People are crumbling, they're vile strangers

The greetings from the people outside the door followed the ringing of the bell

"Know it--!"

Shouting to the door, Kiyana hugged the quilt and retreated to the bed, wrapping herself like a caterpillar.

"Just a little more sleep...just a little while..."

The girl fell into a dreamland, relaxing her nerves and brain after being tossed all night——

"Hey, Mei's hands are so soft..."

The girl who was addicted to dreams shrank on the bed, her saliva slipped from the corner of her mouth and dripped onto the pillow.

......

The sun was shining on the street, and the girl took Mei by the hand and walked on the deserted street, enjoying the beautiful time alone between the two.

Until the woman walking in front of her broke this wonderful sweetness.

"Why are you here, Miss Ben, go away!"

Baimao Tuanzi waved his hand to drive away the woman in front of him, but she was not moved by it, and just continued to remind her in her weird voice——

"I don't comment on things like you having sex dreams in broad daylight...I'm just here to tell you one thing, little girl——if you don't wake up, you're about to be beaten."

"What?! I don't want to wake up, Miss! Mei, my Mei... ouch——!!!"

"It's not up to you...and it's not up to me." Seeing that the girl in front of her seemed to have suffered some serious blow from the outside world, the hermit, whose entire dream world began to shatter, also disappeared in the dream again. Among

And Qiyana, who was furious, opened her eyes and saw a killing intent even more terrifying than her.

Wuliangta Jizi was standing in front of her, watching him launch the Hedong Lion Roar——

"Qiana Kaslana, your age group! Your academic performance! How can you sleep!!!"

"Aunt Himeko, I'm sorry——!"

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"Hey...it's finally over, I want to listen to that nagging guy telling stories again in my dream at night..."

"Forget it, Miss Ben will think that she is talking about history, at least it is more interesting than the new history teacher."

The complaining girl put on her pajamas, fell directly on the bed and fell asleep at the speed of light, and Raven Fujin on the windowsill rolled her eyes in a very humane way watching Kiyana who fell asleep at the speed of light.

.....

When Kiyana regained consciousness again, she appeared on a sunny lawn, and four white-haired ones, two big and two small, were playing in another part of the garden.

"Eh? That's Smelly Dad and Teresa! The one next to me..."

"That is Cecilia Shaniat, the most powerful Valkyrie of Destiny at that time, and the consort of Siegfried Kaslana."

The hermit suddenly appeared beside the girl, startling Kiana.

"So the one riding on the head of the stinky old man..."

"Who else could it be except Kiyana Kaslana?"

The hermit glanced at the white-haired dumpling, at the moment she was frowning and thinking about her memory——

"No, the memory before the age of eight is completely blank... Why don't you go up and see what Teresa and the others are talking about..."

Baimao Tuanzi made three steps in parallel, and ran towards the direction of the four of them... The hermit did not follow up, but just looked at the distant figure indifferently...

"That's not you..."

A low sigh sounded, but the girl who had already rushed to the direction of the four of them could not hear it.

...

"...you're back, how do you feel?"

The hermit looked at the frowning Kiyana who had returned to her side and was thinking hard.

"Hmm... I have no impression at all..."

Baimao Tuanzi shook his head dejectedly.

"...This is the first air port of the Destiny Headquarters on February 2nd, where Teresa Apocalypse received a mission from her grandfather Otto Apocalypse—to investigate the case that disappeared out of thin air at midnight yesterday. Tower of Babel researcher..."

As soon as the scene changed, the two came to a plane. At this time, Teresa was muttering something, and Qiyana put her ear to it curiously.

"Wasteland...Late at night...and mysterious disappearance...Could it be haunted...Hey!!!"

The little Valkyrie in a nun's costume trembled all over, and finally clapped her hands on the photo of herself and Kiana to make up her mind.

"No! For Kiana and Cecilia, I must work hard!"

...... Teresa stood up, walked past Kiana's approaching figure, and stood at the door of the cabin. This Chinook helicopter modified by destiny will soon arrive at the destination of her trip up.

"What, is my aunt afraid of ghosts? I have to find a way to scare her."

"...If you want to be smashed by Judas in the hands of that dean, it is indeed worth a try."

The hermit ruthlessly interrupted Kiyana's fantasy, and followed Teresa to stand by the cabin door.

"Come on, we've arrived."

Following the short Valkyrie off the helicopter, the two returned to the open space outside the Babylon laboratory again.

"Welcome, Teresa. Master Otto ordered me to assist you"

A cool-dressed mature woman with short gray hair greeted Teresa, her purple eyes were full of joy after reuniting after a long absence.

"Phew, Patrick, I'm relieved to have you here... Although this incident is a bit scary... To be precise, it should be weird. But with an expert like you, the truth should come to light."

Teresa let out a long breath, it seemed that the Valkyrie in front of her was an expert in investigating supernatural events.

"Patrick Highsmith, code-named [Genius], an A-rank Valkyrie of the Destiny Intelligence Department, and a former member of the Snow Wolf Squad."

The Hermit explained to Kiyana, who was a little dazed, and then she seemed to have thought of something, and added to Kiyana:

"The Snow Wolf Squad is the S-rank Valkyrie of Destiny at the time, the team led by Cecilia Shaniat, but it was temporarily disbanded because of your father."

"Huh? Why!"

"... Ms. Cecilia is pregnant."

"Uh... as expected of Dad."

Qiyana smiled awkwardly, but the hermit didn't show any expression, and there was no expression on his face hidden under the black mask.

"They're going in...follow them."

Chapter 68 The Darkness of the Tower of Babylon

The hermit and Qiyana followed behind the two, and the door of the laboratory was opened. The researcher's body that Qiyana expected did not appear here, and she looked at the hermit in confusion.

"What about the corpse...?"

"Of course it was cleaned up by the Second Herrscher...what's so strange about that."

"Eh? How are Teresa and the others going to get in...?"

"...I remember that the Kaslana family is just a stubborn one...why are you a fool???"

The hermit turned her head, and Kiyana could feel her incredible eyes even through the mask.

"Hey. Who are you calling stupid?!"

"Your dear aunt is here to investigate this Tianming's own research institute...you are asking me how she got in...?"

"You are not stupid than who is..."

The woman under the mask rolled her eyes, ignored Qiyana who was still in a daze, and followed Teresa in front of her.

"Hey, wait for me!!"

Kiyana, who came back to her senses, chased after them in the direction they were going away.

.....

"Patrick found something wrong in the monitoring. In the historical records of the Babylon Honkai power reactor, the output power of the reactor disappeared for a full 10 minutes starting at 5 o'clock last night."

"That's the third largest Houkai reactor in the world. The output power for 5 minutes is not a small amount at all... But the monitoring there is encrypted, and it is impossible to read it with Patrick's authority."

"So they decided to investigate in person..." The hermit who was following Teresa and Patrick patiently explained to Baimao Tuanzi.

Soon a few people arrived at the reactor area at the bottom of the Babylon Tower. The pillars in the center of the Houkai Furnace connected all the upper floors of the Babylon Tower, delivering energy to them.

Patrick, who was walking in the front, seemed to have suddenly discovered something, and bent down to check something, while Teresa shrank back timidly and looked around.

"My aunt also has this kind of time, puff...hahahaha!"

"It seems that Patrick has found the omission left by the operation of the Second Herrscher..."

The hermit watched the actions of the silver-haired Valkyrie, while Qiyana, who was following behind, laughed loudly at Theresa who was poking her head, until a somewhat gloomy cry for help echoed in the circular hall——

"Help... help..."

"Is anyone here...?! Come and save us!"

The hollow and weak cry for help echoed in the hall——

"Wow! Ghost—!"*2

Teresa in the front and Kiana next to the hermit reacted the same way...

"You two are so different... what's so funny. It's the voice of an ordinary human girl, and it sounds a little hollow from a little distance away."

The hermit shook his head, and dragged Kiyana towards the direction of the sound.Go through a certain gate and take the elevator to the bottom.

A four-story prison came into Kiyana's sight, and it was here that the cry for help heard in the reactor came from.

Qiyana, who has learned to be smart, didn't rush up and try to break the iron fences this time, but looked at the hermit shrouded in a hood and mask and asked her question:

"Didn't you say that everyone in this tower is dead, so who are these children?"

Baimao Tuanzi pointed to the few surviving children in the cage, and looked at the hermit with suspicion in his eyes.

"Do you think...for this laboratory, they are really human...?"

"Those are the experimental subjects of the advanced systems department, and most of them will not survive the next experiment... The erosion of the Houkai energy, malnutrition and abuse have worn down their bodies."

"How could this be... How could those researchers treat these children like this! Aren't they the same as those guys, are they real human beings!?"