This is the key."

Although it is true that Raiden Ryoma forged financial certificates, it is just like the audit of Cocolia's company using the professional knowledge he acquired in his previous life, and then he found out several illegal payments and sent Cocolia to prison. As companies under the names of members of the Anti-Entropy Organization, none of their financial notes and property account books can withstand inspection, and it is impossible for anyone to be wrongly accused if they are all killed.

It is also true that Raiden Ryoma used company assets to conduct research on cutting-edge weapon technology... However, when the whistleblower was Cocolia, the mastermind behind the Third Great Collapse, Li Shubai had no moral burden at all to characterize the imprisonment of Raiden Ryoma and his direct subordinates as a complete frame-up.

"Framed?" A faint light flashed in Raiden Mei's eyes. "Student Li... is this how you view your parents' imprisonment?"

"Of course." Li Shubai nodded without hesitation. "There is an idiom in Shenzhou, which says that those who are not guilty will be innocent. Since I believe that my parents will not commit a crime, then the gossip of others is no big deal to me."

For me...

"Really? If I could be as open-minded as you, would I not become a Herrscher...?"

After hearing what Mei Raiden said, Kiana and Li Shubai fell silent at the same time.

Suddenly, Li Shubai felt as if his head was patted.

He opened his eyes again, looked at Kiana who lowered her head to look at him, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Kiana didn't say anything. She pouted her lips, looking unhappy, but she moved her head down a little bit.

Huh? So close.

It was getting closer and closer, at this distance, I could almost smell her breath.

Kiana's face was really beautiful, with eyes as pure as the sky, flawless white skin, beautiful silver hair that had been undone from its pigtails and now fell vertically, pink thin lips, and slightly blushed cheeks... When you got closer, you could even feel her fresh and warm breath.

Gulp, Li Shubai swallowed his saliva. Although he had recovered some strength, the five words "What do you want to do" were still stuck in his lips and he couldn't make any sound.

Although he didn't know the reason, although Li Shubai had been a staunch supporter of Kiana, although Li Shubai also understood the principle of physical contact between men and women, and although Li Shubai and Kiana had spent less than an hour together.

But, that's Kiana!

The ultimate invincible and super cute Kiana.

Is there anyone who can resist Kiana's pitiful appearance? No one!

But, under the nose of Mei Raiden...is it really a good idea to do this?

Amidst his runaway thoughts, Li Shubai's brain was in a mess. Complex thoughts of anxiety, incomprehension, and a little expectation were intertwined in his mind, like a ball of string being played with by a cat.

The next second.

BANG——!!!!!!!!

"it hurts--!!!!"

Accompanied by a sound like a hammer hitting the head, all the beautiful and uneasy thoughts disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Not a kiss, but a headbutt.

Not lip to lip, but forehead to forehead.

It was not a love announcement, but a declaration of hostility.

"You bastard... why did you suddenly go crazy!" Li Shubai straightened his upper body from Kiana's legs, gasping for air because of the intense dull pain, and covering his forehead with his hands while wailing.

Stars! I see stars!

Just now I actually thought that no one could resist this girl. She returned the feeling I had just a second ago!

However, the head that had just left Kiana's legs was held back in the arms that stretched out from behind.

Chapter 9: Hidden Arrow, Revealed

Kiana held Li Shubai's head in her arms, and her arms were wrapped around his shoulders, tightening up little by little.

"Does it hurt?" Kiana buried her face in Li Shubai's hair, and a faint voice came out from there, "You deserve it. Even if you are the captain, you must be punished if you do something wrong. Don't try to escape."

My heart hurts much more than the blow on your forehead...

Li Shubai didn't hear Kiana's last whisper, but he still heard a hint of worry in her tone that couldn't be hidden at all.

"..." He couldn't help but scratch his face which had turned a little red, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

But speaking of this...

Li Shubai, who was completely awakened by Kiana's headbutt, finally had the extra energy to observe his body.

"Uh..." Li Shubai looked at the cloth on his body that had turned into strips of clothes and couldn't help but shook his head helplessly.

Looking at this state, it is really miserable. No wonder Kiana is worried about herself.

To be fair, even if he saw a stranger injured like this on the street, he would subconsciously call an ambulance for him out of concern...

Li Shubai vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen an option window when his consciousness was exposed to the erosion of the collapse, and then used an emergency resuscitation injection to make his body, which should have been dead or dead, regain vitality. However, what standards did the so-called emergency resuscitation injection use to perform healing work?

The torn muscles and internal organs seemed to have almost healed, and the meridian spots on the skin surface seemed to have been cleared, but the bones broken by Raiden Mei seemed not to have been completely reconnected.

However... judging from the way it was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, it seemed that it was only a matter of time before the entire body recovered to the point where it was not corroded by the Honkai.

"By the way, Kiana." At this moment, Raiden Mei suddenly asked a question that Li Shubai had been concerned about from the beginning, but had not had the chance to ask until now, "Why do you always call Li classmate 'Captain'?"

This question made Li Shubai secretly prick up his ears.

Captain...it sounds like a job title, and if Li Shubai guessed correctly, the so-called "Captain" mentioned by Kiana should be the abbreviation of "Hyperion's Supreme Commander of the Honkai-specialized floating battleship."

But here comes the problem... Although he did play the role of "Captain" in the game Honkai Impact 3 before traveling through time, however, in the main storyline of Honkai Impact 3... or at least at this point in time in 2014, the person who holds the position of "Supreme Commander of the Hyperion's anti-Honkai specialized floating battleship" should be Himeko Murimita.

And... he secretly turned his eyes to the side and glanced at Kiana's naturally drooping silver hair.

Although his damaged eyeballs could no longer see the scene in front of him before he lost consciousness, his hearing, which had not been completely damaged, could still barely hear... The person who stopped Raiden Mei's final attack should be Kiana.

Kiana was able to appear in front of him in an instant, which undoubtedly meant that she had crossed the space. However, Kiana at this moment should not be able to use the power of the Herrscher of the Void normally.

Before meeting Raiden Mei, Li Shubai thought that some strange changes had occurred in the world. However, after fighting with Raiden Mei and communicating with her when she returned to normal, Li Shubai discovered that it was not himself or the world that had become strange.

The thing that was different from what he knew was Kiana Kaslana.

"You ask that?" Kiana tilted her head. "Well, I'm not very good at explaining this kind of question, but to put it bluntly--"

"and many more."

Suddenly, Li Shubai interrupted Kiana.

About five minutes have passed since he woke up, and Li Shubai's consciousness has completely recovered. But just now, when he was sitting in Kiana's arms and looking forward, he suddenly had an extremely strange sense of incongruity.

He stretched out his hands, and in front of Kiana's slightly regretful eyes, he pulled away her arms that were around his shoulders, then stood up, walked forward for a distance, and came to the center of the rooftop - the place where Raiden Mei and himself had fought each other not long ago.

Looking at Li Shubai's actions, Kiana and Raiden Mei looked at each other and stood up at the same time.

"What's wrong, Captain?" Kiana asked.

Li Shubai did not answer Kiana's words, but glanced at the surrounding environment, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

There was nothing strange on the ground, nothing except the traces left by the fight between the two men.

In an instant, a huge fear suddenly exploded in Li Shubai's heart, because the process of making Raiden Mei withdraw from the Herrscher transformation was easier than imagined, and the fact that he was not conscious yet when he just woke up made Li Shubai involuntarily relax his vigilance.

But now he finally realized why he had chosen to let Kiana wait at the gate of Qianyu Academy from the beginning. He knew that if it was just Raiden Mei's transformation into a Herrscher, then even relying on Kiana's power alone would definitely solve this problem. He chose to enter Qianyu Academy first, not for Raiden Mei, at least not entirely for her.

Raiden Ryuma and Cocolia are both executors of Anti-Entropy. Although they belong to two different camps, the conservatives and the radicals, they are essentially equal in Anti-Entropy and have no priority in status. Therefore, in Li Shubai's speculation, even if Raiden Ryuma, who was framed and imprisoned by Cocolia, and Cocolia, who was also imprisoned by him, regain their freedom with the help of Anti-Entropy, the time they were released from prison would not be too long apart.

If both of them were released from prison, Raiden Ryoma would naturally not sit idly by and watch Cocolia conduct experiments on Raiden Mei's transformation into a Herrscher in Changkong City.

Therefore, at a time when Raiden Ryuma and Cocolia have not yet regained their freedom, the third collapse of Changkong City occurred, and Raiden Mei's transformation into a Herrscher was induced. There must be someone else who did these two things.

After sorting out what he had forgotten, Li Shubai also completely understood why he felt a strong sense of disharmony when he saw the empty rooftop.

——The gray snake on the ground disappeared.