Kiana and the Captain's Bizarre Adventure

Chapter 237 Mei: Oh no, I've seen something bad!

"Hey Kevin, you're back! How did things go?"

“The matter has been resolved. You can now go to Klein and use the special passage to enter the Paradise of the Dead,” Kevin replied.

"That's great! At least we don't have to face the people inside directly. To be honest, I'm quite excited to play the villain."

“I know it’s not good to interrupt your interest, but now is definitely not the time for us to step in,” Kiana said.

"Okay, I understand," Alicia replied. "We're going to wait until they go to Eternal Paradise before carrying out our plan, right? Speaking of which, where's the captain?"

Alicia looked up and around. Ever since she arrived at the base, she had been wondering where the captain had gone.

No matter how hard Alicia searched, she couldn't find the captain. Of course, it's also possible that the captain had already gone to the Paradise of the Dead, just like them.

After all, the captain is now a cadre of the World Serpent, so it is only natural for him to go to the Land of Bliss for trials.

Kiana scratched her face awkwardly. Although she had been telling herself that it wasn't the right time yet and had done her mental preparation before seeing the captain, she couldn't help herself when she saw him. The captain was probably still lying in her room on her bed, being taken care of by Bella.

"The captain is busy with other things, Alicia, should we think about whether we should go in early?"

Seeing Kiana's somewhat strange reaction, Alicia seemed to have noticed something, but she chose not to reveal it.

"Hmm~? It's not good to wait here any longer, let's go inside first. Anyway, with Kiana here, you can manage to get to the right time, right?"

As she spoke, Alicia came over to Kiana and began to observe her closely. Perhaps because she hadn't paid much attention to her before, Kiana now gave off a different vibe.

He looked full of energy, as if he had recently experienced something pleasant.

"Also, after this is all over, Kiana, could you tell me about your story with the captain?"

Kiana blushed slightly upon hearing Alicia's words, knowing the underlying meaning behind them.

Kiana hadn't figured out how to explain her first sexual encounter with the captain to anyone else, but was she really that obvious? She had dealt with all the evidence before meeting Alicia.

Logically speaking, we shouldn't be able to see anything, right?

However, Kiana never intended to deliberately conceal anything; dealing with the evidence was mainly about tidying up her disheveled appearance.

After all, Kiana knew she wasn't thick-skinned enough to meet others looking so unseemly.

"Alright, alright, we can talk about my business with the captain later! Let's finish the mission first!"

After saying that, Kiana ignored Alicia's objections and forcefully took her hand, starting to head towards the special passage Kevin had mentioned.

After the two entered the passage, Kiana connected it to the River of Time, so that the two could travel to any time point that Kiana had set in advance as long as they passed through this passage.

The timing of this exit is self-evident. After Kiana and Alicia left the passage, the two arrived at a beautiful garden.

This is a corner of a garden near the center of Eternal Paradise. Looking up from here, you can see the gate from the afterlife to Eternal Paradise.

By this time, the area was already filled with people invited by Alicia Memory. Kiana carefully looked up and observed, and after confirming that the people above would not notice anything unusual, she told Alicia to quickly move to another location.

Their primary goal now is to arrive at the library before everyone else and modify the Paradise printers stored there.

This allows it to print out the content they want within a specific time period. Unfortunately, because they traveled through the river of time, they were unable to reach a consensus with the extremely evil Velvi Memory.

This also made Kiana and her team's plans more difficult without this inside manipulator to divert attention, but everything was still under control.

The only variable is Mei, who has already experienced the plot once. Once their plan begins, Mei will immediately notice anything suspicious.

Mei might choose to cooperate tacitly, taking into account the requirements of the mission, but she might also choose not to.

After all, the task of successfully enacting the story because of you is too general. Kiana even has reason to suspect that as long as Alicia Memory successfully rescues her comrades from the Herrscher of Corruption, it will be considered a success.

There's a lot of room for maneuver here, but to successfully revive the memories within the Land of the Dead in the real world, it's necessary to utilize Kevin's Armor 666.

Kiana can only completely take over the data in the memory after launching the Armed Force 666 against Kevin. Although Kiana does possess the power of truth, she can take over the data in the memory without using the Armed Force 666 against Kevin to delete the data of the entire Paradise.

But that would take too long; it's much faster to just use Kiana's plan.

To this day, Kiana still can't understand why Bronya can do the same power of truth, but Kiana can't.

No matter how much Kiana develops the power of truth, she cannot skip the analytical steps and still needs to grasp its principles to construct it. She simply cannot construct it directly with just a thought like Bronya.

What Kiana didn't know was that Bronya couldn't skip the analysis step either; the reason it seemed like she could construct something with just a thought was entirely due to the help of Heavy Bunny.

Since Bronya completed her metamorphosis from Herrscher of Reason to Herrscher of Truth, the performance of Heavy Bunny has been greatly enhanced once again.

When Bronya used her powers, she seemed to skip the analysis step, but in reality, she delegated this step to Heavy Bunny. Thanks to Heavy Bunny's massive computing power, the analysis process was completed in just a few microseconds.

Bronya was merely using the analysis results transmitted by Heavy Bunny to construct the structure, which is why Bronya's efficiency in using her powers decreased after leaving Heavy Bunny.

Contrary to Kiana's speculation, it was not a side effect of her reclaiming her powers. Moreover, Heavy Bunny's computing power did not decrease as a result. In fact, due to working day and night for so many years, Heavy Bunny's computing power has increased considerably thanks to the human-like body she obtained through Seele's powers.

The reason for increasing computing power is simple: she just wants to complete the targets Bronya set for her as quickly as possible so that Bronya can have time to rest and relax.

However, every time Bronya sees that Heavy Bunny can quickly complete the tasks she sets, she adds even more workload to the next set of tasks.

The more computing power you have, the more work you have.

However, none of this matters. Kiana is well aware that her intelligence is not well-suited to the power of truth, so she generally tries to avoid using the power of truth as much as possible, which is why she has the current role-playing plan.

Moreover, it's always better to let the whole event unfold according to one's own ideas than to let it develop naturally. At least in this way, Kiana can control the overall situation from a macro perspective.

As for why she doesn't directly use the Imaginary Tree to observe the future of this world, as mentioned before, once Kiana reveals the future she observes to the people of this world, that future will be anchored.

Unfortunately, even though Raiden Mei changed the worst possible future, she still couldn't change the fact that the future of this world was a bad ending.

Even the branch leading to that bad ending is hidden in this Herrscher of Corruption incident, so if you want to change the future, you can't let this world develop on its own.

Otherwise, at that point, Kiana would only be able to guarantee the safety of her own world's companions, and there would be nothing she could do about the people of that world.

Moreover, probably because the captain arrived early, there is only one mission in this world. Once the mission is completed, they will be directly teleported to the next world without any buffer time.

Furthermore, the Stigmata Terminal is no longer able to start the next civilization era because Janna's Honkai energy is about to be exhausted.

In other words, given the current situation, unless Kiana and her friends change the future, this world will be completely stripped from the tree and become one of the countless world bubbles in the Quanta Sea.

However, if we successfully change the fate of this world's paradise, does that mean that this world will at least not be completely defeated by the Honkai?

Kiana couldn't be sure if it was true, but she could at least guarantee that this speculation was 90% true.

Led by Alicia, the two successfully arrived at the library where the printer was stored. Upon entering, they were greeted by the sight of the fairy Alicia sleeping soundly on the table.

However, this time the target is not someone she can ignore. Besides, once she is awakened, she cannot be turned off. Given the personality of the fairy Ellie, neither Kiana nor Alicia can guarantee that she will not reveal their existence.

So even though Alicia really wanted to hear Kiana say the awakening command herself, she held back for the sake of the bigger picture.

Anyway, she will bring other people here in this world later, so all I need to do is hide and eavesdrop. I can't let my willfulness cause me to lose more than I gain.

Alicia shook her head, clearing her mind of the thoughts, and pointed to the table in the center of the room.

"That's the printer that can access all the stories in Paradise. Be careful not to modify it too much. It will be hard to explain if it gets discovered."

"Don't worry, I have my own sense of discretion."

After Kiana finished speaking, she began to analyze the printer, while Alicia went to the window by the door to observe the situation outside in case anything unexpected happened.

Fortunately, although this printer is related to the bottom layer of the entire paradise, at least before Kiana finished analyzing it, Alicia Memory and the others did not appear nearby.

Furthermore, Kiana still has the power of time; at worst, she can stop time to analyze the printer. In fact, Kiana herself does exactly that.

Upon realizing that this printer was related to the underlying logic of Paradise, Kiana immediately activated the Absolute Spacetime Domain and began to analyze it within a domain where time was absolutely still.

Until the analysis is complete, Alicia's caution is actually not very effective.

After completing the analysis, Kiana casually deactivated the domain, since the most troublesome part of the analysis was already done, and the subsequent modifications wouldn't require as much time.

Kiana reached out and aimed at the printer on the table, and streams of green data appeared between her hand and the printer.

These data streams are the functional codes that Kiana wanted to implement on this printer. With the last line of code completely entering the printer, the first step of the plan was successfully completed.

At the same time, Alicia Memory's voice came from outside the door. However, since the library only had one entrance and exit, Alicia and Kiana immediately went to a corner where no one would notice them.

Using the power of erosion, the area was temporarily shielded, so that no one else noticed the two extra people there.

Kiana and the others then saw the scene that Alicia had been longing to see. However, there were more people this time, and Alicia's Memory also had a little trick up her sleeve, making everyone except Mei say the awakening command.

Mei, who already knew the password and Alicia's personality, did not choose to stop her. After all, she wanted others to follow the same path she had walked.

However, Mei still hasn't sensed the presence of the Herrscher of Corruption, which makes her somewhat uneasy.

But when Mei thought about how she had brought the Herrscher of Corruption into the Paradise of the Past, her heart calmed down a little.

But this raises another question: how should this task be completed?

From the title of the mission, Mei can roughly guess that the so-called story of "Because of You" is most likely the story of Alicia's final resurrection and her duel with the Herrscher of Corruption.

But now that the Herrscher of Corruption has been banished from Paradise, how can we replicate her experience in Paradise?

It's impossible to expect her to go outside and bring another Herrscher of Corruption into Paradise, is it?

Not only that, we must also find a way to fully awaken it and make it cause a ruckus in Paradise.

To be honest, Mei was a hundred times unwilling to accept such a request, but without the Herrscher of Corruption, how could she possibly reach that ending?

Suddenly, as if sensing something, Mei abruptly turned her head to look at the corner where Kiana and the others were hiding.

"What's wrong with Mei? Did she discover something?" Alicia Memory asked.

"No. It's nothing, it must be my imagination."

Mei shook her head and then sent Alicia Memory away.

Watching Alicia Memory leave with the others, Mei then went to the corner she had just been checking.

"They're gone, Kiana, you can come out now."

"Oh dear, Mei suddenly looked at me just now, I thought we'd been discovered."

As Kiana released her corrupting power, her and Alicia's figures slowly appeared before Mei's eyes.

However, Alicia's current appearance immediately made Mei's pupils shrink, and her right hand subconsciously reached for the knife behind her, looking warily at Alicia behind Kiana.

"Hi~ Long time no see! How are you feeling? Aren't you happy to see me, Mei?!"