My vision blurred unnaturally for a moment.
He shook his head, and when the pain disappeared, his vision became clear again.
"what……"
Why did he feel like he had forgotten something? Just as he was confused like this—
——A bright light suddenly appeared in the dark sky.
The huge aerospace battleship was stagnant in the night, and two figures, one tall and one short, stood on the edge of the wide deck.
"What happened down there? How did it become like this?"
The current captain of Hyperion, Himeko Muryota, frowned tightly, and her sharp eyes kept scanning the ground illuminated by the searchlight.
"It looks like a fierce battle took place." The short nun took a look at the broken metal wreckage. "Those things should be parts of the Anti-Entropy Titan mecha. They are destroyed like this."
"Wait, Theresa, look there." Ji Zi suddenly patted Theresa's shoulder.
"what happened?"
"Look in the direction I'm pointing. Over there... aren't there two little girls lying there?"
Theresa looked in the direction where Ji Zi pointed and was suddenly stunned.
"That child is... Kiana?"
"Your acquaintance?" Ji Zi asked.
"...Wait for me here."
There was no hesitation.
After seeing the two girls lying in the ruins, Theresa jumped from the edge of the deck at once, and the distance of dozens of meters was gone in a flash.
After landing safely amidst a flurry of flying sand and rocks, Theresa stretched out her short legs and ran to the side of the two girls.
When I walked closer, I found that one of the two girls did not seem to lose consciousness. The black-haired girl had a dull expression on her face, and seemed to be muttering something confusing, such as "Why... it disappeared", "I... can't remember...", "What... just happened..." The silver-haired girl's eyes rolled back, and there was a red spot on her smooth forehead. Her long silver hair was scattered in all directions in a disorderly manner, as if it had been blown by an extremely strong wind.
"It's really Kiana!" After seeing the face of the silver-haired girl, Theresa exclaimed softly. She first sniffed the girl's breath, breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly turned her gaze to the other girl with a dazed face: "Hey! You, what just happened here?"
The girl's shoulders shook violently, and her neck turned towards Theresa's face like a rusty doll.
Then, after seeing a face that was exactly the same as the few remaining images, the memories that had been gradually fading away suddenly surged back from the depths of my mind.
"You are... the girlfriend of that store manager..." Mei Raiden suddenly covered her forehead with her hands, "Name...name... I can't remember it."
Theresa blinked her eyes and said in a daze: "Huh?"
"Hyperion...Hyperion...!!! Yes! Hyperion! Hyperion Cafe! The manager of Hyperion Cafe!" Mei Raiden shouted, "You are the girlfriend of that manager!!"
Theresa: “??????????”
Siegfried looked in Theresa's direction from afar and chuckled in a cool manner.
"My daughter, I'll leave her to you for now, little dwarf."
"..."
Why do I always feel like I've forgotten something?
Hmm, Siegfried tried to search his memory, but he didn't find anything missing.
Frustrated Cocolia's plot, and sent Kiana to Theresa's hands... There is no more perfect ending than this. Even if I really forgot something, it shouldn't be something very important.
Putting aside the doubts in his mind, Siegfried walked alone into the darkness with his back straight, as if a heavy burden had been temporarily lifted.
——Hyperion Cafe.
Yufan walked into the cafe hall with an expressionless face.
The hall was silent. Everyone stared at the store manager's young face, which showed no emotion. Finally, Guan Xing broke the silence: "Is it still the same as before?"
"It's even more serious than when I was in the World Bubble." Yufan sighed, "When I brought Yuexia back, the rejection of the World Bubble made me feel uncomfortable, but as long as I can endure the pain, the movement function of my body will not be affected much."
"The real world is indeed completely different from the world bubble in terms of the strength of its rules." He shrugged, "I never expected that after interfering to a certain extent, it would actually strip away my existence itself."
Yuexia clenched her palm with some worry: "Human, are you okay?"
“It’s okay.” Yufan scratched his head. “Although the world that little girl was in kicked me out, I am the one who reconstructed the rules of the Quantum Sea after all, and my own size is always there.”
"Rather, given the cocoon's temper, it didn't destroy me directly, but chose to kick me out. This itself is a reflection of the fact that it can't do anything to me."
"Come to think of it, maybe I should be proud of it?" The young store manager touched his nose, an inexplicable smile emerging on his face.
Chapter 30: Hyperion Cafe in Sky City
Cocoon - a destiny operating device that is now attached to the Eigenworld. Its origin and principle are unclear, and it is even impossible to directly observe it from the real world using the ordinary five senses.
But the thing undoubtedly exists.
This cafe located in the Quantum Sea is the product of Yufan's reintegration of the underlying rules of the Quantum Sea about half a month ago. He once told Walter Yang that this cafe happened to occupy the "fixed point" that can connect different worlds, but what he didn't say is that this cafe is actually the fixed point itself.
In a sense, the essence of this cafe is actually similar to the "cocoon" attached to the intrinsic world. However, unlike the relationship between the "cocoon" and the intrinsic world, where the former is attached to the latter, the relationship between this cafe and the world bubble in the quantum sea is that the latter is attached to the former.
All the world bubbles in the quantum sea are directly tied to the fate of the cafe. As long as this cafe still exists, the world bubbles in the quantum sea will not gradually disappear under the erosion of the sea.
This is the great achievement that Yufan accomplished as the captain of Hyperion, and it is also the direct reason why he is now retired.
In a sense, he is now the embodiment of the rules of the Quantum Sea.
“But on the other hand, because your entire body is filled with the aura of the Quantum Sea, it is naturally easier to be rejected by the rules of the real world.” Guanxing walked in front of Yufan, raised his head slightly, and sighed, “So, I suggested that we help you deal with the little girl. If we were residents who originally lived in the world bubble, even if we were rejected by the rules, we would not erase the traces of our existence in such a crude way.”
"Now, the girl who just met you should have completely lost her memory of you, right?"
“It’s okay.” Yufan shrugged, a hint of teasing in his eyes, “Thinking back to the time when I watched you fall before my eyes again and again, after starting a new round of reincarnation, didn’t you also completely forget what happened in the previous round?”
"And it's not just me. During the time when Xiaoyuexia was having a tantrum, didn't Jizi also have a similar experience in Canghai City?"
The faces of the stargazer and the one under the moon blushed at the same time.
"...Slippery tongue." Guanxing raised his feather fan and gently patted Yufan's chest. He rolled his eyes at Yufan's teasing expression and scolded him in a low voice: "I'm a little worried about you, but you deliberately open our scars."
"I just want to say that compared to the previous experiences, it's just that I was forgotten by someone I just knew for a few hours. Now I... and you guys should not be easily hurt by such things." Yufan touched Guanxing's face and said softly, "If it's an important person, try to restore his memory. If it's just a casual acquaintance, this kind of accidental encounter itself is easy to be forgotten gradually under the influence of time."
"And in this case, the girl that Old Yang entrusted to me is obviously the latter."
"Under the repulsion of the cocoon, the singularity of that world should be repaired soon, and it will not appear again for a long time."
"That child probably won't have the chance to come to our store again."
"Since we no longer have the chance to meet each other, isn't it good to just disappear from each other's lives?"
Yufan shrugged and put on a relaxed expression.
"If you want customers, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. After completing Lao Yang's commission, I have done my best for the child. As for whether we will have the opportunity to meet each other in the future... let's leave this matter to fate."
Guanxing stared at Yufan's face for a long time, and felt relieved after confirming that the manager did not feel too upset about Raiden Mei's matter.
"Okay! It's almost time to close the stall."
"Anyway, it's been a tiring day today—"
Yufan suddenly lowered his head and put his face under Guanxing's eyes, with a teasing look on his face.
"——It shouldn't be too much to ask for a reward from our lovely Stargazer."
Guan Xing's face turned red all the way to her neck, and her smooth and delicate skin reflected attractive colors under the light.
"You... there are other people here! You are so shameless! Don't say such weird things all of a sudden!"
"For things like this, we have to wait until we are alone in a room..."
The wandering eyes suddenly caught sight of several other figures who were eager to try.
Rita, Brownie, Yuexia, everyone stared at the store manager's face, their muscles tensed, as if they were about to rush over to reward the store manager after hearing their rejection.
"..."
An emotion called dissatisfaction suddenly rose.
No, we can't back down.
Obviously, it was us who were there first. We are the first ones!
With a strong sense of crisis, the shy Sage King became determined.
Although she was unwilling to admit it from the bottom of her heart, objectively speaking, in terms of female charm alone, she was no match for Rita and Yuexia.
That cheating behemoth, with a mature and charming face... If I compare myself with the two of them on a head-on battlefield, I won't have any chance of winning at all.
Therefore, she must seize every opportunity that comes her way and take every possible advantage by any means necessary.
The store manager is me, the stargazer! I will not give up this reward opportunity!
Lord Sage King grabbed the store manager’s pure white collar.
She didn't aim at his approaching face, but instead aimed her lips at a pair of lips that were slightly offset to the side and larger than her own.
The slightly hard lip curve blends with the petite and soft lip curve.
"Ah! You cunning woman!" Yuexia widened her eyes, "Humans clearly didn't let you kiss there! You actually——"
"..."
Humph.
It is our freedom to decide what rewards we want to give!
Just stand aside and watch me take away this guy's lips! Just as I was looking at the stars with great satisfaction -
——The door of the coffee shop was suddenly pushed open slowly from the outside with a creaking sound.
……
boom! boom! boom!
After several fierce gunshots, the huge blue and white monster fell to the ground.
"This is the last one..."
Kiana put the two guns in her hands on her waist, breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly walked out of the dark alley.
The corpses of dozens of Honkai beasts were piled up in the alley. After their lives were effectively cut off, their huge bodies quickly collapsed and dissipated.
The debris floating in the night announced the end of a battle.
"Get out of here now, Kiana."
At this moment, a calm voice suddenly sounded in her mind.
"Don't let too many people witness your appearance."
"I know, I know."
Kiana wiped the dust off her face, looked around, and after finally confirming that all the surveillance cameras around her had been completely destroyed by her, she flew into the air with a light posture, flipping and moving between the tall buildings, and got away from the battlefield that had already ended.
——This is the edge of Sky City. Four months have passed since the Great Disaster caused by the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void.
In order to escape the Honkai beasts that continuously emerge from the void, as well as the Honkai energy infection that accompanies the beast tide, more and more people choose to hide in big cities with more complete defense measures to seek a moment of respite.
"Today, we solved three more Honkai incidents. Since we started clearing out the Honkai beasts around the city, the Honkai energy invading Sky City has not only not decreased, but has shown signs of getting worse..."
In the night, the girl's whisper was blown away by the wind: "It seems that what the class leader said is indeed correct. These frequent Honkai events are indeed not a sign that the guy has woken up again."
"You should be able to sense the state of your body to a certain extent." That calm voice sounded again from the depths of her consciousness. "After I helped you suppress the Herrscher personality in you, at least in the recent period, there has been no sign of her occupying your body again."
"Moreover, if these Honkai events were caused by you, then these Honkai beasts that appeared should also appear around you."
Chapter 31 Please lock the door when you are intimate
"Yes, I understand." Kiana nodded gently, then sighed, "Unfortunately, I realized this too late. If I had known earlier that these Honkai events had nothing to do with me, I could have recorded their patterns and inferred the time and location of subsequent Honkai events."
"There is no rush for this matter, Kiana. You should know that even if the Herrscher of the Void's will has subsided, she is only dormant in the depths of your consciousness, ready to take over your body at any time."
The voice in the girl's mind said calmly in a gentle tone:
"You chose to try to use your willpower to control the power of the Herrscher of the Void. That's good. So, now I will no longer try to persuade you to stay away from fighting and Honkai. But while fighting Honkai, please make sure to control your physical condition. We can no longer let the Herrscher of the Void take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in."
"I know." Kiana nodded calmly.
It was getting darker and darker. The city was silent under the darkness. The moonlight above was as bright as a lamp bead. The wind blowing in the face was not cold. Instead, it gave Kiana, who was jumping rapidly between the rooftops, an inexplicable feeling of comfort.
Most of the lights in the buildings were turned off. Most of the people who originally lived on the outskirts of the city had moved into the city, and only street lights illuminated the empty streets.
