Beng San, I have an unfinished date with her

"But it would be too wasteful just to let him stay quietly in the descendant's bloodline~" Long said with a wicked smile: "So I found a job for him to connect the affinity people with the bloodline power awakeners. , redefine the concept of [affiliator] and make it broader... After all, I am so busy, how can I let him continue to fish, hehe~"

"You just don't want him to fish," Bronya complained.

"You can think so." Long glanced at Bronya meaningfully, without telling her his real intention.

[Let him build a network that connects all affinities...then there will naturally be things like nodes and hosts~]

[He is a very hard-working guy who never complains. How can I be so immature at that time? After telling him what to do, I would agree to whatever he asked for. 】

[But it’s mainly because...he is transformed into my consciousness that I agree. 】

[A little bit, a little bit cold-blooded and selfish...]

"Although Bronya, you can still consider both of them [affiliators], but there is still one big difference."

"That is, like me, they are directly connected to the power of the gods once they awaken. Unless they meet another god or give up on themselves, they will never disappear... It cannot be described as death, but it is better to disappear."

"But the affinity ones in the narrow sense are different. They are just qualified and can use the power of the gods, but they are not connected to the gods, so they will disappear unless an awakened person comes to continue to provide power to the affinity ones."

"...I know, but those things are too far away from me. By the way...you just mentioned...collapse?" After Bronya finished speaking, she thought of a key word in Long's words and tried to lead the topic. Go to what you want to know. .

She was still eating very hard and remembering everything Long said.

But compared to the strange power and so on, her most important goal has always been to know the truth about the second collapse.

"Ah, Honkai. Bronya should already know the basics, right?"

"Well... I know that Honkai is a mechanism similar to natural disasters... According to the historical data they collected, the influence of Honkai will be born in various forms, natural disasters, monster groups, Disease can even contaminate people's cognition...such as the war madman of the last century."

"Yes, it is enough to have these basic knowledge." Long clapped his hands and praised Bronya. After putting down his hands, he continued: "Hengakui, accompanied by the beginning, development and end of human beings."

"Then during a large-scale Honkai event, the messenger of Honkai will be born, which is what you want to know...the Herrscher."

"But not all Herrschers are born like that. There are exceptions...but you don't need to know this."

"Bronya only needs to know that in the past, until the complete destruction of civilization, all species were almost wiped out, the ecosystem was almost broken, the surface of the planet was in chaos, and a total of fourteen Herrschers appeared. With our efforts, this era will only Thirteen Herrschers with similar abilities appeared. Now, it has been 58 years since the First Herrscher was born, and it has been ten years since the Second Herrscher was born."

Bronya blinked slightly: "Is it so long since the Herrscher was born?"

She didn't realize that her main goal had been defeated by her own curiosity.

Long shook his head: "No, strictly speaking, there is no time limit for the birth of the Herrscher. When the time comes, the collapse will naturally choose its envoy. In the past, in just a few years, the fourteen Herrschers came one after another. Appear."

Up and down, going to the deepest: 201. Bronya’s shock, stepping into the reality of the world

"Well, wait...you just said that because of your efforts, there will only be thirteen Herrschers with similar abilities in this era."

"You really didn't make that up?"

"According to you, human civilization was in the past...well, you mentioned 5 years ago many times!"

"Human civilization was shattered 5 years ago?!"

Bronya's speaking speed gradually slowed down, as if she wanted to confirm something unbelievable, and her pupils gradually widened.

She still had a hard time believing it.

"No...in that case, wouldn't it completely overthrow those biological monuments and research?"

"The starting point of human civilization was not around 1 years ago but 5 years ago?"

"If everything on the planet's surface and ecosphere is destroyed and restored, wouldn't it mean that we have to evolve again? How can it be possible to recover in 4 years? It is completely inconsistent with the basis of biological evolution."

"Wait... I'm a little confused. These things are completely different from the knowledge I have learned about the birth of human beings, the development of civilization and the evolution of life on earth. Let me take a moment!" Bronya said, covering her head and starting again. Sort out the knowledge in your head.

"Or is it really just something made up to deceive me?"

Bronya raised her head and stared at Long closely. Her eyes that were tightly intertwined with curiosity and fear were breathtaking, making Long sigh inwardly.

He shook his head slowly: "The past has passed. It's okay for Bronya not to know about it for a while. In short, the Herrscher has been fixed."

"What you want to know about the second Honkai Impact, no, even what happened between those people in the first Honkai Impact, and some other things... I will know everything about me and the past. Tell you."

"It is handed over to you with incomparable detail, incomparable depth, and a complete reproduction."

Bronya calmed down a little: "That should be a lot of information, can you finish it?"

"..."

Long was silent for a moment, and then spoke with emotion: "It can never be finished, and it will never be finished. Everyone has a story, and everyone's stories are intertwined to become a brand new story that is full of unknowns and affects the direction of everyone's life. ..everyone can’t finish talking.”

"So...this knowledge is like a library, Bronya, please read and learn slowly in the days to come."

"However, I will extract some important ones for you first, and tell you directly like a brief summary of the events."

"First of all, I will tell you...the origins of Walter, the first Herrscher, and Siren, the second Herrscher, in this era."

Long said that he raised his left hand to Bronya who was sitting next to him. The golden light shining on it faded away and turned into a simple thin box like a white square less than half the size of a palm.

There is an interface next to the box, which can be used by Bronya to analyze and browse the huge past in the future.

He has given away many such things, but each person's carrier is different, based on their favorite method... Most of the recipients are Compatriots, and there is huge knowledge inside, Everyone can learn what they need from it.

Under the thin box, there was a slight glare that never dissipated.

Bronya understood what Long meant...

As long as you take the box and touch the glare in his hand, you can know everything about the second collapse...

Everything about the truth and a lot of knowledge, things that have never been seen before, knowledge that has never been seen before.

This is just so... so tempting.

...

But that was the formation of his power. If he wanted to, he might have no way to escape in the future.

But then I thought about it...his consciousness...his divided consciousness could be connected to his own thinking.

It seems...you don't have to worry about this?

That being the case—

After all the entanglements, Bronya made up her mind and stretched out towards Long's open hand.

The moment she picked up the thin square box, the flash under the box instantly increased in size, so big that it completely enveloped Bronya's field of vision, and she couldn't block it no matter how much she tried to block it.

Only some things before the things in the field of vision were completely covered by the light still remained in the eyes and consciousness.

That was Long's figure, and he was saying with a relieved smile: "Welcome to the reality of the world, Bronya Zaicek."

Then the figure remaining in Bronya's eyes also melted under the dazzling light.

A few seconds later, in Bronya's closed eyes, she felt the light disappear, and a dark and decadent atmosphere enveloped her thoughts.

Then, she felt the completely different wind burning her skin.

Although there was no pain and she didn't open her eyes, she did "feel" it.

I felt the desolation, the prosperity was gone...

Oh no, not that poetic.

"After all, there are ruins everywhere." Bronya said as she opened her eyes and took in everything in front of her.

She began to look around, using her excellent thinking skills, observation skills, etc., to collect all the markers in the wreckage that could show information.

Finally, she came to the conclusion...

"Is Berlin, which was rebuilt after World War II in the last century...collapsed for the first time?"

"It's really...an unimaginable real touch." Bronya touched the broken wall on the side, then retracted her hand and looked at the wall plaster on her fingers.

"Huh? There's actually someone there."

"No..." Bronya looked around again.

Under the completely dilapidated building, there were mutilated corpses everywhere...

There is some disgusting energy escaping in this city. Under such circumstances...

"There are no ordinary humans alive. Is that figure...the First Herrscher?"

Bronya's throat moved, and she was slightly excited. It was the excitement of freely acquiring knowledge to satisfy her desire for exploration.

"If it's the Herrscher, why doesn't he continue to wreak havoc?"

With doubts, Bronya moved towards the figure.

Although she knew there would be no one here, no creature could see her.

After all, this is just a documentary equivalent to a very detailed and immersive real-life image.

But the extremely real touch still made Bronya take a few steps forward and subconsciously find a place to cover her figure to avoid being exposed.

I don’t know whether to say that this place is real enough, or that Bronya’s professionalism is high enough.

But she's moving forward, continuing to learn about what happened in the past.

after a while...

"Is this guy really the Herrscher?"

Looking at this young man who didn't know what he was doing, who walked around for a long time and suddenly passed out on the ground, Bronya asked her own question.

She didn't see any strange phenomena, and she didn't feel any energy fluctuations in the young man. Everything was so strange.

Just when Bronya crossed her arms and thought.

She was interrupted by sounds appearing in the sky, and various sounds were approaching from the surrounding area.

"Hmm...what kind of organization is this? It's a symbol I've never seen before."

Metal vehicles arrived nearby, and many women holding various weapons and wearing uniforms quickly got out of the vehicle and formed a formation.

Bronya looked around, she was curious, she had never seen this organization logo appear in Russia.

The logo of the A·L Society has replaced others and often appears together with the tricolor flag in various parts of Russia.

At this time, a helicopter also approached, but it did not completely land, but opened the side door at a hundred meters in the air.

Then she saw it.

A blond man in strange clothes stood in front of the open door of the helicopter. His face was solemn, and he carefully observed everything below, especially the fainted young man.

Soon, the helicopter door closed, and the blond man disappeared, being taken away by the helicopter into the distance.

The various teams composed of all women methodically carried out the containment operations, and after arranging the young people in the most special vehicles, the group of people quickly evacuated the place, and the movements were done quickly and in one go, without any sloppiness.

All that was left in this sad city was the dust and fog raised by the rapid movement of the convoy, announcing the departure of the only living thing in this area.

As for Bronya, she had already passed through the car body and arrived at the carriage housing the young man. She leaned against the carriage silently, holding her hands in her arms, waiting for the next development. She had already understood her status as an observer.

By the way, she had just penetrated all the vehicles used to carry those combat teams and looked at everyone, including their clothing, logos, weapons, etc.

So I came to my own conclusion... At least in the era when this record was first recorded, the technical content of the equipment of these teams far exceeded that of outside countries...

【Who are they? ] Bronya leaned against the carriage and waited silently with doubts.

Up and down, go to the deepest: 202. Ducky: "Another possibility for the Herrscher?"

On a smooth country road under the setting sun, the children from the Cocolia Orphanage, who had been playing for a day, were led by three adults and walked towards the orphanage a few kilometers away, talking and laughing.

A group of more than 20 people were carrying various "harvests" or pushing carts containing items brought from the orphanage.

To say they were children was only from Long's perspective. The youngest Xi'er was already ten years old, and so was Xing.

Most of them are between thirteen and fifteen years old and will go to schools outside, then go to college, find jobs, and go to places where they have been arranged to use their talents as Affinity or Honkai adaptability.

In a few years, there will only be a few children in the orphanage, including Xi'er and Xing.

In a way this is a good thing.

......

Long carried Bronya on his back and walked at the front of the group, humming a tune to the children.

Alicia, Xi'er, and Kiana pushed a cart together, humming to the melody behind him, and several children jumped around the two of them energetically, learning this tune at the same time.

Everyone, including Xi'er, was also humming, but she was pushing the stroller quietly with Ellie and Kiana, and was not jumping around as actively as Xing.

The two of them were holding the sides of the truck push rod, one on the left and the other on the right, looking very happy with Alicia sandwiched between them.

At the end of the team, the five sisters of the Long family were chatting with Cocolia, not knowing what to say.