"But I still want to say that you are special. Before the first Honkai outbreak, there was no Honkai energy in Berlin. Even in the illusion, it was the same, but you brought Honkai energy into the illusion and used it. I don't know if this will have an impact on the illusion, but I just hope you can make a calmer choice."
The girl's eyes radiated the light of a Herrscher, and this faint light seemed very bright even on the snowy streets.
"Also, I'll tell you one last piece of information. The story in the illusion is based on the experiences of the First Herrscher. I don't remember anything before I became the Herrscher, but it's clear that you will be hunted down. One of you is playing the role of [Walter Joyce]."
Joyce did not explicitly say who the character was, but Kiana obviously already had the answer.
Herrscher, the power of collapse...
Joyce's phantom turned into blue light particles and drifted away with the wind, leaving Kiana alone standing in the wind and snow, the light of the Herrscher in her eyes gradually dimming.
The girl clenched her fists tighter and tighter, her nails almost digging into her palms.
"Su Jue..."
……
On the other side, after the severe pain, the dizziness finally subsided. Su Jue covered his forehead, leaned against the wall and slowly slid down the wall.
"Hu." He exhaled a breath and the white mist dissipated in the cold air.
Qian Jue's mark has completely dissipated, which means that the Theater of Domination cannot remind Su Jue again. If he does not wake up in time, the flaw in his mind will definitely widen.
However, Su Jue had already forgotten about the plan, and even the fact that he was in an illusion had become unclear.
As the assimilation into the illusion deepened, gradually, a strange memory emerged in his mind.
He is an ordinary citizen living in Berlin. He lost his memory for unknown reasons and got lost in a snowstorm. When he was about to freeze to death, a white-haired girl saved him.
The two found a small house and lived there for three days, but were suddenly chased by the enemy. The two escaped from the enemy and found a safe house to live together for half a month. In the process of getting along, he was slowly attracted to the girl.
Finally, on Christmas Day, the two went out on a date and were attacked again...
"wrong."
Su Jue instinctively noticed that there was something unreasonable about this memory, but with the powerful modification ability of the illusion, he couldn't find the problem for a while.
"Now is not the time to think about these things. We have to take the medicine back first..." He still remembered that Kiana was injured and he came out to find healing medicine.
Pinching his eyebrows to perk up his groggy head, Su Jue quickly found the medical kit that he had prepared in advance.
But when he returned along the same route, a loud explosion suddenly sounded from where Kiana was staying, followed by the shrill screams of passers-by.
Chapter 285: Early Collapse
The lights on the Christmas tree were still flickering, melodious music was coming from the shops, and the streets in the southwest city were already in chaos.
The car alarms were loud and shrill, the fleeing people were screaming, and the tall building behind them was almost broken in half, tilting and falling towards the ground.
The falling building cast a large shadow. The legs of several children holding Christmas presents had already gone limp with fear. They could only watch the collapsed wall fall towards them.
The children closed their eyes in fear, welcoming their own death, but a figure flashed past them.
"Go quickly." A girl's voice came to my ears, followed by a loud bang.
Countless piles of snow were blown up by the collapsed buildings, blocking all vision.
When the dust settled, the crying of children could be heard belatedly, but among the survivors there was no sign of Kiana except these children.
On this lively Christmas day, the number of victims is unimaginable, and everywhere are filled with victims wailing and screaming.
What was even worse was that when someone tried to rescue them, the motionless bodies actually stood up again. These bodies that should have been dead staggered and attacked the people who rescued them like zombies.
Su Jue, who had just arrived here, immediately recognized that this was a sign of transformation into a dead soldier. The illusion assimilation only covered his memory of reality and did not affect his understanding of the collapse.
"But why are there dead soldiers here? It's obviously not the time for the first Honkai to break out yet."
According to his instinctive memory, the collapse should have occurred in a week.
Although the current level of collapse is far from the standard of the first collapse, it is still a collapse event after all.
Under the radiation of Honkai energy, a large number of infected dead soldiers crawled out of the ruins and began to attack the surviving humans. Now people no longer cared about rescue and could only flee the area where Honkai broke out.
What made him even more uneasy was that the core area of the Honkai outbreak seemed to be where Kiana was.
The medicine box in his hand fell to the ground. Su Jue kicked the glass of the window, grabbed a baseball bat tied with a ribbon from under a Christmas tree, and walked back towards the disaster area in the panicked crowd.
"Qiana." Su Jue muttered the girl's name, his eyes a little flustered. The assimilation from the illusion deepened, and he subconsciously regarded this place as the real world.
If Kiana died here, he would never be able to accept it.
With such a mood, Su Jue showed no mercy with the bat in his hand, and all those who stood in his way were forcibly pushed away.
Until the wave of the crowd broke through, all that appeared in front of Su Jue were a large number of death warriors.
"Kiana!" He called her name loudly, praying that the girl would respond, but the only thing that echoed in the street was the roar of the dead soldiers.
"Get out of here!" A baseball bat smashed the head of the assassin who rushed over. Su Jue quickly drew a map of the southwest area in his mind. This was the outskirts of Honkai, and it was still a street away from Kiana.
But the scope of the Honkai outbreak almost covered three or four streets, and the place where they had rested before was almost the center of the outbreak.
Without thinking, Su Jue rushed directly towards the center across the ruins.
The closer you get to the center area, the more dead soldiers there are, and other than that there are densely packed corpses.
Looking at this scene, Su Jue's heart became heavier and heavier. Fortunately, he did not see Qiyana, which made him retain a hope in his heart.
Kiana is now just an ordinary girl, and her resistance to Honkai energy is only at the normal level.
"Don't let anything happen to you."
Unfortunately, fate never conceals its malice towards people. Just before Su Jue arrived, the surging energy erupted again like a volcano.
The horrific collapse could flatten the entire city block to the ground. Su Jue only felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and he lost consciousness.
It was unknown how much time had passed before Su Jue woke up again.
He supported himself and climbed up from the ground, but all he saw was a huge deep pit and a large number of torn bodies of the dead soldiers.
Su Jue knelt there in a daze, his mind going blank.
Click.
It seemed as if some invisible chain had been cut.
In the spiritual space, Su Jue's consciousness broke through the shackles constructed by the 300,000 wills under the stimulation, and the influence brought by the assimilation of the illusion was rapidly fading.
In an instant, the real memories that had been gradually blocked in the past ten days flooded into his mind again, allowing Su Jue to gradually find himself again.
"This is... a fantasy world."
……
After realizing that he was affected by the illusion, Su Jue quickly calmed down again, "No, she is a smart girl, it is impossible for her to die here like this."
Perhaps it was because Su Jue was too immersed in the illusion that he became a little confused and subconsciously forgot that both the Kiana in his memory and the Kiana in reality knew more about Honkai than anyone else. Even if they were not Valkyries, they would definitely be able to find a way to deal with it.
There was no way she was going to die so easily.
With this belief in mind, Su Jue used the baseball bat to support his body and stood up from the ground. Regardless of the possible radiation brought by the Honkai energy, he slowly walked to the center of the explosion.
The ground here appeared to be completely sunken, but the strange thing was that there seemed to be something left in the middle of the depression, which was not destroyed even in the collapse.
"Is this a snow globe?"
Looking at the two little people leaning against each other in the ball, Su Jue was stunned. He still clearly remembered that he put the gift into Kiana's hands with his own hands, so he couldn't have made a mistake.
But why?
Putting aside why the snow globe was able to survive the collapse, if the snow globe was here, where did Kiana go?
Su Jue felt a faint pain in his fingers as he gently stroked the wall of the glass ball.
He loosened his hands, and his fingertips were already covered with many fine lines.
Collapse cracks.
There is still a lot of Houkai energy left in this snow globe...
Perhaps these collapses offset the damage caused by the explosion, allowing the snow globe to remain intact.
But what if the collapse itself was caused by this snow globe?
The moment this conjecture emerged, it spread in his mind like a raging fire that could not be stopped.
Su Jue looked at the snow globe in his hand, and some vague fragments quickly flashed through his memory.
The night when the hut was attacked by Isis and burned down by fire.
The energy that I vaguely felt when I was unconscious... could it be Honkai energy?
If the collapse in the snow globe could come from Kiana, then the culprit of this collapse is self-evident.
"Kiana." For the first time, Su Jue felt confused.
Chapter 286: False Truth and Lies
Collapse, Herrscher.
His head seemed to start hurting again. Su Jue covered his forehead, and his originally vague memory became clearer and clearer.
He finally remembered that the illusion he created was based on the first collapse, and the core of the entire illusion was the First Herrscher.
The test content is not complicated.
These 30 wills are all victims of the first collapse, and Su Jue is one of them.
As long as he can successfully prevent the birth of the First Herrscher before the collapse breaks out, he can use the power left by these consciousnesses to achieve his goal. He can seal the memories of Kiana in the Herrscher core and get rid of the sequelae of the emotional poison.
It is known that the core of the first Collapse is Walter Joyce. As long as Su Jue can find Joyce's whereabouts in advance and kill him, he can prevent the Collapse from happening.
However, in this journey whose ending was already predetermined, an unexpected girl appeared.
She was an illusion born from Su Jue's heart, the embodiment of his inner flaws. Since it was his own fantasy, it would disappear one day.
With this mentality, Su Jue chose to approach her and fulfill his last regret before leaving.
But now it seems that the situation is different from what Su Jue expected.
If it is just an illusion, how can it possibly master Honkai energy?
If her existence was a trap set by the Herrscher Core from the beginning to disrupt his existence...
The moment this thought came to his mind, Su Jue subconsciously wanted to reject it. However, his reason kept telling him that this was very likely.
This is a world without Honkai energy. If a certain being carries Honkai energy in its body, it will inevitably lead to the erasure of the illusion's operating mechanism. It is trying to erase the existence that does not belong to this world.
The enemy's target was not Su Jue, but the identity of Walter Joyce.
But if the person playing Joyce's identity is Kiana, many doubts suddenly have answers.
She had appeared beside him from the very beginning, with a physical fitness far beyond that of an ordinary person, and a warmth that made him subconsciously approach her...
If that is what is called an anomaly, then isn't the destruction that is now breaking out a sign that the First Herrscher is about to descend?
Is this the answer to everything?
Su Jue gave a self-deprecating smile.
No matter how perfect the illusion is, it is just a bubble that will eventually shatter.
Su Jue was not laughing at the fact that the illusion was so obvious to him, but at the fact that deep in his heart he had the delusion that he could eliminate all conflicts with Kiana and live together in harmony.
The snow globe slipped from Su Jue's hand and rolled away along the ruins.
He didn't notice that at the moment of touching the ground, some kind of protective mechanism flashed by and firmly protected the fragile glass ball.
In the small glass ball, the two little people who were originally close to each other have been scattered to different places. The built-in small speaker is still playing the song of Merry Christmas, but no one is paying attention.
The snow is still falling.
Soon the snow globe was covered with a thin layer of snow, and along with the memories, it was buried in the cold Christmas.
After an unknown amount of time, a pair of feet suddenly stopped in front of the snow globe, and a figure reached out to push away the snow on the glass ball, picked it up again, and held it tightly in his hand.
"At least I want you to tell me the answer in person."
……
The sudden collapse of the city plunged the entire city into chaos, with a large number of dead soldiers rushing into the crowd, expanding the scope of infection. Fortunately, Berlin's security mechanism was still perfect, and a large number of armed police officers immediately suppressed the dead soldiers.
Although Christmas has turned into a lost Christmas, it is far from over.
Without the assistance of the police, these men in black robes could only divide into several teams to search for Su Jue.
