Why did the logs become garbled after this?
Has the log data been tampered with?
Bronya pursed her lips and her five fingers began to move on the keyboard again.
She first tried to recover the missing data, but found that the records that disappeared abnormally could not be restored with her existing technology.
After the data recovery failed, she immediately changed her mind and tried to trace the culprit who modified the logs.
——However, it was also a failure.
Bronya stopped moving, and her silver-gray eyes flashed with a trace of extremely emotional dissatisfaction and anxiety.
With her unwillingness to admit defeat, if possible, she really wanted to do her best to catch the criminal who arrogantly modified the contents of the diary under her nose.
But now Cocolia is missing, and even the condition of the Herrscher's body is unknown. At this critical juncture, Bronya knows that now is not the time to act on impulse.
She must use her limited energy and time on more critical and important things.
Therefore, Bronya could only suppress her unwillingness to admit defeat for the time being and gave up on recovering the lost data. Instead, she skipped the garbled codes and moved the log to a place where there were clear records again.
But after seeing the final result of the log, the content that came into view made Bronya's pupils shrink involuntarily.
She opened her mouth slightly, with a dull expression that looked a little funny.
But Bronya herself obviously didn't feel this funny.
She just felt that her life was disillusioned and broken.
——After failing to capture the Herrscher's body, ME's top leader, the Anti-Entropy Executor Cocolia, was captured by the Far East Branch's flagship Hyperion. Her whereabouts and life or death are unknown.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, ME has shared this information with other anti-entropy executors and submitted an application for assistance to the leader, and is now awaiting approval.
When she saw this message, even with Bronya's cold temper whose emotional module had been burned out, she still had the urge to curse, which was a medical miracle.
What the hell?
Not only did he fail to capture the Herrscher, but he also sent himself to the Far East Branch of the Mandate of Heaven? And he let the other Executors know about it? ?
Chapter 4: Theresa is totally unreliable (k)
In Changkong City, at the same time when Bronya's eyes went black after she arrived at the temporary base, on the other side of the Far East, Cocolia, who was imprisoned in the confinement room, stared blankly at the square window on the iron door, her eyes were full of confusion, and her expression was as if she had been slapped awake from a deep sleep and then hit on the top of her head with a club.
Although the intense depression and doubt about life made Cocolia almost vomit blood while sitting in the confinement room, she also understood that she was suddenly locked up in the confinement room and something must have gone terribly wrong.
She racked her brains to recall the scene before she lost consciousness, went to Changkong City, came to ME Company to meet with the technical team that monitored the status of the Herrscher's body, and arrived at the scene in person after learning the strange news that the Herrscher's body suddenly disappeared. She remembered all these things clearly, but at a certain moment, part of the memory in her mind disappeared out of thin air like an edited video, and the next scene immediately became waking up in this confinement room with a daze.
Where exactly is this place? How long has she been unconscious? What is the condition of the Herrscher? Questions came one after another like a mudslide, stirring up Kokolia's already not very smart brain into even greater chaos.
The iron door in front was pushed open, and the light in the corridor shone in mercilessly. In the strong light, Cocolia subconsciously raised her arms and squinted her eyes, while looking at the short figure who walked into the confinement room with a somewhat blurred vision.
Silver hair, nun's uniform, and a childish face...all these features indicate the visitor's famous identity.
The commander-in-chief of the Far East Branch of Destiny, the current patriarch of the Apokalis family, and the former S-class Valkyrie of Destiny, Theresa Apokalis.
"Awake?" Theresa glanced at the woman in military uniform sitting on the iron chair. She pressed the button outside the door and turned on the light in the confinement room. "Anti-Entropy Executor Cocolia, this should be the first time we meet."
After identifying the person's identity, Cocolia's expression relaxed.
Most of the time, human fear and confusion come from the unknown. Although Cocolia's heart was still beating fast after confirming that it was the man of destiny who caught her, but relatively speaking, being caught by Theresa, a Valkyrie known for her kindness, decency, and slightly worrying IQ, was already the best outcome.
"I have long heard of your great name, Commander Theresa."
Although she was panicking deep down, Cocolia knew that she couldn't be nervous at this moment. She still looked into Theresa's blue eyes with a calm look and said in a slightly sarcastic voice:
"Commander-in-chief of the Far East Branch of the Mandate, have you forgotten the non-aggression pact between the two sides? The friendship that was built during the Second Honkai Impact was destroyed in less than 20 years, and the sneak attack was used. It seems that the people of the Mandate are not as upright as you claim."
Theresa did not fight back against Cocolia's sarcasm. She just stared at Cocolia's sarcastic expression with a cold gaze. Her childish and crisp voice was full of coldness: "Does your leader know your plan in Changkong City?"
Cocolia was silent for a moment.
After a long silence, she said with a stiff upper lip: "...I don't understand what you are saying."
"Don't try to play dumb. I have cleared all the Houkai solvents you have planted in Changkong City based on the information I pried out from you. Your target, Raiden Mei, has also become a member of Saint Freya Academy."
Theresa said coldly, with a hint of intimidating anger and extremely strong disappointment flashing in her azure eyes:
"As an executor of Anti-Entropy, you must know that artificially inducing a Honkai disaster that could give birth to a Herrscher would kill all residents of Changkong City, but you still made such a plan. Why? After the disappearance of the leader, Anti-Entropy, which has lost its restraint, has actually become an anti-human organization that takes human life lightly?"
"Have you, Tianming, committed fewer sins than me in matters concerning the Herrscher?" Cocolia's expression also turned cold. She sneered, "Don't think I don't know how the second Herrscher was born. How was our first leader forced to set up his own faction by you Tianming people? We are all birds of a feather. How come you still want to occupy the moral high ground and kidnap me? The victims in Changkong City are fine, but what qualifications do you people from Tianming have to speak nonsense in front of me?"
"..."
Theresa looked away calmly, feeling a slight pain in her chest.
For so many years, the second Honkai incident has always been a thorn in her heart that she cannot remove.
During the period just after the second collapse, she had the same dream almost every night.
The blurry tall figure turned his back to the dazzling halo, and stretched out his arms as if to give her a warm hug. She threw herself into the man's arms and wanted to hug him back, but the moment her palms touched the other person, his body immediately turned into bloody dust and scattered in the air.
Whenever Theresa dreamed of such a scene, she would wake up with tears flowing uncontrollably from her eyes. She knew that she would never be able to feel that warm embrace again, because the thing that separated them was called death.
However, the number of tragedies like Cecilia's that occurred during the Second Collapse is simply too numerous to count.
If Theresa had not completely seen through Otto's true face during the Second Collapse and had not been completely disappointed in Schicksal, with her character, she would not have taken the initiative to withdraw from the front line of the fight against the Collapse. Instead, she established St. Freya Academy on a deserted island near the Far East, far away from the Schicksal headquarters.
Theresa is not someone like Otto who is good at confusing right and wrong. In her eyes, right is right and wrong is wrong. As a witness of the second collapse, Theresa knew very well that the source of this tragedy was the inhumane human experiment of Tianming. So when Cocolia did the same thing, although she was still furious, she could not criticize the other party from Tianming's standpoint.
But at the same time, she would not tolerate someone like Kokolia continuing to do evil things outside, so after a brief silence, Theresa, who had regained her composure, turned her gaze towards Kokolia's face and said calmly: "I don't deny that Tianming has made unforgivable mistakes. There is nothing in this world that can judge the sins of Tianming and Grandpa."
Theresa paused and said, "For the sake of your leader who fights for humanity, and because you haven't actually caused the Honkai disaster yet, I won't kill you. But as a Valkyrie, I can't allow someone like you who wants to manipulate the Honkai to return to Anti-Entropy. You are too dangerous. I can't trust you."
"Now that I've been captured by you, I don't expect to escape from the cage of the Far East Branch," Kokolia sneered, "So what are you here for? You have figured out and thwarted my plan. What are you going to do next? Use torture to pry more anti-entropy information out of me?"
"I have no personal grudge against you Anti-Entropy, and I don't intend to investigate your affairs to the end." Theresa shook her head and said lightly, "I came here to ask you one thing - have you also entered a cafe in the ruins where Hyperion found you, just like Mei?"
"What?" Cocolia was stunned, not understanding why the topic suddenly took such a big turn.
Theresa narrowed her eyes slightly: "Do you remember how we took you away?"
"...Didn't you guys sneak attack ME Company?"
"Unfortunately, that's not the case. When we found you, you had already lost consciousness and fell in the rubble. Also lying in the rubble were more than 20 of your subordinates." Theresa shook her head. "Did you also lose a part of your memory?"
"..." Cocolia did not respond to Theresa's words immediately, and her face looked uncertain.
"Sure enough... the symptoms are the same as Kiana's child." Looking at Cocolia's expression that changed several times, Theresa whispered with the answer in her mind.
"What's going on?" Cocolia asked.
But Theresa did not solve Cocolia's confusion. She looked at her deeply, then turned around and walked out of the door without any hesitation, and turned off the lights in the confinement room.
The heavy iron door slammed shut with a creaking sound.
Outside the door, Mei Raiden was leaning against the wall beside the door. When she saw Theresa walk out of the room where Cocolia was imprisoned, she couldn't wait to greet her.
"Dean, Cocolia..."
Theresa shook her head helplessly: "She, like Kiana, has lost all her memories of the cafe and its manager."
"Really?" Raiden Mei lowered her head, her expression becoming visibly depressed.
Although they had confirmed the existence of the cafe with the help of Yulandel, Yulandel, who had actually been to the cafe in person, refused to tell them the actual situation of the cafe.
As an S-class Valkyrie, Theresa certainly didn't have the ability to force Yulandel to tell her things she didn't want to tell her, so she could only choose to find out the truth about the cafe herself with Raiden Mei, who also wanted to enter the cafe again.
In Mei Raiden's memory, apart from herself who patronized that cafe, there were only three other people who actually met the store manager.
Kiana, Siegfried, and Cocolia.
Siegfried and the others would definitely not be able to find it in a short period of time. On the way back to St. Freya's College, Theresa had already questioned Kiana in detail about the cafe, but the result was not satisfactory. So when Cocolia's memory was confirmed to have been erased, the clues related to the cafe were completely cut off.
"Don't worry." Theresa stood on tiptoe and gently patted Mei Raiden's shoulder. Her tone of voice was full of care and concern like an elder. "I have people set up strict surveillance in the ruins. As long as the cafe really exists in that space, then the moment it reappears, we will be able to find the cafe's traces at the first time through those surveillance."
"..."
Looking at Theresa's face full of trust, Raiden Mei instinctively felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell why she had that wrong feeling, so she could only nod hesitantly: "Can you let me take a look at the surveillance footage nearby?"
"What's wrong with that? I've already said that our Tianming surveillance system is the best in the world!"
Theresa talked attentively, and raised her wrist confidently and tapped a few times. A translucent virtual screen unfolded in the air: "As long as this cafe appears, there is no way we will find out that -"
Halfway through her speech, her voice suddenly stopped as if the power of a speaker was forcibly turned off. Her confident expression froze in a funny way, while Raiden Mei looked at the picture on the monitor with her pupils slightly dilated.
In a desolate ruin, a cold girl with twin spiral ponytails suddenly walked in from the edge of the surveillance screen. The petite girl walked slowly towards the range of the coffee shop framed by Yulandel without any hesitation, and then stopped in front of the distorted space that could not be captured by vision.
Who is this child? What does she want to do? Why did she suddenly appear in the surveillance video? Before Mei Raiden and Theresa could figure out this series of questions, the body of the cold little girl slowly floated up in the monitor without any warning.
Behind him, a huge steel structure gradually turned from translucent to solid.
The moment the iron creature appeared, the little girl's eyes were clearly focused on the void in front of her, as if she saw something that was originally invisible, and her silver-gray eyes flashed with inexplicable emotions.
After a moment, she let out a long breath as if she had made up her mind. Then she leaned forward slightly and plunged into the void in front of her. Her whole body disappeared.
Mei Raiden and Theresa were both stunned where they were. They looked stupidly at the scene of the little girl disappearing into the void, then turned their heads and looked at each other stupidly.
"She disappeared." Mei Raiden looked at Theresa blankly.
"I saw it." Theresa also stared at Raiden Mei blankly.
The next moment, the two of them turned around at the same time and ran towards the door at the end of the corridor.
In the confinement room, Cocolia couldn't help but raise her head when she heard the hurried footsteps, her face full of confusion and bewilderment.
Chapter 4: Heartbeat Date Live in Canghai City (k)
In the year 2006, the world bubble, no longer plagued by the collapse, was at peace, and the residents in the city lived and worked in peace.
Near noon, the weather in Canghai City was clear in early spring. The dazzling and sharp sunlight was not scorching, and the oncoming sea breeze was refreshing.
Today is a weekday, and even in Canghai City's largest and most prosperous commercial center, the crowds are not crowded.
——Except for the idols who are carrying out activities on the street.
——Except for the die-hard fans who are making a pilgrimage to their idols.
"The heart of faith is the power of magic! Everyone! Let's shine brightly together with the magical girl Teriri!"
"Oooooohh ...
The simple stage was packed with excited men and women. The cheering sticks were waving rhythmically like magic wands. From three-year-old children to middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, and even a few elderly people who looked to be over sixty or seventy years old, everyone was swaying their bodies to the clear singing. On the upper floors of the tall buildings, huge billboards simultaneously played Theresa's young face covered in sweat.
"I forgot that today is the annual street performance of Magical Girl Teriri."
At the door of a milk tea shop on the street, under the blue and white open-air parasols, Ji Zi picked up the milk tea, took a sip, sucked on two coconuts, and looked towards the stage with an expression of emotion.
She suddenly stretched out her arm, touched Yufan's waist with her elbow, and said mischievously: "Hey, if I remember correctly, you seem to be a die-hard Theresa fan. How about it, seeing her become such a brilliant idol, do you feel a sense of excitement?"
"Do you think I'm the president of a beautiful country with a special fetish?" Yufan glanced at Jizi and drank a sip of milk tea with a calm expression. "I don't deny that Theresa is super cute, but that's just cute. As for the feeling of being moved... Heaven and earth can testify that my hobby is obviously big-breasted beauties with thin waists and long legs."
"Hey~ What's going on with the stargazers?"
"My relationship with Guanxing has long transcended such vulgar things as the flesh." Yufan's eyebrows trembled, and a proud expression appeared on his face, "They are my destined soul mates!"
"Tsk, look how conceited you are." Ji Zi couldn't help laughing. "Speaking of which, as the manager of a coffee shop, is it really okay for you to abandon those lovely employees and come out to slack off with me? If I worked under you, sooner or later I would fire you, the evil boss who exploits the people's labor all day long."
"How do you know my shop assistants are not slacking off?" Yufan asked with interest.
Jizi was stunned: "Huh? Didn't you hand over that cafe to Rita?"
Yufan looked at Ji Zi's puzzled expression and couldn't help but touch her hair: "It's okay, just pretend I didn't say anything, just stay innocent like this."
"Why do I feel like you are secretly calling me stupid..." Ji Zi shook her head restlessly and gently slapped Yu Fan's hand away. "Also, how many times have I told you not to treat me like a child? I'm an adult already!"
"Yes, yes, yes. Then please allow me to ask sincerely, what plans does this adult lady who regards drinking as romance have for our next trip?"
"...Didn't you invite me?" Ji Zi looked at Yu Fan in disbelief. "Isn't it usually up to a reliable gentleman to plan a date?"
Yufan took another sip of milk tea and said, "Then let's buy the things you need to prepare before we go back?"
Ji Zi tutted in dissatisfaction: "Tsk, you really don't have any romantic cells at all."
Yufan touched his nose and spread his hands, sighing: "It's because my love experience is not normal. If you really want me to plan, I can probably only copy a dating guide or something like that from the Internet."
"Can't you please not say such heart-wrenching things in front of me?"
"It's okay. I believe that your impression of me will not be shaken by a few words." Yufan said frankly.
"..." Ji Zi was speechless for a moment. She couldn't help but knocked Yu Fan's head in anger and said indignantly, "I really don't know what's so good about you, a piece of wood!"
Although she complained, Ji Zi did not really have any prejudice against Yu Fan's unromantic words and deeds. She lifted the milk tea cup with only a few pieces of coconut flakes left, stirred the straw, sucked the last piece of coconut flakes into her mouth, and threw the empty cup into the trash can on the street.
She stood up suddenly, with her hands on her hips:
