The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Looking at Kiana's rising resentment and black energy, as if she would turn into the Herrscher of Corrosion in the next second, Yulandel smiled helplessly and shook her head: "Don't bully her too much, Captain, the Herrscher of Corrosion has not been resolved yet."

"Oh yes, the things here are the key point." Li Shubai shrugged, took out his Ksitigarbha Soul, and walked to the corner of the laboratory.

In the shadows, a spherical mechanical device emitted a faint electronic light.

"Herserer of Corrosion?" Kiana's ears twitched when she heard this word that she could not ignore.

Although Li Shubai once shouted "I have captured the location of the Ruler of Corrosion" on the Hyperion, at that time, few members of the Hyperion took this statement seriously because they did not know the true identities of the four invaders.

In other words, if this sentence is true... then they have even more reasonable reasons to capture these four invaders.

So, until now, after carefully thinking about the performance of these four invaders along the way and how they used the power of consciousness to deceive her perception, Kiana suddenly realized it.

Could it be that this place is where the Ruler of Corrosion was born?

However, the thing they were referring to... Kiana thought about it, followed Yulandel, looked towards where Li Shubai was standing, and then froze.

"A guiding robot?" Kiana was full of questions, a little bit unbelieving: "Is this thing the Herrscher of Corrosion?"

"Yeah." This time, Li Shubai did not ignore Kiana's words. He nodded and said, "Although it is still very weak and not very complete, it does have the real power of 'corrosion'."

"Then why don't you destroy it quickly?" Kiana asked, her clenched fists slightly sweating due to nervousness.

Depending on Li Shubai's answer, she will make a rational judgment on the enemy and friend identities of the four invaders.

She couldn't let the Herrscher wreak havoc on the world, so if these four people didn't destroy the Herrscher of Corrosion on the spot...

"It's not that I don't want to, but I can't." After feeling the faint hostility from behind, Li Shubai shrugged, "After all, in addition to this one here, there is the same thing in another place in this world."

Chapter 4: Herrscher of Corrosion - Alicia (k)

"Really?" Kiana was stunned for a moment, then frowned, carefully analyzing how credible Li Shubai's words were.

Of course, at this point, Li Shubai couldn't have the patience to wait for Kiana to think about what she said.

"Xiao Shi, Yulandel, keep an eye on Kiana and don't let her cause any trouble at this time." In order to prevent Kiana, an unstable factor, from interfering with his actions in the future, Li Shubai first gave instructions to the Herrscher of Shi and Yulandel, then he turned around and said to Alicia, "Alica, stand by my side and wait for orders. Later... there may be a time when you will be needed."

Kiana opened her mouth, glanced at Herrscher of Consciousness and Yulandel who followed Li Shubai's instructions and stood silently beside her, sighed, and finally closed her mouth.

She also wanted to see how this boy would deal with the Herrscher of Erosion.

By the way, that red and black sword...have I seen it somewhere before?

"Hey?" Alicia tilted her face curiously, "Do you need help from Miss Fairy?"

"Only later, not now." Li Shubai said to Alicia while taking a deep breath. After calming down his emotions, he closed his eyes, turned off his vision and hearing, and then flipped the direction of the Jizo Soul with his backhand, with the tip of the knife facing down, he aimed at the robot that was flashing electronic light and stabbed it lightly as if brushing away a piece of dust.

Even among all the Herrschers, the Herrscher of Corrosion is an extremely special one.

Generally speaking, a Herrscher is someone who, after the peak power of the Great Honkai erupts and reaches the boundary point, if there is a person qualified to become a Herrscher in the disaster area, then a Herrscher core will spontaneously be generated in the body of that person, and the person will appear in the world as a Herrscher.

Therefore, although most of the researchers of Honkai, whether in this era or the previous civilization era, have unanimously identified the number of the Herrscher as fourteen, this number is actually just a number inferred by Dr. Mei, the top scientist of the previous civilization era, and the super artificial intelligence Prometheus through the laws of Honkai development.

Even if special cases like the Thousand Herrschers are excluded, if conditions permit, this world will still give birth to beings called Pseudo-Herrschers.

However, even compared with the two special cases of Pseudo-Hermitor and Thousand-Hermitor, there is a greater difference between the Hermit of Corrosion and ordinary Hermit.

First of all - no matter what kind of power the Herrschers had in the past, their life forms were still similar to those of humans. Therefore, no matter how powerful the power the Herrschers had, as long as the Herrschers themselves were actually killed, they would undoubtedly fall into a state of death.

It is true that when a person is killed, he dies.

But the Ruler of Erosion is different.

Compared to the previous twelve Herrschers including the Herrscher of Origin, the life form of the Herrscher of Corrosion has completely broken away from the boundaries of humans. Even if the Herrscher himself is killed, the Herrscher of Corrosion can still survive in this world in another form.

——No, perhaps, it is precisely because the host was killed that the Herrscher of Corrosion will bring disaster to the world in a different form.

And this is only the situation in the pre-civilization era. The Ruler of Erosion in the current civilization era has no human beings who are qualified for it since its birth. In other words, among all the Rulers so far, only the Ruler of Erosion in the current civilization era is a special existence that can descend on its own without going through human transformation.

Due to the special nature of the Herrscher of Corrosion, Li Shubai cannot eliminate it by destroying the guided robots it hosts.

At the moment when the tip of Jizo's sword touched the guiding robot, the dark mist slowly and firmly penetrated into the gaps between the components of the spherical robot.

As the power of erosion was activated, another scene suddenly appeared in Li Shubai's vision, which had become dark due to his closed eyes.

Although most of these images were of the place where he was, just like looking at this abandoned laboratory from all directions through different surveillance cameras, when Li Shubai saw these images, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Perhaps because it was born very recently, the new Herrscher of Corrosion had almost no resistance and was successfully eroded by his Ksitigarbha Soul.

Now, the images that appeared in his eyes of observing the laboratory from various perspectives were all the scenes seen by the newly born Herrscher of Erosion who had used the power of erosion to invade different corners of the laboratory and backed up themselves.

Sure enough... just as I thought, no matter how many copies it has, the so-called Herrscher of Erosion is ultimately just a single individual.

The best way to restrain the Ruler of Erosion is to use a stronger power of erosion to erode it in the opposite direction.

If brute force is used to destroy the guiding robot, the Herrscher of Corrosion can easily switch its "main body" to other backup individuals at any time through the connection between each individual. However... it is precisely because there is such a close connection between the replicas of the Herrscher of Corrosion, when it encounters a stronger erosion power, as long as it successfully controls any one of the backup individuals, the stronger erosion power can easily control all the "Herrschers of Corrosion".

However, I have clearly controlled all the "Rulers of Erosion" in the real world...Why are there still no pictures from the paradise in the past among the pictures I see?

It can't be that we arrived too late, so Raiden Mei has already dealt with the Herrscher of Corrosion in the memory space by herself...

...with all the consciousnesses of the past lives as the price.

No, impossible.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Li Shubai opened his eyes.

Putting aside other things, when he arrived at the Hyperion and successfully used his power of erosion to briefly take over the ship's network, he clearly did not see any information about the Ruler of Erosion.

While in the military intelligence room, in the future they saw, the reason why the Herrscher of Erosion in the Paradise of the Past suddenly and frantically eroded the Paradise of the Past was that the fundamental reason was that the fear brought by the complete emptying of the backup of the real world aroused its strong desire to survive.

Judging from the time, Mei Raiden should be in the stage where she has just entered the Eternal Paradise not long ago, and the time when he intervenes in the main storyline is also at this time.

So, neither the time nor the events match up.

So... is it because I am not the Herrscher of Corrosion? Li Shubai raised his Ksitigarbha Soul, turned it over and observed it for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to his mind.

"By the way, Alicia." He turned his head and glanced at Kiana, who looked nervous. "If I remember correctly, you Herrschers should be able to become multi-core Herrschers with multiple powers by devouring the cores of other Herrschers, right?"

Before Alicia could answer, Kiana couldn't sit still anymore.

"Wait..." She raised her arm and pointed at the smiling Alicia with some trembling, "You said...'You Herrschers'? This Alicia...she is also a Herrscher?!"

"Yeah, that's right. Are you surprised?" Alicia bent down slightly towards Kiana and put her face closer. "Like the lovely Miss Kiana, I am also a Herrscher."

"..." Kiana opened her mouth and suddenly felt weak all over.

As one of the few Herrschers who fight for humanity in the current civilized era, she knows very well how much effort and suffering a Herrscher needs to endure in order to completely obtain the free will of a human being.

It was precisely because of knowing all this that Kiana finally fully understood and realized that these invaders really could not be their enemies.

The existence of Alicia, the Herrscher who maintains the will of mankind, is more convincing than any words or facts.

Since he is not my enemy, then why have I suffered all the injustices until now... Kiana complained in her heart, wanting to cry but unable to, but before she could complain for long, Li Shubai's next words made her shudder all over and she came back to her senses.

"Since you can obtain other powers by devouring the cores of other Herrschers." Li Shubai touched his chin and said to Alicia with a happy face: "Then are you interested in... becoming the Herrscher of Erosion in this era of civilization?"

"Ugh?"

"Ugh?"

"Ugh?"

"Ugh?"

"Ugh?"

in unison.

After Li Shubai put forward his proposal, everyone present, including Kiana, couldn't help but let out silly expressions of doubt.

"Look, didn't the Herrscher of Corrosion of the current civilization era choose you as its appearance? So, instead of letting it do evil in the Paradise of the Past in the form of you, Alicia, why don't we just let you become the Herrscher of Corrosion and then enter the Paradise of the Past?" Li Shubai explained with a smile on his face, "This way, not only can we ensure that what Raiden Mei will experience next will not change too much, you can also use the power of erosion to transfer the memory of the Paradise to me."

"Wait wait wait! Wait!" Kiana was overwhelmed by the words that popped out of Li Shubai's mouth one after another, some of which she knew, some of which she didn't. But when she heard the four words "Raiden Mei", Kiana couldn't help but shout out, her clear voice anxious like a string of cannonballs: "Why is Mei mentioned here? What happened to Mei? Is she in danger?! And what is the paradise of the afterlife?"

"Want to know?" Li Shubai smiled.

"Of course!" Kiana nodded her head like a chick pecking at rice. Since this was about Raiden Mei, she couldn't help but have other thoughts about Li Shubai and the others: "What on earth happened to Mei?! I... will definitely cooperate with you next time! I won't want to cause you any more trouble! So..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Li Shubai raised his hand and signaled Kiana to be quiet.

"I can tell you about Mei Raiden, but... I have to make it clear to you in advance. For some reasons, after all the incidents are resolved, I need to delete your memory of this period of time." He put on a very serious expression and said in an extremely serious tone, "When that time comes, I hope you can promise that when that time comes, you must not resist the Herrscher of Knowledge's manipulation of your memory. Even so, do you want to know what happened to Mei Raiden?"

Kiana didn't hesitate at all. She nodded vigorously: "Of course!"

"Well, first of all, the thing you are most concerned about is that Raiden Mei herself is not in danger." Li Shubai cleared his throat and said lightly, "Secondly, another individual of the Herrscher of Corrosion quietly attached himself to her at a time you should also know."

"When I knew it too?" Kiana asked.

"Do you remember the communication between you and Otto before you entered her mental landscape?" Li Shubai said, "Unfortunately... the first place where the Herrscher of Erosion in this era of civilization landed was... that place."

Kiana gradually calmed down, pondered for a moment, nodded, and indicated that she understood.

"Because of the power of conquest, the Herrscher of Corrosion cannot corrode Raiden Mei herself...but the place where Raiden Mei entered is the place where it is easiest for the Herrscher of Corrosion to exert her abilities." Li Shubai glanced at Alicia, "If it weren't for us, Raiden Mei herself would be fine, but...some people and things that she values ​​very much, that may not be the case."

Kiana quickly grasped the key point of this passage: "So, you suddenly appeared on the Hyperion in order to help Mei so that she would not lose these important things due to the birth of the Herrscher of Corrosion?"

"..." Although this was not the case, Li Shubai thought about it and nodded decisively: "Yes, that's what you think."

"Then what do you need me to do next?" Kiana asked quite bluntly: "If it's for Mei's sake, you can use my power however you want. I will do my best to cooperate with you."

"Well, Xiaoshi." Li Shubai turned his head, "Do you still remember where the World Serpent's base is?"

"Remember, remember. Do you still need to ask this kind of question?" The Herrscher of Knowledge waved his hand casually.

Li Shubai nodded and turned his gaze to Alicia.

Before Li Shubai could ask, Alysia sighed and nodded: "I know, I know, isn't it just to become the Herrscher of Erosion in this era of civilization? You let a beautiful girl as shy as a flower do this kind of work, Captain, you are better at commanding people than I thought."

"However, since you are trying to save another me, I will agree with you reluctantly~" A mischievous smile appeared on Alicia's face: "However, after everything is over, Captain, you have to explain it to Mei yourself."

Chapter 4: Reunited Friends (k)

On the dark avenue, the once world-famous singer and female artist was walking slowly, the crisp sound of her footsteps echoing along with the rustling sound of her skirt rubbing against the marble floor.

Deep down - from the bottom of her heart, the female artist did not like the opposite name of this stage. It was also for this reason that, even though this was the residence of one of her colleagues, the female artist had not visited this place for a long time.

But now, what happened in the paradise of the past no longer allowed her to follow her own temper.

The emergence of the eternal paradise not only represents the emergence of a new area in the paradise of the past that even heroes like them have never known about. After seeing that beautiful world with singing birds and blooming flowers, the female artist understands that the secret guarded by the four "witnesses" until now will soon see the light of day and be revealed to others.

"It's still dark..." the female artist sighed, "How long ago was the last time I came here?"

As she walked, the female artist suddenly felt an extremely strange sense of disharmony.

...nothing happened.

Along the way, there was no feeling of being "obstructed" in either consciousness or vision.

"They didn't impose any 'trials' on visitors?" She frowned slightly, and her originally elegant and slow steps became a little hurried. "Could it be... that she has left this place too?"

Amid the sound of hurried footsteps, slender iron pillars appeared in the artist's field of vision like the doors of a cage.

And through the gaps between the iron pillars, the female artist successfully saw the figure inside the deepest part.

Contrary to her expectations, although she did not encounter the obstacles and obscure interference of consciousness that she should have felt along the way, but... Ying Jie, who was named "Discipline", did not leave here as she expected.

The artist walked until the distance between the two people was less than one meter. She was silent for a moment. When she realized that the woman in front of her seemed to be in a daze and was completely unaware of the visitor, she finally couldn't help but call out the name of the person in front of her, trying to wake her up: "Aponia?"

"..."

no respond.

The air around them was once again immersed in silence.

"Aponia?" Seeing that the other party did not respond, the female artist called the name of the person in front of her again in a louder voice, frowning: "What's wrong with you?"

"——Ah." At this moment, the disciplined Yingjie Aponiya finally came back to his senses: "...Is it Eden?"

As soon as Aponiya finished speaking, the darkness around them was dispelled in an instant.

Eden looked around. After the boundless darkness that was entangled with her perception was removed, what appeared before her eyes was still the majestic and sacred scenery like a temple in the clouds.

There were no signs of fighting, nor any other unusual sights. Everything was as usual.

But even so, Eden still asked in a very precise tone: "What's wrong with you? Not only did you not train the visitor, but you also weakened your perception of the outside world to this extent... Have you encountered some trouble that you have to devote your whole heart and soul to your spiritual perception ability to solve it?"

"No... You misunderstood, Eden." Aponia's voice was as ethereal as ever, giving people a feeling of being in the clouds. "I didn't encounter any unsolvable troubles. The reason why I didn't realize the visitor's arrival... was simply because I was in a daze."