The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Chapter 10: Blazing Flames, Cutting All

——On the ground, the gray snake, whose entire bionic body was scattered all over the ground, disappeared.

Li Shubai's heart almost stopped beating. This sudden discovery made him feel a chill all over his body, as if he was being licked by a poisonous snake lurking in the dark.

He stood up quickly and looked around vigilantly, but did not find anything suspicious.

However, in Li Shubai's opinion, the disappearance of Gray Snake itself was suspicious enough. He turned around and wanted to urge Kiana and Raiden Mei, who were standing behind him and looking at him with confusion, to leave here as soon as possible.

Just one second before he opened his mouth, as if calculating the time it would take Li Shubai to notice something was wrong, a dazzling and bright blood-red light suddenly burst out from four directions on the rooftop, front, back, left and right.

In an instant, Kiana and Raiden Mei showed distressed expressions and held their chests.

"What...this..."

"Why is it that... my body... can't use any strength."

The entire rooftop was dyed bright red by the light coming in from all directions. Beads of sweat the size of beans kept pouring out from the foreheads of Raiden Mei and Kiana. Their knees began to cramp, and their legs, refusing to stand, fell down weakly.

On the other hand, although Li Shubai felt a bit of chill, he was not affected too much.

From the moment this strange light suddenly appeared, the roof of the teaching building, which was wrapped in this blood-red light, had become an area completely covered by something.

Being in this realm constructed by an unknown device, Kiana and Mei Raiden, who are both Herrschers, suffered quite serious effects. The Honkai energy in their bodies temporarily lost control, and the functions of their internal organs were temporarily shut down due to the disorder.

Not only was his strength taken away, but even his breathing was temporarily prohibited.

——The Staff of Hades.

Click. After Li Shubai determined the source of the red light, he felt a cold metal touch on the back of his head, along with the sound of the safety pin being pulled.

It was a pitch-black gun barrel.

The person pointing the gun at him was the Gray Snake who disappeared before their eyes.

In the brief few minutes when Mei Raiden's Herrscher consciousness was temporarily repelled, Li Shubai also lost consciousness, and Kiana, who had just arrived here, failed to notice the wreckage on the ground, the gray snake reorganized and restored its bionic body to the point where it could move, and successfully placed the device [Yellow Spring Staff] that could interfere with the Herrscher core around it. Finally, when the time was right, it completely bared its fangs.

Witnessing this scene, Kiana, who had bent her knees, suddenly changed her expression.

She lowered her head, and the shadow obscured her expression and her sapphire-clear pupils. Gradually, the diamond-shaped patterns on her pupils and irises emerged.

——At the same time.

At 48.21° north latitude, in the airspace of Vienna, Austria, seven time zones away from the Far East, it is sunrise time at 6:35 in the morning.

Destiny headquarters, floating islands, between boxes.

This is an independent building located in the center of the floating island group of the Tianming Headquarters. The outer wall is made of white reflective material, and there is not a single light-transmitting window on the entire surface of the building. It gets its name because its exterior design resembles a huge box.

The interior of the building is a peculiarly shaped polyhedron, and a coffin-like mechanical device is embedded on the slightly inclined plane.

Compared to the sacred selflessness of the Mandate of Heaven, which was shown to the world, this huge conference hall that brought together all the branches of the Mandate of Heaven was full of ominous omens.

I don't know why, but this place, which is supposed to be a meeting place for the highest leaders of all branches, seems to have turned into a place of execution for judging crimes.

Step into the black box, lie in the coffin, confess your crimes before God and then fall into hell.

Over the years, leaders of other branches of Tianming have tried to ask the bishop to redesign the ominous appearance of the conference hall for various reasons, but they were all firmly rejected by the bishop with a friendly and gentle face.

At a certain moment, the coffin-shaped mechanical device at the head issued an elegant baritone voice: "The commanders of each branch are in place, so I declare that the third meeting of all branches of Tianming for countermeasures against Honkai will begin now."

"What is the current situation in the Far East?"

"The Far East Branch's floating battleship has entered the Houkai area, but due to strong signal interference, there is currently no accurate front-line report."

The whole space suddenly became quiet.

The meeting ran into trouble right from the start.

"There is still no accurate frontline report?" Humph, the commander of a branch sneered, "It has been an hour since the outbreak of Honkai. Not to mention the information of the Herrscher, even the current situation of Changkong City is still in the fog. The Far East Branch's Valkyrie troops are really 'excellent'."

"After all, the Far East Branch is only equipped with a single-digit number of A-rank Valkyries. With such combat capabilities, it is still too difficult for them to engage in a head-on battle with the Herrscher, right?"

"Tsk! The Far East branch's troops are equipped with the most advanced floating battleships and weapons. They are much better than the African branch that can't even build heavy floating battleships!"

"Silence!" At this moment, the machine in the second seat made a deep voice: "Ms. Theresa, the commander of the Far East Branch, is one of the few surviving brave warriors who participated in the Second Herrscher crusade! What we should do is believe in her ability, instead of having a meaningless quarrel here!"

"Gentlemen—"

At this moment, the elegant male voice at the beginning made the entire box so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The baritone declared in a serious and reassuring tone: "The Herrschers are messengers who follow the will of the Collapse and bring destruction to the earth. They were born from the Collapse and descended as humans, mocking the tens of millions of years of human history."

The elegant male voice was like that of an impassioned orator: "Although in their eyes, humans may be nothing but smoke and clouds, but as long as we find the root of the collapse from the Herrscher, humans will be able to completely seal the collapse. Therefore, for the third collapse of Changkong City, I ask all branch members to give the Far East Branch the greatest assistance and make sure we can successfully capture the third Herrscher."

"Now, the time has come for humanity to strike back. Gentlemen, we coexist with destiny!"

"We coexist with destiny!!!"

Destiny Headquarters, Bishop's Office.

Bishop Otto ended the call, reached back without even looking, and took a piece of information from Amber who had been waiting behind him.

At the moment when the third Honkai broke out, the monitoring satellites of the Destiny lost the images of Changkong City. Even Otto could only judge the current stage of the third Honkai by the explosion curve of Honkai energy.

"At 10:35 local time, the third major collapse in Changkong City broke out. This collapse event was extremely severe. Three minutes later, the collapse energy reaction of the source of the collapse reached 1267hw. It is preliminarily speculated that the source of the collapse is the third Herrscher, whose ability is unknown. The entire Changkong City was severely affected and has now completely lost contact. The sea area around the city has experienced an unexplained high tide, and surrounding cities have reported multiple associated disasters."

"Within an hour after the third Houkai eruption in Changkong City, at 11:08 local time, the Houkai monitoring satellite detected a second Houkai source with extremely high intensity. However, 6 minutes later, the Houkai reaction of the second Houkai source disappeared. So far, the peak Houkai reaction of the second Houkai source is 5398hw. Due to the extremely high intensity of the Houkai source, the duration of its maintenance is short, which is completely opposite to its intensity. Therefore, the possibility of a fault in the detection instrument cannot be ruled out. Now, the maintenance team is troubleshooting the fault of the Houkai detection instrument..."

The second source of collapse? Otto's eyes flickered slightly. After pondering for a moment, he made a decision without much hesitation: "Amber, notify Yulandel to go to Changkong City as quickly as possible and try to recover the experimental subject K423 in Changkong City before Theresa arrives in Changkong City."

——Far East airspace, 2347 meters above sea level.

11:14 p.m.

The cold air rushed past Theresa at a high speed. At this altitude, the horizon became clearly visible and the buildings on the ground shrank to the point where they were difficult to recognize with the naked eye.

Theresa was not afraid of the extreme low temperature in the sky. She was flying in the sky with the Oath of Judah, staring at the direction in front of her. Her blue pupils were filled with anxiety and worry.

In front of me... I can vaguely see the sky covered by dark clouds.

Hurry up...Judas, hurry up, let's get to Changkong City soon!

——Before Himeko clashed with the unknown Herrscher!!

But at this moment, Judah's oath stopped without warning.

"Judas?! Why did you stop!!" When Theresa realized that Judas's oath had suddenly stopped, she was stunned and immediately squatted down anxiously, "Hurry up, Judas! Why at this time..."

He stopped talking midway through his speech.

She suddenly realized why Judah's oath disobeyed her orders. Her beloved weapon did not betray her. It made such a decision to protect her life.

A blazing light shone from the center of the dark cloud in front of me.

A pillar of fire, which did not seem very thick from here, sank into the dark clouds from bottom to top. The next second, a fire that was not as bright as sunlight but better than sunlight, and was difficult to describe in words, instantly turned into a judgment that burned the sky, and shattered the dark clouds easily, just like the word "scarred".

It was like a sword made of fire, split by God, the natural weather that should have been controlled by God.

The flames that surged like a tsunami not only dispelled the dark clouds, but also illuminated Theresa's stunned expression.

Chapter 11: The inner ghost does whatever he wants

"Ms. Cocolia, your daughter no longer trusts you."

2014 December 1

Far east, Fuzhong Prison.

This prison facility built by the Far East government at a total cost of 17 billion yen is currently one of the largest prisons in the Far East. It covers an area of ​​260,000 square meters, with a reception area of ​​35,000 square meters. It consists of 14 buildings, three in the outer circle and 11 in the inner circle, which can accommodate more than 3,000 criminals of various types undergoing labor reform.

At 10:53 in the morning, under a clear sky, Cocolia and Thunder Ryuma, with gloomy faces, walked out of the gate of the largest prison in the Far East one after another.

After Nientropy paid enough bail for the pair, the prison, which was known as the most strict in the Far East, only detained Cocolia and Thunder Dragon Horse for two months before completely clearing their previous charges and releasing a statement to help them restore their respective reputations. When the two walked out of the prison, they could even see the flattering smiles of the prison staff, but neither Thunder Dragon Horse nor Cocolia would feel any better because of this.

Compared to Raiden Ryoma, this was not the first time that Kokolia was sent to prison. Fourteen years ago, when she was still a captain in Siberia, she was imprisoned in the military detention room because she was jointly accused by her superiors and the military court. However, compared to the experience of being jointly accused by her superiors and the military court, this wonderful journey to the Far East Prison was a great humiliation for Kokolia.

"Your subordinate really has a good son." Cocolia turned her head and sneered at the gloomy expression of Raiden Ryoma. "It's a pity that he follows such an incompetent boss. Mr. Raiden, why don't you give him to me?"

"I'm not in the mood to argue with you right now, Cocolia." Raiden Ryoma paused, "Also, if anything happens to my daughter while I'm in prison, you'll have to clean your neck and wait for it."

"Then I want to see what you can do to me." Cocolia did not retreat at all because of the warning from Raiden Ryoma. Instead, she tried her best to be sarcastic. She laughed and said sarcastically, "Do you think you can be found out even if you forge a certificate?"

Like Cocolia, for Ryuma Raiden, the experience of being framed and imprisoned was also a complete humiliation. If it weren't for the fact that his subordinate had a son with extraordinary abilities who gave Cocolia a heavy blow during his imprisonment, then, during the time Ryuma Raiden was in prison, Cocolia could have done whatever he wanted with Massive Electric Company under his name and Mei Raiden who had the Conquest Gem implanted in her body.

"Indeed, it is quite naive to overestimate the behavior and moral bottom line of your allies." However, being in front of the enemy, Thunder Horse certainly would not let Cocolia shit on his head. He glanced at Cocolia coldly, his tone full of reason and calmness, "I don't deny that this is a fault caused by my lack of ability. I have to thank a certain female fox for teaching me a good lesson. I just don't know why the female fox capsized in the gutter during my imprisonment?"

Kokolia was speechless at the logic of Raiden Ryoma. No matter how loose and free Anti-Entropy's management of its members was, and no matter how much they didn't get along with Raiden Ryoma, Kokolia couldn't deny that they were both executors of Anti-Entropy. If Raiden Ryoma was imprisoned because he didn't expect his allies to do something bad to him, Kokolia was imprisoned simply because of his lack of ability and poor work of his subordinates, which led to another ordinary person with more meticulous work ability and stronger professional quality taking advantage of his loopholes, and thus he was defeated in terms of ability.

Although Raiden Ryoma is one of the executors of Anti-Entropy, Massive Electric is not entirely the private property of Anti-Entropy. The earliest history of Massive Electric can be traced back to the 1870s, when the founder of the Raiden Zaibatsu, the then head of the Raiden family, founded a maritime freight company. After nearly 120 years of development and expansion, in the early 1990s, the Raiden Zaibatsu and the Anti-Entropy Organization, formerly the North American branch of Tenman, reached a cooperative relationship. The focus of the group's development has gradually shifted from the original heavy industry to today's high-tech field, and eventually became the world's largest multinational electronics group with civilian, military and commercial electronic equipment as its core competitiveness - MEI.

A multinational electronics group of this size, although its head is already one of the core managers of Anti-Entropy, and Raiden Ryoma has always been quite loyal to Anti-Entropy. However, Anti-Entropy is, after all, an anti-Houkai organization with the North American branch of Tenmei as its predecessor. In this era when Houkai has not yet been made public, most of the employees of MEI, and even most of the senior staff, are ordinary people who have nothing to do with Houkai, including Li Shubai's cheap parents in this world.

Naturally, in the eyes of Cocolia and Raiden Ryoma, Li Shubai is undoubtedly an ordinary boy who has nothing to do with Honkai.

The quarrel between Raiden Ryoma and Cocolia did not last long. If anything, they had already quarreled enough in the two months of prison life. As a large military jeep and a stretched Lincoln stopped in front of them one after another, Raiden Ryoma and Cocolia also ended the quarrel at the same time.

After staring at each other fiercely with sharp and oppressive eyes, the two got into their own cars and drove away.

As soon as she got on the back seat of the military jeep, Cocolia saw a military tablet handed to her by the driver in the front seat.

"Master Cocolia, half an hour ago, Master Gray Snake from the World Serpents came into contact with Raiden Mei who had the Conquest Gem implanted in her body." The pilot said, "After injecting enough Honkai energy into Raiden Mei's body, he successfully induced the Third Great Honkai in Changkong City and gave birth to the Third Herrscher."

"Didn't I tell him to take action after I'm released from prison?" Kokolia frowned, revealing a dissatisfied expression, and her words were full of disdain. "Also, where did he get enough Honkai energy to give birth to the Herrscher? With that, we still don't know how deep the scale of his organization is. Is he the mysterious World Snake?"

"Lord Gray Snake said that if we wait until you and Raiden Ryoma are released from prison, the chances of success in attacking Raiden Mei will become slim." The driver repeated Gray Snake's words respectfully, "Therefore, he moved the time of action forward to within half an hour before you and Raiden Ryoma are released from prison. If we launch the action at this time, Raiden Ryoma will not be able to get first-hand information about the third great collapse of Changkong City immediately after he is released from prison. We, who have the intelligence advantage, have enough opportunity and time to capture Raiden Mei before Raiden Ryoma formulates a response plan."

"Humph, that's not a reason for him to act on his own without my consent." Although Cocolia was basically convinced by Gray Snake's words, she still rejected Gray Snake's words with a strong statement, "So, what's the result? Since he chose to act alone so confidently, was the capture of Raiden Mei successful?"

"No." The pilot shook his head. "According to Lord Gray Snake, the ability awakened by the third Herrscher Raiden Mei is electromagnetic waves. He underestimated Raiden Mei's ability, and the capture operation failed halfway through."

"Useless trash." Cocolia sneered, the anger in her eyes was evident, "Give me the communicator! I've had enough of the naivety and ignorance of those conservatives. The Third Herrscher Raiden Mei must be under our own control!"

The driver didn't say anything, but handed the communicator to Cocolia diligently.

Cocolia connected the communicator to the private channel. After a brief electric sound, a click sound came from the headset, indicating that the call was answered.

"Bronya, can you hear me?" Cocolia said.

After a brief silence, an echo came from the other side.

"The voice is clear, no problem. Mother Kokolia, are there any new combat missions?"

Cocolia was about to speak when she suddenly stopped.

...For some reason, she always felt that Bronya's voice was weird now.

Is it because of the bad signal? She thought about it and put the question aside. After all, if someone wanted to pretend to be her beloved daughter, Cocolia would be able to detect it instantly through the tone of voice.

Although the voice was a little strange, Cocolia was still able to realize with certainty that the person on the other end of the communicator was definitely Bronya.

She calmed down and said calmly, "Yes, there is a mission for you to complete. I think mom told you before that the third Herrscher, Raiden Mei, will awaken in Changkong City."

"Do we need Bronya to capture Raiden Mei?" the person on the other end of the communicator asked calmly, and Cocolia nodded slightly and said, "Well, although that unreliable Gray Snake successfully awakened Raiden Mei's Herrscher consciousness, he failed to capture her. Bronya, this combat mission is very important to us. As long as we master the Herrscher core, perhaps we can completely defeat the Honkai through that device."

She tried to soften her tone as much as possible: "As long as we can wait until the day when Honkai is defeated, everyone in the orphanage can live happily in a world without Honkai. Bronya, Mom knows that I have done some very excessive things to you, but can you give Mom your power again?"

There was silence on the other end of the communicator for a long time, and finally, the voice hummed.

"Bronya, I will definitely complete the mission."

"Very good, Mom will come to Changkong City to support you soon. I'll trouble you with the next things, Bronya."

"Well, I promise to complete the task."

In Changkong City, in a dark corner where no one could see, there was a bang and the sound of machinery being smashed.

With the sound of slow and crisp footsteps, a woman with graceful and smooth silver-gray curly hair walked out of the darkness. She was wearing a combat uniform that was as elegant and decent as a dress. The back collar was pulled very low, and a white wingsuit shawl covered the right side, gently covering the exposed smooth back. She was wearing a pair of black and white short boots, which made the already plump and tall woman look even more noble and beautiful. Her white and round thighs were covered with a circle of textured shield-shaped leg rings.

This plump woman, who exuded an elegant and graceful temperament, glanced at the clear sky and whispered to herself:

"Make sure to complete the mission... of protecting the captain."

Chapter 12: Xilin: I was banned before I even appeared on the stage?

Quantum Sea, Hyperion.

"Well……"

After experiencing the feeling of her consciousness drifting in the sea, which she had experienced not long ago, Kiana "Hersher of the Fire" who was lying in the consciousness submarine cabin slowly woke up.

Compared to mapping the consciousness to the selected target, the process of regaining consciousness became much easier. Although the feeling of dizziness and fatigue still lingered in the mind of the Herrscher of Fire and Flame, she supported her forehead and slowly sat up with her upper body straight.