The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

again?

What's going on with this sense of déjà vu? Why do I so naturally conclude that this person has used Yu Du Chen on me before?

She lowered her head and frowned, feeling extremely confused about the words that came out of her mouth subconsciously.

On the other side, after hearing what Raiden Mei said, Li Shubai was also stunned, and said in disbelief: "Your memory has been restored? How is it possible? The power of conquest can actually allow you to resist Yu Duchen's control of your consciousness under the constraints of the restrictions?"

"..."

So, Mei Raiden, who was still thinking about why she said that sentence subconsciously, fell silent again.

The silence lasted for a long time. She raised her head again, with an extremely gentle smile filled with dark fog on her face.

"You just said something very interesting." It was hard to imagine how Mei Raiden made her words sound cold to others, even though her voice was so gentle and full of laughter. "Can you explain a little bit what it means to [resist Yu Duchen's control of consciousness under the constraints]?"

"Uh..." Li Shubai couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.

very scary.

Seeing Raiden Mei's smile, his body shook unconsciously, and he took a step back almost instinctively.

...As expected, without confirming the facts, it is better to say less nonsense.

After all, rash words and actions will only lead to unpredictable hardships and consequences.

Namo Amitabha, I also need to be careful not to live without knowing how I died one day, Li Shubai said to himself deep in his heart.

"..." Although she didn't get an answer from Li Shubai immediately, seeing his shaking body and taking a step back, Raiden Mei got the answer in another way and slowly put away the dark smile on her face.

The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she suddenly felt an indescribable tiredness and exhaustion.

How should I put it? Although I know that the most important thing I should do now is to get angry, in order to show that I absolutely do not want my memory to be modified at will, but when I think about the countless bad things this guy has done to me, Raiden Mei suddenly feels like she can't even get angry.

What made her feel most powerless was that, judging from the current situation, although he had done so much to her, he deserved it even if she got angry with him immediately, but... no matter how angry she was, there was one thing that Mei Raiden could still discern.

Whether from the perspective of subjective intention or from the final result obtained now, this guy... seems to have intended to do it for his own good from the very beginning, and what he did has indeed benefited him.

In other words, whether in terms of his heart or deeds, he really had no ill will towards himself.

...Well, maybe we have to exclude the fact that I want to see myself embarrassed.

She was not the kind of little girl who would get angry when teased. Mei Raiden was an adult woman, and even from the outside, she was a few years older than Li Shubai. And since she considered herself a decent and mature adult woman, after thoroughly understanding the whole story, Mei Raiden's rational thinking circuit made it difficult for her to get angry at Li Shubai frankly, rather than venting her emotions meaninglessly.

But, I still feel so unwilling.

Although she knew that now that the memories of the Thirteen Heroes had successfully survived, she really shouldn't be angry with Li Shubai and the real Alicia who had saved the memories of these Heroes, but when she thought that all the grievances and heartaches she had suffered were the product of their calculations... Raiden Mei couldn't help but feel an urge to feel resentful.

Not only that, even her most important friend, Kiana Kaslana, was persuaded by these people... When she thought of Kiana, Mei Raiden couldn't help but glare at her with resentful eyes.

You traitor! I used to have such a good relationship with you, but you have grown wings, right? It has only been a few months since we separated, and you have teamed up with outsiders to tease me! And you even said that you love Mei the most...

The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved and irritated she felt. Mei Raiden shook her head fiercely. She took a deep breath, then cast her gaze towards Li Shubai again, smacking her tongue in dissatisfaction: "Tsk, why are you still standing there! Why don't you help me remove the modification of my consciousness?"

Li Shubai was silent for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Are you not angry anymore?"

"Do I look like I'm not angry?" Raiden Mei laughed angrily, "The question is, is it useful if I'm angry? Even if I beat you up, what can it do? Can it change the fact that you treat my feelings like toys and play with them over and over again? I know you are very powerful. You saved Alicia, saved the memories of these thirteen heroes, and solved the problem of the Herrscher of Corrosion without any sacrifice..."

Mei Raiden's speech speed became faster and faster, and she became more and more uncomfortable. In the end, in front of the astonished looks of everyone including Kevin, tears as big as beans flowed uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes, which were painted with gorgeous eyeshadow, and flowed across her cheeks and fell drop by drop.

From the trembling voice, one can easily hear the uncontrollable crying of Raiden Mei: "But why did all of you hide it from me? Am I so untrustworthy? I'm not an unreasonable person! It's ok to hide it from me, if you want to hide it from me, then just keep it hidden forever, why do you suddenly tell me the truth at this time!"

The pressure and fatigue accumulated in the process of fighting against the Herrscher of Corrosion made Raiden Mei's spirit, which was stretched to the limit, finally reach its limit after encountering this frustrating situation where she had anger but couldn't vent it.

She broke defense.

No, if we talk about breaking the defense, it was long before the real fight against the Herrscher of Corrosion, when she faced [Extreme Evil] Velvi, feeling Padufils gradually disappearing in her arms, but could only watch helplessly as it all happened before her eyes, that moment, Raiden Mei's defense had actually been broken a long time ago.

In this situation, one can only say that the already broken spirit has further caused the complete collapse of rationality.

Looking at Mei Raiden crying and sobbing, Li Shubai was completely stunned.

Suddenly, the feeling of someone's elbow poking his side made Li Shubai, whose mind was completely blank, subconsciously turn his head away.

Kiana came to his side at some point. She poked Li Shubai's side with her elbow, and made a face when she saw Li Shubai's gaze.

My thoughts, which had been somewhat stagnant because of Mei Raiden's sudden burst into tears, became even more blank after seeing Kiana's almost explicit action.

...Wait, although I know it was my fault for making her cry, given the relationship between me and Raiden Mei, which is not much different from that of strangers, wouldn't it be more appropriate for you, as her best friend, to comfort her at this time?

It's not that Li Shubai is unwilling to comfort Raiden Mei. After all, he knows it himself... Although he really has no intention of hurting Raiden Mei, the reason why he chose to hide the "Hersher of Corrosion" incident from Raiden Mei is that there is indeed an element of evil taste in it.

It was only natural for him to clean up the mess he had caused, and Li Shubai had no intention of avoiding this responsibility. What surprised him was that Kiana would actually give him the opportunity to comfort Raiden Mei.

Is this still the Kiana who would do everything she could to close the distance between herself and Raiden Mei whenever she had the chance? Just when Li Shubai was finding it hard to accept this fact, he was suddenly attacked by another person on the other side of his abdomen.

He turned his head and was speechless when he saw Alicia winking at him like Kiana.

Why even you... ?

But it's useless to think about it. After all, in this situation, Li Shubai couldn't just leave the crying Mei Raiden alone and ask Kiana and Alicia why they did this... If he really did something like this, Li Shubai would probably want to slap himself in the face without anyone else doing anything.

He rubbed his hair, took two steps forward, and apologized first: "Um, I'm sorry... It's my fault."

Mei Raiden's nose twitched and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

"I shouldn't have hidden it from you. Uh... if you feel unhappy, just punch me?" Li Shubai asked tentatively.

Mei Raiden ignored him but didn't attack him either. She turned her face away and pretended that she couldn't see Li Shubai, but her tears were still falling.

"...Can you please stop crying? I... Ouch!" Feeling the sharp pain in his side abdomen, Li Shubai couldn't help but gasp in pain.

He felt the silent questioning of Alicia and Kiana - God knows how they used two fingers so perfectly to make their side abdominal muscles feel such excruciating pain without hurting themselves, could it be that this is a skill that all women are born with?

But compared to the pain that Alicia and Kiana were feeling as they twisted their flanks, Li Shubai felt even more helpless because of Mei Raiden who completely ignored him but didn't stop crying.

"...What do you want?" In the end, Li Shubai had no choice but to give up the initiative: "Just tell me what you want me to do. If you don't tell me, how can I know what you want?"

"What's the use of me telling you?" Raiden Mei sobbed while trying not to look at Li Shubai: "Will you agree if I tell you?"

"Why should I disagree?"

The sobbing stopped.

"Then don't modify my memory anymore." Raiden Mei turned her gaze back and looked directly at Li Shubai's stunned expression when he saw her face. The corners of her mouth slightly raised because of pleasure, "Also, tell me what you are going to do next and what I don't know now - don't regret it."

As she spoke calmly without any trace of crying, the power of thunder was instantly released.

The tears that were originally overflowing had already been silently decomposed without leaving any residue under the control of Raiden Mei's extremely precise power of thunder.

How could she look like the crying girl she was just a few seconds ago?

...lost.

After seeing the raised corners of Raiden Mei's mouth, Li Shubai's eyelids twitched and he sighed dejectedly: "Is this what you planned from the beginning?"

"Ah, what do you mean?" Raiden Mei tilted her head and smiled happily, "If you're asking me if I'm really sad... I am indeed very sad? So sad that I want to cry from the bottom of my heart."

"Want to cry... So actually, you didn't intend to cry in front of outsiders." Li Shubai rolled his eyes, and then he suddenly seemed to remember something, and glared fiercely in the direction of Kiana who looked innocent, and then couldn't help but raised his hand, pinched Kiana's cheek and ravaged it: "I'm just wondering, given your relationship, if Mei really cried, how could you resist rushing over immediately? Well, you saw that she was pretending to cry at the first sight, right? Are you two pretending to be me?"

"Hehehe." Kiana, whose face was pinched by Li Shubai, did not resist nor get angry. She smiled foolishly and said in a slightly unclear voice, "After all, Mei is my best friend. Of course I have to cooperate with her in whatever she wants to do, don't you think, Mei?"

"Well, Kiana still understands me. My love for you is not in vain." Raiden Mei smiled and raised her neck, like a swan showing off her victory. "In view of Kiana's performance, I will be merciful and forgive you for colluding with outsiders to deceive me~"

Seeing Kiana and Raiden Mei singing the same tune, Li Shubai shrugged and muttered, "Forget it, you two women are bullying me. I am a good man and I will not fight with you two little girls."

Kiana and Raiden Mei were both speechless.

"What a little girl..." Raiden Mei said helplessly, "You don't seem to be older than the two of us, right?"

"That's right!" Kiana quickly agreed, "If I remember correctly, Yulandel seemed to have said before that you are from three years ago, which means you were my classmates at that time, right? By this calculation, you should be younger than Mei and me!"

"Huh?" Mei Raiden was surprised. "Kiana, you said they are from three years ago?"

"Yes." Kiana nodded, then pointed at Yulandel, "Don't you think the sister following him... I mean Yulandel, looks younger than the one we know?"

"Now that you put it that way..." Raiden Mei touched her chin and looked at Yulandel, who looked helpless: "It seems to be true?"

Chapter 4 Where Siegfried Goes (k)

Strictly speaking, the relationship between Mei Raiden and Yulandel is not good, but it is not bad either.

Although Mei Raiden had fought with Yulandel in Sky City nearly a year ago because of Kiana, and she lost miserably and even took away Kiana, whom she had just met, Mei Raiden had her own rational judgment. Rather than hating Yulandel for snatching Kiana, she hated her own weakness and incompetence at that time.

Therefore, before Kiana specifically pointed out that the appearance of the Yulandel in front of them was slightly different from the Yulandel she knew, Raiden Mei didn't even realize that this Yulandel was not the same as Li Shubai, but a person from another time and another world.

However, just as Mei Raiden was looking at Yulandel, she suddenly froze.

The hand that was touching her chin paused for a moment, and then she realized that Kiana did say the word "sister". An obvious look of confusion appeared on Mei's face: "Wait, Kiana, if I heard correctly, the word you were going to use to describe Yulandel was "sister"? Has your relationship become that close during the time I was away?"

Unlike Kiana, who has always been coveting Raiden Mei's body and has been very straightforward in expressing her pursuit of Raiden Mei for a long time, although Raiden Mei has always regarded Kiana as her most important companion and has always indulged Kiana's excessive intimacy and closeness to her, to be honest, the feelings she has for Kiana, although there is cherishment, friendship, and gratitude, the only thing she does not have is love.

Therefore, after learning that Kiana had a close relationship with others, Mei Raiden did not feel jealous like Kiana. Although she also felt melancholy that the girl she had always taken care of had finally grown up, she was still happy from the bottom of her heart for Kiana who had reestablished a bond with her family: "But that's right, with Miss Yulandel's personality, if the two of you were standing in the position of companions, you should get along well."

"Ah?" Kiana was stunned for a moment, then embarrassed. She scratched her silver hair awkwardly and tried to deny Raiden Mei's words at a loss: "No... No, Mei, you misunderstood... Well, it can't be said to be a misunderstanding, right? But I call Youlandel sister not because we get along well, but because... She is indeed my sister, the kind of sister who is related by blood."

"Hmm?" Mei Raiden was stunned and said hesitantly, "But you are not..."

"As for subject K423, it's okay, Mei. You don't need to avoid this matter. I have already accepted it." Kiana took over Mei's words calmly and smiled. "And, from a certain perspective, perhaps being a clone of Yulandel can be considered a kind of luck for me."

"The clone of Yulandel?" Raiden Mei's pupils shrank slightly, and she focused her sight on Yulandel's face. "In other words, you are the one..."

"Yeah." Yulandel and Kiana scratched their heads in a similar way and laughed a little embarrassedly. "I am indeed the one who provided Miss Kiana with the genetic prototype [Kiana Kaslana], so in terms of blood relationship, we are indeed related."

"This is really... a very shocking fact." Mei Raiden had a strange expression on her face. She recalled the scene when she lost to Yulandel in Sky City and then had Kiana taken away by her. Suddenly, she felt an urge to laugh and cry.

Originally, she thought that it was the bad guy Yulandel who prevented her and Kiana, the two best friends, from reuniting, but it turned out... Could it be that at that time, she was the bad guy who prevented the sisters from reuniting?

"Forget it." While making a long-lost little joke to herself in her heart, Mei Raiden shook her head speechlessly, then showed a sincere smile and sincerely wished Kiana to find her blood relatives. "From the looks of you two, you should not have any grudges against each other because of this unreasonable thing. As an outsider, I will not interfere in your family affairs. Now that you have found your relatives, cherish this precious relationship."

"By the way, speaking of their relatives..." Suddenly, after hearing Raiden Mei's blessing, Li Shubai seemed to suddenly remember something and turned his gaze towards Kevin: "Kevin, where did you hide Mr. Siegfried... the father of Kiana and Yulandel?"

"Ah?" Li Shubai's sudden attack stunned the Yingjies, who were originally enjoying eating the melons of these young people, as well as Kiana and Yulandel.

Although Yulandel, like the Yulandel in this world, had fully awakened the stigma of Kaslana with the help of several Herrschers of the Void and several Yulandel on the Hyperion and successfully entered the realm of [Genyuan] not long ago, her experience of awakening the stigma was not the same as that of the Tengen Knight and herself in this world.

After all, at the time she was there, Siegfried was still intact in Anti-Entropy and had not been caught by the World Serpent. Therefore, Yulandel did not know that Siegfried in this world had been imprisoned by Kevin.

"What?!" After being stunned for a moment, Kiana, who had no doubt about Li Shubai's words, turned her head suddenly. She stared at Kevin and asked angrily: "You imprisoned your stinky dad? Where is he now!"

Following Kiana's angry questioning, all the heroes, including Kevin's memory, turned their gazes one after another to Kevin's real body, whose expression was quite unnatural, with inquiries and doubts in their eyes evident.

Although they all knew that Kevin was a very strict person, these heroes had never expected that Kevin could be so cruel as to imprison his own offspring... and the offspring of his own father.

Feeling the piercing gazes of his former comrades, and even his own memories, which contained disappointment, questioning, disbelief and other complex emotions, Kevin was silent for a moment, feeling very uncomfortable. In the end, he answered Li Shubai's question with a little embarrassment: "...the deepest part of Kaslana's stigmata space."

"...Hmm." Li Shubai hugged his chest, squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then moved his fingers on his arm, "Can we go in and take a look?"

Kevin glanced at Yulandel and Kiana, then at Li Shubai: "I can help them enter Kaslana's stigmata space, but you..."

"As for Kaslana's stigmata, I also have them." Li Shubai interrupted Kevin without hesitation, "So you don't have to worry that I can't enter the stigmata space with you."

All of a sudden, except for the two old members of the Hyperion, Herrscher of Consciousness and Alicia, who roughly knew about the stigmata space held by Li Shubai, and Yulandel, who had joined the Hyperion not long ago, everyone present fell silent.

Everyone's necks began to creak like rusty mechanical joints, and they all looked at Li Shubai, whose face was full of calm and composure, with expressions of extreme astonishment.

"Hmm?" Li Shubai looked around at the people around him, sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere. "Why do you have such expressions? Is it strange that I have the stigma of Kaslana?"

What's so strange about you having Kaslana's stigma? Is there any need to ask such an obvious question? Everyone was roaring in their hearts, look at you, how do you look like a Kaslana?

“No, no, no, no, that’s not right!” Kiana’s pupils were trembling. She swallowed with a gulp and said with a dry mouth: “If Sister Yulandel’s hair changed because of Otto’s medical treatment, then in your case…”

“Stop, stop, stop, stop! What a mess!?” Only then did Li Shubai finally realize how outrageous the misunderstanding was because of his words. He interrupted Kiana’s incoherent words and said tiredly: “…It’s also my fault that I didn’t explain it clearly. I have no blood relationship with your people of Kaslana and Kevin.”

Kevin breathed a sigh of relief, wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead that had begun to condense into ice crystals, and frowned: "Then why did you say that you have Kaslana's stigma?"

Li Shubai pointed to his forehead and said unhappily, "It's ok that Kiana and Yulandel don't know, but as the current executor of the Stigmata Project, don't you know what the so-called Stigmata Space is?"

Kevin was helpless: "You might as well explain it more clearly."

"Of course it's the imaginary space that is directly connected to the dream." Li Shubai spread his hands. "Isn't the so-called Stigmata space originally an imaginary space with a unique structure and origin? Although I still don't know what the World Serpent's Stigmata plan will look like after it is completed, even if there are subtle differences in characteristics, the purpose of creating that space in the beginning is not exactly the same. At least in terms of form, the Stigmata space I hold is indeed the same thing as the Stigmata space you know."

"..." Kevin's expression changed slightly, "That is to say, you have actually..."

"This is also the fundamental reason why I completely disagree with the Stigmata Project." Li Shubai smiled, "I said, although the purpose is different, but from a certain perspective, the Stigmata space I have is the same as the Stigmata Project you are executing. It is the final completion form of the plan I once made."

"Of course, at that time, I didn't set a grand and noble goal for myself like you did, to save the world from the hands of the End. I just hoped to make the independent existence of will and soul possible without the existence of a physical entity. To put it bluntly, I was just trying to find a way to exploit the loopholes in the world order and prolong the lives of those who had already died. This was just a selfish and inferior idea." Li Shubai said calmly: "But the focus now is not this, but Siegfried's matter."

From the very beginning, Kevin already knew and admitted that the Stigmata Plan was the worst plan, so even though Li Shubai pointed at him and openly scolded him for being "unfair" and "selfish", Kevin was not very angry.

But he did not simply agree with Li Shubai's words, but asked another question: "What are you going to do? Do you want me to let him out?"

"No need, let him stay in the Stigmata Space for now." Before the anxious Kiana could protest, Li Shubai continued, "You sealed Siegfried in the deepest part of the Stigmata Space. You probably didn't intend to hurt him, but on the contrary, you tried to protect him in your own way, right?"