Collapse, survive

Although Bronya is not short of money, Kiana does have a responsibility.

"It's just a motorcycle, I'll take it."

"Ha, with the modification costs... this motorcycle will cost 124 million."

"That's not much."

"Oh, although he's a fool, he's quite generous. Please."

"Hmph, send the bill to Auntie."

Kiana was absent-minded, staring at the sky, and casually making notes.

This feels pretty good.

They didn't suddenly run off and break out of the orphanage to play wildly. In essence, this was trouble caused by Fang Jie's daily night runs. The girls, who couldn't keep up with him on foot, cleverly used transportation.

I still can't keep up.

And then that was it.

It is said that Durandal can keep up with his level and can pursue him to incredible places, but what about the three little ones?

Only Seele could keep up for a little while, as her quantum potential was enormous, but she still had to wait for everyone... so they ran slowly together and fell behind.

"Kiana, go if you want to. I believe you can do it too."

Seeing that Kiana was distracted, Raiden Mei suggested that she go ahead first.

Kiana seemed very... eager to try out Durandal from the moment she appeared.

At that time, Fang Jie comforted her in strange ways, but it's normal that Kiana couldn't help but keep thinking about it afterwards.

Everyone has a lot of questions they want to ask, and if we don't seize the opportunity, Fang Jie might disappear again.

Kiana cares a lot about this; she hates people who suddenly disappear, especially when she cares about them.

"Mea Yi..."

Kiana was encouraged and nodded in response to the supportive expression on her face.

"That's right, we can't give up—Kiana, attack!"

She took a deep breath, nodded, and looked ahead.

Faster than Bronya, faster than a motorcycle, Fang Jie's night run was like a streak of light sweeping across the land, unrestrained. To not only keep up with him, but even being able to see him was a luxury.

Not just the earth.

He ran towards the moonlight, toward the sky...

"Wings of Light, unfold!"

As if the armor were combined, a beam of light grew behind Kiana, transforming into what appeared to be feathers and wings, carrying her towards the sky.

From the approaching dusk to the hazy moonlight, Kiana finally ignited her desire, accelerating to her limit. With her Godslayer Armor fully activated and Moonlight unleashed, she continued to chase the sun like an artificial angel.

Armor representing the highest level of technology in modern human civilization is sending her flying from the earth into outer space.

It reached cosmic velocity in a short time and is still accelerating.

This surpasses Durandal's previous Luna Armor's normal data, but the two cannot be compared, because the current Stigmata genes have introduced new variables and are receiving supplementation and protection from the World Tree system, especially Kiana.

Rather than pure speed, she made a slight use of spatial curvature drive.

This is Kiana's ability to have a "flash of inspiration" even when she is sleepwalking after Sirin's personality is awakened.

With its powerful initial velocity, the brick flew out of the atmosphere smoothly, except for the initial unstable flight path that almost caused it to spin.

Cold, hot, doubtful, excited... his feelings were complicated, but he finally entered the satellite orbit safely and no force detected his solo flight into space until he was 500 kilometers away from the atmosphere.

Once past the exosphere, continuously pulled upwards by Earth's gravity, it rises higher and higher, like a shooting star flying in reverse, advancing towards the realm of the universe.

The phenomenon of the armor surface being constantly rubbed by the atmosphere, generating high temperatures and producing light, stopped and began to recede in a barely noticeable dim light.

So it's not surprising that the roadside iron railing was smashed to pieces. Kiana knew that the Moonlight Armor was a super material, enough to be used as the main material of a long-distance spaceship. The high temperature of friction was not enough to burn it, so the flames surrounding the armor were the flames of burning gas.

But she doesn't know what she's made of, nor does she care.

There's something even more powerful ahead.

"Not fast enough... Damn it, it's getting further and further away."

Kiana gazed at the vast starry sky, and the tiny, yet even more radiant, streaks of light flowing from the fuzzy crystals within it; from her perspective, it was truly immense.

The Milky Way appears as a band of light, lying just above the ecliptic plane.

It's rare to see such a beautiful starry sky on Earth anymore; the light of civilization has overshadowed it. Now, it's displayed in such splendor that the stars seem to be twinkling.

Turning my gaze away from the starry sky, I looked back slightly and saw the equally beautiful Earth, the new Earth that Fang Jie had mentioned.

"I can't see everyone at all anymore. Oh right, really, how did I suddenly become so powerful? Just a short while ago I was fighting Honkai Beasts, using my little pistol, Biu! Biu! Biu!"

Suddenly, Kiana discovered that she possessed immense power.

How weird!

Even though she was very confident that she could become the strongest Valkyrie, she didn't even realize how quickly her stats had increased.

"So... don't run, Fang Jie, you're not allowed to run! Shouldn't you say something?"

Kiana, you need to get this straight. Don't try to brush it off with jokes. If you don't explain yourself clearly... I'll cry for you.

The soul, freed from the shackles of gravity, continues its escape around the outer edge of Earth's gravitational field. Its trajectory becomes unstable; this is the first lesson that weightless space teaches to any life that enters it.

Kars was unprepared and turned into an invincible ice block.

Kiana felt quite good, her face flushed red and then turned pale. Then she suddenly realized that she could stop breathing, which made her even more confused about what she had become.

Even a beautiful girl can't stop breathing; this is a setting that even comics wouldn't easily adopt.

Even superhuman beings like Valkyries are ultimately confined to the realm of humans.

At least within the limits that Durandal keeps pushing, it's still difficult for humans to do this, but Kiana has clearly stepped into this realm in this wave of numerical expansion.

"The armored thrusters are about to break down, and I've only just entered space..."

She muttered to herself, her voice still echoing, and decided to stop relying on the armor. "Stigmata, spin for me!"

Heaven knows how the Stigmata will rotate, but Kiana's speed is still increasing.

Towards the moon, towards the direction of Fang Jie.

Stepping onto the moon, Fang Jie let out a long breath. He didn't stop to wait for anyone, not because he respected them enough, but because he simply didn't want to stop and wait.

"Trying to catch up with me?"

Many people have a misconception about the nameless pioneers, thinking that these people are busy saving the world and helping various civilizations in distress.

no.

Often, the nameless strangers are just a bunch of street urchins.

However, as a newcomer, Fang Jie has been very busy lately and hasn't had time to show this quality.

Now things are different. He's going to have a blast and not implement the still-conceptual Taixu Front. Instead, he's surveying the space environment and planning to build a 'home' similar to the Black Tower space station.

That was what he thought of when he looked at the Galaxy Project last time.

Fang Jie also has a home in the collapsed solar system. He likes to stay at his girlfriend's house and doesn't like to go to the subspace wonders where he can be 'hung up in a tree'. Right now, he's just taking a stroll in space to check things out.

Going for a run at night.

In particular, there are still some gifts that haven't been given out.

Nearly 1.2 light-seconds later, he arrived at this desolate celestial body that is adjacent to Earth.

Of course, this place is not entirely desolate. The ruins of a pre-civilization, as well as the structures of the World Serpent, are located here, undiscovered by the current civilization.

"Good morning, noon and evening, friends of the world snakes, don't mind me."

Fang Jie casually revealed his identity to avoid provoking the gray snake.

And his gaze swept around the area, eventually finding someone.

Xilin's gaze was slightly blank as she continued to dig into the lunar soil.

Yes, Celine is dusting.

"It's you, Qiao."

When Fang Jie arrived, he remained silent, staring at her unpretentious archaeological excavation for a long time. Only then did the Space Queen realize that it was him again.

She became alert.

She was once beaten to a pulp by Welt, Fu Hua, Cecilia, Theresa... In short, she was beaten to a pulp by a group of people, with no way out and on the verge of defeat.

It was here that Sirin received divine revelation, which propelled the Second Great Collapse to another peak, and she began to throw stars.

Now that she has suffered another setback, she has returned to this place that gives her peace of mind.

Let's be patient and wait for the right time!

Fang Jie didn't speak. He stood on the moon, looking down at the blue and white planet below. He simply stretched out his hand, and his five fingers covered the planet.

"Look, it's not just that humans are like trash anymore; looking down from here, even the planets look so tiny."

From this perspective, it's easy to become arrogant and think you're invincible.

Xilin was retreating, her entire being visibly wary and resistant.

And it's 'walking,' not 'floating.'

She really did absorb Honkai energy here again, and thus Honkai became omnipotent. After all, the 'wall' built by Fang Jie did not include the moon, and a large amount of Honkai energy released by the cocoon was also deposited here.

Unfortunately, she was still too slow.

"Don't run away, I have a gift for you."

Fang Jie reached out and scooped her up, unlocking Kiana's poses little by little, starting with her hands, head, thighs, abdomen, buttocks, and chest, rather than unlocking Kiana's touch system.

He hugged Celine directly.

Although he doesn't have Cecilia's affability, Fang Jie is still a handsome man, and besides, he's good at knocking people down and then embracing them... Xilin doesn't deny that Fang Jie is qualified for that.

So they struggled fiercely.

"look--"

Fang Jie displayed the gifts he had prepared. Xilin didn't really want them, but that didn't stop her from taking a look.

It looked like a tear.

A single tear.

Unresolved resentments, unsolvable mysteries, unreached landscapes, unattainable achievements... all the regrets that make the heart surrender are sealed in the tears formed by time.

"What's this?"

Celine felt drawn to it and became somewhat lost in thought.

"The material mined using the technology of the Flowing Light Memory Court, the friend fee I earned from a little cutie, it is a kind of matter, and also a kind of thought, sealed and undefined, possessing the mobility that does not belong to any single destiny, which is most suitable for my type."

Fang Jie gave it to Xilin to fill the void in her broken soul.

"Of course, it would suit you too. I thought you might be interested after I got it."

Celine wanted to say she wasn't interested.

But she did feel a great attraction to it, and holding it, she fell into a dreamlike trance.

Memories are surfacing. Because she has no physical body to carry her, even though Sirin has absorbed Honkai energy and is able to use some of her powers, she still has to be handled by Kiana.

This harmony is the source of Kiana's flash of inspiration, even more so than the God of War.

At this moment, she poured her past memories into her tears, filling the void in her soul and completing herself...

This feels great.

Before Xilin could linger for long, she felt another attraction, and instantly her displeasure and frustration vanished, replaced by arrogance and confidence.

"Human, my other half is near."

I don't know what she's so proud of, it's like she's caught Fang Jie red-handed.

Instead of running away, she clenched the empty shell of tears that had been used up, and said in a confident tone, no longer apprehensive, "You don't want her to know who I am, do you?"

"..."