Now that he had stolen their identities and staged more than one fake death, if Raiden Mei could really enter the paradise and meet the real Thirteen Heroes, would she feel confused?
After just thinking for a moment, Su Jue gave up thinking about such meaningless things.
As long as Mei can follow the established goal and join World Snake as an undercover agent, Su Jue's goal will be achieved.
As for whether she would get angry after learning the truth or accept the misunderstanding calmly after entering the paradise, it was not something Su Jue needed to consider. Besides, Meiyi had already deviated from the original story line, so it was hard to say how she would behave.
After dealing with Mei's affairs, Su Jue's attention returned to the Coral Island. Under his intentional guidance, Kiana finally successfully arrived at the nearby city.
It's not that he deliberately avoided meeting Kiana, but the time crystal that Su Jue recorded from the Imaginary Number Tree was not stable. If he was too close to Kiana, the time stored in the crystal would be released directly, and the whole city would be traced back to Berlin in 1951.
Just like the Klosten arranged by Otto in the original story line, time was turned back directly to several decades ago.
Only gods can interfere with the time of the original world, even if it is just a city.
Therefore, it is not difficult to know what level of power Su Jue obtained at the end of the illusion in order to preserve his memory by consuming all his progress in rushing to the tree.
However, no matter how precious the time crystal is, it is just a prop, not a substantial ability, and has no meaning to Su Jue. Time and space are interconnected, and only Kiana, the Herrscher of the Void, can exert the power of Time Chaser.
Moreover, Su Jue had a feeling that the Herrscher of the End, who had not been known until his death in the previous life, was probably also related to time. If Kiana could master the power of Time Chasing Gravel, it might be an important means to fight against the End.
Of course, this was just Su Jue's random guess. After all, that was the end, how could it be just an ability like time?
In short, Su Jue is actually looking forward to meeting Kiana again, but Kiana is still unable to withstand the power of the time crystal, and premature contact will only lead to wrong consequences. Both she and Su Jue need to grow further.
"Xinyan." Looking at Kiana in the picture, Su Jue uttered this word.
The Herrscher of the Fire, the identity that Su Jue once rejected the most, has become his expectation for Kiana.
He closed his eyes, and the scenes of his time with Kiana flashed through his mind. He did not reject these memories, but treasured them well. However, when Su Jue opened his eyes again, all his emotions were well restrained.
He is consciously controlling his emotions.
……
"Brother, brother...save me." The collapsed buildings, the burning flames, everything was so real.
"Xiao Wen!" Chen Tianwu suddenly woke up from the dream and gasped violently. The greatly modified mechanical prosthesis could not hide the fear in his heart, and it made a sound that exceeded the operating capacity.
The notebook in front of me is still on. Did I fall asleep because I was too tired from work?
Leaning in the chair, Chen Tianwu looked up at the ceiling, a trace of pain flashing in his eyes.
Whenever he closed his eyes, the image of his sister Chen Tianwen would involuntarily flash through his mind. She was questioning him why he didn't save her and why he left her.
However, Chen Tianwu had no answer at all.
Because even he himself was just a shadow that was barely surviving with the help of that girl.
The great collapse in Manila two years ago destroyed almost everything Chen Tianwu had, leaving his sister trapped in that land forever, and he himself was also severely eroded by the collapse. If it weren't for that girl...
"Anna." Chen Tianwu murmured the name softly. He looked at the half heart-shaped pendant in his hand, and the pain in his eyes became more intense.
Just when Chen Tianwu was feeling suffocated by what happened in the past, the door of the studio was pushed open. He ignored it, but the person did not intend to discuss it with him. Instead, he said directly: "If you feel tired, then take a good rest."
Chen Tianwu turned around and saw Raven with gray hair and red eyes. He was holding a whole stack of documents in his hands, and his eyes were chilling.
"Oh." He replied perfunctorily, tapping the empty space on the table with his fingers, "Just leave the file here, I'll take care of it."
It was ridiculous to say that the huge World Snake Organization only had a few cadres available. Chen Tianwu, the most capable intelligence officer, was in a bad mood, and Xiola, the strongest combat member, was like a raven with its claws broken, no longer having the spirit of the past.
"Chen Tianwu, do you still remember what it looked like when we first met?" Raven rarely took the initiative to ask.
"Of course, the bloody massacre in that city is really sickening to think about."
Chen Tianwu still remembered the young man named Chris, who collapsed in front of him like a desperate dog. But it was this weak man who massacred an entire city.
Sister... this is the person Chris wants to protect.
But Chen Tianwu couldn't even protect her. His sister Chen Tianwen died in the collapse, and he couldn't even see her for the last time.
"I don't want you to become a madman like that." Raven looked at Chen Tianwu with a dangerous light in her eyes. She saw Chen Tianwu's mental state at the moment.
"I don't want something like Mo Mo to happen again. You should understand that."
Chen Tianwu certainly understood that, as both were intelligence officers, he and Mo E had cooperated many times. To be honest, he admired him quite a bit, as he could always get the information he wanted through various strange ways, and in this way, Chen Tianwu could save a lot of trouble and energy.
But Moth still rebelled and killed the children that Raven valued the most. This blow was a heavy blow to the already undermanned World Snake. Especially Raven, whose hatred for the traitor reached its peak.
"Here is all the information left by the Moth. Try to filter out the useful ones. Remember, you can rest and do what you want, but you should understand the consequences of betrayal."
"Oh." He still looked perfunctory.
But when he turned to the first page of the information, his lazy body suddenly became stiff.
[Anna Shaniat]
300 Mark
"Anna!" Looking at the girl's photo in the file, Chen Tianwu felt his fingers trembling. He should have died in the collapse two years ago. It was his obsession with Anna that kept him alive until now.
But no matter how he investigated, he couldn't catch up with the girl. After all, the information of the Destiny Valkyrie was strictly confidential. Chen Tianwu, an ordinary person, only learned about Anna's identity by chance during the disaster. Even if he wanted to find her, he had no way.
Anna's information was very detailed, even recording the Valkyrie team number she was in, but Chen Tianwu soon calmed down.
He had never told anyone about his relationship with Anna. Even when he joined the World Serpent, he was only looking for her in secret. It was impossible for anyone to know his true purpose.
However, this information seemed to be deliberately prepared for him. It not only recorded Anna's personal resume in detail, but also supplemented the transfer information of the Destiny Team.
"Strange, the last data modification was half a month ago." After importing the electronic data into the computer, Chen Tianwu quickly cracked the modification record. But according to Raven, these data were only left by Mo Mo, and Mo Mo should have died in Changkong City more than half a month ago.
Instead of being happy about finding Anna's whereabouts, Chen Tianwu's brows became more and more furrowed.
All along, Momo's actions in World Snake have been extremely secretive, and his presence in the organization is usually not high. However, with the mysterious source of intelligence, he is gradually becoming a core member of World Snake.
He was like a cloud of fog, just like a real black moth, always able to accurately find the information needed by the snake. This feeling was very strange. As an intelligence officer, Chen Tianwu had more contact with the black moth, but the more contact he had, the more he could feel the weirdness of this person.
He was obviously a slick middle-aged man, but he always showed a kind of fanatic attitude, and when he was alone, he would often be distracted. Sometimes Chen Tianwu even doubted whether the other party was really a human being, just like some kind of clockwork puppet with a set program.
The rebellion of Mo Mo was beyond everyone's expectation, but the information he left behind was very valuable, and it was completely blocked by Gray Snake in less than half an hour. However, without Mo Mo, the entire intelligence network was like losing a key gear, and even some confirmed cooperation was forcibly terminated.
Chen Tianwu had every reason to believe that the information had been investigated hundreds of times by Gray Snake before it was handed over to him. But this was the information of the A-level Valkyrie of Destiny, and World Snake would not have missed such a thing even if his brain was stuck in the door.
"Is Raven also preparing to rebel?" Chen Tianwu, who couldn't figure it out, could only guess like this for the time being. He continued to look through other documents and found that they were all just some ordinary information. The only special one was Anna's.
The doubts in his heart grew stronger and stronger. If this was a trap for him... No, if it was a trap for Anna.
Chen Tianwu suddenly became nervous. He didn't value his life. His only hope of living was to meet Anna again and find out why she left. If someone was plotting against Anna, he would never allow it to happen.
After quickly finishing those unimportant tasks, Chen Tianwu continued to reverse compile the document. After dozens of times of processing, a strange pattern appeared on the screen.
The alternating black and white lines look like some kind of mark.
[Qian Jue]
"What is this?" It was a completely unfamiliar mark, but Chen Tianwu vaguely felt that he should have seen it. Fortunately, his memory was quite good. When he recalled a few months ago, he finally remembered where he had seen it.
"Chris." Chen Tianwu had briefly fought with that young man when he went crazy and massacred the entire city. He vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a similar mark on Chris' neck.
In an instant, Chen Tianwu felt a chill all over his body, as if he was being stared at by some unknown existence.
"Is this some kind of curse? It was Chris before and now it's my turn?"
The mechanical body made an overloaded sound, and the artificial heart kept beating. Chen Tianwu held Anna's information in his hand, and his breathing became rapid. But he soon calmed down, and looking at the girl's photo, Chen Tianwu's eyes gradually softened.
"Curse or prank, I owe you my life, Anna."
Chen Tianwu, whose mind was solely focused on Anna, no longer thought about these things. He carefully put the extra document into a shredder to destroy it, then burned it with a lighter, mixed it with a cup of water and flushed it down the drain.
However, when he was about to destroy the electronic data, the Qianjue mark on the screen seemed to change. Chen Tianwu noticed this and moved the mouse to drag the mark, and found that the original mark was actually combined into a new website.
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Tianwu entered the website into the address bar of the browser, and a page called [Qian Jue Forum] came into his sight. What was even more strange was that within a few seconds after he logged into the interface, a new post was refreshed in the forum with the title [Chen Tianwu].
Now Chen Tianwu finally confirmed that someone was definitely monitoring him, but if the other party had more detailed information about Anna...
He was just about to try to crack the forum when his communicator suddenly rang. Startled, Chen Tianwu quickly closed the forum and answered the phone.
"Night Owl, five minutes ago, the World Serpent detected a strong Herrscher response from the Coral Island. Be prepared. This time we must recover the Herrscher core before Destiny arrives."
"Hersher? Raven, are you kidding?" Even Chen Tianwu, who had just been shocked by the Mark of Kindred, was somewhat suspicious whether the World Snake had a problem with his brain. Could a cadre like himself deal with the Herrsher?
The raven on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and said helplessly: "There is no way. The World Serpent is too short-handed now. Only you and I can participate in the battle. Don't worry, the Yellow Spring Staff provided by the Jackal will also be put into use. This thing can block the connection between the Herrscher and the imaginary space. You just need to assist me."
"It sounds like if you cover your ears, a nuclear bomb won't kill anyone." Chen Tianwu's tone was full of sarcasm. It wasn't that he was afraid, but the main reason was that he had finally gotten news of Anna, and he absolutely could not die before seeing Anna.
"..." There was another silence, and Raven's voice was full of fatigue. "This mission is not mandatory. It doesn't matter if you don't participate. I will contact other people to assist."
Raven, whose mentality suffered a severe blow, has long lost her former confidence. Having lost her goal, she still works for the World Serpent. It's not that she is so loyal, but that she has nowhere else to go.
Night Owl, who she promoted, is one of the few teammates she can trust. However, she also sees that Night Owl has his own purpose in joining World Snake. Since Night Owl will not participate, she can only fight alone.
"Wait, you mean people from Heaven's Will will be involved as well?"
"Well, currently, Skyward probably hasn't detected any signals, but there is a team of Valkyries stationed on Coral Island that should be contacting the Herrscher soon."
"Do you know the code name of this team?"
"Team Snow Lotus."
The information he had just read quickly emerged in his mind, and Chen Tianwu's breathing stagnated. If he remembered correctly, the captain of the Snow Lotus Team should be Anna.
301 Coral Island
Coral Island is an artificial island located on the equator. It is the largest land reclamation project jointly built by Southeast Asian countries and Australia. The island consists of a main island and three super-large island-based platforms. The buildings on the platforms overlap like corals, hence the name Coral Island.
However, the core of the coral island is not these buildings that have developed into the core of the Asia-Pacific economy, but the space elevator that reaches the sky - the Galaxy Ladder. So far, the Galaxy Ladder has reached a height of 1300 meters. Once completed, it will become an important means for humans to go to space.
No one noticed that a figure was standing in the middle of the space elevator, 500 meters above the ground, overlooking the entire coral island.
The scorching sea breeze blew Su Jue's hair, making him look a little messy, but he obviously didn't care about these details, and his eyes kept scanning the ground.
Unfortunately, no trace of Kiana was found.
"We should have arrived by now." Su Jue muttered softly and sighed slightly. He withdrew his gaze, leaned against the guardrail of the space elevator, and took out his phone with some boredom.
After the full research of Cocolia and many puppets, the information technology that Su Jue has mastered is different from the past. He can even try to hack into organizations such as World Serpent and Anti-Entropy. The information that Chen Tianwu received was also specially prepared by Su Jue. Long before Mo Mo died, Su Jue had already targeted him and specially set up a special trigger mechanism.
Using information technology to break into the World Snake's intranet, Anna's information was completely printed out by Su Jue on the spur of the moment. Even if Gray Snake checked it a hundred times, it would not be able to find anything.
The reason for going to so much trouble is naturally for the Herrscher Core of the Rock (Star) Herrscher.
As a Ruler, Su Jue has never been very keen on pursuing power. After all, as long as he develops step by step, when the number of puppets reaches 1,000, his power will naturally surpass the limit of collapse. For the cautious Su Jue, this is the safest and most direct way.
It was just that the experience in the illusion made him face his feelings, so that he would pay more attention to Kiana. When Su Jue thought that Kiana would face countless enemies as the savior, he gradually realized that his power might not be able to continue to protect her.
Just like the sense of responsibility that suddenly emerged after getting married, Su Jue also had to consider whether the power he could currently mobilize could fight against the collapse.
Even though he is now on par with Kevin, and can even fight the Demon Kevin for a few rounds with the help of Taixu Sword God and his flawless state of mind, for Su Jue, who is used to being foolproof, not absolute safety means absolutely unsafe.
Moreover, in the original story of Bingyan, the Honkai Will had directly interfered with the memories of Chen Tianwu and Anna, forcibly creating the Herrscher of Meteoric Ice. This was also a huge threat to Kiana, and Su Jue could not just ignore it.
Therefore, whether out of the need for power or to help Kiana, Su Jue must participate in the story of the two Herrschers Bing and Yan.
However, due to Su Jue's previous arrangement, Mei did not join the World Snake, and Otto did not reach a deal with Kevin. It is hard to say whether the World Snake will participate in this Herrscher capture operation. Su Jue can only use Anna's information to get Chen Tianwu involved.
He had no special feelings for this star-crossed couple, nor did he care whether they lived or died.
Because he knew very well that their character flaws meant that they were destined to end up in tragedy, but Honkai took advantage of this flaw and forcibly twisted them into the two Herrschers of Ice and Rock.
But Su Jue did not intend to let things develop as they were originally. Firstly, Kiana would definitely not leave the two of them alone. Secondly, he also wanted to try whether he could resist the control of the Honkai will if he changed the trajectories of their lives.
Looking at the peaceful coral island, Su Jue waited quietly. The original story did not explain the specific time of Ice Law's awakening, so he could only wait until the collapse broke out before taking action.
……
"Captain, what are you looking at?"
The team member's voice brought Anna back to consciousness. She withdrew her gaze from the Galaxy Ladder. At that moment, she suddenly realized that someone was looking at her.
"But that elevator is so high. Even if there are people there, they are probably just staff members." Anna shook her head slightly, smiled self-deprecatingly, and threw this boring idea out of her mind.
"It's really high. I've never seen such a huge elevator." A Valkyrie who was a few years younger than Anna looked at the elevator in the sky curiously with surprise in her eyes. "Captain, if the elevator is built, do you think we will have a chance to experience the legendary Galaxy Staircase?"
Looking at the team members who were full of yearning, Anna smiled and said, "There will definitely be a chance. The benefits of the Valkyrie of Destiny have always been good. If you want to experience the Ladder of the Galaxy, it shouldn't be difficult."
Of course, there are some things Anna didn't say out loud. The special benefits are only for A-level Valkyries. For Valkyries like them who have been B-level for almost their entire lives, a salary that is several times higher than that of ordinary people is already the best benefit.
But what does it matter? Once the Stairway to the Galaxy is built, maybe there will really be a chance. It is always good to give these girls some hope.
Although Anna is a little naive, she is essentially gentle by nature. The fact that she can lead a team of Valkyries speaks volumes about her ability.
"Captain, the ice on the sea has not melted yet."
This is the equator, which should be hot all year round. Ice cubes are almost only found in refrigerators. The presence of floating ice in such a place is very abnormal. However, the Snow Lotus team has obviously become accustomed to it. Even the reason why they were transferred here is related to these floating ice.
