——The first person to object to this arrangement was the second person to visit the cafe in person that year, another Xier.
What a joke!
How could she agree to let Xier go to such a strange place alone? !
Last time, this cafe inexplicably arrested the two of them and threw them out, and they haven't settled the matter yet! Now they want Xier to go alone again?
No! She said she would never agree to such an arrangement!
Just when the participants at the meeting were having a headache over He Xier's noisy behavior, the second person who raised objections to this arrangement completely caught everyone off guard.
No one expected that the second person to raise an objection would be the pioneer who had always been indifferent by nature - Fu Hua, who was regarded as a predecessor and even a leader by the vast majority of people present.
If they could still regard Hei Xier's extremely fierce opposition as a behavior similar to a child throwing a tantrum, then Fu Hua's calm and composed opinion made all the participants at the meeting feel a chill in their hearts.
They all knew Fu Hua's character. After the problem of collapse was completely solved, this great senior from 50,000 years ago entered into an extremely relaxed and leisurely pace of life.
Most of the time, she would not use her status as a pioneer to forcibly interfere with the reconstruction of the world after the collapse by the people of their civilization, but she would not reject their requests either.
This selfless and hardworking style of doing things earned Fu Hua the respect and admiration of the vast majority of people. Therefore, when she expressed her opinions after a long time, almost no one dared to simply ignore them.
Therefore, Theresa had to rearrange the list of people for this visit. This decision caused a fierce backlash at the meeting. Except for Kiana, who was trapped on the moon and unable to leave, almost everyone expressed their desire to go to the cafe - not to mention Hei Xier who was unwilling to let Xier go alone, and the Herrscher of Consciousness who was also unwilling to separate from Fu Hua, even Raiden Mei and Bronya, who were also present at the time, and even Prometheus raised their hands. Only Grayshu, who was attending the meeting of their civilization era for the first time, had to give up reluctantly due to physical constraints.
Well, in this case, this visit could not be simply finalized through a meeting - after all, Theresa could not possibly let Xier and the people participating in the meeting disappear on the spot without notifying others. The fact that Xier was carried away by the spirit deer almost made the people who were with Xier at the time have a sudden heartbeat. If the participants of this meeting disappeared inexplicably without leaving a message, wouldn't their world explode?
There was no other way, Theresa could only let the participants go back home to discuss the matter with their acquaintances and family members.
After the collapse was ended, all members of Sentient entered an extremely tight rhythm of life in the reconstruction of the world. During this year, most of the front-line combat forces who participated in the Last War could hardly be said to have had any rest. Of course, they had no complaints about their situation, but they did feel more or less tired. As a result... when they heard that there was an opportunity to travel to the Quantum Sea with a legitimate reason, those who got the news reported their names without hesitation.
The final result was that when they were preparing to set off early the next morning, the ten people who were attending the meeting turned into a situation where the conference room could hardly accommodate them overnight. Not to mention the newly added Valkyries such as Yulandel and Rita, even Siegfried, Raiden Ryuma, Walter Young, and seniors in their fifties such as Dr. Tesla and Dr. Einstein all ran to the conference room and looked at her eagerly with their eyes full of desire.
Xier's face froze immediately, and Theresa almost overturned the table on the spot.
Are you kidding me? Everyone wants to run away and do nothing. What will happen to Tianming? What will happen to the world?
Under Theresa's face, which was as dark as the bottom of a pot, the first group of people who chose to retreat were those who were not very interested in this trip in the first place.
Rita and Yulandel retreated immediately and chose to continue staying in the headquarters of Satori as workers. The second wave of people who gave up were Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma, the elders who wanted to give this opportunity to the younger generations temporarily.
But after that, people who knew about the visit were reluctant to leave.
They even have their own reasonable reasons.
For example, Dr. Tesla and Dr. Einstein who wanted to conduct in-depth scientific research on the quantum ocean.
For example, Mei Raiden and Bronya heard that Seele saw "another self" in that cafe, so they wanted to go and see what was going on.
For example, Prometheus wanted to capture Mysterine.
As a result, when Diana was called out by Xier, the poor spirit deer could only stare blankly at the group of people, its eyes filled with a look of panic.
Do you want to carry these people all the way to the location of the power body?
me?
To resist—of course it was impossible.
In short, after a difficult journey similar to the Journey to the West, the loyal but resentful spirit deer finally carried this group of people to their destination.
8am, Hyperion Cafe.
A large group of people piled up at the entrance of the hall, like a small mountain.
Right in front of this group of figures was the figure of Misterine, who was smiling happily.
In the middle of the wooden floor, there was a lifeless figure lying on the ground, pointing at the young swordsman outside the door with a slightly trembling finger.
Further inside the hall stood the Herrscher of Knowledge, who had visited here by chance and whose time and world he belonged to were not yet clear - at least that was the case for Fu Hua and Kiana, who were seeing the Herrscher of Knowledge for the first time.
Deep in the hall is a bar that separates the reception area, kitchen and wine cabinet.
At this moment, after seeing the scene in front of him, the young store manager who was sitting behind the bar exerted uncontrollably force with his fingertips, and the gel pen standing upright on the black leather account book pierced through the thick papers stacked in an orderly manner with a sound of a wipe.
A heavy sigh, filled with deep silence, flowed out from the lips as if full of reality.
Was it Mistierine's voice that awakened the dazed people? The moment she opened her mouth, the people who were piled up at the door like a small mountain came back to their senses as if awakened from a dream.
"It's really Kiana, and another me..."
At the top of the crowd, the Herrscher of the Origin, Raiden Mei, looked at "herself" and Kiana, who were wearing shop assistant uniforms, with a somewhat curious look, muttering to herself.
Prometheus flew up slightly with an expressionless face, and then floated silently in front of Mistline.
"What's wrong? Number 17?" Mistrylin tilted her head slightly, with her usual gentle smile on her face, "Are you worried about me?"
Prometheus did not answer her, but slowly raised his hand and then swung it down!
BANG!!!!
With a loud sound like a bronze bell, a huge mechanical hand suddenly appeared out of thin air above Mistlin's head and fell down like a huge rock.
Suddenly, fine cracks appeared on the wooden floor.
Mistierine's body and Yanqing lay on the ground side by side, silently, pointing forward with trembling fingers.
After doing all this, Prometheus expressionlessly clenched his palm, and the huge mechanical palm held Misterine's starry body in the palm like a chicken.
Then, she quietly floated towards the bar, bowed slightly to the young man behind the bar, and spoke in a calm but polite tone:
"I'm sorry for the financial loss. The damaged wooden floor will be compensated by our leaders."
"...Hey! Don't just throw the blame onto me without saying anything!"
Theresa's face darkened as she slowly stood up while shouting in anger.
She dusted herself off and struggled to land on the ground beside her from the top of the crowd.
With Theresa's movement as the dividing line, the people piled together dispersed one by one.
It was fortunate that they were not normal people. If they were ordinary people, their rush into the coffee shop would probably turn into a very serious accident.
The spirit deer with its tongue sticking out rolled its eyes, then, under a flash of black light that seemed almost resentful, it slid into its master's body.
"Hey! Why is there another me here?"
After the people above his head left one by one, someone who finally got away suddenly felt happy.
"Old antique! Look! That's another you!"
"……I saw."
I don't know why, but that indifferent and otherworldly tone suddenly showed a hint of melancholy.
She slowly stood up, straightened her clothes and her messy hair, was silent for a moment, and said in a complicated tone: "Would it be convenient for you to give me a piece of Yudu Dust?"
"..." Fu Hua, whose body was translucent, opened her mouth, inexplicably feeling that the scene before her seemed to have happened just yesterday.
But in the end she did not reject the proposal of this other "self" and gave her a piece of her own feather.
"Hey! Another me!" On the other side, someone approached the Herrscher of Consciousness with a distorted expression, and stretched out her hand, trying to put her arm around the latter's shoulder without any hesitation. "How about you share some of your memories with me? So that I can understand what's going on?"
"You are the winner!!!" But the former had never expected that the Herrscher of Consciousness would explode with anger. She slapped the smiling "self" away, her eyes widened, and her expression was full of resistance, "Who are you and I? I will never be like you and bow down to others!"
"Oh my! How can you be so unreasonable! You old antique over there! Can't you just take care of her?"
"...Should I care about her?" The translucent Fu Hua was stunned for a moment, and then revealed an obvious look of intention.
Chapter 4: Disciplining children requires methods (k)
Discipline a Herrscher of the current civilized era - to be honest, it would be impossible for Fu Hua not to be moved by this proposal that sounded like a fantasy in the past. After all, the Herrscher is the spokesperson for Honkai, and every time a Herrscher turns from darkness to light, it means that they have taken a historically significant step on the road to fighting Honkai.
But, could she really manage this Herrscher of Knowledge who looked like her? Fu Hua couldn't help but feel a little skeptical.
Although she always looks humble and indifferent, as an elder who has lived for more than 50,000 years, Fu Hua still has great confidence in most things. After all, no matter how bad she is at something, she will gradually become good at it with the accumulation of experience.
But among the "most of the things" that Fu Hua feels confident about, the only one that cannot be included is "taking care of children."
If there is something in this world that causes Fu Hua to have the most severe PTSD, it is the word "collapse" which tops the list and is heavy enough to occupy all the seats in the top ten. Then, starting from the eleventh place, the only thing left is probably "raising children".
Now, her mission to fight against the collapse has seen the light of day, and even in another parallel world, a future that successfully crossed the end has been born.
In addition, Fu Hua also greatly broadened her horizons in this cafe.
Although she didn't mention it, for Fu Hua now, the so-called collapse is actually not an unsolvable problem.
After the PTSD left by Honkai subsided slightly, the psychological shadow left by "raising children" in Fu Hua's heart naturally replaced the position that should have belonged to "Honkai".
To be honest, as the leader of the Taixu Sect, Fu Hua was also a person with many students all over the world hundreds of years ago. The disciples she brought up were almost all the best of their time in terms of achievements, and almost all of them later became leaders of different sects.
However, the psychological trauma left on her by these disciples, who had great achievements and social status, was almost as great as that caused by the Herrschers in the previous civilization era who had caused numerous tragedies to the world at that time.
Although the truth of the tragedy that happened five hundred years ago has been buried in the shadow of history along with the burning of related memories at the conscious level and the burning of Mount Taixu at the physical level, even if the memories have disappeared and there is no related evidence left in the world, the scars of the tragedy are still deeply engraved in Fu Hua's heart.
She instinctively avoided everything related to raising children, whether it was recruiting apprentices or disciplining others. If she hadn't really been unable to sit idly by and watch the Herrscher consciousness in Kiana, she would never have even been mentally prepared to teach Kiana herself.
Therefore, after she was briefly tempted by the extremely tempting proposal, a subconscious feeling of resistance arose.
"Do you need me to lend you a piece of Yudu Dust?"
As the same person, Fu Hua from the future could see through what the "self" who had lost her body was struggling with at a glance. A gentle smile appeared on her face, and her voice was gentle and elegant, with an obvious doting tone.
"Although Xiaozhi is a very good child, compared to asking me to convince you, reading the corresponding memory directly from my side should allow you to more intuitively understand the weight of this sentence."
"Bah! What do you mean I'm a very good child?! I'm not a child!" The Herrscher of Knowledge was furious, "Also, who allowed you to call me Xiaozhi!?"
"I've told you not to be so unreasonable." The Herrscher of Knowledge from the future said with a smile on his face, his tone gentle and persuasive, "Besides, there's nothing wrong with calling you Xiao Shi. You can't continue to use the name Fu Hua anyway. It would be a good thing for you and everyone if you accept your fate and stop struggling. "
"What a good thing! Besides, aren't you also a Herrscher of Knowledge? Which side are you on? How can a Herrscher of Knowledge be willing to be inferior to others?! I feel ashamed for you and our Herrscher profession!"
"What's there to be ashamed of?" The Herrscher of the Future shrugged, with an indifferent expression on his face. "Kiana, who became the Herrscher of the End, still has to take extra classes and practice exercises under the two professors of Anti-Entropy every day. Mei is always watching over her in her life. She doesn't even have instant noodles to eat. With such a good role model in front of her, what's wrong with being controlled by the old antique? Besides, can't she control me most of the time?"
Kiana shuddered instantly at her back, she gasped, and all the hairs on her body stood up, she felt as if she felt a terrifying feeling that was even greater than the feeling of having her body taken away by the will of the Herrscher of the Void.
“Wha-wha-what!? Are you kidding me? I’ve become a Herrscher of the End and I still have to take extra classes and do homework? And I don’t even have instant noodles to eat??”
"Yes, if you don't believe me, ask him." The Herrscher of Knowledge from the future smiled and pointed at the Herrscher of Origin, Raiden Mei, who was standing not far away. At this moment, Raiden Mei, who came from the not-too-distant future, was wearing a slim-fitting OL uniform. She put her arms under her plump chest. Her face had obviously matured a lot, with a gentle but irrefutable smile.
"Do you have any comments you would like to make about our discipline, Kiana?"
Her tone of voice was so gentle and mature. Compared to the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, who always had a stern look on her face, this more mature Raiden Mei was actually closer to the one who was accompanying her.
But after hearing the other party's words, Kiana felt a chill all over her body and felt that her future seemed bleak.
Even though she had never seen the "self" who had already achieved death, at this moment, Kiana seemed to be able to cross several years of time and space and see the tragic situation that her future "self" would fall into under the discipline of this Raiden Mei.
She has already become the Herrscher of the End, but she still has to take extra classes and do exercises... She is not even allowed to eat junk food... Just thinking about this bleak future makes Kiana want to scream like a groundhog.
Of course, no matter how much she felt in her heart, Kiana couldn't vent this tragic feeling in front of the two Raiden Meis - after all, she could already feel the "kind" look of Raiden Mei on her side looking at her, so she could only force a smile, and the smile on her face looked as if she would cry in the next second.
"No... no, of course not. You know me well. How could I have a problem with Mei?"
"Yeah, you won't say anything, but you will just run away silently to a place where no one can find you, right?" Raiden Mei said dimly.
“……!!” Could you please stop ruining my show at this time, my dear Mei! Kiana was really about to cry out loud.
"Oh?" Hearing the accusation full of resentment from another "self", the Herrscher of Origin, Raiden Mei's face immediately changed. She asked tentatively, "Kiana on your side... also...?"
"Uh..." Raiden Mei was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted, "Which world's past do you think...?"
"Yes, it seems that although we didn't seem to have reached this cafe in the past, your 'present' and our 'past' are still very similar." The Herrscher of the Origin, Raiden Mei, seemed to be in deep thought, and then suggested, "Do you need me to teach you some ways to prevent Kiana from acting recklessly?"
Mei Raiden's eyes lit up: "If possible, please do."
So, the two Raiden Mei from different time and space came together under Kiana's completely petrified gaze, and began a heated discussion on the topic of "How to discipline Kiana".
On this side, the two Raiden Meis gathered together and exchanged opinions on disciplining Kiana. On the other side, the memory sharing between the two Fu Hua based on Yu Duchen also came to an end as Fu Hua, who had entered a translucent state, suddenly had a kind look in her eyes.
Fu Hua, floating in the air, turned her eyes towards the Herrscher of Knowledge in the frightening sight and said, "Xiao Shi--"
“Don’t you dare call me that!!!” The Herrscher of Consciousness was furious. “Don’t look at me with that disgusting gaze either!! I repeat again! I am not the same person as that shameful Herrscher of Consciousness over there! Don’t treat me with the same attitude that that old antique treated that thing!!!”
"Hey! You naughty kid, why are you so disobedient!?" The Herrscher of Consciousness from the future was a little angry.
"You are the naughty kid! Your whole family is naughty kids!!!" the Herrscher of Knowledge yelled angrily.
"You... old antique, look at her! She has been annoying me! She never stops!" The Herrscher of Consciousness from the future accused Fu Hua who was beside him.
"Who has offended you? It's all your fault for giving that old antique bad advice!! And!! Can you please stop being so old-fashioned every time something happens? Have some dignity as a Herrscher! Kiana is embarrassed in front of Mei, are you embarrassed too?! Do you know that you are embarrassing me in front of them too?"
Kiana's eyes widened: "I was walking on the street and doing nothing and I got kicked for no reason?!"
Fu Hua, who was in a semi-transparent state, quickly lowered her body and, with a kind look on her face, tried to smooth things over for the two Herrschers of Knowledge who were glaring at each other angrily: "Stop arguing, stop arguing. I was being reckless. Since you don't like the name Xiao Shi, then I won't call you that for now."
“That’s more like it…” The Herrscher of Knowledge answered subconsciously, then suddenly froze and went crazy, “No! You’ve led me astray again! Not again!! Don’t try to play word games with me, you old antique!!”
"Then what do you think I should call you?" The translucent Fu Hua smiled cheerfully, as if she would do whatever you asked. However, this style of speaking and doing, which was like soothing a child having a bad temper, not only failed to soothe the Ruler of Consciousness, but made her feel even more disgusted.
