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

Therefore, Raven also felt quite powerless. The reason why she placed her hopes on Ziyuan was because the Shanyiat family's thousands of years of struggle against Honkai had established an unshakable prestige for Ziyuan. The buff of the Shanyiat family itself could add a lot to Ziyuan's image.

But if Ziyuan happens to be that bastard Otto...

"Just be frank, Jackal. What is the job you want me to do this time?" Raven put aside his complicated thoughts and spoke.

"Heh, it seems like you have a lot of opinions about me." The Jackal sneered, "But if you continue to have this attitude, I will have to consider whether to take you with me. Although Gray Snake mentioned that you can participate, I also have the right to veto."

Gray Snake suggested that I could participate?

Raven narrowed her eyes. She didn't have much to say about the gray snakes. She was not familiar with most of them, and there were a few individuals that she disliked very much. But the gray snake that the Jackal was talking about was basically the gray snake that brought her into the world. She didn't dislike that gray snake.

"If you have something to say, just say it."

"Haven't you always wanted to meet that Ziyuan? He'll be here soon." Jackal said with his arms folded across his chest, "That guy always hides behind the scenes and refuses to meet people. I didn't expect that he would be willing to come out in person this time to exchange information."

"Information exchange? Do you have something here that can attract his attention and is worthy of him coming here in person to exchange information?" Raven frowned.

"Heh... who knows why he suddenly became interested in the Stigmata Project?" The Jackal said, "But he just said that he was interested in the information about the Stigmata Project and was willing to exchange it with me to obtain the specific experimental data of the Stigmata Project. As for what he is thinking, perhaps only after meeting him can we know."

"Where's the meeting place?" Raven asked.

"The Vimur Laboratory established by Destiny in the North African desert."

The old headquarters of the Mandate of Heaven, Klosten.

"I didn't expect that after five hundred years, Klosten still doesn't look much different." Kallen stood on the stone bridge of Klosten and looked at the church standing quietly in the distance. "Otto... did you keep this on purpose?"

"After all, it has been five hundred years since you last talked to me like this. Time can change a lot of things, but I... I just want you to have a place in your memory when you come back, a place you can go back to." Otto put one hand in front of him and the other hand behind his back. He looked at the river under the bridge that was still flowing quietly as it did five hundred years ago, and at the reflections of himself and Kallen on the river, his thoughts couldn't help but drift away.

For five hundred years, in order to maintain the existence of Kolosten, even if one wanted to preserve it, some brick and tile floors could not withstand the passage of time and had to be replaced. Not to mention the previous Anti-Entropy raid on Kolosten, which destroyed the few places that had memories of that era.

Otto could easily rebuild the destroyed buildings and achieve an exact replica. He could even personally copy the ancient books in the burned-down library, but... what was the point of doing that?

Even if I rebuild Klosten on the ruins according to my memory, making everything look like it was hundreds of years ago, is it still the place where I once lived? On the newly built buildings, are the memories left behind or are they my own self-deception?

He was thinking, but before he could come up with an answer, he had already ordered Ivar to rebuild the burned buildings in Klosten according to his instructions.

Do you want to save something?

The sky was still the same sky, the water was still flowing as before, and the entire Klosten looked as if the stop button had been pressed five hundred years ago, but that was only an appearance after all.

Otto was staring at the flowing water under the bridge, while Kallen had already withdrawn her gaze from the distance and turned her eyes to Otto. The man in front of her had changed so much from the one in her memory that she almost couldn't recognize him.

The old Otto was easy to understand. Or rather, the way Otto looked at her was always so simple. But the new Otto...

"My Lord Bishop, do you need to keep secret some of the things you did before and some of the experiments from Lady Kallen?" Ivar once asked him.

His answer was: "There is no need to deliberately hide it from Karen. It is what it is. As long as Karen is willing, she can find the answer herself."

"But isn't Lady Kallen disgusted by all this?"

"Ivar, do you think that at this point, I still care about how Kallen feels about me?"

"..."

"I am a rotten person to the core, a complete fool, and I have been like this since five hundred years ago. I no longer ask for Kallen's forgiveness. For me... it is enough for her to stand under this blue sky again and breathe like this again."

"..."

"The blood that has been shed cannot be taken back, and the dead cannot be resurrected. Even if the devil puts down the blade in his hand and confesses with tears and blood, it cannot make up for the crimes he has committed. After Kallen knows everything I have done, whether she slaps me again like she did five hundred years ago, or simply raises the banner of rebellion against me like Theresa did and sends me to the guillotine... I don't care. As long as that is Kallen's choice, I will not interfere."

"..."

"This time, she just needs to live according to her own ideas. That's all I wish for, Ivar."

Suddenly a childish voice interrupted Otto's thoughts.

"Your Excellency the Bishop, are you in Klosten again?"

Otto and Kallen turned around and saw several children looking up at them with blinking eyes.

Kallen glanced at Otto again. From what the kid said, Otto still came to Klosten often? Wasn't he very busy as the Bishop of Heaven's Fate?

"Of course. Klosten was attacked not long ago. After finishing my work, I naturally came to take a look." Otto squatted down and reached out to touch the head of the child who greeted him. "Did the commotion that day scare you?"

"Of course not!" The boy puffed out his chest confidently to show that he was not scared. "This is a place protected by the bishop, how could anything happen?"

Oh, the place I protect...

"By the way, Mael, didn't you say that when the bishop comes to Klosten next time, you must tell him about your new discoveries in the latest "Karen Fantasy"?" A boy suddenly said, "You didn't even tell us!"

Karen Fantasy...

Kallen's eye twitched. She had heard of this game at the Sentence Headquarters and had even borrowed the first few games from Amber. She could only say that after she tried playing it for a while, she was so embarrassed by what Otto had done that she wanted to roll over on the bed.

"Oh? What's the new discovery?" Otto thought about his latest version of "Kallen Fantasy". This version was basically only popular within Sinister. As for Klosten... well, it seemed that he had distributed it here before.

For someone who lives in Klosten year-round, Otto doesn’t mind a little more patience.

"I found out that there are two purple irises!"

Otto's outstretched hand paused.

Chapter 97 Lost in the Yellow Sand

The brown-haired girl looked at him bending down, and after a while she said, "Otto...you are always like this..."

He lowered his head and did not look at her, because he knew that his request was indeed too difficult for her. The Shaniyat family rarely interfered in worldly affairs, and the girl in front of him had just returned to Tianming from the northern front not long ago and became the head of the Shaniyat family. Countless eyes were looking at her.

In addition, he also knew that the Castle Parliament had never forgotten to seize the power that belonged to the Mandate of Heaven from the Mandate of Heaven, and the three major families that established the Mandate of Heaven were the first to bear the brunt. Even though the Shaniyat Family almost ignored worldly disputes, the Shaniyat Family's military force and appeal among European countries were still the pillars that supported the Mandate of Heaven.

For those corrupt nobles, the Shanyiat family, who are also nobles, are incompatible with them. The Shanyiat family looks down on them, and they are also the group that most wants to drag the Shanyiat family into the dust.

However, the dilemma he was facing now could only be covered up by the girl in front of him.

"Phantom Thief Purple Iris... You know the significance of irises to the Shanyiat family, right?"

He lowered his head even lower.

The iris is the family emblem of the Shaniyat family, symbolizing long-lasting longing. It was the family emblem set by Shaniyat's ancestor Alicia Shaniyat when she commemorated Lucifer Shaniyat.

When he gave the purple evening gown to Kallen, making the purple iris the representative of the Phantom Thieves, was it a coincidence or was it intentional?

Did he want to confuse the world and the nobles so that they would focus their attention on Shaniyat and not suspect Kallen?

Faced with the girl's questions, he knew very well that he could not do it with a clear conscience.

"It was your father...Nicholas Apocalis' idea, right? He told you that as long as you ask me to come forward and suppress this matter, he will turn a blind eye to it."

The girl spoke calmly, while the young man in front of her kept his head down and said nothing, let alone looking at her.

"Otto, why do you always bend down and lower your head?" The girl stretched out her hand and forced his head up. "With your ability and wisdom, you don't need to bow your head to anyone, let alone bend down to anyone... You are Apokalis, you have the wisdom of a wise man, but you also have the blood of Shaniyat flowing in your veins. The descendants of the Dawn will not bow to anyone."

"Feel sorry……"

“I’ve heard your apology countless times, but you’ve never repented, have you?” The girl withdrew her hand and turned her gaze to the flag with the Shaniyat family emblem hanging behind her.

Your eyes have always been on her...

When she officially became the head of the family and came out of the forbidden area, the [Discipline] deep in the forbidden area gave her a red iris to indicate her fate.

"I will take care of this matter. Kallen will be fine. As for what your father thinks and what those people in the parliament think, it doesn't matter. No matter how many schemes there are, in the face of absolute force... it's not worth mentioning."

She turned away and stopped looking at him.

But he clearly heard the very light whisper she made when she turned around.

"Heh... Ziyuan, why did it happen to be Ziyuan..."

Purple is a symbol of nobility in Europe, and iris is the family emblem of Shanyiat. People in the Shanyiat family are generally arrogant, so perhaps the word purple iris made her speechless.

This is what he thought at the time, and when he stepped into the place where the heroic souls of the past lives to seek answers, he knew what her whisper at that time meant.

In the history of the Mandate of Heaven, the period five hundred years ago was undoubtedly an extremely turbulent era. The European countries that coveted the power of the Mandate of Heaven, the turmoil caused by the struggle for power among the Apocalis family within the Mandate of Heaven, and the spread of war when the old and new Mandates replaced each other, all these always leave modern people with too much imagination.

In the historical community, scholars unanimously agree that this turmoil began with the Heaven's Mandate of Heaven's Crusade, that the chaos caused by the failure of the expedition was the fuse of everything, and that the death of Saint Kallen pushed the turmoil to its climax. As for the end of this turmoil, scholars have been arguing, but most people regard the death of Eleanor Shaniyat, the head of the Shaniyat family at the time, as a sign of the end of this turmoil that lasted for decades.

Before Eleanor Shaniat, the Shaniat family stayed away from the world and did not interfere too much in worldly affairs. After her, the Shaniat officially stepped into the stage of Mandate of Heaven politics and existed as the most trusted right-hand man of Otto, the Bishop of Mandate of Heaven. Does this represent the decline of the Shaniat or the compromise of the Shaniat with the world? The answer to all this is probably unknown to anyone except Bishop Otto Apokalis and the deceased Eleanor Shaniat.

In short, after all the turmoil ended, with Shaniyatt's formal military intervention as the Mandate of Heaven in the world and Otto's series of attacks and suppressions, European countries completely lost their ability to resist the Mandate of Heaven. After a group of old nobles were massacred by Otto, they had to keep a low profile and no longer had the courage to covet the power of the Mandate of Heaven.

On this day, a plane whose itinerary was kept completely secret landed at the Vimur Laboratory in North Africa.

The door of the plane opened, and Otto Apokalis, the Bishop of the Mandate of Heaven, walked out, followed by Ludwig Shaniat. As for Ivar, he was still working overtime with Amber at the Mandate of Heaven headquarters.

The Vimur Laboratory is located in an abandoned city. Due to the harsh living environment and the invasion of Honkai beasts, local residents had to evacuate from the city under the arrangement of Tianming. The special environment here also provides Tianming with a good practical training ground and experimental site.

For some reasons, Otto values ​​the Vimur Laboratory much more than the laboratories in other regions of the Mandate. For this reason, the strongest S-class Valkyrie in active service, Yulandel, was also ordered to be stationed here to deter some unscrupulous elements from having any ideas about this place.

After the Klosten incident, the defense force of the Mission at the Vimur Laboratory was further strengthened.

"Your Excellency the Bishop, um... is it really not something we need to care about?" Ludwig asked.

Otto's eyes moved slightly towards the tail of the plane, then turned back: "No need, I don't have anything to hide from her. Since she wants to know, let her investigate as much as she can."

"Just like you always indulge Theresa?" Ludwig said, "I still remember what I heard from other Shaniyat family members. It is said that Theresa almost set fire to the armory of Destiny when she lit fireworks when she was a child? But in the end you still couldn't bear to punish her, but just let her go to other places to play with fireworks."

"It's okay for children to be a little naughty," Otto said casually. "By the way, Ludwig, who are those people coming over 'over there'?"

"In addition to the Jackal, Gray Snake and some researchers, the military force also includes the mercenary who fought against Kiana in Sky City, and..." Ludwig frowned slightly, he didn't seem to want to mention the code name.

"The mercenary who fought Kiana? Ah, the one codenamed Raven, right?" Otto glanced at Ludwig. "As for the other one, Ludwig, you seem a little unhappy?"

"Another cadre also encountered other Shaniyat in Sky City. His code name is Night Owl." Ludwig said, "He is a little restless. According to Mia, he has some connections with Anna and seems to have some ideas about the family. And during the Sky City incident, he openly asked Mia and the others about Anna."

"Night Owl?" Otto was deeply impressed by this code name. As a cadre of World Serpent, Night Owl had obtained the code name relatively recently, and he could indeed provide a lot of help to World Serpent in some areas. Currently, he has been active in the world as a special agent of World Serpent.

It’s just that some of his thoughts on the Shaniyat family are worth pondering. The matter also involves Anna Shaniyat, who is currently stationed on the Coral Island. As a member of the Shaniyat family with a higher purity of holy blood, Otto will still pay attention to Anna’s affairs.

"Tell me, what is the intersection?" Otto said.

"According to the family's investigation, Night Owl is one of the survivors rescued by Anna in the Great Collapse of Manila. Currently, due to the erosion of Honkai energy, most of his body has been replaced with mechanical prostheses. According to our speculation, Anna most likely used the family's holy blood illegally during the Great Collapse of Manila to temporarily curb the erosion of Honkai energy on Night Owl's body at that time." Ludwig said.

Otto narrowed his eyes slightly: "Are you trying to say that he is coveting Shanyat's holy blood and wants to use it to save his own life?"

"This is just my personal speculation." Ludwig replied, "But Night Owl has hidden his true purpose very well, and has not yet caught any similar evidence."

Otto was silent for a moment, then said jokingly: "Then, Ludwig, why don't you suspect that this Night Owl might have taken a fancy to Anna?"

Ludwig's expression was extremely cold: "Heiyuan doesn't believe in these things. We prefer to believe in the gains and losses of interests."

"That's why you and Ivar are still single." Otto shrugged.

Ludwig did not answer. When it comes to having no one, what are they compared to the bishop?

"But... since you mentioned this Night Owl, and he happens to be here..." Otto's expression became a little playful, "Then let me see what kind of person this Night Owl is."

As for the possibility he raised that Night Owl fell in love with Anna, Otto himself didn't believe it. Even if it was true, it was impossible for Night Owl and Anna to be together.

After Otto and Ludwig left, a figure jumped out of the plane and followed them quietly.

It's Kallen.

"Is this one of the most important laboratories of Destiny?" Karen looked around. There was yellow sand everywhere, or abandoned buildings covered by the sand. The whole city looked dead silent.

What secrets does Otto have here? That day in Kolosten, when Otto heard the child talking about "two purple kites", his expression was a little strange. The child seemed to have obtained some particularly powerful hidden ending. Kallen also thought about it these days, and then found out...

Besides being so embarrassing that she wanted to roll around on the bed, the plot of Otto's game was also extremely difficult. Not to mention the hidden ending, she didn't even complete a normal ending.

How did Otto manage to put himself into the game so easily? And looking at the background setting of the game, it can be seen that Otto has a deep resentment towards Sakura. In several "Kallen Fantasy" series, Sakura is the villain.

Of course, besides herself and Sakura, Eleanor also played a role in it, but she basically appeared there to provide help.

As for Otto himself... he is set as a nobody who can only give explanations besides making some small inventions.

He still thinks too lowly of himself as always.

Karen carefully recalled the situation at that time. The child seemed to say that he was not interested in the adventures in "Karen's Fantasy" and just wanted to trigger more plots about Eleanor.

"Because she always helped me a lot...but why did she die in the last hidden plot?"

What kind of things is Otto designing?

“So I wanted to save her, but I saw that the CG collection room was full, but I just wanted to give it a try... I worked hard for several days! Then I produced the extra CG!”

Are kids these days so good? I played for a few days and couldn't even get a normal ending...

After returning from Klosten, Otto began to pay attention to the affairs of the Vimur Laboratory. She also heard Amber complain to her that Otto had been playing too many games recently and was very passive at work, so she wanted to supervise Otto's work herself.

As for Amber's identity, Kallen had known it for a long time. She was one of the clones created by Otto in order to resurrect himself. The other one was Theresa Apokalis, the head of the Far East branch who was now in a state of rebellion.

Kallen felt that she could never finish her investigation of how many cold-blooded things Otto had done in the five hundred years since his death, so she could only start from the Vimur Laboratory.

Come to think of it, Ludwig almost discovered me. The Shanyat family is still as difficult to deal with as ever, just as serious as Eleanor.

No, Eleanor could laugh too, but she was too concerned about her aristocratic dignity and had to act like a young lady.