"I understand. As long as you can figure it out and understand that the purpose of traveling outside the world is to realize your own personal value, rather than carrying the burden of atonement, I won't stop you even if you really want to explore those things that look dangerous out of curiosity." Yufan shrugged. "Anyway, with Hyperion's performance, there won't be any problems if it wants to run away. There shouldn't be a place in this world that can trap it."
"Hyperion?" Ji Zi was stunned for a moment.
"Everyone in my family is going on a long journey, so of course I have to prepare something grand and magnificent for you to liven up the occasion." Yufan smiled and raised his arm, snapping his fingers, "Music——!"
Chicken, you are so beautiful——
Yufan almost vomited blood: "Fuck! No! Wrong, wrong! Not this unlucky thing! Next song!"
Tear—heart—shoulder—!
The roar of thunder from the army——!
Far away in another world, on the immortal boat Luofu, a cold-faced little green dragon who was running around in Liuyundu suddenly felt an itch in his nose and sneezed violently: "A-choo--!!"
Back to Canghai City, with the majestic background music and the heroic and high-spirited baritone singing, everyone standing on the beach stopped what they were doing and looked around blankly. Tesla also looked at the stage amplifier that had just been set up with a confused look on her face, thinking, could this thing also be powered by Honkai Energy? She hadn't even turned on the power yet.
The next moment, the sea surface began to shake, and a thin black line suddenly extended from the center of the beach to the far sea level. The black line slowly separated, creating a canyon-like crack in the calm sea surface. This kind of magnificent scene of the split sea should only be seen in science fiction or myth movies, or in the game CG of Honkai Impact 3rd, but it was forcibly moved by Yufan into a small world bubble.
Ji Zi opened her mouth slightly and shouted in astonishment: "Hey, hey, hey! Aren't you making too much noise?! What the hell is this? Why does it even have background music?!!"
"There are already enough bugs in this world, so it won't matter if there is another one." Yufan smiled calmly, "As for the aftermath, let the fate of this world worry about it."
As he was speaking, a long white ship silhouette emerged from the gap between the seas. The hundreds-meter-long ship broke through the surface of the sea and slowly floated in the air with a low engine sound.
"Okay, this ship is yours now. Are you happy? Are you surprised?" Yufan patted Ji Zi's shoulder and said with a smile, "Although it is not the original ship lent to Delta, it is at least a space-time ship modified by me personally. Both the performance and space configuration have reached T0 level. Not to mention the long-distance, it is still a breeze to carry you for a few laps in the Quantum Sea."
"I—" Ji Zi opened her mouth. She stared blankly at the Hyperion that had caused a commotion on the beach, and then stared blankly at Yufan. "But I didn't say I was leaving today."
Yufan extended his hand, with an expression that said, "It's no big deal." "Then just leave it here for now. You have the control over it, and it won't grow legs and run away. Anyway, the ones who should be worried are not you and me, but the destiny of this world."
"You have a big problem with destiny?"
"I don't mind doing anything that can make things difficult for Otto and Old Biden." Yufan smiled. "Of course, the main purpose this time is to give you a generous parting gift. Disgusting Old Biden is just a convenience."
"Then should I thank you?" Ji Zi's eyes twitched and she said through gritted teeth.
"No need to thank me, just come to my cafe more often in your free time." Yufan said confidently.
"Please come to your cafe more often?" Ji Zi was stunned. "You didn't build a cafe in this ship?!"
"No." Yufan shook his head and said complacently, obviously very satisfied with the results of his transformation. "I just opened a special passage so that you can come here at any time. After all, you are the former captain of Hyperion, so you must have this authority."
Ji Zi was stunned for a long while, and suddenly realized: "So you asked me out on a date and brought me to the beach specifically to show me this from the beginning?!"
"Not satisfied?"
"It's not that I'm dissatisfied, but you should at least let me be mentally prepared!" Ji Zi was a little crazy, "How do I control this thing? And why is the background music still playing?! Did you hide a speaker on the beach?!"
"Who would use such backward equipment as speakers to play background music? The essence of sound is vibration. I just slightly modified the sound wave laws of this world. What you hear is just the sound of the wind."
"????"
Chapter 4: The Thousand-Layered Routine of the Sage King (k)
Hyperion II died unpeacefully.
Although Yufan repeatedly emphasized that there would be no problem parking it here, and it would only add some workload to Tianming, Ji Zi was not the kind of person who liked to trouble others. So after figuring out how to operate Hyperion II, she immediately boarded this magnificent space-time ship and fled away from the world.
Somewhere in the distance, Brownie, who was sitting on the edge of the roof, put down the telescope in his hand and said in a bored tone:
"It's boring. There's no fun at all."
At the edge of the tent of the music festival stage, Guanxing, who was dressed as a magical girl, and Yuexia, who had undergone a simple disguise, secretly poked their heads out. They looked at the back of Hyperion II as it sped away from this bubble of world, looked at each other, and secretly put their heads back in.
Guanxing subconsciously wanted to wave his feather fan, but suddenly realized that the thing in his hand was just a magic wand, so he had to give up for the time being.
"Go back." she said helplessly.
Yuexia, who was following beside her, gently adjusted the baseball cap on his head and nodded silently.
But just as the two turned around and were about to leave, a voice with some surprise suddenly made them stop in their tracks.
"Huh? Theresa? Why are you here?"
Behind the two of them, a figure with twin ponytails walked towards them with her back to the sun.
"I remember you had a few performances this afternoon. How come you suddenly have time to come to our ME Pan Entertainment stage?"
Tesla walked to stand behind the two of them. She narrowed her eyes and stared at Guanxing's back with a vigilant look: "Could it be that you want to spy on the information of the concert held by our ME Pan Entertainment? After all, you are a national idol in Canghai City. You should not do such a low-class trick, right?"
"Ahem." The corner of Guanxing's mouth twitched. She was silent for a moment, and then forced a childish smile.
She turned around and said in a low voice: "What the hell, Teriri just ran out of energy and wanted to take a good rest on the beach. What are you talking about, big sister? I don't understand you at all."
"Pfft..." Yuexia couldn't help but cover her mouth, and an uncontrollable laughter came from the tip of her nose.
"Oh~ I just want to have a good rest?" Tesla gently lowered her glasses on the bridge of her nose, and the two lenses suddenly reflected a dazzling and wise highlight, like a detective in a mystery animation. She waved her finger and spoke with irrefutable confidence, "Dissent!"
Guan Xing's eyebrows twitched slightly. She couldn't help but take a step back, clenching her five fingers tightly: "Wha-what? Big sister, please don't point at me, Teriri is so scared~"
"Hehe, don't think I don't know your tour route. Half an hour ago, you should have been in the largest commercial district in Canghai City!" Tesla crossed his arms and looked sharp. "If you just wanted to rest, why would you cross half of Canghai City and come to the beach? And you happened to come to our ME Pan-Entertainment site--!"
As he spoke, Tesla couldn't help but raise his neck, revealing a proud expression as if he had won a victory.
“Hehehe, as expected, after knowing that we, ME Entertainment, have also formed a new idol group, you people from Tianming can’t sit still, right!”
"Otherwise, how could we allow an idol like you to come to our stage to spy on the enemy? This is simply unrealistic!"
Under the moonlight, he covered his mouth and nose, bent over, his shoulders shaking uncontrollably, and felt slight pains in his abdomen.
"..."
The corner of Guanxing's mouth twitched, she suddenly put away her smile, supported her forehead with her hand, and let out a long sigh.
Seeing the sudden change in the expression of "Magical Girl Teriri", Tesla immediately took a step back cautiously:
"Is your hand exposed? But don't forget, this is the home of our ME Pan Entertainment! It just so happens that I have been worrying about how to bring down you, the number one idol in Canghai City, for a long time. Since you have come to me on your own initiative, I won't be polite! Just live with those Houmu in your dreams forever!"
"Go! Titan mech! Capture both of them!"
Amid the loud bang of the giant object falling to the ground, the group of mechas that had just been setting up the stage immediately surrounded the area under Tesla's orders.
But at this moment, a volleyball suddenly rushed over like a cannonball with a sonic boom, aiming directly at the stage that the Titan mecha had just assembled halfway.
boom!
So, not surprisingly, accompanied by a sound similar to an explosion, the stage that had just been built halfway and the Titan mechas surrounding the stage were instantly destroyed by the heavy impact of the volleyball.
Tesla's expression froze for a moment. His neck twisted like a rusty robot, and he screamed, "Ah! My stage! My mecha! My funds!!!!!"
"……puff."
Guanxing also covered his mouth like Yuexia, and uncontrollable laughter came from his throat.
Although she knew that such gloating thoughts were immoral, Guanxing had to admit that she felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction when she saw Dr. Tesla, who was so aggressive just a few seconds ago, suffer an unexpected change.
At this moment, the culprit who caused this tragedy ran over with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Uh, hug, sorry, I didn't control the strength for a moment..." Siegfried scratched his silver hair while laughing awkwardly, and then he was stunned when he ran to the scene of the tragedy, "Hey, Theresa? Why are you here?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his arm was suddenly grabbed.
Siegfried instinctively turned his head away, his expression frozen, and saw blood flowing from Tesla's eyes. His whole body exuded an aura like a ghost, and the strong curse almost became a reality: "Did you do this——!!??"
Siegfried was immediately horrified, and nodded with a tingling scalp: "Yes, I'm sorry, I... I will compensate you..."
"Compensation?" Tesla chewed on the word and let out a sinister laugh. "How many Titan mechas do you think we will still have after the collapse? The batch you just destroyed was the last batch of Anti-Entropy Titan mechas. Compensation? Hehehe... How can you compensate? What can you use to compensate?! You can't afford it even if you sell yourself off!!!!"
At the end, Tesla, who was almost crazy, grabbed Siegfried's collar and roared in despair as if crying blood.
Siegfried was sweating profusely. Although he had outstanding martial arts skills, he was not a quick thinker. Seeing that he seemed to have caused an irreparable disaster, the strongest knight of destiny began to be at a loss: "Then, what should I do?"
Tesla tilted his head and asked a soul-searching question: "You ask me?"
Siegfried was speechless for a moment, cold sweat pouring down from his forehead like a waterfall.
At this moment, Guan Xing suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "What are you going to do with this stage?"
What else can a stage do besides performing? Yuexia and Siegfried were both stunned for a moment, while Tesla turned his dead gaze towards the stars, speaking in a weak voice, with a trace of soul-like gas wafting from his mouth:
“What else could it be? Didn’t I tell you long ago that this is the ME pan-entertainment music festival… In order to promote this water park, I have invested all the funds I can mobilize into it. Now, it’s over, all over. If I can’t recoup the cost, I will definitely be laughed at to death by that chicken-coated guy when I go back… Wuwu┭┮﹏┭┮…”
"…So you were planning to use me as a free worker?"
Suddenly, a clear young voice sounded in the ruins. Tesla, who didn't realize something was wrong, nodded subconsciously:
"I heard that Tianming has always owed Hyperion's captain salary, so I'm thinking about whether I can trick him under the guise of an internship... Huh?!"
Now, the sweaty man immediately changed from Siegfried to Dr. Tesla.
"Go on." Yufan sneered, "Why don't you continue? What do you want to do to me under the guise of an internship?"
"..." Tesla's head was sweating for a while, and he was suddenly stunned. He sighed deeply, as if he had given up completely. "What's the point of talking about this now? The stage has been destroyed. Without the Titan mecha, with Anti-Entropy's current manpower, it is impossible to rebuild the stage in a short time."
“The job of rebuilding the stage can be left to us.”
Guanxing crossed his arms across his chest and spoke with confidence in his childish, clear voice.
"Although you have wronged me, the person who destroyed your stage is from our destiny after all. The losses caused by this should also be borne by you by destiny."
"Theresa...!" Siegfried was touched, "I will never call you a dwarf again!"
"..."
Guanxing was silent. Although she made such a suggestion out of selfish desire, after hearing Siegfried's thoughtless words, she couldn't help but feel a little regretful and began to seriously consider whether she should just leave this idiot here.
Of course, Tesla would never give Guanxing a chance to regret. After hearing Guanxing's suggestion, she was shocked and suddenly loosened her hands that were holding Siegfried's collar. Her lifeless eyes seemed to have come back to life: "You said this yourself! You are not allowed to regret it later!"
"Ahem, of course I won't go back on my word." Guan Xing pursed his lips, his sight becoming a little vague for some reason. "Yes, yes, you just said that you were planning to use the internship period as a cover to trick Captain Hyperion, who has always been owed wages by Tianming, into working for you, right?"
Is this to stand up for himself? After hearing Guanxing's question to Tesla, Yufan suddenly felt an extremely strong sense of pleasure rising from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. He touched his nose and the corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably.
After all, you are my wife, and my love for you is not in vain.
Yuexia was stunned for a moment. For a moment, she couldn't understand why Yufan had such a smug expression. She just instinctively felt that she seemed to have missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"Uh..." Tesla also thought that the "Theresa" in front of her was going to support Tianming's former subordinate. She swallowed her saliva, laughed guiltily, and said tremblingly, "I just thought about it. I haven't tricked him into coming here yet, right? Even if I made a mistake, it shouldn't be to the point where I need to be held accountable, right? At most, I can go and apologize to him."
"I didn't ask you to apologize to him." Guanxing said briefly, "I mean, do you have the ability to trick him over here?"
Yufan was stunned, and he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Ah?" Tesla was also stunned. She looked at the stars blankly, then looked at Captain Hyperion who was here. Her mind was a little confused, and she could not understand Theresa's intention for a moment.
"If you can trick him into coming here... as a reward, I can personally stand on the same stage with him and support your music festival." Guanxing said calmly, "Since the purpose of your music festival is to promote this seaside paradise, then I think you should have no reason to refuse the popularity of magical girl Teriri in this city, right?"
"..."
Can't refute.
Although Tesla has always regarded the magical girl Teriri as the highest imaginary enemy of ME's pan-entertainment, there are no eternal enemies in business itself. NetEase Cloud Music can also put advertisements for Yuanmeng Star on the homepage of its own app. If the magical girl Teriri can personally appear at her music festival, then Tesla has no reason to refuse.
But... this condition...
Tesla swallowed his saliva, glanced at Yufan, whose face was dark, and after a moment's hesitation, he asked tentatively, "Well... you also heard what Theresa said, why not..."
"No! Don't even think about it!"
Yufan shook his head without hesitation. He took a step back and said righteously, "I am the captain of Hyperion! As a soldier, what do I think of being someone else's idol?"
"Can't we discuss it? The compensation is easy to negotiate." Tesla asked persistently.
"There's nothing to talk about. Find someone else. Bye!" Yufan shook his head firmly. He was full of energy and his tone was full of unshakable determination.
Then--
"Mr. Assassin, please come with me."
——A moment.
All the iron walls were easily shattered by Guanxing's words that were full of coquettishness and tenderness.
Staring blankly at this scene under the moonlight, I suddenly deeply understood Tesla's previous tearful mood.
Chapter 4: French girl Bronya, and the magical girls who visited in advance (k)
Humans are social creatures, and even if they are part of an anti-Honkai Impact 3rd organization that transcends society, they cannot violate this theorem.
Everyone's identity in society is extremely complex. Take the paralyzed girl named Bronya Zajicek as an example. In Anti-Entropy, she is the "Embedded Universal Girl Decisive Weapon" controlled by Cocolia; in the underground killer world, she is the "Ural Silver Wolf" who set the fastest record for reaching the top in the Charon List; in the gaming world, she is the "Alloy Armored Wolf Fang" who has been dominating the top of several game rankings for many years.
But if we were to say what identity Bronya values most, there is no doubt that the above titles that would make people from all walks of life feel awe or even fear, are not as important as a simple "Sister Bronya".
Because of participating in the X-10 experiment led by Cocolia, Bronya's amygdala in the brain was burned out, and there is not much left that can be called "emotion".
