The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

Although this matter from beginning to end was just a play planned by Alicia and the captain, after he said this, if the original script was correct -

——Out of instinct, Su and Hua inadvertently shifted their gazes to Raiden Mei, waiting for her to respond.

But what neither of them expected was that for some reason, Raiden Mei, who was supposed to ask what happened, looked at Hua and Su with an inexplicable gaze and fell into a strange silence.

"..." Seeing Su Hehua's actions, Eden lowered his eyelids, and a trace of headache flashed in his eyes.

These two people, who are from the same hometown in a sense, also have similarities in various ways. Even though they have been trained beforehand, their upright personalities that make them extremely bad at lying still make their acting process full of flaws and loopholes.

Of course, as a hero, even if his acting skills cannot keep up, his observation ability will not disappear. Soon, Su Hehua realized that their subconscious actions made Raiden Mei feel something was wrong, so they froze at the same time and began to rack their brains to think of remedial measures.

"I didn't expect you didn't leave the paradise, visitor." Su tried to bring up the topic again in order to make his behavior seem less strange, but as soon as he finished speaking, he found that Raiden Mei's expression became even weirder.

"...I remember Hua told me that it was because you noticed my situation that you were able to find me in the hall of Paradise, right?" Raiden Mei narrowed her eyes, "Why are you surprised that I returned to the Eternal Paradise?"

"..."

Huh? How did she know? Su's expression became noticeably stiff. Although this degree of expression change was not noticeable due to his closed eyes, in Raiden Mei's eyes, the cold sweat on his forehead was extremely obvious.

In Su's opinion, Hua should not have told Raiden Mei about this matter yet... Thinking of this, he couldn't help but instinctively turn his face slightly towards Hua, and happened to see Hua looking away with a guilty look.

But knowing that he had accidentally tricked Su, Hua was not speechless - what a joke, the distance from the entrance of the paradise to the eternal paradise is very long, okay! The entrance to the eternal paradise is in the deepest place, and to reach the deepest place from the entrance of the paradise, you have to pass through the personal areas of all the heroes! Along the way, in order to prevent Meiyi from feeling something was wrong, it's not her fault that she accidentally brought up this insignificant thing when she had nothing to say!

How could she have expected that she and Su would reveal their flaws so quickly!

Just when Hua and Su were confused and about to collapse, a noble and ethereal voice saved them.

The person who spoke was Eden. She did not speak to Raiden Mei at first, but called Su's name.

"Su, stop focusing on insignificant things." Eden, who had been pretending to be lost in thought from the beginning to the end, and who was not noticed by Raiden Meiyi, first naturally interrupted the conversation between Su Hehua, the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix, and Raiden Meiyi, and then used a calm tone to throw out a suspense that was vague to Raiden Meiyi, but was something that other Yingjie knew very well: "Things have come to this point, we can no longer do nothing, if you are willing... Although the position does not have this meaning, next, can I, the [fourth], command everyone here?"

"That was my original plan." After realizing that Raiden Mei's attention had been successfully diverted by the suspense thrown by Eden, Su breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and hurriedly took over the conversation: "But Eden, she...can't come back anymore."

"Wait." Raiden Mei frowned, "Eden, during the time I was away, what happened to you?"

Su originally wanted to take over Raiden Mei's words as planned and say the lines that he should have said, but at this moment, his mental perception ability suddenly detected some strange emotional fluctuations in Eden.

Should we say that he is worthy of being the greatest artist and performer in the pre-civilization era? Although he had actively released his emotional fluctuations, Eden's expression and posture did not change at all.

This ability to control the external appearance and emotions with great ease... is already comparable to that of their spiritual perception fusion warriors.

That is, when Su noticed Eden's mixed emotions of speechlessness, anger, and a little bit of disgust, he understood that the other party was using this method to signal him to shut up, so he shut his mouth obediently and gave the entire stage to Eden.

But the strange thing is that even though Su had closed his mouth, Eden did not open his mouth to answer Mei Raiden's question. Instead, he shook the goblet in his hand with a dazed look on his face.

Of course...there is no doubt that this seemingly unfathomable riddle man's posture is undoubtedly just acting.

As expected, Raiden Mei was tricked. She looked at Eden's silent expression, touched her chin, thought carefully for a moment, and then nodded as if she understood something: "I understand."

What do you understand? Eden clearly hasn't said anything yet, right? Su Hehua's face was frozen, and his heart was filled with astonishment and confusion.

Is this the value of being the greatest artist in their civilization? ! This ability to control one's inner self is even more powerful than that of a fusion warrior of the spiritual perception system!

At least... Su's [deduction] was completely unable to anticipate what happened during this period.

Of course, maybe... it was precisely because Su himself was also the one acting that he found it difficult to use his abilities to accurately analyze and infer what would happen next.

After all, his ability was based on the deduction of past events, and it was not similar to Aponia's ability of [Future Vision]. When things developed and something beyond his cognition or that he had never known appeared, the result of [deduction] would of course lose its original accuracy.

——At least, in Su's original deduction, he was definitely not the kind of person who would deceive his companions, and he would never do something like [acting].

And it was for this reason that when Su violated his original [deduction], his ability to control the situation had already lost its original level.

But no matter what, even if Su and Hua couldn't understand what Eden had done, and couldn't understand what Raiden Mei understood, they all understood one thing...

...When it comes to [acting], it’s always a good idea to cling to Eden’s thighs!

In this case, what they should do is, of course -

"So what should we do next?" Hua looked at Su and asked in a calm tone. "Kevin... is an old acquaintance of yours. Has he ever said anything to you alone before?"

——Follow Eden’s footsteps and just pretend that Raiden Mei doesn’t exist.

Anyway, she will come to her own conclusions through thinking and action, and in this case, compared to their words, Raiden Mei will instead firmly believe in the facts she sees.

Although Su and Hua were among the few heroes who could basically answer all of Raiden Mei's questions during the Paradise Trial, they were certainly not incapable of solving riddles.

"That's why things turned out like this. He entrusted me with something." Pretending not to notice Raiden Mei's puzzled look, Su nodded calmly to Hua: "So Hua, you should understand... why I said just now that handing [dispatch] over to Eden was my original plan."

In the increasingly confused and bewildered eyes of Raiden Mei, Hua nodded without hesitation.

That’s right, it’s this rhythm... Eden shook the goblet in his hand, feeling somewhat relieved that Hua and Su had finally gotten the point.

In this kind of improvisational show, it is impossible for everything to go according to their ideas.

However, as long as one understands Mei Raiden's personality and behavior, it is not too difficult to guide her future actions and path in the direction pre-selected by Alicia and the captain without her noticing.

"Then—" Su raised his palm, "Let's go."

With Su's action as the dividing point, the soft white light that had just swallowed up Qianjie appeared again, wrapping Hua and Su's bodies.

[Sumeru Mustard Seed]——Expand.

"Wait..." After realizing Su Hehua's behavior, Raiden Mei almost instinctively stretched out her hand, trying to stop them from leaving.

But the moment Hua and Su disappeared, countless papers suddenly fell like rain.

The outstretched hand was not able to hold either Su or Hua, but instead pinched the paper falling from the sky - the densely packed words on it all showed the same content without exception.

——Kevin is dead.

On the other side, Su Hehua, who had almost escaped by sneaking into the Sumeru mustard seed, breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

The two fellow countrymen, who had never been able to adapt to lying to others due to their high moral standards, looked at each other helplessly and felt the sympathy rising in each other.

"Next, let's leave the matters concerning the visitors to Eden and Vilvi." Su, who had suddenly relaxed after leaving Raiden Mei's sight, proposed to Hua.

"Well, that's all I can do." Hua smiled bitterly and shook his head tiredly, "And... I'm sorry, I accidentally got you into trouble."

"Don't worry about it. In terms of psychological pressure... there shouldn't be much difference between the two of us." Su sighed leisurely, "It's just... I hope that after everything is over, the visitor's anger can be controlled..."

"Then, what should we do about Qianjie?" Hua's tone was extremely distressed. Although he had already read one side of the script, to be honest, it was precisely because he knew what would happen in the future that Hua always felt that he would reveal some strange flaws next.

Compared to acting, she would rather know nothing and pretend to be the one being acted. At least when she knew nothing, Hua didn't think there would be any strange mistakes in her behavior.

Su actually had some intention of backing out. For a fusion warrior like him who was a spiritual perception system, the impact on his ability caused by going against his own heart was much more serious than usual. At least, just like before, he couldn't guarantee whether his [foresight] was accurate.

But no matter what... now that they're already here, they certainly have no room to retreat.

After successfully finding Qianjie in a private territory somewhere in Paradise, both Hua and Su breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Qianjie's unexpectedly calm attitude.

Fortunately... although there were slight deviations in the situation on Raiden Mei's side, at least Qianjie's reaction was exactly the same as what they saw in the script.

So, Su was truly relieved from the bottom of her heart: "Fortunately, you are safe."

“Hmph…” Qianjie snorted coldly in a calm tone that was completely different from when he was taken away from everyone: “If you make me wait any longer, it may not be possible. What, you don’t have the courage to come and see me directly, right?”

Then Qianjie realized something strange.

Obviously, he did say something that could be considered provocative, but both Su and Hua... showed an expression of being touched at that moment, and the way they looked at him... was so strange that even a man like him who was surrounded by heat and anger all day long could not help but feel a chill down his spine.

Obviously, at other times, he who bore the Mark of Annihilation was the one considered crazy by others, but at this moment, seeing the look in Hua and Su's eyes... which even made him feel a little nauseous, Qianjie had some strange illusion for the first time.

Did this blind man and the new soldier become mentally insane because of this sudden incident?

Chapter 4: Dare to impersonate Alicia!? I'll kill you! (k)

Qianjie's perception was not wrong. Although he did not show any exaggerated expression due to his dull personality, both Hua and Su felt like crying because of excessive emotion after hearing Qianjie's words which were exactly the same as what he said in the future they knew.

Although Qianjie is not really stupid...but compared to the abnormally sharp senses of Raiden Mei, his thinking circuit is still relatively straight.

When Su realized that Qianjie was about to be terrified by the stares from him and Hua, he coughed and replied calmly, "Because it is not necessary. In any case, we are happy to see that you are safe and sound, and... there is no further escalation of the conflict."

"You want to say... consider the overall situation, right?" Although he felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by Hua and Su, who was Qianjie? Of course, he couldn't admit that he would have such a creepy feeling towards a blind man and a new soldier. Soon, he adjusted his mentality and sneered in an extremely disdainful tone: "Bah, don't use that kind of words on me, it's disgusting. How many people did you kill with this as an excuse? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Humph, in the end... I am the 'indiscriminate killer', right? Huh?"

“Let me tell you, I have no interest in cooperating with you. One experience like that is enough.” Under Su Hehua’s gratified eyes, Qianjie’s voice became increasingly cold due to his uncontrollable rising anger. “For what I’m going to do next, my stance is not important at all, and I don’t care about that kind of thing.”

Su quickly took advantage of the situation and continued to memorize his lines: "Qianjie, Kevin and Alicia have both met with accidents. Right now, in the field of frontal combat, you are already the 'first person' who cannot afford to fail."

"Oh?" Qianjie tilted his head and turned his masked face towards Hua, who had remained silent the whole time. Then, he sneered as if he was amused by Su's words: "Since you knew, why did you only bring her here? Do you really think you can convince me? One is weak and the other is at the end of her rope."

No, Kevin didn't really disappear, so I'm far from the end of the road, and Hua at the moment is not as weak as you think, and we are not going to convince you here...

Although he had all kinds of complicated thoughts, Su still sighed softly, apologized to Qianjie in his heart, and refuted his words against his conscience: "But you know, I still have a 'trump card' that I haven't played. Besides, since you have calmed down, there is no need for us to go to that point. Like you, I don't want to doubt Ying, but I have exhausted my efforts to trace it back, and among all the heroes, only your data and hers are abnormal."

As he spoke, Su explained his [speculation] to Qianjie starting from the data anomalies that appeared at the same time for both of them, and also told him that he came here to seek Qianjie's help just to find out why Ying swung that sword that froze the space.

In response, Qianjie expressed his disdain, and said that it turned out that Su was not hopelessly stupid. At the same time, he took out the mask that he had taken out when he arrived at the place where Ying sent out the distress signal, trying to verify Ying's innocence for the first time in a peaceful way.

Outside the paradise of past lives, in the space of consciousness.

"Huh?" When Ying saw the mask representing the poisonous pupa that originally belonged to her and that was taken out by Qianjie, her expression froze for a moment. She already felt guilty about plotting against Qianjie.

She quickly touched her body and soon found the mask she was holding.

“Isn’t this thing still here with me?” Ying looked at the mask in her hand, then at the mask in Qianjie’s hand, and suddenly realized, “Could it be that Alicia and that captain forged it…?”

After thinking of this naturally, Sakura, who had been watching Qianjie, couldn't help but feel more uneasy.

With evidence specially prepared by others in hand, Qianjie's intention would certainly not be realized. Then, under the guidance of everyone, after learning that Su could not prove Ying's innocence with this only remaining evidence, Qianjie exploded as expected.

Everything that happened next was as expected. In order to prove Ying's innocence, Qianjie pretended to be furious and wanted to kill Su Hehua. Su, knowing that Qianjie was also acting, also pretended that he didn't know it all. He followed Qianjie's wishes and used the most powerful [Eye Opening] to counter Qianjie's fatal blow.

The strongest attacks of the two men, due to their own calculations, coincidentally did not fall on each other, but tore a huge crack in the space of the paradise of the past.

"Hmph, this is the last time." Although he was a little surprised that Suna was obviously consciously helping him, since his goal had been achieved, Qianjie naturally had no plans to stay here for long.

After saying "You no longer have a chance to stop me," Qianjie's figure, which seemed to be falling from the sky, disappeared into the unhealable space crack.

“Huh…” After confirming that Qianjie had completely left the area, Su wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. “In this way, we have finally sent Qianjie to Alicia.”

Although things went more smoothly than they had imagined, after Su finished speaking, both Su and Hua fell into silence for a moment.

The silence lasted for a long time. At a certain moment, Su Man shook his head helplessly: "Qianjie's matter will come to an end for the time being... Wait until everything is over, then apologize to him."

"This is the only way." Hua nodded with a bit of distress.

Obviously, this kind of behavior of teasing a person who was trying desperately to protect his comrades made Hua Desu feel very uncomfortable.

"Speaking of which, how is the situation with the visitor?" After all, he was a senior and the older one. In order to prevent Hua from feeling guilty, Su suppressed his inner uneasiness and broke the silence between them again.

"As for Mei..." Hua, who had sensed Su's kindness, naturally did not want to disappoint him, so she continued, "According to the plan, Eden will let her go to Vilvi's workshop first and let her tell Vilvi about her current situation. Eden herself will go to the Deep Place to meet up with Aponia."

But Hua was choking up when he realized something very painful before he could finish his words.

She raised her eyes and looked at Su, who had also noticed the incident. They both saw deep helplessness and exhaustion in each other's eyes.

If you ask why... In order for the plan to proceed smoothly, as those who know the situation, they did not hide anything from each other about what they were going to do and their responsibilities in the entire plan.

It was also for this reason that both Su and Hua knew that Wei Erwei, a guy with great ability to make things happen, had obtained a large number of... those real "Keys of God" in reality from Li Shubai.

So... the Velvet that Mei Raiden needs to face is the one who holds many God's Keys, and because she is the creator of these God's Keys, she can wield them freely and control them with the help of the captain [Spiral].

Moreover, because the matter of the Herrscher of Corrosion has been completely resolved, he is acting without scruples... That is, he is a super-cup version of Velvet.

Snap. When Su Hehua thought of what Mei Raiden might face, he couldn't help but raise his hand and slapped his forehead in perfect unison.

I hope Mei/the visitor won't be played around by that guy Weiwei... Su and Hua, two honest men, prayed for Raiden Mei from the bottom of their hearts.

At the same moment, the two people were praying for Raiden Mei.

On the other hand, Qianjie, who was wantonly carrying out large-scale destruction of the space of Paradise, finally met his [enemy].

——In fact, it is not accurate to use the word [encounter] to describe the process of Qianjie and his enemy meeting each other.

After leaving Su Hehua and using his own and Su's power to tear a crack in the space of Paradise, before he could launch any destruction on Paradise, Qianjie's consciousness abruptly fell into a deep darkness where there was nothing.

At the very beginning... Qianjie's purpose has never changed.

His goal was very clear from beginning to end.

Among all the Thirteen Heroes, only he, Qianjie, who was absolutely sure that Ying would never betray them, was the first to realize that... the changes in the Paradise of the Past did not come from within the Thirteen Heroes, but from external invaders.

In order to catch the person who caused Alicia, Kevin and Ying to be missing, Qianjie pretended to be out of anyone's control and kept looking for an opportunity...looking for an opportunity to escape into the data-level space of the paradise of the past and destroy everything [except the Thirteen Heroes].

And he succeeded indeed—

...Yes, I have indeed helped the blind man successfully break through the space of paradise and enter this chaotic and disordered data space.

But, after that...what happened?

Controlling his consciousness which had not been fully recovered due to the sudden awakening, Qianjie desperately urged himself to think, trying to recall what had happened to him before he lost consciousness, and use this to understand his current situation.

In that dark data turbulence, he must have encountered something before the destruction... and then...