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

(But this is still different from what we agreed on... I'm really not used to this kind of situation. Although I believe the steak recommended by Desdobia tastes good, how can I eat it with so many people watching?)

After a long while, Kosmo finally decided to speak: "Desdobia, what's going on with those... Valkyries hiding in the dark?"

"they?"

"There's one behind each of the vases on the left and right sides of the entrance. There are four seats on the second floor, three outside the restaurant, and..." Kosmo reported the positions of all the Valkyries who were trying to observe him.

"Eh? You discovered all of them? It seems that these girls will have to train harder in the future." Desdobia said as she stirred the drink in her cup. "Really, I thought there would be one or two who slipped through the net... Or, Amo, when you were having dinner with me, you didn't pay all your attention to me?"

Kosmo: "..."

Seeing Kosmo's speechless expression, Desdobia smiled and shrugged, "Okay, Amo, it's like this, they are just curious about my boyfriend who hasn't appeared in more than ten years. After all, in their eyes, Cecilia and I are not much older, but Cecilia's daughter is already in her teens, and there's no sign of my boyfriend."

Kosmo lowered his eyes. What should he do? There were so many complaints that he didn't know where to start. What did he mean by Desdobia's boyfriend who she hadn't seen for more than ten years? How could he be her boyfriend? He was clearly...

Besides, Desdobia...isn't she that much older than Cecilia?

"Amo, are you thinking about something rude?" Desdobia said with a hollow look at Kosmo. After all, he was her lover, how could she not be able to read Kosmo's expression?

Kosmo coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment, and then said: "So, you want to test their stealth ability? You should know that for us, there are very few people who can hide our actions... This is too difficult for them."

Kosmo was telling the truth. To Yingjie, the disguised observations of the Destiny Valkyries were just some tricks. If the assessment was based on deceiving Kosmo, then Kosmo suspected that this batch of Valkyries would fail the exam collectively.

"It doesn't matter, because I didn't let them observe in the dark. Maybe it's because for the Destiny Valkyrie, a guy who has only been heard of for more than ten years suddenly appears. Everyone will be curious, right?" Desdobia said, "But I'm still a little angry when they look at my Ah Mo like this. I'm going to find something for them to do later, so that the girls won't have nothing to do."

Kosmo didn't know for a moment whether he should feel sad for the training that those Valkyries of Destiny would have to go through. Although Desdobia usually had a good temper and a sunny appearance, she was really ruthless when training her juniors...

In the early years when the Shanyiat and Kaslana families were first established, those children were scolded by Desdobia and cried for their parents.

Even the Shaniyat family and Kaslana couldn't hold on. Kosmo was very pessimistic about these Valkyries and observed a moment of silence.

However, it is worth mentioning that Desdobia's training standards eventually served as the training standards for the direct descendants of the Shanyat family, and the Destiny training was also improved by lowering the requirements and intensity of Desdobia's training standards. The rating standards that were used before the Second Great Collapse were still Desdobia's standards.

Desdobia saw what Kosmo was thinking, and the smile on her face faded slightly. Then she said, "Amo, I told you a long time ago that I would rather let them sweat a little more or even shed a little more tears on weekdays than let them sacrifice helplessly on the battlefield, or watch their comrades sacrifice helplessly."

Kosmo remained silent.

“It’s okay to have hard training, feel wronged, and shed a few tears. The most painful thing is the tears you shed when you can only watch the people important to you leave and are unable to do anything about it.” Desdobia said with her eyes lowered.

The reason why Desdobia finally decided to openly intervene in the destiny as the deputy captain of the Snow Wolf Team was because the moment had come.

In the previous thousands of years, she could operate in secret and slowly guide human civilization, but now the countdown to the end is getting closer and closer, and these Valkyries will eventually become the backbone of the fight against the collapse, and they must never relax.

As for those anti-entropy mechas... I'm sorry, Desdobia doesn't really trust these things.

As for Saint Freya's educational philosophy, Desdobia tentatively agreed. She believed that Valkyries could have their own thoughts and their own time. They should play when they should play, and should not be careless when they should train.

However, it was probably because her training mode was too hellish, making many Valkyries cry for help, so in the end Otto came forward to appoint Cheng Lixue as the chief instructor of the Destiny Valkyries.

Cheng Lixue's training was originally quite strict, but compared with Desdobia's training, it was simply heaven...

It happened before that the Valkyrie taught by Desdobia went to Cheng Lixue's class as an exchange student and finished her studies there. Then she hugged Cheng Lixue's thigh to express her desire to stay, leaving the students in Cheng Lixue's class who were originally complaining dumbfounded.

During the time when Cheng Lixue was unconscious, Otto appointed Desdobia to temporarily serve as the chief instructor. Then, except for a few Valkyries like Yulandel who were able to keep up with the pace and even asked for more training, the other Valkyries would show a look of despair when it came to training every day.

But even though they complained, except for those new Valkyries who had never been on the battlefield, the other Valkyries still respected and admired Desdobia - provided that they were not in training.

Of course, they knew Desdobia's painstaking efforts, but that didn't mean they all had masochistic tendencies. Accepting that fate had made Desdobia's courses compulsory was already their limit.

"...The third acting Herrscher followed Kiana to the World Serpent and should have entered the paradise now." Kosmo whispered.

"Anti-entropy..." Desdobia thought for a while, then said, "If we had not chosen the conservative route and allowed Otto's little tricks, and Walter Joyce and Nancy Edison had not died, perhaps Anti-entropy would be a little different today."

In fact, when Anti-Entropy became independent, Desdobia considered going to Anti-Entropy. The main reason was that she was dissatisfied with Otto's use of Honkai fission bombs to bombard New York and force Joyce to death. At the same time, she was also disappointed with the lifeless atmosphere of Tianming at that time. With an attitude of expectation for the new rebels, she stayed in Anti-Entropy for a while, and then...

Then she returned to her destiny.

Not only did she think the focus of Anti-Entropy's development at the time was a bit off, she also found that the elders who founded Anti-Entropy were a little too resistant to the idea of ​​training Valkyries in an organized manner.

"One day, mechas will definitely be able to replace the Valkyries and become the main force against the Honkai. In this way, tragedies like Leanna's will never happen again, and no more Valkyries will lose their lives because of the orders of that guy Otto."

Tesla seemed to have said this, right? Anyway, after hearing this, Desdobia's mind was full of question marks.

Although Anti-Entropy was established not long ago and does not have the ability to train Valkyries on a large scale like Destiny, Desdobia can really help Anti-Entropy at least establish a Valkyrie training process, and the final result...

It is not known whether it was due to the sacrifice of Nancy Edison and Rhiannon Brigantia, but Einstein and Tesla were quite resistant to the Valkyrie system, and after that, they focused the research and development of Anti-Entropy on the development and improvement of Titans.

Desdobia had tried to tell them that the Titan mecha's efficiency in utilizing Honkai energy was too low and was far inferior to that of the Valkyrie, and that the cost was relatively high, but the two doctors' response was that they would rather spend a little more money and try to reduce the sacrifice of one person.

Desdobia: "..."

This is not a question of spending a little more money. The Titan troops in the pre-civilization era were nothing more than cannon fodder, and if the Honkai engine was overloaded, they would become enemies.

In addition, although the intensity of the collapse of the current civilization has been controlled within a relatively stable range, for the Herrscher, the Titans have no effect at all. Even if the Titans are pushed to the limit by anti-entropy research, in the face of the constraints that can suppress all energy and the erosion of the natural enemies of all electronic equipment, the Titan mecha is still not worth mentioning.

Desdobia thought, since we are going to focus on mechanical technology, wouldn't it be possible to make exoskeleton armor to assist the Valkyrie in combat? However, this idea was not accepted in the end, but Tianming developed the Valkyrie armor...

After trying several times to confirm Anti-Entropy's attitude, Desdobia could only shake her head and leave Anti-Entropy.

As for Destiny, before Anti-Entropy became independent, the atmosphere of Destiny was so depressing that it made people breathless. After Anti-Entropy became independent, I don’t know whether it was because of the emergence of competitors or for some other reason, Destiny actually showed signs of revival.

"I wonder if the new Ruler of Reason will bring any changes to Anti-Entropy today." Desdobia said, "Perhaps they have seen the limitations of the Titan mechas in recent years, and Anti-Entropy has begun to change its direction. However, minor repairs are of no help at all. The philosophy they insist on is too idealistic..."

There was one thing Destobia didn't say.

That is, she knew that Anti-Entropy had taken Cecilia's blood sample for research, because she was next to Cecilia at that time. If Anti-Entropy was going to do something bad to Cecilia, she would take action, but if it was just collecting blood samples, and she still had some hope for Anti-Entropy at that time, so she turned a blind eye for the time being.

But after so long, I still haven’t seen any similar research results from Anti-Entropy…

If the final result of the research is to target the Shanyatid family, then Desdobia will indeed consider leading the Valkyries or the Valkyrie troops of the Shanyatid family to attack the Anti-Entropy Base.

She was considered easy to talk to among the Forerunners. When other Forerunners were not optimistic about anti-entropy, she was still willing to believe in the possibility of anti-entropy, but...

The flaws of anti-entropy are really too great.

Maybe in low-end games, Titans are on par with Valkyries, but Valkyries can grow, and among Valkyries there are always S-level Valkyries that stand out. What about Anti-Entropy? Is there an S-level Titan that stands out after hundreds of battles?

The lack of high-end combat power is a major flaw that is difficult for Anti-Entropy to solve.

"Is this the reason why you chose to stay in Tianming..." Kosmo lowered his eyes, "So, you prepared an identity for me in Tianming, and you also want me to help?"

"No, mainly I just want everyone to get to know you. I also want to proudly announce in front of everyone that you are my lover."

"...Please let me go if this is all you have..."

(I’m not good at dealing with lively environments, and Destobia has to do this...)

"Alas... Ah Mo, you are always like this." Desdobia sighed distressedly and said, "You are so outstanding, and I really want to show off to others that my lover is such an outstanding boy, but I can't..."

"……sorry."

"There's no need to apologize!"

Chapter 155: People who stop at the past

"You know, after today, there will be one less of the top ten unsolved mysteries at Tianming Airport!"

"Eh? Which one is it?"

"He is Desdobia-senpai's boyfriend. It turns out that he is not just someone Desdobia-senpai made up."

"Ah? So Destobia-senpai really has a boyfriend?!"

"That's right. Senior Desdobia is having dinner with her boyfriend right now. One of my friends risked his life to take a secret photo of them. In a little while, we will be able to see what Senior Desdobia's boyfriend, who hasn't shown his face for more than a decade, looks like..."

"…If we are discovered, the consequences will be disastrous, right?"

"Don't worry, with Senior Desdobia's strength, she might have discovered it from the beginning."

"…Isn't that worse?!"

Kallen passed by the Valkyries who were talking. Since the end of Taixu Mountain, Otto has never come out of his laboratory. He once again left all the affairs of destiny to Amber and Ivar. This time Maria was also involved. It was basically clear that Otto would not come forward to deal with any affairs in the short term.

According to Otto's instructions, when Maria and the other two were reviewing the documents of Destiny, Yulandel could also participate, assisted by Rita.

Although she was dissatisfied with Otto's skipping work again, Amber still knew when to ask the bishop to work and when not to. After all, Otto was indeed doing what he thought was important, and Otto was still the bishop and the person in charge.

So this time Amber didn't bother Otto.

Since Otto is not using a soul steel body now, he has to eat when it is time to eat. Now it is Kallen who is responsible for delivering meals to Otto. As for the meals...

Rita prepared it.

Originally, Rita suggested that Kallen go to the kitchen next time and prepare a meal for Her Majesty the Bishop to build a closer relationship with her. However, after Kallen blew up the kitchen, Rita politely asked Kallen to leave, saying that she would prepare it herself and there was no need to trouble Her Majesty the Saint to cook personally.

Rita said that she underestimated Kaslana's ability to blow up the kitchen. It is hard to say whether this meal can bring the Saint and the Bishop closer together, but it will definitely bring the Bishop closer to heaven.

Wait, according to the secular definition, can the Bishop go to heaven?

Rita, who knew a lot about what Otto had done, thought for a moment and decided to stop thinking about it. This was not something she should care about.

To be honest, Rita felt that she was really worried about the Bishop and the Saint. Why did the two of them get along so awkwardly? The Bishop was clearly thinking about how to revive the Saint before, but after the Saint was resurrected...

In short, I feel that the bishop's attitude seems to be different from what I expected.

In addition to the matter between Otto and Kallen, Rita was a little worried about another thing, which was the disappearance of Siegfried. Although not many people on the Savior side knew about this, unfortunately, Rita was one of those who knew about it.

Why is it unfortunate? Because Rita is Yulandel's most trusted confidant, so Yulandel asked her to report back on Siegfried's recent situation regularly.

No matter what, Yulandel's true identity is the former Kiana Kaslana, Siegfried's biological daughter. Even if she is closer to Shaniyat now, it cannot change the fact that she is Siegfried's daughter.

Although the Shanyatid family did not welcome Siegfried due to Lucifer's order, Yulandel also knew what kind of existence Siegfried meant to Tianming and the Shanyatid family, but she could not just ignore her own father. All she could do was to ask Rita, who held a high position in the intelligence department, to report to her regularly on Siegfried's current situation.

The problem is that Siegfried is missing for unknown reasons. Anti-Entropy stopped investigating after a while. The Bishop on the Destiny side seems to know something, but he is the only one who knows something.

After hearing the news of Siegfried's disappearance, Otto did not respond, as if he did not care at all. Although no matter from which aspect, it was strange for the Lord of Heaven to care about the life and death of Siegfried, a traitor...

But how is Rita going to explain this to Yulandel?

Tell her directly that Siegfried is missing? Given Yulandel's personality, she will definitely find a way to get to the bottom of it. If it's hard to find out about Tianming, she has a sister in the World Snake, so the scope of intelligence is wider...

This is the problem. It is very likely that Kiana is unaware of Siegfried's disappearance. If Yulandel told Kiana about this, Kiana's investigation would inevitably involve the Shaniyat family, whose impression of Siegfried is negatively infinite. Then Kiana would be in trouble again.

However, it can still be delayed for a while. Rita decided to contact Kiana first to confirm the situation and then report to Yulandel.

After all, in Rita's eyes, if the matter involves Siegfried, apart from the ancestor, the only normal people left in the Shaniyat family are probably Yulandel and Kiana.

In fact, with Rita's level, it should be very easy for her to hide it from Yulandel, but... just as Rita knows Yulandel, Yulandel also knows Rita. This kind of thing can be hidden from Yulandel for a while, but it is impossible to hide it forever. At the same time, if possible, Rita doesn't really want to lie to Yulandel.

The perspective comes to Kallen.

Karin brought the lunch box to the door of Otto's laboratory and entered the laboratory after completing the identity verification.

This can be considered a privilege that Otto gave to Kallen. Only a very small number of Otto's confidants can directly enter Otto's laboratory through identity verification.

Otto was also a little surprised by Kallen's arrival, because in the past, it was Amber or Rita who was responsible for delivering meals...

This was also Karin's first time in Otto's laboratory. Although she could enter before, because this was Otto's important experimental site and she heard that there were very important experimental samples inside, Karin was afraid of accidentally breaking something and causing trouble, so she finally chose not to go.

When she was a child, Kallen accidentally broke into Otto's room and broke the gift Otto had prepared for her birthday a few days ago. Although Otto said it was okay, Kallen never took the initiative to go to places like Otto's laboratory that she knew of after that.

So if Rita hadn't said it was okay, Kallen really wouldn't have come.

"I didn't expect you to come here, Kallen..." Otto looked at Kallen and said, "Just put the lunch box here. There's no need to be so reserved. Just be casual."

Although a little surprised, Otto didn't have any other thoughts about Kallen coming to his laboratory. If he really didn't want Kallen to enter the laboratory, why would he give Kallen the right of access?

Kallen put down the lunch box and looked at the debris in the container in front of Otto. If she remembered correctly, it seemed to be the debris of the monster that appeared in Taixu Mountain during the Taixu Mountain incident. It seemed that Otto was collecting experimental data on these monsters.

So has Otto been studying this thing while locking himself in the laboratory these days?

Kallen looked around again and found that there was not just one such wreckage. They were all numbered from small to large.

"Did... Rita ask you to come here?" Otto quickly guessed why Kallen came.

Karen was stunned for a moment, then nodded honestly: "If you think I will cause trouble, I..."

"I told you, Karen, you don't have to be so reserved here with me." Otto said softly, "Come to think of it, the last time you came to my laboratory was a long time ago..."

Karin lowered her eyes: "Because I'm afraid that I might accidentally break something and your hard work would go to waste..."

"It's okay, Kallen. If you're talking about what happened when we were kids, I've told you it was just an accident and I don't mind it," Otto said.

So... I always feel that the distance between you and me seems close, yet seems very far.

Karin looked at Otto and thought so in her heart. She also remembered that Otto had lived for five hundred years, but he could still remember his childhood so clearly. She couldn't help but think of some things from his childhood.

After a while, she said, "Otto, do you remember... when did such a big gap between you and me begin?"

When did the rift begin?

Kallen's words made Otto stunned for a moment.

He subconsciously wanted to answer that it should be when the Destiny's Eastern Expedition failed, but he quickly swallowed the words. He thought, perhaps the rift had arisen earlier than this, and the failure of the Destiny's Eastern Expedition only brought part of the rift to the surface.

Eleanor had warned him a long time ago not to hide the truth from Karen again and again, but he finally chose to go his own way. When the world that Karen knew was no longer the same as the world he knew, that was probably when a gap arose between the two of them.