"In a few days, this place will become Otto's testing ground. It's very dangerous here. When it's done, I will follow you. After all, you are the light that illuminates the world."
"..." Kiana pursed her lips but refused to let go of her hands.
Su Jue sighed, held her hand, and pulled it off his body little by little.
He put the star bracelet on Kiana's wrist and closed his eyes. The warm breath spread along Kiana's hand into her body, taking away the excess Honkai energy and reducing the burden of erosion for her.
"This is my gift to you."
"Goodbye."
The vision was completely plunged into darkness. Kiana tried desperately to wake up, but she fell into a deep sleep, like a tired traveler who finally got a rest.
After making sure that Kiana would not be in danger again, Su Jue turned and left to meet Yulandel who was waiting there.
Soon, the transport plane specially designed for Destiny landed in front of the two of them, but the Valkyrie who came to greet them was a little nervous.
"Lord Yulandel, we seem to have detected the signal of the Herrscher of the Void just now. Did you find anything?"
"...No, I made that just now."
"Oh, is that so?" The Valkyrie was a little confused, but did not ask any more questions and took the two of them back to the battleship in the sky.
Chapter 197 Nest
"What on earth happened here?" Looking at the building that was half submerged in water and still had traces of the recent collapse, Delta felt a little nervous.
Although she didn't know why the red-haired guy threw her into this ruin, over the past few days, she gradually became familiar with the children who stayed here.
This reminded her of her time in the orphanage. At that time, she and Lilia were the two most mischievous children, but everyone chose to tolerate them.
But now, I have to take care of those children by myself.
"If Lilia were here, I would..."
She fell silent, but soon perked up again, "It's okay. Since that woman said Lilia is fine, sooner or later I will complete my mission and return to her side. She will be very surprised by then, and may not even recognize such a powerful sister."
While thinking about this, Delta finally returned to the place that Sora mentioned.
There were traces of fighting everywhere, but fortunately they successfully found Kong's lost supplies and the little robot.
"Found it." She picked up the robot, pressed the switch, and the Mark Rabbit, which had frozen in the collision, began to fly up.
A smile appeared on Delta's face, and he saw Mark Rabbit flying to the other side of the square. In the collapsed building, the white-haired girl was sleeping.
……
"Don't go!" A call rang out in the room, and Kiana suddenly woke up from her deep sleep. She stretched out her hand to grab the shadow in her dream, but she caught nothing.
"Hu, hu." Panting violently, Kiana felt empty in her heart. It took a long time for her violently beating heart to calm down.
After she calmed down, she noticed that she was lying on a simple bed.
The house was surrounded by walls made of iron sheets and wooden boards, and the roof was temporarily built with waterproof cloth and color-coated steel plates. Dim light fell into the house from the openings in the wooden boards, illuminating some places.
Following the guidance of the light, Kiana found the door. As soon as she pushed it open, a chill hit her face.
It was night time now, and the bright moonlight was shining from the sky, revealing the entire complex.
This is just a crudely built shantytown, but judging from the garbage on the ground, someone has lived here for a long time.
As someone who had personally experienced the Changkong City disaster, Kiana naturally knew the subsequent handling. Tianming claimed that all the survivors had been rescued, but now she had doubts about this.
Judging from the moon in the sky, it is already the second half of the night. The shantytown is very quiet at this time, and the residents living here are obviously sleeping.
The cold night breeze cleared up Kiana's mind. She walked along the road in the shantytown alone under the white moonlight. Before she had gone far, a shadow crossed her path.
"It's night time now. Even if you are awake, you'd better stay in your room." A girl's voice came. Kiana looked in the direction of the voice and noticed a young girl sitting on a telephone pole.
"Are you on night watch?" Kiana asked doubtfully.
"What else? You've taken up my bed, and with a stranger here, everyone will be worried." Delta jumped down from the telephone pole and looked at Kiana warily.
"Thank you."
Kiana wanted to say more, but Delta raised his hand to stop her, "No, your best choice now is to go back to your room and continue sleeping, and leave after dawn tomorrow. Since you can come to this city alone, you must not be an ordinary person. This city is not safe. If you can leave, leave early."
"What about you? You don't look like a native of this city, so why don't you choose to leave?"
Delta didn't say anything, but just cast her eyes on the small rooms in the shantytown. She didn't know when she had gotten used to treating this place as her home.
"I have reasons why I can't leave." She sighed, walked to the railing on the side of the road, and looked at the scenery in the distance with some melancholy. If possible, Delta wanted to embark on a journey to find her sister immediately, but now she couldn't bear to abandon the children living in the nest.
"What a coincidence, me too." Kiana walked up to her and they both looked at the flooded city together.
The two did not speak, only the moonlight, carrying their thoughts for each other, fell on the earth.
……
It was not until the next morning that Kiana learned that the residents here were actually some children. They were all survivors who were left behind in the city during the collapse and due to various reasons, they did not make it in time for the rescue by destiny.
Fortunately, the children who were supposed to wander and die in the city met a teacher. It was she who gathered everyone together and helped each other find supplies for survival in the city.
The shantytown was also built with the help of the teacher. The children could not find or carry so many materials. However, the teacher only appeared every two or three months, and each time he came, he would bring a large amount of supplies for everyone. It had not been long since the last time he came, so even Delta had never seen him.
Kiana, who had just arrived here, obviously failed to win the trust of the children, but she didn't care and used her skills to bring more supplies to everyone.
After a day or two, the rift was finally resolved and everyone gradually accepted the arrival of a grown-up child.
However, Kiana knew very well that what she was waiting for was the next opportunity to meet Su Jue.
Judging from the information he left behind, Tianming should be preparing to conduct an experiment in this city, and that experiment requires Su Jue's help. Only then will Kiana have the possibility to meet him again.
Chapter 198: Imaginary Number Tree
"Long before human civilization was born, the world already had a form."
"The eternal and endless tree of imaginary numbers is rooted in the ocean of quantum. Over the years of countless Ganges sands, it has branched out into countless branches and produced countless flowers and leaves."
"In this endless process, in some insignificant corner, an existence called human civilization was born."
After successfully conceiving the name of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, all the chaos instantly became orderly.
The long-term confused groping finally took shape. Otto, like a traveler who had been lost for five hundred years, finally found the edge of the fog and glimpsed the winding path extending from the darkness.
After many observations, the essence of the world gradually became clear in his mind, and Otto finally realized that imaginary numbers are the origin of everything human.
He walked along the winding path, faster and faster, and finally ran desperately.
As the image of the tree became clearer, Otto came to the end of the path and to the edge of modern science.
He leaped into an even deeper, more invisible abyss.
There, he finally saw the endless tree whose branches and leaves covered the entire world.
But he discovered in despair that this was just the starting point of everything, the beginning of modern humans' understanding of the collapse.
Civilization was born from the tree of imaginary numbers and flourished as it grew.
At the same time, in the confrontation with the quantum sea, the tree of imaginary numbers must grow in the right direction, and this self-screening and elimination mechanism is a disaster called collapse for human beings.
Humanity can never escape collapse, because the tree of imaginary numbers must grow.
Once a civilization fails in this screening mechanism, it will wither from the tree and become a bubble in the quantum ocean.
If mankind wants to achieve permanent peace, it must return to the starting point of civilization and return to imaginary numbers.
This is all Otto Apocalis knows about the world, and the answers he seeks are found in the infinite branches of the tree of imaginary numbers.
However, even though Otto finally realized the existence of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers, he could not change any reality.
Only after he fell into the abyss did he truly realize the insignificance of human beings.
He struggled to move forward in the endless red sand, but it was difficult for him to get even one step closer to the tree of imaginary numbers. Even if he tried his best, he could only leave a footprint.
The golden tree stood there forever, never leaving, but he could do nothing.
Just when he had finally exhausted all his strength and his consciousness was completely plunged into darkness, Otto was surprised to find a figure in front of him.
The figure with short light grey hair had his back to him and was moving forward firmly towards the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.
Otto didn't know when this person started moving forward, but there was no doubt that he had gone further than him and was one step closer to the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.
What made him feel even more strange was that the figure was wrapped with countless chains, one end of which was rooted in the red sand, and the other end bound the figure tightly.
He had never imagined that in this world where he could hardly take a single step forward, there would be someone who could drag the entire world forward.
"Really... interesting." A gleam of admiration flashed in his eyes, and Otto's consciousness fell into complete darkness.
When he woke up again, he had returned to Tianming's base.
In front of him, the soul steel body that he had just used to spy on the Tree of Imaginary Numbers had been completely twisted and deformed at some point. Under his touch, it turned into fine red sand and scattered like the ground of that world.
……
At the moment when Otto's consciousness faded, Su Jue seemed to realize something. He turned around and saw a pair of footprints in the vast sea of sand, coming from nowhere.
Contrary to Otto's conjecture, what was wrapped around Su Jue was not chains, but the roots of the imaginary number tree, which was a constraint on him from the imaginary space itself.
This world is the real imaginary space. Even the collapse itself will be annihilated in this space.
A long time ago, Su Jue had been moving forward in this imaginary space.
It is precisely because his body is in the imaginary space that the Honkai consciousness formed by the invasion of Prometheus cannot accurately capture his position.
Su Jue knew very well that he was a Herrscher and would naturally be controlled by Honkai. Once the Honkai will noticed him, it would continue to pay attention to him.
This is a form of surveillance, but also a form of control.
In the past, this kind of control was not obvious, but in what happened to Kiana in Sky City some time ago, it was obvious that the Honkai Will was trying to control his actions.
When Su Jue became a Herrscher, he had already anticipated this day, so he made a plan from the beginning.
The core of this plan is Kiana, the weapon he specially selected.
The function of this weapon is to help him sever the connection between the Honkai Will and himself, allowing him to break free from the surveillance of the Honkai Will.
In order to test the sharpness of this weapon, he deliberately indulged the will of collapse in the control of Sky City.
It seems that the weapon is far from sharp enough now, but it has already taken shape, which is enough for him.
No matter what the quality of the weapon is, the person wielding it is Su Jue himself.
In the few seconds he paused, the roots wrapped around his body had already shrunk. Su Jue withdrew his thoughts and looked at the roots.
Is it the roots or the silk threads?
Su Jue closed his eyes and pulled at the roots that were wrapped around his body.
When he opened his eyes again, golden light was already lit in his eyes.
For the first time, Su Jue’s own Herrscher’s pupil pattern appeared on his iris. It was an extremely complex tree with its crown facing downwards, exactly the opposite of the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.
Such complex lines have far exceeded the boundaries of the Herrscher's pupil patterns. Rather than being lines, they are more like some kind of pattern.
boom--
The light flashed and disappeared, and in the flickering pupil lines, the roots were severed.
Su Jue took the opportunity to take a step forward, but the next second, more roots immediately entangled him.
As we get closer to the tree of imaginary numbers, these roots continue to increase.
There was nothing at the initial location, but now Su Jue has been entangled tightly. One can imagine how long he has been walking in this world.
At this point, Su Jue could no longer tell how much strength he needed to break free each time, but every time he moved a step, the entire sea of sand would tremble for him.
It is no wonder that the Will of Honkai has been keeping an eye on him. If what Su Jue is doing now is discovered, the Will of Honkai will probably immediately activate the backdoor left by the previous civilization and let Kaiwen incarnate as the End to directly strangle him.
After Otto left, silence returned to the endless sea of red sand, with only a young man moving forward.
Chapter 199: Transfer of Authority
After being blocked by the Will of Honkai once, the entire Domination Theater seemed to have come to a standstill.
The endless corridor no longer extended, the eternal pendulum track had come to a standstill, and even the usual sound of puppet collisions had completely disappeared.
If the lights on the stage had not been still on, everyone would have thought that the Ruler had disappeared.
[Kiana], who was standing at the bottom of the stage, frowned and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"If you do this, that girl will be in too much pain. If she finds out the truth, she will probably have a mental breakdown."
