Honkai Simulator: Not for Kidnapping Herrschers!

Wendy quickly shook her head, "Don't look at me. If I encountered this situation, Teacher Theresa never taught me what to do."

Schicksal and Anti-Entropy are enemies.

But in Theresa's education, Valkyries were only taught to show no mercy to Honkai Beasts, and no countermeasures were provided for human enemies.

This was an aspect Theresa hadn't considered. She felt Valkyries only needed to deal with the Honkai and shouldn't be involved in the struggle for ambition and power.

But this resulted in Wendy not knowing how to handle such situations.

If it meant torturing Bronya to reveal information about the Honkai Energy reactor, she couldn't do that either.

But kill her? Or imprison her? Wendy couldn't bring herself to make that decision.

Bronya, standing nearby, seemed to sense their dilemma. While her face remained calm, she felt a wave of relief internally.

She was actually very nervous too.

After all, the people she had dealt with before were not as kind as Wendy and Mei. It was just that she had always won in the end.

Just then, Chen Ran spoke, "Ah, we can neither kill nor release her. This is truly troublesome."

"But I just remembered, I have a slight understanding of biology. How about we just hypnotize this Bronya?"

"Hypnotize?"

A hint of horror flashed in Wendy and Raiden Mei's eyes.

Chen Ran grinned sinisterly, "That's right. Human hormones are quite magical. I happened to study what hormone ratios would cause a person's self-awareness to be suppressed while still being able to accept external commands. In other words, hypnosis."

This wasn't a lie.

It was knowledge provided by the System.

"This is very common knowledge in biology."

Raiden Mei retorted, "That's not common at all."

Wendy, however, saw the mischief in Chen Ran's eyes.

Her eyes darted, and then she pointed at Bronya, saying, "Great, I also want to see what it's like when someone is hypnotized. We have a perfect subject right here."

She tilted her head and said, "Let's make her do the bunny dance later."

Raiden Mei asked in confusion, "What's the bunny dance?"

"It was the debut dance of the once-popular magical girl Teriri. Actually, that was Teacher Theresa. I found the information secretly," Wendy explained.

Raiden Mei: "..."

"You people at Schicksal really play rough."

As for the person concerned, Bronya felt like her whole world was falling apart.

As expected, she shouldn't have expected kindness from her enemies.

When Bronya woke up, she felt like she had had a long dream.

She vaguely remembered Chen Ran was going to hypnotize her...

Wait, hypnotize?!

The girl's eyes snapped open, and she was instantly awake.

Then, she discovered something had been inserted into her head.

"You're awake."

Bronya looked up and saw Wendy smiling at her, "You've been asleep for eight hours. Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?"

"What did you do to Bronya?"

Terrifying thoughts flooded her mind.

When she was still Ural Silver Wolf, she had heard that some warlords had rather peculiar tastes. They especially liked obedient girls and disobedient girls, and the process of "training" disobedient girls into slaves.

Wendy chuckled, "You didn't actually believe that, did you? Don't worry, Chen Ran didn't actually do anything."

"Ah, who said I didn't do anything?"

Chen Ran's voice echoed leisurely. He smiled at the girl and said, "Bronya, you should still remember the chip implanted in your brain, right?"

"Chip?"

Wendy looked surprised, "What's that?"

Bronya remained silent, just watching Chen Ran.

Chen Ran didn't hide anything. "There were no conditions for surgery here, so I didn't remove it. However, I used a little trick to connect your internal chip via computer and read the data."

"You should understand this field yourself, so take a look and see if this is true or not."

Chen Ran knew that just torturing Bronya wouldn't be enough to get information about the Honkai Energy reactor.

As the saying goes, to kill someone, you must first strike at their heart. Only by making her feel that she had actually been betrayed would Bronya have a chance to reveal what she knew.

The evidence of Cocolia's betrayal of Bronya was precisely the chip in her emotional processing module.

Chen Ran, who mastered biology and computers, found it not difficult to connect the chip to his computer. Of course, the reason was that this world possessed many special materials that could achieve things he wouldn't even dare to imagine.

Bronya herself could hack into Schicksal's hidden archives, so he wasn't necessarily worse than Bronya now.

Everything went smoothly.

The core of the emotional module chip Cocolia implanted in Bronya was essentially a miniature computer processing system, but this computer was directly controlled by Cocolia, with her commands taking priority.

Furthermore, this system could emit strong radio waves that could instantly overwrite Bronya's original consciousness.

This was what Chen Ran had previously called hypnosis.

He said with a hint of mockery, "I haven't even started hypnotizing you yet, but Bronya, you're only one step away from falling."

Bronya looked at the chip information Chen Ran had brought up, her expression still blank.

After a long pause, she spoke, "I need tools."

"Here you go."

Chen Ran handed her his small computer.

He knew Bronya was seeking confirmation, and he wasn't worried about the results of her investigation.

In fact, from Bronya's perspective, Cocolia hadn't done anything wrong.

She was the victor; if Cocolia had been ruthless, Bronya would have died in Siberia.

But Cocolia's mistake towards Bronya was giving her love, and then giving her betrayal.

Back then, Bronya had asked Cocolia, "Do you want to be my master too?"

And Cocolia had replied, "Rather than a master, I'd rather be your mother."

A warlord's love was undoubtedly very cheap, but it gave the girl an unrealistic dream.

Her fingers moved across the computer screen with fluid grace, but the tension and unease in her eyes grew stronger.

Chen Ran hadn't lied.

This was Bronya's judgment, made with reason.

She wasn't truly loved after all; Cocolia, like her previous masters, had only seen her as a convenient tool.

Bronya's eyes began to turn lifeless, like a crashed computer.

Wendy, on the side, not yet understanding the situation, curiously asked Chen Ran, "What's wrong with her? She looks like she's not feeling well."

Chen Ran sighed with emotion and suddenly said, "If one day, Headmaster Theresa betrayed you, what would happen?"

"Ah, that would be very sad."

Wendy blinked and spoke her mind directly, "It would be as sad as never being able to eat ice cream or watch movies. But Teacher Theresa wouldn't be that kind of person, so I definitely wouldn't encounter that situation."

Chen Ran casually remarked, "But Bronya encountered this situation."

"She was betrayed by her 'Teacher Theresa'."

Wendy understood Chen Ran's meaning.

After a long moment, she whispered, "Chen Ran, I want to go buy ice cream, two scoops."

"She probably wants to eat something cold and delicious right now too."

Chapter 64: Preparations Before Traveling Through Time (4k)

In the Elysian Realm, within World Serpent.

Wendy finally understood why other Flame-Chasers were reluctant to talk much about Mobius. And when she followed Mobius into the laboratory, she only received a look of 'respect and blessings'.

She felt her wounds gradually healing. Just moments ago, Wendy's blood had been drawn here.

"I'm very curious."

She directly asked Mobius, "Since this is a space made of data, how were you able to draw my blood?"

"Mhm, how do you think data and consciousness should be?" Mobius asked with a smile. "Something you can see but not touch, perhaps?"

Wendy hesitated for a moment and nodded. "That's right."

"Ha, after all this time, humanity's understanding of fundamental power hasn't changed at all," Mobius stretched her waist. "It's such a shame that the results of our shared experiments with him were wasted."

"Him?"

Wendy's eyes showed surprise. Based on instinct alone, she knew who Mobius was referring to.

Seeing the astonishment in her eyes, Mobius became even more smug. "That's right."

"Just like the Stigmata on your body, they are essentially the result of research we conducted together. Oh, I forgot MEI also participated, though she only made some trivial, insignificant contributions."

"The power within the Stigmata is the condensed power of consciousness, and the dimension where consciousness resides is, like Honkai, a fundamental source. So why would you think that consciousness and data cannot affect reality?"

"Test subject, tell me, how has the Kevin of this world changed? Is he still carrying out the Stigmata Project?"

The sudden influx of information disrupted Wendy's train of thought, and she instinctively replied, "Before coming here, I hadn't heard of Kevin in reality."

She paused, then added, "However, if what you say is true, then his ability to travel to fifty thousand years in the future is also related to the Stigmata, isn't it?"

Mobius didn't hide anything. "He was the first human in that era to possess Stigmata. To be precise, all Stigmata that appeared afterward were created by imitating his body. As for the origin of the Stigmata on him, he didn't say, and I didn't ask."

"And the power of Stigmata can theoretically traverse time."

Mobius gave a definitive answer.

Her cooperation with Wendy was based on Stigmata. Even in the brilliant previous civilization, they hadn't fully unlocked the entire power of Stigmata.

The reason was simple: a person's genes are basically set after birth. Unless they were modified using Honkai, like with Fusion Warriors, random gene mutations wouldn't occur in mature life forms.

The prerequisite for Stigmata was to implant information to fight Honkai into an unborn life form. However, at that time, Mobius or MEI didn't have the time to understand mature individuals with Stigmata.

Except for Chen Ran.

But the fact now was that Chen Ran had hidden a lot.

"Test subject, you can collect all the Herrscher's imprints here. Once the power of Stigmata is fully developed, you will have the prerequisite to accomplish that."

Although she didn't know how Chen Ran traversed time using Stigmata.

There was no doubt that Stigmata was the foundation of this cooperation.

However, Wendy shook her head. "Collecting imprints is too slow."

She paused and said, "He left me a gene potion to activate Stigmata."

Upon realizing Chen Ran was gone, Wendy went to the Far East Branch and had a huge argument with Theresa.

That argument yielded no results because Theresa no longer knew who Chen Ran was. She even helped Wendy investigate Chen Ran's identity, only to find that Schicksal had no records related to him.

His traces had been erased by this world.

However, what he left behind had not disappeared.

The potion Chen Ran had given to Theresa before ending the simulation was later placed in Theresa's Headmaster office.

This Headmaster didn't know the origin of the potion and naturally didn't use it rashly.