The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

Chapter 488 A little further up...right here!

"Sister Kiana? What happened?"

"Ah... ha, it's nothing. I was accidentally burned just now."

"Sister Kiana, are you okay?"

"it's okay no problem……"

"Okay, let's continue looking for clothes...I accidentally forgot which cabinet to put my luggage in..."

The cat-eared girl's voice gradually faded away, and another voice that was inexplicably reminiscent of hard cement sounded again:

"Pado is still the same. But he looks a little more mature."

Kiana's cheeks twitched slightly. She covered her vitals and silently took a step back, almost leaning against the bathroom wall. The water in the shower lost its target and fell straight down like a curtain of waterfall. Even the sound was gone. It got a little louder...

But, did the suddenly loud sound come from the screams when each free-falling water droplet disintegrated, or the joy of finally being able to fall freely?

"Um...monitor, why did you suddenly appear..."

"Ah, haven't I said it before? I am now attached to you using a feather of Yu Duchen, the key to the eighth god, as a carrier. You don't have to worry. Unless I take the initiative to reveal myself, only you can see me. Hear my voice, so don’t be afraid.”

"...It doesn't seem like it's a matter of fear."

Kiana complained softly. Although it is not yet clear what the so-called Eighth God Key, Yu Duchen, is, it is not important. In short, it can be understood as an ordinary term that can be replaced at will.

"So, squad leader, you know that Pado...er, Padofi..."

"It's Padofelis."

Hua's lips opened and closed slightly, spitting out that difficult-to-pronounce name.

Of course, just like the previous Key to the Eighth God, Yu Duchen, the full name of Pato Felice is actually not that important.

"She was my comrade from fifty thousand years ago. Of course, so was Mikael. Well, so was Pado and the woman whose name you mentioned earlier whose name sounds very similar to Mei Yi."

"Is that so?"

Kiana's brows furrowed for a moment, but were quickly suppressed.

"Ah, yes! I remember she mentioned 'Ahua' earlier, could it be..."

"that's me."

Hua's face was expressionless. As long as he was not embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.

"Squad leader, what you just wanted to say was that you didn't expect that Mei to send Pado here, right?"

"Um……"

Hualue nodded, just enough to cover up the confusion flowing from his eyes.

Her consciousness originally based on human physiology was repeatedly destroyed by Shenyin and Yu Duchen, so that she forgot too many things.

But when she used the zero-rated power to transfer her consciousness to a feather of Yu Duchen before her death, the memories that were originally copied and stored in Yu Duchen began to gradually return.

That's right, her silence in the past few days was not due to how much energy was consumed when she finally stopped Mikael, but simply because the fifty thousand years of memory that originally belonged to her began to resemble water drawn up through a straw. Backflow comes in.

Although this speed is extremely slow according to normal people's concept of time, and since it is a reflux, it is naturally going back to the beginning of life from what just happened. In just these few days, she has just recovered her five Most of the memories from more than a hundred years ago are just... Or we can understand it in another way. She is no longer the Fuhua of Saint Freya, but is infinitely close to the one who looked at the sea of ​​clouds in Taixu Mountain more than five hundred years ago. That immortal...

Even so, things that happened even further back in the previous era were much clearer in her mind. Because of this, she discovered that...she seemed to have misunderstood something due to lack of memory.

But now that the matter has come to this, can the position be changed casually?

How should we deal with Kiana's matter?

After thinking briefly, Hua sighed.

"You should also have some memories. I used Yu Duchen to control your body to open a space rift. After all, I am not the real Herrscher of the Sky. I can only input all the Honkai Energy to roughly locate it in China. I didn't expect it to reach the sky." The city is coming... That's good. Later, I used the resonance between Yu Duchen's feathers to convey your location to Mei. At that time, Mei promised to send someone to protect you and hide you for a while, and then find a way to take you there. Return to the Hyperion. Don't worry, Mei's ideas and goals are different from Mikael's. At least you are safe now.

"This is also a helpless move. Tianming and Shenzhou have been in an alliance for more than five hundred years. It is impossible to break up for a 'Herrscher'. Of course I can force Su Chang to do this, but the people will not accept it... Uh, I'm sorry. , I don’t mean that. Herrschers who can control their own power are naturally different from ordinary herrschers, but this is the education that the people have received for a long time, and there is no way to change it quickly. "

"Then...where is the Hyperion now? Are Auntie, Himeko, and Bronya okay?"

There was a certain impulse suppressed in the girl's eyes. Hua understood the specific meaning of that emotion, but Kiana actually took the initiative to suppress it, which she did not expect.

"According to the plan that Mei discussed with me, they should be in the South China Sea now... Have you heard of the Mariana Trench, right?"

Kiana shook her head decisively.

Fu Hua covered his forehead as expected.

"It doesn't matter, you just need to know that the approximate location is in the Pacific Ocean north of Oceania. There is an underwater ruin there. According to the name of the previous civilization, it was Atla or Te Moana Kino. According to the modern name, it is Abyss City. To put it bluntly, for some unknown reason, it is the only place in the world that can stably connect to the quantum sea. "

"The Quantum Sea, what is that place?"

Kiana habitually scratched the stupid hair on her head, and even forgot to cover her chest, but this was just a behavior she did when she was shy at the beginning, and it didn't matter.

"Oh... did you listen in class..."

When Hua expressed this emotion, Kiana had actually found the answer in her mind - it was the power corresponding to the imaginary number side that the Herrscher relied on. Many times she encountered the long-haired Honkai Beast when performing tasks. The monster, which looks like a shadow but is as dark as a shadow, is the product of the Quantum Sea.

Just like what she had thought, everything she had experienced in the past was actually completely and clearly stored in her mind, and she would always think of it when needed. But she still didn't say anything, just smiled and waited for Hua's answer.

"Uh... no need to pretend, Kiana. The key to the eighth god is the key to consciousness. I can see what you are thinking."

"Ah...ah!"

Kiana glanced sideways, aiming at the gap in the bathroom wall tiles, eager to get right in.

"It doesn't matter. The next thing you have to ask is why you want to go there. In fact, it's very simple. It's for 'two people'. The first one is the accidental fall into the quantum world during the experiment in Haiyuan City a few months ago. The anti-entropy leader of the Sea and the First Herrscher, Walter, was precisely because their experiment opened the door to the Quantum Sea that allowed Su Zhen... Well, in short, we were able to find another comrade in arms. The exact location in the Quantum Sea. How should I put it? If there is someone in this world who can cause real harm to Mikael in battle, then that person can only be him. "

"Is that so? In other words, if you want to defeat Mikael, you must find him, right?"

"Defeat Mikael..."

Hua closed her eyes, and the past memories rushed through her heart. She silently swallowed back the words that she almost blurted out.

"It's understandable, so they have to delay for some time to come to you. Moreover, because of the alliance between China and Tianming, the most we can do is allow the Hyperion to dock in Macau for a short time. If it takes a long time, Tianming's pursuit force will will appear. Of course, I have already told Su Chang that China will not take the initiative to arrest you. Although... Tianming will apply to China for sharing the public security intelligence network. Su Chang cannot refuse and can only delay it temporarily. You understand. What do I mean?"

"Um."

In other words, you still can't show off. But it doesn’t matter.

"Oh, by the way, speaking of which, that person has something to do with you."

"who?"

"My former comrade-in-arms, Kevin Kaslana, who was sealed in the Quantum Sea by Mikael."

"!"

Kiana was stunned for a moment.

"Is he also from the Kaslana family?"

"Well, to be precise, he is..."

Hua's voice stopped suddenly, Kiana just blinked, and her figure disappeared.

"Bang bang!"

"Sister Qiana, we are here to give you clothes!"

"Ah...oh!"

Kiana stepped into the shower water, turned her back and pretended to wash her hair.

The next moment, the bathroom door was pushed open. Paduo first poked his head out and saw the hazy figure behind the misty bathroom glass door. Then he walked in without saying a word and put the basin with a change of clothes in the wash basin. On the platform beside the pool.

But she didn't leave immediately. Instead, she walked to the bathroom door on cat steps.

Although her footsteps were so light that they were no different from those of a real cat, it can only be said that humans are really strange creatures. Although they do not have eyes on the back of their heads and do not hear any sounds, they always seem to be able to The most irrational feeling is that someone is approaching from behind.

Perhaps there is a more "scientific" explanation, such as the breathing caused by another person approaching, the air movement caused by it, the heartbeat that cannot be heard but can be felt by the ears, or the change of light and shadow under the light, which may all be used. Explanation, but...

maybe.

But at least now, under the cover of the sound of water and the cover of water mist, Kiana felt that she was aware of Pado's approach because of some kind of sixth sense.

"you want……"

She just turned her head and heard a "plop".

"Eh?"

"Ahahaha...Sister Kiana, we just want to ask you something."

Through the glass door blocked by water vapor, Kiana could vaguely make out Pado's posture. She knelt on her knees and held a towel high.

"Pado...what are you...doing..."

"Ah... um... Sister Kiana, do you need a back rub service?"

"...can I...refuse..."

"Oh! Sister Kiana, I won't lie to you, rubbing your back is really comfortable!"

"It's not because of this..."

"Hey! Don't worry, our back rub service is cheap and affordable. As for the money, let's put it in the account first!"

Kiana was startled when she saw Hua just now, and it is even more impossible to let Pado go now...

However, before she had time to refuse, and before she could figure out how to refuse without making the cat-eared girl "sad," the latter opened the glass door of the bathroom.

"No!!!"

…………

"Ah... the left side is still itchy. Can you rub it harder?"

"receive!"

"Go...down a little..."

"here?"

"A little further down."

"Now?"

"More up there...yes! This is it!"

Two minutes later, Kiana held the wall with both hands, letting her back form an incline. Only a small amount of water molecules in the shower overflowed unwillingly from the pipe, and gathered together to form the size of a drop of water. Unknowingly, Falling asleep.

"Tick-tock——"

Naturally, there would be no such magical sound in reality. The water droplet just fell on Kiana's back. You don't have to think about it to know that the skin there is swelling, and then the extremely motivated Pado used a wet towel to harden her. Wipe everything flat.

"Um...Pado, have you never rubbed someone's back before?"

"Hey, hehe... Sister Kiana is so observant..."

Although he did not admit it, it was regarded as acquiescence.

"His...it's nothing...his...I just think that a skilled hand...his...won't rub it so painfully..."

"Huh? Does it hurt?"

Padu stared at the coarse towel wrapped around his palm. In his impression...it didn't seem to hurt...

No, in fact, it was just because that memory was too beautiful, so it has been passed down to this day, and the brain automatically ignores the painful part of it.

Kiana's voice is still chattering:

"I think Miss Padu likes this... um..."

"You just want to say you like money!"

"Uh... yes, so it sounds a little strange that this is the first time that a job that can be paid in exchange for bathing is put into practice."

"Because it was just a whim..."

Pado muttered softly:

"We love money, but the work of rubbing my back is too tiring, and I don't want to risk my life. The main thing is... I remembered some things from the past... When I was a child, I was also in the dirty streets. He was homeless in the alley, collecting leftovers and keeping company with wild cats, until there was an old man, well, a homeless old man who was just as greedy for money as the old man downstairs. In the winter of that year when he was eight years old, he usually lived all day long. The old man who shouted that he wanted to sell me left the last piece of bread to me and then died. Not long after, we were really lucky and was picked up by a brother and a sister. At that time, the sister was holding a towel in the bathroom. He was giving me a back rub. So from that moment on, I thought, if one day I could save a desperate person and give her a back rub, that would be great.”

Kiana didn't answer and didn't know how to answer.

"The sister she was talking about is Alicia, right?"

Fu Hua's voice sounded in her mind.

"Alicia? Is that also the squad leader's former comrade?"

Kiana's thoughts were directly transformed into sounds, resounding in her heart.

"yes."

In this regard, Hua once again used his specialty of being concise and concise.

"By the way, monitor, you haven't told me just now, why is it... a surprise that Pado was sent here?"

"because……"

Probably shocked by the girl's intelligence that was completely inconsistent with her usual image, Hua didn't speak again for a long time.

"Because... the 'brother' she calls is Mikael."

…………

Kiana was leaning against the window sill. The size of her clothes seemed to fit her perfectly, but there was still a lot of room to spare. It seemed that the cat girl had a better figure than her.

From time to time, there is an itching feeling at the contact point between the skin and the fabric, but that is not because the clothes are not clean, but because of the static electricity that breaks out between the newly rubbed back and the clothes.

Outside the window, there was the noise of banging iron pots everywhere, and the hawkers' swaggering calls to collect rags and sell wine gradually started from the left ear, and then dissipated from the extreme distance that the right ear could catch. There was silence in the small rental house, with only a little bit of sunset filtering in from the window, like the yolk of a poached egg that was squeezed before being turned over.

Pado said hello to her and went down to buy dinner, leaving her alone in a daze at a loss.

She held her chin up, and with a "Pulling" sound, a dark shadow fell in front of her, staring at her through the thin window glass.

The girl's biology is not great, but it is not difficult to tell an owl apart.

The owl stood stupidly in front of her for half an hour. When the world continued to simmer in the pot and the skin of the poached eggs became burnt, the owl turned its head, leaving Kiana with a strange expression, spread its wings and flew away. .

Kiana rubbed her eyes and thought it was her imagination.