The civilization before the collapse, heroes and heroes are reborn with me

“Ha… there’s nothing we can do about it…”

Let’s go back to the present.

"Huh... Sister Ai Li, you guys are going too far..." Paduo's somewhat exaggerated voice interrupted Alicia's thoughts. She looked towards the door of the laboratory. Paduo appeared there gasping for breath, and then accused everyone of waiting for Feng here, while she had to run over from the World Snake.

After all, her assigned task was to arrange the changes in the world situation brought about by the awakening of the Second Herrscher at the World Serpent's side, so as to control the extent of the disaster of Honkai to the minimum.

Everyone laughed.

"No, actually you're not that late. I just arrived not long ago." Feng said with a smile.

Padu blinked, then looked at Mebius and said, "It seems that Sister Snake and Sister Ying's plan has failed."

"Hmph!" Mebius turned his head away.

"In this way, we are all gathered together again, although this place may not be suitable for our reunion." Eden said with a smile.

"Everyone?" Feng looked around. "By the way, where's Kevin? And where did Kosmo go?"

Hua saw it and knew at a glance that it was Yu Duchen who had been poisoned and his consciousness was sealed. He was still sitting on the chair. So where were Kevin and Kos the Demon?

"What they said...it's a long story." Su sighed helplessly.

Chapter 59: Post-War Parties

Siegfried opened his eyes and what came into view was the ceiling of the Anti-Entropy Laboratory. He turned his head with some effort to look at his body. Now his whole body was full of tubes, and half of his body had been replaced by the shell of the Honkai Beast that appeared from the collapse.

"I am..."

Siegfried tried hard to recall his memories before he fell into a coma. He was furious and lost his mind because of Shaniat, who looked and sounded almost exactly like Cecilia, but he still had some impression of what happened in between. Shaniat seemed to have said something like "It's over", and then evacuated the battlefield with Ludwig.

"You're awake, Mr. Siegfried." Einstein's voice sounded above Siegfried.

Siegfried looked at Einstein standing beside him and asked in a hoarse voice: "Dr. Einstein...was this operation successful?"

Einstein lowered his eyes, and after a moment of silence, he finally said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Siegfried, but Lucifer's existence is not just a legend. He has indeed been resurrected in the body of your daughter... Kiana Kaslana."

"What...?" Siegfried's pupils shrank, "But... Ludwig..."

"Ludwig is not the only one in Shaniyat's trump card," Einstein said. "They have been preparing for this for thousands of years. The so-called high-end combat power of the Shaniyat family that we have seen before may only be the tip of the iceberg. As I heard from Mr. Longma, the Shaniyat who appeared with Ludwig is even stronger than Ludwig."

Siegfried didn't say anything else, he just gritted his teeth secretly.

"Everything is settled now. Lucifer Shaniat has confirmed his return. His power is far stronger than you and I imagined. But the good news is that at least he has no intention of intervening in the battle between Destiny and Anti-Entropy." Einstein looked at Siegfried and said, "Mr. Siegfried, I understand your mood at the moment, but I still hope that you can remain relatively calm in the days to come. Your physical condition is deteriorating very seriously and you need to rest."

Siegfried closed his eyes and had no intention of continuing to speak.

Einstein shook his head slightly and walked out of the laboratory.

"Hey, Chicken Coop Head." Tesla said outside the laboratory, "Are you sure it's okay to tell Siegfried this news?"

"If I don't tell him, he won't take the initiative to look for him?" Einstein said calmly, "Rather than letting him go crazy after he recovers a little and knows the news, it's better to explain it to him now... And, I think Anti-Entropy can't be careless now. Although Lucifer didn't make a clear statement to intervene in the fight between Destiny and Anti-Entropy at the time, it's hard to guarantee that Lucifer won't have some other ideas when he reads some of Shaniyat's information and intelligence over the years."

There had been several frictions between Anti-Entropy and Shaniyat even before Anti-Entropy was founded. For example, after Leanna's sacrifice, Anti-Entropy had a conflict with Shaniyat over the salvage of the Black Abyss White Flower. At that time, Anti-Entropy had just been established and had to choose to give in under the siege of Shaniyat. But at that time, the relationship between Anti-Entropy and Shaniyat was not as bad as it is now. Shaniyat didn't seem to mind Anti-Entropy's behavior too much, at least it didn't hunt down Anti-Entropy members as desperately as it does now.

Going back further, it was during the time of Cecilia Shaniyat. In order to study the composition and source of Shaniyat's holy blood and intercept the sample of the "Herder Killer" escorted by Cecilia and others, Einstein, Walter and others designed to hypnotize Cecilia with hypnotic gas, and thereby completed the sampling of Shaniyat's holy blood. That sample is still being studied at the Anti-Entropy Headquarters.

However, although the analysis of the Shaniyat's Holy Blood did provide Anti-Entropy with a way to fight against the Shaniyat, at least it should have been like this before the Second Collapse, but when Siegfried defected from Scheintelligence and the Shaniyat officially became the enemy of Anti-Entropy, they discovered that the holy blood in the bodies of the Shaniyat sent by Shaniyat to fight them seemed to be in another form.

The holy blood of Shaniyat seems to exist in two forms, and thus has differentiated into two almost completely different Shaniyat, one based on the power of the stigmata, and the other based on man-made collapse.

Before Shaniyat announced that Anti-Entropy was their enemy, the only artificial collapse that Einstein and others had seen was Siegfried's. At that time, they thought that the power was difficult for humans to control. As a result, Shaniyat slapped Anti-Entropy in the face - Ivar and others used artificial collapse as if it were a game.

During the second great collapse, this part of the Shaniyat was basically not even deployed, or at least, within the known range of Anti-Entropy, their artificial collapse was not seen.

After thinking carefully about the conflicts between Anti-Entropy and Shaniyat over the years, Einstein really felt that compared to Siegfried, he was the one who was troubled.

If Lucifer knew about the conflict between Shaniat and Anti-Entropy over the years, as well as the complete split after Siegfried's defection, it is hard to say whether he would remain neutral as he did at the beginning.

"There is no record in the surviving materials of the previous civilization, and there is no substantial archaeological evidence in the current civilization to prove his existence. He is just a figure in the legend of Shaniyat. Could he be real..." Einstein frowned and thought.

According to legend, Lucifer Shaniyat can turn back time and bring about miracles. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Otto participated in the Shaniyat family's millennium plan. After all, no one in Anti-Entropy is unaware of Otto's desire to resurrect Kallen.

So now, will Lucifer's return be another challenge to Otto's position in the destiny? Does Otto have any other ideas?

At present, except for the people who participated in the War of Destiny at that time, Lucifer's return has not been made public. Is it possible that, in addition to Lucifer himself not caring about such a thing, Otto is also trying to cover up Lucifer's existence?

If we really have to become an enemy of Lucifer, maybe we can try to start with Otto?

But for now, this is not very realistic. Lucifer has just returned, and even if there is a conflict between him and Otto, it will not break out now. However, it will only take a few days at most to read the information about Shaniyat's conflict with Anti-Entropy over the years. During this period, it is hard to say whether Otto will exaggerate Lucifer in order to borrow Lucifer's knife to chop Anti-Entropy.

Einstein couldn't help but feel a chill on his scalp when he thought of the consequences of being an enemy of Lucifer. Not to mention how powerful Lucifer himself was, that end-of-law-level Honkai beast was really unreasonable. Einstein even believed that Sirin, who was in her prime during the Second Great Collapse, might not be able to do anything about that Honkai beast.

Its Honkai energy level is the highest among all Honkai beasts, even exceeding that of normal beasts. Its special ability is suspected to be space-time ability. There is currently no good solution to this bug-level special ability.

For now, Einstein can only hope to find ways to delay time as much as possible until the rift between Otto and Lucifer begins to widen.

"If we hand over Siegfried and draw a clear line with Cocolia, can we buy some breathing time for Anti-Entropy?" Einstein thought to himself as he looked at Siegfried in the laboratory again.

"You chicken-coated head, you wouldn't..." As Einstein's old partner, Tesla naturally noticed Einstein's intention at the first moment.

"Don't worry, I just thought of one thing when I was thinking of various solutions. Anti-Entropy will not follow the same path as Otto." Einstein retracted his gaze and said, "After all, Mr. Siegfried provided us with the most needed help when we were in the most difficult time. We also fought side by side during the Second Great Collapse. Anti-Entropy would never do such a thing as betrayal."

She was referring to the fact that after the Second Collapse, Siegfried secretly returned the Herrscher Core of the First Herrscher that was devoured by Sirin to Anti-Entropy in order to repay Anti-Entropy's favor, and he no longer participated in the affairs of Destiny after that.

Perhaps this is also the reason why Otto could not tolerate Siegfried no matter what.

Siegfried saved Anti-Entropy twice. The first time was when Otto wanted to kill the seriously injured Walter, and it was Siegfried who stopped Otto. The second time was when he returned the Herrscher Core that housed Walter's consciousness to Anti-Entropy. Based on these two points alone, Einstein would not hand over Siegfried as a bargaining chip in future negotiations.

But it is hard to say what kind of label Siegfried's actions will be given in Lucifer's eyes after Otto's exaggeration.

After all, Destiny and Anti-Entropy are two hostile organizations. Of Siegfried's two actions, the first one can be explained, but the second one was a real betrayal of Destiny. Even from Anti-Entropy's perspective, Siegfried did this out of his sense of justice.

In the legend, some ancient texts describe the fall of Lucifer as follows:

“As an apostle of God, he rebelled against God for the sake of mankind. When he fell from the sky, the people on earth cheered and celebrated the demise of the rebels. But the betrayers on earth will not be redeemed, and their judgment will still come.”

In other words, Lucifer’s fall was most likely caused by human betrayal.

So, for Him, the identity of a betrayer may be the identity that he finds most intolerable, His weak spot, even if the betrayer's original intention was because of the so-called sense of justice.

"Dr. Tesla, do you think that at this stage, if Anti-Entropy and Lucifer go to war, we will be annihilated within a few seconds?" Einstein looked at Tesla and asked half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"What do you mean by a few seconds? Don't look down on us, Chicken Coop Head?" Tesla retorted subconsciously, and then his voice suddenly weakened a bit, "At least... at least we should be able to struggle for a few minutes, right?"

The Honkai beast alone is enough to be a problem, not to mention that Walter, the strongest combat force in Anti-Entropy, is not in the Eigenworld.

"At least we have reached a consensus that we cannot defeat Lucifer." Einstein said with a wry smile, "However, although we only met briefly, I don't think Lucifer is the kind of person who would go to war with Anti-Entropy. After all, in his eyes, any force that resists Honkai should not be consumed by internal conflicts between humans."

But you always have to prepare for the worst-case scenario...even if the worst-case scenario is a complete annihilation of the entire team.

I have never given all my choices to a person I have only met once before...

Einstein laughed at himself in his heart.

At this moment, Einstein was extremely worried about Lucifer.

The two ancestors who founded Shaniat, Mavis and Lilim, were now being punished to kneel in front of Feng in the form of young children, writing self-criticisms while kneeling.

The two children were ultimately unable to escape the backstab from Misterine. With Misterine's precise positioning, they were quickly pulled out of the stigmata space by Feng. At the same time, Feng simply asked Misterine to mold the bodies of two young children for the two children.

They originally thought that their father still loved them, and that they would use this behavior to make their mother feel distressed, but in the end...

Alicia did indeed feel sorry for them and did not do anything after seeing their expressions, but Feng did not let them go. He made them kneel down here and write a self-criticism, and they had to keep doing this until he was satisfied.

Although from a common sense perspective, they had done such a big thing without telling Alicia, and considering their abilities, kneeling down and writing a self-criticism was not a punishment at all, but... Feng's requirement for the body molded by Misterine was that it must be molded completely according to the standards of a young child.

In other words, at this moment, they really have the bodies of two ordinary children kneeling down to write self-criticisms. Their physical strength and physical energy consumption are all at the standards of ordinary children.

In fact, this method can be considered a compromise. After all, no matter how angry Alicia was before, she would never really beat the daughter she raised. After all, even a certain Maple Party archbishop had been jumping around in the former civilization for so long, and he was not seen being shot into a hedgehog by Alicia's bow and arrow.

But when it comes to the matter of these two children, it is impossible not to punish them, but I also cannot bear to beat them, so I adopted this compromise approach.

"So, Kiana still doesn't want to come out?" Alicia glanced at Mavis and Lilith who were writing self-criticisms honestly, then looked at Feng and asked.

"Yeah, I tried to get Bianca to talk to her, but she just refused to come out and told me to leave her alone." Feng said helplessly.

"Hmm..." Alicia stroked her chin and said, "How about you let Mei and the others try?"

"Even Bianca can't do it, what can Mei and the others do?" Feng sighed and said, "She doesn't even want to see the children of Saint Freya. Bianca can at least talk to her for a few words before she becomes autistic again."

"It seems that there is no good solution at the moment, but I believe that the child will be able to get out of it on his own in the end." Alicia said.

"The current situation is that the prerequisite for her to come out of her self-denial is that she must first start thinking." Feng looked up at the sky, "But now she has simply stopped thinking and closed her mind. It can almost be regarded as if she is sleeping."

"This really can't go on..." Alicia frowned when she heard that.

"Although I can force her to come out of her closed state, her whole attitude now is self-denial and negative. Even if I force her to go online, she won't have much communication with the outside world." Feng said, "Let's wait and see for a while, let her adapt for a while, if this time is too long, I can only consider taking compulsory measures."

"That's the only way..."

When the two were chatting, Mistellin's communication suddenly came in: "Lord Lucifer, and Lady Alicia, do you have time now?"

"Is there any problem, Misterine?" Feng asked.

"I don't know if anyone has told you recently that because of your return, the Shaniat family is ready to officially go to war against Anti-Entropy." Mistelline said, "After all, this time they are really launching a battle of destiny with the purpose of preventing you from returning, and they also want to know your attitude towards Siegfried's matter."

"Reverse entropy doesn't matter." Feng narrowed his eyes, "As for Siegfried..."

"Before you came back, we also discussed how to deal with Siegfried. My previous opinion was that it would be better for Kevin's family to handle it himself." Alicia said.

Feng was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed as if he had thought of something. "That's right. After all, he is also from the Kaslana family. It seems that Kevin also lent him strength to help him start the artificial collapse, right? This kind of thing, of course, must be handled by Kevin himself. However, he does have to give an explanation to the Shaniyat family."

"You mean..." Mistrylin tilted her head.

"I want to go meet this Siegfried in person and see with my own eyes what kind of person Cecilia's kid likes and the father of Kiana and Bianca's two children looks like." Feng said meaningfully, "By the way, take back the Holy Judge of Skyfire from him."

Mistrynne recalled her impression of Siegfried and said, "Then you may be disappointed."

Alicia glanced at Feng, and after thinking for a moment, she understood Feng's plan. She curled her lips and said, "You don't want to..."

"If Siegfried can be of some use, I'm willing to step in and let this matter rest, and Shaniyatt won't have to keep hunting him down." Feng said calmly, "But if he's of no use at all... then there's no need to wait for Kevin to come back and deal with it."

"You really care about that child...but I'll be jealous, right?" Alicia said with drooping eyes.

"I'm sorry... After all, Kiana's situation is special, and isn't she just a junior now? If Mistrynne hadn't mentioned Siegfried, I wouldn't have remembered that there was such a person. Weren't we talking about what to do with Kiana before? Now there's a way to kill two birds with one stone? Even the reason is legitimate, there's no way to ignore that child."

Alicia crossed her arms over her chest and looked at Feng with empty eyes. It seemed that Feng was really going to go over and beat Siegfried up with his own hands. If Kiana didn't come out during this process, then Feng might really beat Siegfried to death. And if Kiana came out, he could naturally force Kiana to continue living in the real world on the condition that Siegfried was alive.

As long as Kiana is alive and well, the Shanyiat family will not touch Siegfried, and at least Siegfried will not be in danger of his life.

Given Kiana's personality, she would indeed accept this condition, and in this way, she would not owe Siegfried anything.

After all, Feng had told Alicia almost everything in the past few days, and Alicia also knew that Kiana felt deeply guilty towards Siegfried and Bianca. These two people could indeed become a breakthrough for Kiana at this stage, and Siegfried... there was indeed reason for him to be killed directly by Feng.

So, Kiana couldn't just ignore it.

As long as Kiana's consciousness is willing to come out and take over this body, Feng's consciousness can be projected onto other carriers. As for this new carrier, she has prepared a "surprise" for Feng...

Destiny Airport, Bishop's office.

Otto rested his hands on his chin and looked at the document in front of him, lost in thought. Amber, who was standing beside him, glanced at Otto, then looked at the document in front of Otto, and couldn't help but want to ask the bishop directly what he was thinking about.

This document is just a very normal document. What is the bishop thinking about while looking at it?

Could it be that this is a new slacking technique that the Bishop is trying besides playing games?

Otto was indeed not thinking about the document. He was thinking about a conversation he had just had with Feng not long ago. The other party successfully reminded him of the content of the conversation opportunity he had obtained by secretly doing something during the second Great Collapse.

Kallen can be resurrected, this was confirmed again by Feng, but she needs the help of the [Past] held by the ancestor Kaslana who is still in the Quantum Sea. Otto can understand this, after all, the essence of [Past] is the Key of God made from one of the three Herrscher core fragments of Lucifer.

Anyway, he has been waiting for five hundred years, so a few months won't make a difference.

What he cares about now is another sentence from Feng...

Chapter 60 Siegfried Kaslana, You Are Not Welcome in Shaniyat

Anti-Entropy New Mexico Base.

Due to his poor physical condition, Siegfried accepted Anti-Entropy's arrangement and moved to Anti-Entropy's base in New Mexico for recuperation. During this period, Einstein and others also paid close attention to the actions of Destiny and Shaniyat.

Siegfried stood by the window of the sanatorium, staring at the sunlight outside. After knowing that the Battle of Destiny had completely failed with Anti-Entropy and Theresa's actions, he remained silent.

The Battle of Destiny...Lucifer Shaniat is resurrected in the body of Kiana Kaslana, which means he may have lost his daughter again, and once again he is powerless to do anything about it.

Moreover, the bad news did not end there. He wanted to ask Theresa about the current situation of the other Kiana. Given Otto's character and Shaniyat's style, she should not be covered up after being recovered. Theresa just remained silent and said nothing.

If Kiana was fine, Theresa would not have remained silent. Something else must have happened in the end of the Battle of Destiny. Based on Theresa's silence, Einstein, who was also present at the time, seemed to have remembered something and used it to infer Kiana's current identity in Destiny.

But she also chose to remain silent to Siegfried and didn't say much.

What price did Shaniyat pay for Lucifer's return?

Siegfried didn't know, he only knew that he was ultimately unable to protect anyone around him.