The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"How is her condition?" Otto asked, and Amber answered fluently: "The Honkai energy detection instrument did not detect uncontrolled Honkai energy in K423's body. Judging from her behavior, the experimental subject K423 has not yet been controlled by Honkai."

Not controlled by the collapse?

In other words, the second source of collapse that broke out in Changkong City was not caused by K423's loss of control?

Otto pondered for a moment, clicked on the satellite image of Changkong City, and then enlarged the satellite image of the entire Changkong City little by little according to the prompts.

In it, Otto saw a young man riding a motorcycle, carrying two girls and gradually driving away to the outskirts of Changkong City.

"The Third Herrscher... And who is the boy who is carrying them? Do you have any information about him?"

"Li Shubai, according to the information, his parents are executives of MEI, a multinational group run by the anti-entropy executive Lei Dian Long Ma." Amber said lightly, "In addition, two months ago, it was he who anonymously submitted the audit report of the company under the anti-entropy executive Cocolia to the Far East government, causing Cocolia to be temporarily detained by the Far East police station."

"Pfft." Even with Otto's calmness and composure, he couldn't help but burst out laughing subconsciously when he heard this somewhat nonsensical news.

Chapter 16: Convergence

Unlike Mandate of Heaven, which has actually controlled the governments of various countries in Eurasia, Anti-Entropy, formerly the North American branch of Mandate of Heaven, even though it still bears the name of Mandate of Heaven and has not yet become completely independent, it is only barely able to operate with the investment of General Mechatronics "GME".

During these sixty years, in order to develop the organization as quickly as possible to the point where it would not be killed by the fate, Anti-Entropy would absorb anyone who was unwilling to cooperate with the fate or was the enemy of the fate into its own organization with very low requirements. It was also for this reason that the organizational structure of Anti-Entropy was quite loose, and the executors had their own ulterior motives all year round due to the huge gap in their concepts. If the leader was not online for a few days, they would start to make trouble one by one. It was funny enough in Otto's eyes that Raiden Ryoma could be put in jail by someone who was nominally his own family and ally, but he still could not expect that Cocolia was even more heavyweight, and could be sent to jail by a student at a school, an ordinary person who had nothing to do with Honkai, for exposing the illegal high-value financial sources.

So it's not unreasonable that Anti-Entropy can survive for so long. It's not because of how sophisticated Anti-Entropy's strategy is or how large the organization is. How can Otto take this kind of organization seriously when the executors are so good and the cooperation between the top leaders is so fragile that it may disintegrate from within any day?

"Little Theresa should have arrived near Changkong City." Having laughed enough, Otto quickly put away his mocking thoughts. He handed the tablet back to Amber. Although it was a question, he concluded it with a positive tone: "Amber, send the current location information of K423 to my dear granddaughter. I think she would be very happy if I could recruit her as my student."

"I understand, Your Excellency the Bishop." Amber nodded after taking the tablet and tapped on it a few times. "As you expected, Lady Theresa is currently located above Changkong City, but..."

Amber showed an expression of wanting to say something but hesitating. Otto looked at Amber and felt a little strange: "But what?"

"Lady Theresa, it seems that you don't have your communicator with you."

"..."

Otto felt a little weak, and sighed softly while pressing his forehead.

Very good. Although Otto did expect Theresa to be responsible and would go to the destination in person to check the specific situation after two extremely high-intensity sources of collapse appeared in Changkong City in succession, he forgot how careless his granddaughter was.

2014年1月2日，极东时间，下午1:38分。

Far Eastern airspace, 3413 meters above sea level.

The sky was cloudless, and the azure blue extended all the way to the other side of the horizon. The dazzling sun at noon did not warm the winter sky. Under the razor-cold wind, the gorgeous golden cross carried the distraught Theresa and floated slowly in the air.

Just as Amber said, due to the rush, Theresa did not bring too many instruments with her, neither the Honkai energy detector nor the communicator. But the explosion that just shattered the dark clouds was too terrifying. If it was caused by Honkai, then, according to Theresa's knowledge, even the "Heavenly Fire" that Siegfried had demonstrated in Siberia could not be compared with it.

Although she looks like she will never grow up, as a warrior who has fought against Honkai for more than forty years, Theresa has also experienced countless sacrifices and separations. Although her emotions are still unwilling to admit it, her reason tells her that the Hyperion is likely to have been destroyed.

Therefore, Theresa had no hope and emptied her mind, searching the sky above Changkong City for possible remaining fragments of Hyperion. But at a certain moment, when she saw the black spot suddenly appear in her field of vision, her depressed mood suddenly seemed to evaporate, and she was so excited that she almost jumped off the Oath of Judas.

She controlled the Oath of Judah and quickly approached the black spot in her field of vision. She almost shed tears when she saw the Hyperion was intact.

When she got closer, Theresa realized that Ji Zi was standing on the deck for some reason, looking a little dazed and solemn.

"Himeko! Are you okay?!"

"Theresa?" When her name was called, Ji Zi, who was standing on the deck, came back to her senses, "Why are you here?"

"How could I not come? You almost scared me to death!" Theresa controlled the Oath of Judah to land on the deck of Hyperion. After repeatedly confirming that Ji Zi was fine and didn't even seem to have experienced any battle, she breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, I'm glad you're all okay... What happened just now?"

"That's what I wanted to ask!" Ji Zi was confused. "We just entered the airspace of Changkong City and suddenly lost the signal. Except for the Leonov anti-gravity engine which was still functioning normally, all other electronic equipment and rail guns failed. When I saw the explosion just now, I really thought that the Herrscher had discovered our tracks and wanted to burn the Hyperion to ashes in one go."

"But the problem is..." Ji Zi's expression became more and more strange. What happened just now was too bizarre, even weird, so much so that she still didn't understand what happened. "I don't know why, that huge pillar of fire could have burned the Hyperion to ashes, but when it was about to hit us... it avoided us."

"Huh? Say that again?" Theresa thought she had misheard. She stretched out her little finger to pick at her ear, dumbfounded. "You got around it by yourself?"

"That's right." Ji Zi nodded heavily and repeated, "I got around it myself."

"..."

"Don't look at me with such suspicion. I am completely confused as well." Ji Zi said helplessly, "Just now, I thought I was going to die. I couldn't help but sweat."

"...Okay." Theresa looked constipated and barely convinced herself to accept the fact.

"By the way, let's not talk about the strange pillar of fire just now. There is one more thing." Suddenly, Ji Zi seemed to remember something and stared at Theresa's face, "Did you forget to bring your communicator with you?"

"Ah?" Theresa touched her clothes bag and blushed. She hurriedly explained, "It's... It's because I was worried about you that I came out in a hurry. I... I'm not usually that careless!"

"I won't complain about how you found us without a communicator. The headquarters sent us a message and asked us to pass on some information to you when we meet up with you." Jizi pointed in the direction of the bridge. "As for the content, go and take a look yourself. It should be something very important to you."

Chapter 17 Enjoying Social Death

"That day, when she unlocked her phone screen in front of me.

I finally realized what kind of things are more frightening and terrifying than death. "

Kiana dealt with the gray snake quickly and efficiently.

In fact, it is not accurate to describe the situation as "Kiana dealt with Gray Snake quickly and neatly". At the moment when Gray Snake shot Li Shubai's head, Kiana tore a tiny space at the back of Li Shubai's head and opened a portal, and the other end of the portal was opened next to Gray Snake's temple.

Therefore, rather than saying that Kiana solved the problem of Gray Snake, it would be more appropriate to describe it as "Kiana helped Gray Snake commit suicide."

Logically speaking, the matter should have ended at this point.

Gray Snake died from a bullet hitting his temple, and the Yellow Spring Staff he had set up also destroyed itself with a snap due to the excessive Honkai energy that suddenly erupted from Kiana.

But Kiana was not relieved.

No...rather, she was even angrier.

In fact, Kiana had not been easily controlled by her emotions a long time ago. After experiencing enough things, meeting enough people, and feeling pain, warmth, and many different emotions, Kiana could already clearly realize that losing her temper was simply venting her emotions, which was of no help in solving problems and could not change anything.

...But when she saw her captain's life threatened by the gray snake, the string representing sanity and rationality, which should have become quite hard after numerous trials, suddenly broke completely with a bang.

So she got angry, even more angry than when the Herrscher of Thunder beat Li Shubai.

Although she was also angry because the Herrscher of Thunder was too ruthless, as a Herrscher, she also understood that people who have become Herrschers are like this. In order to save Raiden Mei, she took the risk of being killed by the Herrscher. This was the captain's own choice. As a member of the Hyperion, she had no right to interfere and respected the captain's choice. So when facing Raiden Mei, although she was angry, she still retained basic rationality and did not want to kill Raiden Mei because of this.

But the situation of Gray Snake is completely different. When it comes down to it, Raiden Mei is actually just a victim. Therefore, when facing the real perpetrator, who tried to hurt the captain under her nose, Kiana's rationality could not control her anger at all.

"Getting angry may not be useful, but it feels good, and when dealing with some people, you really can't help but get angry." Once, the captain muttered this in front of her when he was arranging work on the bridge. Originally, Kiana didn't quite agree with the captain's words, but now she suddenly understood.

What rationality, what methods of solving problems, what has no positive impact on the development of things... She doesn't care about all of this.

You dare to hurt my captain...you are seeking death!!!

What happened next was a natural progression. She changed her form right in front of Li Shubai and Raiden Mei. Not only did her height and body shape seem to have grown by several years, but even her hairstyle and clothes were completely changed.

With a click, in the rolling torrent of flames, Kiana's colorful high heels, which looked like crystal shoes, stepped on the hard concrete floor of the rooftop of Qianyu Academy.

Against the backdrop of high heels, Kiana's figure, which was originally slightly smaller than Raiden Mei's, instantly stood up straight. The gorgeous skirt was matched with a crystal shawl, and one-legged over-the-knee socks and eyes that showed a hint of divinity. Seeing Kiana's transformation in that instant that was enough to astonish everyone, Li Shubai was stunned, Raiden Mei was stunned, and a pufferfish in Kiana's body that had just been defeated once was also stunned.

She suddenly realized why she lost to her. What a joke! If she only looked at the maximum control scale of Honkai energy, Kiana in this state was even better than her in her heyday fourteen years ago!

A few kilometers away, the current holder of the Skyfire Judgement, the current head of the Kaslana family, who had never left Kiana too far, was also stunned after seeing this scene from afar.

It was at this moment that Li Shubai finally understood the difference between the Kiana in front of him and the Kiana in 2014 in this world. My goodness, that Kiana was actually a Herrscher of Fire Flame who had a permanent core of the Three Herrschers of Void, Flame and Death. Depending on the situation, under special circumstances, she could even continue to load other Herrscher cores on the Fire Flame King Sword! !

And...she was wearing a gorgeous dress that was dazzlingly beautiful.

The next moment, the hem of the beautiful and dazzling dress flew up, accompanied by a sound of breaking through the air, and Kiana kicked the gray snake, whose temple was still emitting smoke, high into the air with an extremely sharp kick.

Before Li Shubai traveled to this world and was still a captain, he scoffed at the note "General-purpose enemy-annihilating combat uniform" under Shi Li Zhuguang's dress uniform. If someone told him that someone in real life would wear this dress to fight with others, Li Shubai would definitely think that person was crazy.

But at this moment, looking at Kiana's sharp, vigorous and gorgeous fighting posture, Li Shubai also realized that indeed, the existence of Honkai energy was enough to allow these Valkyries and Herrschers to fight without being affected in the slightest even if they were wearing dresses that were not convenient for walking.

After kicking the gray snake high into the air, Kiana drew out her Fire King Sword, then turned around and slashed at the gray snake in the air!

“Cover your ears!!”

The moment Kiana pulled out the Fire King Sword, Li Shubai realized what would happen next and threw Raiden Mei to the ground. Raiden Mei almost instinctively obeyed Li Shubai's words and covered her ears.

Then, endless light and heat, accompanied by a deafening sound, came from above.

When the bright light that could be felt through the eyelids dissipated, the two people who opened their eyes turned their necks back with some trembling, staring at the clear and cloudless sky in amazement, glanced at each other secretly, and swallowed their saliva.

Suddenly, Li Shubai heard a tap and the sound of crisp footsteps not far in front of him.

"Just like I said just now, I'm not very good at explaining this kind of thing." With a faint smile on her lips, Kiana stood in front of Li Shubai with her hands behind her back, her upper body slightly tilted down, and a certain amount of snow-white was faintly visible, "To put it bluntly--"

Suddenly, Kiana blushed.

After a brief pause, she took a deep breath as if she had made up her mind.

Then, he poured out all the following words in one breath:

"——I am the super invincible and super cute Kiana that you are talking about, Captain!"

"..." Raiden Mei covered her mouth silently, her pretty face flushed red, and her eyes, which had become depressed because of the Honkai incident, became brighter than ever before.

From a common sense perspective, that expression was like eating a mouthful of extremely sweet melon.

Mei Raiden really likes Kiana, but she is of normal sexual orientation. Her love for Kiana has always been "friendship" rather than "love". She was originally worried about how she should get along with Kiana if she was really gay.

But now she is not worried anymore. Instead, what comes to her mind is a feeling of melancholy similar to that of her daughter being married off.

“Cough, cough, cough————cough——!!”

He couldn't breathe out and his saliva went into his trachea... But Li Shubai had no time to care about the strange feeling in his throat. He looked at Kiana's slightly red cheeks in horror, his brain trembling: "Wait, could it be that you..."

He vaguely remembered how many outrageous words he had said when playing Honkai Impact 3. If those words were heard by Kiana... just thinking about it, Li Shubai felt that he could not survive on this planet.

“Wu…” Kiana lowered her head. Although she had undergone a transformation and became extremely strong, tears appeared in the corners of her eyes. She covered her face with her hands, and her clear and pleasant voice began to tremble. “It’s all because the captain is so outspoken! I, Mei and I… don’t… Wu! How can I say such words!”

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Stop! Stop it!! Please stop!!"

Li Shubai sank.

...Just like this, when Kiana and Li Shubai fell into a state similar to madness, it was Raiden Mei, whose face was also blushing, who brought them back to their senses.

"Um..." Kiana's voice became very soft because of indescribable shyness, "I... should be returning to Hyperion soon. Oh, right... my cell phone..."

At this time, Li Shubai had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem.

Then he saw Kiana take out the mobile phone he had handed her before, hesitated for a moment, and pressed the power button.

"Shit! Wait!" Li Shubai wanted to stop it almost instinctively. Before giving his phone to Kiana, he never thought that he still had a chance to survive. He gave the phone to Kiana because he wanted her to know the future in advance so that she wouldn't have to suffer so much. As a result...

"Didn't the captain let me drive it?"

...How could he be no match for Kiana? Even if her energy was exhausted, it would still be easy for Kiana to dodge Li Shubai's palm relying only on her physical strength.

The screen lit up and Kiana looked down.

"Hmm?" The lock screen was Rita's Wan Xisha skin. Looking at the charming and enchanting beauty on the screen, Kiana couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

"..." Under Li Shubai's desperate gaze, she input 1207. This was her birthday. It seemed that the captain still cared about her. Kiana, who had such thoughts in her mind, faced darkened the moment she saw the grown-up Bronya on the desktop.

"..." This avatar was an icon of myself wearing the White Knight Moonlight. It should be me, right? I clicked on the icon and heard a familiar elevator mechanical sound. I realized belatedly that this was Hyperion's Kiana and clicked on it almost instinctively.

Then, when he saw Aponia on the bridge, his defense was completely broken.

Chapter 18: Kiana's Confusion

2014年1月2日，极东时间，下午3：15分。

Along with the fierce roar of the engine, a dazzling silver light rushed through the streets of Changkong City at a speed of one hundred and twenty yards.

It was a heavy motorcycle carrying a man and two women.

Li Shubai, who was driving the motorcycle, was stiff, and Kiana behind him was also stiff, but she still held Li Shubai's waist tightly and refused to let go. Only Raiden Mei behind Kiana was relatively calm, but even so, there was an obvious hint of embarrassment in her eyes when she looked at Kiana and Li Shubai.

"Strange... Why can't I see any dead soldiers around here?" In order to break the extremely awkward atmosphere, Li Shubai couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.

But no one answered him. Kiana seemed not to have heard Li Shubai's words. She looked at the fast-flowing street scene with a distracted look. Raiden Mei silently turned her eyes away and pretended to observe the surrounding situation.

As a result, the atmosphere between the three people in the car became increasingly weird.

Seeing this, Li Shubai wisely shut his mouth and pretended that his voice was blown away by the oncoming storm - even though he knew that with Kiana's keen hearing, it was impossible for Mei Raiden not to hear what he said.

The other one, Kiana, who had grown up a little bit, appeared in front of them. Herrscher of Fire, operated his phone with a livid face and left soon after. With a burst of white light surrounding her body, Kiana also changed back to her original appearance when she was wearing the Qianyu Academy uniform.

It was from that time on that Kiana became completely silent. Although she listened to Li Shubai and Raiden Mei's instructions and followed their steps obediently after a short sleep, and sat obediently on the back seat of the motorcycle, until now, Kiana has not made any sound. No one knew what she was thinking, which made Li Shubai and Raiden Mei feel a little uneasy.

Maybe... Kiana is really a little angry, Li Shubai thought helplessly.

Even though the Herrscher of Firefire was also from her future self, her body was used so casually by others and she expressed her affection for a total stranger. Let alone Kiana, Li Shubai was sure that if he were to experience such an inexplicable thing, he would definitely get angry.

Based on his understanding of Kiana, the fact that she did not slap him the moment the Herrscher of Fire returned was probably a sign of great restraint.