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Chapter 183

Kiana Died? The Audience Exploded

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After the story of Durandal came to an end, the highly anticipated Post-Honkai Odyssey officially hit the screen after a week.

In this short week, the audience's hearts were like those of a cat scratching at them.

["First!"]

["Second!"]

The series had just started airing when many people in the comments section began vying for first place.

After the theme song sung by Adam and Carol, the main storyline officially begins to unfold before the audience.

The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky red, and the enormous object in the sky attracted the attention of the audience. At the same time, Adam, who appeared at the same time, stared at the strange building and fell into deep thought.

"Are you considering the mission?"

Mei, voiced by Mei, exudes a mature charm from the moment she opens her mouth. With the help of the character model, viewers didn't even recognize that it was Mei for a moment.

Mei handed the mission report to Adam and asked him to come up with a code name. Adam obediently wrote down his real name, while Mei jokingly said, "If His Bishop has any complaints, you'll have to take responsibility."

Mei smiled gently.

The conversation then shifted to the enormous structure in the sky; her intuition told her that this structure must be related to Welt's disappearance.

"Damn it, Mei actually smiled at him! Mei, you actually smiled at him!"

Kiana was instantly consumed by jealousy when she saw Mei smile at her in the story.

"Okay~, Kiana, he's my teammate, and as the captain, isn't it normal for him to have a relationship with his teammate?" Mei comforted Kiana.

Above the bullet comments.

["Wait! Your Bishop? When did Mei and Otto become so close? She's even addressing him respectfully as 'Your Excellency'."]

"Welt has disappeared?"

"Let's open a bet: Is Welt really dead or not? I bet he's still alive."

"Whoever gambles themselves to death is just throwing money away."

"You're practically Dr. Einstein."

"I always thought Welt would die in the battle against the Honkai, but I never expected him to live until the end of the Honkai, or even longer."

In her live stream, Sirin complained bitterly, "Queen, I've killed him so many times, and he still won't die. Do you expect him to die in other battles?"

Sirin's words were correct. As a six-core Herrscher, the fact that she hadn't completely killed Welt Yang already demonstrated her remarkable resilience.

Back at the base, Mei and Adam sorted out the existing intelligence. Fourteen days ago, Welt was invited to Saint Fontaine.

"The satellites of Schicksal captured images of a man resembling him getting off at Saad Station, and then he disappeared..."

"No information was sent to the outside world, and no surveillance cameras captured his whereabouts."

"Our third team's mission is to find Walter Yang and bring him safely back to Schicksal Headquarters."

After Mei finished recounting her information, Adam asked two more questions: Saint Fontaine and Welt Young.

Mei answered all of them.

The live chat became lively again.

"Good grief, finding Welt Yang is understandable, but safely returning him to Schicksal... Come to think of it, wasn't the previous Herrscher of Reason killed by a Schicksal bishop?"

"When did Anti-Entropy and Schicksal become so close? Otto is dead?"

"It's not impossible."

"ETS something, that name sounds familiar." Kiana scratched her head.

"This is ETStudio," Bronya emphasized with utmost seriousness.

"Alright, alright, if I remember correctly, Bronya, you joined this studio, right?" Kiana laughed. "Well, Bronya, you've been lining your own pockets, actually begging your stinky uncle to advertise for you."

"Kiana, you probably meant 'abuse of public power for private gain,' right?" Mei, clearly losing confidence in Kiana's ability to use idioms.

"That's right, that's right."

Bronya crossed her arms, looking arrogant, and raised her cool little face. "First of all, I am not Schicksal employee and there is no abuse of power on my part. Secondly, the founder of this studio is Uncle Yang, who already has a cooperative relationship with Schicksal Far East Branch."

"Hehehe."

"Mr. Welt has often disappeared in the past, but he always returns safely. He's a restless person, and he's always on the most dangerous front lines when fighting the Honkai."

"Although he is Herrscher, he is also a very reliable comrade and partner of ours."

After arriving in this city, Mei noticed many unusual things.

When Mei said those words in the drama, viewers watching the web series burst out laughing.

Although they often joke about Yang Sit-Ups routine in private, the fun it brought was obvious when the official account itself made fun of them for the first time.

"Is Yang Sit-Ups officially certified?"

["Happy."]

Adam and Mei continued to analyze the current situation of Saint Fontaine, tracing the reason for Welt Young's disappearance, and concluded that it was because of his former identity.

Mei suggested that they split up to gather intelligence and then reunite at the base in the evening, communicating using the Honkai energy Communicator during this time.

Adam readily accepted.

During his search for clues, he was attacked by a monster that did not resemble Honkai Beasts, but rather a creature he had never seen before.

Mei also encountered this monster's attack. It didn't seem like Honkai Beasts, but rather like a modified human, or more like a monster imagined by a young child in a nightmare.

"I plan to send these materials back to headquarters; His Bishop and the Doctor should be very interested."

Chapter 280 Kiana is dead? The audience is in an uproar.

["Mei seems to trust the current topic a lot. Her first reaction after receiving the data was to send it back to headquarters. As for the Doctor? Could he be Einstein or Tesla?"]

"How is that possible? Wouldn't that be a merger of Schicksal and Anti-Entropy?"

["Your ID looks familiar. It seems to be the timeline you were so certain couldn't be the end of Honkai. When are you finally going to start streaming?"]

In Sirin's live stream, a lot of people chimed in, but that person was still being stubborn, saying that they would wait until Otto's figure in the promotional video was confirmed, and then combine the two results, otherwise it would be a one-to-one tie.

"Haha~" Sirin yawned. She had seen far too many people like this who just talk big online.

Adam returned to the base and exchanged information with Mei, confirming the audience's suspicions: the doctor Mei had been referring to was indeed Dr. Einstein.

While awaiting a reply from headquarters, Mei prepared to formulate a plan.

Mei led Adam to an open area, where Einstein suggested locating Welt's position by detecting Honkai energy, a suggestion Mei found feasible.

However, with current technology, it can only detect an area with a radius of approximately 80 kilometers, which is about 1/12 of the urban area.

When Mei personally admitted that she was Dr. Einstein, the audience was shocked. They never expected that Einstein would one day rejoin Schicksal.

"Damn it, you 'Chicken Hair' guy, you actually betrayed us?!"

Tesla looked at Einstein in disbelief.

Einstein took a sip of his coffee, a hint of disdain appearing on his usually expressionless face, and said, "Dr. Tesla, if your intelligence is truly like this, I think it will be difficult for me to explain it to you."

"Just kidding, you messy hair." Tesla, his earlier shock gone, smiled and put his arm around Einstein's shoulder.

"There's only one possibility that could allow us to return to our Schicksal..."

Otto is dead.

Otto is dead!

The two spoke in unison, but one's tone was affirmative while the other's was excited.

"That's not right. Otto's death doesn't affect our Anti-Entropy."

Tesla still has doubts.

"Unless, the new Bishop of Schicksal has had a cooperative relationship with us, Anti-Entropy, and has even gained our trust."

Upon hearing Einstein's almost explicit words, Tesla could no longer guess what was going on, which would make him seem like a complete idiot.

"Theresa..."

Theresa, who was ostensibly handling documents in the Headmaster's Office but secretly watching a TV series, sneezed and rubbed her nose. "Who's insulting me?"

Adam questioned the 80-kilometer distance, Mei also knew that 80 kilometers was not enough unless Carol returned to the team, but the main issue was that there were too many targets to detect.

"Although 99% of the Honkai energy was sealed on the moon after the Great Honkai..."

"But after all, there is still extremely thin energy scattered throughout the earth."

Mei, like a teacher, patiently guided Adam to think independently about the problem. Their task wasn't simply to detect Honkai energy, but rather to detect the Honkai energy of the Herrscher.

"Mei, you really do look like a teacher."

Kiana blushed and squeezed her legs together.

Mature Mei are incredibly tempting to Kiana.

"But Kiana, I didn't do the voice acting for the 'me' in this web series," Mei reminded her with a smile.

"Ah?"

Kiana immediately felt a significant loss of sexual interest.

In Little Knowledge's live stream, after seeing that the global Honkai energy been sealed on the moon, Little Knowledge complained, "This is not ending the Honkai, this is clearly escaping."

"Little Knowledge, you can't say that. Being able to defeat the Finality Herrscher and seal 99% of the Honkai energy, the current civilization has already surpassed the Previous Era." Fu Hua sat down next to Little Knowledge.

It was precisely because Little Knowledge and Fu Hua did a live stream together today that the traffic in the live stream exploded, exceeding the total traffic of Little Knowledge's live streams over the entire period of time.

This made Little Knowledge Shi extremely resentful.

"So that's how it was solved?"

"I think Little Knowledge makes a good point. If we can't completely solve the Honkai energy, and if one day the seal is broken by some villains, won't human civilization face Honkai again?"

"Survival of the fittest is a natural law. If what Otto researched in the story is true, then the development of humanity is destined to be unable to escape the Honkai." Fu Hua sighed.

"What a pity, I thought the Honkai energy would disappear after defeating the Finality."

"Hey, hey, hey, why do you guys keep thinking about Honkai energy disappearing? If Honkai energy disappeared, wouldn't that mean the Honkai series is coming to an end?"

Little Knowledge stood with his hands on his hips.

She didn't want the ending to Honkai so quickly, especially since the role Yaqing promised her hadn't even appeared yet.

"Little Knowledge talks a lot!"

"Long live Lady Fuhua Shishi!"

After experiencing attacks from different monsters, Mei guessed that these monsters were pieced together by some organization based on the appearance of humans, but the combination was very strange, as if the creators did not understand human civilization at all.

Mei told Adam to rest and went to contact the bishop herself.

Headquarters was very interested in the unknown creatures that had appeared in Saint Fontaine, and Adam asked about Carol, whom he had been talking about.

Mei an awkward laugh.

It's said that Carol ran away from home because she didn't want to come to Africa.

"Sure, a girl like that... that's great too..."

Mei's gaze passed over Adam, as if fixed on something distant. As that thing receded into the distance, her expression became dazed.

The series of events that Carol went through—from running away from home, running out of money and being sent home by the police, being reprimanded by her seniors, and finally being sent to Saint Fontaine —felt very familiar to the audience.

"This is exactly like the Kiana!"

"Hahaha, what new-era Kiana?!"

The audience was still grinning from ear to ear when Mei's reaction the next moment made their hearts sink to the bottom.

What kind of expression was that?

Remembrance? Memories? Reluctance to part? Sorrow?

At that moment, it felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

A few minutes after the barrage of comments disappeared, it gushed out like a spring.

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