The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Right! Forget about that for now!" At this moment, the Herrscher of Consciousness seemed to suddenly remember something, "Where is my memory? Do you know where she is now?"

"..." Although he wanted to ask what you wanted to do with your memory, the Herrscher of Consciousness didn't look like he wanted to harm Hua. In addition, he had already learned some facts about Hyperion from Alysia. After hesitating for a moment, Su still replied: "I have followed Alysia's instructions and sent Hua's... memory to the Paradise Hall to welcome the visitor back to the Eternal Paradise. If you go to the Paradise Hall now, you should be able to see your memory accompanying the visitor."

"Is that so?" The Herrscher of Knowledge touched his chin, thought deeply for half a second, and decided to put the matter of teasing the little antique on hold for the time being. He threw his hands and said, "Forget it, let's get the business done first!"

"By the way, although Alicia has probably already mentioned it to you." Suddenly, the Herrscher of Knowledge rushed back to Li Shubai's side like a sword, hugged his neck, and stretched out his hand, "Let me introduce you, this is my current captain, and also my immediate superior!"

"Li Shubai, the captain of Hyperion." Li Shubai nodded. "As for you, there is no need to introduce yourselves to me one by one. Kevin and Su are not mentioned for now. Aponia and Eden... were also my crew members."

"Am I also a member of your crew?" Eden smiled, "It's really an honor."

“Since you were able to save Alicia’s life, that means you are indeed qualified to guide us in the direction of progress.” Aponiya said softly.

"Okay, I know you're all very capable people, so let's skip the part of bragging to each other." Without wasting any time, Li Shubai stated his purpose directly, "Alicia should have told you my purpose, so when can you start?"

"Is it the operation called S0-1129?" Su and Aponya looked at each other and nodded at the same time. "If you are ready, you can do it anytime."

While Su and Aponia were performing the S0-1129 surgery on Li Shubai, allowing him to descend to the paradise of the afterlife in the form of a memory, Alicia, who was deceived by Su and Aponia with a layer of consciousness, was also not idle.

Since the only two spiritual perception systems in the paradise already knew the current situation, Hua, the holder of the Eighth God's Key, temporarily left the Eternal Paradise and went to the hall of the paradise to look for Raiden Mei, whose consciousness was interfered by Li Shubai. Naturally, Alicia no longer needed to continue to attach herself to Eden in order to hide her figure.

Deceived by Aponya and Suxia's consciousness, she left the abyss and arrived at the eternal paradise again. According to her original plan, she went straight to the workshop where Vilvi was.

"Hmm... The Herrscher of Corrosion should still be in a somewhat frightened stage at this time." While recalling the main plot, Alicia controlled her atomized body to crawl through the crack of the workshop door, and as expected, she found Velvet.

——In a manner that was completely unexpected to her.

"Ah!?" Before Alicia could react, she was just about to enter the workshop through the crack in the door when she was suddenly covered by a black shadow. Then her body turned into thick fog and was trapped in a deep darkness. "Wait! What is this?!"

Why can't I find even the slightest gap? ! Alicia was a little mad. How could there be a place in this world where even she, who had become the Herrscher of Corrosion, couldn't escape?

"Hi! Our distinguished guest has finally arrived!" A boastful voice that was mixed with joy, impatience, and a little resentment suddenly came from all directions in the darkness. "Please allow me to put aside my self-introduction. After all, for the magic show that is about to be performed, the so-called identity is completely meaningless!"

“Wait! Wait a minute!” Knowing that Velvet had most likely detected and locked onto the Herrscher of Corrosion, and knowing that Velvet was already prepared to deal with her, and knowing that she had completely failed Velvet and that she would be in trouble if she didn’t clear up the misunderstanding, Alicia quickly revealed her true identity, “Velvet!! It’s me! Alicia!!”

"Oh? This audience member seems to be a little uncooperative~" the voice said happily, "But please be patient, I have prepared some surprises for you, please enjoy this magic show!"

"Huh?! Wait wait! Wait a minute!" Alicia was so anxious that she almost cried, "You misunderstood! I really am Alicia!!"

"It seems that the audience this time is more naughty and enthusiastic than I thought." Oh my, the exaggerated voice said in a helpless tone, "But it doesn't matter. Professional magicians are also good at imitating big shows!"

At this moment, a crisp snap of fingers was heard.

With this signal representing a command as the dividing line, the pitch-black environment was suddenly lit up by several sharp stage lights.

Then, with the sound of crisp footsteps, a figure that Alicia was extremely familiar with slowly stepped into the intersection of the stage lights.

"Hi! Hello! A noble and pure soul." The figure who stepped into Alicia's field of vision used Alicia's face and said the lines that Alicia had said before, "Welcome to Miss Fairy's magic show!"

"So you have this ability?" Alicia stared at the other [herself] in her field of vision in amazement, and said casually, "But unfortunately, Miss Fairy can't perform magic."

"Miss Fairy will never turn a blind eye to her former best friend." In Alicia's eyes, the person who had the same appearance as her said with the same voice and smile.

But Alicia clearly caught a hint of deep hidden resentment in her eyes.

So, our fairy lady fell silent.

Chapter 4 [Kevin is dead] (k)

In fact, Miss Fairy had lived a life of integrity and uprightness. She claimed that she had never done anything wrong to her companions, until...

…When he was preparing to act out the memories of the other thirteen heroes, he was caught by Wei Erwei.

Because of the captain's plan, Miss Fairy's reputation will be ruined!

I must make him compensate me after returning to Hyperion.

Although I made up my mind in such indignation, at least at this moment, I still have to face the facts.

But when Alicia mustered up the courage and prepared to apologize to Vilvi, who was pretending to be herself, in a coquettish and sincere manner, a sudden doubt made her dazed for a moment.

Miss Fairy was a good kid who didn't know how to hide her curiosity, so before apologizing, she asked the doubts that were surging in her chest to Wei Weiwei who was disguised as her: "My dear Wei Weiwei, when did you discover me?"

"Hmm?" Weiwei, who was disguised as Alicia, raised her arm and touched her lips with her white finger. She put on a thoughtful expression, then raised her finger and curved her eyes into a beautiful crescent: "Since you revealed your body in the paradise?"

"Wasn't that exposed right from the start?!" After hearing Velvi's answer, Alicia was dumbfounded. She recalled how she ran straight towards the depths where Aponia was as soon as she entered the paradise, and her pupils couldn't stop trembling, "How did you find me?!"

"Of course, using surveillance." Weiwei, who was disguised as Alicia, answered without any hesitation.

"Huh?" Alicia was stunned.

Wait, although according to common sense, using surveillance to catch criminals is a very common method, after getting the answer from Wilvi, Alicia couldn't help but feel a sudden thought in her heart: Although it is true, it is true.

However, except for showing his body very briefly in the deepest place, in order to find Alicia as soon as possible, he never appeared in the paradise of the past in the form of a physical body during the initial period of time after entering the paradise. In other words -

"You also installed surveillance cameras in the deepest place where Aponia is?!" Alicia asked stupidly.

"How is that possible?" Wei Wei gave Miss Fairy a look with the face of Alicia, and put her hands on her hips in annoyance, "You must have forgotten that although the Paradise of the Past is a memory space, in essence, it still relies on the data composed of hardware facilities running in the real world, right?"

"So..." Alicia swallowed her saliva, "When the captain, Kevin and I arrived at the paradise, you had already..."

"Yeah!" With the face of Alicia, Vivi showed a bright and beautiful smile.

"..." Alicia closed her eyes weakly and desperately, and fell into complete autism.

If you think about it carefully...it is true.

The original Herrscher of Corrosion was lucky enough to have been able to hide its true identity because it attached itself to Mei Raiden's body. It was completely detected by Velvet because it chose to take the initiative when it encountered its own memory.

In other words, in her own case - from the very beginning, before she actually entered the paradise of the afterlife, her loud conspiracy with the captain and the others had been heard thoroughly by Weiwei.

Woohoo - then why did I go to so much trouble to hide my body?

"Okay." Just when Alicia fell into autism, after having admired the fairy lady's frustrated look enough, Velvet raised her arm and snapped her fingers happily.

With a bang, in the rising thick fog, Wei Wei returned to her original appearance. The endless darkness that enveloped the two people's bodies seemed to shrink in an instant and condensed into the hands of Wei Wei, who had turned back into her true form.

Feeling as if there was light penetrating through her thin eyelids and reaching her visual system, Alicia slowly opened her eyes, and happened to see Vilvi smilingly putting the magic hat back on her.

——Obviously, Weiwei just used the hat on her head to trap herself in the darkness.

"Okay." Under the confused eyes of Miss Autism, Wilvi, who was satisfied with playing a trick on Alicia, walked briskly back to the interior of the Spiral Workshop. She pulled out a universal chair and sat on it, then tapped her toes so that she and Alicia looked at each other face to face: "Then next, let's talk about the magic show that is about to begin!"

"Oh, right." At this moment, Wei Erwei pounded her palm as if she suddenly remembered something. "For such a grand performance, we should wake everyone up and discuss the specific matters of each link together."

"Yes." Weiwei nodded and smiled happily to herself, "Including that 'I'."

Alicia [persuaded] Velvet with some difficulty. Meanwhile, Aponia and Su finally completed the operation on Li Shubai.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Li Shubai started retching uncontrollably without even bothering to observe the situation around him.

"Well……"

The body collapsed on the ground and was extremely hot.

Along with stars jumping in his eyes, a feeling of vomiting mixed with dizziness rising up his throat invaded Li Shubai's mental perception in one breath.

"It's really... an experience that's hard to comment on." Mustering his strength, Li Shubai slapped himself hard on the face twice, and finally managed to recover his blurred consciousness.

Alicia once said that the SO-1129 operation to create memory was like "eating peanuts with your eyes while riding a roller coaster."

Looking back now, the metaphor that seemed a little confusing at the time is really too apt.

"Hello~~Hello~~" At this moment, Yu Duchen, who had been carried by Li Shubai from the beginning, made a series of calls: "Captain, Captain, can you hear me? Do you need me to use my consciousness to interfere and help you?"

"No thanks." After hearing the voice of the Herrscher of Knowledge, Li Shubai rolled his eyes and struggled to stand up. "I can still move, so I won't bother you to come in."

"That's good." The Herrscher of Knowledge said, "So, do you understand the progress of the experiment?"

"Yes." Li Shubai nodded, "Not only the principle, but also what to do next is clear."

"Where are you now?" the Herrscher of Knowledge asked curiously.

"You asked me where it is. How can I explain this..." Li Shubai looked around himself. If what Aboniya and Su said was correct, this place should be his mental space. However, the scene here looked like...

"It seems to be the Hyperion?" He scratched his head uncertainly.

Although they were on the Hyperion, everything seemed to be in deathly silence, from the surrounding electronic equipment to the air in the room. They were all stained with a thin layer of gray, and there was no sign of a living person nearby.

"Forget it, it's not important." Although he was a little curious as to why the scenery in his heart was like this, Li Shubai quickly put this doubt behind him.

After all, this place is nothing more than a remnant in memory. Apart from the appearance itself, it has no other meaning. It is natural that electronic equipment cannot be used and the presence of living people cannot be felt.

After suppressing the doubts in his heart, Li Shubai took out the Yu Du Chen that he had prepared from the beginning, and asked the Herrscher of Knowledge in the outside world: "Xiao Shi, please ask Kevin if he is ready."

"I'm ready." Kevin's cold voice came calmly from Yu Duchen, "If you are ready, you can come anytime."

"How long was I unconscious?" Li Shubai asked.

"About three hours," Kevin replied calmly.

"Three hours? At this time, Mei Raiden should be waking up soon." Li Shubai calculated the time he had given Mei Raiden, "In that case, let's not delay any further, Xiaoshi, pull me out first."

"okay."

Amid the crisp response of the Herrscher of Consciousness, a huge suction force suddenly came from Yu Duchen.

Before Li Shubai could react, he was pulled back to the deepest place.

After returning to the cloud temple where Aponia was, Li Shubai first shook his head to regain his dizzy consciousness, then opened his five fingers and handed Kevin a piece of Yu Duchen that he had prepared for him.

"Next, I will perform a surgery on you that is completely opposite to the one on SO-1129." After seeing Kevin take the Yu Duchen he handed over, Li Shubai said, "All your data will be engraved on this blank key of consciousness in the form of personality and memory. For a long time afterwards, you probably won't be able to communicate with the outside world. Do you have anything to say in the end?"

Kevin stared at Li Shubai who was handed to him by Li Shubai, took a long breath, raised his eyes, and hesitated for a moment: "Although the real me should have asked you this question... But, Captain Li Shubai, since you once saved Alicia's life..."

"It's about Dr. Mei, right?" Li Shubai glanced at Kevin, who had an expressionless face. "I can't guarantee more things. What I can tell you is... I have made a promise to you in reality. After he completes his mission, I will find a way to get him back to the past and give him a chance to save Dr. Mei's life, and he accepted it."

"That's enough." Kevin nodded and said concisely: "Thank you, I don't have any other questions."

"If you have no other questions, let's get started," said Li Shubai.

"Wait, I have another question." The Herrscher of Knowledge raised his hand, "Is there nothing for me to do next?"

"Well, for the operation, the assistance of Aponya and Su will be enough." Li Shubai glanced at the Herrscher of Knowledge, "Do you want to find Hua?"

"Of course!" The Herrscher of Knowledge nodded repeatedly.

"..." Li Shubai was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Be careful."

"Huh? What are you talking about?" The Herrscher of Knowledge was dissatisfied. "Am I such an ignorant person in your eyes?"

"..." You also know? Li Shubai stared at the face of the Herrscher of Knowledge without saying a word.

"Tsk." The Herrscher of Knowledge smacked his lips in dissatisfaction at the piercing gaze. "Don't worry, I will make sure my actions will not affect our plan. Mei hasn't woken up yet. If we don't use this time to convince Little Antique, it will be too late when Mei wakes up."

Li Shubai thought about it and felt that what the Herrscher of Consciousness said made sense: "...Then go ahead. Also, although you agreed with me before not to use the power of consciousness to persuade her, the situation is special after all. If you really feel that you can't convince her, it doesn't matter if you use your ability of consciousness interference."

Although each of these memories in the paradise of the past are heroic characters, it is also for this reason that most of them have their own stubbornness. If you want to convince the honest Hua to [play with] Raiden Mei with words alone, she will most likely not agree.

But in Li Shubai's eyes, his own plan and observation of the end are more important than respecting the paranoid character of these memories.

Although he is not a person without any bottom line like Otto, Li Shubai is also a person with a flexible moral bottom line.

If it was just a matter like this that didn't involve life, and he had no psychological burden in doing something that would slightly sacrifice someone else's personality in order to more smoothly fight the end.

"Huh? Captain, are you looking down on me?" Unfortunately, the Herrscher of Knowledge seemed to take Li Shubai's words as a provocation. "I said I won't use my power, so I won't use it. Do you think the great Red Kite Immortal is the kind of person who doesn't keep his promises?"

"..." You see, even the Herrscher of Consciousness who inherited Fu Hua's memory would show this kind of paranoid side. Li Shubai sighed and shook his hands tiredly, "If you can really convince her, it's up to you."

"Your attitude always makes me angry." The Herrscher of Knowledge's eyelids twitched. "Forget it, just wait for my good news!"

When that time comes, I will definitely make you look at me with new eyes!

With this thought in mind, under the helpless gazes of Su, Eden, Kevin, and Aponya, the Herrscher of Knowledge ran straight towards the entrance of the Paradise of the World.

Chapter 4: Xiao Shi, who was praised by his mother, was so proud of himself (k)

If we count from the moment Raiden Mei's consciousness and memory were controlled by Li Shubai and she fell into a coma, about four hours have passed.

The hall of the Paradise of the Past is a spacious and magnificent enclosed space. If there are no visitors here, this huge facility, formerly the Golden Garden, will temporarily come to a standstill.

The dim light shone on the profile of Mei Raiden as she lay on the ground. Amid the electronic mechanical sounds emitted by the virtual earth in the tactical intelligence room next door that continued to echo in the garden, the slightly immature girl, Ying Jie - Hua, who was carrying the inscription of [Floating Life], was standing silently beside Mei Raiden.

She lowered her head and looked seriously at the girl who once claimed to know her real self and had a close relationship with the Hua outside. She couldn't help but let her thoughts wander and began to think carefully. Since entering the paradise of the afterlife, how many times has she fallen into this coma-like state?

"..." Although it was probably only less than half an hour from the time she actually came to Raiden Mei's side, it was obvious that Raiden Mei had been here for much longer than half an hour.

She stared at Mei Raiden who had not yet regained consciousness, and suddenly had an illusion similar to déjà vu.

It was as if... the person falling there was not someone else, but myself.