K424 of the Collapse World

Shirley shook her head, dispelling the unconscious random thoughts in her mind.

Now that she was already here with Theresa, it would be rude to continue to be distracted. Whether it was things like time and rules, or those abnormal hallucinations just now, she might as well think about them later. Now, she still had a lot of things to ask the school principal...

"Ok?"

But before saying hello, Shirley felt something was wrong.

In the huge command terminal room that should have accommodated nearly a hundred people, Theresa was the only one sitting alone in front of the commander-in-chief's seat. There was no one around her, whether in the seats of the three adjutants or in the three rows of communicators' seats below...

"Theresa, only you

Alone? "

"..."

Hearing this, Theresa did not respond, but slowly raised her head and met Shirley's eyes.

Looking at the pair of blue eyes that looked normal, Shilis quickly walked forward and came in front of Theresa.

"Where are the others? Where did Ji Zi go? Or did something new happen during the time I was on my way to the Glorious Covenant?"

"Hehe... No~"

Theresa smiled, jumped off the chair lightly, and stood face to face with Shirley.

"Thank you for your hard work, Shirley. Thanks to your activeness, the Far East Branch's losses in the two incidents were minimized. This time, you protected everyone again..."

As she spoke, Theresa slowly opened her arms and stretched, making a cute purring sound like a cat.

"As for the others... don't worry about them. I just let them go home early. There are no new combat missions now, so there's no need to keep everyone on edge."

788 Reunion Beyond Time>>

Theresa's smile was as warm as usual. Even though it seemed to reveal something unusual at the moment, Hillis didn't care much. However, she had thought that the great changes in the branch would make Theresa's face full of clouds, and she would be busy with the remaining work of the branch. However, who knew that this girl still had a cute and relaxed expression, and seemed not to be troubled by the disaster that the branch had encountered. Hillis's words of comfort were useless.

However, this is fine. After all, she doesn't want to see Theresa frowning, and Theresa in this state is more suitable for talking about topics...

"But then again, you're cuter when you look like this, Shirley. I really have to thank Xing. If she hadn't reversed your relative time, who knows when the erosion marks on your body would have been healed."

"...Well, I'll never forget what she did for me."

When Xing was mentioned again, Shirley only sighed a little and then returned to her normal expressionless state. For her, now was no time to always be immersed in sadness.

"Theresa, I want to know..."

"Hmm~~ So are you going to take a nap with Theresa? Now that we have sorted out all the troubles, everyone should be able to have a good rest, right~?"

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the yawn of the girl in front of her. Theresa stepped back and leaned directly on the operating table full of precision instruments. She even lay back and let her two short legs hang down.

"Theresa...?"

"Hmm? Any questions? Anyway, just find a place to sit down. Look, this house is quite big and spacious, and there's no one else here, so you won't be discovered if you slack off here~"

The girl waved her hand nonchalantly and pointed to the slightly flatter adjutant's workbench opposite, obviously wanting Shirley to sit up and talk to her face to face.

Shilis frowned slightly.

Although Theresa was a little childish at times, she was not someone who could not distinguish between occasions. At most, she would sneak some time to read comic books in her spare time in the office. In her impression, the girl did not seem to be so out of touch, and would not behave so outrageously in public...

"..."

Shirley fell silent. As her mind worked at high speed, her blue eyes gradually became sharper and clearer. Theresa saw this and the smile on her face became somewhat intriguing.

"Don't think too much. There are only two of us here. It's okay for us to sit on the unused machine table. The quality of Tianming Industrial products is good enough to put Judas on it. Are we afraid that it will be crushed with our weight?"

"That's not the question..."

"So what's the problem? I've already turned off the surveillance at the headquarters. After all, you don't want the content of our conversation to be known to everyone... And even if there is a camera, you can find it easily +10, right?"

The silver-haired girl in nun's uniform continued speaking, sitting on the instrument table and swinging her legs slowly, and began to look at Shirley with a different look than before.

And Shirley finally discovered something. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes showed a hint of disbelief...

"Don't worry, I've already said it... There are only two of us here, neither Paramecium nor Kiana will come to disturb us. Of course, the real Judas Launcher won't come either. Although this place is indeed based on her territory, if they want to come in, I'm afraid only the Herrscher of the Heart and Yu Duchen of the Shenzhou Tablet can do it."

"Hmph...are you finally not going to continue acting?"

Hearing these extremely straightforward words, a sneer appeared on the corner of Shilis's mouth.

"You just drag others into the world of imagination and make so many "furniture" just to tease me. You still have the same bad taste as before."

Girl folded her arms

, the invisible pale golden field slowly spread out around her, and all the terminal seats that touched this field turned into nothingness in the light and shadow, turning into an empty pure white...

"I should have thought of it earlier... Xing's law power restored my individuality to its past, and preserved my concept of "present", completely blending it with the state of "past". "

"Hmph..."

The silver-haired girl in Theresa's form continued to smile, allowing the field that dispelled everything to expand in front of her...

"Since everything in the past is being superimposed on my current state, then everything I have lost, including the power that was erased by the Serenity Gem experiment, will naturally return to my body. Even... the other soul hidden in my body!"

Following Shirley's voice, Theresa, who was covered by the golden field, also changed her form...

This scene was also what the girl expected.

Looking at the figure in front of her who had completely changed his appearance, Shirley sighed softly and her eyes softened.

"haven't seen you for a long time......"

"Lan Feng."

789 Existence

Both the Far East Command Terminal Room and the silver-haired girl in nun's uniform disappeared as the light domain unfolded.

In the empty pure white space, Silis, the Lord of Mind Image, stood at the center. In front of her was a young man who looked a little unfamiliar. He stood opposite her like a mirror, staring into the blue eyes of the silver-haired girl...

The influence of interfering with relative time forced the past and future of Shirley to be superimposed together. Before Shirley's first consciousness collapse, she had always existed in the form of two souls in one.

The fragments of Silin's soul, which were the surface consciousness, and the consciousness of the traverser hidden in the deep layer of the mind, together constituted the individual "Siris". At least, before the consciousness of the community was interfered and disintegrated by the collapse, her dual souls did maintain a stable state of non-interference.

Xing's goal was to repair Shirley's body and bring her back to her peak. Therefore, the fragment intercepted by the Law of Time was naturally Shirley's heyday before being eroded by the Law of Destruction, that is, when Lan Feng still existed. Therefore, even if Xing deliberately controlled the Law of Time so as not to interfere with Shirley's soul and memory, when Shirley's dual soul period was covered with the current state, the extra soul that appeared out of thin air returned to the girl's body...

Standing with his arms folded at the other end of the pure white world, a ripple flashed across the young man's dark pupils.

"Long time no see... huh? Although to me, this period of time seems like only a moment... but never mind."

He muttered to himself and soon turned his gaze to the silver-haired girl opposite him.

"Yes, that's me. Your reasoning is very accurate. Although your perception speed is a bit slow, if we only look at your reaction speed and acceptance ability... well, it's not bad."

In the stiff silence, Lan Feng spoke first, and walked over slowly, looking at the girl with interest. No one knew what he was thinking.

"It's OK. It seems that your brain hasn't degenerated too seriously during this period of time. Seeing you change back to this, I was still worried. What if you really turn into a stupid lolita... But fortunately, it seems that my worries are unnecessary."

Taking advantage of his height, he looked down at the silver-haired girl with a loli-like figure, with an indescribable smile on his face.

In response to this remark, Hillis could only roll her eyes helplessly.

"...In your opinion, am I just a savage who has given up thinking?"

Shiris pulled the corner of her mouth, and the serious atmosphere of the mental world was dispelled. After seeing through the true identity of "Theresa", she was still a little entangled, not knowing how to communicate with Lan Feng.

Ultimately, it’s because the relationship between the two of them is too complicated to be summarized by the word “friends”.

As a fragment of Sirin's soul, the original Siris did not have a clear sense of self. After being instilled with an external memory, she took the soul from another world as herself.

Initially, her heart was as pure as a blank sheet of paper. After acquiring Lan Feng's memory, she naturally inherited the young man's way of thinking and behavior habits, and her own heart was once dyed the same color as that young man.

And from here, the problem arises...

As the source of Shilis' personality and sharing the same memory with her, what kind of existence is Lan Feng to me? What kind of relationship does he have with me?

Although the two of them were honest with each other for only a very short period of time before they separated, it was precisely because of this that Shilis could see the true nature of the young man more clearly and understand how much he had given to her...

They were close but not blood relatives, equal but not friends. Their specific relationship was probably more complicated than that of Shirley.

It's much more complicated than you think.

Therefore, she didn't understand how to face this special old friend...

Noticing Shirley's eager and excited gaze, Lan Feng's eyes showed a hint of teasing.

"Huh? Why are you looking at me like that? First of all, although you are indeed cute when you are little, I am not a lolita complex."

"..."

"Don't disbelieve me. I am just a soul now. I don't have those messy desires anymore. Or, is it you who want to...?"

At least for now, it seems that the "serious" conversation style can basically be ruled out.

789 exists >>

However, as the topic unfolded smoothly in an unexpected form, Shirley silently gave up the greeting method she had just conceived and instead revealed a smile that was equally meaningful.

"In other words, you have been staying in my mental world since I walked out of the time seal?"

"Well, that's exactly it."

"And you have been spying on my life quietly like you did in the first two years? From the meeting between the Glorious Covenant and Otto Kevin, to the quantum biological catastrophe in the Far East Sea, and have you been watching until now?"

"Well..."

"Hmph, you have a bad taste... If I hadn't been running out of time the last time we met, I would have asked you carefully, when I was taking a shower and changing clothes in the bathroom, were you also sharing my vision?"

As she spoke, Silis puffed up her cheeks in a feigned anger, put her hands on her hips and looked up at the young man in front of her. At this moment, facing this young man who knew her inside out, she didn't need to deliberately maintain her usual deep temperament...

"Hey, hey~ You used to think of yourself as me, so would you still care about being watched by another self? This situation is just like Xi'er. Have you ever seen her get angry at her own half-consciousness?"

"She's obviously too weak, right? And I... do you think I'm the kind of person who would swallow my anger?"

"Like, I remember that when you were slashed by Ji Zi, you gave your stigmata to her."

"Well...that's different!"

"Then tell me, what's the difference?"

"..."

Hearing this, Hillarys subconsciously prepared to think carefully about what was different here, but soon she realized something and shook her head helplessly.

"Isn't this a bit off topic? This kind of thing doesn't matter. I just mind a little bit... Since you're back, why didn't you tell me like this earlier?"

"When your time was reset, your mind was in a very unstable state. Your heart was filled with grief over the loss of Xing, and you were also entangled in a lot of troubles. If I showed up again at that time, I'm afraid your mind wouldn't be able to bear it."

"It's good news for me to see you again. If I had seen you earlier, maybe I wouldn't have been so depressed just now..."

"Eh? Is that so? But never mind, you made it through anyway, didn't you? Besides, it's not like I didn't do anything on my end. During this time, I quickly reviewed your residual memory of the past five years and found out what happened during this period in advance."

“What is a visual afterimage?”

"This... probably is a video recording left in the soul, I think it can be described like this. Although I can't read your memory directly, because we share the same body, the residual image left by the soul allows me to browse what you have seen and heard during this period of time like watching a movie. It is a convenient way to obtain information."

As Lan Feng explained, he looked at the silver-haired girl who was listening attentively with a well-behaved face. He raised his hand with some amusement and reached out to Shirley's little head.

But after thinking about it, he gave up this action and changed his action abruptly in the middle of patting the head, pretending that he was just moving his arms.

Thinking about what I'm going to say later, it's better to be serious...

"Huh? What's wrong?"

The silver-haired girl who was watching Lan Feng closely could easily notice the change in the young man's expression.

"What I'm going to say next may not be so easy for you to accept."

"...?"

"The law of time restored your state, and even put me back into your body. However, it is an established fact that I was exiled by the agent of the Honkai Will."

Looking at his hands, there was something intriguing in Lan Feng's smile.

"It's like a person who travels through time and space and goes back to the past and meets his childhood self. The same individual from different periods appears at the same time because of a joke of time. And the me who reappears due to the interference of the special laws of time is naturally no longer the exiled me..."

"You should know what this means.

Right? "

790 Power

“So…?”

Shilis' eyes widened slightly.

According to Lan Feng, his form of existence at this moment is the product of breaking the paradox.

The emergence of time paradox is based on the fact that humans can control the laws of the fourth dimension - time and space - at will, and thereby achieve theoretically impossible things such as time travel.